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Children’s & Illustrated Books Modern First Editions THURSDAY 13 DECEMBER 2012

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Lot 22 Front Cover: Lot 340

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CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MODERN FIRST EDITIONS BYGONE TOYS & GAMES, ANTIQUE FANS VICTORIAN VALENTINES & CHRISTMAS CARDS ORIGINAL ARTWORK

Thursday 13 December 2012 Lots 1-571 commencing at 11am

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CONTENTS Antiquarian Children’s Books

1-22

Toys & Games

23-72

Antique Fans

73-147

Victorian Valentine Cards

148-181

Victorian Christmas Cards

182-196

Original Illustrations & Artwork

197-238

Comics

239-241

Rupert Bear

242-274

Children’s & Illustrated Books

275-401

Edward Thomas

402-416

Private Press

417-430

Crime Fiction

431-446

Modern First Editions

447-571

Lot 3

ANTIQUARIAN & CHILDREN’S BOOKS To commence at 11am

1 Clemens (Samuel L. “Mark Twain”). A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, 1889; More Tramps Abroad, 1897, 1st UK eds., 32 pp. pubs. catalogue at end of each, light spotting, presentation inscription, patterned endpapers, original cloth, Yankee lower joint splitting, some fading and rubbed edges, 8vo, with five others by Clemens (7)

£100-150

2 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). The Nursery “Alice”, [3rd issue], People’s Edition, 1889, [1891], twenty col. illustrations incl. frontis., publisher’s advert to final leaf verso, ?lacks half-title, a little spotting and a few erased blue pencil scribbles, orig. linen-backed col. pict. boards, sl. rubbed and soiled with a little corner wear, binding tightened, 4to Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 160. An uncommon edition. Ten thousand copies of the first print run were rejected by Dodgson and the entire print run reprinted. Four thousand of the rejected sheets were sent to the United States and were published with a tipped-in preliminary leaf and title-page dated 1890. In 1891 after the publication of the reprinted edition, some of the remaining sets of six thousand sheets were bound up and over printed “People’s Edition, Price Two Shillings” on the title-page, as found here. (1) £200-300

3 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1866, half-title (with contemp. ms. ownership signature dated 1866), frontis. and numerous illusts. by John Tenniel, intermittent light foxing, some neatly repaired edge-tears (and signs of previous gutter tape repairs), armorial bookplate of Paul Latham on front pastedown, hinges repaired, a.e.g., orig. red cloth gilt, rubbed and lightly soiled, with some sl. edge-fraying, neatly rebacked preserving orig. spine, 8vo, together with Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1872, half-title, with ‘To all child-readers of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”‘ booklet stitched in at gutter, dated Christmas 1871, frontis. and numerous illusts. by John Tenniel, armorial bookplate of Paul Latham on front pastedown, hinges split, early ms. ownership signature on verso of front free endpaper, orig. red cloth gilt, rubbed and lightly soiled, spine repaired and sl. frayed, 8vo, each contained in a cloth folder in red qtr. morocco double bookform slipcase, rubbed, lightly faded spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments Williams, Madan, Green 46; 84. (2)

Lot 2

£4000-6000

4 Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Lost World, 1st ed., [1912], eight b & w plates, extra-illustration, scattered spotting, endpapers renewed, original cloth, rebacked, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, with three other first editions: The Poison Belt, 1913, The Land of Mist, 1926 and The Maracot Deep, 1929 (lacking front endpaper) (4)

£100-150

5 Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1902, misprint ‘you’ for ‘yours’ line 3, p. 13, 16 b & w illustrations, a couple loose, one or two frayed foredges, original red cloth gilt, spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, adhesion strengthening to hinges and joints, 8vo (1)

£400-600

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6 Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the ElfWorld, with a Poem by William Allingham, 2nd ed., 1875, 16 handcoloure plates, occasional light soiling and frayed foredges, one or two closed marginal tears, previous owner signature, a.e.g., original green cloth gilt, light edge wear and stains, folio (1)

£400-600

7 Elwart (Antoine Amable Elie). Solfege du Jeune Age, Francais et Anglais [cover-title], [Paris], c.1840, 23pp., lacking p.24 (titlepage), bound concertina-style, twenty hand-col. litho. illusts., with accompanying musical notation, some light staining, page block loose in orig. green boards, detached and lacking spine, with handcol. eng. label on upper cover (toned and foxed), 16 x 12.5cm (6.25 x 5ins) A rare and decorative little book designed for teaching children the rudiments of reading music, illustrated with scenes of battledore, kite-flying, musicians playing, juggler, blacksmith, farm workers, etc. (1) £100-150

10 [Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense, 2nd ed., Thomas McLean, 1855], seventy-two (of 73) lithographed pages, each with illustration and five-line limerick printed to rectos only, damp-stained throughout, one leaf with pencil corrections and three further leaves with former owner’s ink annotations, spine broken and disbound without covers, oblong small folio, modern cloth-fitted case Lacks “There was an Old Man of New York”, one of three plates to be suppressed after the appearance of the second edition. It is probable that this is an early copy, even possibly a proof copy. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 8 July 2004, lot 345. (1) £200-300

11 Mother Shipton’s Legacy. Or, A Favourite Fortune-Book. In which is given, A Pleasing Interpretation of Dreams: and A Collection of Prophetic Verses, Moral and Entertaining, York: printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1806, two alphabets (upper and lower case), each letter with woodcut illust. and verse below, two fortunetelling tables on letterpress (one with alphabet, the other with letters and numbers), both with pin-pricks, some minor corner-creasing, first and last pages form pastedowns (as issued), orig. Dutch floral boards, rubbed, and sl. loss to spine, 16mo (101 x 67mm) The first edition was published in 1797. All editions are rare: there is no edition listed in Osborne or Gumuchian. We have been unable to trace another copy of this 1806 edition. The book’s rarity is no doubt in part due to the means of discovering one’s fortune by pricking the printed tables with a pin; our copy is intact and in good overall condition despite the tiny puncture holes which show it has been used. (1) £300-500

12 [Sandham, Elizabeth]. The Red Book and the Black One. By the author of Summer Rambles, 2 vols., printed for E. Lloyd, 1802, half-titles, vol. 1 with stipple eng. frontis., contemp. ms. signature at head of titles, some light toning, sprinkled edges, orig. half calf, rubbed and extrems. worn (with sl. loss to spine ends), sm. 8vo Osborne, p.296 (lacking second volume): ‘In the red book were recorded the good deeds, and in the black book the bad deeds, of two little girls during the momnth of May, 1800.’ (2) £150-200

8 Hume (Fergus). The Man With a Secret. A Novel, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1890, 16 pp. pubs. cat. at end of vol. III, previous owner inscriptions, endpapers a little browned (one with clean tear), original blue cloth, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo (3)

13 Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, [3rd ed.], Revised, Corrected and Illustrated with a New Introduction by the Author, Colburn & Bentley, 1831, bound with (as often) The Ghost-Seer! From the German of Schiller, vol. I only, 1831, engraved frontispiece and additional title (with small repaired tear and light dust-soiling), lacking all adverts., previous owner signature, a few light spots, modern half black morocco, 8vo

£500-800

9 James (Henry). The Tragic Muse, 1st ed., 3 vols., 1890, light toning, previous owner inscriptions, endpapers a little chipped and stained, original blue cloth, spines faded, a few stains, 8vo (3)

£100-150

Volume 9 of Bentley’s Standard Novels series. (1)

£600-800

16 Swift (Jonathan). Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, pub. John Leighton, 1839, folding hand-col. frontis., orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine, rubbed and some wear, small 8vo Scarce. Only one copy on COPAC. (1)

£100-150

14 [Smart, Christopher]. Hymns for the Amusement of Children. Embellished with Cuts, printed for T. Carnan, 1st ed., 1771, numerous oval woodcuts, some with early hand-colouring, lacking frontis. and ad. leaf, as well as F1-F5 (pp.49-58), G1 (pp.61-62), H2 (pp.75-76), and H6 (pp.83-84), early ms. ownership name on titlepage, stitching broken and page block loose, with some fraying and creasing, occn. soiling, early ms. names and notes on front endpapers, orig. Dutch floral boards, edges rubbed, lacking spine, 12mo in 6s Roscoe J338(2) - in Roscoe’s opinion this is the first edition which was advertised at the end of 1770. Extremely rare: only two copies are listed on Copac (Oxford and Cambridge) and there has been no copy sold at auction since 1977. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1) £100-150

15 Stoker (Bram). Dracula, Archibald Constable, 1901, 144 pp., text in double-column, three advertisment leaves at end, light toning, original printed wrapper, small loss at foot of spine, short tear at head of upper joint, rear wrapper with diagonal crease, one or two minor stains, 8vo, together with Dracula. The Rare Text of 1901, by Bram Stoker, Transylvania Press, 1994 (one of 500 copies)

17 [Venning, Mary Anne]. A Geographical Present; Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World; with Representations of the Various Inhabitants in their Respective Costumes, beautifully Coloured, 1st ed., printed for Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1817, sixty hand-col. eng. plts., some minor off-setting to text, but a clean copy, stitching partially broken and one or two gatherings starting, hinges split, orig. roan-backed boards, extrems. rubbed, 12mo

Rare. The abridged edition, revised by Bram Stoker himself, reducing the original text by approximately 162,000 words to 137,000 words, deleting some lengthy descriptions and conversations, i.e. in Chapter X, p.52, Professor Van Helsing’s cumbersome phrase: “make him kick the beam, as your peoples say” is replaced by the more straight-forward “outweigh him”. The upper wrapper, with the illustration by Nathan of Count Dracula crawling down the castle wall, is one of the earliest depictions known of the world’s foremost vampire. (1) £1000-1500

Osborne, p.193. Scarce; Osborne’s copy imperfect. (1)

£300-500

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Lot 18 Lot 19 18 Verne (Jules). The Giant Raft, Parts I & II, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon/The Cryptogram, Translated by W.J. Gordon, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1881-82, additional wood-engraved title to vol. I, map and numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 32 pp. pubs. cat. at end of each vol., hinges broken in vol. II resulting in loose text block, a few leaves loose in vol. I, one or two light spots and fingermarks, bookplates, a.e.g., original blue pictorial cloth gilt, spines and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo Myers 28. (2)

£300-400

19 Verne (Jules). The Archipelago on Fire, 1st ed., 1886, woodengraved additional title, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 32 pp. pubs. list at end, one or two minor spots, bookplate, a.e.g., original blue pictorial cloth, spine faded and lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with The Mysterious Island (Part III). The Secret of the Island, 2nd ed., 1876 First book Myers 3. (2)

£300-400

20 Verne (Jules). An Antarctic Mystery, 1st UK ed., 1898, 64 b & w illustrations (complete), a few leaves loosening, occasional light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription, patterned endpapers, front hinge tender, original red pictorial cloth, spine faded with tiny tears at ends, 8vo Myers 2 (noting pictorial green cloth). (1)

£300-400

Lot 20

22 Wilde (Oscar, [1854-1900]). The Aesthetic Waltz, Composed by W.A. McCloy, published by F.M. Hermick, Cincinnati, 1882, 8 pp. including decorative upper wrapper with a mounted head-andshoulders albumen print portrait of Wilde [by Napoleon Sarony, New York], negative number ‘12’ visible and sl. trimmed at lower margin, image size 15 x 10cm, minor creasing and soiling, slim folio (35.5 x 27cm)

21 Wells (H.G.). The War of the Worlds, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1898, 16 pp. pubs. ads. at end, a few spots, half title and rear endpaper browned, original grey cloth lettered in black, joints and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

£300-500

An extremely rare piece of Wildeiana, this cabinet-size photograph of Wilde is one of the best-known images of Wilde and one of twenty-seven taken by Sarony at the beginning of Wilde’s lecture tour of America in 1882. Wilde was keen to make a good reputation and in preparation for his lectures to Americans on aestheticism he bought some suitably aesthetic outfits, including the astrakhan coat seen in this photograph. The tour evidently made an impact on American composers as besides McCloy’s piano piece Aesthetic Waltzes were composed and published in the same year by Anton Strelezki (published New Orleans) and Frank D. Andrews (published New York). Wilde lectured at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati, on the 23rd & 24th February and 6th June 1882, McCloy’s music no doubt inspired by one of these visits. (1) £700-1000

TOYS & GAMES

Lot 23 23* Anthropomorphic map cards. Skits, A Game of the Shires, pub. Jaques & Son, c.1900, eighty cards (complete), comprising forty numbered county map cards, and forty accompanying cards with each county pictured as a person, animal, or object, each with verse, yellow versos, in clean crisp condition, 75 x 55mm (3 x 2.25ins), together with 4pp. rule leaflet, contained in orig. cardboard box with pictorial label on front, edges of box rubbed and one hinge split Extremely rare; we have been unable to trace another set. With verses such as: ‘Dear Cantabs, old Sambo’s our brother,/So every harsh thought we should smother;/Though dark his complexion/He votes at th’election;/Then let us all love one another.’ (1) £700-1000

24* Boxed games. An unusual educational toy containing two wooden-backed pictorial panels bearing printed illustrations by Marguerite Davis, produced by Judge Baker Foundation, Chicago, 1918, complete with forty small wooden tiles, contained in original wooden box with brass clasps, together with a c.1920s Mah Jong set, the pieces constructed of ivory and bamboo, contained in original sliding-lid box with contemp. rule book, plus a wooden sliding-lid box containing three card decks, and a similarly boxed game of Nain Jaune, with numerous tokens and orig. instruction sheet in French (4)

Lot 24

£150-200

Lot 25 25* Costume. A collection of eighty-six small costume cards, English, c.1820, together eighty-six finely hand-col. litho. illusts. of British contemporary and historical costume, mostly set against backdrops of countryside and buildings, on J. Whatman watermarked paper, black border lines visible in places, plain versos, approx. 70 x 50mm (2.75 x 2ins) A rare and very attractive group of costume cards, which we have been unable to trace elsewhere. (1) £300-500

26* Darton (William, pub.). Walker’s Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Western Hemisphere, or New World, an Amusing and Instructive Game, pub. 9th May 1816, hand-col. eng. map, divided into twelve sections and mounted on linen, lightly toned, overall size 510 x 480mm (20 x 48ins), contained in orig. marbled cardboard slipcase, with eng. label on front (dated June 11th), slipcase rubbed and worn with sl. loss See Whitehouse p.13-14 for a similar (double-hemisphere) map game. (1) £150-200

27* Dolls. A bisque head fisherman doll, c. 1920s, slight wear to the boots, otherwise generally in very good condition, height approx. 10 inches, together with a Merrythought Pyjama case, in the shape of a dog, c. 1960s, a little bare in places, length approx. 18 inches, plus a Toy Dalmation, c. 1960s, one eye partly missing, length approx. 9.5 inches (3)

£100-150

Lot 26

30* Games. A varied collection of approx. thirty Edwardian and later board games, etc., including Spin-Golf, Fishponds, Crown & Anchor, Bob’s The Bridge Game & Bob’s The New Bridge Game, Houp-la!, Madcap, Race Game, Magnetic Stars, Jiggle-Joggle, Gay Mr Gander, Funny Freddy, Tiny Tot’s Nursery Skittles, The Game of Trianhole, Spin-Wobble(?), Station to Station, Mechanical Yacht Race, The New Game of Hunting, Blow Football, Lotto or House, A Merry Game of Floundering, A Game of Goose, Croquet, Harma, The Prince’s Quest, Cardhouses, Winkles Wedding, Hoop-la!, Coronation Scott Railway Game, etc., pieces unchecked but believe to be largely complete in original boxes, some wear, various sizes (approx. 30)

31* Harris (John and Wallis, John). Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third, 1st ed., pub. John Harris, 1803, hand-coloured eng., comprising 157 circles, terminating in an oval portrait of King George III, divided into twelve sections and mounted on linen, lightly toned and a few marks, some minor curling to edges, 565 x 520mm (22 x 20.5ins), together with 47pp. booklet of Rules and Directions, in orig. buff wrappers with printed label to upper cover, housed together in orig. cardboard slipcase, with printed paper label, rubbed and worn

28* Educational chart. History Made Easy, Genealogy Since the Conquest, Newbury, Berks: W. Pinnock, c.1810, folding engraved chart, mounted in twelve sections on linen, with a large circular diagram in centre tracing the genealogy of British royalty from the Norman Conquest to George III, with cartouches on either side containing Notes, Directions, Genealogy from Egbert, Consorts Since the Conquest, lightly foxed in places, 37.5 x 45cm (14.75 x 17.5ins) An interesting and rare piece of educational ephemera. (1)

Whitehouse p.27-28. (1)

£150-200

32* Harris (John and Wallis, John). Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third, 1st ed., pub. John Harris, 1803, hand-coloured engraving, comprising 157 circles, terminating in an oval portrait of King George III, sectionalised on linen, some fraying and holes, 555 x 520mm (22 x 20.5ins), together with 42pp. booklet of Rules and Directions dated 1804, orig. marbled wrappers (crudely rebacked in cloth), and large folding Chart of English History, Compiled by Helen Deakin, torn and foxed, housed together in orig. marbled card slipcase, with eng. paper label, worn with loss

£100-150

29* Farm animals, early 20th century, lead farm animals, workers, buildings, hay stacks, trees, etc., housed in a painted wooden barn, 13 x 30cm, together with Victorian ‘Building Stones’ by Richter & Co, Germany, in original wooden box with paper label and instructions, plus a Conjuring Tricks, Glevum Series game and other items, variable condition (a carton)

£150-200

Whitehouse p.27-28. (1)

£70-100

£100-150

Lot 33 Lot 30

37* Jigsaw puzzle. The Pilgrim’s Progress, n.p., late 19th c., handcol. litho. wooden jigsaw puzzle, with an illust. from Bunyan’s famous story, approx. sixty pieces (complete), lightly toned, 395 x 535mm (15.5 x 21ins), contained in orig. wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid (latter split horizontally and repaired), 275 x 230 x 60mm (11 x 9 x 2.5ins)

33* Historical Amusement. A New and Entertaining Game of the History of England, G. Williams, c.1840, thirty-six hand-col. woodcut portrait cards of English monarchs from William I to Queen Victoria (complete), 55 x 35mm (2.25 x 1.25ins), plus fortyseven (of 50) smaller numbered cards with answers to the questions printed in the 31pp. rule booklet (lacking nos. 6, 11, 95), booklet with orig. patterned yellow wrappers (matching verso of cards), orig. wooden box, with pictorial label on sliding lid (sl. rubbed), box 90 x 120 x 55mm (3.5 x 4.75 x 2.25ins) (1)

(1)

38* Jigsaw puzzle. Superior Dissected Maps, England & Wales, Gall & Inglis, c.1880, hand-col. wooden jigsaw puzzle, with map of England and Wales, approx. eighty pieces (complete), together with orig. folded guide sheet (torn and repaired), contained in orig. wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid, 255 x 210 x 55mm (10 x 8.25 x 2.25ins), together with another similar map jigsaw of England and Wales by Gall & Inglis, with some sl. loss, lacking the guide sheet, contained in orig. wooden box

£100-150

34* Jigsaw maps. Superior Dissected Maps - The World, published by W. Peacock, c.1880s, comprising a wooden-backed printed jigsaw map of the World by George Philip, contained in the original wooden box with sliding lid bearing printed pictorial label, together with similar maps of Europe and three of England & Wales, all except one published by Peacock, all contained in their original wooden sliding boxes, plus two later wooden map jigsaws in original card boxes

(2)

£70-100

39* Jigsaw puzzle. Sovereigns of England, n.p., c.1860s, hand-col. litho. wooden jigsaw puzzle, showing thirty-six English monarchs from William 1st to Queen Victoria, approx. seventy pieces, lightly toned and upper corner a little stained, overall size 405 x 54mm (16 x 21ins), together with orig. folded guide sheet, stained and torn (with sl. loss), and repaired on verso, contained in orig. wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid, 285 x 230 x 55mm (11.25 x 9 x 2.25ins), plus another smaller jigsaw, The Sovereigns of England, pub. J. Betts, contained in orig. wooden box, and a boxed wooden block game with the same title (box broken)

The jigsaws appear in good order and are assumed complete, though sold with all faults. (7) £150-200

35* Jigsaw puzzle. Double Dissection Geography & History, Scotland, William Peacock & Co., early 20th c., hand-col. wooden jigsaw puzzle, with map of Scotland on one side and English monarchs on the other, approx. sixty pieces (complete), one or two repaired, together with the two guide sheets (dusty and torn, folds repaired with adhesive tape on versos), contained in orig. wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid, 280 x 230 x 50mm (11 x 9 x 2ins) (1)

£80-120

(3)

£150-200

40* Jigsaw Puzzles. Peacock’s New Double Dissection Geography & History, England & Wales, c. 1900, double-sided wooden jigsaw with hand-coloured printed paper designs, on one side a map of England and Wales and on the other full-length portraits of the monarchs of England from William I to Edward VII, a few pieces sl. damaged and a few pieces missing, contained with remains of orig. key picture in wooden box with sliding lid (split in two without loss) with lithographed pict. label to upper cover, 28 x 23.5 x 5cm, together with another similar for Europe, also sl. incomplete with defective sliding lid now in two pieces, plus a third unchecked double-sided wooden puzzle in wooden box with sliding lid and pict. onlay titled ‘Quick March! A Soldier Toy Book’

£100-150

36* Jigsaw puzzle. Dissected Puzzle from English History, William Peacock, c.1880, hand-col. wooden jigsaw puzzle, showing thirty-five scenes from English history, approx. fifty pieces, (complete), lightly toned and one or two minor marks, overall size 310 x 51mm (12.25 x 20ins, together with remains of the guide sheet (laid down on paper), contained in orig. wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid, 230 x 180 x 55mm (9 x 7 x 2ins) Including the Death of Lord Nelson, The Siege of Sebastopol, Duke of Clarence Drowned in a Butt of Wine, Cromwell Viewing the Body of Charles, etc. (1) £80-120

(3)

£70-100

41* Lineol Soldiers. A collection of WW1 British soldiers by Lineol, Germany, comprising 25 soldiers marching with rifle on shoulder, 1 officer on horseback and 10 band members, variable condition and two damaged heads, together with various early 20th century lead soldiers, cowboys, etc.

Lot 37

(a carton)

£100-150

44* Myers (A.N., pub.). The Bath Rose, c.1850, thirty-two engraved views of Bath on a pierced shaped sheet of paper which folds to form a chromo. rose, diameter unfolded approx. 26.5cm (10.5ins), length when folded 13.5cm (5.25ins), contained in orig. engraved envelope with illust. of a fountain and angels,

42* Magic tricks. An original boxed set titled “Conjuring Tricks” and issued by Spear’s & Sons, Nuremberg, c.1900. containing numerous tricks, some of wooden construction, many tricks contained in paper envelopes, with original 16 pp. instruction booklet, condition generally very good, contained in original card box with pictorial label to upper cover, the box a little worn at the edges (1)

Including views of the Circus, the Abbey Church, the Grand Pump Room, Sham Castle, Lansdown Crescent, Box Tunnel, Prior Park, Partis College, etc.. (1) £50-80

£150-200

45* Nelson (T., & sons, pub.). The Story of King Robert the Bruce, late 19th c., hand-col. litho. double-sided wooden jigsaw, approx. fifty pieces (complete), both sides with illusts. and text, together with orig. illustrated 4to booklet, orig. pictorial wrappers (torn and repaired, with sl. loss), contained in orig. wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid, 310 x 240 x 50mm (12 x 9.5 x 2ins) (1)

£70-100

43* Model cars, various early 20th century ‘Tootsie Toy’ model cars, including a saloon, light green body with black mudguards chassis, spare wheel fitted behind each mudguard, with white tyres, together with a Dinky Kodak Film Delivery van, yellow with white tyres, a Peek Freens biscuit tin in the form of a castle, 17cm high, a tin in the form of a tank, 10cm long (both early 20th century) plus a Meccano Dinky Toys No.52 Cunard - White Star Liner “Queen Mary”, boxed and other models, all playworn (a carton)

£100-150

46* Paper dolls. Our Favourite Dolls, New York: A.T. Co.’s Paper Doll Series, c.1890s, together two sets of large chromo. paper dolls, the first comprising a cut-out thick cardboard figure of a young girl in lace petticoat and bloomers, creased at neck and with stand renewed on verso, 42 x 20cm (16.5 x 8ins), nine card dresses with tabs, and eight slotted card hats, the second doll comprising a cut-out thick cardboard figure of a young boy wearing under garments, with stand renewed on verso, 43.5 x 18cm (7ins), five card outfits with tabs, and four slotted hats (two broken), both sets contained in orig. pictorial cardboard envelope (some edge-wear and adhesive tape repairs) Rare. (2)

Lot 44

£200-300

Lot 47 47 Peepshow. Diorama d’une Fete de Village, Paris: Guerin-Muller, c.1830s, six division hand-col. litho. peepshow (incl. backdrop and front cover with large circular peep-hole), showing a village fair, with stalls, carousel, country dancing, musicians and other performers, etc., some repairs to bellows, backdrop detached, verso of backdrop printed with instructions and diagrams for construction, front cover with hand-col. litho. showing groups of children, 140 x 190mm (5.5. x 7.5ins), extending to approx. 400mm (15.75ins) A rare and very decorative peepshow. (1)

£400-600

48 Peepshow. A large hand-made peepshow, early 20th c., ten divisions, eight of which show lines of col. litho. figures, incl. French and Prussian soldiers, framed by cut-out coloured paper in various patterns, some creasing and damage, first division with peep-hole and decorated with cut-out coloured paper, final division (i.e. base) with col. illust. of the S.S. Rotterdam, 24.5 x 32cm (9.5 x 12.5ins), extending to 225cm (88.5ins) (1)

£100-150

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49 Peepshow. A hand-col. six-division peepshow, pub. Mart. Engelbrecht, c.1760s, depicting Christ seated on a throne in a temple, with the ten commandments tablet behind him on the altar, and a number of seated and standing figures surrounding him, incl. the Virgin Mary, bellows renewed, approx. 170 x 210mm (6.75 x 8.25ins), contained in modern slipcase (1)

£150-250

50* Playing cards. The Court Game of Astronomy, William and Henry Rock, c.1830, a complete deck of fifty-two engraved playing cards, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), plain versos, dusty, 98 x 65mm (3.75 x 2.5ins), together with orig. instruction booklet, 31pp., a.e.g., orig. figured pink wrappers, spine split, contained together in orig. blindstamped black leather case, gilt titled on upper side, rubbed and with loss to ends Extremely rare deck of cards illustrating signs of the zodiac and Roman pantheon. (1) £700-1000

Lot 49

51* Playing cards. Mental Amusement. An Entertaining and Instructive Game; comprising Two Hundred and Forty Subjects on History, Geography, Astronomy, &c., by C. Gell, printed for J. Souter, School Library, 1832, forty printed cards, 73 x 108mm (3 x 4.24ins), plain versos, together with instruction booklet, orig. plain wrappers (dusty and sl. frayed), contained in orig. cardboard slipcase, with printed paper label on upper side With such questions and answers as: ‘What is remarkable of the climate of Russia?’/’In some parts it is so severe, that icicles often hang to the eyelashes of the drivers of carriages’, and ‘For what is Guinea noted?’/’For the sale of Slaves’. Rare. (1) £200-300

Lot 50

52* Playing cards. Neuvieme Jeu de Cartes Instructives, Contenant Un Abregé de l’Histoire des Animaux, avec des gravures. Ouvrage destiné à l’instruction de la jeunesse des deux sexes, Paris A.-A. Renouard, 1808, forty-six numbered cards with wood engraved illust. of an animal at head and text below, plus two printed cards with instructions, plain versos, 106 x 67mm (4 x 2.75ins), contained in orig. cardboard slipcase, with pull-off lid, printed label on upper side, sl. rubbed and toned (1)

£150-200

54* Playing cards. A set of costume playing cards, n.p., c.1880s, forty-two chromo. playing cards, comprising fourteen sets of three, each set making up a figure in national costume, and initialled ‘G.L.’, some corner-creasing and one or two minor closed tears (one card with tip of one corner missing), green patterned versos, each card 66 x 92mm (2.5 x 3.5ins) With titles such as: ‘The Fatherland’; ‘Troubadour’; ‘Pretty Little Wales’; ‘From the East’; ‘Advance Australia’; ‘John Bull’; ‘Scottie’. (1) £100-150

55* Playing cards. A deck of Spanish playing cards, Madrid: Felix Solesio e Hijos, 1809, fifty-three wood eng. cards with stencilled colouring (one lacking and two duplicates), comprising four suits of thirteen (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 2-10, and three full-length court cards (king, knight, jack), lacking the ten of clubs, and with jack of cups and nine of clubs duplicated, blue dotpatterned versos, 90 x 55 mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), contained in old hand-painted pictorial cardboard box, lacking pull-off lid (1)

£100-150

56* Playing cards. The Counties of England, A New Round Game, 2nd Series, Jaques & Son, c.1870, sixty-one cards (complete), most with colour-printed illusts., pale pink versos, 90 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), lacking rule card, contained in orig. cardboard slipcase and box, with printed label on upper side, sl. rubbed and dusty, together with The Round Game of Sparx, Chad Valley, c.1920s, fiftyone cards, comprising seven sets of seven (with colour illusts. relating to early radio), and penalty card and wild card, some dustsoiling and marks, rounded corners, red patterned versos, 85 x 60mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), contained in orig. cardboard box, worn and repaired, with pictorial label on upper side, plus sixteen other packs of cards, incl. Auction Game, Snap (Jaques), flowers pack, National Families, The National Gallery, several Quartetts packs, Three Torches advertising pack (matches), Animal Grab, Kingdoms of Europe, The XVIth Century, and others

53* Playing cards. The New and Fascinating Game “Karoo”, “Globe” Series of Games, printed in Bavaria, c.1880s, forty-eight chromo. cards, comprising sixteen sets of three, each set making up an illustration of a character, e.g., servant, policeman, soldier, clown, Punch, Judy, Father Christmas, etc., each card 60 x 92mm (2.25 x 3.5ins), patterned pink versos, together with folding rule card printed in blue, contained in orig. wooden box, with pull-off lid, chromo. label on upper side (sl. chipped) With titles such as: ‘Tally ho!!’; ‘Bobby’; ‘I’ll give him beans’; ‘Our Landlady’; ‘Tommy Atkins’; ‘Our Slavey’. Rare. (1) £200-300

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£200-300

59* Playing cards. A deck of Spanish playing cards, early 19th c., forty-eight eng. cards with stencilled hand-colouring (complete), comprising four suits of twelve (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 2-9, and three full-length court cards, pink patterned versos, sl. warped, 90 x 58mm (3.5 x 2.25ins) With an intriguing piece of provenance in the form of a torn and frayed folded sheet of paper written in early manuscript as follows: ‘Gathered from the wreck of a Danish vessel, bound for Valparaiso that cast on a remote and unfriendly part of the coast of Alderney in the year 1833. Pianos, organs, violins, ... cases of choice Liqueuers and countless thousands of these cards strewed the beach. A little way apart from the turmoil lay the “dark deserted houses” of three whence “life and thought” had fled away. The Captain of the ill fated vessel, was comforted and cheered in my Mother’s house, - and, fell in love with the Governors daughter! shocking!! - the monster’s name was “Spiro Pellegrins-”‘. (1) £200-300

57* Playing cards. The Game of Ujiji; or the Search for Livingstone, late 19th., a set of fifty-two playing cards (complete), comprising fifty numbered cards of tribal characters printed in black and red (Tang-Greedy Nigger; Loolo, the Beauty of Manyema; Mirambo’s Mother; Bani Boomerang, etc.), and two numbered cards with ports. of Livingstone and Stanley, toned and lightly foxed, plain versos, 95 x 65 mm (3.75 x 2.5ins), together with 4pp. rule sheet (in three frayed fragments) and remains of orig. cardboard box (1)

60* Roman Empire. Grand Jeu de L’Histoire de Rome, Depuis sa Fondation Jusqu’a Cesar Auguste, 2e. Empereur, [Paris: Basset], late 18th c., eng. game on paper, comprising rules in central oval enclosed by a spiral of sixty-three numbered playing fields, each with illust. and caption in French, trimmed to border and with some creases, numerous edge-tears with adhesive repairs on verso and loss to one corner, 45 x 62cm (17.75 x 24.25ins)

£300-500

58* Playing cards. A bound deck of Spanish playing cards, titled to spine Naypes Finos, late 18th c., forty-eight hand-col. eng. cards (complete), comprising four suits of twelve (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 2-9, and three full-length court cards, green patterned versos, 86 x 56mm (3.75 x 2.25ins), with folding eng. leaf (bound in at front) printed in green with imprint, instructions, and allegorical figures of the four nations, patterned endpapers, owner’s embossed oval label on front pastedown, bound in early 20th c. green morocco gilt, by Winstanley, Manchester, extrems. rubbed

Scarce. (1)

The folding leaf reads: ‘Naypes deun Inbento original conel nombre de las quatro Naciones por sinificar cada uno delos 4 Palos uns nacion la mas alusiva o analoga al Palo, scallaran enla fabrica del Inbentor esquina ala Plazuela del rastro qto. principla desde ...rs. varaja asta’. (1) £300-500

£150-200

Lot 61

Lot 62

61 [Sallis, William, pub.]. Amusement in English History. A Game Exhibiting the Most Remarkable Events from the Time of the Britons, c.1841, hand-col. litho. game, with forty illusts., divided into twelve sections and mounted on linen, rubbed in a few places, overall size 505 x 635mm (20 x 25ins), folded into orig. blindstamped cloth binding gilt, faded and rubbed, lacking ties, sm. 4to Whitehouse, p.95. (1)

£200-300

62* Salvation Army. Salvation Army Social Campaign, Work For All, early 20th c., chromo. puzzle on thick card, comprising 117 square pieces, 50 x 50mm (2 x 2ins), showing a variety of scenes illustrating the work of the charity, e.g. Prison Gate Brigade, Boy’s Industrial Home, Cheap Food Depots, Lodgings for Single Women, etc., with Key to the Chart below, lightly toned, overall size 69 x 51cm (27 x 20ins), framed and glazed (1)

