Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930. First edition, 8vo (191 x 123mm.) Numerous illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold. (Some spotting to preliminaries and first leaves, thereafter occasional.) Original boards with art deco design (some surface abrasion to both covers). Note: pagination starts with the 'Preface' on p.7.

FOOD & WINE. - Pierre LACOUR. The Manufacture of Liquors, Wines, and Cordials, without the Aid of Distillation. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863. 8vo (181 x 117mm.) 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound-in at front, 4pp. 'Index', 12pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine (spine ends worn). Provenance: Peter Herbert, late owner of Gravetye Manor (bookplate to the front pastedown).

VALE PRESS. - William SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's Sonnets, Reprinted From the Edition of 1609… edited by T. Sturge Moore. London: Ballantyne Press, 1899. Limited edition, this being one of 210 copies, 4to (206 x 134mm.) Wood-engraved border, initial, and decoration by Charles Ricketts. (Toning, browning to endpapers.) Contemporary brown full morocco, panelled in gilt in the Arts and Craft style by Douglas Cockerell, g.e. (some scuffing to upper cover, extremities bumped). Note: bound by renowned British bookbinder Douglas Cockerell and dated 1900 in gilt to the rear turn-in. Cockerell taught at the Central School of Art and design from 1897 to 1905 (and again from 1921 to 1935), and also at the Royal College of Art.

WHITE, John Claude. Tibet and Lhasa. Calcutta: Johnston and Hoffmann, [1908.] Oblong 4to (203 x 270mm.) Title, 2pp. 'Preface', 53 photogravure plates, including 1 folding panorama to rear, letterpress text leaf to each plate. (Toning, occasional minor spotting, finger-marks to margins of plate 'Group of Nuns', crease to one panel of folding panorama.) Original maroon cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, g.e. (rubbing to extremities, some scuffing to covers). Note: very rare. John Claude White, a political officer in Sikkim, was asked to join the 'Tibet Frontier Commission' under the command of Francis Younghusband, and the military command of Brigadier-General Macdonald. The Tibet expedition (the 'Imperial Raj' also had two hundred Indian troops) was intended to ease trade with British India but it also had the covert intention of warding off Russian influence in Lhasa, and the fear that the Chinese were going to hand Tibet over to the Russians. White's photographs were the first published record of Tibet and Lhasa. They were initially published in two separate formats. Firstly, individually, or in half-tone carbons prints. In 1907-08 they were then issued in a 2 volume set of albums, with descriptions by C.B. Bayley, but this publication was immediately withdrawn in fear that it revealed too many British secrets to the Chinese, only 6 copies of this set are known to have survived. This single-volume edition was then published but it, too, was immediately withdrawn. The British Library has no copy of this edition. The images in this volume include: eight views of the Potola, the palace of the Dalai Lama; 2 views of the fort at Khambajong; the Abbot at Khambajong; Gyantze Jong; Debung monastery; a group of lamas at Debung monastery; Mount Everest; Chongu lake; Phema village; Bridge at Phema; Yaks in Ekkas; Goorkha Post; View of the Yamdok Tso; Chaksam Ferry; the Astrologer's summer residence; senior lamas of Sera monastery; entrance to Lhasa; a street scene in Lhasa; the Regent of Tibet; The Shapes; the Chinese Amban and the panorama of Lhasa.

TAGORE, Rabindranath. The Crescent Moon… translated from the original Bengali by the author. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First U.S. edition, inscribed by the author, 8vo (188 x 132mm.) 8 colour plates, 6pp. publisher's advertisements. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, gilt decoration to upper cover (lightly rubbed to extremities, mark to upper cover). Note: Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

WIMBLEDON SKATING CLUB. - Arthur DRYDEN (compiler). Twenty Years' Skating Seasons at Wimbledon Lake 1878-79 to 1897-98. [N.p.: 1899.] Concertina format (728 x 140mm.) Printed panels marking the days between November and March that skating took place on Wimbledon Lake. (Tape repair to one panel, toning.) Original card covers, with compiler's name in manuscript to upper cover (toned). Note: Wimbledon Skating club was founded in 1871 by Dr. Edward Huntingford. It was one of only a handful of skating clubs that pre-dated the foundation of Britain's National Skating Association in 1879. The records show that between 1882-85 the ice was not solid enough to skate on and between these years skating only occurred on thirteen days. Nevertheless, Wimbledon Skating Club produced some of the finest 'English Style' skaters and was the principal rival to the London Skating Club.

GANDHI, Mahatma. Young India 1919-1922. New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1923. First edition, 8vo (183 x 118mm.) (Mild toning, slight creasing to pp.1160-1176, corner creasing to last leaves.) Original blue cloth, silver gilt to upper cover and spine (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (chipping to extremities, finger-marking, some tape repairs verso spine panel). Note: scarce in the dust-jacket.

FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 123mm.) (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, ink number on front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth, gilt coin motif to upper cover (extremities bumped, spine lean, wear to upper cover), later dust-jacket (lightly rubbed). Note: the dust-jacket with 16s price.

FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, 8vo (188 x 122mm.) (Toning, mark to 'Copyright' and p.5 'Contents'.) Original black cloth with blind-stamped skull and gilt coins for eyes (lightly bumped, slight spine lean), dust-jacket (some loss to spine panel ends, ink name on upper panel). Note: 15s price on the inner flap. Provenance: Julian Rowe (an ink inscription to on the initial blank).

FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) (Toning, small marks to pp.220-221, minor spotting to last text leaf.) Original black cloth with skeletal hand blind-stamped to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine (rubbed to spine ends), dust-jacket (crease to spine panel, tear with tape repair verso top of spine panel, extremities rubbed).

FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. Fifth impression, 8vo (188 x 122mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (closed tears to upper panel, toning to lower panel).

FLEMING, Ian. From Russia With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) (Mild toning, minor mark to p.12 'Author's Note' leaf.) Original black cloth with the Smith & Wesson gun and rose in red and silver to the upper cover, red lettering to the spine (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (some chipping to extremities, small closed tear to top of upper panel, and several tiny marks). Note: 13s 6d price on inner flap of dust-jacket.

FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, 8vo (189 x 122mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth with blind-stamped skull and gilt coins for eyes (slight give to upper cover), dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (light rubbing and toning to extremities). Note: 15s price on inner flap of the dust-jacket.

FREEMAN, R. Austin. The Shadow of the Wolf. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925.] First edition, with 2 tipped-in a.l.s.', 8vo (183 x 120mm.) (Spotting to half-title and last leaves, 'For Review' stamped to half-title.) Original red cloth (fading and a nick to spine panel). Note: two closely-written letters, both 2pp., written in the same year of the book's publication to Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon, naval intelligence officer and genealogist. Freeman is warmly appreciative of Pirie-Gordon's assistance 'for the very useful bit of information… I am always grateful for authentic facts as my original stock is getting considerably reduced'. Such material, he implies, is crucial to his creativity: 'the confounded short stories that I have to pour out to boil the pot have consumed a terrible amount of material'. He then goes on to mention an 'ingenious Turk' whose 'plan of speeding up the ship by feeding prisoners into the furnace, if considered in connection with coal strikes & the undue fertility of the Great Unfit, seems to suggest a form of procedure which would be economical in several directions.' Provenance: Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon (recipient of the author's letters).

FORSTER, E.M. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) 3pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Spotting to title and preliminaries.) Original red cloth (lightly rubbed extremities, mild sunning to spine). [Kirkpatrick A10, p.43.]

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… With a Proem by Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann, [1907]. First trade edition, 8vo (203 x 148mm.) 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous illustrations. (Mild toning, faint spotting to front-free endpaper.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (some sunning to spine). Provenance: Daphne Field (gift inscribed to on the frontispiece tissue-guard).

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment… from the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1914. First English translation [from the Russian], 8vo (189 x 123mm.) (Spotting to pastedowns and blanks, toning, corner creasing to rear leaves.) Original red cloth (slight fading to spine, minor mark to upper cover). Note: being vol. 4 of 'The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky'.

NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1952. First edition, signed by Mary Norton, 8vo (198 x 137mm.) Colour frontispiece, illustrations by Diana Stanley. (Toning, slight offsetting to title.) Original blue cloth (small stain and finger-marking to covers). Note: the inscription from Norton reads: 'To Jill, wishing her a very Happy Christmas with best wishes, from Mary Norton, Dec. 1952'. 'The Borrowers' is the first of the quintet.

AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels of Jane Austen. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-12. 12 vols., 'Winchester Edition', 8vo (203 x 139mm.) Photogravure portrait frontispiece. (Paper repair to frontispiece and title-page of vol. 1, toning, marginal losses to preliminaries of vol. 10, 'Persuasion', blanks replaced.) Near contemporary red half morocco bound by Asprey (two volumes rebacked, one of which damp-stained to upper cover, another discoloured to spine, endpapers replaced, occasional rubbing) (12).