Lot: 21
Chatterbox 1902 and volumes for 1903, 1904 and 1905, all in VG publisher's gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., complete with the coloured plates and numerous b/w illustrations. Foxing and pencil ownership inscriptions to endpapers o/w fine internally. The 1903 issue with one gathering a little loose. (4)
Lot: 22
Late-19th/early 20th Century children's & illustrated selection including Rosina Emmet Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1880; Hoffmann The English Struwwelpeter, Griffith, Farrar, Browne & Co; Walter Crane The Baby's Bouquet Routledge, text loose [1878]; The Motograph Moving Picture Book, Bliss, Sands & Co, complete with transparency device (text loose); Harry Payne Our Volunteers, Raphael Tuck; W. Heath Robinson Some Frightful War Pictures, Duckworth, 1915; and various others, plus a one later title. Mixed condition with worn and grubby covers but generally good internally. (14)
Lot: 23
Peter Cushing: a fine ink-signed photograph, PC size; handstamp on reverse of his London agent. Slight corner crease upper left.
Lot: 24
Signed vintage photographs of British entertainers, 6.5 x 4.5” or larger, comprising Vera-Ellen, Laraine Day, Alice Faye, Anna Neagle, Deborah Kerr, and Dinah Shore (adhesions on reverse). Three with some creasing. Fair to fine. (6)
Lot: 25
Gilbert & George: group of five ink-signed PPCs, the PPCs issued in connection with the Rudimentary Pictures exhibition held at the Milton Keynes Gallery. Fine (5)
Lot: 26
Danilo Eccher Gilbert & George, Charta, Milan, 1996, exhibition catalogue, large format s/bk, signed by the artists on half-title; bilingual English/Italian text, 225pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine
Lot: 27
Karl Eyth (compiler) "Das Farbige Malerbuch", E.A. Seemann, 1901, tall quarto, a collection of 93 (of 96) coloured plates, plus introductory pages, in the issued binding case, now opened on three sides; the plates represent a collection of inspirational ideas for interiors, many of an art nouveau flavour. VG
Lot: 28
M. Racinet Le Costume Historique, Firmin-Didot [1888], folio, original cloth, worn & marked; 95 of 100 full-page chromo-litho plates in good condition. Title page with spotting. All plates loose.
Lot: 29
The Graphic Gallery of Ancient and Modern Art, The Graphic, London, [c.1892]; folio, publisher's gilt cloth, VG; a bound volume of the Supplements issued from 1884 to 1892, illustrated throughout, mostly in b/w but including many in full colour, some plates folding. A few plates with faults but largely fine.
Lot: 30
M.A. Racinet L'Ornement Polychrome: Cent Planches en Couleurs or et Argent Contenant Environ 2,000 Motifs de Tous les Styles Art Ancien et Asiatique Moyen Age Renaissance, XVII et XVIII Siecle. Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, [1880], complete with 100 full-page chromo-litho coloured plates; folio, front board detached, lacking spine; title pages and the text with foxing, the superb plates fine.
Lot: 31
Fashion Plates, 1920s/1930s, hand-coloured, mostly illustrating ladies' hats, taken from Les Chapeaux des Grandes Modistes Parisiennes, or similar, image size 22.5 x 14.5cm or larger, a few creased but mostly fine. (178)
Lot: 32
Vogue Patterns, November 1953, Vogue Pattern Service, Greenwich, USA; folio, cloth bound with very worn pictorial onlay, corners bumped; section tabs at fore-edge well-thumbed; first page soiled o/w clean internally with many 100s of coloured illustrations; 14 pages damaged with large pieces cut away. Prices are in UK Sterling and Canadian Dollars. Approx 1000pp.
Lot: 33
Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten, Berlin, 1894, Volume VIII, folio, publisher's gilt cloth, worn at extremities o/w VG; many full-page plates, mainly in b/w, and other illustrations in text. Three plates torn.
Lot: 34
Die Reichswehr, Haus Neuerburg, Cologne 1933, set of 280 cigarette cards illustrating the development of the German Armed Forces, all laid down in the issued large-format album; the cards fine, the album with creasing to covers, chipped and worn at the corners.
Lot: 35
Peter Mooney Das Reich Tiger Commander SS-Hauptsturmer Philipp Theiss, 2020, 2nd Edn; and Jack Didden Autumn Gale, 2013; both h/bks, pictorial boards, profusely illustrated. VF (2)
Lot: 36
Greville Wynne The Man from Odessa, Robert Hale, 1981, 1st Edn, in a VG complete d/jkt; small ownership label to front pastedown. Fine internally. 255pp + photo-plates.
Lot: 37
J.A.R. (James A. Ross) Memoirs of an Army Surgeon, Blackwood, 1948; Blackmore British Military Firearms 1650-1850, Herbert Jenkins, 1961, in d/jkt; Fitzgerald History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War, Gale & Polden, 1949; Ion Ferguson Doctor at War, Christopher Johnson, 1955; and a related title; all first editions. Fair to fine. (5)
Lot: 38
Peter Smith The Battle of Midway, 1976; Chris Craig Call for Fire, 1995; James Leasor Boarding Party, 1978 (2 copies); and a selection of other naval history; all fine hardbacks in d/jkts, mylar-protected, largely first editions. (15)
Lot: 39
Anthony Smith The Fleet That Faced Both Ways, 1963; Stephen Roskill Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty, 1980; John Winton The Forgotten Fleet, 1969; Arnold Lott Brave Ship, Brave Men, 1986; and other naval history, all bar one in d/jkt, mylar protected, mostly fine and mostly first editions. (18)
Lot: 40
The Nelson Dispatch: Journal of the Nelson Society, 1985-2004, mainly 1990s/2000s, 42 issues (one with cover stained), and nine related monographs, two heavily duplicated. All A5 softbacks. Mainly fine. (100)