£70-100

63* Seemannsleben. The Living of the Mariner. La Vie du Marinier, n.p., c.1840s, hand-col. litho. folding board, 260 x 205 (10.25 x 8ins), with five cardboard counters and a pair of dice, board and counters laid down on brown paper, contained in orig. cardboard box with hand-col. litho. label on pull-off lid, 160 x 125 x 25mm (6.25 x 4.75 x 1ins), together with The Golden Egg Game, A Merry Round Game, n.p., c.1850s, hand-col. pictorial cards and text cards (some supplied in facsimile), numerous col. counters, a goldpainted wooden egg (later?), and facsimile rule sheet, contained in orig. wooden box with pictorial label on sliding lid, plus Uncle Charley’s Tusselfun, New Parlour Game, n.p., c.1880s, comprising litho. game sheet, rule sheet, and advert. sheet, plus two triangular wooden pieces with metal attachments, and six smaller wooden pieces, contained in orig. cardboard box with pictorial label on pulloff lid, toned and sl. worn (3)

£100-200

Lot 63

64* Snakes & Ladders. Snakes and Ladders, Chad Valley, c.1920s, colour-printed board, 29.5 x 29.5cm (11.75 x 11.75ins), four counters, die and wooden shaker, and large folded printed advert. sheet, all contained in orig. carboard box (sl. broken), pull-off lid with colour illust. on front and rules printed on verso, box 30.5 x 22 x 3cm (12 x 8.5 x 1ins), together with a quantity of other snakes and ladders boxed games and boards, early-mid. 20th c., incl. “Ariel” Series, Betal Games, Victor Series, Gibson & Sons, Spear’s, “Harlesden” Series, Pinky and Perky Snakes and Ladders, Peter Pan Series, Merchant (Games) Ltd, Berwick, and others (2 cartons)

£150-200

65 The Speaking Picture Book, Imitating the Cries of Animals. An Amusement for the Little Ones’ Eyes and Ears, n.p., c.1890, eight full-page chromo. illusts., with related poems and vigns., many tears (with some loss) and crude marginal strengthening, each page with corresponding ‘pull’ to activate a sound effect (two not working), each pull with orig. turned ivory finial (often lacking), orig. pictorial red cloth, rubbed and soiled, upper joint crudely repaired, oblong 4to The sounds produced are that of the cock, the donkey, the goat, ducks, the cat, sheep, the cow and the horse. Haining calls this ‘the pièce de résistance of any collection of moveables’ and adds that very few complete and fine copies have ‘survived youthful hands’ (Haining, Moveable Books, pp.136/7). Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1) £100-150

66 Spooner (William, publisher). The Travellers; or, A Tour Through Europe, 1st ed., pub. William Spooner, Decr. 1st, 1842, hand-col. litho. map, with numerous vigns., divided into twelve sections and laid on linen, one fold split, corners of sections curling in places (with occn. sl. loss), lower edge sl. frayed (clipping imprint), 500 x 630mm (19.75 x 24.75ins), folded into orig. cloth binding with decorative litho. label mounted on upper cover, soiled and edge-worn, early ms. ownership name on front pastedown Whitehouse, p.18. A rare table game, with vignettes such as: ‘Perils of the Whale Fishery’; ‘Laplander in his Canoe’; ‘Russian & Sledge’; Finlander attacking a Bear. (1) £150-250

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68* Toy theatre. A collection of toy theatre sets published by B. Pollock and J. Webb, c.1880s, comprising approx. 75 printed sheets of figures and backdrops from Sleeping Beauty, The Miller and his Men, The Blind Boy, The Waterman, etc., many leaves hand coloured, most sheets in their original state with the figures not excised, most sheets adhered at the corners onto blank backing paper, plus two printed juvenile plays titled “The Forest of Bundy” and “Lord Darnley” published by W. Webb and J.K. Green respec., both bound in original printed wrappers, together with one other printed play and ten unusual c.1830s wooden-backed pictorial cards depicting maritime scenes, with some faults (-)

£100-150

Lot 67 67* Stereoscopic viewer. A hand-held collapsible black cloth viewer, French, c.1880s, together with a set of twenty-six numbered chromo. stereocards of children, animals and birds, clowns, etc., plus one duplicate card, faintly foxed, 90 x 170mm (3.5 x 6.75ins), cards contained in orig. cloth-covered box, with contemp. ms. inside hinged lid (2)

£200-300

69* Transformation game. Neue Metamorphosen mit Fugurlichen Scenen. Nouveaux Metamorphoses avec des Scenes Figurees. New Metamorphoses with Figural Scenes, n.p., c.1820s, nine sevenpiece pictures, hand-coloured litho. on wood, illustrating various pastimes, street entertainments, trades, etc., each composed of a central lozenge-shaped piece surrounded by triangular-shaped pieces, all designed to be interchangeable, four pieces (in three pictures) missing, a few pieces sl. bowed, each picture 80 x 163mm (3.25 x 6.5ins), contained in orig. wooden box, with hand-coloured litho. label on sliding lid, rubbed, one edge rim missing Rare: we have been unable to trace another copy. Illustrations include: dancing bear and trainer; going to market; jesters; performing dog; courting; charity to the poor. (1) £300-400

Lot 68

71 Wallis (John). Wallis’s Tour Through England and Wales, a New Geographical Pastime, pub. 24th December, 1794, hand-col. eng. map with text to left and right margins, divided into sixteen sections and mounted on linen, a few fox spots, 515 x 675mm (20.25 x 67.5ins), contained in orig. cardboard slipcase with eng. paper label on front, rubbed and sl. worn to extrems. Whitehouse, p.9-10. (1)

70* Transformation game. A game of metamorphoses, n.p., c.1840, eight four-piece pictures, hand-col. litho. on wood, illustrating a variety of figures and animals, each piece triangular and designed to be interchangeable, sl. dusty, each picture 100 x 85mm (4 x 3.5ins), contained in a later wooden box with sliding lid

£150-200

72* Xylophone. A steel xylophone, c.1890s, comprising twenty steel bars mounted on a wooden frame, with two wooden mallets, contained within orig. wooden box with hinged cardboard lid (with musical notation inside lid), covered in decorative and pictorial paper, rubbed, with some loss of surface covering to one side, and a 2” diameter hole in base, 4 x 53 x 14.5cm (1.5 x 21 x 5.75ins)

Rare: we have been unable to trace another set. Illustrations include: an artist, a pierrot, a bear, a weight-lifter, a doctor, and a street-seller of foie gras. (1) £150-200

A rare survival of an extremely decorative item. (1)

Lot 72

£150-200

ANTIQUE FANS 73* Acts of Union. The United Sisters, Publish’d by Ashton and Hadven, Little Britain, Jan. 1801. Enter’d at Stationers Hall, folding paper fan, the leaf a stipple engraving by George Wilson, depicting three female figures with linked hands representing England, Scotland, and Ireland, with entwined rose, thistle, and shamrock motif above, and flanked by a unicorn and a lion, with the royal arms below and four lines of verse ‘Fair Sister Isles... blest as free’, a few fox spots and one or two faint stains, mounted on wooden sticks, 25.5cm (10ins) Schreiber Collection 36, p.71 (silk; unmounted). Commemorating the Acts of Union passed on 2nd July 1800 and 1st August 1800; the twin Acts united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The union came into effect on 1st January 1801. (1) £150-200

74* Advertising. A decorative rose fan, Paris: Duvelleroy, early-mid. 20th c., folding paper fontage fan, the leaf picturing a pink rose, mounted on lacquered wooden sticks with floral gilt decoration, 28.5cm (11.25ins), plus a similar folding paper fontage fan picturing the head of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, mounted on lacquered wooden sticks with floral gilt decoration, 22cm (8.5ins) (2)

Lot 73

£50-80

75* Advertising. Hotel Westminster, Paris, 1809-1909, Paris: Francolin, Gilet & Cie., 1909, folding paper fan commemorating the centenary of the hotel, the obverse of the leaf with chromo. illustration showing the exterior of the hotel in 1809 and in 1909, with a carriage and horses outside the former, and motor cars outside the latter, signed L. Gando, the verso patterned, some short edge-splits, mounted on wooden sticks, 22cm (8.5ins), plus a folding paper fan advertising Hotel Dieudonne, the obverse with colour-printed silver leaf depicting cherubs, swans, and flowers, mounted on decorated wooden sticks, 21cm (8.25ins) and a fan advertising Sociéte des Hotels de L’Étoile, Paris, Buissot, c.1910, folding paper fan, the obverse with chromo. of landscapes and pastoral scenes with figures, verso listing a number of hotels, mounted on wooden sticks, sticks and guardsticks with gilt decoration, 22cm (8.5ins) (3)

Lot 75

£80-120

76* Advertising. Calendar 1893 presented by the Grafton Fur Company Ltd., 164, New Bond St., Manufacturing Furriers & Fur Importers, Mounted in Austria, [1892], folding paper fan, the obverse with sepia litho. showing calendar for 1893 and winter scene of carriages and riders, verso with a montage of photo. reproductions of well-known figures, entitled ‘Louis Felbermann’s Celebrity Fan’, printed in Photo-Mezzotype by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co. Ltd., some splitting to folds, mounted on wooden sticks painted gold, 34.5cm (13.5ins)

Lot 76

Picturing Ellen Terry, Mrs. Langtry and Henry Irving, amongst others. (1) £80-120

77* Advertising. A fan advertising the Madrid shop of fan dealer Julian Gonzales, Spanish, early 20th c., folding paper fan, the obverse of the leaf printed with a picture of the interior of the fan shop, the verso with a picture of a fan and details of services offered, mounted on wooden sticks painted cream and decorated in silver, 27.5cm (10.75ins) (1)

£100-150

Lot 77

78* Advertising. Crosfields’ “Fan” White Soap/”Pyramid” Milled Toilet Soap, Joseph Crosfield & Sons Ltd, Warrington, c.1900, folding paper fan, the chromo. leaf with soap advertisment on each side, one side with illustrations of soap decorated with fans, and lilies, the other with pyramids and camels, mounted on dark wood sticks, 24cm (9.5ins) (1)

£80-120

79* Advertising. Fan advertising Champagne Dry Monopole, Paris: Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fan, the chromo. leaf showing Auteuil racecourse with a gentleman writing notes and another disguised as a champagne bottle, signed Sem (Georges Goursat, 1863-1934), sl. rubbed in places, mounted on wooden sticks, 23cm (9ins) (1)

£100-150

80* Advertising. Fan advertising Madame Louise milliners, 266 Regent Street and at Paris, c.1910, folding paper fan, both sides printed in purple with four photo. images of head and shoulder portraits of ladies modelling hats, with borders of swags and bows, mounted on wooden sticks stained purple, 22cm (8.75ins), plus Fan advertising Seiden-Greider, Zurich, early 20th c., folding paper fan, the obverse with chromo. of a garden scene with musicians and courting couples, the verso with photo. image of the department store and street with tram, mounted on wooden sticks stained green, 22cm (8.75ins)

Lot 78

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£70-100

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Lot 82

81* Advertising. Fan advertising Galeries Lafayette, France, c.1920s/30s, folding paper fontage fan, the chromo. silver leaf with a seated lady in ballgown and text on the obverse, by Gabriel Domerque, and head and shoulders port. of a lady with bobbed hair looking in a mirror on the verso, by Gabriel Ferro, mounted on dark wood sticks, 24.5cm (9.75ins), together with a folding paper fontage fan for Boutique Junko in Paris, Japan, 20th c., with oriental design of a dragon, 29cm (11.25ins) (2)

£70-100

82* Advertising. Fan advertising Cafe des Beaux-Arts, New York, and Chateau de Beaux-Arts, Huntington, c. 1910, folding paper fan, the obverse with chromo. of landscapes and pastoral scenes with figures, verso listing a number of hotels, mounted on wooden sticks, 22cm (8.5ins), together with Olympia’s Taverne, Paris: Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paperfan, with images of the restaurant interior on both sides, one side with several contemp. pencilled names, mounted on wooden sticks, sl. frayed in a couple of places, 23.5cm (9.25ins), plus A decorative fan, Paris: Maquet, c.1920s, folding paper fan, the leaf with chromo. illust. on the obverse showing ladies in a classical landscape, verso with volutes, swags, and musical trophies, sl. rubbed in places, mounted on bone sticks, sticks and guardsticks gilt decorated, A. Risler Carre on brass loop, 21.5cm (8.5ins), contained in a Maquet cardboard fan box, pull-off lid gilt lettered, extrems. a little rubbed, together with A decorative fan in “Kardomah” box, folding silk fan, the leaf with painted and embroidered floral decoration on both sides, mounted on shaped ivory sticks, with tassel on loop, 15cm (6ins), contained in cardboard fan box, pull-off lid with printed label ‘“Kardomah” Teas and Coffees. Your kind recommendations will be esteemed’, sl. wear (4)

Lot 83

£80-120

83* Advertising. Fan advertising Parfum Floramye, L.T. Piver, Parfumerie, Paris, c.1910, folding paper fan, the obverse with chromo. illust. of a lady in long dress and hat reclining on a cliff by the sea, with a little dog, by Abel Faivre, text and floral decoration on verso, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (9.75ins), together with Fan advertising Gao, L.T. Piver, Paris, c.1925, folding paper fontage fan, the obverse with a colour pochoir design by Yvonne Preverand de Sonneville, of a lady in riding habit leading a horse, surrounded by floral decoration, verso with text and illust. of saddle, crop, and top hat, lightly creased to top edge, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (9.75ins) (2)

£70-100

Lot 84 84* Advertising. Fan advertising Suzuki, Honda, & Co. Fine Cloisonne Manufacturers, Nagoya, Japan, c.1930s, folding paper fan, the leaf with hand-coloured litho. illust. on the obverse, of a Japanese shop and busy street scene, verso with text describing the process of cloisonne, mounted on wooden sticks, 26cm (10.25ins) (1)

£70-100

85* Advertising. Fan advertising Parisian chocolatiers Marquise de Sevigne, Japanese, c.1900, folding paper fan, the leaf a handcoloured litho. with text within decorative borders of volutes, swags, and bows, mounted on white-painted shaped wooden sticks, guardsticks decorated in gilt (rubbed), 21.5cm (8.5ins), together with Fan advertising Parisian chocolatiers F. Marquis, early 20th c., folding paper fan, the obverse with chromo. illust. of Japanese ladies in a landscape, the verso with text, some light creasing to top edge, mounted on coral-stained wooden sticks, 22cm (8.5ins) (2)

Lot 85

£70-100

86* Advertising. Fan advertising the liquor L’Anis de Toro, Paris: Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fan, the obverse with tinted litho. by Thor, of a lady and gentleman sharing a drink at an al fresco table, verso with text, mounted on wooden sticks, 23cm (9ins) (1)

£100-150

87* Advertising. Fan advertising Courvoisier Cognac, Paris: Camis, c.1900, folding paper fan, the chromo. leaf with illust. by Maurice Leloir depicting a fairy and putti offering brandy to allegorical figures representing various countries, incl. England, France, Germany, and Spain, mounted on wooden sticks, guardsticks lettered in gilt, 21.5cm (8.5ins) (1)

£70-100

88* Advertising. Fan advertising Casino de Villers-sur-Mer, Paris: J. Ganné, c.1920s, folding paper fan, the obverse with chromo. illust. of three 18th c. figures in a landscape (two young ladies and a young gentleman playing a violin), minor damage and repair to lower edge, verso with text, mounted on wooden sticks, 21.5cm (12.75ins), together with Fan advertising Vichy, Paris: Verger & Baret, c.1910, folding paper fan, the chromo. leaf with various scenes of Vichy (‘casino’, ‘celestins’, ‘grande-grille’, ‘hopital’), some sl. damage, mounted on wooden sticks, 26cm (10.25ins)

Lot 87

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£70-100

89* Advertising. Fan advertising Galeries Lafayette, France, c.1920s/30s, folding paper fontage fan, the chromo. silver leaf with a seated lady in ballgown and text on the obverse, by Gabriel Domerque, and head and shoulders port. of a lady with bobbed hair looking in a mirror on the verso, by Gabriel Ferro, extrems. rubbed (with some minor loss), mounted on dark wood sticks, 24.5cm (9.75ins), together with “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, Adapted from the Famous Play by Oscar Wilde, Showing at The Grand Super Cinema..., early 20th c., folding tissue paper fan, the obverse with pink flowers and dark blue lettering, mounted on white painted wooden sticks, plus a folding paper cockade advertising fan, Paris, early 20th c., the obverse lettered in blue ‘Talons Caoutchouc Wood Milne les Plus Durables’, the verso with illust. of a bi-plane, one short edge-tear, mounted on wooden sticks

Lot 91

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£100-150

90* Advertising. Fan advertising the Savoy Hotel, folding paper fontage fan, France, c. 1920s/30s, the obverse with chromo. of a lady in a ballgown holding a fan, verso in yellow with hotel logo and floral decoration, mounted on wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins), plus Rittner’s Parkhôtel & Villa, Bad Homburg, Germany, early 20th, folding paper fan, printed in blue, the obverse with text and royal coats of arms, the verso with photo. images of the hotel’s exterior and interior, some minor splitting to folds, mounted on whitepainted wooden sticks, leading guardstick lettered in silver, 25cm (9.75ins), plus

Lot 93

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£70-100

91* Advertising. Fan advertising Grand Maison de Blanc, Paris, c.1910, folding paper fontage fan, with chromo. entitled ‘Le Vent de la Folie’ and showing a number of vigns. of frolicking pierrots, cherubs, children, and animals, etc., by A. Willette, mounted on wooden sticks, 27cm (10.5ins) (1)

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£70-100

Lot 96 92* Advertising. Fan advertising Cherry-Rocher, Paris: E. Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fontage fan, the obverse with chromo. of cherries in a basket, the verso with text, sl. rubbed in places, mounted on wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins), plus Fan advertising Liqueurs, F. Cazanove, Bordeaux, Paris: E. Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fontage fan, the obverse with chromo. of a monk seated at a desk with a bottle of liquor, entitled Liqueur du Père Kermann, the verso printed in brown, with illust. of a bottle of Black Head Rum picturing a negro boy on the label, mounted on wooden sticks, 22cm (8.75ins), plus Fan advertising Martell Cognac, French, c.1920s, folding paper fan, the leaf with chromo. illust. by Rossi of an 18th c. picnic scene, with two ladies and two gentlemen and a coach in the background, mounted on bone sticks, sticks and guardsticks gilt decorated, and one guardstick gilt lettered, 21.5cm (8.5ins), plus Fan advertising the liquor L’Anis de Toro, Paris: Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fan, the obverse with tinted litho. by Thor, of a lady and gentleman sharing a drink at an al fresco table, verso with text, mounted on wooden sticks, 23cm (9ins) (4)

95* America. Gloria a Colon - Recuerdo del 4o Centenario, 1892, folding paper fan, the lithographed leaf commemorating Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America, the obverse with duotone illust. and the verso with chromo. illust., one or two short closed tears, mounted on wooden sticks painted cream, guardsticks gilt lettered in ms., 31cm (12.25ins) (1)

96* Ballooning. Enlevement du globe Aerostatique de Mrs. Charles et Robert, Aux Thuilleries, le 1er xbre, 1783, folding paper fan, the leaf engraved and hand-coloured on the obverse with a large central image of the balloon ascent of Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert in 1783, flanked by circular images showing the landing of the balloon and the second ascent of Jacques Charles, each titled below (one edge section missing, clipping image and text on right-hand side), on a blue semé dot and star ground, the verso with musical notation and verse entitled ‘Air de Marlborough’, browned and foxed, with some edge-wear, mounted on wooden sticks, 28cm (11ins)

£100-150

Not in the Schreiber Collection. Extremely rare fan commemorating the first manned flight in a gas hydrogen balloon. On December 1st 1783, less than two weeks after the Montgolfier brother’s ground-breaking flight, the French physicist Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert made their untethered ascension. The Robert brothers, Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis, were the engineers who built the world’s first hydrogen balloon for Professor Jacques Charles; Charles designed the balloon and the brothers invented the method of constructing the lightweight, airtight gas bag. On December 1st Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, to a height of about 1,800 feet and landed at sunset in Nesles-la-Vallée after a flight lasting just over two hours and covering 36 km. The chasers on horseback, who were led by the Duc de Chartres, held down the craft while both Charles and Nicolas-Louis alighted. It is reported that 400,000 spectators witnessed the launch, and that hundreds paid a crown each to help finance the construction and receive access to a special enclosure for a close-up view of the take-off, including Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Montgolfier, whom Charles honoured by requesting he release the small, bright green, pilot balloon used to assess the wind and weather conditions. (1) £500-800

93* Advertising. Fan advertising Carlton Hotel & Restaurant in London, Paris, 1911, folding paper fan, the chromo. leaf with illust. by George Redon, of a prim young lady seated on a sofa with a small dog, and a young gentleman attempting to engage her in conversation, lettered on verso, mounted on wooden sticks, 24.5cm (9.5ins) (1)

£70-100

94* Almanack. 1796 Leap Year, [published Jany. 1st 1796 by J. Cock & J.P. Crowder, Wood Street], Engraved by S.J. Neele, 352 Strand, folding paper fan, the stipple-eng. leaf with divisions for each month of the year, January to June on obverse, and July to December on verso, each month with a poem and oval eng. vign. (birds/landscapes), and information regarding holidays, phases of the moon, etc., with ink duty stamp on obverse, imprint at edge trimmed, lightly toned, some splitting to folds, left-hand edge of verso trimmed with consequent partial loss of foliate border, mounted on wooden sticks, 27cm (10.5ins) Schreiber Collection 54, p.12. (1)

£150-200

£200-300

Lot 97 97* Bartholomew Fair. Bartholomew Fair, 1721, Published as the act directs by J.F. Setchel, 23, King-Street, Covent-Garden, [1824], an unmounted paper fan leaf, aquatint washed with Indian ink, attributed to Thomas Loggon, with a view of the fair with numerous figures, booths, a theatre production of ‘Judith and Holophernes’ by Lee & Harper, and a peep-show of the siege of Gibraltar, with semi-circular letterpress description overlaid, one or two closed tears, 57cm (22.5ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 104, p.81 (unmounted). The Bartholomew Fair was one of London’s pre-eminent summer Charter fairs, which took place each year from 1133 to 1855. A trading event for cloth and other goods as well as a pleasure fair, the event drew crowds from all classes of English society, and it featured sideshows, prize-fighters, musicians, wire-walkers, acrobats, puppets, freaks and wild animals. One of the most popular performers in the early 18th century was conjuror Isaac Fawkes, who is shown here demonstrating his famous Egg Bag trick, entitled ‘Faux’s dexterity of hand’, with ‘Faux’s Famous Posture Master’ (his son) demonstrating various contorted poses beneath. Faux is recorded to have died worth £10,000, which he had accumulated during his career. The fair was suppressed in 1855 by the City authorities for encouraging debauchery and public disorder. (1) £2500-3000

Lot 98

98* Biblical. Joseph telleth his Dreams to his Bretheren, late 18th c., folding paper fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching illustrating the story of Joseph and his brothers, sl. dusty and toned, one section a little frayed to lower edge, mounted on wooden sticks, guardsticks with painted floral sprays, 29cm (11.5ins) Not in the Schreiber Collection. (1)

£100-150

99* Biblical. Moses striking the Rock, publish’d by M. Gamble, according to the late Act, 1740, folding paper fan, the leaf a handcoloured etching showing Moses in the centre standing by a rock from which a stream of water issues, while various figures and animals drink or draw water from it, mounted on pierced ivory sticks (one with v. sl. damage), with carved guardsticks, 27.5cm (10.5ins), contained in 18th c. embossed paper-covered cardboard fan box with pull-off lid

Lot 99

Schreiber Collection 20, p.6. (1)

£200-300

101* Bullfighting. A Los Toros, de Los Toros, Madrid & Paris, J. Laurent Y Cia., c.1880s, folding paper fan, the obverse with sepia litho. depicting horse-drawn vehicles and crowds thronging outside the Plaza de Toros, verso with photos. of bullfighters and images of their conquests, mounted on pierced dark wood sticks, 25cm (10ins) Schreiber Collection 298 and 299, p.114 (unmounted, hand-coloured, and with no mention of bullfighters on verso). (1) £100-150

102* Card games. The Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Lansquenet and Quinze. Agreeable to the late Improvement on Hoyle &c., Published by T. B. [T. Balster?] Jany. 6th, 1791, folding paper fan, engraved leaf with some outline hand-colouring in yellow, with rules of the games and illustrations of playing cards, sectioned by beribboned garlands, some minor splitting to folds, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (9.75ins)

100* Blackpool Tower. The Tower, Herald Printing Co. Ld., 1904, card handscreen fan with scalloped edge, the obverse with b & w illustrations of Blackpool Tower (the exterior, aquarium, circus, ballroom, roof gardens, menagerie), verso with orchestral programme for events at the Tower Pavilion in August 1904, wooden handle, 31.5cm (12.25ins)

Not in the Schreiber Collection. (1)

£300-500

103* Card games. The Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Lansquenet and Quinze, Agreeable to the late Improvement on Hoyle &c. n.p., c.1791, folding paper fan, the hand-coloured engraved leaf with the rules of the various card games and illustrations of cards, divided by swags and bows, some light rubbing to folds, mounted on wooden sticks lacquered in terracotta and painted with decoration in colours and gilt, 25cm (9.75ins), contained in an 18th c. papier mache fan box, lined with gilt patterned pink paper, hinged lid with metal clasps, scuffed in places

With notes on the verso: ‘Performed by 50 local children in conjuction with Mdlle. Pauline Rivers Troupe of Lady Danseuses, daintily dressed as White Coons, &c., given with all the original eccentric characteristics’, and ‘Ballroom Novelty-This Dance will be illustrated by a mechanical fall of snow. The most brilliant ever produced in a public assembly. Eight powerful Electric Lights are employed, producing all the colours of the Rainbow. The sight will be as beautiful to the onlookers as to the dancers. First produced at the Tower.’ (1) £70-100

Not in the Schreiber Collection. (1)

Lot 103 31

£400-600

Lot 105

104* Card games. Royal Casino Fan, Dedicated by Permission to Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, Publishd as the Act Directs 25 June 1793 by Stokes, Scott & Croskey, No. 19 Friday Street, London, folding paper fan, the etched leaf with central oval depicting Fortuna, blind-folded and holding a large wheel, flanked by rules, with illustrations of cards and suits, folds adjacent to guard sticks neatly repaired on verso, mounted on wooden sticks, left-hand guardstick replaced Not in the Schreiber Collection. (1)

£250-350

105* Cartography. The Ladies Travelling Fann, of England and Wales; Exhibiting all the Principal Roads, Rivers, Market & Post Towns; with their distances from London, Pubd Sepr. 13; 1788, by T. Balster, folding paper fan, the obverse with hand-coloured etching of the southern part of England, the verso with handcoloured etching of ‘North Part of England and Wales. Continued from the other Side’, both sides with title cartouche and winged figures, and with References to the Counties, one or two small expert repairs, mounted on alternating pairs of pierced ivory and wooden sticks, ivory guardsticks with pierced and carved floral decoration, 24cm (9.5ins), mounted in perspex display case

106* Chapel. Enter’d at Stationer’s Hall, by the Proprietor, July 1, 1796, folding paper fan, the leaf stipple-engraved with a central oval medallion depicting ‘The Resurrection of a Pious Family’ after a picture by the Rev. W. Peters R.A., half-medallions with praying figures above, with ‘Glory to God in the Highest’ between, and on either side four hymns entitled ‘A Morning Psalm’, ‘The Example of Christ’, ‘On Retirement & Meditation’, ‘An Evening Psalm’, with cherubs and foliate swags, 1.5” split at top of fold adjacent to leading guardstick, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (10ins)

Schreiber Collection, 193 & 194, p.96 (two fan leaves, unmounted). A rare example of cartographic ephemera, and a form of travelling map, unusually, intended for ladies rather than gentlemen, presumably to facilitate conversation about places visited or to be visited. (1) £2000-3000

Schreiber Collection 56, p.12 (mounted) and 128, p.86 (unmounted). (1) £200-300

107* China. Map of China, Japan and Korea, late 19th c., folding paper fan, the obverse of the leaf with litho. map of China, Japan and Korea, with small double-hemisphere map of the world, and incorporating Chinese script, short worm trail to top left-hand corner, verso with Chinese script in black and red, mounted on wooden sticks (three protruding sl. on verso), 31cm (12.25ins) (1)

109* Christmas. A floral bouquet Christmas card fan, Goodall, c.1870s, embossed chromo. Christmas card, shaped as a posy of roses (a trifle rubbed), with silk ribbon tab at the top which when pulled reveals five sections which fan out and can be retracted by a cord with tassel, each section decorated with lily-of-the-valley, violets, and roses, and bearing a line of poetry about flowers by Wordsworth, Keats, Thompson, and John Scott, verso of holder gilt embossed with musical trophy and decorative border, length when closed 13.5cm (5.25ins), length when open 17.5cm (6.75ins)

£80-120

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£80-120

108* China. A map fan, c.1900, folding paper fan, the obverse with litho. map of China showing sea and mountains, incorporating Chinese script, hand-coloured in outline, verso with wood engraving of a city plan(?) with Chinese script, some splitting and fraying at edges, mounted on ebonised wooden sticks, 32cm (12.5ins) (1)

£80-120

110* Christmas. An embossed Christmas card fan, c.1870s, with case resembling the handle of a fan, with message ‘A merry Christmas and a happy New Year’, with chromo. of two child angels framed by roses, lily-of-the-valley, and forget-me-nots, some minor damage at edges, silk cord at top of card which when pulled fans out six sections joined with a cord, each section embossed in gilt and with a chromo. cameo picture of an angelic child, with a seasonal verse running across the sections, silk cord at bottom of case to retract the fan, length when closed 16.5cm (6.5ins), length when open 25cm (9.75ins) (1)

£200-300

111* Cochin (Nicolas). Gli diporti della villa, Bassano: Remondini & Daman, late 17th/early 18th c., etched and engraved leaf for a hand-screen fan, showing a large gathering of people in a park, with three couples performing a country dance in the centre, 22 x 29cm (8.75 x 11.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 270, p.109 (unmounted). (1)

Lot 109

£200-300

Lot 112

112* Conversation. Fanology, or the Ladies Conversation Fan, Invented by Mr. Charles Francis Badini, and Published March 18th, 1797, as the Act directs, by the Proprietor, Robert Clarke, Fan Maker, No. 26, Strand, London, folding paper fan, the obverse of the leaf with hand-coloured engraving in stipple and line, with a putto in the centre, flanked by ‘Directions for the Conversation Fan’ and ‘Second Method of the Conversation Fan’, the verso engraved with ‘Familiar Questions with their respective answers’, one or two early neat repairs, mounted on alternating pairs of ivory sticks pierced and carved with putti, and pierced sandalwood sticks (two replaced), the guardsticks of encrusted steel with gilt, 25.5cm (10ins), contained in the base of a mid-19th century fan box inscribed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber underneath the base, with her catalogue no. 38. 1374 and brief catalogue description Provenance: Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Exhibited: The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, 1976, catalogue number 107; Fan Makers’ Hall, 1980, catalogue number 34. Literature: Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Fans and Fan leaves, pp.147-8 (before two of the outer sandalwood sticks were replaced); N. Armstrong, The Book of Fans, 1979, p.13. Schreiber Collection 63, p.13 (uncoloured copy). A fascinating aid to facilitate social interaction and correct etiquette between ladies: ‘This Fan Improves the Friendship & sets forth a Plan; For Ladies to Chit, Chat, & hold the tongue’. The fan enabled conversation across a room via semaphore, so that by holding the fan in a certain position - horizontally by the ends for example, or placing the fan against the breast - a letter of the alphabet would be indicated and so whole words and sentences could be spelt out. On the verso are shortcuts to asking familiar questions and a choice of answers. (1) £1200-1500

113* Country dance. A pictorial folding paper fan, French, late 18th c., folding paper fan, the leaf with a hand-coloured etching of musicians and dancers in a landscape with a villa to the right, lower margin printed ‘Depose a la Bibliotheque’, two short tears to lower edge, mounted on wooden sticks, guardsticks with ivory filet, 24cm (9.5ins) (1)

£200-300

114* Courting. La Ruse d’Amour, French, c.1800, folding paper fan, the leaf stipple-engraved in grey and red with a young lady in an empire line dress pursued by a retinue of putti issuing from a thatched beehive, from behind which emerges the lady’s suitor, titled to lower margin, outlines highlighted in contemp. silver paint (tarnished), remains of a few sequins, the wooden sticks lacquered red and with an ivory filet on the guardsticks, 24cm (9.5ins) (1)

£100-150

115* Current affairs. The Tablet of Memory, A New Fan for 1799, Engrav’d & Print’d by T. Ross, Cow La., Snow Hill, folding paper fan, the leaf eng. with notable events for each month of the year 1799, with eng. vign. of Father Time in centre above title, some minor edgesplitting and toning, mounted on wooden sticks, 26cm (10.25ins) Not in the Schreiber Collection. Important and interesting historical events noted include: the abolition of the slave trade ‘Mr.Wilberforce’s motion for abolishing the Slave Trade lost by 4 votes’ (2nd April 1799); the practise of duelling (even indulged in by the Prime Minister) ‘Duel fought between Mr. Pitt & Mr. Tierney (27th May 1799); the march of Napoleon ‘Malta taken by Boniparte’ (11th June 1799), ‘Boneparte & the whole of his Army landed in Egypt’ (7th July 1799); ‘The Glorious Victory of the Nile by the Squadron under the command of Sir Horatio Nelson’ (1st August 1799); and accounts of world disasters ‘Acct. receiv’d of a Earth Quake at Sumatra where 200 people lost their Lives’ (25th March 1799). (1) £500-800

Lot 114

116* Cycling. Three advertising fans featuring cycling maps, Paris: Blondel La Rougery, c.1930s, together three folding paper fans, two advertising Cinzano (numbered 1 and 14), the other advertising a Parisian shop ‘Salon de Thé des Trois Quarters’, all printed in black, red, and blue, with cycling maps of parts of France, all mounted on wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins) and sl. smaller (2)

Lot 115

£200-300

117* Dancing. Eighteen of the most favorite Country Dances, with their proper figures adapted to each, as performed at Court, Bath &c., Published by L. Sudlow, Fan Manufacturer, daughter of the late R. Delamotte, 191 Strand, Decr. 13th, 1789, folding paper fan, engraved with musical notation and lyrics for dances incl. The Bastille, La Malbro., Union Dance, Lady Charles Spencer’s Fancy, Tartan Plaiddie, one or two very short splits to folds, mounted on wooden sticks, 24.5cm (9.75ins) Not in the Schreiber Collection. (1)

