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Tuesday 5th September
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 524 |
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY PAPERWORK
late 19th century onwards, operational booklets, publicity handbills, correspondence, circulars, photos, maps etc with a collection of route maps, mostly reproductions
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 525 |
J K ROWLING. 'HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE' WITH ERROR TO PAGE 99
'eleven' instead of 'ten' 1ST EDITION 2005
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£30 - £40 | - | View |
| 526 |
THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, INCLUDING HIS SUPPRESSED POEMS
with tipped-in facsimile letter, A. and W. Galignani, Paris 1827
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£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 527 |
A COLLECTION OF MINIATURE BOOKS
18th century and later, including 'The smallest Dictionary in the World' 3.5 x 2cm, various Religious Tract Society vols, a 19th cent. set of cards; 'The Life of Moses', and other items
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£40 - £60 | £500 | View |
| 528 |
SEAMUS HEANEY; STATION ISLAND
Faber & Faber with a signed note
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£40 - £60 | £170 | View |
| 529 |
REV. W. AWDRY: SEVEN VOLUMES FROM THE 'RAILWAY SERIES'
1950s editions, one lacking jacket
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 530 |
DAVID JONES FIRST EDITIONS
In Parenthesis 1937, Anathemata, 1952
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£80 - £100 | £480 | View |
| 531 |
FRANK FORESTER'S FISH AND FISHING
of the UNITED STATES and BRITISH PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA', By H. W. Herbert, Richard Bentley 1849
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 532 |
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY BOOKS
Historical and promotional, including Holiday Haunts, The Track of the Royal Scot, McIntosh Locomotives etc
|
£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 533 |
WYNDHAM LEWIS, THE HUMAN AGE
2 vols, 1952 edition with jackets and illustrations by Michael Ayrton
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 534 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT DAVID JONES
including The Dying Gaul, The Roman Quarry, art catalogues and the Newsletter of the David Jones Society, 1-28
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£50 - £80 | £100 | View |
| 535 |
THOMAS BEWICK: 'A PRETTY BOOK OF PICTURES...OR TOMMY TRIP'S HISTORY
of Beasts and Birds...', with wood engravings 15th edition, Edwin Pearson 1867 (staining)
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£30 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 536 |
THE WORKS OF RABELAIS, ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPE
two volumes, John Lane,1927, numbered 1386 of 4300
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 537 |
JESSIE M. KING, ILLUSTRATOR: 'THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE
'by William Morris, John Lane 1905, Louis Wain: ' The tale of Little Priscilla Purr' and '.. the Tabby Twins', and various Cicely Mary Barker books (a/f)
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£20 - £40 | £70 | View |
| 538 |
CECIL ALDIN: 'FARM BABIES'
'The black puppy book' and 'Black Beauty' (a/f) (3)
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 539 |
COKER: 'A SURVEY OF DORSETSHIRE containing the ANTIQUITIES AND NATURAL HISTORY
OF THAT COUNTY' with Wilcox map, London1732, with annotations and presentation inscription; 'To The Law Society...1831' ( some foxing, re-bound)
|
£180 - £220 | - | View |
| 540 |
EDMUND DULAC: VARIOUS ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
and David Larkin (ed.) 'Dulac' (7)
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 541 |
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: 'UNDERWOODS'
Chatto and Windus, 1887, signed by A.P. Watt (agent)
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 542 |
RUDYARD KIPLING:'A SONG OF THE ENGLISH, W. HEATH ROBINSON
illustrated colour plates, Hodder and Stoughton, with other Kipling works (4)
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 543 |
TALWYN MORRIS ART NOUVEAU BINDINGS:
Milton; Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (2 vols) Harrap and Co c.1905 (some loose pages)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 544 |
WAUGH: 'SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE'
Chapman and Hall 1947,Rupert Brooke: Poems and Memoir, London 1918, Robert Buchanan, 'The city of dream' (inscribed to Edward Rose), and other books (7)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 545 |
REV JOHN BROWN, THE SELF INTERPRETING BIBLE
published in London by T Kelly, 1824, original binding
