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Click here to subscribe1925 London Underground linen-card POCKET MAP from the Stingemore-designed series of 1925-32. This is the first edition, dated 11-5-25, and is in the smaller size of the first 5 editions. Crisp, firm and unmarked, this example is in excellent condition, one of the best we have seen of the first edition. [1]
1933 first-edition of the Harry Beck London Underground POCKET DIAGRAMMATIC MAP with the famous cover slogan 'A new design for an old map'. This is the less-common paper version. Apart from some slight scuffing to the top of the centre (cover) panel, this is in excellent condition, a superb example. [1]
Books - Selection of books mainly from the Whitby area including 'Forty Years in Moorland Parish' by Rev J. C. Atkinson, 1891, first edition and 'Chapter of Whitby History' by H. B. Browne M. A, limited edition No. 43/440 in one box Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
GRAHAM ISOM "To The First Draw - The Warwickshire Hunt" a limited edition colour Print, No.23/375, signed and numbered in pencil, with an original pencil remarque of a hound, with blind stamp, 40cm x 51.5cm MICHAEL LYNE "The Muddy Gateway" a limit ed edition colour Print, no.29/399, published M. Lyne & The Heale Gallery, Somerset, 39cm x 55cm, in glazed frame (2)
SIR ROBERT ATKYNS "The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire", W. Bowyer for Robert Gosling 1712, first edition: engraved frontispiece of Robert Atkyns by M Van DE GUCHT, title page with woodcut printer's device, Author's Epitaph, engraved coat of arms, double page folding map of Gloucestershire, double page folding plan Gloster City, double page folding engraving West Prospect of Gloster, double page folding engraving Gloster Cathedral, double page engraved bird's eye views drawn and engraved by Johannes Kip; brown leather covered boards, leather spine with gilt tooling and lettering(Provenance: the property of the Raymond Barker family late of Fairford Park Gloucestershire)
BLOMEFIELD (Francis) and Charles PARKIN. An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, first edition, in five volumes, Fersfield and Lynn 1739-75, folio, with portrait of the author, 35 plates (including folding), folding plans of Norwich and Lynn, folding map, 4 pen and ink seal illustrations inserted on 3 leaves, 10 leaves of tables, and 3 tables within the pagination at end of Vol. I., added leaves in manuscript inserted at the front, later full morocco gilt (5) Note: According to Lowndes Bibliographer's Manual collation, this copy does not have the scarce dedication leaf in vol. II, nor the 'folded sheet of references' that accompanies the plan of Norwich which is present.
[SAMSON (Jacques)], L'Histoire Genealogique des Comtes de Pontieu et Maïeurs d'Abbeville, Paris: chez Francois Clouzier 1657, folio, title in red and black, folding plan, wood engraved coats of arms, lacks Llii and iii, Mmii and iii, worn sprinlked calf; BOYER (A) The History of the Life and Reign of Queen Anne, first edition London 1722, folio, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding coloured plans, 4 plates, engraved decorations, some toning to text, panel calf (upper board joint cracked), armorial bookplate of William Pym (2)
A collection of children's and other 20th century literature, including Alice in Wonderland, 1897, MACKENZIE (Compton), Whisky Galore, first edition, 1947, dustwrapper; MILNE (A A), Now We Are Six, second edition, 1927; TOUDOUZE (G), Le Roi Soleil, 1904, colour plates, original pictorial cloth; and others - horse related, illustrated by Lionel Edwards and others.
MILNE (A A), Winnie The Pooh, first edition 1926, first leaf inscribed in ink 'from E.H.S. /Xmas 1926', some marking (wear) to cover; Now We Are Six, first de luxe edition 1927, contemporary inscription 'R.W.Dickinson from his Mother', and bookplate, original binding; The House at Pooh Corner, first edition 1928, Dickinson bookplate; also a third edition of Winnie the Pooh (4)
TAYLOR (Griffith), With Scott: The Silver Lining. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1916, 8vo, first edition, half title, portrait frontispiece, maps (one coloured), plates, 5 illustrations by David Low, some foxing and general age toning, original green cloth gilt, some wear to spine ends and corners; and others illustrated by Low including Caricatures for the New Statesman, 'Lloyd George & Co' (2 copies), and 'The Billy Book' (8)
AUSTEN (Jane), Pride and Prejudice, two volumes, London: for T. Egerton, 1817, third edition, 12mo, armorial bookplates, contemporary inscription to first leaves 'Elizabeth Maria Philipps/Williamston', lacking half-titles, titles slightly foxed, front endpaper of vol. II torn, light foxing throughout, contemporary half calf (rubbed), corners a little bumped, gilt spines. Note: Elizabeth Maria, only daughter of Colonel Owen Philipps, of Williamston, Pembroke, married David Arthur Saunders Davies, of Pentre, Boncath, in 1829.
