BANKS. MRS G. LINNAEUS.

GLORY. By Author of "The Manchester Man," "God's Providence House," &c.

Hurst and Blackett. London. 1877. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo. (7.2 x 4.5 inches). vi,320; iv,315; iv,314pp. Library stamps of South African Public Library on first and and one middle page of text. Previous owner has clumsily copied out the word "Glory" beneath the printed title in ink to the title page of volume one A few creases to corners of pages, and a few pages with brown (tea stain?) marks, otherwise a very good set bound, with half title in volume one only, in recent half tan calf. Spines with raised bands, red titles labels, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Not in Sadleir or Wolff.

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Book number: 7542

BANNERMAN. HELEN.

THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.

Chatto & Windus. London.,1935. Reprint. Small 4to.(9.3 x 7 inches). 27 full colour plates, each with a page of text opposite. Small area of loss to the bottom corner of one page and a few pages with tears into the margins,without any loss to the page. Overall a very good clean copy which has recently been finely bound in leather. Full blue morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled borders. Front board lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Overall a very good, attractively bound copy.:

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Book number: 5638

BARNETT. T RATCLIFFE. R. GEMMELL HUTCHINSON, R.S.A. ILLUSTRATES.

REMINISCENCES OF OLD SCOTS FOLK.

T. N. Foulis. London & Edinburgh. 1913. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 10 fine colour tipped-in plates, each with a tissue guard. A clean and tight copy in original publishers delux full purple suede binding with oversized yapp edges. Gilt lettering on the spine. Front board with black lettering. All edges gilt. Previous owners neat name on the front free endpaper otherwise a fine and bright copy of this pretty book.

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Book number: 8515

SMITH. G. BARNETT.

THE ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH POLE. Antarctic Voyages and Explorations.

Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. 1902. EARLY EDITION. 8vo. (7.1 x 5 inches. Illustrated with 12 full page plates. Contemporary prize binding by Bickers & Son of full navy blue calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. The compartments triple ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Gilt double ruled lines to both boards. School arms of Berkhamsted School to the front board in gilt. Board edges decorated in gilt. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. School prize label, dated 1910, to the front pastedown endpaper. There is just a hint of fading to the spine but overall a fine copy both inside and out.

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Book number: 10941

BARRIE. J. M.

PETER PAN. Or the boy who would not grow up.

Hodder & Stoughton Limited. London. 1928. FOURTH EDITION. 8vo. Publishers delux leather binding. Bound in publishers delux blue limp leather binding with circular gilt JMB device on front board and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A previous owners neat bookplate on the first blank free endpaper otherwise a near fine, bright copy. Scarce in this delux binding

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Book number: 10118

BARRIE. J. M; BEDFORD. F. D. ILLUSTRATES.

PETER AND WENDY.

Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. London. No Date. circa 1922. EARLY EDITION, with extra colour plate. 8vo. (7.5 x 6 inches). Complete, and with one more illustration than the original 1911 edition. Full colour illustrated frontispiece mounted onto grey art paper and with a tissue guard, decorative mono title page and twelve full page mono plates by Bedford. Internally this is a very good, bright and clean copy, in an attractive early half leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, of London, for E. P. Dutton & Company, New York. Half dark green calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments fully decorated and ruled in gilt. Twin burgundy labels, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Off white silk bookmark. Rubbing to the outer layer of the leather on the binding edges, particularly the hinge on the lower board, but both hinges still firm and strong and still an attractive binding. A good looking copy of this classic title, featuring Captain Hook, Never-Never Land, The Lost Boys, Nana and, of course, Tinkerbell (or Tinker Bell as she is named in this story), and with the added bonus of the extra colour plate that doesn't feature in earlier editions.

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Book number: 10460

BARRIE. J. M.

PETER PAN. Or the boy who would not grow up.

Hodder & Stoughton Limited. London. 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). A fine bright copy in publishers original blue cloth with printed paper labels on front board and spine. In the scarce original dustwrapper, lettered in blue and red. The wrapper is near to very good with some loss to the edges and darkening to the spine. Overall a very good copy. ----- This is the first edition of the play, and was issued as a volume in the uniform edition of the Plays of Barrie. Copies retaining the fragile original dustwrapper are scarce. ------ There are three versions of the Peter Pan story that J. M. Barrie published, after the character first appeared in hie novel The Little White Bird in 1902. The first is Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, which was issued in 1906, complete with fifty full colour plates by Arthur Rackham. This is the story of Peter Pan having adventures with the Fairies, Pixies and Animals of the Famous London Park. The second book issued was Peter and Wendy, published in 1911, with a decorative title page and twelve full page mono plates by F. D. Bedford. This is the Best known of the three, with Peter and Wendy and the other Darling children visiting Never Never Land and meeting Captain Hook and the Crocodile. The last is Peter Pan; or the Boy who would not grow up, published in 1928. This is actually the first time Barrie's famous Peter Pan play, performed on stage since 1904, was published in book form.

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Book number: 10816

RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates; BARRIE. J. M.

PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1906. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Illustrated with a colour frontis and forty nine full colour plates, all mounted onto thick art paper pages at back of book, each one with a printed tissue guard. Decorative endpapers with map of Kensington Gardens. A near fine, bright and clean copy throughout in original russet cloth binding with gilt stamped decoration and lettering to front board and spine. Very minor rubbing to hinges and a small bump to the lower front board at the outer corner, but overall a beautiful clean copy of this classic. Among the very best of Rackham's work.

