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Click here to subscribeBarrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, nd. [1911], Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, 13 plates after F.D. Bedford including frontis and title, inscription to front endpaper 'Miss Thorp, Xmas 1911, JM' (not attributed to Barrie - please see image online to form your own opinion!), dust wrapper (torn and chipped with significant loss to front)
Ardizzone (Edward) Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, 1936, OUP, folio, pictorial boards (worn); Emanuel (Walter), The Snob, 1904, illustrated by Cecil Aldin, original pictorial boards; Carroll (Lewis), The Hunting of the Snark, 1876, first edition, a.e.g., original pictorial cloth; Cooke (E.W.), Grotesque Animals, 1872, 4to., re-cased upside down, original cloth gilt; with a quantity of others (qty)
Aschams (Roger) [Johnson (Samuel) edit.] The English Works of Roger Ascham, Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth: containing, I. A Report of the Affairs of Germany, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth's Court. II. Toxophilus, or the School of Shooting. III. The Schoolmaster ...., by James Bennet, nd. [1762/7], first edition, second issue with undated title, 4 p. list of subscribers, half title not present, it is believed that 'Johnson was in reality, the editor of the work', half calf (joints starting) [Courtney & Smith p. 100, Hazen p. 19]
Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, nd. [1990], Longman, 2 vols., folio facsimile of 1755 edition, bonded leather, slipcase; Woolf (Virginia), Mrs Dalloway, 1925, Harcourt, Brace and Company, first edition, third printing, cloth; Pratchett (Terry), The Carpet People, 2005, signed and numbered collector's edition (of 1000), dust wrapper, slipcase; Whipplesnaith, The Night Climbers of Cambridge, 1937, cloth; Weitzmann (Kurt) & Bernabo (Massimo) The Byzantine Octateuchs, 1999, Princeton University, 2 vols., part of 'The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint', large 4to., cloth; with a large quantity of others (qty)
Burroughs (William) The Naked Lunch, [1959], Paris; Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series No 76, copyright dated 1959, first edition paperback with additional purple, white and black dust jacket (dust jacket priced Francs 1500, price on green paperback wrap (F1,500) obscured with ink, no new price, binding weak, text-block detached from wraps, ownership inscription dated 1962)
Burton (Richard F.) First Footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar, 1894, Memorial edition, 2 vols, maps, colour plates as called for, original cloth gilt; idem, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, 1893, Memorial edition, 2 vols., folding map, colour plates as called for, original cloth gilt; Westermarck (Edward), Ritual and Belief in Morocco, 1926, 2 vols., plate, folding map, t.e.g., with two others (8)
Skues (G.E.M.) Side-Lines, Side-Lights and Reflections, Fugitive Papers of a Chalk-Stream Angler, 1932, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth; Righyni (R.V.), Grayling, 1968, first edition, dust wrapper; Kite (Oliver), Elements of Nymph Fishing, 1966, first edition, dust wrapper; with a quantity of other angling books (qty)
Fulton (Robert) The Illustrated Book of Pigeons .., nd., 50 chromolitho plates, torn text page, detached board, w.a.f.; Rackham (Oliver), Woodlands, 2006, NN100, reprint, dust wrapper; Buczacki (Stefan), Garden Natural History, 2007, NN102, first edition, dust wrapper; Bircham (Peter), A History of Ornithology, 2007, NN104, first edition, dust wrapper; Corbet (Philip) & Brooks (Stephen), Dragonflies, 2008, NN106, first edition, dust wrapper; with four others (not NNs) (9)
WOOD, Anthony, Athenae Oxonienses, an exact History of all The Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford, new edition with additions by Philip Bliss, vols 1-4 1813-1820 and Annals of the University of Oxford, First Part, pub London 1815, 4to, 19th Century half calf binding (5)
Elizabeth Raffald, "The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, etc., Written purely from practice", thirteenth edition, London 1806, two folding engraved plates, rebound calf. Footnote: Mrs Raffald was sometime housekeeper to Lady Elizabeth Warburton, married the gardener, opened a confectioner`s shop in Manchester and set up a cookery school. She went on to have fifteen daughters, ran two inns, found Salford`s first newspaper, established a registry office for servants and compiled Manchester`s first directory.
