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Lot 666
Six large Royal Doulton character jugs including The Lord Mayor of London D6864, Leprechaun D6847, Golfer D6784, Sir Thomas More D6792, The Falconer D6533, Old Salt D6551. First four named bear modeller's printed signatures All in good condition with no evidence of chips, cracks or previous repair
Lot 179
Collection of twelve books on fishing to include: a six 'How to Catch Them' books published by Herbert Jenkins including; Pike, Bream, Perch etc, Oates, Frank: 'Coarse Fishing Baits' 1958 first edition, Second, Third and Fourth Angling Times Book published by E.M Art & Publishing Ltd 1962-1965, Venables, Bernard: 'Fishing for trout with Mr Cherry and Jim', 'Fishing with Mr Crabtree in all waters'. (12)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 392
Box of vintage Boy Scouts items to include: beret with various place and other badges; 'Lancashire', Royal Navy etc, Boy Scouts uniform, Scouts Tests 1946 manual used by the Llanelli troupe, 'First Aid in Few Words' pamphlet, 'The Scouts how to do it' and 'Knots, ties and Splices' books, shoulder flashes, a Cadbury box with examples of knotted rope, German souvenir horn and pennants etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 253
A First Period Worcester porcelain blue and white tea bowl and saucer, decorated in blue and white with flowers and insects, crescent mark, together with a Doulton Lambeth two tone stoneware and moulded salt, with a silver mount, a Victorian brass inkwell, and a vesta case modelled as a skull. (4)
Lot 35
Military history binding. 1927 The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919 by Everard Wyrall. Publ. Methuen & Co. Ltd, first ed. Illustrated with portraits, illustrations and maps. Rebound in quarter morocco, gilt titles and raised bands to spine, regimental cap badge 'Jellalabad' inset to front board, first & last leaves lightly spotted, ex. lib with stamps to title page & limitations page, otherwise exceptionally smart & presented in custom green slipcase. 8vo.
Lot 93
Military First World War interest. A collection of eight early 20th century books, including army lists & autobiographical accounts of wartime campaigns. Comprising With Allenby's Crusaders by John More, 1920 A Concise Chronicle of Events in the Great War by R. P. P. Rowe, 1918 Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Capt. Robert V. Dolbey, 1916 Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling, 1914 Aircraft in War by J. M. Spaight, LL.D., 1930 The History of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1914-1919 by Everard Wyrall volume II only (ringmarks to front board), The Navy List for 1913, and Records of the 77th East Middlesex Duke of Cambridge's Own Regiment of Foot by Major H. H. Woollright. All in orig. cloth bindings, some discolouration to spines, bumping to extremities, boards a little scuffed, one or two a touch cocked, occ. loss to the heads of the spines, bindings generally tight. 8vo.
Lot 6
Darwin, Charles. 1884 A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N. By Charles Darwin M. A., F. R. S., author of Origin of Species etc. Sixteenth thousand. Publisher's original full cloth binding, smart with just light occ. bumping. Ownership inscription of Ethel Jameson to fep, wife of naturalist James Sligo Jameson, occ. spot to first & final leaves. A smart later impression of this important work of natural history. 8vo.
Lot 83
Military First World War History. A collection of six books regarding the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) during the Great War. The lot comprising 1913 Regimental Annual of the Sherwood Foresters by Colonel H. C. Wylly, publ. George Allen & Company Ltd., 1959 The History of the Sherwood Foresters by Brigadier C. N. Barclay publ. William Clowes and Sons Ltd., 1926 Regimental Annual of The Sherwood Foresters publ. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1920 The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914-1919 1/8th Battalion by Captain W. C. C. Weetman publ. Thos. Forman & Sons, and two copies of 1921 The Robin Hoods, written by Officers of the Battalions publ. J. & H. Bell Ltd., one in quarter leather. All others in publisher's original full cloth binding, lightly bumped, bindings occ. a little strained, prior owner's inscriptions or bookseller's pencilled prices on occasion. 8vo.
