List 164 - International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

119 BENTLEY, Phyllis. THE BRONTES. English Novelists series. Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (lower panel a little
soiled).. Pp. 115. Home and Van Thal, 1949. £25.00
120 —— THE BRONTES AND THEIR WORLD. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 144, with 140 illustrations.
[First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1969. £45.00
121 —— “O DREAMS, O DESTINATIONS”. An autobiography. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper, (a little chipped and worn).
Pp. 272, with 13 plates. [First edition] Gollancz, 1962. £20.00
122 BERENSON, Bernard. THE PASSIONATE SIGHTSEER. From the diaries 1947 to 1956. Preface by Raymond Mortimer.
Square 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 200, with 171 plates (3 in colour). Thames and Hudson, 1966. £25.00
123 BERG, Alban. LETTERS TO HIS WIFE. Edited, translated and annotated by Bernard Grun. Original printed wrappers, spine a
little faded. Pp. 443, illustrated. [First edition, uncorrected proof copy] Faber, 1971. £30.00
124 BERTHOUD, Roger. GRAHAM SUTHERLAND. A biography. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 328, with 10 coloured and
90 monochrome plates [First edition] Faber, 1982. £35.00
125 BESSE, Joseph. LIFE AND POSTHUMOUS WORK OF JOSEPH CLARIDGE, being memoirs and manuscripts relating to his
experiences and progress in religion: his changes in opinion, and reasons for them. With essays in defence of several principles
and practices of the people call’d Quakers. Old calf gilt, rather worn and defective at extremities, hinges cracking, paper spine
label. Title, A2-a4 (preface, table etc.), pp. 576, Pp1-Qq2 (table etc.) Front fl yleaf roughly repaired, minor dampstains to fi nal
leaves, front joint cracked. [First edition] printed and sold by the Assigns of J.Sowle, 1726.
Claridge (1649-1723) was born in Warwickshire and was an ordained priest in Worcestershire for 20 years before
becoming a Quaker in 1696. He was “a man of considerable learning, ... and his writings, with their easy fl owing
style and limpidness of expression ... may still be read with pleasure.” - D.N.B.. Besse’s work is the only detailed
biography.
£140.00
126 BESTERMAN, Theodore. Mrs. ANNIE BESANT. A modern prophet. Original cloth gilt, faintly damped. Pp. xi, 274, with 8
plates. [First edition] Kegan Paul etc., 1934. £40.00
127 BEWICK, Thomas. FROM THE LETTERS OF 1823-1828 [TO JOHN DOVASTON]. Tall slim 8vo. Original pictorial
wrappers. Pp. 39, decorated with Bewick woodcuts. [Limited edition (300 copies)] Bodley Head, 1968. £45.00
128 —— A MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK written by himself. Edited and with an introduction by Montague Weekley.
Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a slight edge tear). Pp.xxxv, 204, with woodcuts by Bewick. [First edition thus] Cresset Press,
1961. £25.00
129 —— WILLIAMS, Gordon (editor). BEWICK TO DOVASTON. Letters 1824-1828. Introduced by Montague Weekley. Tall
8vo. Original parchment-backed boards, dustwrapper Pp. 150, with tipped-in frontispiece printed directly from a Bewick block,
4 plates and numerous text woodcuts. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Nattali & Maurice, 1968. £65.00
130 BIBBY, Cyril. T.H.HUXLEY. Scientist, humanist and educator. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (edges a trifl e creased). Pp. xxii,
330, illustrated. Foreword by Aldous Huxley. Stephen Jay Gould’s “T.H.Huxley” (offprint from Science, 1973) loosely inserted.
[First edition] Watts, 1959. £30.00
131 BIBESCO, Marthe (Princess). THE SPHINX OF BAGATELLE. Translated by Edward Marsh. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper.
Pp. (iv), 220, with 12 plates. Few spots to the edges. [First edition] Grey Walls Press, 1951. £25.00
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