Window Shopping in Fulham Road: P. G. Wodehouse

Aug 28, 2015 | Uncategorized

Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk

14 items housed in two white and green cloth cases with green paper label to spines and gilt titles.  1916–1928

Handwritten letter, with envelope, from the author dated March 25 1920.

Have A Heart (New York: T. B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1917), first edition.

Oh, Lady! Lady!! (New York: T. B. Harms Company, 1918), first edition.

Miss Springtime (New York: T. B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1916), second edition (originally published 1915, titled Little Miss Springtime).

Kissing Time (London: Chappell & Co., Ltd., 1919), first edition.

The Cabaret Girl (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1922), later issue.

The Golden Moth (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, n.d.) later edition.

The Beauty Prize (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1923), first edition.

Show Boat (London: Chappell & Co., Ltd., n.d.,) later printing.

The Beauty of Bath (London: Hopwood & Crew Ltd., 1906), first edition.

Sally (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1921,) first edition.

The Three Musketeers (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1932), later issue.

The Play Pictorial from The Beauty Prize.

Show Boat (New York: T. B. Harms Co., 1928), later issue.

£4,000

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Bachelors Anonymous.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1973

Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered gilt. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket.   Edges lightly foxed; an excellent copy in the bright, crisp jacket.

First edition, first impression.

£125

WODEHOUSE,  P. G.

Big Money.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited c.1930

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket.   Cloth a little rubbed and spotted, spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy in the second printing jacket that is rubbed, chipped,and torn with tape repairs to the verso.

Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fourth printing.

£650

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Bill the Conqueror: His Invasion of England in the Springtime.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924

Octavo. Original orange cloth, title to spine and front board green, decoration to front board green. With the dust jacket. Publishers’ ads to verso of jacket and flaps.   Faint tanning to endpapers, back hinge cracked, still a very good copy in the edge-chipped jacket, with loss to the first half of the title at the head of the spine panel.

First US edition, first printing, published 20 February 1925.

£750

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Brinkley Manor: A Novel About Jeeves.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,  1934

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine and front board in black, decoration to front board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Jacket design by James Montgomery Flagg.  Two pages tanned (p. 192 and 193). A very good copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with small closed tears.

First US edition. The second instalment in the Jeeves and Wooster series, published in the UK ten days before the first US edition under the title Right Ho, Jeeves.

£750

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Clicking of Cuthbert.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1922

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in dark green. With the dust jacket.   Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Corners bumped, faint spotting to edges and light partial tanning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket

First edition, first impression. Rare in the dust jacket.

£5,250

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Do Butlers Burgle Banks?

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968

Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket.   Inscription to front free endpaper, in the price clipped dust jacket with mild wear to extremites. A very good copy.

First English edition, first impression. Preceded by the American edition of the same year. A standalone comedic story, featuring the owner of Bond’s Bank whose circumstances render it prudent that someone burgles the bank before an inspection by the trustees. Luckily Horace Appleby, a gangster currently posing as his butler, is on hand to oblige, though he soon finds the seedier side of Chicago more restful than the English countryside.

£150

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940

Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. With the dust jacket.   Some fading to spine and along board edges, partial toning to endpapers but otherwise internally clean and fresh, a nice sound copy in a smart and vivid jacket with very minor rubbing to edges, small chips to corners, and some closed tears.

First edition (preceding the US edition by three weeks and with different contents), first impression, first issue jacket (priced 7’6 on the spine panel), and a very nice copy. This collection of short stories, written as told to members of the Drones Club, opens with four tales of the misadventures of Bingo Little, now happily married to best-selling novelist Rosie M. Banks, with a variety of scrapes as he strives first to find a job and then to get it back when his boss Purkiss, quite justifiably, fires him. Following these, Wodehouse sparkles with Anselm Gets His Chance, featuring a young curate, a stolen stamp collection, and a secret engagement. The remaining stories feature one with Freddie Fitch-Fitch and three with Stanley Ukridge.

£2,250

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Eighteen-carat Kid and Other Stories.Edited and introduced by David A. Jasen.

New York: The Continuum Publishing Corporation, 1980

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket with faintly sunned spine, and some creases and nicks to extremities.

First edition, first printing. A collection of early short stories and a novella, published five years after Wodehouse’s death.

£45

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

A Gentleman of Leisure.

London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1910

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt.   Partial lending library bookplate to front pastedown. Spine browned, spine titles dulled, cloth rubbed with wear at the corners and spine ends, contents toned with scattered spotting. A good copy.

First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US a few months earlier under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy.

£750

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Girl in Blue.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1970

Octavo. Original dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket.   Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. A fine copy in the slightly toned spine.

First edition, first impression.

£95

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Girl in Blue.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine silver. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket.   Spine a little faded, a couple of marks to boards; an excellent copy in the lightly nicked and slightly creased jacket.

First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “With best wishes, P. G. Wodehouse. March 13, 1971.” It was first published in the UK the preceding year.

£625

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Gold Bat.Containing Eight Full-Page Illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upperboard in black, blue, and yellow.   Prize bookplate. Spine faded, binding a little rubbed with a few small marks to the lower board and a small bump to the upper board, contents spotted.

First edition, first impression.

£2,000

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Ice in the Bedroom.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961

Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to rear board in blind.. With the dust jacket.   Edges, prelims, and endmatter lightly foxed, small stain to front pastedown. An excellent copy in an excellent jacket with light foxing to rear panel and flaps, slightly faded spine, and a few small nicks to spine ends and rear panel.

First UK edition, first impression, published in October 1961. Preceeded by the US edition published by Simon and Schuster, New York, in February the same year.

£125

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

If I Were You.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and decoration in black. With the dust jacket.   An exceptionally bright copy in the nicked dust jacket with a single small chip on the lower panel.

First UK edition, first impression, published 25 September 1931, and therefore just preceded by the Doubleday, Doran edition published at New York, 3 September. Wodehouse dramatized the story with Guy Bolton as Who’s Who, 1934.

£2,500

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Intrusion of Jimmy.

New York: W. J. Watt, 1910

Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, pictorial decoration to front board in grey and yellow and with a colour paste-on.  Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard.  Modern bookplate to front pastedown and neat contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Top edge dusty, spine a little tanned, two small light dampstains to initial leaves and recto of frontispiece, endpapers faintly foxed. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing, preceding the first UK edition, which was published under the title A G entleman of Leisure in the same year.

£675

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Jill the Reckless.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1921

Octavo. Origilal blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, ruling to front board and publisher’s device to rear board in black.   A few small wormholes to spine and front board, two of which carry on through the gutter and bottom margin of the first 30 or so leaves, boards rubbed and faintly marked, mild cockling to rolled spine, crease to top corner of front board, bottom corners of boards fraying, endleaves and edges of text block a little foxed. A very good copy.

First UK edition, first impression. Jill the Reckless was originally published in the US the preceding year. Very uncommon.

£500

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Luck of the Bodkins.

Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1935

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket.   Very mild partial browning to endpapers, spine a touch rolled, but a sparkling copy in a very lightly chipped and frayed dust jacket, a little rubbed at the folds and with a few nicks and scuffs. Notwithstanding all this a very bright copy.

First edition, first impression, first issue binding – scarlet cloth black lettering. First state dust jacket listing 29 titles on the front flap.

£2,000

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Money in the Bank.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1946

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket.   Contemporary bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spotting to top and fore edges of text block, light cockling to top edges of boards. A very good copy in a price-clipped jacket with two tiny short closed tears and some spotting to verso but recto bright and largely unfaded.

First UK edition, first impression, first issue. Originally published in the US in 1942.

£175

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Much Obliged, Jeeves.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971

Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered gilt, cream endpapers. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket.   Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Head of spine slightly bumped, a little spotting to edges; an excellent copy in the bright, price-clipped, jacket.

First edition, first impression.

£125

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Mulliner Omnibus.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in brown, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece.  Lightly rubbed at extremities, spine toned, faint spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with closed tears repaired to the verso.

First omnibus edition, first impression.

£1,250

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.

London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1972

Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered gilt. With Osbert Lancaster dust jacket.   Edges slightly foxed; an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket.

First edition, first impression.

£125

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Performing Flea.A self-portrait in letters. With an introduction and additional notes by W. Townend.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953

Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, facsimile Wodehouse signature to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece.  Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine faded and rolled, small white stain to head of front board, mild foxing to edges. A very good copy in the unclipped jacket with minor loss to spine ends and head of front panel, and small chips and creasing to extremities.

First edition, first impression.

£75

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Ring For Jeeves.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1953

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and publisher’s device to rear board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket.   Contemporary Australian bookseller’s ink stamp to front free pastedown. Slight spotting to edges of text block and occasionally to upper margins. An excellent copy in a rubbed and lightly chipped price-clipped jacket with very faint dampstaining to edges.

First edition, first impression, of the sixth Jeeves novel, preceding the US edition which was published in 1954 under the title The Return of Jeeves.

£225

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Service with a Smile.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962

Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s device on the rear board in blind. With the dust jacket.   An excellent copy in a strikingly bright jacket.

First UK edition, first impression. The US edition was published the preceding year.

£150

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Small Bachelor.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black.   Spine rolled and toned, cloth rubbed with some light marks, endpapers tanned, contents toned and spotted, occasional pencil underlining. A very good copy.

First edition, first impression.

£675

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Summer Moonshine.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black, red top-stain. With the dust jacket.   Top-stain faded, spine a little rolled. An excellent copy in the jacket that is rubbed and nicked at the extremities, a closed tear to the spine panel, and a small chip to the lower panel.

First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the previous year.

£750

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Sunset at Blandings.With Notes and Appendices by Richard Usborne. Illustrations by Ionicus.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1977

Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered gilt, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket.   A little scattered foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket with slightly sunned spine.

First edition, first impression of Wodehouse’s final, unfinished novel.

£75

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Sunset at Blandings.With Notes and Appendices by Richard Usborne. Illustrations by Ionicus.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1977

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket.   A touch of foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket with a very slightly sunned spine.

First edition, first impression of Wodehouse’s final, unfinished novel.

£125

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Swoop! And other stories.

New York: The Seabury Press, 1979

Octavo. Original pale blue boards, spine lettered gilt. With the dust jacket.   Edges foxed; an excellent copy in the bright, slightly creased jacket with some nicks to extremities.

First edition thus, first printing. A compilation of previously uncollected stories, several of which had been published elsewhere, such as The Swoop (1909) and some stories from Tales of St. Austin’s (1903) and The Man Upstairs (1914).

£45

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The Swoop! Or, How Clarence Saved England.A Tale of the Great Invasion.

London: Alston Rivers, Limited, 1909

Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, black and white on a red ground, titles to backstrip in black. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery.  Illustrated by C. Harrison.  Small ownership signature to front free endpaper, spine very lightly cocked, wrappers a little tanned, slightly rubbed and very lightly creased and chipped at corners, neat closed split at the base of the backstrip where it meets the front wrapper. These minor faults notwithstanding a truly exceptional copy of a fragile little publication designed to be sold cheaply to commuters.

First edition, first impression. McIlvaine couples this with the notoriously difficult The Globe by the Way Book as being “among the rarest Wodehousiana”. Exceptionally scarce in this condition.

£8,500

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Tales of St Austin’s.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine in black,  blue and gilt, titles to front cover in black, blue and yellow. Containing twelve full-page illustrations by T. M. R. Whitewell, R. Noel Pocock, and  B. F. Skinner.  Spine faded and a little marked, small split to top of front hinge, front joint cracked and repaired, spotting to half title and sporadically to other pages.

First edition, first impression, first issue with unclosed quotation marks on the title page.

£1,500

JASEN, David. A.

The Theatre of P.G. Wodehouse.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1979

Quarto. Original purple boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the jacket. Monochrome and colour photographs throughout.  Boards slightly bowed, top edge spotted; a good copy in the price-clipped jacket that has a faded spine and a couple of tiny nicks to the extremities.

First edition, first impression. Once as well known for his work in the theatre as he was for his novels, Wodehouse contributed lyrics or adapted the translations to nearly 50 Broadway and London shows. This book celebrates a half-forgotten aspect of his career, with over 100 colour and black and white illustrations taken from contemporary programmes, posters and photographs.

