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Auction date Tuesday 10 May 2022 11:00 - 18:30 BST

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Tuesday 12th April starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 736

Lot 456 Unsold
PAUL GALLICO: 'SNOWFLAKE', MICHAEL JOSEPH
1952 (with dust jacket), H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, 1909 and other Wells works
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 457 Sold
A SMALL COLLECTION OF PUFFIN PICTURE BOOKS
and various vintage children's books
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 458 Sold
ARTHUR RANSOME: 'GREAT NORTHERN', JONATHAN CAPE
1947, and three later Ransome editions, two with jackets (wear)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 459 Sold
A.A. MILNE: MORE 'VERY YOUNG' SONGS, METHUEN & CO. LTD.
1928,with (damaged) jacket, with 'When we were very young', 5th ed. 1924 (2)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 460 Sold
W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON: 'GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. AND OTHER PAGEANTS'
John Lane, the Bodley Head 1907 (jacket damaged), with 'The book of Lovat Claude Fraser' by Haldane Macfall, J.M.Dent 1923 (worn) (2)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £40 - £60
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 461 Sold
W HEATH ROBINSON RAILWAY RIBALDRY
and other books published by the GWR, SR and BR, some for children
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 462 Sold
WALTER CRANE: (ILLUS.) 'KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS'
retold by Henry Gilbert, T.C & E.C Jack, Edinburgh & London 1911, gilt cloth boards, with 'Bric-a-brac stories' Mrs Burton Harrison, Charles Scribner's Sons 1885 (frontispiece missing) (2)
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 463 Sold
THE HADDON HALL LIBRARY: FIVE VOLUMES
including 'Our gardens (2), 'Bird watching', 'Fly fishing', and 'Hunting' (all with some wear)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 464 Sold
ASPREYS: A SET OF LEATHER-BOUND REFERENCE BOOKS
in a mahogany rack (faded, label missing from rack, lower section vacant)
Hammer price: £55
Estimate: £20 - £40
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 465 Sold
PHILIP PULLMAN, 'THE AMBER SPYGLASS' , SCHOLASTIC LONDON
(signed) with three other Philip Pullman books
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £40 - £60
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 466 Sold
RUDYARD KIPLING: 'KIM' NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Company 1901, with 'The seven seas' (103, 9th ed.) re-bound in half leather, and two other Kipling works (4)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £20 - £40
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 467 Sold
PULLMAN (PHILIP), HIS DARK MATERIALS (3 VOLS)
All first editions, first impressions, Rare Impression of 'His Dark Materials Northern Lights' (owners name written on first page) , 'The Amber Spyglass' has foxing to the edges of pages
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £500 - £600
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 468 Sold
CHARLES DARWIN: 'INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS'
John Murray, 1875 (library copy), with four other Darwin works, 'The primrose and Darwinism' ('by A Field naturalist'), Grant Richards 1902, G.E. Lodge; 'Memoirs..', and an engraving of Darwin, with facsimile signature
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 469 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 470 Sold
EASTON PRESS: VARIOUS LEATHER-BOUND VOLUMES
collector's editions
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £120 - £180
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 471 Sold
A COLLECTION OF CHILDRENS BOOKS
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 472 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ANTIQUE SILVER
country house interest, art, history etc.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 473 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF RAILWAY BOOKS
including British historical, regional, old and modern, southern and west country, buildings, steam to BR, narrow gauge, plus two boxes of European and international
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 474 Sold
A COLLECTION OF ARCHITECTURE BOOKS
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 475 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 476 Sold
A COLLECTION OF 'CURRENT LAW' BOOKS
with other similarS
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 477 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF MOTORING INTEREST
Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, etc.
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £60 - £80
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 478 Sold
WINSTON CHURCHILL, VARIOUS WORKS
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Lot 479 Sold
A COLLECTION OF 18TH CENTURY AND LATER LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS
including Flavius Josephus, Balzac, and others (incomplete sets, some in poor condition)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 May 2022
10 May 2022

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