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Lot 1355

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of four editions from 1904, each with Sherlock Holmes / Conan Doyle stories; January, April, May & August issues, each featuring The Return Of Sherlock Holmes These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines and NOT the monthly anthologies. Each housed in an original Strand Magazine cardboard cover, each issue offered in generally good original condition.

Lot 1356

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of eight 1912 editions (near complete run), each a bearing the story The Lost World; A run from April - November 1912. These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines and NOT the more common monthly anthologies. Each housed in an original Strand Magazine cardboard cover, each issue offered in generally good original condition.

Lot 1357

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of five early editions, each with Sherlock Holmes / Conan Doyle stories; March 1911 featuring Adventure Of The Red Circle, September 1914 featuring The Valley Of Fear, October 1914 featuring Valley Of Fear, November 1914 featuring Valley Of Fear and September 1917 featuring His Last Bow. These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines and NOT the monthly anthologies. Each housed in an original Strand Magazine cardboard cover, each issue offered in generally good original condition.

Lot 1358

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of three early editions, each with Sherlock Holmes stories; January 1892 featuring The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle, September 1901 featuring Hound Of The Baskervilles, March 1902 featuring also The Hound Of The Baskervilles These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines.

Lot 1369

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Return of Sherlock Holmes, FIRST EDITION in book form, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, 2 ff. of advertisements at end, 8vo, George Newnes, 1905.

Lot 1370

Doyle, Arthur Conan; The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition, first issue [with "you" for "your" on page 13], 8vo, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, original decorative red cloth gilt depicting the hound above gilt decoration. CONDITION: bright colour cloth, tight binding. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.

Lot 1371

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR: Collection of books, many early editions to include Round The Red Lamp (1912), Captain Of The Polestar (1906), The Great Shadow etc (Nelsons' Library), The Green Flag, The Great Boer War (1902), Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes (1913), Through The Magic Door (Nelson), Micah Clarke (1906), Rodney Stone (1915), Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (later), Adventures Of Gerard (later), Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard (later), The Mystery Of Cloomber, The Exploits Of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle (1954 First Edition),

Lot 1372

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; THE LOST WORLD - first edition; London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. Octavo, pp. 320: printer's imprint, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and white, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 10,716 copies printed. The first Professor Challenger story, in which the scientist and his exploring party locate a remnant of the prehistoric world on a plateau in South America. Challenger's narrative "remains the most famous of its type and has served as a model since its publication." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981). The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

Lot 1375

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; His Last Bow - Sherlock Holmes, FIRST EDITION 1917. 8vo; pp. 305 & 6 advertisement pages. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. His Last Bow marked the end of Holmes' career, though not the end of his adventures.

Lot 1376

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; The Land Of Mist, Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1926, first edition. Original dark green cloth binding with light green embossed title to front board and spine.

Lot 1378

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; The Return Of Sherlock Holmes 1905 first edition; Illustrated by Sidney Paget with black and white plates. Newly bound in full crimson Morocco, the covers with a double gilt fillet border, the spine lettered and dated in gilt.

Lot 1379

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; 1927, The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes, First Edition. John Murray Albemarle Street, original red cloth binding, gilt lettered text to cover and black text to spine.

Lot 1380

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; FIRST EDITIONS; Adventures Of Gerard; George Newnes, 1903. Hardcover. Gilt lettering on blue cloth. Along with; The Doings Of Raffles Haw, Cassell & Company, Limited,, London, Paris & Melbourne:, 1892. Original blue cloth. The tale of a modern alchemist who becomes a billionaire and corrupts the community he wants to help. Written while Doyle was on a sojourn in Vienna, in the same year that The adventures of Sherlock Holmes was first published. The creator of the most famous detective in literature, and A Study In Scarlett, later edition; Ward Lock & Co, London.

Lot 1381

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; The Valley Of Fear - Smith, Elder & Co. London, 1915. First Edition. Widely considered one of the best illustrations of the Holmes-Watson relationship, The valley of fear was very well received by the wartime public. 8vo pp, with frontispiece. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover.

