Lot: 54
Beatrix Potter selection, all early printings with Peter Rabbit, Mrs.Tiggy-Winkle (2 difft), Miss Moppet, Jemima Puddle-Duck (2 difft), and Benjamin Bunny (2 difft); together with Cicely Mary Barker Flower Fairies of The Spring. Poor to fair. (8)
Lot: 57
The Captain, George Newnes, bound volumes in publisher’s cloth, from 1899, with volumes 4, 27, 29, 33, 43, 44, 45 & 49; plus 8 issues of the magazine 1911-1919, and novels by Herbert Strang & Gunby Hadath. Fair to VG
Lot: 64
A selection of Silas Hocking fiction, mostly published by Warne, early 1900s, gilt cloth; includes The Flaming Sword 1905, 1st Edn, and Yours and Mine, 1908, 2nd Edn; several with Sunday School bookplates. Fair to fine. Also 2 modern (14)
Lot: 65
H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds Heinemann, 1930, original printed cloth, VG (college coat of arms impressed on front cover); The Soul of a Bishop, 1917, 1st Edn; The Croquet Player, 1936, 1st Edn; Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil and The Last Trump, 1920, 2nd Edn, cloth marked & faded; The Scientific Romances of H.G. Wells, Gollancz, 1933; and another. Fair to Fine (6)
Lot: 69
The Quiver: an Illustrated Magazine, bound volumes for 1863, 1863-64, 1865, 1866, 1867 and 1872, all half-leather, gilt, over marbled boards, some foxing to prelims, front inner hinge of 1863 volume cracked. (6)