Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo (189 x 128mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Some creasing to preliminaries, occasional marks, name inscribed to front free endpaper.) Original green cloth, t.e.g (bumped to extremities, some discolouring to front cover). - And two more volumes by A.A. Milne (including 'Now We Are Six', first edition, 1927, 8vo) (3).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. circa 1920.] 8vo (202 x 148mm.) 24 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham, captioned tissue-guards. (Very occasional spotting.) Original green cloth (minor rubbing to extremities). - And fifteen volumes of illustrated children's books (16).

HENDERSON, Keith, and Norman WILKINSON (illustrators). The Romaunt of the Rose… rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer. London: published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus, 1908. Limited edition of 500 copies, this number 51, 4to (252 x 190mm.) Tipped-in frontispiece, 18 tipped-in plates with captioned tissue guards. (Some browning and spotting to the preliminaries and the tissue-guards.) Original cloth-backed boards (some loss to titling on spine, bumped to extremities with loss to top of spine, discolouring to the boards). - And eight more illustrated volumes (including 'Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures', 1913, 4to) (9).

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] 'Lewis CARROLL'. Further Nonsense… Verse and Prose, edited by Langford Reed. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1926. First edition, small 4to (247 x 183mm.) 4 photographic plates, numerous illustrations by H.M. Bateman. (Spotting to preliminaries and to fore-edge.) Original pictorial orange boards (lightly bumped to extremities), dust-jacket (mild browning, rubbing to corners, a few fingermarks.) Note: scarce in the dust-jacket.

TARRANT, Margaret W. (illustrator). - 'Lewis CARROLL'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London & Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., [n.d. but circa 1925]. Illustrated edition, 8vo (205 x 146mm.) 44 colour plates by Margaret Tarrant only (of 48), 12pp. of advertisements to rear. (Some spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original olive-green cloth with onlaid roundel (bumped to extremities), dust-jacket (tears and some areas of loss). Provenance: M.K. Thomas (name inscribed to half-title).

SOWERBY, Millicent (illustrator). - 'Lewis CARROLL'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Chatto & Windus, [n.d. but circa 1907]. Colour frontispiece, tissue-guard, 11 coloured plates by M. Sowerby. (Occassional spotting and fingermarks.) Original blue cloth with onlaid pictorial roundel (bumped to extremities, mild sunning to spine).

NICHOLSON, William. An Alphabet. London: William Heinemann, 1898. 4to (310 x 245mm.) Publisher's device in colour on title, 26 full-page lithographed plates by Nicholson, advertisement leaf to rear. (Mild browning to margins.) Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards (small area of damp-stain to top of upper board, some wear to tail of spine, inner hinge split).

GOBLE, Warwick (illustrator). Lal Behari DAY. The Folk-Tales of Bengal. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1912. First illustrated edition, small 4to (249 x 174mm.) 32 colour illustrations by Warwick Goble, captioned tissue-guards. (Occasional spotting to preliminaries and to plate margins.) Original red cloth, the upper cover and spine elaborately blocked in gilt (light rubbing to extremities).

BIRO, Val. Gumdrop… the Adventures of a Vintage Car. Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1966. First edition, small 4to (245 x 189mm.) Profusely illustrated in colour. (Some toning to margins.) Original pictorial boards (some softening to extremities), dust-jacket (price-clipped, rubbing and small tears to extremities, surface rub to rear). Note: this was the first book that Val Biro both wrote and illustrated himself.

UPTON, Florence K., and Bertha UPTON. The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club. London, New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. First edition, oblong 4to (212 x 285mm.) Numerous full-page colour illustrations. (Discreet repair to p.25, finger-marks to p.43.) Cloth-backed pictorial boards (rubbing to extremities, small stain to upper cover). - And two more titles by Florence and Bertha Upton ('The Vege-Men's Revenge', 1897, first edition, oblong 8vo; and 'The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side', 1898, first edition, oblong 8vo) (3).

BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition, 16mo (127 x 84mm.) 27 full-page illustrations by the author engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. (Minor spotting to the preliminaries, one or two finger-marks.) Original pale green cloth blocked in dark green (lightly bumped). Note: number 4 from the 'Dumpy Books for Children' series.

SPORT. - Alfred GIBSON and William PICKFORD. Association Football and the Men Who Made It. London: The Caxton Publishing Company, 1905-1906. 4 vols., 8vo (237 x 156mm.) Numerous plates and illustrations. (Mild toning to margins, occasional finger-marks.) Original pictorial blue cloth designed by John Hassall (one or two minor marks, small abrasion to spine of vol. 2, softening to spine ends). Note: a fine set.

BENNETT, Arnold. Elsie and the Child. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., printed at the Curwen press, 1929. Limited edition of 750 copies, this number 612, small 4to (260 x 204mm.) Frontispiece, colour plates by E. McKnight Kauffer. Original cloth (slight browning to extremities), original glassine dust-jacket (small creases), contained within original slipcase (a few spots of white).

POUND, Ezra. Gaudier Brzeska... a Memoir by Ezra Pound including the published writings of the sculptor, and a selection from his letters. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1916. 4to (245 x 177mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 38 plates. Original green cloth, embossed Brzeska design to upper cover (extremities bumped). Provenance: Manchester Library (labels to preliminaries, small library stamp to each plate, gilt library stamp to upper cover and reference to foot of spine).

POETRY. - Derek WALCOTT. Tiepolo's Hound. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. Limited edition of 100, this number 5, signed by the author, large 8vo (232 x 179mm.) Numerous colour reproductions of the author's own watercolours. Original cloth-backed boards, later acetate cover (a few small marks).

'SPY' [Leslie WARD and others]. The Book of the Bench. London: James Mackenzie Limited, 1909. Deluxe folio edition, 4to (279 x 214 mm.) 32 tipped-in colour plates only (of 39). (Several loose pages, occasional spotting.) Original vellum (spotting and browning to boards, spine slightly soiled).

ALLEN, Elizabeth, J.L. TURK, and Sir Sheridan MURLEY (editors). The Case Books of John Hunter F.R.S. London: Royal Society of Medicine Services Limited, 1993. Limited edition of 200 copies, this number 4 of 200, signed by Norman Browne, 4to (289 x 210 mm.) Colour plates. Burgundy half-calf, g.e. (minor bump to foot of spine). Note: Norman Browne was then president of the Royal Society of Medicine Services.

WILMOT, John, Earl of Rochester. Collected Works of John Wilmot... edited by John Hayward. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Limited edition of 1050 copies, this number 1047, small 4to (256 x 182mm.) (Browning to preliminaries.) Original cloth-backed boards (bumped to extremities, some loss to the paper title on spine). Provenance: The Hall of Otterburn (bookplate to the front pastedown).

DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition in book form, 8vo (212 x 130mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 39 engraved plates by 'Phiz'. (Plates spotted and browned as usual.) Contemporary green morocco, spine gilt, g.e. (extremities and spine lightly rubbed). Note: an early issue bound from early parts with 'visiter' for 'sister' on p.123, 'latter' for 'letter' on p.160, 'flys' for 'flies' on p.245, 'visiters' for 'visitors' on p.272 and other first issue points. Provenance: Henry Gillett (armorial bookplate to front pastedown). - And three more volumes by Charles Dickens, all first editions in book form (4).