Dominic Winter

Children’s & Illustrated Books Modern First Editions 19 JUNE 2014

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CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MODERN FIRST EDITIONS JESSIE M. KING, LOUIS WAIN & RONALD SEARLE BRITISH CARTOONS, PLAYING CARDS & GAMES

Thursday 19 June 2014 Lots 1-481 commencing at 11am

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Wednesday 18 June

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CONTENTS Playing Cards from the Ortiz-Patino Collection

1-38

Playing Cards: Other Vendors

39-40

Early Juvenile Ephemera

41-47

Collectable Toys & Games

48-68

Children’s & Illustrated Books

69-162

Jessie M. King: A Private Collection

163-193

Louis Wain: A Private Collection

194-267

Original Artwork & Illustrations

268-299

Ronald Searle

300-312

British Cartoons

313-371

Private Press

372-382

Modern First Editions

383-481

PLAYING CARDS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JAIME ORTIZ-PATINO To commence at 11am Jaime Ortiz-Patino (1930–2013) created one of the greatest collections of playing cards ever held in private hands. His lifelong fascination with cards and card games eventually led to his appointment as President Emeritus of the World Bridge Federation, an office he held at the time of his death. He had previously served as President of the same organisation no less than three times during the 1970s and 1980s. His vast collection contains many extremely rare and remarkable sets of cards from all over the world, and this final portion includes many 19th century transformation cards, manuscript sets, hand-coloured and printed playing cards depicting European costume, historical figures, and tarot symbols.

Notice to buyers: All lots in this section with a portion of the playing cards presented framed and glazed, have not been examined out of their frames.

2* American playing cards. An illuminated standard deck of playing cards, New York: L.I. Cohen, c.1830s/40s, fifty-two chromo. cards heightened with gold (complete), of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three fulllength court cards, several cards with small adhesive tape marks, gilt patterned versos (a number with small adhesive tape marks), square corners, 90 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) Lewis Cohen played an important role in the development of playing card manufacture through mechanized colour printing. Alongside George Baxter and Thomas de la Rue in the 1830s he pioneered printing four colours in one pass, registering his colour-printing machine in 1835. He retired in 1845, handing the business over to his son Solomon L. Cohen, and his nephew, John M. Lawrence.

(1) £150-200

1* American playing cards. An illuminated standard deck of playing cards, New York: Lawrence & Cohen, c.1863, fifty-two chromo. cards heightened with gold (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three full-length court cards, a trifle dusty, palmette motif on versos, square corners, 91 x 64mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) 3* American playing cards. A deck of aluminium playing cards to commemorate the St. Louis World’s Fair, Missouri, USA, 1904, fiftythree aluminium playing cards (complete), of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards, plus a joker, each card showing a prominent building or monument, versos with lettering and medallion port. of Thomas Jefferson in blue, rounded corners, 88 x 63mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), contained in orig. eng. aluminium case, within orig. cardboard box (rubbed and broken at corners)

Lawrence & Cohen produced beautiful decks of high quality, and collaborated with Owen Jones who also designed many beautiful back designs for English card manufacturer De La Rue. (1) £200-300

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£150-200

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4* Belgian playing cards. A deck of souvenir playing cards, c.1870s, fifty-two hand-col. litho. cards (complete), of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with four double-ended scenic aces depictin Portuguese views, pip cards 2-10 and three doubleended court cards, occn. light marks, versos with tiny floral pattern in pink, square corners, 90 x 59mm (3.5 x 2.25ins) Produced for the export market, probably by A. Van Genechten (see Mann 191 for similar).

(1) £80-120

5* Costume playing cards. A deck of French playing cards by Migeon, Paris: Le Bourgeois, c.1880s, thirty-two eng. cards (complete), of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (national suits), each with double-ended scenic ace, pip cards 7-10, and three hand-col. court cards featuring full-length ports., aces and court cards with imprint, engraver’s name on the king of diamonds, plain versos, gilt rounded corners, 85 x 55mm (3.25 x 2.25ins) Illustrated in Tilley, p.125.

