Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – Charles Lutwidge DODGSON. ‘Lewis Carroll’. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: The Folio Society, 2016. Limited ‘Sesquicentenary’ edition, this being number 214 of 1000 copies signed by the illustrator on the etching, 4to (325 x 241mm.) 11 mounted colour plates by Charles van Sandwyk, colour and black and white illustrations, ‘Prospectus’ loosely inserted, etching by Charles van Sandwyk mounted to front. Original vellum-backed pictorial boards in red, gold and silver, spine lettered in gold, vellum tips, t.e.g., original clamshell cloth box, paper label mounted to spine (water-mark to edge of upper panel).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912.] New edition, 4to (275 x 214mm.) 50 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue-guards, numerous black and white illustrations. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, contemporary gift inscription to the front-free endpaper.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt, t.e.g. (lightly bumped spine ends).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the Willows. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Limited edition, this being number 229 of 2020 copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers, 4to (287 x 199mm.) 16 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Original cream buckram-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g., original slipcase (lightly rubbed extremities). Note: the last book illustrated by Rackham and published after his death in 1939.

THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator). – Oliver GOLDSMITH. She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. Limited edition, this being number 94 of 350 copies signed by Hugh Thomson, 4to (308 x 249mm.) 25 tipped-in colour plates, captioned in green. (Blanks browned, occasional finger-mark, illegible gift inscription on front blank dated 1955.) Original vellum, decorative gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (dust-soiled and marked to lower cover, pitting to spine, lacking ties).

SPIELMANN, M.H. and G.S. LAYARD. Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Limited edition, this being number 31 of 500 copies signed by John Greenaway and with an original sketch by Kate Greenaway, 4to (265 x 204mm.) Original pencil sketch window-mounted before the half-title, colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, numerous colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, monochrome plates. (Toning to margins, occasional spotting to tissue-guards, a stamp to foot of title and verso.) Original cream cloth, t.e.g. (lightly dust-toned). Provenance: Oswestry Reference Library (stamp to title-page and verso).

SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator). – Georgette AGNEW. Let’s Pretend. London: J. Saville & Co. Ltd., 1927. Limited edition, this being number 83 of 160 copies signed by the artist and author, 4to (263 x 211mm.) Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. Original half vellum over blue cloth, t.e.g. (slight toning to vellum), original slipcase with mounted paper label (slight fading, edges rubbed). Provenance: Frederick John Hancock Lloyd (bookplate to front pastedown).

CONCERTINA BOOK. – Charles Lutwidge DODGSON. ‘Lewis Carroll’. The Hunting of the Snark. London: Catalpa Press, 1974. Limited edition, being number 219 of 250 copies only, concertina leaf (302 x 213mm.) Title with overlay, numerous illustrations by Byron Sewell in black and white on a very long concertina plate, 1 illustration in red and black with filter-sheet of red acetate, set of 30 interchangeable face cards in pocket at rear. Original black cloth. – And a further three volumes, including another concertina book (Karl W. Diefenbach’s ‘Per Aspera Ad Astra’, [1921], concertina leaf, and ‘Doktor Schrecklichkeit’ ‘s [Robert and Philip Spence] ‘Struwwelhitler’, [1941], 8vo) (4).

BLAKE, Peter (illustrator). – Charles Lutwidge DODGSON. ‘Lewis Carroll’. Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Nottingham: D3 Edition, 2004. Limited edition, this being number 62 of 500 copies signed by Peter Blake, 4to (299 x 235mm.) 8 tipped-in colour plates, numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth with mounted pictorial onlay to upper cover, publisher’s translucent cover. Note: one of a few copies of the book not intended for general circulation but placed in translucent covers for Peter Blake’s inspection.

SIGNED BOOKS. – Francis K. MASON. Battle Over Britain. London: McWhirter Twins Ltd., 1969. First edition, multi-signed by many WWII airmen, 8vo (235 x 168mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). Note: with an annotation to the half-title listing the year when each airman signed the book, including the signatures of Peter Townsend and J.E Johnson and E.M. Donaldson, all done in 1969.  – And a further eleven volumes, all multi-signed by airmen of various squadrons, including many signed photographs (including Kenneth G. Wynn’s ‘Men of the Battle of Britain’, 1989, and Nigel Steel and Peter Hart’s ‘Tumult in the Clouds’, 1997, and Richard Hough and Denis Richard’s ‘The Battle of Britain’, 1989, and Willi Reschke ‘Jagdgeschwader 301/302 ‘Wilde Sau’’, 2004, and Patrick Barthropp’s ‘Paddy’, 2001, and Brian Kingcome’s ‘A Willingness to Die’, 1999, and Colin Gray’s ‘Spitfire Patrol’, 1990, and J.E. Johnson and P.B. Lucas’ ‘Glorious Summer’, 1990, and Edward H. Sims’ ‘The Greatest Aces’, 1967, and Werner Held’s ‘JG 54, a Photographic History of the Grunherzjäger’, 1994, and ‘Johnnie’ Johnson’s ‘Wing Leader’, 1956). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (12).

