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Auction No 417, Category: History

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

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).  

W. Cooke Taylor "Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel", Peter Jackson [1846-51], octavo, four volumes, half-leather, gilt, showing some wear,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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W. Cooke Taylor Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel, Peter Jackson [1846-51], octavo, four volumes, half-leather, gilt, showing some wear, good tight bindings; complete with the many plates which show foxing to varying degrees, the text clean. (4)

Lancashire titles from 19th Century, chiefly Clitheroe & Blackburn related including T. Counsell "Mellor in Blackburnshire", 1929,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Lancashire titles from 19th Century, chiefly Clitheroe & Blackburn related including T. Counsell Mellor in Blackburnshire, 1929, works by Arthur Langshaw, softback picture albums & guides, Ben Wood's Lancashire Sketches (c.1900), etc. Mixed condition. (43)

Margaret Thatcher "The Path to Power", HarperCollins, 1995, First Edition in d/jkt, signed by Margaret Thatcher on title page.

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Margaret Thatcher The Path to Power, HarperCollins, 1995, First Edition in d/jkt, signed by Margaret Thatcher on title page. Some faint spotting to top edge of textblock o/w fine in a complete jacket.

Winston S. Churchill "A History of the English Speaking Peoples", Educational Book Co., ‘Chartwell Edition’ 1956-58, four vols, First Editions,

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Winston S. Churchill A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Educational Book Co., ‘Chartwell Edition' 1956-58, four vols, First Editions, gilt cloth, gilt leather titles, front cover of volume one slightly marked, very clean internally, no inscriptions. (4)

Thomas Pennant "The Antiquities of London", J. Coxhead, 1814, full calf, gilt, front hinge weak, 55 engraved plates, occasional minor foxing;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Thomas Pennant The Antiquities of London, J. Coxhead, 1814, full calf, gilt, front hinge weak, 55 engraved plates, occasional minor foxing; Purves & Cochrane The English Navigators, W.P. Nimmo, 1878, Dulwich College binding, complete with maps; and various others. Fair to VF (7) 

True Crime with many first editions including Max Beer "The League on Trial", 1936, Molly Lefebure "Evidence for the Crown", 1955

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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True Crime with many first editions including Max Beer The League on Trial, 1936, Molly Lefebure Evidence for the Crown, 1955 (foxing), and Peter Wright Spycatcher (first Australian edition). Fair to VF (19)

Anthony & Christopher Donnelly "Still Breathing", 2013, two copies of the first edition in d/jkts, both signed by the brothers’ father

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £10
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Anthony & Christopher Donnelly Still Breathing, 2013, two copies of the first edition in d/jkts, both signed by the brothers' father on the half-title. (2)    

J.P. Earwaker (Ed.) "The Constables’ Accounts of the Manor of Manchester from the Year 1612 to…1647, and from 1743 to…1776"

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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J.P. Earwaker (Ed.) The Constables' Accounts of the Manor of Manchester from the Year 1612 to…1647, and from 1743 to…1776, J.E. Cornish, 1891-1892, three vols, good half-vellum bindings with gilt leather titles; ex-library markings, foot of title page of vol.2 cut away; very clean internally; together with Swindells' Manchester Streets and Manchester Men, 5 vols, E.J. Morten reprints.