Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – Anthony POWELL. A Dance to the Music of Time. London: The Folio Society, 2006-2007. 4 vols., 8vo (234 x 165mm.) Introduction by William Trevor. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, slipcases, original shrink-wrap to volumes 2, 3 and 4. – And a quantity of approximately fifty-five further volumes published by the Folio Society (including D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Sons and Lovers’, 2013, 8vo) (a quantity).

MOTOR-RACING. – Michael COOPER and Paul PARKER. Sixties Motor Racing. London: Palawan Press, 2000. Limited edition, this being number 529 of 1500 copies only, 4to (324 x 323mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, pink cloth slipcase. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

MOTOR-RACING. – Paul SKILLETER. Lister-Jaguar, Brian Lister and the Cars From Cambridge. Hampshire, Barton-on-Sea: P.J. Publishing Limited, 2010. Limited edition, this being number 108 of 120 copies signed by the author and the Lister team, 4to (298 x 221mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering, original slipcase with mounted Lister badge to side panel. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

MOTOR-RACING. – Louis KLEMANTASKI. Klemantaski Himself. London: Palawan Press, 1998. 2 vols., limited Portfolio Edition, this being number 292 of 300 signed copies, 4to (290 x 234 and 326 x 326mm.) Photographic illustrations, including tipped-in photographic plates, tissue-guards. Original white cloth, orange cloth for ‘Portfolio’ (lacking slipcase). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (2).

MOTOR-RACING. – Doug NYE and Geoffrey GODDARD. Dick and George, The Seaman- Monkhouse Letters 1936-1939. London: Palawan Press, 2002. Limited edition, this being number 16 of 50 copies, 4to (291 x 238mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original green morocco, silver lettering to upper cover and spine, original silver cloth-covered solander box with mounted Richard Seaman stamp to upper panel. – And includes an unsigned printed card, [circa 1938], ‘With Very Best Wishes From Richard Seaman’. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

MOTOR-RACING. – Chris NIXON. Auto Union Album 1914-1939. Middlesex: Transport Bookman Publications, 1998. First edition, signed by the author, oblong 4to (229 x 293mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth-backed covers, dust-jacket. – And a further nine volumes related to motor-racing (including Chris Nixon’s ‘Shooting Star’, 2000, oblong 4to, and his ‘The Robert Fellowes Collection Grand Prix 1934-1939’, 2001, oblong 4to, both signed, and Michael Cooper-Evans’ ‘Rob Walker’, 1993, 4to, which has two tipped-in signed photographs of racing drivers Rob Walker and Tony Rolt). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (9).

MOTOR-RACING. – Anthony PRITCHARD. Maserati, A Racing History. Somerset, Yeovil: Haynes Publishing, 2003. First edition, with mounted signed photograph of Stirling Moss and mounted signatures of Bruce Halford and Roberto Mieres, 4to (250 x 248mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further nine volumes related to motor-racing (including Tony Bailey and Paul Skilleter’s ‘Mike Hawthorn, Golden Boy’, 2008, 4to, and Gianni Cancellieri and Luca dal Monte’s ‘Maserati, A Century of History’, 2013, 4to, and Ed McDonough’s ‘Marquis de Portago’, 2006, 4to, and Graham Howard’s ‘Lex Davison, Larger than Life’, 2004, 4to). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (9).

MOTOR-RACING. – David ABECASSIS. A Passion for Speed, the Life and Times of George Abecassis. Hampshire, Barton-on-Sea: P.J. Publishing Limited, 2010. Limited edition, this being number 8 of 120 copies signed by the author, 4to (299 x 220mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth, silver lettering to upper cover and spine, original blue cloth-covered slipcase. Note: includes a tipped-in photographic print signed by George Abecassis. Provenance: Tony Gaze (ink name inscribed to title-page). – And a further eight volumes related to motor-racing (including René Dreyfus’ ‘My Two Lives, Race Driver to Restaurateur’, 1983, 4to, and Karl Ludvigsen’s ‘Juan Manual Fangio, Motor-Racing’s Grand Master’, 2002, 4to, and Dick Salmon and Anthony Carter’s ‘BRM, A Mechanics Tale’, 2006, 4to). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (10).

MOTOR-RACING. – Peter ROSS. Lotus The Early Years. Luton: Coterie Press, June 2004. First edition, 4to (270 x 270mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original black cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further twenty-one volumes related to motor-racing, mainly Lotus cars (including Michael Oliver’s ‘Lotus 49, The Story of a Legend’, signed by the author, 1999, 8vo, and Andrew Ferguson’s ‘Team Lotus, The Indianapolis Years’, 1996, 4to, and Colin Pitt’s ‘The Lotus Book, Type 1 to Type 72’, 2005, 8vo) (22).