Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

COOPER, James Fennimore. The Last of the Mohicans, a Narrative of 1757. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 12mo (163 x 95mm.) Engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard and additional engraved title. (Minor spotting to additional title.) Later red half-morocco over marbled paper boards, gilt title to spine (rubbing to extremities). - And seven historical or literary volumes (8).

BAYLEY, F.W.N. The New Tale of a Tub… an Adventure in Verse. London: William S. Orr, 1850. Fourth edition. 7 plates, additional illustrated title. (Minor spotting.) [Bound with:] 'Beauty and the Beast' by Albert Smith, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, [n.d. but circa 1840], 12 plates. [Bound with:] 'An Address to the Deil' by Robert Burns, 1830. [Bound with: Sixteen poems [n.p: n.d] with 16 coloured plates. [Bound with:] 'Captain Sword and Captain Pen' a poem by Leigh Hunt', 1835. [Bound with:] 'Postscript; containing Some Remarks on War and Military Statesmen'. 5 vols., in 1, 8vo (168 x 109mm.) Later half-calf over marbled paper boards with four raised bands to the spine, a black morocco lettering piece to the second compartment (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Mary Edwards (name in ink to the front pastedown). - And six more literary volumes (including John Skelton's 'Poetical Works', 1843, 8vo) (7).

GREENAWAY, Kate, and Walter CRANE (illustrators). The Quiver of Love - a Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876. First edition, 4to (219 x 165mm.) 8 chromolithographed plates with decorative and gilt borders. (Gift inscription in ink to half-title, browning to margins, one tissue-guard partially stuck to plate.) Original red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt to spine and upper cover, g.e. (rubbing to extremities, split cloth at top of spine). - And five more 19th century bindings (6).

POPE-HENNESSSY, James. London Fabric. New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1941. Second edition, revised, 8vo (216 x 136mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Spotting to fore-edge.) Original brown cloth (lightly bumped), dust-jacket designed by Eric Ravilious (some loss to top of spine of jacket, browning to rear). Provenance: Cecil G.W. Eve (bookplate to the front-free endpaper). - And thirty-nine more volumes relating to London (including D.M. Low's 'London is London' illustrated by Edward Bawden, 1949, 8vo) (40).

BALLET. - Serge LIFAR. Ma Vie. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1970. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (228 x 141mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (slight browning to margins). Provenance: Harold Harris (presentation inscription from the author dated 'Covent Garden, 22/3/70' to half-title). - And thirty-three more volumes relating to ballet and opera, all signed by their authors (including Placido Domingo's 'My First Forty Years', 1983, 8vo) (34).

HEATH, Charles (editor). Beauties of the Opera and Ballet. London: David Bogue, [n.d. but circa 1845]. 4to (266 x 172mm.) 10 steel-engraved plates, numerous illustrations, text within varicoloured borders. (Occasional spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Original red morocco with elaborate floral motifs in gilt around theatrical figures to upper and lower covers, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). - And eleven more volumes, mainly on ballet (including Tamara Karsavina's 'Theatre Street', 1930, 8vo) (12).

"PAVAROTTI, Luciano. My Own Story. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1981. First edition, signed by Pavarotti, 8vo (227 x 146mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original black cloth (lightly bumped), dust-jacket. Provenance: ""John"" (presentation inscription by Pavarotti to title-page dated 87); Howard Ingram Dohrman (bookplate to the half-title). - And thirty-one more volumes relating to opera, ballet and the arts, all signed by their authors (including Margot Fonteyn's 'Autobiography', 1976, 8vo) (32)."

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. - Noel STREATFEILD. Harlequinade. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943. First edition, 8vo (239 x 185mm.) Numerous illustrations by Clarke Hutton. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial yellow cloth (minor soiling to lower cover). Provenance: Pru Illingworth (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And thirty-three more children's books (including J.M. Barrie's 'Peter and Wendy' illustrated by F.D. Bedford, [n.d. but circa 1930's], 8vo) (34).

RAILWAYS. - George BEHREND. Pullman in Europe. London: Ian Allan Ltd., 1962. First edition, 8vo (215 x 136mm.) Numerous illustrations and tables. (Faint crease to the preliminaries.) Original brown cloth (bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (some browning to rear panel). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to trains and railways (a quantity).

HADFIELD, Charles, and Gordon BIDDLE. The Canals of North West England. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1970. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped), dust-jacket (price-clipped). - And a quantity of others on waterways and railways including some duplicates (a quantity).

