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We welcome the month of December with another seasonal catalogue of fresh acquisitions, including some unusual and unique items. This selection includes a complete set inscribed by Evelyn Waugh to beloved friend Nancy Mitford, an original drawing of a cockatoo by renowned illustrator Quentin Blake, and a signed limited issue of Oscar Wilde's "trivial comedy for serious people", The Importance of Being Earnest.

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1 ABRAHAMS, H. M. Training for Athletes. London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1928 “if i can’t win, i won’t run!” First edition, very scarce with the dust jacket, of Harold Abrahams’s guide for athletes, with contributions by Lord Burghley, D. G. A. Lowe, F. R. Gaby, B. Howard Baker, and M. C. Nokes. Abrahams is remembered as the winner of the 100 meter sprint race in the 1924 Olympics, a feat depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire . Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine ruled and lettered gilt, with the dust jacket. Very minor chips to head and tail of dust jacket, an excellent copy. £2,250 [158461] 2 ACTON, Eliza. The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use. London: Longman, Brown, Green, First edition. “A serious and scholarly account of the history of bread and its making, with a severe attack on the malpractices of bakers and millers in adulterating the product, this also contained recipes for the home bread maker” ( ODNB ). The English food writer and poet Eliza Acton (1799–1859) had included an influential chapter on Longman’s, & Roberts, 1857 in the unrestored cloth

bread-making in her ground-breaking Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845). In this more academic work Acton expands on that chapter. Starting with a history of English bread and its making, Acton details various European methods, compares styles of ovens, discusses the prevalent practice of adulteration, gives a scientific examination of gluten, and provides numerous practical recipes. Octavo. Original brown morocco-grain cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, their binder’s ticket to rear pastedown, spine lettered in gilt, front board centrally lettered on a gilt banderole around a wreath of wheat stalks framing a sheaf, frames blocked in blind to both covers, brown coated endpapers, pastedowns lettered in black with publisher’s adverts. With the 24-page publisher’s catalogue at the rear, dated March 1856. Engraved decorative title page and occasional engraved illustration in the text. Bookseller’s ticket of J. Kemp of Beverley to front pastedown. Ownership inscription of “W. Hay, 4 Regent’s Terrace, Hull, 30/10/74” to verso of front free endpaper. Spine cocked and browned, rubbing to extremities, spine ends and corners bumped, a couple of marks to cloth, a very good copy in the unrestored cloth. £1,500 [149647] 3 ADDERLEY, Julian “Cannonball” – SALOU, Michel (photo.) Group of five original carbon prints of the Adderley Quintet in concert. [Paris: c.1960] the adderleys blow up a storm at salle pleyel

A highly engaging sequence of apparently unpublished images of the Adderley quintet at Salle Pleyel Paris in 1960, capturing the great good humour between the brothers. “This was a hard-hitting group which invested blues and formulae with an intensity that helped to keep older jazz channels open at the time of Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and other seekers” (Cook & Morton). The quintet comprised Cannonball (alto), Nat (cornet), Victor Feldman (piano), Sam Jones (bass), Louis Hayes (drums). The gig, on Friday 25 November 1960, part of Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, was recorded and “the enthusiasm of the audience spills over into the performance to create a special atmosphere” (Sheridan, pp. 100–01). 5 original carbon prints (241 × 178 mm), 4 landscape, 1 portrait, printed on heavy stock paper, each with Salou’s inventory number in pencil on verso, one with Salou’s wet

stamp. In excellent condition. ¶ Chris Sheridan , Dis Here: A Bio-Discograhy of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley , 2000. £950 [149639]

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Richard. Down. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Harmondsworth: The Paradine Press, 1976 the deluxe edition Watership First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 150 of 250 specially bound copies signed by the author. This deluxe edition included a foreword on the genesis of the story by Richard Adams which is first published here. Large octavo. Original dark green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered and with decorations in gilt, raised bands forming compartments to spine, front cover with rabbit vignette in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges and turn-ins gilt. In the marbled slipcase as issued. Colour frontispiece, numerous illustrations to the text in colour and black and white, folding colour map tipped-in at rear. Spine slightly sunned, one corner slightly rubbed; a near-fine copy. Extremities of slipcase slightly rubbed; a very good example. £3,000 [158499]

