STUART LUKE GATHERER: A RAKE'S PROGRESS
No author listed. Illustrated by Stuart Luke Gatherer; William Hogarth.
Stock no. 1829227
Published by Albemarle Gallery. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

Oblong format. Beige cardwraps, black titles. Colour illustrations. Exhibition catalogue. Some fading to covers. Contents clean.

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ANIMAL FARM: A FAIRY STORY
Written by George Orwell.
Stock no. 1829215
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1945. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A satire upon dictatorship. The history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine. Small format. Dark green cloth. White title to spine. 91 pages. Spine is slightly cocked and lightly faded. Very top edge of boards is faded. Small foxspots to endpapers and text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper states second edition but this is a second printing (reprint) of the first edition (some might call it a second edition). Green & grey dustwrapper is lightly worn at corners, foxing to rear panel.

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CANDIDE OR OPTIMISM (THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN)
Written by Voltaire; Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire; Paul Morand. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage.
Stock no. 1829197
Published by Easton Press. 1st thus 1977. Nearly fine condition.

Introduction by Paul Morand. Collector's edition. Bound in genuine leather. Grey leather boards with three raised bands to spine, gilt title to spine, gilt tooling to boards. Orange moire endpapers with matching page marker. xix and 131 pages. All edges gilt. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. A lovely copy. Ribbon page marker is creased.

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FABLES AND SATIRES
Written by Harold Morland. Illustrated by Helen Kapp.
Stock no. 1325821
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Salmon pink cloth, black titles. 80 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers lightly foxed. Contents clean. White dustwrapper is grubby and edge chipped with small tape repairs on verso.

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CONFERENCE AT COLD COMFORT FARM
Written by Stella Gibbons.
Stock no. 1824557
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Sequel to Cold Comfort Farm where Flora Poste, now Mrs Charles Fairford, once again represents the forces of sanity and order in a new battle. A classic satire. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Boards a little browned and scuffed. Text block browned. Contents clean. Price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper is browned and has a closed tear across top of spine (no loss), minor chipping to base of spine.

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THE AMBIVALENCE OF BERNARD MANDEVILLE
Written by Hector Monro.
Stock no. 1818868
Published by Clarendon Press. 1st 1975. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A consideration of The Fable of the Bees and also Mandeville's little-known other books including a pamphlet on public executions and another on public brothels, a medical treatise on nervous indigestion.Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0198120613. Light browning to text block. Blue dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed.

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