Lot 1382

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; FIRST EDITIONS; Danger & Other Stories, 1918, 2nd binding, John Murray, Ablemarle Street, Arthur Conan Doyle. Original brown cloth with embossed black text to cover. Along with; The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1896, 24 inserted plates with illustrations by W. B. Wollen, original red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, edges untrimmed. First edition. 7,500 copies printed. And; The Stark Munro Letters; Longmans, Green and Co. London:, 1895. First edition in book form. 8vo., 346 pp., plus publisher’s advertisements. With frontispiece. Original green beveled publisher’s cloth with black end-papers.

Lot 1383

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR, FIRST EDITIONS; The Tragedy Of The Korosko - Smith, Elder & Co. London:, 1898. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xii, 333 pp., plus 6 pages publisher's advertisements. With frontispiece and 39 plates. Original red publisher's cloth. First edition of this story set in Egypt, about the Dervish threat. A portion of it first appeared serially in the May through December, 1897, issues of The Strand magazine, and was enlarged here into a novel. Along with; Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes; thirty seventh thousand. early edition.343pp. + 8pp. adverts. Illustrated throughout. Original blue cloth gilt, and The Sign Of Four; Red cloth hardback with gilt lettering to the front and spine. Smith, Elder & Co, 1908. New Edition.

Lot 1384

CONAN DOYLE, A; THE LOST WORLD; London, Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton 1914. New Edition; Large 8vo; pp. 320, coloured portrait frontispiece; illustrated endpapers; 12 illustrations some colour, 2 maps; brown cloth boards, gilt impressed titles and series of dinosaur prints ambling from back board. This is the brown second issue of the large paper issue of the first English edition. One Thousand of the large paper issue were printed at the same time as the first Trade Edition, but only 190 copies were bound in blue cloth, the remaining 810 sets were subsequently bound in brown cloth and issued in 1914 with modified prelims of which this is a believed copy. COMPLETE WITH RARE PAPER DUST JACKET

Lot 1385

CONAN DOYLE; A; FIRST EDITIONS; Round the Red Lamp; Being the Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by A.Conan Doyle. First Edition 1894. Original publishers red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Also Rodney Stone, Smith, Elder & Co. 1896. Blue cloth binding with gilt letters and illustration to front and The Green Flag & Other Stories Of War & Sport, being annotated to the frontis; 'left on board Amethyst. hoping my good host will derive as much pleasure in reading this book as I have derived in his company on his charming yacht, July 3rd 1900 - Sir David Evans, Surrey.

Lot 1386

CONAN DOYLE, A; Sir Nigel; Smith, Elder & Co., London. 1906, first Edition. Publisher's red cloth, title and author in gilt with embossed illustration. Spine title in same. Illustrated frontis, 7 B / W plates.

Lot 1391

Conan - Doyle, A; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894 [1893]. First edition, large 8vo, illustrated by Sidney Paget, original blue cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt.

Lot 1354

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of 10 1920's issues each with Sherlock Holmes / Conan Doyle stories; March 1923 The Adventure Of The Creeping Man, January 1925 featuring The Adventure Of The Three Garridebs, March 1925 featuring The Illustrious Client Part II, October 1928 featuring The Three Gables, November 1926 featuring The Adventure Of The Blanched Soldier, January 1927 featuring The Adventure Of The Retired Colourman, February 1928 featuring The Maracot Deep, April 1928 featuring When The World Screamed, MAy 1928 featuring When The World Screamed & September 1930 featuring A Scandal In Bohemia These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines and NOT the monthly anthologies. Each housed in an original Strand Magazine cardboard cover, each issue offered in generally good original condition, each with full colour covers.

Lot 1355

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of four editions from 1904, each with Sherlock Holmes / Conan Doyle stories; January, April, May & August issues, each featuring The Return Of Sherlock Holmes These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines and NOT the monthly anthologies. Each housed in an original Strand Magazine cardboard cover, each issue offered in generally good original condition.

Lot 1356

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of eight 1912 editions (near complete run), each a bearing the story The Lost World; A run from April - November 1912. These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines and NOT the more common monthly anthologies. Each housed in an original Strand Magazine cardboard cover, each issue offered in generally good original condition.

Lot 1357

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of five early editions, each with Sherlock Holmes / Conan Doyle stories; March 1911 featuring Adventure Of The Red Circle, September 1914 featuring The Valley Of Fear, October 1914 featuring Valley Of Fear, November 1914 featuring Valley Of Fear and September 1917 featuring His Last Bow. These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines and NOT the monthly anthologies. Each housed in an original Strand Magazine cardboard cover, each issue offered in generally good original condition.

