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Auction No 403, Category: Books

52 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Assorted literature, history & others from early 18th Century to 1970s (mostly pre-1940) with some illustrated works, 14 in full or half-leather.

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Assorted literature, history & others from early 18th Century to 1970s (mostly pre-1940) with some illustrated works, 14 in full or half-leather. Mixed condition. (43)

A miscellany including "The Father of the Red Triangle, YMCA", 1918; P. McGinnis "A Bohemian Girl", 1898, 1st Edn;

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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A miscellany including The Father of the Red Triangle, YMCA, 1918; P. McGinnis A Bohemian Girl, 1898, 1st Edn; A Short History of the Mainwaring Family, 1976 reprint, one of 200; a selection of King Penguins (9); and various others, four in half-leather, a few signed by the authors. Mostly good/fine but includes four early 19th Century works requiring rebinding. (30)

Assortment of softback publications c.1900 to modern, plus PPCs (2) and ephemera, mostly Staffordshire related.

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Assortment of softback publications c.1900 to modern, plus PPCs (2) and ephemera, mostly Staffordshire related. Includes 1918 PPC of funeral procession at Burslem for the burial of the Unknown Soldier. Mixed condition. (about 40 items)

Selection with several illustrated including Armstrong "Memoir of Peter de Wint", 1888, 24 fine plates; Erwin Lang "Hoffnung auf China", 1922,

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Selection with several illustrated including Armstrong Memoir of Peter de Wint, 1888, 24 fine plates; Erwin Lang Hoffnung auf China, 1922, one of 600 printed; Schillings With Flashlight and Rifle, 2nd Edn, armorial bookplate & signature of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst; Pitt Hounds Horses and Hunting, 1948, and Lionel Edwards Famous Foxhunters 1932, both with bookplates of Adolph H.C. Wenger; and others. Good/VF (9)

James Badnall (Ed.) "The Poems of George Heath, the Moorland Poet. Memorial Edition". Bemrose & Sons, 1870, 1st Edn.

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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James Badnall (Ed.) The Poems of George Heath, the Moorland Poet. Memorial Edition. Bemrose & Sons, 1870, 1st Edn. Octavo, recased employing most of the original gilt cloth, now faded; VG internally with lithographed frontispiece & three other plates; vi,263,(2)pp; together with the expanded 2nd Edition of 1880 published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co in VG condition. (2)

[Lucius] Apuleius "The Golden Ass", translated William Adlington, the Chiswick Press for George Bell & Sons, 1904; orig. cloth, a little worn;

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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[Lucius] Apuleius The Golden Ass, translated William Adlington, the Chiswick Press for George Bell & Sons, 1904; orig. cloth, a little worn; two printed title labels (one badly chipped); quarto, large paper edn., No.12 of 200 printed; b/w frontispiece. A spare title label tipped in at rear. Fine internally.

[Elijah Fenton] "An Ode to the Sun, for the New-Year", Jacob Tonson, London, 1707; folio, 20th Century marbled boards, gilt leather title label,

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £72
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[Elijah Fenton] An Ode to the Sun, for the New-Year, Jacob Tonson, London, 1707; folio, 20th Century marbled boards, gilt leather title label, new endpapers; browning to title page and publisher's advertisement o/w fine internally. Very scarce. 13,(1)pp

"The Song of Solomon", Chapman & Hall, 1897, with 12 tissue-guarded plates and various woodcuts by H. Granville Fell; full buckram

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £96
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The Song of Solomon, Chapman & Hall, 1897, with 12 tissue-guarded plates and various woodcuts by H. Granville Fell; full buckram with gilt decoration; prize bookplate to front pastedown; front inner hinge a little weak and rear cover slightly marked o/w fine.

[Daniel Defoe] "The Parallel: or Persecution of Protestants. The Shortest Way to prevent the Growth of Popery in Ireland";

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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[Daniel Defoe] The Parallel: or Persecution of Protestants. The Shortest Way to prevent the Growth of Popery in Ireland; and Giving Alms no Charity, And Employing the Poor, A Grievance to the Nation. Two tracts, both extracted from a c.1704 edition of his collected writings; 8vo, each bound in 19th Century quarter-morocco over marbled boards with later title labels, VG; slight browning to text, two leaves of The Parallel with a corner chipped away. (2)

"Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake", Folio Society, 2013, No. 205 of 1000 issued, quarter-morocco, gilt,

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £340
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Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake, Folio Society, 2013, No. 205 of 1000 issued, quarter-morocco, gilt, the sides in pictorial cloth, together with a companion commentary on Blake's illustrations by Irene Tayler, both contained in the issued cloth bound box with gilt leather title. Very fine, no internal markings. 46x36cm

"The Getty Apocalypse", Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the manuscript in the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, No. 67 of 1000 printed;

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £350
SOLD £360
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The Getty Apocalypse, Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the manuscript in the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, No. 67 of 1000 printed; bound in quarter-morocco, gilt, the boards with pictorial onlay; complete with the companion Commentary by Nigel J. Morgan, cloth bound, gilt; and both housed in the issued cloth covered box with gilt title. VF, no internal inscriptions etc.    