£45

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Ukridge.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924

Octavo. Original green cloth with titles and pictorial design in dark green. With the pictorial dust jacket.   Light spotting to text block edges. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with small chips to head of spine panel and corners with neat internal repairs.

First edition, first impression, with the list of 13 titles on the verso of the half-title. From the library of renowned Wodehousiana collector James H. Heineman (1917–1994), with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Scarce in the jacket.

£4,000

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Uncle Dynamite.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited,

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket.   Light spotting to edges of text block. A bright copy in excellent condition in a slightly rubbed price-clipped jacket with a few tiny chips.

First edition, first impression. The second Uncle Fred novel, in which he assumes the identity of Major Brabazon-Plank to rescue his nephew from a certain fall from grace, having accidentally destroyed two of his future father-in-law’s most coveted works of art.

£375

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

Wodehouse Nuggets.Selected by Richard Usborne.

London: Hutchinson, 1983

Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Drawings by Martin Williams.  Spine slightly rolled, top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine.

First edition, first impression. A collection of aphorisms and witty extracts from Wodehouse’s novels and short stories.

£45

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The World of Blandings.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1976

Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Top edge slightly foxed, internally fine; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine.

First collected edition, first impression. A collection of five stories set at Blanding’s Castle.

£125

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The World of Psmith.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1974

Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine white. With the dust jacket.   A little scattered foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the bright jacket.

First collected edition, first impression. The complete collection of Psmith and Comrade Mike Jackson.

£125

WODEHOUSE, P. G.

The World of Ukridge.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975

Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket.   Top edge and endpapers very lightly foxed. An excellent copy in a jacket with slightly rubbed and nicked extremities.

First collected edition, first impression. The complete collection of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge’s whole nefarious career, comprising 19 short stories.

£75

On Display at Fulham Road: Dali to Steadman

Aug 26, 2015 | Uncategorized

Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk

(ANTARCTIC.) WILD, Frank.
Shackleton’s Last Voyage.The Story of the Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923
Large octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, front cover lettered in black and with large pictorial block, pictorial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece, 100 black and white plates from photographs, sketch maps in the text. Armorial bookplate of A. H. Richardson, who has inscribed his name in ink at the foot of the front cover and on the top edges; bookplate of J. B. Prentice on verso of front free endpaper. Binding a little used, small stain at head of spine, scattered foxing.
First edition. Wild had been with Scott on the Discovery, was with Mawson in 1911–14, “and was a close friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod expedition of 1907-09 and second-in-command on the Transantarctic Expedition of 1917-17… Wild joined Shackleton on his final voyage to the Antarctic in 1921-23 but the explorer’s death sapped Wild’s desire to continue” (Howgego). A “handsome publication” reproducing “the last photographs of Shackleton to be taken” (Taurus). Wild emigrated to South Africa, and drifted into bankruptcy and alcoholism. He died destitute in Johannesburg in 1939.
£1,250

(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.) DOWSON, Ernest.
The Poems.With a Memoir by Arthur Symons, Four Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and a Portrait by William Rothenstein.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, decoration to front board gilt from a design by Aubrey Beardsley, top edge gilt others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Housed in a purple cloth chemise and slipcase covered in purple paper. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, one photographic plate and four illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in the text. Typescript note tipped in p. 27. Corners of boards faintly bumped, edges of text block and prelims lightly spotted. An excellent copy in a jacket which has been reinforced with orange paper backing.
First edition, first impression. Publisher’s addendum tipped in p. 166. Scarce in the dust jacket.
£950

(BERRIGAN, Ted.) SCHUYLER, James.
The Fireproof Floors of Witley Court.English Songs and Dances.
Vermont: The Janus Press, 1976
Octavo. Original orange wrappers, crescent moon to front cover in silver, orange endpapers with green and purple cut-outs featuring a silhouette of the topiary gardens of Levens Hall, Westmoorland. A fine copy.
First edition, limited edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fellow poet Ted Berrigan on the front free endpaper, “To Ted Berrigan, with love, Jimmy. Xmas, ‘75”; it is subsequently inscribed by Berrigan, “To Tom Carey, on his birthday, Ted. April 9th, 1978.” Carey was was a literary assistant to poets James Schuyler and John Ashbery, and friend of Berrigan. This is number 20 of 150 copies bound by Clare Van Vliet, and printed on Kozu, Fabriano and Canson paper.
£1,250

BOWLES, Paul.
Next to Nothing.
Kathmandu: Sharada Printing Press, 1976
Octavo (pp. 28). Original wrappers stitched as issued, design on front cover by Maya, Kufic design on back cover by the author. Title page decoration by Sidney Hushour, tipped-in photographic frontispiece by Dana Young, 2 illustrations by Patra Vogt and Lee Baarslag. An excellent copy of a fragile publication.
First and limited edition, number “1C” of 500 copies. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “For Lawrence, So here it is, best, Paul 15/iv/77 – Tangier”. It is possible that “Lawrence” is Lawrence Delbert Stewart, author of Paul Bowles: The Illumination of North Africa (1974).

£875

DALI, Salvador.
Femme à cheval. (Woman on Horseback.)
Paris: Graphik Europa Anstalt, 1969
Hand coloured drypoint etching on Japon nacré paper. Plate size: 31.5 x 23.5 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black and silver wooden frame with linen mount.
Edition of 145. Signed in pencil lower right by Dali, numbered lower left. Dali blindstamp to lower right. One of 16 prints from the Vénus aux Fourrures portfolio.

£2,000

DALI, Salvador.
Polyanthus tubarosa et cygnus vegetales. (Water-Hybiscus Swan.)
Paris: Editions Graphiques Internationales, 1972
Lithograph and acrylic on heavy Arches paper. Plate size: 56.5 x 38.5 cm. Sheet size: 74.7 x 55. Some loss to the acrylic, mainly to the leaves, glue residue to the verso. Presented in limed ash frame.
Signed in pencil lower left “Bon a tirer, Dalí”. An edition of 350 was published with embossing and a psuedo latin title beneath the image, this copy has built-up acrylic instead of embossing and no title beneath the image.
£10,000

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.”
London: Richard Bentley, 1838
3 volumes, octavo (200 x 115 mm). Contemporary dark blue morocco, raised bands, titles and panelling to compartments gilt, triple frames to boards and ruling to turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, dark green morocco doublures, white moiré silk endpapers. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank including the “Fireside” plate (facing p. 313 in vol. III). Half-titles to Volumes I and II; one advertisement leaf to Volume III. Original brown cloth bound into each volume. Extremities very gently rubbed, text blocks gently toned with occasional light spotting, plates browned. An excellent set.
First edition, first issue with Boz title pages and the Fireside plate. Walter E. Smith explains the bibliographical details in Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: “when Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before its completion in his periodical, Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in haste. Dickens did not review them until the eve of publication and objected to the Fireside plate (“Rose Maylie and Oliver” )… Dickens had Cruikshank design a new plate which retained the same title … This Church plate was not completed in time for incorporation into the early copies of the book, but it replaced the Fireside plate in later copies… Dickens not only objected to the Fireside plate, but also disliked having “Boz” on the title page. He voiced these objections prior to publication and the plate and title page were changed between November 9 and 16.”

£5,000

DISNEY, Walt.
The Story of Snow WhiteWith the individual stories of each of the dwarfs.
Racine, Wis: Whitman Publishing Co., 1938
8 volumes, quarto. Pictorial paper wraps, side staple bound. Walt Disney Studio illustrations throughout. Mild toning to pages, light wear to extremities, an excellent set.
First editions, first printings. A wonderful group of picture books each featuring one of the title characters.

£1,000

EDKINS, Ernest Arthur.
The Scarlet Cockatoo.
Chicago: The Lincoln Printing Company, 1928
Octavo. Black cloth-backed, brightly colour-printed paper-covered boards – the cockatoo of the title, in scarlet on a golden yellow background, title in black letters, shadowed in red, further eye-wrenchingly shadowed in shocking pink – title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. A couple of spots of foxing to the endpapers, light toning to the text, else very good in slightly rubbed and soiled jacket with minor spot to the spine, overall very good. Contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
First and only edition, uncommon, just 10 locations listed on OCLC. Caustic verses from “Ernie of Highland Park”, English-born executive at Commonwealth Edison, occasional journalist, and friend of H.P. Lovecraft. Caustic verses including “Six Reverent Kow-tows to the Intelligentsia”, skits on Dorothy Parker, James Branch Cabell, H.L. Mencken, Samuel Hoffenstein – at the time enjoying notoriety for his Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, but better known as screenwriter on the 1931 Fredric March Dr. Jekyll, and The Wizard of Oz – and Ezra Pound in “Pound tells the Canaille where to get off”; “Imbecile! drop that book,/Nor further look/Within its pages; not for you/My cantilations, – only the august few/May safely quaff that dark emancipating brew”.

£125

FORD, Charles Henri (ed.)
The Overturned Lake.
Cincinnati: The Little Man Press, 1941
Small octavo. Original pale blue cloth, titles to spine red, text printed on blue paper. With the dust jacket. Title page by Matta. Spine and board edges a little faded, contents mildly toned; an excellent copy in the toned jacket with a couple of nicks and chips to extremities.
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 39 of 50 copies signed by Ford, from an edition of 400 copies.

£325

GRIMM, Jakob & Wilhelm.
German Popular Stories,Translated from the Kinder und Haus-Marchen , collected by M. M. Grimm, From Oral Tradition.
London: C. Baldwyn; James Robins & Co., and Joseph Robins, Junr., 1823 & 1826
2 volumes, duodecimo (170 × 100 mm). Near contemporary full red morocco, raised bands, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, triple frames to boards and floral rolls to turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. 2 etched pictorial title-pages and 20 plates by George Cruikshank, those in Volume I printed brown; bound with the half titles but without adverts. Bookplate of Herbert Standen to front pastedowns. Light offsetting from turn-ins, text blocks gently tanned, occasional mild spotting to margins. An excellent set.
First English edition, first issue (with no umlaut over the “a” in “Marchen” on Volume I engraved title page), of the best known collection of children’s stories ever published.

£7,500

HAGUE, Michael.
Original watercolour for The Hobbit.

Watercolour and ink on heavy watercolour board. Board size: 481 x 598 mm. Image size: 475 x 352 mm. Presented in a handmade white gold leaf frame with UV glass. In excellent condition.
Original watercolour by American illustrator and author Michael Hague and signed by him in the lower left hand corner. Hague’s watercolour depicts Bilbo, Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves travelling through the forest and appeared on pp. ?? in the illustrated edition of The Hobbit published in 1984 by Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

£3,750

HAGUE, Michael.
Original watercolour, “Water Babies”.
1992
Watercolour and ink on heavy watercolour board. Board size: 521 x 456 mm. Image size: 465 x 400 mm. Presented in a handmade gold leaf frame with UV glass. Edges of board a touch rubbed and bumped. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Original watercolour by American illustrator and author Michael Hague and signed by him in the lower left hand corner. Produced for the Land of Dreams calendar published by AMCAL in 1992, this water colour, entitled “Water Babies” and used for November, depicts two human children and several merchildren playing with bubbles.

£3,500

(HAGUE, Michael.) BAUM, L. Frank.
The Wizard of Oz.colour illustrations by Michael Hague.
New York: Holy, Rinehart and Winston, 1982
Quarto. Original pictorial laminated boards, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by Michael Hague. Inscription to front endpaper, price clipped to mid of front flap of the dust jacket. An excellent copy.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Hague with an original ink illustration of the Scarecrow on the verso of the front endpaper.

£225

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Death in the Afternoon.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1932
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and decoration to spine gilt, facsimile signature to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by the Chelsea Bindery. Coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Extremities slightly rubbed, mild mottling to edges of boards, light tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket with slightly nicked and chipped extremities, and a 4 cm closed tear to front joint.
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: “To Cedric R. Crowell Esq. with all best wishes, Ernest Hemingway, Cooke, Montana, September 193.” The book was published on 23 September 1932. Hemingway’s pen slipped off the page, failing to complete the final digit of the year, but this was inscribed on first publication, in the same format as other known presentation copies of this title. Crowell was general manager of the Doubleday Doran book shops.

£20,000

KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894 & 1895
2 works, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spines gilt, pictorial designs to spines and front boards gilt, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Extremities very slightly rubbed and bumped, occasional mild spotting to text blocks. An excellent set.
First editions of Kipling’s classic tales.

