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Two trays of assorted boxed diecast model vehicles to include: Maisto Special Edition Porsche 550A Spyder; Bburago Ferrari Testarossa and Ford Escort RS; Collin McRay/Derek Ringer First World Championship Rally in a Subaru in Preza, 1993 etc. (6)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

Star Wars "The First Ten Years" (1987) anniversary Kilian Enterprises poster art by Drew Struzan hand signed in pencil by artist limited edition no. 871/3000 (rolled, on thicker card, 27" x 41") Excellent condition.[BROWSER 159]

BLIGH, WILLIAM: A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTHERN SEA, UNDERTAKEN BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVEYING THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE TO THE WEST INDIES, IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE BOUNTY, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Condé after J. Russell, three plates by MacKenzie, two folding and four charts, three folding, by Harrison and Walker, contemporary sprinkled calf (skilfully rebacked), for G. Nicol, 1791, First edition and a fine copy with wide margins of an important work, the first narrative of the mutiny and Bligh's journey from Tofua to Timor. The original document in Bligh's hand was sold at Christie's in 1976. Hill p/27 (an extremely important book); Ferguson 125; Wantrup 62a.

THE DRAMA OF GRAF SPEE AND THE BATTLE OF THE PLATE', compiled by Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, London, Peter Davies 1964, limited edition no. 24/55, signed on the frontispiece and dedication by 44 key personnel associated with the action including the captains of Ajax, Achilles and Exeter, Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral Sir David Luce (First Sea Lord), Lt K. Diggins (Graf Spee flag Lt); Captain R. Ruggeburg (Naval Attaché Germany Embassy) and many others, 510pp with indices, maps and illustrations, bound in red full calf with gilt decorated cover and spine --10¼ x 8in. (26 x 20cm.); together with a contemporary white metal plaque commemorating the action, with repousse decoration inscribed 13th December 1939, H.M.S.s Ajax, Achilles and Exeter, with enamelled white ensign to centre, mounted to a wooden shield -- 6in. (15cm.) high, -2, Research conducted with a member of the Exeter association discovered that only eight of these plaques were made by a retired shepherd on the Falkland Islands from recycled RN sports trophies and sold as souvenirs to the crew of the ships undergoing temporary refits there.

FLAGS AND PENNANTS, comprising eleven enamelled burgees, two in silver by Benzie of Cowes; three matchbox holders: S.S. Arandora Star, silver 1928; S.S. Jervis Bay; S.S. Canton; and a first edition of the Marryat Code of Signals for 1841, covered in sail cloth with inscribed cover (worn overall), (A lot), The S.S. Arandora Star was torpedoed on 2nd July 1940 with great loss of life; Jervis Bay was sunk by the German armoured cruiser Admiral Scheer on 5th November 1940.

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BADER DOUGLAS: (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5 victories), recognized for his important role during the Battle of Britain. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Fight For the Sky - The Story of the Spitfire and Hurricane, First Edition published by Sidgwick and Jackson, 1973. Neatly laid down to the front free endpaper is an unusual triangular beer mat issued as part of an RAF series illustrating officers badges, the present example being number 33 from a series of 48 and showing the badges of a Group Captain, signed by Bader in blue ink with his name alone to a clear area. The front pastedown opposite features a neatly laid down oblong 8vo printed invitation card for the official opening of the New Bar at the Coventry Branch of the RAF Association by Bader on 16th November 1976, and a trimmed photograph of Bader signing the beer mat appears below. Two further photographs of Bader, one showing him behind the bar at the Royal Air Forces Association Club in Coventry on 16th November 1976 and the other showing him standing in a full length pose alongside his step-daughter on the occasion of her wedding, are neatly laid down to the endpaper and pastedown at the end of the book. Accompanied by the dustjacket. A light (beer?) stain only very slightly affects Bader's signature. Together with James Lacey (1917-1989) British World War II Ace (28 victories), the second highest scoring RAF Fighter Pilot of the Battle of Britain. Two individually signed First Day Covers by Lacey, one issued in commemoration of Lord Dowding and the Battle of Britain and the other on the 44th Anniversary of the winning of the Battle of Britain. Both feature attractive colour designs and images and and are signed by Lacey in blue ink with his name alone to clear areas. VG to EX, 3

TRUMP DONALD: (1946-  ) American President 2017- . Book signed, a hardback edition of The Art of the Deal, First Edition published Random House, New York 1987. Signed ('Donald Trump') in bold blue ink with his name alone to the half-title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG

ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942-2016) American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Muhammad Ali - A Thirty-Year Journey by Howard L. Bingham, First Edition published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993. Signed ('Muhammad Ali') by Ali in bold black ink with his name alone to the title page and also signed in black ink by Howard Bingham, who has added the date 19th October 1993 in his hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Some light age wear, about VG

Ian Fleming, 'For Your Eyes Only', first edition, published Jonathan Cape 1960, with dust jacket, together with 'The Man With The Golden Gun', first edition, published Jonathan Cape 1965, with dust jacket.

