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Click here to subscribeAndrew Ward. Horse Racing's Strangest Races. Extraordinary but true stories from over 150 years of racing history. First Edition hardback book. Dust-jacket and spine in near mint condition. Printed by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd of Suffolk. 222 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
HG Wells books and magazines, including A Modern Utopia First edition 1905, no D/W, faded spine, The Sea Lady by H.G. Wells, First edition, ‘later issue’ 1902, Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water Penguin Special edition 1939 and The Desert Daisy 1957 Beta Phi Mu, no D/W, published posthumously (13). Buyer collects.
HG Wells books and magazines, including Experiment in Autobiography 2 volumes First editions, 1934, The Common Sense of War and Peace Penguin, two copies, 1940, The New America: The New World First edition with D/W, 1935 and Apropos of Dolores First edition with D/W, 1938 (16). Buyer collects.
HG Wells Books and magazines including: Democracy Under Revision First edition, no D/w, 1927, The Science of Life 1931 Cassels edition in one volume, The Book of Catherine Wells First edition no D/W, very good condition, also, first U.S. edition no D/W very good condition, 1928 and The Adventures of Tommy First edition with D/W, small parts of D/W missing, 1929 (14). Buyer collects
HG Wells books and magazines, including The Autocracy of Mr. Parham First edition with D/W, 1930, Imperialism and The Open Conspiracy First edition, 1929, These Eventful Years two volumes. Volume one with D/W good condition, volume two no D/W fair condition and The Informative Content of Education , 1937 (16). Buyer collects.
A nice lot of HG Wells books and magazines, including Bealby: A Holiday First edition, no D/W, faded cover, 1915, God the Invisible King First Edition with D/W Sellotape marks to wrapper, 1917, The Undying Fire First edition, 1919 and The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman First edition, 1914 (16+). Buyer collects
Four limited edition Official Progressive Proofs Nevis Philatelic Bureau, October 1984 depicting 1932 Pierce Arrow V12 car. Number 6 of a limited issue of 250, with COA. Album of stamps inc: Penny Red Maltese Cross 'TL', face value with sterling high values, first, second approx £110 + Star Wars 2015 Darth Maul illustration with COA by Royal Mail.
1999 Rover 200 BRMMake: Rover Model: 200 BRMYear: 1999Mileage: 30400VIN: SARRFCNLHXD435146Configuration: Right Hand DriveRegistration: V646DJMTransmission: manualThe Rover 200 BRM was unveiled at the 1997 Frankfurt Motor Show, and went on sale from October 1998. It paid homage to Rover's links with British Racing Motors, the Formula One team of the 1950s to the 1970s, and was based on the range-topping Vi model with the 143bhp 1.8-litre VVC K-Series engine. Among the limited edition touches were red quilted leather seats and door panels, red carpet, seat belts and steering wheel, along with alloy heater controls and turned aluminium trim elsewhere. Brooklands Green paint was used for the exterior, with silver trim details, 16in alloys, and a woven mesh grille above a BRM trademark large orange snout. The price was £18,000, with only 795 built for the UK, plus an additional 350 for overseas markets. This car's first owner had it from 1999 to 2000, with its second custodian holding onto it from 2000 through to early 2021. The vendor acquired it at the start of 2021, and reports that in excess of £1600 was spent in April, replacing the head gasket (with a multi-layer item), timing belt and water pump, with fresh brake pads and calipers also fitted all around. The paperwork includes the current V5 (and a copy of an old one), invoice for the work carried out in April, and a current MoT certificate valid to April 2022. There's also a spare set of keys with remote control, and the locking wheelnut key. The indicated odometer reading is 30,400 miles, which appears to be backed up by the available online MoT history - in 2006, the mileage was 16,952.
