JONKERS RARE BOOKS
64. Caesar The Life Story of a Panda Leopard [O’BRIAN, Patrick]; RUSS, Patrick
G.P. Putnam’s & Sons, 1930. First edition, second issue with the jacket priced at 2/6. 8vo. Red cloth with dark green titles, in a green paper dustwrapper with colour onlay to upper cover showing Caesar the leopard fishing. Top edge red. Colour frontis- piece (matching the dustwrapper onlay) and thirteen black and white illustrations by Harry Rountree. A very good copy with some fading to spine, in a very good dust- wrapper with some tanning and a short closed tear to the tail of the spine. [46024] £375 Patrick O’Brian’s first book, published under his birth name when he was only 15 and still at school. Written in the first person by the eponymous Leopard, the book was a critical success, The New Statesman recommending it as a Christmas gift in December 1930, and The Saturday Review of Literature stating that it was “written in the spirit of an explorer relating his adven- tures... There is rapid action, copious bloodshed... [and]... extraordinary devotion”.
65. Emil And The Detectives with an Introduction by Walter de la Mare KASTNER, Erich; DE LA MARE, Walter
Cape, 1931. First UK edition. 8vo. Yellow cloth with lettering and vignettes in black, in the rare original printed dustwrapper. Illustrated by De La Mare with simple, but striking line drawings, some printed onto a yellow background. A near fine copy, stain to fore-edge, in a very good dustwrapper, light wear to the head of the spine and a short closed tear to the base. A very attractive example of a rarity. [43945] £1,500 The first Emil book, a fabulous adventure story for children, which is most uncommon.
66. The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Bran- estawm HUNTER, Norman; ROBINSON, W. Heath [illus.] The Bodley Head, 1933. First edition. Original orange cloth, lettered in dark blue with a vignette to the upper cover in pictorial dustwrapper with a colour illustration by Heath Robinson to the upper cover. With a tipped in leaf to the front blank inscribed by the author, “To Jan Wilmer with best wishes Norman Hunter”. Colour frontis- piece and 75 line drawings by Heath Robinson. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, which is exceptionally clean and crisp with just the slightest wear to a couple of cor- ners. An exemplary copy. [45334] £6,000 The first Professor Branestawm book. The book had its origin in stories written by Hunter for BBC’s Children’s Hour in 1933, concerning a brilliant but very absent minded inventor. These were collected into this book and William Heath Robinson, already known for his cartoon like
drawings of improbable inventions, provided the illustrations. Very rare in its dustwrapper, particularly one so well preserved.
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