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sharp and square, covers lightly marked, a touch of foxing to outer leaves and edges, otherwise internally bright and clean. A very good set. ¶ Gilson E79, E82, E86, E88, E89 (first eds.). £2,500 [157109] 7 BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles Knight, 1832 a turning point in economic writing First edition of this elemental work in the eventual development of all computational devices, a very attractive copy bound for presentation by Greenock Mathematical School, inscribed by the master Robert Buchanan to one John N. Reid on 21 July 1835. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures was Babbage’s most successful lifetime publication, selling 3,000 copies. It is considered “a turning point in economic writing and firmly established Babbage as a leading authority of the industrial movement” ( ODNB ). Prompted by the demands for precision in the construction of his first calculating engine, Babbage had made a survey of factories and workshops both in England and Europe. The work demonstrates Babbage’s remarkable prescience. He proposed many scientific management techniques for the first time, including subdivided work, cost accounting, and merit pay systems. He advocated the decimalization of currency, foresaw the role of tidal power as an energy source, and predicted the exhaustion of coal reserves.

8 BALDWIN, James. Giovanni’s Room. New York: The Dial Press, 1956 “perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” First edition of Baldwin’s second novel, a cornerstone of 20th-century gay fiction. Following the success of Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), Baldwin won a Guggenheim grant to produce his next book, but his American publisher Knopf turned the manuscript down, fearing its homosexual themes would alienate his existing audience. The work was picked up by the Dial Press, with whom Baldwin would publish regularly. Giovanni’s Room , “relating the homosexual relationship of an American expat in Paris and featuring an all-white cast of characters, was a book Baldwin had to write, he said in an interview with Richard Goldstein, ‘to clarify something for myself’” ( ANB ). It is now widely considered one of the most influential novels of the era. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed green marbled paper boards, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, a very good copy indeed in the like jacket, price-clipped, spine faintly browned creasing and occasional nicks to edges, a couple of short closed tears to head of front panel, small chips to spine and flap fold ends, slight soiling to rear panel, remaining a lovely example. £2,250 [159884]

5 ALLEN, H. Warner. The Wines of France. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1924 great wine is a work of art First edition of this entertaining study on French wines, attractively bound by Bayntun-Rivière with vine and grape motifs. Allen worked as a correspondent of the British press at the French front during the First World War before retiring to Berkshire to concentrate on writing books. A prolific novelist of detective fiction, Allen is best known for his numerous works on the history of wine. “In all of his publications on the subject, vinous information was nicely interwoven with literary and historical allusions. He travelled widely among the European vineyards; his accurate judgement of wine was recognized by all amateurs qualified to assess this, and he was greatly respected by the leaders of the wine trade” ( ODNB ). The present work is a comprehensive survey of wine-making methods in France, focusing on the history and characteristics of the main wine- districts, and analysing “the pleasurable sensations which great wines produce”(preface). Octavo (214 × 131 mm). Recently bound in red morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, spine with gilt raised bands, gilt lettering and grape tools in gilt to compartments, covers, board edges and turn-ins bordered with vine and grapes gilt roll, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. A fine copy. £1,250 [159830]

Octavo (163 × 101 mm). Contemporary prize binding of red straight-grain morocco, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine lettered in gilt, gilt in compartments, wide gilt border to covers enclosing blind arms of Greenock Mathematical School, marbled endpapers and edges. Engraved title leaf, engraved vignette, diagrams and tables to the text. Greenock Mathematical School presentation inscription to initial binder’s blank. Extremities neatly restored, light rubbing, slight foxing to initial and final few leaves else contents clean; a very good copy. ¶ Einaudi 223; Goldsmiths’ 27346; Kress C.3013; Mattioli 158; Norman 92 Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer , 1982. £3,750 [155681]

6 AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906–10 beautifully illustrated set A lovely set of the Macmillan editions, first published between 1895 and 1897, beautifully illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Thomson (1860–1920) was one of the most notable book illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his illustrations for Jane Austen’s novels remain widely regarded as classics in the field. “The artist’s light touch and feeling for period manners provide a charming and accessible gloss to the author’s work” ( ODNB ). 5 volumes, octavo (189 × 124 mm). Contemporary half vellum bound for Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool, spines with raised bands, brown morocco title labels, elaborate gilt decoration in compartments, blue cloth sides ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With black and white illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Bindings

