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Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Chastelard; a Tragedy, half-title, ink signatures on title and half-title, slightly foxed and browned, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1865 ~ Lang (Andrew) & Walter Herries Pollock. He, first edition, advertisements at end, original wrappers, chipped with some loss, 1887 ~ Byron (G.G.N., Lord) & Samuel Rogers. Lara, a Tale; Jacqueline, a Tale, name removed from head of title, contemporary half morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, 1814, first editions; and 6 others, 8vo (9).

Buhle (Johann Gottlieb) Ueber den Ursprung und die vornehmsten Schicksale der Orden der Rosenkreuzer und Freymaurer, first edition, 20th century half morocco, ex-library copy with bookplate, stamp on title and classmark on spine, 8vo, Göttingen, 1804.

Barnes (Julian) Before She Met Me, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 1982; and 9 others, Barnes, 8vo (10).

Chatwin (Bruce) The Viceroy of Ouidah, first edition, 1980; On the Black Hill, first edition, 1982 ~ Chatwin (Bruce) and Paul Theroux. Patagonia Revisited, first American edition, Boston, 1986, original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies; and 4 others, Chatwin, 8vo (7).

De Bernieres (Louis) Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, 1991.

De Bernieres (Louis) Labels, first edition, limited edition, signed and dated by the author on title, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, 12mo, One Horse Press, 1993.

De Bernieres (Louis) Captain Corelli's Mandolin, first edition, signed and dated by the author, first issue binding, original white boards, a fine copy, 8vo, 1994.

Faulkner (William) The Town, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, frayed at spine-head, New York, 1957 ~ Blotner (Joseph) Faulkner: A Biography, 2 vol., slip-case, New York, 1974, original cloth; and 15 others, Faulkner, 8vo (18).

Fitzgerald (F. Scott) The Crack-up...Edited by Edmund Wilson, first edition, tape-marks on free endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, torn with loss to corners and spine-ends, New York, [1945]; and a small quantity of other, Fitzgerald, 8vo & 4to.

Forster (E.M.) Maurice, first edition, 1971; Aspects of the Novel, 1974 ~ Beauman (Nicola) A Biography of E.M. Forster, 1993, original boards, dust-jackets; and c. 35 others by or about E.M. Forster, 8vo (c. 38).

Hemingway (Ernest) To Have and Have Not, first edition, light tape-marks to free endpapers, large bookplate on front pastedown, 8vo, [Hanneman A14.a], New York, 1937.

Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea, first English edition, original boards, dust-jacket, slightly faded at spine, 1952; and the first US edition in later jacket, 8vo (2).

Ishiguro (Kazuo) The Unconsoled, first edition, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jacket, 1995; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (3).

Jones (James) The Thin Red Line, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, New York, 1962; and 4 others, James Jones, 8vo (5).

Joyce (James) Giacomo Joyce, first edition, facsimile illustrations including 2 folding, original cloth-backed boards, slip-case, New York, 1968; Ulysses. The Corrected Text..., dust-jacket, 1986 ~ Read (Forrest, editor) Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce..., New York, 1967 ~ Herring (Phillip F., editor) Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, dust-jacket, Charlottesville, 1972 ~ Davies (Stan Gebler) James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist, dust-jacket, 1975, all but first original boards or cloth; and c.30 others, Joyce, 8vo & 4to (c.35).

Steinbeck (John) The Pastures of Heaven, first edition, first issue, chip to top edge of front free endpaper, tape-marks to both free endpapers, original green cloth, slightly knocked, spine faded, [Goldstone-Payne A2.a], 8vo, New York, 1932.

Steinbeck (John) The Pastures of Heaven, first English edition, light tape-marks to free endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, [Goldstone-Payne A2.d], 8vo, 1933.

Steinbeck (John) To a God Unknown, first edition, first issue, light tape-marks on endpapers and preliminaries, original cloth, spine slightly faded, [Goldstone-Payne A3.a], 8vo, New York, Robert O.Ballou, 1933.

Steinbeck (John) The Grapes of Wrath, first edition, splitting at title, original cloth, slight marking, seventh printing dust-jacket, rubbed, torn at spine with loss, 8vo, [Goldstone-Payne A12.a], New York, 1939.

