Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

ANGLING. – Van Campen HEILNER. Salt Water Fishing. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1937. Deluxe limited edition, this being number 16 of 199 copies signed by Van Campen Heilner, 8vo (223 x 158mm.) 12 colour plates after W. Goadby Lawrence, photographic frontispiece of the author with Zane Grey, photographic illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt fish to upper cover, g.e., slipcase with mounted paper label (rubbing to inner edge of slipcase).

CRICKET. – Samuel BRITCHER and David Ravern ALLEN. Britcher’s Scores 1790-1805. Newnham-on-Severn: Christopher Saunders, 2003. Limited edition, this being number 16 of 212 copies signed by Sir Tim Rice, 8vo (247 x 156mm.) 2 folding plates, 15 string-bound booklets of match scores. Original half morocco (spine lightly rubbed), maroon cloth-covered solander box, original slipcase. – And a further volume (William Denison and David Rayvern Allen’s ‘The Essential Denison’, limited edition, being number 161 of 212 copies signed by J.M. Brearley, 2008, 8vo) (2).

CRICKET. – Gerald BRODRIBB. Felix and the Eleven of England. Manchester: Boundary Books, 2002. Limited edition, this being number 111 of 250 copies signed by Ted Dexter, Hubert Doggart and E. Wanostrocht, oblong 4to (248 x 278mm.) Colour illustrations. Original rexine, spine gilt, g.e., slipcase. Note: an account of Nicholas ‘Felix’ Wanoscrocht and his time with William Clarke’s ‘All England Eleven’, an itinerant first-class cricket team that used the newly developed railway lines to play against teams throughout Great Britain.

GRACE, W.G. Cricket. Bristol and London: J.W. Arrowsmith and Simpkin, Marshall et al., 1891. Edition de Luxe, limited to 652 copies signed by the author, this being number 23, Crown 4to (247 x 188mm.) Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous plates on India Paper, ‘List of Subscribers’ to rear. (Mild toning.) Original black half morocco, t.e.g. (rebacked, mark to upper cover).

ORWELL, George. Animal Farm: The Strip Version of the Halas and Batchelor Film. [N.p.:] Oblong 12mo (164 x 242mm.) 26pp. of strip cartoon of ‘Animal Farm’. (Toning, spotting to first leaf.) Original card covers (slight fading, small stains to upper cover). Note: scarce. The Halas and Batchelor’s 1954 film animation of Orwell’s novel was partly funded by the CIA. Many regional newspapers then ran cartoon serials based on the film, and this is the complete serial.

OLIVIER, Laurence. On Acting. London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1986. Limited edition, this being number 169 of 300 copies, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 151mm.) (Mild toning, slight mark to half-title.) Original red buckram, slipcase.

CERAMICS. – Roger BERTHOUD (introduction). Ewen Henderson. Yeovil: Marston House Publishers, 1995. Signed by Ewen Henderson, oblong 4to (197 x 206mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. Note: Ewen Henderson was one of the most significant English ceramicists to emerge in the 1960’s. He was taught at Camberwell School of Art by Hans Coper and Lucie Re.

SIGNED BOOK. – Elizabeth TAYLOR. Elizabeth Takes Off. London: Macmillan, 1988. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (228 x 147mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning, some pencil underlining.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (spine ends bumped). Note: signed on the front endpaper: ‘To Beverley, Best Wishes, Elizabeth Taylor’. Provenance: Linda Stewart (ink name to title-page).

SIGNED BOOK. – Norman MAILER. Harlot’s Ghost. London: Michael Joseph, 1991. First U.K. edition, signed by the author, 8vo (232 x 148mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (crease to inner flap and spine ends). Note: signed on title-page: ‘To Barry, cheers, Norman Mailer’.

SIGNED BOOK. – Vincent PRICE. I Like What I Know. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (234 x 150mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (extremities chipped). Note: inscribed on the title-page: ‘For Barry, all my best, Vincent Price’. Known especially for starring in horror movies (his last role being in ‘Edward Scissorhands’ in 1990), Price was also an avid art collector who had studied art history at Yale, and this book is about that passion.

SIGNED BOOK. – Marianne FAITHFULL. An Autobiography. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original two-tone boards, dust-jacket.

