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Chaucer Auctions
Lot 69

RAF Collection includes Royal Air Force at War Hardback book at 20 interesting FDCs some signed and flown subjects include Golden Jubilee of the RAF, No 19 Squadron RAF, Willy Coppens, RAF Finningley Air Show, First England Australia flight, William Avery Bishop, 75th Anniversary of the RAF, RAF College Cranwell, Battle of Britain Falkland Islands presentation Spitfires, RAF royal mail mint stamps. Good Condition. 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.

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Lot 703

Music Shayne Ward 8x12 signed colour photo, Shayne Thomas Ward is an English singer and actor, He is best known for his role as Aidan Connor in Coronation Street from 2015 to 2018, He rose to fame as the winner of the second series of The X Factor, His debut single, That's My Goal, was released in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2005 and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and was that year's Christmas number one, It sold 313, 000 copies on its first day of sales, making it the third-fastest-selling single of all time in the UK,. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and 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.

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Chaucer Auctions
Lot 794

WW2 Amiens raider Grp Capt Alfred Kitchener Gatward, DSO, DFC signed RAF North Coates Bristol Beaufighter cover, He flew the mission which released the first Tricolour down the flare chute over the Arc de Triomphe, Gatward then attacked the Ministre de la Marine in the Place de la Concorde, and strafed the building with 20 mm cannon shells, scattering German sentries, Fern, then dropped the second part of the Tricolour. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and 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.

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Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Lot 2307

A group of five Royal Worcester early 20th Century bone china figures including Debutante, Summers Day, Summertime, Equestrienne and First Dance 3629 (5)

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Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Lot 3037

Roald Dahl - A St Vincent first Day Cover stamp - Signed / Autographed by Roald Dahl ( b1916 d1990.) In excellent condition.

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Lot 3072

A Great collection of Rock / New Wave and New Romantic on Vinyl 12 inch and LP Record. From the 70s and 80s in excellent condition. Including The Sparks, Detective, Motorhead first LP on chiswick, Tangerine Dream, Trapeze, Cheap Trick Picture Disc, Kiss , Judas Priest, Joan Jett, Magnum, MC5, Yardbirds,Led Zeppelin, The Passions, Heartbreakers, The Runaways, approx 38 records including an abba box set plus 25 rock cassettes.

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Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Lot 3116

Ivor Novello Award. Karma Chameleon (Culture Club), Best Pop Song 1983. Bronze statuette, a representation of the Greek Muse of lyric poetry, Euterpe, on wooden plinth with engraved brass plaque, 'Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd, Warner Bros. Music Ltd. "Karma Chameleon" Best Pop Song 1983'. The song, which was co-written by Phil Pickett, Boy George and Culture Club, is one of the biggest-selling singles of all time worldwide. According to Sir Richard Branson (in his autobiography, Losing My Virginity), the song 'became Number 1 in every country in the world that had a chart.'Provenance: Vendor worked for Virgin Music Publishers and has provided the following quote about the award: 'It was a sad day for those of us who worked at Virgin when Richard Branson sold the Virgin Music empire to EMI in 1992. Virgin Music Publishers were the first to have to pack up their things and leave. As part of the creative team we were allowed to take mementos, Karma Chameleon was my favourite track of the decade, it was a kind of karma-justice losing my job but being able to take the Ivor as a keepsake'

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Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Lot 3192

Stamps- A collection in 15 albums and some loose containing mint GB, first day covers plus others.

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Lot 3202

Stamps- A nice four margin Penny Black (A,A)A collection of first day covers and first day issues along with a stamp album- stamps from various countries, along with another album, including letter with penny red (1845), 1841 2d blue and 1d reds including strip of 4 etc 

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Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Lot 3213

A collection of stamps to include five books of various stamps, along with 5 lots of loose stamps some in plastic containers and sleeves along with a book of first day covers (1 bag)

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Lot 3223

A riding crop with a metal first aid tin containing cut throat razors, hand operated hair clippers and geometry sets.

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Lot 3239

First Edition Proof set of the Medallic History of Britain in gold plated sterling silver, in fitted wooden chest.

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Lot 3252

Pratchett, Terry-  Wyrd Sisters, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988, First Edition and Witches Abroad, London, Victor Gollancz, 1991, First Edition both with original dust jackets.

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Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Lot 3321

Stamps: collection of first day covers in six albums along with some loose and mid 20thc used GB stamps loose & in binders.

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Lot 3338

A large quantity of stamp albums with first day covers, postal strike covers etc.