WILDE (Oscar), The Picture of Dorian Gray, London etc.: Ward Lock and Co, no date [1891], first edition with misprint on p. 208, line 23, 8vo, edges uncut, original rough beveled grey boards (worn), vellum spine, rebacked, butterfly design in gilt on upper cover by Charles Ricketts, lacking the advertisements at end.
Literature and Poetry, Victorian and later, including TITMARSH (M A), Mrs Perkins's Ball, Chapman and Hall, n.d., coloured plates, some foxing, half calf (rubbed); LANG (Andrew), The Animal Story Book, 1896, first edition, illustrations, cloth gilt; RACKHAM (A, illus.), A Christmas Carol, 1933 reprint, 8vo, spine faded; others including 20th century poetry, maritime, some children's illustrated; some leather bound, novels in dust wrappers, etc. (quantity)
[WATKINS-PITCHFORD (Denys J)] ''BB'' , A Child Alone: The Memoirs of BB, illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford, Michael Joseph 1978, signed to title page, original cloth gilt, dustjacket; Tide's Ending, Michael Joseph 1980, signed to half title, dustjacket; A Summer on the Nene, Kaye & Ward 1967, first edition, dustjacket; Dark Estuary, Michael Joseph 1980, signed to half title, dustjacket. (4)
THOMAS (Dylan), Quite Early One Morning, London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1957, dustjacket; A Child's Christmas In Wales, illustrations by E. Ardizzone, Dent 1986, paperback; The Beach of Falesa, London: Jonathan Cape 1964, first edition, dustjacket; FERRIS (P., ed.), Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters, Dent & Sons 1985, first edition, dustjacket; MAUD (R., ed.), The Notebook Poems 1930-1934, 1989; BRINNIN (J. M.), Dylan Thomas in America, 1988; DAHL (Roald), My Uncle Oswald, 1979, first edition, dustjacket; Book of Ghost Stories, 1983, first edition, dustjacket; Guide to Railway Safety, illustrations by Quentin Blake, 1991, five copies; The Minpins, 1991, dustjacket; The Mildenhall Treasure, 1999, dustjacket; Rhyme Stew, 1989, dustjacket; Dirty Beasts, 1985; GALLICO, Snowflake, first edition, 1952, dustjacket; with some other Christmas stories (23)
WYNDHAM (John), The Seeds of Time, 1956, first edition, dust wrapper; Omnibus: The Day of the Triffids , The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, 1964, dustjacket; Web, 1979, first edition, wrapper; and three other paperbacks; MILLER (H), Tropic of Cancer, first UK edition, 1963, wrapper; Tropic of Capricorn, 1952, paperback; ALLINGHAM (Margery), Mr Campion's Lady, 1965, wrapper; GASH (J), The Very Last Gambado, 1989, dustjacket; MASTERS (P), Night Visit, 1998, signed by author to title, wrapper; and few other science fiction titles (14)
Poetry and literature, 20th century. HUXLEY (Aldous), Heaven and Hell, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London 1956, cloth, with dust wrapper; THOMAS (Dylan), Under Milk Wood, first reprint edition 1954, dust wrapper; AUDEN (W H) City Without Walls, first edition 1969, dust wrapper; AUDEN (W H) & C. ISHERWOOD, On the Frontier, second impression 1939, dust wrapper; FORSTER (E M) Two Cheers for Democracy, first edition 1951, chipped wrapper, author's signed postcard of thanks loosely inserted; others by Christopher Fry, Ronald Firbank, Herbert Read; etc.
WODEHOUSE (P.G.), The Head of Kay's, first edition, A & C Black 1905, 8 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell (two or three loose), one with marginal stain and short tear, presentation inscription to first leaf, slight foxing to half title and first and last few leaves, original pictorial cloth, slightly stained.
