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Click here to subscribeVerne (Jules) 'From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety Seven Hours Twenty Minutes and a Trip around It', first edition, published by Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, London 1873, with numerous illustrations, bound in green cloth with gilt and green and black decoration. (illustrated)
Chevalier (Francois), Taglang (Jacques) J Class, limited edition number 852 of 2,900 copies, signed by the authors, with numerous illustrations J Class yachts, first published 2002 by Yachting Heritage of London, bound in white cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, comes complete with slip case. (illustrated)
John Betjeman (1906-1984): signed letter, Summoned by Bells signed first edition, signed cards and a signed poem 1. Signed letter. Handwritten two-sided letter from Treen, Trebetherick, 19.3.62, My dear Phoebe, I arrived here last night for a short holiday and was saddened to hear of your mother's {Kathleen Stokes} death. She had written to me last year enquiring about accommodation in one of our Mutual Household houses. I enquired about them and found that their finances were not all that would be desired and then I heard that she had had that accident so I did not bother to write. I'm glad I didn't because I did not want to worry her. Last night I went and saw your Aunt Nell and Joan and Rea { Nell's daughter and son-in-law} were there. They told me how your mother was looking forward to leaving this world and to seeing your father again. ( he had died in1910); What a happy state to be in at one's end. I hope ours will be as composed and full of faith. She was such a good person i
Collection of John Betjeman books to include Summoned by Bells pub. John Murray, 1960, first edition, in dust wrapper and another copy, lacking dustwrapper and ten other books by or relating to Betjeman and a copy of his Service of Thanksgiving held on Friday 29th June 1984 held at Westminster Abbey
JOHN TRICKETT SIX ARTIST SIGNED LIMITED EDITION COLOUR PRINTS 'Under and Over' (155/850) 10" x 11 3/4" (25.4cm x 29.8cm) 'First Footing' (558/850) 15 1/2" x 13" (39.3cm x 33cm) 'Pick of the Litter' (52/850) 10 1/2" x 16" (26.7cm x 40.7cm) 'My Pal' (76/850) 12" x 9 3/4" (30.5cm x 24.8cm) TWO ARTIST SIGNED LIMITED COLOUR PRINTS 'Sausage Dog' (185/850) 14 1/4" x 10 1/2" (36.2cm x 26.7cm) 'Inquisitive' (20/850) 11 1/2" x 13 3/4" (29.2cm x 34.9cm) (6)
A SELECTION OF FIRST EDITION NOVELS comprising Agatha Christie, 'By The Pricking of My Thumbs', first edition 1968, hardback with jacket, published for the Crime Club; Agatha Christie, 'Curtain, Poirot's Last Case', first edition 1975, hardback with jacket, published by Collins; Graham Greene 'Doctor Fischer Of Geneva or The Bomb Party', first edition 1980, hardback with jacket, published by The Bodley Head; John Le Carre, 'The Looking-Glass War', first edition 1965, hardback with jacket, published by Heineman; John Le Carre, 'Smiley's People', first edition 1979. hardback with jacket, published by Hodder and Stoughton; and John Le Carre, 'The Constant Gardener', first edition 2001, hardback with jacket, published by Hodder and Stoughton (6)
Beatrix Potter - The Roly Poly Pudding, first edition, first printing, published by Frederick Warne 1908, title page with date and 'all rights reserved' in brackets below, original maroon cloth with paper illustration on front board, together with The Tale Of Little Pig Robinson, first edition, second printing, published by Frederick Warne 1930, original blue cloth with front cover lettered in gilt and dark brown, original dust cover Condition: Please see extra images and TELEPHONE department for further details
A.A. Milne - Winnie The Pooh, first edition, first impression, published by Methuen & Co Ltd 1926, original green cloth, titled to spine, pictorial decoration, top edge of pages gilt and with map endpapers, pictorial dust jacket with '117th Thousand' to back flap Condition: Please see extra images and TELEPHONE department for further details
A.A. Milne - The House At Pooh Corner, first edition, first impression, published by Methuen & Co Ltd 1928, original pink cloth, titled to spine and pictorial front board, top edge of pages gilt, illustrated endpapers, with dust jacket Condition: Please see extra images and TELEPHONE department for further details
A.A. Milne - Now We Are Six, first edition, first impression, published by Methuen & Co Ltd 1927, original red cloth, titled to spine, pictorial decoration, top edge of pages gilt and with pictorial pink end papers, lacks dust jacket together with another copy, 8th edition 1934, When We Were Very Young, 11th edition 1925 and The House At Pooh Corner, 8th edition 1936 Condition: Please see extra images and TELEPHONE department for further details
A Coalport Queen Elizabeth II 25th Anniversary vase and cover, Limited Edition 60/200, handpainted by M. Cooke, height 9.5ins, and a similar Coalport fruit bowl, 113/500, diameter 10 ins. CONDITION REPORT: Neither of these items come with their box or certificate. They are however both in first class condition with no damage, no repairs and no restoration.
