20th Century
100 AUDEN (W.H.) and Christopher ISHERWOOD. The Dog beneath the Skin or, Where is Francis? FIRST EDITION. Pp.180, contemp. ownership signature of Herman Walde, nice copy with d/w. Faber, 1935 £85.00
Bloomfield & Mendelson A9. Auden and Isherwood’s first collaboration. Loosely inserted is a one page flyer for the first production by the Group Theatre, and the programme, pp.4, for On The Frontier, 1939.
101 BARRIE (J.M.) Works. KIRRIEMUIR EDITION. 10 vols, roy. 8vo, orig. cloth-backed boards, gilt tops. 1913 £120.00
Library edition, limited to 1000 sets only.
102 BIBLE. NEW ENGLISH BIBLE. THE NEW TESTAMENT. Pp.461, orig. maroon leather gilt, gilt edges, with slightly torn glassine d/w. O.U.P. & C.U.P., 1961 £75.00
FIRST EDITION of perhaps the most significant English Version of the NT to be published in the 20th century. The uproar which followed its appearance has still not entirely died down. The OT was issued (amid scarcely less controversy) in 1970.
103 BOSWELL (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson. Preface be Clement K. Shorter. With 71 plates and facsimiles, 20 in photogravure, 3 vols, demy 8vo, orig. maroon cloth gilt, gilt tops, bindings trifle chafed. Privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1924 £75.00
Limited edition. Verbatim reprint of the first edition, with the ‘Principal Corrections and Additions’ 1793, which had not hitherto been reprinted. CLEMENT SHORTER’S OWN SET, with his Johnsonian ex libris.
104 BRADSHAW SOCIETY. Vol VI. Officium Ecclesiasticum Abbatum secundum usum Eveshamensis Monastera. [Edited by] Henry A. Wilson. Pp.155, buckram gilt, spine chafed. 1893 £45.00
105 VOLS XVII & XXXIII. Missale Romanum Mediolani, 1474. Edited by Robert Lippe [with Indexes by H. A. Wilson]. With 2 facsimiles, 2 vols, pp.530 & 475, buckram gilt. 1899-1907 £125.00
I, Text. II, Collation with other editions printed before 1570; Indices.
106 VOL XIX. Three Coronation Orders. Edited by J. Wickham Legg. With 3 facsimiles (2 folding), pp.235, buckram. 1900 £45.00
William and Mary; Anglo-French Version of the English Coronation Order; Consecration of the Anglo-Saxon King.
107 VOLS XX & XXII. Ordinale Sarum sive Directorium Sacerdotum. Transcribed by William Cooke and edited by Chr. Wordsworth. With 10 plates, 2 vols, pp.58+753, buckram gilt. 1901 £135.00
108 VOLS XXIII & XXVIII. Customary of the Benedictine Monasteries of St. Augustine, Canterbury, and St. Peter, Westminster. Edited by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. With 3 facsimile plates, 2 vols, pp.435+375. 1902-04 £145.00
Professor C.R. Cheney’s copy with ownership signature.
109 VOL XXVII. Tracts on the Mass. Edited by J. Wickham Legg. With 2 plates, pp.326, buckram gilt. 1904 £65.00
110 VOL L. Cranmer’s Liturgical Projects. Edited with Introduction, Appendix, Notes and Indices by J. Wickham Legg. With 7 facsimiles, pp.310, small Bodleian Library stamp on half title. 1915 £65.00
111 VOL LVII. YELVERTON (Eric E.) The Mass in Sweden; Its Development from the Latin Rite from 1531 to 1917. With folding table, pp.202, buckram gilt (little chafed). 1920 £45.00
112 BRECHT (Bertolt) A Penny for the Poor. Translated by Desmond Vesey. Pp.342, orig. maroon cloth, printed label, light stain on lower cover, little foxing of edges and prelims. Robert Hale, 1937 £60.00
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF Dreigroschenroman, Brecht’s only large scale novel, developed from the Dreigroschenopera but the scene of the action now transposed to London during the South African War, Macheath a middle aged businessman running a chain of multiple shops exclusively selling stolen goods. Christopher Isherwood translated the verses at the beginning of each chapter.
