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Lot 18

COCTEAU, Jean. COCK AND HARLEQUIN. Notes concerning Music by Jean Cocteau. Translated from the French by Rollo H. Myers. The Egoist Press, London, 1921. First edition. 8vo; with a portrait of the author and two monograms by Pablo Picasso; in the original printed wrapper, lightly browned to extremities. COCTEAU, Jean. PICASSO. Librairie Stock, Paris, 1923. First edition. 8vo; with 16 plates; browned due to paper quality; in the original printed wrapper, light-browned and worn, with new stamped price on upper wrapper. (2) [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £32.00

Lot 21

DEXTER, COLIN. THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE. Macmillan, London, 1983. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Slight browning to the top edge and a small ink mark towards the head of the front free endpaper (as if a former owner began to write his name and then had second thoughts), otherwise internally fine in a near fine dustwrapper with slight discoloration to the head of the lower panel and a small diagonal crease towards the foot of the spine. RANKIN, Ian. THE BLACK BOOK. AN INSPECTOR REBUS NOVEL. Orion, London, 1993. First edition, first printing. 8vo. A fine copy, usual slight tanning of the margins of the textblock apart, in a fine wrapper. (2) [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £85.00

Lot 22

DOUGLAS, Norman. ON THE HERPETOLOGY OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF BADEN, by G. Norman Douglass. [Reprinted from "The Zoologist," 1891, with Corrections, etc.] Adams Brothers, London, 1894. ORIGINAL OFFPRINT, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo; minor damage to upper corner of last two leaves; stapled as issued in the original printed wraps, lightly browned and foxed, signed "Norman Douglas" at head. Woolf A3. An appealing signed copy of one of the scarcest bibliographical items in the Douglas corpus. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £300.00

Lot 23

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. George Newnes Limited, London 1893. Second edition. 8vo; text illustrations; original decorated cloth, gilt; all edges gilt; bumped, extremities rubbed, occasional light foxing. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £60.00

Lot 24

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE REFUGEES. A TALE OF TWO CONTINENTS. Longmans, Green, and Co, London 1893. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo. Bayntun bindings of half green crushed morrocco, spines gilt to compartments; top edges gilt. A fine set. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £520.00

Lot 26

FARNOL, Jeffery. THE BROAD HIGHWAY. A ROMANCE OF KENT. Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, London 1910. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth with title in white to upper cover and gilt to spine; spine a little faded, inner hinges cracked, endpapers browned. Pictorial dustwrapper rubbed and chipped with minor loss, spine sunned. Scarce in dustwrapper. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £95.00

Lot 27

FLEMING, Ian. LIVE AND LET DIE. Jonathan Cape, London 1954. First edition. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt medallion to upper cover and title to spine. Boards slightly bowed, page edges a little tanned, otherwise a clean copy. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £160.00

Lot 28

FOWLES, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, near fine. Price clipped dustwrapper, nick to bottom of spin, light soiling to rear panel. A clean, sharp copy. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £175.00

Lot 35

FREEMAN, R. Austin. THE SINGING BONE. Hodder and Stoughton, London n.d. [1912]. 8vo. Red cloth, black lettered to front board, gilt to spine; spine soiled with short split to cloth at top. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY to Alice Bishop, dated 1912. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £130.00

Lot 36

GOON SHOW. ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT. Stab-bound mimeographed typescript of 25 pages, annotated throughout in green and red pencil. Lacks title. Script centres on the attempted capture of a Russian time machine, with a multitude of hilarious consequences. "The Goon Show" entertained a radio audience of millions and ran from 1951 to 1960. Starring the "Goons" Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, over 200 shows were recorded, 160 of which have survived in the BBC archive. Spike Milligan was largely responsible for writing the scripts, which continue to enjoy international acclaim to this day. [THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH 0% BUYER'S PREMIUM] Sold For £120.00

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