Lot 2
Polar interest. Shackleton, Ernest Henry. 1919 South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1918: by Sir Ernest Shackleton C.V.O. Publ. London: William Heinemann. First edition, first issue. Complete with errata slip opp. page 1, folding map to rear, colour frontispiece, panorama of Georgia to pages 208-209, collated and complete with all black & white illustrations. Publisher's original full cloth binding, silver titles & ship to front board as issued, bumped to the head & tail of the spine, bumped to corners particularly the upper right hand corner of the front board. Odd waterstain & paint stain to rear board. Gift inscription from 1919 to ffep & a later 1964 one also to ffep. Binding generally tight, pages a little age-toned to the edges, plates also age-toned. 8vo.
Lot 37
1740 The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the Life of the Founder Sir Thomas Gresham. with an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the Professors, with other Papers serving to illustrate the Lives. By John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric in Gresham College and F. R. S. Printed by John Moore in Bartholomew Lane for the author. Half calf binding with marbled boards, leather in good & shiny condition, boards a touch rubbed in places, rebound with fresh endpapers, pages uncut to edges & with the odd spot. Lacks frontispiece portrait. Gresham College was founded by benefactor Thomas Gresham according to his will, and was the first institution of higher learning in London, reading seven subjects - divination, music, rhetoric, physics, law, astronomy and geometry. Folio.
Lot 28
First World War military interest. A collection of six works on the Great War, comprising 1941 Khaki and Gown, an Autobiography by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, first ed, publ. Ward, Lock & Co., 1930 The Story of the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-1918 ed. A. F. Barnes, first ed. publ. The Crypt House Press Limited, 1931 The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918 by Everard Wyrall, first ed. publ. Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1923 The History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 1898-1922 - The Great Cavalry Campaign in Palestine by Frank Fox, first ed. publ. Philip Allan & Co., 1919 Salonica and After by H. Collinson Owen publ. Hodder and Stoughton, and undated The World Crisis 1911-1918 by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, vol I only, copyright s139. All n publisher's original smart full cloth bindings, with just occasional light bumping to head and tail of the spine and extremities (Churchill vol with some historic damp / mould damage), occ. contemp. prior owner's inscriptions. 8vo.
Lot 66
First World War history. A collection of eleven Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918). The lot comprising three copies of Arras Lens-Douai and the Battles of Artois, Rheims and the Battles for its Possession, The Yser and the Belgian Coast, Battlefields of the Marne 1914 I The Ourco Chantilly - Senlis - Meaux, The Somme Volume I, Amiens before and During the War, Lille Before and During the War, Ypres and the Battles of Ypres, and the Marne Battlefields 1914. All in original wraps or cloth bindings, occasional bumping & marks to boards, ownership inscriptions etc. 8vo.
Lot 106
First World War military history. A collection of twelve books on the history of various divisions and regiments from the British Army. The lot comprising The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1917 by Lieut-Colonel C. C. R. Murphy, The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1928-1946, The History of the 1/5th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, Narrative of the 502 Wessex Field Company Royal Engineers 1915-1919 by Major C. I. Fox, The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944-1945, The West Somerset Yeomanry 1914-1919, Invicta with the 1st Battalion in the Great War by Molony, 10th Service Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment, The Manchester Regiment 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th Battalions 1914-1918, The Story of the 79th Armoured Division and the Yeomanry Cavalry of Worcestershire 1914-1922 by C., and A Short History of the 19th Western Division 1914-1919. Twelve in lot. 8vo.
Lot 103
Peake, Mervyn. 1946 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Publ. Zephyr Books, The Continental Book Company A.B. Vol. 67 of a Library of British and American Authors. First edition. Publisher's original wraps with dust wrapper (loss to upper right hand corner of front board, biro mark and water damage to title 'Through the Looking Glass', light loss to the head of the sunned spine and small tear to the tail of the spine. Small 8vo.
Lot 109
Military & WW1 interest. A collection of fourteen early 20th century & later clothbound books. The lot comprising two copies of 1917 Carrying On After the First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay, two copies of 1916 The First Seven Divisions by Ernest W. Hamilton, 1921 The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener by Reginald Viscount Esher, 1916 With Cavalry in 1915 - The British Trooper in the Trench Line through the Second Year of Ypres by Frederick Coleman, three works by Harry Lauder being A Minstrel in France, Roamin' in the Loamin' and Wee Drappies, 1916 With The Immortal Seventh Division by E. J. Kennedy (second ed), two copies of 1916 The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay (fifth and eighth imp.), and The Die-Hards in the Great War by Everard Wyrall (vol I only). Fourteen books. 8vo.