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Lot 1082

Three Royal Crown Derby 1128 pattern dinner plates, first quality, two large and one small version

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Lot 1295

A Royal Albert Old Country Roses dinner and tea service, mainly first quality, including ten dinner plates, eight soup bowls, nine tea plates, seven saucers, seven cups, nine fruit bowls, nine dessert plates, cake plate, tureen and cover, tureen, gravy boat and saucer (3 boxes)

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Beeston Auctions
Lot 1211

A collection of first day covers together with 2 commemorative Charles and Diana wedding coins and stamp presentation book.

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Featonby's Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 209

7 DVDS BOX SETS INCLUDES THE FIRST MODERN WAR BLACK OPS SPECIAL FORCES ETC

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Featonby's Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 278

VINTAGE RODNEY BRIEFCASE CONTAINING VINTAGE FIRST AID EQUIPMENT

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Golding Young & Mawer
Lot 3003

Richard Hough. Book Of The Racing Campbells, first edition, hardback, published by Stanley Paul & Company Ltd, 1960., and Arthur Owen The Racing Coopers, first edition, hardback, published by Cassell & Company Ltd, London 1959. (2)

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Golding Young & Mawer
Lot 3063

A Morris 8 - Series I & II Lubrication chart, Ferodo 45rpm single 'Right First Time', Motorine Log Book, and an issue of Side Valve News, volume 29, No 5.

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Lot 3065

Macdermot E T. History of The Great Western Railway, hardback, first revised edition 1964, published by Ian Allen Ltd, Hampton Court, 2 vols., Gourvisc. T. R. British Railways 1948-1973 A Business History, published by Cambridge University Press 1986. (3)

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Lot 3091A

1930's The Motor and The Auto Car Magazines, hard bound, comprising The Auto Car Magazine 1933 and 1935 Motor Show editions., and 1935 The Auto Car Scottish Number., together with The Motor Magazine Nos 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934 The Motor Show Report.,  1935 First Show Number., 1935 Second Show Number., 1935 Third Show Number., 1936 Royal Jubilee Number, 1936 and 1937 (x2) Show Numbers.

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Golding Young & Mawer
Lot 3224

Die cast vehicles, to include Vanguards, Ford Lotus Cortina Mk I, 1:43 scale., Oxford Commercials, 1:76 scale, Landrovers, Exclusive First Editions, 1:76 scale, buses, etc, all boxed. (9)

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Golding Young & Mawer
Lot 3227

Exclusive First Editions die cast buses, Solido London double decker bus, Solido Renault TN6C bus, further die cast buses, etc., mainly boxed. (qty)

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Golding Young & Mawer
Lot 3269

A kit built OO gauge diesel locomotive, British Rail green livery, D8206, together with five articulated kit built LNER coaches, painted in teak, comprising First Class, two Third Class, and two Third/Luggage cars, two Exley Southern Railway First Class coaches, and a goods van, with associated boxes. (9)

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Lot 3322

Four Hermann Mohair Teddy Bears, comprising Queen Mary II, with model of The Queen Mary II, limited edition No 25/750., Christopher Columbus, limited edition No 551/750., Concorde Memorial Bear, with a wood model of Concorde, limited edition No 33/250., and Penydarran World First Steam Locomotive 1804-2004 Bear, limited edition No 7/200, all with certificates and tags.

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Chalkwell Auctions
Lot 414

A large quantity of albums of the Queens Golden Jubilee commemorative first day cover stamps with coins.

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Chalkwell Auctions
Lot 330

Two frames of First World War silk postcards, largest frame 44 x 59cm.

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Chalkwell Auctions
Lot 383

Two boxed sterling silver jubilee commemorative ingots and first day cover stamps.

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Chalkwell Auctions
Lot 410

A box of mixed stamp albums and loose stamps, first day covers etc.

