ARMSTRONG, Martin.
Lover’s Leap.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932
Octavo. Original black cloth. With the dust jacket. In the toned dust jacket. A very good copy.
First edition, first impression. From the publisher’s archive, with their ink number to rear panel of the dust jacket and pencil notation to the front panel.
£125 – SOLD
AUSTEN, Jane.
Pride and Prejudice.A Novel. In Two Volumes. By the Author of “Sense and Sensibility,” &c. Third Edition.
London: printed for T. Egerton, 1817
2 volumes, duodecimo (176 x 103 mm). Rebound to style in brown half calf, morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides. Bound without half-titles; professional repair to title page of Vol. II; contemporary ownership signature to both front flyleaves. Faint intermittent foxing to contents. An excellent set.
Third edition, the only one of the author’s novels to be published a third time in her lifetime. Pride and Prejudice was Austen’s second published novel, the first and second editions both appearing in 1813. According to Gilson no details of the publishing history of this third edition are known. Jane Austen “was clearly not consulted (having sold the copyright) and no allusion to this edition has been traced in her surviving letters; it is not apparent whether was in fact issued before or after the author’s death.”
£5,500 – SOLD
(BRONTË, Charlotte.) FREEDMAN, Barnett.
Lithograph proofs for Jane Eyre.
1942
Octavo. Original brown and green cloth, title to front cover in manuscript. 16 colour lithographs. Spine a little bumped, contents lightly cockled, with some minor spotting. In excellent condition.
Presentation copy from Freedman to Jack Beddington, inscribed by the artist on the front cover, “To Jack Beddington, from Barnett, Freedman, March 1941.” Jack Beddington, best known for his publicity work for Shell-Mex and BP during the 1930s, collaborated with Freedman to launch the Lyons’ Lithograph series after the Second World War. Barnett Freedman was commissioned by George Macy to create these illustrations as part of a series for Heritage Press in New York; this edition of Jane Eyre was published in 1942.
£950 – SOLD
BUCH, Morten.
Vase II.
Copenhagen: Edition Copenhagen, 2015
Original lithograph on 250 gsm Velin d’Arches paper. Sheet size: 100 x 70 cm Excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with conservation glass.
Edition of 38. Signed in pencil lower right by Buch, numbered lower left.
£800 – SOLD
CAPOTE, Truman.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
New York: Random House, 1958
Octavo (205 x 137 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. Housed in a custom black velvet drawstring bag. A fine copy.
First edition, first printing of Capote’s classic novella, the basis for the much-loved film. Gorgeously hand-bound by the Chelsea Bindery in deep rose-pink and black morocco leather, the front cover features a silhouetted Audrey Hepburn in that iconic Givenchy little black dress and foot long cigarette holder. Diamond embellishments on the jewellery make this luxurious and unusual binding sparkle.
£2,750
COLLINS, Norman.
Love in our Time.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939
Octavo. Original blue cloth. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, spotting to page edges, in the dust jacket with fading to spine and along edges, wear to extremities. A very good copy.
First edition, second impression. From the publisher’s archive, with their ink stamp to the title page, front free endpaper, and front panel of the dust jacket.
£45 – SOLD
DINE, Jim.
Two Red Hearts.
Tokyo: Takashimaya Corporation, 1993
Woodcut and photo engraving on 2 sheets of Stonehenge paper. Sheet size: 56 x 90.5 cm. Excellent condition. Presented float-mounted in an ash frame with Perspex.
Edition of 120. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil lower middle.
£12,000 – SOLD
(DULAC, Edmund.) QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur.
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales.From the Old French.
London: Hodder & Stoughton,
Quarto. Original brown morocco, titles to spine and decorative panelling to spine and boards gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 30 colour plates by Dulac tipped in on card printed with captions and decorative borders, all with tissue guards. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine ends skilfully restored, endpapers lightly browned. A very good copy.
Signed limited edition, number 172 of 1,000 copies signed by Dulac. One of the artist’s triumphs in illustrated books.
£1,500
DURRELL, Lawrence.
The Black Book – BOOK SOLD
Paris: The Traveller’s Companion Series, published by the Olympia Press, 1959
Small octavo. Original green and white wrappers printed in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy in a very lightly edge-rubbed jacket.
First Olympia Press edition. With a previously unpublished introduction by the author. Originally published in Paris in 1938.
£125
EDWARDS, Tinsel.
Neon Revolution.
London: Jealous Gallery, 2014
2 colour silkscreen on Southbank Smooth 300 gsm paper. Sheet size: 38 x 37 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in white wooden frame with conservation glass.
