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Click here to subscribeEVELYN WAUGH - A COLLECTION (2) To include: Scoop - Published 1938 A Handful of Dust - Published 1934 - Sold with COPY of original receipt Vile Bodies - First edition - Sold with COPY of original receipt Decline and Fall - Published 1928 - Sold with COPY of original receipt Black Mischief - Published 1932 - Sold with COPY of original receipt 14cm x 19.5cm Condition: Minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use
EVELYN WAUGH - SWORD OF HONOUR TRILOGY First editions, comprising: 'Men at Arms', Chapman & Hall, 1952; 'Officers and Gentlemen', US edition, Little, Brown & Co, Boston 1955; and 'Unconditional Surrender', Chapman & Hall, 1961 14cm x 20cm Condition: Minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use
EVELYN WAUGH - A COLLECTION (3) To include: Ninety-Two Days - Published 1934 Remote People - Published 1931 - Sold with COPY of original invoice, first edition Labels - Published 1930 Waugh in Abyssinia - Published 1936 15cm x 22.5cm Condition: Minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use
WINSTON CHURCHILL - 'LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL' (I - II) To include: Two Volumes Lord Randolf Churchill Vol I - Published 1908 - First edition Lord Randolf Churchill Vol II- Published 1908 - First edition Published by Macmillan & Co., 1906 Sold with COPY of original receipt 16cm x 23cm Condition: Minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use,
A Subaru limited edition 1/43 scale gift set containing two first and second-place finishes for Subaru at The Rally of Great Britain 1999, with signatures to internal plastic display plinth, limited edition label has sun-faded, otherwise (VG-NM-M)Condition report: All as manufactured, aerials in tact
A Bachmann Branchline limited edition boxed model of a BR green 4-6-0 Jubilee class Trafalgar No. 45682 locomotive and tender, housed in the original foam packed wooden display box with limited edition certificate, first day cover of commemorative postage stamps, and other leaflets/guarantees, rare example
From the personal collection of Diana Cochrane (Duntiblae Kennels) a collection of Burmese Mountain Dog memorabilia to include: plates, coloured print, drawings togethe with Coalport limited edition Sporting Dogs with Certificates. 1 box NB: Mrs Cochrane imported first Burmese Mountain Dogs into the UK
Edward St. John Gorey (American 1925-2000) 5 limited edition theatrical subject prints, each signed in pencil, from an edition of 125, each variously numbered, variously sized, first image 10 by 13.5cm (5) Condition Report: Mostly in good clean condition- some signs of mount burn, unexamined out of frames Condition Report Disclaimer
A large quantity of P. G. Wodehouse biographies to include Sophie Ratcliffe 'P.G. Wodehouse - a life in letters', published by Hutchinson, London, 2011, first edition, grey cloth boards with dust jacket, 4to, also Richard Usborne 'Wodehouse at Work', first edition, and various others. (approximately 28)
Rugby - 2003 world cup memorabilia commemorating England's win, to include sheet of Rugby Heroes stamps, Klaus-Kobec limited edition watch number 1673 with COA, first edition 1469 of 2003, $5 Royal Australian Mint uncirculated coin, set of 6 mint England Grand Slam 2003 commemorative coins, commemorative RFU plate.
Bible in Latin.- Biblia sacra iuxta Vulgata... second edition, ?90 engraved plates by Holbein the Younger in OT, ?124 engraved plates by Pierre Regnault in NT, historiated initials, title and first few pages of Genesis with heavy repairs to edges a few quires loose, endpapers replaced,18th century calf, worn at extremities, top board detached, spine cracked but holding by strings, [Adams B-1047; BMC STC French p. 54. Not in Darlow-Moule], 4to, Paris, C. Guliiard & G. Desboys, 1552
Box of assorted children's books to include a beautifully illustrated hardback edition of Uncle Remus Stories, first edition of 'A Treasury of Grim and Anderson', 1956, first edition of 'Anne and Peter in Israel' by K M Wilcox, published 1962, 'The Children's Treasure House, the Bedtime Book', two Alison Uttley books 'The Little Grey Rabbit Goes to the Sea'and 'Water Rat's Picnic', Enid Blyton, 'The Little Girl at Capernaum', A. A. Milne 'The House at Pooh Corner', etc.(B.P. 21% + VAT)
An outstanding Great War 1918 ‘Battle of Epehy’ D.C.M., 1917 ‘Battle of Cambrai’ M.M. and 1918 ‘Western Front’ Second Award Bar, Belgian Croix de Guerre group of six awarded to Sergeant F. L. Livings, 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment, an ‘Old Contemptible’ who was bombed, bayoneted, shot and gassed during the course of his distinguished service on the Western Front Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (23186 Sjt: F. Livings. M.M. 9/Essex R.); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (23186 Cpl.-Sjt: - F. Livings. 9/Essex R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (7433 Pte. F. Livings. 2/Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (7433 Sjt. F. Livings. Essex R.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, good very fine (6) £3,000-£4,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 18 February 1919, citation published 10 January 1920: ‘For most conspicuous gallantry and initiative. On 24th September, 1918, the enemy made a determined attack on our positions east of Epehy, and succeeded in entering our trench. He immediately collected a few men with bombs and a Lewis gun and rushed forward, bombing the enemy, who fled towards their own line. He thereupon seized the Lewis gun and advanced along the parapet, firing on the enemy, who left a machine gun and thirteen dead.’ M.M. London Gazette 19 March 1918. M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 12 June 1918. Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 12 July 1918. Frederick Louis Livings was born on 8 January 1888 at North Weald, Essex, and attested for the Essex Regiment on 2 January 1903 at Warley, Essex, declaring himself to be aged 18 years and 11 months. He deserted in September 1903 and, following conviction, forfeited his prior service and recommenced his service from 15 October 1903. Livings served with the 2nd Battalion in Malta from April 1904 to March 1906, where he was hospitalised with enteric and continued to be the subject of regular entries in the Regimental Defaulter Sheet, his catalogue of offences ranging from neglect of equipment and absenteeism to drunkenness and insolence. Returning home he was transferred to the Section B Reserve on 14 October 1906 having completed 3 years of qualifying service and yet still only 18 years of age. Mobilised for duty in 1914 following the outbreak of war, Livings disembarked on 24 August at Havre, France with the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment. He was appointed Acting Corporal on 4 September 1914 and Acting Sergeant on 21 October 1914 seeing action with his battalion at Le Cateau, the Marne, the Aisne and Messines during the opening months of the war. On 13 May 1915 he received bayonet wounds to the stomach and a gun-shot wound to the left thigh during the 2nd Battalion’s successful counter-attack near St. Jean on a 1000 yard frontage of front line from Shelltrap Farm to Fortuin-Weltje Road. John Burrows in his history of the 2nd Essex records how, ‘within ten minutes (8.30am) A and B Companies moved forward, the attack being splendidly carried out in quick time and marked by great dash and determination. Subjected to shrapnel and high explosive shell-fire, they reached the ridge, when heavy machine gun fire swept them, but they never faltered. Within 300 yards of the objective the men charged at the double. The counter-attack of the Essex was carried out in full view of the London Rifle Brigade, who stood up in their trenches to cheer as the Pompadours went forward. The casualties were 37 killed, 94 wounded and 49 missing.’ Hospitalised at Versailles and then repatriated via Hospital Ship to England, he was discharged to light duty with the 3rd Battalion and underwent an operation to extract shrapnel from his abdomen in November 1915. Upon recovery, Livings rejoined his regiment with the B.E.F., disembarking in Boulogne on 20 July 1917. Posted to the 9th Battalion, he proceeded to the front and joined his battalion for duty on 16 August. He was promoted Sergeant (A Company) on 11 December 1917, immediately after his battalion’s participation in the Battle of Cambrai and was awarded the Military Medal, his M.M. being published in an edition of the gazette which almost exclusively carried awards for the Cambrai operations. The battalion war diary’s report of their attack on the Hindenburgh Line on 20 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai emphasises the difficult work carried out by A Company, of which Livings was a Platoon Sergeant, and contains the following extracts: ‘On 20 November 1917 the Battalion, in conjunction with many other troops, took part in a large attack on the Hindenburgh Line in co-operation with tanks. One company of tanks, i.e. 12 tanks, were allotted to the battalion for the operation. All 4 companies were in the first wave. Our objective was two line of trenches in front of the Hindenburgh Line known as Bleak Trench and Barrack Support. Zero was set for 6.30am. At zero-10 the tanks started and a heavy barrage was put down on all the enemy trenches and batteries. All Companies after this delay [initially some tanks became stuck] reached and consolidated their objectives. Many Boches were killed or captured and in addition a vast supply of all kinds of ammunition and stores including heavy mortar, two medium, three heavy M.G.s and two light light ones and several grenaten-werfer. The Boche made no immediate counter attack. ‘A’ Company under Captain Capper had the most difficult consolidation but this was well carried out by this officer.’ A few months later Livings received a Second Award Bar to his M.M and the Belgian Croix de Guerre; these awards are likely to have been made in connection with the 9th Battalion’s robust defence of the line at Albert, 26 March - 9 April, during the German Spring Offensive on the Somme. Severely wounded in the field on 13 July 1918, he was hospitalised for some time at Rouen and rejoined his Battalion on 9 September. On 24 September 1918, during the Battle of Epehy, Sergeant Livings repulsed a German attack on the Battalion’s trenches and was recognised with the award of the D.C.M. The uncensored post war citation revealing the date and place of the action. The Battalion war diary for the day in question adds further detail: ‘At 3am the enemy again attempted to take our front line in the vicinity of Heythorp Post and Little Preill Farm. One battalion of the 3rd Guards Division advanced on our trenches and entered them between the posts, Sgt. Livings of ‘A’ Company with 2 or 3 men ejected them causing many casualties to the enemy’. Badly wounded again on 28 September, he was admitted to a field hospital with severe bomb wounds to the head, face and right thigh. He returned to England once more on 2 October 1918 to recover and was discharged from hospital on 14 October, returning to light duty once more. Sergeant Livings was discharged on the termination of his period of engagement on 31 March 1920, his pension accounting for service aggravated deafness, abdominal gunshot wounds, gunshot wounds to left thigh, concussion, bomb wounds and shortness of breath caused by mustard gas. He died in 1976 at Poplar, London.
