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Auction No 367, Category: Sport

23 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Sports Newspapers, chiefly of Football interest, published by Amalgamated Press (11) plus Topical Times supplements

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £56
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Sports Newspapers, chiefly of Football interest, published by Amalgamated Press (11) plus Topical Times supplements (4, 1924-33); including The Football and Sports Favourite (4, 1925), All-Sports Illustrated Weekly (4, 1920-22) and Football Weekly (2, 1926 & 1936); also Black & White Budget for 6th April 1901 containing report on Queens Park v Corinthians. Fair to fine (16)

Football softbacks c.1947-1952, mostly pre-1950, published by Provincial Sports of Southport (9),

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
UNSOLD
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Football softbacks c.1947-1952, mostly pre-1950, published by Provincial Sports of Southport (9), Grant Hughes (3) and few others; including Football Favourites Books 1 to 5 (plus additional No.1), Soccer Snapshots Nos.1 and 2, Football and Sport Survey 1948, The Cup Naldrett Press 1951, 1947-8 Soccer Highlights, etc. Good to fine. (17)

Football softbacks including "Football Stars - Past, Present, Future" Nos.2 and 3, "Forfar Athletic Handbook 1949-50",

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £90
SOLD £46
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Football softbacks including Football Stars - Past, Present, Future Nos.2 and 3, Forfar Athletic Handbook 1949-50, Cope's Football Encyclopaedia 1948-49, Sporting Mirror Famous Soccer Stars Letter cards (three different), Football Stars Scottish Daily Mail (features Jock Stein), and others including 5 modern. Good to VF (18)

Football Give-Aways with softbacks issued with The Champion, The Triumph (2, 1923), Wizard,

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £32
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Football Give-Aways with softbacks issued with The Champion, The Triumph (2, 1923), Wizard, and Hotspur (2); plus some Sports trade cards and photos, 1920s to modern, including foreign. Fair to VF

European Football magazines and few souvenir softbacks, largely pre-1950, including Sporting Lisbon 1926-37 (5)

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £58
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European Football magazines and few souvenir softbacks, largely pre-1950, including Sporting Lisbon 1926-37 (5), Le Plein Air Paris 1910, Germany 1930s (3), Barcelona 1923, etc. Fair to fine. (13)

Crawford & Whatley "The History of W. & C.Scott, Gunmakers", 1985, 2nd Edn, signed by Patrick Whatley;

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £70
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Crawford & Whatley The History of W. & C.Scott, Gunmakers, 1985, 2nd Edn, signed by Patrick Whatley; W.K. Neal and D.H.L. Black The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1967, 1st Edn in fine d/jkt; The History of the Birmingham Gun-Barrel Proof House, 1949; and a related title. VG/VF (4)

Pierce Egan "Boxiana" G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition;

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
UNSOLD
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Pierce Egan Boxiana G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition; Vols.2 and 3 in 19th Century half-leather, gilt, repaired, with new endpapers; Vol.1 in a fine modern half-leather binding. Most plates intact but 4 folding plates missing from Vol.1, some plates added to Vol.2 (contains 13 instead of 6) and Vol. 3 lacking one of the seven plates. Some damp staining. Also 5 others on boxing. 

Robert Leighton "Cassell's New Book of the Dog" Waverly Book Co, n.d., quarto, 4 volumes,

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £20
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Robert Leighton Cassell's New Book of the Dog, Waverly Book Co, n.d., quarto, 4 volumes, original maroon cloth, spines faded o/w fine, with anatomical plate and coloured & b/w illustrations. (4)

Vero Shaw "The Illustrated Book of the Dog" [1881], quarto, original pictorial cloth, hinges reinforced,

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £80
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Vero Shaw The Illustrated Book of the Dog [1881], quarto, original pictorial cloth, hinges reinforced, new endpapers, spine darkened, a.e.g; VG internally with the 28 chromo-litho plates (two browned) and other illustrations. 

C.G.Bruce "Himalayan Wanderer" 1934, orig.cloth; Joe Tasker "Everest: The Cruel Way" 1981, in d/jkt;

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £20
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C.G.Bruce Himalayan Wanderer 1934, orig.cloth; Joe Tasker Everest: The Cruel Way 1981, in d/jkt; Ralph Barker The Last Blue Mountain, Chatto & Windus, 1959,in d/jkt; and a collection of other Mountaineering books, mostly in djkts, very largely first editions, one signed by Chris Bonnington. Good to VF (18)

