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Click here to subscribeFirst Edition Spectropia or Surprising Spectral Illusions Showing Ghosts Everywhere (a.f., some pages missing) 1864. No leaves before title. Lacking plate 1 and plate 16. The pages and plates present are worn, grubby and torn in places (plate 6 significantly torn). Boards almost detached. A well worn defective copy.
Colonel Robert Meinertzhagen DSO; Birds of Arabia, 4to, first edition, cloth bound with dust wrapper, published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburg 1954, together with J L B Smith; The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa, 4to, gilt tooled green cloth, published by the Central News Agency, South Africa 1953.
Bill Frindall: A Tale of Two Captains, 8vo, quarter red leather, limited edition 92/350, signed by Frindall, Gooch, Ted Dexter and Viv Richards, published by Boundary Books, Holmes Chapel 1992: Viv Richards: Sir Vivian, The Definitive Autobiography, 8vo, black half leather, limited edition 34/121, signed, published by Michael Joseph, London 2000: Jack Russell: Jack Russell, Unleashed, 8vo, black half leather, limited edition 13/50, signed, published by Collins Willow, London 1997, and Devon Malcolm: You Guys Are History, An Autobiography, 8vo, cloth bound, first edition, signed, published by Collins Willow, London 1998. (4)
FOOTBALL: George Best (1946-2005) Northern Ireland & Manchester United Footballer. A hardback edition of George Best's Soccer Annual No. 2, First edition published by Pelham Books Ltd., London, 1969. Signed by Best to a full photo page inside showing him in a relaxed half length pose with his arms folded. Signed with his name alone in red ink to a light area with a slightly hurried signature. Another page of the book features a team photo of Manchester United with the European Cup, 1968, and is signed by six players. Accompanied by the dust wrapper (tears and age wear). Together with a few unsigned pieces of printed ephemera including fifteen Topical Times cards of various players including Cliff Bastin etc. and also including a selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and slightly larger by various footballers including Erik Bakke, Ivan Helguera, Gareth Southgate, Phillip Cocu, Marc Overmars, Henrik Larsson, George Boateng, Frank de Boer, Ronald de Boer, Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, Jaap Stam, Bobby Zamora etc. Most images show the players in their football strips and most images are colour. None are inscribed. Some heavy duplication. G to VG, 54
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO: A hardback edition of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, stated First American Edition published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1959, with illustrations by Alexander Alexeieff. Individually signed to the title page by four of the main cast members of the 1965 film of the novel, comprising Julie Christie (Lara Antipova), Alec Guinness (General Yevgraf Zhivago), Siobhan McKenna (Anna Gromeko) and Ralph Richardson (Alexander Maximovich Gromeko). All have signed with their names alone in bold inks beneath an ink inscription in an unidentified hand. With black and white pictorial covers and end papers and contained in the original pictorial slipcase (slight age wear). About VG
SEARLE RONALD: (1920-2011) British Artist and Satirical Cartoonist. A.L.S., Ronald, two pages, 4to, Paris, 21st June 1975, to Nicolas Bentley ('Dear Nick'). Searle states that he was delighted to hear from his friend and remarks 'I don't know a thing about the OMNIBUS film & haven't seen it....So it was marvellous to have a spontaneous reaction like that from you & to know that you didn't consider it a waste of time to have chatted out once and for all some of those thoughts that go round in the head - but are usually kept out of sight. I must confess I hesitated over the idea for a long time because I much prefer to remain a private person. People call it 'secretive'. But it is not. I'm all for cutting out the inessentials & getting some peace & quiet.' Searle continues to refer to his wife's illness and further adds 'By the way - she is a great detective fiction buff. A couple of weeks ago she tracked down a first edition of Trent's Last Case through a second hand bookseller & she asked me to tell you how much she enjoyed Floating Dutchman. Now she is chasing your others as it made her thirst to read more. She combs almost every second hand bookseller's catalogue in GB. Her form of regular treasure hunting.', also commenting on his own work, 'I get tired too easily now. I work more tranquilly now - & the work may be better for it. But noise drives me mad & I am obviously showing signs of wear.' In concluding Searle reflects 'And why didn't they knight you instead of the amateur Lancaster? Shaming I thought, that the only signs of recognition to the profession - apart from Low on his deathbed - in the last 20 years, should be Giles & Osbert. Or do they only read the Daily Express? Pathetic.' A letter of interesting content. Some very slight creasing and a few minor, small tears to the edges, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) British Author and Illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. His father, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) was the author of the detective novel Trent's Last Case (1913).