Lot 32
Military WWI interest. 1919 British Naval Medals: Commemorative Medals, Naval Rewards, War Medals, Naval Tokens, Portrait Medallions, Life-saving Medals, Engraved Pieces, &c., &c. by Admiral The Marquess of Milford Haven (Prince Louis of Battenberg until 1917). Publ. John Murray. Illustrated with depictions of each medal throughout. Original full cloth binding with leather spine label as issued, red edges. An important reference book on the medals issued to the Royal Navy during and after the First World War. Folio.
Lot 115
Circa 1870 The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales; embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes and boroughs: general statistics, postal arrangements, railways systems &C. And forming a Complete Description of the Country. By John Marius Wilson. Two volumes, published A. Fullarton & Co. Full contemporary calf binding, gilt tooled spines, raised bands and borders with blind stamped detail to the boards (light rubbing at hinges, to the extremities and the head and tail of the spines, odd scuff & scratch to boards), marbled edges and endpapers. Contemp. ownership label in straight grain morocco of Samuel Jenkins Tal-Y-Bont, Brecon 1870 to first volume. Illustrated with maps and plans, some hand coloured, and steel topographical engravings. Quarto.
Lot 48
1920 The Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book, a Regimental Record written and illustrated for the most part by Artillerymen while serving in the line during the Great War. Published by G. Bell and Sons Ltd. Publishers original full cloth binding, rebacked cloth spine. Along with The Roll of Honour of the Empire's Heroes, published for Private Circulation at £5 5s. Orig full cloth binding, occasional light soiling to boards. Two commemorative works published in honour of the soldiers who fell in the First World War. Foolscap folios.
Lot 116
Military interest. A collection of ten books relating to various wars, including the First World War and Second World War. The lot to comprising 1948 Arab Command, the Biography of Lieutenant Colonel F. G. Peake Pasha by Major C. S. Jarvis (4th imp), 1953 The 9th Gurkha Rifles Volume 2 by Lieut-Colonel G. R. Stevens, 1935 A Brief Outline of the Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918 by Col. R. Evans, A Handful of Ausseys by C. Hampton Thorp, and The Ceylon Roll of Honour and Record of Service in the Great War 1914-1918 first edition, 1925 The Blocking of Zeebrugge by Captain A. F. B. Carpenter, 1930 The Tunnellers of Holzminder by H. G. Durnford (second edition), 1919 Ostend and Zeebrugge April 23 My 10 1918 - The Dispatches of Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, and The Zeebrugge Raid 23 April 1918. Ten volumes in lot, all in orig. bindings, some wear. 8vo.
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Lot 126
Military First World War interest. [1931] A Record of the D 245 Battery 1914-1919. by Sergeant A. E. Gee, M.M. and Corporal A. E. Shaw. Illustrations by Bombardier Norman Tennant. Publ. Renwick of Otley. Publisher's orig. full mottled cloth binding, odd mark, prior owner's inscription dated 1931 to front pastedown, folding map loose to verso. 8vo.
Lot 86
Rivers Larminie, Margaret & Langslow, Jane. 1938 Gory Knight, cheap edition publ. Longmans, Green & Co. November 1938. Publisher's original cloth binding, a touch discoloured to the spine & bumped to extremities, occasional soiling to the boards, odd spot to the pages. 8vo. A scarce parody by two female writers (Langslow being a pseudonym for Maud Diver), the first edition of this work cites Agatha Christie, H. C. Bailey, John Rhode, Dorothy L. Sayers and Freeman Wills Crofts as acknowledgements. Set in a country house, this murder mystery lightly pokes fun at its contemporary gold age fictitious detectives such as Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey.
