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  1. First edition, first impression, 8vo; illustrations by Andrew Davidson. Publisher's pictorial boards printed in pink, blue and black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine a little rolled but a very nice copy in the nicked and somewhat faded dust jacket.

    £750
  2. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title-page; 'To Clive Hirschhorn, | with best wishes from | Richard Adams | Whitchurch | Hampshire'; 8vo (222 x 147 mm); tipped-in folding map at rear, light spotting to edges but only affecting 3 or 4 margins, text clean; publisher's tan cloth gilt, pictorial dust-jacket with neat minor tissue repairs, viii, 413pp; preserved in a moden quarter morocco solander box.

    £3,750
  3. Limited edition, one of 1000 numbered and signed copies; oblong folio (35.5 x 26.5 cm); with one photographic portrait by James van der Zee and 32 colour plates; original cloth binding with dust jacket, slightly age-toned at the margin of the dust-jacket, otherwise an excellent example.

    £12,500
  4. 8vo, 203-424 pp., 4 wood-engraved plates, pictorial vignette to title, contemporary red morocco gilt extra, all edges gilt, occasional light spotting, an excellent example.

    £285
  5. Single volume, illuminated manuscript on fibrous polished buff paper, in Farsi, textually complete (lacking 4 leaves at the end of Book 6 that are replaced in eighteenth and nineteenth century manuscript facsimile, 337 leaves plus 4 leaves text, 245 by 170 mm; four columns, 21 lines early nasta'liq script in black, headings in red throughout, 6 gold and lapis illuminated headings in the Timurid style, each opening one of the 6 books of the Mathnavi, contemporary catch-words throughout, columns ruled in blue, some very slight water-staining to margins and a few scattered smudges to text, overall attractive condition; early sixteenth-century stamped leather binding with flap, with cut-out cartouches to leather decorated by corner-pieces and central medallions with foliate designs and coloured in gold, spine and flap hinge rebacked and repaired, an attractive early binding.

    £32,500
  6. New Edition (fourth thus), 2 volumes, 8vo, vol. 1: xii, [2], 248pp., 266pp., [14 (table of contents)] ; vol. 2: [8], 519pp, [13]; large folding map and 3 engraved plates (2 of these folding), ink inscriptions to front free endpapers else clean and bright internally, small tear with loss to outer margin of p.99 (H2) in vol. 1 (not affecting text); fine contemporary tree calf, red morocco labels to spines, lettered in gilt, head of volume 1 lightly rubbed, a very handsome set.

    £4,250
  7. Special edition, signed by the author, number 94 of 300 numbered copies, from a total edition of 310 (10 reserved for the author numbered i-x); 8vo; publisher's plain green boards, presented in matching slipcase, a bright and attractive copy.

    £650
  8. First edition, 8vo, viii, 121, [3]pp., contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt with acorn device, original red label titled in gilt, a fine copy.

    £3,000
  9. First edition. Folio, xix, [1], 326, [2] pp., 29 engraved plates including large folding map, contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints cracked but firm, corners worn, spine rubbed, a very good clean copy.

    £1,750
  10. First edition. 8vo; 61pp, adverts, folding map; publisher's brown covers, gilt lettered, front board with large crack repaired: overall a good copy.

    £350
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