ELIOT T.S.: (1888-1965) American-born English Poet & Dramatist. Scarce book signed, a hardback edition of The Sacred Wood - Essays on Poetry and Critcism, First Edition published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1920. Signed by Eliot with his name alone in dark fountain pen ink to the title page. Publisher's blue cloth boards with the title blindstamped to the front cover and gilt stamped title and publisher's name to the spine, the latter approximately 3mm high (and hence a first state edition; Gallup A5). Lacking the dust jacket. Some light age wear to the endpapers. Together with Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) English Poet & Novelist. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Love, First Edition published by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1943, with illustrations by Barnett Freedman. Bound in light grey cloth with gilt and red decorations and title to cover and spine. Signed by de la Mare in dark fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper and dated 1951 in his hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket (a few large tears). G to about VG, 2
FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (3) books by a wide variety of famous men and women including Autobiography by Margot Fonteyn, Japan & The East by Earl John Spencer, The First Eden - The Mediterranean World and Man by David Attenborough, A Full Life by Brian Horrocks, We Have Capture by Tom Stafford, The Battle of Britain - A Nation Alone by Arthur Ward (bearing a limited edition bookplate individually signed by thirteen Battle of Britain pilots including Tony Iveson, Tom Neil, Bob Foster, Tony Pickering, Peter Brown etc.), Quest for Adventure sby Chris Bonington, Open Secret by Stella Rimington, The Way The Wind Blows by Lord Home, A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers by Harold Wilson, Paul, Envoy Extraordinary by Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler, Hotfoot to Zabriskie Point by Jilly Cooper and Lord Lichfield, Contrasts by Koo Stark, The Music of Man by Yehudi Menuhin, The Course of My Life by Edward Heath, A Life in Pictures by Harold Macmillan, Public Appearances 1987-1991 by Lord Snowdon etc. The majority are accompanied by the dust jackets. Generally VG, 36
THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister 1979-90. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Path to Power, First Edition published by Harper Collins, London, 1995. Signed by Thatcher in bold blue ink with her name alone to the front free endpaper. Together with the dust jacket (featuring a small circular bookseller's label to the front cover). About VG
BADER DOUGLAS: (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5 victories), recognised for his important role during the Battle of Britain. Signed First Day Cover issued by the Royal Air Force to commemorate the Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and featuring a colour image of a Sopwith Camel. Post marked at Biggin Hill, 20th September 1969. Signed by Bader with his name alone across a clear area of the cover. Together with a signed paperback edition of Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill, published by Fontana, Eighth Impression, October 1975. Signed by Bader to the first page and dated 1976 in his hand. G to VG, 2
KRIEGSMARINE: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various U-Boat Captains of World War II, some of them Knight's Cross winners, including Erich Topp, Hans-Georg Hess, Gunther Heinrich, Klaus Andersen, Rolf Thomsen, Hans Hornkohl, Siegfried Koitschka, Helmut Witte, Paul Brasack etc. Each of the covers feature an identical colour reproduction of a painting entitled U-Boat Encounter and each of the limited edition (of 115) covers are boldly signed to clear areas. VG, 10
HIMMLER HEINRICH: (1900-1945) German Nazi official of World War II, Reichsfuhrer of the SS. Booklet signed, being a printed small 4to edition of SS Leitheft, printed by M. Muller & Son, Berlin, 1942. The German booklet, with several black and white plate illustrations, bears paper wrappers featuring the Nazi swastika and eagles. Signed by Himmler in purple indelible pencil to a clear area at the head of the first page and dated 20th July 1942 in his hand. Scarce in this form. Some extremely light age wear, VG SS Leitheft ('SS Lead-Booklet') was a Nazi periodical published by the main office of the Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler from 1934-45. Initially it was largely circulated between professional officers of the SS.
