Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

BROADSIDE. - Ted HUGHES. Pike. Massachusetts, Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1959. Limited edition, being one of 200 copies, this one signed, single leaf (519 x 404mm.) Woodcut illustration in green and black by Robert Bermelin, poem in two columns. (Browning, large creases, spotting to top right.) Unbound as issued. Note: the first publication of this poem which was later published in Hughes' second collection, Lupercal, in 1960. This was the first collaboration between Hughes and Leonard Baskin. The Poems is signed 'For Clapham Slim, from Ted'. 'Clapham Slim' was the name used by Joe Lyde, jazz trumpeter. Lyde and Hughes met at Cambridge and remained friends until Lyde's death in 1976. In her biography of Hughes, Elaine Feinstein called Lyde 'a wild mercurial figure' who 'was one of the people Hughes sought out with most enthusiasm when he returned to Cambridge'.

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. - Anna REYNOLDS. In Fine Style, the Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2013. First edition, 4to (289 x 272mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. Original black paper-covered boards, dust-jacket (slight creasing at extremities). - And a further fifteen volumes relating to art and antique reference (including 'The First Georgians, Art and Monarchy 1714-1760' edited by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, 2014, 4to) (16).

CONJURING. - Mike CAVENEY. Carter the Great. Pasadena: Mike Caveney's Magic Words, 1995. Limited edition, this being number 276 of 1000 copies, 4to (288 x 225mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (slight bump to spine ends). - And a further fifteen volumes related to conjuring (including Robert E. Neale's 'Folding Money Fooling', 1997, 4to) (16).

FONTAINE, Jean de la. Tales and Novels in Verse. London: for the Society of English Bibliophilists, 1896. 2 vols. Limited edition, this being number 460 of 520 copies, 4to (252 x 168mm.) Numerous hand-coloured engraved plates after Lancret, Boucher and Pater. (Toning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth, paper labels mounted to spines (sunning to spines, fading). - And a further eighteen miscellaneous volumes (including 'The Illustrated Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition' in Paris 1867, [1868], 4to) (20).

GRUEBER, Herbert. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II. London: British Museum, 1911. 4 vols. [of 6, plate vols. only], folio (403 x 279mm.) 183 plates. (Toning, first 10 plates reproduced in facsimile.) Original blue cloth (unevenly browned, light rubbing) (4).

ASIAN ART REFERENCE. - Jan CHAPMAN. The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China. London: Christie's Books, 1999. 4to (297 x 213mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Toning to margins.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of Asian art reference (including Charles Genoud and Takao Inoue's 'Buddhist Wall-Painting of Ladakh', 1982, 4to) (a quantity).

MASKELL, Alfred. Wood Sculpture. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition, 4to (256 x 170mm.) Numerous plates with tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt to upper cover (lightly bumped). - And a further fifteen volumes relating to art and antique reference (including T. Tindall Wildridge's 'The Grotesque in Church Art', 1899, 4to) (16).

HILL, George Francis. A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini. Firenze: Studio per Edizioni Scelte, 1984. 2 vols., reprint, folio (329 x 235mm.) 201 plates. (Toning.) Dark blue cloth-backed paper-covered boards, dust-jackets (minor rubbing to extremities). Note: a reprint of the 1930 first edition (2).

ANTIQUITIES. - O.M. DALTON. Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era with Examples of Mohammedan Art and Carvings in Bone. London: British Museum and Longmans & Co. et al, 1909. 4to (279 x 216mm.) 125 plates, numerous illustrations in the text. (Toning, 1 plate loose.) Original blue cloth (light rubbing to extremities). - And a further volume by O.M. Dalton ('Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East', 1901, 4to) (2).

CONJURING. - William W. LARSEN. Genii. California: William W. Larsen, 1937-1961. 8 vols., 4to (263 x 190mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Later blue cloth (some fading). Note: comprises volumes for the years 1937-39, 1952-56, 1959-61. Provenance: Larry Shean (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And a quantity of volumes related to conjuring (including 24 [of 25] issues of the Rupert Howard School Magic Course). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (a quantity).

ANTIQUE REFERENCE. - Geoffrey GODDEN. Suffolk, Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2004. Large 8vo (273 x 209mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue paper-covered boards, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of books and auction catalogues related to antique reference (including Peter Bradshaw's 'Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848', 1990, 8vo) (a quantity).

CONJURING. - Jean Eugéne ROBERT-HOUDIN. The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic, or How to Become a Wizard. Translated and Edited, with Notes by Professor Hoffman. London: George Routledge and Sons, [circa 1900.] 8vo (186 x 116mm.) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Toning, repair to p.83 and front-free endpaper, lacking rear blank.) Original pictorial brown cloth (hinges cracked, rubbing). - And a quantity of material related to conjuring, including booklets, and spiral-bound printed material. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (a quantity).

CONJURING. - Charles T. JORDAN. Collected Tricks. New Jersey: Karl Fulves, 1975. 4to (280 x 215mm.) Numerous illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt. (Toning.) Original spiral-bound pink wrappers. - And a quantity of books, pamphlets and booklets related to conjuring. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (a quantity).

COOKERY. - Josie A. WENTWORTH (editor). Janie Ellice's Recipes 1846-1859. London: Arcadia Press, 1974. Limited edition, this being one of 250 copies signed by Elizabeth Craig, 4to (253 x 197mm.) Foreword by Elizabeth Craig, numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards. - And a further thirty-three volumes of books related to cookery (including a facsimile of the first edition of Hannah Glasse's 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy', 1983, 4to) (34).

TROUBRIDGE, Laura. The Book of Etiquette. [London:] Associated Book-Buyers' Company, 1926. 2 vols., 8vo (187 x 118mm.) (Toning, mild spotting to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped), dustjacket to volume 2 (extremities chipped, tear to top of spine). - And a further sixteen volumes, mostly cookery related (including Mrs Beeton's 'All About Cookery', 1907, 8vo, and Gertrude Jekyll's 'Old English Household Life', 1925, small 4to) (18).

SADOWITZ, Jerry. Cards on the Table. London: Martin Breese, 1989. First edition, 8vo (213 x 145mm.) Numerous illustrations by David Britland. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (browned to margins). - And a quantity of books related to conjuring, mostly magic aimed for children (including Etienne Pradier's 'Think of a Card', 2013, 8vo) (a quantity).

MARTIAL ARTS. - Kazuzo KUDO. Dynamic Judo, throwing techniques. Tokyo: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1972. Fourth printing, 4to (294 x 203mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). - And a quantity of further volumes related to martial arts (including Donn F. Draeger's 'Weapons and Fighting Arts of the Indonesian Archipelago', 1972, 8vo) (a quantity).

MARTIAL ARTS. - Doshin SO. Shorinji Kempo, philosophy and techniques. Tokyo: Japan Publications, Inc., 1974. Second printing, 4to (297 x 205mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original cloth boards, dust-jacket (small crease to inner flap). - And a quantity of further volumes related to martial arts (including Masatoshi Nakayama's 'Dynamic Karate', 1973, 8vo) (a quantity).

TOPOGRAPHY. - Thomas BAINES and William FAIRBAIRN. Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present. London: William Mackenzie, [1868.] 2 vols. in 4, 4to (293 x 224mm.) 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, 2 additional engraved titles, 23 engraved plates. (Occasional spotting, heavy to first text leaves.) Original decorative cloth, g.e. (sunning to spines, wear to spine ends). - And a further thirteen volumes, mostly topographical (including William Arthur Shaw's 'Manchester Old and New', 3 vols., [circa 1896], 4to) (17).