113 CANTERBURY AND YORK SOCIETY. CHICHELE (Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury) The Register, 1414-1443. Edited by E.F. Jacob. 4 vols, roy.8vo, strongly bound in cloth, leather labels, orig. wrappers preserved. From the library of Lindsay Fleming with book label. Vols 42, 45, 46, 47, 1937-47 £85.00
114 CAVINESS (Madeline Harrison) The Early Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral. With 4 plates in colour, 218 black and white plates, several text figures, 4to, pp.209, with d/w. Priceton U.P., 1977 £75.00
115 CHAMBERS (E.K.) The Mediaeval Stage. 2 vols. 1903. – The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. 1923. Together 6 vols, with plates, orig. green and maroon buckram gilt, spines little faded but a very good set. O.U.P., 1903-23 £350.00
116 COBDEN-SANDERSON (T.J.) Ecce Mundus; Industrial Ideas, and, The Book Beautiful. Pp.38, orig . quarter linen and blue boards. Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1902 £120.00
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Printed at the Chiswick Press on fine Paper.
117 [CONGREVE (William)] An Impossible Thing. A Tale. J.Roberts, MDCCXX. [Complete facsimile]. Comprising 22 photographs of the whole rare BM copy, each individually mounted on card, well bound c.1900 in half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, lettering piece, by Root. c.1900 £75.00
Specially produced photographic facsimile of a Congreve rarity: Wise declared that he knew of no other copies but that in BM (ex Narcissus Luttrell) and his own. The modern ESTC adds copies at Yale and Huntingdon.
118 DE LA MARE (Walter)The Connoisseur and other Stories. FIRST EDITION. Roy. 8vo., pp.358, orig. cloth gilt, linen back, leather label. 1926 £85.00
SPECIAL EDITION, Limited to 250 numbered copies on fine paper, signed by the author.
119 DICKENS (Charles) Complete Works. Centennial Edition. With many of the orig. illus, 34 vols, cr. 8vo, orig. green gilt imitation leather. c.1970 £120.00
120 DISRAELI (Benjamin Novels and Tales. With introductions by Philip Guedalla. BRADENHAM EDITION. 12 vols, orig. black buckram with gilt designs on upper covers and spines, gilt tops, few spines a little faded as often but a good set in the first binding. Peter Davies, 1926-27 £280.00
121 DONNE (John) The First and Second Anniversaries. Reproduced from the Second Edition of 1621. Pp.64 & 54, orig. parchment boards, binding little darkened. Noel Douglas Replicas, 1926 £48.00
Edition limited to 250 numbered copies only.
122 DOUGLAS (Norman) Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece and 16 plates, pp.251, well rebound in half blue morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered, the original cloth binding preserved at end. M. Secker, 1912 £180.00
Woolf A14. One thousand copies were printed of which a quarter went to America and nearly half were remaindered.
123 ELIOT (George) [Collected Works]. LIBRARY EDITION. With process engraved frontispieces, 10 vols, demy 8vo, orig. red buckram gilt, slight stain on a few sides, spines little dull, edges untrimmed. Blackwood,1901 £150.00
124 ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW. A very extensive run from 1914 to 1997, details below. 77 vols.1914-97 £850.00
CONTENTS: Vols 29-30, 36, 39-112. BINDINGS: 30 vols are strongly bound in buckram; the remaining 47 vols are in the original paperbound parts. 10 nos are lacking from 8 of the unbound vols (viz. nos 203, 219, 228, 238-40, 249, 253, 260-1). However, 11 additional odd nos from the years 1896-1922 are included (viz. nos 43, 45, 75, 79, 86, 92, 99-100, 103-4, 148). Five of the conflated indexes are also included, viz. Vols 1-20, 21-30, 41-50, 51-70 and 71-100. With ex-libris of the historian of Anglo-Norman England, John Le Patourel, in the bound vols.
