Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
(Three small Juvenile books): 'Endless Amusement, The Largest Collection ... of the Most Interesting and Instructive Experiments...', Halifax, Milner, 1835, Woodcut illus by Bewick, original cloth gilt, rebacked, original backstrip retained; with Sarah Trimmer: 'A description of a set of prints of ancient history...', circa 1796, two parts in one, 64 plates, contemporary half sheep, plus one other similar (3)
Sale Price: £20.00
H.R. Millar: 'Dreamland Express' 1927, published by Humphrey Milford, oblong 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards (worn), inner hinges split
Sale Price: £30.00
J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring - The Two Towers - The Return of the King', London, 1966, second edition, three volumes, three folding maps as called for, uniform original cloth gilt, 'Two Towers' and 'Return of the King' in dust wrappers, plus ''The Hobbit'', London 1978, fourth edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, plus 'Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth', London, 1980, first edition, folding map as...
Sale Price: £60.00
J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings', 1966, 1st India paper de luxe edition, 1st impression, 3 maps (2 folding) as called for, original gilt and silvered decorative cloth, slip case; 'The Hobbit', 1976, 1st de luxe edition, original decorative cloth gilt (very fine), wrapped in original tissue paper, housed in original box, printed label to front; 'Poems & Stories', 1980, 1st de luxe edition, original decorative cloth gilt (very fine), wrapped in original tissue...
Sale Price: £2,000.00
Arthur Ransome, 11 titles (2 first editions, 9 later impressions/reprints), all London, Jonathan Cape, all in original cloth gilt, all in dust wrappers, comprising 'Missee Lee', 1941, 1st edition, dust wrapper slightly worn but generally VGC, unclipped; 'The Picts and the Martyrs', 1943, 1st edition, dust wrapper ditto previous title; 'Swallows & Amazons', 1940, dust wrapper worn; 'Secret Water' & 'Winter Holiday', both 1941, both dust wrappers slightly worn but generally VGC; 'We Didn't Mean...
Sale Price: £100.00
Charles Kingsley: 'The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby', illustrated J. Noel Paton, London and Cambridge, 1863, 1st edition, 1st issue (with L'Envoi leaf), frontis + 1 plate as called for, 1 leaf adverts at end, half title with closed tear repaired, original pictorial green cloth gilt, recased retaining original cloth, gilt titling on spine restored/heightened, top edge gilt
Sale Price: £190.00
Beatrix Potter, six pre 1917 earlier reprints: 'The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher', 'The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle', 'The Tailor of Gloucester', 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny', all with coloured illustrations thorughout, all 16mo, original boards, upper covers with inset coloured illustrations, all generally VGC, 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice', 'The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin', each with coloured illustrations throughout, each 16mo, original boards (a/f), lacking backstrips/boards loose/detached, each with upper cover with inset...
Sale Price: £40.00
Six titles various editions of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' and related, comprising: [nd], circa 1907, Thomas Maybank illustrated edition, 29 coloured illustrations, original cloth backed pictorial boards; [nd], circa 1912, S.W. Partridge edition, 8 black and white plates, original Art Nouveau style decorative cloth; 'Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass', 1925;1927 Macmillan ''Miniature Edition'' reprints, each original cloth gilt (spines faded); plus 'Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll', 1932, 1st edition & 'Clara in...
Five titles various editions of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' and related, comprising: [ND] circa 1930, Boots ''Centenary Edition'', 12 coloured plates by Gwynedd Hudson, frontis and title tape reinforcement inner margin, 4to, original pictorial cloth (worn); [ND] circa 1920, Collins edition, 4 coloured plates by Chas. Pears, original papered boards, mounted coloured illustration top board; [ND], circa 1907, John Lane edition, 6 (of 8) coloured plates only, original pictorial boards (worn, rebacked brown paper);...
Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There', illustrated John Tenniel, London, Macmillan, ''Children's Edition'', 1937 reprint; 1927 1st ''Children's Edition'', each with 16 coloured plates as called for, first title with colour illustrated endpapers, each small 4to, original green pictorial cloth (2)
Sale Price: £32.00
Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Sylvie and Bruno', 1889, 1st edition; 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded', 1893, 1st edition, each with 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss as called for, each original cloth gilt, 2nd title with dust wrapper and Harry Furniss Autograph Letter Signed dated 1921 and on his headed paper loosely inserted, together with Stuart Dodgson Collingwood: 'The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll', 1898, 1st edition, original decorative cloth gilt (worn) (3)
Sale Price: £85.00
Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', illustrated John Tenniel, London, Macmillan, 1876, 49th thousand, 42 black and white illustrations including frontis as called for, original cloth gilt (worn), all edges gilt
Lewis Carroll [i.e Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There'', London, Macmillan, 1869, 14th thousand, 1872, 15th thousand, 2 volumes bound together in 1, engraved frontispieces and engraved illustrations by John Tenniel as called for, rebound full maroon morocco gilt, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, by Morrell/Hatchards
Sale Price: £420.00
Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There', 2 volumes, 1867, 3rd edition & 1872, 1st edition copies of Dodgson's famous novel and its sequel, together with rare Lewis Carroll photograph of Ella Monier Williams and other associated ephemera. 'Alice in Wonderland', London, Macmillan, 1867, 6th thousand [3rd edition], 42 illustrations by John Tenniel as called for. 'Through the Looking-Glass', London, Macmillan, 1872, 1st...
Sale Price: £1,900.00
Charles Robinson (illustrated): 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', London, Cassell, 1907, 8 coloured plates, plus numerous full page and in text black and white illustrations as called for, 4to, original gilt decorated blue cloth, inner joints reinforced, pictorial end papers, small closed tear to cloth at head of spine, corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt. A nice copy of this scarce first Charles Robinson edition Alice, which was subsequently reprinted in a smaller format from 1913...
Sale Price: £650.00
