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presented to a friend and fellow food connoisseur
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Louis Fox, an admirable cook a cordial companion. Wishing him as one does in happier climes, ‘A thousand times a night for a thousand years’ Aleister Crowley”. The present work is a practical guide to yoga, with instructions on its use for spiritual purposes. Louis Fox makes regular appearances in Crowley’s diaries of the late 1930s, often as a dinner companion, and frequently with favourable comments on his food: “his ravioli and cream. Oh boy!” (Monday 28 November 1938, Royal Court Diary Series ). Quarto. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, gatherings unopened. With dust jacket. Mild rubbing to edges, a couple of pale patches to boards, foxing to contents; a very good copy in jacket, patches lost to centre of spine, front flap fold, and foot of front flap, sometime reinforced with tape, chips to other corners, nicks to edges. £6,750 [151675] 30 DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 the author’s most famous book First edition, first issue, in the first state dust jacket. This is, in the words of biographer Donald Sturrock, Dahl’s “most famous children’s book”. The US edition precedes the UK edition by three years. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with design in blind, rear cover with publisher’s device in blind, yellow endpapers, top edge purple. With dust
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At the beginning of the 20th century, John Harrison Stonehouse (1864–1937), the managing director of Henry Sotheran’s, created the “Cosway binding”, named after the Regency miniaturist Richard Cosway. The success of Stonehouse’s design was mostly due to the work of the skilled miniaturist painter, Caroline Billin Currie (1849–1940), whose exquisite designs were mounted under glass on the front cover and bound by the Rivière Bindery. Octavo (220 × 145 mm). Cosway binding by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran Ltd in crushed blue morocco, raised bands on spine, compartments lettered and richly blocked with rose designs in gilt, covers with single rule gilt border, front cover with large gilt rose garlands enclosing hand-painted miniature by Miss C. B. Currie mounted behind glass, rear cover with gilt-tooled rose cornerpieces, outer edges of boards lettered in gilt, turn-ins tooled in gilt, watered silk doublures and free endpapers, “Miniatures by C. B. Currie” stamped in gilt on rear doublure, gilt edges. Frontispice with tissue-guard, title page printed in red and black with etched vignette, 50 full page plates. Spine lightly sunned, a little expert recolouring to extremities, a few blemishes to front cover, damp stain to lower outer edge of frontispiece just affecting image, occasional foxing to contents, plates notably bright. A very good copy indeed. £7,500 [156420] 29 CROWLEY, Aleister, as Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji. Eight Lectures on Yoga. London: Published by the O.T.O., 1939
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2 works, octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full red and full blue morocco, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, covers and board edges ruled in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in custom black leather-entry cloth slipcase. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. First work with couple of spots to prelims, second work with small scratch to foot of spine, contents clean; fine copies. £4,500 [157216]
jacket. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed folding box. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Joseph Schindelman. Foot of spine very slightly bumped, some minor marks to front cover; a near-fine and fresh copy. Spine of dust jacket slightly toned, reverse with minor foxing; a near-fine and bright example of an unclipped jacket. £6,500 [159918] 31 DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; [together with] Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 & 1972 handsomely bound as a pair First editions. The American editions precede the first UK editions by three and one years, respectively.
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28 COSWAY BINDING – NEVILL, Ralph. French Prints of the Eighteenth Century. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908 a superbly executed cosway binding, signed by the miniaturist
First edition, in an original Cosway binding by Rivière, signed by the inventor of the binding style, J. H. Stonehouse, and the miniaturist, Miss C. B. Currie, and numbered 953. Though often imitated by other leading bookbinders, the original bindings by Stonehouse and Currie are the most sought after, and copies such as this, with Currie’s gilt signature on the rear doublure, are particularly prized.
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