Steinbeck (John) East of Eden, first edition, original cloth, ?second state dust-jacket (with reviews on rear inner-flap), rubbed & frayed, small mark on upper wrapper, sticker mark on spine, [cf. Goldstone-Payne A32.a], 8vo, New York, 1952.

Steinbeck (John) Letters to Elizabeth. A Selection of Letters from John Steinbeck to Elizabeth Otis, original boards, San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1978 ~ Schmitz (Anne-Marie) In Search of Steinbeck, limited edition, signed by the author, slip-case, Los Altos, 1978 ~ Kiernan (Thomas) The Intricate Music, Boston & Toronto, 1979 ~ Benson (Jackson J.) The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, New York, 1984 ~ Ferrell (Keith) John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land, New York, 1986 ~ Steinbeck IV (John) and Nancy Steinbeck. The Other Side of Eden, New York, 2001, all but first original cloth, all but second in dust-jackets ; and a small quantity of others, Steinbeck Biography & Correspondence, 8vo & 4to (44).

Taylor (Peter) A Long Fourth, first edition, New York, 1948; Happy Families Are All Alike, first English edition, 1959, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets; and 14 others by the same, 8vo (16).

Waugh (Evelyn) The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 1957; and a small quantity of others, Waugh, 8vo (sm.qty).

Wilson (Angus) Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, first edition, 1956; A Bit Off the Map, first American edition, New York, 1957, original boards and cloth, dust-jackets, some fraying; and 15 others, Wilson, 8vo (17).

Woolf (Virginia) The Moment and Other Essays, first edition, 1947; Between the Acts, The Hogarth Press, 1976; The Pargiters, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, The Hogarth Press, 1978; A Writer's Diary, The Hogarth Press, 1953; A Moment's Liberty. The Shorter Diary, edited by Anne Olivier Bell, The Hogarth Press, 1990 ~ Willis (J.H.) Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers. The Hogarth Press 1917-41, original cloth, all but the first dust-jackets; and 22 others, Virginia Woolf, 8vo (27).

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) My African Journey, first edition, plates, 5 detached, 3 maps, half title lightly foxed, 16pp. advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, spine & part of lower cover faded, [Woods A12], 8vo, 1908.

Douglas (Norman) Paneros, first edition, number 62 of 250 copies signed by the author, original gold patterned cloth, 8vo, Florence, G. Orioli, 1932.

Hemingway (Ernest) In Our Time, first edition, number 105 of 170 copies, woodcut frontispiece portrait of the author after Henry Strater, bubbling to pastedowns, original printed boards, rebacked, light crease to upper cover, rubbed at extremities, in later morocco-backed collector's box, [Hanneman A2a], tall 8vo, Paris, Three Mountains Press, 1924.

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, creased at extremites, spine faded, 8vo, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949.

Pound (Ezra, translator) Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, first English edition, presentation copy inscribed to Padric Gregory on front free endpaper, publisher's catalogue at end, original cloth, gilt, edges uncut, [Gallup B4b.], 8vo, Stephen Swift [but Elkin Matthews], 1912. *** Inscribed: "To my friend Padric Xmas 1914." Padric Gregory, Irish folklorist and author.

Pound (Ezra) Selected Poems, edited by T.S. Eliot, first edition, bookplate on front free endpaper, newspaper cutting on front pastedown, original cloth, dust-jacket, edges slightly chipped, [Gallup A30], 8vo, 1928.

Pound (Ezra) A Draft of XXX Cantos, first American edition, [Gallup A31], New York, [1933]; A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI, first English edition, [Gallup A37c], 1935; The Fifth Decad of Cantos, first edition, dust-jacket, slightly faded, [Gallup A43], 1937; The Pisan Cantos, first English edition, dust-jacket, chipped, [Gallup A60b], 1949; Thrones 96-109 de los cantares, first English edition, dust-jacket, [Gallup A77c], 1960, original cloth or boards; and 2 others, Cantos, 8vo (7).

Pound (Ezra) How to Read, [Gallup A33], 1931; Social Credit: an Impact, some passages marked, original wrappers, [Gallup A40], 1935; Guide to Kulchur, new edition, [Gallup A45d], 1952; The Translations of Ezra Pound, [Gallup A66], 1953; Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, edited with an introduction by T.S. Eliot, [Gallup A67], 1954, all but the third first editions, all but the second original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, some slight wear; and 10 others, Ezra Pound, 8vo & 4to (15).

