Modern Firsts. Bates (H.E.), The Darling Buds of May, first ...

Estimate

£50 - £100

Modern Firsts. Bates (H.E.), The Darling Buds of May, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1958, some internal marks and one leaf with stable tear, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Broome Lynee, red cloth, 8vo; Murdoch (Iris), The Nice and the Good, [&] A Word Child, first editions, London: Chatto & Windus, 1968 & 1975, the second with a loose leaf, original pictorial dustjackets designed by John Ward and Christopher Cornford and over brown and red cloth respectively, 8vo; Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat, first edition, ?first or second impression, New York: Random House, 1957, lacking dustjacket, original pictorial boards, worn with chipped losses, 4to; idem, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!, first UK edition, 1961, pictorial boards only, some wear, 4to; Fowles (John), A Maggot, first edition, signed by the author as issued, specially bound copy no. 475/500, London: Jonathan Cape, 1985, cloth over marbled boards, 8vo; four further John Fowles titles; Sillitoe (Alan), Key to the Door, [&] A Tree on Fire, first editions, London: W.H. Allen, 1961, [&] Macmillan, 1967, original dustjackets designed by Patrick Tilley and Nicholas Thirkell respectively, some wear, cloth, 8vo; Nabokov, Lolita, first UK edition, 1959, original dustjacket over cloth, worn with some losses, 8vo; Rider Haggard, The People of the Mist, first edition, 1894, grubby copy with faults, original cloth, 8vo; Peake, Titus Groan, New York, 1946, stains, original cloth, 8vo; Hogarth Press imprint; Samuel Beckett; Henry Miller; Solzhenitsyn; later impression of All Quiet On the Western Front, 1929; etc., (35)