Auction of Antiquarian & Secondhand Books

GAIMAN (Neil) The Graveyard Book, SIGNED Limited Edition, No. 36 of 1500 copies, slipcase, Bloomsbury, d/w, 2008.

GAIMAN (Neil) Anansi Boys, SIGNED Limited Edition, slipcase, Headline, 2005.

PRATCHETT (Terry) Going Postal, Uncorrected book proof, original string and blank tag present, wraps, SIGNED to outside cover, Doubleday, 2009. T...

PRATCHETT (Terry) The Carpet People, SIGNED Limited Edition, No. 454 of 1000 copies, slipcase, Doubleday, 2005.

GEMMELL (David) Quest for Lost Heroes, double-SIGNED by David Gemmell and cover illustrator Rodger Garland, Legend, 1st Edition, d/w, 1989.

GEMMELL (David) The Last Guardian, SIGNED, Legend, 1st Edition, d/w, 1989.

MOORCOCK (Michael) The Time Dweller, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st Edition, d/w, 1969.

WOODING (Chris) The Black Lung Captain, Gollancz, SIGNED, 1st Edition, d/w, 2010.

BROOKS (Terry) The Sword of Shannara, Random House, 1ST Edition (£6.95 on d/w, number line begins with 2) 1977.

HILL (Joe) Locke & Key, Volume 1, Welcome to Lovecraft, SIGNED, hardback graphic novel, 1st printing, IDW, 2008. Locke & Key, Volume 2, Head Games...

TOLKIEN ( J.R.R.) The Fellowship of the Ring, George Allen & Unwin, 1st Edition 8th printing, d/w, 1959. The Two Towers, George Allen & Unwin, 1st...

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, De-Luxe single volume edition, 10th Printing, George Allen & Unwin, boxed, 1985, together with an Alan Lee...

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The History of Middle Earth, Volumes 1 - 7 and 9, Harper Collins, 1st Editions, d/w. (8)

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) De-Luxe slipcased editions of The Children of Hurin, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun and The ...

TRAVEL BOOKS. Box of assorted books, mainly travel, 19th & 20th Century, incl. LIVINGSTONE, Missionary Travels, plates & maps as called for, clot...

ARCHITECTURE / PHOTOGRAPHY. Album of photographs of British country houses etc, 1950s/60s.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS / INDIA & PAKISTAN. Group of albums and loose photographs, late 19th / early 20th century. ...[more]

CARIBBEAN. Photograph album of a cruise through the West Indies, 1935. Crocodile effect covers.

USA / CANADA / PHOTOGRAPHY. Two early 20th century snapshot albums, including the Chicago Century of Progress International Exposition 1933.

PHOTOGRAPHY. Group of 6 misc. photograph travel albums, including North Africa, Switzerland and Egypt.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. Two British albums of early albumen photographs, plus group of loose architectural albumen photographs, 1860s to 80s.

CHINA / HONG KONG / PENANG. Photograph album, 1937.

AFRICA. DUN (Major Thomas Ingram) From Cairo to Siwa. Across the Desert with armoured cars. Cairo / London 1935.

ARGENTINA. HUTCHINSON (Thomas Joseph) 'Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings... in 1862 & 1863', London, 1865, first edition, 3 folding maps (one l...

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM / ARCHITECTURE. Folio album, large albumen photographs of French churches and buildings. Circa 1880.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Albums of large albumen views of Britain, full diced calf, circa 1870s / 80s.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Album of unusually fine snapshots, circa 1902, with an Eton and Ormesby connection, fine full morocco binding.

INDIA / WATERCOLOURS. Folio album of watercolours by Etta Fraser (ne) Irving Bell, circa 1887-95. With a few loose additional watercolours and ...

AFRICA / TRAVEL, two boxes of good hardback reference books on African exploration, including Stanley and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Living...

PERCY / WOMEN POETS, an early 19th century commonplace book belonging to Mary Catherine Percy (descendant of the Percy family), containing waterco...

MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY, photo album of WWII in Greece, Egypt, Malta & Cyprus, also a quantity of aerial photos of North Africa and snapshots of ba...

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM of HMS Enterprise sailing to India, Pakistan and East Africa, 1932-4.

YACHTSMAN (The) two albums of photo illustrations & supplements from the periodical. ...[more]

GENIUS, 4to German art periodical (lacking some plates), 1920.