£3,750

KIPLING, Rudyard.
Just So Stories.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902
Octavo. Finely bound in mid 20th-century red full crushed morocco by Bayntun Rivière, titles and decoration gilt to spine separated by raised bands, single rule to boards gilt with pictorial block to front gilt, decoration gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 black and white illustrations by the author. Excellent condition.
First edition, first impression. A particularly handsome copy.
£1,250

LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
North to the Orient.With maps by Charles A. Lindbergh.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and plane design to front cover, all in silver, top edge dark blue, map endpapers. With the dust jacket, housed in a custom blue buckram chemise and dark blue full morocco pull-off case. Portrait frontispiece, map panels above chapter headings. Tips bumped and slightly worn, a couple of light damp patches to cloth, internally fine; an excellent copy in the creased and nicked jacket, that has a couple of shallow chips to extremities.
First edition, first issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Lindberghs on the title page to the psychoanalyst and writer Claude Delay, “For Mlle Claude Delay, with best wishes, Anne Morrow Linbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh.”
Delay was a close friend of Coco Chanel, and wrote her biography, Chanel Solitaire. The Lindberghs led a peripatetic life when on the ground, with homes in France, England, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, Switzerland and Hawaii. The book has the requisite issue points of “Abacadabra” on p. 11, line 11, and no reviews of the book on the rear flap of the jacket. An account of the Lindberghs’ flight from Long Island to Nanking by the Great Circle Route via Canada, Siberia, and Japan. The trip was made in Tingmissartoq – Greenland Inuit for “one who flies like a big bird” – a Lockheed Sirius, a plane originally developed by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee to meet Charles Linbergh’s requirements for a low-winged, high-performance monoplane, in this case retrofitted as a float-plane. Includes an account of the Lindberghs’ services bringing aid on the Yangtze to the victims of the Central China Floods of 1931, one of the deadliest natural disasters of the twentieth century. Tingmissartoq is now in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

£1,500

PUZO, Mario.
The Fourth K.A Novel.
New York: Random House, 1990
Octavo. Original red cloth-backed black paper boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Boards very faintly scuffed, a few light spots to edges of text block. An excellent copy in a bright jacket.
Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his old friend Joseph Heller and his wife Valerie, “For Joe and Valerie, affectionately Mario” (front free endpaper). Puzo and Heller both belonged to the Gourmet Club, a group of male friends who shared the common characteristics of being good talkers and good eaters. The club, which also included Mel Brooks, Joseph Stein and Speed Vogel, regularly met at New York restaurants from the 1960s to the 80s. First edition, second printing. A very appealing association.
£750

SEUSS, Dr.
Green Eggs and Ham.
New York: Beginner Books, Inc., 1960
Octavo. Original pictorial orange boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Boards very lightly rubbed and bumped, spine ends and corners a touch worn. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed and toned jacket with lightly nicked and creased extremities and a few minor chips to spine ends and corners.
First edition, first printing, first issue, with the “50 word vocabulary” sticker to the front panel of the jacket.

£3,000

SHACKLETON, Ernest H.
The Heart of the AntarcticBeing the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S.
London: William Heinemann, 1909
2 volumes, large octavo. Original blue pictorial cloth, front covers with large silver block, spines lettered gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. With the drab paper, typographical dust jackets, Rosove’s No.1 without the pricing details. Photogravure frontispiece to each volume, 12 captioned tissue-guarded coloured, and 255 black and white other plates in all, 3 maps, panorama in end-pocket of volume II, and numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout. Without the errata slip in volume II. Light damping at the fore-edge of all boards, the silver blocks to the front boards slightly oxidised as always, frontispieces browned verso, light browning else, foxing to the fore-edges, the jackets a touch rubbed, minor chipping and splitting at the heads of the spines, small hole to the lower panel of that of volume II, but overall very good set indeed, entirely unrestored.
First edition. Shackleton’s account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–9 (Nimrod), reviewed on publication by the Manchester Guardian as “the best book of Polar travel which has ever been written”. The sledge expedition “to the south magnetic pole was one of the three foremost achievements of this expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 miles of the south pole” (ODNB). The expedition established Shackleton as a “bona fide English hero,” but the success of the book did little to alleviate “the financial problems left to him by the expedition” (Books on Ice). Sir Raymond Priestley (1886–1974), a British Geologist and Antarctic explorer who accompanied Shackleton on the 1907–1913 Antarctic expeditions, said, “For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems to be no way out, get on your knees and pray for Shackleton”. Rosove notes “dust-jackets are very scarce”.
£8,500

STEADMAN, Ralph
Hunter S. Thompson in Straight Jacket.
Lexington, KT: Petro III Graphics, 2010
Screenprint on white Rising Stonehenge deckle edge paper. Sheet size: 76 x 56 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with UV protective glass.
Edition of 250. Signed in pencil lower right by Steadman, numbered lower left.
£675

STEADMAN, Ralph.
Let’s Party.
Petro III Graphics, 2006
Two colour screenprint on White Rising Stonehenge deckle edge paper. Sheet size: 56 x 76 cm. Excellent condition. Presented float mounted in a black wooden frame with conservation glass.
Edition of 250. Signed in pencil lower right by Ralph Steadman, numbered lower left.

£800

VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Jailbird.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1979
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine silver and gilt, facsimile signature to front board gilt, blue endpapers, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the jacket with toned edges and nick to head of spine.
First trade edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title. This is a review copy, with the publisher’s promotional material laid-in. It was preceded by a limited edition of 500 copies.
£375

WEINSTEIN, Meyer H.
Arbitrage in Securities. With an Introduction by Walter E. Lagerquist.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1931
Octavo. Publisher’s maroon cloth, spine and font board lettered gilt, with the dust jacket. Tiny chip to the head of the dust jacket spine; an excellent copy, clean and fresh.
First edition of “the first book to analyze and describe the methods of security arbitrage. How arbitrage is carried on with securities in the international markets and in equivalent securities is fully and simply explained” (dust jacket), written by an experienced arbitrage practitioner.
£4,750

WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Piccadilly Jim.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited,
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board in dark green, publisher’s device to rear board in dark green. Spine a little faded and rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, a few scattered spots to endpapers and endleaves, half-title and last leaf faintly tanned. An excellent copy.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Arnold M. Strange, with best wishes from the author, P. G. Wodehouse, Feb 26. 1930”. Piccadilly Jim was originally published in the US in 1917, and in the UK in 1918. This is the second reissue of the UK edition.
£750

WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Right Ho, Jeeves.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1934
Octavo. Original buff cloth, spine and front board lettered in red, publisher’s device to rear board in red, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Neat contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Spine rolled, touch of foxing to fore-edge of book block and prelims, nicks, chips and tears to jacket (closed-tear across spine and front panel), old tape repairs on verso. A very good copy, not commonly found with the dust jacket.
First edition, first impression. The second full-length novel featuring Jeeves and Wooster, published on 5 October 1934, following hot on the heels of Thank You, Jeeves (March 16 1934), and “containing one of the most memorable drunk scenes in all English literature when Gussie presents the prizes … A Wodehoue classic” (Jasen).
£2,750

Window Shopping in Fulham Road: The Sciences.

Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized

Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk

1 (BLETCHLEY PARK) NEWMAN, Max. Two letters bracketing Newman’s career at Bletchley. 

1942-6

2 octavo  one-page, typed letters, signed. Now window-mounted, framed and glazed.   A little browned, signature on the second slightly faded, but overall very good.

A highly evocative pair of letters to Max Newman, the first relating to his recruitment to the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, the second to the conclusion of his wartime work there. Maxwell Herman Alexander “Max” Newman (1897–1984) was one of the most significant British mathematicians of his generation and a leading pioneer in modern computer science. At the outbreak of the war, Newman was lecturing in mathematics at Cambridge, where his 1935 lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics and Gödel’s Theorem had inspired Alan Turing to work on solving Hilbert’s Entscheidungsproblem using a hypothetical computing machine.  Subsequently it was Newman who rushed through publication of Turing’s “On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem”, and arranged for him to spend time at Princeton where Alonzo Church was attacking the same problem by different, but not incompatible, methods. In 1942, Newman had decided to offer his services to the war effort, and approached the Naval Intelligence Division, being interviewed by the classicist Prof. Frank Adcock, whose Bletchley involvement is interestingly entirely missing from his ODNB entry.

The first letter, dated 15 July 1942, is from Alan Bradshaw, at the time Assistant Director (Administration), later Deputy Director, at Bletchley and one of the unsung heroes of the operation, and is on the “headed notepaper” of the establishment, which, perhaps consonant with the perceived ethos of the place, has the address “Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Bucks.” simply typed at the head. Bradshaw explains that he has heard from Prof. Adcock that Newman “would like to be considered for a vacancy in this organisation”, and would like to know if he would be “willing to accept an appointment as a Temporary Senior Assistant at a commencing salary of £600, out of which you would have to pay for your billeting and meals taken at our Headquarters”. He then goes on succinctly to address Newman’s two major concerns about the possibilities of working at Bletchley. Newman’s father was a German Jew who emigrated to Britain with his family in 1912, and Newman was concerned that this would bar him from top secret work, but Bradshaw assures him that “in your case this will not prove any bar to your employment here”. He was also worried that the work he undertook would be sufficiently stimulating, and of genuine utility, and Bradshaw is laconically to the point; “The work you would be doing would be of great importance in the war effort”. And so it was to prove.

Once at Bletchley, Newman realised that some of the methods used by the Bletchley codebreakers would be better performed with mechanised assistance; he and Alan Turing proposed the logical requirements for such machinery. These requirements formed the basis of practical machines, culminating with the Colossus, the world’s first large-scale electronic computer, and the section at Bletchley that used the machinery was headed by Newman and came to be known as the Newmanry. Contrary to popular belief Colossus was not responsible for breaking Enigma, that honour fell to Turing and Welchman’s Bombe, rather Newman’s machine broke “Tunny” the coding associated with the Lorenz SZ-40/42, an electromechanical wheel-based cipher machine for teleprinter signals which was used for messages at the very highest command levels. At the end of the war, Newman was appointed Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester, a position that he held until his retirement in 1964. In 1946 he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory, which in 1948 developed the first stored-program digital computer, the Manchester Baby.

The second letter, 27 December 1946, is on Downing Street stationery, over the signature of Leslie Rowan, Churchill’s principal private secretary, and acknowledges “the receipt of your cable”, and communicates the Prime Minister’s disappointment “that he will not be able to include your name in the list of recommendations which he will submit to The King”. Newman declined an OBE, an award that had already been conferred on his pupil Turing, on the grounds that it was derisory in view of their contribution to the outcome of the conflict.

The two offer a pleasing encapsulation of some of the ambiguities and oddities of operations of Bletchley Park, and in so doing accentuate just how remarkable it was that the project should have succeeded as it did.

£2,500

2 BRISTOWE, W. S. The World of Spiders. The New Naturalist Number 38. With 14 Plates of Photographs, 4 in Colour, and Drawings by Arthur Smith Comprising 22 Half Tone Plates and 116 Figures.

London: Collins, 1958

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. 44 plates of which 4 are in colour, illustrations throughout the text.  Cloth slightly puckered, a few spots and tape marks to endpapers. An excellent copy in the bright, price-clipped jacket with only a short closed tear at the head of the spine panel.

First edition, first impression. A very attractive copy.

£100

3 CAMPBELL, Norman Robert, & Dorothy Ritchie. Photoelectric Cells. Their Properties, Use, and Applications.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1929

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece, diagrams throughout.  Ownership signature to front pastedown. Contents lightly tanned. An excellent copy in dust jacket with very mild rubbing and creasing to the edges; uncommon in the jacket.

First edition, first impression.

£200

4 (CHARCOT) GOETZ, Christopher C.; Michel Bonduelle; Toby Gelfand.  Charcot – Constructing Neurology.

New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press,  1995

Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards.  Illustrations to the text.   Fine. 

First Edition. Acclaimed biographical study of  “the Napoleon of the neuroses”, whose notorious demonstrations of hypnosis at the famous Salpêtrière Hospital made him a celebrity in Paris.

£85

5 COMFORT, Alex The Biology of Senescence.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956

Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Spotting to endpapers and edges of text block. An excellent copy in the jacket that is a little rubbed and creased along the edges.

