Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, original blind-stamped red cloth, bookplate tipped in to flyleaf, some fading to dust jacket, very short closed tear, publisher's sticker at rear, 8vo, New York, Knopf, 1964. ***Published three years before the first English edition, the first issue is identifiable by the 6 lines (rather than 5 in the second issue) of publishing information on the colophon page.

Dulac (Edmund) & Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales, 30 tipped-in colour plates, guards, Staunton Hill bookplate, original red morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910].

Dulac (Edmund) Sinbad the Sailor and other Stories from the Arabian Nights, 23 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, text in decorative borders, Staunton Hill bookplate, original brown cloth, decorated in gold and blue, corners little bum ped, 4to, Hodder and Stoughton, [1914].

Dumas (Alexandre) Œuvres de Alexandre Dumas; Les Trois Mousquetaires, ONE OF 100 COPIES, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, text illustrations, 13 plates, device on title, contemporary full calf, boards gilt with extensive floral border, spine gilt wit h fleurons, vol. 1. slightly bowed and rubbed, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Paris, Louis Conard, 1922; with Les Trois Mousquetaires avec une Letter d’Alexandre Dumas, 2 vol., engraved titles in red and black, additional titles with engraved device, text engravings, 1 engraved plate, pencil ownership note on frontispiece recto, occasional light foxing and staining, contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards, elaborate spine gilt with green and tan leather panelling, hinges rubbed, boards slightly bumped, marbled endpapers, 4to, Paris, Calmann Levy, 1894 (4)

Geisel (Theodore, pseud. Dr Seuss) The Cat in the Hat, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, signed by the author on bookplate to verso of title, illustrations by the author, original pictorial boards, rubbed at extremities, original pictorial dust-jacket, fi rst issue identified by the price code (200/200) on front flap, creasing and small closed tears to edges and corners, chipping to head and tail, New York, Random House, 1957; The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, FIRST EDITION, illustrations by the author, original pictorial boards, original dust jacket, small closed tear to rear upper edge, New York, Random House, 1958, 8vo (2)

Illustrated Limited Editions.- Cocteau (Jean) Le Coq Et L’Arlequin, 1 OF 55 COPIES, text illustrations by P. Picasso, publisher's paper wrapper, corner chipped, spine head and hinge worn, staining, small 8vo, Paris Editions de la Sirène, 1918; G iraudoux (Jean) Hélène & Touglas, ou Les Joies de Paris. Nouvelle, NUMBER 383 OF 1000 COPIES, half title, engraved frontispiece, plate and 3 text illustrations, tissue guards, inscription on flyleaf to Dutch publisher Alexandre Stols by L. van Boquert, light marginal toning, original blue wrapper, spine and edges bleached, small 8vo, Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1925; Carew (Thomas) & Laboureur (Jean Emile, Engraver) A Rapture, NUMBER 155 OF 375 COPIES, second preliminary blind stamp, engraved frontispiece and plate by J.E. Labourer, publishers batik boards, original dust jacket, some chipping and small tears, spine toned, staining, 8vo, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927; Gascoyne (David) Poems 1937-1942, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, illustrated title, 5 chrome lithograph plates by Graham Sutherland, cloth backed picture boards, edges rubbed, original dust jacket, chipped and torn, spine perished, cloth exposed, 8vo, Editions Poetry London, 1943; Wilde (Oscar) Salomé, NUMBER 77 OF 285 COPIES, lithograph title and half title, additional title in red and black, 16 lithograph plates by Aubrey Beardsley, last few text leaves browned, blue leather, pages uncut, 4to, Paris, Paris & Londres, 1920; Tatius (Achilles) & Burton (William, Translator) The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, NUMBER 6 OF 394 COPIES, title in red and black, original illustration on title, by John Buckland-Wright, occasional light spotting, brown leather, 4to, New York: Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1923; Verhaeren (Émile) Les Heures D’Après-Midi, NUMBER 239 OF 270 COPIES, coloured text wood-cuts, text leaves loose, original paper dust wrapper and jacket, featuring title, in original pictorial slipcase, jacket toned and stained, slipcase torn with one board loose, 4to, Bruxelles, À l'Enseigne du Framboisier, 1923 (7)

Johnson (Samuel) Rasselas, large-paper copy, half-title, head-piece and 4 plates, engraved by A. Raimbach after R.Smirke, W. Miller, 1805 bound with Proofs and Etchings, from Pictures, painted by Robert Smirke, R.A. and engraved by A Raimbach...from the Rasselas, head-piece and 4 plates, each in two states, on India paper, Savage & Easingwood, 1805, in one vol., some spotting and light offsetting, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, rubbed and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, large 4to. *** Rare large-paper copy, together with the extra suites of the illustrations issued in the same year. The 'Advertisment' is attributed to Sir Walter Scott.

