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Middle East and Asia Collection of travel narratives ex libris Lt S. C. R. Duffy all 8vo, original cloth, and with Duffy's ownership inscriptions (dated Liverpool, Bombay or Jubblepore), a few titles further annotated with various dates on front free endpaper (apparently denoting re-readings), and comprising:Hale, F. From Persian Uplands. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1920. First edition, map endpapers, half-title and final leaf browned;Sykes, Ella & Sir Percy. Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. First edition, all plates as called for, folding map in end-pocket, errata slip; Dickson, William Edmund Ritchie. East Persia. A Backwater of the Great War. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition, 8 plates, folding map, spine rolled, covers slightly marked, cancelled library plate to rear pastedownPhilby, Harry St John Bridger. Arabia of the Wahhabis. London: Constable & Co., 1928. First edition, all plates as called for, large folding map (with short closed tear), half-title browned, edges spotted;Younghusband, Sir Francis. Peking to Lhasa. The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the Late Brigadier-General George Pereira. London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1925. First edition, all plates and maps as called for, library markings removed from front board and rear pastedown, rear inner hinge tender;and 9 others (these not collated), including: Olufsen, Through the Unknown Pamirs, 1904 (first edition in English); Tate, The Frontiers of Baluchistan, 1909 (first edition); Forbes-Leith, Checkmate: Fighting Tradition in Central Asia, undated; Maynard, The Murmansk Venture, undated; Blacker, On Secret Patrol in High Asia, 1922 (first edition, annotated 'The Bajgiranski Soviet, Miss R. P. Houston, Major L. V. Blacker, Capt. H. C. Duncan, Lt S. C. R. Duffy' on front free endpaper, front inner hinge tender); Etherton, Across the Roof of the World, 1911 (first edition, contemporary cloth); and similarNote: Note: S. C. R. Duffy was gazetted lieutenant, Indian Army, on 29th August 1919. His Wolseley helmet was sold at a UK auction in 2021. Hale's From Persian Uplands appears to be scarce in libraries and in commerce.
Golden Cockerel Press Set of limited editions The Hundredth Story of A. E. Coppard, with Engravings by Robert Gibbings, 1931. One of 1,000 copies, 8vo, original green quarter morocco, patterned boards designed by Tirzah Garwood [Chanticleer 74: 'The first book in the very successful "Guinea Series" of illustrated modern authors. Printed in the new Golden Cockerel type, specially designed for the Press by Eric Gill'];The Amores of P. Ovidius Naso. Newly Translated by E. Powys Mathers, 1932. One of 350 copies, 4to, original orange half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 5 engraved plates by J. E. Laboureur printed in sepia, proof sheets for the prelims laid in, front inner hinge cracked, frontispiece offset [Chanticleer 80];Daisy Matthews and Three Other Tales by Rhys Davies, with Wood Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, 1932. One of 325 copies, 8vo, original orange quarter morocco, spine slightly rubbed [Chanticleer 87];The Apple Trees. Four Reminiscences by Hugh Walpole with wood-engravings by Lynton Lamb, 1932. One of 500 copies, 8vo, original red quarter morocco, patterned cloth sides, spine sunned and slightly rubbed, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper [Chanticleer 88];Strawberry Time and the Banquet by R. H. Mottram, 1934. One of 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original green quarter morocco, patterned cloth sides, spine sunned [Chanticleer 96];Heartsease and Honesty being the Pastimes of the Sieur de Grammont, 1935. One of 300 copies signed by the translator (Helen Simpson), 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards [Chanticleer 108];Mr. Chambers and Persephone a Tale by Christopher Whitfield ... with Wood-Engravings by Dorothea Braby, 1937. One of 150 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original green quarter morocco, spine sunned [Pertelote 125];Glue and Lacquer. Four Cautionary Tales translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton and Lee Yi-Hsieh ... With Illustrations from Drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier, 1941. 4 copies, each one of 350, 4to, original blue quarter morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spines variably sunned and rubbed, spotting to endpapers, one copy with marks to covers, one copy with ownership and gift inscriptions to front free endpaper, one with bookplate of R. T. Landale (British diplomat in Egypt during the Second World War) [Pertelote 149: 'contains the last work of Eric Gill'];Harriet & Mary. Being the Relations by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson, 1944. One of 500 copies, original red quarter morocco;Gilgamesh. King of Erech. By F. L. Lucas. With Twelve Engravings by Dorothea Braby, 1948. One of 500 copies, tall 8vo, original patterned cloth, bookplate;Pasiphae. A Poem by A. C. Swinburne, 1950. One of 500 copies, 8vo, original cloth;Topiary by Cecil Stewart. An Historical Diversion with Colour-Engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, [1954]. One of 500 copies, 4to, original orange half cloth;Zastrozzi. A Romance by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1955. One of 200 copies on Japanese vellum, 8vo, original black quarter morocco, slipcaseNote: Provenance: Property of an English collector.

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