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Catalogue 28

SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS OF BOOKS

& FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE BIBLIOMANIACS
LIVE AUCTION TO BENEFIT HELEN & DOUGLAS HOUSE
CHILDREN’S HOSPICE
FRIDAY 14 JUNE 2024, EVENT FROM 7pm,
PAPPLEWICK SCHOOL
 BIDS
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after the auction closes. If you are the winner of one of the auctions, we will contact you at the supplied
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should like the books delivered to you. Note, no payment will be taken via our website. All Lots remain
the property of the Bibliomaniacs or individual Consignors until after full payment has been made. All lots
in this auction will have bidding increments of £5. This means that if you bid £50 “on the book” and an-
other bidder bids £30 “in the room”, your winning bid will be £35. If two leading bids are received at the
same price, and no bid is forthcoming in the room, that which was received earlier takes precedent. All
lots have a reserve price set at the lower estimate or just below. We have tried to err on the low side when
setting estimates. Good luck!

SUPPLY AND RETURN

Books reserved will be ready for collection or posting the day after full payment is processed. The
Papplewick Bibliomaniacs have the right to withdraw books from sale without any given reason. Sales are
non-refundable, unless the book is proved to be otherwise as described. Full terms and conditions for this
sale are available on our website.

PAYMENT

Books remain the property of the Bibliomaniacs until the full amount is paid. Goods should preferably be
paid for by Paypal or bank transfer with details provided with invoice. Personal UK cheques made out to
Jonathan Cooper or cash payments up to £1,000 will also be accepted. 5o% of all proceeds from this sale
will be forwarded to Helen and Douglas House, the Oxford Children’s Hospice.

We would encourage all our supporters to bid on a number of lots and to bid high! However, do please
be careful not to place a bid at a higher amount than you are willing to pay as bids cannot be cancelled
after 6pm on Friday 14 June.

The Bibliomaniacs are the youngest antiquarian booksellers in the world. We meet every Thursday to dis-
cuss recent book sales, and to discover more about the history of literature, books and printing. The Bib-
liomaniacs feel honoured to have been elected members of the PBFA in 2016, and have exhibited at the
London International Premier Book Fair in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023.

SENIOR COMMITTEE: Arthur Morton-Jack (auctioneer), Tiger Tillotson, Edoardo Corsini, Piriyan
Subrahmaniyam, Theo Gaidai, Jonathan Cooper
HONORARY BIBLIOMANIACS: Michael Meredith (Roxburghe Club), Brian Alderson (Children’s
Book History Society Founder), Lucas Marsden-
Smedley (Bibliomaniac Number One), Katia Had-
dad, Rachel Cunningham-Day, Anthony West
(Compiler of the Census of Shakespeare First Foli-
os), Daniel Haynes (Royal Collection, Windsor
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Lot 1. Phaedrus. Daniel Bellamy (translator). Phaedri Fabulae Selectae, Latinè, Anglicè, Gallicè: Fifty Instructive and
Entertaining Fables of Phaedrus, in Latin, French and English. Attempted after a New Method for the Speedy Improve-
ment of Youth in Schools. J. J. Knapton, D. Midwinter et al, 1734. 4to (197 x 116mm.), tri-lingual text in three col-
umns, Copperplate engraved illustrations based on designs by B. Cole, contemporary calf ruled in gilt. Lacking pp. i—
vi, 123—124, binding very worn with crude (probably child) attempts at repair including a line of white stickers on up-
per cover , upper cover detached, pp.vii and viii detached

Provenance: “Shippen His Book 1744” inscription on verso of front pastedown; “Jane ?Southern… her book”
inscription on rear pastedown; William Rishton, signature on p.vii; “S. Harris 1856”, signature on p.vii. These
last two strongly suggest the book had lost its prelims by the mid-
19th century.
An early and beautifully illustrated example of a creative text book for
school and home learning aimed at children. It can be read as a storybook
from the English translation, used as a Latin constructor (helpfully there is
an editorial key to the order in which the Latin words should be translated)
or as a French reader with an English translation to assist. Such books have
a low survival rate as they were inevitably used, as text books such as L.A.
Wilding’s Greek for Beginners still at Papplewick, by numerous
“generations” of school children until they are “read to death”
£30.00—50.00