125 EVANS (Joan) Monastic Architecture in France from the Renaissance to the Revolution. FIRST EDITION. With over 800 plates and illus. from photographs. 5 plans, thk. imp. 8vo, pp.230, buckram, fine with d/w. C.U.P., 1964 £95.00
126 FLICK (Alexander C.) The Decline of the Medieval Church. ORIGINAL EDITION. 2 vols., pp.995. Kegan Paul, 1930 £75.00
A.H.A. Guide K 279.
127 GALSWORTHY (John) Plays: The Silver Box; Joy; Strife. Cr. 8vo, orig. green buckram. Duckworth, 1909 £75.00
With an A.L.s. (1 page from Grove Lodge, Hampstead 26th Sept. 1925) from Galsworthy to the secretary of the Cambridge Students Union in reply to an invitation to speak in a Union Debate: ‘I however never made a debating speech in my life and am not going to begin now because I know I couldn’t…’ Also enclosed is a photograph portrait of Galsworthy and another autograph from a letter by him. The book is from the library of the author and photographer Herbert Lambert of Combe Down, Bath.
128 GAUTIER (Theophile) Le Capitaine Fracasse. Edition Definitive. 2 vols, cr. 8vo, pp.373 + 382, well bound in contemp. French quarter olive morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt tooled in compartments and with small circular red onlays at the centres, double lettering pieces, gilt tops original wrappers preserved, pretty copy. Paris, Charpentier, 1910 £120.00
Presentation copy from Georges Clemenceau charming inscribed ‘offert a George Cecil par un grand ami de son Grandpere l’Admiral Maxse. G. Clemenceau.’ George, the son of Lord and Lady Edward Cecil, was killed in action in 1914.
129 GLOAG (John) A Collection of 12 Novels and other Writings, listed below. Cr. 8vo, orig. cloth, a few spines little faded but good copies. 1938-54 £150.00
John Gloag (1896-1981) was best known as a prolific author in the fields of architecture, social history and industrial design. But he also wrote more than twenty works of fiction. The present collection was formerly in the possession of Dora Ware, Gloag’s one-time assistant and herself a writer on architecture; no fewer than seven of the titles are PRESENTATION COPIES with the grateful inscriptions for services rendered. All but one are FIRST EDITIONS.
TITLES: It Makes a Nice Change, 1938; Word Warfare, 1939; Unwilling Adventurer, 1940; I Want an Audience, 1941; The American Nation, with d/w, 1942; Mr Buckley is not at Home, 1942; 99%, 1944; In Camera, with d/w, 1945; Kind Uncle Buckby, 1946; First One and Twenty, with d/w, 1946; All England at Home, with d/w, 1949; Sacred Edifice, new edition, with d/w, 1954.
130 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CLAY (Enid) Sonnets and Verses. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Eric Gill, pp.35, orig. quarter linen and boards, printed label. 1925 £250.00
Evan Gill 274. Edition limited to 450 copies. This book won the 1925 award of the Double Crown Club.
131 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. PLATO. The Phaedo. Translated into English by William [sic] Jowett. With title page border and 11 floriated initials printed in red, roy. 8vo, pp.80, orig. turquoise buckram with gilt GCP device on upper cover, gilt top, leather label, spine little rubbed and faded, pen inscription on front free endpaper. 1930 £75.00
Edition limited to 500 numbered copies only. The title border and initial letters, together with the cover device, were designed by Eric Gill (Evan Gill 343).
132 HUEFFER (Ford Madox) The Heart of the Country; a Survey of a Modern Land. FIRST EDITION. Sq. cr. 8vo, pp.13+218+2 advert leaves, orig. maroon buckram gilt, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, spine little faded. Alston Rivers, 1906 £75.00
Dedicated to Henry James; includes some of the author’s best known writings, with a chapter on Romney Marsh.
133 HUGHES (Philip) The Reformation in England. FIRST EDITION. With maps, plates and facsimiles, 3 vols, roy. 8vo. 1954 £85.00
COMPLETE SET. I, ‘The King’s Proceedings’. II, Religio Depopulata. III, ‘True Religion now Established’. Conyers Read 1801.