Lot 128
First and Second World War military interest. A collection of military pamphlets issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office, all in original paper wraps, along with a Giles cartoon pamphlet. Comprising four pamphlets being 1939-1942 Military Engineering Volume III Part II - Pamphlet No. 5 Small Box Girder Bridge, Mark II; Pamphlet No 6. Large Box Girder Bridge, Mark II; Pamphlet No. 8 Stock Spans; and Pamphlet No. 12 Bailey Bridge. All with ownership inscription of Captain N. G. Ashman RE. to front wrap. Along with a Giles cartoon pamphlet 'Laughs with the Home Guard compiled by S. Evelyn Thomas in orig. pictorial wraps, a programme for concert in aid of war funds in Peshawar, 3rd January 1916, a number of engine specification pamphlets e.g. Gipsy XII, Hercules II, Alvis Leonides etc, a facsimile Pilot's Notes for Firefly, a Tribute to Wilfred Owen compiled by T. J. Walsh, a fourth edition The Bystander's Fragments from France by Bruce Bairnsfather in orig. wraps, a pamphlet for Navy Day celebrations in Calcutta 21st October 1944, and newspaper clippings such as Bath & Wilts Chronicle August 6th 1914 Special War Edition, two facsimile small printed newspapers of the Daily Express, one 1900 and one 1945, and two morning sick reports for Calcutta, India Royal Navy for a Mogridge, one reading 'This man was bitten by a sick monkey, which is still at large'. An interesting & varied collection.
Lot 71
Simson, Robert. 1804 The Elements of Euclid, viz. the First Six Books, together with the Eleventh and Twelfth, also the Book of Euclid's Data, in like manner Corrected. The Twelfth Edition, also annexed Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry. Printed for F. Wingrave in the Strand 1804. Contemporary full calf binding, gilt tooled spine, occasional rubbing & bumping to the extremities, contemporary ownership inscription to ffep. 8vo.
Lot 80
Military First World War history. A collection of seven works mostly relating to various battalions during WWI. The lot comprising Records of the 1st Somerset Militia by W. J. W. Kerr, 1922 Records of the Men in Lochbroom who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 collected by Mrs. Fraser of Leckmelm (privately printed), History of the 6th Cavalry Brigade 1914-1919 by Lieutenant J. B. Bickersteth, M. C. First Royal Dragoons, 1950 The Staffordshire Yeomanry Q. O. R. R. in the First and Second World Wars, To The Undying Memory of the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men who Fell During the Great War, 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and 1919 The Story of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division by The Rev. J. O. Coop. 8vo.
Lot 74
A collection of eight mid 19th century & later Victorian works of poetry, all in a contemporary binding and many decorative. Comprising The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, first series publ. Ward, Lock & Co., 1901 Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age ed. & publ. A. H. Bullen, 1870 The Book of Ballads ed. Ron Gaultier and illus. Doyle, Leech and Crowquill publ. William Blackwood and Sons (11th ed.), 1913 The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson publ. Hodder & Stoughton, and 1859 Hood's Own, or, Laughter from Year to Year (2vol) publ. Edward Moxon & Co., 1854 A Bundle of Crowquills, dropped by Alfred Crowquill, publ. G. Routledge & Co., and 1887 Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning publ. Smith, Elder, & Co. 8vo.
Lot 69
Auden, W. H. A collection of three modern poetry collections in dust wrappers, including two first editions. All published by Faber and Faber. The lot comprising 1966 About The House, second edition; 1969 City Without Walls and other Poems, first edition (ownership inscription to ffep); 1974 Thank You Fog, first edition (light stain to foredge). 8vo.
Lot 122
Military & WWI interest. A collection of military books, mostly relating to the First World War, to include 1900 The Shop, the story of the Royal Military Academy by Captain F. G. Guggisberg, Famous Regiments - Britain's Brigade of Gurkhas by E. D. Smith (ex lib in dw), 1917 Ribbons and Medals by Commander H. Taprell Dorling (fifth ed), 1919 The Love of an Unknown Soldier found in a Dug-Out (7th ed), 1915 Letters from a Field Hospital by Mabel Dearmer (second imp), 1915 English Coast Defences byu George Clinch, Dover and the Great War by J. B. Firth, 1950 The Black Watch and the King's Enemies by Bernard Fergusson, With the Black Watch: The Story of the Marne by Scout Joe Cassells, and two copies of the War Records of Corsham 1914-1919. 8vo.
