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Enid Marx Bulgy - The Barrage Balloon First edition, owner inscription to verso of title page; Oxford University Press, 1941; together with The Li...

Powell Perry Collection Four works Including a rare copy of Perry Pie, Gift Book No. 1 with stories by Charles Perrault, Oscar Wilde, Princess De ...

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book (Signed by Illustrator BRIAN FROUD) Complete with four double-pages In cardboard wrapper titled Sealed by Lad...

Lot 251

ANITA BROOKNER

ANITA BROOKNER LATECOMERS By Anita Brookner (1988) Together with BRIEF LIVES (1990) and A CLOSED EYE (1991) two copies, one price clipped and FRAU...

Mid-century travel expeditions. BENGT DANIELSSON. 'Forgotten Islands of the South Sea,' original cloth, clipped dj. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. SLAV...

Ronald Searle Illustrations. Thirty-five works including early works, large format, and paperbacks. (35) ...[more]

Lot 254

OXFORD INTEREST

OXFORD INTEREST HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD By HC Maxwell Lyte (1886) MacMillan and Co and THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Edited ...

Forty-five works of humor mostly about sporting pursuits. Including Paul F. Svenningsen's 'Anglers Angle', 'The M.P's Garden of Verses' by W. Hodg...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (contributor). Vol I-XV of The Strand Magazine. A complete run of Vol I to VX with duplicate vols VIII, XI and XII, general...

Lot 257

FOLIO SOCIETY.

FOLIO SOCIETY. A.N. WILSON, The Victorians; IRIS MURDOCH, The Sea, The Sea; JACK LONDON, The Call Of The Wild; together with ten other FOLIO title...

Twenty-six works of fiction. S. BARING GOULD. 'Mrs Curgenven of Curgenven,' three vols, original red cloth with staind spines, booksellor lables t...

the Folio Society. Thirty-four works. Including Geroge Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Robert Graves. (34) ...[more]

A collection of 'Pelican' books. Over fifty in total, thin card wraps, varying conditions. (50+) ...[more]

Lot 261

FOLIO SOCIETY.

FOLIO SOCIETY. Scott's Last Expedition - the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott and five other publicationsm; together with The History of Venice in ...

Lot 262

FOLIO SOCIETY.

FOLIO SOCIETY. LEO TOLSTOY, The Collected Stories, three book set; together with other Folio publications. ...[more]

Folio Society. Nineteen works. Including Anthony Trollope, Josephine Tay and Graham Greene. (19) ...[more]

Lot 264

POETRY

POETRY The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, with portraits, vols 1 & 2, ex-libris, Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1902; together with other poetry b...

Caricature, satire and cartoon interest. DAVID LOW. 'Europe Since Versailles,' two copies, pictorial thin card wraps, Penguin Books ltd, 1940; 'Eu...

Twenty-six titles covering mountaineering, climbing and caving JOHN HUNT, The Ascent of Everest; first edition, price-clipped, Hodder & Staunton, ...

Thirty-two titles covering mountaineering, climbing, adventure and caving EDWARD C. PYATT, A Climber in the West Country, first edition, 1968; Cli...

Children's and Juvenile books. Forty-four works. Mostly stories of hi-jinx and adventure, with decorative pictorial cloths. (44) ...[more]

Twenty-four 18th and 19th century published works. M. De VOLTAIRE. 'romances, Novels, and Tales,' volume the second, original publishers boards, c...

'Britain in Pictures'. One Hundred and twenty works. Covering a plethora of subjects to do with 'Britain', all with dj's, in varying condition but...

Twenty-three reference books on illustrators. Including three 'Brush, Pen and Pencil' works, Hugh Thompson, Thomas Rowland, Phiz, Thackeray, Quent...

Folio Society. Twenty-three works. Including a set of seven Jane Austens, Anthony Trollope and 'The Travels of Marco Polo'. (23) ...[more]

Twenty-seven works on bibliographies, publishing and the history of the book. Including 'Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Ca...

NATURAL HISTORY INTEREST Including EDWARD A. ARMSTRONG, New Naturalist Folklore of Birds, first edition, 1958; Kilvert's Diary, partial dustjacket...

B. T. BATSFORD TOPOGRAPHY INTEREST Paul COHEN PORTHEIM, The Spirit of Paris, first edition, attractive dj; Ruth Manning Sanders, The West Of Engla...

Twenty-three works on mountaineering and artic exploration. Sir VIVIAN FUCHS and Sir EDMUND HILLARY. 'The Crossing of Antarctica,' first eidtion,...

Fifteen works on mountaineering. F. S. SMYTHE. 'Peaks abd Valleys' 1938, 'Alpine Ways' 1945. 'Over Welsh Hills' 1942, 'Mountains in Colour' 1949, ...

