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249 248. THESIGER, Wilfred. Visions of a Nomad. Collins, 1987. £98
4to. Original cloth in wrapper; pp. 224; 1 sketch map, numerous photographic illustrations by the author; near-fine. First edition.
249. [TOYS]. TISSANDIER, Gaston (author). Albert TISSANDIER (illustrator). Jeux et Jouets du Jeune Âge, Choix de Récreations Amusantes & Instructives. Paris; G. Masson. [1884].
£398
Imperial 8vo. Original pale green silk-covered spine over brown brocade leaf-patterned boards, pictorially decorated and lettered in black, gilt, blue, and deep red to both covers, bevelled boards, red edges, blue endpapers; pp. [48], printed throughout on fine and heavy stock; with delicate chromolithographed images on each page including the pictorial half-title, title, and border designs to the prelims; an exceptional example of a delicate binding with the expected mild lightening to silk at spine and tiny rubbing to corner tips; internally crisp and clean, with pristine endpapers and unweakened inner hinges; scarce.
First edition. An unusually attractive volume of nineteenth century parlour amusements and entertainments including chapters on balloons and kites, shadow puppetry, indoor menageries, paper modelling, marionettes, magic lanterns and optical toys.
250. TRUFFAUT, Francois. The Films in my Life. Translated by Leonard Mayhew. New York. Simon and Schuster. 1978.
£48 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy.
First US edition. Truffaut’s third and final book comprised of many essays detailing his feelings on a wide variety of American and European film directors and their work.
251.WALLACE, Alfred Russel — Charles H. SMITH and George BECCALONI (editors). Natural Selection and Beyond. The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace. Oxford: CPI Antony Rowe for Oxford University Press, 2008.
£35
8vo (245 x 170mm). Original light-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, dustwrapper; pp. xxv, [1 (blank)], 482, [4 (blank ll.)]; portrait frontispiece, 4 colour-printed plates with illustrations recto-and- verso, illustrations, diagrams and maps in the text, some full-page; fine.
First edition. An important new collection of essays examining many aspects of Wallace’s life and works, with contributions by Peter Raby, James Moore, and others, comprising: ‘Homes Sweet Homes: a Biographical Tour of Wallace’s Many Places of Residence’ (G. Beccaloni); ‘“Ardent beetle-hunters”: Natural History, Collecting, and the Theory of Evolution’ (A. Berry); ‘Theory and Practice in the Field: Wallace’s Work in Natural History (1844-1858)’ (M.B. Fagan); ‘Wallace’s Annotated Copy of the Darwin-Wallace Paper on Natural Selection’ (G. Beccaloni); ‘Wallace and the Species Concept of the Early Darwinians’ (J. Mallet); ‘Direct Selection for Reproductive Isolation: the Wallace Effect and Reinforcement’ (N.A. Johnson); ‘The Colours of Animals: from Wallace to the Present Day. 1, Cryptic Coloration’ (T. Caro, S. Merilaita, M. Stevens); ‘The Colours of animals: from Wallace to the Present Day. 2, Conspicuous Coloration’ (T. Car et al.); ‘Alfred Russel Wallace, Biogeographer’ (B. Michaux); ‘Wallace and the Great Ice Age’ (K. Tinkler); ‘Wallace, Conservation, and Sustainable Development’ (S. Knapp); ‘The “Finest Butterfly in the World?”: Wallace and his Literary
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Legacy’ (P. Raby); ‘Wallace and Owenism’ (G. Claeys); ‘Wallace, Women, and Eugenics’ (D.B. Paul); ‘Out of “the Limbo of ‘Unpractical Politics’”: the Origins and Essence of Wallace’s Advocacy of Land Nationalization’ (D.A. Stack); ‘Alfred Russel Wallace and Anti- Vaccinationism in the Late Victorian Cultural Context, 1870-1907’ (M. Fichman); ‘The Universe and Alfred Russel Wallace’ (S.J. Dick); ‘Wallace’s Unfinished Business’ (C.H. Smith); ‘Wallace in Wonderland’ (J. Moore); ‘Wallace’s Dilemmas: the Laws of Nature and the Human Spirit’ (T. Benton); ‘Wallace, Spiritualism, and Beyond: “Change,” or “No Change”?’ (C.H. Smith).
252. WALPOLE, Horace. The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy. Reprinted by J Roe and sold by Ann Lemoine. 1796.
£298
12mo., contemporary marbled paper boards, recently rebacked by Bernard Middleton preserving original leather label. Woodcut head and tail pieces, and titlepage vignette. Bound without frontispiece(?), small hole to p. 35/36 affecting page number, repaired marginal tear to one page, occasional light browning, otherwise a very good copy.
An early London preceded only by the 1768 Strawberry Hill edition, a 1781 edition that Walpole had printed and published by Dodsley to forestall unauthorised reprints. An 1791 Dublin edition too was unauthorised, but Walpole allowed it to be published “after some grumbling” (Hazen) and this was reprinted in London the same year. The edition we offer here is therefore the fourth London edition.
The copy at Oxford University records a frontispiece but the Lewis Walpole Library copy, as our copy, has no frontispiece.
The theme of Walpole’s play, incest, led Walpole to be very selective in whom he allowed to have copies of his Strawberry Hill imprint. He only arranged to have Dodsley reprint the tragedy in 1781 to prevent a spurious edition that had been advertised being printed. Having successfully stopped the unauthorised edition, Walpole then chose not to publish this reprint, although it had been printed, keeping the copies to present to his friends in lieu of the Strawberry Hill edition.
253.WALTERS, Minette. The Scold’s
Bridle.Macmillan. 1994. £98
8vo., originsl cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition signed by the author.
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