Milne (A. A.).- A Complete Set of Winnie the Pooh Books When We Were Young. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, second issue, bookplate, original blue cloth with Shepard illustrations stamped in gilt to both boards, single fillet border to upper board, spine lettered in gilt, with slight bumping, t.e.g, some browning to endpapers, dust jacket lightly soiled with minor chipping and creasing to spine, 1924; Winnie the Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, original dark green cloth, bookplate, upper board stamped in gilt with Shephard's vignette and single fillet border, spine gilt, t.e.g., endpapers map by E. H. Shephard, dust jacket a little creased at head of spine, with the publisher’s original prospectus for the book, a single folded sheet printed in black and red, loosely inserted, 1926; Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, original burgundy cloth with Shephard's vignettes stamped in gilt, t.e.g., pink illustrated endpapers, dust jacket with slight toning of spine, 1927; and The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, occasional spotting, original pink cloth with Shepard's vignette in gilt, t.e.g., pink illustrated endpapers with a little browning, dust jacket with some chipping at corners and spine ends, minor water stain and soiling, 1928, 8vo, Methuen (4)

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, limited to 250 copies, colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations, some light ink staining, occasional added watercolour to some illustrations, original boards, rec ased and rebacked, professional restoration to hinge and frontispiece re-inserted, ownership signature dated 'Xmas 1901', 16mo [Privately printed, 1901]; The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, half-title, colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout, crease to one leaf, original board, recased and rebacked, signature dated '1908', 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1902 (2) ***Having experienced rejection from at least six publishers, Potter decided to issue 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' herself in 1901 and ordered 250 copies. These were ready during December 1901 and success was so great that Potter ordered a further 200 copies in February 1902. The publisher Frederick Warne then expresses interest and commercial publication followed in October 1902.

Potter (Beatrix) The Pie and the Patty-Pan, FIRST EDITION, bookplates, half-title, 10 full-page colour illustrations and numerous others throughout, stitching strained, some overall foxing, original maroon boards, small circular colour printed label inlaid, mottled lavender endpapers with some browning, cracks in joints and spine a little defective at foot, corners a little worn, 8vo, Frederick Warne, 1905; Ginger & Pickles, FIRST EDITION, half-title with inscription, 10 full page colour illustrations and numerous black and white line drawings throughout, original green boards, some wear, small 4to, Frederick Warne, 1909 (2)

Potter (Beatrix) The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, pages mounted on linen and folded concertina-style, occasional creasing, mounted within folding green cloth wallet with silver tab, some rubbing, mottled lilac endpape rs, 32mo, Frederick Warne, 1906. ***A nice copy of a rather fragile book, with the often missing tab present.

Potter (Beatrix) The Story of Miss Moppet, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, pages mounted on linen and folded concertina-style, occasional creasing, mounted within folding light blue cloth wallet with silver tab, slot-flap missing, some rubbing to ext remities, mottled lilac end papers, 32mo, Frederick Warne, 1906.

Potter (Beatrix) Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 15 colour illustrations by the author author, light soiling throughout, original red boards with colour illustration inlaid, fading to spine, light dust soiling to top edge , pictorial endpapers, 16mo, Frederick Warne, [1922]; The Fairy Caravan, FIRST EDITION, 6 colour illustrations and numerous others, occasional light handling marks, original green cloth, minor rubbing, cracking to front hinge, 8vo, Philadelphia, David McKay, 1929 (2)

Pushkin (Alexander) & Schiffrin (J., Translator) Boris Godounov. Illustrations by Vassili Choukhaeff, NO 236 OF 430 COPIES on Rives by Blanchet Frères et Klèber, signed by the publisher, half title, 18 colour plates, including frontispiece, vividly stencilled with small gouache or gold highlights, tissue guards, light foxing, original publisher’s pictorial paper wrappers, leaves uncut, bound in red morocco, front cover with relief decorations, in the matching half morocco slipcase, 4to, Paris, The Pléiade, 1925. *** Pushkin's first play, finely printed and illustrated by Choukhaeff, is of interest in the history of Russian art (Fekula, Catalog, vol.II, p.110).