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Book number: 10208

BARRIE. J. M.

THE PLAYS.

Hodder & Stoughton. 1930. REPRINT EDITION. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.9 inches). 844pp. Early full burgundy morocco leather binding. Spine with 3 raised bands, ruled in gilt. Green name label, gilt. Gilt lettering and circular devices. Colour leather onlay illustration of Peter Pan on a tree stump, to front board. Single gilt ruled border to both boards. All edges gilt. Leather turn inswith single gilt ruled lines. Plain endpapers. The binding is not signed but is certainly the work of a skilled craftsman.

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Book number: 9744

BARSTOW.STAN.

A KIND OF LOVING.

Michael Joseph.London.,1960. FIRST EDITION.8vo.A very good copy with just a couple of small spots to the fore edge,otherwise all pages are clean and crisp.Small bump to the bottom of the front board.Dustwrapper with a small crease to bottom front panel edge but overall a very good bright,sharp copy.:

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Book number: 7023

BAUDELAIRE. CHARLES.

SELECTED POEMS. With translations by Geoffrey Wagner and an introduction by Enid Starkie.

The Falcon Press. London. 1946. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.5 x 6.3 inches). Illustrated with six full page plates: mono photo portrait frontis, 2 drawings by Gregorio Prieto and 3 plates by Baudelaire, including 2 self portraits. Illustrated endpapers, with line drawings by Prieto, bound in at front and rear. Finely bound, for Truslove & Hanson of London, in mid twentieth century leather binding of half plum calf. Spine with two raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments gilt ruled. Beige morocco label, ruled and lettered in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Some very minor rubbing to the extremities but overall a near fine, atractively bound copy.

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Book number: 8762

BEARDSLEY. AUBREY, Illustrates: FOOTE. SAMUEL. And HOOK. THEODORE.

BON-MOTS OF SAMUEL FOOTE AND THEODORE HOOK. Edited by Walter Jerrold. With grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

J. M. Dent and Company. London. 1904. THIRD EDITION. Small 8vo. (5.1 x 3.4 inches). Reprint of the original 1894 edition. 66 fine line illustrations by Beardsley, 25 new designs for this edition and 41 reprinted from earlier volumes issued in the Bon-Mots series. A few light spots to some of the pages but generally a very good copy in a fine early 20th century leather binding, possibly executed in 1922, of full burgundy crushed morocco. Both boards and spine with elaborate gilt decoration. Spine also lettered in gilt. Plain grey endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. A neat pencil note inside the rear cover might be a clue to the binder and date of the binding; 'MMXXI. A. EE.'. A couple of tiny holes to the bottom ninge but overall this is a very good and highly attractive binding. --- Lasner. Checklist of the published work of Aubrey Beardsley. No. 20 (listing the 1894 first edition).

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Book number: 10725

BEARDSLEY. AUBREY.

THE PAY OF THE PIED PIPER. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Reprinted from the 1888 Xmas Entertainment Programme of the Brighton Grammar School.

NP. ND. c. 1898. Set of 11 full page illustrations by Beardsley Sewn in pale blue/grey card wrapper. No text apart from the front wrapper.(8.4 x 5.4 inches). Mark Samuels Lasner, in his checklist of Beardsley's work, describes a set of these illustrations as being issued as loose plates in blue wrappers (5a) but this copy is the 11 etchings printed on the recto of white paper leaves and sewn into the card wraps. A couple of spots to the edge of the first couple of leaves, away from the illustration, otherwise a clean and bright example in very good wrappers with a small amount of marking and handling to the edges. Overall a better than very good example of this rare item.

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Book number: 9773

BECKETT. SAMUEL. ; WILLIAMS. WILLIAM CARLOS. ; EUGENE JOLAS. & OTHERS.

OUR EXAMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMINATION OF WORK IN PROGRESS. With letters of protest by G. V. L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon.

Sylvia Beach. Shakespeare and Company. Paris. 1929. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 8vo. (7 x 5.6 inches). Page edges tanned, as usual, a small stain to the fore edge of the first handful of pages and a few minor chips to the edges of a few leaves, otherwise a very good example in the original cream coloured paper wraps, printed in black to spine and both covers. Some loss to the top of the spine, but not affecting the lettering, and a small closed tear and some minor chipping to the extremities. Paper a bit toned and rubbed but overall a presentable copy. There was also a limited edition of 96 numbered copies on thicker verge d'Arches paper issued simultaneously with this issue. ----- This early critique of Joyce's final work was published some 10 years prior to the publication of the finished novel. Part of the incentive to publish was apparently to raise funds for the perennially impecunious Joyce. A myth surrounding this work is that one or both of the two letters of protest were written by Joyce himself. However both authors existed, indeed Beach herself commissioned Slingsby. Dixon's effort, which is marvellous, was an unsolicited one by a Russian émigré who was to die in Paris in 1929, just as the book was published. -- Slocum and Cahoon. B.10.

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Book number: 10554

BECKETT. SAMUEL.

WATT.

Grove Press, Inc. New York. 1968. LIMITED EDITION. FIRST FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.6). Copy number 61 of just 92 copies reserved for La Librairie des Éditions, out of 189 copies in the total edition. A fine copy with the page edges still uncut. Publishers white paper wraps printed in blue and black. Original glassine around the wraps. A lovely copy, and scarce in such nice condition, of the first printing of Beckett's translation. Although written during 1944, Watt wasn't published until 1953 and it was another 15 years before he completed this much anticipated French translation.

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Book number: 8600