First edition, first impression of this “standard work” on the biology of ageing, “remarkable also for the quality of writing”. Though he is best known as the author of The Joy of Sex, Comfort’s career began as director of research in gerontology at University College, London, and he later served as president of the British Society for Research on Ageing, and the first president of the geriatrics and gerontology section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Scarce in the dust jacket.

£75

6 (CURRAN, Jim) KRAUCH, Elsa.  A Mind restored.  The Story of Jim Curran. Introduction by William Seabrook.

New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons,  1937

Octavo. Original grey cloth lettered in yellow, in dust jacket.    Light marginal browning, else very good, dust jacket rubbed and with a few splits and minor tears, but largely complete. 

First Edition. “The story of a successful businessman who became just psychotic enough so that he failed in his work, lost all his money, and largely for lack of money for board, had to live in a mental hospital.”

Original receipt for purchase and shipping to the children’s author Oliver Roberts Barton loosely inserted. Later ink ownership stamp of  Saul Rosenzweig, psychologist and the founder of the Common Factors Movement in psycho-therapeutics.

Hornstein p.9; Alvarez pp.264-8

£65

7 DARWIN, Charles. On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Fifth Edition, with additions and corrections. (Tenth thousand.)

London: John Murray, 1869

Octavo. Original green fine sand-grain cloth, titles to spine gilt, decorative panels blocked in blind to sides, black endpapers: Freeman’s variant “a” binding with the title on the spine in roman capitals. Folding lithographic diagram.  Calligraphic inkstamp of Polish scholar Tadeusz Sulimirski (1898–1983) at head of title. Extremities rubbed, spine ends nicked, inner hinges with superficial cracks but holding firm, a very good copy.

Fifth edition. This edition sees the first use by Darwin of Herbert Spencer’s phrase “survival of the fittest”, appearing in the heading of chapter IV and in the text.

Freeman 387.

£2,500

8 DIJKSTRA, Edsger W. A Note of Two Problems in Connection with Graphs. In Numerische Mathematik I. Recursive Programming, in Numerische Mathematik 2.

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1959

2 volumes, octavo (251 × 161 mm). Contemporary library bindings of black half patterned skiver, hand-written paper labels to spines, marbled sides.   Library stamps of the Bibliothek Ingenieurschule, Hamburg, and deaccession stamps to title pages, page 1 of each volume, and to page 15 of volume I and 13 of volume II, library bar code ticket to each rear pastedown. Slight toning of the marbled sides. Contents clean and fresh. An excellent set.

First editions, first impressions of two of Dijkstra’s most significant papers, both rare in commerce: “A Note of Two Problems in Connection with Graphs”, which introduced the Shortest-Path Algorithim (now known as Dijkstra’s algorithim) as well as the Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm, and “Recursive Programming”, which introduced the foundational concept of using a “stack” for recursive programming. Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) was a pioneering computer scientist, responsible for many of the algorithms and concepts that form the basis of modern software engineering. He was a founder of the structured programming paradigm, which sought to improve the clarity and efficiency of programming, and also did important early work in distributed computing – the origins of the modern internet. In 2001 he received the Turing Award, often described as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for “fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge; for eloquent insistence and practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly, not just debugged into correctness; for illuminating perception of problems at the foundations of program design” (Turing Award biography). Not in Origins of Cyberspace.

£4,750

9 DU TOIT, A. L. Our Wandering Continents. An Hypothesis of Continental Drifting.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1937

Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. With 48 maps and diagrams.  Near contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Boards gently splayed, head of spine slightly bumped, light crease to fore margin of first few leaves. An excellent copy in a likewise excellent jacket with toned spine and rear panel, lightly nicked and chipped extremities, minor loss to head of spine, and a short closed tear to top of front panel.

First edition, first impression. The South African geologist Alexander Logie du Toit (1878–1948) was an early supporter of the theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Wegener (1880–1930). However, du Toit differed from Wegener in terms of the number of supercontinents envisaged: Wegener suggested a single original continent (Pangaea) while du Toit instead proposed two continents (Laurasia and Gondwana).

£575

10 EINSTEIN, Albert. Mein Weltbild.

Amsterdam: Querido, 1934

Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth folding case.   Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Light partial tanning to free endpapers. An excellent, sharp copy in the jacket which is rubbed and creased with toned spine panel, chips, closed tears, and a faint spot of dampstain to the upper panel.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Gesammelte Länder , Albert Einstein” under the printed title which has been struck through. Einstein’s inscription seems to refer to the German title, which means approximately “My World View”. This volume is rare signed and contains five essays by Einstein on science, religion, politics, and philosophy: “The World As I See It”, “Of Politics and Pacifism”, “Germany 1933”, “Judaism”, and “Science”. Since his childhood in Prussia Einstein had been opposed to militant nationalism and enforced conformity, even renouncing his German citizenship for that of Switzerland as a teenager. As he grew in stature as a physicist he began using his celebrity to promote his philosophical ideals – internationalism, pacifism, and Zionism – earning him much vitriol from the far-right but endearing him to millions of others around the world. This edition is entirely in German; the first English language edition was published in the US in 1949.

£8,000

11 (EINSTEIN, Albert.) FRANK, Philipp. Einstein. His Life and Times. Translated from the German Manuscript by George Rosen. Edited and Revised by Shuichi Kusaka.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947

Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket.   Lightly rubbed and a little dulled at extremities, small spot of dampstain to lower board, partial tanning to endpapers, contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks and short splits and tape repairs on the verso.

First edition, first printing of Frank’s classic and often cited biography. Inscribed by Einstein on the front free endpaper, “For Mrs. Lazarus, A. Einstein 1947 (without responsibility for the content)”. Philipp Frank (1884-1966) was a life-long friend of Einstein’s and an important physicist and philosopher in his own right. Einstein thought highly enough of Frank that in 1912 he recommended him as his replacement at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague, a position that Frank held until 1938 when he moved to the United States and joined the faculty at Harvard.

£6,875

12 (EINSTEIN, Albert.) MULLER, J. J. Original etching of Albert Einstein.

For J. J. Muller,

Sheet size: 265 × 212 mm. Image size: 201 × 150 mm. Mounted, glazed, and framed. Etching on 1848 charcoal rag laid paper.  Fine condition.

An engraving of the scientist, signed lower middle in blue ink by Einstein and lower right in black ink by Muller. The artist was a well regarded printmaker active in Germany during the Weimar period. Signed images of Einstein of this period are uncommon.

£6,000

13 (EUCLID.) BYRNE, Oliver. The first six books of The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners.

London: William Pickering, 1847

Quarto (233 x 185 mm). Rebound to style in dark blue half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco labels, raised bands, marbled paper sides,  brown endpapers. Geometric diagrams printed in red, blue and yellow; printed in Caslon old-face type with ornamental initials by C. Whittingham of Chiswick.  Board edges lightly rubbed, spotting and offsetting as virtually always with this book. A very good copy.

First edition of this celebrated book, the most interesting and inventive attempt to revisualise the classic ur-text of geometry by printing the diagrams in various colours, a method which stretched the printers’ skills to their utmost. Oliver Byrne (c.1810–c.1890) is described on the title page as “Surveyor of Her Majesty’s Settlements in the Falkland Islands and Author of Numerous Mathematical Works”. He was appointed professor of mathematics, at the College for Civil Engineering, Putney, at the age of 20. The 1871 census lists his place of birth as Leyden, Holland.

McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 70.

£6,750

14 FAJANS, K. Radioactivity and the Latest Developments in the Study of the Chemical Elements. Translated from the fourth German edition by T. S. Wheeler and W. G. King. With eleven diagrams, fourteen tables, and appendix to the English translation.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1923

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt and to cover blind stamped. With the dust jacket. Black and white diagrams throughout. Ownership signatures to front free endpaper.  Partial browning to endpapers, corners lightly bumped, bottom edge of rear cover slightly warped. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket with browned spine panel.

First edition in English, first impression. Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975) was a pioneer in physical chemistry and the study of radiation. In 1910 he was hired by the lab of Ernest Rutherford, just as Rutherford was making his monumental discovery of atomic structure. Fajans continued this research in Europe, working in Germany until fleeing Nazi persecution in 1935, then holding academic positions in England and the United States. His most significant accomplishments include the discovery of new radioactive isotopes, their properties, and the rules governing radioactive moves, or the ways that elements change as they undergo alterations to the nucleus.

£300

15 The Doctrine of The Sphere, Grounded on the Motion of the Earth, and the Antient Pythagorean or Copernican System of the World. In Two Parts.

London: A. Godbid and J. Playford, 1680

Quarto (230 × 178 mm). Recent quarter brown calf to style, red morocco label, marbled sides. Woodcut initials and headpieces, 6 plates of which 4 are folding, 27 pages of letterpress tables at rear.  Contemporary annotations throughout. Some closed tears to plates, the two folding plates between pages 63 and 65 repaired on the versos, sig. E2 torn at lower outer corner, the paper replaced with 4 or 5 words either side of the leaf supplied in photographic facsimile. A good copy.

First edition of Flamsteed’s first work, published as part of Jonas Moore’s posthumously published New Systeme of the Mathematicks (1681). The work includes an improved version of Jeremiah Horrocks’s calculations of the motions of the moon, which Flamsteed had helped Horrocks prepare for publication in 1673. This copy bears several interlinear and marginal corrections which may be the author’s own. These interlinear notes correct both textual and numerical errors, and include a few corrections to the tables at end. These small corrections to text, equations or tables are apparently to be distinguished from the more copious marginalia, in a different, somewhat later hand, including mathematical calculations, notes on the calculation of distances, captions on the plates, and marginal references from the text to figures in the plates. The edition itself is rare. The Macclesfield copy, sold at auction in 2004, was also annotated by the author (hammer price £16,000).

Wing F1137; Houzeau & Lancaster 12077.

£5,000

16 GOULD, Stephen J. Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983

Octavo. Original green cloth backed white boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Boards very slightly rubbed with a small spot to the upper board. An excellent copy in the very fresh dust jacket.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half title. A lovely copy. The third collected volume of essays from Gould’s long-running column in Natural History Magazine.

£150

17 GOULD, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981

Octavo. Original grey boards, red cloth backstrip, titles to spine in gilt and silver. With the dust jacket.   An excellent copy in the jacket with slightly sunned spine panel.

First edition, first printing of one of Gould’s most famous and controversial books. Inscribed by the author on the half title, “For Larry Owens, best wishes, Stephen Jay Gould”. In The Mismeasure of Man, Gould analyses craniometry and IQ testing to point out the unconscious biases and a priori assumptions built into much “scientific” research. Though researchers recently made the case that Gould was incorrect about one aspect of the book’s argument, it still stands as an important indictment of biological determinism and a lucid reminder that those engaged in research of any type must be aware of their own privilege and biases.  A superb copy, rare in such beautiful condition.

£750

18 KENTISH, Thomas. The Pyrotechnist’s Treasury The Complete Art of Making Fireworks.  Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1887

Octavo. Original red cloth, decorative titling in black and silver to spine and upper board, charcoal grey surface-paper endpapers. 25 plates, 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated November 1896 at the rear.  Cloth somewhat sunned on the spine, and along the tops of the boards, mild mottling at the fore-edge of both boards, spine ends a touch crumpled and mildly chipping, hinges just starting, light toning, overall a very good copy.

The uncommon, definitive second edition of Kentish’s classic of pyrotechnics – “one of the greatest classic how-to-do-pyrotechnic books that have ever been written” (Philip) –  just four copies of this edition recorded on Copac – NLS, Oxford, Cambridge, and TCD – no copy in BL; OCLC adds 11 copies in the US. First published in 1878, the text of the second edition was expanded by 18 pages, and 10 plates added, as the new preface explains; “The present edition contains much additional information, many fresh illustrations, and several pieces of a construction entirely new … For the rest, I have carefully revised the book throughout, and have supplied the minutest information in every instance in which it appeared to be defective … The work appears to me now complete”.  All subsequent printings of Kentish’s work, from the 1899 third edition down to the current facsimile and print-on-demand editions are based upon this version. A practical manual, designed for use in the workshop and on the show-site, it is extremely uncommon to find a copy of any edition in anything approaching collector’s condition, rendering this copy of the most desirable edition in its original cloth particularly desirable.

Philip, Bibliography of Firework Books, K010.2

£2,500

19 KRIPKE, Saul A. A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic. The Journal of Symbolic Logic Volume 24, Number 1.

