Lot: 1
Mix in carton with many softback publications, 19th Century portrait photographs (25), various PPCs, and assorted ephemera; the softbacks include maritime/naval themes, postal history interest, modern items including Star Wars sticker books, etc. (10 kilos).
Lot: 2
Sibford Magazine and Annual Reports, 1931-73, issued by the Quaker school at Sibford, Banbury. Few early issues in mixed condition but mostly VG/Fine. (45)
Lot: 3
F. Hackwood Staffordshire Worthies, 1911, gilt cloth; The History of the House of Stanley….to which is added a Complete History of the Isle of Man, 1821, nicely rebound in half-leather, five plates, few pages repaired, some loss of text; Bury related pamphlets (4) including Sanitary Inspector Reports for 1883, 1888 and 1895; brochure of 1885 concerning the proposed restoration of the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London, with hand-coloured plan; Lancashire bibliographies, etc. (13)
Lot: 4
Selection of Bookplates (11) from 1808, together with booksellers' and binders' tickets (21) and gramophone records tax labels (78). Varied condition.
Lot: 5
Recording Britain, Oxford, 1946-49, 4 vols, in d/jkts (spines of jackets poor); and various small books including Holland & Britain and Greece and Britain; About Britain Nos.1 to 9, Collins, 1951; King Penguins (5), and eight of the In Praise Of series, Frederick Muller 1949-59. Fair to VF. (32)
Lot: 6
Victorian Valentines, a selection of three unused examples, together with a related decorated envelope. All with elaborate applique. VG condition. Also unrelated items including WW2 National Savings Committee publicity leaflets (3), and a 1938 German PPC publicising the anti-semitic film Der Ewige Jude. (Qty)
Lot: 7
Selection of small tin boxes issued by Collectable Tins, mostly reproducing images from Carreras Amusing Tricks & How To Do Them cigarette cards, one lacking the base. VG (33)
Lot: 8
A post-WWI Photo Album with a collection of snapshot photos, mainly views of the South West of England and Isle of Wight, most with locations identified, one dated 1919. VG/VF (90)
Lot: 9
Country Life 1910/1911, 1912/1913, July-Dec.1915, and July-Oct. 1917, bound volumes, the 1912/13 volume lacking Feb. to April 1912, the 1915 & 1917 volumes with light damp staining (a few pages adhering at foot). Occasional colour plate. Gilt cloth. (4)
Lot: 10
Books & ephemera; including 1887 Sales Particulars for property in Broughton-in -Furness with two large folding Plans; T.C. Emmott An Outlaw in the Twentieth Century, Wycollar, c.1970; Poets of Merseyside Merton Press, 1923; various trade catalogues & handbooks including Highland Dress by Paisley's, 1952, and John Harvey's Wine List, 1952; Crosby Carnival Programme 1950; and various other items. Fair to VF. (over 5 kilos)
Lot: 11
Herge The Adventures of Tintin, Egmont, 2015, pictorial boards, fine boxed set of eight vols; The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Annotated Text, Faber, 2015, two vols, in d/jkts, fine, and various others. No inscriptions
Lot: 12
James Joyce Ulysses, Folio Society, 2017, illustrated by John Vernon Lord, restored text, first printing; and other Folio Society titles including Paul Auster The New York Trilogy, 2014. Fine, all in the slipcases. (5)
Lot: 13
W. Audry Troublesome Engines, 1967, and a collection of other Audry's railway engine titles with many reprints in pictorial boards. Mainly VG to fine. (41)
Lot: 14
Children's books by Dr.Seuss (26) and Roald Dahl (21), most with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts. Five with ownership inscriptions. Mostly VG/VF (47)
Lot: 15
Children's comic-strip books, chiefly Asterix titles, plus few Beano Annuals and similar. Eleven are h/bks. VG/VF (32)
Lot: 16
Children's Books by Alison Uttley (43, fourteen in d/jkts), and Jill Barklem's ‘Brambly Hedge' series (14, nine in d/jkts). Mostly VG/VF (57)
Lot: 17
Beatrix Potter selection, 1940s/60s, all with pictorial onlay to front boards, six in d/jkts, good to fine; together with a modern pop-up and a Complete Tales in d/jkt. (17)
Lot: 18
Rupert Bear annuals (22) from 1970, VG/Fine, and seven 1930s/50s children's annuals with some peripheral wear to the boards. (29).
Lot: 19
Illustrated Children's Books, mostly 1970s/1990s with a few 1930s, the majority with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts. Some with ownership inscriptions. Mainly good to VF. (72)
Lot: 20
Children's Fiction 1900s to 1990s, including Helen Bannerman The Story of Little Black Sambo, 1911; many illustrated including Arthur Rackham (7, modern reprints). Some with ownership inscriptions. (34)