Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

BINDINGS. Elegant Extracts: or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry… [and] Prose. London: J. Johnson, R. Baldwin et al., 1807-1809. 6 vols., 8vo (232 x 141mm.) Engraved titles. (Browning throughout, occasional spotting.) Contemporary marbled calf, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (light rubbing). Note: includes 'Elegant Epistles'. - And a further twenty-five volumes (including the first edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 'Ernest Maltravers', 3 vols., 1837, 8vo, and 'The Works of Thomas Gray', 2 vols., 1807, 8vo) (31).

BINDINGS. - Donald A. MACKENZIE. Indian Myth and Legend. London: Gresham Publishing, [circa 1913.] 8vo (212 x 132mm.) 8 colour plates after Warwick Goble, numerous black and white photographic plates. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, blanks replaced.) 21st century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spine. - And a further eleven bound volumes (including Fynes Moryson's 'An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell…', 4 vols., 1907-1908, 8vo, and Charles Squire's 'Celtic Myth and Legend: Poetry and Romance', [1913], 8vo, and four Adam and Charles Black county books) (12).

ZANGWILL, Israel. The Works. London: Globe Publishing Co., Ltd. 14 vols. Limited 'Edition de luxe', this being number 732 of 1000 signed copies, 8vo (218 x 133mm.) Colour plates. (Toning, loose plate to volume 14.) Original red calf over cloth-covered boards, with 'Star of David' devices to the spines, t.e.g. (light rubbing to extremities, stain to upper cover of volume 3) (14).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co., 1950. 97th edition, 4to (232 x 144mm.) 12 colour plates by Rackham. Late 20th century green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). - And a further nine illustrated volumes of children's literature (including Lewis Carroll's [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] 'Through the Looking-Glass', 1882, 8vo, and Margaret Sackville's 'Fairy Tales for Old and Young', 1909, 4to) (10).

POLYGAMY. - [Martin MADAN.] Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise of Female Ruin, in its Causes, Effects, Consequences, Prevention, and Remedy; considered on the basis of the Divine Law. London: J. Dodsley, 1781. Vol. 1 (only). Second edition, 8vo (228 x 135mm.) (Toning, occasional browning, front blank with minor loss, rear blank partially adhering to pastedown.) Near contemporary vellum-backed boards (damp-stained, rubbing to extremities, soiling). Note: a defence of polygamy as a solution to the problem of prostitution. It caused a storm of outrage. Provenance: George West (name-plate to the front pastedown). - And a further eight miscellaneous volumes (including the fourth edition of Isaac Taylor's 'Scenes in Africa', 1824, 12mo, and C.M. Delagardette's 'Règles des Cinq Ordres D'Architecture de Vignole', 1823, 4to) (9).

WISDEN, John (publisher). Cricketers' Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co. and Sporting Handbooks, 1944-1985. 11 vols., 8vo (159 x 100mm.) Advertisements, numerous illustrations and photographic plates. (Toning, browning, occasional spotting.) Original linen (4), and original cloth (7) (rubbing to extremities, fading), dust-jackets for the later four volumes (fading, chipping, large tear to 1983 volume) (11).

BALLARD, J.G. Kingdom Come. London: Fourth Estate, 2006. First edition, first printing, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further fourteen miscellaneous books, all signed (including John Julius Norwich's 'Byzantium, the Decline and Fall', 1995, 8vo) (15).

ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Buried Giant. London: Faber and Faber, 2015. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 147mm.) (Mild toning.) Original grey cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (spine ends bumped, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Mike' (gift inscribed to on the title-page). - And a further thirty-one miscellaneous volumes, all signed (including Gerald Scarfe's 'Scarfeland', 1989, with a tipped-in lithograph signed in pencil by the artist, 4to) (32).

BINDINGS. - Cuthbert LARKING. Bandobast and Khabar, Reminiscences of India. London: Hurst and Blackett Limited, 1888. First edition, 8vo (179 x 125mm.) Photographic frontispiece, 11 plates from drawings by the author. (Toning.) Contemporary half vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, black morocco lettering piece to the spine, Newport Grammar School insignia and motto in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (minor soiling to vellum). Provenance: A.V. Russell (prize bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further twelve volumes of bindings (including 'Berge's Complete Natural History', 1890, 8vo) (13).

