rif. 75880London: Anthony Blond 1971. Modern literature FIRST EDITION. Octavo 23 x 15cm pp.159 1. With frequent in-text line drawings. Publisher's pink cloth face motif blocked in blind to upper board. Silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Patrick Procktor priced at £1.75. Internally bright and clean. Gentle toning and rubbing to jacket panels. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Loose postcard inserted. Very good. The posthumous novel written by queer playwright Joe Orton whose prior works include 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane' and 'Loot.' Orton was murdered by his partner at only 34 years old leaving behind this strange dreamlike and almost allegoric novel. London: Anthony Blond, 1971 unknown
rif. 75833London: Longmans Green and Co. 1911. Fantasy novel FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.x; 165 3. With 12 illustrations by W.T. Horton and H.M. Brock. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black titles and decoration to upper. Offsetting to endpapers with an illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Gently toned throughout otherwise internally clean. Wear and sunning to spine with some dulling to gilt and a 5cm split to the lower joint. Good. An obscure spiritual fantasy novel published in the autumn of 1911 which sold poorly at the time due to its anti-bloodsport sentiment. Whatmore 'H. Rider Haggard: A Bibliography' London 1987 F38; Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911 unknown
rif. 75952London: A Longbow Children's Book from W.H. Allen 1978. Children's illustrated FIRST EDITION. Octavo 25 x 16cm pp.8 119 1. With 35 black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by the Grahame Johnstones priced at £3.25 to front flap. Light toning to text otherwise internally clean. Mild shelfwear. Very good. Twins staying with their grandmother in the country realise that a group of mysterious kittens comes to their orchard every midnight. They're determined to find out more. London: A Longbow Children's Book from W.H. Allen, 1978 unknown
rif. 75101Boson MA and New York NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co. 1909. Literature LEATHER-BOUND ILLUSTRATED SET Edition De Luxe. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo 20 x 13 x 56cm. Each volume with between three and seven black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece by various illustrators. An out-of-series copy from an edition of 1000 numbered copies. Recently bound in blue half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin red labels and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. A crisp clean set in an attractive new leather binding. Boson, MA, and New York, NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1909 unknown
rif. 75100London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Recently bound in brown half calf with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels further gilt decoration to spines and matching cloth over boards. Tope edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
rif. 73286London: Macmillan and Co. 1898-1903. Classic English Literature LEATHER-BOUND SET each being a reprint thus illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin navy labels and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt. A single worm-hole to 'Northanger Abbey and Persuasion' volume otherwise a crisp clean set in an attractive new leather binding. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1903 unknown
rif. 73677London: Macmillan and Co. 1950-51. Classic English Literature Illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 18 x 12 x 10cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Bound in publisher's red hardback cloth stamped in gilt to spine top edge red printed dust-jackets priced at 6s. each. Neat ink ownership to each volume M.A. Leamon contents and edges clean jackets lightly handled some toning and light wear to spines. Near fine. Uncommon in dust-wrappers. A charming set of Miss Austen's works. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1950-51 unknown
rif. 74728London: Macmillan and Co. 1908. Children's classic FIRST DETMOLD COLOUR ILLUSTRATED EDITION first impression. Octavo 22 x 14.5 cm; pp.xii 314 2 advertisements. With 16 full-page colour plates. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt top edge gilt. Contents clean a little toning to edges and endpapers binding carefully handled small pull at crown. Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Detmold were English graphic artists twins born on 21 November 1883. Due to the illness of their father they grew up in the care of their uncle Dr E B Shuldham who had acquired a notable collection of Japanese woodprints of plants and animals. This encouraged the twins to commence drawing animals and plants at a very early age and resulted in a debut aged 13 at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters with nature studies in the Japanese style. The Detmolds subsequently learned techniques of watercolour etching and of colour printing with copper plates. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908 unknown
rif. 72148London: Macmillan and Co. 1906-1910. Classic English Literature Illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Early printings in PUBLISHER'S LEATHER. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Bound in full green limp morocco with gilt to spine gilt floral endpapers a.e.g. with rounded corners. Although unmarked this binding is almost certainly a commercial 'deluxe' binding offered by Macmillan. Contents fine no inscriptions. Fragile leather worn to spine ends as expected joints a little rubbed. A very good set and a rare survival in these bindings. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906-1910 unknown
