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Canterbury Auction Galleries
Lot 402

A Collection of Five Westminster Mint Commemorative Coin Covers - "The 150th anniversary of the Crimean War" inset with silver five pound coin (No. 386 of edition of 450), "The 60th anniversary of D-Day" inset with three silver coins (No. 270 of edition of 1944), "The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain" inset with silver two pound coin, "Centenary of the First World War" inset with silver five pound coin (No. 386 of edition of 495), and "The Diamond Wedding anniversary of Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip" inset with silver photographic coin (No. 221 of edition of 450), all in Westminster Mint presentation boxes or folders

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Canterbury Auction Galleries
Lot 898

A Collection of Diecast Model Buses and Coaches, including - "Exclusive First Editions" by Gilbow, and "Corgi Classics" Limited Edition models, all in original boxes, together with a mixed collection of diecast cars, delivery vehicles, military equipment and others, various, mostly boxed (approximately 125)

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Windsor Auctions
Lot 495

A Framed July 1975 The First Handshake in Space Stamp presentation set. Limited Edition 462/1975

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Unique Auctions
Lot 403

A Robert Taylor first sighting, possibly signed by members of the R.A.F & 1 other Robert Taylor print signed by flight lieutenant Mick Master 'The Dam Busters', a little Pearl special edition master print signed by artist John Howard Warsley (all framed & glazed)

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The Auction Centre Ltd
Lot 16

Cold War Fabric Escape Map, 1953- War Office silk map of France and Spain. Double sided. First Edition- GSGS No. (MIsc.) 350/1B. Folded, Good condition. 100 cm by 85 cm.

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The Auction Centre Ltd
Lot 62

Cold War Fabric Map of France and Spain, 1955. Published by War Office. Double-sided. First Edition-GSGS. Folded, excellent condition. 100 cm x 83 cm.

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 124

JOSEPH W. ESHERICK - 'THE ORIGINS OF THE BOXER UPRISING', published by University of California Press 1987 hardback first edition with dust jacketCondition Report:Spine of dust jacket faded, some wear on edgesBook very good, Blackwell's sticker on back endpaper

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 275

SPORTING INTEREST BOOKS to include 'Billy Wright's Book of Soccer' No. 1 1958 signed copy, A. W. Rumney - 'A Cyclist's Note Book' published by W & A. K. Johnston, Henry Cotton - 'This Game of Golf', first edition 1948 in dustjacket, 'Olympic and Early International Golf A Scrapbook' researched & assembled by Robert A. Smith, 'A History of Golf In Britain', Ivor Herbert - 'Arkle The story of a Champion', Susie Cornfield - 'The Queen's Prize' etc. (10)

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 126

A. S. WORMALL - 'DREAMS, VISIONS AND ESSAYS', published by The Society of Communion, first edition May 1927. A rare book on spiritualism cataloguing a series of incidents and experiences of the author

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 102

ELEANOR FARJEON - 'MRS MALONE', illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Oxford University Press 1962, first edition in dustjacket but missing first page, together with High Lofting - 'Tommy Tilly and Mrs Tubbs, Jonathan Cape 1937 first edition, Kate Greenaway - 'Mother Goose', Frederick Warne (an original and a facsimile), and Adventure Series No. 8 'Rupert and the Wicked Uncle' (5)Condition Report:Hugh Lofting - some illustrations crayoned in Mrs Malone missing first page (not title pages) and price cut out

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 166

THE HERBAL OF PSEUDO-APULEIUS from the ninth-century manuscript in the abbey of Monte Cassino (Codex Casinensis 97) together with the first printed edition of Joh. Phil. de Lignamine both in facsimile', described and annotated by F. W. T. Hunger. published by E. J. Brill 1935, a limited edition 75/200Condition Report:Spine a bit marked , corners slightly damaged

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 117

LIMITED EDITION BEATRIX POTTER - 'THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN', published by Frederick Warne 2003 to commemorate the centenary of the first publication in 1903, in a presentation box with booklet, card and leather bookmark, 264 / 500Condition Report:Presentation box has small stains on inner frame

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 120

JACK VANCE - 'BAD RONALD', published by Underwood-Miller 1982, first trade edition, with dust jacketCondition Report:Book has light foxing on endpapers, dust jacket flaps and page edges but otherwise very goodDust jacket is a little grubby in places and discoloured with small stains on spine and nicks in edges