Robinson (William Heath) Some ''Frightful'' War Pictures, 1915, Duckworth, folio, first edition, 24 plates, monotone military cartoons, silhouettes to foxed e.p.s with gift inscription, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards (soiled, rubbed), block detached, plus two more of the same title, publisher's pictorial printed wrappers, one with yellow wraps (spine fold splitting so covers almost separated) [&] one orange (1916 reprint, 'Popular Edition') [with] Fly Papers [c.1920], Duckworth, lacking covers (4)

[MacMunn (George, Editor)] History of the Guides 1846-1922, 1938, Gale & Polden, Aldershot, first edition, 4to; half title, xv, pp. 347, 19 photographic plates incl. portrait frontis. and 18 folding maps incl. seven loose in pouch at rear. Original smart khaki cloth over bevelled boards, upper cover stamped with regimental crest in gilt, silk place marker in regimental colours. A little bumped and rubbed, with scattered, generally light, foxing; this copy with ownership signature of D.M. Brett, serving Commandant of the Corps of Guides, with order form/typed letter signed 'George' (the editor), December 1946, loosely inserted. A rare history of this regiment of the British Indian Army protecting the North West Frontier

Gosse (Edmund) Father and Son. A Study in Two Temperaments, 1907, London, William Heinemann, 8vo first edition, [x] including half title and frontispiece portrait of the author with his father, pp. 374, publisher's rubbed cloth, extremities a little frayed, white paint splash to foot of spine, foxing to ff. front and rear, early ownership inscription and later owner's label to f.f.e.p. [with:] Lewis (Wyndham) The Demon Of Progress In The Arts, 1954 first edition, slim 8vo, chipped and spotted dust jacket (2)

Bronte (Rev. Patrick) The Cottage in the Wood; or the Art of becoming Rich and Happy, 1818, Bradford, T. Inkersley, Second Edition, engraved frontispiece by E. Stather after F. James, pp. 69 + [2]; 19th century quarter green roan, rubbed and bumped brown boards with upper joint splitting so cover (with first leaf) almost detached; '73' twice in black felt pen (one crossed) to cover, gilt-lettered spine very scuffed and frayed at head and tail, internally good condition but with Colne and District Local History Society Library stamps to front pastedown and above colophon, with 1953 presentation inscription to the Society from a previous owner to final blank

Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, 1964, London, Cape, 8vo first edition, cloth bumped, several old tape repairs to (priced) jacket, splitting fold to front flap [&] The Man With The Golden Gun, 1965, London, Cape, 8vo first edition with dust jacket, scuffed and rubbed cloth with spine crease, library stamps to first three leaves incl. title (2)

Fortescue (Sir John William) A History of the British Army, 1910-30, London, MacMillan, 8vo, 13 volumes in 14 (Vol. IV separated in two parts), with six volumes of Maps as called for, the complete set. Vols. I - VI second editions, VII - XIII firsts, all in publisher's red cloth, rubbed, shelfware, some spines faded [with:] The County Lieutenancies and the Army 1803-1814, 1909, MacMillan, a first edition by the same author, 'presentation copy' blindstamp to title, red cloth, soiled boards, damage to spine (21)

Hartley (L.P.) The Go-Between, 1953, London, Hamish Hamilton, first edition, original red cloth (a little shelf ware), small chips and tears to corners and spine ends of dust jacket by Val Biro (not price-clipped), spine with dampstain, internally good, overall a good copy

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 1961, London, Cape, 8vo first edition with dust jacket; only a few signs of handling, staining to very top of rear flap of d.j. (price present to front flap). A very fine copy

Guillim [Gwillim] (John) A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof..., 1611, London, William Hall for R. Mab, First edition (second issue?, colophon dated 1610), folio, architectural engraved title, woodcut plates and more than 500 armorials to text in six sections; [xiv], inconsistent pagination ending p. 284, but complete (inc. e.p.s); title with handling creases and ink splashes, occasional light spotting and staining throughout, tear to fore edge 2N4. Contemporary scuffed and frayed calf, covers stamped in gilt with vignette and initials 'B W', upper joint splitting, lower joint tender. Guillim's was to remain the standard work on English heraldry until the second half of the 18th century, and to this day is regularly consulted by working heralds

Fleming (Ian) FOUR TITLES Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 1966 [&] The Man With The Golden Gun, 1965, both London, Cape, 8vo first editions with dust jackets; Octopussy with various library stamps and labels to e.p.s, (priced) jacket by Richard Chopping with light edge ware under protective library wrap, the Golden Gun a good copy [with:] Goldfinger, 1959, London, Cape, 8vo first edition, lacking jacket, the publisher's cloth rubbed and a little bumped to extremities [&] On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, London, Cape, 8vo first edition, lacking jacket, the rubbed publisher's cloth rather frayed at extremities (4)

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Fifth Thousand. 1860, London, John Murray, 8vo, Second Edition, Half Title, folding lithographic diagram (frayed fore edge), pp. 502 plus pp. 32 publisher's adverts at rear (the gathering almost detached, with cutting of 1860 article from The Saturday Analyst and Leader on Darwinian theory overpasted to pp. 1-4). Both hinges split and the whole block coming loose from backstrip. Scattered, mostly marginal, spotting throughout, heaver to first few ff. and with fore edge staining to adverts, brown endpapers, publisher's green cloth gilt with Edmonds & Remnants binder's label to rear pastedown, binding rubbed and bumped to extremities, with corner tips fraying. With ownership inscription 'Geo Sherwood October 29/[18]60' to title

Pritt (Thomas Evan) The Book of the Grayling: Being a Description of the Fish, and the Art of Angling for Him, as Practised Chiefly in the Midlands and the North of England, 1888, Leeds, Goodall and Suddick, First Edition, 4to, large paper copy, pp. 64 plus advert leaf, three chromolithographic plates, publisher's brown buckram with Izaak Walton quote stamped in gilt to cover, t.e.g. Binding a little rubbed with a couple of ink stains, some light toning and soiling internally with foxing spot to fore edge pp.27-38; patterned endpapers browned, with old ownership inscription to front pastedown (1)

