Golley (John et al ). "...So Few"..., reprint edition, WH Smith, 1992, with a 'Ten of My Rules for Air Fighting' facsimile poster signed by 'Doug Gilbert 118 Squadron', numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed & marked, large 8vo, together with; Wynn (Kenneth G.), Men of The Battle Of Britain, A biographical directory of 'The Few', 1st edition, CCB, Surrey, 1999, signed by 6 Luftwaffe pilots shot down during the Battle of Britain & 2 RAF pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, and Hansell (Haywood S.), The Air Plan that Defeated Hitler, 1st edition, Higgins-McArthur, Atlanta, 1972, half-title inscribed by Bernie Lay Jr. (September 1, 1909 – May 26, 1982), an American author, aviation writer, Hollywood screenwriter, and combat veteran of World War II with the U.S. Army Air Forces. He is best known for his collaboration with Sy Bartlett in authoring the novel Twelve O'Clock High, black & white illustrations & maps, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with loss to the head of the spine, 8vo, plus other 1950s-70s aviation & military history & biographies, including The Tiger Moth Story, by Alan Bramson & Neville Birch, Letchworth: 3rd edition, Air Review, 1970, signed copy, One Man's Journey, by Donald Mounter, Bognor Regis: 1st edition, New Horizon, 1980, signed copy, Testing Times..., by Harry Griffiths, Penzance: 1st edition, United Writers, 1992, inscribed by the author, many first editions, some signed by the authors & others, all original cloth in dust jackets, some covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo/4toQty: (44)
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Brittain (Harry). Pilgrims And Pioneers, London: 1st edition, Hutchinson & Co., circa 1946, period inscription to the front endpaper by the author to 'my old friend Billie Rootes...' black & white illustrations, some light spotting, original blue cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Rankin (Kenneth), Top-Hats In Tobruk, 1st edition, Odiham: 1983, front endpaper signed by the author and inscribed by 'Pop Edwards. 275.'black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Bean (Lucy), Strangers In Our Midst, 1st edition, Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1970, title page inscribed by the author, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with minor tears to head & foot of spine, 8vo, plus other 1940s-80s aviation reference & biographies, including The Stirling Bomber, by Michael J. F. Bowyer, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1980, signed by the author & others, Six Squadron, by Peter Moulding, 1st edition, Dublin: 1982, signed copy, some first editions, some signed by the authors, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8voQty: (50)
Healy (Allan). The 467th Bombardment Group, September 1943 - June 1945, reprint edition, New York, 1980, black & white illustrations, publishers original cloth in plain white dust jacket, 4to, together with; Hair (Charles Arthur), The Saga of '54 and More, The Story of the 310th Bombardment Group (M), 1st edition, Robinson Typographics, Anaheim, 1987, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, and Bishop (Cliff T.), Fortresses of the Big Triangle First, 1st edition, East Anglia Books, Bishops Stortford, 1986, signed by the author to the half-title, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus other U.S. aviation & military history & biographies, including 452nd Bombardment Group, circa 1960, The 351st Bomb Group in W.W. II, by Peter Harris & Ken Harbour, Florida: 1980, limited edition 355/700, We'll Say Goodbye, story of the 307th bombardment group (HV.), U.S.A.: 1st edition, 1945, some first editions, some signed by the authors & others, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, some covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo/4toQty: (42)
![Richarz (Wilbert H. et al [editors]). The 390th Bomb Group Anthology, by Members of the 390th Bomb Group (H) 1943-1945, 2 vol](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2206a016-3da5-4a0b-9e5e-acbe010b0ffe/a3c793a5-2e5b-4060-a8a2-acc400e15fc9/468x382.jpg)
Richarz (Wilbert H. et al [editors]). The 390th Bomb Group Anthology, by Members of the 390th Bomb Group (H) 1943-1945, 2 volumes, Tuscon: 390th Memorial Museum Foundation Inc, 1983-85, colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, limited deluxe edition 292/500, together with; Spagnuolo (Mark M.), Don S. Gentile, Soldier of God and Country, 1st edition, Michigan: College Press, 1986, front endpaper signed by the author, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers & spine lightly rubbed with minor tear to the foot of the front cover, 8vo, and Longmate (Norman), The G.I.'s, The Americas in Britain 1942-1945, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson, 1975, front endpaper signed by the author, monochrome illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, covers slightly faded, minor rubbing to head & foot of the spine, 8vo, plus other 1960s-80s U.S. aviation reference & biographies, including Aerial Combat Escapades, a pilot's logbook, by J. Hunter Reinburg, 1st edition, Arizona: 1988, signed copy, The Jolly Rogers, The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17, by Tom Blackburn, 1st edition, New York: Orion Books, 1989, includes First Day Cover signed by the author & 7 Luftwaffe pilots, many 1st editions, some signed by the authors, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8voQty: (43)