Twenty-eight works on travel and exploration. T. V. BULPIN. 'To the Banks of Zambezi,' first edition, pictorial cloth boards, Nelson, Soth Africa,...

Thirty-four works on mountaineering and arctic travel. CONSTANCE and HARMON HELMERICKS. 'Our Summer With the Eskimos,' first edition, original clo...

Twenty-two works on mountaineering and arctic exploration. CHARLES TURLEY. 'Nansen of Norway,' first trade edition, original cloth, frontis, Methu...

Lot 281

ART INTEREST

ART INTEREST Marc CHAGALL, Origins and Paths; Gustave DORE, Illustrations to Don Quixote; Christopher WOOD, A Painter Between Two Cornwalls, Tate ...

Twenty-three 18th and 19th century works. 'Memoirs of The First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington,' rebound, loss and staining to f...

Forty late 19th and early 20th century works. JULIUS M. PRICE. 'From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea,' new and cheaper edition, rebound with or...

Fifty works, mostly early 19th century. 'The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift,' twenty-six volumes, full calf, many with loss to spines, good clean tex...

Twelve Spike Milligan works. 'Black Beauty,' first edition, 1996; 'Frankenstein,' first edition, 1997; 'The Murphy,' first edition, 2000; 'William...

ARTHUR PENDENNIS [William Makepeace Thackeray]. 'The Newcomes,' first edition, two volumes, contemporary half brown calf with marbled boards, rubb...

Lot 287

Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin. 'Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle Round the Wo...

[MARY ANN EVANS]. 'The Works of George Eliot'. Library Edition, ten volumes, uniformly bound in red cloth with gilt tooled rose motif to spine, so...

Bronte Sisters interest. Seven uniformly bound works. 'The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters,' seven volumes, The Haworth Edition...

CHARLES DICKENS. Eight works. 'The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club,' early edition (if not first bound), splitting to joints, tidy textbloc...

Rudyard Kipling. Fifteen works Seven published by MacMillan & Co in a uniform maroon cloth; A paper 'Tauchnitz' edition of 'The City of Dreadful N...

ERASMUS DARWIN. 'The Poetical Works of ....' Three vols, rebound in mustard buckram, worm hole damage to vol I only, plates, J. Johnston, London, ...

ANDRE L. SIMON. 'The History of the Wine Trade'. Flat signed and inscribed by the author to verso of free endpaper, vol I, original cloth, toning ...

Lord BYRON [George Gordon Noel]. 'Sardanapalus, A Tragedy. The Two Farcari, a Tragedy, Cain, a Mystery,' first edition, cloth backed boards with o...

Sir Humphry Davy. 'Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, In a Course of Lectures for The Board of Agriculture...,' fourth edition, rebound, half tit...

Freya Stark and others. FREYA STARK. 'Ionia,' first edition, original cloth, tears and nibbles to unclipped dj, ex libris with ink stamps, John Mu...

Cornwall interest. Five works H. SEWELL STOKES. 'The Vale of Lanherne and Other Poems,' original ruby cloth with gilt decorations to front board, ...

Cornwall interest. Six works. 'Cornwall. A Survey of its Coast, Moors, and Valleys, with Suggestions for the Preservation of Amenities,' prepared ...

Three works on Cornwall. 'John Norden's Manuscript Maps of Cornwall and its Nine Hundreds,' repoduced in facsimile Collotype in colour and gold wi...

Cornwall interest. Five works. RICHARD STEPHEN CHARNOCK. 'Patronymica Cornu-Britannica; Or, The Etymology of Cornish Surnames,' presentation copy,...

Three works published by T. N. Foulis. 'The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi,' reprint, translated and edited by Cardinal Manning, origin...

Cornwall Interest. Eight works. DAVIES GILBERT. 'The Parochial History of Cornwall,' lacks vol I (of four vols), original publishers boards reback...

Lot 303

Doctor Syntax.

Doctor Syntax. 'The Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque. A Poem,' second edition, rebound in half calf with marbled boards, colour...

A. K. HAMILTON JENKIN. 'Mines and Miners of Cornwall'. Vols I, II, III, IV, XI, XIII, thin card wraps with some light sun bleaching, otherwise in ...

[Brown, Robert Neil Rudmose, et al]. 'The Voyage of the "Scotia".' 'Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas by Three of the ...

Two works on the Nile and one other. EUSTACE A. REYNOLDS-BALL. 'The City of the Caliphs: A Popular Study of Cairo and its Environs and the Nile an...

Fifteen illustrated works. JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR. 'The Fairy Ring: A New Collection of Popular Tales,' second edition, illustrated by Richard Doyle, ...

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