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full well that Bentham, if left to his own devices, would end in ‘writing a good-sized pamphlet if not a volume’, got in first with a short prospectus of twelve pages. Bentham therefore devoted himself to a commentary on the prospectus and, when subscriptions hung fire, seems, to judge from an advertisement in the book, to have agreed to publish what he had ready. Accordingly in 1815 there appeared without his name on the title page Chrestomathia . . . This consisted of two elaborate Instruction Tables on the advantages and principles of the system with notes and four appendices that were ready out of a projected ten. The next year (1816) the volume appeared [as here] with a cancel title now acknowledging Bentham’s authorship, and in the following year [ sic ] he published the fifth appendix – at least twice as long as the original volume!” (Muirhead). The title to part II is found dated both 1816 and 1817; the latter is present here (no priority given by Chuo). 2 parts in 1 volume, octavo (214 × 129 mm). Contemporary calf, with early reback and gilt supralibros of Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow to covers. With 5 large folding tables. Tips a little worn, contents a little browned and spotted, closed tear to last leaf of part I affecting a few words without loss. A very good copy. ¶ Chuo C1.2; Everett, p. 528; Goldsmiths’ 21357; Muirhead, pp. 19–21. £3,250 [157155] 11 BERRY, Burton Y. Teenage Styles and Trends 1967–71: A Retrospect. Lucerne: C. J. Bucher Ltd, 1972

9 BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952 rien à faire

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remarkable and strangely moving First and sole edition, privately printed in an edition of 300 copies only, complete with the original plain brown wrapper. “One intriguing photobook from the early 1970s was made by an elderly US diplomat stationed in Zurich named Byron Y. Berry. Photographed on the streets of various cosmopolitan cities, [this work] is a series of street portraits of ‘young lads’, as Berry called them, focusing in particular on the youths’ long hair. The book is a recalling of the aged photographer’s own lost youth, a frank appreciation of beauty, and a valuable photo-document of 1960s’ street culture . . . The book moves us because it is so intimately connected with photography and time – youth and age . . . First and foremost, this is a celebration of beauty . . . a unique snapshot of an era when it was especially exciting to be young. The subtle but unmistakable erotic undertones, however, add a personal level that is both beguiling

and mysterious . . . the book is to be valued not only for its contribution to the gay photobook, but to the literature of youth fashion and street culture” (Parr & Badger). Quarto. Original photographic covers, title to front cover in white. With the original plain brown paper wrapper stamped “Tenage” [ sic ] at one edge. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. 63 full-page black and white illustrations from photographs. Book fine, brown wrapper creased with wear to corners. ¶ Parr & Badger III, pp. 77 & 80. £5,000 [151168]

First edition, trade issue, scarce in such nice condition. The play was originally written and published in French and first performed in full at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953. Its extraordinary success was largely responsible for Beckett’s rise to worldwide fame. Beckett’s own translation of the play into English as Waiting for Godot was published in New York by Grove Press in 1954. Octavo. Original white wrappers, spine and covers lettered in blue and black, blue rules to covers, small photographic illustration of author to rear cover, edges untrimmed, most uncut. Text in French. Occasional trivial spots of foxing and a few light creases, very slight toning to spine and text. A near-fine copy, fresh and bright. ¶ Federman & Fletcher 259. £2,500 [155616]

Jeremy. Chrestomathia; [together with] Chrestomathia Part II. Containing Appendix, No. V. Being an essay on Nomenclature and Classification. London: Printed for Messrs. Payne and Foss, and R. Hunter, by J. M’Creery, 1816–17 bentham’s main work on education First public edition of Bentham’s proposal of the reform of secondary education: a re-issue of the original sheets of the privately-issued part I with a cancel title page, together with the first edition of part II. “In 1814 Bentham became interested in a scheme, sponsored by Francis Place, James Mill, and others, to extend the Lancastrian scheme of instruction to Higher Education. He not only offered his garden as a site for the school, but characteristically sat down at once to write a ‘puff’ for it. But Place and Mill, knowing

