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Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction by Cyril Connolly.London: Hamish Hamilton. 1946.First edition in English. 8vo. 185x120mm. pp. [iv], 3-103 [1]. Grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original dustjacket illustrated by Edward Bawden. Bumping to head and foot of spine. Repair to top and bottom edges of dustjacket and two closed tears to top edge and slight chipping to bottom edge of rear of dustjacket but otherwise in very good condition and internally excellent. It is not common in a good jacket. Camus's concise, dense, absurdist novel of alienation first appeared in 1942.

London: LCB in association with Thea Westreich. 1993. First Edition, First Printing. 4to, 283x235mm. Unpaginated. Black cloth with title and author printed in silver on the spine. Some modest bumping to the corners and rubbing to edges. Original illustrated dust jacket with some chipping to the top of the backstrip and a repaired tear to the foot of the front cover on the hinge with the flap. Illustrated throughout. No text. Banned in the U.S. when it was released. Over 150 colour and black and white photographs including Clark's use of collage and images taken from television screens.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by W.Owen et. al. 1764.Fourth Edition, Enlarged. Third edition of the Compleat Appraiser. Tall 12mo in 4s. (198x75mm). pp. xxv, [1], 170, [2], iv, 46, 46a-h, 47-74. Twentieth-century quarter brown morocco with small arts and crafts style decorative motifs on the joints, brown cloth covered boards. Slight rubbing to the joints and mild bumping to the corners. Overall in very good condition. Internally very good, some browning to edges of title page and final leaf. Gathering Gg has been repaired affecting the text but not legibility.

London: Printed by T. Bensley for Wynne & Scholey and J. Wallis. 1805.10 Volumes. 8vo. Endpapers and edges marbled. Portrait on frontispiece of volume 1. Engraved vignettes to title pages of each volume and title pages of individual plays. A Fine set in a contemporary quarter deep red morocco over marbled boards. The tips more graceful than usual with gilt rules to the borders.

London: Printed for George Kearsley. 1806.Fourteen volumes. 8vo. 160x100mm. Green half calf, marbled paper boards. Spine with four raised bands decorated in gilt with a Greek key design. Red label lettered in gilt. All edges marbled and marbled endpapers. Some slight rubbing to edges and a little scuffing in places to the boards but overall an attractive set in very good condition. Internally very good with a little browning in places. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare. Engravings throughout reproducing scenes from the plays.

London: Rivingtons; Longman and Co.. 1852.Four volumes. Fifth edition. 8vo, 217x135mm. pp. xxviii, 523 [1]; [4], 589, [1]; xxiii [i], 431 [1]; viii, 560. Handsomely bound by J. Wright (signed to foot of front pastedown) in blue morocco with triple fillet borders inside which are gilt swags. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, second and third compartments lettered in gilt. Edges of boards with gilt roll and turn-ins decorated in gilt. All edges gilt.

London: William Tweedie.. 1853.Bound with The Poetry of Childhood. London: William Tweedie. 1852. Presentation copy, inscribed "A.S. from GB. Orate pro pittore". First edition of both titles. Small 8vo. 150x100mm. pp. 52. Poetry of Childhood. Pp. 28. Bound in at the end are four pages of publisher's advertisements which were issued with The Poetry of Home. There are three charming pencil drawings pasted onto blank leaves bound in between the text and two further drawings on blank leaves and one on a text leaf. On a blank preliminary leaf, a photograph of Barmby has been pasted in.

Norwich: Printed and sold by Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson. 1808.First edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. [12], 117, [1bl], [7, 1bl], 4pp advertisements of books on farming tipped in. Original blue-grey boards, backed with white paper, original orange label to spine. Spine cracked and worn with loss of c45mm to lower part of spine and loss to label. Corners bumped and some soiling to the boards. Internally very good but with some foxing. Overall an excellent uncut copy in the original boards. A rare book, Worldcat locates eight copies worldwide and only one appears in the auction records.

London: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen Corner. 1682.First edition. 8vo (175x114mm). pp. 128 (including initial blank A1). Contemporary black morocco, covers panelled in gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. The Heber (?) - Britwell - Hayward - Bradley Martin - Edwards copy, with modern bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and J.O. Edwards. Lightly rubbed with some wear to corners, a little marginal browning, still a fine copy.

Or, An Introduction to Useful Knowledge, being a compilation of real Experiments and Improvement, in several pleasing Branches of Science on the following subjects, viz...The Second Edition with very considerable additions.  London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Murray. n.d. [c.1790].Second edition, two parts in one volume. 8vo in 4s. (215x127mm). pp. xv, [i], 319 [1bl], [2]; [viii], 112, 133-176, [1]. With twenty four folding engraved plates, errata leaf at the end of each part. The second part has a separate half-title.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991.  First U.S. edition. Signed by le Carré on title page. 240x165mm. pp.[8], 335 [3]. Publisher’s black cloth, gold lettering to spine and front cover. Original dust jacket. Light fading to head of boards, corners slightly bumped. Internally excellent, overall in very good condition. As intelligence agent Ned approaches retirement, he looks back over his career in the field. Ethical disquiet is increasingly at the forefront of his mind and mentor George Smiley can only offer uncomfortable truths.

n.p. . [1847].One of six manuscript copies transcribed by Charles Pollington. A presentation inscription on one of the preliminary leaves states: "This sixth Copy of Clare's Poems is presented to my dear Grand-daughter Margaret Pollington of London to perpetuate the remembrance of her Grandfather Charles Pollington. Boston. 1851." 185x112mm. Presentation inscription, frontispiece monochrome watercolour of Clare's Cottage, Helpstone, title page and 359pp. Pasted in on the presentation page are two news cuttings and loosely inserted at the back of the book are some newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to Clare.