£500-800

118* Dancing. New Roscius Country Dance Fan for 1805, folding paper fan, the leaf with three oval stipple engravings of putti and child musicians and etched with a trompe l’oeil of twelve music sheets for various dances, two repairs with some consequent staining, later ms. inscription on verso, mounted on wooden sticks, 18cm (7ins)

Lot 117

Not in the Schreiber Collection. Dances include ‘Female Jockey’, ‘The Humours of Dublin’, ‘Female Volunteers’, ‘The Goe’ and ‘Earl Moira’s Nuptials’. (1) £200-300

Lot 118

119* Dancing. One Hundred Years Ago Ball, June 6th 1912, Royal Albert Hall, 1912, booklet shaped as a fan, with 4pp. listing quadrilles and their participants, and a menu, colour-printed card wrappers to simulate a fan, blue silk ribbon tie, 11.5 x 23cm (4.5 x 9ins), together with Menu of Dinner in celebration of the marriage of Miss Phillis Konasky to Mr. Israel Maizel on Tuesday, Aug. 19th, 1922, at Monnickendam Rooms, Gt. Alie Street, E.1., 1922, triangular card menu with three sections which fan out, each section with embossed border of fuchsias, first section with circular sepia photo. double portrait, second section with menu, and third section with a list of music to be played during dinner (by the “Famous Jazz Pickers”), first section toned, length 18.5cm (7.25ins) (2)

120* Fortune-telling. Oracle fan, pub. accorg. to Act, March 31. 1784, by I. & W. Cock, No. 21 Wood Street, Cheapside, London, folding paper fan, the leaf engraved with a wheel of fortune on the obverse (with pin-pricks from use), with two winged figures in clouds above, and explanations on how to consult the oracle, the verso with ten circular portraits of Greek and Roman deities, each with a statement of fortune below, a little toned and some minor splitting to folds (one with evidence of old repair), mounted on wooden sticks, 25.5cm (10ins) The Schreiber Collection has a later issue by Ino. Cock, I.P. Crowder & Co., published in 1800 (64, p.13). A fan to aid ladies’ amusement in the drawing room, designed so that one could divine answers to such questions as ‘Whether one is to inherit an Estate’, ‘Whether a Match will succeed’ and ‘What sort of a Husband she will have’. (1) £300-400

£70-100

121* France. A fan depicting General Boulanger, French, 1889, folding paper fan, the tinted litho leaf showing the general mounted on his horse reviewing his troops at Longchamp, with allegorical figures of Alsace and Lorraine, and Victory, signed S. French, mounted on wooden sticks, guardsticks with ownership labels of L. Duchet, 24cm (9.5ins) Georges Boulanger (1837-1891) was a French general and politician who, at the height of his popularity in 1889, appeared to pose a threat to the parliamentary republic. In January 1889 he ran as a deputy for Paris, and, after an intense campaign, took the seat with 244,000 votes against the 160,000 of his main adversary; a coup d’état and establishment of a dictatorship seemed probable and desirable among his supporters. However, Boulanger procrastinated, deciding that it would be better to contest the general election and take power legally. Shortly after, the French government issued a warrant for Boulanger’s arrest for conspiracy and treasonable activity, and in September 1891 the General committed suicide by a bullet to the head on the grave of his mistress. Prince Carlos (King Carlos I 1889-1908) was the first Portuguese king to die a violent death since Sebastian of Portugal in 1578. Carlos was murdered in Lisbon by republican activist Manuel Buiça who fired five shots as the royal family travelled in an open carriage. The Queen escaped injury but the King died immediately, his heir, Luís Filipe, was mortally wounded, and second son, Prince Manuel, was hit in the arm. (1) £70-100

Lot 120

122* Frederick, Duke of York. A fan leaf depicting Frederick, Duke of York, Published as the Act directs, May 13th 1791, by A.P. Birman, an unmounted paper fan leaf, engraved in stipple with etched arabesques, with a central cartouche depicting a bust of Frederick, Duke of York, suspended by two putti, and allegorical figures of Fame, Commerce and Britannia, with a tripod inscribed ‘The Heart of the Nation’, against a ground of putti, birds, foliage, sphinx motifs, crowned canopies with the Duke of York’s monogram, and other designs, border of swags and birds, some near-contemp. hand-colouring in blue, 46cm (18ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed

Lot 121

Schreiber Collection 4, p.66 (uncoloured, unmounted). (1)

£200-300

123* French Second Republic. A folding paper fan showing the provisional government of the French Second Republic, n.p., [1848], the leaf with eleven litho. bust portraits of Albert, Flocon, Cremieux, Arago, Lamartine, Dupont de l’Eure, Ledru-Rollin, C. Pages, Marie, Marrast, Louis Blanc, a few small pin holes, mounted on wooden sticks, small sticky residue on leading guardstick, 21.5cm (8.5ins) Schreiber Collection 134, p.29. (1)

Lot 123

£150-200

124* French. A pictorial folding paper fan, French, c.1820s, the decorated gilt leaf with hand-col. litho. scenes on obverse and verso, of pastoral scenes with children and young ladies, some minor damage, mounted on wide gilded filigree wooden sticks, 26.5cm (10.5ins) (1)

£200-300

125* Harrogate. The North Prospect of Harrogate, Sulphur Spaws, Taken upon ye Spot, Engrav’d & Publish’d 1739, according to Act of Parliament by T. Ord, an unmounted paper fan leaf, with an engraving depicting a pastoral landscape of houses, cottages, horse and cart, and people, with later hand-colouring, toned, 39cm (15.25ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed Not in the Schreiber Collection. (1)

£200-300

Lot 124 126* Historical. England since the Conquest, Published Augt. 10th 1793, J. Cock & J. P. Crowder, Wood Stt., Cheapside, Engraved by S.J. Neale, 352 Strand, folding paper fan, the leaf eng. on both sides with text and decorative borders in blue, some minor rubbing and edge-splitting, discreet repairs to portion adjoining left-hand guardstick, mounted on bone sticks, 27.5cm (10.75ins) Schreiber Collection 72, p.15. (1)

£200-300

127* Historical. History of England, from William the Conqueror to the present time, Pub. at Sudlow’s Fan Warehouse, 191 Strand, c.1790, folding paper fan, the leaf eng. on both sides with text, some minor toning and short edge-splits, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (9.75ins) Not in the Schreiber Collection. (1)

Lot 125

£200-300

128* Imperial Russian family. Fan celebrating the visit of Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarina to Paris in October 1896, French, 1896, folding paper fan, the leaf a hand-coloured litho. with oval photogravure double portrait, flanked by flags, with views of the Arc de Triumph and the Russian fleet at Toulon, mounted on wooden sticks, 28cm (11ins) (1)

£200-300

129 Italian. A pictorial folding paper fan, Italian, c.1795, folding paper fan, the leaf a hand-coloured stipple-engraving of two young ladies in a garden pouring water into a large glass urn containing two small children, with a dolphin fountain on one side, and a villa in the distance on the other, a few discreet repairs, mounted on pierced dark wood sticks, 26cm (10.25ins) (1)

Lot 128

£200-300

130* Japan. A fan showing Mount Fuji, c.1900, folding paper fan, the obverse with litho. showing the various routes for ascending Mount Fuji, with Japanese script, a few small pin holes, verso with sl. paper loss to upper left-hand corner, mounted on wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins), together with another folding paper fan showing a view of Mount Fuji, with Japanese text and twenty-four flags of countries connected with World War I, early 20th c., some splitting to folds, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (9.75ins) (2)

£100-150

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Lot 131

131* King George III. A fan leaf commemorating the Jubilee of King George III, Published as the Act directs, May 13th 1791, by A.P. Birman, an unmounted paper fan leaf, engraved in stipple (partly in colour) with etched arabesques, by W. Hincks, with a central cartouche depicting a bust of George III suspended by two putti, and allegorical figures of Fame, Commerce and Britannia, with a tripod inscribed ‘The Heart of the Nation’, against a ground of putti, birds, foliage, sphinx motifs, crowned canopies with George III’s monogram, and other designs, border of swags and birds, 50cm (19.5ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 3, pp.65/66 (uncoloured, unmounted); 17, p.5 (uncoloured, mounted). (1) £300-500

Lot 132

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132* King George IV. Fan commemorating the christening of George, Prince of Wales, n.p., [1762], folding paper fan, the pierced and embossed leaf with hand-coloured engraving of Queen Charlotte holding George, Prince of Wales, with a frigate above, flanking by vigns. of a ram, a stook, a goddess holding a cornucopia, and another holding a goblet and a flagon, within a rococo border, the verso engraved with a prayer on a rococobordered cartouche, surmounted by the Prince of Wales feathers, one or two old sewn repairs, mounted on pierced bone sticks, some sticks broken and replaced, 28.5cm (11.25ins)

134* London. Ironmongers Hall with a View of Fenchurch Street, Duvelleroy, c.1930s, folding paper fan, the obverse with handcoloured litho. view of the hall in the 18th c., verso with the coat of arms of the company, mounted on bone sticks, sticks and guardsticks gilt decorated, 20cm (8ins), plus Hastings, A fan with views of Hastings, c.1900, folding paper fan, the obverse with photo. views of Hastings Beach (showing bathing machines), The Memorial, Hastings Castle, London Road, Fairlight Glen, and St. Leonards, one or two short edge-tears, mounted on wooden sticks, 34cm (13.25ins)

Exhibited: The World of the Fan, at The Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, 1976, catalgue number 89; Fan Makers’ Hall, 1980, catalogue number 17. Not in the Schreiber Collection. See: Fans, Helene Alexander, 2002, p.19, for an illustration of an uncoloured copy. (1) £300-500

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£70-100

135* Louis XVI. Testament de Louis Seize, Ne Le 23. Aoust 1754. Mort Le 21. Janvier 1793, English, c.1793, folding paper fan, the engraved leaf with central medallion containing eight bust portraits of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Mme. Premiere, La Comtesse de Provence, La Comtesse d’Artois, Le Comte d’Artois, Le Comte de Provence, and Le Dauphin, flanked by the text of Louis XVI’s will, lightly toned, short tear and repair to lower edge, mounted on bone sticks (one lacking and associated section strengthened on verso with paper), 25cm (9.5ins)

133* Ladies Telegraph. For Corresponding at a Distance, Invented and Engraved by Robert Rowe, and Entered at Stationer’s Hall, Published by M. Stunt, No.191, Strand, Opposite St. Clements Church Yard, April 20th 1798, folding paper fan, the leaf engraved on the obverse with Questions and Answers and Method of using the Telegraph, with the alphabet along top edge, each letter with corresponding moveable tab, with hand-coloured key to the alphabet below, verso with each section painted a colour, mounted on bone sticks decorated in silver, guardsticks hand-painted with flower sprays, 25.5cm (10ins)

Schreiber Collection 122, p.26 (printed in red and mounted on wooden sticks). There is also a copy in the Musee Carnavelet in Paris (printed in red). (1) £500-1000

136* Maquet. A decorative fan, Paris: Maquet, c.1920s, the leaf with painted and embroidered floral decoration on both sides, mounted on shaped ivory sticks, with tassel on loop, 15cm (6ins), contained in cardboard fan box, pull-off lid with printed label ‘“Kardomah” Teas and Coffees. Your kind recommendations will be esteemed’, sl. wear

Not in the Schreiber Collection. A rare and charming fan, designed to allow two ladies, though seated at some distance from one another, to converse. When a tab, denoting a letter, is moved upwards, a different colour appears on the vertical stripe on the back of the fan, and so whole sentences can be spelt out. There are also instructions on how to ask and answer “the most familiar and occurrent questions”, i.e., the letters C and D used together mean “I admire the Elegance of your Dress , where was it made?”, and D and E mean “I am glad you like it, I will tell you by the Telegraph”. (1) £1500-2000

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£70-100

137* Moralist. The New Moralist Fan or the way to Wealth, Enter’d at Stationers Hall by the Proprietor, Octr. 1. 1796, folding paper fan, the leaf a hand-coloured stipple engraving with twelve roundels illustrating maxims, lightly toned, a few short edge-splits, mounted on wooden sticks, 26.5cm (10.5ins) Not in the Schreiber Collection. Illustrations include: card players, with the cautions ‘Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the want great’ and ‘What maintains one vice would bring up two children’; a rural scene with horse and plough, entitled ‘He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive’ and ‘The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands’; and a haberdashery shop, entitled ‘Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee’ and ‘If you would have your business done go, if not send’. (1) £600-800

138* Napoleon. Ntre. Dme. de Lorette envoyee a Paris par le General en Chef Buonaparte, n.p., c.1797, folding paper fan, the leaf a handcoloured etching of the figure of the Virgin Mary at Loreto, flanked with views of the Santa Casa and various relics, with descriptions and a history above, toned, some rubbing to folds, and one or two minor repairs, mounted on pierced wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins) Schreiber Collection 129, p.88. Napoleon’s conquests in Europe were followed by a systematic attempt to take the finest works of art of conquered nations back to the Louvre in Paris; the image of the Black Madonna in Loreto was one such looted item, which remained in Paris until the signing of the Concordat, when it was returned to Pius VII. Unfortunately a modern copy now stands in its place as the original was destroyed by fire in 1921. (1) £500-800

139* New Year. The Language of Flowers, c.1870s, a chromo. greetings card fan in the shape of an arrow, with eight double-sided sections joined with purple silk ribbon, the first section titled and with ‘A Happy New Year’ and a cupid on the front, remainder with a flower illustration and associated meaning with accompanying verse on obverse and verso, contained in orig. chromo. card slipcase (sl. rubbed and faded), 15.5cm (6ins) (1)

£150-200

Lot 140

140* Peninsular War. Dia Dos de Mayo de 1808, en Madrid. Asesinan los franceses a los Patriotas en el Prado, [London, Behrmann & Collmann, 1808], folding paper fan, the leaf with a hand-coloured etching on the obverse depicting the massacre of the Spanish by the French in Madrid on 2nd May 1808, verso ornamented with cartouches, birds, and foliate sprays in gilt and colours, mounted on pierced ivory sticks, 25.5cm (10ins)

141* Peninsular War. Dia Dos de Mayo de 1808. En Madrid Mueren Daviz y Velarde Defendiendo el Parque de Artilleria, Pub’d as the Act directs, by Behrmann & Collmann, Dec. 15. 1813, an unmounted paper fan leaf, with an aquatint of a scene near one of the city gates at Madrid, showing the death of Daviz and Velarde at the guns, during an attack by Murat on 2nd May 1808, with (later?) hand-colouring, 50cm (19.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed, verso of fan visible through back of frame, showing engraved title within a laurel wreath with military trophy

Schreiber Collection 41, p.72 (unmounted). Printed in England for the Spanish market as anti-French propaganda. Examples are held in The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and The Fan Museum, Greenwich. (1) £150-250

Schreiber Collection 40, p.72 (unmounted, uncoloured). (1)

£100-150

142* Peninsular War. Dia 19. de Marzo De 1808. En Aranjuez. Caida Y Prision del Principe de la Paz, Behrmann & Collmann, Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1813, an unmounted paper fan leaf, with aquatint scene in a square at Aranjuez, showing the seizure of Godoy, the favourite of King Charles IV of Spain, in 1808, 49cm (19.5ins) wide, mounted, framed, and glazed Schreiber Collection, 39, p.72 (unmounted, hand-coloured). (1)

£100-150

143* Portugal. Festa da Industria Portugueza por Occasiao do Feliz Consorcio de Suas Altezas Reaes, Mayo de 1886, Paris: A. Lauronce, 1886, folding paper fan commemorating the marriage of Prince Carlos to Princess Amelie of Orleans, the obverse printed with their portraits and coats of arms, some edge-splitting, mounted on wooden sticks, 27cm (10.5ins)

Lot 141

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£100-150

144* Royal Concert. Publish’d as the Act directs, Octr. 16 1781, by J. Preston at his Music Warehouse No.97 near Beaufort Buildings Strand, folding paper fan, the etched leaf depicting on the obverse ‘Representation of a Royal Concert at Buckingham Palace’, copied from an engraving by Barlow after a drawing by Cruickshank, showing a musical party with a quartet comprising harpsichord, flute, violin, and cello (played by the Prince of Wales), flanked by four pieces of vocal music entitled ‘Canone’ by Giordani, ‘French Canzonet’, ‘Canzonet’ by Giordani, and ‘Venetian Canzonet’, verso etched with a trompe l’oeil of five pictures lying on a length of lace, the central illustration of a girl dancing between two officers, flanked by oval bust portraits of Admiral Rodney and possibly General Clinton, and pictures of a military camp and a naval battle, toned, sl. edge-frayed, mounted on wooden sticks, 27.5cm (10.75ins) Schreiber Collection 6, pp.2/3. Provenance: the great grandson of Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Exhibited: Fan Makers’ Hall, 1980, catalogue no. 23. (1) £1200-1500

145* Spain. A fan with Spanish views, c.1890s, folding paper fan, with illuminated chromo. leaf with three views of Spanish buildings: a castle by the coast, a large municipal building with clock tower fronting a square with statues, and a campanile, mounted on ebonised wooden sticks, hand-painted in colours and gilt, 24cm (9.5ins), plus Gibraltar, A fan showing views of Gibraltar, Valencia: A. Carbonell, c.1910, folding paper fan, the chromo. leaf with three views of Gibraltar, mounted on wooden sticks, guardsticks gilt lettered ‘Recuerdo de Espana’, 22cm (8.5ins) (2)

147* Theatre. The Palace Theatre, London, B.G. Vienna, c.1910, folding paper fan, the leaf with chromo. illust. by R.G. Mathews, showing the interior of the theatre, mounted on wooden sticks, 23.5cm (9.25ins), together with 23cm (4.5 x 9ins), together with Programme for the Theatre Marigny, Champs-Elysees, Paris: G. Bataille, c.1900, litho. shaped card programme, with five sections which fan out, printed in blue on both sides with illustrations and information, designed by L. Berge, length 22.5cm (8.75ins) (2)

£70-100

146* Telegraphy. View of the Telegraph erected on the Admiralty Office, Enter’d at Stationers Hall by the Proprietor, July 1 1796, folding paper fan, the leaf etched with a large view of the Telegraph with all shutters closed, showing a disabled Lieutenant that attends signals, a Midshipman that looks out to the next telegraph and a Foremastman that attends the ropes, with sixteen smaller illusts. of the telegraph with shutters open and closed according to the specific letter signalled, with ‘The Alphabet explained’, some toning, rubbed in places, with some neat repairs on verso, mounted on wooden sticks, 25cm (10ins) Not in the Schreiber Collection. The telegraph here depicted was built for the transmission of messages during the Napoleonic Wars, in an attempt to compete with the French who had already developed such a system. Before the construction of the telegraph messages from the Admiralty Office to the fleet based at Portsmouth took four and a half hours to be conveyed by despatch rider. The machine which was adopted was designed by Reverend Lord George Murray (who was awarded £2000 for his invention) and consisted of six shutters in two columns in a vertical frame 20 feet high. Each shutter could be either closed or open which gave 64 different permutations. The Admiralty to Portsmouth telegraph became known as the ‘Portsmouth Shutter Telegraph Line’ and during March 1796 work commenced on its construction. It was ready a few months later, with a total of ten signalling stations. It was in use until 18th June 1815 when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, and the Admiralty announced plans to establish a permanent system of stations using Semaphore - a machine with movable arms. (1) £1200-1500

VICTORIAN VALENTINE CARDS

Lot 149

148* Valentine. An embossed Valentine card, c.1890s, chromo. and gilt embossed floral Valentine card (some minor damage), with pocket containing a small chromo. card fan, with five sections, each with a sentiment (‘hope’, ‘sincerity’, ‘forget me not’, ‘ever loving’, ‘ever true’) and an illustration below, fan 10cm (4ins), card 16 x 10cm (6.25 x 4ins), together with Almanack fan, Josh. Mansell, 1876, chromo. card fan with six double-sided sections, bearing the calendar for 1876 and floral decoration, 12cm (4.75ins) (2)

£70-100

149* Francesco Bartolozzi. A lithographic hand-coloured ‘The Knot of Love’, c. 1800, 19 x 23cm; another early lithographic valentine, featuring two lovers appearing out of tulip heads, with a cupid firing an arrow over a cloud of ‘love’, an eight-line rhyme: ‘Within the rosebud Cupid loves to dwell; etc., c. 1800, 10 x 15cm; a hand-coloured comic and cruel lithograph by A. Park, Leonard St., London, featuring a second-hand clothes-seller, c. 1840, 18 x 23.5cm; another lithographic valentine with a cupid asleep on an island, framed by drapes, with rhyme: ‘Oh that dear girl’ etc., an ink monogram, c. 1820, 15 x 19.5cm; an embossed vindictive card by Dean & Son, London, stencilled colouring of a young gentleman with a rude rhyme, c. 1820-30, 12 x 17.5cm (5)

£100-150

150* Beehive. A beehive valentine, hand-painted ‘To Sarah Woodcock’ with a harp shape frame of flowers, dated 1844, interior reveals a silk, framed by flower heads around a verse ‘Think not I’ll forget thee’, 16 x 17cm; a skeletal leaves paper lace, 12 x 18cm; a Dobbs hand-painted card, plus nine other paper lace by Mullord, Wood, Windsor etc. (12)

Lot 150

£80-120

152* Dobbs Bailey etc. A hand-painted valentine, paper lace, probably by Dobbs Bailey & Co., with roses and convolvulus on silk, hand-written rhyme: ‘No nothing better could I send’ etc., c. 1830/40, 20.5 x 25.5cm; an unusual French valentine purse, containing a small ‘envelope’ sachet with added scrap ‘Remember Me’, c. 1870; a birthday sachet card, c. 1860, plus twelve other valentines including paper lace by John Windsor, George Meek, etc. (15)

151* Cruikshank, Park, Canton, Mansell. A crude cut-out vindictive valentine by Robert Cruikshank, c. 1830, ‘My own Blue-bell! My pretty Blue-bell!’; two cards showing a fox with a moveable head ‘Sly and cunning as a —-’, and ‘Your portrait Sir! Be Mine!’, showing a donkey with a moveable head; six cards by Robert Canton, all cruel and costing one penny, one showing a man threatening to push a woman off a cliff-top, all stencilled and embossed, c. 1840-50; plus three stencilled prints with woodblock colouring by A. Park and costing one penny (12)

£80-120

153* Dobbs Bailey etc. A Dobbs Bailey & Co. paper lace valentine on silk with handcrafted flowers, ‘I think of thee’, 21 x 25cm; another Dobbs, Bailey & Co., with flower bouquets ‘Forget-me-not’, c. 1847, 19 x 23cm; a hinged card by Benjamin Sulman with silk ‘where hearts agree, no strife can be’, framed in silk; plus other paper lace, Stevens silk by George Kershaw, John Windsor, etc., c. 1840-80 (12)

154* Dobbs, Bailey & Co. An embossed and paper lace Dobbs, Bailey & Co. card, c. 1850, with a satin panel having applied fruit and vines of grapes on a silver vase covering hidden messages of ‘Bliss, Joy and Happiness’ etc., entitled ‘A Tribute of Faithful Love’, 23cm high; another Dobbs card with paper lace borders and handpainted flowers on a silk panel, 23cm high; another card, probably Dobbs, c. 1845, with applied floral scraps, ‘Yours everremember me’, 23cm; a Dobbs, Kidd & Co. paper lace card of applied scraps and a central panel ‘The Rivals’, showing two hand-painted gentlemen arguing over a lady; plus two other valentines (6)

£100-150

£80-120

Lot 152

Lot 155

158* Fan. A rare printed fan, c. 1880, with four leaves each illustrating different flowers and their meanings, 22.5cm (open)

155* Dobbs. A Dobbs valentine of a bridal couple at the altar, c. 1830-40, framed upon a silk, covering hand-painted flowers with a written message, ‘The costliest gem from India’s mine, would not to me, such pleasures bring as to receive at Hymen’s shrine from thy loved hand, a plain gold ring’, embossed and paper lace, 25cm high; two other similar Dobbs cards, one with heavily decorated flowers in a vase on silk, with hand-coloured birds covering hidden love messages; another featuring a shell boat with a loving couple being drawn by swans, with applied flowers on silk, both c. 1820, 25cm; plus three other paper lace cards (6)

(1) £80-120

£100-150

157* Dobbs, Humorous cards. A Dobbs card with applied feathers, flowers and lithographic bird, ‘This being the time that little birds choose their mates. Allow me with fond affection to invite you to my nest’, 13 x 20cm; another St. Valentine’s Messenger’ with hidden message under a lithographic dog, ‘I bows, I wows to love you’; another with applied bunch of plums, lifting to reveal ‘Ripe Plums’ ‘Pay to Granma, 1,000,000 kisses and ,000,000’, 13 x 20cm; a Dobbs Kidd ‘Love’s Nosegay’ and ‘To one I Love’; plus twenty other cards including hinged window, skeletal leaves, scraps, etc., c. 1850-80 (25)

159* Fans. A large valentine fan ‘A Gift of Love’, printed by ‘Old Print Factory, New Baltimore U.S.A.’, c. 1890/1900, with six floral leaves and a red silk tassel, 29cm; another valentine fan ‘Be Mine’, c. 1880, with five leaves and a silk tassel, applied scraps of chromolithographs with ornate gold edging, 20cm; a ‘souvenir’ four-leaf fan, c. 1870, featuring the rose, the bluebell, violets and the daisy, 11cm (3)

£100-150

156* Dobbs, Kidd & Co., Mansell. A humorous valentine with an applied heart and shoe, ‘You are my ‘souls’ delight’, 12 x 17cm; another ‘The Prince of Wales Nightcap’, 12 x 20cm; one featuring three medicine bottles, ‘Oh, I have such a pain in my heart, what shall I take?’; a Loves Nosegay ‘I nose I loves you’; ‘Something to tickle my fancy, A little corrective’, with a small hand-made besom brush, 10 x 14cm; plus eighteen other paper lace and hinged cards (23)

£100-150

Lot 158

£80-120

161* Hand-made, Puzzle-Opening, etc. A hand-made Valentine, late 18th/early 19th c., of a young lady, set within a blue/gold envelope, in a shell frame, with a handwritten verse: ‘As half in shade and half in sun, the world along its course advances, O may the side that it shines upon be all, that ever meet thy glances’, 13 x 18.5cm; a ‘Puzzle’-opening Valentine, watermark 1812, folding down to 7cm square, ‘I will love thee ever’, with rhyme, surrounded by birds and flower heads, By Rock of London; a lithographic valentine of a maiden ‘Duty of Love’ with verse: ‘To be the partner of your cares, your joys, your labours and repose and when misfortune interferes to shield you or to share your woes!’, within a paper frame ‘Never forget me’, c. 1840/50, 14 x 17cm; a Marcus Ward card designed by Walter Crane, c. 1876, set upon a paper lace, ‘Come hither, my little dog’, 16.5 x 22cm (4)

£80-120

Lot 160 160* Hand-Made Valentines. A sailor’s hand-made valentine, dated on reverse 1750, ‘Hope, Love and Live and aft I sigh and wish you mine. That I may call you Valentine’, a picture of a sweetheart leaning upon an anchor, looking towards a sailing ship, set within crude watercolours of four flowers, 15 x 15cm; a hand-made valentine of a picture of two gentlemen in cavalier costume, wooing a lady seated in a garden, handwritten, ‘This comes my dear Conny from whom you must guess, who loves you far more than his words can confess. I’ve known little girls but to none did incline, half as much as to you my dear Valentine, my heart is too full to write more than “I’m thine!”‘, 13 x 18cm; another valentine from the same hand (also found in a scrapbook, dated 1780, belonging to Conny Francis of Chichester), featuring a courting couple, she playing a guitar, he in cavalier costume, also handpainted with verse, 13 x 18cm (3)

Lot 161

£150-200

162* Humorous and cruel cards. A lithograph by A. Park of a ‘venomous spider’ referring to a lady, c. 1840, 11 x 18cm; another embossed vindictive ‘May swells I’ve seen before’, c. 1850-60, 11 x 18cm, a pair of embossed ‘Loves blind they say’ and ‘Love is heaven and heaven is love’ with applied lithographs, lifting to reveal pictures and rhymes of the opposite views, c. 1850-60, 12 x 19cm; another of a couple in medieval costume with verse and written message inside, c. 1870, 11 x 17cm; a pair of unusual spiteful cut-out figures with added heads and crude verse, from a Victorian scrap book; a Dobbs card ‘Drink to me only’ with applied feathers; plus ten other paper lace, etc. (18)

£80-120

164* Humorous and paper lace. A David Mossman card, ‘The Times’, an advertisement for a companion, with applied leaves and flowers by Mrs Mossman, 18 x 11.5cm; a Meek ‘The Requisite contents of a Lady’s Dressing Case’, with envelope opening to reveal message, 18 x 12cm; another ‘Little doves born for each other’ with hidden message, 20 x 13cm; and ‘Life Boat. We shall have a happy voyage I know’, 20 x 13cm; plus twenty other valentines; including paper lace, mounted, hinged, material, etc., by Wood, Meek, Mullord, etc. (24)

£80-120

166* Jonathan King, Goodall, Mansell. Two ‘Loves Greeting’ cards by Goodall, c. two paper lace valentines by 1870, Jonathan King, with real basket weave containing simulated and real flowers, 10 x 15 and 8 x 12cm; a small circular paper lace valentine to ‘Lilah’, c. 1860, 7cm; a French hand-worked card; a Mansell sachet with clasped cut-out lover’s hands; a novelty mechanic card ‘Woodman spare that tree’; plus three other paper lace valentines

163* Humorous cards. A selection of Dobbs humorous valentines including a comic reversible ‘Sweethearts and Wives, Bachelors and Maids’, 11.5 x 18cm, an ‘Order to the Court of Cupid’ with numerous hidden messages, 13 x 19cm; a card with two applied bezique court cards, ‘I have something to declare’ with hidden message ‘You are always winning’, 10 x 16cm; ‘Will you join me in a game at play with me?’ with two applied cats at play, 8 x 12cm; plus twenty other valentines of paper lace, skeletal leaves, applied scraps, hinged pull-up, etc., c. 1850-80 (25)

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£80-120

£100-150

165* Kershaw, Mansell, Mullord. A selection of embossed and paper lace valentines, by Kershaw, Mansell, Mullord, etc., c. 1850-70, many hand-worked, including satin-dressed, sachets and silks (25)

£80-120

167* Mansell, Bee-Hive etc. A large paper lace and embossed card by Mansell, c. 1850, an urn of flowers on hand-painted silk and a bird with a message in its beak, with written verse, ‘Charms like these my lovely dear must nor bind a lover’s heart. To you I’ll so remain sincere and never from my soul depart’, 20 x 25cm; a bee-hive lithograph, ‘The Monthly Rose’, with a verse which when lifted reveals a scrap ‘I love you’, 16 x 17cm; a paper lace dated 1871 with original envelope; plus another by Sulman of London with rare black silk Stevens sachet, 10 x 15cm, plus other paper lace Lot 164

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£100-150

169* McLoughlin Brothers, etc. Four McLoughlin valentines with vindictive verse, ‘Two faced woman’; ‘French nurse’; ‘Awful Bust’; ‘The Trouble with you is, you cannot run a car’, each 17 x 22cm; a ‘Shell’ petroleum card 1953; a Cruikshank valentine print ‘Curiosities of ornithology’; a ‘Valentines Day’ print; a Walter Crane ‘The quiver of Love’; a pair of ‘pin-prick’ circular cards with painted flowers; a Kate Greenaway card; three amusing crude postcards ‘To my valentine’ c. 1930; plus seven other postcards, valentine related, a Kershaw woodblock, 1840; plus four others (26)

£80-120

168* Joseph Mansell, Dobbs Kidd, Birdcage. A paper lace card to ‘one I admire’ by Mansell, c. 1850, hand-painted flowers, 19 x 23.5cm; a large ‘bird-cage’ (12cm) card with scraps, ‘Forget-me-not’, signed H.C., c. 1879; a paper lace Dobbs Kidd & Co., 1850; another paper lace card ‘My ink is bad, my pen the same, I clear forgot to write my name’, etc., c. 1865; plus other lace cards by Mansell, Wood, Kershaw, a ‘material’ card by Mullord and two sailors’ Valentines (14)

171* Mullord. Five paper lace cards by Mullord, with children in velvet dresses with applied verses; ‘Forget-me-not’; ‘To my Darling Girl’; ‘For a good little boy’, another with a white satin pony; a paper lace featuring a cricket bat and ball and kite; an unusual framed celluloid plaque showing a Regency couple, mounted upon a silk ‘To my dear one’; twenty mounted paper lace valentines on card, by Ingham, Wood, Dobbs Kidd, Mossman, Rock, Sulman Meek, Marcus ward, etc., plus sixteen others

£100-150

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170* Mechanical cards. A mechanical ‘tag’ card by Mansell, c. 1850, featuring a Father with a baby on his knee, ‘Happy father, what delight, with thy darling children bright, who can envy not, and see, thy sweet Baby on thy knee’, when tag is pulled Father puts baby into cot; another mechanical ‘tag’ depicting a trooper who cleans his rifle; a lift-up flap card ‘the Rifleman’s Kit’ which reveals a lady in a crinoline dress, both 7 x 18cm by Mansell, c. 1840; plus twelve other cards mounted on board, hinged by Meek, Mullord, etc., applied scraps, flowers, silks, c. 1840-50 (15)

£80-120

Lot 169

£100-150

Lot 172

175* Paper Lace, Sachet Cards, etc. A finely worked cut-out paper lace valentine, with a mother-of-pearl simulated envelope containing an anchor set on a cross, mounted upon real lace with intricate paper flowers in the shape of a heart, a sailor’s valentine giving a hint of his identity, 11.5 x 17.5cm; a silk-fringed sachet card; another paper lace with painted flowers ‘Sacrificed at the altar of true love. Hymen’, 12.5 x 17.5cm; plus nine other hinged lace valentines by Mullord, etc., c. 1850-70

172* Paper Lace and Sachet Cards. A paper lace Dobbs, Kidd & Co. card dated 1871, featuring a cherub fishing, ‘I dare say I shall soon have a nibble’ with three fish cut-outs in a stream, surrounded by simulated flowers, ‘There’s one I particularly wish to catch’, 13 x 19cm; another paper lace, ‘Presentation of Colours’ with a Union Jack and a ‘Love and Constancy’ flag, applied feathers on silk, 13 x 19cm; a fine Stevens silk sachet, envelope card by J. Wood with ribbons ‘Ever Dearest’, 17 x 20cm (open); a rare heart-shape hinged card ‘Offering of my love’, with feathers, 10cm; another hinged card in shape of a harp ‘I live for thee’, 9cm; plus eight other paper lace (13)

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£80-120

174* Paper Lace. A bunch of forget-menots on paper lace with hidden message ‘A tribute of sincere affection’, by Edward Stange, of Berlin (Kinze Bros., London); twelve miscellaneous valentines mounted on card, paper lace, applied scraps, feathers, leaves, hinged, pull-outs, including a sailor’s card ‘To my Mother’ with a sailing ship by J.T. Wood; plus twelve others by Mullord, Bollans, Dobbs, etc., c. 1840-70, with artificial flowers, etc. (25)

£80-120

176* Paper Lace, Embossed, etc. A miscellaneous selection of valentine cards, c. 1850-80, including hinged, threedimensional, pull-up, some feather, applied scraps, real lace, by Meek, Rock, Sulman, etc.