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item X/236 on the artist’s archive database. The drawing is accompanied by a typed letter signed by Blake thanking the recipient for additional information about the charity. He notes “I ought to have got back to you before this but there seems to have been a great deal to do here since then”. Blake suggests that if the drawing “doesn’t look as though it is going to each a reasonable reserve price”, he could also his dealer to sell it. He also sends a cheque “to help with the roof or whatever seems appropriate”. Original drawing (70 × 120 mm) on card (90 × 139 mm), ink and watercolour, signed upper right (“Quentin Blake”), mounted, framed and glazed. Together with a typed letter signed from Quentin Blake, 1 leaf (296 × 210 mm), artist’s letterhead. A bright and vibrant drawing; fine condition. Minor staple holes to typed letter. £2,750 [159257] 14 BLAKE, William (illus.); GRAY, Thomas. Water-Colour Designs for the Poems. London: The Trianon Press, For the William Blake Trust, 1972 signed by geoffrey keynes First edition thus, number 93 of 352 copies, from an edition of 518, all printed on Arches pure rag paper made specially to match that used by Blake; signed by Blake’s bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes on the colophon. Keynes was the chairman of the William Blake Trust, and contributes the introduction to the books. In this extravagant tour de force Blake used Gray’s poems as the jumping-off point for characteristically epic and imaginative watercolours. The Trianon Press reproductions are recognized as the finest facsimiles – each leaf is hand-coloured through stencils, working from the originals in Paul Mellon’s collection. This copy includes the original prospectuses and another for Blake’s Night Thoughts .

3 volumes, folio. Original brown quarter morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled sides. Housed in original leather- entry marbled slipcases. A fine set. £2,250 [145354] 15 BLIXEN, Karen, as Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938 First US edition, originally published in Great Britain the previous year. In 1985 the book was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed orange boards, spine and front board lettered and blocked in gilt, top edge green. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy, minor offsetting to endpapers, bright and clean, in very good dust jacket, unclipped, spine panel toned, light rubbing and nicks to extremities. £950 [155409]

12 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Geography III. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976

First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with her ownership inscription on the front free endpaper and the publisher’s compliments slip, sending the book at the author’s request. Geography III was Bishop’s last work and won the Book Critics’ Circle Award for 1977. “This volume of nine beautifully crafted poems returns to themes of North and South but with greater intimacy and immediacy” ( ANB ). Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, tan endpapers. With dust jacket. Small rust mark from paper clip to first two leaves, a near-fine copy in like jacket, small mark to front panel, two short closed tears, bright and sharp. £1,000 [155731]

13 BLAKE, Quentin. Cockatoo. [2010]

One of the artist’s distinctive and colourful original drawings of a cockatoo. Quentin Blake has become closely associated with his characteristic bird drawings. Books include his Cockatoos (1992) and John Yeoman’s Up with Birds! (1998). This drawing was executed for the “Education Gambia” charity auction in 2010. It is recorded as

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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

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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There are several references to the children in his diaries: in 1870 he called on “my three little friends” to assist in preparing them as “three fairies in a play they are going to assist in”. He noted, however, they were “quite deficient in theatrical talent”. Later, in 1873, Dodgson took “Harmarina” to a show of spectral optical illusion. On 21 March 1876 Dodgson wrote to Macmillan ordering special bindings for presentation: “100 in red and gold, 20 in dark blue and gold, 20 in white vellum and gold”, and later stated that bindings in dark green were also available. On publication day, 29 March, Dodgson went to London to inscribe copies, though only 80 were ready that day. Wakeling lists some of the recipients but does not note the present copy. Dodgson at Auction does not record this copy. The author initialled and dated at least two copies in red cloth which he retained for himself (red was, after all, the colour of the two Alice books), and presentation copies in red are known to others of his child-friends. A later owner of this copy appears to have been the lawyer Sidney Herbert Williams. Together with Falconer Madan, Williams wrote A Handbook of the Literature of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson which was first published in 1931. The work became the basis of Roger Lancelyn Green’s The Lewis Carroll Handbook (first published in 1970) and later revised by Denis Crutch. It is the acknowledged bibliographical reference work on Lewis Carroll. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers illustrated in gilt, green coated endpapers, binder’s label (“Burn & Co”) to rear pastedown, edges gilt. Housed in a custom red cloth folding box. Frontispiece and 8 illustrations by Henry Holiday with tissue guards. Bookplate of Sidney Williams to front pastedown. Extremities slightly worn, with minor soiling to covers, minor abrasions to front endpapers, occasional foxing, contents slightly shaken, but a very good and largely clean copy. ¶ Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch 115. Carlson & Eger, Dodgson at Auction , 1999; Edward Wakeling, Lewis Carroll’s Diaries , vol. 6, 2001, pp. 99– 100, 107, 271, and 453–4. £6,500 [159470]

