This lot includes the Swarovski SCS Annual Edition 2001 figurine Harlequin, which was the final release in the "Masquerade" trilogy. The figure is crafted from clear, frosted, and black crystal and features a red crystal rose with a metal stem and leaves, marking the first time metal was incorporated into an annual edition. Also included is the original display stand, designed with a red and gold draped motif and two red stones, as well as the matching clear crystal plaque. The plaque features a red crystal rose with a metal stem and a black mask, mirroring elements of the Harlequin figure. Swarovski swan marks. This lot includes the original boxes. Base: 5.5"L x 3.5"W x 1.25"H. Plaque: 2.25"L x 1.25"W x 0.75"H.Artist: Anton HirzingerIssued: 2001Dimensions: 5.25"HCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.
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This limited edition Goebel porcelain collector plate, titled "The Twelve Tribes of Israel," features a vibrant depiction of Jacob surrounded by intricate symbolic artwork representing the twelve tribes. The plate was designed by renowned artist Laszlo Ispanky and is part of the first edition released in 1978. It showcases a gold-toned border, adding elegance to the colorful and detailed imagery. The reverse bears the original backstamp and edition details, including the plate number 2265 of 10,000, and it is marked "Not for Food Use." This plate comes in its original presentation box with a signed insert. A must-have for collectors of Judaica, Goebel, or Laszlo Ispanky artwork.Artist: Laszlo IspankyIssued: 20th centuryDimensions: 11.75" dia. Country of Origin: GermanyCondition: Age related wear.
A striking Imperia Limoges porcelain vase featuring an elegant cobalt blue ground with intricate 22K gold floral accents and scrollwork. The bulbous base showcases a hand-painted pastoral scene depicting a courting couple in a romantic landscape, framed by gold detailing. The vase has a gracefully flared, scalloped rim, further adorned with delicate gold embellishments. Marked on the underside with "Imperia Limoges, Limoges France, Decor de Veritable 22K, Guaranteed First Quality."Issued: 20th centuryDimensions: 6"HCountry of Origin: FranceCondition: Age related wear.
A distinctive pair of commemorative souvenir spoons, each adorned with intricate relief work and Latin inscriptions. The first spoon features a sculpted handle with a shell-like finial and classical motifs, with the bowl inscribed with the phrases "Pro Deo Et Patria 1739" and "Monet Reipub," suggesting a connection to a republic’s monetary system. The second spoon, with a twisted handle and an elaborate key-shaped finial, bears the inscription "Post Tenebras Lux 21" and "Respublic Geneves," historically linked to Geneva and the Protestant Reformation. The combination of detailed engravings and decorative elements adds to their historical intrigue and collectible appeal. These spoons, rich in symbolic and historical significance, make an excellent addition to any collection of numismatic or commemorative artifacts. Largest spoon measures 4.75"L.Issued: c. 18th-20th centuryDimensions: See DescriptionCondition: Age related wear.
Manchester United V Benfica LP vinyl record European Cup 29th May 1968 recording of the final and Vinyl LP 33 1/3 RPM Side 1 and 2. Highlights First Half and second Half plus Extra Time. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
The Splendid Shilling: A Social History of an Engaging Coin by James O'Donald Mays, First Edition hardback book, 186 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
George Best signed hardback book pages 374. 'Blessed The Autobiography' Edition: First Edition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Brian Walpole Co-Pilot signed FDC. Concorde Inaugural Transatlantic Flight Silver Jubilee First Flight Cover, date stamped 1977. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
WOOD, Christopher. James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First edition, 8vo (183 x 116mm.) (Mild toning, stamp verso title.) Original black cloth (spine ends bumped, slight spine lean, extremities rubbed), dust-jacket (spine ends chipped). Provenance: Harefield Library (labels to front-free endpaper). Note: scarce first edition of the novelisation of the 1977 film of ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. The plot of Fleming’s novel of 1962 bore no relation to the film, bar the title.
NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Collins and Harper Collins, 1945-2021. 144 vols., including 121 first editions and 1 volume with a signed publisher’s slip, 8vo (223 x 151mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional spotting to early volumes, some volumes name or gift inscribed.) Original cloth (extremities bumped to early volumes), dust-jackets (37 volumes are price-clipped, minor chipping to spine ends of early volumes), numbers 97-144 still in the publisher’s shrink-wrap. Note: a run of one hundred and forty-four volumes of the New Naturalist. Numbers 1, 2, 5, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 54, and 58 are reprints. Number 70 is a first edition, first state. Number 143 has a loose publisher’s slip signed by author David M. Wilkinson. – And a further ten volumes (‘New Naturalist Monographs’, numbers 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 19, 21) (155).
COOKERY. – Joseph. A. LAMBETH. Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries… with a Foreword by John J. N. Mackman. London: Virtue and Company Limited, 1936. First edition, 4to (304 x 226mm.) 30 colour plates, numerous black and white plates, 4pp. advertisements to front and 8pp. advertisements to rear, index. (Toning, spotting to endpapers.) Original embossed red cloth (lightly rubbed extremities).
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. – Joseph P. LASH. Eleanor & Franklin. London: Andre Deutsch, 1972. First U.K. edition, includes a loosely-inserted 6-line a.l.s. from Franklin D. Roosevelt and another 7-line a.l.s. from Eleanor Roosevelt, 8vo (232 x 149mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. Note: the letter from Franklin Roosevelt is dated November 9th, 1931, and is on the ‘State of New York Executive Chamber’ letterhead when Roosevelt was Governor of New York. He became president sixteen months later, in March 1933 and served until his death in 1945. The letter is addressed to Richard S. Childs, a civic and social reformer. It reads: ‘Dear Mr. Childs: Please be assured that your letter of October 27th will be given thoughtful and considerate attention when we pass upon the request of the State Department of Education for the inclusion in its annual budget of an appropriation of $50,000 to conduct a study of New York City Schools. Very sincerely yours, Franklin Roosevelt’. The letter from Eleanor Roosevelt is dated 14th April, 1959. She was seventy-five at the time of writing and had been widowed for fourteen years. The letter reads: ‘Dear Miss Nachamie: I want to thank you very much for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, I cannot come to you in May as my calendar is completely filled. In any case, all my engagements for lectures must go through my agent, Mr. W. Colston Leigh, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Very sincerely yours, Eleanor Roosevelt’. In the 1950’s Eleanor was averaging around a hundred and fifty lectures a year, both in America and abroad, often devoted to her civil rights work and her activism on behalf of the United Nations. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.
GRAFTON, Richard. Grafton’s Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande, newely corrected and augmented, to thys present yere of our Lord 1572. [London: Richard Tottell, 1572.] 8vo (138 x 89mm.) Title, woodcut initials, tables. (Lacking several leaves, including the illustration at Ee5v, 2 leaves to rear loose, last leaf Hh8, hole in E1, some manuscript annotation to margins, corner loss to title, occasional spotting.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine (worn). Note: the first pocket edition of Grafton’s chronicle was published in 1563. Based on John Harding’s 15th century text, Grafton compiled it while in prison. The pocket editions were published by Grafton’s son-in-law, Richard Tottel. Provenance: John Ishel [?] (contemporary ink name to title).
DUMAS, Alexander. Les Trois Mousquetaires. Paris: M.M. J. -B. Fellens et L.- P. Dufour, 1846. First illustrated edition, 8vo (237 x 151mm.) Half-title, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, 32 wood-engraved plates by A. Gusman, G. Lecestre and others after Beauce and others, tissue-guards, illustrated initials and tail-pieces. (Spotting to preliminaries, light to moderate spotting throughout including marginal damp-staining.) Contemporary black morocco, gilt lettering to spine (rebacked, lightly rubbed extremities). – And a further illustrated volume by Dumas (‘Vingt ans Après’, 1846, 8vo) (2).
HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 119mm.) (Offsetting to front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket designed by John Woodcock (offsetting to inner flap). Note: the first edition was published simultaneously in America and England. ‘One bright May morning,’ Huxley wrote, ‘I swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescaline dissolved in half a glass of water and sat down to wait for the results’.