London: Michael Joseph. 1949. Fifth impression. Illustrated by Peter Scott. pp. 54, [2]. Handsomely bound by Bayntun and Riviere in red half morocco, marbled paper. A little scuffing to the paper but otherwise a very nice copy.

London: The Studio. 1893.A set of The Studio from the Volume 1, Number 1 issued in April 1893 to Volume 100 (ending in December 1930). All 1st eds, all 4to. Almost all, including the first six issues making up Volume One, are in the rare original paper wrappers. Seventeen volumes are in the green cloth.

Fair Oak, near Kingsclere: Privately published by the author. 1931.Limited edition. Number two of thirty copies, this is one of the twenty four uncoloured copies, printed on Hollingworth paper, the first page printed in red. 385x275mm. pp. [10], 16, [8]. Seven full-page lithographed plates and other illustrations in the text. Original tan half morocco, cloth covered boards. Upper cover stamped in gilt with a figure of nude boy and lettered in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing to head and foot of spine and to joints.

London Collins. 1938. The once and future King First edition. 208x150mm. pp. 339. Publisher's black cloth with white lettering to spine. Illustrated dust jacket protected by mylar. Bumping to head and foot of spine. Chipping and some loss to head and foot of dust jacket. Foxing to fore edges. Slight toning to text block. In very good condition overall. Gift inscription on front endpaper "Mum With best love from Mar[?] June 16th. 1939."An enchanting, fantastical depiction of a child who would be king, guided in his fate by his mage mentor, Merlin.

London: T.C.Newby. 1848.First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. 190x110mm. pp. [4], 358; [2], 366; [2], 342. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere (for Henry Sotheran) in modern green half morocco, boards covered in green linen. Spine lettered in gilt, five raised bands with gilt wavy line, compartments decorated with a single gilt border. Marbled endpapers. A neat, attractive binding in excellent condition. Internally very good with only slight foxing in places. Repair to half title in volume I.

London: Printed for John Morphew. 1713.First and only edition. 8vo in 4s. 180x115mm. pp. 23, [1]. In modern pink wrappers. Some slight foxing and staining to head of first gathering but overall a very good copy. Although published anonymously, this Tory response to Robert Hush's (i.e. Robert Walpole's) pamphlet The present state of fairy-land is recognised as the work of the doctor and satirist William Wagstaffe who moved in the same political and literary circles as Swift and John Arbuthnot.

London: Deputies of Christopher Barker. 1589.First edition. Folio (274x185mm). ll. [23], 496, [5]. *⁴ A-Y⁶ 2A-2Y⁶ 3A-3Y⁶ 4A-4V⁶ 4X⁴. Text in parallel columns, 56 lines to the full column: Rheims New Testament printed in roman type on the left, the Bishops' version in italics on the right, both divided in verses, all arguments, marginal notes, and other annotations of the Rheims NT printed at the end, interspersed with the confutations, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces.

Knokke-Zoute Guy Pieters Gallery. 1989.First edition. Signed in brown pastel crayon by Christo with his distinctive signature. From the introduction, Masahiko Yanagi describes this work as follows: "In December 1984, amidst final preparations for The Pont Neuf Unwrapped, Paris, 1975-1985, Christo created several drawings of imagined umbrellas set in an anonymous landscape. Thus began The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and USA, in which the artist is endeavouring to temporarily install 3,000 giant octagonal umbrellas, simultaneously in two sites one in Ibaraki, Japan, and the other in California, USA.

New York: Harper Row. 1984.Signed by Kundera on the title page. First US edition and the first edition in English translation. 219x138mm. pp. [6], 314. Publishers black paper covered boards, and tan cloth, spine lettered in black. Original dustjacket.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1928 & 1929.First editions. Two volumes published separately but sold together as usual. 8vo. 237x152mm. pp. xv [ibl], 356; xii, 330. Both with eight illustrations. Both bound in publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Front pastedowns have book plates of D.A.King formerly ("Olim Civis") of the Colleges of St Salvator and St Leonard in St Andrews. Without the (scarce) dust-jackets. Fading to spines (more marked in the first volume) and bumping to head and foot of spines. Rubbing to extremities. Some marking to boards.

London: Printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row. 1753.First edition. 8vo, 170x105mm. pp. xiv, [2], 88. Quarter calf, original paper covered boards, rubbing and wear to edges and corners with much of the paper covering worn. Rebacked, red morocco label, lettered in gilt. Foxing and browning and some ink marks, small tear to corner of E4 with no loss of text. Front pastedown has the ownership inscription of "Mrs Anne Cave, Barking Alley, 1761" and, opposite, on the recto of the front endpaper is inscribed "Elisbeath (sic) Castell, I.D". William Kenrick was a literary chancer.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1980.First, signed limited edition. Number 82 of 475 (out of a total of 501, the first 26, hors commerce, being lettered) and signed by Wasson at the colophon. Printed on special paper made by Cartiera di Sarego and with design and printing by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Folio. 305x210mm. pp, xxvi, 248, [2]. Handsomely bound in green quarter morocco, beige cloth with decorated covers, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. With original cloth slipcase. Very slight fading to spine but otherwise in excellent condition. Internally fine with extensive illustrations.