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£150-200

6* Costume playing cards. Jeu des Rois de France, Paris: B.P. Grimaud, c.1856, thirty-two playing cards (complete), of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 7-10, and three hand-col. full-length court cards, imprint on jack of clubs, toned, blue versos, gilt rounded corners, 85 x 54mm (3.25 x 2ins) A beautifully engraved historical deck with French kings and consorts as the kings and queens (named), and court attendants as the jacks, all attired in sumptuous costume of the time.

(1) £150-200

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7* Costume playing cards. A deck of playing cards, Paris: O. Gibert, c.1850s, thirty-two cards (complete), of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 7-10, and three hand-col. full-length court cards featuring French historical nobility (kings and queens named), some very light dust-soiling/toning, plain versos, square corners, jack of hearts with tip of lower left corner missing (not affecting image), 85 x 55mm (3.25 x 2.25ins)

8* Costume playing cards. A deck of Swiss playing cards, Bern, c.1870, fifty-one (of 52) etched cards, of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with double-ended scenic ace, pip cards 2-10 (lacking four of diamonds), and three double-faced court cards, aces and court cards with stencilled colour, circular ink stamp on ace of hearts, one or two cards with sl. browning or marks, versos with dotted hexagonal pattern in red, square corners, 93 x 60mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), together with three other framed part-decks (17 cards from a continental pack with doubleended courts and scenic aces, c.1880s; thirteen cards from a German deck by L. Heidborn and T. Wegener, c.1860, with double-faced courts; sixteen cards from Imperial Royal playing cards, S & J Fuller, 1828, with full-length courts, some with contemp. ms. titles)

For similar by Gibert see: Hoffmann, p.35 [illust. 52(b)]; Tilley, p.161.

(1) £100-150

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£80-120

9 [Duchesne, Jean]. Jeux de Cartes Tarots et de Cartes Numerales du Quatorzieme au Dix-Huitieme Siecle representes en Cent Planches d’Apres les Originaux, avec un Precis Historique et Explicatif..., Paris, 1844, addn. hand-col. eng. title-page, ninety-nine plts., some heightened in silver, final five coloured, some minor foxing and toning (half-title browned), marbled endpapers, rough-trimmed, modern brown half morocco gilt, folio One of 100 copies (of a total edition of 132 copies).

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£1000-1500

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11* French playing cards. A standard deck of playing cards, by J.T. Dubois, Liege, France: c.1810, fifty-two wood eng. cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of ten (national suits), each with pip cards 110, and three full-length named court cards with stencilled colour (jack of spades sl. stained), imprint on jack of hearts, one or two cards with minor surface rubbing, plain versos, square corners, 82 x 53mm (3.25 x 2ins)

10* English playing cards. A standard English deck of playing cards, Hunt & Sons, c.1840, fifty-two wood eng. cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three full-length court cards, ‘duty one shilling’ on ace of spades, ‘superfine’ ink stamp on ace of clubs, occn. light marks, plain versos, 93 x 64mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), together with A standard English deck of playing cards, produced for the Worshipful Company of Playing Cards, Goodall and Son, 1882, fifty-two colour-printed cards (complete), of which eleven are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three double-faced court cards, a few trifling marks, versos with the Arms of the Company supported by men in armour, with four knaves of clubs set cornerwise, square corners, 92 x 64mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), plus American playing cards, Defiance playing cards, Toronto: The Copp, Clark Co. Ltd., c.1885, fifty-four colour-printed cards (complete), of which eleven are mounted as a group together with orig. printed wrapper (faded) and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three doublefaced court cards, plus joker and imprint card, toned, pattern of blue daisies on versos, rounded corners, 90 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins)

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Second item a commemorative pack produced for the annual banquet of the Worshipful Company of Playing Cards, which marked the inauguration of the new Master and Wardens; each Liveryman was given a pack of cards specially designed for the occasion. The custom began with this deck in 1882 and has been continued ever since; each year a luxury pack is produced in a limited edition of about 350-400 decks.

(3) £150-200

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£200-300

12* German playing cards. A standard pack of playing cards, Bavarian Pattern, by Joseph Fetscher, c.1790, thirty-six wood-eng. playing cards with stencilled colour, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, lacking ace of acorns, but with addn. six of acorns from a similar deck (crossed through in ink and with ms. in a contemp. hand), jack of hearts also supplied from another similar deck (toned and with very minor worm trail in lower edge), comprising four suits of nine (national suits), each with pip cards 1, 2, 6-10, each with vign. at foot, and two full-length court cards, faint imprint on eight of hearts and maker’s initials on king of hearts, sl. dusty, acorn and star patterned versos, square corners, 91 x 50mm (3.75 x 2ins) Scarce.

