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Lot 200
MANUSCRIPT: HARRIS, Frank: Unpath'd Waters: A collection of four of Frank Harris's short stories, bound in brown paper without title page or date of publication. Includes: THE MIRACLE OF THE STIGMATA; PP: 1-19; THE IRONY OF CHANCE; pp: 20-37 (dated at the end: Sept, 1901); MR. JACOB'S PHILOSOPHY: pp: 1-15; & THE MAGIC GASSES; pp; 1-41 (with a number of corrections in pencil). The cover bears the handwritten title with: “Private and Unpublished" perhaps in Harris's hand. It also bears the signature of Alfred R Wallace co-author with Darwin of the "Theory of the Origin of Species". This copy comes from Wallace's own collection which was owned by his grandson. In poor condition. 40pp.
Lot 208
POETRY: 1- Larking, P: Poems (Selected by Martin Amis). Faber, 2011, 1st. edn. 2nd. impr; 2- Aldington, R: Exile and Other Poems. 1923, 1st. Limited edition of 750. 61pp. Dw (torn with some loss), ownership name on ffep; 3- Sitwell, S: The People's Palace. Oxford, 1918, 1st. Plain paper covers with printed label, Engraved frontis and title page with decorated border. 53pp + 2pp publisher's list; 4- Gurney, EE: Poems. 1907, 1st. Covers unevenly darkened; foxing; 5- Ten Singers, an Anthology. 1925, 1st. Printed paper covers, 23 pp; (Contains first edition of four poems by Cecil Day Lewis); 6- The Poems of Ernest Dowson. 1906, 2nd. edn; 7- An Anthology Extracts from Letters Written By Miss May Chesshire a West Country Poet to Llewelyn Powys. Limited edn 250 copies; 8- Hodgson, R: Poets Remembered. 1967, Limited edn. 112/199 (8)
Lot 225
BINDING: 1- Burney, F: Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Edited By Her Niece. 7 VOLS. Henry Colburn, 1854. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in Half morocco with gilt titles, decorations and aeg. All volumes lack the frontis portrait but the original facsimile is present in volume I. Two front endpapers are detached; 2- Macleod, F: Wind and Wave. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1902. Vellum backed boards; 3- Disraeli, B: Tancred: Or the New Crusade. 2 vols. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1847. buckram, with library labels and stamps to pastedowns; 4- JAMES, G P R: (4 works): Beauchamp or the Error, 1846; Arabella Stuart, 1844; Arabella Neil, or Times of Old, 1844; & Agincourt a Romance, 1844. All four works from the Tauchnitz edition, bound in leather backed boards; covers rubbed and some hinges cracked; occasional foxing. (14)
Lot 241
GILPIN, William: 1- Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views (relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty Illustrated By the Scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire; 2 volumes. R Blamire, 1794 & 1791, vol.1- 2nd edn. With 17 plates mostly aquatints; Quarter leather; rubbed; & vol.2- 1st. edn. 13 plates, mostly aquatints, including hand-coloured folding map. Rebound in half leather; Covers rubbed; many of the plates are folded and close cropped to the plate-marks; 2- Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales..; T. Cadell Junior and W Davies, 1800, 5th. edn. With 17 aquatint engravings. Modern half calf; browning to a couple of pages; 3- ROBERTS, J F A: William Gilpin on Picturesque Beauty an Essay. Cambridge, 1944, 1st. One of 250 copies printed for private circulation. Roberts was killed in Italy in 1943 and his essay (originally written for the Cambridge English Tripos) is accompanied by a biography written by his father. (4)
Lot 243
MILITARY, Etc: 1- Pettit, P: Tunisia Sicily 1942/3. "I kept diaries while abroad simply for my wife. The following is a type script with a few additions from surviving letters home". The "additions" include numerous copies of maps, press cuttings, correspondence and material relevant to the campaign; all bound in faux leather covers. This is probably a unique copy or one of only a few. This was possibly later published in 2014, under the title: "Battles of a Gunner Officer: Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and the Long Road to Germany"; small folio; 2- Napier, W F P: History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814. 6 Vols. Constable, 1993; 3- Woods, E S: Andrew R Buxton the Rifle Brigade. 1918, 1st. edn. 294pp. Laid in loose is a handwritten letter from Arthur Buxton (Andrew's Father) to Dorothy Gurney and a pencil inscription in the same hand dated July 1935; 4- Marshall, A: The Marshall Story: A Century of Wings and Wheels.1994, 1st; Inscribed by author to previous owner; relevant ephemera including Christmas cards from the author, laid in loose; PLUS 3 Others: De Chair: The Golden Carpet, reprint; Wragg: Stringbag: The Fairey Swordfish at War, 2004, 1st; Jones, F S: Escape to Nowhere. 1952, 1st. (12)
Lot 281
BIBLE: The Old and New Testament, and the Whole Book of Psalms. Robert Barker, 1594-1601. Collates as follows:{Lacking all before page/leaf 2}, 2-190; (ii)“The Second part of the Bible”, 1-196 (leaves); (ii)Title: “The New Testament”(R Barker, 1601), 1-116; “The Revelation” 1-21, Colophon page ”Printed in London by Richard Field for Robert Dexter, 1594; Table A-Z, & Colophon “R Barker, 1601”; (ii)blank; “The Whole Book of Psalms”, John Winderton Assignee of Richard Daye, 1601, 1-66 (incomplete and defective). With many illustrations, maps and plans. Full leather and clasps; worn, chipped and covers detached. Sold With All Faults.
