Modern First & Others - Walpole (Hugh), John Cornelius [...]...

Hammer

£80

Modern First & Others - Walpole (Hugh), John Cornelius [...], first edition, one of the 175 large paper copies signed by the author, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, July 1937, finely bound in full morocco by Hatchards, stamped, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (1); two more of Walpole's novels, Judith Paris and Rogue Herries, ?the Special Signature issues, leather bindings, 8vo, (2); Riviere Binding, [Von Arnim (Elizabeth)], Elizabeth and her German Garden, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902, finely bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son, stamped, the spine lettered in the second compartment and tooled in gilt with flowers in the remainder, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, (1); Frankau (Gilbert), The Poetical Works, 1901-1920, two-volume set, first edition, copy no. 42/310 of the Edition de Luxe signed by the author, London: Chatto & Windus, 1923, printed on hand-made paper, volume I with portrait frontispiece, contemporary vellum over boards, top-edges gilt, others uncut, 4to, (2); War Poetry, [Mason (Arthur Telford)], The Book of Artemas, three-volume set, London: W. Westall & Co., 1918-19, original pictorial cloth, volume I owned by Captain Eric Evan Spicer (1894-1918), of the 1st/4th Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusileers), youngest son of Sir Evan Spicer, killed exactly two months after this book was inscribed to him from his father, 8vo, (3); Lyndon (Roderick), Another Point of View, first edition, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907, three-quarter morocco over cloth binding by Hatchards, stamped, top-edge gilt, others uncut, Golden Age pictorial-armorial bookplate of Frederick "Fritz" Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby (1867-1935), soldier and senior royal courtier, 8vo, (1); [Housman (Laurence)], An Englishwoman's Love Letters, first edition, London: John Murray 1900, contemporary vellum, yapped edges, top-edge gilt, others uncut, decorative foliate endpapers, 8vo, (1), [11]