20 BUTLER, Octavia E. [Lilith’s Brood.] Dawn; Adulthood Rites; Imago. New York: Warner Books, 1987–88–89 the complete xenogenesis trilogy, all signed First editions, each volume signed on the title page by the author, Dawn additionally dated “6–29–99”. Butler was the first Black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first science fiction author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship. Lilith’s Brood , also known as the Xenogenesis trilogy, begins with the death of humanity, brought about by increasing environmental abuse, international hostility, and eventual nuclear holocaust. With its African-American heroine, Butler’s work “creates powerful images of black women in a genre in which and from which they have traditionally been marginalized and excluded” (Boutler, p. 170). 3 volumes, octavo. Original variously coloured cloth-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt, variously coloured endpapers. With dust jackets. 2 pp. leaflet for a series of science fiction talks at Elliott Bay Book Company and membership form for

often, not price-clipped, slight toning to extremities and a little soiling to rear panel, sharp and fresh. £2,500 [159217] 22 CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876 presentation copy of the author’s “odyssey of the nonsensical” First edition, presentation copy, specially bound in red cloth and inscribed by the author on the day of publication on the half-title, “Georgina J. Watson from the Author. Mar. 29, 1876.” The recipient was Georgina (Ina) Janet Watson, one of three daughters of Revd George William Watson (1822–1863). Dodgson photographed the three sisters, of whom Ina was the youngest. Indeed, Dodgson referred to Harriet, Mary, and Ina collectively as “Harmarina” and wrote verses, puzzles and letters for the trio (published in 1924 within Some Rare Carrolliana ).

the Clarion West Writers Workshop loosely inserted. A few tiny bumps to spine ends and corners, extremities a touch rubbed, trivial marks to lower edges of Dawn . A near-fine set in like jackets, slight creasing to edges, one nick to foot of spine panel of Dawn , not price-clipped, sharp and striking. ¶ Amanda Boulter, “Polymorphous Futures”, American Bodies, Cultural Histories of the Physique , 1996. £4,750 [159027] 21 CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York: Random House, [1958] a valentine of love First edition in book form. The novella was the basis for the 1961 film of the same name, starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt on black ground, top edge blue. With dust jacket. A little rubbing to spine and lower edges of covers, top edge a touch faded. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, spine sunned as

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24 CHAUDHURI, Nirad C. Culture in the Vanity Bag: being an Essay on Clothing and Adornment in Passing and Abiding. Bombay: Jalco Publishing House, 1976 presented to jackie o Scarce first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nirad C. Chaudhuri”, with a few authorial corrections, and occasional marginal pencillings, presumably by Jackie Kennedy. This is a serious and scholarly short history of Indian dress by the “forgotten visionary of British India”. “A talent in a three-piece suit with an honorary doctorate from Oxford and honored as a Commander of the British Empire, he could memorize books and reprimand Oxford dons for forgetting the name of a particular military order. To his critics, this was performative; certainly, Chaudhuri carefully manufactured his persona because he knew his audience. But that criticism alone fails to explain his relentless, monomaniacal crusade to chronicle the decline of civilizations” (Maitra). In 1962 Jackie Kennedy visited India and Pakistan on a goodwill tour and made a great impression, not least for her wardrobe. Life magazine reported that “Wherever she went, there were presents. Mrs. Kennedy remarked ‘It’s been a dream’” (cited in Kamath). Chaudhuri was invited by Jackie to write the biography of her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, but declined. Octavo. Original plain off-white boards, unlettered. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom green cloth flap case. With 3 pages of line drawings. With Sotheby’s estate sale bookplate loosely inserted (23–26 April 1996). Corners of binding lightly bumped, unclipped jacket with a few nicks, chips and minor creasing. A very good copy. ¶ M. V. Kamath, United States and India 1776–1976 , 1976; Sumantra Maitra, “In Search of Nirad Chaudhuri: The Forgotten Visionary of British India”, The Spectator World , August 2021. £2,000 [158140] 25 CHURCHILL, Winston S. His Life in Photographs. Edited by Randolph S. Churchill and Helmut Gernsheim. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955

