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Lot 6
Evans (C.S.) The Sleeping Beauty 1926, Heinemann, first edition thus, tipped-in colour frontis, silhouette illustrations after Arthur Rackham, dust wrapper (dw spine and top edge faded); Swift (Jonathan) Gulliver`s Travels .., 1909, Dent, first edition thus, 12 colour plates after Arthur Rackham, t.e.g., original cloth gilt (rear board damp stained); Burns (Robert), The Cotter`s Saturday Night, nd., James Hewetson, frontis after Arthur Rackham, original pictorial parchment-like boards (3)
Lot 7
Brothers Grimm Little Brother, Little Sister, 1917, Constable, first edition thus, 12 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham (some corner creasing), original cloth gilt; Wagner (Richard), The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, 1910, Heinemann, first edition thus, 34 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham, original cloth gilt (2)
Lot 11
Shakespeare (William) A Midsummer-Nights Dream, 1908, Heinemann, first edition thus, 40 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham, printed tissue guards, original cloth gilt; idem, The Tempest, 1926, Heinemann, first edition thus, 20 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham, original cloth (2)
Lot 12
Rackham (Arthur) Some British Ballads, 1908, Constable, first edition, 16 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham, printed tissue guards, original cloth gilt; idem, Arthur Rackham`s Book of Pictures, 1923, Heinemann, 44 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham (2 creased), printed tissue guards, original cloth gilt (school emblem to upper board) Ingoldsby (Thomas), The Ingoldsby Legends .., 1919, Heinemann, 24 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham, printed tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, original cloth; Carroll (Lewis), Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland, nd., Heinemann, 13 colour plates after Arthur Rackham, printed tissue guards, original cloth, with another copy, in ornate morocco gilt binding (worn, lacking one tissue guard) (5)
Lot 17
Blyton (Enid) The Island of Adventure, 1944, first edition, later dust wrapper (8s.6d.); idem, The Castle of Adventure, 1946, first edition, dust wrapper (7s.6d.); idem, The Mountain of Adventure, 1949, first edition, cloth; idem, The Ship of Adventure, 1950, first edition, dust wrapper (8s.6d.); idem, The River of Adventure, 1955, first edition, dust wrapper (price-clipped) idem, The Circus of Adventure, 1952, first edition, cloth; with three reprints from the series (9)
Lot 23
Fitzgerald (Edward) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1922, first edition, 20 plates by `Fish`, original cloth; Dulac (Edmund), Stories from Hans Andersen, nd., Hodder & Stoughton for Lewis`s, 7 tipped-in colour plates, dust wrapper; Royce (Marjory), Marjory Royce`s Fairy Story Shop, nd., Collins, 5 plates, original cloth (3)
Lot 43
Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesties Secret Service, 1963, Cape, first edition, brown cloth with white lines, dust wrapper (priced 16s.); idem, You Only Live Twice, 1964, Cape, first edition, black cloth with Japanese text to upper board, dust wrapper (priced 16s.) idem, The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, Cape, first edition, black cloth, dust wrapper (priced 18s) (3)
Lot 53
Sheffield (John, Duke of Buckingham) The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby and Duke of Buckingham, 1723, John Barber, 2 vols., 4to., frontis to each, first collected edition, with the 2 suppressed chapters in vol. 2 supplied in early manuscript and bound in correct sequence, contemporary calf (re-backed, retaining original backstrip),
Lot 63
Howard (Henry) & Wyatt (Thomas) The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, 1815-16, 2 vols., 4to., frontis, plates, contemporary calf (re-backed) Drayton (Michael), The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq. .., 1748, folio, first edition, title page laid down, mildewed, stained, holed, contemporary calf (worn) [w.a.f.]
Lot 82
The Shakespeare Head Bronte The Brontes, Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, 1932, Shakespeare Head Press, 4 vols., first ltd. edition of 750, dust wrappers (frayed); Bell (Acton), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1931, Shakespeare Head Press, 2 vols., ltd. edition of 1000, original cloth; Bell (Currer), Shirley: A Tale, 1931, Shakespeare Head Press, 2 vols., ltd. edition of 1000, original cloth; Bell (Ellis), Wuthering Heights, 1931, Shakespeare Head Press, ltd. edition of 1000, original cloth; Symington (J.A.), Bibliography of the Works of all Members of the Bronte Family .., 2000, Oak Knoll Press, ltd. edition of 1000, original cloth (10)
Lot 83
Waterhouse (Keith) There is a Happy Land, 1957, first edition, dust wrapper; Nobbs (David), Ostrich Country, 1968, Methuen, first edition, dust wrapper; idem, A Piece of the Sky is Missing, 1969, Methuen, first edition, inscribed by the author, dust wrapper; Waugh (Evelyn), Ninety-two Days, nd. [1934], Farrar & Rinehart, original cloth; Waugh (Auberon), Four Crowded Years .., 1976, first edition, inscribed by the author, original boards; Lewis (Wyndham), Doom of Youth, 1932, Chatto & Windus, first edition, cloth; Fortune (John) & Wells (John), A Melon for Ecstasy, 1971, first edition, inscribed by Wells, dust wrapper; with a small quantity of others (qty)
Lot 109
Edgeworth (Maria) The Novels of Maria Edgeworth, 1893, Dent, 12 vols, t.e.g., half calf (worn); Montagu (Mary Wortley), The Works of ... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .., 1803, 5 vols., half crimson sheep; Thackeray (Miss), The Works of Miss Thackeray, 1869-1900, Smith, Elder, 10 vols., recent quarter calf; Eliot (George), The Mill on the Floss, 1860, William Blackwood, 3 vols., first edition, five titles `in the press`, original cloth (worn) (30)
Lot 120
Piozzi (Hesther Lynch) Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the last Twenty Years of his Life, 1786, first edition, with half title and Postscript leaf but without errata slip, annotation to title, recent quarter morocco; Moliere [Jean Baptiste], The Works of Moliere, 1739, 10 vols., frontis, contemporary calf gilt; Granville (George, Lord Lansdowne), The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose .., 1736, 3 vols, frontis, contemporary calf (14)
Lot 137
Wainwright (A.) Westmorland Heritage, 1975, numbered ltd. edition of 1000, signed by author, dust wrapper; idem, A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells .. The Central Fells, 1958, ?first edition, blue cloth, dust wrapper (priced 12/6); idem, A Second Lakeland Sketchbook, nd., ?first edition, red cloth, dust wrapper (priced £1.05, 21/-); idem, A Third Lakeland Sketchbook, nd., ?first edition, blue cloth, dust wrapper (priced £1.05); idem, A Fourth Lakeland Sketchbook, nd., ?first edition, orange cloth, dust wrapper (priced £1.05); idem, Wainwright in Lakeland, 1985, dust wrapper (6)
Lot 163
Millingen (M.A.) Constantinople, 1906, A. & C. Black, first edition, folding map, colour plates after Warwick Goble, original decorative cloth; Kelly (R. Talbot), Burma, Painted and Described, 1905, A. & C. Black, first edition, folding map, colour plates, t.e.g., original decorative cloth; Todd (John), The Banks of the Nile, 1913, A. & C. Black, first edition, folding map, colour plates after Ella Du Cane, original decorative cloth; with nine others, all published by A.& C. Black, including a signed and numbered deluxe ltd edition of Menpes` War Impressions (12)
Lot 164
Wigram (Edgar) Northern Spain, 1906, A. & C. Black, first edition, folding map, colour plates, t.e.g., original decorative cloth; Fitzgerald (Sybil), Naples, 1904, A. & C. Black, first edition, colour plates after Augustine Fitzgerald, t.e.g., original decorative cloth; Musson (Spencer C.), Sicily, 1911, A. & C. Black, first edition, folding map, tipped-in colour plates after Alberto Pisa, t.e.g., original decorative cloth; with fourteen others, all published by A.& C. Black, all in original cloth (17)
Lot 185
Halford (Frederic M.) Dry Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice, 1889, first edition, frontis, 25 plates (some hand-coloured), original cloth (spine head torn); idem, Dry Fly Entomology, 1902, folding tables, 28 plates (some hand-coloured), original cloth; idem, Making a Fishery, 1902, frontis, 4 plates, original cloth; idem, Modern Development of the Dry Fly .., 1910, first edition, frontis, 43 plates, original cloth; Skues (G.E.M.), Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream .., 1914, frontis, original cloth; with three others by Skues (8)
Lot 33
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN, 1950-1952 colour-inverted Aubusson tapestry, Atelier René Duché; (no. 4 from an edition of 9) signed [leB] and dated [`52] lower left; signed with initials by maître-lissier, René Duché and numbered in the weave on reverse lower right; with Certificate of Authenticity sewn on reverse, signed, numbered, titled and dated by le Brocquy and Duché 55 by 108in., 139.7 by 274.32cm. Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner The genesis of le Brocquy`s colour-inverted tapestries pivots on his meeting with designer Jean Lurçat in the summer of 1952 in London where le Brocquy had established his studio, in Battersea, in spring that year. The innovations in the weaving industry coupled with his own earlier interest in the emotional effect of colour led him to explore the medium through the adaptation of early small-scale flat (gouache) cartoons. Between 1948 and 1952 these were translated into woven images facilitated by Tabard Frères et Soeurs, Aubusson and included Travellers, Garlanded Goat and the Eden series. In the artist`s notes in the catalogue for `Louis le Brocquy, Aubusson Tapestries`, 3-29 May 2001 with Agnew`s, he describes the process thus: "These tapestries were designed by means of a technique I learned directly from the master in this medium, Jean Lurçat. No colour sketch is involved. Instead a purely linear cartoon defines areas within which a range of coloured wools are indicated by numbers. But, further to these first cartoons, my excitement regarding the drama of colour-inversion encouraged me to make at the time second versions of these linear cartoons, inverted both in colour and tone."1 It would be fifty years before the artist could realise these second, colour-inverted, versions. The present tapestry was woven at Aubusson by celebrated Lissier René Duché in collaboration with the artist`s son, Pierre. They have been described as linking "… the refined simplicity of medieval weaving with the mastery of Cubist drawings" and by le Brocquy, as an "… inverted transformation of mood, `as contrary as night from day`".2 Footnote: 1. Exhibition catalogue for `Louis le Brocquy, Aubusson Tapestries`, Agnew`s, London, 3-29 May 2001, (Artist`s Notes; unpaginated) 2. Ibid "
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Lot 57
Sir William Orpen RA RI RHA (1878-1931) SELF PORTRAIT [AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE 1917-1919] ink drawing within first edition book signed, inscribed, illustrated and dated [1921] on page before title page 10.5 by 8.5in., 26.67 by 21.59cm. First edition, London, 1921. In original green boards with gilt titled spine.
Lot 59
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) LIFE IN THE WEST OF IRELAND, DRAWN AND PAINTED BY JACK B. YEATS, 1912 first edition book 10 by 7.25in., 25.4 by 18.415cm. First edition, Maunsel & Company Ltd., Dublin and London, 1912. In original navy blue boards with gilt titled upper and spine. Contains eight colour plates, thirty-two line drawings and sixteen reproductions from paintings.
Lot 113
Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921) BOOK PRINT (from Meditations), 2008 and LIMITED EDITION BOOK carborundum with gold leaf; (1); limited edition book; (1); both no. 47 from an edition of 100 the first signed and dated in the margin lower right; numbered lower left; with blind stamp of Stoney Road Press lower right 14.5 by 14.5in., 36.83 by 36.83cm. Dunne, Aidan, Patrick Scott Text, Liberties Press, Dublin, 2008, p.183 (illustrated) Sheet size: 25.5 by 23ins. First, limited edition hard-backed book Patrick Scott Text by Aidan Dunne Liberties, Dublin, 2008, signed by the artist and numbered [47 from a limited edition of 100].
Lot 114
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) THE TÁIN. MAGIC CHARIOT, 1991 Aubusson tapestry; Atelier René Duché; (no. 2 from an edition of 9) signed with initials in the weave on reverse by maître-lissier, René Duché and numbered lower right; with certificate of authenticity sewn on reverse, signed, numbered, titled and dated by le Brocquy and Duché 72.5 by 50.7in., 184.15 by 128.778cm. Taylor Galleries, November 2000; Private collection Whyte`s, 29 November 2005, lot 112; Private collection Louis le Brocquy: Aubusson Tapestries, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 2001, unpaginated (illustrated) Woven at the Atelier René Douche, France. One of a series of 22 tapestries based on le Brocquy`s 1969 illustrations to The Táin. Issued in a limited edition of nine plus two artist`s proofs. "I hope that these images from Táin Bó Cuailgne, transmuted into the woven forms of tapestry, may be seen as a tribute to the poet Thomas Kinsella, who inspired them and to the devoted publisher and designer, Liam Miller, who gave them their original coherence" (Louis le Brocquy, op. cit.). Louis le Brocquy was living in France with his young family when he received a life-changing invitation, in December 1966. Publisher Liam Miller wanted him to collaborate with Thomas Kinsella on a new translation of Ireland`s oldest saga. Le Brocquy penned an enthusiastic affirmative that Christmas Eve and spent much of the next three years visualising An Táin Bó Cúailgne. In