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Unique Auctions
Lot 803

2 first editons Harry Potter books, Order of the Pheonix, The half blood Prince & 4 Dr Who Books

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Bonhams
Lot 101

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, half-title, one folding lithographed diagram, without advertisements, calf gilt by The Yorkshire Post Bookbinding Works, Leeds (with ticket inside upper cover), upper cover detached [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo (186 x 118mm.), John Murray, 1859Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF 'CERTAINLY THE MOST IMPORTANT BIOLOGICAL BOOK EVERY WRITTEN' (Freeman), and one of the most influential works of the nineteenth century. 'Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken' (PMM).Provenance: Formerly at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, the Darwin family home; by descent to a member of the Darwin family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 102

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, illustrations in the text, without the publisher's catalogue in volume 1, contemporary half calf, black and red gilt morocco spine labels, rubbed [Freeman 877; Garrison-Morton 224.1; Norman 597], 8vo, John Murray, 1868Footnotes:With this work Darwin 'intended to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation' and refuted the idea 'that variations had not occurred purely by chance but were providentially directed' (ODNB). It also included the first usage of the phrase 'Survival of the Fittest' by Darwin.Provenance: W.J. Dear, pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper of volume 1, and title of volume 2.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 103

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 'tenth thousand', 7 photographic plates, without advertisements [Freeman 1144], 1873; Insectivorous Plants, 'second thousand', without half-title and errata slip [Freeman 1218], 1875; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 'second edition, revised' [Freeman 836], 1875; Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle', second edition, 5 folding plates (one hand-coloured), 2 folding maps [Freeman 276], Smith, Elder, 1876; The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, without half-title [Freeman 1249], 1876; The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, 'second edition, revised', without half-title [Freeman 801], 1877; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, FIRST EDITION, [Freeman 1277], 1877; The Power of Movement in Plants... Assisted by Francis Darwin, 'second thousand', without advertisements [Freeman 1326], 1880; The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 'second edition (fourteenth thousand), revised and augmented', without half-title [Freeman 953], 1881; The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, 'sixth thousand (corrected)' [Freeman 1362], 1882; 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, 'fifteenth thousand' [Freeman 38], 1882; The Variation and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., 'second edition, revised, fifth thousand' [Freeman 883], 1882--KRAUSE (ERNST) Erasmus Darwin... with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the publishers 'From C. Darwin' on the front free endpaper, and in another hand 'Francis Darwin from Charles Darwin 1879' on the front paste-down, frontispiece portrait, 1879, uniform calf by The Yorkshire Post Bookbinding Works, Leeds (with green binder's ticket inside upper cover of each volume), spines gilt with red morocco title label, the Krause a slightly lighter calf, rubbed, 8vo, all but the fourth mentioned John Murray (14)Footnotes:Provenance: Formerly at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, the Darwin family home from 1680 until just after the Second World War. The Francis Darwin to whom the copy of Krause's Erasmus Darwin was presented by Charles Darwin, was most presumably Francis Rhodes Darwin (1825-1920), who inherited Elston Hall in 1850. The house, where Erasmus was born, is illustrated in Krause's biography; by descent to a member of the Darwin family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 107

LATHAM (JOHN)A General History of British Birds, 11 vol. (including index), FIRST EDITION, author's note to subscribers tipped-in before title of volumes 1, 2 and 4, 193 hand-coloured engraved plates, some spotting and offsetting, untrimmed in contemporary boards, rebacked [Nissen, ZBI 532; Fine Bird Books, p.87; Zimmer, pp.376-77], 4to (285 x 215mm.), Winchester, Jacob and Johnson for the Author, 1821-1828Footnotes:First edition of this considerably expanded edition of Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, including the information from the two supplements, and information discovered since the original publication. Latham 'described several hundred birds for the first time and named nearly two hundred new forms. Most of these came from Australia from where many animals were brought to England after the country had been settled in 1788' (Anker).Provenance: K.I. Benyon, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 109

MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE)British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., NUMBER 305 OF 450 COPIES, 74 plates (39 colour) by Thorburn, Millais, O.M. Dixon and H. Gronvöld, publisher's red buckram, fading and abrasions [Anker 342; Nissen IVB 633; Zimmer, p.436], 1913; The Natural History of the British Surface-feeding Ducks, NUMBER 439 OF 600 COPIES, additional pictorial title, 41 colour plates after drawings by the author and Archibald Thorburn, 24 other plates (6 photogravure), publisher's green cloth gilt, t.e.g. [Anker 340; Nissen IVB 635; Zimmer, p.436], 1902, folio (3)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Sir George White, bookplate; Both works, K.I. Benyon, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 11