New Brunswick, NJ: The Association for Symbolic Logic, March, 1959

Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black.   A lovely, fresh copy with only the faintest toning along the wrapper edges.

First edition, first impression of the author’s first major work, published when he was only eighteen years old. Saul Kripke (1940– ) is one of the most original and influential logicians and philosophers of the present day. In 1977 the New York Times magazine described him as “one of the most penetrating minds of our time. His achievements span the disciplines of philosophy, logic and mathematics. From his post at Princeton University, where he is James McCosh Professor of Philosophy, and his previous post at Rockefeller University, Kripke has established a towering reputation as one of the two or three most eminent philosophers in the English-speaking world… Kripke’s contributions to philosophy thus far have extended the boundaries of the most unfamiliar and technical regions of modern analytic philosophy—where philosophical reasoning intermingles with abstract mathematic theory. He has worked in the field of modal logic, a branch of formal logic that has introduced ways to distinguish kinds of true statements… Before Kripke, modal logicians—including the inventor of modal logic, C. I. Lewis—did not have the mathematical tools to analyze many of the most important kinds of English sentences. One of Kripke’s major achievements has been the invention of ‘possible world semantics,’ a form of modal logic that has shown to the satisfaction of most philosophers that the common-sense understanding of the concepts ‘possibility’ and ‘necessity’ in true statements can be mathematically proved” (New York Times Magazine, August 28, 1977). A superb copy of this significant publication.

£1,700

20 KUSCH, Polykarp. Magnetic Moment of the Electron. Science, February 10, 1956. Volume 123, Number 3189, pages 207–211.

1956

8 page offprint, staple-bound.   Minor horizontal and vertical creases from folding. Superb condition.

Offprint from the journal Science based on the speech given by Kusch upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955, inscribed by the author “With best wishes, P. Kusch”. Rare inscribed. Kusch (1911–1993) was a pioneer of molecular beam magnetic resonance experiments, in which a gas at high pressure is channelled into a chamber at low pressure to form a steady, collision-free beam of particles. Kusch and his colleagues used these beams to study atomic and nuclear magnetic moments and spins. “In 1947, when many theorists believed that the electron magnetic moment was exactly one Bohr magneton, Kusch and Henry M. Foley, by magnetic resonance experiments on different states of gallium, indium, and sodium showed that the magnetic moment of the electron was 1.00119 ± 0.00005 Bohr magnetons, in agreement with J. Schwinger’s relativistic quantum electrodynamics ” (National Academy of Sciences obituary). For determining the precise magnetic moment of the electron, Kusch was awarded half the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics. His Nobel address “demonstrated both his modesty in theoretical physics and his clear recognition of the importance of reliable and accurate measurements, such as his own, in exploring new scientific frontiers… the magnetic resonance method, which Kusch pioneered, later became the forerunner of other fields of magnetic resonance research, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a highly effective and very important method for  chemical analysis; and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a powerful tool for medical diagnosis” (NAS obituary). Autograph material by Kusch is rare.

£475

21 LEWIS, Stephen, & Evan Slawson. Sanctuary. The Path to Consciousness.

Santa Monica, HTTPress, 1998

Octavo. Original red cloth-backed blue boards, titles to spine gilt, decoration to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket.   An excellent copy in the dust jacket.

First Edition, First Printing. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “To Ann welcome to sanctuary Steve.”

£65

22 LINDNER, Robert M. Rebel Without a Cause. The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath. Introduction by Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck.

London: Research Books, Ltd, 1945

Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Black pen mark covering “all rights reserved” statement on the verso of the title page. Binding lightly rubbed. A very good copy in the rubbed, nicked, creased, and tanned jacket.

First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in 1944.

£45

23 MacKENZIE, Charlotte.  Psychiatry for the Rich.  A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum, 1792-1917.

London and New York, Routledge 1992

Octavo. Original black cloth in dust jacket.  Tables to the text.   Near fine. 

First Edition. Revealing account of the Trade in Lunacy in the C19th.

£95

24 MANDELBROT, Benoit B. The Fractal Geometry of Nature.

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1982

Quarto. Original red boards, titles to spine and fractal design to upper board gilt, fractal endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout.  Tiny amount of adhesive residue to joints, upper corner bumped. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket.

Second edition. Inscribed by Mandelbrot on the half title, “To Richard Garwin, with the compliments of Benoit Mandelbrot, Au 17, 1982”. A beautiful copy of this volume, substantially revised from the original 1977 publication titled Fractals.

£3,000

25 MORRIS, Desmond. The Naked Ape. A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967

Octavo. Original green cloth-backed brown and white boards, spine lettered in gilt, pale green and white endpapers, top edge purple. With the dust jacket.   Board edges darkened, cloth marked. A very good copy in the jacket that has some nicks and chips to extremities.

First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: “To Joyce, with very best wishes, from Desmond. Nov. 1967.” A zoological portrait of homo sapiens.

£250

26 PALMITER, Richard, & Ralph L. Brinster. Five Offprints on the Transgenic Mouse. Somatic Expression of Herpes Thymidine Kinase in Mice Following Injection of a Fusion Gene Into Eggs (Cell 27:332-231, 1981); Regulation of Methallothionein-Thymidine Kinase Fusion Plasmids Injected Into Mouse Eggs (Nature 296:39-42, 1982); Dramatic Growth of Mice that Develop from Eggs Microinjected with Methalliothionein-Growth Fusion Genes (Nature 300:611-615, 1982); Methalliothionein-Human GH Fusion Genes Stimulate Growth of Mice (Science 222:809-814, 1983); Transgenic Mice – The Early Days (Int. J. Dev. Biol. 42:847-854, 1998).

1981-98

5 offprints, of which 4 are staple bound in original self-wraps. 1 offprint with original colour pictorial wrappers.   Fine condition.

Offprints of five papers on the development of the transgenic mouse, one of the most important lines of research in 20th-century biotechnology. The first four offprints in this group are key technical papers in the development of transgenic mice, and the fifth is a short memoir by Palmiter in which he warmly recounts his partnership with Brinster and their work in this important field. In 1974 Rudolf Jaenisch created the world’s first transgenic organism – a creature whose genome incorporates and uses genetic material from another species – by injecting retroviral DNA into a mouse embryo. The DNA was then shown to be present in every cell of the mouse’s body, but was not passed on to the mouse’s offspring, and other scientists around the world continued this line of research. Before working on transgenic mice the authors of the present offprints, Palmiter and Brinster, both made major contributions to embryology and genetics. In the 1960s Brinster developed the first reliable in vitro culture system for mammalian embryos, which is today the basis for all transgenic, stem cell, cloning, and in vitro fertilisation technologies, and he introduced methods for injecting DNA, RNA, and stem cells into embryos. Palmiter made advances in understanding gene transcription, the process by which proteins are created from a cell’s mRNA template, specialising in the synthesis of egg white protein and a protein called methallothionein, which binds toxic heavy metals. In 1979 the two researchers began corresponding when Brinster requested a sample of chicken mRNA from Palmiter’s lab – he was hoping to inject it into mouse oocytes to see if the cells would incorporate it and begin transcribing the egg white protein. From there they embarked on a fruitful partnership that would culminate in their creation in 1982 of the world’s first transgenic animals that could pass their new genes to offspring, first mice, then rabbits, sheep, and pigs. The team’s transgenic mice initiated a biotechnology revolution. They not only demonstrated the feasibility of stable genetic engineering in mammals, but because their genomes could be precisely controlled, they could be used to study huge numbers of other scientific issues. Palmiter and Brinster created thousands of transgenic mice to study the effects of different genes, and the techniques they pioneered have led to breakthroughs in understanding Alzheimers, diabetes, hepatitis, and cancer. Most famously, in 1983 they incorporated a rat growth hormone gene into the mouse genome, creating “Mighty Mice” that grew to twice their normal size and passed the genes on to their offspring. An image of a Mighty Mouse next to a normal mouse appeared on the cover of Science in 1983, and the associated offprint present in this group, “Methalliothionein-Human GH Fusion Genes Stimulate Growth of Mice”, has covers which reproduce that classic image. A wonderful set of rare offprints.

£750

27 RUSSELL, Bertrand. The Analysis of Matter.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1927

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Spine toned, tiny small puncture to cloth of spine, just a little light rubbing at extremities. Contents very fresh. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and dulled jacket with some small chips and short closed tears and a vertical and a horizontal crease from folding.

First edition, first impression in the rare dust jacket. The Analysis of Matter was Russell’s attempt to elucidate “the philosophical outcome of modern physics”, particularly the implications of Einstein’s relativity.

£675

28 SAUDEK, Robert. Experiments With Handwriting.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in white. With the dust jacket, and the supplementary octavo booklet bound in green card wrappers held in a rear pocket. Illustrations of handwriting samples in the supplementary booklet.  Bookseller’s ticket of Burton’s of Montreal. Ends and corners rubbed, some pencil annotations to the text, otherwise internally very fresh. An excellent copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with chips to spine panel and some loss from the ends.

First edition, first impression, of Saudek’s defining work on the psychology of handwriting.

£200

29 SCHOFIELD, Robert E. The Lunar Society of Birmingham. A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963

Octavo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, with the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 11 plates. Ownership bookplate to front free endpaper.  Spine ends very slightly faded, edges a little foxed. An excellent copy in a very well preserved dust jacket.

First edition, an examination of the organization and activities of one of the most influential of the provincial scientific societies of Georgian England. “Based primarily on manuscript materials, this is the first full-length study of the almost legendary Lunar Society of Birmingham. Members of that Society, including James Watt and Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgewood, and William Withering, worked together to seek solutions of the social, political, economic, scientific, and technological problems of an industrializing community.” (Publisher’s blurb.)

£125

30 SECHERVAYE, Marguerite A. Reality Lost and Regained. Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl. With Analytic Interpretation by Marguerite Sechehaye. Translated by Grave Rubin-Rabson.

New York: Grune and Stratton, 1951

Octavo. Original red vellum-grained paper covered boards, titles to spine and upper board in black.   A little rubbed at the extremities, corners slightly bumped. An excellent copy.

First edition, first printing, in the first issue grained boards, of one of the earliest autobiographical accounts of schizophrenia, the “remarkable visions” (Alvarez) recorded and interpreted by the patient’s Swiss psychoanalyst Marguerite A. Schervaye (1887–1964). Schervaye was a leader in the psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenics and had spent seven years treating the subject of this account, a young woman named Réne who began having schizophrenic episodes as a child and was institutionalised during her teenage years. In order to treat her, Sechervaye “drew on psychoanalytical and existential theory to fashion her own therapy. She saw the roots of psychosis in infantile emotional trauma. She maintained that this led the victim to constantly renewed efforts to relive the original trauma in order to overcome it. Such people also fled to fantasy, both to try and escape from their pain, but also to make reality subservient to desire. Freudian theory, with its notions of symbolization and displacement, helped decode the patient’s communications that emanated from their imaginary world… Sechervaye advocated that ‘the therapist instead of insisting on submission to reality (as he customarily does with the neurotic), will strive to offer him a new reality, such as reality as would have been necessary to avoid the initial, infantile trauma'” (Beveridge, Portrait of the Psychiatrist, p. 99). The analyst’s intense work with Réne, in which she acted as a stand-in for the girl’s real mother so that “reality was altered to address the patient’s originally impoverished experience” apparently contributed to Réne’s complete recovery and return to normal life. Marguerite’s first book on Réne, Symbolic Realization (1947), related the case from the therapist’s viewpoint, and in 1951 Sechervaye published this companion work, the young woman’s first-hand, but heavily edited, account of living with schizophrenia, beginning with her first experience of “unreality” at the age of five: “I remember very well the day it happened. We were staying in the country and I had gone for a walk… suddenly, as I was passing the school, I heard a German song… I stopped to listen and at that instant a strange feeling came over me, a feeling hard to analyze but akin to something I was to know too well later–a disturbing sense of unreality. It seemed to me that I no longer recognised the barracks; the singing children were prisoners, compelled to sing. It was as though the school and the children’s song were set apart from the rest of the world. At the same time my eye encountered a field of wheat whose limits I could not see. The yellow vastness, dazzling in the sun, bound up with the song of the children… filled me with such anxiety that I broke into sobs… It was the first appearance of those elements which were always present in later sensations of unreality: illimitable vastness, brilliant light, and the gloss and smoothness of material things.” The account continues through the escalating troubles of her childhood and her institutionalisation, followed by her experience of therapy with Sechervaye, who completes the volume with a chapter on her own interpretation of the case. Though psychoanalytical therapy for schizophrenics has now been discredited, and Réne’s long-term outcome from this treatment is unknown, her autobiography remains significant as one of the earliest published memoirs of schizophrenia and a revealing record of the disease’s effects on the mind. First editions in the first issue boards, such as this copy, are uncommon–more often seen are the remainders in ungrained red boards and the later printings which also bear the date 1951 on the title page.