CRAMBO Cornelius (W.B. Rhodes), Eccentric Tales in Verse, London 1808 first edition, 8vo, half calf, folding hand coloured frontis plate bound with More Broad Grins, London 1819; A BECKETT G.A. The Comic History of England n.d. Bradbury & Evans 2vols in one, The Comic History of Rome, n.d. Bradbury & Agnew, both circa 1850 green cloth, gilt a.e.g. coloured plates (3)
LEVER Charles, Charles O'Malley, Dublin 1841, 2vols, One of Them, London 1861, Barrington, London 1863, The Knight of Gwynne, London 1847, board detached. All 8vo first editions in half calf, The Daltons, London 1865, 2vols, cloth; TROLLOPE Anthony, An Autobiography, 1883, first edition, 2vols, 8vo half calf; Captain Knox, Harry Mowbray, London 1843, first edition, 8vo half calf (10)
SCOTT Sir Walter, The Antiquary, 1816 second edition, 3vols, Tales of My Landlord (first series), 1818 fourth edition, 4vols, second series 1818 first edition 4 vols, third series 1819 first edition 4vols, the 15 vols bound in uniform contemporary full diced calf, The Chronicles of Canongate first series 1827, 1st edition, 2vols contemporary half calf, all published Edinburgh (17)
A Heuer & Ford Rallye Sport (RS Germany) split lap unit 77 digital chronograph, steel cased, with box, papers, and adjusting key, 1977 Provenance; presented to the late rally car driver Roger Clark and consigned to auction by the family. Note: Ford split lap unit 77 watches were sold directly by Ford, at the price of 630dm (equivalent to $270 on average for 1977). These chronographs were made in a limited series of 2000 watches and were thought of as the first edition of what would become a series of special watches to be offered every 2 or 3 years. However, further versions were never produced
Border Fine Arts, `Patience` (Heron), model no. L123 by David Walton, 20.3cm hjgh, ltd. edition 756/950, on wood base; Swan and Cygnets `First One In`, No. BO189; `Swan and Cygnets` style one, No. WW4; Kingfishers `Stream Sentinel`, model No. SRE2; `Riverside Jewel`, No. BO103; `Kingfisher` style three, No. RB1 (6)
A collection of pictures and prints including a detailed study of a landscape at sunset, a detailed pencil drawing of a house and garden, signed bottom right D Kropacsy and dated 1989, signed limited edition print after James Bordman, "The First Frost of Autumn", edition 42/345, signed by the artist, a pair of studies of butterflies and moths, signed A D A Russwurm, etc, all framed
Churchill, Sir Winston A History of the English Speaking Peoples, four volumes, Cassell & Co. London: (1) `The Birth of Britain`, 1956 first edition; (2) `The New World`, 1956 first edition; (3) `The Age of Revolution`, 1957 first edition; (4) `The Great Democracies`, 1958 first edition, all in dustjackets. (4)
Fleming, Ian Octopussy and the Living Daylights, first edition, Jonathan Cape, London 1966, good original dust jacket over black cloth boards with embossed and silver filled title to front and spine; together with three paperback James Bond Pan books, Casino Royal, Thunderball and Goldfinger. (4)
A FINE PAIR OF 25 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1785-88 with browned twist octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed in block capitals, case-hardened breeches inlaid with a pair of engraved gold lines, gold-lined vents, stamped with London proof marks and one with the barrelsmith`s initials `TP` beneath, engraved case-hardened tangs fitted with standing back-sights, stepped bevelled locks signed in first form of signature and engraved with a sunburst, fitted with bolt safety-catches also engaging the steels, gold-lined rainproof pans, rollers, blued detents, blued mainsprings, set triggers, highly figured walnut half-stocks with finely chequered butts (light bruising, minor scratches), engraved blued steel mounts comprising spurred trigger-guards with pineapple finials and ramrod-pipes, silver vacant shield-shaped escutcheons, silver barrel bolt escutcheons (one cracked, barrel bolts with chips), horn fore-end caps, with one original steel-tipped and an associated horn-tipped ramrod, retaining much original finish, and in untouched condition throughout: in original mahogany cased lined in red baize (the interior worn, the lid slightly warped), the lid with flush fitting carrying handle and rectangular escutcheon engraved `Captain Coghlan Royal Navy, and with a steel bullet mould 25.5cm; 10in barrels Jeremiah Coghlan (1774/5-1844), naval officer, was in January 1796 mate of a merchant ship at Plymouth, and on the occasion of the wreck of the East Indiaman Dutton displayed such energy and courage that Pellew offered to put him on the Indefatigable`s quarter-deck. He continued for three years in the Indefatigable and in March 1799 followed Pellew to the Impétueux. In June 1800 Coghlan was put by Pellew in command of the cutter Viper, and while watching Port Louis proposed to cut out a French gun-vessel at the entrance of the harbour. Pellew lent him a ten-oared cutter, and in this, with eighteen men and a midshipman - Silas Hiscutt Paddon - on the night of 29 July, he boarded the gun-brig Cerbère and after a hard fight captured her `within pistol-shot of three batteries, surrounded by several armed craft, and not a mile from a 74 bearing an admiral`s flag, and two frigates` (E. Pellew, Despatch). Both Coghlan and Paddon received several severe wounds, six of Coghlan`s