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13* German playing cards. A standard deck of playing cards, Bavarian Pattern, Munich: Cajetan Gobl, mid. 19th c., thirty-six wood-eng. playing cards with stencilled colour, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of nine (national suits), each with pip cards 2 and 6-10, each with vign. at foot, and three full-length court cards, imprint on eight of hearts and maker’s initials on king of hearts, acorn and diamond patterned versos, square corners, 92 x 55mm (3.75 x 2.25ins) (1)

£200-300

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£300-500

14* German playing cards. A standard deck of playing cards, c.1800, fifty-two wood eng. cards (complete), of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed (together with orig. printed wrapper, with ms. date 1811), comprising four suits of ten (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and three double-ended court cards with stencilled colour, dotted blue pattern on versos, square corners, 90 x 59mm (3.5 x 2.25ins) Very similar to the Russian Pattern illustrated in Mann, 140, which is derived from the North-West German Pattern: with bulbous turban under the crown of the king of diamonds, a face on the shoulder of the queen of diamonds, and the jack of clubs with shouldered shield.

(1) £300-500

15* Minchiate Etruria. A deck of Minchiate Etruria playing cards, Italy, c.1800, ninety-seven woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which fourteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (national suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and four full-length court cards, forty full-length trump cards numbered I-XIII, and XV-XXXV, and six unnumbered, and Fool card, each with backing paper folded over front to create border, trump XXX with ink stamp ‘Carte Di Etruria’, generally dusty and toned, some rubbing, one trump card with ink marks, versos with figure of a woman in a long robe lettered ‘Etruria’ beneath, most cards with minor worming (mainly to edges), 100 x 56mm (4 x 2.25ins) (1)

£300-400

16* Original proofs. A collection of printer’s proofs for playing cards issued by Sebastian Comas y Ricart, Spain, c.1850s, fourteen printed proofs, a few apparently with traces of orig. pen & ink and pencil, showing court cards, pip cards, imprint card, etc., some bearing plate and registration marks, some with pin holes, each approx. 9.5 x 5.5cm (3.75 x 2.25ins), mounted as a group and framed and glazed, together with another set of eighteen framed printed proof court cards similar, plus an uncut card sheet of Spanish playing cards dated 1847, printed in blue, with blue patterned versos, dampsoiled and some minor wear, sheet size 30 x 36cm (11.75 x 14ins)

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£100-150

17 Playing cards. Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c., New Series, [Pictorial Cards - Beatrice or the Fracas], 1st ed., Ackermann [1818], eng. title-page, thirteen hand-col. aquatint plts., each depicting four playing cards with figures and architectural motifs, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (red suits with hand-col.), and three hand-col. full-length court cards, each plt. with the number and date of issue in lower margin, and with plate and vol. numbers to upper right corner, 28pp. text erratically numbered (some off-setting to text), untrimmed, modern cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo Rare. Field 22: ‘One of the most artistic and imaginative transformation packs’. The cards were not issued in playable form, but were commonly cut up for use, and therefore rarely survive intact in their original format.

(1) £400-600

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18* Portuguese playing cards. A deck of standard playing cards, Lisbon, late 18th c., fifty-two woodcut playing cards, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three full-length court cards with stencilled colour, jack of clubs lettered ‘Lisboa’, a trifle dusty, plain versos, 82 x 54mm (3.25 x 2ins) (1)

£300-500

19 Schreiber (Lady Charlotte Elizabeth). Playing Cards of Various Ages and Countries. Selected from the Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 3 vols., 1st ed., John Murray, 1892-95, 447 plts. (complete as lists), a few printed in colour, generally toned, some closed tears and a number of leaves with archival repairs to brittle edges, endpapers renewed, shelfmark label of the Kittenhouse Club, Philadelphia, on front pastedowns, t.e.g., early 20th c. red library cloth, rebacked (preserving orig. spines) and recornered, atlas folio, each in red cloth slipcase Comprising: Volume I - English, Scottish, Dutch and Flemish cards; Volume II - French and German; Volume III - Swiss, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, together with a Supplement of Other Countries.