Edition of 60. Signed lower right in pencil by Edwards, numbered lower left. Jealous Gallery blindstamp lower right. This image was shown in the Activist Tent at Banksy’s Dismaland.
£150 – SOLD
(EGAN, Beresford.) BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
Flowers of Evil.In pattern and prose by Beresford Egan and C. Bower Alcock.
New York: William Godwin, 1933
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and vignette to front board silver. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations by Beresford Egan. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Contents lightly toned, short closed tear to margin of p. 7; an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket with torn and chipped extremities, and tape residue to verso.
First US edition thus, first printing. First published in the UK in 1929, this edition of Baudelaire’s masterpiece (originally published in 1857), is part of Godwin’s “Famous Classics of Love” series.
£275 – SOLD
FABRICIUS, Johann.
Vain Love. Translated from the Dutch.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931
Octavo. Original black cloth. With the dust jacket. In the dust jacket with sunning to spine and along edges, a touch of soiling to panels, wear to extremities. A very good copy.
First UK edition, first impression. From the publisher’s archive, with their ink stamp to front free endpaper and front panel of the dust jacket.
£125
FLEMING, Ian.
The Spy Who Loved Me – BOOK SOLD
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962
Octavo. Original dark grey boards, spine lettered in silver, dagger design to front board in silver and blind, red endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine slightly toned, edges lightly foxed, minor abrasion to front free endpaper. A very good copy in the unclipped jacket, with toned spine, and nicked spine ends.
First edition, first impression. In many ways this is one of the most ambitious of Fleming’s Bond books. It purports to be the first hand testimony of a 23 year old Canadian woman with whom Bond has an ill-fated affair. In time-honoured literary tradition Fleming claims to have been sent Michel’s manuscript account of which he is merely the editor. Michel therefore gets a spurious credit as co-author on the title page. This novel is the only Bond book to be written in the first person.
£600
(GILL, Eric) SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Sonnets.Edited by Margaret Flower.
London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1933
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine, initials to upper board, and top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill. A lovely copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with toned spine panel.
First edition thus, first impression. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. This copy from the library of Eric Gill’s brother Evan, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. A lovely copy of this beautifully-produced edition of the sonnets. Scarce in the jacket.
£750 – SOLD
GRAVES, Robert.
Poems about Love.
London: Cassell, 1969
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Publisher’s review slip laid in. Very light foxing to edges. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.
First edition, first impression.
£85 – SOLD
GREENE, Graham.
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to rear board in blind, buff endpapers. With the dust jacket. Contents faintly toned with a few faint marks, a little spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy in the toned jacket, with a little rubbing to extremities.
First edition, first impression.
£575
GRIFFITH, E. F.
Sex and Citizenship.With an Introduction by Canon Cockin.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. First few pages lightly creased; an excellent copy in the sunned jacket.
First edition, sixth impression (first published in 1941). A study of sexual ethics and family planning. The publisher’s file copy, with their ink stamp to the jacket and first three pages.
£65
HALL, Radclyffe.
The Well of Loneliness – BOOK SOLD
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, plain coated endpapers burgundy, all edges gilt. A fine copy.
First edition, first impression. This famous and highly controversial lesbian novel became the target of a campaign by the editor of the Sunday Express newspaper, who believed it to be morally toxic. The novel went through two small printings in Britain before being suppressed. In the same year there was a continental printing in English, from the more liberal Parisian publishers, Pegasus Press. For decades The Well of Loneliness was the best-known lesbian novel in English.
£1,250
JAMES, E. L.
Fifty Shades of Grey.
Westfield, NSW: The Writer’s Coffee Shop, 2011
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, spine and front wrapper lettered in white and grey. Ownership signature to verso of front wrapper. Wrappers slightly creased at tips, title page separating slightly; an excellent, bright copy.
First edition, second state with the Roman numeral “I” to the spine. The first volume in the sexually explicit trilogy was released simultaneously as an e-book and paperback. The series went on to sell over 100 million copies worldwide, and is the basis for the 2015 film of the same title.
£250
LAWRENCE, D. H.
Amores: Poems.
London: Duckworth and Company,
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, fore edge uncut and partly unopened. With the dust jacket. Spine very slightly faded, small dent to top edge of front board, minor foxing to contents; an exceptional copy in the lightly toned and slightly soiled jacket with some nicks and shallow chips to extremities.
First edition, first impression, of the author’s second book of poetry, one of only 900 copies printed. Scarce in the jacket.