September 1969, Dolmen Press published it as The Táin. The Táin was born of some eighty stories about the Ulaidh, a prehistoric people who lived in the north and north-western regions of what is now called Ireland. Part epic, part soap opera, the tales were vivid, vicious, inconsistent and often rather rude. Oral versions survived for long enough to be collected by scribes, whose fragmentary manuscripts are now in Trinity College and the Royal Irish Academy. Translators and writers such as Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats had retold some of the Cúchulainn tales - and Joyce`s Finnegans Wake drew on its meandering style - but Thomas Kinsella`s Táin was the first widely-accessible version, especially when Oxford University Press` 1970 paperback followed the de luxe and limited editions produced by Dolmen Press. The Táin marked a unique cultural moment, for Ireland and the world. The State had just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was driving ahead with Seán Lemass` Second Programme for Economic Expansion. By 1969 when it was published, Northern Ireland was in conflict, and global events such as the Prague Spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, as well as wars in Vietnam, Angola and elsewhere, underlined its themes of invasion and carnage. Meanwhile, The Beatles sang "All You Need is Love." Its impact was instant. Although characters like Cúchulainn and Ferdia, Medb and Aillil, were local, the collaborators translated them into a crisply contemporaneous style that resonated through the cultural hierarchy. It engaged lovers of art, language, music and Celtic studies, as well as popular culture. The Táin became an Irish Iliad, with Cúchulainn as a Superhero reincarnating to a new age of rock, cartoons and animation. The images le Brocquy called `shadows thrown by the text` became so iconic that it is almost impossible now to imagine The Táin differently. Yet no one had visualised the full saga previously and no artist from Ireland had engaged so thoroughly with pieces of writing in so collaborative a way. Le Brocquy made hundreds of drawings, many of which appear in the de luxe and limited editions, with a handful printed in the paperback and a precious twenty in tapestry. Communication was difficult in those pre-digital days because he was in France and Miller was in Dublin, so that many key design decisions relied on sending letters through the post. Le Brocquy`s innovative, daring approach cast the saga as a virtual alphabet composed of spontaneous, inky letters. This shows immediately in Army Massing, where marks cascade in rivulets that resemble both chain mail and hand-writing, and in the H-shaped Cúchulainn confronting Ferdia. Different ages and cultures whisper through the images - and through the twenty tapestries made during 1998-2000, when le Brocquy collaborated with maître-lissier René Duché, whose firm had recently been awarded the honour Meilleur Ouvrier de France. Cuchulainn`s Warp Spasm, for example, speaks both of calligraphic marks from Sun Tzu`s The Art of War and Yves Klein`s bodily-marked Anthropometries, as well as cave paintings traced by prehistoric peoples. The translation into tapestry, via le Brocquy`s Táin lithographs, crested on the momentum from oral to written traditions, from drama to poetry and from visual culture to music. Duché`s subtly-textured cottons and wools freed le Brocquy`s black-on-white marks into a textured, sensual material that illuminates the sense of a blot or stain without definite edges, which is what he wanted. Here, the statuesque shapes let le Brocquy grow the book`s relatively modest scale into a life-affirming series of interconnected images that speak to each other like letters in a phrase or sentence. Le Brocquy`s hand reaches out through each one. Medb Ruane April 2012 "
Lot 22
Founding Ceremony. The poster, depicting the historical moment that Chairman Mao is giving the speech in the founding ceremony to announce the establishment of the People`s republic of China; 520 x 760mm, published by People`s Art Publishing, Beijing, first edition, first printed, 1953; with four other posters, including the portrait of Chairman Mao, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and the 10th Panchen Erdeni Kat Gyaltsen. (5) 1953 海报一件 ; 二十世纪 海报四件
Lot 1201
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) Elephant Prototype, for Nairn Floors Ltd, 1972, grey plastic moulded sculptural box, unmarked, 30cm high See illustration The vendor`s husband was the late Keith Powell. Keith was an industrial engineer/designer for the plastics industry, designing the first plastics toilet cistern. Later he did freelance work including the chimpanzee egg cups for P.G Tips. Through Doug Maxwell Ltd, he worked with Paolozzi to make his concept of the elephant possible to be moulded in plastics. The elephant was made in a numbered edition of 3000 for selected architects.