![Aldin (Cecil). Field Babies, [1910]; Farm-Yard Puppies, [1911]; Puppy Tails, [1912]; Jock and Some Others, [1916], Field Babi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2206a016-3da5-4a0b-9e5e-acbe010b0ffe/b200faa2-9241-4bd6-9651-acc400e180fa/468x382.jpg)
Aldin (Cecil). Field Babies, [1910]; Farm-Yard Puppies, [1911]; Puppy Tails, [1912]; Jock and Some Others, [1916], Field Babies 1st US edition, colour plates, Jock and Some Others title and one text illustration partly neatly coloured-in in red, occasional minor spotting and offsetting, first few leaves of Jock with some marginal chipping from rough opening, contemporary presentation inscription to Puppy Tales, previous owner signature to Jock and Some Others, Farm-Yard Puppies endpapers renewed, Jock and Some Others lacking free endpapers, original pictorial cloth-backed boards, Field Babies and Farm-Yard Puppies with later cloth spines, some edge wear, 4toQty: (4)
Kirby (John). The Suffolk Traveller: or, a Journey through Suffolk. In which is inserted the true distance in the roads, from Ipswich to every market town in Suffolk, and the same from Bury St. Edmund's... With a short historical account of the antiquities of every market town, monasteries, castles &c. that were in former times, 1st edition, Ipswich, printed by John Bagnall, 1735, 206 pp., errata leaf at end, small insect damage at gutter of first few leaves, a little minor toning, contemporary half calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Frere (1740-1807), his signature to front pastedown and later inscriptions 1896-98 from his great-granddaughters. John Frere was a Suffolk antiquary and notable for his excavations near Hoxne, where he unearthed flint tools, mainly handaxes and ancient animal bones, and described his findings to the Royal Society in a letter in 1797 'as weapons of war, fabricated by a people who had not the use of metals... The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world...'. His discovery, overlooked for decades until rediscovered by archaeologist Sir John Evans is now recognized as one of the most important middle Pleistocene sites in Europe.
Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 2nd printing, London: Secker & Warburg, August 1945, small contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original green cloth, some fading to spine and extremities, dust jacket, a few chips and tears, 8voQty: (1)NOTESReprinted in August 1945, the same month as the first edition.
Pogany (Willy, illustrator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, with illustrations by Willy Pogany, 1st edition, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1930, 12 tipped-in colour plates, one or two with minor crease to lower corner, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original turquoise full morocco gilt, rubbed and some marks, spine faded, and rubbed, 4toQty: (1)NOTESWith original signed etching by the artist bound in as an additional frontispiece.
Traven (B.) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, translated from the German by Basil Creighton, London: Jonathan Cape, 1948, original green cloth, some fading to spine, dust jacket with photographic scenes from the film, spine a little toned with small chips at head, 8voQty: (1)NOTESFirst published in the UK in 1934, preceding the 1st US edition of 1935, this 1948 UK edition was issued to coincide with the film version of the classic western, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston.
Hardy (Thomas). Wessex Novels, 6 volumes, Folio Society, reprinted 1993, wood engravings by Peter Reddick, original cloth gilt, with card slipcase, 8vo, together with: Moser (Barry, illustrator). Louis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, University of California Press, 1982, monochrome wood engraved illustrations, original quarter red cloth, with dust wrapper, folio, VG, plus: Duggan (G.C.). The Watchers on Gallipoli, A Poem, 1st edition, Dublin, Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1921, contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper 'To Bea in memory of many happy days together between 1914 & 1918, October 25th 1922', original boards with printed paper label to upper cover, a little rubbed and light soiling to boards, slim 8vo, and other literature and children's books, including Alison Uttley, Muriel Levy (Adventures of Wonk series), Cicely Mary Barker (Flower Fairies series), Kate Greenaway, Mother Goose, George Routledge and Sons, [1881], in original printed wrappers, some discolouration and fraying to spine, Ruth Krauss, A Hole Is To Dig, A First Book of First Definitions, pictures by Maurice Sendak, 1963, etc.Qty: (6 shelves)
Dickey (James). Deliverance, Connecticut: facsimile edition, The First Edition Library, 1995, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, dust jacket slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with; Crane (Stephen), The Red Badge of Courage, Connecticut: facsimile edition, The First Edition Library, 1990, publishers original cloth in slipcase, 8vo, and other mostly modern fiction, including John Le Carrré, Saul Bellow, Richard Adams, Ian Rankin, William Makepeace Thackeray, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8voQty: (6 shelves)
