Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

CHILD, Lee. Die Trying. London: Bantam, 1998. First edition, signed by the author to title-page, 8vo (232 x 159mm.) (Mild toning to margins.) Original black cloth (lightly bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket. Note: this is Lee's second thriller featuring detective Jack Reacher. - And seventeen novels, most thrillers and some special edition copies, some signed (including Peter Straub's 'Floating Dragon', 2012, 8vo) (18).

KING, Stephen. 11.22.63. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. Collector's Set, limited edition of 700 copies, this number 258, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) Facsimile signature of Stephen King to the limitation page, integral bookmark, including the DVD narrated by the author. Original black boards, dust-jacket (faint crease to top of spine), slipcase, opened shrink-wrap.

KING, Stephen and Peter STRAUB. The Talisman & Black House… illustrated and designed by Rick Berry. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, 2003. 2 vols. Special limited edition, number 2380 of 3500. Signed by Peter Straub and Rick Berry in ink on the limitation page of 'The Talisman' 8vo (253 x 170mm.) Illustrated endpapers, 22 full colour plates by Rick Berry. Original black cloth, dust-jackets, slipcase, opened shrink-wrap. - And four more limited edition Stephen King works in nine volumes (including 'The Green Mile' in six volumes, 2003, 8vo) (11).

KING, Stephen. Doctor Sleep. Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2013. Deluxe limited edition of 1750 copies, 8vo (259 x 153mm.) Illustrated endpapers, fold-out illustration. Original boards, dust-jacket, slipcase, opened shrink-wrap. - And sixteen others by or relating to Stephen King (including 'Salem's Lot', first UK edition, ex-library, 1976, 8vo) (17).

MILITARY. - Sir Charles FIRTH. The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1940. 2 vols., first editions, 8vo (216 x 136mm.) (Mild toning to margins, browning to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth, dust-jackets (browning to spines and light shelf wear to spine ends). - And nine volumes of British history, some leather-bound (11).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). Grimm's Fairy Tales. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [n.d. but 1926.] 8vo (250 x 180mm.) Frontispiece, 39 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (A few finger-marks, a crease to one guard.) Original red cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover (some sunning to spine, bumped to extremities, minor soiling to upper cover). - And eleven more illustrated volumes, three illustrated by Rackham (including Algernon Swinburne's 'The Springtide of Life', 1918, 4to) (12).

MILITARY HISTORY. - Frederic WHYTE and A. Hilliard ATTERIDGE. A History of the Queen's Bays (The 2nd Dragoon Guards) 1685… 1929. London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. 8vo (221 x 143mm.) Plates, some colour, occasional maps printed in red and black, a copy of 'The Queen's Bays Short History 1939-1945' adhesive taped in at rear and a copy of 'Presentation of a New Standard to The Queen's Bays' and 'Inspection of the Regiment… 1954' loosely inserted at rear. (Somewhat spotted, first few leaves adhesive taped in, adhesive tape now discoloured, occasional ink annotations.) Original cloth, cutting from dust-jacket adhered to front free endpaper (slightly affected by damp, spine slightly faded). Provenance: Ronald G.M. Newton (signature dated 1930 to front free endpaper). - And three others on military history (including W.R. Beddington. 'A History of the Queen's Bays (The 2nd Dragoon Guards) 1929-1945', Winchester: 1954, 8vo) (4).

BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras… in three parts. London: T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Knapton etc, 1726. 12mo (154 x 93mm.) Title-page, 11 full-page engraved plates and 4 folding plates by William Hogarth. (Some loss and tears to the folding plates, name inscribed and some loss to front pastedown.) Contemporary calf (rubbing to all extremities, small loss to spine, lacking front free endpaper). - And eleven leather-bound volumes (12).

SOWERBY, John Edward. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants… edited by John T. Boswell Syme. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1886. 12 vols., third edition, 8vo (252 x 167mm.) 1922 hand-coloured plates, some folding, and 15 additional plates only (of 1922 plates and 17 additional plates) (Occasional spotting to preliminaries.) Contemporary red half-morocco, t.e.g. (bumping to extremities, some later volumes with sunning to spines) [Stafleu and Cowan, 684].

