BUCKLE, Richard. John Innocent at Oxford. A Fantasy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1939. 8°. Half title, full-page illustrations by the author. Original cloth-backed marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “To Anthony who shared all my advantages. (I must say I should greatly have preferred New College to Balliol.) From, Dicky”, with a luggage label stamped “25 Dec 1960” and inscribed by the author as a Christmas card, loosely-inserted. With 11 other books by the same author including The Adventures of a Ballet Critic (London, 1953), Modern Ballet Design (London, 1955), The View from the Barracks ([London, 1986, stapled, ONE OF 200 COPIES]), Nijinsky on Stage ([London, 1971]) and Nijinsky (London, [1971], DEDICATION COPY with printed dedication to Cecil Beaton, “enlivening neighbor, encouraging friend,” and inscribed by the author directly beneath “with love from Dicky”), Buckle at the Ballet (1980), The Most Upsetting Woman (1981), In the Wake of Diaghilev (1982), George Balanchine (1988), , all FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, inscribed to Anthony Hobson, except where indicated. Contrib. to Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (1986); eleven pieces inscribed to Hobson. and a box containing 17 Autograph Letters, Autograph Postcard, to Igor Vinogradoff. 1977-1978. Vigorously researching his biography of Diaghilev and striking gold (“I write so many questions in letters to friends .. and you are the one who answers”). With carbon copies of Vinogradoff’s typed replies, corrections and suggestions. 27 pages f’cap & 4°. Igor Vinogradoff was Anthony Hobson’s father-in-law. As his second wife, he had married Julian, daughter of Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell.