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Lot 668

Swinbourne (Alfred) Picture Logic or the Grave Ma first edition illustrations by the author original pictorial cloth gilt 1875 § Scott (John) How to become Quick at Figures with the signature of Bayard Grimshaw [1915] § Ovette (Joseph) Practical Telepathy Chicago 1924 § Reveen (Peter) The Superconscious World first edition Montreal 1987 § Gregory (Richard L.) The Oxford Companion to the Mind first edition illustrations Oxford 1987 § Berglas (David) and Guy Lyon Playfair. A Question of Memory first edition illustrations 1988 § Seance facsimile reprint limited to 1000 copies illustrations 4to Washington 1996 original cloth or boards the fourth fifth and sixth with dust jackets 8vo and 4to; and 10 others on similar subjects various sizes (17)

Lot 754

Godfrey (Teddy).- A collection of memorabilia including a painted board lettered by hand “Teddy Godfrey. Punch and Judy Ventriloquist Conjuror. 17 Vincent Street Leamington Spa 511mm. by 812mm.; a studio portrait photograph of him in “a Chapeau Study” inscribed on the mount 203mm. by 151mm.; others of him as a young man in first world war uniform and three performing with musical instruments two agreements for performances one with G.H. White 1912 and 1913; his autograph manuscript patter for “Henpecked Husband”; a small poster listing his talents framed anf glazed 375mm. by 247mm.; and other related material § Dante [Harry August Jansen] Tricks for Everybody new edition original wrappers folio [?1937] § an IBM poster for “There`s Magic” framed and glazed 380mm. by 255mm. [1968] § Murray [Norman Murray Carrington-Walters]. A poster with portrait glass in hand signed and dated 29/8/69 framed and glazed; two letterpress handbills and a programme for “80 Years of Magic” signed by Murray Jack Hughes Cyril Critchlow Bayard Grimshaw and Asa Cooke; and a small quantity of programmes and other material.(a quantity)

Lot 772

Fry (Christopher) A Phoenix Too Frequent first illustrated edition presentation copy inscribed by the author to “Joan [White] with love from Phyl and Kit Christmas 1959” signed by Ronald Searle on title-page illustrations by Ronald Searle 1959; One Thing More presentation copy inscribed by the author to Joan White original wrappers 1992 § Fry (Phyllis) A Sprinkle of Nutmeg foreword by Christopher Fry first edition number 30 of 100 copies presentation copy inscribed by Christopher Fry “For dearest Doto: with our love from Kit October 11 1990 Wootton-by-Woodstock John Bell 1990 § Stanford (Derek) Christopher Fry Album first edition illustrations one leaf loose 1952 all but the second in original cloth the first and last worn; and 14 others from the library of Joan White 8vo *** Joan White played the part of Doto in the revival of A Phoenix Too Frequent in 1946. She is depicted in this role with Paul Scofield in two illustrations in the Christopher Fry Album. Included with the books are an autograph letter and an autograph card from Christopher Fry to Joan White another card to her daughter Susannah an autograph album with an inscribed photograph of Marcel Marceau and an album relating to Joan White`s 77th birthday containing photographs and letters from invitees including Wendy Toye Bernard Miles Paul Scofield Angus McBean and others.(a small quanity)

Lot 774

Handel (George Frederick) Judas Macchabaeus an Oratotio in Score as it was originally performed with his additional alterations first edition letterpress subscribers list the remainder engraved troughout lacking portrait frontispiece a few markingsin pencil contemporary half calf worn folio Wiliam Randall [1769].

Lot 127

SPENS (H) The Republic of Plato in Ten Books, first edition, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis 1763, 4to, title loose and a little dust stained, otherwise clean, 2pp adverts at end, modern morocco backed boards

Lot 131

RAPIN DE THOYRAS and N TINDAL (translator) The History of England, second edition 1732-33, folio, 4 folding maps (first with some loss), plates and tables, some repairs, some age staining, later half calf

Lot 133

WINDHAM (William) A Plan of Discipline Composed for the Use of the Militia of the County of Norfolk, first edition, London: printed for J Shuckburgh, 1759, 49 good plates, good half calf marbled boards, raised spine bands, floral motifs to panels and gilt title

Lot 145

[SHELLEY, Mary Wollestonecraft] and R CRUIKSHANK, illustrator Monsieur Nongtongpaw, London: Alfred Miller 1830 12mo, yellow printed wrappers bound in, adverts at end, modern binding; GRAHAME (K) The Wind in the Willows, 15th edition, 1923, 8vo, gilt backed cloth; JAMES (M R) The Five Jars, first edition, 1922, end papers renewed, cloth; JAMES (T) Aesop`s Fables, new edition, 1854, small 8vo, cloth gilt (worn); MILNE (A A) Winnie-the-Pooh, 8th edition, 1929; and 4 others (9)

