Trafford Books

Auction No 372, Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT

246 Lots (displaying 121 - 140)

Georges Carpentier "Brothers of the Brown Owl: A Story of the Boxing Ring", Cassell & Co [1921], original pictorial cloth, VG;

Lot: 121

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Georges Carpentier Brothers of the Brown Owl: A Story of the Boxing Ring, Cassell & Co [1921], original pictorial cloth, VG; contemp. gift inscription; 4 colour plates, plus b/w illustrations; occasional minor tone mark. 

Antoine Edouard Foley "Eki Tou-Mata Ouengha, Père et Dieu des Cruels Humains", Paris, 1874, contemp. half-calf, gilt, VG;

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £62
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Antoine Edouard Foley Eki Tou-Mata Ouengha, Père et Dieu des Cruels Humains, Paris, 1874, contemp. half-calf, gilt, VG; bookplate of Lord Houghton of Crewe; pictorial title page; fine text; 148pp. [A semi-fictional work based on Maori myths and legends of the Banks Peninsula, New Zealand]

"A Short Account of John Marriott, including Extracts from some of his Letters. To which are added, some of his Poetical Productions"

Lot: 123

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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A Short Account of John Marriott, including Extracts from some of his Letters. To which are added, some of his Poetical Productions. D. Boys, Doncaster, 1803, 12mo, contemporary tree-calf, some light wear, gilt title; contemp. ownership signature; fine internally, [8],194,[2]pp

Elinor Brent-Dyer "Joey Goes to the Oberland", Chambers 1954, "The Chalet School Does it Again", Chambers 1955

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Elinor Brent-Dyer Joey Goes to the Oberland, Chambers 1954, The Chalet School Does it Again, Chambers 1955, and Joey and Co. in Tirol, Chambers 1960, all First Editions, and ten similar works including three first editions; all original cloth, lacking d/jkts; two poor, others fair to fine. (13)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising "Shocks for the Chalet School", 1952;

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising Shocks for the Chalet School, 1952; A Future Chalet School Girl, 1962; Theodora and the Chalet School, 1959 (spine faded), and A Problem for the Chalet School,1956 (prize bookplate, text browned throughout). Original cloth, lacking d/jkts; fair to fine. (4)   

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including "Changes for the Chalet School", 1953, 1st Edn, VG;

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £32
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including Changes for the Chalet School, 1953, 1st Edn, VG; Bride Leads the Chalet School, 1955, browning to text; Jo to the Rescue 1951 (front panel of d/jkt laid down on front cover); Summer Term at the Chalet School, 1965 (spine faded); and 7 others in mixed condition including three Firsts. Poor to VG. (11)

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including "The Chalet School in Oberland", Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £50
SOLD £46
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including The Chalet School in Oberland, Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt, recased with new endpapers; The Wrong Chalet School 1958, in VG complete d/jkt; Trials for the Chalet School 1959, First Edn, in poor (& repaired) d/jkt; A Problem for the Chalet School 1956, First Edn., in fair d/jkt (tape stains to flaps, text browned); and two others in d/jkts. Mixed condition. (6)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising "Ruey Richardson – Chaletian" [1960]; "The Chalet School Triplets"

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £74
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising Ruey Richardson – Chaletian [1960]; The Chalet School Triplets [1963], ex-library; The Chalet School Reunion, 1963; Jane and the Chalet School, 1964 (d/jkt with peripheral creasing); Adrienne and the Chalet School 1965 (d/jkt chipped at tail of spine); Challenge for the Chalet School 1966 (d/jkt chipped at top & tail of spine); Althea Joins the Chalet School 1969 (price-clipped); and Prefects of the Chalet School 1970 (price-clipped). Last title with small inked number top of endpaper and Triplets with library markings o/w VG/F internally.(8)

Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2),

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £36
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Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2), plus some related girls’ fiction, Chalet Club publications, and spoof novels by Jackie Roberts & Merryn Williams. VG/VF (23). Also photocopies of Chalet Club News Letters

B.W. Matz (Ed.) "The Dickensian: A Magazine for Dickens Lovers", 1905, Issues 1 to 4, 6, 9 to 12;

Lot: 130

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £32
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B.W. Matz (Ed.) The Dickensian: A Magazine for Dickens Lovers, 1905, Issues 1 to 4, 6, 9 to 12; issues 10 & 11 with covers detached; plus Fred Kitton Phiz (Hablot K. Browne): A Memoir, 1882 (incomplete).

