The October Library Sale - Bishton Hall Saleroom

Police Photograph Book, St. Mary's Gate, Derby, 1890-1920, approximately 500 pages of individual criminal profiles with accompanying photographs a...

Manuscript Maps. Survey of Estates Belonging to William Jary Esquire, Situate in the Parishes of Burlingham, Blofield, Hemblington, South Walsham,...

Fleming, Ian. Collection of four Jonathan Cape first editions: Thunderball, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man W...

Fleming, Ian. Casino Royale, first edition, first issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953, with first issue dust-jacket devised by the author (without ...

Fleming, Ian. The Man With the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Octavo, publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jacket design...

Fleming, Ian. A Pattern of Love and Hate [Quantum of Solace], first UK edition, published in Modern Woman magazine, November 1959. Illustrated by ...

Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped...

Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and the Living Daylights, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Octavo, publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jacket...

Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, eighth impression, 1964; You Only Live Twice, second impression, April 1964; The Spy Who Loved Me, ...

Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Octavo, publisher's imitation cloth, unclipped dust-...

Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richar...

Moore, Roger. My Word is My Bond, signed & numbered limited edition, one of 1000, [London: Michael O'Mara, 2008], sealed in original cellophane ....

James Bond. Faulks, Sebastian. Devil May Care, exclusive limited edition signed by the author & numbered 129/500, London: Michael Joseph, 2008, ha...

Fleming, Ian. The Man With the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Octavo, publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jacket design...

Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (pr...

Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, March 1964. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 16s....

Fleming Ian. Mixed collection to include Goldfinger, first Book Club edition, 1959, in facsimile Cape jacket; Thunderball, first Book Club edition...

Gardner, John. Collection of five first editions in unclipped dust-jackets: Role of Honour, Jonathan Cape, 1984; For Special Services, Cape, 1982;...

Fleming, Ian. Collection of paperbacks, predominantly Pan, a few Panther, Fontana, Signet, to inc. seven first printings of Pan: Diamond Smugglers...

James Bond. Miscellaneous collection to inc. James Bond Annual, World Distributors, 1965 (x 2); James Bond Annual, World Distributors, 1968; James...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fourth issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, print line on copyright ...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first adult edition, first issue, signed by the author in black ink on dedication page, L...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright ...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boar...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 23rd issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, together with Harr...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, two first editions, six second editions, London: Bloomsbury, 2003. Hardbacks with dust-j...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter collection comprising: Ted Smart first edition, first issue hardback of Chamber of Secrets, 1998 (X2), and Prisoner of...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, uncl...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter. Collection of nine deluxe editions comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (x 3), first editions, sevent...

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, full number line, '10 9 8 ...

Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (1891-1959). Stanley Spencer, by Elizabeth Rothenstein, London: Phaidon, 1945, bearing gift inscription from Stanley S...

Autograph album, 1930s, featuring George Formby; Alastair Sim; Rex Harrison; Alfred Drayton; Robertson Hare; Vic Oliver; Beatrice Lillie; Jack War...

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979). Typed letter signed on Broadlands letterhead, 1 November 1978, thanking William Brag...

Elgar, Edward. Dream of Gerontius, London: Novello, 1900, signed by Edward Elgar, Robert Charlesworth, Jenny Taggart, Owain Arwel Hughes, Henry Tu...

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte, KB (1758-1805). Order signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Ross Donnelly, Captain o...

Leonard James Keyworth VC (1893-1915), recipient of the Victoria Cross for an act of bravery on 25/26 May 1915 at Givenchy, France. Autograph on a...

Sir George Russell Drysdale AC (Australian, 1912-1981), "Tass Drysdale". The Paintings of Russell Drysdale, first edition, limited to 1000 copies,...

Napoleonic Wars. POW. A pair of manuscript crossed letters written by a Prisoner of War to a friend in London (Samuel Barber of Warnford Court, Th...

Signed cricket team sheets for South Africa in UK, 1955 & 1960, Australia 1956, 1958, 1961, Pakistan 1962, India 1952, New Zealand to India with W...

Augustus Edwin John OM RA (1878-1961). Augustus John Drawings, first edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1941, presentation copy signed & inscribed by...

Mid-1950s autograph albums with Middlesex cricketers 1950, Leslie Compton, J. M. Sims, Alex Thomson, Derby CCC, A. Revell, W. H. Copson, and other...

Alan Reynolds Stone, CBE, RDI (1909-1979). Reynolds Stone Engravings, first edition, London: John Murray, 1977, hardback with dust-jacket, housing...

Jack Nicklaus signed 10x8 colour photo with programme for 2nd round draw at the Dunhill British Masters signed by Jack Nicklaus, Sandy Lyle, Nick ...

Biro, Val. Gumdrop at Sea, signed presentation copy, first edition, 1983, with loosely inserted letter signed, tog. w/ a signed Nina & Frederick p...

A miscellaneous collection of ephemera to include a Liverpool Echo poster, May 1902, declaring 'The Terms of Peace' [Treaty of Vereeniging, which ...

Saxton & Kip. 17th-century map of Staffordshire, hand-coloured engraving on laid paper, 27cm by 38cm, framed & glazed. Together with a caricature ...

Collection of approximately 140 black & white movie stills and contact sheets, many bearing stamps & captions verso, to include Marlene Dietrich &...

Stereoscopic viewer and 155 cards depicting topographical & architectural views (UK & worldwide), people, several interesting examples such as San...

Victorian carte-de-visite album housing 48 photographic portraits, the album in crushed morocco with brass corners & clasps and central hand-paint...

Staffordshire History. An archive of vellum indentures & postal history comprising: an Elizabethan manuscript vellum Exemplification of a Recovery...

Henry Moore (1898-1986). Recorded interview on two reel-to-reel tapes, approximately 60 minutes in length, also converted to digital USB, tog. w/ ...

Women's History. Commemorative embroidered silk banner for German Unmarried Women & Virgins, 25th Anniversary, 8 May 1910. The banner is adorned w...

An archive of scrapbooks, Valentines, ephemera, manuscript notebooks, postcards and small educational publications collected during the life of Ha...

Mau Mau barbed arrowhead with remnants of reed shaft, c. 1950s, approx. 14cmProvenance: Vendor hitch-hiked alone through Kenya during leave from N...

Cigarette cards in old album, Wills merchant ships, Godfrey Phillips aviation & footballers etc, some later 1930s gummed back types, approx. 600, ...

Postcards, approx. 150, inc. many of Brussels Exposition explosion

19th-century scrapbook of embroidered samples, including sewing techniques, details such as button-holes, and an alphabet sampler. 8pp. (filled), ...

George IV embroidered sampler depicting a large house with trees, fences, dog and flowers, surrounded by a floral border. 'Hannah Biddulphs Sample...

Fixtures of the Belvoir Hunt, London: Ackermann, n.d., miniature booklet listing places of meeting and accommodation for hunters & race horses, fo...

Shakespeare. A pair of solid brass bookends (weighing 9kg) depicting The Bard outside the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, commemorating its destruct...