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 THE FIRST MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT THE BIBLIOMANIACS HAVE OFFERED
Lot 2. Innocent IV, Pope (c. 1200-1254) In quinque libros Decretalium, Commentaria.
Single partial leaf, medieval manuscript on vellum, ?France, ?last quarter of the thirteenth century, 169 x 105mm., 36
lines, written in black ink, four two-line decorative initials in blue ink with marginal pen extensions in red ink, recto
worn where once was pasted down, fragment cut almost completely in half horizontally, presumably to inser between
the binding of a printed book
The current fragment is part of Book Three of Pope Innocent IV’s Commentary on the Decretals of Pope Gregory
IX. the most important canon law text, which guided much of secular as well as church life. It reveals the Pope to have
had a keen legal mind. He was a champion of universal papal dominion during his eleven year pontificate from 1243,
which caused conflict between himself and Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Provenance: discovered loosely insert-

ed into a volume of early eighteenth
century English sermons bound in
slightly later calf. Whether the frag-
ment had once been used to bind this
book is unclear, but its physical condi-
tion shows that it survived as it had
acted as a spine strengthener to a
printed book when the manuscript
had been dispensed with and used for
waste. Its presence in an English cleri-
cal library (the printed book was from
a bigger collection being sold by Rich-
ard Booth, the “King of Hay (on
Wye)” suggests that the manuscript
spent at least part of its history in Brit-
ain.
This fragment is a tantalising witness
of both the medieval world and the
changing approaches to book produc-
tion and manuscripts over the past
seven hundred years.

£100—150

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Lot 3. Chesterton, Gilbert. The Wild Knight. Grant Richards, 1900, first edition, 168 x 95mm., contemporary olive
morocco, stylishly decorated in gilt to upper and lower covers, spine in six compartments, decorated and lettered in
gilt, all edges gilt, bound without the initial advertisement leaf, small chip at base of spine, spine slightly faded and
rubbed at edges

A beautifully printed and bound very rarw selection of poetry by an author now best known as G. K. Chesterton, and
for his later series of detective stories about Father Brown, as well as the satirical mystery masterpiece The Man Who
Was Thursday. A book most evocative of the early twentieth style which harkened back to a simpler (or retro) and
yet more elegant presentation in typography.

£70—100

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 Lot 4. Forester, C. S. Plain Murder. John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1930, first .
Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.322; [6], original
cloth dark green cloth, lettered in cream
to spine and upper cover, foxing to page
edges and some margins, spine slightly
sunned
An uncommon and unconventional
novel that attempts to get inside the crim-
inal mind in a way few other booka at the
time had. The author is probably still
best known for his Napoleonic era
seafaring books featuring the series
character Hornblower.
Morris, Oldroyd and Reddy, members of
a London advertising agency, have been
caught taking bribes. One of their col-
leagues threatens to whistle blow which
will result in dismissal at a time of severe
unemployment. Morris suggests a solu-
tion to their dilemma: a perfect murder,
cleverly disguised as a tragic accident.
Things, inevitably, spiral out of control.

Provenance: E. J. Smith, signature to

front endpapaer and bookplate dated
1930 to front pasterdowm;
bought by one of the greatest ever crime
fiction “book hunters” on his eightieth
birthday and gifted to the Bibliomaniacs
for sale in this charity auction.

