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Lot 746
Briem (Helgi P.) Iceland and the Icelanders, first edition inscribed "To E J Holt O.B.E. Director of Organisation I.O.C with best greetings from Ben G Wage" together with The Royal Capital of Prague (Kralovske Hlavni Mesto, Praha, 1911), Praha, 1980 Olympics booklet and a copy of Russian painting in the museums of the RSFSR Edition I CONDITION REPORT: Provenance - Ernest James Henry (Billy) Holt, CMG, CBE (1883 - 1972) who for more than 50 years was closely associated with athletics. He started as a sprinter with South London Harriers and turned to the administration side of the sport when he retired, He became an honorary official in 1907 when he was appointed assistant secretary of South London Harriers. In 1932 he became treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Association and progressed to become honorary secretary of the Amateur Athletic Board and honorary secretary treasurer of the International Amateur Athletic Federation. He was Director of Organization for the 1948 Olympic Games in London and was later invited to be adviser and technical director for the organisation of the 1956 games in Melbourne. He also held other roles in the Los Angeles 1932, Berlin 1936 and Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. In recognition of his services to the sport he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1947, C.B.E in 1953 and C.M.G. in 1957 Freemasonry - He was initiated in Black Horse of Lombard Street Lodge, No. 4155, in 1922, Master of Athlon Lodge in 1938 and had coached the long-distance athlete, Gordon Pirie.
Lot 2004
Bahr (A. W.).Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China. Being Description and Illustrations of Articles selected from an Exhibition held in Shanghai, November, 1908.Cassell, 1911, first edition, presentation inscription signed by the author, frontis, 120 plates (12 in colour), foxing to text pages, top edge gilt, original cloth.
Lot 2009
Bond (Michael).A Bear Called Paddington.Collins, 1958, first edition, a few spots to edges, free of inscriptions, price clipped dust jacket (wear and tears (with loss) to top edge, a few spots);idem, Paddington Helps Out.Collins, 1960, first edition, light offsetting to free endpapers, otherwise a clean book in price-clipped dust jacket (closed tear to bottom edge, a little wear to head of jacket spine);idem, Paddington on Top.Collins, 1974, first edition, inscribed 'Michael - Dec 14. 1974' on front free endpaper, clean book in price-clipped dust jacket;with six other Collins first editions by the author (9)
Lot 2010
Rowling (J.K.).Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.Bloomsbury, 1998, first edition, first printing, hardback, dust jacket (priced £10.99). Very slight tanning to edges of pages. Spine a little slanted with bumped head, spine of jacket sun faded, some creasing to jacket edges.Free of inscriptions.
Lot 2011
Potter (Beatrix).The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.Frederick Warne, 1903, first edition, first or second printing, binding stiff and weak with evidence of some leaves having been glued, gutter gaping, original blue-grey boards with wear to spine. [Linder p. 423];idem, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.Frederick Warne, 1904, first edition, first or second printing, with 'muffatees' misprint, binding weak, frontis is creased, detached and a little soiled, repaired tear or crease to p. 26, original tan boards with rubbed spine [Linder p. 424];idem, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.Frederick Warne, 1906, first edition, first or second printing, binding very weak, frontis torn along lower gutter, minor surface abrasions in places, original red boards lacking backstrip. [Linder p. 426];idem, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.Frederick Warne, 1909, first edition, first, second or third printing, Notice Board present on p. 14, repaired tear or crease to p. 38, small ink mark to margin of p. 85, original brown boards with slight wear to head and tail of spine. [Linder p. 428];idem, The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse.Frederick Warne, 1910, first edition, first or second printing, half title inscribed 'Anne B. Todd, from Aunt Bee', binding weak, frontis torn along lower gutter, repaired tear or crease to pages 26, 62 and 74, minor surface abrasions in places, original cream boards lacking backstrip. [Linder p. 429];idem, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.Frederick Warne, 1911, first edition, first or second printing, gift inscription to front free endpaper, repaired tear to edge of title page and pages 38 and 50, original brown boards. [Linder p. 429];idem, The Tale of Mr. Tod.Frederick Warne, 1912, first edition, first or second printing, lacks frontis, repaired tear or crease to p. 89, original buff boards (re-backed with original spine label laid down. [Linder p. 429];idem, The Tale of Pigling Bland.Frederick Warne, 1913, first edition, first or second printing, frontis detached but present, gift inscription to front free endpaper verso, front hinge taped, original grey-green boards (re-backed with original spine label laid down). [Linder p. 429];idem, The Tale of Pigling Bland.Frederick Warne, 1913, first edition, first or second printing, lacking frontis and final leaf of text, child's pencil sketches/scribbles on reverse of many illustrations, name and date to front free endpaper, front hinge taped, original maroon boards. [Linder p. 429]; (9)
Lot 2013
Rowling (J. K.).Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.Bloomsbury, 1997, first paperback edition, first printing, number line 10 to 1, Joanne Rowling to verso of title, two wands, 'Philospher's' misspelling on rear cover. Light tanning to page edges, spine creased, a little faded and slightly slanted, edges rubbed, wear to tail of spine and corners, slight ridge on fore-edge corresponding with spine crease, free of inscriptions.