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Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Lot 118

LIMITED EDITION BEATRIX POTTER - 'THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER', published by Frederick Warne 2003 to commemorate the centenary of the first publication in 1903, in a presentation box with booklet, card and leather bookmark, 109 / 500Condition Report:Front cover has some damp spots

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Auction Antiques
Lot 66

Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition. Jonathan Cape press 1965

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Auction Antiques
Lot 69

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair] Animal Farm London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First edition, with original green cloth, first state dust-jacket(Possibly a later issue dust jacket)

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Auction Antiques
Lot 70

DU MAURIER, Daphne. The Scapegoat. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1957. First edition, 8vo

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Lot 73

Cooper. James Fenimore. 'The Last of the Mohicans' Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1831, 1831. First edition thus. Hardback. 1831 Revised, Corrected, and Illustrated with a New Introduction, etc. Bound in contemporary half-leather over marbled boards

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Auction Antiques
Lot 74

Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book, first edition, 2nd reprint June, original blue cloth gilt, London: Macmillan & Co., 1894, together with Captain Courageous.

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Featonby's Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 267

SET OF 5 SILVER 1OZ MEDALS COMMEMORATING THE FIRST LANDING ON THE MOON, NUMBERED 599 FROM A LIMITED EDITION OF 1000, HOUSED IN ORIGINAL BOX WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ACCOMPANIES

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Featonby's Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 354

ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION 1840 TWO PENNY BLUE STAMP WITH 4 MARGINS AND PRESENTED IN DISPLAY WALLET WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

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TW Gaze
Lot 4258

DOUGLAS BADER: "Reach for the Sky" His Life Story by Paul Brickhill, hardback first edition with dust wrapper, signed by Douglas Bader himself.

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TW Gaze
Lot 4259

ADOLF GALLAND: "The First and the Last", hardback first edition with dust wrapper

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Forum Auctions
Lot 152

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Doublets: A Word Puzzle, first edition, bookplate to pastedown, title and endpapers a little browned, original blind-stamped cloth, gilt, few marks and light rubbed to spine ends and corners, 12mo, 1879.

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Lot 195

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spine, red dust-jacket, spine faded and with 1" portion of loss to foot, spine ends and corners chipped, splitting to lower joint and upper fore-edge, tearing and creasing to head and foot, rubbed, 8vo, 1949.

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Lot 222

Yourcenar (Marguerite) L'Œuvre au noir, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Étienne Couch de la Ferté on half-title, original wrappers, light creasing to spine, light surface soiling to covers, 8vo, Paris, [1968].⁂ Yourcenar's celebrated historical fiction novel, published as The Abyss in the UK. Étienne Couch de la Ferté, author of numerous works on ancient jewellery.

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Lot 220

Yourcenar (Marguerite) Le Coup de Grâce, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title, light browning to margins, original wrappers, light creasing and browning to spine, spine ends chipped, light creasing to extremities, 8vo, Paris, 1939.⁂ Yourcenar's classic war novel, set during the Russian Civil War, adapted for film in 1976.

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Lot 204

Smith (Frederick Edwin, Earl of Birkenhead) The World in 2030, first edition, plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, bookplate to pastedown, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, some light discolouration to covers, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing and fraying to head, rubbing to extremities, 8vo, [1930].⁂ First edition of this utopian work, rare in the dust-jacket.

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Lot 215

NO RESERVE Williams (Charles) and C. S. Lewis. Arthurian Torso, first edition, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, 8vo, 1948.

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Lot 157

Dunsany (Edward Plunkett, Lord) Time and the Gods, first edition, plates by Sidney H. Sime, occasional scattered foxing, browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards with pictorial onlay, light dulling to spine, light rubbing to extremities, uncut, 4to, 1906.⁂ An attractive example of this important early fantasy work.