Charles Rhys, eighth Baron Dynevor (1899–1962), who acceded to the title in 1956. It is accompanied by two typed letters signed, both on Downing Street letterhead, from Churchill’s principal private secretary Jock Colville to Roger Senhouse of publisher Secker and Warburg, remarking that he has been informed by “Mrs Charles Rhys” of his proposed publication of a “book of photographs and portraits of the Prime Minister” but Churchill “does not feel that he can assist you in this proposal” (21 April 1954); the second thanks Senhouse on Churchill’s behalf for sending a copy of Helmut Gernsheim’s monograph on Roger Fenton (2 December 1954); together with a retained copy of Senhouse’s typed letter to Colville (26 November 1954), mentioning that he has written to Charles Rhys concerning Gernsheims’s book, and enclosing the same. Senhouse and Rhys were contemporaries at Eton. After education at Eton and Sandhurst, Rhys was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, and served as Conservative MP for Romford and then Guilford. In government he was Stanley Baldwin’s parliamentary private secretary from 1927 to 1929. Churchill had trained with the 2nd battalion Grenadier Guards (Dec. 1914–Jan. 1915) and Rhys was awarded the MC for his part in the British expedition against the Bolsheviks. His wife,

27 CHURCHILL, Winston S. – DAVIES, Joseph E. Mission to Moscow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941 to the greatest of all englishmen First edition, presentation copy to Winston Churchill, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To the greatest of all Englishmen – with apology for trying to add something to the solution of ‘the riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’ – with Christmas greetings Joseph E. Davies. Dec. 23. 1941. To the right honourable premier Winston S. Churchill The White House”. Davies served as US ambassador to the Soviet Union, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and as a special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. His inscription refers to Churchill’s famous pronouncement of the puzzle of Russia after the Nazi-Soviet pact. Churchill’s posthumous bookplate and that of his son Randolph are mounted to the front pastedown. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A little soiled and worn, a good copy. £1,500 [159773]

Hope Soames, with whom he had eloped, was the mother by her first marriage of Christopher Soames; Soames married Mary Churchill, the youngest child of Winston and Clementine. Quarto. Original dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and illustrations from photographs throughout. Loosely inserted flyer for the Winston Churchill Memorial Appeal; Times newspaper clipping from 1994 concerning Churchill’s birthday in 1954. Binding sunned at foot of spine and lower edge of covers. Jacket neatly repaired on verso with archival tape, otherwise rather rubbed, chipped and creased, spine toned and back panel slightly cockled. A good copy. £1,250 [159772] 26 CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956–58 in contemporary half morocco First editions, handsomely bound, of Churchill’s great history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States. 4 volumes, octavo (235 × 153 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco, triple red morocco labels, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated with maps and genealogical tables. Monogram bookplate to front pastedowns. Spines ever so slightly sunned, trivial sporadic foxing. An excellent copy. ¶ Cohen A267.1(I)–(IV). £2,000 [156501]

23 CATLIN, George. North American Indians. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926 in fresh condition A profusely illustrated and classic history of the Native American peoples, handsomely produced. “Catlin was the first to picture them so extensively in their own territories and one of the few to portray them as fellow human beings” (Watson). His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in an enormous collection of artefacts as well as more than 400 paintings, including portraits and scenes of tribal life. The resulting book, first published with hand-coloured plates in 1841, is “one of the most original, authentic and popular works on the subject” (Sabin). 2 volumes, large octavo. Original red cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt and stamped with pictorial illustrations in gilt and black, top edges gilt, others uncut. With 320 colour illustrations on 180 plates, including 3 maps (one folding), after the author. Cloth notably bright, a little bowing to covers and rubbing to extremities, contents clean, plates fresh. A very good copy indeed. ¶ Hassrick 15; Sabin 11536. Bruce Watson, “George Catlin’s Obsession”, Smithsonian Magazine , Dec. 2002, accessible online. £1,250 [155302]

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First edition, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the editor, Churchill’s son Randolph: “Charles from Randolph, Christmas 1955”. The recipient is

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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

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.