Lot 146

MILNE (A A) Now We are Six, first edition 1927, cloth gilt; The House at Pooh Corner, 2nd edition 1928, faded spine; Once Upon a Time, Hodder and Stoughton [no date], illustrated by Charles Robinson, blue cloth gilt; Fourteen Songs..., 12th edition; other unbound music; The World of Christopher Robin, first edition 1959; cloth (stained); two others (7)

Lot 149

MORRIS (William) Some Hints on Pattern Designing, first edition, Chiswick Press for the Kelmscott Press, 1899, 8vo, very light spotting to edges, cloth back boards

Lot 160

G. MILNE (A A) Winnie-the-Pooh, first edition 1926, illustrations by E H Shepard, gift inscription to first blank leaf, slight signs of use, cloth gilt, spine ends worn

Lot 166

MILNE (A A) When We Were Very Young, 10th edition 1925, deluxe limp leather binding, in original worn box (one leaf with small loss at head); LEWIS (C S) The Last Battle, first edition 1956, basically good in average dust wrapper with staining to reverse (2)

Lot 237

RAIKES (Charles) Notes on the Revolt in the North-Western Provinces of India, first edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858, 8vo, folding table, modern half tan morocco over marbled boards, with fleurs de lys blind stamped to spine

Lot 242

Illustrated. RINDER (F) D Y Cameron, 1912, 4to, No.156/200, with signed frontispiece etching, vellum backed; LANCASTER (O) Facades and Faces, first edition 1950, dust wrapper; INWARDS (R) The Temple of the Andes, 1884, 4to, Authors inscription, spotting; 4 vols by Gertrude or James Bone and a few others (18)

Lot 250

G. VYNER (R T) Notitia Venatica, Treatise on Fox-Hunting, new edition by W A C Blew, 2 vols 1910, 12 coloured plates mainly after Alken, cloth gilt (slightly marked); BLEW (W) A History of Steeple-Chasing, 1801, 8vo, 12 coloured plates, cloth gilt; NOAKES (A) The World of Henry Alken, first edition 1952, dust wrapper (3)

Lot 264

FITZ-GERALD (S J Adair) and Arthur RACKHAM (illustrator) The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch, first edition, London: J M Dent & Co 1896, 8vo, half title signed and inscribed by the author `To John Mayo(?) with best wishes from S J Adair Fitz-Gerald Feb 14/97`, further inscribed below by the owner, frontispiece, pictorial title-page, and 38 illustrations as required, crease to first blank leaf, scattered foxing and staining, original green cloth gilt somewhat bumped and marked, t.e.g

Lot 324

Various. BRAMAH (Ernest) The Eyes of Max Carrados, London 1923, first edition, rather spotted, blue cloth (age soiled); GRAHAME (K) The Wind in the Willows, 1931, 38th edition illustrated by E H Shepard; LANG (A) The Lilac Fairy Book, 1910, stained cloth; SCOTT (W) The Field of Waterloo, a Poem, Edinburgh 1815, 8vo, first edition, paper wrapper (worn); 3 others

Lot 328

Literature, Various. DE LA MARE (W) Stuff and Nonsense, 1927, No.3/275, signed; Poems for Children, 1930, signed (stain to first few leaves); HUXLEY (A) Island, first edition 1962, good in dust wrapper, BEERBOHM (M) Rossetti and his Circle, 1922; A Survey, 1921, both with mounted plates (various others) (30)

Lot 335

Left Book Club, and similar. Sixteen volumes including: ORWELL (GEORGE) The Road to Wigan Pier, first edition 1937, limp cloth; others by EDGAR SNOW, JOSEPH STALIN, and ARTHUR KOESTLER; others in paperback, condition varies (16)

Lot 342

TROLLOPE (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, first edition, 2 vols, London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1867, illustrated, modern quarter calf with gilt spine, marbled boards

Lot 344

WELLS (H G) The Island of Dr Moreau, first edition London: William Heinemann 1896, half title, frontispiece with foxed tissue guard, neat presentation inscription to title dated 1900, adverts at end, slight marginal darkening, top edge dusty and untrimmed, cloth printed in red and black (lightly worn and marked)

Lot 345

LEWIS (C S) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, first edition 1950, colour frontispiece and plain illustrations by Pauline Baynes, in damaged dust wrapper with cut away turn-in, loss to head of spine and around foot with resulting fading to cloth back, otherwise a generally good copy internally