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Lot 264

Parrot Presses.- Legrove (Judith, editor) & others. A Musical Eye: The Visual World of Britten and Pears, one of 650 copies, colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, Artists' Choice Editions, 2012 § James (Henry) Winchelsea, Rye & 'Denis Duval', introduction by Alan Tucker, one of 192 copies signed by Tucker and the artist, illustrations by Rigby Graham, original pictorial boards, Previous Parrot Press, 1991 § Neil (William) Galloway Landscapes: Poems, number III of XXXVI special hand-coloured copies signed by the author and artist, from an edition limited to 214, hand-coloured woodcuts by Stan Dobbin, original pictorial boards, slip-case, Previous Parrot Press, 1997 § Sayers (Dorothy L.) The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers, one of 225 copies, linocuts by Annie Newnham, original pictorial boards, spine slightly faded, Headington, Inky Parrot Press, 1982, the first three Church Hanborough; and 8 others from the presses including a portfolio of specimen printing, prospectuses etc., 4to & 8vo (12)

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Lot 18

NO RESERVE Mills (Henry) An essay on generosity and greatness of spirit. The builders of colleges, hospitals and schools, prais'd and commended...with A particular View to Archbp Whitgift's Foundation, in Croydon Surry, first edition, half-title, blue pencil numbers to verso of title, occasional marginal staining, mostly at end, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip with red morocco label, corners repaired, printed for J. Pemberton, at the Buck, near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1732 § Stockdale (Percival) An Examination of the important question, whether education, at a great school, or by private tuition, is preferable? With remarks on Mr. Knox's book, entitled Liberal education, first edition, errata slip loosely inserted, some staining to title, marginal repairs at head, affecting the odd page number, modern boards, some staining, printed for J. Dodsley, 1782; and 3 others, including John Clarke on Grammar schools, 1730, 8vo & 12mo (5)

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Lot 210

Tolkien (J.R.R.) Smith of Wootton Major [2 copies], first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, ink gift inscription, bookplate to pastedown, original pictorial boards, fading to spine rubbing to extremities, 1967; and c.25 others, modern literature, some signed, 8vo (c.30)

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Lot 133

Boyd (William) An Ice Cream War, signed by the author, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1982 § Searle (Ronald) Back the the Slaughterhouse, signed presentation inscription from the author to publisher Tony Godwin, illustrations, jacket chipped and creased at head, 1951 § Le Carré (John) Smiley's People, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, ink gift inscription to endpaper, jacket spine a little discoloured, light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, New York, 1980 § Mantel (Hilary) The Mirror & the Light, signed by the author, 2020 § Winton (Tim) The Shepherd's Hut, one of 26 specially-bound copies signed by the author, original morocco, slip-case, 2018 § Glück (Louise) Firstborn, first English edition, jacket with light soiling and some rubbing to extremities, 1969, first or first American editions, all but the last in original boards and dust-jackets; and c.65 others, modern literature, v.s. (c.70)

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Lot 192

Nesbit (E.) The Incomplete Amorist, first American edition, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 1906; The Wonderful Garden, 1911; The Literary Sense, 1903 § Burnett (Frances Hodgson) A Little Princess, 1905; The One I Knew Best of All, 1893, first editions, some with illustrations, some with occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, some light marking or rubbing to extremities but overall bright, crisp copies; and 10 others by the Nesbit or Burnett, 8vo (15)

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Lot 288

India.- Richardson (David Lester) The Anglo-Indian Passage; Homeward and Outward, first edition, inscribed and initialled by author, frontispiece, map, 11 plates, illustrations, occasional marginal spotting, publisher's advertisements bound at beginning, later half-morocco, a little rubbed, 12mo, 1845.

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Lot 199

Rosen (Michael) We're Going on a Bear Hunt, first edition, illustrations by Helen Oxenham, original boards, dust-jacket, very light patch or shadowing to upper panel, minor creasing to tips of spine and corners, but a fine example overall, oblong 4to, Walker Books, 1989.

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Lot 298

Polar.- Peary (Robert Edwin) Northward over the "Great Ice", 2 vol., first English edition, portrait frontispieces, plates and maps, illustrations, original cloth, very slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1898 § Messner (Reinhold) The Challenge, first edition, signed by author, plates and illustrations, original cloth, very slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to spine extremities, 1977, 8vo (3)

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Lot 104

Brontë (Charlotte).- Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles and frontispieces, 16pp. advertisements dated March, 1857 to end of vol. 2, some foxing to frontispieces but a very good, clean copy generally, original cloth, shelf-lean, contents a little shaken, some bumping and minor wear to spine ends and corners, light rubbing, 8vo, 1857.