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Margaret Jourdain, 'Work of William Kent', published by Country Life Ltd. 1948,Percy Macquoid, 'English Furniture Tapestry Needlework of the 16th-19th century',published by B. T. Batsford Ltd 1928, limited edition of 200 UK copies (a record of the collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, formed by the First Viscount Leverhulme),R. W. Symonds, 'Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks', published by B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1940, limited edition of 750 UK copies,Introduction by John Gloag, notes and comments by Yvonne Hackenbroch, 'English Furniture, with some furniture of other countries - the Irwin Untermyer Collection', published by Thames & Hudson 1958,Christopher Gilbert, 'The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale', published by Studio Vista-ChristieÉs Publishing 1978 (5)
The War Illustrated unsigned Volume 7 23rd July 1943 Original wartime edition. Excellent news, articles and photographs. War in the Pacific, the battle for New Georgia. The King visiting North Africa and Malta GC. Capture of Italian islands Pantelleria and Lampedusa. Murmansk convoys to Russia arrive. Dramatic picture of an RAF Coastal Command Halifax bombing and destroying a U Boat in the Bay of Biscay. 4 pages of blue and sepia toned photographs of the build up to D Day still a year away. China's 7 year struggle against the Japanese plan to mobilize 50 million more men. Dramatic photograph of a Flying Fortress first daylight attack on the Ruhr. Egypt salutes 34 Allied nations. 7 winners of the Victoria Cross. Eyewitness accounts of the war. The escape of a young Norwegian girl from Poland sent there to work on the land. Back page photograph of RAF Boston bombers attacking Lampedusa. Good Condition
THIRTY-THREE 1/76 SCALE 'SOUTHDOWN' MODEL BUSES & COACHES by Corgi 'Original Omnibus Company' (17), Britbus (9), Exclusive First Editions (6), and Oxford Diecast (2), including one Code 3 limited edition of 250, most mint or near mint, all but five boxed (some Britbus boxes incomplete); together with three Exclusive First Editions 'Royal Blue' coaches, unboxed, (36).
[BOOKS] Nineteen assorted works of railway and bus interest, including Phillips, Derek, & Pryer, George. The Salisbury to Exeter Line, first edition, Oxford Publishing Co., Sparkford, 1997, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and Bird, John. Southern Steam Sunset, first edition, Runpast Publishing, Cheltenham, 1997, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto, (box).
[BOOKS] Twenty assorted works of railway interest, including Peters, Ivo. The Somerset & Dorset. An English Cross-Country Railway, first edition, Oxford Publishing Co., Oxford, 1974, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and Hammond, Alan. Celebration of the Somerset & Dorset Railway, first (limited) edition 1092/2500, Millstream Books, Bath, 2006, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto.
[NATURAL HISTORY]. HORTICULTURE McIntosh, Charles. The Greenhouse, Hot House, and Stove, first edition, Orr & Co., London, 1838, modern half green leather, frontispiece, vignette half title, and a further fifteen (of sixteen) hand-coloured plate illustrations, octavo; together with McIntosh, Charles. The New and Improved Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist... , Kelly, London, 1854, modern blue buckram, engraved portrait frontispiece, ten hand-coloured plate illustrations, further line-drawn text illustrations, fourteen page Appendix, quarto, (2).
[TOPOGRAPHY]. TAUNTON (SOMERSET) Toulmin, Joshua. The History of the Town of Taunton, first edition, by Norris, Taunton, 1791, half leather, three engraved plate illustrations, one folding table, quarto (scuffed; head of spine torn; pp.175-92 and final plate with worm damage to fore-edge margin).
[TRAVEL]. POLAR EXPLORATION Huxley, Leonard, editor. Scott's Last Expedition, first edition, two volumes, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1913, navy blue cloth, top edges gilt, eight photogravure plate, eighteen colour plate, two folding panoramic plate, seven double-page plate, and additional plate and text illustrations from photographs (all collated and as called for), together with eight folding maps, quarto (spine ends nicked and frayed; spines slightly soiled)
TAYLOR, John; The Booke of Martyrs, published London J H(aviland) for J.Hammond, 1627. In contemporary leather dos-a-dos binding, the front bearing an impressed illustration of a martyr on a burning pyre, surrounded by the words "REPENT O ENGLAND O ENGLAND REPENT", the back bearing impressed illustration of a pelican feeding its young with angel head spandrels. Miniature, smaller than 64o in 16s, at 1 5/8" high by 1 1/4" wide by 7/8" thick. Both spines have four raised bands. All sheets of main text and epistle have catchwords intact. An abridgement of Foxe's "The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church", commonly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs. A very rare book, only one other of this third edition in this size is known to exit in a private collection. The diminutive size has contributed to the scarcity of copies by making them affordable but vulnerable to wear and tear. STC (2nd ed.), 23731.7. Provenance: The book was found amongst the effects of the vendor's mother who died in 1971. The vendor's mother was brought up in Handsworth, Birmingham. Many of her effects had been passed down from her mother and grandmother. CONDITION REPORT: First book: front sheet, crumpled. Title page, "The Booke of Martyrs" London Printed by I.H for I.Hammond 1627. Third page, "To the Right Ho William Earle of Pem-broke, &c". Fourth page, The Epistle; My Lord, my weake collection hath tooke, The summe and pith of the great Martyrs Booke. Fifth page, The Epistle; For pardon and protection I intreat, The volume's little, my presumption great, I.Taylor. Sixth page, text starts. Second book: Front page, edges missing. Title page, "The Booke of Martyrs" The Second Part Printed at London for John Hamman 1627. Third page, "To The right Ho Phillip E of Mont-gomery &c". Fourth page, The Epistle; My Lord, the lives and deaths of Saints and Kings, This little Booke unto your greatnesse sings. Fifth page, The Epistle; Protection and acceptance if you give, It shall (as shall your selfe) forever live, Ioh Taylor. Sixth page, text starts. Condition of pages: some edges torn, some corners missing and/or turned over, 10 pages in first book foxed/stained, to central edge.
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