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Wilson (Angus) TEMPO: THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION ON THE ARTS, photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson and others, dustjacket (edges creased), large 4to, London: Studio Vista, 1964, FIRST EDITION; Cooke (Alistair) LETTERS FROM AMERICA, dustjacket (short tears), 8vo, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951, FIRST EDITION. Provenance: Ted, Lord Willis. With approx. 90 other books or pamphlets about TV and radio (some with inscriptions or stamps).
A Mixed Collection of Toys, including a boxed Dan Dare Electronic Radio Station, a boxed Peter Rabbit Race Game, with lead playing pieces, a boxed Tri-ang clockwork Kitty and Butterfly toy, an egg laying hen in a Bakelite egg, Bezique card games, slot machine, Dinky and other diecast vehicles etc.
Four Boxed Corgi Land Rovers:- R.A.C. Radio Rescue Land-Rover No.416S, with plastic canopy; Land Rover (109" W.B.) No.438, in metallic green with olive green plastic canopy, metal tow bar and chrome hubs; A Similar No.438, with grey plastic canopy and plastic tow bar; Land Rover Breakdown Truck No.417, with spun hubs.
A group of six boxed Matchbox Series Commercial Models in colour picture boxes to include a No.21 Milk Float (with cow decal) black wheels, on spun axles, a No.15 Refuse Wagon with black wheels on spun axles, a No.63 Ambulance, a No.68 Radio Truck, a No.26 Six Wheel Cement Lorry and a No.31 Station Wagon in metallic green with pink roof, green tinted windows and grey plastic wheels
A group of six boxed Corgi cars, a No. E271 James Bond Aston Martin in blue window box, a No. 497 Radio Rentals Ford Escort van, a No. 280 Corgi Rolls Royce Shadow in metallic blue and silver, fitted with speed wheels, a No. 298 Magnum PI Ferrari, the model complete with detachable header card, a No. 615 Corgi Metro and a No. 154 Corgi John Player Lotus Special
A collection of cigarette card albums including - Players " The Coronation 1937 Military Uniforms" and "Uniforms of the Territorial Army", Wills - "Radio Celebrities" "Air Raid Precautions" and others by Churchmans together with a German album of cigarette cards "Lloyd Flotten Bilder - Deutsche Marine".
An Interesting Collection of Mainly Second World War Related Militaria, including anti-radio-location paper strips, an RAF First Aid Bag, an RAF Navigator`s Protractor case, pieces of German shrapnel, pieces of the engine and fusilage of a United States "Liberator" bomber which crashed near Caxton in 1945, ration books, a moulded plastic War Savings Campaign 1944 plaque, three various flags; a Small Collection Neolithic Worked Flints.
* Lakin (Cyril Harry Alfred, 1893-1947). A well-ordered collection of literary correspondence, miscellaneous letters and a notebook, c. 1930s/1940s, the autograph letters signed to Lakin including those from Rebecca West (2), James Hilton, Leonard Russell, Harold Nicholson (typed postcard signed), James Hanley, Desmond McCarthy, Osbert Sitwell (TLS), W.W. Hedley, J.B. Fisk, Jonathan Cape (TLS), correspondence and copy letters between Lakin and Lord Camrose, plus other letters relating to the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times, ephemera relating to Lakin`s visit to Germany, letters from reviewers and early radio broadcasts including F.L. Lucas, Baring Pemberton, Harry Pickering, Herbert Palmer, Polly Peabody, Sir Arthur Page, a collection of letters of condolence on Lakin`s death to his wife Vera in 1948 from Michael Sadlier, Jock McEwan, Jack Lambert, Colonel Hugh Olten, et al, arranged in polysleeves in three ring binders, with a notebook of Cyril Lakin`s with handwritten copies of prose and verse arranged alphabetically by author. Provenance: Cyril Lakin`s daughter. Cyril Lakin was a journalist and barrister at law (Inner Temple). He served with the South Wales borders during the First World War in France and Salonika. He became assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph (1929-33), literary editor of the Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph (1933-37), assistant editor and literary editor of the Sunday Times (1937-45). He was MP for Llandaff and Barry Division, Glamorgan, 1942-45. He died tragically in a road traffic accident in France in June 1947. A fuller list of contents is available on request. (-)
Tremearne (Major A.J.N.). The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria. An Account of an Official`s Seven Years` Experiences in the Northern Nigerian Pagan Belt, and a Description of the Manners, Habits, and Customs of the Native Tribes, 1st ed., 1912, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map, 16 pp. publisher`s ads. at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 8vo, together with Perham (Margery), Lugard. The Years of Adventure 1858-1898, 2 vols., 1956 & 1961 (vol. 2 is a 2nd imp.), b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus The Fifth Batallion the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1914-1919, 1st ed., pub. Glasgow, 1936, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps, orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous books including travel, military and medical interest, etc. From the estate of F.C. Rodger (b1916). Born in Lanark, Scotland and educated at Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Freddy Rodger worked in four universities - Glasgow and Durham (now Newcastle University) as a lecturer, in Oxford on a research fellowship and in Aligarh in India as a professor where he helped to found the university`s research institute. He published four medical books as well as numerous scientific papers, several short stories and a radio play. During World War II he served in the Arakan with 42 Royal Marine Commando, being promoted in the field to Senior Medical Officer of the 3rd Commando Brigade and after the war he was appointed senior consultant eye surgeon at the new Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire. During this time he was granted special leave to work in the field for the World Health Organisation, the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, and the Scientific Exploration Society, for whom he led an international team across the equatorial forest during the Zaire river expedition. Most of the volumes in this lot carry his ownership signature and a few volumes have author inscriptions. (3 shelves)
A Second World War Russian Convoys O.B.E. and Lloyds War Medal for Bravery at Sea group of eight awarded to Captain Wilfred Geoffrey Perrin, Merchant Navy, for services aboard the S.S. Dover Hill when she was bombed in the Kola Inlet, North Russia; he led a team of volunteers to locate and defuse an unexploded 1000lb bomb which had penetrated some 22 feet into her cargo of coal, a feat accomplished after two days and two nights hard work, often under repeated bomb attacks The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officers 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Lloyds War Medal for Bravery at Sea (Captain W. G. Perrin, S.S. ôDover Hillö, 4th April 1943) mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (8) £1400-1800 O.B.E. London Gazette 12 October 1943. - for services when the ship was bombed and damaged. Lloyds War Medal for Bravery at Sea Lloyds List and Shipping Gazette 5 September 1944. Captain Wilfred Geoffrey Perrin, Master, Dover Hill. For dangerous work in hazardous circumstances. The S.S. Dover Hill, was a cargo vessel of 5,815 tons. She formed part of convoy JW 53 bound for North Russia heavily laden with a cargo of fighter aircraft, tanks, lorries, guns and ammunition. The convoy comprised of twenty eight merchant vessels with an escort of three cruisers, one anti-aircraft cruiser, one escort carrier, sixteen destroyers, two minesweepers, three corvettes and two trawlers. Such a heavily defended convoy emphasizes both the importance of the cargo and the expectation of trouble from enemy attack. The convoy set off on 15 February 1943, in a gale which developed into such a severe storm that six of the merchant ships were so damaged that they were forced to return to Iceland. The S.S. Dover Hill lost much of her deck cargo overboard, including oil drums and crated lorries, but managed to save the tanks and continue her difficult passage northwards. Despite a concerted attack by JU-88 bombers a few days later the remaining twenty-two merchant ships of the convoy arrived at the Kola Inlet on 27 February. A few days later S.S. Dover Hill discharged her cargo at Murmansk, still being subjected to frequent attack from enemy bombers, and afterwards moved out to an anchorage in the Kola Inlet where the ships lay about a mile apart. The German front being only about ten miles away, these ships came under frequent low-level attack by ME-109 fighter bombers. The D.E.M.S. gunners aboard these merchant ships were kept very busy as they patiently awaited their escort home and, indeed, the gunners aboard S.S. Dover Hill successfully claimed one destroyed and one shared destroyed before the incident occurred whereby the names of several members of her crew appeared in the London Gazette. The personal account that follows is that of the ships Radio Officer David Craig, who related his experiences for the online BBC archive WW2 Peoples War: ôI feel that the story should be told why the names of these men should appear in the London Gazette. I write the story as I remember it but I write on behalf of the nineteen men, as we all worked together and none of us did anything different from anyone else. On Sunday, April 4th we were anchored in Misukovo Anchorage a few miles north of Murmansk and I was playing chess in the Officers mess when Action Stations sounded and our guns opened up at the same time. I went through the pantry, looked out of the door, and saw two JU-88 bombers coming up from astern, high up. Our Bofors shells were bursting below them and when they turned away I assumed we had beaten them off and stepped out on deck. This was a foolish thing to do as, unknown to me the planes had released their bombs before turning away. Four bombs exploded close on the port side and one on the starboard side and I was blown off my feet. As I got up our gunlayer came down from one of the bridge oerlikons and pointed out a large round hole in the steel deck a few yards from where I had been standing. It was obvious that the sixth bomb had gone through the main and tween decks into our coal bunkers and had not exploded. We informed the S.B.N.O, Murmansk of the situation and were advised that there were no British