Lot 346

FRANCIS (Dick) Flying Finish, first edition 1966 signed and inscribed by the author to first leaf `To Father get well 19/1/67 And keep smiling! Dick Francis`, in dust wrapper with worn and nicked spine; CHEYNEY (Peter) One of Those Things, first edition 1949 in damaged wrapper (2)

Lot 347

FLEMING (Ian) From Russia With Love, first edition, 2nd impression London: Jonathan Cape 1957, cloth in good dust wrapper (not price-clipped), few edge nicks, spine slightly darkened

Lot 348

FLEMING (Ian) Dr No, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1958, slight loss to some silver lettering to spine, otherwise very good in very good dust wrapper

Lot 349

FLEMING (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1959, good cloth gilt in good dust wrapper

Lot 350

FLEMING (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1960, cloth in fair/good dust wrapper

Lot 351

FLEMING (Ian) Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1961, cloth in good dust wrapper (slightly edge nicked)

Lot 352

FLEMING (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1962, cloth in good dust wrapper

Lot 353

FLEMING (Ian) On Her Majesty`s Secret Service, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1963, cloth in good dust wrapper

Lot 354

FLEMING (Ian) You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1964, cloth in good dust wrapper

Lot 355

FLEMING (Ian) The Man With the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1965, cloth in very good dust wrapper, small finger mark to title

Lot 360

SOMERSET MAUGHAM (W) Cakes and Ale, London: William Heinemann [no date], 8vo, No.19 of 1000 signed copies, also signed by Graham Sutherland (illustrator), morocco backed boards (spine scuffed), t.e.g; The Vagrant Mood, first edition 1952, No.490 of 500 signed copies, similarly bound; Ah King, 1933, No.175 of 175 signed copies, buckram (spine slightly darkened); also BOSWELL (J) Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1957, edition de luxe (400), vellum backed cloth; and a small tree calf prize binding (5)

Lot 380

G. COMBE (W) and T ROWLANDSON The Tours of Dr Syntax, in 3 vols, 9th edition, London: Nattali and Bond 1855, 8vo, 80 (of 81) coloured illustrations, (vol III lacking a plate), generally clean, occasional slight spotting, old ownership stamp of T Barber to first free end-papers, publisher`s green cloth with gilt spines (3)

Lot 389

G. PYNE (W H) The History of the Royal Residences, in three volumes London: for A Dry 1819, first edition, folio, 100 hand coloured aquatint plates, generally a clean bright copy in modern half red morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g (3)

Lot 430

Photography - India and Middle East. PATNAIK (N) A desert Kingdom, 1990; WORSWICK (C) Princely India, 1980; The Last Empire, Aperture Press; FACEY (W) and G GRANT Kuwait by the first photographers, 1998; DEBBAS (F) Beirut, 1986; with - JULIAN (Philippe) The Orientalists, 1st edition 1977, dust wrapper; and a few others on photography

Lot 433

Photography Reference. A box, including some foreign language, BRACEGIRDLE (B) and J B McCORMICK The Microscopic Slides of J B Dancer, mint unopened in slip case; OURDAN (J P) The Art of Retouching, first American edition, New York, 1880, cloth, and others 20th century

Lot 437

General Books. Including Art Reference, mostly 20th century vols including Alfred Gilbert, 1929; Brangwyn (F) The Bridge, first edition, 1926; ELVIN (L) Bishop and Son Organ Builders, 1984, dust wrapper; A Victorian Print Album (small size); ODLE (A) Illustrator The Mimiambs of Herondas, numbered edition (375), Fanfrolico press, untrimmed, etc (a box)

Lot 441

EVANS (Joan) Pattern: A Study of Ornament in Western Europe From 1180 to 1900, first edition, 2 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931, large 4to, 435 illustrations throughout, blue cloth gilt

Lot 460

CODRINGTON (H W) Notes on some of the Principal Kandyan Chiefs and Headmen and their Dresses, Colombo 1910, 8vo, plates, 38pp, cloth (spine lacks a 2cm strip); WILLIS (J C) Ceylon a Handbook..., Peradeniya 1907, folding coloured map (loose) and frontispiece, many other plates, cloth (a little wrinkled and corners worn and bumped); BAKER (Sir Samuel W) Eight Years in Ceylon, new edition London 1895, illustrated, silvered cloth; HINCHINGBROOK (Viscount) Diary in Ceylon and India 1878-79, London: for private circulation 1879, author`s inscription, bad damp stain to lower front cover and foot of first few leaves; GIBSON (A) Cinnamon and Frangipanni,1923 (4)

Lot 487

BORTHWICK (J D) Three Years in California, London: William Blackwood, 1857, first edition, 8vo, 8 full page lithograph plates by the author, good modern half brown morocco with raised bands

