Lot: 18
Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses, Viking, 1988, 1st Edition, 1st printing, in complete d/jkt, signed by the author on title page, the book & jacket both VF.
Lot: 19
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, illustrated by Ralph Steadman, 1985, First Edn., in d/jkt, signed by the artist on front endpaper; and other first editions in d/jkts of Ralph Steadman illustrated works comprising Animal Farm, The Complete Alice and Scar Strangled Banger. All fine in fine d/jkts. (4)
Lot: 20
John le Carre The Russia House, 1989 and Single & Single, 1999, both first editions signed by the author on title page, with Waterstone's publicity bands; and 1st editions of Smiley's People and The Secret Pilgrim. All in fine d/jkts, Smiley's People price-clipped. (4)
Lot: 21
Alice Walker The Color Purple, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, the 10th Anniversary edition, 1st printing, signed by the author on title page. Fine, in complete d/jkt and Waterstone's publicity band, the jacket with some slight creasing at periphery.
Lot: 22
Ted Hughes Birthday Letters, Faber, 1998, quarter-cloth, gilt, No.57 of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author, in acetate jacket. Fine
Lot: 23
Pat Barker signed Viking first editions of The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road, and Another World; plus an unsigned first of Regeneration. All fine, in fine d/jkts. (4)
Lot: 24
Iain M. Banks Inversions, Orbit, 1998, 1st Edition, signed by the author on title page, fine in a fine complete d/jkt, and Waterstone's publicity band.
Lot: 25
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods, Doubleday, 1997, First edition in complete d/jkt, signed by the author on title page. Very fine.
Lot: 26
Nick Hornby High Fidelity, 1995, and About a Boy, 1998, both Gollancz 1st Editions signed by the author on title page, in complete d/jkts. Very fine. (2)
Lot: 27
A selection of signed first editions, all in complete d/jkts, fine condition; plus an unsigned first of Iain Banks The Crow Road. (12)
Lot: 63
Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood (1748-1810): 1808 Order, written at Cadiz as Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, to Captain Hoste in command of H.M. Ship Amphion stationed at Malta, instructing him to proceed to the Adriatic for purpose of annoying the enemy in that sea by every possible means. Signed Collingwood, the order and address panel written in another hand. Fine. [Provenance: sold by the autograph specialists J.A.L. Franks of London, in 1979, with the original invoice]
Lot: 70
Captain W.E. Johns The Passing Show: A Garden Diary of an Amateur Gardener, My Garden, London, 1937, 1st Edn, signed by the author on front endpaper and inscribed by the recipient H.L. Hogan, Chelsea Flower Show, 25.5.1938, with a related gift inscription of 1958. Original cloth; faint spotting to fore-edge; fine internally.