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Auction No 417, Category: Books

54 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

1880s Scrap Album of American origin, with numerous Trade Cards especially from companies in Cambridgeport, Boston and Providence,

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £105
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1880s Scrap Album of American origin, with numerous Trade Cards especially from companies in Cambridgeport, Boston and Providence, plus chromo-litho bookmarks and greetings cards, and an impressive silk-fringed fan, laid down on 55 pages, largely good condition with very many attractive items. Folio, decorated cloth, binding defective. (100s).

Victorian leather-bound photo-albums with chromo-lithographed pages, one (empty) with metal clasp and in fine condition,

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £48
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Victorian leather-bound photo-albums with chromo-lithographed pages, one (empty) with metal clasp and in fine condition, the other (damaged) with some carte-de-visite and cabinet photos; together with two later autograph albums, one with a selection of 1950s signatures of members of the Magic Circle. (Qty)         

Box of ephemera and softback publications, all-periods, including a woodcut signed by C.F. Tunnicliffe in pencil; advertising bookmarks;

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Box of ephemera and softback publications, all-periods, including a woodcut signed by C.F. Tunnicliffe in pencil; advertising bookmarks; a Sheffield apprenticeship Indenture of 1881; many Lancashire related items, etc. (abt. 4 kilos)

Assortment including Walter & Alice Cook "Peggy’s Travels", Blackie & Son, [1909], title page loose; Mary F. Moore "Dorcas, the Wooden Doll", 1944,

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Assortment including Walter & Alice Cook Peggy's Travels, Blackie & Son, [1909], title page loose; Mary F. Moore Dorcas, the Wooden Doll, 1944, two signed & inscribed first editions in fair to VG d/jkts; a First Edition (first impression) of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince fine in d/jkt; Miall & Hammond The Structure and Life-History of the Harlequin Fly, Oxford, 1900; and others. Fair-VF (11)               

Cecil Aldin "Old Inns", 1923, together with works illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, Winifred Austin, Lionel Edwards, H.M. Brock (3)

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £62
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Cecil Aldin Old Inns, 1923, together with works illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, Winifred Austin, Lionel Edwards, H.M. Brock (3) and W. Lee Hankey. Fair to fine (8)

Uncorrected Proofs including works by William Styron, Bernard Cornwell, Henry Cecil, Julian Symons, Jon Cleary, Ellis Peters, Miss Read (2),

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Uncorrected Proofs including works by William Styron, Bernard Cornwell, Henry Cecil, Julian Symons, Jon Cleary, Ellis Peters, Miss Read (2), and various others. Good/VF. Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Eagle 1980 is the first in the Sharpe series of books. (34)

Assorted books including "Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica", 1965, 1st Edn., (d/jkt damaged); John E. Mack "Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens"

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Assorted books including Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 1965, 1st Edn., (d/jkt damaged); John E. Mack Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens, 1994, 1st Edn; Bert Stern The Last Sitting, Orbis, 1982; various biographies & autobiographies; Good Needlework Gift Book [1932 and 1933]; and others. Fair to VF (20).

Victorian Scrap Album, large format, elaborate decorated cloth, including an impressive range of large and some giant scraps,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £80
SOLD £105
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Victorian Scrap Album, large format, elaborate decorated cloth, including an impressive range of large and some giant scraps, with a superb full-page Father Christmas, plus clowns, children, animals, caricatures etc, together with chromo-litho greetings cards, and cuttings from a children's book. Inner hinging cracked. 46 sides with 100s of items. 37 x 27.5cm.

"Reed's Lilliput Maori Proverbs", "Lilliput Maori Place Names" and "Lilliput Dictionary: Maori-English, English-Maori", A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington,

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £24
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Reed's Lilliput Maori Proverbs, Lilliput Maori Place Names and Lilliput Dictionary: Maori-English, English-Maori, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1960; set of three miniature books in special book stand fashioned from New Zealand Timber with Koruru carvings. Books 5 x 3.5cm. Flexible plastic covers. Fine

"Homes and Gardens" magazine 1929-39 (8) and 1956-58 (13); and "Daily Mail Ideal Home Book 1955" (in fair d/jkt).