Pound (Ezra) Active Anthology, dust-jacket spine faded, [Gallup B32], 1933; Homage to Sextus Propertius, [Gallup A38], 1934; Personae. Collected Shorter Poems..., first English edition, [Gallup A27c], 1952; The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius, first English edition, [Gallup A69b], 1955, first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, chipped; and 3 others, Pound, 8vo (7).

Steinbeck (John) The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961 ~ Mailer (Norman) Tough Guys Don't Dance, signed limited edition, for The Signed First Edition Society, original gilt leather, a.e.g. 1984 ~ Vidal (Gore) Washington D.C., 1967 ~ Donleavy (J.P.) A Singular Man, 1963 ~ Murdoch (Iris) A Word Child, presentations copy from the author, first American editions, original cloth, rubbed dust-jackets, spines discoloured; and 9 others, First American Editions, 8vo (14).

Wells (H.G.) Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganisation, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author to Sir Thomas Holland on half-title, original cloth, 1942 ~ Kipling (Rudyard) The Second Jungle Book, first edition, illustrations, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., 1895; and 16 others, mostly 20th century English Literature, 8vo (18).

Wodehouse (P.G.) The Little Nugget, first edition, half-title, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original red cloth, gilt spine, rubbed and soiled, spine faded, [McIlvaine A16a], 8vo, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1913.

Bach (Johann Sebastian).- Spitta (Philipp) Johann Sebastian Bach, 3 vol., first English edition, frontispiece portrait, later morocco-backed cloth by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., others uncut, a handsome set, 8vo, 1899.

Bach (Johann Sebastian) Grosse Passions-Musik, edited by William Sterndale Bennett, gutta perch perishing with some ff. loose, Lamborn Cock & Co., n.d.; Chorales..., Novello & Co., n.d. ~ Schweitzer (Albert) J.S.Bach, 2 vol., first English edition, Leipzig, contemporary half morocco, Leipzig &c., 1911 ~ Terry (Charles Sanford) Joh.Seb.Bach Cantata Texts, Sacred and Secular, frontispiece, 1926, all but third original cloth; and a small quantity of others, Bach, v.s. (sm.qty).

Bach (Johann Sebastian).- Terry (Charles Sanford) Bach's Chorals, 3 vol., first edition, errata slip, original cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo, Cambridge, University Press, 1915-21.

Bronson (Bertrand Harris) The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, 4 vol., first edition, original cloth, dust-jackets, 4to, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1959-72. *** Referring to the Francis James Child collection of 13th to 19th century English & Scottish ballads.

Clarke (Wm. H.) An Outline of the Structure of the Pipe Organ, first edition, illustrations, illustrated endpapers, original cloth, Indianapolis & Boston, 1877; and another on organs, 8vo (2).

Crosse (John) An Account of the Grand Musical Festival, first edition, 5 plates, all but 1 hand-coloured, 1 double-page, 1 folding, first gathering detached, original boards, marked and rubbed, covers detached, 4to, York, 1825.

Sharp (Cecil J.) One Hundred English Folksongs...for Medium Voice, first edition, a few pencil corrections, original printed wrappers, torn at lower fore-corner of upper wrapper, 4to, Boston &c., 1916.

Whitman (Alfred) Charles Turner, first edition, one of 500 large paper copies, plates, captioned paper-guards, original cloth, t.e.g., 4to, 1907.

Billing (Archibald) The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals, Ancient and Modern, first edition, 18 mounted albumen plates, foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, 1867.

---. Wells (Percy A.) and John Hooper. Modern Cabinet Work Furniture and Fitments, first edition, plates, some extending, slight foxing, original cloth, extremities slightly worn, corners bruised, 1909 ~ Philip (Peter) Furniture of the World, colour plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1974; and 11 others, Miscellaneous, v.s. (13).

Ruskin (John) Modern Painters, 5 vol., in 4, vol.I third edition, vol.II-V first edition, engraved plates, slightly foxed, contemporary morocco, floral pattern and inner dentelles gilt, extremities rubbed, g.e., 4to, 1846-60.