173* Paper Lace and Sachet Cards. Four envelope sachet cards, c. 1840-70, including a French paper lace; plus twentyfour other cards mounted on card, embossed, skeletal leaves, scraps, dried flowers, hinged pull-out, etc. by Wood, Ingram, Mansell, etc. (28)

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£80-120

Lot 175

£80-120

178* Pull-Out Stand-Up Cards. A threedimensional pull-out and stand-up valentine, published by Hallmark, 1923, featuring a Cupid in a forget-me-not and rose-decked motor car, ‘To my sweetheart on Valentines Day’, 16.5 x 22.5cm; another three-dimensional pull-out and stand-up, published by Photo Production Ltd., 1923, featuring two Cupids in a balloon, within a forget-me-not and rose frame, ‘To my Valentine with Love’, 19 x 19.5cm; a pullout and stand-up figure of a young lady with a moveable bonnet and ribbon, published by Raphael Tuck, c. 1920, ‘A joyous remembrance for St. Valentines Day’, 11 x 17.5cm; plus six other pull-out and stand-up cards, mostly 11 x 16cm, all made in Germany for the U.S.A. market (9)

£150-200

177* Park: Vindictive & Humorous. Twelve ‘vindictive’ one-penny valentines, published by A. Park, London, c. 1840-50, including various tradesmen, caricatured with lewd and vicious rhymes, stencilled with bright colours, various sizes (12)

180* Sachet Cards. A double-folded paper lace sachet card by Meek, ‘True Love’, c. 1840-50; a three-fold envelope sachet card with hidden message ‘The Future’, c. 1840; a fine three-part heart-shape paper lace valentine with a ribbon ‘Sweet kisses dear, I send to thee’, c. 1850, 9cm; a fine cut-out silk card by Meek, with rare ‘To my Mother’ featuring Stephenson’s Rocket crossing a viaduct, 8.5 x 12cm; a paper lace and embossed card with pink lining ‘Tribute of Love’ with lozenge mark for April 1876, probably Meek; a Stevens silk ‘True Love’, plus five others (11)

£100-150

£80-120

Lot 178

179* Rare Silk, Dobbs. An unusual and rare 18th-century hand-worked and stitched silk valentine on paper with initials ‘MB’ in gold thread surrounded by stitched violas and violets, taken from a scrap book belonging to Mark Barker of Bexhill, dated 1794, 21cm high; a Dobbs embossed and paper lace card, ‘Trophies from the Temple of Love’, hand-painted roses and forgetme-nots, surrounding a central motif of two entwined hearts, lifting to reveal ‘My heart is truly Thine’ and ‘Believe I Love’, 9.5 x 25cm; another Dobbs embossed and paper lace, c. 1830, with man applied flowers in silk covering hidden love messages (‘Doubt not my constancy’, etc.), a verse above, 9.5 x 25cm (3)

£150-200

181* Sulman, Meek, etc. A miscellaneous selection of twenty-five embossed and paper lace valentines, mounted and hinged by Sulman, Meek, etc., including an unusual miniature ‘Affections Tribute’ with tiny rose scrap, 3 x 2cm (25)

£80-120

VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS

182* Dobbs, Kidd & Co. A pair of Dobbs Kidd & Co. paper lace cards with added scraps of a turkey ‘A bird of good omen’, and a pudding ‘An old friend we are glad to see;, c. 1850; a mechanical floral spray ‘Hark the herald angels sing’, c. 1870; a floral bouquet with hidden messages; a hinged paper lace with children at a pantomime; a pair of three-fold lace-edged silk cards with floral bouquets, plus forty other cards, c. 1850-70 (47)

183* Kate Greenaway, Marcus Ward. A selection of Greenaway cards, including a set of four Almanac seasons; a paper lace ‘peephole’ card and twenty-three other cards including paper lace, threedimensional and pull-out (approx. 30)

£80-120

£100-150

184* Joseph Mansell, Raphael Tuck. A stand-up cut-out card featuring a Negro with racist verse. by F.L. Levien, c. 1870, 9 x 15cm; another Negro card ‘Here’s a Merry Christmas to you ‘ole boy’, 7 x 11cm; a rare ‘season ticket’ in booklet form for ‘Health and Prosperity’ with morality verse by F.E. Weatherley, issued to Nellie Dean, 5 Park Ave. from Anne Schofield, Published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner, c. 1888, 7 x 9cm; a paper lace birthday card with interior sachet and another sachet card; almanac cards for 1873 & 1874 with London pantomimes, 1875 bookmark holding a miniature book almanac; a folding religious card 1871; a facsimile of the first Christmas card by J.C. Horsley; another facsimile of the William Maw Egley card claiming to be the first; two French paper lace handpainted floral cards; a paper lace peephole card, and several others (20)

Lot 185

£80-120

185* Mechanical, Sachet. A mechanical tag pull-out card featuring six sections of angels amidst violets and forget-me-nots, ‘A Merry Christmas to you’, 9 x 13cm; a fine sachet card with silk centre ‘Wishing you a Happy New Year’, 12 x 8cm; another sachet card with paper lace and Stevens silk; a hinged card with figures and boats on a river, gold paper lace frame, 11 x 7.5cm; another twenty cards including nursery rhyme, Goodall etc., c. 1860-80 (23)

£80-120

186* Mechanical. A three-dimensional gold-edged card with a church window, opening to reveal St. Nicholas carrying toys, 8.5 x 12.5cm; a gold pull-out card with a hinged church door; opening to reveal a picture of the Holy Family; a paper lace folding envelope card; a Felix Sultana’s perfumed folding Almanac for 1865; a mechanical card of a ballroom scene; plus sixteen other cards, c. 1860-80 (21)

£80-120

Lot 186

Lot 188

187* Ernest Nister, Raphael Tuck. An amusing mechanical card with tag, featuring an urchin boy with extending arms and legs, 10cm high; a silk-framed tasselled three-part folding card with New Year floral messages, by Hildesheimer, c. 1880; a set of snow scenes (3) with Shakespeare quotes, 16 x 7cm, c. 1890; a set of four ‘Dressed pig’ cards by HIldesheimer, 7.5 x 7.5cm; a set of three ‘Sir Roger de Coverley’ designs by W.J. Wiegand, 1881; another set of five children in sailor suits, c. 1880; four ‘H.M.S. Britannia Children’ by Emily Barnard cards; a set of six children playing on the beach, 1880, and twenty-seven other cards, including paper lace, etc. (54)

£100-150

188* Paper lace, Charles Goodall, Marcus Ward. A paper lace window card which features a chariot of maidens and cherubs being pulled by a team of beetles, the doors with a St. Nicholas and hollied robin, 12 x 9 cm; another fine paper lace silver sachet card with painted silk, mounted on blue material, 15 x 10cm (open); a large selection of other cards including paper lace, hinged, etc. (30)

£80-120

189* Peephole, Paper lace, etc. A tag peephole card featuring four winter scenes and messages, c. 1865, 8 x 11.5cm; a twodimensional pull-out paper lace featuring a boy by a bridge, a watermill in a mountainous snow scene, c. 1860; a folding silk sachet paper lace card with netting, 18 x 14cm (open); plus twenty other cards, some Goodall, silk fringe, etc. (23)

£80-120

Lot 189

190* Pop-up and Mechanical. A ‘pop-up’ card to reveal a bower of flowers, a lake with a stand-up figure between bunches of lilies, ‘With love a Christmas Greeting’, 8 x 12cm; a mechanical tab card with silk and scraps ‘The roses and lilies the sweetest earthly flowers’, 8 x 12cm; a ‘peep-hole’ card, 7 x 10cm, and seventeen other cards including Goodall, George Meek, etc., c. 1860-70 (20)

£80-120

191* Raphael Tuck & Sons. A set of four cards ‘The runaway donkey’, c. 1880; another set of five chromolithograph cards designed by W.J. Wiegand, c. 1880; a pair of large 12.5 x 17.5cm cards by Hildesheimer featuring girls in a nursery (Christmas and New Year); a rare set of six Goodall and Son folding Almanac cards for 1874-1879, featuring seasonal scenes, some Kate Greenaway; a complete set of ‘The season’s calendar’ (4) by R. Canton for 1881; plus twenty-three other cards, c. 1860-1900 (44)

£100-150

Lot 190

192* Stand-up cards. A three-dimensional stand-up card featuring a chromolithograph ‘Nativity scene’ with a Bethlehem background, a message ‘God bless your Christmas’, c. 1890, 20.5 x 15cm high; another three-dimensional stand-up card featuring ‘The Holy Family with two angels’, in the foreground a message ‘God bless your Christmas’ in a bell-shape frame, c. 1890, 13.5 x 16cm high; another stand-up card opening to create a stable scene of the nativity, ‘A Happy Christmas, Peace on Earth’, c. 1890, 12 x 14cm (3)

Lot 191

£80-120

193* Stand-up cards. A three-dimensional chromolithograph stand-up card with a floral forget-me-not frame, featuring an interior scene of a boat upon a luminescent paper sea, a background of an Eastern city with palm trees and an old steam train, a message ‘May you spend a very happy New Year’ Souvenir with best wishes, 14.5 x 17cm; another three-dimensional c. 1900, chromolithographic card, a village snow scene with a Christmas tree, Father Christmas with two children and birds upon a fence; a pretty tinselled snow scene with a message, ‘Bending ‘neath his load of toys for all good little girls and boys, Kindest wishes for Christmas’, dated 1899, 10 x 15cm; another three-dimensional stand-up card featuring the ‘Infant Jesus and Mary’ framed by two angels and a star, ‘A Merry Christmas’, c. 1900, 13 x 15cm (4)

£80-120

194* Stevens Silk. A silk with a message ‘A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’, framed with two doors in fine paper lace, surmounted by two angels, dated 1872, 7.5 x 12 m high; a five-part folded card; a pull-up mechanical card with an orange tree with stand-up girl and dog; twenty-two other cards including embossed paper lace (25)

£80-120

Lot 194

195* Stevens Silk. A double-folded envelope sachet card with a Stevens silk of a robin with circular floral Christmas scraps set within gold paper lace; a hinged pull-out card of a Swiss snowy mountain scene with a chalet, mounted behind a gold gateway, 1874, 8 x 12cm; a pretty silk card with folding covers, 1870; twelve other cards including a satin-dressed St. Nicholas, 1860-80, and paper lace (15)

£100-150

196 Greeting Cards Sample Book. The Pickwick Series: Private Greeting Cards, A. & M. Webber, Bridgend, a total of 101 Christmas and other greeting cards tipped onto rectos of 36 leaves, each with printed sample personal greeting and date ‘Xmas 1912’, printed series titles, card codes and pricing scales to each leaf, printed ordering instructions to front pastedown and fly-leaf, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, oblong folio (1)

Lot 195

£100-150

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS & ARTWORK All lots unframed unless otherwise stated 197* Cartoon illustrations. A set of six humourous illustrations of a cartoon rat in various attitudes, pencil, watercolour, and bodycolour, on artist’s board, each 14 x 8.5cm (5.5 x 3.5ins), mounted With captions in pencil beneath the mounts: “What’s the Use”; “Just wait till she spies me”; “Oh Boy! did she scream”; “Another married couple”; “Atta Boy”; “Blimey - I didn’t know they had just married”. (6) £70-100

198* Embroidered map. A Map of England and Wales done at Miss Powell’s Boarding School Plymouth by S. Shepherd, 1788, map of England, Wales, and part of Scotland finely worked in cross stitch on linen, in blue, pink, black, yellow, white, and green silks, the map divided into counties and showing principal towns, top right corner with cross stitch title within satin stitch floral border, toned, some sl. wear to lower corners, 63.5 x 51cm (25 x 20ins), framed and glazed The V&A holds a similar sampler embroidered by a pupil at Miss Powell’s Boarding School, by an Elizabeth Hawkins in 1797, and showing Europe. These map samplers commonly have hand-drawn or traced outlines and were prepared by the teacher or governess in most cases. Maps of England and Wales or Europe were two of the most popular choices, but the range of possibilities was wide; a pupil might choose to depict as local an area as the field layout of a nearby estate, or as wide an area as the solar system. More complex maps such as the two hemispheres were usually undertaken on printed grounds, although generally left with blank borders to allow for individual customisation. (1) £200-300

Lot 197

Lot 198

Lot 200

199* Fell (Herbert Granville, 1872-1951). Three original illustrations, including two produced for Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, pub. Dent, 1903, together three watercolours, each initialled and titled to lower margin, 22 x 14cm (8.5 x 5.5ins), mounted, together with a copy of the book in which the first two appear, orig. green cloth Entitled: ‘The meeting of Cadmus and the beautiful Harmonia’; ‘Jason carries the old woman and her peacock across the river’; and ‘Bellerophon overcomes the Chimaera’ (latter possibly produced for ‘Tanglewood Tales’ and never used). (4) £200-300

200* Henderson (Keith, 1883-1982). The Ghost Ship, original coloured pastels on coloured paper, signed, 60 x 50cm, gallery label to verso Richard Middleton's 'The Ghost Ship' was published in 1912 without illustrations. This excellent pastel by Keith Henderson was apparently intended as a frontispiece for another edition that was never published. (1) £500-800

201* Higgs (Mike, 20th c.). A collection of approx. 60 sheets of original artwork featuring Moonbird and Dopey Dinosaur, 1970s & 1980s, pen and watercolour on card, sheet size typically 25 x 25cm, many sheets signed (approx. 60)

Lot 201

£70-100

202* Jones (Harold, 1904-1992). Original illustration for The Town Mouse, by Ruth Manning-Saunders, [1977], pen, ink & watercolour on thick wove paper, signed in pencil, with printed text pasted below image, sheet size 274 x 197 mm (10.75 x 7.75ins), mounted (1)

203* Kiddell-Monroe (Joan, 1908-1972). A collection of 26 small sheets of original artwork used in “The Heroes”, a work on the subject of Greek mythology by Charles Kingsley, published by Dent, 1963, pen & ink on artist’s board, typical size 11 x 15cm, together with four slightly larger pen and watercolour illustrations by the same artist, each 23 x 18cm

£150-200

Joan Kiddell-Monroe studied at the Chelsea School of Art and began illustrating books in the 1940s, becoming prolific in the succeeding decades. She became particularly well known as an illustrator of folk and mythological tales. (approx. 30) £200-300

204* Mays (Douglas Lionel, 1900-1991). A boy angler taking a well-earned break, gouache on artist’s board, signed, 350 x 190 mm, together with three other gouache drawings by Mays Douglas Lionel Mays (1900-1991) studied at Goldsmith’s College and exhibited at the RA and elsewhere, contributing to numerous periodicals including Punch, Holiday Annual, tatler, etc. (4) £150-200

207* Mortimer (Anne, b. 1958). Empty Shoe, watercolour, signed, 15 x 15cm, mat mount

205* Mortimer (Anne, b. 1958). Tumbling Cats, original watercolour, signed, 21 x 20cm, mat mount

Original illustration for ‘Cats Sleep Anywhere’ by Eleanor Farjeon, illustrated by Anne Mortimer, (Harper Collins, 1996), a copy of which is included with the lot (signed by Anne Mortimer). (2) £300-500

An original illustration used for ‘I Love Cats’ by Sue Stainton and Anne Mortimer (Katherine Tegen Books, 2007), a copy of which is included with the lot (signed by Anne Mortimer). (2) £300-500

208* Mortimer (Anne, b. 1958). Sleeping Cat, n.d., watercolour, signed, 10 x 15cm, framed and glazed (1)

206* Mortimer (Anne, b. 1958). Scaredy Cats, watercolour, signed, 21 x 20cm, mat mount

original

An original illustration used for ‘I Love Cats’ by Sue Stainton and Anne Mortimer (Katherine Tegen Books, 2007), a copy of which is included with the lot (signed by Anne Mortimer). (2) £300-500

original £200-300

209* Mortimer (Anne, b. 1958). ‘They were married next day’, original watercolour, signed, 19.5 x 19.5cm, framed and glazed Original illustration for ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ by Edward Lear, illustrated by Anne Mortimer (Katherine Tegen Books, 2006), a copy of which is included with the lot (signed by Anne Mortimer). (2) £400-500

210* Mortimer (Anne, b. 1958). ‘Cat hid among the breads and watch’ and ‘Suddenly there were chocolate mice with crunchy pinksugared tails everywhere’, two original watercolours, signed, 24 x 16cm and 11 x 13.5cm, framed and glazed as a pair, 52.5 x 29.5cm overall Original illustrations from ‘The Chocolate Cat’ by Sue Stainton, illustrated by Anne Mortimer (Katherine Tegen Books, 2007), a copy of which is included with the lot (signed by Anne Mortimer). (2) £400-600

211* Nuttall (Frances Amy, 1892-1983). A small archive of calligraphic and illuminated books and leaves, original drawings, sketchbooks, and effects, comprising three bound items: a 10pp. calligraphic illuminated ms. on vellum with historiated initials entitled A Christmas Carol, 1951, orig. red morocco, sheet size 15 x 12cm (6 x 4.75ins); a 5ff. calligraphic ms. entitled The Retreat, 1938, orig. linen-backed patterned boards, slim 8vo; and a 40pp. calligraphic ms. beginning ‘Thou hast made me...’, orig. patterned boards, 8vo, together with five framed and glazed items: illuminated coat-of-arms of the Ashbourne family, 15.5 x 12.5cm (6 x 5ins); illustrated calligraphic poem by M.M. Letts ‘The poor have childer and to spare...’, 35 x 14cm (13.75 x 5.5ins); illuminated coatof-arms of the Le Quesne family, 22 x 10.5cm (8.5 x 4ins); a calligraphic quotation from A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry, 1953, 44 x 28.5cm (17.25 x 11.25ins); and a calligraphic quotation from Defence of Images by Maximus of Tyre, 24.5 x 17.5cm (9.5 x 7ins), plus a small sketchbook with approx. 40pp. filled with pencil and pen & ink drawings (plus some blank leaves), mostly head and shoulder ports., but some full-length, plus landscapes, furniture, etc., sheet size 10 x 16.5cm (4 x 6.5ins), orig. linen, plus fifteen pencil and crayon or watercolour drawings of Indian people and scenes (‘Hawkers’, ‘a Bullock cart’, ‘A Beggar man’, ‘Broom-seller’, ‘Mofussil postal runner’, etc.), signed and dated 1913, some edgefraying, 20 x 24cm (8 x 9.5ins) and smaller, plus a number of other calligraphic sheets, a tooled leather handbag and writing case similar, some printed Christmas cards and other reproductions of Nuttall’s works, her Royal Drawing Society’s Bronze medal in orig. case, a Nuttall family armorial seal, and a few other pieces of related ephemera

Lot 209

Frances Nuttall was born in India of English parents. Her father was a wellknown architect and water-diviner, and her grandfather was the Government Astronomer in Madras, Norman Pogson. She was educated in England, and was offered a place at the Slade School of Art, but she returned to India instead. However, she subsequently attended Exeter Art School and studied calligraphy and illumination under Ruth Wood. Her skill and craftmanship in calligraphy obtained her many commissions, including some for the Royal Family, such as a loyal address to Queen Elizabeth II on her accession. Frances was a member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators, and was elected to Fellowship of the Society of Designer-Craftsmen. Her artistic skills extended into leatherwork, glove-making, tatting and bookbinding, in which crafts she lectured and gave courses at Denman College and local institutes. In later life she moved to Glastonbury where she was much involved in the Chalice Well Trust and the early Glastonbury movement. Her much-loved ‘Prayer of the Chalice’ continues to have worldwide circulation. (a carton) £150-200

Lot 210

212* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 65 sheets of original children’s comic strip artwork, 1970s & 80s, pen & ink on artists board, some coloured in watercolour, from magazines Playhour, Funtime, Hey Diddle Diddle, Toby, comic strips including Mark and Mandy, Clara Cleaner, Pickles the Dog, etc., sheet size approx. 44 x 34cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 65)

£100-150

213* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original artwork from children’s magazines, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour and gouache on artists board, including many exotic natural history illustrations from magazines Look and Learn, Once Upon a Time, World of Knowledge, etc., artists include R.B. Davis , Clive Uptton & Arthur Oxenham, sheet size typically approx. 50 x 37cm, printer’s marking to margins (approx. 100)

£200-300

Lot 212

214* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 50 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour and gouache on artists board, including illustrations of birds from magazines Look and Learn, Once Upon a Time, World of Knowledge, etc., artists including R.B. Davis, sheet size typically 54 x 40cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 50)

Lot 213

£100-150

215 Original artwork. A collection of approx. 53 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour and gouache on artist’s board, including nursery, fairy tale and natural history illustrations from Teddy Bear, Hey Diddle Diddle, Toby, Playhour, Jack and Jill, Robin, etc., sheet size typically 50 x 34cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 53)

£100-150

216* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & wash or watercolour and gouache on artist’s board, including illustrations from Hey Diddle Diddle, Pixie, Treasure, Playhour, Toby, Funtime, Playbox, Valiant and Teddy Bear, etc., sheet size typically 49 x 41cm, and smaller, artist’s include Cive Uptton and Angus McBride, printer’s marking to margins (approx. 100)

£200-300

Lot 215

217* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 72 sheets of original children’s magazine and comic book artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour and gouache on artist’s board, including illustrations from Look and Learn, Hey Diddle Diddle, Toby, Playhour, Dickery Dock Annual, etc., many fairy tale and natural history subjects, sheet size typically 42 x 31cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 72)

Lot 216

£100-150

218* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 50 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & wash or watercolour on artist’s board, including natural history illustrations from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, World of Knowledge, etc., includes work by artist George Bowe, sheet size typically 39 x 33cm, printer’s marking to margins (approx. 50)

Lot 219

£100-150

219* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour & gouache on artist’s board, including natural history illustrations from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, Princess Tina, etc., artists include Graham Allem, Richard Hook, Bert Illos, D. A. Forrest, R.B. Davis, D. Nockels, Arthur Oxenham, and Basil Reynolds, sheet size typically 49 x 38cm, printer’s marking to margins (approx. 100)

£200-300

220* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 50 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour or gouache on artist’s board, including many historical subjects from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, etc., artists include Andrew Howat, Dan Escott, Ken Petts, Eric Parker, Peter Jackson and Michael White, subjects including Columbus, Spartacus, Imperial China, India, etc., sheet size typically 47 x 36cm, printer’s margings to margins (approx.50)

£100-150

Lot 220

221* Original artwork. A collection of 100 sheets of original childen’s comic strip and magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen, ink & wash or watercolour on artist’s board, including comic strips Arthur the Moth, Gingerbread Boy, Eric the Elephant, Clockwork Edna, Bonnie and the Cats, Snuggles, etc. from magazines including Funtime, Playhour, Hey Diddle Diddle, Play Box, and Jack and Jill, etc., the strips including Percy Pig, Dolly Girls, Harold Hare, Bobby Bunny and the Friendly TV, sheet size typically 55 x 37cm, and smaller, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 100)

£200-300

222* Original artwork. A collection of forty sheets of original comic strip artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & wash on artist’s board, comprising complete stories of “Benny Hill” from Look-In magazine drawn by Bill Titcombe, sheet size 46 x 37cm, and ten two-page strips of the “Doctor at Sea” TV series from Look-In magazine, drawn by John Cooper, sheet size 47 x 36cm, etc., some printer’s markings to margins (40)

£200-300

Lot 221

223* Original artwork. A collection of 100 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour or gouache on artist’s board, including natural history illustrations from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, World of Knowledge, etc., artists include R.B. Davis, John Chalkley, T. Watts and Arthur Oxenham, sheet size typically 54 x 38cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 100)

Lot 222

£200-300

224* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 50 sheets of original children’s artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour or gouache on artist’s board, including historical illustrations of Romans, Explorers, 19th century social history, etc. from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, etc., sheet size typically 46 x 31cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 50)

Lot 225

£100-150

225* Original artwork. A collection of 20 sheets of original comic strip artwork, 1980s, pen & wash on card, includes ten two-page strips of Super Gran stories from Look-In magazine, drawn by Harry North, 52 x 32cm, printer’s markings to margins (20)

£100-150

226* Original artwork. A collection of over 100 sheets of original comic strip artwork, 1970s, pen and ink on artist’s board, comprising Captain Hurricane, Dan Dare, The A-Team, Billy Bunter, etc., various sizes, printer’s markings (approx. 100)

£100-150

Lot 226

227* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original comic artwork as used in Look-In magazine, c. 1960s1980s, pen & ink on artist’s board, comprising strips including Doctor in the House, That’s My Boy, Cannon & Ball, drawn by Bill Titcombe, and Buster & Princess comics, X-Ray Specs, The Trolls, Fright School, etc., sheet size 52 x 38cm and smaller, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 100)

£200-300

228* Original artwork. A collection of 32 sheets of original comic strip artwork as used in Look-In magazine, 1970s & 1980s, pen & ink on artist’s board, strips include Man About the House, Supergran, Doctor in the House and Cannon & Ball drawn by Alan Parry and Bill Titcombe, sheet size 46 x 36cm, printer’s markings, together with approx. 25 sheets of original comic strip artwork, as used in Shoot! magazine, 1980s, comprising short humorous football strips by “Rowe”, each 20 x 54.5cm (approx. 60)

£100-150

Lot 227

229* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & ink or watercolour on artist’s board, comprising the puzzle page from various publications including Funtime, Playhour, Fun To Do, etc., sheet size typically 40 x 30cm, some printer’s markings (approx. 100)

Lot 228

£70-100

230* Original artwork. A collection of 29 sheets of original children’s comic artwork, 1950s & 1960s, pen & ink on artist’s board, including Captain Hurricane drawn by C. Charles Royance, Paddy Payne drawn by Joe Colquhoun, Dangermouse drawn by Arthur Ransom, plus strips drawn by Denis Gifford for Mick Angelo publications, various sizes (approx. 29)

£100-150

231* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 70 sheets of original children’s comic strip artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & ink or watercolour on artist’s board, including illustrations used in Playhour, Jack & Jill, Teddy Bear Annual, etc., sheet size 54 x 41cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 70)

£100-150

Lot 230

232* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 60 sheets of original children’s comic strip artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & ink or watercolour on artist’s board, including stories from Playhour, Jack & Jill, etc., sheet size typically 47 x 34cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 60)

Lot 231

£100-150

234* Posters & limited edition prints. A collection including a large Spiderman poster inscribed by Stan Lee and dated 1991, measuring 74.5 x 60.5cm, together with a signed limited edition silkscreen print titled “Ray and Maggie Down at Leo’s” by Jaime Hernandez (46 x 58cm), a signed limited edition portfolio of prints by Brian Bolland titled “666 Portfolio”, plus other posters and prints signed by Burne Hogarth, Matt Wagner, John Bolton, Romero, Mort Walker, etc., some limited editions (approx. 20)

£100-150

235 Soper (Eileen A., illust.). The Enid Blyton Nature Plates, [1949], sixty colour printed study posters, inoffensive pinholes to upper margins, each sheet 430 x 534 mm, with printed index list loosely inserted, contained in orig. card slipcase (rubbed) Eileen Soper (1905-1990) studied under her artist father George Soper and had two etchings accepted by the Royal Academy when she was just fifteen years old. She is perhaps best known for illustrating many of Enid Blyton’s books. (1) £100-150

236* Tarrant (Margaret W., 1888-1959,). “Studies of a child’s head”, two portraits of a bonnie curly-haired baby, one head and shoulders, in coloured chalks, the other full-length, in black chalk, a few small holes to left-hand margin, 222 x 297mm (8.75 x 11.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed, with gallery label on reverse stating ‘From an album of the artist’s work’ (1)

£70-100

233* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 115 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen, ink & wash on artist’s board, some with watercolour, comprising the puzzle page from various children’s periodicals including Funtime, Playhour, Playgroup, together with horse themed illustrations used in Pony Book, Play Hour, etc., various sizes, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 115)

£100-150

Lot 234 237* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). Gran’pop being pelted by melons at a coconut shy, watercolour, signed, 390 x 300 mm, framed and glazed, together with a folder of approx. 30 chromo. prints after Lawson Wood from “The Sketch” magazine (aprox. 30)

£500-800

238* Wood (Leslie, 1920-1994). Eight large sheets of original artwork, each sheet bearing four full-page illustrations as used in “Whoo, Whoo, The Wind Blew” by Diana Ross, published by Faber & Faber in 1946, gouache on artist’s board, some sheets with applied text (occasionally missing), sheet size 54 x 80cm, together with five smaller sheets containing illustrations by the same artist used in the Little Red Engine series of books Leslie Wood studied at the Manchester College of Art. Upon visiting Faber & Faber in 1943 with some samples of his work he was commissioned within a week to illustrate books written by Diana Ross, although paper shortages delayed the publication until after the war. He later illustrated many childrens books and Punch covers, as well as advertising work for Guinness and The Festival of Britain. (13) £400-600

COMICS

This large collection of modern era comics and games was assiduously assembled by Andrew Lindsay (1974-2012), a gifted young physicist at University College Cork. Andrew's major research was in trying to understand the electronic properties of unusual semiconductor materials that are needed to pass information around the internet. He gained his first class BSc honours degree in physics at the University of Surrey in 1998, having been top student in each of his three years. He also played goalkeeper in the physics five-a-side soccer team, with which he twice won the university competition. Moving to Cork after completion of his PhD in solid state physics, Andrew enthusiastically carried on his research, his many scientific papers being referenced or cited frequently. Although remembered as a quiet and private person in many ways, he was very sociable with a wry and observant sense of humour. A loyal friend to many, he is greatly missed by professional colleagues, family and friends alike.