MILITARY. – E.P. STEBBING. At the Serbian Front in Macedonia. London and New York: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1917. First edition, 8vo (189 x 125mm.) Photographic plates, 1 folding map, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional marginal spotting.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (chipped to extremities, slightly dust-soiled). – And a further thirteen volumes related to war, escape and captivity (including Joseph Lee’s ‘A Captive at Carlsruhe, and Other German Prison Camps’, 1920, 8vo, and Antoinette Tierce’s ‘Between Two Fires’, 1931, 8vo, and E.O. Mousley’s ‘The Secrets of a Kuttite’, 1922, 8vo) (14).
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition, 4to (251 x 181mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous black and white illustrations. (Spotting to endpapers, mild toning.) Original beige cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (lightly bumped extremities). – And a further four volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham (including William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, 1926, 4to, and Richard Wagner’s ‘The Ring of the Niblung’, 1939, 4to, and Robert Browning’s ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’, 1934, 8vo, and Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’, 1933, 8vo) (5).
BEATTIE, William. The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and The Ban de la Roche. London: George Virtue, 1838. First edition, 4to (270 x 203mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, 70 engraved plates, folding map. (Toning, some marginal spotting.) Contemporary green diced morocco, maroon morocco lettering piece to the spine, g.e. (some fading and scuffing to extremities). – And a further volume (N. Bailey’s ‘An Universal Etymological English Dictionary’, 1783, 8vo) (2).
LESSING, Doris. The Golden Notebook. London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First edition, second impression, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (slight chipping to extremities). – And a further twenty-seven literary volumes (including Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, 1933, 8vo, and Kingsley Amis’ ‘The James Bond Dossier’, 1965, 8vo, and Jean Rhys’ ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, second impression, 1966, 8vo, and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, 1941, 8vo) (28).
CHRISTIE, Agatha. Murder Is Easy. London: The Crime Club, 1939. First edition, 8vo (174 x 114mm.) (Toning, occasional scattered spotting, lacking 2pp. advertisements.) Variant brown cloth, black lettering to spine (some fading and spotting to spine). Provenance: Audrey Hobby (ink name inscribed to front pastedown). – And a further first edition in a variant binding (Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Jamaica Inn’, 1936, 8vo) (2).
AIRSHIPS. – Alberto SANTOS-DUMONT. My Airships, the Story of My Life. London: Grant Richards, 1904. First edition, 8vo (204 x 137mm.) Photographic illustrations, manuscript annotation to front-free endpaper and half-title by Lord Ventry. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original boards (lightly rubbed). Note: Lord Ventry co-wrote ‘Jane’s Pocket Book 7: Airship Development’ and he also set up the ‘The Airship Club’ in 1948 to fund the building of an airship. Eventually, Ventry’s airship – named ‘Bournemouth’ - had its first flight in 1951. It made eleven flights before crash landing in 1952. Provenance: Lord Ventry (ink annotation to preliminaries). – And a further twenty-five volumes related to airships, Zeppelins, ballooning and early aeronautics (Ernst A. Lehmann’s ‘Zeppelin. The Story of Lighter-than-air Craft’, 1937, 8vo and ‘The Hero of a Thousand Flights’, [1913], 4to, and Griffith Brewer’s ‘Theory of Ballooning’, 1918, 8vo, and ‘The Andree Diaries’, 1931, 8vo, and also a French cast paper-weight model of a De Dion Bouton single cylinder engine) (26).
ASIA. – Charles A. SHERRING. Western Tibet and The British Borderland. London: Edward Arnold, 1906. First edition, 8vo (247 x 152mm.) Photogravure frontispiece, photographic illustrations, some full-page, 5 maps including 2 large folding colour maps of Western Tibet. (Toning, one folding map loose.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt (extremities rubbed, small stain to upper cover).