Lot 61
`Hamada Potter` by Bernard Leach, 19751st EditionWith handmade cloth cover in dust jacket. 306 pages, 40 colour and 128 b&w plates. Inscribed to the inside `To Geoff and Harley from Janet Leach`. The first definitive book on Hamada takes the form of a dialogue between him and Bernard Leach, compiled froPROVENANCE: The Berkeley CollectionCONDITION: Good condition
Lot 166
Bacon (Gertrude). All About Flying, 1st ed., June, 1915, together with a second (revised) edition of the same work, October, 1919, b & w illusts. from photos, both orig. cloth, a little rubbed, small 8vo, plus Earhart (Amelia), 20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First to Cross the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story, 1st ed., 1928, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth, lettered in orange, minor wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo, and Curtis (Letice), The Forgotten Pilots. A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary 1939-45, 1st ed., 1971, signed on title by the author, b & w illlusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., and others by/about aviatrix (approx. 35)
Lot 264
*Wright Biplane. A good lacquered sterling-silver scale model of the famous `Wright Flyer` machine, which made the first powered flight at Kittyhawk Ohio 1903, highly detailed with cast silver mainplanes, silver-wire bracing to open-work fuselage frame and struts construction, with gilt-wash to detailed engine and propellers, and realistic pilot in prone position, with rotating propellers and movable tailplane, manufactured by Paramount Classics Corp., appears un-numbered from an edition of 1,000 made c. 1976, weight 19 troy oz, w/span 12in (31cm) (1)
Lot 554
Montaut (Ernest). Les Dix Ans de Courses - `Les Marques Victorieuses 1897-1907` - an original copy edition of original hand-coloured lithographed prints published by Mabileau et Cie, Paris, featuring French Racing Successes during the first decade of the 20th c., and comprising 31 individual prints interleaved with protective tissue sheets, soft-covers with colour lithographed decorative cover (covers show older repair, tears and minor loss) otherwise good clean condition interior pages (1)
Lot 1001
*An outstanding Second World War 1942 Immediate `Malta` D.F.C. to Spitfire Ace Flight Lieutenant N.C. Macqueen, Royal Air Force who in his short career was credited for 7 confirmed Victories and scores of probable downed enemy aircraft, Killed in Action only a few days after winning his award, Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated `1942`, extremely fine, in Royal Mint case of issue, together with Pilots logbook kept by Flight Lieutenant N.C. Macqueen, first entry reads My Original Log Book:- Lost in a Submarine in Transit to Malta, record of previous service from June 1940 to February 1942, served with 610 & 602 Squadron (Spitfire) summary of service during this period 15.12.1941 - 15.1.1942, stationed at Prestwick, Ayr, Kenley and Redhill (Spitfire) `In the Kenley Wing, I took part in 48 sweeps over France. Victories :- One probable & one damaged ME.109 (F), I got shot up once, Operational Hours 102; 10.2.1942 `I left Liverpool in the S.S. Cape Hawke, escorted by two corvettes, en route for Gibraltar. We had aboard our fifteen Spitfire V B`s tropicalized & with 90 gallon Long Range tank. These were the first Operational Spitfires to go overseas`, grand total Operational Hours 190, 340.30 hours on Spits; Operation Spotter., 7.3.1942 with 249 Squadron stationed at Takali, Malta, H.M. Aircraft Carrier `Eagle` at a point about 30 miles North of Algiers to Malta `We were, I believe the first spits even to take off from an Aircraft carrier. We were led by a Blenheim which went about 130 mph, & which I over-shot and lost about 300 miles from here. But I managed to arrive ok with almost 50 gallons left`; 10.3.1942 `4 Spits & 11 hurries airborne against 18 Ju88`s & 26 ME109s I damaged one Ju, Ken Murray was lost`, various scrambles and long range shooting between this period; 14.3.1942 `4 Spits ordered to attack ME109`s (15) in the vicinity of a German rescue boat. I saw 3 about 10000 ft below & dived to attack. Used all my ammo & got one; 18.3.1942 `Fox lost - shot down by Lt. Kurt Lavinger, who I shot down North of St Pauls Bay: Confirmed :- (there is an entry in the logbook by Kurt); 22.3.1942 `Escort to seven Albacores:- 2 ME109`s attacked & I shot one into the sea`, 5 minutes later `in heavy cloud 2 Spits did a standing patrol all day over grand harbour, during which attacks were made by 70 Ju88 & 30 ME109s, Bob & I set both engines of one Ju88 on fire; 4.4.1942 Scramble (Most Freighting) `4 Spits & 6 Hurries v 50 plus Ju88`S, 87`s & ME109`s, chased an 88 out to sea & fired all