(3) £500-800

20* Secondary Use. A collection of 18th & 19th c. French standard playing cards, together thirty playing cards, of which thirteen are window mounted as a group and framed and glazed, mostly pip cards, but some full-length court cards, all with contemp. ms. on verso in various hands, mostly in French, incl. cards with bibliographical information, stencilled numbers, promissory notes, tokens of exchange (one mentioning tobacco), a recipe, game rules, and several giving dictionary definitions of words, various sizes and condition Playing cards were often put to secondary uses, especially early cards which often had blank versos and were made of durable card. The many and varied uses include invitations, funeral announcements, memorandum slips, credit notes, declarations of love, rendevous notes, emergency currency, tallying of labour, musical notation, reinforcing of bindings, and even the shaping and stiffening of ruffles on dresses.

(1) £150-200

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21* Swiss playing cards. A deck of playing cards, Dauphiné pattern, Geneva, Gassmann, c.1860, fifty-two wood eng. cards, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (four of diamonds lightly foxed) and three full-length court cards with stencilled colour (jack of spades with imprint), grey versos, 85 x 55mm (3.25 x 2.25ins) A Swiss copy of the Dauphiné pattern described by Sylvia Mann, Collecting Playing Cards, 1966, p.72. Conforms in all details described by Mann (jack of hearts dressed as a Roman soldier with a drawn sword in right hand and left forefinger pointing up to heaven, etc.) except that the jack of diamonds does not have human faces on his shins (despite conforming in all other respects, i.e. he strides forward, bareheaded and wrapped in a cloak).

(1) £100-150

22* Belgian Animal Tarot. A deck of animal tarot cards, Brussels, Belgium: Jean-Baptiste Galler [or successor?], c.1800, seventy-eight woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and four full-length court cards, plus twenty-two trump cards, comprising twenty animal trumps (one with small nick in left-hand edge) and Fool card (bearing double-ended Roman numerals I-XXI), and musician card (unnumbered), a few cards with light water-staining, versos with blue hexagonal sunburst pattern, square corners, 108 x 56mm (4.25 x 5.5ins) (1)

£700-1000

Lot 21

23* Austrian Tarot. A deck of tarot cards, Vienna, Austria: Josef Glanz, late 19th c., fifty-four litho. cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which fifteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, French suits, comprising pip cards hearts and diamonds 1-4 (ace of hearts with maker’s circular ink stamps), spades and clubs 7-10, sixteen double-ended court cards, plus Fool card, and twentyone full-length trump cards numbered I-XXI, a few faint marks, pink pictorial versos with the face of a girl amongst roses (double-ended), rounded corners, 105 x 57mm (4.25 x 2.25ins), together with the orig. card box with mounted card on one side and pull-off lid, rubbed (1)

Lot 22

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£100-150

24* Piedmont Tarot. A deck of tarot cards, Novara, Italy: Francesco Fantini, c.1870, seventy-seven (of 78) woodblock cards with stencilled colour, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (national suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (except lacking ace of cups), ace of coins with imprint and circular ink tax stamp, and four full-length court cards, plus Fool card, and twenty-one full-length trump cards numbered I-XXI, sl. dusty and toned, and with some minor staining, square corners, versos with blue large and small lozenge pattern, 112 x 63mm (4.5 x 2.5ins)

25* Lombardy Tarot. A deck of tarot cards, Milan, Spain: P. Negri, c.1870s, seventy-eight woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (Italian suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (with indices), ace of coins with imprint and circular ink tax stamp, and four full-length court cards, plus Fool card, and twentyone full-length trump cards numbered I-XXI, all with wrap-around paper edges, Italian card titles, some minor dust-soiling and rubbing, knave of cups browned, square corners, versos with blue and yellow strapwork pattern lettered ‘Milano’, 106 x 55mm (4.25 x 2.25ins)

Mann 208.