Huxley (Leonard, Editor) Scott (Captain R.F.) Scott's Last Expedition, (Vol. I) Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., (Vol. II) Being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition…Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham, 1913, Smith Elder & Co., First edition, two thick large 8vo volumes: Vol. I xxvi, pp. 633 plus advert leaf; Vol II xiv, pp. 534; photogravure frontis. portraits to both vols., numerous plates, some in colour, folding maps. Publisher's blue ribbed cloth lettered gilt, only minor shelf ware (protected by acetate sleeve), scattered mostly light foxing to uncut text leaves and edge of block, t.e.g. (2)

A COLLECTION OF 20th CENTURY POETRY Twenty-one slim (large) 8vo volumes and booklets, publisher's cloth, some with dust jackets, all reading copies with varying degrees of ware, most with previous owner inscription(s): Yeats (William Butler) The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933, London, Macmillan and Co, first edition, xi, pp. 101, original bumped and rubbed green cloth, (sunfaded) spine with gilt, lacking jacket, errata slip p. 85 with fore and top edges uncut, foxing to e.p.s only, ownership inscription to f.f.e.p; Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, 1960, John Murray, d.j., inscribed 'J.B gave me this as a present, unfortunately (?) forgot to sign it'; signed presentation copies of works by Lucy Masterman, John Barron Mays, Thomas Blackburn and John H.F. McEwen; Clark (Leonard) The Mirror, 1948, d.j., with 'Poem for Christmas 1955' private insert; Reed (Henry) A Map of Verona, 1946, first, d.j.; Lewis (Cecil Day) Word Over All, 1946, Cape, d.j. [&] Collected Poems, Vol. 1, 1946, Hogarth press, d.j. [with:] Housman (A.E.) More Poems, 1936, Cape, a first, with two reprints of his poems by The Richards Press, London; Shelley by Francis Thompson, 1914, Burns & Oates; The Faber Book of Modern American Verse, plus six others (21)

Jackson (Frederick G.) A Thousand Days in the Arctic, 1899, London and New York, Harper & Brothers, first edition, two vols. 8vo, 5 folding maps, numerous plates and illustrations, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, uncut, t.e.g.; edges bumped and rubbed, upper hinges splitting, scattered foxing and staining, both f.f.e.p.s clipped upper right [with:] Greely (Adolphus) Three Years of Arctic Service: An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. 1886, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, two vols. 8vo, numerous plates and illustrations, several maps, two of which folding including one loose in rear pocket of Vol. II.; publisher's decorated pictorial blue cloth, bumped and rubbed, tender hinges, particularly rear Vol. II (4)

Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, 1960, London, Cape, 8vo first edition with dust jacket; cloth some shelf ware, (priced) jacket with dampstaining from rear cover most visible to upper spine fold and lower flap fold; extremities slightly frayed

Wells (H.G.) FIRST EDITION BOOKS All 8vos, original hard cloth, including: The War in the Air, 1908, London, G. Bell, 16 plates, worn pictorial cover, scattered foxing; Russia in the Shadows. London, [1920], Hodder and Stoughton, publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in black; Kipps. The Story of a Simple Soul, 1905, L., Macmillan and Co., adverts dated 10.10.05, original green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt and with blind panel of fruits, t.e.g.; This Misery of Boots [pamphlet], 1907, L., The Fabian Society, original pictorial green wrappers lettered in red, frayed extremities, chipping to spine head and tail; The Croquet Player: A Story, 1936, Chatto & Windus, original mottled green and black cloth; Star Begotten, 1937, C & W, dedication to Winston Churchill; Mind at the End of its Tether, 1945, Heinemann, d.j.; The Soul of a Bishop, 1917, Cassell; The History of Mr Polly, 1910, Nelson; Mankind in the Making, 1903; New Worlds For Old, 1908; God, the Invisible King, 1917; with H.G. Wells A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1966, H.G. Wells Society and The History of Mr. Wells by Michael Foot, and two others. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, varying degrees of ware to spines (some a little faded), some foxing to edges of blocks, fair to good copies overall (17)

Wisden (John) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack AN UNBROKEN RUN FROM 1864 (FIRST YEAR) TO 2000 8vos, a mixed set of original hardbacks with rebinds in various styles, by the publisher and others, brown or reddish-brown cloth, and including three issues in paper wrappers 1864 - 1895: limited edition reprints, by Wisden & Co. [1991] and Willows [1980s-90s], all hard cloth excepting the edition for 1875 by Billings & Sons [1960] in salmon paper wraps 1896 - 1899: rebound original soft covers, all photoplates (with tissues) present, 1896 with filled chip to upper wrap, speckled block edges; 1897 lacking rear wrap, speckled edges; 1898 with original wraps, soiled and with filled chips and joint repairs; 1899 original wraps, speckled edges 1900 - 1909: 1900 rebound original soft covers, wraps tape-stained; 1901-03 original hardbacks, 1901 with old sellotape holding upper wrap in place, 1903 rear hinge splitting; 1904 rebound original soft covers; 1905 original hardback with guttering split at verso of titlepage; 1906-08 rebound original soft covers, 1906 lacking front wrap; 1909 original hardback 1910 - 1919: 1910 rebound original soft covers, lacking rear wrap; 1911-15 original hardbacks, 1912 with covers warped, 1915 with weak hinges; 1916 a Willows reprint; 1917 in original soft covers, generally good, with head of spine a little frayed and soiling to upper margin of cover; 1918 rebound original soft covers, the wraps stained; 1919 in original soft covers, the spine paper split 1920 - 1929: original hardbacks except for 1925-26 (rebinds preserving stained original wraps), generally good, 1922 with weak hinges and creased spine, 1925 with ownership signature to upper cover 1930 - 1939: original hardbacks, generally good, 1933-34 and 1936-37 with gilt lettering faded 1940 - 1949: original hardbacks, ownership signatures to titles and to upper cover of 1945, 1941 good, the issues for later in the decade with weakened and/or reinforced hinges 1950s: original hardbacks, ownership signatures, hinges often weakened 1960s: original hardbacks, ownership signatures, the hinges better 1970 - 2000: original hardbacks, generally good The bindings variously bumped, rubbed and in some cases stained and scuffed, spines with varying degrees of ware and fading; the usual signs of use for a reading library of Wisdens. 136 editions in total, including some scarce early original hardbacks and wartime editions. Inspection highly recommended. Lot includes 2 (of 4) vols. from Green's Anthology of Wisden and the 1985 Index volume (139) From the collection of a lifelong cricket fan and member of Gloucestershire CCC