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Lot 155

NO RESERVE Dreiser (Theodore) The Financier, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, New York, 1912.

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Lot 16

NO RESERVE Kindergartens & Infants.- Bainbrigge (William Henry) Early education: being the substance of four lectures delivered in the public hall of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool. Printed by request, first edition, presentation copy from the author, half-title, some spotting or mostly light foxing, original blind-stamped cloth, spine little chipped to head and with paper label removed from foot, g.e., Blackadder and Co., 1854; and 9 others, 19th century Kindergartens & Infants, v.s. (10)

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Lot 234

Hockney (David ) A Year in Yorkshire, first edition, signed by the author/ artist on title, illustrations by Hockney, gallery invitation and prospectus loosely inserted, original pictorial boards, 4to, 2006.

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Lot 139

Carson (Rachel) Silent Spring, first edition, with publishers compliments slip loosely inserted, original cloth, very slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, 3 small tears, slight creasing to edges, 1962; and another copy of the same, 8vo (2)

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Lot 14

NO RESERVE Further education.- Whewell (Rev. William) On the principles of English University Education, first edition, publisher's catalogue at end, occasional spotting or marking, original cloth, spine repaired, rubbed and marked, John W. Parker, 1837 § Hudson (James William) The History of adult education, in which is comprised a full and complete history of the mechanics' and literary institutions, athenæums, philosophical, mental and Christian improvement societies, literary unions, schools of design, etc., of Great Britain, Ireland, America, etc. etc., first edition, presentation copy from the author (ink inscription to head of title partially faded), publisher's catalogue at end, some spotting and staining, modern cloth, Longman [& others.], 1851; and 7 others, Further education, 8vo (9)

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Lot 108

NO RESERVE Coventry Patmore's copy.- Stevenson (Robert Louis) Father Damien, first trade edition, half-title, occasional spotting, rear endpaper foxed, original printed wrappers, spine little chipped, lightly creased and spotted, 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1890.⁂ Provenance: Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) English poet and an acquaintance of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (ink signature to half-title).

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Lot 143

NO RESERVE Cricket.- James (C. L. R.) Beyond a Boundary, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners rubbed and a little chipped, light browning to lower panel, light rubbing, 8vo 1963.⁂ First edition of this celebrated cricket memoir, often regarded as one of the great books about cricket, now rare in the jacket.

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Lot 168

NO RESERVE Forsyth (Frederick) The Day of the Jackal, first edition, signed and dated by author, original cloth, very slight bumping to spine head, price-clipped dust-jacket, very slight creasing to spine head, 8vo, 1971.

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Lot 89

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Genuine Rejected Addresses, presented to the Committee of Management for Drury-Lane Theatre, first edition, lacks half-title, K2-3 supplementary 'Address' at end and endpapers, contemporary manuscript poetic annotations in margins, slightly browned, original boards, rubbed, lacks lower cover and spine, edges uncut, [Wise I, pp. 70-1], 8vo, 1812.

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Lot 174

NO RESERVE Hemingway (Ernest) A Farewell to Arms, first English edition, second state with 'serious' spelled correctly (p.66), original cloth, lightly browned spine, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, tears with tape repairs to verso, rubbed and creased, chipping and small loss to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1929.

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Lot 178

Hughes (Ted) Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices, number 16 of 37 copies signed by the author, with a verse in manuscript from the poem 'Who's killed the leaves' to title verso, from an edition of 500, original wrappers, light creasing to lower cover, else fine, [Sagar and Tabor, A18], 1968; Where is the Truth?, first edition, illustrations by R. J. Lloyd, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 1984; and 3 others, periodicals with contributions by Hughes, v.s. (5)⁂ Sagar and Tabor note that 'the compilers have not seen an example of the first 37 copies', such is their scarcity. A catalogue issued by Richard Gilbertson states that the poems were first published in the Festival programme in Little Missenden at the request of Pat Harrison, a local teacher, but in fact the texts arrived too late for inclusion, so this booklet constitutes their first appearance. Sagar and Tambor, p.45.