£1,250 – SOLD
MADONNA.
Sex. SOLD
New York: Warner Books, 1992
Quarto. Original metal boards, title stamped to front board, decoration die-stamped to back board, containing the CD unopened. With the original foil wrapper.
Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in the original unopened packaging.
First edition, first printing.
£375
MANN, Thomas.
Death in Venice. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.
London: Martin Secker, 1928
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper. Minor bumps to corners, cloth very slightly rubbed and faded at the ends of the spine. An excellent copy in the rubbed and somewhat spotted jacket.
First UK edition, first impression. Scarce in the dust jacket. Originally published in Germany in 1912.
£4,750
MARLOW, Louis.
Love By Accident.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929
Octavo. Original black cloth. With the dust jacket. Spotting to pages, in the toned dust jacket with shallow chipping to top end of spine, light soiling to panels. A very good copy.
First edition, first impression. From the publisher’s archive, with their ink stamp to the title page.
£175
MEYER, Stephanie.
Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse; Breaking Dawn. BOOK SOLD
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2005-08
4 volumes, octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jackets. Spines bumped, dust jacket lightly creased to foot of spine of Twilight otherwise all in excellent condition.
All first editions, first printings. Eclipse and Breaking Dawn are signed by Meyer to the title page. Together with a loose photograph of Meyer signing Eclipse and an advance screening invite for New Moon on Broadway.
£3,000
MITCHELL, Margaret.
Gone With The Wind.
New York: The Macmillan Company 1936
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in yellow morocco with wraparound onlaid silhouette of Tara in black morocco set against a hand painted sunset, titles to spine gilt, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in black cloth box, titles to spine gilt. A fine copy.
First edition, first printing with the copyright date May 1939. A fine example of the Chelsea Bindery’s work.
£3,750 – SOLD
PASTERNAK, Boris.
Doctor Zhivago.
Milan: Feltrinelli,
Octavo. Original pale green boards, titles to spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Minor fading to spine ends, endpapers and top edge lightly spotted; a very good copy in the toned jacket with minor loss to spine ends, small chip to head and foot of rear panel and short closed tear to head of rear flap.
Third edition, first printing, in Russian of one of the most controversial literary works of the Soviet period. It was published in late April or early May 1959, and is preceded by the Dutch and US editions of September 1958 and January 1959 respectively. Doctor Zhivago was first published in Italian by Feltrinelli in 1957 after Pasternak signed a contract with him on 30 June 1956, granting the Italian publisher the copyright for translation. The history of the book’s publication in Russian is somewhat tangled: the first edition in Russian was printed by the Dutch publisher Mouton without Feltrinelli’s permission, as part of a covert CIA publishing and propaganda program, and the US edition was to be likewise published without acknowledgement of Feltrinelli’s copyright. However, after the legal furore surrounding the publication of the Dutch edition, that decision was reversed, and the US edition was subsequently published with Feltrinelli’s full consent and collaboration. Feltrinelli intended to publish this edition concurrently with the US publication, but due to printing delays his book was not published in Italy until four months after it appeared in the US.
£1,250 – SOLD
PHYPPS, Hyacinthe.
The Recently Deflowered Girl. The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1965
Oblong octavo. Original pictorial boards. Illustrations throughout by Edward Gorey. Rubbing to corners and ends of spine, front spine edge with light cracking. A very good copy.
First edition, first printing. A collection of pseudo-romantic advice that claims to have “helped a generation of girls over the threshold to womanhood.” A very uncommon Gorey title.
£275 – SOLD
(PIPER, John, & Rex Whistler.) HADFIELD, John (ed.)
Elizabethan Love Songs; Restoration Love Songs; Georgian Love Songs.With decorations by Rex Whistler.
Preston, Herts: The Cupid Press, 1949–55
3 works, octavo. Original blue, green and brown cloth-backed marbled boards, morocco title labels, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With the cellophane dust jackets. Elizabethan Love Songs illustrated with 8 colour lithographs by John Piper, other two volumes with 13 plates after Rex Whistler. Contemporary Australian bookseller’s ticket to each front free endpaper. Light spotting to cloth of Restoration Songs and occasionally to all volumes. An excellent set in chipped and faintly soiled jackets with a couple of closed tears.
Limited editions. Signed by John Piper on the limitation page of Elizabethan Love Songs. Each copy one of 660 numbered copies in hand-marbled boards by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Elizabethan Love Songs being no. 643, Restoration no. 129 and Georgian no. 503. A lovely complete set of the Cupid Press’s anthologies of love songs.