EMERSON (PETER HENRY) AND T.F. GOODALLLife and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads... With General and Descriptive Text, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, half-title, title printed in red and black, 34 PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPHS (of 40), each mounted on card as issued, and with facing printed title leaf, half-title soiled and loose, small dampstain in upper lefthand corner of the mount of plates 26-39 and lower fore-corner of mount of 36 to 39, light stain (120mm.) in margin of plate 35, light spotting to some mounts (with a few single spots to approximately 7), disbound [Parr and Badger I 70, 'The photographs are magnificent'], oblong folio (290 x 410mm.), Sampson, Low, [1886]Footnotes:THE FIRST AND RAREST OF EMERSON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS, described on publication by Amateur Photographer as 'an epoch-making book combining 'perfection of photography... perfection of reproductive processes, and... perfection of artistic feeling'. The platinum prints in Life and Landscape achieved a subtle and beautiful tone, but they were labour-intensive and costly, and in his subsequent works Emerson used the photo-mechanical processes of photogravure and half-tone printing. Emerson was the first English photographer to work out a theory of naturalistic photography, his attitude and philosophy having 'a profound effect on the growth of good photography - he was a mainstream man when his colleagues were stagnating in backwaters' (Bill Jay, Album, 1970).Provenance: Hugh Hamshaw-Thomas (1885-1962, paleobotanist, and curator of the Botany School Museum, Cambridge), gifted by a friend whilst at Downing College, Cambridge; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 110

MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE)The Natural History of British Game Birds, NUMBER 72 OF 550 COPIES, 35 plates (18 colour, 17 photogravure) after Archibald Thorburn and Millais, publisher's buckram-backed cloth, t.e.g. [Nissen IVB 636], folio, Longmans, 1909--MORRIS (BEVERLEY R.) British Games Birds and Wildfowl, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary red half morocco gilt, t.e.g., rubbed, a few scuff marks [Anker 345; Nissen IVB 644; Zimmer, p.442], large 4to, Groombridge, 1855, FIRST EDITIONS (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, George Cameron Norman, ownership inscriptions (1909) and bookplate; Both works, K.I. Benyon, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 111

PARKINSON (JOHN)Paradisi in sole, paradisus terrestris. A Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, FIRST EDITION, allegorical woodcut title by A. Switzer, woodcut portrait of Parkinson, full-page woodcut of a garden design, 109 full-page woodcut illustrations depicting some 780 varieties of plants, 2 smaller woodcut illustrations, title shaved at margins with small tear repaired, arc of staining at fore-edge of approximately 20 leaves, one preliminary leaf and index leaves at end strengthened with old paper at margins (some loss of text final 4, especially last touching imprint, 2 loose), corner torn away from 2 text leaves (touching letters on pp.455/6), nineteenth century half calf, crudely rebacked [ESTC S115360; Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489], folio (310 x 193mm.), [H. Lownes and R. Young], 1629Footnotes:First edition of 'the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England' (Henrey).Provenance: Catherine and Stephen Rogers, of Gnosall, Staffordshire, several ownership inscriptions (dated 1810), including verso of title, dedication leaf, and border of portrait.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 112

PAXTON (JOSEPH)The Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, 16 vol., 717 hand-coloured engraved and lithographed plates of flowers by F.W. Smith and S. Holden (some double-page or folding), 6 other plates (Chatsworth fountain, plans, etc.), illustrations in text, occasional spotting or offsetting, contemporary half morocco gilt, spines uniformly tooled within raised bands (volumes 10 to 16 slightly larger), g.e., rubbed, a few small scuffmarks at sides [Nissen BBI 2351; Great Flower Books, p.85; Stafleu & Cowan 7554], 8vo, Orr and Smith, 1834-1849, sold as a periodicalFootnotes:Provenance: Sampson Foster (died 1870, banker), bookplate. Sampson, and his wife Mary, lived at Le Court, Greatham, Hampshire, later to become the first Leonard Cheshire Home; by descent to present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 117

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)The World Crisis, 6 vol., errata slips in volumes I, III and V, full green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931; The Second World War, 6 vol., errata slip, 1948-1954; Savrola, Longmans, 1900, full red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (and Savrola by Bayntun Riviere), Churchill's signature blocked in gilt on upper covers, g.e., 1948-1954; A History of the English-speaking Peoples, 4 vol., red half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, t.e.g., 1956-1958; [War Speeches], 7 vol. bound in 3, first issue of 'Into Battle', green half morocco gilt, t.e.g., [1941-1946]; Step by Step 1936-1939, red half morocco gilt for Henry Sotheran, g.e., Thornton Butterworth, 1939; Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948, red half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, t.e.g., 1950; Marlborough. His Life and Times, 4 vol., occasional light spotting, maroon half morocco re-using original gilt-blocked cloth sides, gilt lettered on spines, t.e.g., [1933-1938]; Thoughts and Adventures, brown morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., Thornton Butterworth, 1932; idem, another copy, light spotting and toning, dark green morocco gilt, yellow morocco spine label, original wrappers bound in, Thornton Butterworth, 1932; My African Journey, orange morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; Ian Hamilton's March, light spotting, dark red calf gilt, a few light abrasions, original cloth bound in at end, Longmans, 1900; London to Ladysmith, neat ownership stamp of 'Alassio English Library' on title, brown half morocco, Longmans, 1900; Arms and the Covenant. Speeches... Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR 'Inscribed by Randolph S. Churchill' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, George G. Harrap, 1938; My Early Life. A Roving Commission, partly uncut, publisher's cloth, preserved in cloth chemise and slipcase (lettered on spine), Thornton Butterworth, 1930, FIRST EDITIONS, plates (mostly photographic) and maps, 8vo, unless otherwise mentioned Cassell (32)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 121

