Lot: 36
Press Agency photographs, 1947-50, mostly concerning serious crime and subsequent trials, including spying & espionage, assassination of Egypt's premier, and the attempted assassination of the Shah of Iran, mainly Europe and Middle East. Issued by Keystone Press and Planet News. Between 6 x 4” and 9 x 7”, all with descriptive text on reverse. (39)
Lot: 88
L.C. Dunsterville The Adventures of Dunsterforce, 1920, 2nd impression, gilt cloth, b/w plates (one loose), folding map; Ellis The Transcaspian Episode 1918-1919, 1963, in d/jkt; and Moberley Operations in Persia 1914-1919, HMSO, 1987, in d/jkt. Spine of Dunsterforce faded. (3)
Lot: 89
‘HW' and Sidney Hay By Order of the Shah, Cassell, 1937; Persia: Geographical Handbook Series, Naval Intelligence Division, 1945, faded cloth; Wills In the Land of the Lion and the Sun, 1891, ‘new edition'; Wilson S.W. Persia: Letters and Diary of a Young Political Officer 1907-1914, Readers Union, 1942; and other books on Persia/Iran, one ex-library (11)
Lot: 223
World ranges in ten stockbooks & two cover albums, including extensive USA from 1890s with much UM modern incl. miniature sheets; post-WW2 Austria with mint/UM costumes definitives (plus many FU); mid-period Liberia; Iran from early issues; Hungary with useful 1920s/40s; plus FDCs of Germany, and other items. (1000s).