Lot 754

Football books: A set of four volumes of `Association Football` edited by A.H. Fabian and published by Caxton`s of London, each one a first edition, 1960. Sold with three Supplementary Annuals for 1962, 1963 & 1964 (gd) (7)

Lot 4

Wrangham (E.A.) The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, 4to., first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper

Lot 38

Reblitz (Arthur A.) & Bowers (Q. David) Treasures of Mechanical Music, 1981, first edition, dust wrapper; Webb (G.), The Cylinder Musical-Box Handbook, 1968; The Disc Musical Box Handbook, 1971, dust wrappers; Frow (George L.) & Sefl (Albert F.), The Edison Cylinder Phonographs 1877 - 1929, 1978, first edition, dust wrapper; with a small quantity of others (qty)

Lot 47

Hoppus (E.) & Cole (B.) The Gentleman`s and Builder`s Repository: or Architecture Display`d .., 1737, first edition, 4to., 1 double sided plate & 84 numbered plates, pages 3 - 10 bound in wrong order, contemporary sheep (worn copy)

Lot 58

Rae (Gwynedd) Mary Plain to the Rescue, 1950, first edition, dust wrapper; Hull (Katharine) & Whitlock (Pamela), Escape to Persia, 1946, dust wrapper; `BB`, The Forest of Bowland Railway, 1955, first edition, dust wrapper; Edwards (Monica), The Hoodwinkers, 1962, dust wrapper; Pardoe (M.), Bunkle Baffles Them, 1949, cloth; with thirteen others (18)

Lot 68

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Silmarillion, 1977, early numbered copy, one of the first 1000 copies off the press of the first edition, reserved for later publication in this collector`s edition, signed by the editor Christopher Tolkien, t.e.g., original publisher`s full morocco, morocco-trimmed slipcase, original card mailing box

Lot 69

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 1972, India paper edition, inscribed by Priscilla Tolkien, folding map, original decorative cloth, slipcase; id., Smith of Wootton Major, 1967, first edition, inscribed by Priscilla Tolkien, original pictorial boards; id., Farmer Giles of Ham, 1965, inscribed by Michael Tolkien `This story was largely written for me!`, laminated dust wrapper; with twelve others (15)

Lot 88

Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan, or, The Matter, Form and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil, 1651, folio, first edition, later issue, frontis, folding table, staining to pages, contemporary calf (re-backed, worn)

Lot 90

Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows,1908, first edition, frontis, original cloth (worn)

Lot 92

Joyce (James) Ulysses, Oct 1922, published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris, numbered first English edition, ltd. to 2000 copies, original blue wraps (worn, joints split)

Lot 94

le Carre (John) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1963, Gollancz, first edition, original blue cloth, dust wrapper (priced 18/-)

Lot 95

Kayr (M.M.) The Far Pavilions, 1978, first edition, presentation copy signed by author, 2 page a.l.s. loosely inserted, dust wrapper; McEwan (Ian), or Shall We Die?, Words for an oratoria set to music by Michael Berkeley, 1983, first edition, signed by the author and the musician, dust wrapper; Brent-Dyer (Elinor M.), A Leader in the Chalet School, 1961, first edition, dust wrapper; Shakespeare (William), Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, The First Folio of Shakespeare - The Norton Facsimile, folio, bonded leather spine, new, sealed in slipcase; with six others (9)

Lot 100

Orwell (George) Animal Farm, A Fairy Story, 1945, first edition, cloth (annotation to rear endpaper); [Scott (Walter)], Border Antiquities, nd. [1813-1815], 2 vols., 4to., engraved plates, a.e.g., contemporary morocco (worn) (3)

Lot 101

Murphy (Richard) The Last Galway Hooker, 1961, Dolmen Press, first ltd. edition of 200 copies signed by the author (of which 150 were for sale), original parchment-backed cloth

Lot 102

Orwell (George) Animal Farm, A Fairy Story, 1945, Secker & Warburg, first edition, green/grey dust wrapper

Lot 103

Orwell (George) Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933, Victor Gollancz, first edition, original cloth (faded)

Lot 104

Orwell (George) A Clergyman`s Daughter, 1935, Victor Gollancz, first edition, original cloth; id., Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1936, Victor Gollancz, first edition, original cloth (2)

Lot 105

Orwell (George) Homage to Catalonia, 1938, first edition, original cloth; id., Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933, Victor Gollancz, first edition, second impression, original cloth (faded); id., Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949, first edition, original cloth (3)

Lot 106

Orwell (George) The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937, Left Book Club, first edition, wraps; id., Shooting an Elephant, 1950, Secker & Warburg, first edition, dust wrapper; id., England Your England, 1953, Secker & Warburg, 1953, first edition, dust wrapper; with a quantity of others (qty)

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