Bomb Disposal people in North Russia. We then realised that we would have to dig the bomb out ourselves in order to save our ship. The minesweeper H.M.S. Jason was ordered to anchor astern of us and to come alongside to render assistance if the bomb should explode, although I doubt if there would have been much to pick up. Incidentally, I did enjoy talking to the Jason by Aldis lamp during this time. You must understand that though the Dover Hill was only a battered old Merchantman she was our home and no German was going to make us leave her while she was still afloat. The Captain [Perrin] lined the whole crew up on the after deck and asked for volunteers, and nineteen of us including our Captain formed our own Bomb Disposal Squad. We had no bomb disposal equipment, in fact we only had a few shovels borrowed from our stokehold and nineteen stout hearts when we started digging back the coal, trying to find the bomb. The bunker was full of good British steaming coal which we were saving for the homeward run so we used a derrick to bring it up on deck, hoping to replace it when we got the bomb out. When the Russian authorities heard what we were doing, although they had many unexploded bombs to deal with in the town, they kindly offered to send one of their Bomb Disposal officers to remove the detonator if we could get the bomb up on deck. When we dug about ten feet down into the coal we found the tail fins and, by their size, decided our bomb must be a 1000lb one. Unfortunately the Germans also discovered what we were up to and came back and bombed us again, hoping to set off the bomb we were digging for. Between bomb explosions and the concussion of our own guns the coal used to fall back into where we were digging and things got difficult at times. We had to dig down approximately 22 feet before we got to the bomb, but after two days and two nights hard work we finally got it up on deck. I was standing beside the bomb with two of my fellow officers as our Russian friend started to unscrew the detonator when after a few turns it stuck. He then took a small hammer and a punch and tapped it to get it moving. I can honestly say that every time he hit it I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing against my duffle coat hood. After removing the detonator and primer we dumped the bomb into the Kola Inlet where it probably lies to this day. We then moved back to Murmansk for repairs. Of the fifteen ships which had come to Murmansk in February, one had been sunk and four damaged. On 17th May, in company with three other ships we left the Kola Inlet and set out for the White Sea. We arrived in Economia on the North Dvina River where we stayed until 18th July when we moved to Molotovsk (Severodvinsk) and finally on 26th November, with eight other ships, some damaged, we set out for home. Since it was now dark for almost twenty four hours each day and we could only do seven knots maximum speed we went north to the edge of the ice. Knowing that a Russian bound convoy was coming up to the south of us we expected the Germans to attack it and leave us alone. This in fact happened and we eventually arrived in London on 14th December 1943, in time to be home for Christmas.ö After returning from North Russia the Dover Hill was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport and was sunk at Arromanches on 9 June 1944 along with other ships to form an artificial port for the invasion of Normandy.
Cigarette Card sets, comprising Wills `Cinema Stars, 2nd Series` 1928 (25/25), Churchman ` Well-Known Ties` (50/50), Ogden`s `Broadcasting` 1935 (50/50), Hignett Bros. `Actors, Natural & Character Studies` 1938 (50/50), Player & Sons `Kings & Queens of England` 1935 (50/50), Ardath `Film, Stage & Radio Stars` 1935 (50/50), Abdulla & Co `Feathered Friends` 1935 (25/25), Cope Bros. `Boxing Lessons` 1935 (25/25), Player & Sons `Aircraft of the Royal Air Force` 1938 (50/50), Wills `Garden Flowers` (50/50), Brooke Bond / Red Rose Tea ` Indians of Canada` 1974 (48/48) and `The Arctic` 1973 (48/48), Player & Sons `Cycling` 1939 (50/50), Wills `Air Raid Precautions` 1938 (50/50) and Gallaher ` Famous Jockeys` 1936, blue printing (48/48), all in plastic wallets in album, very good condition (15 sets) (Care! High international shipping costs)
RADIO LONDON - a copy of Beat Wave magazine on pirate stations, first issue with profiles of many DJ`s who worked on these stations including Ed Stewart, Kenny Everett, Tony Windsor and others together with a quantity of photographs, small felt pennant, paper car stickers, an autographed photograph of Chuck Blair, an autographed card from "Paul and Barry" and a metal identity bracelet "Big L 266" all c.1966
2 scarce Dan Dare action toys by Merit A Planet Gun of the Inter Planet Space Fleet, featuring 3 shockproof spinning missiles emitting impulse vibrations capable of rendering Dare`s Treen adversaries immediately unconscious, and a Space Control Radio Station, featuring interplanetary transmitter, 2-way phone, searchlight and auto-decoder, capable of operating at ranges up to half an earth mile. Both boxed, with original packing materials and operating instructions for the less-seasoned space warrior, minor wear, contents GC but not space-tested.
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