NO RESERVE Cricket.- Briscoe (Walter A.) Cricket Love & Humour, first edition, illustrations, browned throughout, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed, library shelf label to spine foot, 1921 § Larwood (Harold) Body-Line?, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, occasional finger-soiling, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed, chipping to spine head, blind-stamp to upper cover, 1933 § Hobbs (Jack), Maurice Tate and Herbert Strudwick, The Game of Cricket as it should be played, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, advertisements at end, original paper wrappers, a little rubbed, n.d.; and 3 others, cricket, v.s. (6)
Douai-Rheims version.- Bible, English.- The New Testament of Iesus Christ faithfully translated into English...By the English Colledge then resident in Rhemes, 'fourth edition, enriched with pictures', engraved additional pictorial title and 7 full-page engraved illustrations by Picquet and Michel van Lochom, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata f. at end, additional title trimmed and laid down, trimmed at head, touching the odd page number or headline, stained, lightly browned, [Herbert 479; STC 2946], [Rouen], John Cousturier, 1633; Bible, English. The Holy Bible faithfully translated into English out of the authentical Latin, 2 vol., woodcut device to titles, woodcut decorative initials, privilege / errata f. at end of vol.2, lacking additional engraved titles in both vol. and final f. (relating to tables and errata) in vol.1, first title with repair with loss of 1 letter and with small repairs to edges, second title with repair to lower corner with loss of border, spotting and staining, lightly browned, [Herbert 499; Darlow & Moule 387; STC 2321], [Rouen], Printed by John Cousturier, 1635, uniformly bound in 19th century blind-stamped calf, some covers detached, parts of backstrips loosely inserted, worn, 4to ⁂ Second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament, which had first been published in Douai in 1609. Provenance: NT: James Atkinson (1759-1839, Surgeon, of York), inscription to aii (Preface to Reader), 'Atkinson' bookplate; OT: 'Will Johnston bought this book 1712' (inscription to final leaf of first vol.); NT: John Macfarlane, Writer to the Signet (bookplates in both vol.); James Dix, of Bristol, 'Biblical Collection' (bookplate dated 1850 in each vol.).
NO RESERVE Sulivan (Richard Joseph) A view of nature, in letters to a traveller among the Alps. With reflections on Atheistical philosophy, now exemplified in France, 6 vol., first edition, half-titles to vol.1 and 6, as called for, errata f. to end of every vol., occasional heavy spotting, lightly browned, engraved labels of G. Cawthorn, bookseller & binder, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, 3 of 6 spines lacking red morocco label, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, particularly spines, 8vo, Printed for T. Becket, 1794.
Economics.- Fortune (E.F. Thomas) An epitome of the stocks and publick funds. Containing every thing necessary to be known for the better understanding the nature of those securitites, and the mode of doing business therein, first edition, half-title, folding engraved frontispiece table, this with short neat tear within text, but without loss, some spotting and offsetting on to title, a few instances of later ink underlinings and marginalia, contemporary limp marbled wrappers, rebacked, one lower corner with small piece missing, 12mo, little faded and rubbed, Printed for T. Boosey , No. 4, Old Broad-Street; and sold by the booksellers near the Royal Exchange, 1796.⁂ Rare first edition, of which we cannot locate any copies in institutions or having appeared at auction. ESTC records only the second edition of the same year. Includes South Sea and Indian stocks and bonds.
NO RESERVE Novel.- French Revolutionary Wars.- Porter (Anna Maria) The Hungarian Brothers, 3 vol., first edition, errata-slip tipped-in to vol.1, advertisement ff. to end of vol.1 and 3, a few ff. with small sections of margins cut away, some spotting and staining, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spines richly so and with double black leather labels, covers detached or detaching and crudely repaired with glue, with residually stickiness, corners little worn, rubbed, [Summers, p.362; Wolff 5599], 12mo, C. Stower for Longman [et al], 1807. sold not subject to return. ⁂ The campaigns of General Moreau form the background to the work.
