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[Topffer, Rodolphe]. The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, 1st English edition, Tilt and Bogue, [1841], 84 pp., illustrations, occasional light soiling, gutta percha perished, contents loose, original blindstamped cloth gilt, spine a little faded with small split and wormholes, faint ring mark and fading to upper cover, oblong 8vo (Qty: 1)First published in Geneva in 1837 as Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois, by Swiss caricaturist Rodolphe Topffer, this first English-language edition was published a year later in the New York paper Brother Jonathan, thus becoming the first sequential comic-book to be published in the United States.
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 5th impression, 1956; The Two Towers, 5th impression, 1957; The Return of the King, 3rd impression, 1957, folding map at end of each, original red cloth, lightly handled dust jackets, publisher's slipcase, 8vo (Qty: 6)Signed by the author to each front endpaper. Provenance: David A. Smith (1938-2015), his bookplates. David Smith was author of the standard reference work British Bee Books 1500-1976, (1979) and his important collection of antiquarian bee books were sold in these rooms on 08 November 2017. Additionally there is a signed manuscript notecard from Tolkien to Anthony D. Wood, Merton College, Oxford embossed at head, dated 22/2/1958, arranging a meeting with Wood and David Smith, 'Tuesday will do, though I find I have a guest to dinner that night, and as he may turn up anytime after 7 it might cut short our conversation. But he is also not interested in the topic (Mr Jonathan Wordsworth of Exeter, descendant of William's brother).' The note is a follow up to a two page letter from Tolkien to Smith, dated 19/2/58 (supplied here in photocopy), 'Dear Mr Wood, I should very much like to meet you and Mr, David Smith. I am making one of my (in recent years) rare sojourns in college, because of my wife's illness. Unfortunately, for this purpose, as she recovers tea-time is the period most convenient for me to visit her in hospital, and i expect I shall be engaged in this way every day in the immediate future.' Also there is a sheet of ruled paper with notes in red ink to both sides, made most probably by David Smith, in which he seemingly records answers from Tolkien to his questions on the trilogy: 'Aragorn had to arrive somehow and the ghost scene seemed most suitable. It was the part which was most difficult to write and caused most trouble. At first the whole passage was told in one, later I split it for convenience'... 'I could take it further. After 100 years of peace the system would be bound to break up. It seemed better not to. A lot of the past is written references to history are all genuine'... 'Gandalf really did die, it was sacrificial. He is rather like an angel. It is very important that he should not dominate people's wills. That is why he was an old man'... 'People have said Frodo was dishonest at the end and sh[oul]d not have been made a hero. Nonsense often we feel that we have to undertake a task that we know we will fail. We are only saved by grace, 'lead us not into temptation'.'... 'C.S. Lewis can't read the last bit up to the mountain - says its too horrible.'
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1954, two maps (one folding at end), original red cloth (gilt spine lettering a little dulled, upper cover slightly bowed), dust jacket, spine toned and chipped at ends, small tears and chips to folds, 8vo (Qty: 1)
Wodehouse (P.G.) Quick Service, 1940; Money in the Bank, [1947], Full Moon, [1947], Spring Fever, [1948], Uncle Dynamite, [[1948], Pigs Have Wings, 1952; Ring For Jeeves, 1953; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, 1954; Cocktail Time, 1958; Ice in the Bedroom, 1961; Stiff Upper Lip. Jeeves, 1963, 1st editions, Money in the Bank 2nd issue 1947, occasional light spotting and toning, original cloth, (Cocktail Time damp stained), dust jackets, a few chips and losses to Quick Service, one or two nicks and closed tears, a few jackets price-clipped, 8vo (Qty: 11)
A fine late 17th century verge table clock by James Hunt, London the 7 inch brass dial signed on the silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with pendulum aperture, ringed winding holes and date aperture. At 12 o`clock the sliding strike control marked S and N , mask spandrels, the two-train five pillar movement signed on the engraved backplate Jams Hunt London, pull quarter repeating on two bells. The ebony case is later and accommodates the added arch dial although the carrying handle would appear to be 17th century, height excluding handle 43cm. Note:- There is a James Hunt recorded as being an apprentice to Joseph Knibb.(See illustration)
A Hughes and Son, London three ring vernier sextant, in mahogany case, the arc engraved with the naval officer's name T.N.B. Cree RN and maker's name. Provenance: The Imperial War Museum, London. Microfilm copy of a ms Midshipman's Journal (70pp) covering his service in the battleship HMS LORD NELSON in the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron from late March - May 1915 and describing her service during the Dardanelles campaign, with particular reference to bombardments of Turkish positions at Gallipoli, and also recording his brief periods of service in the Eastern Mediterranean in the battleship HMS EXMOUTH and the tug T19 (June 1915) and the minesweeper HMS FOLKESTONE (July 1915) and with later entries written when in the destroyer HMS MINSTREL first at Malta (April 1916) and then during the disturbances in Athens (December 1916); together with a separate ms log (12pp) of the tug T19 recording her voyage from Lemnos to Alexandria in June 1915.
A ring bound photograph album 25x22cm, containing forty large, black and white photographs, subject: late 19th and early 20th century scenes of St Ives Cornwall. The photographs all approximately 21.5x16.5cm. The black album cover gold embossed with 'Old Saint Ives' and 'Studio St.Ives Ltd' on the front. Inside the back cover is stamped: COPYRIGHT, STUDIO ST. IVES LTD. TREGENNA HILL ST.IVES, CORNWALL PHONE 249 and by hand: COMPILED OCTOBER 1970, with a signature Simon? A.Blandford.The photographs all being of excellent quality and depicting many fascinating street and harbour scenes, the Digey, Quay St, men baiting hooks on the Wharf, pinafored children in Carnglaze Place, fishing boats in the harbour and Smeaton's Pier, Seine boats on Porthminster Beach before 1888 etc. All well annotated in a modern hand.
A German porcelain part tea service, 18th century, floral decorated in purple and gold, possibly Limbach, underglaze blue factory marks to base, comprising teapot, sugar bowl and cover, milk jug, tea caddy and various cups and saucers. Condition report: Small shaped dish but for firing flaw on foot, teapot (red mark) good but for tiny chip on inner rim, box and cover good, tea caddy good but lacks lid, jug (blue mark) good but for foot rim chip. All pieces have scratching & wear commensurate with age, a few pieces are marked (see images). Of the seventy five fluted saucers, one is chipped & cracked, another has a tiny chip & a third has a large chip from foot ring. Two cups & four tea bowls, no obvious damage but several rims may have been ground down.

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