Lt. Col. Frederick S. Brereton "The Dragon of Pekin: A Tale of the Boxer Rebellion", Blackie & Son, [1922]; octavo, pictorial cloth, near fine;

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Lt. Col. Frederick S. Brereton The Dragon of Pekin: A Tale of the Boxer Rebellion, Blackie & Son, [1922]; octavo, pictorial cloth, near fine; abrasions to front pastedown (removal of old bookplate), endpapers browned, and occasional minor tone mark in margin affects a few pages. Seven b/w plates.

"The Edinburgh Review", A. & C. Black, Jan & Apr. 1878, 1882 complete, Jan. & Apr. 1883, and Jan. & Apr. 1885;

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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The Edinburgh Review, A. & C. Black, Jan & Apr. 1878, 1882 complete, Jan. & Apr. 1883, and Jan. & Apr. 1885; in five matching volumes, half-leather, gilt, marbled boards. The Review was issued quarterly. VG (5)

William Dodd "Discourses on the Miracles and Parables of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ". T.Waller, W. Faden & E. Dilly,1757, four volumes;

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £110 - £130
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William Dodd Discourses on the Miracles and Parables of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. T. Waller, W. Faden & E. Dilly, 1757, four volumes; volumes 2 to 4 published by W. Faden only; octavo, full polished calf, gilt ruling and titles, raised bands, red speckled sides; rubbed in places, some wear, mainly to the backstrips; browning to the margins of first & last few leaves o/w fine internally. (4)

Frank Richards and others "The Magnet", Amalgamated Press, issues for 1929 complete, July-Dec.1930, July-Dec.1937, and Jan-June 1938,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £76
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Frank Richards and others The Magnet, Amalgamated Press, issues for 1929 complete, July-Dec.1930, July-Dec.1937, and Jan-June 1938, fine, in 5 bound volumes, gilt cloth, the pictorial wraps intact. (130 issues)

Jack Scott crime novels 1980-1986, all Collins First Editions in VG/VF dustjackets, including "A Distant View of Death", 1981

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Jack Scott crime novels 1980-1986, all Collins First Editions in VG/VF dustjackets, including A Distant View of Death, 1981 (d/jkt price-clipped and small price label top right of front panel), An Uprush of Mayhem 1982, and All the Pretty People, 1983. No internal inscriptions, the jackets in durasleave protectors. (7)

"The Autobiography of Alfred Munnings: An Artist’s Life", "The Second Burst" and "The Finish", 3 vols, 1951-52, "The Finish" in 1st Edn,

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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The Autobiography of Alfred Munnings: An Artist's Life, The Second Burst and The Finish, 3 vols, 1951-52, The Finish in 1st Edn; orig.gilt cloth in worn d/jkts (the spines frayed & darkened); browning to endpapers & contemp. ownership signatures o/w fine internally.

Marilyn Monroe related magazines 1954-62 comprising "Movieland" Nov.1954, "Screen Stories" Aug.1956, "Photoplay" Oct.1956, and "Marilyn’s Life Story"

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £50
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Marilyn Monroe related magazines 1954-62 comprising Movieland Nov.1954, Screen Stories Aug.1956, Photoplay Oct.1956, and Marilyn's Life Story, Dell publishing, 1962. All complete and VG condition. (4)       

Aleyn Lyell Reade "The Mellards & their descendants, including the Bibbys of Liverpool, with memoirs of Dinah Maria Mulock & Thomas Mellard Reade"

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £36
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Aleyn Lyell Reade The Mellards & their descendants, including the Bibbys of Liverpool, with memoirs of Dinah Maria Mulock & Thomas Mellard Reade, privately printed at the Arden Press, London, 1915; 4to, full buckram gilt, faded; uncut two sides; one of 200 printed; one (of two) front endpapers removed o/w fine internally with all plates & folding pedigrees. 

W. & S. Beresford "Beresford of Beresford: Part 1. A History of the Manor of Beresford in the County of Stafford". W.H. Eaton, Leek, [1908];

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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W. & S. Beresford Beresford of Beresford: Part 1. A History of the Manor of Beresford in the County of Stafford. W.H. Eaton, Leek, [1908]; quarto, orig. gilt cloth; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; 106pp plus photo-plates and index. VG