134 HURRY (Jamieson B.) Reading Abbey (from c.1120 to the Dissolution). With 15 plates (4 in colour), 4 text illus., folding plan. cr. 4to, pp.225, orig. cloth gilt, gilt edges. Elliot Stock, 1901 £75.00
Gross/Graves 6092. Includes a chapter on the Abbey’s library with catalogue of the MSS. (now in British Library). Inscribed on half title ‘presented by Dr. Hurry’.
135 JOHNSON (Samuel) The Letters, with Mrs Thrale’s Genuine Letters to Him. Collected and edited by R.W. Chapman. ORIGINAL & BEST ISSUE. With 4 plates and facsimiles, 3 vols, demy 8vo, with d/ws. O.U.P., 1952 £110.00
136 JOHNSON’S ENGLAND. An Account of the Life and Manners of his Age. Edited by A.S. Turberville. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 159 plates, illus. and maps, 2 vols, lge. 8vo, orig. cloth gilt, nice set with slightly stained d/ws. O.U. P., 1933 £75.00
137 KING (Leonard W.) A History of Sumer and Akkad; An Account of the Early Races of Babylonia… to the Foundation of the Babylonian Monarchy. FIRST EDITION. with 34 plates, 69 text illus. and 12 maps (1 folding), thk. 8vo, pp.403, neatly rebound in buckram with gilt panels from the orig. cloth binding neatly remounted on the upper cover. Chatto & Windus, 1910 £75.00
138 KING (Leonard W.) A History of Babylon from the foundation of the Monarchy tot eh Persian Conquest. With 32 plates, 72 text illus., and 18 maps (1 folding), thk. 8vo, pp.373, neatly rebound in buckram. Chatto & Windus, 1919 £75.00
139 LAWRENCE (D.H.) BYNNER (Witter) Journey with Genius; Recollections and Reflections concerning the D.H. Lawrences. FIRST EDITION. 7 plates, pp.378, with torn d/w. 1953 £250.00
Prof. Gamini Salgado’s copy, with his ownership signature and occasional pencil notes for his Listener review (copy enclosed). Also included are a small collection of press cuttings mainly relating to the Lady Chatterley Trial and the following documents:
140 LEWIS (Wyndham) Time and Western Man. FIRST EDITION. Title vignette by WL, pp.493, orig. cloth. Chatto & Windus, 1927 £75.00
Morrow & Lafourcade A8a – ‘perhaps Lewis’s single most important philosophical work.’ First issue, on thicker paper and bound in cloth of a paler shade of red than the second issue.
141 The Childermass. Section 1. Pp.328. Chatto & Windus, 1928. – The Human Age: Book 2, Monstre Gai; Book 3, Malign Fiesta. With 6 plates by Michael Ayrton, pp.572. Methuen, 1955. Together 2 vols, with d/ws, very good copies. 1928-55 £120.00
Morrow & Lafourcade A10b and A40. FIRST EDITION of all three parts of The Human Age. Following the successful broadcast of The Childermass in 1951, the BBC commissioned the now nearly blind author to complete the trilogy. With much assistance from T.S. Eliot, it was finished 27 years after the appearance of the first part.
142 Blasting & Bombardiering. FIRST EDITION. With 19 plates including 12 portrait heads and 4 other paintings by the artist, pp.320, orig. orange cloth (second binding). 1937 £85.00
Autobiography 1914-26. Loosely inserted are two press reviews of the 1967 edition of Blasting and Bombardiering also Lewis’s Listener article, 10 May 1951, announcing his relinquishment of art criticism due to blindness. Morrow & Lafourcade A26.
143 L’HOPITAL (Winefride de) Westminster Cathedral and its Architect [John F. Bentley]. Introduction by W.R. Lethaby. FIRST EDITION. With 106 plates, several in colour, 54 text illus., 2 vols, cr. 4to, pp.720, orig. maroon cloth, gilt tops, very nice unfaded copy. Hutchinson, [1919]; £120.00
144 M’DIARMID (Hugh, i.e. C.M. Grieve) A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp.116, orig. navy cloth gilt. Blackwood, 1926 £75.00
‘The matter includes satire, amphigouri, lyrics, parodies of Mr T.S. Eliot, and other poets, and translations from the Russian, French and German. The whole poem is in braid Scots, and it has been expressly designed to show that braid Scots can be applied to all manner of subjects and measures.’ – H.M’D. By general consent, the poet’s masterpiece.