SIGNED BOOKS. – Christopher SHORES and Clive WILLIAMS. Aces High, a Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces in WWII. London: Grub Street, 1994. First edition, signed by 21 ‘Flying Aces’, 8vo (247 x 171mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. Note: all original signatures signed to a mounted bookplate on the front-free endpaper. – And a further fourteen volumes related to WWII flying aces, all signed multiples times on ‘Vector Fine Arts’ mounted plates (including Ian Carter’s ‘Fighter Command 1939-45’, 2002, and Richard C. Smith’s ‘Al Deere’, 2003, and John Golley’s ‘John ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham’, 2000, and Jack Rae’s ‘Kiwi Spitfire Ace’, 2001, and Oliver Clutton-Brock’s ‘Footprints on the Sands of Time’, 2003, and Peter Brown’s ‘Honour Restored’, 2005, and Richard C. Smith’s ‘Second to None’, 2004, and Brian Kingcome’s ‘A Willingness to Die’, 1999, and Peter Townsend’s ‘Duel of Eagles’, 1991, and Christopher Shore’s ‘Aces High, vol. 2’, 1999, and Len Deighton’s ‘Battle of Britain’, 1980). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (15).

SIGNED BOOKS. – Hugh MORGAN. Me262 Stormbird Rising. Wisconsin: Motorbooks International, 1994. First edition, with 13 black and white signed photographs of Luftwaffe pilots mounted and bound-in and a further 5 signatures in the text of men related to the Me262, 4to (267 x 196mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. Note: contains the signed photographs of George-Peter Eder, Wolfgang Spate, Hermann Buchner, Gerhard Barkhorn, Walter Schuck, Adolf Galland, Erich Rudorffer, Johannes Naumann, Wilhelm Herget, Wolfgang Schenk, Walter Krupinski, Hans Grunberg and the signatures in the text of Urban Drew, Walter Schuck, Hans-Guido Mutke, Herbert Tischler and George Tischler. – And a further eight volumes related to the Luftwaffe (including Hermann Buchner’s ‘Stormbird’, including 3 loosely-inserted signed photographs of Hermann Buchner, 2000, 4to, and Walter Schuck’s ‘Luftwaffe Eagle: From the Me109 to the Me262’, 2009, 4to, and Christer Bergström’s ‘Graf & Grislawski, A Pair of Aces’, limited edition, being number 342 of 400 copies with a bookplate signed by Alfred Grislawski, 2003, 4to, and Christer Bergström’s ‘Hans-Ekkehard Bob’, with a plate signed by the author and Hans-Ekkehard Bob, 2007, 4to, and John Manrho and Ron Pütz’s ‘Bodenplatte, The Luftwaffe’s Last Hope’, 2004, 4to, and Holger Nauroth’s ‘Jagdgeschwader 2 Richthofen’, 2004, 4to, and Jerry Scutts’ ‘JG 54 Jagdgeschwader 54 Grünherz’, multi-signed, 1992, and Peter Hinchliffe’s ‘The Lent Years’, multi-signed, 2003). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (9).

SIGNED BOOKS. – Robert FORSYTH and Eddie J. CREEK. JV44 – The Galland Circus. Surrey, Burgess Hill: Classic Publications, 1996. First edition, signed by 14 Luftwaffe pilots on mounted photographs, 4to (302 x 223mm.) 3 sheets of stiff blue card bound-in with 12 mounted photographs and photographic illustrations with original signatures in ink, numerous illustrations, some folding. Original blue cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket. Note: with the signatures of Adolf Galland, Günther Lützow, Johannes Steinhoff, Heinz Bär, Walter Krupinski, Wilhelm Lemke, Erich Hohagen, Kurt Bühligen, Karl-Heinz Schnell, Herbert Kaiser and Hans Günberg and three others. – And a further ten volumes related to the Luftwaffe, all multi-signed (11).