Lot 239

239 Spiderman. A very large quantity of approx. 1600 issues of modern era Spiderman comics and related annuals, mostly 1980s and later, the vast majority in mint condition in protective cellophane sleeves (approx. 1600)

£300-500

240 Marvel Comics. A very large collection of approx. 1100 modern day comics and related annuals, mostly 1980s the majority Marvel and later, publications, titles include Moon Knight, Venom, Indiana Jones, Death’s Head, Death Dealer, Marvel Civil War, The West Coast Avengers, Fantastic Four, Fool Killer, etc., plus some adult comic publications, the vast majority in near-mint condition in protective cellophane sleeves (approx. 1100)

£200-400

241 Fantasy and Role-Play. A large quantity of fantasy adventure board games, role-playing magazines and books, etc., including Dungeons and Dragons, The Dragon, Greyhawk, Epic, etc., mostly 1980s and later and generally VG and better (10 cartons)

£100-200

RUPERT BEAR

Lot 243

242 Rupert Bear. The New Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1936, duo-tone illusts. throughout, one of the five col. pages partly col., indentations from erased inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. red pict. cloth, clean and bright, in scarce d.j., some loss to upper and lower margins of front panel, some chipping to spine ends, couple of old tape repairs to verso of d.j., 4to, together with twelve Rupert story clippings from the Daily Express, c. 1930s A wonderful copy in a good dust-jacket. (1)

£500-800

243 Rupert Bear. More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1937, duo-tone illusts. throughout, pencil inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, binding a little weak in a couple of places, orig. cloth-backed vol. pict. boards, slight fading to spine, rubbing to extrems., 4to (1)

£100-150

244 Rupert Bear. The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1938, duo-tone illusts. throughout, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, occ. spotting, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, slightly rubbed, 4to A bright example. (1)

Lot 244

£150-200

245 Rupert Bear. The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1938, duo-tone illusts. throughout, inscription to front pastedown, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, fading to spine, 4to

247 Rupert Bear. The Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1939, duo-tone illusts. throughout, inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, spine faded, rubbed, 4to

(1)

£150-200

£100-150

246 Rupert Bear. The Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1939, duo-tone illusts. throughout, inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, some wear to upper cover, slight fading to spine, 4to

248 Rupert Bear. More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1942, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight chipping to spine ends, some rubbing, 4to

(1)

£120-180

£400-600

249 Rupert Bear. More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1942, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed or priceclipped, creasing to p.33, occ. spotting, orig. col. pict. wrappers, one inch loss to spine ends, small tear to upper cover, rubbed, 4to

251 Rupert Bear. A New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1945, col. illusts. throughout, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight split to head of spine, some light dust soiling to covers, rubbed 4to

(1)

£250-350

250 Rupert Bear. A New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1945, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slightly rubbed, 4to A bright example. (1)

£100-150

252 Rupert Bear. More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1947, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight rubbing to spine ends, 4to

£150-200

(1)

£100-150

253 Rupert Bear. The Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1948, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed or price-clipped, small inkstain to inside rear cover, orig. col. pict. wrappers, couple of creases to covers, 4to (1)

255 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1949, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed or price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight chip to base of spine, 4to A nice example. (1)

£100-150

256 Rupert Bear. The New Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed, pub. Daily Express, 1936, duo-tone illusts. throughout, colouring pages partly completed, several leaves with neat col. and old tape repairs, inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. red pict. cloth, spine faded, some marks, 4to, together with More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., 1937, duo-tone illusts., inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, split to head of spine, slight scribble to upper cover, wear to extrems., 4to, plus The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., 1938, duo-tone illusts. throughout, inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, some splitting to spine ends, rubbed, 4to, plus Rupert’s Adventure Book, 1st ed., 1940, col. illusts. throughout, inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. boards, spine glued, rubbed, 4to (4)

257 Rupert Bear. Rupert’s Adventure Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1940, col. illusts. throughout, inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. boards, spine frayed to edges, some rubbing to extrems., 4to, together with The Rupert Book, 1st ed., 1941, col. illusts. throughout, inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, p.15/16 detached, orig. col. pict. boards, head of spine taped, four inches of spine missing at base, rubbed, 4to, plus More Rupert Adventures, 1st ed., 1943, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, colouring pages completed, occ. spotting, orig. col. pict. wrappers, spine taped with photocopy replacements to spine ends, some wear, 4to, plus Rupert in More Adventures, 1st ed., 1944, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, spine taped, lacking rear cover, 4to, plus A New Rupert Book, 1st ed., 1945, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not priceclipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, spine and covers worn, 4to

254 Rupert Bear. The Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1948, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to inside front cover, orig. col. pict. wrappers, 4to (1)

£300-400

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£100-150

£180-220

259 Rupert Bear. The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1946, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight wear to outer margin of front cover, small chip to base of spine, 4to, together with More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., 1947, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed and priceclipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, some rubbing, 4to, plus The Rupert Book, 1st ed., 1948, (two copies), col. illusts. throughout, both inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, some rubbing, 4to

258 Rupert Bear. More Rupert Adventures, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1943, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed or priceclipped, colouring pages untouched, orig. col. pict. wrappers, inch of spine missing to head and base, small piece missing from lower margin of front cover, rubbed, 4to, plus The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., 1946, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight retouching to base of spine, some rubbing, 4to, plus More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., 1947, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight wear to outer margin of front cover, rubbed, 4to, plus The Rupert Book, 1st ed., 1948, (two copies), col. illusts. throughout, one copy inscribed and price-clipped, the other inscribed, not priceclipped, both orig. col. pict. wrappers, some rubbing, 4to (5)

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£150-200

260 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 11 vols., 1st eds., pub. Daily Express, 1951, 1952, 1953 (two copies), 1954, 1955 (two copies), 1956, 1957, 1958 & 1959, col. illusts. throughout, some inscribed and/or price-clipped, colouring pages completed etc., all orig. col. pict. boards, rubbing to some spines, generally very good condition, 4to

£180-220

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£200-300

261 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 10 vols., 1st eds., pub. Daily Express, 1951, 1952, 1953 (two copies), 1954, 1955 (two copies), 1957, 1958 & 1959, col. illusts. throughout, some inscribed and/or price-clipped, colouring pages completed etc., all orig. col. pict. boards, rubbing to some spines, generally very good condition, 4to (10)

£200-300

262 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 15 vols., 1st eds., pub. Daily Express, 1952 (two copies), 1953, 1955 (five copies), 1957, 1958 (three copies) & 1959 (three copies), col. illusts. throughout, some inscribed and/or price-clipped, colouring pages completed etc., all orig. col. pict. boards, several with some wear to spine, 4to (15)

£180-220

Lot 259

263 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 4 vols., 1st eds., pub. Daily Express, 1963, 1965, 1966 & 1968, col. illusts. throughout, all magic painting pages untouched, some inscribed or price clipped, title page grubby to 1963 vol., all orig. col. pict. boards, some rubbing to spine ends, 4to (4)

Lot 260

£180-220

267 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 74 vols. (incl. many duplicates), 1970-79, col. illusts. throughout, many inscribed and/or price clipped, all orig. col. pict. boards, some with rubbing to spines, generally very good condition, 4to (74)

£100-150

268 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 83 vols. (incl. many duplicates), 1980-89, col. illusts. throughout, some inscribed and/or price clipped, all orig. col. pict. boards, some with rubbing to spines, generally very good condition, 4to (83)

£100-150

269 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 80 vols. (incl. many duplicates), 1990-99, col. illusts. throughout, some inscribed and/or price clipped, all orig. col. pict. boards, some with rubbing to spines, generally very good condition, 4to (80)

270 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 95 vols. (incl. many duplicates), 2000-13, col. illusts. throughout, some inscribed and/or price clipped, all orig. col. pict. boards, some with rubbing to spines, generally very good condition, 4to

264 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 4 vols., 1st eds., pub. Daily Express, 1964, 1965, 1966 & 1968, col. illusts. throughout, all magic painting pages untouched, some inscribed and/or price clipped, all orig. col. pict. boards, some rubbing to spine ends, 4to (4)

£100-150

Includes seven copies of the scarce 75th Anniversary edition. (95)

£180-220

£150-200

271 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual Facsimiles, 23 vols., 1936-45, 1948-53, 1955, 1957-59, 1963, 1966 & 1970, pub. 1985-2011, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards/wrappers, later vols. in slipcases (as issued), 4to (23)

£250-350

272 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual Facsimiles, 19 vols., 1937, 1939 (three copies), 1940 (two copies), 1941 (three copies), 1944, 1945, 1948 (two copies), 1949, 1950, 1955, 1959, 1963 & 1970, pub. 1986-2011, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards/wrappers, later vols. in slipcases (as issued), 4to (19)

£200-300

273 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual Facsimiles, 18 vols., 1937 (two copies), 1939 (three copies), 1940 (two copies), 1941 (two copies), 1942, 1944 (two copies), 1948 (two copies), 1949, 1950, 1955 & 1957, pub. 1986-2005, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards/wrappers, later vols. in slipcases (as issued), one spine faded, 4to (18)

274 Rupert Bear. Signed Rupert Annuals, 16 vols. (incl. duplicates), c. 1996-2009, col. illusts. throughout, each signed by either ‘John Harrold’ or ‘Stuart Trotter’ (some dedicated), all orig. col. pict. boards, 4to, together with Rupert Adventure Series, 3 vols., nos. 20, 26 & 43, c. 1950s, col. illusts. throughout, all orig. col. pict. wrappers, some pencil marks to front cover of nos. 20 & 43, covers coming loose to no. 43, 4to, plus twenty other rupert related, incl. The Rupert Bear Dossier, 1997 & three copies of Rupert. A Bears Life, etc.

265 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 17 vols., 1st eds., pub. Daily Express, 1960, 1962, 1963 (two copies), 1964 (two copies), 1965 (three copies), 1966, 1967 (two copies), 1968 (three copies) & 1969 (two copies), col. illusts. throughout, many inscribed and/or price-clipped, magic painting pages generally only partially completed, all orig. col. pict. boards, rubbing to some spines, generally very good condition, 4to (17)

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£70-100

£200-300

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266 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, 16 vols., 1st eds., pub. Daily Express, 1962, 1963 (two copies), 1964 (two copies), 1965 (two copies), 1966 (two copies), 1967, 1968 (three copies) & 1969 (three copies), col. illusts. throughout, many inscribed and/or price-clipped, magic painting pages generally only partially completed, all orig. col. pict. boards, rubbing to some spines, generally very good condition, 4to (16)

£200-300

£150-200

CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 275* Aldin (Cecil). Cecil Aldin’s Painting Books, numbers 4-9, Lawrence & Jellicoe, [1915], colour litho. illusts, original pictorial card covers, some flaking to spines and corners, 4to Scarce. The subtitle of each book in order: The Doggy Book, The Baby Book, Our Animals, The Pied-Piper Book, The Puppy Book & Doggy Tails. (6) £150-200

277 Anderson (Florence Mary). The Rainbow Twins, pub. Joseph Johnson, [1919?], twelve colour plates and decorations to text, inscription dated 1933 to front free endpaper, orig. linen backed boards with pictorial upper board, a little rubbing and corner wear but generally VG, small folio, together with Byron (May), TopsyTurvy Land, illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick, [1908], title-page printed in red and black, twenty-four full-page colour illustrations, b&w vignette decorations to lower corner throughout, paper to inner margin of third leaf slightly pulled, orig. boards with colour pictorial upper cover, minor rubbing, 32mo, VG

276 Aldin (Cecil, illust.). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, by Charles Dickens, 2 vols., 1910, colour and b & w illustrations, light spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., original Japanese vellum gilt, one or two light marks, 4to Limited edition, 206/250 signed by the artist. (2)

Both titles uncommon and both in good condition. (2)

£200-300

£100-150

280 Bates (H.E.). Through the Woods, 1936; Down the River, 1937, 1st eds., wood-engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker, light spots to Down the River, original cloth, d.j.s, light soiling, Through the Woods chipped at spine head, Down the River repaired to verso, 4tp, together with three others by H.E. Bates: In the Heart of the Country, 1942, O More than Happy Countryman, 1943 and Oh! To Be in England, 1963 (5)

£100-150

281 Beano Annuals, 73 vols. (incl. many duplicates), pub. D.C. Thomson, c. 1968-2011, num. col. illusts., all orig. col. pict. boards, generally very good condition, 4to, together with a 1958 Beano Annual, rebacked (74)

£100-150

278 Attwell (Mabel Lucie, illust.). Peeping Pansy by Marie Queen of Rumania, Hodder & Stoughton, [1919], eight mounted colour plates, b & w illusts to text, neat ownership inscription to front f.e.p., toning to endpapers, original gilt decorated red cloth, slightly rubbed to extrems, 4to (1)

£100-150

279 Barker (Cicely Mary). Fairies of the Flowers and Trees, c. 1950, 72 colour plates, previous owner inscription, original cloth, spine fading, 8vo, together with Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 1909, colour illustrations by Gilbert James, light spots, endpapers browned, presentation inscription, t.e.g., original cream decorative cloth, 4to, plus Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, 1915, colour illustrations by Lucy Kemp-Welch, one or two spots, presentation inscription, original cloth, a few light stains, 8vo, with others including Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, 1876, A.G. Street’s In His Own Country, 1950 and others illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker, Cecil Aldin etc

282 Beardsley (Aubrey, illust.). A Portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley’s Drawings Illustrating “Salome” by Oscar Wilde, c. 1907, 17 b & w plates, one or two with light marginal stains, loose as issued in original half Japon, soiled with defective ties, together with Volpone, von Ben Jonson, Berlin, 1910, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, bookplate, original brown cloth, upper cover with elaborate gilt decoration by Beardsley, spine ends rubbed with small tears, 4to, limited edition, 382/650, plus The Best of Beardsley, Collected and Edited by R.A. Walker, 1948

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£100-150

£200-300

Lot 283 283 Blyton (Enid). The Island of Adventure, 1944; The Castle of Adventure, 1946; The Valley of Adventure, 1947; The Sea of Adventure, 1948; The Mountain of Adventure, 1949; The Ship of Adventure, 1950; The Circus of Adventure, 1952; The River of Adventure, 1955, 1st eds., illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, one or two light spots, presentation inscriptions, original pictorial cloth, d.j.s, Ship & Sea price-clipped, Castle with two d.j.s, a few chips, tears and repairs, 8vo A complete set of the ‘Adventure’ series. (8)

284 Blyton (Enid). Enid Blyton’s ‘Little’ Book series, numbers 1-18, Brockhampton Press, [1950-55], colour illustrations by Jeanne Farrar, Eileen Soper and Molly Brett, one or two with publisher’s File Copy stamps and notes, original cloth-backed wrappers, a few upper covers with manuscript numbers, a few rust-stains around staples, 12mo (18)

£700-1000

Lot 284 80

£150-200

288 Briggs (Raymond). Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book, 1982, six colour pop-up illustrations, original pictorial boards, 4to, together with The Christmas Book, Chosen and Arranged by James Reeves, 1st ed., 1968, illustrations by Raymond Briggs, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., a little rubbed and creased at edges, a few stains to verso, 8vo, with nine others by Briggs including Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, 1975, Fungus the Bogeyman, 1977, The Snowman, 1978 and When the Wind Blows, 1982 (11)

£100-150

285 Blyton (Enid). Enid Blyton’s Book of the Year, [1941], b & w illustrations by Harry Rowntree, original red cloth, d.j. in VG condition, 4to, together with The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies, [1924], colour frontispiece by Lola Onslow, illustrations by Horace J. Knowles, a few minor spots, presentation inscription, original pictorial boards, edges a little rubbed, 4to, plus Let’s Pretend, [1928], colour illustrations by I. Bennington Angrave, a few light fingermarks, prizelabel to front blank, original pictorial boards, light edgewear and one or two faints stains, 4to, with two others by Blyton: Silver and Gold, c. 1930 and The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, 1942 (5)

£100-150

286 Blyton (Enid). The Secret of Moon Castle, 1st ed., 1953, b & w illustrations, colour endpapers, original cloth, d.j., one or two minor nicks and creases, 8vo, together with Shadow, the SheepDog, 1st ed., 1942, illustrations by Lucy Gee, a few light spots, presentation inscription, original cloth (faded at spine ends), d.j., losses to spine, a few chips, 8vo, plus Enid Blyton’s Jolly Story Book, 1st ed., 1944, illustrations by Eileen Soper, original cloth (one or two stains), d.j., repairs to verso, 8vo, with four others: Enid Blyton’s Gay Story Book, 1946, Six Cousins Again, 1950, Feefo, Tuppeny and Jinks, 1951 and Run-About’s Holiday, 1955 (7)

289 Bull (Rene, illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, [1913], tipped-in colour illustrations, endpapers lightly browned, original brown pictorial cloth, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 4to With an original colour illustration by the artist to front endpaper, inscribed “with all best wishes from Rene Bull” and previous owner signature of Stella Holland. (1) £400-600

290 Comics. Two volumes of bound 1940s American comics, including A-1 Comics, No. 4, All Funny Comics, No. 17, All Humor Comics, No. 2, Big Shot, Nos 64-68 & 84, Bobby Comics, No. 1, Comic Comics, No. 5, Dizzy Don, Nos 21-22, Feature Comics, Nos 89, 98 & 101, Frankenstein, No. 3, Our Gang with Tom & Jerry, 16 issues from No. 34 to 56, all bound with wrappers, a few tears and faults, contemp. buckram

£100-150

287 Blyton (Enid). The Castle of Adventure, 1st ed., 1946, illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, occasional spotting, front endpaper browned, original pictorial cloth, d.j., some chips and tears, repairs to verso, 8vo, together with The Secret Seven, 1st ed., 1949, colour frontispiece, illustrations, previous owner inscription, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., small nicks and creases, 8vo, plus Five Fall into Adventure, 1st ed., 1950, illustrations by Eileen Soper, one or two spots, prize-label, original red cloth, d.j., repairs to verso, 8vo (3)

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£150-200

£100-150

293 Darwin (Bernard & Elinor). Ishybushy and Topknot, 1st ed., 1946, seven colour plates, original cloth, d.j., small repair to verso, 4to, together with Elves and Princesses, by Bernard Darwin, [1913], 6 colour plates by J.R. Monsell (brother of Darwin’s wife Elinor), a few light spots, original pictorial boards, 8vo, plus three books illustrated by Raymond Briggs: Richthofen. The Red Baron, Nuvolari and the Alfa Romeo, and Lindbergh. The Lone Flyer, all 1968 (5)

£100-150

294 Detmold (Edward J., illust.). The Fables of Aesop, Hodder & Stoughton, [1909], 23 mounted colour plates, b & w illusts, neat ownership inscription and address, pictorial endpapers browned, original gilt decorated cloth, a few marks, minor fraying to extreme head and foot of spine, 4to (1)

291 Crane (Walter, illust.). The Book of Wedding Days, Quotations for Every Day in the Year Compiled & Arranged by K.E.J. Reid, May Ross & Mabel Bamfield, 1889, frontis., decorative title and pages, endpapers spotted & browned, top edge silver, orig. cloth with silver blocked decoration, large 4to A near-fine copy. (1)

295 Detmold (Edward J., illust.). The Fables of Aesop, 1st ed., pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1909, twenty-five tipped-in colour plates, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. white cloth, a few minor marks (generally in very bright condition), 4to

£100-150

Limited edition 265/750, signed by the artist. (1)

292 Dandy Annuals, 71 vols. (incl. many duplicates), pub. D.C. Thomson, c. 1952-2010, incl. 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1961. 1965, 1966, 1967 & 1969 (two copies), col. illusts. throughout, all orig. col. pict. boards, some wear to earlier vols., generally very good condition, 4to (71)

£100-150

£300-500

297 Disney (Walt). Mickey Mouse and Pluto, Collins, [1936], b & w illustrations, one or two short closed tears, light toning, original boards, light edge wear, d.j., a little rubbed with repaired tears at spine head and rear panel, 4to, together with Micky Mouse Bedtime Stories, Sunshine Press, c. 1940’s, colour illustrations, one or two fingermarks, ‘Mickey Mouse presents this book’ section filled-in at front, original pictorial boards in bright condition (edges a trifle rubbed), price-clipped d.j., rear panel a little spotted, 4to (2)

296 Disney (Walt). Silly Symphonies. Babes in the Woods, King Neptune, Dean & Son, [1934], four colour pop-ups, scattered light spotting, presentation inscription, original pictorial boards, upper board slightly bowed, light edge wear, 4to, together with Nursery Stories from Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony, Collins Clear-Type, 1935, eight colour illustrations, one or two minor spots, original pictorial boards in bright condition, d.j., a little rubbed with small chips, 4to (2)

£200-300

£100-150

298 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Hodder and Stoughton, [1909], twenty mounted colour plates, contemporary crimson half crushed-morocco by Sotheran, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, a little rubbed and marked, 4to (1)

Lot 302

£100-150

299 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], thirty mounted colour plates, browning to endpapers, neat ownership address to front pastedown, original gilt dec. terracotta cloth, rubbed to extrems, 4to (1)

£100-150

300 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Stories from Hans Andersen, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], 28 mounted colour plates, pictorial endpapers, ownership address to verso of title, cracking to inner hinges, original gilt dec. cloth, spine faded with a little fraying to head and foot, together with Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book, Hodder & Stoughton, [1916], 15 mounted colour plates, scattered spotting, pictorial endpapers, orig. pictorial cloth, fraying to head of spine, and Edmund Dulac’s Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, Hodder & Stoughton, [1915], 20 mounted colour plates, endpapers toned, orig. pictorial cloth, sl. rubbed and marked, all 4to (3)

£150-200

301 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Stories from Hans Andersen, 1911, 28 tipped-in colour plates, light spotting to endpapers, original green cloth gilt, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, with two others: Tales of Hoffmann, Illustrated by Mario Laboccetta, 1932 and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Charles Robinson, c. 1928 (3)

£100-150

302 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, [1909], 20 tipped-in colour plates, bookplate, original cream buckram gilt, spine a little darkened, 4to (1)

Lot 303

£150-200

Lot 305

Lot 304

303 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman, [1907], 50 tipped-in colour plates, light spotting and browning to endpapers, original tan cloth gilt, a few faint spots, 4to (1)

£150-200

304 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Princess Badoura, A Tale from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], ten tipped-in colour plts., each with captioned tissue guard, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. white cloth, elaborately decorated in green and gilt, a few minor marks (generally in very bright condition), 4to Limited edition 298/750, signed by the artist. (1)

£400-600

305 Dulac (Edmund). Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book, Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, [1916], fifteen tipped-in colour plates, each with gold-printed border, partly untrimmed, orig. richly gilt decorated white cloth, in bright condition, 4to Limited edition 58/350, signed by the artist. (1)

£400-600

306 Fell (H. Granville, illust.). The Song of Solomon, Chapman and Hall, [1897], twelve plts., plus other illusts. and decs., title and frontis. detached, t.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cream buckram, sl. rubbed and soiled but with the upper cover design of two angels in bright condition, 4to (1)

£100-150

Lot 306

307 Goble (Warwick, illust.). Folk-Tales of Bengal, by the Rev. Lal Behari Day, 1912, 32 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., original Japanese vellum gilt, silk ties broken, a few spots, 4to Edition de Luxe of 150 copies. (1)

£400-600

308 Goble (Warwick, illust.). The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, by Charles Kingsley, 1909, 32 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, light spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., original Japanese vellum gilt, one tie detached, a few spots, 4to Edition de Luxe of 260 copies. (1)

£300-500

309 Goble (Warwick, illust.). The Fairy Book. The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew, pub. MacMillan & Co., 1913, thirty-two col. plts., some occ. spotting, orig. gilt dec. cloth, 4to, together with Smith (Jessie Willcox, illust.), The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, n.d., c. 1916, twelve tipped-in col. plts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, some rubbing, 4to, plus Attwell (Mabel Lucie, illust.), Peeping Pansy, by Marie Queen of Rumania, n.d., c. 1919, eight tipped-in col. plts., several illusts. neatly col. with watercolour, orig. gilt dec. cloth, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed to extrems., 4to, plus The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame, illust. R. J. Enraght-Mooney, 1915 (4)

£150-200

310 Greenaway (Kate, illust.). A Day in a Child’s Life, Music by Myles B. Foster, pub. George Routledge and Sons, [1881], col. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, with partial d.j. (front cover and front flap only), 4to, together with Marigold Garden, Pictures and Rhymes, pub. Frederick Warne & Co., c. 1910, col. illusts. throughout, some foxing to endpapers, orig. clothbacked col. pict. boards in price-clipped d.j., spine ends split, 4to, Almanack, 2 vols., 1885 & 1926 respectively, col. illusts. throughout, both orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, rubbed, 12mo, plus four other Greenaway related and The Young Lady’s Parental Monitor, Containing I. Dr. Gregory’s “Father’s Legacy to His Daughters”, II. Lady Pennington’s “Unfortunate Mothers Advice”..., Printed for Joseph Wenman, 1790, eng. frontis., contemp. calf with label to spine, cracking to joints, wear to extrems., 8vo

Lot 307

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£150-200

311 Greenaway (Kate). Kate Greenaway Pictures from Originals Presented by her to John Ruskin and Other Personal Friends (hitherto unpublished), With an appreciation by H. M. Cundall, 1st ed., pub. Frederick Warne & Co., 1921, mounted b&w port. frontis., twenty mounted col. plts., untrimmed, orig. two-tone cloth gilt in bright condition, in sl. frayed d.j., large 4to, together with Caldecott (Randolph), Randolph Caldecott’s Graphic Pictures and More Graphic Pictures by Randolph Caldecott, pub. George Routledge & Sons, 1898/1887 respec., numerous col. illusts., both orig. clothbacked pict. boards, rubbed and soiled, plus Our Wild Animals, Father Tuck’s Country Life Series, n.d., c. 1900, colour plts., orig. clothbacked chromo. pict. boards, rubbed and some marks, oblong folio (4)

£80-120

312 Hale (Kathleen). Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Keeps a Dog, 1st ed., Country Life, [1949], col. illusts. throughout, patterned endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, in d.j., d.j. sl. rubbed in places, but a good copy, slim folio Seldom found in the dustjacket. (1)

Lot 308

£100-150

314 Hudson (Gwynedd M., illust.). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Hodder & Stoughton, [1922], twelve mounted colour plates, original gilt decorated red cloth, a few minor marks and dents, together with Sheringham (George, illust.), Canadian Wonder Tales by Cyrus Macmillan, pub. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918, colour plates, pictorial endpapers, orig. decorated green cloth, rubbed to extrems, and Sheringham (George, illust.), The Duenna; A Comic Opera in three Acts by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [1925], twelve colour plates, original cloth gilt, and Mossa (R.G., illust.), Gulliver’s Travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Hodder & Stoughton, [1923], twelve colour plates, pictorial endpapers, original gilt dec. red cloth, sl. rubbed to spine, plus Rackham (Arthur, illust.), La Belle au Bois Dormant, 1st French ed., Paris, [1920], b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed to extrems, all 4to

313 Harrison (Florence, illust.). Poems by Christina Rossetti, 1910, 36 tipped-in colour plates, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, lacking ties, some soiling, 4to Limited edition, 34/350 signed by the illustrator. (1)

£200-300

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£200-300

318 King (Jessie M.). Kirkcudbright. A Royal Burgh. A Book of Drawings with Letterpress, Gowans and Gray, 1st ed., 1934, inscribed on the title-page by Jessie M. King, b & w full-page illusts., several leaves adhered together, orig. col. wrappers with glassine d.j., d.j. a little edge-frayed with sl. loss, slim 8vo

315 Hulme Beaman (Sydney George, illust.). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1930, eight plts., incl. frontis., letterpress illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, pictorial endpapers, orig. oatmeal buckram gilt (deluxe binding), in d.j., with hole in spine (repaired on verso) and rear flap with lower corner clipped, 8vo (1)

Inscribed in ink: ‘To “ROTH” RED. from me Jessie M. King’ and with rabbit and fence motif by the artist. (1) £150-200

£100-150

316* Hunt (Julia and Frederick). Peeps into Nisterland. A Guide to the Children’s Books of Ernest Nister, 2006, colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., small folio, (limited ed. 215/500, signed by the authors), together with seven examples of Nister books, including Jenny & Jack, Pretty Toy Pictures, Suffer Little Children, Round the Hearth, Sunshiny Stories, and The Little Pets, plus eight puzzles and games including The Floral Postcard Painting Box, published Ernest Nister, Old Mother Hubbard Puzzle Box, published Ernest Nister, complete in slightly damaged box, plus a thirty-piece Edwardian cube puzzle box with six different scenes of children, complete in orig. box with chromo. label to upper cover (16)

£70-100

317 King (Jessie M., illust.). Isabella, Or The Pot of Basil, by John Keats, Envelope Books Number Three, T.H. Foulis, [1907], six col. plts., incl. frontis. and title-page, rough-trimmed, orig. printed blue wrappers, lower half of upper joint split, spine ends and lower corner of front cover very sl. chipped, 165 x 90mm (6.5 x 3.5ins) (1)

£100-150

319 Kubasta (Voitech). Puss in Boots, London: Bancroft & Co. Ltd., [1958?], 16pp. colour illustrated pop-up book, orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strip, oblong 4to, together with Hansel and Gretel, London: Bancroft & Co. Ltd., 1961, 16pp. colour illustrated pop-up book, occasional spotting, orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strip, oblong 4to, plus Jack and the Bean-Stalk and Hop O’My Thumb, London: Bancroft & Co. Ltd., [1962],16pp. colour illustrated pop-up book, orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strip, oblong 4to (3)

£200-300

320 Lang (Andrew). The Orange Fairy Book, 1st ed., 1906, eight col. plts. incl. frontis., plus further b & w plts. and illusts., juvenile pencil inscriptions to front pastedown, a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. orange cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£80-120

321 Lang (Andrew, ed.). The Nursery Rhyme Book, Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1897, b & w frontis. and illusts., dec. endpapers, a.e.g., orig. blue gilt dec. cloth, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Tales of a Fairy Court, Illustrated by A.A. Dixon, pub. Collins’ ClearType Press, [1907], col. frontis., title, illusts. and dec. page borders, a.e.g., orig. pictorial cloth, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo (2)

Lot 318

£70-100

Lot 322 322 Le Mair (H. Willebeek, illust.). Nursery Rhyme Series: Grannie’s Little Rhyme Book/Mother’s Little Rhyme Book/Auntie’s Little Rhyme Book/Nursie’s Little Rhyme Book, Augener, c.1915, together four volumes, all with full-page col. illusts., orig. pictorial patterned boards, in d.j.s (occn. sl. edge-rubbing), 115 x 155mm (4.5 x 6ins), contained in orig. cardboard box, pull-off lid with printed label ‘The Children’s Book Shop in Liliputia, Best & Co., New York’ A rare survival in the original box. (1)

£400-600

324 Manuscript. The Three Bears, c.1890, 10pp. manuscript written in a clear copperplate hand, each page embellished with pen, ink, and watercolour drawings, leaves loose and brittle, with some chipping to edges (and some loss to text), front free endpaper with ms. inscription ‘Mikey and Kenneth, Camp Kurpit(?), Nov: 26th 1890’, orig. buff wrappers detached and split along spine (chipped at edges), upper cover with calligraphic title and pen & ink drawing of the three bears, with ink stamp ‘H. Kennedy’ to lower margin, and addition beneath in ink ‘and Mr. Kennedy’, slim 8vo (19 x 16cm/7.5 x 6.25ins)

323 Lentz (Harold, illust.). The “Pop-Up” Pinocchio, Being the Life and Adventures of a Wooden Puppet Who Finally Became a Real Boy, New York: Blue Ribbon, 1933, four double-page col. pop-up plts., letterpress illusts., some full-page, incl. frontis., pictorial endpapers, orig. pictorial boards, cocked, spine faded and sl. frayed at ends, in chipped and frayed d.j., with closed 2” tear in top edge of front panel, sm. 4to Rarely found in such good condition and in the dustjacket. (1)

£300-400

A charming production, probably executed by an older child. (1)

£100-150

327 Milne (A.A.). Winnie-The-Pooh, 1st ed., 1926, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, one or two light spots, neat contemporary previous owner inscription, map endpapers (slightly toned), t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, spine ends a trifle rubbed, d.j., spine darkened with tear and chips at ends, a little rubbed with a couple of short tears, modern cloth foldover box, 8vo (1)

£400-600

325 Milne (A.A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st ed., pub. Methuen, 1926, b&w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, t.e.g., some light foxing to foreedges, orig. dark green cloth gilt in bright condition, in d.j., rubbed and very sl. frayed to extreme corners, 8vo (1)

£600-800

326 Milne (A.A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 3rd ed., pub. Methuen, 1927, b&w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, t.e.g, orig. dark green cloth gilt in bright condition, in d.j., rubbed and some light soiling, some fraying to extreme head of spine, and creasing to top margins of d.j., 8vo, together with two 1st editions of Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, pub. 1926/1928 respect., b&w illusts. to each, both orig. cloth, rubbed and soiled with marks, some illustrations with juvenile hand-colouring, 8vo (both sold with all faults), plus three others related (Now We Are Six, 2nd ed., 1927, The House at Pooh Corner, 10th ed., 1938 & The Pocket A.A.M., 3rd ed., 1943), all 8vo (6)

328 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 10th ed. (2nd deluxe ed.), 1925, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, a.e.g., original crimson calf gilt, spine a little faded and lightly rubbed at head, 8vo, together with Now We Are Six, 1st deluxe ed., 1927, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, a.e.g., original crimson calf gilt, some fading to spine, 8vo

£200-300

(2)

£200-300

329 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st deluxe ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, a.e.g., original red calf gilt, spine slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo (1)

£150-200

330 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 1st ed., 1924, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, endpapers partially lightly browned, pastedown with small areas of bubbling, t.e.g., original blue cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, d.j., front panel with repaired tear, restorations at spine ends and folds, spine a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£1200-1800

Lot 329

331 Milne (A.A.). Winnie-The-Pooh, 1st ed., 1926, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, previous owner inscription to half title, map endpapers with light offsetting from flaps, t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, small bump at foot of spine, spine darkened and a little chipped at ends and corners, light creases to rear panel, 8vo (1)

Lot 330

£600-800

333 Milne (A.A.). Now We Are Six, 1st ed., 1927, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, half title and last leaf with light offsetting from flaps, small previous owner signature to front pastedown, t.e.g., original red cloth gilt, spine ends and corners a little rubbed, d.j., spine lightly rubbed and darkened with chips at ends and corners, a little dusty, 8vo (1)

334 Milne (A.A.). A Gallery of Children, Stanley Paul, [1925], 12 colour plates by H. Willebeek Le Mair, t.e.g., original white buckram gilt, slightly dusty at margins, 4to

332 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers with light offsetting from flaps, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, t.e.g., original salmon pink gilt, spine and margins a little faded, d.j., small chip at head of spine, 8vo (1)

£200-300

Limited edition, 390/500 numbered and signed by the author. (1)

£150-200

335 Milne (A.A.). Now We are Six, 4th deluxe ed., 1928, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers, a.e.g, orig. red gilt dec. calf, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo

£300-400

(1)

£70-100

336 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, B & w illusts. by E.H.Shepard, pictorial endpapers browned to free endpapers, t.e.g., orig. salmon pink cloth gilt slightly faded mostly to edges, d.j. torn at head & foot of spine and edges frayed, 8vo, together with Now We Are Six, 2nd ed., 1927, b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers, t.e.g., orig. red cloth gilt, d.j. torn at head & foot and to edges, 8vo, with Winnie-the-Pooh, 3rd ed., 1927,, b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers, t.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, d.j. torn at head & foot of spine, 8vo, plus When We Were Very Young, 7th ed., 1925, b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers browned to free endpapers, inscription to verso of front free endpaper, t.e.g., orig. blue cloth gilt, d.j. torn at head & foot of spine and frayed to edges, 8vo (4)

£150-200

337 Nesbit (Edith). The Railway Children, 1st ed., Wells Gardner, 1906, half-title, frontis., pictorial title, and nineteen plts. by C.E. Brock, correct as list, one plt. detached and sl. edgefrayed, 10pp. pubs. cat. at rear, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, endpapers renewed, orig. gilt dec. maroon cloth, sl. rubbed in places and with some minor blemishes, 8vo (1)

£200-300

338 Nielsen (Kay, illust.). In Powder & Crinoline, Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], 24 mounted colour plates, scattered spotting, decorated endpapers toned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little finger soiled with minor fraying to extreme head of spine, 4to (1)

£200-300

339 Nielsen (Kay, illust.). East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North, [1914], 25 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, decorative endpapers, a few minor marginal spots, original blue cloth gilt, spine ends a trifle rubbed, light scratches to upper cover Considered Nielsen’s best work during the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’. (1)

£700-1000

340 Nielsen (Kay, illust.). East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales From the North, [1914], 25 tipped-in colour plates, scattered light spotting, original blue cloth gilt, one or two small bumps to covers, spine a little rubbed at ends, 4to (1)

ÂŁ700-1000

341 Nielsen (Kay, illust.). In Powder & Crinoline, Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], twenty-four tipped-in col. plts., some spotting, Kay Nielsen related cuttings pasted to front blanks, decorated endpapers browned, orig. cloth-backed pict. boards, spine darkened, rubbed to extrems., 4to

342 Nister (Ernest, pub.). The Model Menagerie, with Natural History Stories by L.L. Weedon, Evelyn Fletcher and others, [1910], six pop-up chromos., one or two very small discreet repairs, letterpress vigns., floral endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed, oblong folio

(1)

One of Nister’s more fragile pop-ups, this copy has survived in remarkably good condition. (1) £200-300

£200-300

343 Outhwaite (Ida Rentoul, illust.). Musical Nursery Rhymes Picture Book, Melbourne: Murfett Pty. Ltd., [cover-title], De Luxe Edition, 1945, eight full-page col. illusts., musical notation, orig. spiral-bound pictorial card covers, with orig. blue cloth spine, very sl. edge rubbing in places, but a good copy, slim 4to Scarce. (1)

£150-200

Lot 342

344 Oxenham (Elsie J.). Rosamund’s Castle, 1st ed., The Girl’s Own Paper Office, [1938], col. frontis., Salvation Army prize label on front pastedown, orig. red cloth gilt, in price-clipped d.j., extrems. sl. rubbed, one short edge-tear repaired with adhesive tape on verso, 8vo A good copy of a scarce Oxenham title. (1)