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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32 DAHL, Roald. The Twits. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980 First edition. In a letter to Dahl, editor Bob Gottlieb wrote “I like it very much . . . You’re right: what we want (or should want) for these little ones is stuff with meat, not the yuchy [ sic ] sweetly pretty material we’re exposed to” (Sturrock, p. 504). Octavo. Original red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. A fine and bright copy. Trace of slight sunning to dust jacket spine, a near-fine, unclipped jacket. ¶ Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl , 2010. £450 [159856] Medicine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 First edition. A contemporary reviewer noted that “For some time now Roald Dahl has been the most popular living novelist that we have for children, despite, or sometimes possibly because of, lapses in taste . . . George’s Marvellous Medicine is a good example of this ability he has to entertain the young often at the cost of offending many of the other sort”. Octavo. Original light blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. 33 DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous

short story found in his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World , described in the dust jacket blurb as “Dahl’s most startling and wonderful tale since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ”. Jeremy Treglown assesses Dahl’s legacy in his biography and notes that not all of the author’s books will last, but concludes “the best – especially The BFG – surely will”. Octavo. Original light grey boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Black and white illustrations to the text, all by Blake. Minor toning to leaves, as usual; a near-fine copy. Dust jacket slightly toned on reverse, a near-fine and unfaded example of an unclipped jacket. £2,250 [159864] 35 DAHL, Roald. Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Rosemary Love Roald Dahl”. Matilda won the Children’s Book Award in the year of its publication. It formed the basis for both the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito and the successful stage musical which premiered at the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Quentin Blake. Ownership inscription of recipient Rosemary Gibble at head of front free endpaper. A near-

fine copy, spine ends gently bumped, light offsetting from presentation inscription to front pastedown and front jacket flap, in very good jacket, not price-clipped, couple of spots of foxing to rear flap, a bright example. £4,250 [159570] 36 DAHL, Roald. Esio Trot. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990 dahl’s predication of luck for the ultimate owner of the work First edition with a prophetic inscription from Dahl: “I believe the ultimate owner of this book will enjoy an unusual amount of good luck in the year 1991, Roald Dahl, Sept 1990”. Esio Trot was the last book to be published in Dahl’s lifetime – the author died on 23 November 1990 – and so inscribed copies are uncommon. The work is described by the dust jacket blurb as “a quirky, tender and truly original love story”. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Blake. Negligible bumps to spine ends, else a fine copy in the very good jacket, minor creasing to edges, a couple of shallow scratches to panels, unclipped. £3,250 [159882]

A fine, bright, and crisp copy, in like jacket. ¶ Times Literary Supplement , 24 July 1981, p. 839. £700 [159857] 34 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 signed by the ilustrator First edition, signed by Quentin Blake on the title page. Dahl’s fantastical tale was expanded from a

37 DAHL, Roald. The Limited Commemorative Edition. London: Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape, 1991 limited edition The Commemorative Edition, number 107 of 500 sets. This edition was published on the 75th anniversary of the author’s birth on 13 September 1991 and features

artwork from the original illustrators. The works were originally published between 1961 and 1990. 15 volumes, octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, spines lettered in gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gilt, buff endpapers. Each volume housed in a matching weave pattern paper-covered slipcase and the whole contained in a large slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Joseph Schindelman, William Pene du Bois, Donald Chaffin, Jill Bennett, and Quentin Blake. Slipcase a little worn; a fine set. £2,500 [159241]