Lot 2016
Rowling (J. K.).Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.Bloomsbury, 1997, first paperback edition, first printing, number line 10 to 1, Joanne Rowling to verso of title, two wands, 'Philospher's' misspelling on rear cover. Faint tanning to page edges, overall Fine. Free of inscriptions, appears unread.
Lot 2017
Ransome (Arthur). Swallows and Amazons.Jonathon Cape, 1931, New Illustrated Edition, dust jacket (torn);idem, Peter Duck.Jonathon Cape, 1932, first edition, dust jacket (with tape repairs) (2)Swallows and Amazons - offset tanning to free endpapers, previous owner's inscription to flyleaf, foxing to edges, contents clean, spine cloth faded, dust wrapper torn (see images illustrating condition);Peter Duck - previous owner's inscription to flyleaf, slight foxing to edges, contents clean, dust wrapper torn with tape repairs (see images illustrating condition);
![Barrie (J. M.).Peter and Wendy.Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1911], first edition, frontis, pictorial title page and eleven](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a9e882e2-8e1f-4a26-b73a-af1800e32cf4/ee463e76-2001-47b4-a6e7-af5400fc7e6e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2019
Barrie (J. M.).Peter and Wendy.Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1911], first edition, frontis, pictorial title page and eleven plates after F. D. Bedford, foxing to edges, sporadic foxing to contents, offset tanning to endpapers, original green cloth with uneven colouring, dust jacket (torn at edges and front joint, fading, particularly to spine and top edge, flaps 7.5cm and 7cm).
Lot 2021
Rowling (J.K.).Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Special Edition.Bloomsbury, 1999, first deluxe edition, first printing with number string to one, original cloth, a new book which was sealed in publisher's polythene shrinkwrap (carefully removed for cataloguing purposes and then replaced).
Lot 2024
Children's Books.A large quantity of first edition children's books, including books written or illustrated by Michael Bond, Ernest Shepard, Helen Oxenbury (signed), Kenneth Grahame, Edward Ardizzone, A. A. Milne, Michael Hague, Nicola Bayley, Enid Blyton, W. E. Johns, Edmund Dulac, Maurice Sendak, Frank Richards, Kate Greenaway, Michael Foreman, Terry Jones, etc. (qty)
Lot 2025
Milne (A. A.).Now We Are Six.Methuen, 1927, first edition, ownership inscription in mounted card, top edge gilt, original cloth;idem, The House at Pooh Corner.Methuen, 1928, first edition, ownership inscription, top edge gilt, original cloth;idem, Winnie-The-Pooh.Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1926, ?first Canadian edition, original cloth gilt (gilt faded);idem, The House at Pooh Corner. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1928, ?first Canadian edition, bookplate, original cloth gilt (gilt faded). (4)
Lot 2042
Raverat (Gwen).Wood Engravings of Cambridge and Surroundings.Broughton House, 2003, presentation inscription from the editor Rosemary Davidson, dust wrapper;Betjeman (John) and Taylor (Geoffrey), English, Scottish & Welsh Landscape 1700 - c.1860.Muller, 1944, first edition, illustrated by John Piper, dust jacket;Piper (Myfanwy), Sea Poems, chosen by ....Muller, 1944, first edition, illustrated by Mona Moore, gift inscription to endpaper, dust jacket (wear to head of spine); Armitage (Simon), Magnetic Field, The Marsden Poems.Faber, 2020, first edition, signed by the author, dust jacket with wrap around;With a quantity of others, including illustrated books and poetry. (qty)
Lot 2043
Du Maurier (Daphne).Rebecca, Victor Gollancz, 1938, first edition, original cloth.Name and date (1938) to front free endpaper, very slight age tanning to margins but contents generally VG, spine a little slanted, cloth tired with rubbing to head and tail of spine, rear bottom edge and corners slightly bumped, spine gilt faded, top edge a little dust marked.