![GAY LITERATURE. – [Thomas BURKE.] ‘Paul Pry’. For Your Convenience, A Learned Dialogue Instructive To all Londoners and Londo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b0796e37-3977-413b-bd87-b2a000fe61a6/62a1666c-b93d-4c18-9cdd-b2a700c43926/468x382.jpg)
GAY LITERATURE. – [Thomas BURKE.] ‘Paul Pry’. For Your Convenience, A Learned Dialogue Instructive To all Londoners and London Visitors. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1937. First edition, 8vo (183 x 120mm.) Illustrated title-page and illustrated endpapers by Philip Gough. (Toning, slight spotting to margins of endpapers.) Original green cloth, facsimile dust-jacket. Note: scarce. The first ‘Gay Guide’ to London and written by the author of ‘Limehouse Nights’, Thomas Burke. The work takes the form of a discreet and indirect conversation between two men in the Thélème Club where, by innuendo, they discuss the best public toilets for gaining ‘full satisfaction’. The endpaper maps provide visual assistance in locating the toilets.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – C.S. EVANS (editor). Cinderella. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, 4to (252 x 185mm.) Tipped-in frontispiece, tissue-guard, decorative title in three colours, 3 double-paged colour plates, numerous silhouette illustrations. (Toning, name partially erased from half-title.) Original pictorial boards (light spotting), dust-jacket (some chafing to edges).
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WAIN, Louis (illustrator) and Claire WAIN. Louis Wain’s Great Big Midget Book. London: Dean & Son, Ltd., [1934.] First edition, 16mo (116 x 99mm.) Numerous black and white illustrations by Louis Wain. (Toning.) Original pictorial boards (lightly bumped). Note: scarce. The last book that Louis Wain published in his lifetime. Louis and his sister, Claire, worked on it while he was a patient at Napsbury psychiatric hospital in Hertfordshire where he spent the last fifteen years of his life. – And a further thirteen small-format books, mainly by Kate Greenaway (including ‘Almanach de Kate Greenaway 1890’, [1889], 16mo, and Maurice Sendak’s ‘The Nutshell Library’, 4 vols., 1964, 16mo) (10).
POETRY. – Keith DOUGLAS. Alamein to Zem Zem. London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First edition, 8vo (224 x 168mm.) 3 colour plates, black and white drawings by the author in the text. (Browned.) Original red cloth-backed boards (staining to spine), dust-jacket (spotting, some losses to spine panel, browned). – And a further seven volumes related to poetry (including ‘An Anthology of ‘Nineties’ Verse’ edited by A.J.A. Symons, 1928, 8vo, and Edmund Blunden’s ‘Poems of Many Years’, 1957, 8vo) (8).
SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queene… with a Glossary, and Notes explanatory and critical by John Upton. London: for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. 2 vols., new edition, 4to (252 x 197mm.) (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (joints splitting, extremities heavily rubbed with some loss). Note: the first annotated edition. Provenance: Marcus Somerville (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).
BELLOC, Hilaire. Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That. London: Duckworth, 1932. First edition, 4to (246 x 184mm.) Illustrations by Nicholas Bentley. (Toning, contemporary gift inscription on the front-free endpaper.) Original white cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket (toned, small repair to lower panel). – And a further seven illustrated volumes (including Eden Phillpotts’ ‘A Dish of Apples’, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, [1921], 4to, and J.M. Barries’ ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Garden’, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, [1909], 4to) (8).
PAYNE-GALLWEY, Ralph. The Book of Duck Decoys, their Construction, Management, and History. London: John van Voorst, 1886. First edition, 4to (247 x 181mm.) 14 colour lithographic plates, including 2 folding. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting.) Original teal cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (minor marks to lower cover). Note: plates complete as collated. Provenance: John Neston Diggle (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a related volume (J. Whitaker’s ‘British Duck Decoys of Today, 1918’, 1918, 8vo) (2).
DIMENT, Adam. The Bang Bang Birds. London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First edition, 8vo (198 x 127mm.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small tear to rear panel). – And quantity of approximately forty further volumes, mostly first editions (including T.H. White’s ‘The Goshawk’, 1951, 8vo, and Rian James’ ‘All About New York’, 1931, 8vo, and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’, first U.K. edition, 1964, 8vo, and J.D. Salinger’s ‘Franny and Zooey’, first U.K. edition, 1962, 8vo, and Tennessee Williams’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, first U.K. edition, 1956, 8vo) (a quantity).
