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172. MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. History of England. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1849-61.
£498
16mo (10 volumes). Sometime rebound in cloth with leather labels on spines, decorative endpapers; a very good set; provenance: from the library of the poet Stephen Spender (a facsimile copy of his bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper).
German edition published in the same years as the first edition. This book is from the library of the poet, author and essayist Sir Stephen Spender whose social circle included W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, Ted Hughes and T.S. Eliot. These books are marked by a posthumous facsimile of Spender’s bookplate which was designed by John Craxton as a belated wedding present. John Craxton was an important figure in the neo-Romantic movement of the 1940s as well as a stage designer and illustrator. For the bookplate Craxton drew a portrait of himself resting on a stone stump in what could be seen to be a lush churchyard. The picture breaks perspective which helps alleviate the impression that the newly-weds’ names are inscribed upon a tombstone. Undoubtedly few bookplates were printed and so the majority of his books did not feature the original.
173. MACDONALD, Aeneas. Whisky. New York. Duffield and Green. 1934.
£148
8vo., original cloth lettered in gilt on spine (gilt dulled). Previous owners’ ink names, bookplate with glue stain which has transferred to free endpaper, small patch of browining from a (now removed) slip of newspaper on pp.38-39, otherwise a very good copy.
First US edition. “If I could only take one whisky book to a desert island, it would be Aeneas MacDonald’s Whisky.” Charles Maclean, author of MacLean’s Miscellany of Whisky.
174.MAILER, Norman. An American Dream. A Novel. New York. Dial Press. 1965.
£198
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper slightly rubbed on spine otherwise a very good copy.
First edition.
175. MAITLAND, Alexander. Wilfred Thesiger. The Life of the Great Explorer. London: Clays Ltd for HarperCollins, 2006.
£38
8vo. Original black boards, dustwrapper; pp. xvi, 528, 12 plates bearing monochrome photographic images, double-page family tree and 11 full- page maps in the text.
First edition, first issue with number line “1”. The standard biography of Thesiger by his friend and literary executor Alexander Maitland (the author of Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures and editor of Thesiger’s anthology My Life and Travels), which draws upon previously- unpublished manuscripts, letters and diaries.
176. MALLINSON, Allan. The Complete Hervey Novels. Bantam Press. 2002 - 2011.
£398 8vo., 11 vols in original cloth with dust wrappers. A near fine set. 176 177
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First editions comprising: 1.A Close Run Thing (1999) (light tape marks to pastedowns).
2.The Nizam’s Daughters (2000). 3.A Regimental Affair (2001) Signed. 4.A Call to Arms (2002) Signed.
5.The Sabre’s Edge (2003).
6.Rumours of War (2004).
7.An Act of Courage (2005) Signed.
8.Company of Spears (2006).
9.Man of War (2007). 10.Warrior (2008). 11.On His Majesty’s Service (2011).
The chronicles of a cavalry officer from the late Napoleonic Wars through subsequent colonial conflicts in India, North America and South Africa. Following in the literary tradition of C.S. Forester’s Hornblower and Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe characters.
177.MARTIN, W. Keble. The Concise British Flora in Colour with a Nomenclature Edited by Douglas H. Kent and Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, 1971.
£30
4to. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 254, 94 colour-printed and 6 monochrome plates ; very good indeed.
Second edition, third impression. This book was the result of sixty years work by Revd Keble Martin, who was 88 when the book was published; what had begun as an amateur pastime became a meticulously drawn and painted labour of love which was acclaimed on publication as a classic guide to botany. It became an immediate bestseller.
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