Lot 343

£250-350

346 Pogany (Willy, illust.). Tannhauser. A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner, Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston, Harrap, 1911, 16 tipped-in colour plates, original decorative cloth gilt, spine a little rubbed and darkened, a few light stains, 4to, together with Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail Retold from Antient Sources, with Acknowledgement to the Parsifal of Richard Wagner, by T.W. Rolleston, Harrap, 1912, tippedin colour plates, bookplate, t.e.g., original decorative cloth gilt, a little rubbed at spine ends with short tear at head, 4to, plus The Tale of Lohengrin. Knight of the Swan After the Drama of Richard Wagner, by T.W. Rolleston, Harrap, [1913], tipped-in colour plates, t.e.g., original brown cloth gilt, rubbed at spine ends, 4to (3)

£200-300

347 Pogany (Willy, illust.). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pub. George G. Harrap, 1910, col. litho dec. title, two-tone illusts. and mounted col. plts., decorative borders, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, pictorial endpapers with previous owner signature to front free-endpaper, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, spine and edges darkened, frayed to head & foot of spine, folio, together with Tannhauser, A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston, pub. George G. Harrap, 1911, col. frontis., dec. title, mounted col. plts., b & w and two-tone illusts. & border decoration, orig. gilt dec. cloth, large 8vo (2)

£150-200

345 Pogany (Willy, illust.). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, G. Harrap & Co., [1910}, 20 mounted plates, bookplate, t.e.g., original full olive-green crushed morocco gilt, upper cover with multi-coloured onlay of a ship in rough seas, a trifle rubbed at edges with one or two light marks, 4to (1)

£150-200

348 Potter (Beatrix, and Sendak, Maurice). Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit. A new printing from the original line-blocks made for the first Private Edition of 1901, introduced by Maurice Sendak, Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd., 1995, thirty-four separate prints of the original Beatrix Potter illustrations, on deckleedged Arches paper, each numbered on verso, sheet size 135 x 102mm (5.25 x 4ins), each with tissue guard and enclosed in printed grey wrappers, together with 25pp. booklet in loose printed wrappers, sm. 8vo, housed in orig. grey cloth solander box, gilt titled on spine and with inset illust. on upper cover Limited edition, 154/250 copies, signed by Maurice Sendak and the printer Iain Bain. (1) £150-200

Lot 346

349 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, [Strangeways, December, 1901], col. frontis., woodblock engravings from the author’s line drawings throughout, stitching sl. strained, small stain to lower edge of page block (encroaching very sl. into margin in first half of book), orig. olive-green boards (faded to beige), with flat spine, some unexceptionable light marks, upper cover with printed lettering and vignette of Peter and siblings, 16mo, contained in custom-made beige cloth solander box, lettered in black Linder, p.420; Quinby 1. An exceptionally good, unrestored copy of Beatrix Potter’s extremely rare first book: one of only 250 copies. The character of Peter Rabbit was based on Beatrix’s own pet rabbit, and he made his first appearance in a letter written in 1893 to Noel, the five-year-old offspring of her former governess, Annie Carter. Noel and his siblings so enjoyed this and subsequent letters that Beatrix thought about having the story published. In 1900 she sent the story to at least six different publishers, all of whom rejected it, including Frederick Warne, who later decided to take the book on. Undeterred, Beatrix decided to have her little book privately printed, and in 1901 250 copies were published priced at 1/6 each, of which this is one. They sold so well that in February 1902 she had a further 200 copies printed with slightly amended text. (1) £20000-25000

350 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st ed., deluxe issue, Warne, 1903, half-title, twenty-seven full-page col. illusts., a few leaves with minor marks and occasional paper surface loss to few leaves (not affecting text), pictorial endpapers, hinges neatly repaired, orig. art fabric flower patterned boards with gilt lettering to upper board, rebacked preserving orig. spine, 16mo Linder p.423. (1)

£150-200

351 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st trade ed., Warne, [1902], early issue with ‘wept’ for ‘shed’ on p.51, thirty-one col. plts., occasional very light finger soiling to few leaves, grey leaf-patterned endpapers, contemp. ms. inscription to front pastedown, orig. green boards lettered in white with rectangular pictorial panel to upper board, extrems. slightly rubbed, 16mo Linder, p.421; Quinby 2. (1)

£700-1000

Lot 350

352 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, 1st deluxe ed., 1909, twenty-seven col. illusts., (with notice board illustrated on p.14, not shown in later editions) few minor marks and surface wear to p.51 affecting a few words, pictorial endpapers, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. green cloth, inset pict. panel to upper cover, lightly rubbed to head & foot of spine, 16mo Linder, p.428; Quinby 16. (1)

Lot 351

£500-700

353 Potter (Beatrix). The Pie and The Patty-Pan, 1st deluxe ed., 1905, ten col. plts. and b & w illusts., occasional spotting and light finger soiling, contemp. inscription to front free-endpaper, hinges slightly cracked, a.e.g., orig. light blue moiré cloth with bevelled board edges, pictorial design to upper cover blocked in dark blue and gilt, a few minor marks and extrems. slightly rubbed, 4to Rare. Linder, p.425; Quinby 9. The front cover is decorated with a repeat of the vignette on p. 35 and was never used again in any other edition. (1) £500-800

354 Potter (Beatrix). Peter Rabbit’s Almanac for 1929, [1928], col. frontis., vign. title, and twelve plts., occasional spotting, decorated endpapers, orig. tan boards with pictorial panel to upper and lower cover, slight spotting to covers and minor cracking to upper joint, 12mo (Linder, p.432; Quinby 28), together with The Peter Rabbit Music Books for Pianoforte, Music by Christopher Le Fleming, Books 1 & 2, [1935], b & w illusts., contemp. inscription to verso of titles, orig. boards with col. illust. to upper board of each, some spotting, spines cracked and worn, extrems. rubbed, slim folio, plus The Songs of Peter Rabbit, Based on “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter, Words and Music by Dudley Glass, [1951], numerous illusts. throughout, orif. pictorial boards, with cloth spine strip, slight wear to extrems., slim folio (4)

Lot 353

Lot 354

£200-300

355 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, 1st ed., [1930], six col. plts., b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., slightly frayed to upper edge of d.j. and spine torn with loss at head, 4to, together with The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1st ed., 1908, col. frontis, title and seventeen illusts., b & w illusts. to text, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth with inset pictorial panel to upper board, covers slightly faded, frayed at head & foot of spine, 4to, with The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st ed., 1903, and The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st ed., 1906, both in original boards, rebacked preserving original spines, 12mo Quinby 30, 15, 5A and 10. (4)

£200-300

356 Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st US ed., Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929], col. frontis. and five col. plts., b & w illusts. to text, paper surface to title slightly rubbed, orig. green cloth with inset pictorial panel to upper board, 8vo, together with Wag-byWall... with Decorations by J.J. Lankes, 1st ed., Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1944, mounted b & w port. frontis., woodcut illusts., decorative printed endpapers, orig. cloth with inset pictorial panel to upper board, d.j. frayed and worn to edges and with slight loss at head & foot of spine, d.j. strengthened to verso with gummed paper tape, 12mo Quinby 29A and 32. (2)

£150-250

357 Potter (Beatrix). The Derwentwater Sketchbook with Commentary by J.I. Whalley and W.K. Bartlett, 1st published ed., Warne, [1984], facsimile sketchbook of illustrations originally produced by Beatrix Potter in 1903, orig. cloth, oblong 16mo in 8s, together with commentary volume in orig. cloth, slim 8vo, contained together in orig. cloth covered book box, (limited ed. 159/250), together with “The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse”, Facsimile Notebook, Decimus Publishing, 1979, tipped-in col. plts., orig. leather in slipcase, small 8vo (limited ed. 57/500), with The Tailor of Gloucester, A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript and Illustrations, 1968, orig. cloth gilt in clear plastic d.j., contained in orig. pictorial slipcase, 4to, plus approx. fifty other Beatrix Potter bibliography, reference books & pamphlets etc. including A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter... by Leslie Linder, reprinted 1979, Beatrix Potter, A Bibliograhical Check List, 2nd ed., 1983 and The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897, Transcribed from her code writing by Leslie Linder, 1st ed., 1966, and approx. fifty-five Beatrix Potter Society Newsletters

Lot 356

(a carton)

100

£300-400

Lot 358 358 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st ed., 1911, twenty-seven col. plts., pictorial endpapers with contemp. inscription to front free-endpaper, orig. brown boards with inset pictorial panel to upper cover, in orig. printed glassine d.j. with closed tears repaired to verso, few other short tears & creasing to upper & lower edges, some browning, 16mo Quinby 20. (1)

359 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st ed., [1918], twenty-seven col. plts., pictorial endpapers, orig. boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, lightly rubbed to head & foot of spine, 16mo (with complete word ‘London’ to imprint and not ‘Londo’ as in some earlier issues, Quinby 25; Linder, p.430), together with The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st ed., 1913, fifteen col. plts., b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers, lower free-endpaper torn to upper outer corner with slight loss, orig. boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, spine torn at head and worn to lower joint, extrems. rubbed, 16mo (Quinby 22), plus The Tale of Mr Tod, 1st ed., 1912, fifteen col. plts., slight dust-soiling and few marks, pictorial endpapers, orig. boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, spine repaired preserving orig. spine, 16mo (Quinby 21)

£500-800

(3)

£200-300

360 Potter (Beatrix). Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st ed., [1917], fifteen col. plts., slight spotting to margins, pictorial endpapers, orig. green boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, lightly rubbed to spine, 16mo, together with Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st ed., [1922], fifteen col. plts., pictorial endpapers (adhesive mark to front free-endpaper), orig. pale red boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, spine lightly rubbed & faded, 16mo

Lot 359

Quinby 23 and 26. (2)

101

£200-300

363 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1st ed., 1907, twentyseven col. plts., pictorial endpapers, orig. brown boards, short split at foot of upper joint, spine faded, extrems. slightly rubbed, 16mo, together with The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st ed., 1910, twentyseven col. plts., slight dust-soiling and few marks, pictorial endpapers, orig. blue boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, dust-soiled, rubbed with wear at head & foot of spine, 16mo, with The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, 1st ed., 1909, twenty-seven col. plts., contemp. inscription to half-title, occ. light finger-soiling, orig. green boards with inset illust. to upper board, lower joint split, rubbed, 16mo, and The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st ed., 1908, twenty-seven col. plts., few marks, upper hinge torn at head, orig. green boards with inset illust. to upper board, head of spine torn and repaired, 16mo, plus The Tailor of Gloucester, A Play from the Story, [1929], and Ginger and Pickles, A Play from the Story, [1931], both in orig. printed wrappers, some marks & wear, slim 8vo, plus five other later editions of Beatrix Potter stories

361 Potter (Beatrix). The Pie and the Patty-Pan, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1905, ten col. plts., b & w illusts., plain endpapers (slight surface wear to front free endpaper), orig. maroon boards, with circular inset illust. panel of a kitten, lightly rubbed to spine and extrems., slim 4to, together with Ginger & Pickles, 1st ed., 1909, ten col. plts., b & w illusts., contemp. inscription to half-title, pictorial endpapers, orig. tan boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, slightly rubbed and scuffed, slim 4to Quinby 9 and 17. (2)

£200-300

Quinby 13, 18, 16 and 14. (11)

£250-350

364 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st trade ed., Warne, [1902], early issue with ‘wept’ for ‘shed’ on p.51, thirty-one col. plts., overwritten signature at head of half-title, occasional finger & dust-soiling, slight dampstain to upper margin of pp.91/92, surface wear to lower blank margin of p.77 & short closed tear to fore-edge margin of pp.83/84, grey leaf-patterned endpapers with repaired hinges, orig. brown boards lettered in white with rectangular pictorial panel to upper board, recent calf spine with title blocked in white, board edges slightly worn, upper board slightly marked, 16mo Linder, p.421; Quinby 2. (1)

362 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st ed., 1903, twenty-seven col. plts., pictorial endpapers with inscription to front free-endpaper, orig. maroon boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, short score mark to upper board, slightly rubbed, 16mo, together with The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st ed., 1904, twentyseven col. plts., bookseller’s blind stamp to half-title, pictorial endpapers with slightly cracked hinges, orig. grey boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, light wear to lower joint and head & foot of spine, 16mo, with The Tale of Two Bad Mice, 1st ed., 1904, twenty-seven col. plts., pictorial endpapers with bookseller’s ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper, orig. red boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, joints cracked at head & foot and repaired at head, rubbed, 16mo, plus The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, 1st ed., 1905, twenty-seven col. plts., pictorial endpapers with contemp. ownership signature to front free-endpaper, orig. brown boards with inset illust. panel to upper board, lower outer corner of upper board broken and some wear, 16mo Quinby 4, 6, 7 and 8. (4)

£300-500

102

£300-400

365 Preston (Chloe, illust.). The Peek-a-Boos’ Holiday, by Tom Preston, 1st ed., Henry Frowde, [1912], eighteen col. plts., incl. frontis. (with faint crease), some light finger-soiling, final text leaf browned along top edge, endpapers browned, hinges repaired, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and marked, with some minor edge-wear, oblong folio (1)

£80-120

Lot 367

366 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty mounted colour plates, toning to endpapers, original gilt dec. light-brown cloth, 4to A bright copy. (1)

£150-200

367 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Undine by De La Motte-Fouque, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1909, fifteen mounted colour plates, neat ownership inscription, marble endpapers, t.e.g., contemp. green half crushed-morocco over vellum bound by The Times Book Club, the spine gilt decorated with raised bands, 4to (1)

£200-300

368 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Comus by John Milton, 1st ed., Heinemann, [1921], 24 mounted colour plates, a.e.g., marble endpapers, contemp. dark-green full morocco presentation binding, the covers and spine with foliate gilt decoration, 4to Morocco presentation panel to upper pastedown from The Liverpool Booksellers Company dated 1921. (1) £200-300

369 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1910, 34 mounted colour plates, a few marks to pictorial endpapers, original gilt decorated brown cloth, a little faded to spine, together with Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1911, 30 mounted colour plates, marks to pictorial endpapers, original gilt decorated brown cloth, both 4to Bright copies. (2)

Lot 369

£200-300

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370 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Aesop’s Fables, a New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton, 1st ed., 1912, thirteen tipped-in col. illusts. (sl. creasing to lower inner corner of illust. facing p. 132), b & w illusts. to text, contemp. Arthur Rackham Exhibition leaflet loosely inserted (spotted and browned), t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. cream cloth gilt, fore-edges sl. dampstained and spine browned, a little rubbed at extremities, 4to Limited edition, 50/1450 copies, signed by Rackham. (1)

£150-200

372 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Undine, by De La Motte Fouque, Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney, 1909, 15 tipped-in colour plates, scattered light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription, original blue cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, one or two light stains, d.j., spine a little darkened and chipped at ends, 4to (1)

371 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, With a Proem by Austin Dobson, [1907], 13 tippedin colour plates, captioned tissue guards, a few minor spots, endpapers lightly browned as often, t.e.g., original buckram gilt, one or two light marks, 4to Limited edition, 791/1100. (1)

£500-800

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£200-300

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Lot 373

373 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie, 5th ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, fifty tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, a few minor marks on free endpapers, orig. terracotta cloth gilt, spine and upper return faintly faded, and upper corners a little bumped, but a good copy, 4to (1)

£100-150

374 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, Dent, 1907, twenty-four tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plts., b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers, free endpapers with some marks, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. olive green cloth, spine faded, but a good copy, 4to Riall, p.83. (1)

£100-150

375 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Aesop’s Fables, a New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton, 1st ed., William Heinemann, 1912, thirteen tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, b & w illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, endpapers foxed, early ms. name on front free endpaper, orig. cream cloth gilt, dust-soiled, spine darkened, 4to, together with a single leaf loosely inserted advertising the exhibition of Rackham’s watercolours for Aesop Fables and other subjects at The Leicester Galleries in 1912 Limited edition, 699/1450 copies, signed by Rackham. Riall, p.111. (1) £400-600

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376 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, William Heinemann, 1920, twentyfour tipped-in col. plts. (one with a corner creased), with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plts., b & w illusts., t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. deluxe brown leather binding, spine faded and lightly rubbed (with sl. fraying at head), 4to

378 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1st ed., Harrap, 1929, twelve col. plts., letterpress illusts., some full-page, pictorial endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cream cloth gilt, dust-soiled and some marks, spine darkened and sl. frayed at foot of lower joint, one corner bumped, 4to

Seldom found in the publisher’s deluxe leather binding. (1)

Limited edition of 575 copies, signed by the artist; this copy unnumbered, and unusually bound in cloth rather than vellum. Riall p.170. (1) £200-300

£80-120

377 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1st ed., Dent, 1907, twenty-four tippedin col. plts. (one or two corners creased), with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plts., b & w illusts., occn. light foxing to text, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. green crushed morocco, in the style of the Doves Bindery, initialled A.L.L. on rear turn-in, extrems. sl. rubbed in places, spine and cover margins faded, raised bands between gilt rules which terminate in triple heart leaf motif on returns, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder filled with stylised flowers and heart leaves, date lettered at foot, dot roll on edges, wide gilt dec. turn-ins, 4to Riall, p.83. (1)

379 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Tales of Mystery & Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1st ed., George G. Harrap, 1935, twelve colour plates, b & w illustrations, occasional spotting to margins and slight damp stain to upper margins of few leaves, original cloth gilt, d.j., slightly torn & frayed at head & foot of spine, 4to (1)

£150-200

380 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Sleeping Beauty, told by C. S. Evans, 1st ed., 1920, tipped-in colour frontispiece (loose), colour and b&w illusts. in silhouette, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, rubbed and some marks and soiling, 4to

£150-250

Limited edition 618/625, signed by Arthur Rackham. (1)

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£300-400

381 Rentoul (Ida S., illust.). Gum Tree Brownie and other Faerie Folk of the Never-Never, by Tarella Quin, Melbourne: George Robertson, [1910], numerous illusts., some full-page, incl. frontis., contemp. ms. name on front free endpaper, orig. pictorial orange cloth, dust-soiled and sl. marked, spine faded and a touch frayed at ends, sm. oblong 4to (1)

385 Robinson (Charles, illust.). The Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley, pub. London & Philadelphia, [1911], dec. title, mounted col. frontis., plts. and illusts., illustrated endpapers, bookplate to verso of front free-endpaper, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. japanese vellum, mottled and spine slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Reynolds (Frank, illust.), The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], pictorial title, mounted col. plts., toning to margins, pictorial endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. vellum gilt, light dust-soiling, lacks ties, 4to (limited edition 144/350 copies, signed by the artist), with Hall (Edith King), Adventures in Toyland, pub. Blackie & Son, [1897], col. plts. and b & w illusts., contemp. inscription and bookplate to front free-endpaper, a.e.g., orig. pictorial cloth, extrems. slightly rubbed, 4to, plus three others including Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear, with Drawings by L.Leslie Brroke, pub. Frederick Warne & Co., c.1900, Fabre’s Book of Insects, by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell, Illustrated by E.J. Detmold, pub. Hodder and Stoughton, [1921], and A Book of Old Ballads Selected and with an Introduction by Beverley Nichols & Illustrated by H.M. Brock, pub. Hutchinson & Co., 1934

£150-250

382 Robinson (W. Heath, illust.). The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel, 2 vols., Grant Richards, 1904, eng. frontis. to each, b & w plts. and illustrations, some spotting, decorative endpapers, hinges cracked, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cream cloth, dustsoiled, 4to (2)

£80-120

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£200-300

383 Robinson (W. Heath, illust.). Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales, pub. Constable, 1913, sixteen tipped-in colour plates, numerous b&w illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. full vellum in bright condition, 4to Limited edition 50/100, signed by the artist. (1)

£600-800

386 Robinson (Charles, illust.). The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde, 1st ed., pub. Duckworth, 1913, twelve tipped-in colour plates, numerous b&w illusts., t.e.g., orig. full-vellum gilt in bright condition, with d.j., spotted and frayed with a little loss to foot of spine and head of rear wrapper, 4to

384 Robinson (W. Heath). The W. Heath Robinson Calendar, G. Delgado, 1937, b & w illustration to each sheet, original wrapper with red ribbon tie, a little rubbed with a few light spots, publisher’s pictorial box, some soiling and tears to folded edges, linen reinforcements to inside edges, 4to Scarce in original box. (1)

Limited edition 8/260, signed by the artist. (1)

£150-200

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£400-600

387 Saint-Exupery (Antoine De). The Little Prince, 1st UK ed., 1944, colour illustrations by the author, scattered light spots, original pictorial cloth in bright condition, d.j., spine a little toned and chipped, a few spots and repairs to verso, 8vo Classic novella by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery, first translated and published in the US in 1943, whilst the author was in exile in America, before he joined the Free French Forces as a reconnaissance pilot. He was lost in action in July 1944. (1) £150-200

388 Shaw (Byam, illust.). Selected Tales of Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe, 1909, 16 tipped-in colour plates, light spotting front and rear, t.e.g., original blue decorative cloth gilt, light wear at spine ends, 4to (1)

£100-150

389 Smith (Jessie Willcox, illust.). Mother Goose Melodies, twelve booklets, [New York]: Dodd, Mead, 1914, b & w illusts., orig. chromolithograph pictorial wrappers, approx. 90 x 135mm The titles include Jack and Jill went up the Hill; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; Little Bo-Peep; Wilt Thou be Mine?; See Saw Margery Daw, Ring a-round a Rosie; One Foot Up the other Foot Down; Little Miss Muffet Sat on a Tuffet; Rain, Rain Go Away; Hush-a-bye-Baby On the Tree Top; Mary, Mary Quite Contrary; there was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe. (12) £200-300

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391 Stevenson (Robert Louis). Treasure Island, illust. John Cameron, 1st ed. thus, pub. Cassell & Company, 1911, twelve tippedin colour plates, b&w illusts., with later presentation inscription to front endpaper, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. elebatorately gilt-dec. full vellum, sl. rubbed and some light marks and minor spotting, 8vo Limited edition of 250 copies, this copy unnumbered. (1)

£200-300

392 Studdy (G.E.). A collection of ten small Bonzo books, c. 1920s, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slightly rubbed, small 8vo Titles consist, The Adventures of Bonzo; Bad Boy Bonzo; Bonzo’s Country Holiday; Mr Bonzo Comes to Town; Bonzo’s Seaside Holiday; Bonzo’s Little Trip; Sportsman Bonzo; Bonzo Visits Some Friends; Sea Breezy Bonzo; Bonzo at the Party. (10) £100-150

393 Tennant (Dudley, illust.). Poems of Passion and Pleasure, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, [1912], 20 tipped-in colour plates, a few minor spots, t.e.g., original cream vellum gilt, cloth ties detached but present, 4to

390* Stampkraft books. Mother Goose and Other Rhymes, New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1919, containing 72 colour printed “poster stamps” each stuck into its correct position, a little cracking to inner hinges, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, oblong 8vo, together with three other Stampkraft books including Peter Rabbit / The Three Bears (1919), Robinson Crusoe (1915) and Cinderella (1915), complete with all stamps in the correct positions, each bound in orig. pictorial boards

Limited edition, 10/500 signed by author and artist. (1)

The Stampkraft series of books were each issued with an envelope of stamps stuck to the front pastedown, the reader being encouraged to place the gummed stamps in their correct positions throughout the book. (4) £100-150

Lot 392

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£150-200

Lot 394 395 Thomson (Hugh, illust.). She Stoops to Conquer or the Mistakes of a Night, by Oliver Goldsmith, Hodder & Stoughton, [1912], twenty-five tipped-in col. plts., letterpress illusts., free endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, upper cover sl. bowed, lacking ribbon ties, large 4to, with advert. leaf for a related exhibtion of Thomson’s watercolours at The Leicester Galleries loosely inserted (foxed)

394 Thomson (Hugh, illust.). She Stoops to Conquer, or the Mistakes of a Night, by Oliver Goldsmith, [1912], 25 tipped-in colour plates, endpapers lightly browned, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, light soiling, lacking ties, 4to Limited edition, 185/350 signed by the illustrator. Presentation copy, inscribed to title: “With every good wish from Caroline and Rudyard Kipling, April 19, 1913”. (1) £300-400

Limited edition, 147/350 copies, signed by the illustrator. A bright copy. (1) £150-200

396 Thomson (Hugh, illust.). Shakespeare’s Comedy As You Like It, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1909], forty mounted col. plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, slightly dust-soiled, lacks ties, 4to, (limited ed. 45/500, signed by the artist), together with The Admirable Crichton, by J.M. Barrie, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1914], dec. title, twenty mounted col. plts., contemp. inscription to front free endpaper, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, lacking ties, 4to,(limited deluxe ed. 81/500, signed by the artist) (2)

£150-200

397 Thomson (Hugh, illust.). The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1910, 40 mounted colour plates, minor scattered spotting, original gilt dec. blue cloth, slightly rubbed and marked, together with Bates (Leo, illust.), Where the Rainbow Ends by Clifford Mills, Hodder & Stoughton, [1912], ten mounted colour plates including title, pictorial endpapers toned, original gilt dec. red cloth, slightly rubbed to extrems, and Blampied (Edmund, illust.), The Money Moon a Romance by Jeffery Farnol, pub. Sampson Low, [1914], 23 colour plates, t.e.g. remainder untrimmed, orig. pictorial green cloth, and Owen (H.J., illust.), The Robber Bridegroom, A & C Black, 1922, mounted colour plates, pictorial endpapers, orig. blue cloth gilt with pictorial panel to upper cover, minor fraying to head of spine, plus Justis (Lyle, illust.), Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, No. 1 of the Anderson Books, Philadelphia, 1930, illusts to text throughout, pictorial endpapers, original cloth, contained in orig. slipcase with pictorial spine (a few marks), all 4to (5)

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£150-200

399 Webb (W.S.K., i.e. Gilbert Lawford Dalton). The Truth About Wilson, D.C. Thomson and John Leng, 1st ed., [1962], edges foxed, paperback, 8vo

398 Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The Golliwogg’s Bicycle Club, 1st ed., 1896; The Golliwogg’s “Auto-Go-Cart”, 1st ed., [1901]; The Golliwogg’s Air-Ship, 1st ed., [1902], together three volumes, full-page col. illusts., some sewing a little loose, occasional finger soiling and marks, front endpapers with few juvenile marks and inscriptions etc., front free-endpaper to Auto-Go-Cart torn, all orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strips, dust-soiled, marked and some wear, oblong folio, together with Crane (Walter, illust.), The Baby’s Own Aesop, pub. George Routledge, 1887, dec. title and col. illusts., orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strip, extrems. rubbed & worn, slim 4to, plus one other similar (5)

Scarce first collected edition of stories by Gilbert Dalton about fictional character William Wilson or Wilson the Wonder Athlete. The character first appeared in issue 1029 of Wizard (24th July 1943) in a story entitled ‘The Truth About Wilson’. The first adventure introduced Wilson as a supreme athlete, who joined a race from out of the crowd and managed to record a three-minute mile. The rear cover reads: ‘Who was this Wilson? A slight, wiry figure in an old-fashioned, black running costume, he appeared out of the mists of the Yorkshire moors to shatter athletic records like cheap crockery, all over the world. He was an enigma, a mystery - but he was news! And now, at last, his astounding story can be revealed. Now the incredible truth can be told.’ (1) £200-300

£200-300

400 [Wolfe, Humbert]. Truffle Eater, by Oistros, Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures, 1st ed., Arthur Barker, [1933], title and eighteen unpaginated leaves, each with b & w illusts. and printed to rectos only, a little spotting and creasing to lower corners of final leaves, orig. printed boards with pict. upper cover showing Hitler in Struwwelpeter style with swastika-tipped long fingernails, a little soiling and minor wear to extremities, small folio An early anti-Nazi comic satire. (1)

£80-120

401 Wood (Lawson, illustrator). Gran’pops Annual, Stories & Verses by Arthur Groom, pub. Dean & Son, [1935], pictorial title and numerous illusts., some spotting and few minor closed tears to margins, orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strip, board edges rubbed, 4to, together with Lawson Wood’s Annual, pub. Dean & Son, [1951-52], pictorial title and illusts., lacks free endpapers, juvenile marks & wear to pastdowns, orig. pictorial boards with cloth spine strip, juvenile writing to upper board rubbed and slight wear, 4to, plus three others related, including an album containing ten loosely inserted “Gran-Pop” series postcards published by Valentine’s, together with a collection of fifty “Gran-Pop” series cigarette cards published by Carreras Ltd., mounted together on single sheet of mount bound (6)

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£80-120

EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)

403* Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). Autograph letter signed ‘Edward Thomas’, Steep, Petersfield, 12 May 1914, to [Thomas] Seccombe, ‘Many thanks for these cuttings. They seem to me the best proposional [?] prose & better fun that most literature. I have since been looking up that page on my own account. It is a wonder anyone reads reviews. But then even Reynolds writes them. He talked of you. Chesterton asked me for something topographical the other day & I have given him subjects to choose from. Many thanks for mentioning me. I have just ridden the bicycle for the 1st time since I bought it home & it goes so stiffly uphill that if you could arrange a swop I should be very glad indeed. Only I do not want you to put yourself to inconvenience. 1) If the man at the shop will exchange it, 2) Or if it positively will fill an empty place in your own system, then I will bring or send it along. Otherwise I will get used to it. Forgive my horrid haste’, 2 pp., 8vo

402* Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). Autograph letter signed ‘Edward Thomas’, Berryfield Cottage, Ashford, Petersfield, 3rd August 1908, to [literary agent] C. F. Cazenove, ‘Is it too late to think about arranging for an American edition of the country book I am doing for Dent - to be published in the Spring? I wish it could be managed, especially as the pay will otherwise be poor. The book will be a rambling discourse on country places, people in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire & Cornwall, with some references to books. It’ll be much more readable & continuous than anything I have yet done. (I don’t like it the better for that, but think others may.) Also there is more about people than before. Do you want an actual syllabus or merely an expansion of this description to submit to American publishers? Have you any hopes of getting rid of the Jefferies chapters?’, faint date stamp to upper margin and manuscript reference number ‘305’ to upper left corner, one page, 8vo ‘The South Country’ was published by J. M. Dent in 1909. (1)

Thomas Seccombe was a writer, reviewer and friend of Thomas. Last Sheaf: Essays by Edward Thomas, with a foreword by Thomas Seccombe was published by Cape in 1928. (1) £300-500

£300-500

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404* Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). Autograph letter signed ‘Edward Thomas’, Steep, Friday, postmarked thrice, Steep, Petersfield and Camberley, 15 May 1914, to Thomas Seccombe, ‘I can’t come today. May I come one day next week or the week after? If you are not free or might not be, tell me where to find the man & I will call to see if you are at home on enquiring there. Many thanks. It sounds all for the best in the best possible world. I should have liked to see your “St. Davids” but I have no chance of seeing any weekly here. Perhaps when I come over you would reveal it. I should come in the morning & get on after a pipe either in London or back here’, one page written across the inside of a pre-printed letter card with perforated edges, small 8vo (1)

406* Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). A group of three autograph letters signed from Eleanor Farjeon, Edward Garnett and John Freeman, 18/19 April 1917, all to [Thomas] Seccombe, following news of Edward Thomas’s death when killed in action at Arras on Easter Monday, 9th April 1917, the longest letter from Eleanor Farjeon, begins ‘I am staying with Mrs Thomas for a while, and doing what I can. It is difficult for her to write letters just now, inspite of her courage and fineness, so I am writing to the friends whom she wants immediately to thank for their deep kindness. She wants me to thank you especially for writing your reminiscences of Edward and so hopes they will appear. There was a little paragraph by John Freeman in the Times last Saturday, and Gordon Bottomley has asked her if she would like him to do something for the Times Literary Supplement or the Nation ...’, 4 pp. on four leaves, some browning, not affecting legibility to upper margins, 8vo, the John Freeman letter, in part, ‘... Another reason for writing now is that I have heard to-night that Edward’s death was perfectly sudden, a shell killing while he was in the Observation Post. He died painlessly. His body was recovered two days after, & buried in a known spot. The exact day I don’t yet know. He posted a letter to me on 5th that gave me immense pleasure but also with a half foreboding: “Give my love to them: It is all I have to give anybody now” ...’, 2 pp., 8vo, a third letter from Edward Garnett thanking Seccombe for his ‘masterly tribute to Edward Thomas’ in the Times Supplement, and later, in part ‘... I see that you wind up your letter with the words “this man was a born soldier” and this, of course, is a half-truth. “The War to End War” seems to be an exploded idea now; and the whole triumph of the germanic idea “a good warrior” seems to be ensured, unless the Slavs bring about a disintegration of the “Peace by Victory” argument. We are all, militarists and pacifists alike, struggling in a net of dreadful absurdity ...’, 2 pp. on two leaves, a little browning, 4to, plus a two-page letter from Thomas’s daughter Myfanwy Thomas on Edward and Helen Thomas Window Fund letterhead, 1st April 1970, to Mr. Reynold, with information on Edward Thomas biography, a few manuscript corrections, 2 pp., 4to, plus a related prospectus for The Engraved Window to Edward Thomas and Helen his Wife by Laurence Whistler, 1 p., 4to

£300-400

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407 Thomas (Edward). Oxford. Painted by John Fulleylove, A & C Black, 1903, numerous colour illustrations, occasional marginal water stain, a few spots, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, lightly rubbed with a few marks, 4to, Edition de Luxe, 215/300 signed by the publishers, together with The Woodland Life, 2nd ed., 1897, b & w frontispiece, endpapers browned, original green cloth, spine faded, 8vo, plus The Heart of England, 1906, colour illustrations by H.L. Richardson, t.e.g., original pictorial cloth gilt, a little rubbed and bowed, 4to, with others by Thomas including The Icknield Way, 1913 and In Pursuit of Spring, 1914

405* Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). Autograph letter signed ‘Edward Thomas’, Painswick, Friday, postmarked Painswick, 25 June 1915, autograph letter card signed to Ivy (Mrs Arthur Ransome), ‘I wanted to thank you or say how glad I was I came, and waited a few days so as to say what I meant. But I still don’t know except that I really was glad & wished I had not made plans that prevented me from staying longer. I hope you will let me come again if I don’t go to America. My love to Tabbie’, with a footnote, ‘We had dry weather all the time & parted at Stroud, since when I have been walking round about Gloucester. I go on to Coventry on Sunday & home by the end of the week’, one page written across the inside of a pre-printed letter card with perforated edges, closed tear to lower margin, small 8vo (1)

