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Click here to subscribeAn Edwardian George III style cross banded mahogany gentleman's night table with shaving mirror, the shield shaped mirror with bevelled plate, on an adjustable turned column, over a tray top with pierced handles, the single satinwood cross banded door below enclosing an interior with single drawer (lacks shelf), on boxwood strung square legs with rectangular undertier, 16¼ x 13½in. (41.25 x 34.25cm.), 58½in. (148.5cm.) high at max.
A late Victorian ebonised and burr amboyna cabinet in the manner of Edwards and Roberts, the ebony cross banded top over a single frieze drawer and pair of cupboard doors with foliate ebony marquetry decoration, flanked by faux fluted Corinthian columns, enclosing a single shelf, over a base with five drawers (two with later baize fittings for cutlery), raised on toupie feet, 20¼ x 16¼in. (51.5 x 41.25cm.), 49¾in. (126.2cm.) high.
An Oriental carved wooden coffee table, 1950s-60s, of camphorwood chest style, the hinged, panelled top with floral and foliate carved borders, opening to reveal storage beneath, over an open shelf beneath, raised on cabriole style legs with three toed feet, 35¾ x 18½in. (90.75 x 47cm.), 19½in. (49.5cm.) high.
An English mahogany, ormolu and vernis martin break serpentine front vitrine, late 19th century, the three-quarter pierced brass galleried top over a frieze with ormolu foliate scroll and fruiting vine mount, flanked by serpentine lower galleried tops, over a bevelled glazed door and serpentine glazed sides, each with a lower vernis martin panel painted with an amorous couple in a pastoral landscape, enclosing two glass and one velvet lined shelf and mirrored back, raised on four toupie feet with foliate cap sabots, 44¼ x 15in. (112.5 x 38cm.).
A G-plan teak and black lacquered room divider by Ernest Gomme, 1960s, the open back with single shelf over an adjustable part-width shelf on brass hanger, over a base with a fall front desk over a cupboard base with two sliding doors, on splayed black tapered legs with brass feet, gold maker's stamp inside lower cupboard, 37½ x 18¼in. (95.25 x 46.5cm.), 75½in. (192cm.) high.
Ernest Gomme for G-Plan Furniture, 1960s, a teak and black finished part glazed side or drinks cabinet, of sloped form with a long frieze drawer over a cupboard with two sliding doors enclosing a single shaped glass shelf, a fall front cupboard to the right, over one long and one short drawer, on a black underframe with splayed square tapered legs, 48 x 19in. (122 x 48.25cm.), 36½in. (92.5cm.) high.
A William IV rosewood breakfront side cabinet, the serpentine arched back with a single shelf and foliate & scroll decoration, over a frieze with carved lappet decoration and single central drawer, over four cupboard doors with fretwork panels, divided by barleytwist and foliate brackets, over a quarter moulded and ball lower border, raised on four paw feet, 74½ x 17½in. (189.25 x 44.5cm.), 54in. (137.2cm.) high.
An Arts & Crafts white painted fireplace surround in the manner of the Glasgow designer E. A. Taylor, with a deep moulded shelf above a pair of cupboards with stained and leaded glass doors. 203cm high x 158cm wide x 28cm deep (inset 96cm high x 100cm wide) Condition Report: Available upon request
A George IV gilt metal mounted rosewood library pier cabinet, pointed arched superstructure, with rounded rectangular shelf, and turned pillars, oversailing top above a deep frieze centred by a rectangular tablet and applied with oval lotus bosses, above a pair of rectangular doors lined in pleated silk and enclosing adjustable shelves, bun feet, 124cm high, 110cm wide, c.1825
Fleming, Ian. Dr. No, first edition, first issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. Octavo, publisher's plain black cloth boards, first state (no silhouette to upper board), unclipped dust-jacket (priced 13s. 6d., advertising From Russia With Love), bearing bookseller's ticket to front pastedown (Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge). Contents generally very good, clean, bright; binding good but with shelf-lean; dust-jacket unclipped with some discolouration/marks and splitting/loss to corners/headcaps
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, eighth printing, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, publication line "10 9 8", hardback, no dust-jacket, lacking front free endpaper, rear endpapers with marks/white paint; boards bumped; shelf-lean; worn corners/headcaps. The book features the mystery wizard design to spine and lower boards (rather than Dumbledore) and includes the "1 wand" error on p.53 - something that famously occurred in the true first printing
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, first edition, first impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. Octavo, publisher's decorated green cloth, black & red illustrated map endpapers, frontispiece, nine plates/illustrations (all present as called for), publisher's advertisement leaf at rear. Contents generally very good, clean, bright throughout; some light toning and very faint spotting to endleaves; light crease to front free endpaper; plate facing p.146 with pale dampstaining; lacking dust-jacket; some splitting/loss to cloth at spine/headcaps, the cloth with some marks and discolouration; the boards a little bumped at lower corners; shelf-lean. The true first edition, first impression of Tolkien's debut novel (one of only 1500 printed on 21 September 1937)
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. Octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth, 19 illustrated plates (including frontispiece), plus numerous illustrations and head-pieces within the text; text complete (including half title, preface, contents). Contents generally good with occasional light spots and marks; black pencil marks on p.63; lacking front free endpaper; protective tissue-guard for frontispiece with some discolouration and short tears; contemporary gift inscription on opening blank leaf, dated 1894; ownership stamp for James Forbes on half title; blind-stamped address on title (Sussex Bell, Haslemere, Surrey). Binding with shelf-lean, becoming a little loose; cloth worn with some dampstaining/cockling, corners bumped, loss to cloth at headcaps and corners
Edgeworth, Maria. Tales and Novels, in nine volumes plus Helen, London: Whittaker et al., 1848 (Helen published as a tenth volume, by Richard Bentley, also 1848). Uniformly bound in publisher's gilt green cloth. Presentation inscription to the title page of first volume, 'Frederic Potterton, As a token of friendship & approbation of the manner in which he has educated the Nephews of the author of this work, From their Grandmother and Mother, Frances Edgeworth, February 1856', then additionally signed, 'Rosa F. Edgeworth, Edgeworthstown, Feb. 1856'. Each volume is inscribed 'Frederic Potterton'. Together with various correspondence to the Pottertons, dating from 1850 to 1911, much of it written by Rosa Edgeworth, 1850s, some of it headed 'Edgeworthstown'. The books appear to be complete with frontispieces and tissue-guards, but some pages are loose and they have not been collated; some shelf-lean and discolouration to bindings; some dampstaining to opening pages; the letters have some heavy staining. Irish Interest
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's laminated pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual very faint toning to page edges; tiny dent/nick to extreme edge of a few pages; one tiny mark on outer page edges; binding very good, laminate entirely present, boards and spine bold and vibrant; slight shelf-lean; very faint wear to extreme corners and outer edges of headcaps; a couple of incredibly faint scratches/impressions to the covers; one inscription in blue ink to rear pastedown, which records the date vendor first read the book to his children; seven magazine clippings relating to the film pasted on opening endleaves and rear pastedown. The author's debut novel and first in the Harry Potter series. Very scarce. Only 500 copies were printed of this true first issue hardback, and 300 of those were sent to schools and libraries - this being one of the more desirable 200
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', second state without the dropped line of text error. Contents good and clean with light toning around page edges; boards bold and vibrant with shelf-lean and slight bumping to extremities; dust-jacket bold and unclipped with some light creasing and cockling
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