Lot 1358

THE STRAND MAGAZINE; ORIGINAL WEEKLY EDITIONS; Each featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; this lot comprising of three early editions, each with Sherlock Holmes stories; January 1892 featuring The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle, September 1901 featuring Hound Of The Baskervilles, March 1902 featuring also The Hound Of The Baskervilles These magazines are the original 'first edition' weekly printed magazines.

Lot 1369

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Return of Sherlock Holmes, FIRST EDITION in book form, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, 2 ff. of advertisements at end, 8vo, George Newnes, 1905.

Lot 1370

Doyle, Arthur Conan; The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition, first issue [with "you" for "your" on page 13], 8vo, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, original decorative red cloth gilt depicting the hound above gilt decoration. CONDITION: bright colour cloth, tight binding. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.

Lot 1371

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR: Collection of books, many early editions to include Round The Red Lamp (1912), Captain Of The Polestar (1906), The Great Shadow etc (Nelsons' Library), The Green Flag, The Great Boer War (1902), Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes (1913), Through The Magic Door (Nelson), Micah Clarke (1906), Rodney Stone (1915), Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (later), Adventures Of Gerard (later), Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard (later), The Mystery Of Cloomber, The Exploits Of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle (1954 First Edition),

Lot 1372

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; THE LOST WORLD - first edition; London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. Octavo, pp. 320: printer's imprint, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and white, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 10,716 copies printed. The first Professor Challenger story, in which the scientist and his exploring party locate a remnant of the prehistoric world on a plateau in South America. Challenger's narrative "remains the most famous of its type and has served as a model since its publication." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981). The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

Lot 1375

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; His Last Bow - Sherlock Holmes, FIRST EDITION 1917. 8vo; pp. 305 & 6 advertisement pages. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. His Last Bow marked the end of Holmes' career, though not the end of his adventures.

Lot 1376

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; The Land Of Mist, Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1926, first edition. Original dark green cloth binding with light green embossed title to front board and spine.

Lot 1378

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; The Return Of Sherlock Holmes 1905 first edition; Illustrated by Sidney Paget with black and white plates. Newly bound in full crimson Morocco, the covers with a double gilt fillet border, the spine lettered and dated in gilt.

Lot 1379

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; 1927, The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes, First Edition. John Murray Albemarle Street, original red cloth binding, gilt lettered text to cover and black text to spine.

Lot 1380

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; FIRST EDITIONS; Adventures Of Gerard; George Newnes, 1903. Hardcover. Gilt lettering on blue cloth. Along with; The Doings Of Raffles Haw, Cassell & Company, Limited,, London, Paris & Melbourne:, 1892. Original blue cloth. The tale of a modern alchemist who becomes a billionaire and corrupts the community he wants to help. Written while Doyle was on a sojourn in Vienna, in the same year that The adventures of Sherlock Holmes was first published. The creator of the most famous detective in literature, and A Study In Scarlett, later edition; Ward Lock & Co, London.

Lot 1381

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; The Valley Of Fear - Smith, Elder & Co. London, 1915. First Edition. Widely considered one of the best illustrations of the Holmes-Watson relationship, The valley of fear was very well received by the wartime public. 8vo pp, with frontispiece. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover.

Lot 1382

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR; FIRST EDITIONS; Danger & Other Stories, 1918, 2nd binding, John Murray, Ablemarle Street, Arthur Conan Doyle. Original brown cloth with embossed black text to cover. Along with; The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1896, 24 inserted plates with illustrations by W. B. Wollen, original red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, edges untrimmed. First edition. 7,500 copies printed. And; The Stark Munro Letters; Longmans, Green and Co. London:, 1895. First edition in book form. 8vo., 346 pp., plus publisher’s advertisements. With frontispiece. Original green beveled publisher’s cloth with black end-papers.