A superb Great War D.C.M. and Second Award Bar, M.M. group of five awarded to Second Lieutenant W. A. Tapsell, 2nd Battalion, later 6th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, who was decorated with a trio of awards for gallantry on the Western Front in the summer of 1917. Commissioned in April 1918, he died five months later from wounds received in action with the 1st Battalion during the Second Battle of the Somme on 18 September 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (8624 Cpl. W. A. Tapsell. 6/Linc: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (8624 Cpl. W. A. Tapsell. 6/Linc: R.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (8624 Pte. W. A. Tapsell. 2/Linc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. W. A. Tapsell.); Memorial Plaque (William Algernon Tapsell) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope and torn OHMS transmission envelope addressed to, ‘Mrs Tapsell, 3 Grove Road, Abbey Wood, S.E.’; together with two riband bars, the first comprising D.C.M., M.M. and 1914 Star, the second D.C.M. and M.M., nearly extremely fine (6) £5,000-£7,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 17 September 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in assisting to dig out nineteen men who had been buried in a dug-out by a gas shell. Finding it impossible, owing to the darkness, to work in a gas helmet, at imminent risk of his life he removed his own, and by his efforts successfully extricated some of the men. The dug-out was full of lethal gas fumes, and six of the men affected subsequently died. He set a splendid example of fearless devotion and self-sacrifice.’ D.C.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 17 September 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of battalion scouts. Having been ordered to reconnoitre in front of our advancing patrols, his party came under heavy and unexpected rifle and machine-gun fire. In spite of this, however, after warning the patrols behind him, he continued to push forward until, owing to several casualties, further advance was impossible, whereupon he withdrew very skilfully with all his wounded back to our lines. Throughout the action he displayed splendid coolness and presence of mind and an utter disregard for personal safety. M.M. London Gazette 21 August 1917. William Algernon Tapsell was born at Abbey Wood, Kent and attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1909. He was stationed at Aden with the 1st Battalion in 1911 and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion from 5 November 1914. Having transferred to the 6th (Service) Battalion - after their arrival on the Western Front in July 1916 - he was promoted to Acting Sergeant and decorated three times for gallantry in the summer of 1917, the first award to be gazetted, his Military Medal, almost certainly being awarded in respect of gallantry during the attack at Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917. This was quickly followed by a D.C.M. and a Second Award Bar to the D.C.M., both awards being published in the 17 September 1917 edition of the London Gazette. The following extract from the regimental history appears to reference the period relating to both awards, i.e. 17-27 July 1917: ‘Two days later [17 July 1917] the battalion [6th] took over the front-line trenches. The opposing lines were so close together that when our guns were engaged in shelling the enemy’s front line the Lincolnshire had to temporarily vacate their trenches. The enemy’s retaliation was both systematic and heavy: he used large quantities of gas shells and for several nights box respirators had to be worn continually. Raids were carried out all along the line at this period and one attempted by the Lincolnshire was unsuccessful, as the Divisional Artillery, on the point selected, prevented entry. Relief came on the 24th/25th July, but on the night of the 26th/27th July the battalion was back in the front line. It was reported on the 27th that the enemy had evacuated his front line; as the correctness of this information was doubted a very weak patrol was sent out by the Commanding Officer (Lieut-Colonel Gater) to verify it, which was met by heavy machine-gun and rifle-fire. Lieutenant Playle and five other ranks were wounded. The casualties would have been far heavier if the original report, based on aeroplane reconnaissance, had been accepted.’ (The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918 by C. R. Simpson refers) Lieutenant Playle received the M.C. for his gallantry in this period - his award was published in the same edition of the London Gazette as both of Tapsell’s D.C.M.s. Subsequently discharged to a commission on 19 April 1918, Tapsell died at No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen on 18 September 1918 from wounds received in action on 24 August 1918 whilst serving with the 1st Battalion at the Battle of Albert during the Second Battles of the Somme. The son of Algernon and Mary Jane Tapsell of 3 Grove Road, Abbey Wood, London, he is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. Sold together with a War Office Certificate of Death describing the recipient’s place and cause of death, dated 7 October 1918, and an original typewritten foolscap document detailing all three of the recipient’s gallantry awards including both D.C.M. citations and also announcing the presentation of said awards by ‘the General Officer Commanding Troops Woolwich, on Sunday, 20th. January, 1918.’- this in its OHMS envelope addressed to, ‘Mr A. Tapsell, 3 Grove Rd. Abbey Wood, London SE2.’
A collection of various modern composite animal sculptures, including a Teviotdale limited-edition 'Red Stag', 30cm high, Border Fine Arts 'Autumn Reds', 'Squirrel Family', (a/f), 'Otter', Country Artist 'Bluebell Glade, 'Tawny Owl', 'First Dawn of Spring', 'Red Stag', 'Red Squirrel - Alert', (x2), Beswick 'Shire Mare' (brown glaze), 'Shire Foal' (brown) and others, also a small quantity of books and plated ware.
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