men were wounded, and one was killed; but the Cerbère was taken and towed out under heavy fire from the batteries. The squadron, to mark their admiration, gave up the prize to the immediate captors; and Pellew, in his official letter to Lord St Vincent, emphasized the courage and skill `which … effected so daring an enterprise` (ibid.). St Vincent, in forwarding Pellew`s letter to the Admiralty, praised the achievement and in a letter to Pellew privately asked him to present to Coghlan a sword of 100 guineas` value. On St Vincent`s representation, Coghlan, though he had served in the Navy for only four and a half years, was promoted lieutenant on 22 September 1800 and continued in command of the Viper until she was paid off in October 1801. In spring 1802 he was appointed to the cutter Nimble, and on 1 May 1804 was promoted to command the sloop Renard on the Jamaica station. On 20 March 1805 he brought to action the French privateer Général Ernouf, which, after an action of thirty-five minutes, was set on fire and blew up with the loss of upwards of a hundred men. In August 1807 Coghlan was moved into the brig Elk on the same station, and for nearly four years was senior officer of a light squadron for the protection of the Bahamas. He was promoted captain on 27 November 1810 but continued in the Elk until the following summer. In September 1812 Coghlan was appointed to the Caledonia as flag captain of Pellew, then commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. At the end of 1813 he exchanged into the frigate Alcmène and continued in her until the end of the Napoleonic wars. On 4 June 1815 he was nominated a CB, and from 1826 to 1830 commanded the frigate Forte on the South American station. Coghlan married a daughter of Charles Hay of Jamaica, widow of Captain John Marshall RN; he had one son Sir William Marcus Coghlan (1803-1885). Taken from , 26th March 2013, with amendments pending for the next edition, September 2013. John Fox Twigg (1732-90) is recorded gunmaker in Charing Cross 1755-60, 132 Strand 1760-76 and at Piccadilly circa 1776-9. He was in partnership with his nephew, John Bass, from 1788 until his death.
Rowling (J.K.) Two typescript 'Owl Post' letters signed by J.K. Rowling's P.A., one enclosing a bookplate signed by J.K. Rowling; idem, A collection of Harry Potter deluxe editions, comprising; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1999, second impression (2 copies); Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, first impression; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999, second impression (2 copies); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, first edition; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in publisher's cellophane, price label states first edition; Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, in publisher's cellophane, price label states first edition; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in publisher's cellophane, price label states first edition; Barrie (J.M.), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 2005, Folio Society, 4to., illustrated by Arthur Rackham, slipcase
Dahl (Roald) Fantastic Mr Fox, 1970, George Allen & Unwin, first edition, illustrated by Donald Chaffin, original pictorial boards; idem, Matilda, 1988, Jonathan Cape, first edition, dust wrapper; idem, The Enormous Crocodile, 1978, Jonathan Cape, first edition, original pictorial boards (owner's name to front pastedown); with twenty-five others (28)
Woolf (Virginia) The Waves, 1931, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, first US edition, dust wrapper (chipped and worn); idem, Night and Day, [1920], New York, George H. Doran, first US edition, original cloth; idem, The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volumes 1, 2, 3, & 4, 1986-94, first editions, dust wrappers; with a small quantity of other books and a collection of letters from Nigel Nicolson (Sissinghurst Castle), Milo Keynes, Susan Kenney et al, relating to Virginia Woolf's death and mental illness together with photocopies of the author's last letters (qty)
Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, 1840-41, Chapman & Hall, first edition, first issue in book form, (complies with all of Smith's issue points except 3 optional points), three volumes, original cloth (the binding variation illustrated on page 45 of Smith, cloth faded with some staining)
Fleming (Ian) Moonraker, 1955, Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (a well worn copy, no leaves before title, dust wrapper flaps taped to pastedowns); Burgess (Anthony), A Clockwork Orange, 1962, Heinemann, first edition, ex-library, dust wrapper (priced 16s); Burroughs (William), Junkie, 1973, David Bruce & Watson, first UK edition, dust wrapper; Warrillow (E.J.D.), Arnold Bennett and Stoke-on-Trent, 1966, first edition, dust wrapper; with two others (6)
Fermor (Patrick Lee) Roumeli, Travels in Northern Greece, 1966, John Murray, first edition, dust wrapper; Whymper (Edward), Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892, John Murray, plates and maps as called for, original cloth; Fyfe (Christopher), A History of Sierra Leone, 1963, OUP, dust wrapper; with three others (6)
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The Magic of a Line, 1965, first edition, dust wrapper
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