ELLIS, William Smith. Notices of the Ellises of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [N.p.: privately printed,] 1857-1866. 8vo, including supplement (207 x 127mm.) Occasional plates, with a 4pp. a.l.s. (Light spotting.) Contemporary half-calf (extremities lightly scuffed). - And twenty-five others, the majority leather-bound (26).

FRAZER, J.G. The Golden Bough. London: Macmillan & Co., 1911-1914. 5 vols. only (of 12), third edition, 8vo (223 x 141mm.) (Some browning to preliminaries and spotting to fore-edges.) Original cloth (rubbing to extremities and some sunning). - And another volume by Frazer ('The Golden Bough' abridged edition, 1923, 8vo) (6).

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. - David BRETT. Cinderella. London: Dean & Son, [n.d. but 1905.] Dean's David Brett Series, number 1, 4to. (320 x 240 mm.) Colour illustrations by David Brett on 'untearable' linen-backed paper. (Finger-marks and some soiling.) Pictorial paper-covered linen (rear cover detached with loss to paper and to upper cover). - And approximately 120 copies of 'Girls' Crystal' magazine, including an almost complete run from February 1940 to August 1942, and two more children's books (a quantity).

STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator). - Lewis CARROLL. Alice in Wonderland. London: Dennis Dobson, 1967. Presentation signature by Steadman, 4to (333 x 224mm.) Profusely illustrated. (Toning to page ends.) Original pictorial white boards, black lettering to spine (browning to spine ends), dust-jacket (light shelf wear to extremities). Note: the presentation signature reads 'To Don and Natalie, without whom this book would not have been…this is to certify that this is a rare copy, Ralph Steadman 22 Aug 70'. Provenance: Natalie Bruere, advertising executive and acquaintance of Andy Warhol in the 1960's.

STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator). - 'Lewis CARROLL'. Alice in Wonderland. London: Dennis Dobson, 1967. 4to (334 x 224mm.) Profusely illustrated. (Mild toning to margins.) Original pictorial white boards, black lettering to spine (a few finger-marks), dust-jacket with the original blue wrap-around.

MAYER, Luigi. Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, a Part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored. London: R. Bowyer, 1803. Folio (488 x 335mm.) Text in French and English, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Tissue guards replaced, some plates with small marginal tears and occasional marginal browning.) Modern half-goatskin, original boards bound-in (hinges of original boards reinforced).

WALKER, George. The Costume of Yorkshire… a Series of Forty-one Facsimiles of Original Drawings. Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1885. Limited edition of 600 copies, this number 277, folio (440 x 316mm.) Coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard, 40 coloured engravings, text in English and French. Original olive green morocco-backed cloth (inner hinge split, wear and some loss to the spine cover, stitching weak and preliminaries and many plates now loosely inserted).

CONDY, Nicholas. On the Banks of the Tamar. London: published by the Author, [n.d. but circa 1840]. Folio (560 x 333mm.) Hand-coloured lithographic title-page, dedication and plan of the 'Ancient Mansion of Cothele', 16 hand-coloured lithographed plates. (Some browning to margins, occasional spotting, plates disbound.) Original morocco-backed cloth (inner hinge split, heavily bumped with loss to top of spine).

GREEN, Benjamin Richard. A Numismatic Atlas of Ancient History: Comprised in a Series of Twenty-One Plates. Containing a selection of 360 Grecian coins of Kings. London: Priestley & Weale, 1829. Folio (457 x 323mm.) 21 hand-coloured plates, 41pp. descriptive guide (old tape repairs within, binding fragile). Original cloth-backed boards, paper title tipped-in (heavily stained to upper and lower cover).

ETCHINGS. Aphrodite… a Mythical Journey in Eight Episodes with etchings by Ann Brunskill. [N.p. but Ashford, Kent:] World's End Press, 1970. Limited edition of 75 copies, this number 3, elephant folio (611 x 448mm.) 8 original tinted etchings signed by Ann Brunskill each within a bifolium with accompanying poems by William Blake, D.H. Lawrence, William Drummond of Hawthornden from the Carmina Burana, Guillaume Apollinaire, Sappho and Brian Pattern. Unbound as issued and contained within original black cloth portfolio with ties (minor bumping to extremities).