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 1961, London, Cape, 8vo first edition with dust jacket, another copy; extremities of cloth binding bumped, the price-clipped d.j. browned and a little scuffed to cover, with ware to extremities and small chips to foot of spine. Pages age-toned

Walmsley (Leo) AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS Thirty 8vo volumes, FIVE WITH AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE, various imprints (UK and US), Jenkins, Collins, Nelson et al., publisher's cloth, with dust jackets unless stated otherwise, varying degrees of ware: Flying and Sport in East Africa, 1920, Blackwood, rubbed blue cloth, jacket, good; The Silver Blimp, 1921, three copies in three different editions; The Lure of Thunder Island, 1923, jacket badly chipped, foxing to block edge, with three further editions; The Green Rocket, 1926, lacking d.j.; Toro of the Little People, 1926, author's presentation inscription, lacking d.j., with a US first; Three Fevers, 1932, a first British and US edition; Phantom Lobster, 1933, two copies, one of which signed; Foreigners, 1935, signed, foxing to edge of block; Sally Lunn, 1937, signed, with a first printing of the US edition (lacking d.j.); Love in the Sun, 1939, with wrap-around 'Book Society Choice' band; Fishermen at War, 1941, a first British and US edition; So Many Loves (autobiography), 1944, with a US first of the same book under title Turn of the Tide, 1945; Master Mariner, 1948, clipped author's signature pasted in; Invisible Cargo, 1952; The Golden Waterwheel, 1954; The Happy Ending, 1957; Sound of the Sea, 1959; Paradise Creek, 1963; Angler's Moon, 1965. From a private collection, many vols with bookplates or other ownership signatures and inscriptions, w.a.f. (30)

FRENCH ART JOURNALS WITH ARTIST'S PRINTS G. di San Lazzaro (Editor) XXe Siècle, 1938-39, Paris, Chroniques Du Jour, the complete First Series, Nos 1-6 in 5 volumes, plus No 1 from the Second Series ('Sculpture'), large 4tos in publisher's printed wraps containing prints by Matisse, Kandinsky, Miró, Dali, Pascin and many others. No. 4, the desirable Christmas 1938 issue, is an Edition in English, as is No 5-6 and the following. No 3 contains six woodcuts by Kandinsky, three of which in colour. Spines with varying ware, some chips and fraying, covers soiled with some foxing, some blocks starting to separate from wraps, and some ff. coming loose; plates good apart from some toning consistent with age. A scarce, unbroken run of early issues of this important contemporary arts journal, with the full complement of lithographic and woodcut plates that were usually disbound and separately displayed by subscribers (6)

Watson (John N.) Angling with the Fly. Flies & Anglers of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, 2008, Ken Smith, France, two 4to vols (one text with colour illustrations, one specimen flies), number 'ii' of ten 'hors commerce' copies from the de luxe limited edition signed by the author (total edition size: 65); the 36 flies displayed in mounts and additionally signed to half title by dresser Tim Thorpe. Both volumes in publisher's blue goatskin with banded spines gilt and housed in smart blue cloth solander box, a.e.g., along with three signed and lettered prints by illustrator Ashley Bryant in a separate portfolio. A handsome production, in near-mint condition [with:] a copy of the first trade edition (2008), 4to blue cloth with dust jacket by Bryant, signed and inscribed by the author to the publisher, with the author's(?) mss. errata loosely inserted (2)

LIGHT AND SPECTROSCOPY Suffolk (W.T.) Spectrum Analysis as Applied to Microscopical Observation, 1873, London, John Browning, slim 8vo, pp. 39, colour frontispiece plus six plates, adverts to rear, publisher's rubbed and frayed green cloth, stiching weak, f.f.e.p. loose, stamps and labels for Wigan Free Public Library; Schellen (Dr. H.) Spectrum Analysis In Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies, 1872, London, Longmans, first edition, large 8vo, 13 plates (incl colour frontis), illustrations, original decorated cloth shelf worn, scattered foxing; Spottiswoode (William) Polarisation of Light, 1874, London, Macmillan, slim 8vo, viii, pp.129, two chromolithograph plates, illustrations, pastedown adverts, publisher's rubbed and frayed decorated cloth gilt, some gatherings starting to loosen [with:] Roscoe (Sir Henry E.) Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures Delivered in 1868 before the Society of Apothecaries of London, 1885 large 8vo Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged by the Author and A. Schuster, illustrations, lacking one plate, decorated cloth [&] [Anon.] The Wonders of Light and Shadow, 1851, London, S.P.C.K., 16mo, pp. 106, wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams, original orange cloth, scuffed and stained (5)