rif. 72382London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1925. Orientalist Travel-Novel FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.xii; 237 3. With 21 illustrated plates including a frontispiece and one in colour and a folding map at rear. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Spotting to edges. Some wear and chipping to edges of plate facing p.188 otherwise internally clean. Moderate general wear to cloth including toning to spine and a splash mark to upper. Good. A trip around Algeria led by the narrator who accompanies the protagonist the young widow Arabella. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1925 unknown
rif. 72362Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 1870. Poetry FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED a later edition. Quarto 26 x 19cm pp.12 268 2. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary red full straight-grained morocco by RAMAGE of London with raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spine and gilt armorial decoration to boards including coloured on-lays. All edges gilt and marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Plain bookplate of J.E.A. Steggall Dundee to front pastedown. Two previous catalogue descriptions pasted to title page and gently toned throughout otherwise internally crisp and clean. Light general wear to binding. Very good. Two verse collections first published together in 1849. One contains martial lays of Scottish battle-tragedies and heroes laid low; the other is miscellaneous and largely Classical in subject. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870 unknown
rif. 72764Skopje: Etnoloski Muzej The Ethnological Museum 1963. Traditional Costume FINE COLOUR PLATES. Folio portfolio 49 x 34cm pp.xiv; 42. Complete with 46 colour illustrated plates showing a wide range of traditional Macedonian costumes. Text in Macedonian English and French. In the publisher's colour-illustrated chemise case. Some creasing to left edge of the title page otherwise internally crisp and clean. Chemise case shows some toning and moderate general wear including a ring-mark to upper. Very good. Skopje: Etnoloski Muzej [The Ethnological Museum], 1963 unknown
rif. 72873Sydney NSW: Ure Smith Pty. Limited 1947. Botany SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large quarto 34 x 26cm pp.30. With a total of 10 illustrated plates by Feint and Jones. Number 270 of 550 copies thus SIGNED by the author and both artists to the limitation page. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and a device stamped to upper. With the dust-jacket priced at 50s. Internally crisp and clean. Jacket shows light wear with a closed tear to top right of the front panel. Near fine. Sydney, NSW: Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1947 unknown
rif. 70084London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue c.1851. Humour FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo 17 x 13cm pp.2; 47; 5; 59; 1; 30. With numerous plates and in-text illustrations by multiple artists includes frontispieces. First two tales with colour-printed title pages. Contemporary olive-green half morocco matching textured cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper board and spine with raised bands and further gilt embellishment to spine. Edges speckled blue and red. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers sunning to spine bumping to corners wearing to leather at edges. Very Good. A unique text comprised of three separate editions perhaps combined by the binder or the owner. The first two stories are undated though 'The Crystal Palace' is a first printing published in 1851. Two classic fairy tales and one contemporary one inspired by the Great Exhibition. London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue, c.1851 unknown
rif. 70558New York NY: The Century Co. 1894; 1895. Children's Illustrated FIRST US EDITIONS first volume 18th thousand second volume first impression. Two volumes. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.xiv; 303; 3. Pp.10; 324; 2. With 35 illustrations by Drake to volume I including a frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John to volume II. Publisher's green and red cloth respectively with gilt titles and decoration to spines and boards. Top edges gilt. Bookplate of the Colonial Club to front pastedown of volume I with light spotting throughout. Light general wear to cloth. Second volume has a blue ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf otherwise internally clean. Moderate wear to cloth including some loss to headcap. Very good overall. The Jungle Book and its sequel comprise a selection of short stories-the best-known being the three tales centring on the adventures of the abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli. Other popular tales include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' the story of a heroic mongoose and 'Toomai of the Elephants' the tale of a young elephant-handler. New York, NY: The Century Co., 1894; 1895 unknown
rif. 70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
rif. 70684London: Collins 1979. Ornithology UK EDITION revised and enlarged the fourth edition. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's illustrated hardback covers Collins price label to rear showing £5.95 cartographic endpapers no jacket issued. Contents clean a little spotting to edges two neat annotations to map covers lightly handled. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1979 unknown
rif. 70010London: Collins 1974. Ornithology SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Fourth printing. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's mid-blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine cartographic endpapers. With author's inscription to the title page; To Dick Sargent / James Bond. With occasional pencil and ink annotations by Sargent together with a note confirming the signed book was presented to him by Bond's colleague Lisa Salmon. A near fine copy without wrapper. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. A rare signature in full as here the author usually signing as 'Jim Bond'. The recipient Dick Sargent was president and CEO of the Chubb Institute A dedicated conservationist he served as a trustee on the board of The Land Conservancy of New Jersey. Lisa Salmon founded the Rocklands Bird Sanctuary near Montego Bay in 1958. Laid in is a tri-fold checklist compiled by Salmon identifying birds to be observed at Rockland Feeding Station. Later part of the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1974 unknown
