Trafford Books

Auction No 370, Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST

295 Lots (displaying 201 - 220)

Michael Herbert "Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester's Black Boxing Hero and Communist"

Lot: 201

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Michael Herbert Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester’s Black Boxing Hero and Communist, Dropped Aitches Press, 1992, A5 s/bk, 123pp; and Fred Deakin Peerless Jim Driscoll, Crescendo Publications, 1987, A5 s/b in d/jkt, 100pp. Fine. (2)

Jack Hare "Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels", Willsons, Nottingham, [1925]

Lot: 202

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Jack Hare Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels, Willsons, Nottingham, [1925], octavo, pictorial boards, spine darkened, good; browning to b/w frontispiece and rear endpaper o/w fine internally; 304pp including photo-plates. 

[Sir Richard Clayton] "A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them"

Lot: 203

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £36
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[Sir Richard Clayton] A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them, T. Godsden, 1825, 2nd Edn, small octavo, contemp. half-leather gilt, over marbled boards, VG; first few pages including frontispiece & title page with some light damp-staining at the fore-edge o/w VG internally; uncut two sides; related newscutting on front pastedown; previous owners’ signatures, one dated 1884, the other of C. Ward-Jackson MP, Boer War & WWI veteran; pp.xiii,122. 

Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray "Three Tears for Glasgow", 1990, signed by the author;

Lot: 204

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray Three Tears for Glasgow, 1990, signed by the author; Stan Shipley Bombardier Billy Wells, 1993; Alan Roderick Johnny! The Story of the Happy Warrior, 1990; Fred Deakin Tommy Farr, 1989; and others, all first editions, mainly VG/VF. (8)

Pierce Egan "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom"

Lot: 205

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
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Pierce Egan Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1822, tall octavo, First Edition, third issue (with footnote on p.9 and first sheet of music numbered); contemp. half-calf worn, backstrip repaired and chipped in places; bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown o/w VG internally; complete with half-title & adverts, 36 hand-coloured plates and 21 wood engravings plus an extra coloured plate with adverts; 3 leaves of folding sheet-music; browned offset from each plate on to the facing page. Occasional minor spotting affects some page margins. 

Geoffrey Gambado "Annals of Horsemanship, containing accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents"

Lot: 206

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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Geoffrey Gambado Annals of Horsemanship, containing accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, J. Murray, 1811, original boards with good title label, backstrip worn away, hingeing weak; uncut; fine internally with 17 engraved plates by W.H. Bunbury; frontisp., title, xvi, 95pp

Selection of Regimental Flags and Badges, chiefly Godfrey Phillips and Muratti but including R.J. Lea (5).

Lot: 207

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Selection of Regimental Flags and Badges, chiefly Godfrey Phillips and Muratti but including R.J. Lea (5). Mixed condition but many VG/VF (82)

Selection of Silks, mostly Godfrey Phillips, various sizes including Regimental Colours size G (6)

Lot: 208

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Selection of Silks, mostly Godfrey Phillips, various sizes including Regimental Colours size G (6), and many Flags. Better include Phillips’ Naval Badges of Rank (17). Mixed condition. (120+)

Album of 15 sets chiefly Wills 1920s/30s including "Cricketers 1928", "Mining", "Arms of Companies",

Lot: 209

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Album of 15 sets chiefly Wills 1920s/30s including Cricketers 1928, Mining, Arms of Companies, plus Player’s Butterflies, Carreras Alice in Wonderland (round corners), etc. A few stained but largely good to VF 

Ranges in album including Phillips "Old Masters" silks size P (7), the remainder in sets with Ogden "Children of All Nations"

Lot: 210

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £32
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Ranges in album including Phillips Old Masters silks size P (7), the remainder in sets with Ogden Children of All Nations, Player Game Birds and Wild Fowl, and Wills Famous British Authors. Mainly good to fine. (13 sets, plus silks)

Cigarette & Trade Card sets in 2 albums, including Gallaher "Racing Scenes"; Wills "Butterflies and Moths" and "Mining";

Lot: 211

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Cigarette & Trade Card sets in 2 albums, including Gallaher Racing Scenes; Wills Butterflies and Moths and Mining; Jibco Screen Stars 2nd series;  Player Cricketers 1934, Famous Beauties (L) and Countries’ Arms and Flags; Brooke Bond Freshwater Fish 1960; etc. (28 sets). Also some odds. Mainly good to VF

Cigarette and Trade Card sets in album including Player "Film Stars" 3rd series; Wills "Old Inns" 2nd series,

Lot: 212

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Cigarette and Trade Card sets in album including Player Film Stars 3rd series; Wills Old Inns 2nd series, Phillips Sportsmen - Spot the Winner, Film Stars and In the Public Eye (two poor); Carreras Alice in Wonderland (round corners) etc. Mainly good to VF (17 sets)

Godfrey Phillips "Old Masters" (silks), a selection of 65 different, plus 30 duplicates, size M,

Lot: 213

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Godfrey Phillips Old Masters (silks), a selection of 65 different, plus 30 duplicates, size M, mostly VG to fine. (95)

J. Wix & Sons "British Empire Flags" and "National Flags", duplicated collection with complete sets

Lot: 214

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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J. Wix & Sons British Empire Flags and National Flags, duplicated collection with complete sets and sundry odds. Some stuck down and some others damaged but the large majority are good to VF in plastic sleeves and loose. (331)

Largely pre-1940 subject and topographical mix, mostly British and French, with actresses, romance, comic,

Lot: 215

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £72
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Largely pre-1940 subject and topographical mix, mostly British and French, with actresses, romance, comic, topographical art, assorted topography & social history, etc. Mainly good to VF (approx.600)

 

Latin America and few Caribbean views and ethnology with uncommon locations including Antigua, Nicaragua,

Lot: 216

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Latin America and few Caribbean views and ethnology with uncommon locations including Antigua, Nicaragua, British and French Guiana, Porto Rico, plus views of Chile, Brazil & Uruguay, etc. Some PU. Mixed condition. (38)

Africa selection with good ethnology and with uncommon locations, some PU; includes Senegal, Ruanda, Togo

Lot: 217

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £64
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Africa selection with good ethnology and with uncommon locations, some PU; includes Senegal, Ruanda, Togo, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Mozambique, French Soudan, St. Helena, Liberia, and others. Fair-VF (40)

Selection including RP of native women of Tanana, Alaska, 1913, Indian woman of British Columbia,

Lot: 218

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Selection including RP of native women of Tanana, Alaska, 1913, Indian woman of British Columbia, and many other ethnology; coloured UK views by A.R.Quinton(3); and National Costumes of Croatia (6).  Fair to VF (34)

Egypt topography & ethnology, a collection of mainly Edwardian cards in album, several PU;

Lot: 219

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £34
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Egypt topography & ethnology, a collection of mainly Edwardian cards in album, several PU; 33 have small tape marks in one corner. Includes few neighbouring countries. Also 2 modern. (72). Some postmark interest. Poor to VF

                        

Camel Cigarette advertising, all comic types, modern, British and Foreign, a collection of 60 different. VF

Lot: 220

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Camel Cigarette advertising, all comic types, modern, British and Foreign, a collection of 60 different. VF (60)