Music Memorabilia: Cd`s, David Bowie, Sound + vision 3 Cd set with bonus CDV box set sealed as new, Cliff Richard - The Rock & Roll Years 1958 - 1963 box set, Frank Sinatra - The Great Films & Shows Cd box set, Iron Maiden - 3 limited edition `The First Ten Years`, The Fourth Music & Media Conference, Amsterdam April 30 May 1989 promo by Nimbus Records. Plus 2 Michael Jackson mini disc`s
CHAPMAN GRAHAM: (1941-1989) English Comedian, a member of the Monty Python team. Book signed and inscribed, a paperback edition of A Liar's Autobiography, volume VII, published by Magnum Books, 1981. Signed and inscribed by Chapman to the first page, and also signed by co-author David Sherlock. Scarce. Some light overall age wear and some indentations to the front cover, G
HOUDINI HARRY: (1874-1926) Hungarian-American Magician & Escapologist. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini, First Edition published by The Publishers Printing Co., New York, 1908. Signed ('Harry Houdini') in fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper with his name alone. Light brown cloth with white lettering and pictorial design to front cover in black and white. Portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature of Houdini beneath and other illustrations throughout. some light overall age wear, G
BIGGS RONNIE: (1929- ) English Criminal, known for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Book signed, a hardback edition of Odd Man Out - My Life on the Loose and the Truth about The Great Train Robbery by Ronnie Biggs, First Edition published by Bloomsbury, London, 1994. Signed by Biggs in bold black ink with his name alone to a printed Bloomsbury bookplate neatly affixed to the half title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. EX
THATCHER MARGARET: (1925- ) British Prime Minister 1979-90. Book signed, a hardback edition of Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years, First Edition published by Harper Collins, London, 1993. Featuring a custom bookplate signed ('Margaret Thatcher') by Thatcher in bold blue ink with her name alone, neatly affixed to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. EX
THATCHER MARGARET: (1925- ) British Prime Minister 1979-90. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Downing Street Years, First Edition, published by Harper Collins, London, 1993. Signed by Thatcher in bold blue ink with her name alone to the title page, and also signed by her husband Denis Thatcher, in black ink with his name alone. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG
THATCHER MARGARET: (1925- ) 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 title page. Together with John Major (1943- ) British Prime Minister 1990-97. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Autobiography, published by Harper Collins, London, 1999. Signed by Major in bold black ink with his name alone to the title page. Both accompanied by their dust jackets. VG to EX, 2
VICTORIA CROSS: A. O. Pollard (1893-1960) British Military Officer, Victoria Cross winner for his actions at Gavrelle, France on 29th April 1917. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of The Death Flight, published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., n.d. Signed by Pollard to the front free endpaper, 'To Dick, wishing you every success in your career, from A. O. Pollard' and dated October 1932 in his hand. Blue leather with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, five raised bands; Gordon Campbell (1886-1953) English Naval Officer, Victoria Cross winner for his actions in the North Atlantic, 17th February 1917. Book signed, a hardback edition of Brave Men All - Tales of Great Courage, First Edition published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 1935. Signed by Campbell in bold black fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper and dated August 1937 in his hand. With ownership signature to pastedown. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering. No dust jacket. Some age wear, G to about VG, 2
WORLD WAR II: Norman Jackson (1919-1994) British RAF Officer of World War II, Victoria Cross Winner & Bill Reid (1921-2001) Scottish RAF Officer of World War II, Victoria Cross Winner. A colour 23.5 x 20 print entitled The Lancaster V.C's by artist Robert Taylor, signed by both Norman Jackson VC and Bill Reid VC individually with their names alone in bold pencil to the lower border. Together with Leonard Cheshire (1917-1992) British RAF Pilot of World War II, Victoria Cross winner. A colour 23.5 x 20 first edition print entitled Lancaster by artist Robert Taylor, signed by Leonard Cheshire VC with his name alone in bold pencil to the lower border and Also including Robert Stanford-Tuck (1916-1987) British RAF Fighter Pilot of World War II. A colour 23.5 x 20 first edition print entitled Hurricane by artist Robert Taylor, signed by Robert Stanford-Tuck with his name alone in bold pencil to the lower border. Rolled, and with some slight surface creasing to the edges, about VG, 3