Lot 282
BINDING: 1- Austen, A: The Poetry of the Period. R Bentley, 1870, 1st. Full tree calf; little rubbed and front hinges cracked; 2- Fielding, H: The History of Tom Jones a Foundling, 2 Vols. 1831. With engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Half leather; little rubbed; Plus 6 others (first 4 in full leather): The Oxford Book of French Verse, 1908; Shelley’s Poetical Works, 1968; Pope’s The Iliad of Homer, nd; Herrick's Women, Love & Flowers, 1899; Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. 1851; & The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon, 1913. (9)
Lot 303
NATURAL HISTORY , large qty. including: Frohawk, FW: The Complete Book of British Butterflies. 1934, 1st. Twidle, A: Beautiful Butterflies or the Tropics How to Collect Them. 1st. edn. Poor copy; Tunnicliffe, CF: Shorelands Summer Diary. 1st. dw; Thornton, R: The Temple of Flora. 1st. thus, dw; Etc. (A list available). (Qty)
Lot 308
(Inscribed & Signed copies): Mitchell, J. Leslie (Lewis Grassic Gibbon): Image and superscription. 1933, 1st. dw (tatty and torn with loss); Persian dawns, Egyptian nights. Nd, 1st. dw (torn with small loss); The Lost Trumpet. 1932, 1st US edn. dw (frayed & torn); The Conquest of the Maya. 1935, 1st US edn. dw (frayed & torn) Inscribed in his hand but not signed; Robert, Rudolph: Famous Authors in Hertfordshire, dw; Muir, Edwin: Variation on a Theme; 1st. dw; Megroz, I & R L: Modern Poems for Children. 3rd. Impr. Brown, Ivor: Summer in Scotland. 1st. Plus: Robert Graves: Poems(1926-1930). 1931, 1st. dw (torn with loss and lacking spine). PLUS: A collection of other books. (Qty)
Lot 366
Helen Hanson Limited edition colour engraving"Field", 87/150S ParkisonArtists Proof print"Noah" David T BowyerSeven limited edition colour prints including "Copse" 25/350 R Stanley & G Dent (early 20th century)EtchingStudy of man with arms folded, inscribed in pencil below "By R Stanley, G Dent authenticated; DA Dent circa 1934", 18cm x 12cm and seven further prints (17)
Lot 268
A 9 carat white gold ring with a heat treated blue topaz centre stone and three small diamonds to each shoulder, ring size N, a 9 carat white gold half hoop ring set with five cubic zirconia, size P, a 9 carat yellow and white gold pave set with small diamonds size R. total gross weight approximately 8.2gms. (3)
Lot 84
A ladies tweed 40's/50's jacket by Castell & Son Oxford tailors, together with a 1940's vintage green/grey beaded crepe dress with 3/4 length sleeves and button detail on the skirt by r + h Grossmark London. (2) (B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: Jacket is in good condition with no obvious damage. dress is partially lined and seam is slightly stretched at the top of the collar (may be missing a belt). Otherwise good condition with no obvious damage.
Lot 158
Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (20th century):Chanter's Folly and Dry Dock, Appledore, gouache, 1937, signed lower right with initials C & R E & dated '37, signed & titled verso, the reverse also bearing Bourlet & Sons label, H 43 x W 73 cm. Note: The present picture is likely to be the original desgin for the Shell travel poster of the same date in which the image appears in reverse. Provenance: Private, local collection. CONDITION REPORT: In good original condition, with no rips or tears, the glass front in need of a clean
Lot 85
Trio of WWI medals awarded to PT E. H.W. WALTER MIDDX. R. (G-4893) with ribbons and all inscribed with miniatures. Accompanied by a medal inscribed to Herbert William Walter "FROM THE CITIZENS OF BRADFORD ON - AVON, WITH GRATITUDE FOR SERVICES RENDERED IN THE GREAT WAR" dated 19 July 1919 in original box.
Lot 168
'A Pair of Boots', 'Still Life Vase Carnations' and Still Life of Books, three oils on canvas signed by Alan Cutsforth after Van Gogh and 'Wash Day', by the same hand after R G Hutchinson Max 44cm x 39cm (4) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
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