Trafford Books

Auction No 362, Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST

285 Lots (displaying 101 - 120)

Frans Lanting "Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Animal World" Terra Editions, 1997, No.232 of 1500,

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £76
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Frans Lanting Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Animal World Terra Editions, 1997, No.232 of 1500, in slipcase, signed and numbered by the photographer; additional signed photograph inside slipcase lid; luxurious faux animal skin binding, gilt. VF

Manchester Cinema Programmes 1950s to 1990s, good selection including suburban cinemas

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Manchester Cinema Programmes 1950s to 1990s, good selection including suburban cinemas of the 1950s & 1960s (15); also Manchester Entertainments Guide for Autumn 1970. (44)    

Signed 10 x 8” colour photos of contemporary glamour clelebrities including Avril Levigne, Kate Beckinsale,

Lot: 103

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Signed 10 x 8” colour photos of contemporary glamour clelebrities including Avril Levigne, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Love Hewitt (3), Rose McGowan (b/w, nude), Natasha Henstridge, and Elisha Cuthbert. All with Certificates of Authenticity. (10) 

Manchester Theatre Programmes 1886-1984, mostly pictorial covers, including the New Theatre 1913, Ardwick Empire 1934

Lot: 104

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Manchester Theatre Programmes 1886-1984, mostly pictorial covers, including the New Theatre 1913, Ardwick Empire 1934 (Gracie Fields), the Hippodrome 1930-46 (7), Openshaw Metrople 1937, The Palace 1930s (5) and 1968 (Morecambe & Wise), the Prince’s 1886 & 1923, Hulme Hippodrome 1940-53 (3), Salford Hippodrome (2), etc. Also 1951 Free Trade Hall souvenir programme for re-opening. (39)

Selection of 1920s & 1930s Prize Bindings, full (2), half (3) or quarter blue calf and gilt,

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Selection of 1920s & 1930s Prize Bindings, full (2), half (3) or quarter blue calf and gilt, all with coats of arms to front cover; including The Forsyte Saga, The Wonders of Salvage, Lord Jim, and Reeves The Long White Cloud. (8)

"Cosmopolitan" magazine (UK editions) March 1972 (Issue No.1) to October 1972 complete,

Lot: 106

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Cosmopolitan magazine (UK editions) March 1972 (Issue No.1) to October 1972 complete, plus December 1972 and February 1973; April 1972 with nude centrefold of Paul du Feau. (10)

[Plutarch and Juvenal] Plutarchi Chaeronensis "Quomodo Juveni Audienda sint Poemata" 1694, 105pp,

Lot: 107

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  • Est: £50 - £70
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[Plutarch and Juvenal] Plutarchi Chaeronensis Quomodo Juveni Audienda sint Poemata 1694, 105pp, bound with Basilii Magni Oratio ad Juvenes Quomodo cum Fructu Possint Graecorum Libros, 41pp; to which is appended A Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theatre in Oxford, 14pp. Greek text with Latin translation and footnotes by Hugo Grotius. Oxford, 1694, octavo, disbound from a combined volume; engraved title and frontispiece; small corner fault to final leaf otherwise fine. 

William Congreve "A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer'd to the King On His Taking Namure" Jacob Tonson, London, 1695,

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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William Congreve A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer'd to the King On His Taking Namure Jacob Tonson, London, 1695, folio, untrimmed; title+11pp+publisher's list; title and publisher's list dust-affected; some tone marks; bound in 20th century boards with leather backstrip. (Wing 5871)

Andre Gide "Montaigne: An Essay in Two Parts" Blackmore Press, 1929, presentation copy signed by the author;

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £38
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Andre Gide Montaigne: An Essay in Two Parts Blackmore Press, 1929, presentation copy signed by the author; original gilt cloth, slight toning to endpapers o/w fine; signed on the limitation page. 128pp

John Dryden "The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition" Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue);

Lot: 110

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  • Est: £100 - £150
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John Dryden The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue); small quarto, disbound from a combined colume; [12] + 20pp. Title page dust-affected o/w VG. (Wing D2311)