Lot 2044
King (Frank).What Price Doubloons? A Dormouse 'Thriller'.Robert Hale, 1942, first edition, presentation inscription signed by the author, dust jacket (8/6 label over 8s. net);idem, Gestapo Dormouse. Robert Hale, 1944, first edition, presentation inscription signed by the author, dust jacket (priced 8/6 net);idem, The Empty Flat.Robert Hale, 1957, first edition, presentation inscription signed by the author, dust jacket (priced 10/6d.). (3)
Lot 2048
Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Chapman and Hall, 1839, first edition, printing not stated, portrait frontis and 39 plates as called for, name to fly leaf and head of title, some foxing to plates and endpapers, all edges gilt, calf gilt binding;idem, David Copperfield.Bradbury & Evans, 1850, first edition, engraved title and 39 plates as called for, foxing and some staining to plates, offsetting, marbled edges, half morocco binding;idem, Little Dorrit.Bradbury and Evans, 1857, first edition, printing not stated, engraved title and 39 plates as called for, foxing to plates and endpapers, marbled edges, half morocco gilt with staining/fading to cloth.
Lot 2050
Wilde (Oscar).De Profundis. Methuen, 1905, first trade edition, catalogue at rear dated February 1905, lacking front free endpaper, foxing to half title, title and other preliminaries, foxing and dust marking to edges and endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt (rubbed, corners lightly bumped); Yeats (W. B.), The Wild Swans at Coole. Macmillan, 1919, first edition thus, foxing to edges, light foxing to preliminaries and final page, dust marked top edge, original cloth gilt (spine gilt faded, free of inscriptions);Lawrence (D. H.), Pansies.Martin Secker, 1929, first edition, foxing to edges, endpapers and adjacent leaves, well foxed dust jacket with frayed top edge;Squire (J. C.), Twelve Poems.Morland Press for 'Form', 1916, errata slip, endpapers tanned, original cloth-backed boards (heavily foxed boards) (4)
Lot 2051
Greene (Graham).The Man Within.Heinemann, 1929, first edition, issue not stated, foxing to edges, endpapers and preliminaries, original cloth, spine faded;Schreiner (Olive), Undine.Ernest Benn, 1929, first edition, issue not stated, foxing to edges, dust jacket with edge tears and foxing;Hutchinson (R. C.), The Unforgotten Prisoner.Cassell, 1933, first edition, issue not stated, foxing to edges, dust jacket with fraying to edges;with twenty-four others (27)
![[Defoe (Daniel)].A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man [and] A Second Volume of the Wr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a9e882e2-8e1f-4a26-b73a-af1800e32cf4/45751d9c-d70a-4e44-b489-af550106bede/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2053
[Defoe (Daniel)].A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man [and] A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Gentleman ...London, 1703-5, first authorised edition and first edition, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, [24], 465, [blank] and [16], 479, [1] pages, top margin of first volume cropped with loss of some page numbers and preliminary headlines, stanning, foxing and staining, particularly to second volume, annotation in early hand to title page of second volume, half calf with marbled boards (rubbed). [Moore 58 and 91, ESTC T71953 and T71955];Wilkes (John), Churchill (C.) et al., The North Briton .... In Four Volumes.London, 1772, four volumes, portrait frontis to each, title page of Vol. I abraded with loss of some text and small hole, vi, 230; [2], 280, [8]; [6], 202; [4], 280 pages, small tear to F5 of volume 4 (without loss), final page ends with 'continuation', half calf (a little wear to joints and edges). [ESTC T153630] (6)
Lot 2056
MacInnes (Colin).To The Victors The Spoils.MacGibbon & Kee, 1950, first edition, dust jacket (priced 12s.6d. with repaired tear to head of jacket spine);idem, City of Spades.MacGibbon & Kee, 1957, first edition, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust jacket (priced 15s., repaired tears to edges);idem, Absolute Beginners.MacGibbon & Kee, 1959, first edition, dust jacket (priced 15s., edges torn with a little loss, tanning). (3)