Tallis (John, publisher) Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851, folding chromolithograph frontispiece, engraved plates, internal crack, contemporary cloth, n.d. [c.1851] ~ Des Canons, des Munitions? Merci! Des Logis... S.V.P. Monographe du "Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux" a l'Exposition Internationale "Art et Technique" de Paris 1937, many illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly worn, Paris, n.d. [c.1937] ~ Ruskin (John) Lectures on Architecture and Painting, first edition, folding frontispiece, 15 plates, foxing, contemporary half morocco, slightly rubbed, 1854 ~ Tipping (H. Avray) The Garden of To-day, plates, original cloth, 1933; and c.40 others, Design and Miscellaneous, v.s. (c.44).

Turner (J.M.W.) Rivers of France, 2 vol. in one, text by L. Ritchie, introduction by John Ruskin, engraved plates, first 4 leaves detached, inner hinges cracked, original cloth, rubbed, spine paper label, [c.1940] ~ Francis of Assisi. The Little Flowers, limited edition, colour plates tipped in, original cloth, extremities frayed, 1919 ~ Swinburne (Charles Alfred) Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, frontispiece, original cloth, gilt, darkend, 1902; and a quantity of others, some Fine Arts, v.s. (qty).

Bicknell (Algernon Sidney) Hippophagy: the Horse as Food for Man, first edition, slight foxing on title-page, later half morocco, hinges just rubbed, 8vo, [1868].

Curtis (Charles H.) Orchids for Everyone, plates, many colour, original buckram gilt, g.e., covers slightly soiled, 1910 ~ Moore (Anne Carroll) The Art of Beatrix Potter, plates and facsimiles, many in colour, original buckram, torn dust-jacket, London and New York, 1967 ~ Bratby (John) Breakdown, first edition, decorations and dust-jacket by the author, original cloth, 1960 ~ Haskell (Arnold) and Min Lewis. Infantilia, the Archaeology of the Nursery, illustrated by Stanley Lewis, original buckram, dust-jacket, 1971; and c.35 others, Miscellaneous, v.s. (c.39).

Rea (John) Flora: seu, de Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege, first edition, engraved title, title in red and black, 8 plates, woodcut initials, lacking front endpaper, last index leaf and errata, inner hinges cracked, original mottled calf, worn, upper edge peeling, spine damaged, [Wing R421], folio, for Richard Mariott, 1665.

Tubbs (Colin R.) The New Forest, first edition, colour plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket by Robert Gillmor, 8vo, Collins New Naturalist, 1876.

[Walsh (John Henry, editor)], "Stonehenge". The Dogs of the British Islands, first edition, plates, illustrations, lightly browned, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original decorated cloth, gilt, rebacked and repaired, slightly rubbed, light soiling, g.e., 4to, 1867.

Africa.- Boyes (John) The Company of Adventurers, first edition, frontispiece map, plates, pencil inscriptions on front endpapers, original cloth, slightly faded, 8vo, "East Africa", 1928.

Americas.- Amundsen (Roald) "The Northwest Passage", being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa" 1903-1907, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 2 folding colour maps, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplates and stamps, 8vo, 1908.

---. Humboldt (Alexander von) Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, 3 vol., 1889 ~ Burton (Richard F.) The City of the Saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California, first edition, double-page maps, 8 plates, 9 text illustrations, 1861 ~ Whymper (Edward) Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, second edition, maps, plates, text illustrations, 1892 ~ Williams (John) A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, sixth thousand, portrait, illustrations, some slight foxing, 1837, modern binder's cloth, ex-library copies with bookplates and stamps ; and c.40 others, Travel, 8vo (c.46).

---. M'Clure (Capt. R.) The Discovery of the North-West Passage, first edition, folding map, hand-coloured in outline, 4 tinted lithograph plates, modern binder's buckram, map linen-mounted, ex-library copy with bookplate and stamps, 8vo, 1856.

---. Wilkes (Capt. Charles) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, 6 vol. including atlas, first edition, plates, maps, text illustrations, modern binder's buckram, ex-library set with bookplates and stamps, [Sabin 103994], large 8vo, Philadelphia, 1845.