Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FLEMING, Ian. From Russia With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 126mm.) (Toning, light spotting throughout.) Original black cloth with the Smith and Wesson gun and rose in red and silver to upper cover, red lettering to spine (extremities bumped, some fading to upper cover, black remainder mark to lower edge), facsimile dust-jacket.

FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Light spotting to title and marginally to last few leaves.) Original black cloth, silver lettering to spine and upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends, slight surface abrasion to upper cover), later dust-jacket (tiny hole to upper panel). Note: first state text with 'shoo' for 'shoot' on p.10. The dust-jacket has 16s on the inner flap and covering that is a Jonathan Cape adhesive label for '18s'.

FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Toning, crease to last text leaf and rear endpaper.) Original black cloth with white eye design in white to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (small tear and chipping to spine ends, toning, soiling to lower panel).

FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First edition, first issue, 8vo (189 x 123mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, later dust-jacket (toning to lower panel, tape repair verso). Note: in the first issue plain boards, a later dust-jacket with a 16s. price and 'Thunderball' advertised on the lower panel.

FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, third impression, 8vo (188 x 122mm.) (Toning, minor spotting to fore-edge.) Original black cloth, red heart device to upper cover, red lettering to spine (lightly bumped spine ends), facsimile dust-jacket (creasing to top of spine panel).

FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 121mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth with white ski-run design to upper cover, silver lettering to spine (spine ends bumped, faint crease to spine), dust-jacket (chipping to extremities, tape repair verso). Note: with the 16s price on the inner flap.

FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) (Toning, faint stain to title-page.) Original black cloth with dagger blocked in blind and silver to upper cover (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (some loss to spine panel and extremities, tape repair verso). - And a further two volumes by Ian Fleming (a first edition of 'Octopussy and The Living Daylights', 1966, 8vo, and 'Thrilling Cities', 1963, 8vo) (3).

FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Reprint, 8vo (187 x 120mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth (minor mark to upper cover), facsimile dust-jacket.

FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. Reprint, 8vo (189 x 123mm.) (Toning, minor mark verso half-title.) Original black cloth (wear to spine ends). Provenance: ABC TV Script Department (stamp to front-free endpaper and fore-edge).

SIGNED BOOKS. - David GEMMELL. Winter Warriors. London: Bantam Press, 1997. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (small tape repair verso rear inner flap). - And a further ten signed volumes (including James Herbert's 'The Ghosts of Sleath', 1994, 8vo, and Fiona MacCarthy's 'Byron, Life and Legend', 2002, 8vo) (11).

THOMAS, Dylan. Collected Poems 1934-1952. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1952. First edition, first impression, 8vo (214 x 133mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (extremities chipped). - And a further twelve volumes related to poetry (including Philip Larkin's 'The North Ship', 1966, 8vo) (13).

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978. De Luxe edition, sixth impression, 8vo (222 x 138mm.) 2 folding maps. Original black cloth, decorative gilt, silver and green to upper cover (minor mark to upper cover), original black cloth-covered box with mounted paper label (rubbed to corners).

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1957-1958. 3 vols., first editions, mixed impressions, 8vo (214 x 138mm.) 3 folding maps, a hand-written book-plate written in 'Khuzdul', Tolkien's fictional language, on the front-free endpaper of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'. (Toning.) Original red cloth (slight spine lean, spine ends bumped), dust-jackets (some browning and spotting to upper panels, loss to spine ends, thin mark to upper panel of 'The Return of the King'). Note: being the seventh impression of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' in a seventh impression dust-jacket, the fourth impression of 'The Return of the King' in a fourth impression dust-jacket, and the fifth impression of 'The Two Towers' in a fifth impression dust-jacket (3).

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1955-1956. 3 vols., first editions, mixed impressions, 8vo (221 x 140mm.) 3 folding maps. (Toning, light spotting to some preliminaries.) Original red cloths, gilt lettering to spines (spine ends bumped, some corner damp-staining to upper covers of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' and 'The Two Towers'), dust-jackets (chipping and fading to spine panels and partial loss to top of spine panel of 'The Return of the King', lettering affected, browning, red cloth dye to upper panel of 'The Two Towers'). Note: the 'Fellowship of the Ring' is a fifth impression in a fifth impression dust-jacket, 'The Two Towers' is a fourth impression in a third impression dust-jacket, 'The Return of the King' is a second impression in a second impression dust-jacket. Provenance: N.J. Monk (gift inscribed to on the front-free endpapers) (3).

BALDWIN, James. Go Tell It On the Mountain. London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First U.K. edition, first impression, 8vo (202 x 125mm.) (Toning, light spotting to endpapers, several ink line marks to margins, and several annotations to text, mainly altering in manuscript blue ink the American 'subway' for the English 'underground'.) Original black cloth (large damp-stain to covers), dust-jacket (chipping and small tears to extremities). Note: Baldwin's first novel. Provenance: George R. (ink name to front-free endpaper).

[BURTON, Richard (translator).] The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, Translated from the Sanskrit. London: the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, [circa 1900.] Reprint, 8vo (194 x 130mm). 1p. publisher advertisements to rear. (Mild toning, browning to endpapers.) Original vellum, gilt ruled.

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Poems 1914-30. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1930. First edition, inscribed by Edmund Blunden to initial blank, 8vo (221 x 139mm.) (Toning.) Original cream cloth (sunning to spine), dust-jacket (some loss to spine and extremities). Note: loosely inserted is a compliment's slip from 'Christ's Hospital Club', the fraternal club of the school Blunden attended.

ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1950. Second impression, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original green cloth (sunning to spine, mark to lower cover, wear to lower joint).

ROME. - Henrich KIPPING. Antiquitatum Romanarum Libri Quatour. Leiden: Petrum Vander, 1713. 8vo (191 x 120mm.) Text in Latin, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, title-page in red and black, 16 engraved plates including 12 folding and 1 large folding engraved plan of Ancient Rome, numerous engraved vignettes. (Browning, damp-staining to preliminaries and to plates, preliminaries loosening, R1 with marginal loss and 1 plate with marginal loss.) Near contemporary vellum, blind-stamped and gilt 'Britannia' emblem to both covers, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (spine panel split with repair, upper hinge weakened, vellum browned). Note: first published in Bremen in 1661, this is considered Kipping's most important work.