WORLD ATLAS Ostell's New General Atlas; containing Distinct Maps of all the Principal States and Kingdoms throughout the World...A New Edition, 1826, London, Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 4to, publisher's printed pasteboards, detached; titlepage, Contents with publisher's advert to verso, 30 engraved maps by J.C. Russell (complete), hand-coloured in outline. The two world maps are double-page. Boards very rubbed, scuffed and soiled, with frayed extremities, lacking spine, first gathering detached from block; the plates with marginal foxing and finger-soiling, the first map (The World) with hole outside image, ink stains and splitting fold; ink inscription to front pastedown. A scarce atlas in this edition, printed from 'a set of entirely new plates, on an enlarged scale'

A COLLECTION OF MODERN FIRSTS 8vos, publisher's hard cloth with dust jackets where called for (some a little tired and frayed): Amis (Kingsley) I Like It Here, 1958, London, Victor Gollancz; Greene (Graham) The Quiet American, 1955, Our Man in Havana, 1958, A Burnt-Out Case, 1961, all London, Heinemann, and The Tenth Man, 1985, The Bodley Head; Waugh (Evelyn) A Tourist in Africa, 1960, London, Chapman & Hall; also Camus (Albert) The Myth of Sisyphus, 1955, Hamish Hamilton, first British edition; Garnett (David) Aspects of Love, 1955, Chatto & Windus; Mehta (Ved) Walking The Indian Streets, 1961, Faber & Faber, first in bookform [with:] Hawkes (Jacquetta) and Priestly (J.B.) Journey Down a Rainbow, 1955 Heinemann Proof Copy in original printed wraps, cover detached, ownership signatures [&] Joyce (James) Haveth Children Everywhere, 1931 Faber booklet in (split) jacket, No. 26 for the Criterion Miscellany series (11)

Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me,1962, London, Cape, 8vo first edition with dust jacket; mostly only minor shelf ware, the priced d.j. with splitting folds at head of spine and scuff mark to spine between title and author's name

IMPORTANT MAP OF DERBYSHIRE Burdett (P.P.) To The Right Honourable The President, Vice-Presdient…of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c, This Survey of Derbyshire, Began in the Year 1762, and finished in the Year 1767… [c.1767], London, Kitchin and Derby, Burdett. Large engraved map on six sheets laid on linen, partly hand-coloured in outline; rococo cartouche, inset plan of Derby and trigonometry diagram, vignette of rocks lower left. The paper c.1550 x 1040mm, scale one inch to one mile. The expected age-toning and cockling/crinkling to the paper, the extremities tatty and chipped, with a few mostly small tears into the plate (one c.20cm from the top); spots of mould and associated soiling to right margin, getting more pronounced into lower right corner. No loss within printed border. Peter Perez Burdett's map of Derbyshire won him the £100 premium (prize) offered by the Society of Arts to encourage accurate county mapping. He later published the first aquatint in England, and sold his new process to Paul Sandby. A fine draughtsman and noted expert in perspective, he was the first President of the Liverpool Society of Arts and exhibited in London at the Society of Artists. His Derbyshire acquaintances included Joseph Wright, who painted a fine portrait of Burdett and his first wife, Hannah (in the Národní Galerie, Prague). Burdett left for Germany to escape his debts in 1774, working for the Margrave of Baden as surveyor, never to return to England. A scarce example of the first edition of this map, which very rarely appears on the market

Milne (A.A.) Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928 (both first editions); When We Were Very Young, 1926, fourteenth edition; Winnie-The-Pooh, 1926, second edition, all London, Methuen & Co., 8vos, illustrations and pictorial endpapers by E.H. Shepard, in publisher's pictorial coloured cloth gilt, t.e.g. Bindings rubbed and bumped, cockling to Winnie The Pooh, House at Pooh Corner with spine sunfaded and browned e.p.s, browning to half-titles and colophon leaves of first three books, guttering splitting at points, presentation inscription to two half titles (4)

Dickens (Charles) The Personal History of David Copperfield. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 1850, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850, first edition, 8vo: xiv including frontispiece vignette and illustrated and printed title (the first two very browned), pp. 624, etched plates with tissues; marginal spotting and staining, contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, extremities bumped and rubbed, spine a little frayed to joints and to head and foot, marbled e.p.s, tender upper hinge [&] The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1839, London, Chapman and Hall, first edition, 8vo; half title, xvi including engraved portrait frontispiece (dampstained and foxed), title, and dedication to Macready, pp. 624, etched plates by Browne with tissues; contemporary dark half calf with gilt lettering and bands to spine, rubbed joints and extremities, with marbled endpapers and block edges, upper hinge tender, scattered marginal foxing and staining to plates [with:] Little Dorrit, [c.1873], C&H, 4to, illustrations by J. Mahoney, contemporary green half calf, spine lettered gilt, 1874 gift inscription on f.f.e.p., some foxing (3)

A FRAMED AND GLAZED LIMITED EDITION PRINT BY ROBERT TAYLOR 'BALLOON BUSTER' SIGNED BY FIRST WORLD WAR PILOT FLIGHT LIEUTENANT HENRY J BOTTERILL #89/600 with certificate of authenticity

PHIL DRABBLE - 'WEASEL IN MY MEATSAFE', Collins 1957, first edition with dustjacket, together with various other Phil Drabble books, some first editions, Maurice Wiggin - 'The Memoirs of a Maverick', Nelson 1968 firts edition and other natural history interest (16)

CHARLES DICKENS - 'DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY & SON', published by Bradbury & Evans 1848, first edition has first issue points

J. R. R. TOLKIEN - 'THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING being the First Part ot The Lord of the Rings', published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1954, believed to be the first edition, no dustjacket

RUDYARD KIPLING - 'JUST SO STORIES For Little Children', Macmillan & Co. 1902, possibly first edition

Stamps: a framed 1975 'The First Handshake in Space' Limited Edition set.