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Lot 185

NO RESERVE Lawrence (T.E.) The Mint, one of 2000 copies, title in red & black, uncut, 1955; The Letters, edited by David Garnett, first edition, 1938; Revolt in the Desert, 1927, some illustrated, the first original morocco-backed buckram, others original buckram; and another by T. E. Shaw, 4to & 8vo (4)

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Lot 169

Fowles (John) The Magus, first edition, original cloth, small mark to spine, dust-jacket, slight creasing to extremities, 1966; The Magus, first American edition, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to corners and extremities, New York, 1965; and 2 others, first American editions of the same, 8vo (4)

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Lot 149

NO RESERVE Dahl (Roald) The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, first edition, cut signature of the author and artist to title, illustrations by Quentin Blake, original pictorial boards, minor bumping to spine ends, near-fine otherwise, 4to, 1985.

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Lot 296

Mountaineering.- Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, first edition, signed by Edmund Hillary, occasional spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping to spine extremities, 8vo, 1953.

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Lot 6

NO RESERVE Edgeworth (Maria) and Richard Lovell. Practical Education, 2 vol., first edition, 3 engraved plates, final errata and 'Additions to the index' ff., lacking half-titles, a few Birmingham Library stamps, foxed, some staining, antique style calf over marbled boards, gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, [cf. Muirhead, The English at School, 57; Slade 3A; Sadleir 790], 4to, Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1798.⁂ 'The most important work on general pedagogy to appear in this country between... Locke's Thoughts... and Herbert Spencer's Essay in 1861' (Muirhead). Chapter subjects include toys, servants, rewards and punishments, books, and female accomplishments.

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Lot 5

NO RESERVE Dublin grammar schools.- Carey (John) Sketch of a plan for the reformation of the grammar-schools of Dublin, humbly submitted to the consideration of the Right Hon. and Hon. the Lords & Commons of Ireland, first edition, title's outer margin trimmed, little spotting or marking, antique style calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt and with red morocco label, 8vo, [Dublin], Printed by G. Perrin, No. 10, Castle-Street, 1787.⁂ Rare in commerce. Carey considered that the existing level of fees levied on pupils in Irish grammar schools was not sufficient to allow a proper number of teachers to be employed in each school, resulting in schools that were too small (typically 20-40 pupils), classes that were too large, or schooling that was too short. He proposed that groups of about six teachers should join together and form larger schools, and that their salaries should be subsidised by a Parliamentary grant.

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Lot 299

Polar.- Shackleton (Ernest).- Begbie (Harold) Shackleton. A Memory, first edition, 16pp. advertisements, foxing to endpapers and edges, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lacking 1" portion at head and chipped at foot affecting part of imprint, chipping to corners, light surface soiling, a few small splash marks, light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, Mills & Boon, 1922.⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket.

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Lot 175

Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast, first edition, plates, original cloth-backed boards, very slight bumping to corners and extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, a little rubbed, very slight creasing to extremities, 8vo, New York, 1964.

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Lot 17

NO RESERVE Lancaster (Joseph) Improvements in education as it respects the industrious classes of the community; containing, among other important particulars, an account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark, fourth edition, browning and spotting, modern boards, some fading, Printed and sold by J. Lancaster, Free School [& others], 1806 § Burgoyne (Montagu) An Address to the governors and directors of the public charity schools, pointing out some defects, and suggesting remedies, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author, half-title, folding lithographed plan, spotting, disbound, [Brighton: printed by W. Fleet] & London: Rivington & Loder, 1829; and 11 others, education of the poor, 8vo & 12mo (13)

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Lot 127

Churchill (Rudolph S.) Winston S. Churchill: The Official Biography, 24 vol., first edition, illustrations, contemporary pencil ownership signature to front free endpapers, original cloth, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jackets, very minor marks to extremities, else an excellent set, 8vo, 1966-2000.⁂ The project was begun by Winston Churchill's son Randolph, who published the first two volumes before his death, which was then continued by Martin Gilbert. The supplementary volumes, often lacking, are of special value, forming a unique and extensive source of previously unpublished Churchill material.From the library of John Grigg (1924-2001, 2nd Baron Altrincham) - a British writer, historian and politician, known for renouncing his peerage and for his 1957 article criticizing the Queen and monarchy.

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