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Auction No 426, Category: Books

110 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Selection signed by the author including "Zeffirelli:The Autobiography", 1st Edn in d/jkt; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "The Salad Days", 1st Edn in d/jkt;

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £46
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Selection signed by the author including Zeffirelli:The Autobiography, 1st Edn in d/jkt; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The Salad Days, 1st Edn in d/jkt; the remainder mainly s/bks including Kingsley Amis, Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie, Terence Stamp, and Anthony Burgess. Fine lot. Also six volumes of Shakespeare in Dent's ‘Temple Dramatists' series in soft leather bindings. (23)

Penguin publications 1936-1959 with many 1940s and first printings. Fair to fine, mainly good/VG. (44)

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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Penguin publications 1936-1959 with many 1940s and first printings. Fair to fine, mainly good/VG. (44)

Albert Camus "The Rebel" 1959 in complete d/jkt; John Maynard Keynes "A Tract on Monetary Reform" 1924; Jack Kerouac "Visions of Cody", 1973

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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Albert Camus The Rebel 1959 in complete d/jkt; John Maynard Keynes A Tract on Monetary Reform 1924; Jack Kerouac Visions of Cody, Andre Deutsch, 1973, 1st UK Edn., in complete d/jkt; and various others. (17)     

A selection of Frederick Warne ‘Observer’s Books’, all in d/jackets with several first editions including "Astronomy", "Golf" and others.

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £28
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A selection of Frederick Warne ‘Observer's Books', all in d/jackets with several first editions including Astronomy, Golf and others. Good to fine. (13)

Daniel Defoe "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe", illustrated by Ernest Griset, London,1869, colour frontispiece;

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Daniel Defoe The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Ernest Griset, London, 1869, colour frontispiece; Freeman Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice, Macmillan, 1881; Bernard Newman Round About Andorra 1928, signed & inscribed by the author, spine faded; Samuel Manning Italian Pictures, drawn with Pen and Pencil, RTS, c.1880, title page browned; and three others including a late-19th Century trade catalogue of furniture, printed wraps. (7)   

George Watson (Ed.) "The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature", Cambridge, 1969-77, complete in 5 volumes (incl.Index vol.),

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £15
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George Watson (Ed.) The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Cambridge, 1969-77, complete in 5 volumes (incl.Index vol.), all in VG/Fine d/jkts. A nice clean set. (5)

"The Saturday Evening Post", Curtis Publishing, March to June 1958, November-December 1958, September to December 1959, bound into five volumes,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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The Saturday Evening Post, Curtis Publishing, March to June 1958, November-December 1958, September to December 1959, bound into five volumes, gilt cloth, the original pictorial wraps intact, VG condition.

Antiquarian selection including "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine", Vols. XXI-XXII, 1827; "Select Speeches of Kossuth", 1853;

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Antiquarian selection including Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vols. XXI-XXII, 1827; Select Speeches of Kossuth, 1853; Burnet The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of England, 1805, front board detached; and others, all bar one in leather bindings (four in full leather). Mainly VG. (9) 

Freemasonry and Friendly Society related including "The Loyal Ancient Shepherds' Quarterly Magazine", Ashton-u-Lyne, 1847, half-leather, gilt;

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £22
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Freemasonry and Friendly Society related including The Loyal Ancient Shepherds' Quarterly Magazine, Ashton-u-Lyne, 1847, half-leather, gilt; Brabrook Provident Societies and Industrial Welfare, 1898; Brown History of Masonry in Wigan, 1882 with colour plates; Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England, 1873 pamphlet; and a range of 20th Century works. One with frayed spine o/w good to fine. (16)

Scrap Album, large format, c.1910-1920, with much advertising interest, pretty ladies, children & animals, WWI leaders, art nouveau designs, etc.

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £44
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Scrap Album, large format, c.1910-1920, with much advertising interest, pretty ladies, children & animals, WWI leaders, art nouveau designs, etc. 76 pages, intact, all laid down o/w good condition. 

"The Illustrated London News", bound volumes for 1947 (complete, 2 vols), July-Dec.1948, Jan-June 1949, and Jan-Oct.1950 (2 vols).

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £30
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The Illustrated London News, bound volumes for 1947 (complete, 2 vols), July-Dec.1948, Jan-June 1949, and Jan-Oct.1950 (2 vols). First leaf of 1949 volume,, and seven leaves of 1948 volume are damaged. (6)  [Offered on behalf of The National Trust]   

"The Illustrated London News", bound volumes for 1955 (complete, two vols.), 28th Jan-Dec.1956 (first three issues missing), Jan-June 1957,

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £20
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The Illustrated London News, bound volumes for 1955 (complete, two vols.), 28th Jan.-Dec.1956 (first three issues missing), Jan.-June 1957, and Jan-June 1962. (5). [Offered on behalf of The National Trust]

‘Mermaid Series’ of Jacobean dramatists, Vizetelly & Co, 1887-88 (5 volumes); & other literature, mostly Everyman and ‘World’s Classics’ editions,

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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‘Mermaid Series' of Jacobean dramatists, Vizetelly & Co, 1887-88 (5 volumes); & other literature, mostly Everyman and ‘World's Classics' editions, many in d/jkts. (17)

Robert Graves selection, all 1st Edns. bar "Collected Poems 1959". Includes "The Reader Over Your Shoulder" 1943, and "Mammon and the Black Goddess",

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Robert Graves selection, all first editions bar Collected Poems 1959. Includes The Reader Over Your Shoulder 1943, and Mammon and the Black Goddess, Cassell, 1965. All in d/jkts. Poems 1965-1968 and Poems 1968-1970 with tape marks to endpapers. (9) 

Selection of humorous works with a few first editions including Spike Milligan’s "Puckoon" and "Rommel? Gunner Who?"

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Selection of humorous works with a few first editions including Spike Milligan's Puckoon and Rommel? Gunner Who? A 1971 edition of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall is a second impression. Nine are in fair to fine d/jkts. (14)     

Charles Kingsley "The Water Babies", illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, Hodder & Stoughton [1916], first UK edn.,12 fine tissue-guarded plates,

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £92
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Charles Kingsley The Water Babies, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, Hodder & Stoughton [1916], first UK edn., 12 fine tissue-guarded plates, fox marks to prelims and last few leaves; and Housman Stories from the Arabian Nights, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co., n.d., 20 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. (2) [This is the first of a collection of Children's Books in this auction offered on behalf of a Cheshire vendor.]

"Grimm’s and Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales selected and edited for Little Folk", Blackie & Son [1906], illustrated by Helen Stratton,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Grimm's and Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales selected and edited for Little Folk, Blackie & Son [1906], illustrated by Helen Stratton, large format, pictorial cloth, a.e.g., glassine d/wrapper, worn inner hinges front & back; Harrod's presentation bookplate; very clean internally, no inscriptions. Scarce

Elizabeth Gordon "Billy Bunny’s Fortune", 1936; Helen Vanderveer "Little Slam Bang", 1928; and Lang Campbell "The Dinky Ducklings",1928;

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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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)

J.R.R.Tolkien "Bilbo’s Last Song", Unwin Hyman,1990, in complete but partially discoloured d/jacket, and a large collection of other children’s books

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £20
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J.R.R. Tolkien Bilbo's Last Song, Unwin Hyman, 1990, in complete but partially discoloured d/jacket, and a large collection of other children's books, largely illustrated, generally fine, a few with ownership inscriptions. (87)  

Helen Bannerman "The Story of Little Black Mingo", James Nisbet [1901], and "The Story of Little Black Sambo", Chatto & Windus, 1911;

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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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)