Alvarez, Minds that Came back, pp 98-101, 344-5.

£500

31 (SINGER, Charles) UNDERWOOD, E. Ainsworth (ed). Science, Medicine and History. Essays on the Evolution of Scientific Thought and Medical Practice written in Honour of Charles Singer.

L:ondon: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1953

2 volumes octavo Original blue buckram, title gilt to spines. With the dust jackets.  Portrait frontispiece to each and numerous plates throughout.  Very good in slightly tattered jackets.

First editions. Festschrift for this highly influential historian of science containing ninety essays, arranged chronologically, with contributions from a veritable “who’s who” of the field.

£75

32 SZASZ, Thomas S.  The Manufacture of Madness.  A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement.

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row,  1970

Octavo. Original orange cloth in dust jacket.   Lower board very slightly damped at the top corner with some bleed onto the jacket, but overall a very good copy. 

First Edition. “For Szasz… mental illness is not a disease, whose nature is being elucidated by science; it is rather a myth, fabricated by psychiatrists for reasons of professional advancement and endorsed by society because it sanctions easy solutions for problem people.”

£50

33 TARSKI, Alfred. Cardinal Algebras. With an Appendix Cardinal Products of Isomorphism Types by Bjarni Jónsson and Alfred Tarski.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1949

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket.   An excellent, fresh copy in the jacket that is a little faded along the spine panel and edges.

First edition, first printing and a lovely copy of this “axiomatic study of cardinal numbers (including zero) under finite and countable addition… an important axiomatic contribution to the foundations of set theory” in which “many noteworthy theorems about generalized cardinal algebras are proved” (Birkhoff, review, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol 56, no 2, 1956). Author Alfred Tarski (1901-1983), was one of the 20th century’s leading mathematicians, logicians, and philosophers, who together with Kurt Gödel, “changed the face of logic in the twentieth century, especially through his work on the concept of truth and the theory of models” (Feferman, Tarski, p. 1).

£300

34 TOLMAN, Richard. Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology.

Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1946

Large octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.   Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, ownership signature to front free endpaper. Cloth very fresh, just a few minor bumps to board edges, spotting to edges of text block and endpapers, faint toning to margins of contents. An excellent copy in the rubbed and dulled jacket with fraying at the head of the tanned spine panel and some closed tears and creasing. 

Second impression, reproduced photographically from the first edition. An attractive copy and uncommon in the jacket. Tolman (1881-1948) was a theoretical physicist at Caltech who made important contributions to cosmology, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. The present volume provides a systematic exposition of relativity theory with the incorporation of thermodynamics, and contains a significant section on Hubble’s discovery of the red shift of distant galaxies and its influence on cosmology.

£125

35 TUCKEY, Charles Lloyd.  Psycho-Therapeutics; or, Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion.  Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.

London: Baillière, Tindall, and Cox,  1890

Octavo, original green cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, blind panels to the boards.  Tables to the text.   A little rubbed at the extremities, light browning, else very good. 

First published in the previous year, this important and influential work ran into seven editions by 1921. “The present edition… is considerably enlarged, and contains additional chapters on the physiology and psychology of hypnotism, on simulation, and on my personal experience, which will, I hope, render it a useful handbook for practitioners who have not the time to devote to more elaborate and systematic works.” (Preface to the Second Edition. ) Tuckey introduced Liebault’s methods of psychotherapy to English-speaking psychopathologists. “The first English medical man to adopt the Nancy form of treatment seems to have been C. Lloyd Tuckey who first visited ‘dear old Dr. Liebault,’ and then Bernheim, Berillon and van Renterghem, in the autumn of 1888” (Gauld, A History of Hypnotism, p. 349). “This treatise on hypnotism as a therapeutic agent, which went through many greatly expanded editions, emphasizes the influence of the mind on the body and the beneficial effects of hypnotic suggestion on many kinds of diseases” (Crabtree). According to Tuckey, hypnotism should be “Practised by looking fixedly and pertinaciously into the subject’s eyes at a distance of a few inches, and at the same time holding the hands. In a few minutes all expression goes out of the face, and the subject sees nothing but the operator’s eyes, which shine with intense brilliancy.”

“Historians believe that the first use of the word ‘psychotherapy’ in a book title came with the English hypnotist Charles Lloyd Tuckey’s Psycho-therapeutics, or Treatment by Hypnotism & Suggestion (1889).  Tuckey popularised the use of the word ‘psychotherapy’ as a synonym for the hypnotherapy of Hippolyte Bernheim’s Nancy school in France, and attributes the discovery of ‘psychotherapy’ as a discipline to Liébault, its founder.” (Register for Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy)

Crabtree 1251

£150

36 WATSON, James D. The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968

Octavo. Original purple boards, titles and double helix pattern to spine gilt, top edge pink. With the dust jacket. Illustrations and diagrams throughout.  Slight toning to pages, pink top edge faded, in the dust jacket with slight wear to extremities, corners rubbed. A very attractive copy. 

First UK edition, first impression of Watson’s personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, originally published in the US in the same year. The Double Helix is one of the most important first-hand accounts of the practice of science during the 20th-century, written “with a Pepys-like frankness” and chronicling not only the wonder and beauty of a major breakthrough, but also the politics and turf wars of researchers battling for scientific glory.

£300

37 ZEILINGER, Anton, et al. Experimental Quantum Teleportation. Nature Volume 390, Number 6660.

Washington D. C.: Nature Publishing Group, December 11, 1997

Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers.   Mailing label to upper wrapper as often. Wrappers only very slightly rubbed. An excellent copy.

First edition of the first paper describing successful quantum teleportation, the transmission of information using quantum entanglement, in which the quantum states of a pair of particles are linked so that a change in one alters the other, even at large distances. Quantum teleportation was first proposed theoretically in 1993 by a team led by the physicist and information theorist C. H. Bennett, and  this paper marks the first time it was carried out successfully. Lead author Anton Zeilinger (1945– ) is now renowned for his work in this growing field, which promises to revolutionise communications and computing technology, and he and his team have achieved numerous other firsts, including the first quantum cryptography using entangled photons.

£475

38 ZWORYKIN, V. K., et al. Electron Optics and the Electron Microscope.

New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; Chapman & Hall, Limited, London, 1945

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board in silver, publisher’s printed bookplate design to front pastedown. With the dust jacket. Diagrams, charts, and illustrations from photographs throughout.  Just a little faint mottling to spine, otherwise the cloth is quite sharp and the contents clean and fresh. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with minor fading of the spine panel and a few nicks and short splits, and closed tears to the upper panel and folds repaired with tape to the verso.

First edition, first printing of the first comprehensive text on electron microscopes by the team that developed the first commercially viable model. A very attractive copy and rare in the dust jacket. Though the concept of the electron microscope had been developed during the 1920s, researchers faced a number of difficulties in creating a machine that was both practical and powerful. The first commercially available model, the EM1 developed at Imperial College, London, could not exceed the resolution of the most powerful light microscopes, a major stumbling block to its uptake as a scientific tool. In 1938, a team at the University of Toronto which included a co-author of this volume, James Hillier, constructed the first effective, high-resolution model. Vladimir Zworykin, a pioneer of television technology, was then at RCA and in 1939 he convinced them to fund the development of a commercial electron microscope, producing one prototype before hiring Hillier in February 1940. The second design by Hillier, based on the Toronto model, was ready by July of that year and became the basis for RCA’s groundbreaking line of microscopes, which the team continued to improve upon throughout the 1940s. This fascinating and copiously illustrated volume based on their research covers all aspects of electron microscope theory, design, operation, and scientific and commercial applications.

£500

39 RHODE, John. Death Invades the Meeting.

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1944

Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket.   A tight copy, head of spine faded, corresponding with a chip to dust jacket with loss of the word “Death”, corners nicked, light wear to folds.

First edition, first impression.

This item is now sold.

£95

Window Shopping in Fulham Road: Sports

Jul 16, 2015 | Uncategorized

Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk o

1 (YACHTING) By-Laws and Racing Rules of the Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts Records  of Races, 1910. Rules of the American Power Boat Association and the Restrictions of the Y.R.A. of M. Classes …

Boston: A.T. Bliss & Co., 1911

Octavo. Original grey cloth with the title and Honor Shield of the YRA of M to the upper board in blue, Folding chart of Boston harbour at the rear, 3 plates of club burgees in two colours, illustrations to the text, and numerous illustrated ads.  A very good copy.

Sixteenth year of issue. These handbooks are uncommon, and this a lovely copy.

£175

2 WOOD, Edward F. R. Sailing Days at Mattapoisett 1870-1960.

New Bedford, Mass.: For the Author, 1961

Octavo. Original cream buckram, title in blue to upper board and spine. Frontispiece and 23 pages of illustrations.   Covers yellowed, and marked, crossed through in red crayon, and with a label to the upper board “Corrections,” numerous ink and pencil emendations to the text, small piece lacking from leaf, minor loss of text, about very good. 

First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed for the author, this designated a “soiled copy” at the limitation leaf: the author’s own copy, marked up with his corrections. Wood was a banker who had summered in Mattapoisett since childhood, and whose researches into the town led to the present publication: “This history of sailing at Mattapoisett is the result of curiosity about the origins of the Mattapoisett Yacht Club, an organization which may justly claim a modest antiquity. Its traditional informality precluded the keeping of records, and little has been remembered from the past. A search of available sources reveals that sailing competition at Mattapoisett started in the eighteen-seventies, at the end of the whaleship-building era” (foreword). An attractive and uncommon little history that gives a sense of  local loyalties in the East Coast yachting community.

Morris & Howland, p.159; Not in Toy.

£300

3 WILLS, Maury. It Pays To Steal. As told to Steve Gardner.

Englewood Cliffs, N. J.:Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963

Octavo. Original red and black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 2 plates from photographs.  Very slightly rubbed along the edges and ends of spine. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper “To Cass and Al Anderson, Best Wishes, Maury Wills, 9-13-63”.

£150

4 TAYLOR, Marshall W. The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World. The Story of a Coloured Boy’s Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds. An Autobiography.

Worcester: Wormley Publishing Company, 1928

Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With the dust jackets. Portrait frontispiece.  Small marginal stain to lower edge, top edges of some pages lightly creased, overall an exceptional copy in the faded jacket that has some loss to spine ends and tips and some tape repairs to verso.

First edition, first impression, in the scarce jacket. The autobiography of the pioneering athlete Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor, who became the world champion in 1899 in the one mile sprint. He was also the second African-American world champion in any sport, after boxer George Dixon. Though celebrated in Europe and Australia, his career was held back by racism at home in the US, especially in the Southern states, where he was not allowed to compete, and the League of American Wheelman for a time explicitly excluded black cyclists. He retired from the track in 1910, at the age of 32.

£1,500

5 SELKIRK, George H. The Book of Chess. A popular and comprehensive guide to all players of that intellectual game with full instructions for blindfold chess. Numerous illustrations and diagrams.

London: Madgwick Houlston & Co, Ltd,

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board gilt, all edges speckled red.   Extremities very lightly rubbed, head of spine starting to fray, faint cockling to rear board, prelims and endmatter foxed. An excellent copy in bright cloth.

First edition, first impression, of the author’s chess manual, including a history of chess and a substantial chapter on blindfold chess, a variation of the Royal Game which was officially banned in the USSR in the 1930s for posing a health hazard.

£250

6 (OLIVIER, Laurence) PRESTON, Charles (ed.) Hits, Runs and Social Errors. Choice Cartoons from Sports Illustrated. Selected by Charles Preston,

New York: Random House, 1956

Tall quarto. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout.  Boards slightly rubbed and dulled, lower corner bumped, light uneven tanning to front free endpapers from inserted material. A very good copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with a small chip from the head of the spine panel.