HILLARY EDMUND: (1919-2008) New Zealand Mountaineer, the first man, with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1953. Book signed, a hardback edition of View From The Summit, published by Doubleday, 1999. Signed ('Ed Hillary') in black ink with his name alone to the title page. Accompanied by the dustjacket. VG
BATTEN JEAN: (1909-1982) New Zealand Aviatrix, known for her record breaking solo flights across the world. Signed First Day Cover commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the first flight from England to Australia, 12th November - 10th December 1919, neatly cornermounted alongside two unsigned photographs, one a portrait of Batten, and a small piece of leading edge fabric, apparently removed from Batten's Percival Gull Six aircraft Jean (G-ADPR). Matted in grey and framed and glazed in a plain black box frame to an overall size of 16.5 x 14. Together with a colour 24.5 x 19 print entitled Night of the Hunter by artist Gerald Coulson, depicting a Blenheim Mk.IV being flown by Wing Commander Max Aitken, commanding officer of 68 Squadron, on an intruder sortie over the Dutch coast in 1941, signed in bold pencil to the lower white border by the artist Gerald Coulson, Violet Aitken and Viscount Rothermere individually. Limited edition number 248 of 850. Matted in pale grey to an overall size of 30 x 24. Accompanied by the original certificate of authentication. G to VG, 2 In 1935 Batten set a world record flying from England to Brazil in her Percival Gull G-ADPR aircraft.
ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Return, First Edition, published by Forge, New York, May 2000. Signed by Aldrin with his name alone in silver ink to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. EX
ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon. Book signed, a hardback edition of Encounter With Tiber, First Edition, published by Warner Books, New York, July 1996. Signed by Aldrin with his name alone in bold ink to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG
ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon. Book signed, a hardback edition of Encounter with Tiber, First Edition published by Warner Books, New York, July 1996. Signed by Aldrin in blue ink with his name alone to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG
SIGNED BOOKS: Selection of signed hardback and a few paperback books by a variety of individuals, mainly American fighter pilots of World War II, including Top Guns, American Aces in Great Fighter Battles of World War II, Air Aces, Fighter Pilots of World War II, each multiple signed by pilots including Joe Foss, Boots Blesse, Diz Laird, Hamilton McWhorter, Bill Hardy, Archie Donahue, Donald McGee, Jack Bradley, Gerald Brown, Ralph Wandrey, Chuck Older, Clayton Gross, Don Hillman, Ed Rector, Bob Barkey, James Starnes, Herb Long, Harley Brown, James Morehead, George Chandler, James French, Ed Copeland, Jack Price, Robert Galer, Joel Owens, Dick Stambook, Roger Conant, Ralph Rosen, Hunter Reinburg, James Tapp, R. Bruce Porter, Paul Bechtel, Randy Cunningham etc., some duplication; My Attainment of The Pole by Frederick A. Cook (1911), Alone by Richard Byrd (Fourth Impression, 1938), I Like What I Know - A Visual Autobiography by Vincent Price (First Edition, 1959), The Night They Burned the Mountain by Thomas A. Dooley (1960), Even The Stars Look Lonesome by Maya Angelou (First Edition, 1997), Guardian by John Saul (First Edition, September 1993) etc. Most of the hardback editions are accompanied by the dust jackets. Unsigned (3). Generally G to about VG, 18
RUSHDIE SALMAN: (1947- ) British-Indian Novelist. Book signed, a paperback edition of the controversial The Satanic Verses, First American paperback edition published by The Consortium Inc., Delaware, 1992. Signed by Rushdie in bold blue ink with his name alone to the title page. Together with signed hardback editions of The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell (First Edition, 2003), Bag of Bones by Stephen King (First Edition, 1998, bearing a limited edition signed bookplate, 1513 of 2000, to commemorate King's visit to England, August 1998) and Thrill by Jackie Collins (First Edition, 1998). Each of the hardback editions are accompanied by the dustjackets. VG, 4
