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86. DOCHARTY, William McKnight. A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops [with] The Supplement to A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops and A Selection of 1,000 Tops under 2,500 Feet. [?Giffnock]: The Darien Press Ltd. Edinburgh for W.M. Docharty, Esq., December 1954-December 1962.


£600


4to (248 x 178mm), 3 volumes. Original cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt, dustwrappers; pp. Selection: [1]-124, [2 (section-title, verso blank)]; Supplement I: [1]-208; Supplement II: [209-]259, [1 (blank)], [2 (section- title, verso blank)]; frontispieces, 9 folding panoramas to vol. I, 29 plates and 18 folding panoramas to Supplement, 4 additional plates to fold-ins of dustwrappers to Supplement; minor wear to wrapper of vol. I, else a very good set; provenance: each volume inscribed by the author to Miss Marion Lightbody.


First edition. The first volume of this set contains tables and panoramas of British and Irish mountains. The Supplement, in two volumes, contains further tables in the first volume together with in its second volume an Epilogue and photographic views taken in the Alps.


ACLC 1982 p. 92; Neate D34 & 35; Meckly A Bibliography of Privately Printed Mountaineering Books A Revision (AJ vol.96, 340, p. 199).


87. DOWST, Robert Saunders. Win, Place and Show. How to pick winning horses, and when and how to play them. New York: Pocket Books, Inc. 1948.


£40


12mo. Original red cloth, decorated with two dollar bills cut in half and pasted to upper and lower boards with hand-typed label “TWO WILL GET YOU PLENTY” to spine, all edges red; pp. 210; portion of spine missing at head, very good.


First edition thus. This copy’s unique decorations makes it as much a warning of the dangers of gambling as it is a guide to the turf. The author’s foreword promises to help the reader “to escape from the sucker class to the class of competent and informed spectators and bettors” (p. xi).


88. DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. ‘Dangerous Work’. Diary of an Arctic Adventure. Edited by Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower. London: Great Wall Printing Co. Ltd for The British Library, 2012.


£150


4to (250 x 214mm). Original cloth-backed boards, boards reproducing covers of original notebooks, spine lettered in gilt, printed endpapers, cloth slipcase decorated in gilt on upper panel; pp. [8 (half-title, frontispiece on verso, title, imprint and limitation statement on verso, contents, acknowledgments, map, portrait)], 368; full-page colour illustrations reproducing the bindings and manuscript of Conan Doyle’s notebooks, illustrations and maps in the text; fine.


First edition, limited to 150 copies. Conan Doyle’s log, recording his experiences as a young ship’s surgeon aboard the Arctic whaler S.S. Hope on its voyage of 28 February to 11 August 1880. The manuscript remained in his family’s possession until 2004, and it is reproduced in facsimile here, followed by an annotated transcription, and four Arctic writings by Conan Doyle.


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89. ELLSON, Hal. Reefer Boy. A Story of Teen-age drug addicts. Neville Spearman. 1955.


£198


8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper a little browned on spine and lower panel with a little light chipping to head of spine, usual browning to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy.


First UK edition. “From the reeking slums of a big city, from the twilight world of escape-hungry ‘junkies’, comes this striking and powerful novel of tormented adolescents - neglected by society, victimised by ruthless dope-pedlars. ‘Reefer Boy’ is the subject of drug addiction and its menacing attraction for juveniles. The hero is 16-year-old Chico and his friend Angel, and the book shows their inevitable moral and physical destruction through their craving for drugs. The material of this book is sensational, but this is not a sensational novel. It is based on fact - the shameful, inescapable fact that society takes no responsibility for these lost and bitter children”. Previously published in the USA by Ballantine in 1952 as The Golden Spike.


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