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Present Perfect

Ahead of the festive season, we are extremely excited to present our seasonal catalogue Present Perfect, which includes a wide array of gift ideas curated by all of our specialists. 

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  1. First edition; large 4to (34.5 x 28 cm); 2pp. subscriber's lists, 48 hand-coloured plates (44 aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others, 4 stipple and line engraved costume plates), some slight offsetting, green silk endpapers, a.e.g.; finely bound in orange morocco, doublures with green silk, boards gilt ruled with floral detail to corners, spine in six parts with raised bands, a little faded, gilt title and tooling, an excellent copy.

    £2,750
  2. First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, blue topstain, page edges a little tanned but an excellent copy in the nicked and somewhat sunned dust jacket.

    £125
  3. First, first, second, & third editions; 4 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, The Horse & The Hound with frontipiece, 4 plates, 6 full-page illustrations & further illustrations in the text, uniformly bound in red half morocco for Hatchards, gilt ornaments on spines, marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, spines slightly sunned / darkened, scattered light foxing, particularly to endpapers, some light waterstaining to preliminaries of Nimrod Abroad vol. I, very light waterstain to margin of titlepage of Northern Tour; light waterstain to margin of final pages of The Horse & the Hound; none-the-less a very attractive set. xvi, 598; ix, [1], 285, vii, 306; [ii], 427, [1], [4](index];

    £1,650
  4. First edition, limited to 2000 copies; 3 vols, 12mo (166 x 100 mm); half-titles present including half-title to volume I (P6, final leaf) inserted at front, some spotting and browning, very occasionally more pronounced, small, closed vertical tears to lower margins of pp 85-87 of vol. II, the first touching four lines of text, without loss, 1 page with blank integral leaf; gift inscription to title of vol. I, letter tipped in at front of vol. I; mid-19th-century reddish brown half roan gilt over cloth, rubbed, upper joints slightly cracked and upper joint to volume I weak but holding, in all a very good set.

    £30,000
  5. Black and white studio portrait signed and inscribed on the image 'For Barrie / Best to you / Lauren Bacall / Bogart', in green ink, half-length seated portrait, showing Bacall hugging her knees and looking down; 24 x 19 cm (9½ x 7½ ins) [together with]; Typed letter signed Louis Bromfield, to Barrie Tait (the dedicatee of the photograph), stating that he does not know when he will be back in New York. One side, single 4to sheet, 'Malabar Farm, Lucas, OH, 17 October 1947', with original envelope; mounted and framed.

    £1,200
  6. First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, xv, 440; vii, 428 pp., 2 aquatint frontispieces, errata slip, contemporary plum half calf gilt, spines with red morocco labels, marbled sides, light toning and spotting to a couple of pages, small marginal repair to page 230 vol. I, a very good copy.

    £1,500
  7. First edition, first impression, trade issue, inscribed by the author; large 8vo; trivial spotting, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, boards decorated in blind, title to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, tape stain to front free endpaper, spine very rolled; a bright, sharp copy in the price-clipped dust jacket, with a minor piece of internal repair.

    £500
  8. Second edition of vols. 1-2; first edition of vols. 3-4; 4 vols, 4to (295 x 240 mm), occasional mottling (most so to endpapers) and light spotting (peripheral) but predominantly bright; contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, red and green morocco lettering-pieces, natural ageing and wear but mellow and very handsome.

    £4,500
  9. Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4 x 30.3 in.)

    £1,500
  10. First edition, first impression of 'Poems', second impression of '1914'; first separate edition of 'A Memoir'; 3 vols, 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, printed paper labels to each spine.

    £875
 

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