Modern First Editions etc including John Le Carre and George Moore "Memoirs of my Dead Life" 1921. A 1968 hardback Edition of Franz Kafka's The Castle, vintage Ghost Story books, etc. (two shelves)

OBVERSE: In field: Armoured bust to right, holding sheathed sword in right hand, with name of the Sasanian ruler    Khusraw in Pahlawi to right and gdh apzwt (‘may his glory increase’) to left.   In border: bismillah la i- laha illa Allah wa – hdahu Muhammad ra – sul Allah, divided by stars-in-crescents except above the bust, where the star-in-crescent is replaced by a pellet-within-annulet.  REVERSE: In field: Arch supported on columns, within which is a vertical barbed spear which has two pennants floating    to the left just below the head; to right and left of the columns: khalifat Allah - amir al-mu’minin; to either side  of the spear-shaft: nasr – Allah.   In border: Four stars-in-crescents, with Pahlawi ap (‘praise’) at one o’clock.  WEIGHT: 3.54g.  REFERENCES: Treadwell 2005, 2 same dies; Walker p.24, ANS.5, same reverse die = Gaube 2.3.2.4.  CONDITION: Very fine to good very fine, excessively rare and a type of considerable historical significance.   One of the greatest and most sought-after rarities of the Arab-Sasanian series, the ‘Mihrab and ‘Anaza’ drachm has been rightly described as ‘extraordinary’ (Grabar, O., The Formation of Islamic Art, revised and enlarged edition, Yale, 1987), and ‘a very valuable little archaeological document’ (Miles, ‘Mihrab and ‘Anazah’).   Many of the difficulties of interpreting this piece stem from the fact that it lacks both date and mint-name.  Most scholars have assumed that it was struck at Damascus.  Firstly, the mean weight of extant specimens is about 3.6-3.7g, which is somewhat lighter than the standard maintained at mints in the East but consistent with other Arab-Sasanian issues struck at Damascus in the early-mid 70s.  Secondly, Damascus was the Umayyad capital where other experimental drachms were struck, including the Standing Caliph type with which the Mihrab and ‘Anaza drachms have often been compared.  This may very well be correct, although it will be suggested below that other possibilities should also be considered.  The latest study of this issue is that of Treadwell (2005), who plausibly interprets the imagery on this coin as a reaction to perceived problems with the design of the Standing Caliph drachms, which he argues must have been struck immediately before the Mihrab and ‘Anaza type.  On this analysis, the Standing Caliph type was produced to accompany the Standing Caliph dinars and fulus introduced in Syria in the previous year.  Treadwell notes that the gold and copper issues conformed to ‘the traditional numismatic formula that located the ruler on the obverse and a religious symbol on the reverse,’ while the ‘Standing Caliph’ drachm ‘contained two conflicting images of rulership…it is the Shahanshah’s imposing bust that dominates the imagery of the coin, not the cramped figure of the caliph on the reverse’  (Treadwell, p.11).  The Mihrab and ‘Anaza type rectifies this by changing the design of the Sasanian bust so that it is recognisably the Caliph who appears on the obverse, and by replacing the standing figure on the reverse with an image of the Prophet’s spear mounted within an arch.  Unfortunately, while this argument neatly explains the imagery, it clashes awkwardly with the legends.  The bust which Treadwell identifies as the caliph himself is in fact labelled in Pahlawi as that of Khusraw, while the spear on the reverse carries the legends khalifat Allah – amir al-mu’minin.  It is possible to argue, as Treadwell does, that ‘the Standing Caliph drachm was an unsuccessful hybrid that had been cobbled together at speed [and so] it would not be surprising if its hastily executed substitute were also deficient in some respects.’  But the addition of nasr Allah beside the spear on the reverse shows that the legends were not merely slavishly copied from a preceding type, and it seems hard to imagine that such sophisticated thought should have been given to the imagery only for the legends to have been applied so inappropriately.  Furthermore, closer examination reveals that the images on both sides of this type are less straightforward then they may first appear.  The figure on the obverse, whom Treadwell identified as being the caliph, wears a peculiar type of headgear, has cross-hatching across his breast to represent a different type of dress from the norm, and rather awkwardly carries a sheathed sword.  Treadwell notes that the figure on the reverse of the Standing Caliph drachm, like that on the obverse of the gold and copper Standing Caliph types, similarly carries a sheathed sword, and he therefore suggests that this feature identifies the Mihrab and ‘Anaza bust as that of the caliph also.  He has no explanation for the design of the crown or helmet, beyond noting that it is does not look like any other crown seen on the coinage of any Sasanian ruler.  As for the cross-hatch pattern on the figure’s breast, Treadwell’s explanation is that this is chiefly an artistic rather than a naturalistic feature, designed to allow the sheathed sword to feature more prominently.  Unfortunately, neither the cross-hatching nor the headgear looks even remotely like the dress of the Standing Caliph figure and so, much as with the problematic legends, these features do nothing to support to the suggestion that the Mihrab and ‘Anaza drachm was designed to improve and rectify the Standing Caliph type.  The object on the reverse, to which Miles devoted most of his attention, has traditionally been identified as a spear or lance within a mihrab.  It was Miles who refined this, specifiying that the spear was the ‘anaza of the Prophet himself, and suggesting rather more cautiously that the mihrab could be identified more precisely as the niche type (mihrab mujawwaf).  If so, this coin would be the earliest depiction of this important Islamic architectural feature.  Miles’ interpretation of the arch as a mihrab has met with a mixed reception among later scholars.  Some have endorsed his view that the feature is indeed a Muslim mihrab rather than any other kind of arch, while others (including Treadwell) have pointed out that arches of this type are found on coins struck by all three Abrahamic religions.  Connections with the Christian sacrum in Jerusalem (the arch which stood over the True Cross) have been suggested.  In this way, this remarkable coin would have played its part in the so-called ‘war of images’ between the Christians and Muslims during this period.  It is perhaps worth remembering, however, that the Mihrab and ‘Anaza type is not so securely tied to Damascus during the mid-70s Hijri as some might imply.  Treadwell reports that Miles himself ‘did not consider that the coin, as he had described it, fitted smoothly into the series of Damascus silver coinage of the mid-690s.’  The type is not dated, and while the metrology does argue against these drachms having been struck as part of the main series produced in the East, Damascus was not the only place where lighter Arab-Sasanian drachms were being issued at this time.  Drachms struck in Armenia and the North (see lot 1) during the 70s seem to have been struck to a weight standard in the region of 3.3g, and like the Mihrab and ‘Anaza type carry on the obverse a bust which is clearly Sasanian but is obviously different from the familiar Khusraw II type which had become the standard in the East for decades.  Another curious feature of the Mihrab and ‘Anaza drachms is the large number of dies used: the seven specimens listed by Treadwell were struck from seven obverse and six reverse dies.  Is this consistent with a short-lived, experimental type concocted hastily in Damascus and quickly abandoned, or might this be better explained in the context of a short-lived, specific event such as a military campaign?For the full version of this footnote please see the PDF at www.mortonandeden.com/pdfcats/85.pdf