John Smith "The Dark Side of Love" 1952, and "The Birth of Venus", both First Editions in d/jkts;

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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John Smith The Dark Side of Love 1952, and The Birth of Venus, both First Editions in d/jkts; slight wear to corners of dustjackets; both with the bookplate of Walter De La Mare. (2)

Diana White "The Descent of Ishtar" Eragny Press, 1903, small octavo, one of 226 printed;

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £100
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Diana White The Descent of Ishtar, Eragny Press, 1903, small octavo, one of 226 printed; original patterned paper covered boards & title label, VG; red & black lettering on handmade paper, uncut; woodcut frontispiece designed by Diana White, the ornate double border and initials by Lucien Pissarro, engraved by Esther Pissarro; browning to endpapers o/w fine internally. 32pp

Thomas Brown "The Late Converts Exposed: or the Reasons of Mr. Bays's Changing his Religion.

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £66
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Thomas Brown The Late Converts Exposed: or the Reasons of Mr. Bays’s Changing his Religion. Considered in a Dialogue. Part the Second. With Reflections on the Life of St. Xavier, Don Sebastian King of Portugal, as also The Fable of the Bat and the Birds” Thomas Bennet, London, 1690, small 4to, uncut at foot; disbound from a combined volume, [16], 60pp; few scattered tone marks; very good. (Wing B5061)

John Dryden "Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., An Historical Poem.

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £180 - £220
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John Dryden Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., An Historical Poem. Also a Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Late Sacred Majestey Charles the Second. Likewise a Panegyrick on His Cononation. Together With a Poem to My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day. 1662. Henry Herringman and Jacob Tonson, London, 1688. Small 4to, stitch bound in wraps, [20], 116pp, each poem with its own title page. The initial title page dust-affected and small ink-mark at foot o/w VG. (Wing 2240)

[Charles Dickens and Edward Caswall] "Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples"

Lot: 115

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £250
SOLD £240
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[Charles Dickens and Edward Caswall] Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples Chapman & Hall, 1843, small octavo, original gilt cloth, a.e.g., VG; 18 engraved plates by Phiz (17 tissue-guarded) of which ten show some spotting.  

Richard Morris (Ed.) "The Story of Genesis and Exodus, an Early English Song. About A.D. 1250"

Lot: 116

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Richard Morris (Ed.) The Story of Genesis and Exodus, an Early English Song. About A.D. 1250 Trubner & Co, 1865; bound with Walter Skeat (Ed.) The Romans of Partenay, 1866; full panelled calf, gilt, worn at periphery, rear board detached; bookplate of Anthony Trollope; fine internally

Arthur Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld "Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened: consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Arthur Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened: consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, London, 1826, 14th Edn, set of four small volumes, full grained green morocco, red title labels, gilt, Vol.1 with small piece of backstrip missing. Few light pencil annotations o/w very good internally.  (4)

George Bernard Shaw "Saint Joan" Constable 1924, first edition, signed by Sybil Thorndike

Lot: 118

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan Constable 1924, first edition, signed by Sybil Thorndike on the front endpaper; orig.cloth, gilt, VG; endpapers browned. (Bernard Shaw wrote Saint Joan especially for Sybil Thorndike who went on to play the title role with great success on stage and in a short film adaptation of 1927.)

Virginia Woolf "Mrs Dalloway" Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1925, First Edition in dustjacket;

Lot: 119

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1925, First Edition in dustjacket; the rare first state dustjacket, now in three pieces, is chipped & worn with the lower half of the spine largely missing but is still worthy of professional repair; the cloth-covered boards and title label are sound though the spine is somewhat faded; the text block is uncut on 2 sides with some spotting which has also strayed on to pages 286 to 288.          

Robert Boyle "Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H. Scriptures" Henry Herringman, London, 1663, [2nd Edn],

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Robert Boyle Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H. Scriptures Henry Herringman, London, 1663, [2nd Edn], octavo, worn leather, rebacked with gilt title, later endpapers, front board detached; spotting to title page. [42], 254pp.  [Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is better known as a celebrated experimental Scientist, a founding member of the Royal Society.]   (Wing 4026)