WELLS (Herbert George) The Shape of Things to Come, first edition, 1933, inscribed by the author to David Low 'from the other man who is always right about them', original cloth; Things to Come, first edition 1935, chipped wrapper; The Brothers, 1938, first edition, inscribed by Wells to David Low 'To my Spiritual Brother David'; The Croquet Player, 1936, inscribed to David Low by the author, dust wrapper; Apropos of Dolores. 1938, inscribed by Wells to half title to David Low, dust wrapper chipped; The Autocracy Of Mr Parham, first America edition 1930, chipped dust wrapper; The King who was a King, 1929, author's compliment slip pasted in; two others (9)
PRIESTLEY (J B), Delight, first edition 1949, signed numbered edition inscribed to David Low, quarter vellum; MAISKY (I M) Before the Storm, signed slip from the author to Low to first endpaper dated 1944; SHOLOKHOV (M) Quiet Flows the Don, reprint 1934, signed; others, various including poetry and literature.
KAY (John), A Series of Original Portraits and Character Etchings, modern facsimile edition, 2 vols; BIRTLES (E. W.) Annals of the Lodge of Joppa, No. 188, London 1933, privately printed, half calf; BANVILLE (John), First Light, The Bridgewater Press, 2006, 8vo, original green calf backed cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, first edition, limited edition of 138 copies signed by the author, one of 12 specially bound copies (4)
BENCHLEY (Peter), Jaws, Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company 1974, 8vo, first edition, inscribed by the author "Keep yours shut if you know what's good for you, Peter Benchley", recently finely bound in full dark blue morocco, boards with single gilt line panel, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rules and centre tools, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; The Island, first edition New York 1979, signed, dust wrapper (2)
MAUROIS (Andre), A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, translated from the French by David Garnett, Jonathan Cape 1938, first English edition, 8vo, four wood engravings by Edward Carrick, spine slightly faded; LANCASTER (Osbert) With an Eye to the Future, 1967, one of 100 special signed copies, slip case; few others early and mid 20th century.
A collection of uncorrected proof copies and first editions. Some with dustjackets. GREENE (Graham), A Burnt-Out Case, Heinemann 1961, uncorrected proof; SPARK (Muriel), Memento Mori, Macmillan 1958, uncorrected proof; BATES (H. E.), A Breath of French Air, Michael Joseph 1959, uncorrected proof; MACLEAN (A. D.), Winter's Tales, No. 8, Macmillan 1962, uncorrected proof; CHURCH (R), The Crab-Apple Tree, Heinemann 1959, uncorrected proof, dustjacket (worn); DE MARE (Eric), London's Riverside, Max Reinhardt 1958, illustrations, a proof copy, dustjacket; KING (Alexander), Mine Grows Older, Heinemann 1959, a proof copy, worn dustjacket; ASHFORD (Daisy), The Young Visitors, or Mr Salteenas Plan, Chatto & Windus 1919, first edition, publisher's marbled boards, dust jacket torn; BROOKE (J., ed.), The Denton Welch Journals, Hamish Hamilton 1952, first edition, dustjacket; with others, few later editions (14)
HOROLOGY. ALLIX (C) and P. BONNERT, Carriage Clocks, 1989; BASSERMANN-JORDAN (E. Von), The Book of Old Clocks and Watches, 1964; CESCINSKY (H), The Old English Master Clockmakers and Their Clocks, 1670-1820, first edition, 1938 (dustjacket sealed); SYMONDS (R W), Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, 1940, limited edition, plates, cloth; LYMAN (Ian P), Railway Clocks, 2004, good in dustjacket, DARKEN (Jeff) and J. HOOPER, English 30-Hour Clocks, 1997, signed no' 46/50, in cloth-slip case; RIDGWAY and PRIESTLEY, Chester Gold and Silver Marks, 2004, signed title, dustwrapper (7)
BAKER (Samuel W), The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, in 2 vols., London: Macmillan 1866, 8vo, folding map and illustrations as called for, some age staining to first and least leaves, half calf lightly rubbed;PALGRAVE (William Gifford), Narrative of a year's journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, London: Macmillan, 1865, in two vols., 8vo, portrait, folding map hand-coloured in outline and 4 folding plans (one of which damaged and incomplete), foxing to first and last leaves otherwise good, half calf; DU CHAILLU (P) Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, London: John Murray 1861, 8vo, folding map (loss to one corner), frontispiece, illustrations, half calf; MacMUNN ( Major G F) The Armies of India, painted by Major A C Lovett, A & C Black 1911, 4to, signed edition de luxe (500), tipped in colour plates, covers stained; BUSSEY G M) History of Napoleon, in 2 vols., London 1840, illustrated by Vernet, frontispiece stained, rubbed calf; 3 others (11)
