Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

TRAVEL. - J.W. GREGORY. The Great Rift Valley, Being a Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. London: John Murray, 1896. First edition, 8vo (226 x 153mm.) Half-title, colour frontispiece, 20 photographic plates, 2 folding maps, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, spotting to endpapers, some damp-staining to rear pastedown.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped, discolouring to lower cover). - And a further eight volumes (including Samuel Sharp's 'Letters From Italy', [1767], 8vo, and Nagayo Ogasawara's 'Life of Admiral Togo', 1934, 8vo) (9).

FISHING. - John ROBERTSON. The Hand-Book of Angling for Scotland and the Border Counties. London: Houlston and Wright, 1861. 8vo (169 x 111mm.) Half-title, folding lithographed map frontispiece with outline hand-colouring, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Toning.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering (lightly rubbed, minor soiling to covers). - And a further seventeen volumes related to angling (including [James Glass Bertram's] 'The Border Angler: A Guide-Book to the Tweed and Its Tributaries', 1858, 8vo, and James Locke's 'Tweed and Don', 1860, 8vo) (18).

COLLINS, Wilkie. The Moonstone, A Romance. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. New edition, 8vo (225 x 146mm.) Double-column text, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting, lacking half-title?) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (top of spine torn, some staining to covers). Provenance: H.J. Starbuck (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper and to first text leaf). - And a further eighteen volumes (including W.B Yeats' 'The Cutting of an Agate', 1919, 8vo) (19).

BLOOMSBURY. - Anne Olivier BELL (editor). The Diary of Virginia Woolf. London: Hogarth Press, 1977-1980. 3 vols. (of 5). First editions, 8vo (233 x 151mm.) (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries of vol. 1.) Original maroon cloth (lightly bumped spines), dust-jackets (spotting to inner flaps of vol. 1, price-clipped to vol. 3, slight creasing to upper panel of vol. 3). - And a further nine volumes related to Virginia Woolf (12).

AMIS, Martin. Yellow Dog. London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition, second impression, signed by the author to the title-page, 8vo (232 x 148mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (minor mark to upper panel). - And a further thirteen volumes of 20th century fiction (including William Golding's 'The Pyramid', 1967, 8vo, and Kingsley Amis' 'The James Bond Dossier', 1965, 8vo) (14).

NASH, Paul (illustrator). - L. Archier LEROY. Wagner's Music Drama of the Ring. London: Noel Douglas, [1925.] First edition, 8vo (220 x 139mm.) 4 wood-engraved illustrations by Paul Nash. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, faint spotting to 1 illustration.) Original boards designed by Paul Nash, paper label to spine (spine ends lightly rubbed, small stain to lower cover). Provenance: L.E.C. Hughes (stamp to front-free endpaper and title-page). - And a further thirty-nine mainly literary volumes (including Franz Kafka's 'The Trial', 1946, 8vo) (40).

ORWELL, George. Coming Up For Air. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First edition, second impression, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Occasional minor spotting.) Original blue cloth (some sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, lower joint splitting.) - And a further thirty-two literary volumes (including the fourth impression of Rebecca West's 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon', 1943, 2 vols., 8vo, and J.K. Huysmans' 'Against the Grain', [1946], 8vo) (33).