Books - Ian Fleming - You Only Live Twice, first edition, with dust jacket Condition:

Books - Ian Fleming - The Man With The Golden Gun, first edition, with dust jacket, black cloth binding with text to spine only Condition:

* NELLY ERICHSEN (BRITISH 1862 - 1918), A HARD DAY'S LABOUR pastel on paper, signed 70cm x 45cm Framed and under glass Note: Nelly Erichsen (9 December 1862 - 15 November 1918) was an English illustrator and painter. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, she was the daughter of a wealthy professional Danish family. After studies at the Royal Academy in the 1880s, she carved out a successful career for herself as an independent, self-supporting illustrator and writer, working with a number of publishing firms including JM Dent and Macmillan, and jointly publishing travel books with Janet Ross, ''queen bee'' of the Anglo-Tuscan pre-War community. In the 1881 Census, Nelly, aged 19, is described as an art student at the Royal Academy and this led her to a profession which rapidly became a means to her achieving independence and some commercial success. Her first exhibited painting at the Royal Academy was in 1884: The Deserted Homestead. The following year 1885 she gave her address as 2 New Court Lincoln's Inn and had four exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy. In 1893, Nelly exhibited a picture at the Summer Exhibition entitled Phyllis. Nelly's painting of The Orchard was reviewed in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. Other paintings (probably oils) from this era include The Magic Crystal which visually points towards Pre-Raphaelite influence. At this time Nelly was friends with a Fabian Socialist Bertha Newcombe and through her met the predatory writer George Bernard Shaw. In 1894 Nelly engraved plates for a JM Dent limited edition of the novels of Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (Scottish novelist 1782-1854). JM Dent, originally a bookbinder from Darlington, had founded his publishing company in London in 1888 and all his initial output consisted of limited editions of classic authors using handmade paper and high quality bindings and illustrations. From 1891 to 1897 Nelly was a consistently successful exhibitor at the Royal Academy. This rare pastel shows the strong influence of the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage, and much like the Glasgow Boys, Nelly was influenced by the artist's use of rural subjects, and she has replicated the manner in which the artist signed his work.

COLLINS, MICHAEL,The Path to Freedom , Dublin, 1922., Talbot Press. First Edition. 8vo, hard cover, frontis photo. F.f.e.p.lacking & front hinge cracked. Small nicks to lower spine of d.j. Rare with d.j.

MCCANCE, CPT. SHistory of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, Cork, 1995, Schull Books, a facsimile reprint of the first edition from Gale & Polden in 1927, consisting of 2 hardback volumes of text and a map case of 41 large individual map sheets. A fine set of the 3 oversize volumes in slipcase, limited edition copy numbered 196/200. Illustrated with colour plates; together with Lieutenant-Colonel H. S Jervis, The 2nd Munsters In France, Cork, 1998, Schull books a facsimile reprint of the first edition from Gale & Polden in 1922. (4)

BORLASE, EDMUND,The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion Trac'd from Many Preceeding Acts, to the Grand Eruption The 23 of October, 1641. And Thence Pursued to the Act of Settlement, 1662. London: Printed for Robert Clavell, St. Paul's Churchyard , 1680. First Edition, folio, hard Cover. (8) (index), 46 (Appendix). Full calf, lacking title page, and pp to page iv. Fair overall

John Seller (1634-1697)Chart of the South-East Coast of Ireland This chart appears first in Seller's The English Pilot, Southern Navigation of 1690, and it was unchanged in editions up to 1715. Later editions used new plates.It shows the coast from Waterford to Dalkey and has no title. The scale in the lower centre reads A Scale of English and French Leagues 20 in a Degre 5 [= 102 mm.]. There is one compass rose, with 16 points, showing north to the right, and there are a scales of latitude at top and bottom. This edition from the first English plate without title or insert. 535 x 440 mm.