145 MALORY (Sir Thomas) The Works. Edited by Eugene Vinaver. With plates, 3 vols, buckram, with d/ws. O.U.P., 1973 £150.00
Second enlarged edition, revised issue.
146 MANKOWITZ (Wolf) My Old Man’s a Dustman. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp.187, with pictorial d/w by Sydney Mould. Andre Deutsch, 1956 £75.00
Wolf Mankowitz’s best know title; immortalized in song by Lonnie Donegan.
147 MORRIS (William) The Collected Works. With Introductions by May Morris. With frontispieces and other plates, 24 vols, lge. 8vo, orig. quarter linen and grey boards, printed labels, very good set with spare label in each vol. Longman, 1910-1915 £2500.00
BEST COLLECTED EDITION, ORIGINAL ISSUE. handsomely printed on good quality paper by W.H. Smith at the Arden Press, Letchworth. Limited to 1,000 numbered sets and bound in Kelmscott style. With ex libris of F.G. Davies.
148 The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems. Cr. 8vo, pp.258, orig. cloth, printed label, spine trifle chafed. 1915 £75.00
PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on dedication leaf ‘to Mary Hunter who likes beautiful poetry from George Moore’. With bookplate of Mary Hunter, Theydon Mount, and book label of Gertrude L. Harris.
149 NONESUCH PRESS. CONGREVE (William) Complete Works. Edited by Montague Summers [with Introduction]. 4 vols, 4to, orig. quarter navy buckram and blue boards, printed labels, edges untrimmed, one spine little spotted. 1923. £250.00
Dreyfus 5. D’Arch Smith B5. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Congreve’s complete works and the first of the Nonesuch restoration dramatists. Summers had planned an edition of Congreve with Bullen as early as 1910, but the war intervened and Bullen died. Summers then approached O.U.P who were interested but non-committal. A chance encounter with Meynell in Birrell and Garnett’s bookshop provided the impetus for this edition. The 900 sets were fully subscribed on publication and the edition remains standard and sought after
150 NONESUCH PRESS. OTWAY (Thomas) The Complete Works. Edited by Montague Summers [with Introduction]. 3 vols, 4to, orig. quarter buckram and boards, printed labels. 1926 £90.00
Edition limited to 1250 numbered sets. Dreyfus 38.1.
151 ROXBURGHE CLUB. ELTON MANORIAL RECORDS 1279-1351. Transcribed & edited by S.C. Ratcliff; with a translation by D.M. Gregory. Preface by Granville Proby. Facsimile frontispiece, roy. 4to, pp.75+456, orig. half morocco, gilt top. 1946 £450.00
Small edition, for members only (of which there were just forty); presented by Granville Proby. This sumptuous edition contains a complete transcript and translation of all the Ministers’ Accounts and Court Rolls of the manor of Elton in Huntingdonshire from November 1279 to Michaelmas 1351. The manor belonged to the abbey of Ramsey. Gross/Graves 4776 (‘magnificent edition’).
152 SHAW (R. Cunliffe) The Royal Forest of Lancaster. With coloured frontispiece and 82 plates, illus. and maps, 4to, pp.565, cloth gilt. Preston, printed for subscribers, 1956 £75.00
153 STEVENSON (R.L.) The Works. TUSITALA EDITION. 35 vols, sm. 8vo, orig. navy cloth, some spine little faded as usual. Heinemann, 1924-25 £150.00
154 TUDOR ECONOMIC DOCUMENTS. Select Documents illustrating the Economic and Social History of Tudor England. Edited by R.H. Tawney and Eileen Power. 3 vols, cr. 8vo, with d/ws. 1951 £75.00
I, Agriculture and Industry. II, Commerce, Finance and Poor Law. III, Pamphlets, Memoranda and Literary Extracts.
