Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth with dagger blocked in blind and silver to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (price-clipped, rubbed to spine ends). Note: includes a photograph from the film signed by both Roger Moore and the actor who played 'Jaws', Richard Kiel, the seemingly indestructible foe with the metal teeth.

JAMES, Montague Rhodes. More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. London: Edward Arnold, 1911. First edition, 8vo (211 x 140mm.) Half-title, advertisement leaf and 24pp. publisher's catalogue to rear. (Mild spotting to front and rear leaves, occasionally within.) Original grey pictorial cloth (slight browning to spine and extremities, light rubbing). Provenance: E.H. Brandt (pencil name inscribed to front-free endpaper).

JAMES, Montague Rhodes. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition, 8vo (208 x 144mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 3 further monochrome plates by James McBryde, 16pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Light spotting to preliminaries and occasionally within.) Original oatmeal buckram with yapp edges (minor marks to upper cover). Provenance: E.H. Brandt (name inscribed to front-free endpaper).

JAMES, Montague Rhodes. A Thin Ghost and Others. London: Edward Arnold, 1919. First edition, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) (Toning, minor spotting to fore-edge.) Original pictorial cloth (light rubbing). Note: James' third collection of stories. Provenance: E.H. Brandt (small stamp to front-free endpaper).

LEE, Laurie. Cider With Rosie. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, first issue, 8vo (198 x 126mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (small closed tear to tail of spine panel). Note: contains the line 'a fire at the piano works almost every year' on p.272 and with the 18s. price on the inner flap. Provenance: Richard Brandt (name inscribed to front-free endpaper).

GAY LITERATURE. - [Thomas BURKE.] 'Paul Pry'. For Your Convenience, A Learned Dialogue Instructive To all Londoners and London Visitors. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1937. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) Illustrated title-page and illustrated endpapers by Philip Gough. (Toning, slight spotting to margins of endpapers.) Original green cloth. Note: scarce. The first 'Gay Guide' to London and written by the author of 'Limehouse Nights', Thomas Burke. The work takes the form of a discreet and indirect conversation between two men in the Thélème Club where, by innuendo, they discuss the best public toilets for gaining 'full satisfaction'. The endpaper maps provide visual assistance in locating the toilets. Provenance: E.H. Brandt (pencil inscribed on the front-free endpaper).

HUGHES, Ted. Season Songs. London: Faber and Faber, 1976. First edition, first impression, signed by Ted Hughes, 8vo (216 x 129mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket designed by Leonard Baskin (faint crease at top of spine). Provenance: 'Warwick' (name inscribed on the front-free endpaper).

MASTERSON, Whit. Badge of Evil. London: W.H. Allen, 1956. First British edition, 8vo (184 x 120mm.) (Toning, mild spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (light rubbing). Note: the book that was the basis of the Orson Welles film 'Touch of Evil'. 'Whit Masterson' was a pseudonym for the literary partnership of Robert Allison 'Bob' Wade and H. Bill Miller. Provenance: 'Mr. and Mrs. Fraser' (inscribed from in ink on the front-free endpaper).

CAPEK, Karel. R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). London, Edinburgh etc.: Humphrey Milford for the Oxford University Press, 1923. First British edition, first impression, 8vo (172 x 111mm.) (Toning, mounted paper over the cast list.) Original black wrappers with red lettering (rebacked with grey cloth, fading to spine, minor mark to upper cover). Note: Capek's play introduced the word 'robot' to the language (meaning 'forced labour' in the original Czech).

THOMPSON, Hunter S. Better than Sex, Confessions of a Political Junkie. Sydney, London etc.: Doubleday, 1995. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson, 8vo (233 x 152mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (faint marks to lower cover, extremities bumped).

LE CARRÉ, John. Smiley's People. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First impression, signed by John le Carré, 8vo (234 x 147mm.) (Mild toning.) Original grey cloth (lightly bumped extremities), dust-jacket (slight creasing at top of spine).

PULLMAN, Philip. Northern Lights. London: Scholastic Ltd., 2008. Limited edition, this being number 2848 of 3000 signed copies, 8vo (197 x 146mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (faint spotting), slipcase.

DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition in book form, 8vo (211 x 129mm.) Etched frontispiece, additional engraved title, 38 etched plates by H.K. Browne, errata leaf. (Spotting and browning to most plates, lacking half-title, occasional minor soiling, tape repairs to hinges.) Near contemporary green morocco, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, with original spine laid-down, some staining and fading to covers). - And a further thirteen volumes (including a first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House', 1853, 8vo, and a first edition of Anthony Trollope's 'The Vicar of Bullhampton', 1870, 8vo) (14).

KENNETT, Basil. Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome… seventh edition. London: R. Knaplock, 1721. 8vo (198 x 121mm.) Title in red and black, 14 engraved plates, including 6 folding, index to rear, 2pp. publisher's advertisements. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Late 18th century panelled calf (rubbing to extremities, lacking lettering piece). - And a further two volumes (George Hickes' 'Two Treatises, One of the Christian Priesthood, the Other of the Dignity of the Episcopal Order', 1711, 2 vols., 8vo) (3).

OVID. P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV, Interpretatione & Notes. London: J. Nicholson et al., 1708. 8vo (193 x 111mm.) Title in red and black, 1p. publisher's advertisements. (Toning, lacking blanks.) Contemporary calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, light rubbing). - And a further twenty-two volumes relating to classical literature (including Philo Junius' 'Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, Under Other Signatures, (Now First Collected)', 3 vols., 1812, 8vo) (23).

BINDINGS. - William ROBERTSON. The History of Scotland. London: T. Cadell, 1794. 2 vols., fourteenth edition, 8vo (215 x 123mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Browning, intermittent spotting.) Contemporary speckled calf, green morocco lettering pieces to spines (lightly rubbed). - And a further forty-four volumes, mainly history related (including William Robertson's 'The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V', 4 vols., 1802, 8vo) (46).

BINDINGS. - Samuel JOHNSON. The Works… with an Essay on His Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy. London: J. Johnson, J. Nichols et al., 1806-1811. 14 vols., 8vo (210 x 128mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Browning, spotting to front and rear leaves.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to extremities). Note: includes the two volumes of Johnson's debates in parliament. - And a further forty-nine volumes, mainly literary (including James Greenwood's 'The London Vocabulary, English and Latin: Put into a New Method', 1802, 12mo) (63).

MANUSCRIPT. [Recollections in diary form of a European tour undertaken by two English ladies. London: N.p.:] October 1869. 15pp., manuscript, oblong 4to (173 x 260mm.) Unnumbered pages in a single, legible, calligraphic-style hand with hand-coloured decorative initials, elaborate floral borders and numerous pencil sketches, mainly of tourist sights and landscapes, 12pp. blank to rear. (Toning.) Original limp green cloth covers, gilt lettering to upper cover (spine worn). Note: the writer and a Mrs. French undertake a coach and train tour of Europe. The writer provides a very factual report of their trip as they go to the opera, see art ('An Exhibition of Modern Paintings'), cathedrals, services, and seek time to do their sketching ('but we were interrupted'), and, while sketching a street scene, they themselves become the centre of attention as a crowd forms which they 'persistently wished would keep at a little distance from us, but their remarks were sometimes very just and amusing'. They are busy, cultured ladies. For variety, there is always the threat of the weather ('a shower overtaking us'). They travel to Geneva, Berne, Frankfurt, Dresden and Brussels and the following year they take another trip to France.

MANUSCRIPT. - Don Tito VISINO. Aus dem Buche der Americanschen ur Voelker Geschichte…gesammelt in den Jahren 1836 bis 1854. ['From the book of American Primitive People… collected in the years 1836 to 1854'. N.p.:] Munich, 1859. 701pp., manuscript, 4to (360 x 223mm.) Numbered pages in a single partly legible hand, handwritten in German relating to Mexico and primitive American peoples, with annotations and corrections. (First leaves torn, some creasing, toning.) String-bound quires, disbound. Note: Don Tito Visino was the Bavarian ambassador for Cuba. Included is a certificate awarded in Madrid from the 'Real Academia de la Historia' in 1869 and a note saying Don Tito died in England in 1877. Included in the lot are some scholarly letters to Don Tito referring to a book on the same subject that he published with Leopold F. Manley: 'Torn Leaves From the Chronicle of the Ancient Nations of America. Photographed from the Original Drawings of Don Tito Visino'. That book was published in 1864 by Trubner & Co.