Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Sidney JOWERS and John CAVANAGH. Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs, a Bibliography and Iconography. London and New York: Motley Press, 2000. 4to (271 x 192mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. - And a further thirty volumes relating to bibliography and art reference, art and auction catalogues (including 'British Book Illustrators, a Bibliography' edited by Charles Baker, 1978, 8vo) (31).

CONJURING. - Spencer BLACKETT (publisher). Hand & Finger Tricks. London: Spencer Blackett, [circa 1890.] 12mo (175 x 114mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text. (Some spotting.) Original pictorial wrappers (minor chipping). Provenance: J.B. Findlay, magician, author and collector (book-plate tipped-in verso the upper cover). - And an archive of material relating to magic and conjuring (including numerous catalogues for Davenport & Co. relating to the Demon series, catalogues for Hamley's, Max Andrew, Harry Stanley, auction catalogues for the archive of J.B. Findlay and a quantity of typed and facsimile material related magic tricks and their procedures) (a quantity).

CRAMP, Stanley (chief editor). Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: the Birds of the Western Palearctic. Bedfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1977-1994. 9 vols., limited RSPB edition of 5000 copies, 4to (254 x 196mm.) Numerous illustrations by many artists, including Robert Gilmour and Peter Scott, many in colour. (Mild toning, light spotting to fore-edge of volume two.) Original cloth, dust-jackets (some sunning) (9).

SANSOM, C.J. [The Shardlake Series.] London: Macmillan, 2003-2018. 7 vols., first editions, 8vo (233 x 147mm.) (Mild toning.) Original cloths, dust-jackets (rubbed to top of spine of 'Dissolution'). Note: 'Dissolution' is a second impression, and 'Revelation' a third impression, the rest are first impressions. - And a further seven volumes of fiction, all translated editions of Boris Akunin's 'Erast Fandorin' mysteries (14).

RUPERT THE BEAR. - Mary TOURTEL. The Rupert Story Book. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., [1938]. 4to (243 x 183mm.) Colour frontispiece. (Browning, spotting to margins.) Original red cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Brian' (gift inscribed to in the 'Belongs to' box). - And a further 51 volumes relating to Rupert the Bear (including 'The new Rupert Book', 1946, 4to, and 9 facsimile Collector Editions) (52).

ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. London: Rex Collings, 1973. Second edition, 8vo (217 x 129mm.) (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket (price-clipped, minor wear to spine ends). - And a further thirty-five volumes (including the Riccardi Press edition of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 1914, 4to) (36).

BINDINGS. - James SYME. The Principles of Surgery. Edinburgh: John Carfrae & Son et al., 1837. Second edition, 8vo (220 x 129mm.) (Toning.) Contemporary green half straight-grain morocco over cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Arthur Mitchell (gift inscribed to in ink on the front-free endpaper). - And a further seventeen volumes, mainly bindings (18).

SCIENCE-FICTION. - Brian W. ALDISS. The Canopy of Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition, 8vo (186 x 118mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped, browning, tear to inner-flap seam, minor chipping.) Provenance: Colin Morris (monogram to front-free endpaper). - And a further twenty volumes of science-fiction (including 'The First Astounding Science Fiction Anthology' edited by John W. Campbell, 1954, 8vo) (21).

BINDINGS. - William SHAKESPEARE. The Plays of… with Explanatory and Historical Notes… by Alexander Chalmers. London: for F.C. and J. Rivington, T. Egerton et al., 1823. 8 vols., new edition, 8vo (209 x 127mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Occasional spotting, browning, gazette cuttings mounted to front pastedown of volume 1.) Contemporary calf, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines, triple gilt borders to covers (sticker and mark to upper cover of volume 1, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Edward Breton (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And a further twenty-six leatherbound volumes (34).

BAUM, Frank L. The Road to Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., [circa 1920.] Reprint, 8vo (227 x 163mm.) Numerous uncoloured illustrations by John R. Neil. (Spotting to front and rear leaves, toning.) Original blue cloth, mounted illustration to upper cover (rebacked with old tape, rubbing to extremities). - And a further five volumes from the Oz series, all early printings (including 'The Tin Woodman of Oz', [circa 1920], 8vo) (6).

NAVAL. - Michael J. Crawford (editor). Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Washington: Naval Historical Centre, 1996. Vol. 10 (only). 8vo (247 x 163mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth. Note: related to the period October 1st 1777 - December 31st 1777. - And a further twenty volumes relating to naval warfare (21).