First edition, first impression, of this amusing collection of cartoons. From the library of Laurence Olivier, inscribed to him by Elizabeth Taylor on the front free endpaper, “Dear Sir Laurence, Thank you for always being so kind. Love, Elizabeth. Sept 14, 1960”. Olivier had been good friends with Richard Burton for some years, and it was Burton who hosted the party at which Olivier’s marriage to Joan Plowright (which had taken place quietly earlier the same day) was announced. Olivier may have encountered Taylor in 1953, when she replaced Vivien Leigh in Elephant Walk, but they did not become close until after Taylor’s marriage to Burton in 1964. In September 1960 the filming of Cleopatra was still taking place in London, and it is possible that Olivier had offered advice on the roles, having previously played the leads in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.

£875

7 MCPHEE, John. A Sense of Where You Are. A Profile of William Warren Bradley.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965

Octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the photographic dust jacket. 26 black and white photographs.  A fine copy in the the lightly marked and rubbed dust jacket.

First edition, first printing. John McPhee’s first book, and very rare with the red spine panel so bright and unfaded. Bill Bradley was a hall-of-fame basketball player who later went on to run for the Democratic Party nomination for Presidential Candidate in 2000.

£975

8 (LEONARD, Benny) FLEISCHER, Nat. Leonard the Magnificent. Life Story of the Man who made himself “King of the Lightweights”.

New York: For the Author,  1947

Octavo. Original grey cloth, lettered in red to the spine, and to the upper board together with a portrait of Leonard. Portrait frontispiece and 22 other plates.  A little rubbed, and slightly sunned at the spine, a touch toned, but overall very good.

First edition, first impression, this copy inscribed by the author/publisher; “This is the first book off the press and the first bound. Nat Fleischer”. Born Benjamin Leiner on the Lower East Side in 1896, Benny “The Ghetto Wizard” Leonard, has twice been voted The Ring’s second greatest lightweight of all time behind Roberto Duran, Fleischer himself ranked Leonard #2 behind Joe Gans. Benny was no slouch. A bright copy with an unusual inscription.

£175

9 LEEMING, Joseph. Card Tricks Anyone Can Do.

New York: D. Appleton Century Company, 1941

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket.   Extremities minutely rubbed, very small area of wear to cloth on rear board. An excellent copy in the slightly marked and chipped dust jacket. 

First edition, first printing. By the author of “Things Any Boy Can Make” and “Models Any Boy Can Build”.

£125

10 JOHNSON, Jack. Jack Johnson – in the Ring – and out. With Introductory Articles by “Tad”, Ed. W Smith, Damon Runyon and Mrs. Jack Johnson.

Chicago: National Sports Publishing Company, 1927

Octavo. Original red combed cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 15 other plates.  A couple of small bumps to the spine, light browning as usual, else a very good copy indeed.

First edition, first impression, July 1927. An excellent copy of the early “autobiography” of one of the twentieth-century’s most emblematic figures.

£60

11 GIBSON, Alfred, & William Pickford. Association Football and the Men Who Made It.

London: Caxton Publishing Co.,  1905-06

4 volumes, large octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to front boards in black and white, to spines in black, footballer to front boards and spines in white, yellow, and black. Each volume with photographic portrait frontispiece, 102 similar plates, and 117 illustrations in text.  Ownership inscription in pencil and blue ink to front endpapers, pencil inscription to rear endpaper of Volume III. Spines slightly darkened, extremities a touch rubbed, minor wear to spine ends and corners, corners gently bumped, endpapers browned, light foxing to prelims and final leaves, occasional minor foxing to margins, text blocks strained in a few places and front inner hinge of Volume II slightly cracked, but bindings firm. A very good set.

First edition. Superb and indispensable work on the birth and development of football, in four volumes. The authors trace the origins of football, the foundation of professional clubs in England and Scotland, and the pioneers of organised football.

£900

12 (FOOTBALL.) Photograph of the Corinthians Football Team.

1896–97

Sepia photograph with hand-tinted blue background (325 × 235 mm). Framed.    Some creases and spots to photograph. Very good condition.

Team photograph of the Corinthians Football Club, the most successful amateur team of all time, which was founded in London in 1882 and supplied a large number of players to the England Football team. This photo includes famous players such as Bertie Oswald Corbett, Arthur George Henfrey, A. T. B. Dunn, Gilbert Oswald Smith, known as “the first great centre forward”, and Charles Wreford-Brown, a leading figure in the Amateur Football Alliance and coiner of the term “soccer” for association football.

£1,500

13 DURANT, Ghislani. Horse-Back Riding, From a Medical Point of View.

New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, decoration to front board in gilt, boards panelled in blind.    Contemporary bookseller’s rubber stamp to front pastedown and recent bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine faintly toned and gently rubbed at extremities, corners of boards a little bumped and rubbed, short hairline scratch and tiny stain to front board with short hairline scratch, tiny stain and bump to fore edge, very mild cockling to rear board, fore edge of text block, endpapers and prelims lightly foxed. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing, of this uncommon volume by a 19th-century physician on the physiological, therapeutic and even hygienic benefits of horse-riding.

£125

14 DARWIN, Bernard. Hints On Golf. With a supplement on Golfing Kit.

London: Burberrys,

Octavo. Original tan cloth-backed buff paper boards, titles to upper boards in black. Illustrated.  Ownership rubber stamp of one R. Roller Richardson Commander Medical Corps US Navy to each free endpaper, some minor spotting and a very light scuff to the spine. Excellent.

First edition, sole printing of Darwin’s scarcest book, produced for marketing purposes by the London outfitters Burberrys. Darwin’s “Hints” are as pertinent as ever, although in this publication they naturally include a special emphasis on the need for appropriate golfing attire.

£2,500

15 CUTTER, Bob. The Rocky Marciano Story. Illustrated by Lennie Hollreiser.

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1954

Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 11 black and white photographs and 2 full-page black and white line drawings by Hollreiser.  Spine gently cocked, spine ends and corners a touch rubbed, endpapers lightly tanned, small light dampstains along fore margin of text block. A very good copy in a slightly rubbed and soiled jacket with lightly chipped and creased extremities, a closed tear to the tail of the mildly sunned spine panel, and splits to folds.

First edition, first printing of this short biography of the then current world heavyweight champion.

£225

16 COATES, Austin. China Races. Commissioned by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club to mark its Centenary in 1984.

Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1984

Octavo. Original; grey boards, titled in gilt on the spine. With the photographic dust jacket. Numerous illustrations to the text, full-page to the chapter openings, a few in colour, maps to the endpapers.  Very good in slightly yellowed jacket, sunning at the spine.

First edition. Nicely produced celebration of this famous Chinese institution. Author was a British civil servant, long based in the Far East, during World War II he served in intelligence with the Royal Air Force  in India, Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia, subsequently Assistant Colonial Secretary to the Hong Kong government, and Magistrate in the New Territories from 1949 to 1956; Chinese Affairs Officer in Sarawak 1957-9; First Secretary of the British High Commission, Kuala Lumpur and Penang from 1959-62, he retired to Hong Kong in 1965 to concentrate on writing and published extensively on Asian subjects.

£50

17 BRADLEY, A. Percy, & Michael Burn Wheels take Wings: The Story of Brooklands. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.

London: G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., 1933

Original black cloth, title gilt to the spine, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 15 other plates.   Faint mottling of the cloth, top-stain sunned, light toning of the contents, else very good in unclipped jacket, slightly rubbed and with a few minor edge-splits and chips, but remains high

First edition. History of the famous racing circuit and aerodrome written by the clerk of the course. On publication Motor Sport magazine considered it “a book that should not be missed by any follower of motor racing”. An excellent copy in the striking John Wall dust jacket.

£175

18 (BOXING.) JOHNSON, Jack. Champion of the World Jack Johnson.

Brandt & Scheible, 1909

Offset-lithographic poster (470 × 390 mm), en grisaille. Mounted, framed and glazed. Central image of Johnson in boxing pose with stars and stripes sash around his waist, superimposed over a large laurel wreath, either side are oval vignettes, one of the log cabin the “Birthplace of Johnson”, the other of “Johnson in his Car”, the champion had a succession of flashy and fast cars.  Lightly browned verso, a few superficial creases, a small chip from the top margin, image unaffected, else very good. 

A remarkably well-preserved example of this uncommon poster celebrating the ascension to the world heavyweight throne of the great African-American boxer. Having spent several years trying to lure heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries, who refused to allow a black fighter to challenge for his title, into a match, Johnson finally won the title from Canadian Tommy Burns in Rushcutter’s Bay, Australia, following a one-sided contest during which Johnson constantly taunted the champion; “Poor little Tommy, don’t you know how to fight Tommy? They said you was the champion Tommy?”. Visiting Canada the following year he was somewhat more gracious; “Let me say of Mr. Burns, a Canadian and one of yourselves, that he has done what no one else ever did, he gave a black man a chance for the championship. He was beaten, but he was game”. Johnson’s victory made him “the most hated man in America because he was black, a winner, and he flaunted it all … On the eve of the fight, writing for the New York Herald, Jack London told the world, “Burns is a white man and so am I, naturally I want the white man to win”. But Johnson won, and continued to win, successfully defending his title for seven years. And each time white America hated him more”. (Hauser, The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing, p.64). Evidently cheaply produced for display in those bars and club-rooms where the Galveston Giant was venerated rather than despised, it is extremely uncommon to find this piece in such pristine condition.

£2,500

19 BLOME, Richard. Hawking or Faulconry.

London: The Cresset Press Limited, 1929

Square octavo. Original quarter vellum, cream-coloured paper boards, gilt lettered spine, top edges gilt, untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Folding frontispiece and illustrations reproduced from the original edition.  Some chips, tears and stains to jacket. A very good copy.

First of this edition, with an introduction by a leading authority on British sports E. D. Cuming, limited to 650 numbered copies. Richard Blome’s The Gentleman’s Recreation, from which this book is an extract, was first published in 1686. Copies in the dust jacket are uncommon.

£275

20 (BICYCLING.) The Bicycling Times and Touring Gazette. An Independent Weekly Record of Bicycling Events, Topics, Inventions, Communications, and Subjects of Collateral Interest. Volume I.

London: Published for the Proprietor, 1877

Quarto. Near contemporary blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, marbled edges.  Occasional photographic illustrations tipped in, numerous black and white illustrations in text.  Later notes in blue chalk to front flyleaf. Extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, marbled edges faded, mild spotting to prelims, text block a touch toned. A very good copy.

Collects the first 32 issues, the complete 1877 run, of this early weekly cycling magazine which ran between 1877 and 1883.

£200

21 ALCOCK, C. W., & Rowland Hill.  Famous Footballers.

London, Hudson & Kearns, n.d. 

Folio, publisher’s black skiver-backed, matching sand-grained cloth, title and footballer device gilt to the upper board.  224 full-page half-tone illustrations from photographs, facsimile signatures to the individual portraits.   Mild shelf-wear, else very good copy indeed.  

First edition. Originally issued in 12-page weekly parts, or as single sheets in the News of the World, this is the first book issue, bound without a title page, but in what appears to be a publisher’s binding. One of the first serious “fan” publications for the burgeoning sports, edited on the “association” side by Charlie Alcock, one of the early codifiers and administrators of the game, Secretary of the FA, instigator of the FA Cup, and the first man ever to be ruled offside; and the Rugby editor George Rowland Hill, for 23 years the Honorary Secretary of the RFU, and the man who proposed the split between Union and League. Contains individual and team portraits of the greatest exponents of both the Rugby and Association codes, in the days when football was football and a moustache was essential. Team portraits include Southampton St. Mary’s, Wolves, Sheffield Wednesday, Corinthians, Harlequins and The Royal Arsenal. Amongst the individuals featured are the sporting prodigy C.B. Fry, described by John Arlott as “… probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age,” and Arthur Wharton, the first black professional football player in the world.

£625

22 FRANCIS, Dick. The Sport of Queens.

London, Michael Joseph, 1957

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, further photographic illustrations throughout.  Owners name to front free endpaper, dust jacket chipped and creased to the edges and corners.

First Edition, First Impression. The literate jockey’s autobiography. His first published book.

Sold.