WALLACE (Harold Frank), The Big Game of Central and Western China, first edition, John Murray: 1913, 8vo, first edition, photogravure frontispiece, maps and plates, original pictorial cloth (slightly soiled), spine faded; Big Game, Wanderings in Many Lands, 1934, plates, cloth; CHAPMAN (Abel), The Borders and Beyond, 1924, 8vo, coloured plates and illustrations, original cloth gilt. (3)
COOK (Captain James), A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, two volumes, London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779, third edition, 4to, bookplates of Benjamin Clay, plates as required, a tear to the first plate of volume I; COOK (James) and KING (James), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, three volumes, London: H. Hughs, 1785, second edition, 4to, plates as required, lacking atlas volume, all contemporary full calf (rubbed and cracked) (5)
[THEOFAN, Bishop of Pskov and Novgorod], The Russian Catechism, London: Downing, Stokoe and Meadows, n.d. [1723], 8vo, first edition in English, bookplate of the Earl of Caledon, engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates (two folding), including an engraved folding table of the Cyrillic alphabet - one of the earliest in an English book, full calf, some spotting throughout. Condition: This appears to lack a plate, as frontispiece, 4 plates and table are required. This copy has frontispiece, folding table and 3 plates.
British Aviation Interest - a set of George Newnes 1937 Aero Engineering Charts - the charts* (1 - 50) in good condition, but the cloth covered folder not; together with ten different military and commercial aircraft and engine manufacturers' brochures, including jet pioneers, with specifications, performance data and photographs posted to M S Wiltshire of 74 Bloomfield Road, Gloucester between 1957 and 1958 from the PR departments of Air Charter (includes Souvenir Route Maps - with ditching instructions - to firstly loosen one's collar and tie, and secondly put on one's life belt, but not to inflate within the aircraft…), Alvis Aero Engines, Armstrong Siddeley (includes rare bicentenary brochure and security classified Hawker Hunter Sapphire 6 spec. sheet), Bristol Aircraft & Aero Engines, De Havilland (two rare General Information Leaflets), Fairey Aviation, Folland Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft (including a bird's eye view photo of a Gloster Javelin over Gloucester Cathedral), Hunting Percival and Short Bothers & Harland; and also a well-thumbed 1938? edition of E C Talbot-Booth and Eric Sargent's Fighting Aircraft of the World (missing boards, first few and last few pages), a 1958 Flying Diary Notebook with interesting handwritten entries and an address book with entries for the manufacturers above (14)·1. Short - Singapore III 2. Short - Scion Senior 3. Short - Scion 4. Hawker - Hart 5. Bristol - Bombay 6. Armstrong Whitworth - Whitley 7. Gloster - Gladiator 8. Miles Whitney Straight 9. Heston - Pheonix 10. Vickers - Stranraer 11. Hornet Moth DH 87B 12. Vickers - Walrus 13. Bristol - Blenheim 14. Westland - Lysander 15. Miles - Hawk Trainer 16. Express Air Liner DH 86B 17. Dragonfly DH 90 18. Dragon Rapide DH 89A 19. Tiger Moth DH 82A 20. Fairey - Hendon 21. Vickers - Venom and Wellington I 22. Vickers - Spitfire I and Wellesley 23. Fairey - Battle 24. Airspeed - AS6J Envoy 25. Fairey - Swordfish 26. Blackburn - Shark 27. Airspeed - Envoy Series III 28. Handley Page - Harrow 29. Handley Page - Hampden 30. Empire Flying Boats 31. Saro - Cloud 32. Saro - London II 33. Wicko Cabin Monoplane 34. Percival - Vega Gull 35. Bristol - Type-142 36. Bristol - Type-138A 37. Percival - Mew Gull 38. British Aircraft - Eagle 39. Monospar - Universal 40. British Aircraft - Swallow 41. Short-Mayo Composite 42. Armstrong Whitworth AW27 43. Miles - Magister 44. Miles - Mohawk 45. Miles - Peregrine 46. Miles - RR Trainer 47. Airspeed - Oxford AS10 48. Hawker - Fury 49. Hawker - Nimord 50. Hawker - Hind 51.
