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92. DOUGHTY, Charles Montagu. Wanderings in Arabia ... Being an Abridgement of “Travels in Arabia Deserta”. [Edited by Edward Garnett.] London: Turnbull & Spears for Duckworth, 1926.
£60
8vo (215 x 135mm). original green cloth, publisher’s devices blocked in blind on lower boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. xviii, 607, [1 (blank)]; wood-engraved frontispiece and one folding wood-engraved map by Emery Walker; extremities very slightly rubbed, spine very slightly darkened, otherwise a very good copy; provenance: T.J. ha— (ownership signature on front free endpaper) — James Liddell (ownership signature on front free endpaper).
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First one-volume edition of Wanderings in Arabia. Doughty’s masterpiece Travels in Arabia Deserta — ‘an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia’ (oDnB) — was first published in 1888, and William morris had introduced it to Sir Sydney carlyle cockerell, who in turn had passed it on to Garnett in 1902 (cf. m.S. howard Jonathan Cape, Publisher (London: 1971), p. 30). Garnett’s abridgement was first published in two volumes in 1908, and was responsible for bringing the work to the attention of a non-specialist readership and thus ensuring its lasting fame. This two-volume edition had been reprinted in 1908, 1913, and 1923, and the present, one-volume edition was possibly produced as a complement to the one-volume (and first trade) edition of Travels in Arabia Deserta with an introduction by T.E. Lawrence that Jonathan cape had published in 1926.
93. DOWD, Leo (Artist). original drawing of a young girl. 1931.
£350
Single sheet of Daily mail headed paper, dated 15 September 1931. horizontal fold otherwise in very good condition.
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A beautifully executed pen and ink drawing of a youg woman in a stylish feathered hat, forming the central part of an autograph letter signed by artist Leo Dowd. The letter reads “Dear mr Allott, in addition to my autograph the above may find a place in your collection. Yours truly Leo Dowd.”
newspaper artist Leo Dowd also designed posters for London Transport, his most famous series the At your Service posters.
91. DOUGHTY, Charles M. Wanderings in Arabia. Being an Abridgment of “Travels in Arabia Deserta” new York. Boni and Liveright.. 1927.
£60
8vo. original cloth with paper spine label; pp. xviii + 607; one plate, one folding map; a very good copy.
First US one-volume edition thus, abridged by David Garnett from the first edition of 1888 in 1908.
94. DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. Return of Sherlock holmes. George newnes, 1905.
£1,750
8vo. Finely bound by Bayntun in full blue morocco, two line gilt panel on covers, spine lettered and dated in gilt with two line panels and tooled bands, hand marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. illustrated by Sidney Paget with sixteen plates. A very good copy.
First edition.
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