Lot 1383

CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR, FIRST EDITIONS; The Tragedy Of The Korosko - Smith, Elder & Co. London:, 1898. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xii, 333 pp., plus 6 pages publisher's advertisements. With frontispiece and 39 plates. Original red publisher's cloth. First edition of this story set in Egypt, about the Dervish threat. A portion of it first appeared serially in the May through December, 1897, issues of The Strand magazine, and was enlarged here into a novel. Along with; Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes; thirty seventh thousand. early edition.343pp. + 8pp. adverts. Illustrated throughout. Original blue cloth gilt, and The Sign Of Four; Red cloth hardback with gilt lettering to the front and spine. Smith, Elder & Co, 1908. New Edition.

Lot 1384

CONAN DOYLE, A; THE LOST WORLD; London, Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton 1914. New Edition; Large 8vo; pp. 320, coloured portrait frontispiece; illustrated endpapers; 12 illustrations some colour, 2 maps; brown cloth boards, gilt impressed titles and series of dinosaur prints ambling from back board. This is the brown second issue of the large paper issue of the first English edition. One Thousand of the large paper issue were printed at the same time as the first Trade Edition, but only 190 copies were bound in blue cloth, the remaining 810 sets were subsequently bound in brown cloth and issued in 1914 with modified prelims of which this is a believed copy. COMPLETE WITH RARE PAPER DUST JACKET

Lot 1385

CONAN DOYLE; A; FIRST EDITIONS; Round the Red Lamp; Being the Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by A.Conan Doyle. First Edition 1894. Original publishers red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Also Rodney Stone, Smith, Elder & Co. 1896. Blue cloth binding with gilt letters and illustration to front and The Green Flag & Other Stories Of War & Sport, being annotated to the frontis; 'left on board Amethyst. hoping my good host will derive as much pleasure in reading this book as I have derived in his company on his charming yacht, July 3rd 1900 - Sir David Evans, Surrey.

Lot 1386

CONAN DOYLE, A; Sir Nigel; Smith, Elder & Co., London. 1906, first Edition. Publisher's red cloth, title and author in gilt with embossed illustration. Spine title in same. Illustrated frontis, 7 B / W plates.

Lot 1391

Conan - Doyle, A; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894 [1893]. First edition, large 8vo, illustrated by Sidney Paget, original blue cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt.

Lot 403

RNSC1 14 Feb 72 - BFPS 1265 - 20th Anniversary of First Deck Landing on HMS Eagle Flown in Sea Fury TF 956 . Signed by Commanding Officer Heron flight, Lt.Cdr.Sheppard, and Captain I G Robinson, Captain of HMS Eagle. Newspaper clippings and card inside. Limited edition of 300. Good Condition

Lot 733

[BOOKS]. THE R.A.F. & THE SECOND WORLD WAR Forrester, Larry. Fly for Your Life. The Story of R.R. Stanford Tuck, Muller, London, 1956, boards, dustjacket, illustrations from photographs, SIGNED BY STANFORD TUCK, octavo; a facsimile edition of Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck`s Pilot`s Flying Log Book, limited edition 315/2500, After the Battle, London, no date, brown cloth, octavo; `No.13 Group R.A.F.`, Forget-Me-Nots for Fighters, first edition, 1940, pictorial boards, illustrations throughout, quarto; Lucas, `Laddie`. Flying Colours. The Epic Story of Douglas Bader, first edition, Hutchinson, London, 1981, boards, dustjacket, illustrations from photographs, SIGNED BY BADER & LUCAS, octavo; and a further four works, (8).

Lot 824

ASSORTED MATCHBOX DIECAST MODELS circa 1950s-60s, including a Major Pack No.5, Massey Ferguson Combine Harvester, red, silver plastic front hubs, very good condition, unboxed; `Models of Yesteryear` No.Y-4, Shand Mason Horse-Drawn Fire Engine `London Fire Brigade`, red, white horses, good condition, boxed, the box generally good (slightly creased); `Models of Yesteryear` No.2, B Type Bus, red, excellent condition, boxed, the box generally good (slightly creased; one end flap torn at crease); and assorted others, mainly 1-75 Series, variable condition, all unboxed; together with a TRI-ANG MINIC SHIPS NO.M891, R.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH PRESENTATION SET, generally good condition, complete with first edition product range leaflet, boxed, the box generally good.

Lot 896

TWO KEVIN FRANCIS POTTERY TOBY JUGS, MODELLED AS WINSTON CHURCHILL the first in city attire, limited edition 248/5000, the second variantly coloured in country attire, limited edition 161/5000, both with inscriptions to the base including `Tantum mirabile est`, brown backstamps, each 22.5cm high.