£300-500

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£200-300

409 [Thomas, Edward]. New Paths. Verse. Prose. Pictures 19171918, ed. C.W. Beaumont and M.T.H. Sadler, May 1918, handcoloured woodcut frontispiece and illustrations by Edgard Tijtgat, b & w illustrations by Augustus John, Walter Sickert, John Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson etc., occasional spotting, bookplate, original boards, one or two tears and stains, 4to, limited edition, 35/100, with a loose postcard, signed by C.W. Beaumont acknowledging an order for the book, together with An Annual of New Poetry 1917, Constable, 1917, previous owner inscription, original boards, spine a little rubbed and toned, 8vo, plus New Poems, by William H. Davies, 1st ed., 1907, one or two spots, previous owner inscription, original cloth, light dampstains to rear cover, 8vo, with other poetry including Twelve Poets. A Miscellany of New Verse, 1918 and Some Soldier Poets, by T. Sturge Moore, 1919 (9)

410 [Thomas, Edward]. These Things The Poets Said, Pear Tree Press, 1935, lithographed additional title, original cloth-backed boards, plain wrapper (some tears and losses), 8vo, limited edition, 63/150, with a manuscript poem by the poet Teresa Hooley (18881973), titled “Mecca”, June 14, 1936: “Beauty, a-wing, Brushed up and Vanished, as Vanishes Spring”, together with In Memoriam: Edward Thomas, Being Number Two of the Green Pastures Series, Morland Press, July 1919, woodcut illustrations, original wrapper, stitching broken, 8vo, with five odd issues of Root and Branch. A Quarterly of the Arts, Pear Tree Press, ed. by James Guthrie, c. 1913-15, and James Guthrie’s A Second Book of Drawings, 1917

408 Thomas (Edward). Cloud Castle and Other Papers, 1st ed, 1922, Foreword by W.H. Hudson, occasional light spotting, original blue cloth, d.j., one or two chips and stains, 8vo, together with Rose Acre Papers, Including Essays from “Horae Solitariae”, 1st ed., 1910, 4 pp. ads at end, a few spots, previous owner initials, original green cloth lettered in black, spine a little faded, d.j., short tear and light stains, 8vo, plus Light and Twilight, 1st ed., 1911, a few spots, pictorial endpapers, original cloth, d.j., light stains, 8vo, with others by Thomas including Rest and Unrest, 1910, Celtic Stories, 1911 and Norse Tales, 1912 (19)

£150-200

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£150-200

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£150-200

413 [Thomas, Edward]. Wisdom of the East. The Burden of Isis, Being the Laments of Isis and Nephthys, Translated from the Egyptian with an Introduction by James Teackle Dennis, 1910, publisher’s compliments blindstamp to title, bookplates of Emily & Gordon Bottomley and George Sims, original cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “Emily & Gordon Bottomley from Edward Thomas, 1910”, together with The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, new ed., c. 1857, front endpaper lightly browned, later burgundy cloth, some fading, 8vo, Edward Thomas’s copy, with his signature to front endpaper and pencil annotations at foot of pp. 6 & 113, plus Home and Garden, by Gertrude Jekyll, 1926, b & w illustrations, endpapers browned, original red cloth, some fading and dampstains, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed: “To Margot & Garth on their Wedding Day, June 29th 1946, from Helen Thomas”, with a four-line poem beneath, plus As It Was, by Helen Thomas, 1926, (Eric Gill’s copy with his pencil note at front) (4)

£200-300

411 Thomas (Edward). The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1913, b & w frontispiece by Muirhead Bone, 20 pp. pubs. list at end, endpaers lightly browned, bookplate removed from front pastedown, original green cloth, spine a little rubbed, some bubbling to covers, 8vo, together with Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds, 1st ed., 1915, tipped-in colour frontispiece, 16 pp. pubs. list at end, occasional light spotting and browning, original blue cloth, spine faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo, plus The Last Sheaf, 1928 (3)

£200-300

412 Thomas (Edward). Poems by Edward Thomas (“Edward Eastaway”), 2nd issue, November 1917, portrait frontispiece, occasional light spotting and browning, original boards, light edge wear, 8vo, inscribed: “Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Sydenham, 1918” (Wilfred Wilson Gibson, 1878-1962, one of the ‘Dymock Poets’), together with Last Poems, by Edward Thomas, 1st ed., 1918, browned throughout, previous owner inscription, original boards, spine rubbed, lower cover with a manuscript address and stamps, 8vo, plus Collected Poems, by Edward Thomas, 1920, portrait frontispiece, Foreword by Walter de la Mare, some light browning, original cloth-backed boards, edge wear and water stains to front cover, 8vo, limited edition, 33/100 (3)

414 Thomas (Edward). Chosen Essays, Gregynog Press, 1926, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Maynard & Horace Bray, a few spots, original blue buckram gilt, some fading and stains, 4to, limited edition, 307/350, together with Selected Poems of Edward Thomas, Gregynog Press, 1927, Introduction by Edward Garnett, original yellow buckram, upper cover slightly bowed, 8vo, limited edition, 263/275, plus The Diary of Edward Thomas 1 January - 8 April 1917, Whittington Press, 1977, Foreword by Myfanwy Thomas, Introduction by Roland Gant, 8 wood-engraved illustrations, t.e.g., original cloth-backed boards, slipcase (marginally faded), 8vo, limited edition, 37/525

£200-300

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415 Thomas (Edward). Six Poems, by Edward Eastaway, Pear Tree Press, Flansham, Sussex, [1927], printed in red and black, with illustrations by James Guthrie, original wrapper, one or two short tears and marginal creases, later morocco-backed solander box, folio Limited edition, 94/100 signed by James Guthrie. (1)

£600-800

416 Thomas (Edward). The Woodland Life, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1897, b & w frontispiece, 2 pp. pubs. list at end, a few minor spots, original green buckram, slight fading to spine, 8vo The author’s first book. (1)

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£150-200

PRIVATE PRESS

417 Ashendene Press. The Wisdom of Jesus, The Son of Sirach, Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus, 1932, printed in red and black with hand-coloured green and blue initials supplied by Graily Hewitt and assistants, original orange limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, silk ties, small folio Limited edition of 328 copies. (1)

ÂŁ700-1000

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418 Essex House Press. Mendicant Rhymes by Laurence Housman, pub. Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, 1906, untrimmed, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, sl. rubbed to edges, small 4to, together with Mackail (J. W.), Homer, an address delivered on behalf of the Independent Labour Party, printed by Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1905, untrimmed, orig. qtr. vellum, 8vo, plus St. Dominic’s Press. The Dressmaker and Milkmaid [by H. D. C. Pepler], Ditchling, St. Dominic’s Press, [1926], 8 pp., with woodcut by Eric Gill to upper wrapper, stitched as issued, slim 16mo, and Horne (Herbert), Diversi Colores, published by the author at the Chiswick Press, 1891, title printed in red and black, orig. boards with paper label to spine, rubbed and some marks, with spine darkened and a little chipped, 12mo (4)

423 Golden Cockerel Press. The Grecian Enchanted by Phyllis Hartnoll with eight aquatints by John Buckland-Wright, pub. Golden b&w engravings, t.e.g., remainder Cockerel Press, 1952, untrimmed, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, a little rubbed, folio, limited edition 274/360, together with The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, a new translation by F. L. Lucas, with ten engravings by Mark Severin, pub. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, b&w wood engraved illustrations, untrimmed, orig. vellum-backed green cloth gilt, folio, limited edition 574/750, plus Mr. Chambers and Persephone, A Tale by Christopher Whitfield, with wood engravings by Dorothea Braby, pub. Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, b&w wood engraved illustrations, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. green morocco gilt, some light soiling and spine faded, 8vo, limited signed edition 103/150, and Hero & Leander Translated from the Greek of Musaeus by F. L. Lucas, b&w copper engraved plates by John Buckland-Wright, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed, 8vo, limited edition 245/500, plus two other Golden Cockerel Press publications (Ana The Runner, 1937, & Cockalorum, a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press June 1943-December 1948) and four related book lists and similar

£100-150

419 Golden Cockerel Press. Chanticleer; A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press April 1921-1936 August, unlimited ed., [1936], wood engraved illustrations by Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Eric Ravilious, etc., original yellow cloth lettered in green, together with Pertelote; A Sequel to Chanticleer, unlimited ed., 1943, wood engravings by Buckland-Wright, Lynton Lamb, Clifford Webb, orig. cloth, and Cockalorum, unlimited edition, [1950], wood engraved illusts, orig. cloth in excellent dust-wrapper, plus Cock-A-Hoop, 1976, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, plus additional copies of Chanticleer, Pertelote and Cockalorum, all 8vo

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£200-300

The four works forming together a complete bibliography of the Goldern Cockerel Press from April 1921 to December 1961, the last volume also containing a list of the prospectuses. (7) £100-150

420 Golden Cockerel Press. A collection of approx. 90 original prospectuses, book lists, printing samples and exhibition catalogues, 1920s-1950s, many with woodcut illustrations by Paul Nash, Clifford webb, Robert Gibbings, John Buckland Wright, etc., some in booklet form, others a single leaf, various sizes (approx. 90)

£150-200

421 Golden Cockerel Press. A collection of approx. 120 original prospectuses, book lists, printing samples and exhibition catalogues, 1920s-1950s, many with woodcut illustrations by Paul Nash, Clifford webb, Robert Gibbings, John Buckland Wright, etc., some in booklet form, others a single leaf, various sizes, together with a framed Golden Cockerel print (approx. 120)

£200-300

422 Golden Cockerel Press. Julius Caesar’s Commentaries. A Modern Rendering by Somerset De Chair, 1951, b&w wood engs. by Clifford Webb, untrimmed, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, 4to, limited edition 71/320, signed by Christopher Sandford, together with The House with the Apricot and Two Other Tales, by H. E. Bates, 1933, engs. to text by Agnes Miller Parker, untrimmed, orig. qtr. green morocco gilt, 8vo, limited edition 97/300, signed by H. E. Bates, plus Clorinda Walks in Heaven, Tales by A. E. Coppard, 1922, spotting to first and last few leaves, author’s signed presentation copy inscribed to Owen Rutter, orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine, 8vo, plus nineteen other Golden Cockerel Press publications, incl. thirteen prospectuses (22)

£300-400

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424 Golden Cockerel Press. Glory of Life by Llewelyn Powys, with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, pub. Golden Cockerel Press, 1934, b&w wood engraved illustrations, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cream cloth gilt with orig. qtr. vellum gilt, with frayed glassine d.j., folio Limited edition 45/277. (1)

£300-500

426 Kelmscott Press. Poems by the Way, written by William Morris, 1891, woodcut initials, printed in red and black, minor spotting, partly uncut, orig. vellum with gilt-lettered spine, lacks ties, rubbed and soiled, a little wear to extrems., 8vo [One of three hundred copies.] (1)

£400-600

427 Old Stile Press. The Lad Philisides being a selection of Songs, Pastoral Eclogues & Elegies from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, wood-engravings by Harry Brockway, pub. Old Stile Press, 1988, b&w wood engravings by Harry Brockway, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. patterned boards with red gilt morocco backstrip, together with an additional suite of the illustrations, each titled and signed by the artist, loosely contained in matching portfolio, with slipcase, tall 8vo, together with two other Old Stile Press publications (Benedicite Omnia Opera, illust. Alyson MacNeill, 1987, limited signed edition of 225 copies, & The More Angels Shall I Paint, a selection from the Sketchbooks, Writings and Commonplace Books of Robin Tanner, 1991, limited edition of 275 copies, signed by Heather Tanner), folio/large 8vo, VG

425 Kelmscott Press. Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis, 1896, printed in black and red, with initial letters in black and blue, some leaves with woodcut floral and foliate borders, orig. linen-backed blue boards, extrems. rubbed and spine sl. frayed in places, some marks and fading to covers, 4to in 8s One of 250 copies. The first book Morris printed in three colours, the only other one being ‘Love is Enough’. (1) £500-700

First work published in a limited edition of 225 signed copies, this being one of 26 additional lettered copies, containing a set of proofs of the wood engravings plus one which does not appear in the published volume. (3) £200-300

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428 Shakespeare (William). Selections... , with Introduction and Bibliography by Sidney Lee, 5 parts in 5 vols., Oxford, 1905, each vol. with collotype facsimiles of first edition texts in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library, title-page to each within woodcut border, orig. limp vellum gilt, several ties still present, a little soiling, slim 4to Limited edition, 116/1000, signed Sidney Lee (limitation present in [first part] only: Venus and Adonis). This five-part set is a complete supplement to the facsimile reproduction of the First Folio issued by Oxford University Press in 1902. The works are: Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim [Facsimile from the copy in the Christie Miller Collection at Britwell Court], Sonnets and Pericles. (5) £150-200

429 St. Dominic’s Press. A Book on Vegetable Dyes by Ethel M. Mairet, pub. Douglas Pepler at the Hampshire House Workshops, 1916, orig. wrappers printed in gilt to upper cover, with yapp edges (sl. fraying), together with Woodwork in Principle and Practice by A. Romney Green, vol. I [all pub.], Ditchling, St. Dominic’s Press, 1918, b&w wood engraved illusts. by Eric Gill and Ralph Beedham, orig. printed wrappers, very sl. rubbed to extrems., plus In Petra, being a sequel to ‘Nisi Dominus’, together with a preface and notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler, Ditchling, St. Dominic’s Press, 1923, b&w wood engraved illusts., untrimmed, orig. cloth-backed boards, and Guide Book of Ditchling, [St. Dominic’s Press], 1926, contemp. cloth backed plain boards, rubbed and some light soiling, all 8vo (4)

£200-300

430 St. Dominic’s Press. Pertinent & Impertinent, An Assortment of Verse [by Hilary Pepler], Ditchling, 1926, numerous wood engs., by Desmond Chute, David Jones, and Harold Purney, some fullpage, untrimmed, free endpapers partially lightly toned, small ownership label on rear pastedown, orig. linen-backed boards, in partially faded d.j., front panel with lettering and vign. in gilt, 8vo Limited edition, 32/200 copies. Rarely found in the dustjacket. (1)

£300-500

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CRIME FICTION: A PRIVATE COLLECTION 432 Durbridge (Francis). Send for Paul Temple Again!, 1st ed., John Long, [1948], orig. cloth, sl. rubbed and marked in d.j., torn with some loss and repairs to verso, together with Beware of Johnny Washington, 1st ed., 1951, orig. cloth in d.j., a little soiled and a few tears with loss, several small tape repairs to verso, plus The Tyler Mystery, 1st ed., 1957, orig. cloth in rubbed d.j. with a few minor tape repairs, plus The Other Man, 1st ed., 1958, orig. cloth in d.j., a little soiling and sl. nicked at extremities, plus other Durbridge titles, including first editions, paperback plays, etc., some ex-library and some in d.j.s, all 8vo (33)

£150-200

431 Brandon (John G.). Death on Delivery, together with the Pawn Shop Murder, The Blue Print Murders, Mr. Penington Sees Red, Death In ‘D’ Division, ‘M’ for Murder!, all n.d., plus The Corpse Rode On, 1951, The Corpse from the City, 1958, Murder in Pimlico, 1958, all presumed 1st editions, pub. Wright & Brown Ltd., orig. cloth in d.j.s, all somewhat rubbe and with some signs of wear including occ. tape repairs, plus other John G. Brandon titles (and 3 x Gordon Brandon titles), the majority 1st eds., orig. cloth, a few taped or repaired d.j.s, occ. ex-library stamps, all 8vo John G. Brandon was born in Australia and emigrated to the UK. He and his son Gordon were both prolific crime writers. (70) £200-300

433 Elliott (William J.). Sheer Silk, 1946, Gunning in England, 1946, Spun Silk, 1947, all 1st eds., published Gerald G. Swan, orig. cloth in rubbed and nicked d.j.s, with tape repairs, largely to versos, together with Chance (John Newton, i.e. John Lymington), The Eye in Darkness, MacDonald & Co., n.d., orig. cloth in d.j. (8/6), a little edge wear with tape repairs to verso, plus Gribble (Leonard R.), The Grand Modena Murder, reprint, 1932, orig. cloth in d.j., with several tape repairs, plus other crime fiction and similar, 1st eds. and reprints, a few ex-library and some with d.j.s, author’s include Nigel Vane, Leslie Charteris, G. H. Teede, S. S. van Dine, Bruce Graeme, George Dilnot, and further titles by Chance (80)

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£150-200

435 Gray (Berkeley). Conquest in Scotland, 1st ed., Collins, 1951, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and soiled d.j., together with eleven further Norman Conquest novels by Berkeley Gray, Operation Conquest, 1951, The Lady is Poison, 1952, Target for Conquest, 1953, For The Lady, 1954, Conquest Goes West, 1954, Turn Left for Danger, 1955, The House of the Lost, 1956, Conquest in Command, 1956, Conquest Goes Home, 1957, Conquest After Midnight, 1957, and Death on the Hit Parade, 1958, all orig. cloth in first issue d.j.s, except Operation Conquest in second issue d.j., generally a little rubbed and soiled, all 8vo (12)

£200-300

434 Gerard (Francis). The Black Emperor, 1st ed., Rich & Cowan, 1936, orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed and soiled, together with Red Rope, 1st US ed., New York, 1939, plus 2nd UK printing, 1937, both orig. cloth in chipped and sl. creased d.j.s, plus The Prisoner of the Pyramid, 1st ed., 1948, orig. cloth in d.j., with a few marginal tears and repairs, plus Transparent Traitor, 1st ed., 1950, orig. cloth in sl. nicked and soiled d.j., plus others by the same author, a mixture of first editions and reprints, some in d.j.s, generally in no better than good condition, 8vo (35)

£150-200

436 Gray (Berkeley). Mr. Mortimer Gets the Jitters, 1st ed., Collins, 1938, orig. cloth in defective soiled and torn first issue d.j., with several tape repairs, together with four further Berkeley Gray first editions, Mr. Ball of Fire, 1946, The Spot Marked X, 1948, The Conquest Touch, 1948, and Dual Murder, 1949, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, first d.j. second issue, second and third d.j.s, first issue and fourth d.j., unpriced and issue not verified, final volume double-signed Berkeley Gray and Edwy and dated August 1949 to front free endpaper, plus Brooks (Edwy Searles), The Strange Case of the Antlered Man, 1st ed., 1935, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, plus The Grouser Investigates, 1st ed., 1936, library stamp to front free endpaper, and pencil markings to rear pastedown, orig. cloth, heavily rubbed, both in facsimile d.j.s, plus nine further Berkeley Gray first editions and reprints, 1950s and earlier (16)

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£200-300

438 Gunn (Victor). Ironsides’ Lone Hand, 1st ed., Collins, 1941, orig. cloth in 2nd issue d.j., (4/-), some creasing, soiling and sellotape repairs with a little loss, together with nine other Ironsides’ 1st edition, The Dead Man Laughs, 1944, orig. cloth in sl. creased and soiled and price-clipped d.j. (1st?), Ironside Smells Blood, 1946, Death on Shivering Sand, 1946, Alias The Hangman, 1950, all orig. cloth in slightly rubbed d.j.s, first issues, plus Madhatter’s Rock, 1942, Nice Day for a Murder, 1945, Three Dates with Death, 1947, and Ironside’s On the Spot, 1948, all orig. cloth in 2nd issue d.j.s, the first dampstained on spine, the third with tear with some loss at head of upper cover, plus Dead Man’s Warning, 1st ed., 1949, signed presentation inscription from the author, signed and dated as Victor Gunn October 49 and with this real name Edwy also, orig. cloth, spine dulled, and upper joint a little frayed, all 8vo Victor Gunn was the pseudonym of Edwy Searles Brooks. (10)

£200-300

Lot 437

Lot 439 439 Gunn (Victor). The Borgia Head Mystery, 1st ed., Collins, 1951, small tear to foot of title not affecting text, one leaf detached, signed by the author as Victor Gunn and Edwy to front free endpaper, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and soiled d.j., together with eleven further 1st editions by Gunn, The Body Vanishes, 1952, The Whistling Key, 1953, The Crippled Canary, 1954, The Laughing Grave, 1955, The Painted Dog, 1955, Dead Men’s Bells, 1956, Castle Dangerous, 1957, The 64 Thousand Murder, all orig. cloth in first issue d.j.s, all complete with a little wear and a few minor repairs, plus Death Comes Laughing, 1952, signed by the author ‘Edwy’ to front free endpaper, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed and soiled, plus Murder on Ice, 1951, double-signed by the author to front free endpaper, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and frayed second issue d.j., plus The Crooked Staircase, 1954, orig. cloth in frayed second issue d.j., all 8vo

Lot 438 437 Gray (Berkeley). Conquest in California, 1st ed., 1958, together with eleven further Norman Conquest first editions, Murder & Co., 1959, The Big Brain, 1959, Conquest on the Run, 1960, Nightmare House, 1960, Conquest in the Underworld, 1962, Countdown for Conquest, 1963, Conquest Overboard, 1964, Conquest Likes It Hot, 1965, Calamity Conquest, 1965, Curtains for Conquest?, 1966, and Conquest in Ireland, 1969, all orig. cloth in first issue d.j.s, except Countdown for Conquest in price clipped d.j., with .25p sticker, all a little rubbed and soiled, plus four Norman Conquest reprints in d.j.s, all 8vo (16)

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£200-300

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£200-300

442 Marric (J.J., i.e. John Creasey). Gideon’s Badge, 1st UK ed., 1966, orig. cloth in d.j., a little toned and browned on spine, together with Burley (W.J.), Wycliffe and the Last Rites, 1st ed., 1992, orig. cloth in d.j., plus Dexter (Colin), Death is Now My Neighbour, 1st ed., 1986, orig. cloth in d.j., plus other crime fiction and related by the same three authors, plus others including Roy Hart and R.D. Wingfield. some ex-library, mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo (approx. 90)

440 Gunn (Victor). The Treble Chance Murder, 1st ed., Collins, 1958, orig. cloth in d.j., together with eleven further Victor Gunn first editions in d.j.s, The Next One to Die, 1959, Dead in a Ditch, 1959, Death at Traitors’ Gate, 1960, Sweet Smelling Death, 1961 (double-signed Edwy Searles Brooks and Victor Gunn to front free endpaper), All Change for Murder, 1962, (poor ex-library copy but d.j. largely clean and unstamped), The Body in the Boot, 1963, Murder at the Motel, 1964, The Black Cap Murder, 1965, Murder on Whispering Sands, 1965, Death on Bodmin Moor, 1960, (library stamp to title), Devil in the Maze, 1961, all orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j.s, all first issues, except final two titles in second issue d.j.s, plus five further reprints of Gunn titles in d.j.s, all 8vo (17)

443 Robertson (Colin ). Zero Hour, a Peter Gayleigh story, 1st ed., Ward Lock, 1942, orig. cloth in soiled and sl. worn d.j., with a few closed tears and repairs to verso, spine cocked, together with Parsons (Anthony), Death on the Mall, 1st ed., Wright & Brown, 1947, orig. cloth in rubbed and soiled d.j., with several nicks and closed tears and repairs to verso, plus Deane (Norman), The Silent House, Hurst & Blackett, n.d., orig. cloth in rubbed and soiled d.j. with closed tears and repairs to verso, plus other hardback crime fiction, various authors, c. 1940s and later, some ex-library, all orig. cloth, some in generally worn d.j.s, all 8vo

£200-300

441 Kent (Alexander). To Glory We Steer, 1st ed., 1968, The Flag Captain, 1971, Sloop of War, 1972, all 1st eds., author’s signed presentation sticky label to title of last book, plus twenty-four others by Kent, 36 x Douglas Reeman, 7 x Bernard Cornwell, 4 x Winston Graham, a mixture of first editions and some reprints, a few with library marks, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, generally VG, 8vo (75)

£150-200

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£200-300

445 Walsh (J. M.). The Purple Stain, n.d., together with The Crimes of Cleopatra’s Needle, n.d., both Sundial Edition reprints, c. early 1930s, orig. cloth in sl. soiled d.j.s, with paper repairs to verso, plus other crime and mystery fiction by J.M. Walsh, Maurice B. Dix, Rufus King, Roland Daniel, Hugh Desmond and Edgar Wallace, a mixture of first editions and reprints, all orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, occ. ex-library with stamps and marks, 8vo (85)

£200-300

444 Verner (Gerald). The Glass Arrow, 1st ed., Wright & Brown, 1937, some spotting, sticky label remains to front pastedown, orig. cloth in d.j., rubbed and soiled with paper repairs to verso, together with other Verner first editions, Dene of the Secret Service, [1941], Thirsty Evil, 1945, Sorcerer’s House, 1956, The Third Key, 1961, The Shadow Men, 1961, The Red Tape Murders, 1962, I Am Death, 1963, The Ghost Squad, 1963, Six Men Died, 1964, all presumed first editions, orig. cloth in d.j.s, all somewhat rubbed and some a little torn with loss, a few tape repairs, plus other Verner hardbacks including some reprints, a few ex-library and several with sellotaped d.j.s, all 8vo (68)

£150-200

446 Dixon Hawke’s Case Book. Nos. 1-8, 11, 12, 14-20, n.d., orig. pict. printed wrappers, no. 7 rebound in cloth with remains of upper wrapper to upper cover and spine title laid down, all with some soiling and wear and several with tape repairs, plus a duplicate rebound of no. 12, together with a quantity of crime fiction paperbacks, Sexton Blake omnibus editions, reprints of Just William and Biggles, plus story papers reference and related (3 cartons)

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£100-150

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS 450 Amis (Martin). Success, 1978; Money, 1984; Time’s Arrow, 1991, 1st eds., previous owner signatures to first two, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, with twelve others by Amis including Two Stories, 1994 (limited edition of 326 copies), The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America, 1986, Einstein’s Monsters, 1987 and Visiting Mrs Nabokov, 1993 (16)

£150-200

451 Barnes (Julian). Metroland, 1st ed., 1980, original cloth, d.j., 8vo Signed by the author. His first book. (1)

£100-150

452 Betjeman (John). Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, 1st ed., 1937, b & w illustrations, a.e.g., original cloth, priceclipped d.j. designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, 8vo Signed by the poet. (1)

£100-150

453 Betjeman (John). Old Lights for New Chancels. Verses Topographical and Amatory, 1st ed., 1940, presentation inscription, endpapers and pastedowns a little spotted and crinkled, original blue cloth, price-clipped d.j., spine a darkened and chipped, a few minor nicks and closed tears, 8vo, together with New Bats in Old Belfries, 1st ed., 1945, a few spots to endpapers, original red cloth, d.j., spine a little darkened, 8vo, with three others by Betjeman: A Few Late Chrysanthemums, 1954, High and Low, 1966 and A Nip in the Air, 1974 (5)

454 Braine (John). Room at the Top, 1957; The Vodi, 1959; Life at the Top, 1962; The Jealous God, 1964; The Crying Game, 1968, 1st eds., one or two light spots, two with previous owner signatures, original cloth, d.j.s, The Vodi and Jealous God price-clipped, the latter with sellotape repair at spine head, with ten others by Braine

447 Adams (Douglas). The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 1980; Life, the Universe and Everything, 1982; So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, 1984, 1st eds., one or two spots, original cloth (So Long with small dent to upper board), d.j.s, Life, the Universe with small nicks at spine ends and repairs to verso), 8vo (4)

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£400-600

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£200-300

456 Chatwin (Bruce). In Patagonia, 1st ed., 1977, map endpapers, original cloth, d.j., spine slightly faded, light water stain to front flap and verso, 8vo

£100-150

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449 Amis (Kingsley). That Uncertain Feeling, 1955; I Like it Here, 1958; Take a Girl Like You, 1960; One Fat Englishman, 1963, 1st eds., a few light spots, original cloth (That Uncertain Feeling spine lettering faded). d.j.s, I Like it Here spine toned, one or two minor marks, 8vo (4)

£100-150

455 Chandler (Raymond). The Long Good-Bye, 1st UK ed., 1953, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo, together with Playback, 1st UK ed., 1958, original cloth, d.j., chipped at head of spine, a few stains, 8vo, with others including The Simple Art of Murder, 2nd impression, 1950, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, 1952 and Sweet Thursday, 1954, both UK 1st eds.

448 Ambler (Eric). The Dark Frontier, 1st ed., 1936, light spotting, endpapers renewed with Christmas crossword competition folded leaf tipped-in at front, original cloth, spine and edges rubbed, slight lean, 8vo The author’s first novel. (1)

£100-150

457 Chekhov (Anton). The Tales of Chekhov, vols. I-III, VI, VIII, XXIII only, from the Russian by Constance Garnett, Macmillan, New York, 1916-23, previous owner inscriptions, original green cloth, spines a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, with other Chekhov translations including Plays by Anton Tchekoff... Translated from the Russian by Marian Fell, New York, 1912, Plays of Anton Tchekoff... Translated by Julius West, New York, second series, c. 1912, The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories, New York, 1917 and four others

£100-150

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462 Conrad (Joseph). Lord Jim, 1st ed., 1900, bookplate, original green cloth, foot of spine with tear and small loss, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo (1)

£200-300

463 Cornwell (Bernard). Sharpe’s Gold, 1981; Sharpe’s Company, 1982; Sharpe’s Sword, 1983; Sharpe’s Enemy, 1984; Sharpe’s Honour, 1985, 1st eds., Enemy & Honour with light marginal toning, light spots to foredges, original cloth, d.j.s, some fading to spines, 8vo, together with 26 other Sharpe and other novels by Bernard Cornwell (31)

£500-800

464 Cornwell (Bernard). Sharpe’s Sword, 1st ed., 1983, original cloth (faint stain to upper cover), d.j., 8vo (1)

£200-300

458 Christie (Agatha). The Hound of Death and Other Stories, 1st ed., 1933, original burgundy cloth (spine faded), d.j., minor nicks and short tears, light dust-soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£200-300

459 Christie (Agatha). Death in the Clouds, 1st ed., 1935, 4 pp. pubs. ads. at end, one or two light spots, original orange cloth, spine faded, 8vo (1)

£70-100

460 Conrad (Joseph). Youth: A Narrative and Other Stories, 1st ed., 2nd impression, 1902, 32 pp. pubs. ads. at end dated 11/02, occasional spotting, previous owner signature, bookplate, original green cloth, spine lightly faded with tears at ends, edges a little rubbed, 8vo First appearance in book form of Conrad’s most famous story ‘Heart of Darkness’. (1) £200-300

465 Dahl (Roald). James and the Giant Peach, 1st UK ed., 1967, b&w illusts. to text by Michael Simeon, orig. col. pict. boards, 8vo A fine example. (1)

461 Conrad (Joseph). The Secret Agent. A Simple Tale, 1st ed., 1907, 40 pp. catalogue at end dated September 1907, a few light spots, previous owner signature, original burgundy cloth, spine and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with A Set of Six, 1st ed., 1908, 40 pp. catalogue at end dated February 1908, a few spots, bookplate, original blue cloth, spine faded, 8vo, plus a later printing of Joseph Conrad’s Chance (3)

£150-200

466 Dexter (Colin). The Dead of Jericho, 1981; The Riddle of the Third Mile, 1983; The Secret of Annexe 3, 1986, 1st eds., some toning to textblocks (as often), original cloth, d.j.s, light spotting to Annexe flaps, Jericho spine faded, 8vo Each signed or inscribed by the author. (3)

£200-300

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£200-300

469 Eliot (T.S.). The Waste Land, 1st UK ed., pub. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1923, some light spotting and minor soiling, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, endpapers somewhat browned, contemp. maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and some marks, 8vo Woolmer 28. About 460 copies printed. (1)

470 Faulkner (William). Soldiers’ Pay, 1st UK ed., 1930, 4 pp. pubs. ads. at end, previous owner signature, light spots, original cloth, some fading and stains, d.j., spine toned and chipped at ends, a few nicks and tears, 8vo, together with Sanctuary, Crosby Continental Editions, Paris, 1932

467 Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Conan Doyle Stories, 1st singlevolume ed., 1929, some spotting and browning, front hinges breaking, original cloth, spine detached (but present), rubbed and faded, d.j., looses to spine, some chips and tears, 8vo

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£200-300

471 Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1953, small ink bookseller stamp at foot of last leaf, neat shelf numbers to rear pastedown, original cloth, d.j., small chips and tears at spine ends and folds, rear panel slightly toned with one or two light marks, 8vo

Presentation copy, inscribed to title: “To my friend Joan Wallace, souvenirs of a sporting achievement, from Arthur Conan Doyle, March 1930.” (1) £200-300

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468 Eberhart (Mignon G.). Fair Warning, 1st UK ed., 1936, 4 pp. pubs. ads. at end, a few light spots, original orange cloth, d.j., repairs to verso at spine ends, a few chips and stains, 8vo, together with Jungle Girl, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1st UK ed., [1934], original cloth, d.j., light dust-soiling, 8vo, plus Death in Budapest, by Val Gielgud and Holt Marvell, 1st ed., 1937, original cloth (chipped at head of spine), d.j., tears and losses, 8vo, initialed presentation copy from Val Gielgud, with other crime fiction etc., including John Rhode’s The Venner Crime, 1933 and some Edgar Wallace reprints (15)

£200-300

£10000-15000

472 Fleming (Ian). The Man With the Golden Gun, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1965, occasional minor spotting, original cloth, upper cover with golden gun design blocked in gilt, a few light spots, priceclipped d.j., minor stain to rear panel, 8vo A good copy of the scarce first impression with the golden gun on the front cover. Only a very limited number were published before the publishers decided to re-issue the book in plain boards due to perceived production problems with gilt flaking. (1) £1500-2000

£150-200

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473 Fleming (Ian). Works, 14 vols., First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, 1990-91, original cloth, d.j.s, slipcases, all in original shrinkwrap, 8vo Facsimile edition of all fourteen James Bond books. (14)

£300-500

474 Fleming (Ian). From Russia, With Love, 1st ed., 1957, previous owner inscription, original cloth, upper cover with gun and rose blocked in silver and red, light toning with small chips, crease mark at head of rear panel, 8vo

475 Fleming (Ian). From Russia, With Love, 1st ed., 1957, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, original cloth, upper board with gun and rose blocked in silver and red, d.j., neat restorations to upper panel and margins, 8vo

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£300-400

£250-300

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476 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, original cloth, upper cover with gilt coins in eye-sockets, d.j., one or two minor nicks and creases, 8vo (1)

£300-400

480 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, original cloth, d.j., spine and edges toned, 8vo (1)

£200-300

481 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, previous owner inscription, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., surface abrasions affecting lettering at head of spine, 8vo, together with Thunderball, 1st ed., 1961, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., sticker mark to spine, 8vo, plus On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1st ed., 1963, marginal tear and loss to last leaf, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., spine a little rubbed and faded, light spotting to rear panel, 8vo, with three other Flemings: You Only Live Twice, 1964, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966 and Diamonds Are Forever, 2nd impression, 1958 (in photocopied d.j.) (6)

£300-400

477 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, original cloth, upper cover with gilt coins in eye-sockets, d.j., spine toned, 8vo (1)

£300-400

482 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, original cloth, d.j., small blue mark to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£200-300

483 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, original cloth, d.j., spine a little toned and rubbed at ends, 8vo (1)

484 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, original cloth, d.j., repaired and rebacked, 8vo, together with Thunderball, 1st ed., 1961, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., spine toned with minor nicks at ends, 8vo, with two others: Octopussy and the Living daylights, 1st ed., 1966 and Diamonds are Forever, 1st ed., 1956 (in later d.j.)