FLEMING (IAN)The Man with the Golden Gun, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST STATE, publisher's dark grey/brown cloth, variant with the gun blocked in gold on the upper cover and the spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (priced 18s net on front flap), slight fraying at spine ends and at corners [Gilbert A13 (1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1965Footnotes:THE FIRST AND RAREST STATE OF THE BINDING, WITH THE GUN BLOCKED IN GILT ON THE FRONT COVER AND THE SPINE LETTERED IN SILVER. Gilbert records that 940 copies were issued in the 'golden gun' binding, many of which were shipped in advance to Commonwealth countries in order to meet the publication day. It soon became apparent that the cost of blocking all these copies was prohibitive, and the remainder of the print run was issued in the plain black cloth. The present copy is one of those which 'very occasionally' (Gilbert) had the spine lettered in silver - we have not traced any other copies with this variant in auction records.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 122

FLEMING (IAN)Goldfinger, ownership signature on front free endpaper, remains of label at rear, 1959; The Spy Who Loved Me, second impression, 1962; You Only Live Twice, 1964; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, dust-jackets (the first repaired with tape on reverse); From Russia With Love, fourth impression, 1958; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, seventh impression, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; idem, second impression, 1965, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, 8vo (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 123

FORESTER (C.S.)The African Queen, first American edition, slight loss to upper cover of jacket, Boston, Little, Brown, 1935; The Happy Return, 1937; Flying Colours, SIGNED ('C.S. Forester') on title, [1938]; The Commodore, 1945; Lord Hornblower, 1946; Mr. Midshipman's Hornblower, 1950; Lieutenant Hornblower, bookplate of Eric Forbes-Boyd, 1952; Hornblower and the Atropos, remnants of old bookplate inside upper cover, 1953; Hornblower in the West Indies, 1958; Hornblower and the Hotspur, 1962; Hornblower and the Crisis, price-clipped, 1967; The Earthly Paradise, 1940; The Captain from Connecticut, 1941; The Ship, 1943; The Sky and the Forest, 1948; Randall and the River of Time, 1951; The Nightmare, 1954; The Good Shepherd, ownership inscription, jacket price-clipped, 1955, FIRST EDITIONS, all publisher's cloth in dust-jackets (but second and third in facsimile jackets), some wear at extremities of spines, 8vo; and 7 others by Forester, all in dust-jackets (25)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 124

GARCIA LORCA (FEDERICO)Impresiones y Paisajes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, untrimmed and unopened in publisher's wrappers, the upper cover illustrated with a design by Ismael [Gonzàlez de la Serna] printed in green, foot of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]Footnotes:A FINE UNOPENED COPY OF LORCA'S RARE FIRST BOOK, SOLD ON BEHALF OF A DESCENDANT OF THE POET.Impresiones y paisajes is a collection of lyrical prose pieces published in April 1918 at the expense of Lorca's father. They were written by the 20-year old aspiring writer during a series of four trips he made through Castile, Léon and Galicia in 1916 and 1917, accompanied by some fellow students and a professor from the university, Martín Domínguez Berrueta, who encouraged him to publish his account. 1917 proved to be a turning point in Lorca's life: he met Antonio Machado in Baeza, and on his return to Granada (despite dedicating the book to his former music teacher and befriending the composer Manuel de Falla), he abandoned his music studies and turned his hand to writing poetry.The first edition is extremely scarce. According to Carlos Morla Linch (in En España con Federico García Lorca, 1957), so few copies were sold that the disillusioned writer gathered together all those he could lay his hands on and set them on fire. Only three copies appear in auction records (all sold in the last few years, two of them in these rooms), and we have traced just five copies in institutions (two in the USA, two in Madrid and a presentation copy in Granada).A publisher's advertisement at the end of the book announces as 'en prensa' a work entitled Elogios y canciones, but this, and the other works listed as being in preparation, never saw the light of day.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 126

