Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913. First edition, 16mo (139 x 101mm.) Frontispiece, 14 colour plates by Potter, dated to title-page. (Two old tape repairs to preliminaries, frontispiece and one other leaf loose.) Original maroon boards with pictorial label on upper cover (some wear to top of spine).

CHINA. - Peter FLEMING. News From Tartary. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition, 8vo (197 x 130mm.) Numerous illustrations from photographs, folding map. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth with Chinese lettering to upper cover (some fading), dust-jacket (some chipping to extremities).

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1954. First edition, second impression, 8vo (205 x 132mm.) With folding map to rear. (Mild toning, light spotting to front-free endpaper.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine (lightly bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (chipping to spine ends, minor mark to rear panel). Note: a second impression dust-jacket. Published four months after the first impression, this book is the first volume in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

WAUGH, Evelyn. Scoop. London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) (Mild toning, faint spotting to fore-edge.) Original cloth boards (bumped to extremities), dust-jacket (chipping with some loss to spine ends, crease to inner flap). Note: the '8' on the date on the copyright page is raised and looks like a '3', on p.88 the last line has 'a' not 'as'.

DU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca. London: Gollancz, 1938. First edition, first impression, 8vo (195 x 121mm.) (Mild toning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original black cloth (bumped to extremities), dust-jacket (browning to spine and extremities, small tear to base of spine).

SAYERS, Dorothy L. Gaudy Night. London: Gollancz, 1935. First edition, first impression, 8vo (196 x 123mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original black cloth (bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (chipping and tears to extremities). Note: featuring the gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Blandings Castle and Elsewhere. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935. First edition, 8vo (184 x 128mm.) (Mild toning.) Original turquoise cloth, black lettering (sunned to spine, some browning), dust-jacket (minor creasing to margins). Note: second issue dust-wrapper with the price '2'6' on the spine.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Adventures of Sally. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [n.d. but circa 1930]. Fifth printing, contains an a.l.s. by P.G. Wodehouse, 8vo (182 x 120mm.) (Mild toning.) Original pictorial orange and red cloth (browning to spine ends), dust-jacket (some loss to front, more loss to rear panel). Note: the letter reads 'Dear Miss Wynne-Roberts, here's my autograph for your collection. With best wishes, yours sincerely P.G. Wodehouse' and is dated 'Jan 30.1931'.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Week-end Wodehouse. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [n.d. but 1939]. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) (Mild toning, light spotting to fore-edge.) Original green cloth, green morocco lettering piece to spine with gilt lettering, dust-jacket (chipping, minor loss to top of spine, creasing to rear panel). Note: 7/6 price on the inner flap. Provenance: K.G. Brown (ink name inscribed on front-free endpaper).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Louder and Funnier. London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First edition, 8vo (177 x 113mm.) (Mild toning, pencil notes erased from front-free endpaper.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (chipping to spine ends, faint stain to spine panel).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Girl on the Boat. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [n.d. but circa 1927]. Seventh printing, 8vo (187 x 119mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge, lacking the front-free endpaper.) Original pictorial orange cloth (nick to upper cover), dust-jacket designed by Heath Robinson (repair to verso of front panel). - And three further volumes by P.G. Wodehouse (including 'Meet Mr. Mulliner', [n.d. but 1929], 8vo) (4).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Ring For Jeeves. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) (Light spotting to fore-edge, and to half-title.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (slight chipping, closed tear to upper edge). - And two further volumes by Wodehouse (including 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves', 1963, 8vo) (3).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Nothing Serious. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1950. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) (Spotting to fore-edge.) Original orange cloth, black lettering (bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (chipping, some loss to lower rear panel). - And five further volumes by P.G Wodehouse (including 'Barmy in Wonderland', 1952, 8vo) (6).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Joy in the Morning. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [n.d. but 1946]. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) (Mild toning.) Original orange cloth, black lettering, dust-jacket (large closed tears, repairs to verso, loss to spine ends). - And three further volumes by P.G. Wodehouse (including 'The Mating Season', 1949, 8vo) (4).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Something Fishy. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1957. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) (Mild spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth, black lettering to spine, dust-jacket (price-clipped, loss to bottom of spine panel). - And sixteen further volumes (including 'Service With a Smile', 1961, 8vo) (17).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mike, a Public School Story. London: A. & C. Black Ltd., 1924. 8vo (186 x 119mm.) 4 colour plates by J.H. Hartley. (Browning to pastedowns, moderate spotting.) Original blue cloth with black and brown design (wear to spine ends, minor soiling to rear cover). - And twenty-five further volumes by Wodehouse (including 'Carry on, Jeeves', 1925, 8vo) (26).

FLEMING, Ian. The Man With The Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, second state, 8vo (186 x 120mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket (minor chipping to top of spine).

POLAR. - William Henry MAY. Memoirs. London and Beccles: for private circulation by William Clowes and Sons, [n.d. but circa 1930]. 8vo (217 x 134mm.) Numerous plates laid-in. (Moderate spotting to first and last leaves.) Original blue morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover, g.e. (light rubbing to extremities). Note: scarce, only two copies are recorded on Copac. Sir William May took part in the unsuccessful expedition to the North Pole of 1875 working as a navigating officer under Sir George Nares and Alfred Markham on H.M.S. Alert. This book contains a 10pp. description of that expedition. - And a 'Certificate For Wounds and Hurts', dated 7th September 1876, detailing how William May suffered frost bite on-board H.M.S. Alert which necessitated amputation of the 'left great toe' on the 11th November the preceding year. It is also signed by Georges Nares and the witness to 'the accident', Alfred Markham. Also includes a number of cartes-de-visite photographs relating to William May and his family (a group).

WRAGG, Arthur (illustrator). The Psalms for Modern Life. London: Selwyn & Blount, [n.d. but circa 1934]. Signed and inscribed by Arthur Wragg, 8vo (185 x 121mm.) Numerous illustrations, illustrated endpapers. (Mild toning.) Original cloth (browning, slight spotting). Note: scarce. Provenance: 'F.J.' (inscribed on the half-title).