Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

SELBY, Prideaux John. A History of British Forest-Trees. London: John Van Voorst, 1842. First edition, 8vo (229 x 132mm.) Numerous engraved illustrations, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. (Name inscribed to half-title.) Original green cloth blocked in blind (bumped to extremities, slight fading to spine). - And twenty-nine other volumes about trees (30).

HUTCHINSON & CO (publisher). The German New Order in Poland. London: published for the Polish Ministry of Information, [n.d.] 8vo (225 x 147mm.) Folding map, numerous illustrations. (Small marginal tear to map.) Original cloth (affected by damp), dust-jacket (torn with minor loss). - And thirty others, the majority of Polish or military interest (31).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Emily BRONTË. Wuthering Heights. London: 1964. 8vo (221 x 137mm.) Plates by Charles Keeping. Original morocco-backed cloth (extremities scuffed), slip-case (lightly scuffed). - And a quantity of approximately 100 others, all published by the Folio Society (a quantity).

MILNE, A.A. When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. Second edition, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Minor light browning.) Original blue cloth (extremities bumped, wrinkle to upper cover, some soiling). - And a quantity of others (a quantity).

BANNERMAN, David A. Birds of Cyprus. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1958. First edition, 4to (275 x 202mm.) Colour frontispiece, many colour plates illustrated by D.M Reid-Henry and Roland Green. Original green cloth (mild bumping to spine ends), dust-jacket, onlaid colour illustration to upper cover (slight shelfwear to extremities). - And six other volumes on European birds (7).

CRAMP, Stanley (chief editor). Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa… The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Oxford, London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1977-1985. Vols. 1-4 only (of 9), mixed editions, 4to (263 x 211mm.) (Occasional spotting to a few pages within vol. 1, more so within vol. 2.) Original blue cloth, dust-jackets (vol. 2 price-clipped and with very light shelf wear to upper edge.) - And a quantity of books on the birds of Africa, Asia and the Americas (a quantity).

COTT, Hugh B. Adaptive Coloration in Animals. London: Methuen & Co., 1940. First edition, 8vo (256 x 184mm.) Colour frontispiece, numerous black and white plates by the author. (Spotting to the preliminaries and fore-edge, a cancellation stamp to the front pastedown and front-free endpaper.) Original green cloth (extremities bumped and faded). - And eighteen other volumes on animals (19).

BRITTAIN, Vera. Testament of Youth. An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1933. First edition, 8vo (191 x 120mm.) (Some light spotting, mostly to margins.) Original cloth (extremities bumped). - And thirty-five other autobiographies and biographies, including three signed (36).

BASKETT, John (publisher). The Book of Common Prayer… together with the Psalter and Psalms of David. Oxford: 1732. 8vo (257 x 198mm.) (Some spotting and browning, title and a few other leaves with minor marginal tears, some leaves, including last few, torn and reinforced at margins.) Contemporary calf (worn, lower cover detached). - And five others of religious interest (6).

AUTOGRAPHS. Theatre Year… a Selection of Photographs by Donald Cooper. London: In (Parenthesis) Ltd., 1980. 8vo (226 x 235mm.) Contains the autographs of over 40 stars of the theatre on London and Stratford stages for the year 1980, including autographs of Judi Dench, Sinead Cusack, Alan Howard, Simon Callow, Donald Sinden, Joan Collins and Michael Gambon. - And a quantity of other volumes containing numerous autographs, including a folder of signed theatre ephemera (a quantity).

AUTOGRAPHS. - Simon ANNAND. The Half. London: Faber & Faber, 2008. First edition, first impression, 4to (286 x 212mm.) Contains over 100 autographs from film and movie stars of the late 20th and early 21st century including Jude Law, Francesca Annis, Simon Callow, Edward Fox, Judi Dench, Donald Sinden, Joanna Lumley and a postcard from Mark Rylance - some of these signatures are directly onto the illustrations within the book, others are signed onto photocopied images of those photographs. - And twenty-seven other autobiographies by other stars of film and theatre, all signed (28).

BROWN, Leslie, and Dean AMADON. Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World. London: Country Life, 1968. 2 vols., 4to (286 x 220mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original brown cloth (lightly bumped to extremities), slipcase. - And a quantity of other volumes on birds of prey and a miscellany of natural history (including James Fisher, 'Wild America', 1956, first edition, signed, 8vo) (a quantity).

GILLETT, J.D. Common African Mosquitos… and their Medical Importance. London: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd., 1972. 4to (296 x 210mm.) 48 colour illustrations. (Spotting to edges.) Original blue cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket (rubbing to spine ends). - And twenty-five other volumes on British and European Lepidoptera (including a copy of 'Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa', second edition, 1994, 4to, slipcase) (26).

MILITARY. Jugoslavia. London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944. The Geographical Handbook Series - For Official use Only, 3 vols., 8vo (222 x 147mm.) Numerous illustrations, coloured folding maps, map in pocket at rear. Original brown cloth (some fading to spine, odd nick to the covers.) - And a quantity of other volumes from the Geographical Handbook Series, including another 3 vol. 'Jugoslavia' set. Provenance: Alan Sillitoe (most of these books have his signature in ink on the preliminaries, dated 1979. Sillitoe is best known for his novel 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner') (a quantity).

FREEDMAN, Barnett (illustrator). - Leo TOLSTOY. War and Peace. Glasgow: printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1938. Limited edition of 1500 copies, this number 1251 signed by the illustrator to vol. 6., 8vo (222 x 145mm.) Colour lithographed plates, black and white illustrations, all by Freedman. Original decorative cloth (spines slightly faded), contained within two slipcases (defective).

TROLLOPE, Anthony. He Knew He Was Right. London: Strahan and Company, Publishers, 1869. First edition in book form, 2 vols., 8vo (204 x 127mm.) Plates and illustrations by Marcus Stone. (Light browning and spotting throughout, [B4-B5] in vol. I torn and repaired.) Modern green morocco-backed cloth. - And a six volume illustrated edition of Trollop's 'Barsetshire Chronicles' (8).

HUGHES, Ted. The Iron Man… A Story in Five Nights. London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition, first impression, 8vo (215 x 160mm.) Frontispiece, illustrations by George Adamson. Pictorial boards (slight fading and bumping to head and foot of spine), dust-jacket (some fading to spine, mild spotting to rear inner flap).

ORWELL, George. Animal Farm, a Fairy Story. London: Secker & Warburg, May 1945. First edition, first printing, 8vo (187 x 120mm.) Original cloth (affected by damp, extremities bumped, spine faded, endpapers slightly soiled). Provenance: Freda Bruce Lockhart (film critic; inscription dated August 1945 to front-free endpaper).

ELIOT, T.S. Dante. London: Faber & Faber, 1929. First edition, 8vo (190 x 123mm.) (Minor spotting to fore-edge.) Original paper-covered boards, the upper cover with a design by Rex Whistler (head of spine lightly bumped), dust-jacket with uniform design to the cover (minor nicks at head of backstrip, backstrip browned).