GREEN (HENRY)Back, jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, 1946; Concluding, jacket by Mona Moore, 1948; Nothing, 1950; Doting, 1952, last 2 jackets by Lynton Lamb, FIRST EDITIONS; Party Going, second edition, jacket by John Banting, 1947; Living, second edition, 1948; Loving, third impression, jacket by John Piper, 1948, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo, Hogarth Press (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 131

JAQUES (FAITH)A large archive of original artwork for books illustrated, and sometimes written, by Faith Jaques, with other artwork for magazines (Radio Times, Cricket, etc.), upwards of 600 original illustrations (approximately 200 fully realised watercolours or gouache, the others black ink), on paper or artist's boards, many with overslips, marginal annotations, several dummy mock-ups, various sizes, [1960s-1990s] (large quantity)Footnotes:'Faith Jaques was one of the outstanding illustrators responsible for the renaissance of British picture books during the last three decades... Her brilliance found many outlets, including Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (obituary in The Independent, 1997).An exceptional archive including upwards of six hundred original pieces of artwork, including those for many of Jaques' best-loved books from the 1960s to the 1980s. It is rich in cover designs, dummy mock-ups, final page-lay outs as well as numerous striking individual images.Colour works include: 'Johnnie Golightly and his Crocodile. By Ursula Moray Williams' (14 including front/back cover, together with full pen and ink mock-up of the book); 'The Magic Fish-bone. By Charles Dickens (17, most double-page, including front/back cover, together with full pen and ink mock-up of the book, with variant colour cover design); 'The Giant Who Swallowed the Wind' and 'The Giant that Stole the World' (both by John Cunliffe, 27, mostly colour); 'The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes' (42); 'Little Grey Rabbit's House' (12), 'Our Village Shop' (15), 'Goldilocks in the House of the Three Bears' (12); 'Kidnap in Willowbank Wood' (3, with a full pencil mock-up of the book); 'The Return of the Antelope' (21, including cover illustration which is 300 x 460mm., and copy of the book inscribed by the author); 'The Hugh Evelyn History of Costumes' and 'A First Look at Costume' (approximately 90 costume plates, some with 2 images on sheet); 'Tilly's Rescue' (3 variant versions of colour plates including the upper cover, together with half-size pencil dummy of the book; archive of textual charges, correspondence, etc.); Other colour material includes full-colour cover artwork for 'The Little Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes' (unused, front and back), Margary Fisher's 'Journeys' (front), Andre Norton's 'Octagon Magic' (front), Leon Garfield's 'Moss and Blister'; Full-page illustration of a magician from Eric Houghton's 'The House and the Magician'; 'The Sleeping Princess... Text by Brothers Grimm', 32-page full colour manuscript mock-up with printed text pasted-in; Phillipa Pearce's 'What the Neighbours Did' (front and back).The black and white artwork includes: illustrations for 'Carrie's War.... by Nina Bawden' (6); 'A Picnic With the Aunts. By Ursula Moray Williams' (8, with a copy of the book inscribed by the author to Jaques 'for making this book what it is'); 'The War of Bird's and Beasts... by Arthur Ransome' (30, with 2 full-colour cover designs); 'Apprentices' series by Leon Garfield (approximately 110 black and white, according to Jaques' obituary 'among her finest work'); and others such as 'The Faber Book of Greek Legends'.Provenance: Faith Jaques (1923-1997); by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 132

JAQUES (FAITH) - ROALD DAHL'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', the original artwork for the covers of the first paperback edition, watercolour and gouache on watercolour board, separate overlay with black ink detail (the 'black plate'), each with proofing details in margins, signed by the illustrator with address details on verso, 385 x 465mm., [c.1973]Footnotes:The original cover artwork for the first Puffin paperback edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1973), depicting Willy Wonka, Charlie and the other Golden Ticket-winners gathered around the Everlasting Gobstopper Machine. Jaques was the original illustrator of the first UK edition of the book in 1967, and produced this new cover design for the paperback.Provenance: Faith Jaques (1923-1997); by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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JAQUES (FAITH) - ROALD DAHL'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', original artwork mock-up design for the covers, pen, watercolour and gouache, on stiff paper, annotated and signed ('Elevator should be about 1/2' higher. F.J.') by Jaques on verso, 250 x 353mm., [c.1972-73]; together with an original illustration of the Oompa Loompas, pen and ink with white, pencil note ('Dahl and Pigmies of Africa') on verso by Jaques, 82 x 190mm. (2)Footnotes:A full colour mock-up for the covers of the first UK edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Also included is an illustration of Oompa Loompas, redrawn by Jaques for the 1973 edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.Provenance: Faith Jaques (1923-1997); by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 134

