Lot: 105
W.H. Roberts The British Wine-Maker and Domestic Brewer, A. & C.Black, 1849, 5th Edn, small octavo, original blind-tooled and gilt cloth relaid with new endpapers, sporadic light spotting/browning affects some pages; xv,384,16pp.
Lot: 106
Martin Munkacsi Nudes by Munkacsi, Greenberg, New York, 1951, large format h/bk, original cloth with silver lettering, VG; 79pp of b/w photographic studies.
Lot: 107
Ladybird Books 1950s to 1970s, a collection in varied condition, many fine, a few with d/jkts; includes Smoke and Fluff early printing in d/jkt without ‘Ladybird’ imprint, and other better. Also 2 spare d/jks. Mixed condition. (87 + 2 d/jkts)
Lot: 108
Edward Larocque Tinker and Frances Tinker Old New Orleans: Widows Only, the Sixties, D. Appleton, 1931, First Edition, signed & inscribed by the authors; original cloth with pictorial onlay; illustrated endpapers. VG
Lot: 109
A.S.W. Rosenbach Early American Children's Books, Southworth Press, 1933, quarto, quarter-leather, gilt, over pictorial boards, fine in slightly worn slipcase; No.162 of 585, signed by the author.
Lot: 110
Ezra Pound Canzoni, Elkin Matthews, 1911, brown printed boards, gilt, author’s name on front cover, slight wear to top and tail of spine, uncut, 4pp of adverts at rear. Fine internally.
Lot: 111
Henry Carey The Dramatick Works of Henry Carey, S. Gilbert, 1743, first collected edition, later full leather, ex-library; title and dedication pages heavily foxed, some spotting and peripheral browning elsewhere; pp.187/188 missing; some other pages repaired. Offered “as found”.
Lot: 112
A Selection published from 1652 to 1914 including The Diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, 1784; Lettres Choisies du Si. De Balzac, 1652; and A Hundred Mery Talys, John Russell Smith, 1866. Fair to VG (6)
Lot: 113
Antiquarian selection requiring rebinding, all with text complete, including The Compleat Parish-Officer, 1734; Refranes o Proverbios Espanoles Traduzidos en lengua Francesa. Paris, 1605; The Works of Mr.Alexander Pope, 1720. Mixed condition. (6)
Lot: 114
Charles Perrault La Barbe Bleue, et La Belle au Bois Dormant, illustrated by Edouard de Beaumont, Paris, 1887, folio, worn half-leather, chromo-litho illustrations throughout and very good internally.
Lot: 115
Thomas James Wise A Bibliography of the Writings in Verse and Prose of George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron, London, 1933, quarto, 2 Vols, original gilt cloth, VG; one of 180 sets printed; uncut two sides, t.e.g.; each with a frontisp, plus 96 plates in total; endpapers and some pages of text foxed. (2)
Lot: 116
Tobias Smollett Peregrine Pickle, 1778, 6th Edition, 4 Volumes, full calf, rebacked and new endpapers; each volume with engraved frontisp; title pages and frontispieces browned o/w VG. (4)
Lot: 117
Theatre De Pigault-Lebrun, Barba, Paris, 1818, set of 6 volumes, half-calf, gilt, slight wear at extremities, marbled boards; original owner’s bookplates; slight foxing to prelims o/w VG. (6)
Lot: 118
Jean Boucher Sermons De La Simulee Conversion, Et Nullite Pretendue Absolution De Henry de Bourbon, Prince de Bearn, a S.Denys en France, le Dimenche 25, Iuillet, 1593, G. Chaudiere, Paris, 1594; 12mo, later full calf, gilt, raised bands, few peripheral scuffs, front hinge weak; previous owners’ bookplates; collated as complete. Fine internally.
Lot: 119
Isabelle de Montolieu Les Chateaux Suisses, Paris, 1835, 3 Vols, full mottled calf, gilt, each with frontisp., foxing to title pages o/w VG; Samuel Horsley Tracts in Controversy with Dr.Priestley, Gloucester, 1799, full speckled calf, gilt, some wear; and 6 other antiquarian books in varied condition. (10)
Lot: 120
[Charles Gildon] The Post-Boy Robb'd of His Mail: or The Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of Letters of Love and Gallantry, and All Miscellaneous Subjects, John Sprint, London, 1706, 2nd Edn; octavo, contemp. leather, worn, boards detached; title page loose and dust-affected; last 28pp damp-stained.
Lot: 121
George Grosz A Post-War Museum, Faber 1931, printed wraps, plus other literary pamphlets, Aerial Poems (2) and other private press, many topographical engravings of North West England, 18th Century tragedies (disbound) by various playwrights, etc. Good to VF (Qty, in carton)
Lot: 122
May Byron J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell, quarto, pictorial cloth, good, ownership panel with names crossed out o/w VG internally; 12 fine coloured plates.
Lot: 123
Francis Durbridge selection including Samuel French plays 1973-93 complete (all 1sts, fine), Paul Temple Library (4, corner creasing), The World of Tim Frazer 1962 1st Edn in d/jkt, etc. Varied condition. (18)
Lot: 124
Leslie Charteris Saint novels 1947-75, Hodder & Stoughton h/bks in d/jkt, plus two p/bks; eight are First Editions in d/jkts including The Saint Returns 1969, The Saint’s Choice 1967, The Saint to the Rescue 1961, and Catch the Saint 1975. Most d/jkts are good to fine & not price-clipped; none are ex-library, and none have inscriptions. (17)