Lot 2060
Dickens (Charles).Our Mutual Friend.Chapman and Hall, 1865, first edition, first issue with all points present (Smith 15), forty plates (stich holes on some), original cloth (faded, wear to heads and tails of spine);idem, The Personal History of David Copperfield.Bradbury & Evans, 1850, first edition, first issue with all but one of Smith's issue points (screwed present), forty plates (stitch holes present on some), lacking half-title, two leaves bound out of sequence, half morocco gilt (rubbed);with six others by the author - Nicholas Nickleby (1839); Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); Dombey and Son (1848); Bleak House (1853); Little Dorrit (1857); Edwin Drood (1870), all first editions, issues not stated, various half leather bindings, Nickleby rear board detached. (9)
![Britten (Benjamin).Sonata in C for Cello and Piano Op.65.Boosey & Hawkes, [1961], front cover inscribed and signed after the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a9e882e2-8e1f-4a26-b73a-af1800e32cf4/44aa41b3-5f91-494c-9189-af4a0092f759/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2074
Britten (Benjamin).Sonata in C for Cello and Piano Op.65.Boosey & Hawkes, [1961], front cover inscribed and signed after the first performance (7th July 1961 at Aldeburgh) by the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the dedicatee of the work and possibly the greatest cellist of the 20th century.. The inscription in Russian 'To Lady and Lord Harwood, As a souvenir of the first performance of this wonderful work. With warmest love hoping for more frequent reunions, Mstislav Rostropovich'. original wraps.idem, The Making of Peter Grimes.Boydell Press for the Britten Estate, 1996, two folio volumes, Vol I a facsimile of the composition draft and Vol II, Notes and Commentaries, original cloth, slipcase:idem, Children's Crusade, Kinderkreuzzug Op. 82.Faber, 1973, limited edition of 1000 facsimiles of the composer's manuscript, folio, illustrated by Sidney Nolan, quarter cloth (3)
![Haydn [Franz Joseph].La Creation du Monde, Oratorio en Trois Parties Traduit de l'Allemand Mis En Vers Francais par Joseph A.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a9e882e2-8e1f-4a26-b73a-af1800e32cf4/65fe9357-2cb7-47a0-8012-af5400c6d7d2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2080
Haydn [Franz Joseph].La Creation du Monde, Oratorio en Trois Parties Traduit de l'Allemand Mis En Vers Francais par Joseph A. Segur. Musique d'Haydn Arrangee pour le Piano ... par D. Steibelt.Paris: Erard, Lyon: Garnier, no date, quarto, vocal score, engraved frontis (replacement fore-edge margin), [2], 176 engraved pages (no plate number), gilt presentation initials to front endpaper, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled full morocco binding;idem, Die Jahreszeiten von Joseph Haydn, Klavierauszug.Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel, no date [1801], oblong folio, [2], 176 pages, worn with several tears, vocal score, letter from Ludwig Doblinger (1949) certifying the score as a 1800 first edition, large unidentified signature on title page and page 1 (worthy of further research), worn original covers with leather spine, housed in solander box with bookplate of the 7th Earl of Harewood. (2)
Lot 2083
Britten (Benjamin).Gloriana, An Opera in Three Acts by William Plomer. Music by Benjamin Britten Opus 53.Boosey & Hawkes, 1953, lettered limited edition of ten copies hors commerce, signed by the composer and the librettist, this letter A with accompanying letter from the publisher to the Earl of Harewood which explains that the composer requested that the first of these ten copies 'go to you as a token of gratitude for all the help and encouragement you have given in the creation of 'Gloriana' and its first production.' Top edge gilt, printed on hand-made paper and bound in parchment. Spine slightly dust marked, otherwise Fine in tanned and worn slipcase.[100 numbered copies of the same work were published, the first of which was presented to the late HM. the Queen]
Lot 2084
