Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

SWIFT, Graham. Waterland. London: Heinemann, 1983. First edition, signed by Graham Swift to the title-page, 8vo (217 x 134mm.) Original black cloth (minor bumping to spine ends), dust-jacket (price-clipped). - And one more volume by Graham Swift ('Last Orders', 1996, first edition, signed by Graham Swift to the title-page, 8vo) (2).

COETZEE, J.M. Slow Man. London: Secker and Warburg, 2005. Limited first edition of 100 copies this is 'out of series' but signed, 8vo (215 x 139mm.) Full cream and black morocco, slipcase. Note: a fine copy.

CARTER, Angela. The Magic Toyshop. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. First American edition, 8vo (204 x 124mm.) Original cloth-backed boards. (Mild softening at spine ends), dust-jacket. Provenance: Raymond Oelfke (small ownership label to the front pastedown). Note: this was the author's second novel. - And three more novels (including Ray Bradbury, 'Long After Midnight', signed limited edition, 2010, 8vo) (4).

BUCKERIDGE, Anthony. The Trouble With Jennings. London and Glasgow: Collins, 1967. 8vo (184 x 116mm.) (Browning to page ends.) Original red cloth (lightly bumped to extremities), dust-jacket (creasing to extremities). - And fifteen more children's books, mostly by Anthony Buckeridge, later impressions (16).

TREVOR, William. Felicia's Journey. London: Viking, 1994. First edition, signed by William Trevor in ink to the title-page, 8vo (233 x 151mm.) Original black cloth (softly bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket. - And two Booker Prize catalogues and eighteen first edition novels, including fifteen signed copies (including the Booker Prize winners 'The Inheritance of Loss', 'The Line of Beauty', 'The True History of the Kelly Gang' and 'The Ghost Road' and 'How Late it Was, How Late') (21).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. If I Were You. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., [n.d. but c.1936]. Fifth printing 8vo (184 x 120mm.) (Occasional spotting to margins and fore-edge.) Original orange cloth, black titles (Bumped to extremities, spotting to spine ends), dust-jacket by W. Heath Robinson (some tears and loss to all edges). - And eleven literary volumes (including Dick Francis' 'Odds Against', first edition, 1965, 8vo) (12).

ZUSAK, Markus. The Book Thief. London, Toronto, etc.: Doubleday, 2007. First edition, signed by Markus Zusak in ink to the title-page, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) Original black cloth (minor bumping to spine ends), dust-jacket.

FAULKNER, William. Notes on a Horsethief. Greenville, Mississippi: The Levee Press, 1950. Limited edition of 975 copies, this number 28 signed by the author, 8vo (232 v 141mm.) Signed by William Faulkner to the limitation page at rear, illustrated endpapers by Elizabeth Calvert. (Some toning to page ends.) Original green cloth, silver stamped design to upper cover (rubbing to extremities).

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Scribner's & Sons, 1952. First edition, first printing, 8vo (205 x 133 mm.) (Mild toning to margins.) Original sea blue cloth with Hemingway's signature blind-stamped to upper cover, silver titling to spine (browning to spine extremities), dust-jacket (slight chipping to extremities, browning, 1 cm of loss to edge of rear panel). Note: the 'A' on the copyright page is present along with the Scribner colophon. The dust-jacket shows $3.00 with blue hue to the rear, no mention of the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes.

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis CARROLL'. The Hunting of the Snark… an Agony in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan & Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) Frontispiece, 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday. (Old tape repairs to inner hinges, name inscribed from 1876 to half-title.) Original pictorial cloth, g.e. (split to the spine cover on upper and lower hinges, some loss to spine ends). Note: 'Baker' for 'banker' on p.83.

McEWAN, Ian. Atonement. London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. First edition, first impression, signed by Ian McEwan in ink to the title-page, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And three more first edition novels by Ian McEwan, all signed (4).

SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein… or, the Modern Prometheus. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1934. 8vo (236 x 156mm.) Numerous engravings on wood by Lynd Ward. (Mild toning to margins.) Pictorial cloth, slipcase (some sunning to spine and shelf wear to spine ends, slipcase with tape repairs and some loss to upper panel). - And twenty-two literary volumes, mainly American fiction in dust-jackets (including Ray Bradbury, 'The Illustrated Man', 1953, 8vo) (23).

POETRY. - Seamus HEANEY [translator]. Beowulf… a New Translation. London: Faber and Faber, 1999. First edition, first printing, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) Dark blue cloth, dust-jacket (some fading to spine). - And fifteen volumes of mainly Irish poetry (including four more Seamus Heaney first editions) (16).

KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam… the Astronomer Poet of Persia, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. New York: Doxey's at The Sign of The Lark, 1900. Small 4to, (212 x 156mm.) Double folded leaves, profusely illustrated with drawings by Florence Lundborg. (Name inscribed to the front free endpaper.) Original olive green pictorial cloth, t.e.g (bumped to extremities). - And thirteen volumes of poetical interest (including John Milton, 'The Poetical Works', 3 vols., 1882, 8vo) (14).

PEAR TREE PRESS. - James GUTHRIE. Root and Branch. Bognor Regis: 1919. Number 1, volume 3, 4to (261 x 170mm.) Poems by W.H. Davies, Stuart and Robin Guthrie, E.E. Millard, designs printed by hand from James Guthrie, text printed intaglio. (Very occasional faint spotting.) Original wrappers (some browning and small creasing to edges). - And a group of other Pear Tree Press ephemera (small quantity).

IACOVLEFF [or Jacovleff], Alexandre. Dessins et Peintures D'Afrique Executes au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre Afrique. Deuxieme mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil. Paris: Jules Meynial, 1927. Limited edition of 1020 copies, this number 431 of 750 copies, folio (384 x 280mm.) 49 mounted colour plates numbered I-L (including one double-page). (Some browning to page margins, 1cm loss to top of plate 3, small closed tears to plates 3, 17 and 36.) Text in reverse-leather-backed silk stencilled with an abstract design in red and white (slightly rubbed), plates unbound in bifoliums as issued, all contained within a single morocco portfolio (spilt along joint, rubbed to all extremities, leather ties broken).

HONG KONG. - V.R. Burkhardt. Chinese Creeds and Customs. Hong Kong: The South China Morning Post, Ltd, 1953-1955. 2 vols. only (of 3). 8vo (240 x 153mm.) Numerous colour illustrations (some colour). (Toning to margins.) Original green cloth (bumped to extremities), dust-jackets (some chipping and small tears). - And twelve more volumes about Hong Kong (including three 'Hong Kong Annual Reports', 1955-1957, 8vo) (14).

MACMILLAN, Harold. The Blast of War 1939-45. London: Macmillan, 1967. First edition, signed by Harold Macmillan in ink to the title-page, 8vo (216 x 142mm.) Original red cloth (lightly bumped to spines), dust-jacket. - And twenty-seven more volumes of history (including Winston S. Churchill's 'A History of the English Speaking Peoples', 4 vols., first editions, 1956-58, 8vo) (28).

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. - Michael MORPURGO. Private Peaceful. [London:] Collins, 2003. First edition, signed by the author to title-page, 8vo (217 x 130mm.) Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And twenty-three others, the majority first editions, most signed (24).