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£400-600

£150-200

26* Transformation cards. Kaloprosopion, Beautiful Disguise, 1st ed., E. Olivatte, 1828, fifty-two etched cards (complete), of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and three hand-col. full-length court cards, with character names but not identified as ‘knave’ etc., generally foxed and some surface rubbing, pale blue versos, 91 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), together with orig. cardboard slipcase (worn) Field 15 (our set without the two extra cards). All the cards except the nine of hearts were pirated from Cotta, and the face cards were given new names from characters in Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ (1) £500-800

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27* Transformation cards. A collection of printer’s proofs for the Nixon-Cowell-Jones deck of playing cards, c.1811, twenty-eight etched cards, some with hand-colouring, of which fifteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, several with mounted printed text, soiled and worn, some with edge loss, plain versos, corners sl. rounded, 90 x 60mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), one trimmed to 55 x 60mm (2.25 x 2.5ins) Field 6: the court cards each have a narrow frame of tiny standard cards; in the red suits the faces are shaped as heart or diamond pips, but the faces of the black suits are of animals. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

(1) £400-600

28* Transformation cards. Character Playing Cards, by T.S. Chapman, Reynolds & Sons, 1878, fifty-two colour-printed steel eng. cards (complete), of which eleven are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (marked ‘registered T.S. Chapman’) and three double-ended court cards, a few with some light staining, pink versos (generally stained), square corners, 94 x 64mm (3.75 x 2.5ins) Field 50.

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£300-500

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29* Manuscript transformation cards. An embellished deck of standard cards, De La Rue & Co., c.1870s, fifty-two colour-printed cards (jack of hearts supplied from another pack), of which fifteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 transformed with original humorous pen, ink & watercolour illustrations which incorporate the pips (some rubbed and faint), and three doubleended court cards, with indices, ace of spades with ms. monogram ‘TG’, green versos with red floral pattern, rounded corners, 90 x 62mm (3.5 x 2.5ins)

Lot 28

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£150-200

31* Transformation cards. A deck of transformation playing cards, 1st ed., Darmstadt, Germany: Frommann & Bunte, c.1870, fifty-two chromo. cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (printed in sepia and eight of diamonds with the letters M and F) and three full-length court cards, versos with red dotted hexagonal pattern (some mottled toning), square corners, 90 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) Field 35.

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£150-200

30* Manuscript transformation cards. An embellished deck of standard cards, De La Rue & Co., c.1870s, fifty-two colour-printed cards, of which fifteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 transformed with original humorous pen, ink & bodycolour illustrations which incorporate the pips, and three double-ended court cards, transformed with pen, ink & bodycolour into caricatures of named prominent figures (e.g. Dilke, Biggar, Labby, Chamberlain, Healy, Hartington, Granville, Salisbury), four of hearts lettered in ms. ‘James English Manufacturer, Budge Row, London’, generally dust-soiled, black versos with bamboo pattern, rounded corners, 90 x 63mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) (1)

£150-200

32* Manuscript transformation cards. An embellished deck of standard cards, De La Rue & Co., c.1880s, fifty-two colour-printed cards, of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 transformed with original humorous pen, ink & watercolour illustrations which incorporate the pips, and three double-ended court cards, toned, pink versos with floral pattern, sl. rounded corners, 94 x 64mm (3.75 x 2.5ins) Clever and amusing hand-drawn transformations, including duelling, fencing, billiards, card playing, tribal dancers, swimmers, cricket playing, musicians, croquet and soldiers.

(1) £150-200

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34* Transformation cards. Hustling Joe Playing Cards, Cincinnati, USA: United States Playing Card Co., 1895, fifty-two col. printed playing cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and three court cards, ace of spades with imprint, a trifle dusty at edges, b & w pictorial versos with ice skating gnomes, rounded corners, 88 x 63mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), together with the orig. cardboard box (rubbed and sl. worn), plus Vanity Fair, Cincinnati, USA: United States Playing Card Company, 1895, fifty-two col. printed playing cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and three double-ended court cards, ace of spades with imprint, two of hearts with short tear in left-hand edge, blue patterned versos with four clown heads, rounded corners, 88 x 62mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), together with the orig. cardboard box (worn, with adhesive tape repairs and loss to one side) (2)

£100-150

33* Transformation cards. Jeanne l’Hachette, by E. le Tellier, Paris: printed by Marie, c.1890, fifty-two chromo. cards (complete), of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (printed in sepia) and three full-length court cards, jack of hearts with Tellier’s name, imprint on king of hearts, ace of clubs with duty ink stamp dated 1890, occn. light marks, pink versos, gilt rounded corners, 130 x 70mm (4 x 2.75ins) See Field 44 for an earlier edition by B.P. Grimaud with square corners.

