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190. MILNE, A.A. (author). SAIDA [H. Willebeek LE MAIR] (illustrator). A Gallery of children. Philadelphia; David McKay Company. 1925.


£298


4to. original powder blue cloth boldly lettered in gilt, with onlaid pictorial label to upper cover, preserved in white pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [x], 11-105; with pictorial title-page and 12 beautiful Art Deco coloured plates by Le mair; externally and internally a fine and exceptional copy; the dustwrapper uncommonly clean with minor rubbing and wear to spine, fraying to edges, slightly longer tears to folds and two small areas of loss to lower panel.


First U.S. edition thus, issued alongside the U.K. edition.


191. MOREAU-BERILLON, C. Au Pays du champagne. Le vignoble. Le vin. Préface de Léon Bourgeois. Reims. Librarie L. Michaud.. 1924.


£1,500


4to., sometime bound in half red morocco over marbled paper boards, lettered and ruled in gilt on spine with gilt centre tools. With many black and white illustrations. A little light occasional spotting otherwise a very good copy.


First edition, limited edition of 125 numbered copies on papier a la curve du marais. moreau-Berillon divides his work on champagne into six parts, Historique de la vigne et du vin de Champagne, Le Vigneron, Le Champagne et la Guerre, Le Vignoble, La Vigne, and Le Vin, concluding that “Le vin de champagne est inimitable”.


192. MORPURGO, Michael (author). War horse. Kingswood; Kaye & Ward. 1982.


£1,950


8vo. original laminated white pictorial boards, illustrated on both covers in colour and priced £4.95 net to lower board, as issued; pp. [iv], 5-142; a fine copy with only tiny signs of handling consisting of 4 minute dents to boards; very scarce indeed, especially in this condition.


First edition, issued without a dustwrapper. Few copies were printed in hardback and, of these, most were destined for lending libraries. This book is a modern children’s classic and is based on real life stories of the sacrifices made by horses in war. At the beginning of World War i, Joey, the beloved horse of a young boy called Albert is sold to the cavalry and transferred to France. After his rider, captain nicholls, is killed the horse is swept up in the chaos of the Frontline, witnessing death and disease on both sides of the conflict. But back home Albert cannot forget Joey and, despite being too young to enlist, sets out on a dangerous mission to find the animal and bring him home.


The book was adapted for the stage by nick Stafford and opened at the national Theatre in London in 2007. it enjoyed critical and popular acclaim and transferred to Broadway in 2010. As its fame grew it was announced that Steven Spielberg would direct the film adaptation, to be written by Richard curtis and Lee hall. The movie was released in late 2011, starring Jeremy irvine and Emily Watson, and was nominated in the best film category by the Academy of motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2012.


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193.MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Unemployment. Speech in the house of commons, 28th may 1930, on his Resignation. HMSO. 1930.


£248


8vo., original printed wrappers stapled as issued. A little spotting to upper wrapper, otherwise a very good copy.


First edition.


oswald mosley entered Parliament as harrow’s conservative mP in the Election of 1918 and at 22 was the youngest member of the house of commons.


Four years later he left the conservatives following his strong disagreement with the Government’s irish Policy and their use of the “Black and Tans”, and mosley was returned as an independent m.P. for harrow in the 1922 General Election.


in 1924 mosley joined the Labour Party and following its election victory in 1929 was appointed chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with a special responsibility for finding a solution to unemployment. he was the youngest person to hold ministerial rank for 50 years. his proposals for job creation, known as the mosley memorandum, were highly regarded at the time but were not adopted by the Labour Government because of resistance from financial interests in the city, and after several attempts to persuade them to take action mosley resigned from office in 1930. Shortly afterwards, with the support of an all-party group of m.Ps, he formed the new Party which contested the General Election of 1931 advocating mosley’s measures to combat unemployment. Every one of its candidates was defeated.


194.MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. Britain First. Being the verbatim report of mosley’s Speech to the World’s largest indoor meeting. Greater Britain Publications. 1939.


£298


8vo., original printed wrappers stapled as issued. A little creasing to last few leaves, otherwise a very good copy.


First edition of mosley’s speech given in Earls court Exhibition hall on Sunday July 16th 1939.


195. MÜHLBERGER, Max. münchen 1972 Aer Lingus irish [Basketball munich olympic Games]. original lithograph in colours, printed by mandruck, münchen, Germany, 1972. 840 x 590 mm. £350


196. NAIPAUL, V.S. in A Free State. Andre Deutsche. 1971. £128 8vo., original cloth with price-clioped dust wrapper. A very good copy. First edition. Booker Prize winner.


197.NEEDHAM, Violet (author). Joyce BRUCE (illustrator). The Secret of the White Peacock. London; Collins. 1956.


£398


8vo. original dark blue linen-textured cloth lettered in silver to spine, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-192; with line drawings by Joyce Bruce; a fine and exceptional copy protected by an equally fine, bright, and unclipped, dustwrapper (9s 6d) with just a trace of light dusting to lower panel, a hint of rubbing to head of spine, and one tiny (3mm) closed tear to base.


First edition. A remarkably scarce Needham title.


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