Boxing biography & autobiography including Archie Moore "Any Boy Can" 1971,

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £16
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Boxing biography & autobiography including Archie Moore Any Boy Can, 1971; Jimmy Wilde Fighting Was My Business, 1900; Moss Deyong Everybody Boo...1951, and Floyd Patterson Victory Over Myself, 1962; all bar one in fair to VF d/jkt, and largely first editions. Fair to VF (11)

Boxing biography & autobiography including Michael Taub "Jack Doyle: Fighting for Love" 1990;

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Boxing biography & autobiography including Michael Taub Jack Doyle: Fighting for Love 1990; Nat Fleischer Gene Tunney: the Enigma of The Ring, 1931 (damaged d/jkt); Gilbert Odd Len Harvey: Prince of Boxers, 1978, signed by the author; and Carpentier, by himself, 1955; all bar one in d/jkts and largely first editions. Varied condition. (12)

C.H. Stigand "The Game of British East Africa" Horace Cox, 1913, 2nd Edition, orig.gilt cloth,

Lot: 95

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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C.H. Stigand The Game of British East Africa, Horace Cox, 1913, 2nd Edition, orig.gilt cloth, square inch piece missing from lower margin of page 207 o/w VG; many photo-plates. 

Nicholas Everitt "Broadland Sport",1902, orig.gilt cloth, VG; "Bert's Treatise of Hawks and Hawking", Quaritch 1969;

Lot: 96

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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Nicholas Everitt Broadland Sport,1902, orig.gilt cloth, VG; Bert's Treatise of Hawks and Hawking, Quaritch 1969; Lord Walsingham Hit and Miss: A Book of Shooting Memories, Philip Allan, 1927, spine badly faded; Reynolds Essentials of Marksmanship, 1964, in d/jkt; and ten others (one unrelated). Mainly VG (14)

Herbert Tichy "Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods", 1st UK Edn, 1957; Alison Hargreaves "A Hard Day's Summer:

Lot: 97

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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Herbert Tichy Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods, 1st UK Edn, 1957; Alison Hargreaves A Hard Day’s Summer: Six Classic North Faces Solo, 1994, 1st Edn; Chris Bonington I Chose to Climb, 1966, 1st Edn; all in VG/VF djkts, plus 3 other Climbing books. Fair to VF (6)

Jack Soper & others "The Black Cliff: The History of Rock Climbing on Clogwyn du'r Arddu", 1971 in d/jkt;

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Jack Soper & others The Black Cliff: The History of Rock Climbing on Clogwyn du’r Arddu, 1971 in d/jkt; F.Umlauft The Alps, 1889, pictorial cloth, VG; Claud Schuster Peaks and Pleasant Pastures, 1911; and a collection of other mountaineering titles. Good to VF (18)

C.G. Bruce "The Assault on Mount Everest 1922", and E.F. Norton "The Fight for Everest 1924",

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £88
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C.G. Bruce The Assault on Mount Everest 1922, and E.F. Norton The Fight for Everest 1924, both Edward Arnold first editions in original gilt cloth bindings with new endpapers and other signs of repair; uncut two sides. Plates and maps complete and fine internally.

Edmund Hillary "High Adventure" Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, 1st Edn., signed by the author on the half-title,

Lot: 100

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Edmund Hillary High Adventure Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, 1st Edn., signed by the author on the half-title, spine faded o/w VG; and Wilfrid Noyce Climbing the Fish’s Tail, 1958, in slightly chipped price-clipped djkt. (2)

Alex Shand "The Gun Room", 1905, orig. cloth, VG; Mike Jennings "Instinct Shooting", 1968, in d/jkt;

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £70
SOLD £66
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Alex Shand The Gun Room, 1905, orig. cloth, VG; Mike Jennings Instinct Shooting, 1968, in d/jkt; D. Higson Seafowl Shooting Sketches, and The Bullet Crossbow, 1990 reprint (2 copies); Jobson-Scott Beagling, 1934; Croxton-Smith (Ed.) Gun Dogs: Their Training, Working and Management, in fair d/jkt; and others on shooting, all h/bk, some in d/jkt. Fair to Fine (24)

Burrard "The Modern Shotgun", Herbert Jenkins, 1931-32, 3 Vols, Volume 2 with djkt, toning to prelims;

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £36
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Burrard The Modern Shotgun, Herbert Jenkins, 1931-32, 3 Vols, Volume 2 with djkt, toning to prelims; The Identification of Firearms and Forensic Ballistics, 1951 in fair d/jkt; Hatcher Textbook of Firearms Investigation, Identification and Evidence, Small-Arms Publishing, 1935; and 4 others, three unrelated including Edward Mogg Paterson’s Roads, 18th Edn, nicely rebound in full leather but lacking all bar one of the maps. (9)