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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 427 |
THREE PIRELLI CALENDARS
including 1992 Chinese Year of the Monkey, 1991, and 1987 (3)
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 428 |
A 1951 'LIVERPOOL FC' MATCH DAY PROGRAMME
With a collection of Liverpool away games and cup final programmes and some ticket stubs
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 429 |
A COLLECTION OF STAMPS, POSTCARDS
lettercards, and tea cards
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£30 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 430 |
A QUANTITY OF STREATHAM HILL THEATRE PROGRAMMES
various programmes from 1932 - 1937
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 431 |
A COLLECTION 'LIVERPOOL FC' MATCH DAY PROGRAMMES
home and away game programmes, with Liverpool FC books and other match day programmes
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 432 |
FRENCH LINE CGT OCEAN LINER MENUS
1927-1954, from SS Ile de France, SS Paris , SS De Grasse, SS Champlain, SS Liberte, SS Flandre, with other ocean liner menus from SS Andrea Doria, and United States Lines
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 433 |
TIGER AND SCORCHER COMICS
a part run of comics from 1976 - 1978
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 434 |
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
including a Spice Girls 1998 calendar, a 'Tim's Telescopic View' Jubilee souvenir, sheet music, advertising and other items
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 435 |
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE JAZZ MAGAZINES
mostly bound, 'Jazz Music', 'Jazz Notes', and 'Jazz Information' (vol 1, no.1, 1939, and later), and others
|
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 436 |
A LARGE COLLECTION OF 'LIVERPOOL FC' MATCH DAY PROGRAMMES
A run of Liverpool FC programmes dating from seasons 1966 - 1982, approximately 160 programmes
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£50 - £100 | £80 | View |
| 437 |
ROY OF THE ROVERS COMICS
a part run of comics from 1976 - 1978
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 438 |
JAZZ: 'PICKUP' MAGAZINE 1946-47, from volume 1, no.1
and a long run of the subsequently re-named 'Jazz Journal' 1948-94 (all bound)
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 439 |
'JAZZ MONTHLY' MAGAZINE 1955-71
(bound)
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 440 |
A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
one with contents, the cover and mechanism for a Japanese musical photo album, a few 1970s Alphonse Mucha posters, a Pear's soap blotter, and other items
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£30 - £40 | £30 | View |
| 441 |
GUNTHER STILLER'S BLATTER ZUM PARADIESISCHEN KALENDER
a series of twelve prints signed by Stiller, in a portfolio, 1/250
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£50 - £100 | £45 | View |
| 442 |
A 19th CENTURY 'SELF INTERPRETING' BIBLE
pub. Thomas Kelly, London, with numerous coloured plates, map of Jerusalem etc (foxing, binding poor)
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 443 |
GEORGE ORWELL: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, THE FACSIMILE
of the extant manuscript, pref. Daniel G. Siegel, Secker and Warburg, London 1984, red buckram with dust jacket
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£40 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 444 |
E.R. & J. PENNELL: THE LIFE OF JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER
2 vols, William Heinemann, London 1908, Vol 1 signed by the publisher, and No. 29/150, half-calf (discoloured)
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£30 - £60 | £20 | View |
| 445 |
'LES ESCRIPTS de FRANCOYS VILLON' enlumines et calligraphies par GUIGNARD
Club du livre, Paris 1974, cased, with accompanying cased 'Archive' material, numbered 4201
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£40 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 446 |
RENA GARDINER: THE STORY OF ELY CATHEDRAL
History of Salisbury Cathedral, The Isle of Purbeck, Tarrant to Blandford and other ephemera
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£200 - £400 | £340 | View |
| 447 |
HARRY POTTER, SEVEN FIRST EDITIONS
including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, first US edition 1998
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£200 - £400 | - | View |
| 448 |
RONALD SEARLE, IN PERSPECTIVE
first US edition, with eight other books, mostly for children and mostly first US editions
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£30 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 449 |
DON MCCULLEN: IN ENGLAND (SIGNED COPY)
Jonathan Cape, 2007
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£60 - £100 | £90 | View |
| 450 |
RAVILIOUS AT WAR
edited by Anne Ullman, The Fleece Press, Upper Denby 2002, in slip case
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£200 - £400 | £280 | View |
| 451 |
THE MOUSE & HIS MASTER; THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERENCE CUNEO
New Cavendish Books, London 1977, in slip case and boxed
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 452 |
THOMAS HARDY: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
A pure woman, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1895, cloth, gilt with roundel to front, etched portrait, facsimile signature and map (loose pages, damage to last page, other faults)
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 453 |
