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  • Ended 15 Oct 2021 19:12 BST

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DAVID TEW. 'The Oakham Canal.' Signed author, ltd edn, Illustrated by Rigby Graham, Two postcards regarding the book to Justin Brooke loosely inse...

EDAWARD THOMAS. 'In Pursuit of Spring.' First Edition, original cloth, top edge etc gilt, 1914, very good. Condition: please request a condition ...

DYLAN THOMAS. 'Under Milk Wood.' First edition, vg condition with slightly worn dj, 1954; 'Collected Poems. 1934-1952.' Top edge red, some foxing ...

STREATFEILD, NOEL, Harlequinade. Lithographs by Clarke Hutton, lacks dj. good; BLAKELOCK, DENYS. In Search of Elsie Piddock. An Echo of Eleanor Fa...

CHARLES DAVID BADHAM. 'A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England.' Ten hand-coloured plates complete, orig cloth, gilt, some wear to covers, ...

T. E. LAWRENCE. 'The Mint.' Limited edition of 2000, of which this is Number 1040, goatskin-backed buckram, Jonathan Cape, 1955. The front and rea...

MERVYN PEAKE ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Hunting of the Snark.' Two copies in fair/good condition. Lacking dj, 1941 plus Zodiac edition, 1942, vg. (3) Co...

MERVYN PEAKE. Various books in various editions. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the...

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. 'The Tower.' Original cloth gilt, designed by Thomas Sturge Moore, vg condition, Macmillan 1929. Condition: please request ...

Father Tuck Little Books. 28 vols, plus 4 in the "A Pixie Book" series. All in dustjackets and in good to very good condition. (Little Red Riding ...

MERVYN PEAKE. 'Shapes and Sounds.' Village Press, 1974. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. The Macmillan Company, New York; Plus 13 other books ...

AGNES CATLOW. 'Popular Garden Botany: A Familiar and Scientific Description.' 20 hand-coloured plated complete, 1855, original cloth gilt, good. ...

ANES CATLOW. 'Popular Greenhouse Botany.' Twenty hand-coloured plates complete, uncut, 1857, original cloth gilt, good. Condition: please request...

THOMAS MOORE. 'A Popular History of the British Ferns and Allied Plants, comprising the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails.' Plates complete,...

DEREK TANGYE. 'Somewhere a Cat is Waiting.' Signed title page by author, very well bound in morocco, gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Condition: ...

DEREK TANGYE. 'A Cat at the Window.' Signed title page by author, well bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in morocco, gilt very good. Condition: pl...

DOREEN TOVEY. 'Raining Cats and Donkeys.' Illustrated by Maurice Wilson, six line dedication to the Tangyes on ffep signed 1972 - pub 1967, first ...

DOREEN TOVEY. 'Cats in May.' Illustrated by Maurice Wilson, first edition, 1959; 'Donkey Work,' illustrated by Maurice Wilson, 1962, first edition...

THE DECORATIVE ART OF LEON BAKST. Appreciation by Arsene Alexandre. Notes on the Ballets by Jean Cocteau. The Fine Art Society, London, 1913. Orig...

EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Tempest.' By William Shakespeare, 40 tipped in coloured plates with descriptive tissue guards complete, original ...

DICCIONARIO DE LA LENGUA CASTELLANA. 'por la Real Academia Espanola.' Orig marbled leather, labels, 1899, good. Condition: please request a condi...

MURIEL HANDLEY SPICER. 'Toy Dogs and How to Breed and Rear Them being The Life of a Griffon Bruxellois.' Original pictorial cloth, photographic il...

LAURA KNIGHT. 'Oil Paint and Grease Paint.' 3 vols., first Penguin edition, 1941, vg; Plus other unusual Cornish-related books, all in very good c...

W. T. GREENE. 'Birds I have Kept in Years Gone By.' Sixteen colour litho plates comp, orig cloth gilt, teg, 1885, vg; TUFFEN WEST. 'Half-Hours wit...

W. LAUDER LINDSAY, MD. 'A Popular History of British Lichens, comprising an account of their structure, reproduction, uses, distribution, and clas...

AMBROSE HEATH. 'Good Food from the Aga.' Cover and decorations by Edward Bawden, second impression of the first edition, good, 1934; AMBROSE HEATH...

ARTHUR G LANGDON. 'Old Cornish Crosses.' With an article on their ornament by J Romilly Allen, FSA. Illustrations and maps complete. Ex-library wi...

SAM SMITH. 'Rover's Regatta Day.' Illustrated glazed boards, profusely illustrated by the sculptor and artist Sam Smith who has signed this scarce...

MARRIOTT EDGAR. 'Albert Arold and Others compiled and written by Marriott Edgar. Performed by Stanley Holloway and Marriott Edgar.' With 46 charac...

G F SCOTSON-CLARK. 'Cut-Outs.' The Shadow Picture Book. 23 0f 24 cut-outs which have been cut out. Cloth-backed boards, dj (small loss to back cov...

