Lot: 61
Christopher Alisby Waffen-SS: The Unpublished Photographs 1923-1945, in d/jkt; When all our brothers are silent: the Book of Photographs of the Waffen-SS, 1988, in d/jkt; and related titles, mostly concerning Germany in WW2. Good/VF (8)
Lot: 62
Homer Croy Trigger Marshal: The Story of Chris Madsen, 1958, in d/jkt; Leon Metz Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshal, 1979, in d/jkt; Glenn Shirley Guardian of the Law, 1988, in djkt; and other biography including seven additional Western Frontier subjects. Good to VF (15)
Lot: 63
John Watson The History and Antiquities of The Parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire, T. Lowndes, 1775, quarto, full calf, rebacked with gilt title label & raised bands, and new endpapers; title page has signature cut away at top; complete with 10 plates (4 folding); some light browning, largely confined to margins.
Lot: 64
Brassey and Leyland (Eds.) The Naval Annual 1919, William Clowes, 1919, tall octavo, orig.gilt cloth, good; endpapers browned o/w fine internally with all photo-plates, diagrams, and adverts at rear.
Lot: 65
Letters of General C.G. Gordon to his sister M.A. Gordon, Macmillan, 1888, original gilt cloth, VG; cut signature of General Gordon laid down at top of half-title, additionally signed by his sister at top of title page; related newscuttings affixed to rear of front endpaper and rear of half-title; title page browned; some inked annotations by M.A. Gordon, and literary extracts tipped in.
Lot: 66
J. Horsfall Turner Halifax Books and Authors, 1906; Claridge Origin and History of Bradford Grammar School, 1882; Prehistoric Remains in Barkisland, Longbotham, [1933]; Sedbergh School Record of War Service 1914-1918, 1925, full vellum, gilt; and other Yorkshire local history; all h/bks, two in d/jkt. Fair to VF (10)
Lot: 67
Jack DeMattos Mysterious Gunfighter, 1992; C. & M. Parsons Bowen and Hardin, 1991; Castel & Goodrich Bloody Bill Anderson, 1998; all fine 1st Editions in d/jkt; plus a related title. VG/VF (4)
Lot: 68
John Harland The Lancashire Lieutenancy of the Tudors and Stuarts, Chetham Soc., 1859, 2 Vols, the plates affected by foxing; Abraham Stansfield Poems, Sonnets & Translations, 1903, 1st Edn, b/w frontispiece, VG; Frederick Overend History of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Bacup, 1912, VG, 19 plates, presentation bookplate of 1948 signed by the Pastor & four others;and other local history, chiefly Lancashire. Fair to Fine. (15)
Lot: 69
Theodore Armstrong The Hazel Grove Industrial & Equitable Co-Operative Society Ltd 1860-1910: An Historical Sketch, CWS, Manchester, 1910; small octavo, original gilt cloth, spine faded; light browning to endpapers o/w fine internally; 64pp including 11 full-page photo-plates. Scarce
Lot: 70
Thomas W. Thompson The Spen Valley: A Local History, Heckmondwike, 1925, small octavo, printed cloth, a.e.g., VG, bound by Clifford Peel of Heckmondwike; previous owners’ labels front pastedown. No.23 of 100 issued, numbered and signed by the author on limitation page; light browning to endpapers with few other pages showing fox marks; largely fine internally. 355pp + 31 half-tone plates.
Lot: 71
John Sugden Slaithwaite Notes of the Past and Present, John Heywood, 1905, First Edn., original printed cloth, VG; ownership signatures to front pastedown; fine internally; xvi,220pp, 10 plates.
Lot: 72
John Holt Occasional Verses, Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo, original gilt cloth, fine; a selection of verses written during the 1870s to 1890s, mostly in Lancashire Dialect. B/w portrait. 75pp + prelims. Rare title. A single copy held at the Bodleian library.
Lot: 73
The Barbadian Diary of Gen. Robert Haynes 1787-1836, edited M.W. Cracknell, 1934, 1st Edn, published by The Azania Press, Medstead, Hampshire; octavo, original cloth, gilt, boards slightly bowed o/w VG; 70pp + 6 half-tone plates. [Robert Haynes, born in Barbados in 1769, became a plantation estate owner, and was a member of the House of Assembly during the time the diary was written]
Lot: 74
A.Stanley Carruthers & R.C. Reid Records of the Carruthers Family , Elliot Stock, 1934, quarto, original gilt cloth, slightly chipped at foot of spine o/w fine; includes Subscribers List and 23pp of Genealogical Charts. 198pp. Pages for Notes at rear. Some typed biographical notes by J.E. Carruthers loosely inserted.
Lot: 75
Veronica Fiorata, et al: Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton, AD 1461, Oxbow Books, 2000, large format h/bk, 277pp; and 6 others on British Archaeological sites 1948 to 1998, good to VF (7)
Lot: 76
The Park School Glasgow 1880-1930, W.Hodge, 1930; Merchiston Castle School 1855-58, Maclehose, 1915; Merchiston Castle School Roll of Honour 1939-1945, Pillans, 1948; Merchiston Castle School Unveiling and Dedication of War Memorial, 1948; The Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850, Williams, 1863; and other school history; all h/bk, a few in d/jkt, good to VF (16)
Lot: 77
Domesday Book Studies: Sussex 1987-88, and Domesday: Surrey, 1987-90, each in 3 volumes, the latter lacking the large folding county map. (6) Fine
Lot: 78
Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, bound volumes for 1930 to 1936, 1938, 1939, 1950 and 1951; uniform gilt cloth, fine. (11)
Lot: 79
John Stabb Some Old Devon Churches, Simpkin Marshall 1911-1916, 3 volumes, octavo, original gilt cloth, spines a little faded, complete with 500 photo-plates; college library handstamps to front endpapers; endpapers browned o/w fine internally. (3)
Lot: 80
These Were the Vaqueros: Collected Works of Arnold R. Rojas, 1975, in d/jkt; Harold Preece The Dalton Gang, 1963, in d/jkt; and 4 related Wild West histories. VG/VF (6)