Lot: 43
Fabienne Jamet Palace of Sweet Sin, W.H. Allen, 1977, fine h/bk in a VG complete d/jkt, b/w plates. Fine
Lot: 50
George Bellairs Corpse at the Carnival, Penguin, 1964, VG p/bk; and Wagstaff & Poole Agatha Christie: A Reader’s Companion, quarto, h/bk in d/jkt, fine. (2)
Lot: 52
Samuel Beckett Imagination Dead Imagine, Calder & Boyas, 1965, First trade edition, VG in original wraps; fine internally (no inscriptions). 14pp + 2 blanks
Lot: 53
Samuel Beckett All That Fall, Faber, 1957, First Edition, original wraps, near fine, no inscriptions or the usual browning. 37pp plus 14 blanks.
Lot: 54
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms and Men Without Women, Easton Press, 1990, collector’s editions in decorated full-leather, gilt edged, silk moire endpapers and ribbon markers. VF (2)
Lot: 57
The Works of John Trafford Clegg: Stories, Sketches and Rhymes chiefly in the Rochdale Dialect, Aldine Press, Rochdale, 1898; octavo, two volumes, original gilt cloth, VG; 18 b/w plates; fine internally though one tissue-guard has fox marks. (2)
Lot: 58
Frederick G. Fleay A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama 1559-1642, Reeves & Turner, 1891, 2 Vols, quarter-leather, gilt; top of spine to Vol.II slightly chipped, light foxing to endpapers, fine internally. 387+405pp. (2 vols)
Lot: 59
Joseph Conrad Typhoon and Other Stories, Heinemann, 1903, First UK Edition, original gilt cloth, slight wear, front inner hinge weak, spotting to endpapers; uncut two sides; includes single leaf publicising The Nigger of the “Narcissus”, and Copyright note on reverse of title page; publisher’s blindstamp device to rear board; variant issue without 32pp catalogue at rear.
Lot: 61
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Discours Prononce a L’Academie Francoise le quatre Fevrier 1743….lorsqu’il vint prendre séance a la place de feu M. l’Abbe’ de Hauteville. Avec la Reponse de M. l’Archeveque de Sens. Paris, 1743, title page + 22pp of text; later marbled boards, spine frayed with some loss; small bookplates of Lytton Strachey and Roger Senhouse. Clean text.
Lot: 62
Phaedrus Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulae Aesopiae, [Aesop’s Fables] A.J. Valpy, 1822, 2 vols (bound into one), contemporary full leather, gilt, some light wear, gilt edged.; bookplate of Robert Shafto Adair, neat ownership signature top of title page. Fine internally. 756pp plus index.
Lot: 63
Ernest Hemingway For Whom The Bell Tolls, Easton Press, 1990, collector’s edition in decorated full leather binding, gilt edged, with silk moire end-papers and ribbon marker; fine.
Lot: 64
Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden, Easton Press, 1990, collector’s edition in decorated full leather binding, gilt edged, with silk moire end-papers and ribbon marker; fine
Lot: 65
Ernest Hemingway Across the River and Into the Trees and Winner Take Nothing, Easton Press, 1990, collector’s editions in decorated full leather, gilt edged, silk moire endpapers and ribbon markers. VF (2)
Lot: 67
Malcolm Poynter – [Artworks], 1981, No. 17 of 250, signed & numbered by the artist, octavo, blue cloth, gilt, VF; reproductions of his drawings, body art works and installations, comprising 102pp, mostly b/w (with many hand-tinted) but including a selection of laid down colour photographs
Lot: 68
Fraser Street Moorcroft: A New Dawn, W.M. Publications, 2006, quarto, h/bk in d/jkt, numerous colour illustrations. 446pp. VF
Lot: 70
Alan Kelly and others Art of Mann, Moods of Mann, 1996, oblong quarto, bound in full leather, No. 276 of 350, VG in slipcase; and a fine softback edition of the same work inscribed by Alan Kelly. (2)
Lot: 71
[Maria Rundell] Modern Domestic Cookery, John Murray, 1851, small octavo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers; two engraved plates and illustrations in text; minor spotting affects some pages but generally fine internally; publisher’s catalogue at rear; xxviii, 675, 32pp
Lot: 73
Charles Eastlake Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other details, Longmans, 1868, First Edition; original gilt cloth, a little marked and faded, rear inner hinge cracked, front hinge weak; clean internally with all plates, many in colour of tiles, fabrics etc,
Lot: 76
Thomas Thomson Sketch of the Progress of Physical Science, 1833, and Robert D. Thomson Sketch of the Recent Progress of Physical Science [1843], two pamphlets, neatly bound together with continuous pagination, in modern patterned boards. Lacking original wraps o/w fine. 76pp
Lot: 78
The 1960 Manx Grand Prix, Shell Publications, printed wraps, photo-plates, 32pp; and similar publications for 1962 (2) and 1963. The 1963 issue with small imperfections, others VF. (4)