Lot 920

[BOOK]. HISTORY Churchill, Winston. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, first edition, Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1898, green cloth gilt, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece, errata slip, six maps (two folding), thirty-two page publisher`s catalogue, octavo (spine browned; upper cover with mug ring; one foldng map with nicked fore-edge; few pages with fold-lines to upper corners; bookplate to front pastedown).

Lot 921

[BOOK]. HISTORY Churchill, Winston. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, first edition, Longmans, Green & Co., London & Bombay, 1900, pictorial buff cloth, folding colur map, three further maps (two folding), four plans, thirty-two page publisher`s catalogue, octavo (spine dulled; covers soiled; upper hinge tender; lacking front and rear blanks; corners bumped; ownership inscription).

Lot 922

[BOOK]. HISTORY Churchill, Winston. Ian Hamilton`s March, first edition, Longmans, Green & Co., London & Bombay, 1900, crimson cloth gilt, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece, ten maps and plans (one coloured and folding), thirty-two page publisher`s catalogue, octavo (bookplate to front pastedown).

Lot 923

[BOOK]. HISTORY Churchill, Winston. My African Journey, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1908, pictorial scarlet cloth, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece and a further sixty illustrations from photographs (as called for), three maps (one folding), sixteen-page publisher`s list, octavo (ownership inscription to front free endpaper, with another erased by rubbing; upper cover slightly rubbed, with traces of label scar).

Lot 924

[BOOKS]. HISTORY Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis 1911-1914, first edition, Butterworth, London, 1923, navy cloth, quarto; Churchill, The Aftermath. The World Crisis 1918-1928, first U.S. Edition, Scribner`s, New York, 1929, dark maroon cloth, quarto; Churchill, My Early Life. A Roving Commission, first edition, Butterworth, London, 1930, rose pink cloth, dustjacket, quarto; Churchill, Amid These Storms. Thoughts and Adventures, first U.S. Edition, Scribner`s, New York, 1932, red cloth, quarto; Churchill, Arms and the Covenant, first edition, Harrap, London, 1938, dark blue cloth, quarto; Churchill, Step by Step 1936-1939, first edition, Butterworth, London, 1939, green cloth, quarto; Churchill, The Sinews of Peace. Post-War Speeches, first edition, Cassell, London, 1948, brick red cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and Churchill, In the Balance. Speeches 1949 and 1950, first edition, Cassell, London, 1951, dark blue cloth, octavo, (8).

Lot 926

[BOOKS]. BIBLIOGRAPHY & NUMISMATICS Langworth, Richard M. A Connoisseur`s Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, first English edition, London, 1998, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and Engstrom, J. Eric. The Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill, first edition, Spink, London, 1972, orange cloth, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto.

Lot 927

[BOOKS]. HISTORY Churchill, Winston. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, `Chartwell` edition first printing, four volumes, The Educational Book Company Ltd, London, 1956-58, navy blue buckram gilt, SIGNED BY AUTHOR in black ink `Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill` to a sheet of paper pasted to front free endpaper of Volume One, quarto; together with a letter, on Chartwell headed notepaper, from Churchill`s Private Secretary, dated 29th April 1957, to a Mrs F.D. Brooks: `Dear Mrs Brooks, I am extremely sorry that a mistake was made in replying to your recent letter to Sir Winston Churchill. Sir Winston was very glad to sign the enclosed piece of paper for you to insert in the book which you are giving to Lord Selkirk... `.

Lot 928

[BOOKS]. HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY Thompson, W.H. Sixty Minutes with Winston Churchill, first edition, Johnson, London, 1953, pictorial pale blue boards, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; Thompson, W.H. I Was Churchill`s Shadow, fifth impression, Johnson, London, 1959, black boards, dustjacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; MacGowan, Norman. My Years with Churchill, first edition, Souvenir Press, London, 1958, blue boards, dustjacket; Urquart, Fred. W.S.C. A Cartoon Biography, first edition, Cassell, London, 1955, black boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; and a further ten works of Churchill interest, (14).

