Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

SIGNED BOOKS. - John OSBORNE. A Better Class of Person. London: Faber and Faber, 1981. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author on the title-page, 8vo (233 x 148mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning, previous addresses of the dedicatee in ink on the initial blank.) Original red cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (inner flap with crease, spine ends lightly creased). Note: includes a Christmas card from John Osborne with the words 'and thanks for your tolerance and good humour during some testing moments!' Provenance: Judith Gollings (bookplate on the initial blank). - And a further nine volumes, all signed (including Noel Coward's mounted signature in 'The Noel Coward Diaries', 1982, 8vo, and a signed copy of Nancy Spain's 'My Boy Mo', 1959, 8vo) (10).

SCOTT, Walter. The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1834. 28 vols., new edition, 8vo (172 x 105mm.) Frontispieces, publisher's advertisements bound-in at front of most volumes. (Toning, browning, occasional spotting.) Original cloth, paper labels to spines (sunning to spines, spine ends bumped). Provenance: J.R. Beckett (name inscribed to front pastedowns) (28).

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. London: Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. First U.K. edition, 8vo (185 x 119mm.) (Toning, several leaves with minor marginal marks.) Original green cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (significant loss to spine panel, soiling to lower panel). - And a further twenty volumes of 20th century literature (including a first printing of C.S. Lewis' 'Broadcast Talks', 1942, 8vo) (21).

HARDY, Thomas. Satires of Circumstance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. First edition, 8vo (193 x 128mm.) (Toning, uncut preliminaries.) Original olive cloth, gilt medallion to upper cover (fading gilt to spine, small marks to upper cover). Note: includes Hardy's finest poems- those written after the death of his first wife, Emma. Provenance: M.K.T. (initials inscribed on front-free endpaper); J.R. Hilton (name inscribed on front-free endpaper). - And a further nine volumes by Thomas Hardy, mostly first editions (including a second state of 'Jude the Obscure', 1896, 8vo, and 'Life's Little Ironies', 1894, 8vo) (10).

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. London: John Cassell, 1852. First U.K. edition, 8vo (198 x 123mm.) Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, title-page vignette, 25 wood-engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Small marks to tissue-guard, toning, lacking 2 plates.) Contemporary black cloth-backed buckram (rubbing to joints and extremities). - And a further nine volumes, all by Charles Dickens (including a first edition of 'Dombey and Son', 1848, 8vo, and a first edition, early issue of 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby', 1839, 8vo) (10).

KAFKA, Franz. The Trial… translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First edition, 8vo (184 x 123mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth (minor soiling to upper cover, small split to upper joint).

DAHL, Roald. Over to You. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First edition, signed and inscribed by Roald Dahl on the title-page, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) (Toning, lacking rear blank, a gift inscription crossed out on the front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped).

BENCHLEY, Peter. Jaws. London: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 125mm.) (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small closed tear at top of spine). Provenance: 'Bill' (gift inscribed from on the front-free endpaper).

MILNE, A.A. - Alexander LEONARD (translator). Winnie Ille Pu. London: Methuen and Dutton, 1960. First impression, 8vo (183 x 120mm.) Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (light rubbing to corners, price-clipped). - And a further six volumes (including 'Domus Anguli Puensis, A Latin version of A.A. Milne's 'The House at Pooh Corner'', 1980, 8vo) (7).

FERMOR, Patrick Leigh. A Time of Gifts. London: John Murray, 1977. First edition, 8vo (216 x 132mm.) Photographic frontispiece. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (minor soiling to lower cover). - And a further three volumes by Patrick Leigh Fermor (including 'Between the Woods and the Water', 1986, 8vo) (4).

LAWRENCE, D.H. Sons and Lovers. London: Duckworth & Co., 1913. First edition, first state, 8vo (183 x 117mm.) 20pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Lacking initial blank, hinges weakening, residue of label to front pastedown, toning.) Original blue cloth (tear at top of spine, small stains to upper cover). - And a further 2 volumes by D.H. Lawrence (including the first U.S. edition of 'Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious', 1921, 8vo) (3).

CONRAD, Joseph. The Rover. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923. First edition, first issue, 8vo (194 x 123mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and first text leaves, spotting to fore-edge.) Original green cloth (lower cover bumped, minor mark to upper cover), dust-jacket (small tape repairs verso, minor marks to lower panel). Note: has 'o' for 'go' on p.221. Comes in the scarce, alternate colour dust-jacket. Provenance: W.O.P. Rosedale (ink inscribed to front pastedown).

MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Liza of Lambeth. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition, first issue, 8vo (182 x 114mm.) 6pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Old adhesive marks to pastedowns, minor chipping to front-free endpaper.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (slight spine lean, spine ends bumped, lower cover weakening). Note: Maugham's first novel. Provenance: F.S. Eden (ink inscribed on initial blank).

YEATS, W.B. Wheels and Butterflies. London: Macmillan, 1934. First edition, 8vo (188 x 124mm.) (Toning, some spotting to front pastedown and fore-edge.) Original green cloth, gilt masks to upper cover (top of spine bumped), dust-jacket (crease at top of spine panel). - And a further volume (a first edition of Virginia Woolf's 'The Years', 1937, 8vo) (2).

GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American. London: William Heinemann, 1955. First edition, first printing, 8vo (196 x 125mm.) (Toning, marginal spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (some fading to spine, slight spine lean), dust-jacket (browning to lower panel). - And a further first printing by Graham Greene ('Our Man in Havana', 1958, 8vo) (2).

GREENE, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. London: William Heinemann, 1948. First edition, first printing, 8vo (184 x 120mm.) (Toning, browning to front and rear leaves.) Original blue cloth (slightly faded spine ends), dust-jacket (sunned to spine). - And a further sixteen volumes by Graham Greene, all first editions (including the first U.S. edition of 'The Man Within', 1929, 8vo, and the first edition, second state, of 'Stamboul Train', 1932, 8vo) (17).

MURDOCH, Iris. The Bell. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. First edition, first printing, 8vo (197 x 126mm.) (Toning, some spotting to fore-edge.) Original green cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (minor chipping to extremities, some corner loss to lower panel). Provenance: Margaret E. Morris (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further sixteen volumes by Iris Murdoch, all first editions, except a signed, fourth impression of 'The Nice and the Good', 1969, 8vo) (17).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Mating Season. London: Herbet Jenkins Limited, [1949.] First edition, first printing, 8vo (184 x 120mm.) 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Minor spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original orange cloth stamped in black (browned to margins), dust-jacket (some fading to spine, old tape repairs to spine ends). Provenance: Josephine Hughes (name inscribed in ink to the front-free endpaper). - And a further seventeen volumes by P.G. Wodehouse, mostly first editions (including 'Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit', 1954, 8vo) (18).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Hot Water. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1932. First edition, first printing, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) 8pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Browning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original orange cloth stamped in black (sunning to spine and margins). Provenance: 'Jane' (name inscribed to bottom edge). - And a further forty volumes by P.G. Wodehouse (including 'Mulliner Nights', 1933, 8vo) (41).