MAX VAN BOEHN. 'Dolls and Puppets.' Translated by Josephine Nicoll, illustrated by 30 plates in colour and 464 illustrations in monochrome, origin...

WILLIAM HODGSON HOPE. 'Men of the Deep Waters.' Second (Cheap) edition, 1921, original cloth, browning to top of backstrip which is separating fro...

EISHIRO ABE. 'The Hand Made Paper of Izumo.' Hand-printed paper-covered boards, hand-made paper dj. 16 tipped in examples of Japanese hand-made pa...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. 'Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology. Modern Architecture being the Kahn Lectures for 1930.' Decorative paper-covered ...

THOMAS WRIGHT. 'Heart's Desire, Being principally a presentment from various translations of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam that relate to SAKI, th...

FINE BINDING. 'Lettres de Mon Moulin,' by ALPHONSE DAUDET. Pochoir plates complete. Limited edition no 7623. Special binding for Monsieur et Madam...

EDWIN MULLINS. 'Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive Painter.' Orig cloth, dj in which tears have been repaired, contents and cover vg. First Edition,...

ALFRED WALLIS, 1855-1942. October 21 - November 21 1992. Very rare catalogue issued by the Mercury Gallery of London in 1992 showing six colour re...

EARLY CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOK. 'The Life of Jack Sprat, his Wife, and his Cat.' 16pp each with woodcut illust, orig wps, York, J Kendrew, Colliergate,...

RICHARD CAREW. Rare Elizabethan Indenture re lease by Richard Carew of Antony (the early Cornish Historian) of land in Gwennap, dated 1599. Wax se...

ENYS-GALPIN Two rare Elizabethan Indentures dated 1588. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regard...

142 WILLIAM STOBBS Good original pen and ink drawing of a mouse in an oriental cloak; C WALTER HODGES. good original pen & ink and colour of ship ...

BERNARD LEACH. 'An Exhibition of the Art of Bernard Leach. His Masterpieces loaned by British Museums and Collectors. Meeting of East and West. Sp...

JAPANESE SHOJI PAPER SAMPLE BOOK with 30 examples bound in purple silk covered book. vg condition. Condition: please request a condition report i...

GODFREY BLOUNT. 'A Book on the Nature - Development of Imaginative Design for the Use of Teachers Handicraftsmen - Others. Original cloth, uncut, ...

MICHAEL JEFFERSON-BROWN. 'Narcissus.' 1991. vg condition; JAMES S WELLS. 'Modern Miniature Daffodils. Species and Hybrids.' 1989, slight fading to...

JOE EARLE. 'Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century.' 2005, vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require addi...

JAPANESE CERAMICS TODAY. 'Masterworks from the Kikuchi Collection.' Original cloth, glassine dj, April-July 1983, vg with envelope; PHILIPS. '20TH...

MICHAEL CARDEW. 'Pioneer Pottery.' Orig cl, dj, unclipped, First Edition, 1969. good from the Library of John Blowey; GARTH CLARK 'Michael Cardew:...

BERNARD LEACH. 'A Potter's Book.' Orig cl, dj unclipped slightly frayed, 1945; plus four others by and about Bernard Leach. Condition: please req...

BERNARD LEACH. 'W H Lane & Son Auction Catalogue.' 'Bernard Leach Ceramics/Oriental Objets d'Art.' Illustrated Catalogue mostly with hand-written ...

SHOJI HAMADA CATALOGUE. Japanese text, dated 1981, good condition; Plus SUSAN PETERSON. 'Shoji Hamada: A Potter's Way and Work.' Orig cloth, 1995;...

CERAMICA QUADERNI DOMUS TRIENNALE No 5. Showing work by Berndt Friberg, Bruno Gambone, Fausto Melotti, Axel Salto and others. orig wps, one three-...

FLORENTINE FINE BINDING. 'Echoes of Old Florence, Her Palaces and Those who have Lived in Them.' By Leander Scott, mounted photos complete, origin...

HERBERT GRANVILLE FELL. 'The Book of Job.' Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, fully illustrated with beautiful full-page engravings, drop-caps, border...

PHIL ROGERS. 'Throwing Pots: Ceramic Handbooks.' Orig wps, 1995, vg; PAUL SCOTT. 'Ceramics and Print: Ceramic Handbooks.' Orig wps, 1994, vg. Con...

STEPHEN MURFITT. 'The Glaze Book: A Visual Catalogue of Decorative Ceramic Glazes.' Glazed boards with ringback binding, 2002, vg MICHAEL BAILEY. ...

ALFRED R SEARLE. 'The Clayworker's Handbook: A Manual for All Engaged in the Manufacture of Articles from Clay.' Second Iimpression of the fifth e...

D. H. LAWRENCE. 'Pansies.' Cloth backed boards, small stain on first three pages, 1929, g; T. S. ELIOT. 'The Dry Salvages.' Cloth-backed boards, f...

DON IRVING. 'A Guide to Growing Marijuana in Cool Climates.' Card covers, 1995, good; RICHARD BLUM & Associates. 'Utopiates: The use and users of ...

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