FOLIO SOCIETY. - F. Scott FITZGERALD. The Great Gatsby. London: Folio Society, 1968. 8vo (215 x 131mm.) Illustrations by Charles Raymond. Original pictorial cloth (small mark to upper cover), slip-case (rubbing to extremities). - And a quantity of approximately seventy-five further volumes published by the Folio Society (including Anton Chekhov's 'The Island of Sakhalin', 1989, 8vo) (a quantity).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Winston S. CHURCHILL. The Second World War. London: Folio Society, 2002. 6 vols., 8vo (233 x 164mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, slip-case. - And a further quantity of approximately ninety volumes published by The Folio Society (including Winston S. Churchill's 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples', 4 vols., 2003, 8vo) (a quantity).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - P.G. WODEHOUSE. Jeeves & Wooster. London: Folio Society, 1996. 6 vols., 8vo (216 x 134mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original pictorial cloths, slip-case. - And a further quantity of approximately sixty-five volumes published by The Folio Society (including P.G. Wodehouse's 'Best of Blandings', 6 vols., 2004, 8vo) (a quantity).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Jane AUSTEN. [The Novels.] London: Folio Society, 1978. 7 vols., 8vo (219 x 139mm.) Numerous illustrations by Joan Hassall. (Mild toning.) Original cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, slip-case (slight fading). - And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes published by the Folio Society (including the Arthur Rackham illustrated 'Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm', 1996, 4to) (a quantity).

KIPLING FAMILY COLLECTION. - Stephen CRANE. Wounds in the Rain. London: Methuen & Co., 1900. First UK edition, inscribed by Cora Crane to Rudyard Kipling, 8vo (191 x 121mm.) (Browning to pastedowns, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (fading to spine, soiling to margins). Note: the inscription reads 'To Rudyard Kipling Esq., Compliments of Cora Crane'. Crane was an admirer of Kipling's work and it's possible they met when Kipling lived in America. However, the Crane's also lived in Oxted, England, when Stephen was sent to Europe on assignments as war correspondent. Cora accompanied him and, writing under the name 'Imogene Carter' is now considered to be the first female war correspondent. They were befriended by members of the Fabian society, as well as H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad. Stephen died of tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Germany, aged twenty-eight. Provenance: Rudyard Kipling (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a collection of forty-one further volumes with an association to the Kipling and the Macdonald family (including 'A Pinchbeck Goddess', 1897, 8vo, inscribed by Alice M. Fleming ['Trix' Kipling, Rudyard's sister] and with the ownership name of 'Alice Kipling', the author's mother); and 'Rewards and Fairies', 1910, 8vo, with an ownership inscription of 'Trix Fleming'; and Angela Thirkell's 'The Brandons', 1939, 8vo, inscribed by Thirkell to her 'Darling Aunt Trix' [Thirkell was a cousin of Rudyard and 'Trix'], with a framed photograph of Thirkell as a child; and books with ownership inscriptions of Helen, Edith, Margaret and Florence Macdonald, and volumes owned and inscribed by Kipling's cousin, Julius F. Macdonald, and several volumes about the family.

RUDYARD KIPLING. - Ian HAMILTON. Listening for the Drums. London: Faber and Faber, 1944. First edition, with an a.l.s. to Alice 'Trix' Kipling, 8vo (218 x 126mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine (slight fading to spine). Note: Ian Hamilton and 'Trix', Rudyard's younger sister, were dancing partners in Simla and Calcutta in 1886-87, and later. There remained an ongoing intimacy between the two and Hamilton refers to her in the book itself. The 14 line letter reads, in part: 'Dearest Trix, in posting you this copy of 'Listening for the Drums' my heart tells me that I am returning to my dancing partner of long ago a bit of the precious little self. There are all sorts of things scattered through these reminiscences - mostly rubbish, but the titbits, the best bits, the bits that will be quoted, come from you and what you told me about Ruddy and his great dividing line between verses and poetry. I should love to see you again...'. Provenance: Alice Kipling (inscribed to by the author verso the title-page).

KIPLING, Rudyard. If - . London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1914. Second separate English edition, (163 x 130mm.) 4pp. of text, 2pp. advertisements recto and verso of the lower cover. Original card covers (slight toning). Note: first published in 'Rewards and Fairies' in 1910, Kipling's poem had its most significant impact with this edition, published during the first month of the war.

KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. Second impression, 8vo (184 x 114mm.) Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, e.g. (lightly bumped spine ends). Provenance: Aylmer G. Galloway (gift inscribed to on the initial blank). - And a further eight volumes by Rudyard Kipling (including 'Captains Courageous', November 1897, 8vo) (9).