HAMBURG & environs, coll'n of hand col'd mid 19th c. lithos in original obl. folio entitled "Errinerung an Hamburg". ...[more]

[TRAVEL] sm. obl leatherbound notebook detailing a trip to Rome from London, mid 19th c; & a student notebook (2). ...[more]

[NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ELECTION] The Spirit of Election Wit & Satire Exemplified in the Paper War..., vol. 1 [only], 12mo, untrimmed in (worn) boards, e...

[BIBLES] The Holy Bible..., 4to, engr. pictorial title (M. Burghers sculp.), unpaginated OT ends with register KKK [8], Apocrypha (caption title)...

[DOGS] Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopedia...edited by Walter Hutchinson, 3 vols., 4to, col. & b/w. illus. by Maud Earl & others, red cloth gilt, L., n....

PAPE (Frank C.) illustrator: The Works of Rabelais, 2 vols., 8vo, plates, cloth, d.w.'s, L., 1933; 5 (of 6) vols of the 2nd Edn. of Churchill's "S...

[BINDINGS] INGOLDSBY (T.) The Ingoldsby Legends, 4to, illus. by Leech, Cruikshank & Tenniel, full contemp. navy morocco gilt, L., 1866; SHAKESPEAR...

MANUSCRIPT "Common Place Book. M. W. Chaster...1829. Totnes", sm. 4to, 190 pp. of ms. poetry copies, "finished...1835", quarter roan / marbled boa...

[BIBLE] The Holy Bible... Appointed to be Read in Churches, 12mo, unpaginated, register runs: OT, A-Ff4; Apocrypha, A-G12; NT., [title=Ff5], Ff6-O...

[BINDINGS] a collection of 31 decorative leather prize & other bindings, large 4to et infra (31). ...[more]

[BINDINGS] collection of 14 various leather bindings, sm 8vo et infra, incl. Bacon's Essays, 1863, in full morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf (14).

[BINDINGS / NATURAL HISTORY] HULME'S Familiar Wild Flowers, 5 vols., half calf, col. plates, L., n.d.; & 5 other vols. incl. Waterton's Essays, in...

[NOVELS] WOOD (Mrs. H.) Verner's Pride, 3vols, 8vo, full calf, L., 1863; LEVER (C.) Roland Cashel, bound in 2 vols, plate, full calf, L., 1850 (5).

[BINDINGS / ANGLING], Salmon Fishing in Canada, 1860; Scientific Angler, 3rd Edn; Walton's Complete Angler, 1890; all bound in half calf gilt (3).

[BINDINGS] RUSKIN, Seven Lamps, 8vo, illus., full navy calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf,t.e.g., 3rd Edn., 1891; & 3 art related prize bindings (4). ...[mo...

BEETON'S HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT, 1915 edn., full calf binding (scuffed).

LAWRENCE (T. E.) Revolt in the Desert, sm. 4to, green half morocco by Hatchards, 3rd impression, L., 1927.

HUMPHRY (Mrs) "Manners for Women" and "Manners for Girls", 2 vols., pictorial cloth, foxing, L., 1897, 1901 (2).

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, misc. q. (w.a.f.) (Q).

[DOGS] PEEL (Mrs. N.) Autobiography of a Bull-Dog, 8vo, pict. clo., L., n.d.

[FLOWERS etc.] KNIEPP (S.) Plant-Atlas to "Water Lore", 8vo, col. plates, clo., L., 1893; GREENAWAY, Language of Flowers, L. n.d. (2).

DULAC (Edmund) illustrator: Stories from the Arabian Nights, 4to, 50 tipped-in col. plates with titled guards, cloth (rip to spine), some pages de...

[CHILDRENS' BOOKS] LE FEBVRE (J.) Visite d'une Semaine. Traduit de l'Anglais, 12mo, 4 plates, (pp. 173/4 torn across), tree calf (worn), London, 1...

[BIBLE] HENRY (M.) & BLOMFIELD (E.) editors: A New Family Bible, 2 vols., 4to, plates, contemp. flamed calf, Bungay, 1812 (2). ...[more]

[FERNS] SOWERBY (J.) & JOHNSON (C.) Ferns of Great Britain, 8vo, 49 h-col'd plates, cloth (spine repairs), L., 1855. ...[more]

[LITERATURE] MANUSCRIPT: "The Six Cantos: A Romance by George HERRON", 8vo, approx. 185 pp. manuscript poem, contemp. boards (amateur reback), dat...