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13 AGASSIZ, G.R. (editor). LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ with a sketch of his life and work. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xii, 454, with 18 plates and 2 folding charts in front and rear pockets. [First edition] Constable, 1913. £35.00 From the library of Dr.Arthur Raistrick, with his bookplate. 14 ALDEN, Roland H. and IFFT, John D. EARLY NATURALISTS IN THE FAR WEST. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No.XX. Original printed wrappers. Pp. (i), 59, with a map, 5 plates and a text illustration. San Francisco: The Academy, 1943. £35.00 15 ALDINGTON, Richard. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. A biographical enquiry. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a short closed tear). Pp. 448, wiith 12 plates and 3 maps. A fi ne copy. Second impression, Collins, 1955. £45.00 16 —— PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS, BUT ... The life of D.H.Lawrence 1885-1930. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. viii, 367, with 19 illustrations. [First edition] Heinemann, 1950. £30.00 17 ALDRICH, Richard Stoddard. GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AND “MRS.A.” An intimate biography of the great star by her husband. Foreword by Daphne du Maurier. Original cloth gilt, spine rather faded. Pp. 351, with 17 plates. [First edition] Odhams Press, 1954. £15.00 18 ALEXANDER, John T. CATHERINE THE GREAT. Life and legend. Tall 8vo. Original crimson patterned jacquard silk with leather spine label, pictorial slip-case. Pp. xxiv, 532, with numerous colour illustrations, 4 maps and a genealogical table. Folio Society, 1999. £25.00 19 ALEXANDER, Louis C. (editor). THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SHAKESPEARE. A fragment. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 176, untrimmed. [Original edition (No.2 of 1000 copies)] Headley brothers, 1911. £45.00 20 ALISON, Archibald. THE MILITARY LIFE OF JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt, edges rather bumped, re-cased, lower third of backstrip replaced. Pp. xxvi, 504, with 6 double-page maps and battle-plans, handcoloured in outline. Library label on pastedown. [First edition] William Blackwood and Sons, 1848. £65.00 21 ALLEN, Cecil J. TWO MILLION MILES OF TRAIN TRAVEL. An autobiography. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 232, illustrated. [First edition] Ian Allan, 1965. £25.00 22 ALLEN, Gay Wilson. WILLIAM JAMES. A biography. Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xx, 556, illustrated. [First edition] Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967. £30.00 23 ALLISON, William. “MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!”. Yorkshire, Rugby, Balliol, the bar, bloodstock and journalistic recollections. Original cloth gilt. Pp. 352, with 17 plates. Lower pastedown a little damped at edges. [First edition] Grant Richards, 1919. £35.00 24 ALLWOOD, Montagu C. THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION. 2 volumes, original blue cloth gilt. Pp.viii, 188; iii, 189-440, illustrated. Some spotting, address on pastedowns. [First edition] Wivelsfi eld Green: Montagu C.Allwood, 1940. £35.00 25 ALPERS, Antony. KATHARINE MANSFIELD. A biography. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. xvi, 376, xvi, with 16 plates. [First edition] Cape, 1954. £25.00 26 —— THE LIFE OF KATHARINE MANSFIELD. Original cloth, dustwrapper (spine rather faded). Pp. xxvi, 466, illustrated. [First edition] Cape, 1980. £20.00 2
27 ANCESTORS OF AN INDUSTRY. Original cloth, dustwrapper (a little spotted). Pp. 164, with 39 portraits by Michael Ayrton, Illingworth, Tom Purvis, Walter Hodges, Robert Austin, Felix Kelly, Nicolas Bentley etc. A little spotting to endpapers and foreedge. [First edition] I.C.I., 1950 £30.00 A series of biographical sketches telling the story of British scientifi c achievement through the centuries. 28 ANDERSON, J.R.L. HIGH MOUNTAINS AND COLD SEAS. A biography of H.W.Tilman. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 366, with 40 plates and 15 maps. A fi ne copy. [First edition] Victor Gollancz, 1980. £50.00 [Neate: A50]. A fascinating biography of one of the leading 20th C.exponents of rugged lightweight exploration, who in later life took up ocean sailing. 29 ANDERSON, John. THE UNKNOWN TURNER. Revelations concerning the life and art of J.M.W.Turner. With an account of the discovery of his hidden signature and dates, and the publication of the only known original manuscript of any of his sketching tours. Large 4to. Original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, upper board rather marked. Pp. (viii), 154, top edges gilt, untrimmed, with coloured frontispiece and 69 illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed on the recto of the limitation leaf “For my friend Mary E.Venetos, John Anderson, May 1926”, the inscription a little stained from the glue of an old label. [Limited edition (outof-series number of 1000 copies)] New York: privately printed, 1926. £130.00 30 ANDERSON, Robert: CENTENARY CELEBRATION SOUVENIR of Robert Anderson, the Cumberland Bard, born 1770 - died 1833. Original wrappers, small tear to top edge. Pp. 31, with 5 plates and 2 pages of music. Carlisle: Charles Thurnam, 1933. £15.00 31 ANDREWS, P.W.S. and BRUNNER, Elizabeth. THE LIFE OF LORD NUFFIELD. A study in enterprise and benevolence. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xvi, 356, with 52 illustrations. [First edition] Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1955. £30.00 32 ANDREWS, William. NORTH COUNTRY POETS. Poets and biographies of natives or residents of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire and Yorkshire (modern Section). Original cloth gilt. Pp. 298, (6). [First edition] Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1888. £45.00 A compilation of poems and brief biographies of 50 poets, ranging from Mrs.Linnaeus Banks to W.G.Collingwood, and including Ben Brierley, Arthur Hugh Clough, Edwin Waugh etc. 33 ANDREWS, William Linton. YORKSHIRE FOLK. Memories of a journalist. With an introduction by Lord Moyniham of Leeds. Original green cloth. Pp. 180. Edges foxed. Presentation copy, with a long inscription in the author’s hand on the fl yleaf. Uncommon. [First edition] Heath Cranton, 1935. £25.00 34 ANON. SOME ACCOUNT OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS IN ENGLAND. Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No.XXVIII. 4to. Modern cloth gilt. Pp. 52, with general and specifi c title. Printed by and for J.Nichols, 1785. £95.00 Contains “An Essay Towards an Account of Bishops Suffragan in England, Occasioned by a Letter of the Rev.Thomas Brett by the late Rev.John Lewis, Written 1738” and “A List of the Suffragan Bishops in England, Drawn up by the late Rev.Henry Wharton and faithfully transcribed from his original Manuscrips in the Lambeth Library, A.D.1769”. 35 ANTHONY, Gordon (illustrator). JOHN GEILGUD. Camera studies. Introduction by Michel Saint-Denis. Large 8vo. Original black cloth silvered, dustwrapper (a trifl e dusty, the odd closed edge-tear). Pp. (viii), plus 24 plates. [First edition] Bles, 1938. £30.00 36 ARCHER, Thomas. CHARLES DICKENS. A GOSSIP ABOUT HIS LIFE, WORKS AND CHARACTERS, with eighteen full-page character sketches by Frederick Barnard and other illustrations by well-known artists. 5 divisions [ex 6] large folio. Original cloth-backed printed boards, a little soiled in places. 15 [ex 18] superb tissue-guarded photogravure plates on card (occasional light stains to the edges) and numerous fi ne text woodcuts. Sadly the fi nal division is lacking, but still a wonderful collection of plates and illustrations. Subscribers’ edition, Cassell & Co., no date. £120.00 [Podeschi, The Gimbel Dickens Collection, H36]. 3
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