Lot 11
First World War military interest. A collection of school Rolls of Honour and Registers. The lot to include The Fettes College Register, Uppingham School Register, Charterhouse Register, Tonbridge School Register, Wellington College Register, Haileybury Register, Winchester College Register, Malvern College Register, Harrow School Register, Mill Hill School Register, Old Wycliffians Register, Clifton College Register, etc. Approx. 25 books in lot.
Lot 52
A 19th century leather bound artist's sketchbook / notebook filled with artist quality drawing paper. Full calf binding, lacking spine and with some damage to extremities and boards, in need of rebacking, gilt dentelles, edges uncut. First ten leaves containing handwritten manuscript quotes from books including from Shakespeare, Marlowe and Menander, otherwise the books is empty. Measures approx. 12" x 9.5".
Lot 124
Military First World War interest. Two wartime printed maps, one from the Daily Mail printed by George Philip & Son Ltd., the other by the Daily Telegraph depicting Abyssinia in 6 colours. Along with 1922 War Record of the Great Western Railway by Edwin A. Pratt, orig. wraps. An interesting collection of military ephemera. 8vo.
Lot 3
First World War poetry interest. 1920 The Castle and Other Verses by Celia Congreve. Publ. Arthur L. Humphreys. Author's presentation inscription to ffep, To Mrs. Everett with love from Celia Congreve July 1921. Publisher's original paper boards with title label, sl. soiled, bumped to edges. A rare presentation copy of this poetry collection by Lady Celia Congreve, who served as a nurse for the British Field Hospital for Belgium, the Johnstone-Reckitt Hospital and for the French Red Cross during World War One, for which she was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Her husband Sir Walter Congreve also served; their son Billy died in action in 1916 and was awarded the Victoria Cross. A scarce and interesting collection of war poetry by a female poet. 16mo.
Lot 108
Moseley, H. N. 1879 Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, being an Account of Various Observations made during the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger Round the World, in the years 1872-1876, under the commands of Capt. Sir. G. S. Nares and Capt. F. T. Thomson. First edition, publ. Macmillan and Co. 1879. Illustrated with a map, two coloured plates and numerous woodcuts. Publisher's original full cloth binding with just light edgewear and the odd light mark to the boards, small ownership bookplate of E. B. Kemp Welch to front pastedown, pages a touch spotted on occasion. 8vo.
Lot 130
WWI interest. Two First World War Illustrated London News pamphlets, being The Work and Training of the Royal Flying Corps and The Work and Training of the Royal Naval Air Service. Each with photographic illustrations depicting wartime activities. Publisher's original smart paper wraps, the Royal Naval Air Service pamphlet a little more edgeworn than the Royal Flying Corps pamphlet, each with black and white wrap illustration. 4to.
Lot 16
First World War military interest. A collection of school and university Rolls of Honour and Registers. The lot to include two copies of Etonians who fought in the Great War 1914-1919, Harrow Memorial Volume I, Memorials of Old Birkonians 1914-1918, Charterhouse Register 1872-1910, Clifton College Register 1862-1947, Memorials of Rugbeians volume VI, The Prudential Staff and the Great War, University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour, Balliol College War Memorial books I and II, Loretta Roll of Honour, The Sherborne Register third edition 1550-1937, The Durnford Memorial Book of the Great War, London County Council Record of Service in the Great War 1914-1918 (presented by the L. C. C. in memory of the services rendered by Pte. G. H. T. Hensby) The Tank Corps Book of Honour and the Radley Register 1847-1962, and others. Approx. 18 books in lot.
Lot 82
Jane Austen bibliography. A collection of four previously unpublished manuscripts by the authoress. Comprising 1922 Love & Freindship (sic) and Other Early Works, with a preface by G. K. Chesterton, published by Chatto and Windus 1922, orig. cloth spine & gilt paper covered boards; 1951 Volume the Third now first printed from the Manuscript, pub. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, orig. quarter cloth binding & paper covered boards in glassine wrap; 1935 Jane Austen by Lord David Cecil, publ. Cambridge at the University Press, orig. paper wraps; and 1975 Sanditon, an Unfinished Novel, publ. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, in orig. quarter cloth & paper boards. Four books in lot.
