Lot: 81
Brissonius Barnabae Brissonii regii consistorii consiliarii, amplissimique senatus Parisiensis praesidis, De Formulis Et Sollemnibus Populi Romani verbis, Librii VIII. (Eight books in one). Frankfurt, 1592, quarto, old leather binding, recased & rebacked, new endpapers, library blindstamp top of title page. Browning to some leaves. A collection of Roman laws & treatises. (8),750,(84)pp
Lot: 82
Marcus Eremitas (5th Cent.AD) Marci Eremitae, Nicolai, Hesychii Presbyteri, opera quae extant, G. Morel, Paris, 1563; old calf binding with gilt monogram BD to each corner, rebacked; Greek text. (4),299pp; together with William Hawney The Complete Measurer, 1769, requiring rebinding. (2)
Lot: 83
[Horace Walpole] The Castle of Otranto, J. Dodsley, 1782, fourth edition, old worn calf binding, boards detached, pp.113/114 damaged & repaired (no loss of text) o/w VG internally; xxiv,200pp
Lot: 84
Rev. John Brown Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible, Edward Slater, Bradford, [1872]; elaborate blind-tooled & gilt leather, brass edges & clasps; inner hinges cracked o/w fine internally. Colour litho frontispiece and tissue-guarded plates, further b/w illustrations in text.
Lot: 85
Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse, Hogarth Press, 1927, First Edition, orig. blue cloth, gilt, light wear to spine extremities, slightly marked, variable foxing to first 12 leaves, occasional spotting elsewhere; together with Mrs Dalloway, Sept.1925, second edition in the original brown cloth, VG. Both vols with ownership signature to front endpaper. (2) [Offered on behalf of Englesea Brook Museum.]
Lot: 86
UK First Editions in d/jkts including Peter Tinniswood A Touch of Daniel, 1968; James Hanley A Walk in the Wilderness, 1950; Alain Robbe-Grillet The Erasers, 1966; and various others. Also four reprints (one without d/jkt) including Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek, Cassirer, 1959. Seven have ownership signatures. (29) [Offered on behalf of Englesea Brook Museum.]
Lot: 87
Children's Books including The Milkmaid, Walter Scott, c.1886; Maria Bird Nursery Rhymes for Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, and Joy Laurey Mr Turnip flies round the World, both novelty ‘Twirly Books'; four Marvel Annuals 1976-79; and two others. Five with an ownership inscription or handstamp. Also a pamphlet signed by Robert Graves but in poor condition. (10) [Offered on behalf of Englesea Brook Museum.]
Lot: 88
Children's Books, mostly illustrated, a few with ownership inscriptions, mainly VG/VF. (60)
Lot: 89
Children's Books including works by Alison Uttley (25) and other popular authors. Mostly illustrated works, a few with ownership inscriptions. Mainly VG/VF (62)
Lot: 90
Children's Books including works by Roald Dahl (12), J.P. Martin (3), Rosemary Sutcliff and other popular authors. Some with ownership inscriptions. Mainly VG/VF (49)
Lot: 91
Children's Annuals, mostly 1970s/80s, with several Rupert Bear titles, a few with ownership inscriptions. VG/VF (37)
Lot: 92
Enid Blyton selection including The River of Adventure 1955, 1st Edn. in VG d/jkt; Five on a Secret Trail, 1956, 1st Edn. in VG d/jkt; Five Go To Demon's Rocks, 1961, in near fine d/jkt; various Mystery and Noddy books, etc. Fair to fine, some with ownership inscriptions. (33)
Lot: 93
A selection of Pop-Up books, plus some lift-flap types & other ‘mechanical'. VG/VF (23)
Lot: 94
Elizabeth Gordon Billy Bunny's Fortune, 1936; Helen Vanderveer Little Slam Bang, 1928; and Lang Campbell The Dinky Ducklings, 1928; all Algonquin Publishing Co., minor pencil marks to endpapers of Billy Bunny's Fortune o/w very clean internally, no inscriptions. (3)
Lot: 95
Helen Bannerman The Story of Little Black Mingo, James Nisbet [1901], and The Story of Little Black Sambo, Chatto & Windus, 1911; Mingo with a vertical crease to first 13 leaves; Sambo with neat ownership signature to front endpaper. (2)
Lot: 96
Chatterbox annuals for 1883, 1884, 1890, 1892, 1898, 1901, 1903 (2) and 1905 (2), various bindings, all with the coloured plates, the 1890 and 1901 volumes each have a page badly torn (the plates unaffected). (10) [Offered on behalf of The National Trust ]
Lot: 97
Boy's Own Annual for 1881/82, 1882/83, 1888/89, and 1889/90, half-leather, gilt, some wear, all with the coloured plates; 1889/90 volume with one coloured plate and one b/w plate damaged. (4) [Offered om behalf of The National Trust.]
Lot: 98
Boy's Own Annual for 1891/92, 1894/95. 1895/96, 1896/97, and 1899/1900, leather or cloth bindings, good to fine, coloured plates; three of the vols with a folding plate damaged. (5) [Offered on behalf of The National Trust.]
Lot: 99
Anatole France Penguin Island, illustrated by Frank Pape, Bodley Head, 1925, gilt cloth, VG; and David Day A Tolkien Bestiary, 1979, in slightly frayed d/jkt. (2)
Lot: 100
J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, George Allen & Unwin, 1957, the three volume set, in gilt cloth bindings, complete with price-clipped d/jackets, Fellowship of the Ring the seventh impression in eighth impression d/jacket, The Two Towers fifth impression in fifth impression d/jacket, The Return of the King fourth impression in fifth impression d/jacket. The jackets show some minor peripheral wear but are o/w in very good condition. The maps are intact, the map of Fellowship of the Ring detached and strengthened along the folds with cloth strips. Very clean internally, no inscriptions. A very good set. (3)