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£20 - £40 | £30 | View |
| 546 |
BEATRIX POTTER: VARIOUS STORIES, SOME FIRST EDITIONS
and others (many in poor condition) and a 'Specimen plate'; 'The peculiar dream of Mr Samuel Whiskers'
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£30 - £60 | £50 | View |
| 547 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, MOSTLY LEATHER-BOUND
including 'Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick' (early French ed), 'The Winning Post Annual 1906-7, and others
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£30 - £60 | £130 | View |
| 548 |
ARTHUR RACKHAM: VARIOUS ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES
including 'Ingoldsby Legends' and others, and James Hamilton; 'Arthur Rackham'
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£40 - £80 | £130 | View |
| 549 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
slavery, indigenous peoples and similar subjects
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 550 |
CLARNEDON HISTORY OF THE REBELLIONS
and Civil Wars, dated 1707
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£80 - £120 | £160 | View |
| 551 |
FOUR POP-UP BOOKS, INCLUDING JAN PIENKOWSKI
'Haunted house', a 1974 Giles annual, and 10 issues of 'Books, Maps and Prints', APL Publications 1989-90, with John Arlott and Arthur Dailey, Pageantry of Sport, Paul Elek, London 1968, E. Kingdon…
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 552 |
PETER SCOTT: 'MORNING FLIGHT', COUNTRY LIFE 1936
with 'The Eye of the Wind', and several issues of 'Severn Wildfowl Trust Annual report' (incl. no 1), with other books on country pursuits and other publications, and 19th century newspapers
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£40 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 553 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS
and a few LP records
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£10 - £20 | - | View |
| 554 |
A COLLECTION OF HORSE RACING BOOKS
including Keylock's 'Dams of Winners'
|
£40 - £50 | - | View |
| 555 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, MOSTLY CHILDRENS'
including some Russian reprinted stories
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£40 - £60 | £30 | View |
| 556 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including sets of Prous (Scott Moncrieff ), Bernard Shaw, Churchill, Tolkein and others
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£20 - £40 | £190 | View |
| 557 |
ANDREW LANG: 'THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK', AND OTHER BOOKS
including a few Folio publications
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£40 - £60 | £60 | View |
| 558 | A COLLECTION OF BOOKS | £30 - £50 | £45 | View |
| 559 |
YVONNE CLOUD; 'PASTICHE, A MUSIC-ROOM BOOK'
illustrated by Edmond X. Kapp, signed by author and illustrator 30/780, and a quantity of other illustrated books; Heath-Robinson, Thomson, Sowerby, Pogany etc
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£40 - £80 | £140 | View |
| 560 |
A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY AND LATER CHILDRENS' BOOKS
including an untearable 'The enraged miller' (rebound), Heath Robinson 'Motor mania' (a/f), Walter Crane's Painting book', and others
|
£40 - £60 | £160 | View |
| 561 |
A COLLECTION OF RUPERT BEAR BOOKS c. 1940s -1970s
including 'The Rupert Book (1941) and 'The Monster Rupert' 1952
|
£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 562 |
JOHN RENBOURN 1944 -2015, GUITARIST AND SONGWRITER
his personal collection of books on music; Jazz, Blues, folk, early music etc, and two Renbourn album covers reproduced, enlarged, as wall pieces, each 100cm square
|
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 563 | A LARGE QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS | £30 - £60 | £20 | View |
| 564 | A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON ART | £30 - £60 | £30 | View |
| 565 |
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
(contents of bookcase)
|
£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 566 | A COLLECTION OF AUCTION CATALOGUES | £30 - £50 | - | View |
| 567 |
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
1930s Christmas numbers of 'L'illustration', novels unopened Taschen books, and others
|
£30 - £60 | £20 | View |
| 568 |
A QUANTITY OF CHILDRENS' BOOKS
including Perishers cartoons, Adventures of Dougal, etc
|
£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 569 |
A COLLECTION OF FILM AND POP STAR ANNUALS
1940s to 1970s
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 570 |
'THE FINE ART SCOTT', LONDON EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO.
28 volumes
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 571 | A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT WINSTON CHURCHILL | £40 - £60 | £50 | View |