Lot 14
Military & First World War interest. A collection of eight early 20th century works. The lot to comprise 1932 The Konigsberg Adventure by E. Keble Chatterton publ. Hurst & Blackett, The Sea Raiders by E. Keble Chatterton publ. Hurst & Blackett, 1932 The Big Blockade publ. Hurst & Blackett (2nd imp), 1920 The First World War 1914-1918 - Personal Experiences of Lieut-Col. C. a Court Repington in two vols, publ. Constable and Company Ltd (7th imp), 1924 The War History of the Sixth Battalion the South Staffordshire Regiment publ. William Heinemann Ltd., presentation inscription by Arnold Gyde to George Bishop to ffep, 1918 On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division by Geoffrey Sparrow, J. N. Macbean Ross publ. Hodder & Stoughton, and 1879 The History of the Honourable Artillery Company by Captain G. A. Raikes volume II only publ. Richard Bentley & Son with renewed endpapers. Each in publisher's original full cloth, light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, occasional mark to the boards, The History of the Honourable Artillery Company with a little more noticeable wear to the spine, otherwise volumes are in smart condition. 8vo.
Lot 44
WWI military interest. A collection of books regarding the First World War, including biographies & accounts. The lot to comprise 'The Great Push' by Patrick McGill, The Black Beret by Charles Graves, Fifty Amazing Stories of the Great War, Plain Tales from Flanders by P. B. Clayton, In Flanders Fields by Leon Wolff, Assault Division by Norman Scarfe, The Old Front Line by John Masefield, Back to Blighty by Captain A. J. Dawson and illustrated by Bruce Bairnsfather, Three Personal Records of the War by Mottram Easton Partridge, Raymond, or Life and Death, by Sir Oliver Lodge, The Fifty-First in France by Captain Robert B. Ross, A Private in the Guards by Stephen Graham, Memoirs of a Soldier Artist by Captain Jones, Seymour Vandeleur by Maxse, An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Orpen, Fanny Goes to War by Beauchamp, and The Marne and After by Major A. Corbett Smith. Each in the original full cloth binding, generally smart with occasional bumping. Approx. 20 works in lot. 8vo.
Lot 19
Dawkins, Richard. 1996 Climbing Mount Improbable. Flat signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. Publ. Viking, number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. With original illustrations by Lalla Ward, presented in clipped dust wrapper, slightly edgeworn otherwise smart. An uncommon signed first edition of this work. 8vo.
Lot 45
Plath, Sylvia & Hughes, Ted. A collection of four modern poetry collections & novels published by Faber & Faber and presented in dust wrappers. The lot comprising 1970 Crow by Ted Hughes, first edition; 1967 Wodwo by Ted Hughes, second impression (damage to dust wrapper, see images); 1971 Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath, first edition; and 1971 Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath, first edition. All in original dust wrappers, lightly sunned to spine and occasional edgewear, prior owner's inscription to some volumes. 8vo.
Lot 62
Parry, Edward Abbott. a collection of five late 19th & early 20th century works of children's fiction. The lot comprising 1899 The Scarlet Herring and Other Stories illustrated by Athelstan D. Rusden publ. Smith, Elder & Co., 1907 Gamble Gold illustrated by Harry Furniss publ. Hutchinson & Co., 1896 Butterscotia or a Cheap Trip to Fairyland illustrated by Archie MacGregor publ. David Nutt, 1895 Katawampus its Treatment & Cure, second edition publ. David Nutt, and 1927 Katawampus its Treatment & Cure and the First Book of Crab, illustrated Archie MacGregor and coloured by Cynthia Moon, publ. William Heinemann Limited. Each presented in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. 8vo.
Lot 23
Rowling, J. K. A complete collection of the Harry Potter series, the first three in the series being early editions, the last four first editions. The lot comprising Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 38th impression, paperback; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 17th impression, paperback; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 20th impression, hardback in dust wrapper; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition hardback in dust wrapper; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, first edition hardback in dust wrapper; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, first edition in dust wrapper; and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition in dust wrapper (latter two in adult covers). 8vo.
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