£375 – SOLD
POWYS, John Cowper.
In Defence of Sensuality.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930
Octavo. Original black cloth. With the dust jacket. Occasional spotting to pages, in the dust jacket with a touch of soiling to panels. A very good copy.
First UK edition, first impression. From the publisher’s archive, with their ink stamp to front free endpaper.
£125
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita.
Grey Wethers: A Romantic Novel.
London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1923
Octavo. Original grey cloth lettered and decoratively blocked in black to front side and spine, bottom edge uncut, with dust jacket. Bookplate pf Constance Kyrle Fletcher to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned, some rubbing at extremities, dust jacket a little soiled and rather chipped with a few repairs, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, in the scarce jacket.
£1,250 – SOLD
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Edition of The Sonnets.
London: Shepheard–Walwyn, 1974
Folio. Original red full morocco, titles to spine and upper board, inner dentelles and edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In the original red slipcase. Spine slightly faded. An excellent copy.
First edition thus. Number 14 of a limited edition of 260 numbered copies signed on the introduction leaf by the actress Peggy Ashcroft. Includes a leaflet advertising the edition with a photo of Ashcroft presenting copies to diplomatic representatives of Commonwealth nations.
£850 – SOLD
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander.
The Love-Girl And The Innocent.
London: The Bodley Head, 1969
Octavo. Original grey boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket and the Nobel Prize wraparound band. An excellent copy, in the slightly toned jacket, with a foxed spine and a small closed tear to head of front panel.
First English edition, first impression. A play in four acts, set over the course of about one week in a Joseph Stalin-era Soviet prison camp.
£125 – SOLD
ST. PIERRE, Bernardin de.
Paul and Virginia.With an original memoir of the author, and three hundred and thirty illustrations.
London: W. S. and Orr & Co., 1839
Octavo (234 × 158 mm). Contemporary blue half crushed morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece and vignette, 330 illustrations within the text and 28 engraved plates on India proof paper with printed tissue guards. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy.
An attractively bound English edition of this great French romantic novel which was first published in 1787.
£150 – SOLD
(STEADMAN, Ralph.) ASHFORD, Daisy.
Where Love Lies Deepest.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, 1966
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrations to text by Ralph Steadman. Gift inscription to front free endpaaper. An excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine, lightly rubbed extremities and some minor chips and nicks.
First Steadman edition, first impression. The story was first published in Daisy Ashford: Her Book, in 1920.
£65 – SOLD
(STEADMAN, Ralph.) ASHFORD, Daisy & Angela.
Love and Marriage: Three Stories.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965
Small octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrations to text by Ralph Steadman. Faint foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the bright jacket with faintly sunned spine and rubbed extremities.
First Steadman edition, first impression. The story was first published in Daisy Ashford: Her Book, in 1920.
£65 – SOLD
THOMAS, Dylan.
The Map of Love.Verse and Prose.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1939
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, publisher’s name to foot of spine in blind, top edge purple. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece by Augustus John. Spine faded, light foxing to half-title, title-page and rear free endpaper and pastedown. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a slightly darkened spine.
First edition, first impression, in the first issue binding. Scarce in the dust jacket.
£425
TREVOR, William.
The Love Department.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966
Octavo. Original blue-green boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent, bright, copy in the price-clipped jacket that has a darkened spine and a short closed tear at head of front panel.
First edition, first impression. Edward Blakeston-Smith is sent out to gather intelligence for a London periodical’s agony department, on an irresistible philanderer – one Septimus Tuam – who is apparently the only antidote to married boredom among the matrons of Wimbledon.
£150 – SOLD
WALLER, Thomas ‘Fats’.
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m savin’ my love for you)
New York: Mills Music, 1929
Quarto. Original colour-printed self-wraps, additional leaf of notation loosely inserted as issued. Just a little rubbed, and with a few minor nicks to the edges, light bronwing, otherwise very good.
First edition. Written by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks, with lyrics by Andy Razaf in 1929, Waller recorded the original version that year for Victor Records and also later performed the song in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. It was introduced at Connie’s Inn in Harlem during the opening of the all-black musical revue, Hot Chocolates. The show proved such a success that it moved onto Broadway, opening at the Hudson Theatre on June 20, 1929, and running for 219 performances.
£175 – SOLD
WASHINGTON, Peter.
Love Poems.
London: Everyman’s Library, 1993
Octavo. Hand bound in red morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
A handsome leather bound volume of love poems which includes poems by Donne, Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson and Baudelaire.
£225 – SOLD