THE STUDIO. - Charles HOLME and Geoffrey Charles HOLME (editors). The Studio - An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. London: Offices of the Studio, 1893-1977. 259 vols., 4to (244 x 179mm to 289 x 204mm.) Plates and illustrations, many coloured or tinted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Aubrey Beardsley, Frank Brangwyn, William Nicholson, Robert Anning Bell, Joseph Pennell, Mortimer Menpes and many others. (Toning to margins, occasional creasing, stamps throughout.) Early 20th century red half-morocco (203), modern red cloth (31), original green cloth (20) or early 20th century brown half-calf with green lettering pieces to the spine (5) (wear to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). Note: a complete run of 160 volumes of 'The Studio' from its inception in 1863 to its end in 1963. It then became absorbed into 'Studio International' and a run of 27 volumes of this from 1964 until 1977 are included. Also a run of 55 volumes of 'Studio Specials' from 1893-1941 and 'The Royal Academy', 1904, and 'Art in England', 1908, 'Winter Numbers', 1898-1900, 'Art Revival in Austria', 1906, 'Art at the New Gallery and Paris Salon, 1899', 'General Index, volumes 22-42' and some duplicate volumes. The collection includes the 5 Whistler lithographs with 'Gants de Suede', 'The Long Gallery' and 'La Robe Rouge' being without library stamps and a duplicate of vol. III contains an additional 2 Whistler lithographs, 'Gants de Suede' and 'The Long Gallery' also without library stamps. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns) (259).

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the third. London: John Murray, 1816. Second issue, first variant, 8vo (222 x 139mm.) (Browning throughout and occasional spotting.) Original card wrappers (creasing to edges). Provenance: Mary Byron (name inscribed in ink to half-title). Note: Mary Byron (née Pole) was the wife of Lord Byron's cousin, George Anson Byron. After Byron's death in 1824, George Anson succeeded the poet and became the 7th Baron Byron.

[BAEDEKER, Karl]. The Traveller's Manual of Conversations in English, German, French, Italian and Dutch. Koblenz: Charles Baedeker, 1840. Second edition, 8vo (137 x 91mm.) (Moderate spotting.) Original boards, onlaid titled paper label to upper cover and spine (some wear to spine ends). Provenance: Mary Morant (ink inscription to front pastedown).

ANTARCTICA. - Frank WILD. Shackleton's Last Voyage… the Story of 'The Quest'. London, New York, etc: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1923. First edition, 8vo (231 x 154mm.) Coloured frontispiece, 50 plates from photographs. (Occasional moderate spotting.) Original blue cloth with pictorial image of 'The Quest' in black, white and gilt to upper cover (slight fading to spine, small split to cloth at base of spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Mabel Gordon Dill (inscription in ink to the front-free endpaper).

BOTANY. - John HUTCHINSON. A Botanist in Southern Africa. London: P.R. Gawthorn Ltd., 1946. First edition, signed by the author to front-free endpaper, 8vo (248 x 147mm.) Numerous plates and maps, including a folding family 'tree' of South African plants. (Toning to margins). Original green buckram (some fading), dust-jacket (chipping, some loss to spine ends).

ASTRONOMY. - Richard A. PROCTOR. The Moon: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery and Physical Condition. Manchester: Alfred Brothers, 1873. First edition, 8vo (188 x 188mm.) Tipped-in albumen-print frontispiece and 1 more albumen-print, both by Rutherfurd, 22 engraved plates only. (Lacking 3 plates and the third albumen-print, occasional spotting, rubbing to the pastedowns.) Original red cloth, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, bumped to spine ends). Provenance: David and Patricia Cory (name-plate to rear pastedown). - And a related volume (James Nasmyth and James Carpenter's 'The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World and a Satellite', 1885, 8vo).

BARZINI, Luigi. Pekin to Paris, an Account of Prince Borghese's Journey across Two Continents in a Motor-Car. London: E. Grant Richards, 1907. First U.K. edition, 8vo (221 x 141mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous plates. (Frontispiece nearly detached, plates discoloured, some heavy spotting.) Original pictorial cloth, extremities bumped, spine ends worn, lower joint splitting). Provenance: unidentified inscription to front-free endpaper dated Christmas 1908.

BEAUMONT, Worby. Motor Vehicles and Motors…Their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo (272 x 189mm.) Numerous illustrations, drawings and folding plates. (Some loss to tissue-guard of frontispiece, occasional spotting throughout.) Original brown cloth (light rubbing to extremities).

FAULKNER, William. Notes on a Horsethief. Greenville, Mississippi: The Levee Press, 1950. Limited edition of 975 copies, this number 28, signed by the author, 8vo (232 x 141mm.). (Some toning to page ends.) Original green cloth, silver stamped design to upper cover, illustrated endpapers by Elizabeth Calvert (rubbing to extremities).