(1) £150-200

35* Transformation cards. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by E.M. Lewis, Bradford, 1997, fifty-five hand-col. playing cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three double-faced court cards, plus two jokers and title card, plain gold versos, square corners, 96 x 68mm (3.75 x 2.75ins), together with orig. cardboard box, (limited edition 40/50 copies signed by the artist, plus Emanuelle, by Patrick Cuenot, Intercol, 1986, fifty-six colour-printed cards, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three doublefaced court cards, plus two jokers and imprint card, versos printed in blue with a corseted female figure, rounded corners, 87 x 56mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), together with orig. cardboard box, plus three facsimile transformation decks, all with a selection framed (5)

Lot 34

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£80-120

36* Transformation cards. Pictorial Cards - Beatrice or the Fracas, 1st ed., Ackermann, 1818, fifty-two aquatint cards (complete), of which seventeen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 with figures and architectural motifs (red suits with hand-col.) and three hand-col. full-length court cards, some lightly toned, plain versos, square corners, 89 x 61mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), together with the orig. red cardboard box with pull-off lid, and an aquatint of the Queen of Spades mounted on one side (browned) Rare. Field 22: ‘One of the most artistic and imaginative transformation packs’.

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£700-1000

38* Trapolla. A deck of trapolla cards, Prague, Czechoslovakia: E.M. Klogner, c.1880s, thirty-six litho. cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of nine (Italian suits), each with ace, pip cards 2, 7-10 (with indices) and three double-faced court cards, versos with black geometrical pattern, square corners, 106 x 56mm (4.25 x 2.25ins) (1)

37* Trapolla. A deck of trapolla cards, Vienna type, Graz, Austria: Leopold Milchram, 1782, thirty-six woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of nine (Italian suits), each with ace, pip cards 2, 7-10 (with indices) and three double-faced court cards, imprint on two of swords, and ink stamp on seven of coins, pink versos with gilt floral brocade pattern, sl. rubbed and tarnished (two of cups with some surface loss), a.e.g., square corners, 142 x 57mm (5.5 x 2.25ins) Mann 15 (illustrated): ‘A luxury pack with gold edges and backs of paper made exclusively for use in manufacture for the ruling family.’

(1) £500-800

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£300-400

PLAYING CARDS: OTHER VENDORS

EARLY JUVENILE EPHEMERA 41* 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)

39* Historical cards. An early 19th c. set of playing cards, together twenty-five hand-col. eng. cards (of 35), each with an illust. of a monarch, with title above and descriptive verse beneath, dusty and some marks, Edward V with horizontal crease, plain versos, rounded corners, 88 x 70mm (3.5 x 2.75ins), together with a late 19th c. deck of Happy Family cards, forty-four pictorial cards, with stencilled colouring, soiled, pink versos, rounded corners with some loss, 91 x 64mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), plus an incomplete set of twenty-seven trade playing cards, early 20th c., col. printed, browned and rubbed, blue patterned versos, rounded corners, 95 x 66mm (3.75 x 2.5ins) (1)

£70-100

42* Educational Posters. A collection of sixty schoolroom posters, n.p., c.1930s, colour-printed on thick paper, each with a bold and bright illustration, depicting games and pastimes, other nations, trades, animals, transport, circus scenes, etc., incl. one by Mabel Lucie Attwell, and one of Bonzo by G.E. Studdy, some marginal fraying, and some with pin marks or remains of adhesive tape, one creased, 36 x 34.5cm (14 x 13.5ins), contained in orig. cloth portfolio, worn with loss, with printed label on inside flap listing titles (there are some missing, but duplicates make up the number)

