Present Indicative

First edition, first issue with reference to spiritualism on p290 and unauthorised transcription of poem by Siegfried Sassoon on pp341-343; 8vo; photographic frontispiece portrait, 7 plates and maps including one double-page; publisher's light red cloth, a very good copy, in the original dust-jacket. A very good copy in the dust-jacket with a deal of thinning to the front panel. Nonetheless a striking copy of the withdrawn first issue.

2pp. on a bifolium, ink A.L.s., autograph letter signed, 'Clara Schumann', Dusseldorf, 14 April 1877; 8vo (140 x 215mm /51/2 x 81/2 ins).

First edition; 8vo; monochrome portrait frontispiece signed by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, numerous monochrome plates from photographs, mild peripheral spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves, mostly to the plain endpapers; publisher's maroon cloth, slight dust-soiling, pictorial dust-jacket, chipped and creased at extremities, three short, closed tears but in the main, a rare survival.

First edition, first issue with text-block printed on heavier stock and in paler red cloth with blind rule to covers; 8vo; vorticistic title vignette and tail-piece, foxing to terminal leaves and extremities of text block; publisher's light red cloth, very good, printed dust-jacket with some minor marking, toning to spine, a few tears and chips to extremities.

Library edition; 8 volumes, 8vo; illustrated with numerous photogravures after drawings by De Los Rios, Prodhomme, Wagrez and others; contemporary red half morocco, gilt-tooled in characteristic 1890s-style to spines, boards with striking marbled designs and endpapers to same style, top edges gilt, an attractive set.

First edition, first impression; 8vo (240 x 170 mm); presentation copy, signed 'V.S Naipaul, 21 September 1987 for Al Murray'; publisher's quarter green cloth beige boards, titles to upper board in bronze and white and to spine in bronze, dust jacket, sunned, slightly worn and with a water-stain to the spine panel, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition; 12m; half-title with advertisement for the Dumpy Books series on verso, 27 full-page colour illustrations after the author printed by Edmund Evans, usual minor finger-marking and occasional light soiling to leaves, overall internally very good; publisher's pale green cloth lettered and blocked in darker green, a little light rubbing and marking but an attractive copy, scarce to find in such condition.

Hand coloured continuous folding strip view of London and the Thames (30 x 236 cm), engraved key to panorama at end, (expert repairs to edges as required), publisher's red cloth gilt cover flap (advertisement to verso), on original wooden roller (lower wooden knob with small loss), an excellent example.

First French edition, number 19 of 125; approx. 100 illustrations with text by Geradin, Alphonse Levu, Emile Levu, Henri Levu, Erward Levu, Schlesinger, Vogel, Worms and others; later green three quarters morocco, marbled boards with spine richly gilt, in 6 compartments; three titles, iv, 282 pp. with blanks to beginning and rear.

Baked enamel on convex metal sheet, 1974, signed in black ball-point pen on the Edition Staeck label on the revers, from the numbered edition of 80, published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, 20 x 30 cm. (7.9 x 11.8 in.)