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Boston Book Fair 2022
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First edition, second impression of the first titles first UK printings of the others; 5 vols, 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spines gilt, with the dust jackets. Exceptional copies in the minimally faded dust jackets with the odd negligible tear
£875 -
First edition, number 30 of 200 copies on handmade paper, signed by Milne and Kenneth Grahame; 4to (235 x 190 mm); publisher's quarter blue cloth-backed boards, with paper label on upper board (spare one tipped-in at the end), printed dust-jacket, spine darkened with minor chipping to extremities, small, expert restorations to upper edge, minor shelf wear, otherwise a bright and clean copy in the scarce dust-jacket.
£2,900 -
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, red topstain. With the pictorial dust jacket. A lovely copy in the dust jacket with just a couple of very minor tear and the merest trace of bleed from the cloth to the verso at one fold.
£1,250 -
First edition printed in the UK, one of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author from an overall limitation of 1000; 4to; internally fine, probably unread; publisher's full vellum, with Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill to upper board gilt, titles to spine gilt, original card slip-case, Curwen Paper covering, title label to side giving the limitation number (87), minimally rubbed with some spotting to the label, preserved in a blue solander box, slightly worn, a very good copy indeed.
£30,000 -
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; light spotting to prelims and endpapers; publisher's pale sage cloth, black lettering to spine, boards lightly marked, with the buff dustjacket (supplied from another copy) printed in red, jacket slightly toned and chipped, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce work.
£1,500 -
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 346 pp., 16 plates, illustrations in text, original blue cloth gilt, original grey dust wrapper, spine slightly foxed, couple of short closed tears to extremities, a very good copy.
£2,250 -
2 works in one vol., folio (27.8 x 19.5 cm); woodcut devices to titles of The Bible, some restoration to inner margin of general title, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, double-page woodcut plan depicting the temple at Jerusalem, double-page woodcut map of the Holy Land; title of Psalmes within architectural woodcut border, musical notation in text; text in double-column, rubricated throughout, occasional closed tears to lower margin, scattered light foxing and soiling, 17th century ink family notes to endpapers; near-contemporary full black morocco gilt, fillet and roll borders, central device with ornamental thistles, spine with 5 raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, some light rubbing, all edges gilt; [6], 366, 84, [2], 115, [11]; [7], 35, 35-92, [2]pp.
£18,500 -
First edition of the Garnett translation, first impression; 2 vols, 8vo; two leaves opened roughly; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spines gilt, top edges green, dust jackets which are slightly tanned, fine copies.
£1,500 -
First edition, 8vo; 376pp.; in original publisher's printed wrappers, slight creasing to spine otherwise a fine copy.
£750 -
Second edition in English; folio, (33 x 22.5 cm); woodcut vignette to title, inscription to title upper margin 'Jno Poley de Boxted 1711', contemporary neat annotation to front blank (a short biography of Augustine), occasional dust-soiling; near-contemporary speckled calf, blindstamped initials 'W.P.' to front board, some light wear, lacking rear endpaper, front free endpaper wormed and soiled to margins, front hinge cracked, otherwise a remarkably fresh example; [20], 861 [i.e. 860], [4]pp.
£9,500
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