Purcell (Henry).Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices, compos’d by Mr. Henry Purcell. Together, With such Symphonies for Violins or Flutes, As were by Him design’d for any of them: .....Printed by William Pearson and sold by John Young, 1706, folio, [2], vi, [2], 190, 189-286 pages, lacking portrait frontis, [bound with]idem, Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of the Choices Songs for ......... The Second Book, which renders the First Compleat.Printed by William Pearson for Henry Playford, 1702, first edition, folio, [4], ii, [2], 32, 35-99, 140-141, 102-170, 143-146. 175-176 pages, irregular pagination but text and register continuous, ink amendments to pagination and register of pages 143-146.Other than some very light foxing, contents generally clean, bound in contemporary panelled calf with wear to edges and spine, joints cracking with split to head of upper joint. ESTC T154319 & T153688
Lot 2112
Edmonds (Charles).A Subaltern's War, Being a Memoir of the Great War from the point of view of a romantic young man, with candid accounts of two particular Battles .... [Somme, 1916 - Ypres, 1917].Peter Davies, July 1929, first edition, issue not stated, eight plates and two maps as called for, foxing to map endpapers, adjacent pages and edges, a little fusty, dust jacket (foxing, small tears to edges)
Lot 2116
Verney (Edmund Hope).The Shannon's Brigade in India, Being Some Account of Sir William Peel's Naval Brigade in the Indian Campaign of 1857-1858.Saunders, Otley, 1862, portrait frontis on India paper, folding plan, extensive pencil amendments throughout, original cloth gilt (wear to spine);Watson (Edward Spencer), Journal - India: With H.M.S. 'Shannon' Naval Brigade from August 18th, 1858.Kettering: W.E. and J. Goss, no date [1858], duodecimo, 131 pages, plate, amendment to one word, lacking front free endpaper (first leaf is title page which is tanned recto), original cloth gilt (rear endpaper partially adhered);Verney (Maj.Gen. G. L.), The Devil's Wind. The Story of the Naval Brigade at Lucknow from the letters of Edmund Hope Verney.Hutchinson, 1956, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author, frontis, plates and three maps (two folding) as called for, original cloth. (3)
Lot 2118
Churchill (Winston S.).The Second World War.Cassell, 1948-54, first English edition, first impressions, folding maps and facsimiles as called for, text illustrations, original blue morocco bindings (rubbed, wear to head of volume I, not the deluxe binding described by Langworth but other sets in an identical binding have been located); idem, The World Crisis, 1911 - 18 & The Eastern Front.Thornton Butterworth, five volumes (of six), 1923-31, volumes I, II, and VI are first edition, first impressions, volumes III and IV are fourth impressions of the first edition, all maps and plates as called for, original cloth;with six others by Churchill (17)World Crisis - previous owner's name to front pastedowns (except Eastern Front). Top edges a little dust marked and spotted, some spotting to fore-edges (see images), contents generally clean. Upper board cloth of 1916-18 pt. I is rubbed and a little 'glittery' (see image), white mark to rear joint of 1911-14 (see image), spine of 1911-14 slightly slanted.
Lot 2159
Mennie (Donald).The Grandeur of the Gorges, Fifty Photographic Studies, with Descriptive Notes, of China's Great Waterway, the Yangtze Kiang, including Twelve Hand-Coloured Prints, Shanghai: A.S. Watson and Kelly & Walsh, 1926, numbered first edition, limited to 1000 copies, signed by Donald Mennie, 48 (of 50) mounted plates (lacking plates 1 and 35), quarto, deluxe gilt-coated half leather binding with gilt lettered silk boards (binding rubbed)
Lot 2163
Keppel (Henry).The Expedition To Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with extracts from The Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak.Chapman and Hall, 1846, first edition, two volumes, eleven litho plates, folding table and six folding plans as called for, Stradbroke armorial bookplate and indistinct presentation inscription to each, original cloth (bindings a little weak and gaping in places, broken between pages 160 and 161 of volume II, slight wear to spine heads).