SIGNED BOOKS. – Günther RALL. My Logbook. Reminiscences 1938-2006… edited by Kurt Braatz. NeunundzwwanzigSechs-Verl: Moosburg, 2006. First U.K. Edition, number 6 of only 25 ‘Proof’ copies signed by Günther Rall, 8vo (255 x 172mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original printed boards. – And a further seven related volumes, all signed (including Jill Amadio’s ‘Günter Rall, the Authorized Biography’, multi-signed, 2002, 8vo, and Traudl Junge’s ‘Until the Final Hour’, mounted signed photo of Junge, 2003, 8vo, and Hans Baur’s ‘Hitler at My Side’, 1986, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (8).

SIGNED BOOK. – Ursula HARTMANN and Manfred JAGER. German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann, The Life Story of the World’s Highest Scoring Ace. Pennsylvania, Atglen: Schiffer Press, 1992. First edition, with 11 black and white signed photographs of Luftwaffe pilots mounted and bound-in and a further 2 loosely inserted photographs, 4to (277 x 210mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further three volumes related to the Luftwaffe (including Raymond F. Toliver’s ‘Fighter General, The Life of Adolf Galland’, containing the signatures of 10 Luftwaffe pilots and a further 20 signatures of Allied pilots, 1999, 4to, and Raymond F. Toliver and Trevor J. Constable’s ‘Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe’, containing the signatures of 9 Luftwaffe pilots, all holders of the Knights Cross, 1996, 4to, and Eric Mombeek’s ‘Defending the Reich’, signed by the author and also by Alfred Grislawski and Fritz Losigkeit, 1992, 4to). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (4).

[SAUNDERS, Richard.] ‘Cardanus Rider’. Rider’s British Merlin: for the Year of our Lord God 1743. London: R. Nutt, for the Company of Stationers, [1742.] Title in red and black, woodcut illustration. (Toning.) [Bound with:] The Court Kalendar Compleat for the Year 1743. London: J.A. Watson, 1743. Woodcut device to title. (Toning.) 12mo (127 x 73mm.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt lozenge and borders to covers, bosses and clasps, g.e. (extremities rubbed). – And a further seven volumes (including Richard Hayes’ ‘Interest at One View’, second edition, 1736, 8vo, and Edward Hatton’s ‘Comes Commercii, or, the Trader’s Companion’, 12th edition, 1766, thin 4to, and ‘Vade Mecum: or, the Necessary Pocket Companion’, 20th edition, 1762, thin 4to, and ‘Avis aux Femmes Enceintes et en Couches, ou Traité’, first French edition, 1774, 8vo) (8).

THEOLOGY. – Hermann WITSIUS. Exercitationes Sacrae in Symbolum Quod Apostolorum dicitur et in Orationem Dominicam. Franeker: Johannem Gyselaar, 1689. Second edition, 4to (198 x 151mm.) Title in red and black, 17pp. and 8pp. indices, text in Latin, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. (Toning, marginal tear to L1.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine (gash to upper cover, some dust-soiling). – And a further three volumes (including Lewis Mansey’s ‘The Practical Physician; or, Medical Instructor’, [1800], 8vo, and Richard Allestree’s ‘The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety’, 1679, 8vo) (4).

MOTOR-RACING. – Enzo FERRARI. My Terrible Joys… translated by Ivan Scott. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First U.K. edition, with 2 mounted colour photographs of Ferraris, 8vo (230 x 156mm.) Introduction by Stirling Moss, photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (slight abrasions to base of spine). – And a further eleven volumes related to motor-racing (including Rudolf Caracciola’s ‘Mercedes Grand Prix Ace’, [1955], 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (12).

AIRSHIPS. – J.E. MORPUGO. Barnes Wallis. London: Longman, 1972. First edition, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original grey cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). – And includes a mounted photograph of the lounge of the R100 airship, signed and dated to the mount by Barnes Wallis.

MOTOR-RACING. – Tony BAILEY and Paul SKILLETER. Mike Hawthorn Golden Boy. Hampshire: P.J. Publishing, 2008. First edition, with a mounted signature of Mike Hawthorn in blue ink, 4to (292 x 219mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. – And two related volumes (Ed McDonough’s ‘Peter Collins, All About the Boy’, with a mounted signature of Peter Collins, 2008, 4to, and Chris Nixon’ ‘Mon Ami Mate, the Bright Brief Lives of Mike Hawthorn & Peter Collins’, signed by Chris Nixon and Louise Collins, 1991, 4to). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (3).