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £34
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Homes and Gardens magazine 1929-39 (8) and 1956-58 (13); and Daily Mail Ideal Home Book 1955 (in fair d/jkt). The pre-WW2 items in very mixed condition. (22)   

Festival of Britain 1951 Guides/Catalogues including scarce regional issue and a pamphlet for Liverpool. VG/Fine (3)

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Festival of Britain 1951 Guides/Catalogues including scarce regional issue and a pamphlet for Liverpool. VG/Fine (3)

Carton of softback publications & ephemera of all kinds from 19th Century, mostly 1900s to 1960s; with trade catalogues, leaflets, programmes,

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £125
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Carton of softback publications & ephemera of all kinds from 19th Century, mostly 1900s to 1960s; with trade catalogues, leaflets, programmes, local history, trade cards etc, country-wide; includes Dec.1922 issue of Workers' Dreadnought newspaper (spine tape repaired) and set of Little Tots' Records. Varied condition. Workers' Dreadnought  was founded and edited by Sylvia Pankhurst. (Large qty., over 10 kilos).  

Ben Brierley "Ab-o’th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories", W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Ben Brierley Ab-o'th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories, W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles, one ex-library in poor condition, others good/VG. (8)

E.M. Forster "A Room with a View", Edward Arnold, 1908, First Edition, original gilt ribbed maroon cloth, worn & marked, the spine faded;

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £600 - £900
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E.M. Forster A Room with a View, Edward Arnold, 1908, First Edition, original gilt ribbed maroon cloth, worn & marked, the spine faded; blank bookplate to front pastedown, pencil ownership signature to front endpaper dated 1912, inner front and rear hinges weak showing the webbing, some occasional marginal tone-marks to text but generally clean internally; small remnants of a lending library label to rear pastedown (no other library markings). Complete with the 8-page publisher's catalogue.

Henry Fishwick (Ed.) "The Works of John Collier (Tim Bobbin) in Prose and Verse", James Clegg, 1894, No.3 of 20 printed on Whatman Paper,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Henry Fishwick (Ed.) The Works of John Collier (Tim Bobbin) in Prose and Verse, James Clegg, 1894, No.3 of 20 printed on Whatman Paper, signed by Henry Fishwick, bound in quarter-vellum, gilt, worn front corners; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere, two neat ownership signatures to front endpaper. Fine internally.

Modern First Editions in VG/VF d/jkts including works signed by Ian Rankin, Marie-Elsa Bragg and Fiona Mozley;

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Modern First Editions in VG/VF d/jkts including works signed by Ian Rankin, Marie-Elsa Bragg and Fiona Mozley; of the remainder two have ownership signatures. Five jackets are price-clipped. (10) 

"The Poems of William Shakespeare printed after the Original Copies", David Paradine, 1975, facsimile of the Kelmscott Press edition,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £68
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The Poems of William Shakespeare printed after the Original Copies, David Paradine, 1975, facsimile of the Kelmscott Press edition, bound in full limp vellum with silk ties, No.63 of 100 numbered copies, complete with the companion prospectus similarly numbered, in slipcase. Fine.   

Selected Fiction, mostly in d/jkts, including first editions by John Steinbeck, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Robert Greenwood,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Selected Fiction, mostly in d/jkts, including first editions by John Steinbeck, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Robert Greenwood, and Noel Behn (signed by the author); and a 1965 third impression of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The jackets in varied condition o/w VG/VF. (20)  

Daphne du Maurier "The Apple Tree", Gollancz, 1952, First Edition in a VG complete d/jkt. Fox marks to fore-edge o/w fine.

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Daphne du Maurier The Apple Tree, Gollancz, 1952, First Edition in a VG complete d/jkt. Fox marks to fore-edge o/w fine. This work includes the short story The Birds which formed the basis of Hitchcock's famous film.

William le Queux "The Mystery of a Motor Car", Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1909], small octavo, original gilt cloth, endpapers browned,

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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William le Queux The Mystery of a Motor Car, Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1909], small octavo, original gilt cloth, endpapers browned, front endpaper with ownership signature, rear inner hinge very weak (showing the webbing).