Clutton (Cecil and Daniels, George). Watches, a complete history of the technical and decorative development of the watch, 3rd edition, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979, numerous colour and monochrome plates, original black cloth gilt in dust wrapper, folio, together with: Perkins (Roger). Military and Naval Silver, Treasures of the Mess and Wardroom, Newton Abbot, 1999, monochrome illustrations, original dark blue cloth gilt in dust wrapper, 4to, plus: Mortensen (Otto). Jens Olsen's Clock, A Technical Description, Copenhagen, 1957, monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed patterned boards, with dust wrapper, 4to, and: Koldeweij (Eloy). The English Candlestick, 500 years in the development of base-metal candlesticks 1425-1925, 1st edition, Christie's, 2001, numerous illustrations, mostly in colour, original black cloth gilt in dust wrapper, large 4to, and other antiques reference, including pottery and porcelain, furniture, clocks and watches, including Clive L. Lloyd, The Arts and Crafts of Napoleonic and American Prisoners of War 1756-1816, Antique Collectors' Club, 2007, H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, Ceramic Book Company, 1977, L.M. Bickerton, 18th Century Drinking Glasses, an illustrated guide, Antique Collectors' Club, 1986, Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, 1932, Ena L. Yonge, A Catalogue of Early Globes, American Geographical Society, 1968, etc., mostly original cloth, many in dust wrappers, 4to/8voQty: (6 shelves)
Chandler (Richard). Travels in Asia Minor: or an Account of a Tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1775, folding engraved map by Thomas Kitchin, errata leaf, some damp stains and light spotting, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed with some worming and wear, 4to, together with Landor (A. Henry Savage). China and the Allies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1901, colour and half-tone plates and illustrations, publisher's 32 pp. catalogue at end of volume I, occasional light spotting, pictorial endpapers, original yellow decorative cloth gilt, spines a little faded, a few small stains to volume I, 8vo, with 3 others including A. Henry Savage Landor's Tibet & Nepal Painted and Described, 1905 (spine faded with stains, small wormholes) and Josef Melnik's Russen Uber Russland. Ein Sammelwerk, Frankfurt, 1906Qty: (6)NOTESFirst work Atabey 215; Blackmer 318.
Marshall (William). The Rural Economy of Yorkshire, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: G. Nicol, G.G. & J. Robinson and J. Bebrett, 1796, folding & double-page engraved maps (both with short closed tear at foot of fold), light worm trail to lower margin at foot of first map and few worm holes/trail to last few leaves of volume 1, contemporary half calf, morocco title labels, 8voQty: (2)
Maps. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the County of Worcester from an actual survey..., Map of the County of Huntingdon from an actual survey..., Map of the County of Northampton from an actual survey..., Map of the County of Stafford from an actual survey..., [and] Map of the County of Leicester from an actual survey..., circa 1830, together five engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, each with an uncoloured topographical vignette, some marginal fraying and closed tears, occasional holes to the printed image, Staffordshire with long repaired closed tear affecting image, occasional spotting, each approximately 595 x 725 mm, together with Toms (W. engraver). Most Humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Honble. Sir Charles Wager, first Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. This plan of the Harbour, Town and Several Forts O Cartagena. In which is Exhibited a Perfect View of the English Fleet as they Anchored all along the Coast..., S. Harding & W. H. Toms, May 29th 1741, uncoloured engraved map with reference table below image, creased and with some dust and finger soiling, 440 x 595 mm, with Faden (William, publisher). Plan of the Harbour of Cadiz surveyed by Brigadier Don Vincent Tofino de San Miguel Director of the Naval Academies for Cadets 1789, Re-published...., 1805, uncoloured engraved chart, inset reference table, creased and with some dust soiling and staining, 590 x 860 mm, plus Foster (E. publisher). Foster's Chart of Rome, France and Britain with Historical Notices and dates of other States of Europe, 43rd edition, circa 1855, an uncoloured broadside of chronological historical and important dates for Rome France and the countries of the United Kingdom, some staining, laid on linen, 800 x 565 mm, and three various Ordnance Survey maps, various sizes, all damagedQty: (11)NOTESSold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
Oxfordshire. Cary (John), A New Map of Oxfordshire Divided into Hundreds exhibiting its Roads, Rivers Parks &c. Feby. 1st. 1821, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, slight creasing, two rust spots, slight mount staining, 555 x 485 mm,Qty: (1)NOTESThe noted cartographer, engraver and publisher John Cary (1755-1835) collaborated with William Smith, 'the father of English geology', on a number of his geological projects, notably the 1815 Map and geological sections (1817-1819). Cary had previously produced large, topographical county maps for his New and Correct English Atlas and the plates which were being prepared for a new edition were instead adapted to accommodate Smith's detailed geology, the first set of geological maps being issued in 1819. This is a later state which has the engraved annotations identifying the various rock strata to be found within the county but lacks the hand colouring which identifies the geological variations. A note below the map states 'Geological section from London to Snowdon through this County by W.Smith - may be had of the Publisher, J. Cary, 181 Strand Pr. 7s.' Scarce.
