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Lot 256
19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL "Study of a maiden in yellow headband", painting on porcelain, initialled "EB", together with one further similar by the same hand, AFTER F. SPENCER "Apples and grapes in basket", still life study, watercolour, signed lower right and 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "House by river", watercolour, indistinctly signed lower right CONDITION REPORTS Maiden in headband - 25 cm x 18.5 cm including frame. Visible plaque approx 12.4 cm x 7.5 cm. There are some dirt marks in vertical and horizontal lines around the edges as if the plaque has fallen within the mount. Some brown marks which appear to be dirt inset beneath the glass. The other in the same hand has a large crack running through the centre of it which has been re-glued. Again marks visible around the edge as if the plaque has fallen within the mount. Frame approx 25 cm x 19 cm. Visible plaque approx 12.5 cm x 7.2 cm.F SPENCER painting 34 cm x 49 cm. Visible image approx 16.5 cm x 32 cm. The "House by river" painting 54 cm including frame x 46 cm. Visible image approx 29 cm x 21 cm. Some small areas of foxing visible. Frame has some damage in the bottom right hand corner. All items have general wear and tear conducive with age and use to include light surface scratching, dirt, etc. See images for further details.
Lot 918
Wells (H.G.). Little Wars. A Game for Boys, 1st edition, 1913, 19 photographs, marginal drawings by J.R. Sinclair, one photograph with piece torn away, some leaves detached with light soiling and spotting, front hinge breaking, original red cloth, inset illustration to upper cover, spine rubbed with some fading, preserved in a custom made black cloth foldover box, small 4to Graham Greene and Hugh Carelton Greene's copy. Signed twice by a juvenile Graham Greene in pencil to front pastedown, and two ink annotations, presumably by Graham Greene to page 46, providing two extra rules for the game. In the first volume of his autobiography A Sort of Life, Graham Greene recounts this copy of Little Wars: "My favourite toys in those days were a clockwork train and lead soldiers... When I was a bit older (about twelve) I would play with Hugh, who was six, an elaborate war game based on H.G. Wells's book Little Wars. In the holidays we were able to use the big tables in the School House dining hall. We would push two tables together and lay out a whole countryside. There were roads marked in chalk and cottages and forests of twigs and rivers which had to be crossed. One game might last a week, with perhaps two hundred men on either side, quick raids by cavalry and slow advances by infantry, measured on lengths of string, melees which led to capture of prisoners, and bombardments with the two 4.2 naval guns. It was 1916, but war was still glamorous to a child". The poor condition of the book shows the extent to which the Greene brothers played with it, with Graham Greene's extra rules 7 and 8 in ink at foot of page 46, "A gun may not fire if there is more than 2 men of its opponents side within 3" of it" and "One can carry two sand bags moving half his move [and] one [sandbag moving] the whole of his move". There are pencil scores from the brothers games to the rear endpapers, under the headings H and G (unsurprisingly the elder Graham always seemed to win), together with a few juvenile drawings which appear to be the six-year old Hugh's work. (1)
Lot 381
STILL LIFE - S/T (6360 026) - A clean 1st UK pressing of the seldom seen LP (6360 026). The original large swirl LP is in Ex+ condition with perhaps just one or two extremely faint, minor and wispy markings under intense light. The gatefold sleeve is in Ex condition with a slight 'wavy' effect on the opening edge. Don't miss out! Complete with original swirl inner. ( Vinyl Records )
Lot 845A
Winston Spencer Churchill, 'The Life & Times of King George VI', pub. 1952, Odhams Press Ltd, London, the tribute /portrait page signed in ink and dated 1952 in Churchill's own hand (in the typical styleof his post-stroke hand) with pictorial dust jacket, together with Gorman, Maj. J T 'George VI King and Emporer', pub. 1937, W & G Foyle Ltd, presentation edition from The Rt Hon Viscount Bledisloe to the Children of that Parish, to A E Wilshaw (2) Condition Report reasonable intact and original condition, usual edge knocks and browning to page edges, both still tightly bound, gilding most intact
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