Lot 2164
Anon.The Siamese Tales: Being a Collection of Stories told to the Son of the Mandarin Sam-Sib, for the Purpose of Engaging his Mind in the Love of Truth and Virtue. With an Historical Account of The Kingdom of Siam. To which is added the principal maxims of the Talapoins. Translated from the Siamese.Vernor and Hood et al, 1726, first edition, duodecimo, engraved frontis, [6], ii, 196 pages, lacking advert leaf, worn contemporary sheep (spine and joints cracked, rear board holding by one string). Attributed to George Brewer. [ESTC T112304]
Lot 2167
Hewitson (William C.).Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds ..., Van Voorst, 1846, first edition, two volumes, 138 hand-coloured plates, all edges gilt, green morocco bindings by J. Clarke (spines rubbed);Morris (Rev F.O.), A History of British Birds, Nimmo, 1895, fourth edition, six volumes, 394 hand-coloured plates, original cloth gilt, (front hinge of volume five broken, foxing to edges of textbock).
![Acton (Eliza).Modern Cookery, In All Its Branches ...Longman, Brown ..., 1845, first edition, xxxii, 683, [1] pages plus four](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a9e882e2-8e1f-4a26-b73a-af1800e32cf4/b21198fb-649d-4900-b271-af4801143d00/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2179
Acton (Eliza).Modern Cookery, In All Its Branches ...Longman, Brown ..., 1845, first edition, xxxii, 683, [1] pages plus four page and 32 page catalogues at rear, the latter dated January 1845, original cloth (name to head of title page, sporadic foxing throughout, cloth worn with split and frayed joints)
![[MAXWELL (Robert) & HOPE (Sir Thomas) attributed to:] A Treatise Concerning the Manner of Fallowing Ground, Raising of Gr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a9e882e2-8e1f-4a26-b73a-af1800e32cf4/0ba62bea-beed-461b-8ee0-af5500edf8f5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2199
[MAXWELL (Robert) & HOPE (Sir Thomas) attributed to:] A Treatise Concerning the Manner of Fallowing Ground, Raising of Grass Seeds, and training of Lint and Hemp, 8vo, 7 engr. plates, panel calf, Edinburgh, Fleming, 1724First Edition of the first book published by the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, founded 1723, which was Europe’s first agricultural society. Fussell, pp.109-110 discusses authorship; Henrey II, pp. 603-605.
Lot 2204
WORLEDGE (John) Systema Agriculturae, The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered, folio, pp. [32, incl. additional engr. pictorial title preceded by explanatory leaf], 278, [6], full calf, L., Printed by T. Johnson for Samuel Speed, 1669; together with a defective copy of the 3rd Edn. of 1681 (2)First Edition, 1669. Wing W3598. Early owner inked name of Wm. Griffiths on title; printed blue label of Gloddaeth Library on front paste-down.
Lot 417
2 x Apollo 11 Silver Commemorative Medallions 1969, (.925 silver, 58mm, c.71g each), struck by William James Dingley for Alec Brook Ltd, London to commemorate the first moon landing, obv. MANS FIRST MOON LANDING above conjoined facing busts of Collins, Armstrong and Aldrin in matte relief, rev. Apollo Luna Module in high relief against matte background, hallmarked Birmingham, 1969, limited edition nos. 2154 and 2155 of 2500, each in case of issue with certificate of authenticity, light hairlines, otherwise ABU
Lot 126
A quantity of mainly 1950's and 1960's puffin and Penguin classic novels and other books together with 1960's and 1970's magazines and Percy Westerman novels, a signed copy of How I Photograph People by Tom Hustler dated 1986, a singed first edition of Finding my Voice by Nadiya HussainLocation:
Lot 470
* World War II Posters. A collection of WWII posters including 'Careless Talk Costs Lives', circa 1941, 13 colour lithographs promoting the importance of not sharing information, printed for H.M Stationery Office, titles include: Keep mum - she's not so dumb!, Keep it under your hat!, along with 'He's in the Silent Service - are you?', 'Danger Enemy ears are listening', '"Spot at Sight" Chart No 1 & 2 Enemy Uniforms', sizes from 38 x 25.2 cm (15 x 10 ins) to 76 x 50.4 cm (29 7/8 x 19 7/8 ins), together with two maps: North-West Germany, 2nd edition, The British Army of the Rhine and a map of Paris produced by The War Office, 1942, first editionQTY: (1 folder)
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