rif. 70442London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. English Literature FIRST EDITION in book-form. 3 volumes bound as two quartos 25 x 17 x 9cm pp.2 iv; 306 pp.vi; 306 pp.vi; 426 4. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Bound in early twentieth-century half native red morocco gilt over green buckram sides. Internally clean no inscriptions. Bindings a little rubbed and shelf worn wear to joints with repair to joints of volume two with associated chip. A very good pair which shows well. First Edition in Book Form; originally a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens from April 4 1840 - December 4 1841; Narrator Master Humphrey was a lonely man who lived in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique grandfather clock by the chimney-corner and decides to start a little club called Master Humphrey's Clock where the members including Mr. Pickwick himself have a penchant for telling stories. In the book several short tales are recounted followed by the novels 'The Old Curiosity Shop' which follows the life of the beautiful and virtuous Little Nell and her Grandfather and 'Barnaby Rudge' Dickens first effort at historical fiction set during London's non-Popery 'Gordon' Riots Protestant rallying against the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1778. Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue. Eckel p67 Grolier Exhibition Slater; Suzannet Catalogue. Collins; Dickens and Crime 1962. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41 unknown
rif. 68272London: Macmillan and Co. 1895-1897. Classic English Literature FIRST EDITIONS THUS each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in navy half calf with raised bands gilt titles to burgundy labels further gilt tooling to spines and matching cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Nice clean copies gently toned throughout. Presented in attractive new leather bindings. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895-1897 unknown
rif. 68181Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1961. Ornithology / Bondiana FIRST US EDITION THUS. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With occasional colour plate illustrations and frequent line drawings in-text. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Samuel Bryant priced at $6. A nice clean copy showing just a hint of spotting to top edge and some light wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. This new edition followed two earlier printings in America; Philadelphia 1936 and Macmillan New York 1947 under the title Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. Gilbert page 616. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961 unknown
rif. 68403London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. Russian Adventure 'New Edition'. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.xii; 377 1. With a folding map and illustrations by Ferat and Barbant including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Ink names to endpapers. Contents generally clean. Binding shows acceptable wear with joints rubbed corners pushed frayed at spine tips inner paper joints cracked as usual. Very good. Verne's classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire which was first published in English in 1877; also includes Verne's novella 'The Mutineers' which was omitted from most printings after 1912. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid M.A. 1912-2009 writer film-maker and cinema historian and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883 unknown
rif. 68889London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press 1941. Children's Adventure FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.254; 2 blank. With a colour frontispiece and six full-page black and white illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in brown text block thickness is 32mm. Some light and infrequent spotting throughout heavier in preliminaries and endpapers toning to edges of textblock no inscriptions some expected marks to covers spine sunned. Very good. Biggles is sent on a dangerous mission to retrieve a Polish inventor's plans which were hidden from the Nazis near the Finnish frontier. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, [1941] unknown
rif. 66497London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1897. Aesthetic Literature FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 17cm pp.316 16. With 18 black and white plates by various artists including the Scottish painter D.Y. Cameron each with a tissue-guard. Publisher's yellow cloth with titles and decoration in black. All edges untrimmed. Internally clean with some toning to endpapers. A few leaves poorly opened. A large contemporary library label to rear board. Spine browned with moderate general wear and a 1cm split to head. Very good. The last of 13 volumes in this era-defining series combining short stories poetry essays reviews and contemporary art. This issue features 'The Blessed' by Yeats. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897 unknown
rif. 66989London: Hodder & Stoughton December 1912. Literary Magazine ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio 34 x 23cm pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations and occasional colour plates by various artists. Publisher's brown soft cloth-covered covers titled and decorated in red with a black and white photograph of Rudyard Kipling to upper priced at 2s. Moderate wear to covers including some chips and tears to spine. Frontispiece carefully removed otherwise plates appear intact. Internally clean. Good. A bumper selection of bookish articles focusing on subjects including Rudyard Kipling George Meredith Mrs Gaskell The Loeb Library Lord Byron William Morris and Thomas Hardy. London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912 unknown