Rackham (Arthur, Illustrator) Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, FIRST TRADE EDITION, 50 colour plates mounted on card by Arthur Rackham, original russet cloth, git decorated, worn at extremities, bookplate to front paste-down, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906; Lear (Edward) More Nonsense, Pictures Rhymes, Botany, etc. FIRST EDITION, 138 lithographic plates, slight foxing,original cloth-backed decorated paper boards, light rubbing and some chipping to edges, small damp stain upper edge of lower board, foxing to endpaper, bookplate to front free endpaper, R. J. Bush, 1872; [Greenaway (Kate)] Browning (Robert) The Pied Piper, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, illustrations by Kate Greenaway, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed, inscription to title-page, bookplate to front paste-down, George Routledge and Sons, [1888]; [Hardy (Florence) Ills.] Bigham (Clifton) Magic Moments, FIRST EDITION, 7 movable chromolithograph illustrations, some slight wear, original pictorial covers, rubbed at edges, London & New York, E. P. Nister, [c.1900], v.s. (4)

Wells (H. G.) War of the Worlds, original Danish manuscript, the text written out in block script ink, with over 620 original drawings in ink and watercolour on mounted rectangular panels (mostly sequentially numbered), watercolour title-page, portr ait of H G Wells in ink, and additional decorative watercolours by an anonymous artist, oblong 4to, [83] ff.; brown half-calf with marbled board covers, possibly early 20th century.

Artists' Choice Editions.- Hall (Charles) Illustrating Alice: An international Selection of Illustrated Editions…, NUMBER 65 OF 68 COPIES numerous colour text illustrations, leather backed boards, with 4 signed prints, cloth slipcase, 4to, 2013; Lo rd (John Vernon) and Goodacre (Selwyn) Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, NUMBER 10 OF 98 COPIES, signed by author, full colour text illustrations, original black morocco, white chess board illustration with silver embossed pawn, folio; with 4 signed prints and Lords List by John Vernon Lord, together, in black cloth box; Legrove (Judith, editor) A Musical Eye: The Visual World of Britten and Pears, NUMBER 110 OF 650 COPIES, text illustrations, original cloth, folio, 2012, with 1 duplicate (4)

Burton (Sir Richard Francis, translator) Il Pentamerone; or the Tale of Tales, 2 vol., NUMBER 9 OF 165 COPIES, half title, occasional light staining and spotting, 2 outline sketches, 1 drawing and 1 watercolour illustration by John Buckland Wright i n margin of vol. 2, publisher's black cloth, gold title on boards, slightly bumped and rubbed, pages uncut, royal 8vo, Henry and Co., 1893 (2) *** Published by Lady Burton after Richard Burton's death. It was issued in an edition of 1500 copies available to subscribers only, with an additional 165 copies on large paper of which this is the latter.

Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de La Mancha, 2 vol., NUMBER 934 OF 1475 COPIES, pochoir colour plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, original brown morocco, slightly scuffed & darkened,t.e.g., others uncut, 1930; Pindar. Pythian Odes, NUMBE R 68 OF 1050 COPIES, engraved title, head and tail piece by Stephen Godden, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, 1928; The Greek Portrait, NUMBER 119 OF 425 COPIES, text in Greek and English, 3 plates by Mariette Lydis (covered with cellophane), occasional spotting, original cloth, lettered and decorated in blue, little knocked and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, 1934, 8vo, Nonesuch Press (4)

Delaunay (Sonia).- Tzara (Tristan) Juste Present, NUMBER 63 OF 90 COPIES on grand Velin de Rives and signed by Delauny and Tzara, from an edition limited to 140, 8 colour etchings with aquatint by Sonia Delaunay, minor foxing to tissue guards, loose as issued in Japan nacre' folder, uncut, original board folder and slip-case, both illustrated with pochoir design by Delaunay, slip-case slightly rubbed, folio, [Paris], 1961.

