Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – P.G. WODEHOUSE. Jeeves & Wooster. London: The Folio Society, 1999. 5 vols., 8vo (215 x 132mm.) Illustrations by Paul Cox. Original pictorial boards, slipcase (minor scuffing, finger-marks). – And a further sixty-one volumes published by The Folio Society, several without slipcases (including ‘The Folio Poets: Kipling’, 2005, 8vo, and ‘The Folio Poets: Wordsworth’, 2002, 8vo) (66).

BETJEMAN, John. An Oxford University Chest. Wakefield, Yorkshire: S.R. Publisher’s Limited, 1970. Reprint, 8vo (243 x 170mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning, gift inscribed to front-free endpaper.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further fifty-nine volumes related to Oxford (60).

SHELL GUIDES. – John PIPER. Oxon. London: Faber and Faber, [1939.] First Faber edition, 8vo (231 x 173mm.) Two coloured maps, photographic illustrations and Edward Bawden illustration to rear. (Toning.) Original spiral-bound cloth-covered boards, dust-jacket (creasing and small tears to spine ends). – And a further sixteen volumes, thirteen of them Shell Guides (including, edited by Robert Byron, the ‘Shell Guide to Wiltshire’, 1935, and, edited by John Betjeman, ‘Cornwall’, [1939], the revised second edition, 8vo, and, edited by John Betjeman, ‘Devon’, [1939], 8vo, and, compiled by Paul Nash, ‘Dorset’, [1939], 8vo, and John Rayner’s ‘Hampshire’,1937, 8vo, and John Nash’s ‘Bucks’, 1936, 8vo, and  John Piper’s ‘Oxon’, [1938], published by B.T. Batsford, 8vo, and, edited by Christopher Hobhouse, ‘Derbyshire’, 1935, 8vo, and, edited by Lord Clonmore, ‘Kent’, 1935, 8vo, and, compiled by Thomas Sharp, ‘Northumberland & Durham’, [1937], 8vo), and, by John Piper and John Betjeman, ‘Murray’s ‘Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide’, signed by John Betjeman, 1948, 8vo) (17).

RHYS, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. First edition, 8vo (197 x 123mm.) (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (chipping at top of spine panel). – And a further forty-four miscellaneous volumes (including, with an introduction by Douglas Blair Turnbaugh, ‘Private, the Erotic Art of Duncan Grant 1885-1978’, 1989, 4to, and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s ‘A Time of Gifts’, 1978, 8vo, and Francis King’s ‘A Domestic Animal’, signed by the author, 1970, 8vo, and two works by Mary Stocks, both signed) (45).

CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Florence K. and Bertha UPTON. The Golliwogg’s Polar Adventures. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900. Oblong folio (214 x 273mm.) 31 coloured plates. (Mild toning, contemporary gift inscription verso front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth-backed pictorial boards (extremities rubbed, slightly dust-soiled, tape repairs to hinges). Provenance: K.A. Davey (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further two volumes by Florence and Bertha Upton (including ‘The Golliwogg in War’, 1903, oblong folio, and ‘The Golliwogg’s Bicycle Club’, 1896, oblong folio ) (3).

CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Florence K. and Bertha UPTON. The Golliwogg’s Polar Adventures. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900. Oblong folio (213 x 274mm.) 31 coloured plates. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth-backed pictorial boards (lightly rubbed and scuffed, finger-marked). – And a further two volumes by Florence and Bertha Upton (including ‘The Golliwogg’s Air-Ship’, 1902, oblong folio, and ‘The Golliwogg in War’, 1899, oblong folio) (3).

VLISSINGEN, Paul Fentener van. Africa Revisited. London: Red Lion House, 2001. First edition, oblong folio (298 x 421mm.) Photographic illustrations on various coloured papers. Original black suede-backed cloth boards with velour relief-text in black (white mark to upper cover, minor scuffing and marks). Note: published to highlight the endangered African buffalo in South Africa.

AVIATION. – James GLAISHER. Travels in the Air. London: Richard Bentley, 1871. Second and Revised Edition, 8vo (253 x 153mm.) 6 chromolithographed plates, numerous illustrations. (Toning, marginal damp-stain to preliminaries.) Original pictorial red cloth (rebacked with original spine laid down, heavily rubbed). – And a further twenty-six volumes relating to aviation (including Peter Celis’ ‘Runways to Victory’, 2003, 4to, and Martyn Barber’s ‘A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology’, 2011, 8vo) (27).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – P.G. WODEHOUSE. Jeeves & Wooster. London: Folio Society, 1996. 6 vols., 8vo (217 x 133mm.) Illustrations by Paul Cox. Original pictorial boards, slipcase. – And a further thirty-nine volumes published by The Folio Society (including Andrew Lang’s ‘The Yellow Fairy Book’, 2010, 8vo, and Lang’s ‘The Blue Fairy Book’, 2010, 8vo, and ‘The Red Fairy Book’, 2010, 8vo and ‘The Green Fairy Book’, 2009, 8vo) (45).

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. – David DAY. The World of Tolkien. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2003. First edition, signed by the author to the title-page, 4to (253 x 197mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further forty-eight volumes of children’s literature (including first impression paper-back editions of J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’, 1998, and ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’, 1999, and three works by Michael Morpurgo, all signed) (49).