POETRY. - T. S. ELIOT. The Wasteland and Other Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1940. 8vo (188 x 113mm.) (Toning.) Original boards (browned), dust-jacket (sunned to spine and minor chipping). Provenance: Felicity Digby (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further fifty-three volumes of mainly 20th century poetry (including the first impression of T.S. Eliot's 'Little Gidding', 1942, 8vo) (54).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Adam SMITH. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations. London: Folio Society, 2008. 3 vols., 8vo (272 x 175mm.) Numerous colour plates. Original decorative cloth, slipcase (some fading, occasional scuff mark). - And a further forty-three volumes published by The Folio Society (including Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', 8 vols., 1997, 8vo, and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', 2004, 4to) (46).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Anton CHEKHOV. The Collected Stories. London: Folio Society, 2010. 4 vols., 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Illustrations by Laura Carlin. Original pictorial blue cloth, slipcase. - And a further twenty-four volumes published by The Folio Society (including Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 2006, 8vo) (28).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Anthony POWELL. A Dance to the Music of Time. London: Folio Society, 2006-2008. 4 vols., 8vo (235 x 164mm.) Introduction by William Trevor. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, slipcases. - And a further fifty-one volumes published by The Folio Society (including 'Plutarch's Lives', 4 vols., 2011, 8vo) (55).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). [The Folio Poets.] London: Folio Society, 2001-2008. 7 vols., 8vo (273 x 175mm.) Numerous black and white illustrations. Original quarter morocco, slipcases. - And a further twenty-seven volumes published by the Folio Society (including Martin Gilbert's 'Churchill: A Life', 2 vols., 2004, 8vo, and A.J.P. Taylor's 'A Century of Conflict 1848-1948', 5 vols., 1998, 8vo) (34).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Evelyn WAUGH. [Comedies:] London: Folio Society, 1999. 6 vols., 8vo (232 x 150mm.) Illustrations by John Holder. Original pictorial boards, slipcase. - And a further thirty-nine volumes published by The Folio Society (including Anthony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time', 4 vols., 2006-2008, 8vo, and T.H. White's 'The Once and Future King', 2004, 8vo) (45).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Eric HOBSBAWM. The Making of the Modern World. London: Folio Society, 2005. 4 vols., 8vo (244 x 148mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth, slipcase. - And a further thirty-six volumes published by The Folio Society (including Robert Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy', 3 vols., 2010, 8vo) (40).

RAILWAYS. The Railway Magazine. London: The Economic Printing and Publishing Company Limited, and Prospect Magazines, July 1897-December 1996. Vols. 1-142. 8vo (various sizes, 239 x 160mm to 290 x 209mm.) Numerous lithographed plates, some in colour and some folding, maps and illustrations. (Occasional spotting, light browning.) Various bindings, red and green cloth with gilt lettering to spines to vol. 100, and paper wrappers thereafter (fading to cloth spines, some wear to spine ends, light rubbing). Note: between November 1963 and December 1996 the definite article was omitted and it was known as 'Railway Magazine'. Provenance: J.C. Inglis (gilt name to upper cover of vol.1); Gerald Walter Erskine Loder (bookplate to front pastedowns of 1901 vols.) (a large quantity).

WAINWRIGHT, Alfred. Welsh Mountain Drawings. Kendal: Westmoreland Gazette, 1981. First edition, oblong 4to (218 x 269mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (slight rubbing). - And a further forty-three volumes by Alfred Wainwright (including 'Lakeland Mountain Drawings', 1980, oblong 4to) (44).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - CICERO. On the Good Life… translation by Michael Grant. London: Folio Society, 2003. 8vo (245 x 166mm.) Frontispiece by Simon Brett. Original boards, slipcase. - And a further sixty-five volumes published by The Folio Society (including Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', 8 vols., 1997, 8vo, and John Gribbin's 'In Search of Schrödinger's Cat', 2012, 8vo) (66).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Eric HOBSBAWM. The Making of the Modern World. London: Folio Society, 2005. 4 vols., 8vo (245 x 148mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth, slipcase. - And a further forty-seven volumes published by The Folio Society (including Albert Hourani's 'A History of the Arab Peoples', 2009, 8vo, and Sun-Tzu's 'The Art of War', 2007, 8vo) (51).

CAULFIELD, Patrick. Quelques Poèmes de Jules Laforgue. London: Petersburg Press and Waddington Galleries, 1973. Limited 'Edition B', being number 60 of 200 copies signed and numbered in pencil by Patrick Caulfield and with the suite of 6 colour screenprints signed and editioned by Caulfield in pencil to the verso, folio (405 x 353mm.) 22 colour screenprints accompanying the text in French. (Occasional, minor mark.) Original periwinkle blue calf covers (some rubbing and wear to spine ends), periwinkle blue calf slipcase (rubbing to extremities), the screenprints mounted and in matching silvered frames (a crease to the signed screenprint 'I'll take my life monotonous' and also a crease to 'I've only the friendship of hotel rooms', some scraping to the frames). Note: the screenprints are: 'Ah! Storm Clouds Rushed From the Channel Coasts', 'I've Only the Friendship of Hotel Rooms', 'I'll Take My Life Monotonous', 'Her Handkerchief Swept Me Along the Rhine', 'My Life Inspires So Many Desires' and 'And I'm Alone in My House'.