my ammo, then I got jumped by 5 ME109`s and my engine packed up, it came on again at 200ft, after I`d tried to bail out, but the hood had jammed. Got rid of the 109`s & returned with machine unscathed`, on the same day `4 Spits & 12 Ju88`s & 15 ME109`s, got a Ju88 , it crashed into the sea in flames - no one bailed out`; 14.4.1942 `With Bob I was cover for Maryland - masses of 109`s about, we got one & damaged one between us, & I damaged another; 20.4.1942 `Awarded D.F.C. April 19th ` `6 Spits v 130 plus:- Got attacked by 6 ME109`s, got away & later got a Ju88 confirmed`; `21.4.1942 `As usual masses of huns:- things getting a trifle hot` entry on the same day `Shot an ME109 into the sea off Fifla & later damaged a Ju88, 4 Spits v 80 plus huns, their cover for the bombers getting very good`; 24.4.1942 `Even more ME109`s than ever. Got chased about for 25 mins with no ammo, & then almost got shot up landing with no petrol; 1.5.1942 `Took off with P/O Watts & Paul - who disappeared to test his cannons. Watt`s & I had a short burst & then ran into 4 ME109`s with over-load tanks, which they jettisoned, we milled about & had a lot of fun, before they departed` The final entry in the log book is on the 4th May 1942 written by Squadron Leader Bluant O.C. 249 Squadron `Scramble 17.45hrs, Killed in action - shot down by an ME109, Victories, Enemy aircraft destroyed 7, enemy aircraft probably destroyed 1/2, enemy aircraft damaged 6`, the following page has two red stamps `Killed in Action` and `Central Depositary Apr 1946 Royal Air Force` A fine b&w portrait photograph of Macqueen proudly sporting his D.F.C. riband, most probably the last photograph taken of him, 23.5cm x 18.3cm Eight R.A.F. Edition (War) Navigators charts for The United Kingdom, inscribed with names of colleagues serving with Macqueen in 249 Squadron Davis (Peter). Tattered Battlements, A Malta Diary by A Fighter Pilot, 2nd ed 1943, hbb, 133pp, 17 b&w illustrations, this an account of the Battle of Malta and records Macqueen on the several occasions, with inscription to `Ian Gordon Macqueen, Worcester College, Oxford, August 43` D.F.C. London Gazette 1.5.1942 Acting Flight Lieutenant Norman Carter Macqueen (866689), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No. 249 Squadron `This officer carried out a large number of sorties over enemy-occupied territory and destroyed I` [sic] enemy aircraft whilst based in this country. In the Middle East he has destroyed 4 hostile aircraft. Throughout his operational career Flight Lieutenant Macqueen has rendered most valuable service. He has displayed great skill and leadership.` Flight Lieutenant Norman Carter Macqueen DFC, RAFVR (1920-42), born in Leamore, West Midlands, educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh (1933-38), joined the Royal Air Force as Aircraftsman 2nd Class (Rhyl 1939), various promotions, Commissioned Pilot Officer 12.11.1940, served with 610, 602 and 249 (Gold Coast) Squadron, stationed at Ta Kali, Malta as part of Operation Spotter, in his very short career Macqueen was credited as one of the Malta Fighter aces with 7 confirmed enemy aircrafts downed and scores of assisted and damaged. Macqueen was killed in action on 4th May 1942 when his Spitfire nosedived, an account in the Malta War Diary records `RAF fighter pilots at Ta Qali had to watch helplessly as one of their comrades was jumped by a German fighter this afternoon. Flight Lieutenant Norman Macqueen was one of eight Spitfire pilots scrambled to intercept a heavily protected formation of Italian bombers attacking Grand Harbour. He was heading back towards Ta Qali from where his comrades watched as he was jumped by a Messerschmitt fighter `Norman was flying with another Spitfire and about to attack some 109s, when we saw a 109 sweep across the sky behind him. Vainly we shouted, `Turn! Spit!` as if there was some hope that he might hear us. But evidently neither of them saw the 109 and just kept straight on. We saw the 109`s tracer going right into Norman`s machine. His spitfire lurched and gave up a thin smoke trail. For some time it seemed to be under control and circled downwards as if he hoped to land. Then suddenly the nose went forward, and the machine dived like a stone into the ground, bursting into flames as it hit`, Macqueen is buried in Kalkara Cemetery, Malta. Provenance: Sold on behalf of the family. (-)
Lot 451
Books - Leonard Richmond (editor) - The Technique Of The Poster, published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, first edition 1933, with dust jacket Book itself is clean throughout, the dust cover as can be seen is fairly ragged around the top and bottom edges - General condition consistent with age **
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