SIGNED BOOKS: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (5) books, by various writers, etc. including Felix in the Underworld by John Mortimer, Scratch an Actor by Ned Sherrin, Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffery Archer, Two Sides of the Moon - Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by astronaut David Scott (First Edition 2004), Book of Love and Lovers by Barbara Cartland, A Patriot in Berlin by Piers Paul Read, City of the Mind by Penelope Lively etc. Ten of the books are accompanied by dust jackets. Also including a selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs, mostly colour, by various actors and actresses including Karen Allen, Paul Darrow, Jerry Maren, Shane Rimmer, Jack Douglas, Marta Kirsten, Marc Goddard etc. G to VG, 43
OPERA: A good 4to edition of The MET - One Hundred Years of Grand Opera, by Martin Mayer, First Edition, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1983, being a special deluxe edition featuring 20 additional pages bound at the beginning, each individually signed by an artist associated with the Metropolitan Opera, including Tatiana Troyanos, Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland, Rise Stevens, Renata Scotto, Bidu Sayao, Leontyne Price, Jarmila Novotna, Dorothy Kirsten, Marilyn Horne, Jerome Hines, Placido Domingo, Licia Albanese, Luciano Pavarotti, Birgit Nilsson etc. Limited Edition No. 40 of 1000. Bound in burgundy leatherette with moire silk panels. EX
WILDE JIMMY: (1892-1969) Welsh Boxer, the first official World Flyweight Champion, 1916. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Fighting Was My Business, First Edition published by Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1938. Signed by Wilde in bold black fountain pen ink to the title page, 'To Billy Woodford, Bantamweight Champion 10th Battalion R.A.O.C. Leicester 1941/42, with best wishes, Jimmy Wilde' and dated 21st February 1942 in his hand. Also signed and inscribed by David Wilde at the head of the title page and further bearing a blue ink annotation in an unidentified hand at the centre of the title page. Lacking the dust jacket. Some age wear to the red cloth boards and the spine a little loose, G
‘The Memories of Dean Hole’. Samuel Reynolds Hole. London 1897. 5th edition. Bound copy containing the first twelve pages of the book including title page, photograph, Introduction, contents etc and the tenth (X) chapter on ‘Cricketers’ pages 96-128. Bound in green boards. Ex Winder collection with bookplate
‘Chronicles of Cricket’. Nyren, Lilywhite & Denison. Swan & Sonnenschein 1888. Original green boards with titles in gilt to spine. Sold with ‘Seventy-One Not Out. The Reminiscences of William Caffyn’. Edited by ‘Mid-On’. Richard Daft. Edinburgh 1899. First edition. Plus ‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. London 1897, rebound copy and ‘The Memorial Biography of W.G. Grace’. London 1919. Original decorative boards. Odd faults to certain books otherwise good. Qty 4
`The Saturday Match`. Hugh De Selincourt. Exquisite original watercolour artwork by artist James Thorpe produced for the dust wrapper of the cricket book `The Saturday Match`, a timeless tale of village cricket, written by De Selincourt and published in 1937 by Dent of London. The watercolour shows a village match scene of a batsman walking out to bat in blue and white hooped cap with fellow players, pavilion, scoreboard, club flag, tents, spectators and trees to borders. Titles in black ink to main image and spine paper. Signed by Thorpe to lower right hand corner with measurement and notes handwritten to outer plain borders. The watercolour measures 9.25"x10.5"and overall with borders 12"x16". A truly unique piece of artwork by Thorpe. G/VG Sold with a first edition 1937 copy of the `The Saturday Match` with original dustwrapper showing the published artwork. Hugh De Selincourt (1878-1951) was an English author and journalist who worked as a journalist, for the Star and the Observer until 1914, and is chiefly remembered today for his timeless tale of village cricket, `The Cricket Match` published in 1924, which stands alongside A. G. Macdonell`s `England, Their England` as one of the classic accounts of village cricket in English literature. The fictional village of Tillingfold was a recurring element in De Selincourt`s work, and was based on his own village of Storrington at the foot of the South Downs. ‘The Saturday Match’ (1937) and ‘Gauvinier Takes to Bowls’ (1948) were among de Selincourt`s final books before his death in 1951 James Henry Thorpe (1876-1949) was a founder member of the London Sketch Club, where he numbered fellow cricket enthusiast Frank Reynolds among his numerous circle. Besides working as an illustrator on several books, many cricket related, and magazines including `Punch` he also wrote on contemporary art, and published an instructional cricket book `A Cricket Bag` in 1929 and an autobiography `Happy Days` in 1933.