Dubuffet (Jean) Parade Funebre pour Charles Estienne, ONE OF 250 COPIES, illustrated half title, illustrated title, unopened, bookplate, original boards, original dust jacket, slight toning, 4to, in black box, [Paris, Jeanne Bucher], January 1967 ; Max Loreus Cerceaux ‘Sorcellent', 18 screen prints, bookplate, original boards, original dust-jacket, 8vo, Paris: Éditions Beyeler à Bale, 1967; and some others (small quantity)

Fashion.- Hilfiger (Tommy) Tommy Hilfiger, FIRST EDITION, half title, 70 tipped in chromolithograph plates with facsimile hand written captions, several colour photos and illustrations, tartan endpapers, publishers printed cloth, pristine condition, custom case in cream linen embellished with an embroidered rectangle in black, cream and red panels with gold thread detail, 'Assouline' blind stamp on rear, a little foxed and rust stained, folio, New York, Assouline Publishing, 2010.

Golden Cockerel Press.- [Swift (Jonathan)] Travels into several Remote Nations of the World...by Lemuel Gulliver, 2 vol., NUMBER 225 OF 480 COPIES, wood-engraved maps, illustrations and initials by David Jones, some hand-coloured, half cream buckram , covers little scuffed, slight marking, 1925; Jowett (Benjamin, Translator) Plato, The Phaedo, NUMBER 486 OF 500 COPIES, wood-engraved ornaments and initials by Eric Gill printed in red, original cloth, gilt ornament on cover, red morocco spine-label, slightly knocked and faded, 1930; Ghose (Sudhin N.) Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India, NUMBER 351 OF 500 COPIES, wood-engraved plates, vignettes in black, white and brown by Shrimati E. Carlile, original cloth, gilt, slightly knocked, 1961, folio, Waltham St Lawrence or London (4)

Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (Powys) Love Night. A Laotian Gallantry, NUMBER 68 OF 75 SPECIALLY-BOUND COPIES ON VELLUM copies on vellum-paper, lacking the extra suite of plates, from an edition limited to 200, engravings throughout by Buckland Wr ight, original green-stained vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, covers scuffed and marked, extremities rubbed, bookplate to front paste-down, 1936; Xenophon of Ephesus. The Ephesian Story, NUMBER 257 OF 300 COPIES, illustrations by Eric Fraser, original quarter green morocco over cloth, t.e.g., 1957; Miller (Patrick) The Green Ship, NUMBER 93 OF 200 COPIES, woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill, original quarter green morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly faded, bookplate to front paste-down, 1936; and 3 other titles by the same press, v.s. (6)

Hockeny (David) Hockney's Alphabet, FIRST EDITION, intermediate issue, signed by the artist and the editor Stephen Spender, with title-page, text and reproductions, printed by Westerham Press, Kent, published by Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, London, bound as issued in yellow buckram, 1991, with one duplicate; Off the Wall, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket, Pavillion Books, 1994; A Rake's Progress, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1962 (4)

Keough (Pat and Rosemarie) Antarctica, NUMBER 484 OF 950 COPIES, signed by the authors, thoroughly illustrated, dark grey morocco, lettered and decorated in blind, with prospectus, housed in original cloth box, blind-stamped morocco panel on front cover, oblong folio, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Nahanni Productions, 2002.

Maugham (W. Somerset) & Sutherland (Graham, Illustrator) Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard, "Eightieth Birthday" Edition, NUMBER 163 OF 1000 COPIES, signed by author and artist, half-title, original frontispiece lithograph and deco rations by Graham Sutherland, title in black and red, facsimile reproduction of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript, some offsetting on free endpapers, leaves uncut, contemporary half white calf, navy blue calf boards, divided by gold rule, author's symbol blocked in blind on front, spine black label titled in gilt, t. e.g., slightly rubbed, black slipcase, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1954. ***Published for Maugham’s 80th Birthday.

Moore (Henry) Henry Moore: Prints & Portfolios, 2 vol., DELUXE LIMITED EDITIONS, NUMBER 32 OF 50, including two original prints signed and numbered by the artist (etching CGM 'Composition for a Poem by Herbert Read', 349 x 276 mm, 1946 and the l itograph CGM 719 'Two Seated Women on Beach', 314 x 464 mm, 1946), 4to & folio, Geneva, Patrick Cramer, 2010; Heads, Figures and Ideas, FIRST EDITION, illustrated with original lithograph by Henry Moore on handmade paper, reproductions throughout, hardback, folio, New York Graphic Society, London and New York, 1958 (2)

Prinner [Anton] La Femme Tondue, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, NUMBER ONE OF 1000 COPIES, signed and inscribed by the author, 8 signed etchings, marginal browning, text leaves becoming loose, original paper wrapper, slightly browned, light staining, s mall creases, 8vo, Paris, April [1946].