Lot 929

[BOOKS]. BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY Churchill, Randolph, & Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill 1874-1965, eight volumes, all but Volume Two a first edition, Heinemann, London, 1966-88, cloth / boards, dustjackets, quarto; together with thirteen companion volumes, Heinemann, London, 1967-82, cloth, dustjackets, quarto, (21).

Lot 930

[BOOKS]. HISTORY Churchill, Winston. Lord Randolph Churchill, first edition, two volumes, Macmillan, London, 1906, armorial maroon cloth gilt, `Presentation Copy` blind-stamp to title pages, plate illustrations, quarto; Churchill, Winston. The Great War, three volumes, Newnes, London, no date, blue cloth gilt, illustrations from photographs, quarto; Churchill, Winston. The Second World War, six volumes, The Educational Book Company Limited, London, no date, quarter blue leather, illustrations, quarto; and Winston Churchill`s War Speeches: Into Battle / The Unrelenting Struggle / The End of the Beginning / Onwards to Victory / The Dawn of Liberation / Victory, six volumes, Volumes One, Four, Five and Six first editions, Cassell, London, 1941-46, cloth, dustjackets.

Lot 931

[BOOKS]. HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY Gilbert, Martin. Churchill. A Life, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1991, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Lamb, Richard. Churchill as War Leader - Right or Wrong?, first edition, Bloomsbury, London, 1991, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Soames, Mary. Winston Churchill. His Life as a Painter, first edition, Collins, London, 1990, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and a further thirty-two works of Churchill interest, (35).

Lot 949

[ANTIQUES & COLLECTING]. CERAMICS Tilley, Frank. Teapots and Tea, limited edition of 1000, The Ceramic Book Company, Newport, 1957, maroon cloth, plate illustrations, quarto; John, W.D. Swansea Porcelain, first edition, The Ceramic Book Co., Newport, 1958, blue cloth, plate illustrations, quarto (upper cover damp marked); John, W.D. William Billingsley, first edition, The Ceramic Book Co., Newport, 1968, orange boards, plate illustrations, quarto; MacKenzie, Compton. The House of Coalport 1750-1950, limited edition 136/150, signed by author, Collins, London, 1951, illustrations, octavo; and a further nine assorted works, (13).

Lot 950

[ANTIQUES & COLLECTING]. CERAMICS Mackenna, F. Severne. Chelsea Porcelain. The Gold Anchor Wares, limited edition 376/500, signed by author, Lewis, Leigh-on-Sea, 1952, yellow cloth, dustjacket, plate illustrations, quarto; Marshall, H. Rissik. Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, limited edition of 1200, Ceramic Book Company, Newport, 1954, blue cloth, plate illustrations, quarto; Sandon, Henry. Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, first edition, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, 1978, boards, dustjacket, plate illustrations, quarto; Messenger, Michael. Coalport 1795-1926, first edition, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, 1995, blue cloth, dustjacket, plate illustrations, quarto; and a further four assorted works, (8).

Lot 951

[CHILDRENS] Crompton, Richmal. William`s Treasure Trove, first edition, Newnes, London, 1962, boards, dustjacket, illustrations by Thomas Henry, octavo; together with a further nine `William` titles, all reprints, all with dustjackets; Richards, Frank. Bunter the Ventriloquist, first edition, Cassell, London, 1961, boards, dustjacket, illustrations by C.H. Chapman, octavo; and a further two `Bunter` titles, both reprints, both with dustjackets; Buckeridge, Anthony. The Trouble with Jennings, first edition, Collins, London, 1960, boards, dustjacket, illustrations by Mays, octavo; Buckeridge, Anthony. Leave it to Jennings, first edition, Collins, London, 1963, boards, dustjacket, illustrations by Mays, octavo; and a further five `Jennings` titles, all reprints, all with dustjackets; and nineteen other childrens books, including seven titles by Arthur Ransome, all reprints, (39).

Lot 952

[LITERATURE] De La Mare, Walter. Told Again. Traditional Tales, limited edition 220/260, signed by author, Blackwell, Oxford, 1927, bevelled ivory buckram gilt with Rapunzel motif to upper cover, top edges gilt, colour plate and black and white full-page illustrations by A.H. Watson, quarto (spine browned); and De La Mare, Walter. Early One Morning in the Spring, first edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1935, red cloth, top edges gilt, monochrome plate illustrations, quarto, (2).

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