JOYCE (JAMES)Anna Livia Plurabelle... With a Preface by Padraic Colum, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 418 OF 800 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the colophon, publisher's brown cloth gilt, gilt blocked decoration on upper cover, t.e.g. [Slocum & Cahoon A32], 8vo, New York, Crosby Gaige, 1928This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - KATE EADIEElegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 20 pages, frontispiece with a full-page miniature of woodcutters felling trees with an elaborate border of hawthorn foliage and berries in gold, brown and blue, title-page with raised gold lettering, second frontispiece incorporating large round miniature of the Church at Stoke Poges and smaller one of the Gray memorial, within a border of oak leaves and branches with acorns, subtitle-page lettered in blue and turquoise, the poem mostly written in black ink on 16 pages (including the Epitaph), each with a different decorative border in gold and colours of foliage reflecting the text of the poem, capital letters in various colours on a gold ground throughout, the first page with elaborate heading and historiated letter T incorporating figure of the ploughman, the following 14 pages each with one historiated and one decorative initial, original limp vellum, titled in gilt on upper cover, remnants of green silk ties, preserved in green cloth solander box, 4to (317 x 240mm.), [c.1900-1910]Footnotes:A fine and very rare example of an illuminated manuscript by the Birmingham enameller, jeweller, illuminator and Arts & Crafts designer Kate Eadie. Kate Muriel Mason Eadie (1880-1945) trained at the Birmingham school of Art, where she is believed to have been taught by Arthur Joseph Gaskin. In 1902 she won the national Owen Jones prize, awarded to 'Students at the Schools of Art who, in annual competition, produce the best designs for Household Furniture, Carpets, Wall-papers and Hangings, Damask, Chintzes etc.' In 1915, she became the first woman to be elected Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, exhibiting jewellery, metalware, stained glass design, illuminated manuscripts and Limoges enamels - her gouache on vellum The Defence of Guenevere won the Harry Lucas Award for the finest example of decorative artwork in the RBSA's Spring Exhibition of 1916. At Birmingham she had also met the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sidney Harold Meteyard. She posed as a model in many of his most famous paintings, and having worked together for twenty years, they eventually married in 1940. Provenance: Kate Eadie; thence by descent to her great nephew in Cookshill nr. Alcester (where Kate Eadie and Sydney Metyard lived), from whom it was acquired.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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POGANY (WILLY)The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Presented by Willy Pogany, NUMBER 1 OF 25 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, signed by the illustrator, 24 mounted colour plates, lithographic text within ornamental borders, decorative front and end leaves incorporating arabesque design, elaborately bound in full green crushed morocco gilt for Bumpus (signed on rear turn-in), each cover with gilt border of red roses, stems and leaves, the upper cover border enclosing a large central panel with an arabesque design incorporating 4 large bunches of red grapes, gilt panelled spine with raised bands and red rose and grape tools in compartments, red and green morocco doublures with 3 red roses at each corner, g.e., small folio (276 x 186mm.), Vincent J. Brooks, Day and Son, for George Harrap, 1909Footnotes:NUMBER 1 OF AN EDITION OF 25 COPIES, IN A FINE ARABESQUE BINDING. This was the first of two versions of the Rubáiyát that Pogany produced, and the one where he 'endeavour[ed] to remain true to the spirit of Persian art' (dedication to Julius Germanus on verso of title).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'to Bryony - who is the most important person I've ever met in a signing queue & the first person ever to see merit in Harry Potter. With huge [underlined 4 times] thanks. J.K. Rowling' on the dedication leaf, publisher's imprint page with the number sequence from 10 to 1, and author cited as 'Joanne Rowling', p.53 with the duplication of '1 wand' on the equipment list, misspelling 'Philospher's' on lower cover, publisher's pictorial boards, spine and corners slightly bumped, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL, WITH A REMARKABLE INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR TO 'THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO SEE MERIT IN HARRY POTTER'.In 1995 J.K. Rowling, unknown and unpublished, 'walked into a library in Edinburgh and looked up a list of literary agents. She alighted on the name Christopher Little, and, deciding that he sounded like a character from a children's book, she sent him her own manuscript, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (Sunday Telegraph, 15 June 2003). In fact she sent just the opening three chapters, and on arrival