£80-120

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 Lot 5. Goffin, Robert. Jazz. From the Con-
go to the Metropolitan. New York: Dou-
bleday, Doran & Co., 1944, first edition,
black cloth, mauve lettering to spine, dust
jacket, dust jacket chipped and torn with
some loss in spine area and around the top
Provenance: Iris Alden, presentation in-
scription from “Robie” dated Christmas
1944. The Bibliomaniacs are presenting
this book on the assumption that this is
NOT an authorial dedication. However,
Alden was a successful producer of music
programmes for radio in Canada during
and after the Second World War.
Lawyer, poet, jazz enthusiast, novelist, es-
sayist, historian, gastronome, traveller,
Robert Goffin (1898-1984) was a Belgian
whom the Americans nicknamed “The
World’s Most Versatile Man” . He was a
friend to and correspondent with many of
the great names of Jazz, and in particular
Louis Armstrong.
The present work is an important foray
into an analysis of the origins, development
and impact of (predominantly) black mu-
sic. The present copy would seem likely to
be an early issue. It has excellent quality
black boards unlike the less solid pale yel-
low boards of most surviving copies. In
addition the back of the dust jacket has a
stamp “”Publication Date Jan 21 1944.
This date subject to change without no-
tice”. This copy is therefore perhaps an advance review copy and it would make sense for Alden to re-
ceive such as am “influencer” whose programmes found a large audience. £20–30

Lot 6. [Gilbert and Sullivan] Theatrical Film Poster for “The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan” (London
Films, 1953), 760 x 500mm., printed in numerous bright colours, depicting Robert Morley and Maurice
Evans as Gilbert and Sullivan beneath a scene from The Gondoliers featuring a kneeling gondolier and
his Contadina.
The artwork is signed “Gilroy”. This is John Gilroy (1898—1985), best known for some iconic posters for
the Irish stout, Guinness.
The poster is mounted on card and protected beneath a removable plastic wrapper.
Vertical closed tear to the lower quarter of the poster, some other closed tears to the edges, a few marks,
otherwise an excellent and rare example of an original 1950s cinema poster.
We have found examples of other illustrated posters for this film, but none exactly matching ours and
none of any sort in commerce.
£40—60

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Lot 7. [Surrey County Cricket Club] Annual Club Dinner Menu held at the Oval 28 April 1949. printed on thick
card stock (188 x 122 mm.), 4pp.
signed on the otherwise blank fourth page by seventeen of the attendees, whom we have identified (with some diffi-
culty!) as the following EA Bedser; HS Squires; MR Barton (club captain at the time); AJW McIntyre; AV Bedser;
F.G. Mann; E.R.T. Holmes; H.D.G. Leveson Gower; P.Surridge; J.C.Christopherson; W.T.Cook; M.J.C.Allom;
J.C. Clay; G.H.Ince; D. J. Knight plus one further who remains tantalisingly unidentified.
All but Barton’s signature have faded. He writes in what looks like biro rather than fountain pen. It is possible the
other signatures have faded if that page had been displayed facing the sun at some stage..
The company was largely, but not entirely, a mixture of current and past players for the club with many of the latter
being current or recent members of the Club’s Committee. They include several former England players and
players whose careers had started in the nineteenth century.
We suspect this to be the only surviving example of a signed menu from this auspicious cricketing gathering and is
a telling memento of a bygone cricketing era. Incidentally the menu (in French) reveals that they ate tomato soup,
chicken with peas and potatoes and peach Melba!
£20—30

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 Lot 8. Houthuesen, Albert and John Rothen-
stein. Albert Houthuesen; an appreciation. Mer-
cury Graphics, 1969.
Folio (370 x 248mm.), number 236 of 250 cop-
ies signed by Houthuesen and Rothenstein
(director of the Tate), original decorated cream
and brown boards, slipcase, loosely inserted
press cuttings relating to Houtheusen.
A most handsome testament to an artist who,
despite being dubbed one of the finest of the
twentieth century, remains widely unknown.
Provenance: Jane, Lady Abdy, art dealer and
socialite. Lady Abdy was a great champion of
Houtheusen’s work.