Private Press Editions.- Simon (Elizabeth & Robert) A Collection of Curwen Pattern Papers, ONE OF 6 COPIES, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by author, reads “It was a pleasure making this for you Carol – Robert Simon”, 10 original papers , original cloth backed decorative boards designed by Robert Simon, 4to, 1998; Boyd (William) Cork, NUMBER 192 OF 236, signed by author and artist, original cloth-backed decorative boards, 8vo, 1994; Rogerson (Ian) Barnett Freedman: The Graphic Art, ONE OF 500 COPIES, lithograph prints, original cloth, 4to, 2006; Hall (Colin) Gassington Manor, NUMBER 33 OF 50 COPIES, signed by artist, 21 lino prints, original cloth-backed boards, boards hand-coloured, 4to, 1988 with prospectus and order form; with 7 other private press books (11)

Rego (Paula) The Children’s Crusade, with an Introduction by Blake Morrison, NUMBER 41 OF 75 DELUXE COPIES, with an original etching ‘Bait’, signed by Rego and Morrison, from an edition limited to 175, tipped-in illustrations after Rego, original cloth with colour illustration mounted on upper cover, uncut, original etching numbered and signed in pencil, loose as issued in folder, together in original cloth slipcase, folio, Enitharmon Press, 1999; Jane Eyre, NUMBER 206 OF 325 COPIES, signed by author and artist, colour and black & white illustrations, cloth-backed illustrated boards, folio, 2003 (2)

The Black Sun Press.- Letters of Henry James to Walter Berry, NUMBER 70 OF 100 COPIES on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, original printed limp paper wrappers, original glassine rubbed at extremities, bookplate to inside cover, Paris, 1928; Crosby (Harry) Mad Queen Tirades, NUMBER 65 OF 100 COPIES on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, original printed limp paper wrappers, original glassine, frontispiece by Caresse Crosby, Paris, 1929; Sterne (Lawrence) A Sentimental Journey, NUMBER 162 OF 400 COPIES, original printed limp paper wrappers, original glassine rubbed at spine and extremities, Paris, 1929; 47 Lettres Inédites de Marcel Proust a Walter Berry, NUMBER 65 OF 250 COPIES, contemporary half light tan morocco, letter lettering label, gilt, t.e.g., Paris, 1930; and 2 others from the Black Sun Press, v.s. (6)

Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de).- Clemenceau (Georges) Au Pied de Sinai, NUMBER 104 OF 355 COPIES, with the suite of 10 lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 2 states, printed in black on Velin and in monochrome on Chine, 6 smaller lithograph t ext-illustrations, pages unopened and untrimmed. bookplates on both sides of front free endpaper, original wrappers with colour printed lithograph by Toulouse Lautrec, slightly frayed glassine wrapper, original folder of marbled boards, cloth spine with gilt title label, in matching slipcase, slightly rubbed, [The Artist and the Book no. 2302; Delteil XI, nos 235-249, 320], 4to, Paris, Henri Floury, [1898]. ***"This is the one substantial book illustrated by Lautrec. The text by Georges Clemenceau, the journalist and statesman, consists of sketches of Jewish life and character from the millionaire Baron Moise de Goldschlammbach to dwellers in Polish ghettoes"(Gordon N. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1982).

Whitman (Walt) & Siskind (Aaron) Song of the Open Road, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 459 OF 550 COPIES, numbered and signed on colophon page in pencil by Siskind, including a laid-in four-page booklet, hardcover, fine green cloth with spine and half b lack goatskin with embossed title, black linen-covered slipcase, folio, New York, Limited Edition Club, 1990; Rothenberg (Jerome) & Tyson (Ian) Sightings I-IX & Red Easy A Color, NUMBER 110 OF 125 COPIES, signed and inscribed by author and artist, 10 colour screen prints by Ian Tyson, original leather-backed cord boards, black cloth slipcase, folio, Circle Books, 1967 (2)