SIGNED BOOK. – Laddie LUCAS. Flying Colours, the Epic Story of Douglas Bader. London: Hutchinson, 1981. Signed by Douglas Bader and Laddie Lucas, 8vo (233 x 153mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket. Note: signed on the title-page: ‘To Jonathan Button, Douglas Bader, 23/11/81, Laddie Lucas 16/vii/83’.

SIGNED BOOK. – Wladziu Valentino LIBERACE. Liberace Cooks! Recipes from His Seven Dining Rooms… as told to Carol Truax. New York: Doubleday, 1970. First edition, signed by Liberace and with a sketch of a piano, 8vo (232 x 152mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toned, occasional spotting.) Original cloth (fading), dust-jacket (with tears and losses). Note: signed to the half-title: ‘To Scottie, you’re a love! Liberace 1971’.

SIGNED BOOK. – Christine KEELER. Scandal! London: Xanadu Publications, 1989. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (178 x 110mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toned.) Original card covers.

KIPLING, Rudyard. The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling. [New York:] Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. 28 vols., ‘The Burwash Edition’, this being number 828 of 1010 copies signed by the author, 8vo (219 x 143mm.) Photographic frontispiece of Kipling. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spines, t.e.g. Note: published posthumously but signed by Kipling before his death in 1936 (28).

BERKELEY, George. Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtue of Tar Water, and divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another. London: for W. Innys, and C. hitch and C. Davis, 1744. New edition. (Browning.) [Bound with:] Thomas PRIOR. An Authentick Narrative of the Success of Tar-Water, in Curing a great Number and Variety of Distempers, with Remarks, and Occasional Papers. London: W. Innys, C. Hitch et al., 1746. Title, 4pp. ‘Index’. (Browning.) 8vo (194 x 116mm.) Contemporary calf (upper cover detached). – And a further two volumes (Andrew Brown’s ‘History of Glasgow’, 2 vols. in 1, 1795, 8vo, and Elizabeth Raffald’s ‘The Experienced English Housekeeper’, New Edition, 1807, 8vo) (3).

[SWEDENBORG, Emanuel.] – Manoah SIBLY. Twelve Sermons Preached at the New Jerusalem Temple. London: R. Hindmarsh, 1796-40. First edition, 8vo (208 x 125mm.) In 12 Parts, separate titles and pagination for each sermon. (Occasional scattered spotting, damp-stain to front endpaper.) Contemporary half calf (inner hinge weakened, spine ends chipped, rubbed). Note: scarce. Manoah Sibly was the brother of Ebenezer and had studied astrology, astronomy and languages. The first works published under his name were translations of Ptolemy and Placidus de Titis. He became a Swedenborgian preacher in 1787, the year that the New Jerusalem Temple was established in Red Cross Street, London. The printer, Robert Hindmarsh, was one of the founders of the Church of the New Jerusalem in England.

WALLER, Edmund. Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, and to Several Persons. London: H. Herringman, to be sold by J. Knight and F. Saunders, 1686. Fifth edition, 8vo (177 x 118mm.) Title in red and black, 2 parts in 1 with separate title and pagination for ‘The Maid’s Tragedy Altered’, engraved portrait frontispiece of Waller by P. Vandrebanc after Peter Lely. (Browning, occasional minor staining.) Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt, g.e. (covers detached). Provenance: Charles Whitehead (ink name verso frontispiece, dated 1795).

JOHNSON, Charles [pseud.] A General History of the Pyrates. London: T. Woodward, 1726. Vol. 1 [only, of 2]. Fourth edition, 8vo (196 x 119mm.) 3 engraved plates, including 1 folding, engraved head and tailpieces. (Staining to B5-B6, marginal insect-damage from Bb to last leaf Ee8, tape repairs verso folding plate.) Contemporary full calf (minor loss at top of spine). Note: [ii], xx, 17-443, [i]. The plates show Edward Teach (‘Blackbeard the Pirate’), Ann Bonny and Mary Read, and the folding plate shows Captain Roberts with his ships. Provenance: Philip Hamond (armorial bookplate to front pastedown); R.M. Harbord Hamond (armorial bookplate to initial blank).