NO RESERVE Cricket.- Grundy (W. F.) A Memento of Two Great Notts. Cricketers, Arthur Shrewsbury and Alfred Shaw, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, ex-library with bookplates and occasional ink- and blind-stamps, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed, cracked joints but holding firm, loss to spine extremities, [Padwick8034/8044], Nottingham, C. H. Richards, 1907 § Barlow (Richard Gorton) Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket, second edition, portrait frontispiece, full-page illustrations, cracked hinges, ex-library with bookplate and occasional blind-stamps, original decorative cloth, gilt, sunned spine, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Padwick 7298], Manchester, [1908], 8vo (2). ⁂ The first is rare with no copies on Library Hub.
NO RESERVE Woman Irish novelist.- Morgan (Sydney, Lady) Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale, 4 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, occasional spotting or mostly light staining, small book label to front pastedown of vol.1 of Grant & Bolton, booksellers, Dublin, contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, vol.2 piece from head of spine loosely inserted, and upper joint splitting and chipped, spine heads chipped, corners worn, rubbed, [Sadleir 1770; Wolff 4909], 12mo, Henry Colburn, 1818.
Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, Dickens cut signature tipped-in, extra illustrated with 103 plates, several with short tears or marginal loss, most repaired, occasional faint off-setting, spotting, final leaf (pp.623-624) torn with loss to half of leaf affecting text, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1839.
Biography.- Romilly (Sir Samuel) Memoirs of the Life of ..., 3 vol., first edition, portrait frontispiece, folding facsimile (short tear), scattered faint spotting, ex-library with bookplates, modern cloth, 1840 § Tucker (George) The Life of Thomas Jefferson, 2 vol., first English edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, short tear, ex-library with bookplates and occasional ink-stamps, modern cloth, 1837 § North (The Hon. Roger) The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispieces, scattered faint spotting, ex-library with bookplates and discreet blind-stamps to titles, later morocco-backed boards, gilt, library blind-stamp to upper covers, a little rubbed, 1826 § Richard (Henry) Memoirs of Joseph Sturge, albumen portrait frontispiece, illustrations, advertisements at end, modern cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1864; and others biography, 8vo & 4to (35)
Napoleon.- Abell (Lucia Elizabeth) Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon ... on the Island of Saint Helena, first edition, lithograph frontispiece, additional title, 5 engraved plates, ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, some foxing and finger soiling, modern half-calf, 1844 § Count de las Casas (Emanuel) Memoirs, occasional light spotting and damp-staining, early cloth, upper joint broken with upper cover nearly detached, backstrip coming loose, 1818 § Broadley (A.M.) Napoleon in Caricature, first edition, 2 vol., half-title, plates in colour and black and white, occasional spotting and foxing, bookplate and contemporary ink ownership inscription to front pastedown and endpaper, original pictorial cloth, spines sunned, 1911; and 21 others relating to Napoleon, 8vo (24)
Napoleon.- Forsyth (William) History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, first edition, 3 lithograph frontispieces, folding map, vol. 1 ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, very occasional spotting, titles with light damp-staining at lower margins, contemporary calf with morocco labels, vol. 1 label chipped, covers and extremities scuffed, 1853 § Jackson (Lieut.-Col. Basil), Notes and Reminiscences of a Staff Officer, 11 black and white plates (frontispiece loose), original cloth, detached, 1903 § Gourgaud (General Gaspard) and Charles-Tristan marquis de Montholon. Mémoires ... sous Napoleon, 6 vol. only (of 8), 8 folding facsimiles or tables, 8 folding maps, occasional spotting and light offsetting, original boards, 4 vol. with spine foot chipped or torn, extremities rubbed, 1822-23; and 20 others relating to Napoleon, 8vo (23)
NO RESERVE Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Virginians, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, first issue, with 'actresses' on line 33, p.207, chapters 47 & 48 misnumbered as 48 & 49, engraved frontispieces, additional engraved titles, 44 plates and illustrations, occasional faint off-setting, later morocco, gilt, 8vo, 1858-59.