TWO CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Horace Mayhew/George Cruikshank; 'The toothache' (facsimile) and 'Further adventures in Fools Paradise' (poor condition) (2)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 454 |
R. BROOKES: THE GENERAL GAZETTEER
or Compendious Geographical Dictionary, fourth edition, London 1778, with various fold-out maps, cloth bound (damaged)
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£30 - £50 | £60 | View |
| 455 |
B. PARKER, ILLUSTRATED BY N. PARKER: 'FUNNY BUNNIES'
and five other late 19th/20th century children's books (worn condition)
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£60 - £100 | £110 | View |
| 456 |
ARTHUR SKETCHLEY: A SERIES OF 'YELLOWBACK' 'Mrs BROWN' BOOKS
with pictorial boards, including; 'Mrs Brown at Margate', 'in London', 'at the Paris Exhibition', 'on the Tichborne case', 'at Brighton', 'on the Shah's visit', and others and one plain paperback (13…
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£30 - £60 | £50 | View |
| 457 |
BUNYAN THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Adam & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne, with lithograph colour plates and embossed binding, late 19th century
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 458 |
G.R. CLARKE; 'THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF IPSWICH'
published by S. Piper, c.1830 (badly foxed in places), with J.E. Taylor; 'In and about Ancient Ipswich', Jarrold and Sons, 1888 (foxed, other faults) (2)
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 459 |
DENYS WATKINS-PITCHFORD 'BB' : 'DARK ESTUARY'
Hollis and Carter 1952, and 'Wild Lone', Eyre and Spottiswoode 1938, and H.M. Kinsley; 'One hundred recipes for the chafing dish' pub. Gorham Mfg Co, New York 1894 (3)
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£30 - £40 | £30 | View |
| 460 |
BATTLE OF BRITAIN 50th ANNIVERSARY FLYPAST
Published by the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 461 |
ELISABETH FRINK SCULPTURE CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Pub 1994, and Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, Edward Lucie Smith, Pub 1984 (2)
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£120 - £200 | £100 | View |
| 462 |
A COLLECTION OF BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS
some early 20th century editions, with Walter Crane; 'The baby's opera', 'The English Struwwelpeter' 'Swollen-headed William (After the German!)', and 'The yellow fairy book' 1894 and 1903 (many in…
|
£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 463 |
AUTOGRAPHS: CECIL BEATON; 'THE AGE OF ROCOCO'
Shirley Maclaine;a letter, with 'Don't fall off the mountain', and Ralph Richardson; self portrait on paper, tucked into a copy of Harold Nicolson Diaries and letters, all from the collection of…
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 464 |
FELIX MENDLESSOHN BARTHOLDY: ELIJAH, AN ORATORIO, SCORE
published Ewer and Co London, and Jousse's Piano-forte Preceptor (lacking title page) (2)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 465 |
'THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL', VARIOUS ISSUES
with other similar books; 'Chums', 'The Union Jack', 'Young England' etc, and 'Strand Magazine' III, 1892 (with Sherlock Holmes story) (centre section of bookcase)
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£30 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 466 |
A COLLECTION OF DECORATIVE CLOTH-BOUND BOOKS
late 19th century, and similar (some in poor condition) (five shelves)
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£30 - £60 | £120 | View |
| 467 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND MAPS
including Ladybird Books, history, religion etc, OS and other maps from 1940s onwards
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 468 |
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
including a family Bible, prayer books, a leather-bound 'Midget Shakespeare, Meyers 'Konversations Lexicon', Mrs Beetons, 1954 Beano Book, a few 'MAD' magazines etc (three shelves)
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£30 - £40 | £70 | View |
| 469 |
MRS GATTY: THE SEAWEEDS OF GREAT BRITAIN
Bell and Daldy 1872 (2 vols), and a further collection of French and English illustrated books on natural history and human anatomy, a scrapbook and other items
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£40 - £80 | £50 | View |
| 470 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF THOMAS HARDY INTEREST
including a few Thomas Hardy year books
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£40 - £60 | £45 | View |
| 471 |
A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
and others
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£30 - £50 | £45 | View |
| 472 |
A COLLECTION OF MIXED BOOKS
including Sassoon; 'Memoirs of a fox-hunting man' 2nd imp. 1929, Graham Greene; 'Monsignor Quixote', BH, 1982, 'The bomb party, BH, 1980, Raymond Mungo; 'Return to sender' (signed), Eva Hoffman; 'The…
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 473 |
INSCRIPTIONES PEDEMONTANAE INFIMI AEVI ROMAE EXSTANTES
Rome 1766, modern buckram binding
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 474 |
CICERO: OPERA M. TULLII CICERONIS
Carolum Stephanum, Paris 1554/5 (vol. title pages dated 1554) vol 1 and 2 in one, worn calf binding, (re-backed) woodcut printer's ornaments and capitals
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£50 - £100 | £160 | View |