‘The Club’s The Thing’ by Henry Sandham. Three copies of limited edition prints numbers 20/950 and 21/950, the third unnumbered. Approx 25”x20”. ‘Harry Vardon’ by Lois Silver 1991 signed artist’s proof print approx 26”x22”. ‘The First Tee at Westward Ho!’ by F.P. Hopkins limited edition print number 388/805, approx 38”x25” and ‘Polo at Cowdray Park’ by Lawrence Earl 1987 limited edition print number 31/263, approx 25”x18”. Some nicks and creases otherwise good. Qty 6
‘Australian Cricket. The Game and the Players’. Jack Pollard. Sydney 1982. De luxe leather bound limited edition of 452, signed by Don Bradman who wrote the foreward. Full green leather, gilt to top edge and slip cased. Presentation copy to Hutton, signed and dated by Hutton to front end paper ‘Len Hutton, Adelaide, December 1982’. Limited edition number 364/452, marking Hutton’s highest first class score and 452 was Bradman’s and Australia’s highest first class score. Only fifty copies of this edition were made available in the United Kingdom. Very good condition
Neville Cardus. ‘The Elusive Mr Cardus’ and ‘My Dear Michael’. Letters and other writings of Neville Cardus. Two limited edition booklets issued by Lancashire C.C.C. and limited to 500 copies. Sold with a box containing thirty seven cricket books by or about Cardus including most of his major cricketing works. Many first editions, some with dustwrapper, odd duplication of title, not of edition. Includes a copy of the Order of Service for his memorial service in 1975. Odd faults, good
American and Canadian cricket. Selection of sixteen various books and booklets including ‘The Log of the Old Un. From Liverpool to San Francisco 1886’. Facsimile edition issued by McKenzie 1994, ‘Dawn’s Early Light. Cricket in America before 1820’. Martin Wilson 2008, signed limited edition number 10 of 160 copies, numbers 11-160 were for sale, ‘North America in International Cricket’. Rowland Bowen 1960, ‘The Tented Field. A History of Cricket in America’. Tom Melville 1998, ‘A Yankee Looks at Cricker’. As told to Gerald Brodribb by Henry Satyen’. London 1956, ‘The Book of American Pastimes: containing A History of the principal Baseball, Cricket Rowing....’. Charles A. Peverelly 2010 (reprint of the original), ‘A History of Canadian Cricket. An Imigrant’s Game?’. Patrick Adams, first edition and revised edition, one signed by the author etc. G
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Peter and Wendy, nd. [1911], Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, 13 plates after F.D. Bedford including frontis](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2870894/12-2013218164455_468x382.jpg)
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Peter and Wendy, nd. [1911], Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, 13 plates after F.D. Bedford including frontis](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2870894/13-2013218164536_468x382.jpg)
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The English Works of Roger Ascham, Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth: containing, I. A Re](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2870894/50-2013218164856_468x382.jpg)
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A Dictionary of the English Language, nd. [1990], Longman, 2 vols., folio facsimile of 1755 edition, bonded](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2870894/52-201321816495_468x382.jpg)
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The Naked Lunch, [1959], Paris; Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series No 76, copyright dated 1959,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2870894/57-2013218164924_468x382.jpg)