[Hotten (John Camden)] "A London Antiquary". A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words Used in the Present Day in the Streets of London ..., first edition, frontispiece, 2pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink inscriptions, original cloth, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, a little sunned and rubbed, 1859 § Greenwood (James) Unsentimental Journeys: or, Byways of the Modern Babylon, double-page frontispiece and double-page plates, 2pp. advertisements at end, torn with loss affecting text, previous owner's ink inscription to frontispiece verso, cracked hinges, original cloth, gilt, bumping to corners and extremities, rubbed, 1867, 8vo (2)
Cricket.- [Sutton (J. F.)] Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853, first edition, corrections inserted by hand, occasional faint spotting, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, ex-library with bookplate , original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, small mark to upper cover, library shelf label to spine foot, Nottingham, J. F. Sutton, 1853; Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1865, third edition, advertisement at end, original paper wrappers bound-in, small hole to front free endpaper where label removed, ex-library with ink-stamp to title verso, near contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, library shelf label to spine foot, Nottingham, A. K. Sutton, 1865, [Padwick 2487], 8vo (2).⁂ Scarce. Only 1 copy of each on Library Hub at the University of Nottingham and the BL.
NO RESERVE London.- Stanley (Mrs. H.M.) London Street Arabs, portrait frontispiece and 28 ff. of plates, a few spots or small stains, endpapers spotted and light browned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine gilt, some staining and marking, Cassell & Company, 1890; and a first edition of Thackeray's Kickleburys On The Rhine in modern dark red crushed morocco, small 4to & 8vo (2)
Slim (General Sir William) Campaign of the Fourteenth Army 1943-44, first edition, T.L.s by Slim addressed to the Rev. Donald Macdonald pasted to front pastedown, 21 maps and plans, occasional annotations, cracked hinges, original cloth, sunned spine, bumping to corners and spine extremities, rubbed, small 4to, Alfsea Press and 476 Indian Printing Section, [1945].
Churchill (Winston S.) The Second World War, first edition, 6 vol., original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, faint sunning to spine heads, dust-jackets, sunned spines, one or two scratches and abrasion marks to spines, generally a little rubbed, vol. 1 dust-jacket torn with small areas of loss, housed in ?publisher's original wooden box, Boston, 1948-53; and others by the same, 8vo (20)
NO RESERVE Performing arts.- Barth (Herbert) and others, editors. Wagner: A Documentary Study, first edition, 1975 § Haskell (Arnold) Baron at the Ballet, 1950 § Taraborrelli (J. Randy) Sinatra: Behind the Legend, 2015 § Moussinac (Léon) The New Movement in the Theatre: A Survey of Recent Developments in Europe and America, light fading to cloth, lightly marked, 1931, first editions, some with illustrations, original boards or cloth, all but the last with dust-jackets, mostly in fine or excellent condition; and a large quantity of others, performing arts and music etc., v.s. (6 boxes)
NO RESERVE Cornwall.- Isles of Scilly.- Fowles (John) and Fay Godwin. Islands, first edition, signed by Fowles, photographic illustrations by Fay Godwin, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, Jonathan Cape, 1978 § An Act for enabling Their Majesties to make grants, leases and copies of offices, lands, and hereditaments, parcel of their dutchy of Cornwall, black letter, woodcut royal arms to title, woodcut head-piece and large decorative initial, occasional spotting, lightly browned, disbound, Printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, 1694; and a rare photographic view book of Penzance and environs, published by Preston (3)
Bairnsfather (Bruce) Bullets and Billets, first edition, signed and inscribed by author to half-title, frontispiece, vignette title, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, small tears and small areas of loss, all expertly repaired and restored, else an excellent, scarce copy, 8vo, 1916.