A selection of well-known illustrated Books for Children generally in good order but missing their dustjackets: Peter Pan and Wendy by J M Barrie illustrated by Gwynedd M Hudson (1931 Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd). Publisher's statement reads: “Do you know that this book is part of the J. M. Barrie 'Peter Pan Bequest'? This means that Sir J. M. Barrie's royalty on this book goes to help the doctors and nurses to cure the children who are lying ill in the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London'. Inscription to Roger Holmes from Beryl Browning Xmas 1933. Boards worn and spine is away, however the black and gilt decorated front board's design is reasonable. Internal condition is good and the quality of the twenty-one full page illustrations and typeset design would warrant quarter rebinding. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J M Barrie with drawings by Arthur Rackham (Seventh Edition 1910 Hodder & Stoughton). All fifty of the illustrations grouped at the back of the book are in good condition, but the frontispiece and the first few pages are loose.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Gwynedd M Hudson (Centenary (of Carroll's birth) Edition 1932 Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd) - spine is badly faded, but internally it is generally good.Quality Street - A Comedy in Four Acts by J M Barrie illustrated by Hugh Thompson (1901 Hodder & Stoughton). Original inscription cut out of the top of the title page and later ink inscription dated 1945 below. Down- Adown- Derry - a Book of Fairy Poems by Walter de Lamare with illustrations by Dorothy P Lathrop (1922 First Edition Constable & Co Ltd, London) some foxing, otherwise good.A Midsummer Night's Dream illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1914 Heinemann) Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1932 First Edition - George G Harrap & Co Ltd)All the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling illustrated by Stuart Tresilian (First Edition 1933 Macmillan and Co Limited). Profusely and finely illustrated, mostly in monochrome.
Books - Hunt (Brigadier Sir John, C.B.E., D.S.O.), The Ascent of Everest, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1953, hb, dj; Punch Library of Humour, twenty-three volumes; post-war British topography, art and architecture, some pictorial hardbacks and dustjackets; Osbert Lancaster; Osbert Sitwell; art reference; humour; children's books; qty
Early 20th century schoolboy's stamp collection: The Strand stamp album 9th edition, boards separated, quarto, child's inscription, Peter Firmin on flyleaf, a relatively full and interesting world collection covering the first 35 years of the 20th century, some earlier and some stamps loose.
FOUR VOLUMES RECORDING HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY, Regimental Heritage a large hardbound volume forming a pictorial history of paintings and Regimental silver of the Royal Regiment of Artillery first published in 1984 with original cover and box, 'Sandhurst' The Royal Military Academy 250 years, hardbound with dustcover first published in 1991, 'Guns at the Wood' a record of St Johns Wood Barracks in London, Limited Edition No.175/500 by Author Brigadier R.H. Farran (signed), also signed by artist Joan Wanklyn with accompanying letter dated June 1972, dustcover and box, 'Sandhurst' sketches by Gen Sir Cecil Blacker GCB, OBE, M.Cm drawn by Joan Wanklyn, published privately, together with complete set of prints which were used in the book, both are boxed and include letter from Col Isbell regarding the Fund Raising
History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Essex-White, William - Published Robert Leader, Sheffield(1848)-First Edition, 725pp+adverts, no map, brown leather hardback with gilt lettering, some staining and scuffing, book condition binding secure, good condition for its age, discolouration on ends of pages.
John Nash/Adrian Bell -A first edition hardback copy of ' Men and the Fields' by Adrian Bell, published by Batsford and Illustrated throughout with colour lithographs and line drawings by John Nash the younger brother of Paul Nash the surrealist war artist. Recently re-published in paperback Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia capture the character of the countryside beford modern agriculture altered the landscape forever.
PLEASE NOTE: This is Herford not Hereford as previously catalogued. By Garrard and Co, two modern commemorative silver goblets, London 1972, numbered 521 and 283 from an edition of 1300, each modelled as a reproduction of the Hertford Elizabethan chalice, celebrating the 1300th anniversary of the first ever national church assembly held in England, the Synod of Hertford 673, in two fitted cases with certificates, height 16cm, approx. weight 12.5oz. (2)
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