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London: Jonathan Cape, (1988).. First edition, 8vo, 240 pp. Black and white illustrations, inscribed from the author on the half title. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, an excellent copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1988).. First edition, 8vo, 240 pp. Black and white illustrations, owner's name to the fly leaf. Cloth, with a few spots and mild bumping, d.w., not price clipped, again with very mild bumping to extremities.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1984).. First edition, 8vo, 160 pp. Inscribed from Dahl on the half title to his childhood friend Douglas Highton, and with two autograph letters also inserted. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. The first letter, on a headed postcard, was sent with the book - "This little book is published next week. You will find yourself in it..." Dahl starts, referring to a story featured on pp. 108-111 where as a schoolboy Dahl had been unfairly punished and Highton had written to his father to complain about it. It didn't help, but Dahl concludes the printed account "it was... a touching and generous gesture from one small boy to another and I have never forgotten it." He goes on (in the postcard) to admit that some parts of the book "are slightly coloured by my natural love of fantasy." The second letter, again on headed stationery, must date from a few months later, with Dahl mentioning that he has had letters complaining about the portrayal of their school… Read More

[N.p.]: Clare Dales, 2016.. Square 8vo. (56) pp. Colour illustrated card covers. Illustrated throughout. A little light wear to the extremities, else very good.

Milwaukee Art Museum in association with Lund Humphries, 2004.. First edition. 4to. 279, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Illustrations throughout, some in colour. Very good.

(Munich): Prestel, (1994).. First edition, 4to, 262 pp. 100 plates, mostly in colour, plus 957 black and white illustrations, light browning to endpapers. Cloth, d.w., a little faded.

London: Printed for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1800.. First edition, 8vo, xxi, (iii), 526, (1 advertisement, 1) pp. Engraved second title, marginal foxing throughout, early 19th century bookseller's label, "Smith, Milsom St., Bath," to foot of paste down. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards, head of spine repaired, slightly sunned.

London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1832.. Folio, (iv), viii, (vii)-xvi, 406, (2) pp. 18 plates, including 3 not listed - one of the latter the binder is directed to transfer to the volume on Bramber, plus six maps and plans, four of which are double page, one plate hand coloured, and engravings in the text. Old signature to paste down. Original boards, edges a little worn, recently rebacked in plain green cloth. Scarce - after a fire at the printing office destroyed almost all of the 1815 first edition only 200 copies of this new edition were published.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1815, 30, 32, 19.. Four volumes, 4to. First two volumes (Chichester and Bramber) first edition, third volume (Arundel) "New Edition", plus the very rare first edition of the Arundel volume, large 4to. 83 plates - two double page and four in colour, 19 maps and plans - 15 double page or folding and including two geological maps in the Bramber volume. Marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates of Charles and Mary Lacaita of Selham. Contemporary calf with gilt decorated borders and the arms of George Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, to the covers, rebacked to style with brown and black labels. A very scarce set due to a fire at the printers in 1819 which destroyed 300 (of 500) copies of the Chichester volume and almost the entire run of the original Arundel volume, with only 30 copies surviving. Only 200 copies of the new edition of Arundel and Bramber were published.

London: Heinemann, 1931.. First edition, 8vo, viii, 703, (1) pp. Title page designed by Rex Whistler. Inscribed on the fly leaf by the cast of the Old Vic's 1942 production of Laurence Housman's "Jacob's Ladder", including the author and both Lewis and Ann Casson. Original gilt titled buckram, very good. The inscription starts "Thank you, beautiful Clarkie, it was all your doing..." and was quite possibly to Kathleen Clark, noted as business manager for the Old Vic on a 1942 poster for the play.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010.. First edition. 4to. 178, (2) pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Photographically illustrated throughout. An excellent copy.

The Hague: International Documentation and Information Centre (Interdoc), 1973.. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 117, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Inscribed on the fly leaf from the author to his fellow solider and writer Leigh Maxwell "From an amateur, to a professional, From a reservist, to a regular, In fond remembrance of many pleasant conversations... only a short time after the experiences described in this book..." Cloth, d.w., slightly faded and worn. A scarce account of the Turkish Brigade's actions on behalf of the United Nations during the Korean War.

Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1886.. 8vo, 74 pp. Foxing at the beginning and end, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in full green crushed morocco, t.e.g., gilt title plus fleurs-de-lis to the corners.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.. First edition. Large oblong 8vo. 96 pp. Publisher's grey cloth, silver lettered and decorated to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Photographically illustrated throughout, mostly in black and white. Very good.

London: John Murray, 1890.. 8vo. (xii), 500 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to spine and with gilt vignette to upper board, two later owners' names ink stamped to the front free endpaper, one repeated on the half title. Frontispiece portrait. Light wear to the head of the spine, else a decent copy. "It is impossible to overrate the influence of the voyage on Darwin's career: it was both his education and his opportunity. He left England untried and almost uneducated for science, he returned a successful collector, a practised and brilliant geologist, and with a wide general knowledge of zoology gained at first hand in many parts of the world" (DNB). The lessons learnt and specimens taken around the world led directly to "The Origin of Species" 20 years later. Freeman, 58.

London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889.. Sixth edition thus. (iii)-xix, (i), 381, (1) pp., bound without the half title. Contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece portrait and 15 plates. Some mild rubbing, very good overall. Freeman, 57. "The Minerva Library of Famous Books"

London: John Murray, 1888.. Second edition, second issue, 8vo, viii, 487, (1), 32 advertisement pp. Tables in the text, later signature to front blank, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, slightly darkened. Freeman 1254. First published in 1876, the second edition originally appeared in 1878.

London: John Murray, 1882.. Second edition, 15th thousand, 8vo, (iii)-xvi, 693, (1) pp, bound without the half title and advertisements. 78 illustrations in the text. Modern gilt titled red half morocco, a handsome copy. Freeman 955.

London: John Murray, 1888.. Second edition, "revised and augmented", 22nd thousand, two volumes, (xx), 507, (1); (x), 528, (2) pp. Contemporary booklabel to paste downs, later signature to front blanks. Original gilt titled grey-green cloth, spines darkened, some minor rubbing and marks, foot of the upper joint to volume I slightly torn. Freeman, 965. The first issue of the "Library Edition", published uniformly with a two volume edition of "The Origin of Species" and the first edition of Darwin's "Life and Letters"

London: John Murray, 1868.. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv, 473, (1); x, 495, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over dark blue cloth sides, all edges speckled red, a shadow on each of the front pastedowns showing faintly where a prior owner's bookplate has been removed. 43 illustrations in the text. Spines darkened and worn with a small loss to the head of volume I, the contents very good. Freeman, 877. The errata to the first volume has six lines as opposed to the four mentioned by Freeman, which would appear to be a not-unusual variant. The second volume has a seven line errata as called for. The errata of the second issue was quite distinct, with only one one line to the first volume and none to the second.