A Collection of Six Books relating to Fishing: 1949 First Edition of Wye Salmon and Other Fish by J Arthur Hutton, 1948 Edition of Our Fishing Diary Hampton Bishop 1908-1933 by J. Arthur Hutton, 1952 Edition of Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons by A H Chaytor, Angling Methods by Alexander Wanless, Fisherman's Knots & Wrinkles by W. A. Hunter and a First Printing of Casts From a Salmon Reel by Major Kenneth Dawson
A Collection of Children's Books to Include a 1930 First Edition 1930 Edition of Tal His Marvellous Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom by Paul Fenimore Cooper (Binding AF), 1907 Silas Marner by George Eliot, The History of Henry Esmond Illustrated by F D Bedford, 1907 Edition of Jock of The Bushveld, 1927 (5th Edition) of Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne, Courage by J. M. Barrie
Three Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Novels Published by Hodder and Stoughton (Yellow Jacket Edition) to Include 1949 Edition of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lord Toy's Wife and I will Repay Together with 1951 Edition of Not by any Single Man by Brigid Knight, First Edition of Many Waters by Violet Bibby, 1947 Edition of Judith by Janet Whitney, Three Books by Daphne Du Maurier, 1931 Edition of Jungle John by John Budden and 1929 Edition of The Further Adventures of Jungle John etc
A Collection of Books relating to Wellington College to Include 1943 Edition of A Victorian School Being the Story of Wellington College by R. St. C. Talboys, 1949 Edition of Wellington Roll of Honour 1939-1945, Wellingtonian Studies Edited by Michael Howard, 1945 Edition of My Recollections of Wellington College by George F. H. Berkeley, Wellington College Register Seventh Edition January 1859-1948, Wellington College Psalter and Wellington College The First 150 Years by Patrick Mileham
A Collection of Books relating to the Middle East, African, Asia and British Expansion: to Include 1895 Edition of Where Three Empires Meet by E.F.Knight, 1903 Edition of Seven Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia by Major H. G. C. Swayne, Yesterday and To-day in Sinai by C. S. Jarvis 1936, 1936 First Edition of Three Deserts by C. S. Jarvis, 1939 Edition of The Back Garden of Allah by C. S. Jarvis, 1947 Edition of Jungle Man the Autobiography of Major P. J. Pretorious, 1937 Edition of Quest for Sheba by Pearn and Barlow, 1957 Edition of Let the Great Story be Told by H. Wood Jarvis etc
SPIDER-MAN (22 in Lot) - (MARVEL) - ALL First Printings - Includes AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2001/03) #471 (30), 497 (56) + SPIDER-MAN (MARVEL KNIGHTS - 2004) #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 + MARVEL AGE: SPIDER-MAN (2004) #1 (x 2 including Free Comic Book Day Edition), 2, 3, 4, 5 + DAILY BUGLE (1996/97) #1, 2, 3 + SPIDER-MAN: BLUE (2002) #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Flat/Unfolded
DAREDEVIL - (23 in Lot) - MARVEL) - ALL First Printings - Includes KINGPIN (2002/03) #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 + DAREDEVIL: FATHER (2004) #1 (x 2) - Regular & Director's Cut Edition + DAREDEVIL BULLSEYE: THE TARGET (2003) #1 + DAREDEVIL SHI (1997) #1 + DAREDEVIL (1999) #1/2 WIZARD EDITION with Certificate + SPIDER-MAN DAREDEVIL (2002/03) #1, 2, 3, 4 + POWERLESS (2004/05) #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 + ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN (1986) #2 - Flat/Unfolded
MARVEL, DC, TEKNO, EVENT, ASPEN, CLIFFHANGER, AVATAR #1's LOT: - (14 in Lot) - ALL First Printings - Includes CABLE (1993) #1 + EXCALIBUR (2004) #1 + VILLAINS UNITED (2005) #1 + FALLEN ANGELS (2003) #1 + MANHUNTER (1994) #1 + JUSTICE LEAGUE ADVENTURES (2002) #1 - Free Comic Book Day Edition + JUSTICE (2005) #1 + STRANGE KILLINGS (2002) #1 + PRIMORTALS (1995) #1 + PAINKILLER JANE & DARKCHYLDE (1995) #1 + MUTIES: THE CHANGELING (2002) #1 + CANNON (2004) #0 + DANGER GIRL: VIVA LAS DANGER (2004) #1 + THE POSSESSED (2003) #1 - Flat/Unfolded
A MID-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM containing a series of family photos from the late 1950s, to include local scenes, together with a first edition 1938 'MY PERSONAL BOOK' a volume of domestic instructions, house hold management & accounting, and tips on how to live and be well, to include self-isolation from infectious diseases!
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