THEROUX, Paul. Murder in Mount Holly. London: Alan Ross, 1969. First edition, 8vo (183 x 116mm.) (Mild toning, ex-library stamps verso title and front-free endpaper.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (extremities rubbed). Note: Theroux wrote most of this novel during the state of emergency and curfew in Kampala in Uganda in 1966 when, for twelve days, people were not allowed out of their homes. – And a further twenty-nine volumes of fiction and travel-writing and memoir by Paul Theroux, all first editions, one signed (‘The Black House’, 1974, 8vo) (30).
WAR. – E.W.C. SANDES. In Kut and Captivity with the Sixth Indian Division. London: John Murray, 1919. First edition, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) Half-title, 15 photographic illustrations on 12 plates, including portrait frontispiece of Major General Townshend, 13 maps, 9 folding. (Browning to half-title, toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (upper joint splitting). – And a further fifteen volumes related to war and captivity (including C.L. Woolley’s ‘From Kastamuni to Kedos’, 1921, 4to, and E.W.C. Sandes’ ‘Tales of Turkey’, 1924, 8vo) (15).
ASIA. – Perceval LANDON. Lhasa, an Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4. London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1905. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (239 x 163mm.) Half-titles, 7 maps, including 1 large folding colour map to rear of vol. 2, numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning, light spotting to half-titles.) Original russet cloth, gilt lettering (some fading to gilt, spine ends rubbed). Provenance: R. Colenutt (ink stamp to front pastedowns). – And a further two volumes (L.A. Waddell’s ‘The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism’, 1934, 8vo, and Marco Pallis’ ‘Peaks and Lamas’, 1946, 8vo) (4).
MOTOR-RACING. – Enzo FERRARI. My Terrible Joys… translated by Ivan Scott. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First U.K. edition, with 2 mounted colour photographs of Ferraris, 8vo (230 x 156mm.) Introduction by Stirling Moss, photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (slight abrasions to base of spine). – And a further eleven volumes related to motor-racing (including Rudolf Caracciola’s ‘Mercedes Grand Prix Ace’, [1955], 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (12).
AMIS, Martin. Dead Babies. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 118mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (faintly bumped at top of spine), dust-jacket (slight rub to extremities). – And a further twenty volumes by Martin Amis, all first editions, four signed by Amis. Note: the signed volumes are ‘Time’s Arrow’, ‘London Fields’, ‘The Information’ and ‘Heavy Water and Other Stories’. ‘Visiting Mrs. Nabokov’ is a second impression (21).
![MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written administrative ledger and account book for the Rape of Arundel. N.p.:] Sussex: 1655-1663, manuscr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b0796e37-3977-413b-bd87-b2a000fe61a6/2b7babe7-ddac-430a-8603-b2a700c492a7/468x382.jpg)
MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written administrative ledger and account book for the Rape of Arundel. N.p.:] Sussex: 1655-1663, manuscript, 4to (224 x 156mm.) 126pp. in a partly legible, mostly single hand relating to land contracts and borders with 17pp. bound-in at rear relating to tithes collected and expenditure, 5 blanks leaves to front and 15 to rear, several loose manuscript inserts with one relating to the Duke of Norfolk. (Loss to top corner of first thirty leaves, text affected, some damp-staining and browning, wormholes to first blank leaves.) Original vellum (minor wormholes to upper cover and spine).
BINDING. – Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Twenty-fifth edition, 8vo (183 x 137mm.) 20 colour plates by William Payne. (Blanks replaced.) Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in green full morocco, gilt lettering to spine, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Note: the first edition with William Payne’s illustrations.
SIGNED BOOK. – Eric HEBBORN. Drawn to Trouble. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1991. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). Note: one of the greatest and most infamous art forgers of the 20th century. Hebborn was found dead on a street in Rome in 1996, most likely murdered by a blow to the back of his head.
