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18 BUCHAN, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1915 man on the run First edition in book form of Buchan’s classic man- on-the-run adventure story, and a seminal work in the budding spy-fiction genre, which has received various film, radio, and television adaptations. The novel was first serialized in the All Story Weekly from June to July 1915, and in Blackwood’s Magazine from July to September, before publication in book form in October 1915. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark blue. Bookseller’s ticket of J. J. Banks & Son on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription of one Jessie Bacot on the half-title. Spine cocked and sunned, lettering to spine and edges rubbed, touch of wear to corners, faint toning to endpapers and margins; a very good copy indeed. ¶ Hillier A32. £1,500 [159881] 19 BURGESS, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. London: Heinemann, 1962 “there was me, that is alex, and my three droogs . . . ” First edition, first issue binding, in the first issue dust jacket with the wide flaps priced 16s. Loosely inserted
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into this copy is a facsimile typescript of the first page, inscribed by the author “Keep on with the good work – Anthony Burgess”. This book was the basis for the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film. Three issues exist: two in black boards (the first with a jacket with wide flaps and priced 16s., the second with the flaps trimmed and re-priced 18s.), and the third issued in 1971 in purple boards with a decimal price sticker.
Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s device in blind on rear board. With Barry Trengrove designed dust jacket. Housed in a custom grey morocco-backed marbled solander box. Head of spine and lower corner of front board bumped. A near-fine copy in very good jacket indeed, spine panel lightly sunned, three small repairs to heads of flap folds and rear panel, a few marks to rear panel, edges and head of spine panel a touch rubbed, still a notably bright and sharp example. Typescript folded twice, tiny stain to top left corner, light creases to outer margin, small pencil annotation to verso. ¶ Boytinck 75. £8,000 [159219]
16 BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Edinburgh: Otto Schulze
17 BROWNING, Robert. The Flight of the Duchess. Campden, Gloucestershire: Essex House Press, 1905 First Essex House edition, number 49 of 125 copies printed on vellum and hand illuminated. Browning’s poem was first published in its completed form in 1845 in his Dramatic Romances and Lyrics , the first nine sections having been first published in Hood’s Magazine earlier the same year. Duodecimo. Original stiff vellum, spine lettered in gilt, “Soul is Form” rose motif stamped in blind to front cover, edges untrimmed. Housed in the originsl slipcase. Hand-coloured frontispiece woodcut by Paul Woodroffe, illuminated letters by Raymond Binns, with tissue guards. Spine faintly toned, a beautiful near-fine copy in the slightly soiled slipcase, burn mark and consequent wear to board at foot of entry. ¶ Alan Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist , 2005; Franklin, p. 231; Ransom Essex House 60, p. 269. £1,250 [159905]
arts-and-crafts style binding by Rivière. The sonnets include some of Browning’s most famous love poetry, written in the first years of her falling in love with Robert Browning, including the famous sonnet “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”. The collection was first published in 1850. Quarto (211 × 172 mm) Contemporary brown morocco by Rivière and Son, spine in compartments framed in gilt, raised bands tooled in gilt, elaborate triple rule gilt frames with reef knot details to covers, front cover lettered in gilt within central foliate vignette, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, red marbled endpapers. Elaborate woodcut title page and initial to each sonnet. Bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker (1871–1950) of Manchester, Mass., son of wealthy industrialist Silas B. Cobb, on front pastedown. Blind stamp of the New England Conservatory of Music at head of Sonnet 37. Spine and head of covers sunned, small bump to upper outer corner of front cover, faint offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and bright; a beautiful copy in near-fine condition. £1,250 [155449]
and Company, 1901 a beautiful work
An attractive edition with intricate woodcut initials to each sonnet, one of 300 copies, this copy in a fine
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