478 Fleming (Ian). Dr No, 1st ed., 1958, original cloth, upper cover with silhouette of dancing girl, d.j., neat restorations at spine ends and folds, 8vo (1)

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£150-200

485 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With The Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, one or two minor nicks at spine ends, a couple of light stains to OHMSS rear panel, 8vo

£200-300

479 Fleming (Ian). Dr No, 1st ed., 1958, original cloth, upper cover with silhouette of dancing girl, price-clipped d.j., neatly restored at spine ends and folds, 8vo (1)

£200-300

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£150-200

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£150-200

486 Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1953, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, d.j., neat restorations to spine ends and folds, 8vo The first appearance of Mr. Bond and one of only 4500 or so copies of the first issue. (1) ÂŁ10000-15000

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487 Fleming (Ian). Live and Let Die, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1954, a few light spots, original cloth, 2nd state d.j. (with two-line jacket credit midway between text and price to front flap), small restoration at head of spine, 8vo (1)

ÂŁ700-1000

Lot 487

488 Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, 1st ed., 1955, original cloth, d.j., neat restorations at spine ends and folds, 8vo A bright copy. (1)

ÂŁ2000-3000

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489 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, original cloth, d.j., spine lettering faded to yellow, light marginal toning, 8vo (1)

498 Fraser (George Macdonald). Flashman, 1969; Flashman and the Dragon, 1985; Flashman and the Mountain of Light, 1990; Flashman & the Angel of the Lord, 1994, 1st eds., Flashman & the Angel of the Lord 2nd impression, occasional marginal toning, original cloth, d.j., two price-clipped, Flashman a little chipped, 8vo

£150-200

490 Fleming (Ian). Dr No, 1st ed., 1958, 2nd state boards with silhouette of dancing girl (a couple of light marks), price-clipped d.j., a few chips at spine ends and folds, 8vo, together with For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, original cloth, d.j., a little chipped with creases and light stains, 8vo, plus Thunderball, 1st ed., 1961, small sellotape marks to pastedowns, original cloth, d.j., light edge wear and sellotape residue to verso of flaps, white correction fluid to recto of flaps, 8vo (3)

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£70-100

£150-200

491 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, one or two light spots, previous owner signature, original cloth (slight lean), d.j., a couple of minor nicks and stains, 8vo, together with You Only Live Twice, 1st ed., 1964, original cloth, d.j., spine a little darkened with minor nicks and abrasion, 8vo, plus The Man With the Golden Gun, 1st ed., 1965, light marginal toning, original cloth, d.j., minor nicks and light stains, 8vo (3)

£200-300

492 Fleming (Ian). Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1st ed., 1966, original cloth, d.j., later price sticker to front flap, 8vo, together with The Spy Who Loved Me, 2nd impression, 1962, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., front flap with presentation inscription, 8vo, with four others by Ian Fleming including OHMSS, 3rd impression, 1963 and The Man With the Golden Gun, 2nd impression, 1965 (6)

£100-150

493 Fleming (Ian). The Man With the Golden Gun, Uncorrected Proof, 1965, original wrapper, d.j., one or two spots, 8vo, together with Octopussy and the Living Daylights, Uncorrected Proof, 1966, original wrapper, d.j., 8vo, with Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1st ed., 1966 (3)

£150-200

494 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, one or two small tears and chips, Spy with light stain to upper cover, 8vo (3)

£200-300

495 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964, 1st eds., previous owner signatures, original cloth (small dink at foot of Spy), d.j.s, Spy with later price-sticker, a few chips and tears, one or two stains, 8vo (3)

499 Horovitz (Michael). The Wolverhampton Wanderer, an Epic of Britannia in Twelve Books with a Resurrection & a Life, for Poetry United, 1st ed., pub. Lattimer, 1971, b&w illusts. throughout, errata slip tipped-in, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and toned d.j., 4to

£150-200

One of 100 copies signed by the author and artists and photographers who contributed to the book, this copy unnumbered. Autographs include Feliks Topolski, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Jeff Nuttall, Adrian Henri, Tom Phillips, and Pete Hoida (the vendor). (1) £150-200

496* Fleming (Ian). From Russia With Love, United Artists, 1964, French Grande poster in folded condition with artwork by Yves Thos, 160 x 120cm, linen-backed (1)

£100-150

500 Hughes (Ted). Five Autumn Songs for Children’s Voices, pub. Richard Gilbertson, Bow, near Crediton, Devonshire, 1969, 11pp. of text, including title, orig. printed bright pink wrappers, stapled as issued, slim 8vo, limited edition of 500 copies, this copy numbered 137 of 150 copies signed by the author (numbered from 38 to 188), together with The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar, pub. Richard Gilbertson, Bow, Crediton, Devon, [1970], 8pp. of text, orig. printed wrappers, eylet ring-bound as issued, a little rubbed to edges, slim 8vo, limited edition of 100 copies, this copy unnumbered

497 Forster (Edward Morgan, 1879-1970). A Room With a View, 1st ed., 1908, 8 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, scattered minor spotting, presentation inscription in the author’s holograph to front pastedown, ‘AB from EMF, 16/7/16’ and additionally inscribed in red ink by the recipient [Aida Borchgrevink] to facing endpaper, ‘EM to AB, 1918’, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little soiled, 8vo Aida Borchgrevink (nee Ada Starr) was a friend and correspondent of Forster from around 1912 to 1928. (1) £300-500

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£150-200

504 Hughes (Ted). Crow Wakes, 1971, original boards, 8vo, limited edition of 200, together with Cave Birds. An Alchemical Cave Drama, 1st ed., 1978, illustrations by Leonard Baskin, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., small chips, oblong folio, plus River. Poems by Ted Hughes, 1st ed., 1983, photographs by Peter Keen, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., oblong folio, with others by Ted Hughes including Remains of Elmet. A Pennine Sequence, 1979 and Selected Poems 1957-1981, 1982

501 Hughes (Ted). The Mermaid’s Purse, watercolours by R. J. Lloyd, 1st ed., Sunstone Press, 1993, colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, orig. dark green cloth gilt in matching slipcase, 8vo Limited edition 4/100, signed by the author and artist. (1)

£70-100

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505* Hughes (Ted, 1930-1998). Autograph manuscript poem ‘Once in an Ancient Land, in the Land of the Lion’, c. 1980s, manuscript poem in six verses, handwritten in brown ink on a single sheet of Ingres d’Arches laid paper, with an illustration by Hughes at foot, depicting a landscape with the outline of a lion on the land, together with a reproduction of a pen, ink and monochrome wash head-and-shoulders portrait of Ted Hughes by R. J. Lloyd, dated 1979

502 Hughes (Ted). Ten printed proof broadside poems, from The Cat and The Cuckoo, pub. Sunstone Press, 1987, ten poems printed on a single sheet of laid paper with colour illustration by R. J. Lloyd to each, each signed in ink by author and artist, and marked in pencil ‘Proof 18/4/87’, each 30 x 21cm, together with a copy of the published book, bound in orig. blue cloth gilt in d.j., limited edition 249/250, signed by the author and artist (11)

This untitled twenty-five line poem is an early and unpublished version of what was to become ‘The Dream of the Lion’, a thirty-six line poem written for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on Her eighty-fifth birthday on 4 August 1985. Ted Hughes wrote about ‘The Dream of the Lion’ : ‘The basis of this poem is the association of the three Lions: the one in Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s maiden name, the one in her birth-sign, and the totem animal of Great Britain. The first and the third combined inside my head long ago, during my boyhood obsession with the animal kingdom and my boyhood fanatic patriotism, in a way that was able to stir at the surface again, in these verses, as an experience to some degree widely shared’, (Ted Hughes, Collected Poems, edited by Paul Keegan, 2003, p. 1216). (2) £300-500

£500-800

503 Hughes (Ted). The Hawk in the Rain, 1st US ed., Harper, New York, 1957, one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j., spine and edges a little toned, 8vo, together with Lupercal, 1st ed., 1960, presentation inscription, original cloth, d.j., slight fading, 8vo, plus Crow Wakes, 1971, original boards, 8vo, limited edition of 200, with seven other by Hughes including Wodwo, 1967, Crow, 1970, Season Songs, 1985 (inscribed by the poet) and Comics, 1997 (signed limited edition of 149) (10)

£100-150

£200-300

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506 Innes (Michael). Hamlet, Revenge!, 1937; Lament for a Maker, 1938; The Weight of Evidence, 1944; From London Far, 1946; What Happened at Hazelwood, 1946; A Night of Errors, 1948, 1st eds., occasional spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed and faded here and there, d.j.s, spines darkened and chipped, a few minor stains, 8vo (6)

511 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles Flies East, Being a Hitherto Unrecorded Adventure in the War-Time Career of Captain James Bigglesworth..., 1st ed., pub. Oxford University Press, 1935, col. frontis., four b&w plts., (correct as list), front panel of d.j. pasted to front free endpaper, orig. printed blue cloth, spine faded, 8vo (1)

512 Joyce (James). Pomes Penyeach, 1st ed., pub. Shakespeare and Co., Paris, 1927, errata slip tipped-in at end, original printed boards, faded to edges, spine rubbed and a little chipped with sl. loss, 12mo, together with Rossi (Mario M.), Pilgrimage in the West, trans. J. M. Hone, pub. Cuala Press, Dublin, 1933, orig. clothbacked boards, with paper label to spine, some marks and light discolouration to spine, slim 8vo

507 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles and the Blue Moon, 1st ed., 1965, three small tick marks to title list at end, original black cloth, d.j., edges rubbed, light stain, 8vo, signed by the author, with Biggles and the Gun-Runners, and Biggles and the Plane that Disappeared, both reissues, c. 1970 (3)

£200-300

£100-150

£200-300

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508 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles Hits the Trail, 1935; Biggles & Co., 1936; Biggles in Africa, 1936, 1st eds., colour frontispiece to each (detached in Africa), b & w illustrations, a few spots and tender hinges, previous owner signatures and number stickers at front, original pictorial cloth, joints and edges rubbed, a few stains, 8vo (3)

513 Joyce (James). Ulysses, 1st English ed., John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. green buckram with gilt bow design by Eric Gill to upper cover, extrems. a trifle rubbed in places, spine faded and with a few small marks, one corner sl. bumped, 4to Slocum and Cahoon A23. Limited edition number 883/1000 copies on Japon vellum. (1) £200-300

£200-300

509 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles in Africa, 1936; Biggles - Air Commodore, 1937; Biggles Flies West, 1937; Biggles Flies South, 1938; Biggles Goes to War, 1938, 1st eds., colour frontispiece to each (two detached), b & w illustrations (lacking Doubloon plate from West), occasional light spotting and browning, previous owner signatures, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, Africa in later repaired d.j., 8vo (5)

£100-150

£250-300

510 Johns (Captain W.E.). The Rescue Flight. A Biggles Story, 1939; Biggles in Spain, 1939; Biggles Flies North, 1939; Biggles Secret Agent, 1940; Biggles in the South Seas, 1940, 1st eds., colour frontispiece (detached in Secret Agent), b & w illustrations, one or two corners torn away, occasional light spotting and browning, previous owner signatures, original pictorial cloth, spines and edges rubbed, a few light stains, 8vo (5)

£250-300

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514 Kafka (Franz). The Trial, Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, 1st ed., 1937, occasional light spotting, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, original cloth, spine a little faded, 8vo (1)

£100-150

515 Lawrence (D.H.). Rawdon’s Roof (Woburn Books, no. 7), 1st ed., pub. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928, untrimmed, orig. patterned boards, bumped to foot of spine in d.j., with sl. soiling and light browning, very sl. frayed and chipped to foot of spine, 8vo, limited signed edition 503/530, together with The Story of Doctor Manente being the tenth and last story from the Suppers of A. F. Grazzini called Il Lasca, trans. and intro. D. H. Lawrence (Lungarno Series), 1st ed., Florence, G. Orioli, 1929, untrimmed, orig. parchment boards, sl. darkened to spine and edges, 8vo (2)

£150-200

516 Lawrence (David Herbert). Women in Love, 1st ed., 1921, half-title, 4 pp. pubs. ads at rear, some light browning to outer margins, as often, orig. brown cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, 8vo (1)

£70-100

517 Lewis (C.S.). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A Story for Children, 1st ed., pub. Geoffrey Bles, 1950, col. frontis., b&w illusts. to text throughout, t.e.g., recent elaborately gilt dec. grey morocco, by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, 8vo (1)

£700-1000

518 Lofting (Hugh). The Twilight of Magic, 1st ed., 1930, illustrations by Lois Lenski, a few light spots, small previous owner stamp to half title, original purple cloth, spine a litte faded, d.j., slipcase, 8vo (1)

£100-150

Lot 517

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519 Lytton (Edward Bulwer, Lord). The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain, 1st separate ed., Gowans & Gray, 1905, pp.57+[1](blank)+[1](ads.), half-title present, pubs. ad. leaf at rear ink-stamped ‘these prices are now increased’, early ms. name on inside front wrapper, page block near-detached in orig. wrappers, with chromo. parchment dustjacket, torn and frayed with sl. loss to rear panel, printed with illust. on front panel and lettered ‘Gowans’s International Library No.1. 6d net’, sm. 8vo (148 x 100mm/5.75 x 4ins)

520 Mansfield (Katherine). In a German Pension, 1st ed., Stephen Swift & Co. Ltd., [1911], 4 + 22 pp. pubs. ads. at rear, a little spotting, presentation copy blindstamped to title, ownership signature of Isaac Dewing to front pastedown, orig. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, nicked at head of upper joint and a little loss to lower outer corner of upper board, 8vo Kirkpatrick A1a. One of approx. 500 copies only of the first edition of Katherine Mansfield’s first book, and one which disappeared rapidly from the market. Uncommon. (1) £300-500

The rare first separate edition of Lytton’s famous horror story, which H.P. Lovecraft considered “one of the best short haunted-house tales ever written”, and which had a major influence on many subsequent writers. Lytton’s ghost story was first published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1859 and then appeared in book form in volume 10 of ‘Tales from Blackwood’ in 1860. The Gowans text is the long version of the story, which is usually reprinted in its short form as ‘The House and the Brain’. The shortened form of the story has been said to lack coherence and conclusion, but the unabridged version is both a chilling ghost story and a carefully-wrought example of the author’s theory of the supernatural. Indeed, the story developed from Lytton’s study of spiritualism and of mesmerism, and represents nearly twenty years’ study of paranormal phenomena. (1) £300-400

521 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 1st ed., 1st issue, pub. Methuen, 1924, half-title, illusts. and decs. by Ernest H. Shepard, a few minor marks to text leaves, early ownership signature of Dorothy Shotton to front endpaper, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, very sl. rubbed to joints and extrems., 8vo The first state of the first edition, with the ninth contents page unnumbered. (1) £200-300

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522 Morrell (Ottoline, 1873-1938). Addison & Steele [by] Sir Roger de Coverley, pub. Chatto and Windus, 1937, signed presentation inscription to front f.e.p., ‘Francis Needham, from Ottoline Morrell, Xmas 1937’, orig. dec. boards, rubbed and a little wear to extremities, 8vo, together with an autograph letter signed from Ottoline Morrell, 10 Gower Street, London, WC1, 2nd September, to Mr Needham, ‘I am so excited about the “Finds” and concerning dresses and clothes’, with regrets that she has used up all of her mother’s old dresses, ‘it is a pity for they were very beautiful’, a little light toning and dust-soiling to foremargin verso, 2 pp., 4to (2)

£70-100

523 Murdoch (Iris). Poet Venturers. A collection of Poems written by Bristol School Boys and Girls, with a foreword by W. H. Auden, 1938, 32 pp., orig. printed wrappers, stapled as issued, rubbed and some minor marks, short split to foot of spine, slim 8vo Her first appearance in print, this anthology was conceived by Iris Murdoch whilst still a pupil at Badminton School in Bristol, and contains four poems by her. (1) £100-150

524 Murdoch (Iris). The Flight from the Enchanter, 1st ed., 1956, light partial toning to half title, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, light toning, 8vo The author’s second novel. (1)

£100-150

525 Norton (Mary). The Magic Bed-Knob, 1st UK ed., 1945, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Kiddell Monroe, original pictorial boards, edges slightly rubbed, d.j., chipped at spine head and folds, 8vo The author’s firt book, first published in the US in 1943. (1)

£70-100

526 O’Brien (Flann). The Hard Life. An Exegesis of Squalor, 1st ed., 1961, rear endpaper with light water stain, original cloth, d.j., water stain to rear flap, 8vo, together with Barstow (Stan), A Kind of Loving, 1st ed., 1960, original cloth, d.j., slight toning to spine and top margin, 8vo, plus Banks (Lynne Reid), The L-Shaped Room, 1st ed., 1960, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., small repaired tear, 8vo, with others by C.S. Forester, Aldous Huxley, Tom Wolfe etc (23)

Lot 527

£150-200

527 Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st ed., 1949, ` previous owner signature to title, original cloth, faded, green d.j., some tears and losses, repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

528 Peake (Mervyn). Shapes & Sounds, 1st ed., 1941, original cloth-backed boards, d.j., one or two nicks and closed tears, 8vo, together with Witchcraft in England, by Christina Hole, 1st ed., 1945, illustrations by Mervyn Peake, a few spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo, plus Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1949, illustrations by Peake, original blue cloth, d.j., 8vo, with others by Peake including an uncorrected proof copy of Titus Alone, 1959 and The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb, 1962, plus a typed letter signed from Walter de la Mare (10 November 1936), to Miss Price, ‘... On Sunday Mervyn Peake came to tea with us to do a drawing, and another visitor was Dr. Capek ...’, 1 page, 8vo

£200-300

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£150-200

529 Peterkiewicz (Jerzy). Inner Circle, Illustrated by F. N. Souza, 1st ed., pub. Macmillan, 1966, colour frontis., numerous tipped-in b&w plts., t.e.g., orig. qtr. blue morocco gilt, very sl. rubbed, 8vo Limited edition 92/100, signed to title by the author and illustrator. (1) £100-150

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531 Pratchett (Terry). Equal Rites, 1st ed., 1987, original cloth, d.j., 8vo (1)

£100-150

532 Pullman (Philip). Spring-Heeled Jack, 1st ed., 1989, illustrations by David Mostyn, original laminated boards, 8vo A good copy, signed by the author. (1)

£100-150

533 Rand (Ayn). The Ayn Rand Letter, vols. 1-3, 1971-74, a complete run of newsletters in publisher’s spring binders with original contents list fronting each, sl. rubbed, 4to, together with Rand (Ayn, ed.), The Objectivist, vols. 1-10, no. 9, 1965 to September 1971, vols. 1-4 published as one vol. by the Objectivist, New York, orig. cloth, 4to, vols. 5-10 as orig. issues with printed wrappers housed in publisher’s cloth binders, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus twelve further volumes by and about Ayn Rand, all but two in orig. cloth and d.j.s with sellotape marks to d.j. inner flaps and pastedowns, all 8vo (19)

£100-150

534 Remarque (Erich Maria). All Quiet on the Western Front, Translated from the German by A.W. Wheen, 1st UK ed., 1929, one or two light spots, original cloth (light stains at spine ends), d.j., tears and losses, 8vo (1)

530 Powell (Anthony). Venusberg, 1st ed., 1932, occasional spotting, bookplate of Wyndham Edward Buckley Lloyd, original cloth, some fading and light stains, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “For John & Wyndham Lloyd, in recognition of their services to the Principality of Wales, from the author, Tony Powell, Oct 6th 1932”, and beneath “Up the airy mountain, down the misty glen, we daren’t go a-hunting, for fear of Little Men”, together with Afternoon Men, 1st ed., 1931, light spotting, bookplate of Wyndham Lloyd, original cloth, spine faded and chipped at head, slight lean, 8vo, plus Agents and Patients, 1st ed., 1936, some spotting, bookplate of Wyndham Lloyd, original cloth, spine faded with light stain, 8vo, with others by Anthony Powell, including At Lady Molly’s, 1957, with loose folded typed letter from Anthony Powell to Wyndham Lloyd, dated January 1959, thanking him for writing about his father “However, his heart failed at the end, just as he was getting back into bed, without, I am sure, any idea on his part that the end was so close. His last act was to make a present of Lolita to an elderly lady in the hotel”, plus a large quantity of approx. 1000 postcards, mostly addressed to Wyndham Lloyd and many from his brother John but including one postcard from John Betjeman, sixty-three from Anthony and Violet Powell, of which approx. forty appear to be in Anthony Powell’s hand, though variously signed Tony and Violet, Violet and Tony, Tony, T., etc., one of the cards signed Violet being a real photo postcard showing Anthony Powell as a young boy in Holland Park, other identified postcard writers being identified as John Steegman and A. C. Wood of the British Consul (often signed Tony), and two copies of Wyndham Lloyd’s A Hundred Years of Medicine, 1936, one with corrections by Lloyd

£150-200

535 Rivett (Edith Caroline, i.e. ‘E.C.R. Lorac’). The Organ Speaks, 1st ed., [1935], frontispiece, original red cloth, spine slightly faded, d.j., front flap clipped but with small 2/6 price sticker, spine with chips and repairs to verso, 8vo

Wyndham Lloyd (1901-1980) was a surgeon, author of A Hundred Years of Medicine (1936) and brother of John Knatchbull Lloyd, who was friendly with the socialite group The Bright Young Things, which included Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and the Mitfords amongst others. (approx. 1000) £300-500

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£300-400

536 Robinson (Kim Stanley). Red Mars, 1992; Green Mars, 1993; Blue Mras, 1996, 1st UK eds., original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo (3)

£100-150

537 Robinson (Kim Stanley). Red Mars, 1992; Green Mars, 1993; Blue Mars, 1996, 1st UK eds., original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, together with The Martains, 1999 (4)

£70-100

540 Sayers (Dorothy L., ed.). Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, 1st ed., 1928, previous owner inscription, original cloth, d.j., spine faded, a few minor nicks, 8vo

538 [Sackville-West, Vita]. Sensations Paiennes, by Paul Hartenberg, Paris, 1907, a few light spots, presentation inscription to Vita Sackville-West from Bildt, 1902, bookplate of Victoria Sackville-West, Knole, with a manuscript note tipped-in stating the bookplate was copied from a visiting card from “Lady King”, a.e.g., contemporary full blue calf, covers with gilt interweaving foliate decoration, spine faded, 8vo, together with 1914 & Other Poems, by Rupert Brook, reprint, 1916, portrait frontispiece, a few spots, presentation card with ties adhered to front end paper, a.e.g., contemporary black morocco gilt by Bumpus, ‘V. S.’ monogram stamped to upper cover, spine faded, 8vo, plus La Lyre Francaise, by Gustave Masson, 1907, a few spots, inscribed to front endpaper: “Victoria Sackville, from Hettie Johnstone, Christmas 1908, bookplate of Victoria Sackville, a.e.g., contemporary full blue morocco by Bumpus, upper cover with gilt fleur-de-lis, lower cover with ‘V. S.’ monogram in intertwining circles, edges a trifle rubbed, 8vo, with four other bindings, three of which bear different Vita Sackville-West bookplate designs (6)

(1)

£200-300

£300-500

539 Sassoon (Siegfried). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, 1st ed., 1917, errata slip pasted to contents leaf, a few spots, original boards, lacking top section of spine label, a little rubbed, 8vo, with a loose autograph letter, dated 1944, from Flora Raphael (nee Sassoon, cousin of Siegfried and painted by John Singer Sargent) presenting the book (1)

541 Scott (Paul). ‘The Raj Quartet’: The Jewel in the Crown, 1966; The Day of the Scorpion, 1968; The Towers of Silence, 1971, A Division of the Spoils, 1975, 1st eds., one or two spots, original cloth (Towers with small dent to upper board), d.j.s, a few chips and tears, Jewel repaired to verso, 8vo

£100-150

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£150-200

545 Thomas (Dylan). Twenty-Five Poems, 1st ed., 1936, original boards, d.j., spine a little faded with small nick at head, 8vo

542 Sharp (William, pseud. ‘Fiona Macleod’). Pharais. A Romance of the Isles, 1st ed., Derby, Moray Press, 1894, halftitles, b & w photo frontis. of breaking waves, light waterstain to fore-margin of last two leaves, untrimmed, orig. boards with paper label to spine, heavily rubbed and soiled, 8vo

(1)

£200-300

Limited signed edition 58/75. Colbeck 740. Associated with the Celtic Revival and the circle of W.B. Yeats, William Sharp wrote several works under the pseudonym of his alter ego Fiona Macleod, of which the present work is the first example. (1) £100-150

543 Shute (Nevil). Pastoral, 1st ed., 1944, original green cloth, d.j., a few chips and light spotting, repairs to verso, 8vo, together with A Town Like Alice, 1st ed., 1950, half title browned, original red cloth, spine faded, d.j., chips at spine ends and folds, red stains to verso, 8vo (1)

£150-200

544 Tarkington (Booth). The Gentlemen from Indiana, 1st ed., Doubleday & McClure, New York, 1899, a few spots, original green cloth, spine and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Alice Adams, 1st ed., 1921, b & w illustrations by Arthur William Brown, previous owner stamps, original cloth, facsimile d.j., 8vo, plus The Magnificent Ambersons, 1st ed., 1918, illustrations by Arthur William Brown, hinges a little tender, original cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, 8vo, with thirteen others by Tarkington including In the Arena, 1905, The Conquest of Canaan, 1905, His Own People, 1907 and The Turmoil, 1915 (16)

£200-300

546 Thomas (Dylan). Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, 1st ed., 1940, original green cloth, one or two minor dinks, d.j., spine slightly faded with small split and nicks at ends, 8vo, together with Deaths and Entrances, 1st ed., 1st ed., 1946, original orange cloth, d.j., small repair to verso, minor nicks, 12mo (2)

£200-300

547 Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Return of the King, 1st ed., Allen & Unwin, 1955, folding map at rear, orig. red cloth gilt, some minor marks, in rubbed and lightly soiled d.j., with some minor fraying to extrems., together with a 7th impression of The Two Towers, 1960, orig. cloth, very sl. rubbed in d.j., both 8vo, plus Peake (Mervyn), Titus Groan, 1st ed., 1946 & Gormenghast, 1st ed.,1950, both orig. cloth gilt, first vol. with covers lightly faded to edges,and with second impression d.j., rubbed and some light soiling, Gormenghast inrubbed and frayed d.j., with spine missing, 8vo (4)

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£200-300

548 Verne (Jules). Foundling Mick (P’tit Bonhommie), 1st UK ed., Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895, half-title, b & w frontis. and plts., endpapers spotted and lower hinge cracked, original pictorial green cloth gilt, spine darkened with vertical crease, spine slightly frayed at head & foot, board edges slightly rubbed, 8vo Myers 25. (1)

£400-600

549 Wallace (Carlton). The Devil Breathes But Once, 1st ed., pub. John Long, 1937, some light scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, and to fore-edges, orig. cloth in d.j. (designed by Bip Pares), rubbed and creased to top and bottom margins, with fraying and minor loss to extreme corners, 8vo (1)

550 Waugh (Evelyn). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by the author, occasional spotting, previous owner inscription of W.E.B. Lloyd, press cutting to front pastedown, original red and black marbled boards, small tear at spine head, d.j., losses to spine, splits along folds, some chips and stains, 8vo

£70-100

First issue with names ‘Martin Gayhorn-Brodie’ and ‘Kevin Saunderson’, pp.168-69 unchanged. Author’s first novel. (1) £700-1000

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551 Waugh (Evelyn). Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, 1st ed., 1936, frontispiece by Thomas Derrick, a few spots, publisher’s ‘flexiback’ reinforcement at hinges as issued, original cloth, d.j., joints and folds a little rubbed, neat tape repairs to verso, 8vo A good copy of Waugh’s collection of short macabre stories. (1)

Lot 551

552 Waugh (Evelyn). Remote People, 1st ed., 1931, half-tone frontispiece, six plates, two folding maps, original burgundy cloth, d.j., spine darkened and chipped at head, small nicks and splits along upper joint and folds, 8vo A good copy of Waugh’s second travel book, to Abyssinia to witness the coronation of Haile Selassie. (1) £700-1000

Lot 552

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£600-800

553 Waugh (Evelyn). Labels. A Mediterranean Journal, 1st ed., 1930, double-page map, illustrations, original cloth, some fading, d.j., neat restorations at head and foot, 8vo Waugh’s first travel book. (1)

£200-300

554 Waugh (Evelyn). Ninety-Two Days, 1st ed., 1934, portrait frontispiece, folding map, photographic illustrations, 1 p. pubs. ad. at end, a few light spots at front, original purple-blue cloth, light marks to rear cover, price-clipped d.j., top right section of front panel skillfully supplied in facsimile, restorations at spine ends and folds, 8vo Very scarce in a dust-jacket. (1)

£800-1200

Lot 553

555 Waugh (Evelyn). Edmund Campion, 1st ed., 1st impression, September 1935, original cloth, spine faded, price-clipped d.j., small faint stains to upper panel, 8vo (1)

Lot 554

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£400-600

556 Waugh (Evelyn). ‘Sword of Honour’ trilogy: Men at Arms, 1952; Officers and Gentlemen, 1955; Unconditional Surrender, 1961, 1st eds., bookseller stamp to endpapers of Men at Arms, original cloth, d.j.s, Unconditional spine slightly faded, one or two short closed tears, a few minor spots, 8vo

558 Waugh (Evelyn). Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, 1st ed., 1945, a few light spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, slight fading to spine, d.j., neat restorations at spine ends and folds, 8vo

(3)

(1)

£200-300

£300-400

557 Waugh (Evelyn). Robbery Under Law: The Mexican ObjectLesson, 1st ed., 1939, original blue cloth, some fading and lightly rubbed at spine ends, d.j., neat restorations along lower margins, 8vo

559 Waugh (Evelyn). Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, 1st ed., 1945, small nicks to upper outer corners, previous owner signature to front pastedown, original cloth, small bump to lower cover, d.j., neat restorations to spine ends and margins, 8vo

(1)

£400-600

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£300-400

560 Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st ed., 1932, map frontispiece, a few spots, original cloth, d.j., neat restorations at spine ends and folds, 8vo

562 Waugh (Evelyn). Scoop, 1st ed., 1938, misprint ‘a’ for ‘as’ to last line of p.88, a few light spots, original cloth, first issue d.j. with ‘Daily Beast’ logo, trimmed at head and foot with neat restorations at spine ends and folds, 8vo

(1)

£400-600

561 Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st ed., 1932, map frontispiece, scattered light spotting, Book Society bookplate, original cloth (upper cover with slight fading at foot), d.j., 8vo

563 Waugh (Evelyn). Scoop, 1st ed., 1938, ‘as’ correct to last line p.88, original cloth, second state d.j. without ‘Daily Beast’ logo, tape repairs to verso, 8vo

(1)

£400-600

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£200-300

570 Wodehouse (P.G.). The Luck of the Bodkins, 1st ed., 1935, 8 pp. pubs. ads at end, contemporary pencil presentation inscription at front, original scarlet cloth, d.j., chip at spine head, tear and loss at top section of rear panel, small nicks, 8vo

564 Waugh (Evelyn). Put Out More Flags, 1st ed., 1942, original cloth, d.j., restorations at spine ends and folds, 8vo (1)

£300-400

McIlvaine A54a. (1)

565 Waugh (Evelyn). Put Out More Flags, 1st ed., 1942, ink scribble to fep, bookplate, original cloth, d.j., spine chipped and faded, repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

£300-400

£100-150

566 Waugh (Evelyn). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1928, ‘Martin Gaythorn-Brodie’ & ‘Kevin Saunderson’ names unchanged, pp. 168-69, illustrations by Evelyn Waugh, original cloth, d.j., split in two along upper joint, spine browned and chipped at head, spine title faded and rubbed at foot, 8vo The author’s first novel. (1)

£4000-6000

567 Wells (H.G.). The First Men in the Moon, 1st ed., later issue, pub. George Newnes, 1901, half-title, b&w plts., orig. dark blue cloth, lettered in black, very sl. rubbed, and one or two minor marks, 8vo (1)

£100-150

568 Wodehouse (P.G.). Money in the Bank, [1946], Uncle Dynamite, [1948], Mating Season, [1949], Nothing Serious, [1950], Cocktail Time, 1958, 1st eds., occasional light spotting, original cloth, d.j.s, first two titles iwth losses to spines and edges, some tears and repairs to versos, 8vo, with five Wodehouse reprints (10)

£200-300

569 Wodehouse (P.G.). Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, 1st ed., 1940, 4 pp. ads. at end, endpapers partially browned, previous owner inscription, original orange cloth, faded patches at spine ends, slight lean, d.j. by Fenwick, 5s sticker overlaid at foot of spine, a few chips, tears and creases, 8vo

571 Wyndham (John). The Day of the Triffids, 1st ed., 1951, original cloth (lower board with light water stain), d.j., neat restorations to verso, 8vo

McIlvaine A62a. Although the present copy bears the 5s price sticker, the jacket conforms to the original 7/6 1st issue, with no later advertisements on the flaps. (1) £100-150

(1)

148

£300-400

Lot 566

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Clifford John Bayly (born 1927). Alignment Twelve, Les Alignments, Carnac, Brittany, 1985. Large-scale triptych. Estimate £1000-1500 An Edward VII silver centrepiece by Walker & Hall, Sheffield, 1904. Approx. 92 oz. Estimate £1500-2000

ENQUIRIES: Nathan Winter | nathan@dominicwinter.co.uk Henry Meadows MRICS | henry@dominicwinter.co.uk Tel. 01285 860006 Back Cover: Lot 200