C. E. Heanley "The Granite Hills", 1920, Chapman & Hall, First Edn., original printed cloth,

Lot: 131

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £6
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C. E. Heanley The Granite Hills, 1920, Chapman & Hall, First Edn., original printed cloth, a little worn & discoloured; endpapers browned, small handstamp of Yealand Old School; clean text. A Charlotte Heanley novel set in Cornwall. 246pp

"The Young Ladies' Journal and Illustrated Magazine", complete for 1892 (12 issues), bound volume,

Lot: 132

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £26
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The Young Ladies' Journal and Illustrated Magazine, complete for 1892 (12 issues), bound volume, tall quarto, contemporary gilt cloth, near fine, many wood-engravings of fashions and accessories, plus advertisements, stories, etc. 464pp

"The Works of John Ruskin", George Allen, The Library Edition, 1903-1909, 37 (of 39) volumes

Lot: 133

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £500 - £600
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The Works of John Ruskin, George Allen, The Library Edition, 1903-1909, 37 (of 39) volumes, edited by Cook and Wedderburn; original red cloth, gilt, spines sunned o/w VG with all plates and clean interiors; uncut two sides. Lacks volumes 38 & 39 which were issued in 1911/12. 

"Malcolm Poynter - [Artworks]", 1981, No. 17 of 250, signed & numbered by the artist

Lot: 134

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £110
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Malcolm Poynter – [Artworks], 1981, No. 17 of 250, signed & numbered by the artist, octavo, blue cloth, gilt, VF; reproductions of his drawings and installations, comprising 102pp, mostly b/w (with many hand-tinted) but including a selection of actual photographs in colour. 

W. von Seidlitz "Geschichte des Japanischen Farbenholzschnitts", Dresden, 1910, quarto,

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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W. von Seidlitz Geschichte des Japanischen Farbenholzschnitts, Dresden, 1910, quarto, black and red morocco, gilt, VG; fine internally with colour & b/w plates, further b/w illustrations in text; 228pp

R.W. Billings "Architectural Illustrations and Description of Kettering Church, Northamptonshire", Atchley & Co, 1869,

Lot: 136

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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R.W. Billings Architectural Illustrations and Description of Kettering Church, Northamptonshire, Atchley & Co, 1869, tall 4to, rebacked in leather, gilt, new endpapers, 20 fine engraved plates, interleaved; and Catherine Beale Memorials of the Old Meeting House and Burial Ground, Birmingham, 1882, tall 4to, orig.gilt cloth, some wear, all plates and diagrams but 2 plates loose. (2)

G.F. Handel "The Messiah", Novello, 1902, quarto, orig. cloth, autographed by musicians of the 1930s & 1940s

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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G.F. Handel The Messiah, Novello, 1902, quarto, orig. cloth, autographed by musicians of the 1930s & 1940s on the first few pages, including Isobel Baillie, Bessie Collins, Malcolm Sargent, Kathleen Ferrier, Margaret Collier, Heddle Nash, Norman Allin and Robert Easton. Internal binding weak o/w VG.    

Paul Dunbar "Les Aventures de Staline", Cirque Divers, 1980, large format s/back,

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Paul Dunbar Les Aventures de Staline, Cirque Divers, 1980, large format s/back, creasing to top right corner o/w VG; a graphic novel; no internal inscriptions. One of 1000 printed. 58pp

G. Bowers "Leaves from a Hunting Journal", Chatto & Windus, 1880, oblong quarto, pictorial boards, good,

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £18
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G. Bowers Leaves from a Hunting Journal, Chatto & Windus, 1880, oblong quarto, pictorial boards, good, foxing to endpapers and title page, a few foxmarks elsewhere, 20 coloured plates; and Finch Mason Country Sketches, A.H. Baily, c.1881, oblong quarto, pictorial boards chipped at corners, 20pp of b/w cartoons. (2)          

"Journal Des Dames et Des Modes", Paris, January to March 1808, eighteen issues complete

Lot: 140

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Journal Des Dames et Des Modes, Paris, January to March 1808, eighteen issues complete, with 21 attractive hand-coloured fashion-plates; loosely bound together in a contemp. worn card cover.