at Little's small office the book was destined for the slush pile and rejection, as Little's agency had not previously handled children's literature. But office manager Bryony Evens, intrigued by the distinctive black folder in which the manuscript was enclosed, picked it from the pile, read it, was instantly smitten and suggested to Little they request that Rowling send the whole manuscript. She did, and from that moment the Harry Potter phenomenon was launched. The book, after having been rejected by twelve publishers, was sold to Bloomsbury for £2,500 in 1996, and in 1997 was published in an edition of five hundred hardback copies, going onto be the most successful book and subsequent franchise, in publishing history. Evens had left the agency prior to publication of the book, but received a copy on publication. In 1998 she attended a reading by Rowling to promote her second book at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. She joined the short queue to have her copy of Philosopher's Stone signed. Whilst the two had corresponded previously they had never met, and on hearing to whom the book should be inscribed, Rowling stood to give her a hug of gratitude, signing her copy to 'the most important person I've ever met in a signing queue, and the first person ever to see merit in Harry Potter'.Provenance: Bryony Evens.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'to Bryony - who really did discover Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling' on the title-page, publisher's pictorial boards, pictorial dust-jacket (edges slightly frayed), 8vo, Bloomsbury, 2000Footnotes:INSCRIBED TO THE WOMAN 'WHO REALLY DID DISCOVER HARRY POTTER' - This copy of Goblet of Fire was signed for Bryony Evens, the first person to read Harry Potter on 8 July 2000, the day of publication, when she attended a 'golden ticket' event on the Hogwarts Express at Didcot Railway Centre (see previous lots).Provenance: Bryony Evens.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST ADULT EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Hilary - This is the first adult copy I've ever signed! J.K. Rowling, and first edition!' (with an arrow pointing from the number sequence to this note) on dedication leaf, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:'THIS IS THE FIRST ADULT COPY I'VE EVER SIGNED! J.K. ROWLING' - An important inscribed copy of the first 'Adult' edition of a Harry Potter title. Accepted for publication by Bloomsbury Children's Books, Rowling's work was initially marketed 'for eight-to-twelve year-old children, with no attempt to attract a crossover audience... When it soared to the top of the adult bestseller lists, Bloomsbury did not delay in getting out an edition for this unexpected market' (Sandra L. Beckett, Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives, 2009). Such was the success of this strategy that by 2001 the industry analysts Book Marketing recorded that almost fifty percent of the Harry Potter buyers were adults.Provenance: Hilary Evens, aunt of Bryony Evens (see previous lots), similarly inscribed at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in 1998.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Susie and Emily (a female Fred & George) with best wishes J.K. Rowling' on the dedication page, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket (spine sunned), 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:INSCRIBED TO 'A FEMALE FRED & GEORGE' BY THE AUTHOR, a reference of course to Ron Weasley's elder twin brothers (who feature prominently in The Chamber of Secrets, helping Harry escape from the Dursleys). This copy was inscribed to thirteen year old, ginger-haired twin girls (Susie and Emily), who had accompanied family friend Bryony Evens (see previous lots) to see J.K. Rowling give a talk at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in 1998, the year of publication.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 148

SCHWITTERS (KURT)Anna Blume. Dichtingen, FIRST EDITION, light toning, publisher's wrappers designed by Schwitters, wrappers slightly creased at extremities, preserved in custom-made box case (with 'Dada' collage artwork by Pierre Mercier, dated 1990), Hanover, Paul Steegemann, [1919]--DUBUFFET (JEAN) Mémorial de la petite exposition de dessins de Jean Dubuffet... pour l'inauguration des sal nouvelle boutique: Le Diable pare la queue, 8pp. (including pictorial covers), lithographed throughout, with calligraphic script and illustrations by the artist, [1949], 8vo--DERMÉE (PAUL) Le volant d'Artimon. Poèmes, ONE OF 'A FEW' AUTHOR'S COPIES, numbered 'OO', printed in addition to the edition of 216 copies, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Hommage de l'auteur Paul Dermée' on the half-title, 2 woodcut plates by Louis Marcoussis, unopened in publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in colours and designed by Marcoussis, split at head of upper joint, preserved in chemise and slipcase, small 4to, Paris, J. Povoloszky & Cie., 1922 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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