SPEER, Albert. The Slave State. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1981. First edition, includes a 29-line typed letter from Albert Speer, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). Note: Albert Speer, the ‘Nazi Architect’, was sentenced to twenty years in prison for his close involvement with Hitler and the Nazi’s inner command. He was released in 1966 and his books are a fascinating witness account while also being an attempt to portray himself as unaware of the ‘Final Solution’. However, this has been steadily undermined by research showing that Speer not only knew the fate of the Jews but actively participated in their persecution. This letter, in German and on Speer’s headed paper, is dated March 1969 and mentions the imminent publication of his memoirs in the U.K. in May, 1970. He suggests that while wanting to visit England, he is unsure if he is an ‘unwillkommene Person’ or not. He says he intends to ask his U.K. publisher (‘es wird sicher ein guter sein’ [‘who will certainly be a good one’]) to find out for him. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.
SUSSEX. – Edward HERON-ALLEN. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, 4to (307 x 246mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting, corner crease to frontispiece ‘B’ and small tear to plate 42.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (some spotting to lower cover, minor finger-marks and small stain to upper cover). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.
BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the families of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (347 x 209mm.) Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, loosely inserted manuscript pedigree of the ‘Polhill’ family. (Toning, occasional light spotting, blanks creased.) Original green boards, later paper label to spine (rebacked, extremities rubbed). – And a further fourteen volumes (‘Sussex Notes and Queries. A Quarterly Journal of the Sussex Archaeological Society’, 17 vols. in 14, 1927-1971, 8vo) (15).
ZOLA, Émile. Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille) … translated from the 63rd French edition. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1885. First English edition, 8vo (189 x 121mm.) Engraved plates, 2pp. publisher’s advertisement at front and 17pp. publisher advertisements at rear. (Browning and light scattered spotting, tape repair to hinges.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt, red and black (fading to spine and upper cover gilt, slight warping to covers and crease to lower cover, rubbed). – And a further twelve volumes by or about Émile Zola (including ‘His Masterpiece? (L’Oeuvre.) Or, Claude Lantier’s Struggle For Fame’, 1886, 8vo, and ‘How Jolly Life Is!’, 1886, 8vo) (13).
HARTLEY, L.P. The Go-Between. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First edition, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (two repairs verso spine panel, minor chipping, two small closed tears at spine ends). Note: made into a film in 1971 by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Provenance: D.M. (?) (ink name inscribed to ‘Book Society’ bookplate on front-free endpaper).
MOTOR-RACING. – Chris NIXON. Auto Union Album 1914-1939. Middlesex: Transport Bookman Publications, 1998. First edition, signed by the author, oblong 4to (229 x 293mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth-backed covers, dust-jacket. – And a further nine volumes related to motor-racing (including Chris Nixon’s ‘Shooting Star’, 2000, oblong 4to, and his ‘The Robert Fellowes Collection Grand Prix 1934-1939’, 2001, oblong 4to, both signed, and Michael Cooper-Evans’ ‘Rob Walker’, 1993, 4to, which has two tipped-in signed photographs of racing drivers Rob Walker and Tony Rolt). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (9).
SIGNED BOOK. – Ean WOOD. The Josephine Baker Story. London: Sanctuary Publishing, 2000. First edition, a photographic postcard signed by Josephine Baker mounted to the front-free endpaper, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black boards, dust-jacket (spine faded). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.
ASIA. – William Montgomery McGOVERN. To Lhasa in Disguise, a Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet. New York and London: The Century Co., 1924. First edition, signed by William Montgomery McGovern, 8vo (223 x 144mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue pictorial cloth (slight fading). Note: signed by McGovern to the lower edge of the frontispiece: ‘With best wishes, and in pleasant memories of Boston, love W.M. McGovern, 1926’. Thought to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones, McGovern was, perhaps, even more impressive. He was reputed to speak twelve languages. He was a war correspondent during the Second Sino-Japanese war, did secret work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Second World War, he was an adventurer and a writer and - having studied in Berlin, Oxford and at the Sorbonne - was an academic for many years.
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