***PLEASE NOTE THE ESTIMATE IN THE PRINTED SHOULD READ €120-180***CHILDERS, ERSKINE,The Constructive Work of Dail Eireann 2 Vols. All Published.. Dublin, 1921, Talbot Press. First Edition, 8vo, hard cover. Very Good. Two vols: 1. The Constructive Work of Dail Eireann No.1. The National Police and Courts of Justice [Ministry for Home Affairs]. Pp.32; 2. The Constructive Work of Dail Eireann No. 2. In Three Sections I.-The Department of Agriculture and the Land Settlement Commission. II.-The Commission of Inquiry into Resources and Industries of Ireland. III.-The Department of Trade and Commerce. Pp. 36, It was intended that a third pamphlet titled Local Government would also be issued, but it was never published. Signed and inscribed. Presentation copy from Molly Childers to Professor & Mrs. Stockley Christmas 1933, bound in blue cloth, pamphlets with the name Erskine Childers in a neat hand in pen on the front cover of the first are both very good. All handwriting is by Childer's wife Molly.

***PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS INCORRECTLY ILLUSTRATED IN THE PRINTED CATALOGUE***DUNN REGINALD, Reginald Dunn's Statement, London: J. H.MacDonnell, 1922, single sheet verbatim transcript of Reginald Dunn’s statement to the London court that sentenced him to death, with Joseph O’Sullivan, for the murder of Sir Henry Wilson. Reprinted from the Irish Independent, Friday July 21 1922; together with George, Lloyd & De Valera, Eamon, correspondence relating to the Proposals of His Majestys Government for an Irish Settlement. London: HMSO, 1921. unbound folio; Roger Casement, Some Poems of Roger Casement . Dublin: Talbot Press, 1918. First Edition. 12mo, soft cover; A.E (George Russell), Ireland and the Empire at the Court of Conscience. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1921. First Edition. 8vo, unbound, pamphlet; and John A Costello, speech given by Costello to Dail. Eireann, Nov 24th, 1948, on the Republic of Ireland Bill declaring the State The Republic of Ireland. (5)

Ó hÉIGCEARTAIGH, DIARMUID, clerk of the First Dail and friend of Michael Collins. A selection of books from his personal library, comprising:-Reynolds, [Rev.] Frank L. Ireland’s Important and Heroic Part in America’s Independence and Development. Daleiden, Chicago n.d. [c. 1927], 322 pp, 2 col. plates, first, inscribed on f.e.p. ‘To Lieut. General D. O’Hegarty / from Frank L. Reynolds / as a souvenir of your Visit to America and Chicago / Jan. 22 1928.’ Spine dull, o.w.v.g. Scarce. No copy found on COPAC. [Ó hÉigceartaigh went to New York in 1927-8 to represent the Free State at hearings over control of Republican funds in the United States]. - Joyce, James. Dubliners. New York, Huebsch, 1925 (fourth printing). Orig. cloth, spine soiled and worn, o.w. good, scarce. Inscribed on t.p., ‘Diarmuid Ó hÉigceartaigh’. Of the London first edition of Dubliners only some 700 copies were issued, and a very small number of a second edition in 1918. Once these were sold, it was for many years only available in the American edition. Probably purchased by Ó hÉigceartaigh during his New York visit.- MacDonagh, Thomas. Literature in Ireland: Studies Irish and Anglo-Irish. L. 1919., orig. cloth gilt, portr., 248 pp. Inscribed ‘Diarmuid Ó hÉigceartaigh’ on t.p.- Jennings, Rev. Brendan OFM. Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Chief of the Four Masters, and his Associates. D. 1936, first, orig. cloth (dulled), 220 pp., ills, a little spotting. Inscribed on t.p. ‘Diarmuid Ó hÉigceartaigh’.- MacManus, Frank. Stand and Give Challenge [the story of the Munster poet Donnchadh Ruadh mac Conmara]. D. 1934, orig. cloth, 306 pp, a little spotting, first. Inscribed on t.p., ‘Diarmuid Ó hÉigceartaigh’. Ó hÉigceartaigh, from Skibbereen in Cork, was a 1916 veteran who fought in the streets around the G.P.O. An experienced administrator, he became clerk of the First Dail, and was largely responsible for its smooth running in the midst of the Anglo-Irish war. He was a member of the reorganised IRB supreme council with Michael Collins, and succeeded Collins as the IRA’s Director of Organisation. Collins was best man at his wedding to Claire Archer in April 1922. Ó hEigceartaigh was secretary to the Treaty delegation, secretary to the cabinet of the Provisional Government, and later secretary to the Free State Executive Council. Lord Longford describes him as ‘the civil servant of the revolution’. Evidently he was a cultured and well-read man. Not many Irish public servants in the 1920s would have bothered to buy ‘Dubliners’.

***PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS INCORRECTLY ILLUSTRATED IN THE PRINTED CATALOGUE***O'Flanagan, Patrick and Buttimer, Cornelius G., Cork: History and Society, Dublin, 1993, Geography Publications. First edition, signed by John Murray, Lord Mayor of Cork, cloth hardcover with d.j; together with James S Donnelly, The Land and the People of Nineteenth Century Cork, First Edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1975. (2)

WILLIAM COURTNEY 10TH EARL OF DEVON ET. AL. Report from Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Law and Practice in Respect of the Occupation of Land in Ireland/Evidence in Respect Of the Occupation of the Land, Appendices, Appendix of Minutes of Evidence. Dublin & Belfast: Thom, 1845., first edition, folio, hard cover.

FENIAN CONSPIRACYReport of The Proceedings at the first sitting of the Special Commission for the County and City of Dublin, Held at Green-Street, Dublin, for the Trial of Thomas Clark Luby, and Others, for Treason-Felony, the Fenian Conspiracy, Dublin: Thom, 1866. First Edition, royal 8vo, clothThe trial commenced on Nov. 27th 1865. The others charged were John O'Leary, Michael Moore, John Halligan & Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. Luby was sentenced to 20 years penal servitude in Kilmainham Gaol.