£250

23 (CRICKET.) HOBBS, Jack. Playing for England! My Test-Cricket Story. With a foreword by Thomas Moult.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 monochrome plates.  Boards slightly bowed, a little minor foxing to edges, small bump to front board. A very good copy in the jacket with some nicks and shallow chips to extremities, and small tear to centre of spine panel.

First edition, first impression. From the publisher’s archive.

Sold.

£125

Window Shopping in Fulham Road: Commemorating Independence

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Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display  changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.

Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk or call us on 020 7591 0220.

CARY, Joyce. An American Visitor.  London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1933

Octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spine.    Some spotting to edges and endpapers, but an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket, tanned to spine panel and with a mark to rear panel.

First edition, first impression.

THE FIRST MICKEY MOUSE BOOK

DISNEY, Walt. The Adventures of Mickey Mouse. Story and Illustrations by Staff of Walt Disney Studio. Book I.  London: George G. Harrap, 1931

Octavo. Original colour pictorial printed boards, pictorial endpapers. With the colour printed dust jacket. 32 colour illustrations, one to each page including title recto and verso.   Mild rubbing to ends of spine and corners, inscription to verso of front endpaper, occasional light spotting to pages,  in the dust jacket with a hint of fading to spine, shallow chipping to ends of spine. An excellent copy.

First edition, first UK printing, of the first Mickey Mouse book, rare in this condition.

(EMBERLEY, Ed.) SCHACKBURG, Dr. Richard.  Yankee Doodle.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966

Oblong quarto. Original blue cloth boards, illustration blocked to front board in black, titles to spine black, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket.   Woodcuts by Ed Emberley.    Mild rubbing to ends of spine in the dust jacket with light soiling to panels. An excellent copy.

Second printing. Presentation copy with an original illustration of a solider playing a flute on the verso of front endpaper, “For Mary for her help. Ed Emberley 1967.”  The recipient, Mary C. Rife, was a noted children’s librarian for more than 50 years, spending her last 30 years co-ordinating Children’s Library Services for the Kalamazoo Public Library.“She was passionate about the needs of children and worked all her life to help children appreciate literature, through book selection, children’s services and outreach. Mary touched many lives through storytelling and was the ultimate “Mother Goose.” Many children’s authors and illustrators were encouraged and supported by her efforts. She was instrumental in bringing many of them to Kalamazoo during annual fall National Children’s Book Week celebrations over the last 30 years.” ( Obituary 2010) A wonderful association copy with an original drawing by a Caldecott Award winning illustrator.

EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. With an Essay by Lincoln Kirstein.  New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 

Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 87 monochrome plates.   Spine bumped, white dust jacket age toned and rubbed to edges, corners lightly nicked.

Second edition. Inscibed on the front free endpaper by the photographer “To Florence Homolka, affectionately, Walker Evans, July 1962”. Florence Meyer Homolka (1911–1962) was a successful portrait photographer and socialite; she died later the same year the book was inscribed.

First edition: Parr & Badger I, 114–5; Roth, p. 98.

FORESTA, Merry A. American Photographs, The First Century: From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996

Quarto. Original brown cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Richly illustrated throughout with photographic plates.   A fine copy.

First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title, “For Carl Mautz whose dedication and research are one of the field’s invaluable assets. With thanks, Merry Foresta.” Drawn from the collection of Charles Isaacs in the National Museum of American Art, this attractive book presents a vivid snapshot of life in 19th-century America.

FRANK, Robert. The Americans. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. New York: Grove Press, 1959

Oblong quarto. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Photographs throughout by Frank.   Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Cloth a little faded at head of spine but an excellent copy, in the jacket with toned spine and some nicks and chips to extremities.

First US edition, first printing. First published in France in 1958, the Swiss-born photographer’s work proved to be a highly influential book in post-war American photography. The introduction to this edition was furnished by Jack Kerouac after a chance encounter with Frank on the sidewalk outside a party.

Parr & Badger I, 247; Roth, p. 150.

GROOM, Winston. Forest Gump.  New York: Doubleday & Co., 1986

Octavo. Original yellow boards, brown cloth backstrip. With the dust jacket.     A bright copy in the dust jacket with a touch of wear to corners, price sticker to rear panel. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing. Basis for the Oscar winning film.

HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22. A Novel.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, top edge dyed red. With the dust jacket.    Top-stain faded. An excellent copy in the rubbed and lightly toned jacket with a few short closed tears and small chips to the ends of the spine panel.

First edition, first printing.

(HEMINGWAY, Ernest) BAHR, Jerome. All Good Americans. With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway.  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board in blue on silver ground, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket.    Minor bump to lower corner, partial tanning to free endpapers. A superb copy in the price-clipped and rubbed jacket with two short closed tears to the head of the faded spine panel.

First edition, first impression.

(HEYWARD, DuBose.) ALPERT, Hollis. The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess. The Story of an American Classic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990

Large octavo. Original brown boards, light red cloth backstrip, titles to spine gilt on black ground, rules and leaf design to upper board gilt, reddish brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout.   An excellent copy in the jacket with faded spine panel and just a hint of rubbing.

First edition, first printing, Advance review copy with the publisher’s slip laid in. The complete history of Porgy and Bess, from its publication as a book by DuBose Heyward through its transformation into a play and then a musical by George Gershwin, as well as its social and cultural context and reception by contemporary and modern audiences.

JAMES, Henry. The American Scene.  London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1907

Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt.    Bookplate. Spine a little faded, rubbing and loss of size affecting cloth, top corner bumped, chips to ends of spine, endpapers toned. A very good copy.

Second impression, on thicker paper and without the gilt top edge.

Edel & Laurence A63.

JOSEPHSON, Matthew. Portrait of the Artist as American.   New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930

Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the price-clipped dust jacket.    Some minor loss to gilt, an excellent copy in the dust jacket.

First edition, first printing. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper “To ‘Cap Pearce’ the best editor an author could have – these many years! Faithfully Matthew Josephson.”

(KENT, Rockwell.) MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York: Random House, 1930

Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and illustrations to spine and upper board in silver. With the dust jacket Illustrations throughout by Rockwell Kent.   A bright copy in the lightly toned dust jacket with closed tear at lower front edge repaired with tape on verso, front flap fold with shallow chipping and small piece of tape. A very attractive copy.

First Rockwell Kent trade edition, first printing. First published the same year by the Lakeside Press of Chicago in a three-volume limited edition, this trade edition proved immensely popular. It has been credited with contributing greatly to the rediscovery of Moby Dick as a classic.

LENNART, Isobel. Funny Girl. A New Musical. From an original story by Miss Lennart. Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Bob Merrill. New York: Random House, 1964

Octavo. Original black cloth backed terracotta boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge dyed blue. With the dust jacket.    An excellent copy.

First musical theatre edition, first impression. The Broadway production of Funny Girl opened to great acclaim in March 1964 with Barbara Streisand in the lead role. This edition includes illustrations from photographs of this production.

LOMAX, John A. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947

Octavo. Original red cloth, title in blue, guitar device to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Chapter headers by Ken Chamberlain.   Slight lean, else very good in slightly rubbed jacket with some minor chipping and splitting to the edges, internal; repairs with archival tape.

First edition, first impression. This copy inscribed on the half-title; “Yours sincerely, John A. Lomax, Dallax, Tex., March 1, 1947”. Entertaining autobiography of the pioneering American folklorist and musicologist, the man who “discovered “ Lead Belly, from hard-scrabble Texas farm to the Library of Congress. The book was optioned for a movie to star Bing Crosby as Lomax and Josh White as Huddie Ledbetter, but never went into production. An uncommon book inscribed, Lomax died of a stroke just 10 months after publication.

MCMURTRY, Larry. Streets of Laredo. A Novel.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993

Octavo. Original dark blue cloth-backed beige paper boards, title to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.    Faint damp stain to spine and verso of jacket’s spine panel. An excellent copy in the jacket, which is very faintly creased at the head and tail of the spine panel.

First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Cybill Shepherd’s daughter: “For Clem, with love, L.” Cybill Shepherd played Jacy Farrow in the 1971 film adaptation of McMurtry’s novel 1966 The Last Picture Show.

MORRISON, Toni. Sula.   New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, green top-stain. With the dust jacket.    Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Boards a little bowed. A very good copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with a few short closed tears.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.

(RACKHAM, Arthur) IRVING, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1928

Tall quarto. Original full vellum, titles to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 7 similar plates by Arthur Rackham.   Boards midly bowed, mild spotting and soiling to boards, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. A lovely copy.

First Rackham edition. Signed limited edition, number 65 of 250 copies signed by Rackham.

SEUSS, Dr. Happy Birthday To You!  New York:  Random House, 1959

Quarto. Original pictorial paper covered boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author.   Inscription to front free endpaper, in the dust jacket with moderate creasing to spine, chipping to ends of spine, light wear to front panel. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing. With the first printing point of the 5 white dots on page 32.

Younger and Hirsch 78-80

SPEARE, Elizabeth George.  The Sign of the Beaver.   Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983

Octavo. Original yellow boards, green cloth backstrip. With the dust jacket.     Price clipped dust jacket, else an excellent copy.

First edition, first printing. Title has won numerous awards including a 1984 Newbery Honor and a New York Times Best book of the year citation. Adventure story of young boy who becomes friends with a young Native American boy in the 1700’s.

STEADMAN, Ralph. America. Introduction by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.                                                                                                                               San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974

Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.   Spine bumped, dust jacket rubbed to corners, a few small closed tears to edges

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the artist on the copyright page “For Eduardo, Artist, Sculptor and Godfather from Ralph Steadman, 24 . 4 . 75.” The dedicatee is Eduardo Paolozzi and this book originates from his library.

STEINBECK, John. Travels With Charley: In Search of America.  New York: The Viking Press, 1962

Octavo. Original cream speckled cloth, spine lettered in red and black, vignette to the front board in red, map endpapers. With the dust jacket.    A superb copy in the bright jacket.

First edition, first printing. Based on Steinbeck’s road trip around the States in 1960 road trip accompanied by his poodle, Charley.

(STIEGLITZ, Alfred.) FRANK, Waldo; Lewis Mumford; Dorothy Norman; Paul Rosenfeld; Harold Rugg (eds.) America & Alfred Stieglitz. A Collective portrait.   New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.  1934

Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in black with silver ground, top edge grey. With the dust jacket.    Top edge faded, stamp to lower edge, spine lightly bumped, dust jacket creased and lightly chipped to edges.

First edition, first printing.

TERKEL, Studs. Division Street: America.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1967

Octavo. Original maroon cloth, title in red, orange and silver to the spine, red top-stain. With the dust jacket.    Very good in price-clipped jacket with one or two short splits.

Fourth impression, same year as the first. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to John Lewis of the MJQ: “To John Lewis, A Truly imaginative artist – in the full sense – Let Joy and Beauty Triumph – with deep admiration, Studs Terkel.”

THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Random House, 1971

Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in silver, Ralph Steadman design decoration to front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated title page and 19 line drawings by Ralph Steadman.   Spine rolled, boards slightly faded, small stain to p. 29 and minor stain to upper margins, not affecting text. A very good copy in the jacket that has a stain to upper edge and verso.

First edition, first printing of Thompson’s best-selling roman à clef.

THOREAU, Henry David. Cape Cod.  Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865

Octavo. Original green diamond-patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt, brown coated endpapers, boards blocked in blind with eight-point cornerpieces and central wreath. With a later cloth protector.    Contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to front blank. Spine rolled and a little rubbed at the ends, a few faint spots to upper board but cloth unusually fresh overall. An excellent copy.

First edition in binding variant A with Thoreau named as the author of Walden on the spine, and cloth type Z, one of several binding styles used on the first edition without precedence. Cape Cod, a collection of ten essays on the scenery and people of the region, was based on three trips that Thoreau made between 1849 and 1855. A lovely copy, Thoreau’s books are rarely found in such nice condition.

TWAIN, Mark. The American Claimant.   New York, Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892

Octavo, pp. 277 + 8 (adverts). Finely bound in dark green full morocco, with gilt titles, gilt decoration and raised bands to spine, gilt rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Original cloth spine and front board bound in at the back. With frontispiece and 23 illustrations by Dan Beard.   A fine copy.

First Edition.

BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. America.   London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1945

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket.    An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few small nicks and short closed tears.

First UK edition. first impression. A short interpretative history of the United States written in 1942 at the behest of the US Office of War Information and intended for translation and distribution world-wide.

This item is now sold.