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strong, or is even brown” (vol. 2, pp. 21–2). The Darwin Correspondence Project transcribes a short note annotated by Darwin that ties him, Brodrick, and Variation together. A postcard written by an unidentified W.S.C. to the naturalist George Busk shows he had consulted Brodrick about Darwin’s observations on canaries in both Descent and Variation , noting that Darwin’s statement on jonquil- coloured birds “is not the case with [Brodrick’s] blood. Jonquils & Mealies being quite accidental . . . I have written to Mr B to ask for a pair of canaries but there is no chance of his having any to spare till the Autumn”. Busk forwarded the postcard to Darwin. 2 volumes, demy octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, black coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. Numerous wood engravings in the text. Publisher’s catalogues at rear of each volume; 32 pp., dated April 1867, in first, and 2 pp., dated February 1868, in second. Contemporary pencilled ownership signature of “Wm Brodrick” at upper right corner of each title page, partially erased but still perfectly legible; a handwriting comparison confirms a match with those present in William Brodrick’s extra-illustrated copy of the second edition of Falconry in the British Isles (1873). Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, short tears at head of vol. 2 spine repaired with glue, cloth cockled in places, inner hinges discreetly repaired, outer leaves foxed, occasional damp staining in lower margins, contents otherwise fresh. A very good copy. ¶ Freeman 878; Norman 597. Darwin Correspondence Project , unattributed letter from one W.S.C. to George Busk, 5 April 1873, ref. DCP- LETT–8842; Robert L. Wallace, The Canary Book , 1893. £3,500 [158798] ad celeberrimum D. Gisbertum Voetium. Amsterdam: L. Elzevir, 1643 descartes’s most significant contribution to the querelle d’utrecht 40 DESCARTES, René. Epistola First edition of one of Descartes’s rarest works, his famous open letter to the Dutch Calvinist Gisbert Voetius (1589–1676), who as rector of the University of Utrecht engineered a condemnation of Cartesianism and accused Descartes of actively encouraging atheism. The so-called “Querelle d’ Utrecht” was a fierce public argument between Descartes and Voetius which lasted from 1639 until Descartes’s death in 1650. Descartes’ Letter was written as a response to two works by Voetius and his colleagues: the Confraternitas Mariana (1642) and the Admiranda Methodus (1643). Both attacked Descartes’s philosophy, and the

39 DARWIN, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. London: John Murray, 1868 the copy of distinguished bird breeder william brodrick First edition, second issue, of the first of Darwin’s works to use the phrase “survival of the fittest”, preceding by a year its appearance in any Origin of Species (the fifth edition); this copy from the library of William Brodrick, the co-author with Francis Henry Salvin and illustrator of Falconry in the British Isles (1855), an authority on avian variation. Brodrick (1814–1888) was a falconry enthusiast whose collection of working birds contained “most, if not all, of the hawks and falcons usually employed in modern falconry . . . Under his care, examples of the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian gerfalcons, sakers, and lanners lived for years, a source of admiration to all who saw them” (Fisher, p. 178). He was also among “the chief and most successful breeders extant” of canaries (Wallace, p. 170). In Variation under Domestication , Darwin takes canaries as a prime example of a domesticated animal which resists selective breeding: “In a few rare cases peculiarities fail to be inherited, apparently from the force of inheritance being too strong. I have been assured by breeders of the canary-bird that to get a good jonquil-coloured bird it does not answer to pair two jonquils, as the colour then comes out too

latter – attributed to Martin Schoock (1614–1669), a supporter of Voetius – charged Descartes with rejecting the traditional proofs for the existence of God. In his Letter , Descartes defended his philosophy at length and argued for the autonomy of human reason and religious tolerance. A Dutch translation was issued simultaneously (Amsterdam: Van Baerdt, 1643), and the original Latin was reprinted several times by the Elzevirs in the quarto editions of the Meditationes . Duodecimo (124 × 70 mm). Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered, gilt single fillet border and fleur-de-lys cornerpieces on covers, gilt gauffered edges. Woodcut printer’s device on title page, tailpieces, initials. Small gilt bookplate on front pastedown, with ink shelf marks, of Tibulle Desbarreaux-Bernard (1798–1880), a Toulousian doctor, author, and noted collector of incunables and Elzevir imprints in particular. Vellum a little splayed, spine and top edge darkened; contents browned, heavier to margins, with very occasional spots. Overall a very good, unsophisticated copy, presenting handsomely in contemporary vellum. ¶ Guibert 75 (1) (“très rare”); Willems 998. Theo Verbeek, “Descartes’s Letter to Voetius ”, Church History and Religious Culture , vol. 100, 2020, available online. £8,500 [156918]

38 DALÍ, Salvador. Symbols. Beverley Hills: Vanguard Studios, [1970] Artist’s proof of XVIII of XXV on Japon paper aside from the edition of 150 on Rives paper. Each print signed in pencil lower right by Dalí, numbered lower left. The prints are titled: Tete , L’Ange , Le Dragon , Le Cheval , La Fourme and Don Quichotte .

Quarto. Original white boards, “Dalí” embossed to front cover. Six loose original etchings from ink drawings printed in brown on Japon paper. Sheet sizes: 24.8 × 32.2 cm. Light rubbing to boards otherwise a bright set in excellent condition. ¶ Field 70–112. £8,000 [156803]

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