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153. Heaton, Peter (author and illustrator). the holiday train goes to america. Harmondsworth; Penguin Books Ltd. [1946]. £168
landscape 8vo. original pictorial paper covers, stapled as issued; pp. [32], including covers; illustrated throughout in glorious lithographed colour; a very good copy indeed with a little rusting to staples and very slight dusting to covers.
First edition. Volume number 6 in the scarce Baby Puffin series.
154. Hedin, sven anders. Jehol city of emperors ... translated from the swedish by e.g. nash. London: Butler & Tanner Ltd. For Kegan, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1932.
£95
8vo (247 x 153mm). original ochre cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. xiv, [2 (blank, map of Jehol by georg söderbom)], 278, [2 (blank l.)]; half- tone photographic frontispiece and 30 half-tone photographic plates after gösta Montell, and 3 line-block plates; extremities very slightly bumped, a few ll. slightly spotted, otherwise a very good copy.
First english edition. as hedin states in his preface, ‘this book would never have been written had not my countryman Mr. Vincent Bendix of chicago expressed a wish to have a lama temple — either an original or a replica — erected in stockholm, and
another in chicago, providing me most fgenerously with the funds necessary for such an enterprise. Jehol, the summer residence of the great Manchu emperors, seemed pre-eminently the place for the study of such lama ttemples. to pull down and remove one of these pearls of chinese architecture would have been a piece of vandalism unworthy of westerners, and indeed the chinese authorities would not have allowed such an act of sacrilege; so we decided to begin by making a replica of the stately golden Pavilion in Potala [...] for chicago, while work on the second replica for stockholm could wait a while [...] i have called this book — written in such free time as i had in Peking during the summer of 1930 — Jehol, City of Emperors. in reality that title is misleading and not descriptive of the text, for, to tell the truth the reader will search in vain for any description of that city of monastery-temples which forms a fairy-like curve of sanctuaries north and east of the walled park of the summer Palace. i might have called it, with as much accuracy — perhaps more — Ch’ien lung, The Son of Heaven, for the great Manchu emperor who built the majority of the temples and pavilions in Jehol is the chief character in the book and plays the main rôle in nine of the thirteen chapters. With the help of fantasy, this book might have been made into a romance concerning the brilliant reign of ch’ien-lung, but i have preferred to keep to the solid ground of truth. the historic events connected with Jehol have been built up from western sources, and from chinese documents, scarcely any of which have been translated into western languages. in chapters iX-Xii fantasy has a place, and there we are principally indebted to modern chinese authors. if, in the description of the flight of the torgot, and the funeral cortège of the tashi lama across
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the whole of eastern asia, i seem, to some extent to have overstepped the boundaries set by the meagre historical records, i have not gone further than my own experience of those districts justifies. Dr. [gösta] Montell, who took all the beautiful photographs, and i, who wrote the text, will be only too delighted if some of the magic atmosphere that we felt during our visit to Jehol, the Fontainbleau of china, succeeds in reaching our less romantic climes’ (pp. xi-xiv).
the work was first published in swedish under the title Jehol Kejsarstaden (stockholm: 1931) and this english translation by elizabeth gee nash appeared the following year, as did a german translation.
155. Heller, Joseph. catch 22. Jonathan Cape. 1962. £498
8vo. original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a very nice clean copy in the usual second state dust-jacket (reviews on rear panel). Wrapper a little rubbed at head of spine and slightly dusty and spotted on lower panel, slightly browned on spine, otherwise a very good copy.
First uK edition.
156.Henty, G.a. (author). Both sides the Border; a tale of hotspur and glendower. London, Blackie & Son, Limited. 1899.
£128
8vo. original dark blue cloth attractively stamped in ochre, brown, black and gilt to spine and upper cover, olivine edges, grey endpapers; pp. [xi], 12-384 + 32 (publisher’s catalogue); illustrated with 12 plates printed in half-tones by ralph Peacock; a very nice copy with a slight lean; externally fresh with minor rubbing to joints and tiny wear to corners tips; internally very crisp and fresh.
First edition, first issue, with no mention in advertisements of titles in the series with a date of 1899. a history tale set at the opening of the fifteenth century, chronicling the invasion of Wales by owen glendower and later by Douglas of scotland.
157. HolBrooK, a.W. Dictionary of British Wayside trees. Country Life Limited. 1936.
£70
8vo. original cloth and dustwrapper, rounded corners; pp. 236, 46 photographic plates and numerous b&w line illustrations; slight chipping to wrapper, very good.
First edition. a useful pocket guide.
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