TINKER, Hugh (editor). Burma, The Struggle for Independence 1944-1948. London: H.M.S.O., 1983. 2 vols., first edition, large 8vo (269 x 174mm.) Several folding maps. (Toning, labels to front-free endpapers, stamps on copyright pages.) Original black cloth, dust-jackets (slight fading to spine panels). Provenance: Chichester Reference Library (labels to front-free endpapers). - And a further seven volumes related to Burma (including Verrier Elwin's 'The Nagas in the Nineteenth Century', 1969, 8vo, and J.H. Hutton's 'The Angami Nagas', 1921, 8vo) (9).

CONJURING. - Levent and Todd KARR. Roy Benson by Starlight. [Los Angeles:] The Miracle Factory, 2006. First edition, 4to (253 x 198mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (bumped at top of spine), dust-jacket (chipped at top of spine). - And a further eighteen volumes related to conjuring (including Phil Temple's 'Dante, the Devil Himself', 1991, 4to). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (19).

CONJURING. - Rupert HOWARD. [Magic Course.] London: The Rupert Howard School, [circa 1933.] 25 volumes, 4to (299 x 235mm.) Numerous photographic and black and white illustrations. (Toning.) Original wrappers (some browning). Note: a complete set. - And a quantity of books, pamphlets and booklets related to conjuring. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (a quantity).

BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Dena ATTAR. A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain 1800-1914. London: Prospect Books, 1987. 8vo (253 x 171mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (sunning to spine). - And a further fifteen volumes relating to cookery books and bibliography (including Elizabeth Driver's 'A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914) (16).

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. - Jack HEMING. Blue Wings. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1938. First edition, 8vo (191 x 126mm.) Frontispiece. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further thirty-two volumes of children's books, all in dust-jackets (33).

MOTOR-RACING. - Gerald ROSE. A Record of Motor-Racing. London: under the authority of The Royal Automobile Club by Reveirs Bros., 1909. First edition, 4to (284 x 220mm.) Colour frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations. (Minor spotting verso frontispiece, toning.) Original two-tone cloth, gilt insignia of the RAC to upper cover, t.e.g. (finger-mark soiling to covers). - And a further ten volumes related to motor-racing (including 'The Bentleys at Le Mans' by J. Dudley Benjafield, 1948, spiral-bound) (11).

CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First English edition, 8vo (208 x 124mm.) (Minor spotting and browning to preliminaries, crease to rear blank.) Original black cloth (faint marks to lower cover, light rubbing). - And a further eight miscellaneous volumes, mostly literary (9).

MALTHUS, T.R. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness. London: J. Johnson, 1806. 2 vols., third edition, 8vo (208 x 124mm.) Half-titles, index to rear of volume 1, 'Appendix' to rear of volume 2. (Occasional light spotting and browning, marginal insect damage to rear five leaves of volume 1, and to corner of half-title of volume 2, initial blanks loose.) Contemporary speckled calf (lacking lettering pieces, upper covers detached). Provenance: G.W. Andrews (gift inscribed from on the title-page); James Henry Crawford (bookplates to the front pastedowns and gift inscribed to on the title-pages). - And a further twenty-nine volumes relating to industry, economics, social welfare, topography and agriculture (including two works by William Marshall: 'The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties', 2 vols., 1790, 8vo, and 'The Rural Economy of the West of England', 2 vols., 1796, 8vo) (31).

ART REFERENCE. - Georges DUBY (editor). The History of Paris in Painting. New York and London: Abbeville Press, 2009. First edition, folio (433 x 295mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning, slight spotting to front and rear free-endpapers.) Original red cloth, slipcase. - And a further six related volumes (including 'The History of Venice in Painting' edited by Georges Duby, 2007, folio) (8).

CONJURING. - Max ABRAMS (compiler). Annemann, the Life and Times of a Legend. Tahoma: L. & L. Publishing, 1992. First edition, 4to (278 x 214mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (slight fading), dust-jacket. - And a further nine volumes related to conjuring (including a signed copy of Patrick Page's 'Magic Page by Page', 2011, 4to, and Juan Tamariz's 'Bewitched Music Volume 1: Sonata', 1988, 8vo) (10).