£20—30

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Lot 9.
War Picture Library Fleetway Press. Numbers 32 (December 1959), 37 (February 1960), 83 (January 1961), 382
(April 1967), 399 (August 1967), 533 (August 1969). War At Sea Picture Library. Fleetway Press. Number 16
[September 1962]
Seven beautifully illustrated and excitingly plotted comics in the same format and style as D.C. Thomson’s still run-
ning and amazingly popular Commando series. In fact Amalgamated Press’ War Picture Library pre-dates the be-
ginnings of Commando (1961). These are rare survivals in such excellent condition, with no tears and just a few age
spots.
Provenance: Number 382 (at least) came from Fleetway Press’ own archive library, probably explaining the excellent
seemingly unread condition. It bears a stamp on the upper cover that reads “Cover Design not our copyright” indi-
cating that although Fleetway were free to reissue the contents of the comic, they did not hold the rights to reproduce
the cover artwork following the first printing.
£30—50

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 Lot 10.
Pullman, Philip.
Lyra’s Oxford. David
Fickling Books, 2003,
advertising billboard for a
promotional talk given by
the author at the
Sheldonian Theatre in
Oxford on 6 November
2003. 760 x 513mm. It
consists of two posters for
the unique event below the
author’s name in large type
and above the publisher’s
details. There were only
four of these billboards ever
produced. This particular
example was signed after
the event by Philip
Pullman. It is thus an
unparalleled example in
terms of rarity and interest
of merchandising for this
follow-up to Pullman’s
hugely respected and
enjoyed His Dark Materials
series.
£70—100

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Lot 11. Kissinger, Henry.
The White House Years. Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1996. Number 1730 of 2000 copies signed by
Henry Kissinger.
Years of Upheaval. Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1996.
Four uniform volumes (230 x 150mm.), printed on specially milled paper, photographic plates and
maps, moiré fabric endpapers, satin ribbon bookmarks, bound in red leather by the publisher, ruled and
tooled in gilt, spine in compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt
A handsome and beautiful set of first-hand insights into a turbulent quarter of moiré fabric
a century of American politics by one of the most influential thinkers and players of the USA and in-
deed world political scene in the twentieth century.
Kissinger (1923-2023) served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to Presidents Nixon
and Ford. A not uncontroversial figure, the satirical songwriter, Tom Lehrer, famously said “Political
satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (in 1973)”.
Apparently unread, this is the optimum way to own these seminal political memoirs.

£70—100

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Lot 12. Buckeridge, Anthony. Typically Jennings! Collins, 1971, first edition, green cloth lettered in
gilt on spine, top edge yellow, dust jacket
A beautiful, fine, unread copy of one of the later, and therefore rarer, “Jennings” books. One really
could not ask for or obtain a nicer example. The dust jacket and frontispiece art is by the great Val
Biro and was Val’s only contribution to the main series (interestingly, Quentin Blake was supposed to
do the work on this book but his attempts were rejected by the publisher). Val later collaborated with
Anthony Buckeridge and David Schutte on a highly attractive series of editions of the original radio
plays as well as producing a wonderful cricketing image for Jonathan Cooper’s The World of Jennings
(2005).
£40—60

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Lot 13. Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief. Puffin, 2005, first UK edition, bright red boards gilt lettered
to spine, deep purple endpapers, dust jacket, signed by Rick Riordan to a special publisher’s bookplate
attached to the verso of the half-title.
Sold with a copy of the immensely rare “Sneak Preview” of the book (148 x 104mm.), containing the first
chapter of the book and details of a competition to win a Percy Jackson t-shirt and baseball cap. These
small booklets were made available in a small number of bookshops belonging to the Ottaker’s group
which became defunct in 2006.
First appearance in Britain of Percy Jackson, who has gone on to be a children’s literature sensation
whose adventures have been turned into a feature film and a recent television series by Disney.
It is probably true to say that Percy Jackson has now overtaken Harry Potter in the affections of more
young readers. This first English edition is fiendishly rare as first books by “unknown” authors tend to be.
It is evidently even rarer signed and we have not been able to locate another such copy in commerce cur-
rently or in the past. The inclusion of the preview booklet, almost certainly unknown to nearly all fans of
the series, is a remarkable addition.
All in all, the perfect lot for any Percy Jackson fan or investor interested in children’s books.
£150—200

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