[Blixen (Karen)], "Isak Dinesen". Seven Gothic Tales, first edition, colour frontispiece by Rex Whistler, light creasing to a few early pp., light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine browned, light toning and surface soiling to panel, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few small chips, tears and creases to head and foot, 1934; and another first edition without the dust-jacket, 8vo (2)
Boileau (Pierre) & Thomas Narcejac. The Evil Eye, first English edition, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight chipping to extremities, old tape repairs to verso, 1959; Choice Cuts, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight chipping to corners and extremities, old tape repairs to verso, 1966; and another by the same, 8vo (3)
Chandler (Raymond) Playback, first English edition, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping to spine extremities, 1958 § Baldwin (James) The Fire Next Time, first English edition, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, short tears, small loss to corners and spine extremities, tape repairs to verso, a little rubbed, 1963 § Steinbeck (John) Once There Was a War, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, small loss to upper flap, a little rubbed, slight chipping to corners and spine extremities, 1959; and another by Steinbeck, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Golf.- Beldam (George W.) Great Golfers Their Methods at a Glance, first edition, photographic illustrations, light spotting to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, gilt, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners bumped, split to upper joint, extremities rubbed, 1904; and 8 others, golf, 8vo (9)
Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first edition, original cloth, very faint spotting to boards, very slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight rubbing to spine head, bright lettering to spine, 1963; You Only Live Twice, first edition, original cloth, very slight bumping to spine head, dust-jacket, short tear to flap, slight creasing to extremities, lightly sunned spine, 1964, 8vo (2)
Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight chipping and creasing to spine extremities, 2 small tears to spine extremities, 1965; You Only Live Twice, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, modern facsimile dust-jacket, 1964; Dr. No., Book Club edition, original yellow cloth, faint spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, loss to corners and top edge, faint spotting to verso, a little rubbed, 1958; and a first paperback edition of 'For Your Eyes Only', 8vo (4).
NO RESERVE Tolkien (J.R.R.) Smith of Wootton Major, first edition, frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, original pictorial boards, a little rubbed at edges, slight bumping to corners and extremities, previous owner's ink signature, 1967 § [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)] "Lewis Carroll". Through the Looking Glass, thirty-fifth thousand, half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, previous owner's ink signature to half-title, staining to gutter (contents leaf only), original cloth, lower cover becoming to detached, lacking upper cover, rubbed and worn, 1873 § Blyton (Enid) Five Go Down to the Sea, first edition, illustrations, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight chipping and creasing to extremities, 1953; and 11 others, children's, 8vo (14)
NO RESERVE Whittock (Nathaniel) The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature, Flowers, Fruit, and Shells, first edition, 24 lithographed plates in 2 states, one hand-coloured, title trimmed and laid down, marginal repair to contents f. and K2, stained, spotting, modern red half calf, gilt spine in compartments and with blue leather label, [Not in Abbey, which lists the companion vol. Birds, Beasts, Fishes & Insects, as Abbey, Life 189], 4to, Isaac Taylor Hinton, 1829.⁂ 'Whittock was one of the first to publish lithograph illustrations systematically coloured by hand.' Abbey.
NO RESERVE Dyson (Will) Kultur Cartoons, number 205 of 500 copies signed by author and publisher, 20 tipped-in plates, illustrations, ex-library with small ink-stamp to each leaf, original decorative buckram, library label to upper cover, rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, Stanley Paul & Co., 1915 § Lowe (Alfred) Six Cartoons, first edition one of 150 copies, 6 plates, ex-library with ink-stamp to title verso and label to front pastedown, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, original boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, label to spine foot, small tears to edges, rubbed and worn, 1930, 4to (2).
NO RESERVE Butterflies and moths.- South (Richard) The Moths of the British Isles, 2 vol., first edition, first series, contemporary half calf by Bayntun, spine gilt with embossed moths in between raised bands, light rubbing to to spine head, Frederick Warne & co., 1907 § Kirby (W. F.) European Butterflies and Moths, first edition, hand-coloured plates, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light marginal toning, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed and bumped, 1889 § Polisot de Beauvois (A. J. F.) Insectes Recueillis en Afrique et en Amérique, part XIII only, 12 hand-coloured plates, bookplate to pastedown, foxing and spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, de l'imprimerie de fain et compagnie, Paris, 1805; and 3 others, v.s. (7)
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