VOGUE. [An incomplete run of Vogue Magazine. London:] Conde Nast Publications Ltd., January 1952-December 1975. 246 issues in 40 vols., 4to (280 x 218mm.) Photographic illustrations, advertisements. Original wrappers (occasional creasing, small stamps to most upper wrappers), contemporary green cloth, gilt reference to spine. Note: lacking 42 issues, being July-Dec 1954, 1967-1968 and 1972. Provenance: Brighton Reference Library (labels to front pastedowns) (40).

VOGUE. [An incomplete run of Vogue Magazine. London:] Conde Nast, January 2007-March 2025. 200 issues, 4to (283 x 219mm.) Photographic illustrations, advertisements. Original wrappers (most with ‘Reference’ label to upper wrapper, occasional creasing). Note: lacking 19 issues (200).

BYZANTINE EMPIRE. – Leslie BRUBAKER and Mary B. CUNNINGHAM (editors). The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. 8vo (243 x 166mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further twenty-seven volumes mostly relating to Byzantine art and culture (including Maja Kominko’s ‘The World of Kosmas’, 2013, 8vo, and Paroma Chatterjee’s ‘The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy’, 2014, 8vo) (28).

PIPER, John. – S. John WOODS (editor). John Piper. Paintings, Drawings & Theatre Designs 1932-1954. New York: Curt Valentin, 1955. First edition, 4to (313 x 245mm.) Aquatint frontispiece, numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth. – And a further forty-four volumes, all related to John Piper (including George Sitwell’s ‘On the Making of Gardens’, 1949, 8vo, and William Wordsworth’s ‘A Guide Through the District of the Lakes’, illustrated by John Piper, 1951, 8vo, and June Osborne’s ‘John Piper and Stained Glass’, 1997, 8vo) (45).

ART REFERENCE. – Peter DARVALL. A Regency Buck: Adam Buck (1759-1833). Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2015. 4to (278 x 217mm.) Illustrations. Original card covers. – And a further forty-six volumes, mostly art reference (including Benjamin Binstock’s ‘Vermeer’s Family Secrets’, 2009, 8vo, and Knut Nicolaus’ ‘The Restoration of Paintings’, 1999, 4to) (47).

PHOTOGRAPHY. – Don MCCULLIN. Shaped By War. London: Jonathan Cape, 2010. First edition, first impression, 4to (318 x 245mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket (slight creasing at top of spine). – And a quantity of approximately eighty volumes related mostly to photography (including ‘Commonsensual: The Works of Rut Blees Luxemburg’, 2009, oblong 4to, and Jerry Uelsmann’s ‘Other Realities’, 2007, 4to, and Philip Garner’s ‘A Seaside Album’, 2003, 4to, and Martin Parr’s ‘The Last Resort’, 2010, oblong 4to, and also Parr’s ‘Think of England’, 2004, 8vo) (a quantity).

ARCHITECTURE & ART REFERENCE. – Marie-Noël de GARY. The Camondo Legacy, the Passions of a Paris Collector. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. First edition, 4to (278 x 205mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original white cloth, dust-jacket (inner flaps adhering to pastedowns). – And a further forty-four volumes relating to art and architecture (including Adele Re Rebaudengo’s ‘Historic Houses of the Nobility in Piedmont’, 2005, 4to, and John Goodall’s ‘The English Castle’, 2011, 4to) (45).

SUSSEX. – Albany WALLACE. Iphiginia. An Epic Drama. In Five Acts. (From Racine’s French, turned into English rhyme). Worthing: Printed by the Author, at his private Press, 1861. 8vo (202 x 131mm.) Title. (Lacking blanks, three marginal stamps to text leaves, stamps to title and verso.) Original decorated cloth (stamps and labels to pastedowns, reference label to spine). Note: rare. Only one copy recorded in JISC/Copac. Provenance: West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown). – And a further eight literary volumes related to Sussex (including Mary Lloyd’s ‘Brighton. A Poem. Descriptive of the Place and Parts adjacent’, 1809, 12mo, and ‘The Holy Sonnets of John Donne’, illustrated by Eric Gill, a signed limited edition of 550 copies, 1938, 4to, and John Byrom’s ‘Careless Content’, 1932, 8vo, and ‘Another Petworth Bunch of Violets Choice, gathered for Christmas 1937’, 1937, small 4to) (9).

SUSSEX. – D. JACQUES. A Visit to Goodwood, near Chichester, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond. Chichester: by the Author, and Messrs. Lackington, Hughes & Co., 1822. 8vo (226 x 133mm.) 3 engraved plates. (Browning to title and margins chipped, light browning throughout, lacking ‘Subscribers’ List’, blanks replaced.) Later blue cloth (endpaper replaced, joints rubbed, paper label to spine). Provenance: West Sussex County Libraries (label to front pastedown, stamps verso title). – And a further seven volumes related to Sussex (including [Gideon Mantell’s] ‘Thoughts on a Pebble, or a First Lesson in Geology’, 1849, 12mo, and E. Hinton’s ‘Stenography; or, an Easy System of Short Hand’, 1826, 8vo, and two copies of [Howard Dudley’s] ‘The History and Antiquities of Horsham’, 1836, 12mo) (8).