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11 DISNEY, Walt. Donald Duck. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1936 the classic disney character First edition, first printing. Donald Duck’s first solo appearance in book form was in a comic book of the same name published in 1935; this is his first solo hardcover book. Quarto. Finely bound in yellow morocco, spine lettered in red, onlay of Donald Duck on front cover with lettering onlaid in red, twin rule to turn-ins in red, red endpapers, gilt edges. Colour illustrations throughout by the Walt Disney Studio. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding. £2,750 [147533]
8 DAHL, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970 First edition, first printing. The US edition preceded the UK edition, published the same year. Fantastic Mr Fox formed the basis for Wes Anderson’s 2009 film of the same name and has been successfully adapted into both a stage play and an opera. Octavo. Finely bound in brown morocco, spine lettered in black, two raised bands, front cover with multicoloured pictorial onlay of Mr Fox standing in front of his tree taken from the dust jacket, turn-ins twin-ruled in black, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. £2,950 [138203] 9 DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile. London: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper in green ink, “To Leslie love Roald 1987”. This was the first of Dahl’s works to be illustrated by Quentin Blake. Quarto. Finely bound in bright yellow morocco, spine lettered in black, wraparound pictorial onlay of the crocodile and the children after the original covers, turn-ins twin-ruled in black, red endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a bright yellow flat-back cloth box, spine lettered in red, by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated in colour throughout by Quentin Blake. A fine copy. £5,000 [152702] 10 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 First edition, first impression. Dahl’s fantastical tale was expanded from a short story within his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World . A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in 2016. Octavo. Finely bound in pink morocco, lettering to spine and front board onlaid in grey and blocked in black, pictorial onlay wrapped around front and back board after the original dust jacket, twin rule to turn-ins in black, plain black endpapers, gilt edges. With black and white illustrations by Quentin Blake. A fine copy. £3,250 [144304] Jonathan Cape, 1978 an inscribed copy
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12 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1888 sherlock holmes’s first appearance in book form First edition in book form, second impression, with the first and last signatures reset, of Conan Doyle’s first book. A Study in Scarlet first appeared in print in Beeton’s Christmas Annual (1887). It was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool, and the first Sherlock Holmes story to be adapted for the screen. In 1914, G. B. Samuelson produced a silent film of the same name,
with Holmes played by James Bragington. Doyle was influential in establishing crime fiction as a widely read literary genre, and Holmes’s name has since become a byword for fictional detective. Octavo. Finely bound in red morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, raised bands and gilt compartments on spine, triple rules and tooled cornerpieces in gilt on covers and turn-ins, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red leather-entry slipcase. With 6 full-page illustrations by Charles Doyle. Bound without advertisements at front, with 14 pp. advertisements at rear. Faded ownership inscription at head of title page, margins trimmed a little close, paper repair to gutter of pp. 8–9 with loss of two words to p. 8. A very good copy indeed in a fine binding. ¶ Green & Gibson A1ai. £22,500 [157566]
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