Lot: 21
Raymond Richards Old Cheshire Churches, Morten, 1973, revised edition in d/jkt, complete with folding map, 905pp; and other local history, mostly Lancashire & Cheshire including Banks The Manchester Man, 1896. Mixed condition. (18)
Lot: 22
The Trial of German War Criminals by the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremburg, Germany, H.M.S.O., London, 1946; full set of 24 volumes, softbacks, including Opening Speeches and Verdict; two in original printed wraps, others with replacement plain wraps; ownership signatures, good condition. Also Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3rd 1939, and a related document; together with six odd volumes of The Trial of German War Criminals in the original gilt cloth bindings, one in d/jkt in slipcase, others in poor condition. (32)
Lot: 23
Adam Sharpe (and others) St.Just: An Archaeological Survey of The Mining District, Truro, 1992, 2 volumes, A4 softbacks, VG/Fine. (2)
Lot: 24
Catherine Lorigan Delabole: The History of the Slate Quarry and The Making of its Village Community, 2007; Brown & Acton Exploring Cornish Mines, 1996-2001, 5 volumes; Bob Acton Exploring Cornwall's Tramway Trails, 2000-2001, 2nd Edn, 2 vols; and other Cornish history, all softbacks, mostly Industrial especially Tin Mining. No ownership inscriptions. VG/VF (89)
Lot: 25
J. Ewing Ritchie The Life and Times of the Right Honble. William Ewart Gladstone, James Sangster [c.1900], pictorial edition in 6 vols; quarto, elaborate pictorial cloth, some wear to inner hinges; slight damp staining to the chromo-litho plates o/w fine internally. (6)
Lot: 26
Manor of Newcastle, Stafford: 1615 copy document of a legal Agreement fixing the Fee Farm Rents within the Manor, the final leaf largely torn away, comprising 11 full pages of text, 41 x 34cm, with a later outer cover, all stitched together upper left; peripheral faults with some marginal loss of text, browned throughout. Reference is made to this document in Ward's History of Stoke on Trent.
Lot: 27
The Firefly Jan-June 1916, 26 issues complete; and Playbox July 14th to Dec.29th 1931, 13 issues complete; both Amalgamated Press file copies, fine, in publisher's gilt cloth bindings.
Lot: 28
Film Fun Annual 1938, Amalgamated Press, pictorial boards worn at periphery, VG internally. 160pp
Lot: 29
Poems of Thomas Hood. Illustrated by Birket Foster, E. Moxon, 1872; quarto, orig. decorated cloth, gilt, worn at corners; 22 fine tissue-guarded engravings. VG
Lot: 30
Leonard C. Smithers (Ed.) The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour, H.S. Nichols, London 1893; tall octavo, large paper edition, one of 650 printed; three-quarter cloth over marbled boards, gilt leather title, minor wear; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere; some light spotting to prelims o/w fine internally, no inscriptions.VG
Lot: 31
Paul Dunbar Les Aventures de Staline, Cirque Divers, Liege, 1980, large format s/bk, card wraps, worn at periphery; a graphic novel style account of the life & career of Joseph Stalin. Fine internally. 56pp
Lot: 32
Winifred Wolfe (1923-81) Yesterday's Child, Hammond & Co, 1964, 1st UK Edition, gilt cloth in VG complete d/jkt (mylar protected); spotting to edge of text block o/w fine, no inscriptions.
Lot: 33
[Charles Benjamin Taylor, 1797-1875] A Fireside Book, or the Account of a Christmas Spent at Old Court, J.A. Hessey, London, 1828; first edition, sm.octavo, original boards, scuffed & marked, the later paper backstrip and title label fine; uncut; engraved frontispiece after George Cruikshank; small repair to corner of the Dramatis Personae leaf o/w VG internally, a few minor tone marks; no inscriptions; (3)229,(2)pp.
Lot: 34
Edward Waring A Letter to The Reverend Dr.Powell….In Answer to his Observations on the First Chapter of a book called Miscellanea Analytica, and his Defence of those Observations, Thurlbourn & Woodyer, Cambridge, 1760, 47pp plus plate; bound with [W.S. Powell] A Defence of the Observations on the First Chapter of a Book called Miscellanea Analytica, T. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 38pp; and [John Wilson] A Vindication of the Miscellanea Analytica: in Answer to a late Pamphlet entitled Observations, &c. T. & J. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 22pp plus blank leaf. Disbound, remains of leather backstrip. Good clean text, plate and title pages. (3)
Lot: 35
Ewan McColl Uranium 235: a Documentary Play, William MacLellan [1948], First Editon, pictorial boards, worn at corners, cloth spine with gilt titles, rear board a little grubby; previous owner's signature; good clean text & endpapers. 92pp
Lot: 36
Don Eugenio de Ochoa (Ed.) Tesoro de los Romanceros y Cancioneros, Caballerescos, Moriscos y Otros, Paris, 1838; octavo, full calf by Clyde, some wear; gilt title; front endpaper with ownership inscription; minor browning to text. Lacks frontispiece. 582pp
Lot: 37
Selection in fair to fine d/jkts, including Edna O'Brien Casualities of Peace 1966, 1st Edn., and August is a Wicked Month, 1967, both signed by the author, latter also with ownership signature; Richard Adams Watership Down, Rex Collins, 1976; Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, 1969, 1st Edn; W.H. Auden Thank You, Fog, Faber 1974, 1st Edn; and another. Most with ownership inscriptions. (6)
Lot: 38
[Daniel Defoe] Tracts and Pamphlets comprising A New Discovery of an Old Intreague: A Satyr levell'd at Treachery and Ambition; An Elegy on the Author of the True-born English Man; The Storm, An Essay; A Hymn to the Pillory; A Hymn to Victory; The Pacificator; The Double-Welcome: A Poem to the Duke of Marlborough; and The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge. London, c.1730; octavo, later quarter-leather over marbled boards; bound together with continuous pagination; lacks title and half-title. Commences at page 1. One gathering loose, some browning to text. 192pp. The final tract is not complete.
Lot: 39
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, trans. Charles Jarvis, S.A. & H. Oddy, London, 1809; 2 vols, half-morocco, gilt, some wear; complete with plates but lacking folding map, the plates foxed and few leaves of text heavily browned. Four leaves with pieces missing from the margin resulting in a single letter missing from page 9 of Vol.1 o/w text unaffected. (2)
Lot: 40
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1914], illustrated by Cecile Walton with 16 colour plates; orig.cloth with pictorial onlay, spine darkened; uncut two sides; title page with 7cm tear to inner margin requiring repair; browning to endpapers; a few minor fox marks to text but largely clean internally. Uninscribed.