£100-150

40* Playing cards & games. An early racing car game, c.1910, twenty chromo. pictorial cards, each with an illust. above numbered counter squares along lower margin, numbered 1-96 (lacking final card?), first card dusty, 5 x 9cm (2 x 3.5ins), together with five (of 6) orig. chromo. cardboard counters shaped like a car (one rubbed and creased), each on a metal stand, 3 x 6cm (1 x 2.25ins), together with The Pictorial Game of “Golliwogg” From the Original Designs, Thos. De La Rue, c.1905, fortyeight colour-printed pictorial cards in sixteen sets of three (complete), without rules, 90 x 63mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), contained in orig. slipcase box (rubbed and dusty), pictorial label on upper cover, plus Candid Confessions, An Amusing Round Game of Cards, Jacques & Son, early 20th c., sixty colour-printed cards, in thirty sets of two, some light finger-soiling, 91 x 58mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), contained in orig. slipcase box, rubbed and some wear, plus other cards and games, incl. Old Maid, Peter Pan, Snap, Happy Families, Alice in Wonderland, Suffragettes, Rook, Historical Tetotums, Holloway’s Sports & Pastimes of Many Nations, some incomplete

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Rare racing car game: we have been unable to trace another set. With such scenes as filling up with petrol, colliding with a fence, a flat tyre, running over a pig, crossing a railway track in front of a steam train and a car on fire. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

(1) £150-200

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£100-150

44* Embroidered map. England & Wales, by Frances Ford, 1783, needlework map showing the counties of England and Wales, finely worked in cross stitch on linen, with county boundaries in shades of pink, green, blue, and yellow, with the names of the counties stitched in black, title and name/date also stitched in black, and both within decorative borders stitched in colour, some small holes, 42.5 x 31.5cm (16.75 x 12.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

45* Fan leaf. The Lady’s Adviser, Physician & Moralist: -Or, Half an Hours Entertainment at the expence of Nobody!, Publish’d by Ashton & Co., Jany. 1, 1797, stipple eng. unmounted fan leaf, titled in centre on an open fan held by a cherub, flanked by three oval medallions, each with text below, lightly toned, 46.5cm (18.25ins) wide, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 121, pp.84-85. The medallions and inscriptions illustrative of: How to catch the Spleen; How to avoid it; How to fall violently in Love; A Gentle Cure for it; How to Plague every body; How to please most Folks.

(1) £150-200

46* Fan leaf. The Ladies Bill of Fare or a Copious Collection of Beaux, publish’d by G. Wilson, 14 Feb, 1795, stipple eng. unmounted fan leaf, flying cupid in centre with lettered scroll, twelve medallions above depicting various kinds of lovers, lightly toned, 52cm (20.5ins) wide, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 114, p.83. The medallions illustrate: The Merry Lover; The Melancholy; The Impetuous; The Cautious; The Platonic; The Carnal Lover; The Constant; The Capricious; The Coquet; Lover of the Cash; Lover of Himself; The Lover of Nobody.

(1) £150-200

43* Educational Posters. The “Happy Trio” Reading Scheme, Our Big Book, Wheaton, c.1950s, twenty leaves with colour-printed illusts. and text below on rectos and versos, comprising pages numbered [3]-26 and eight duplicate sheets, some with printed lettering overlaying orig. text, some markings, sheet size 61.5 x 45.5cm (24.25 x 18ins), contained in orig. blue portfolio with printed label, worn (1)

£70-100

47* Valentine. An embossed framed Valentine card, mid-19th c., oval centrepiece with collage of flowers in a vase, enclosed by a floral wreath with a bird either side and a collage of flowers below, with a four line verse and swag of flowers above, the whole enclosed in an embossed floral border, with contemp. ms. love sentiments in each lower corner, 20 x 12.5cm (8 x 5ins), gilt moulded frame, glazed

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£70-100

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TOYS & GAMES 48* Alphabet. Jeu Alphabétique, late 19th c., a set of wooden square alphabet tiles, with upper case letters in black, each with pencilled digit in upper right-hand corner, 17 x 17mm, contained in orig. wooden box, titled on sliding lid, sl. rubbed, together with ABC, Ernest Nister, c.1890, eight full-page col. illusts., letterpress illusts., foxed, stitching strained, orig. colour pictorial card wrappers, spine partially split, vertical crease in rear cover, oblong 4to, plus Alphabet des Jouets, Livre d’Images pour les Petits Enfants, Paris: Theodore Lefevre, c.1870s, title-page with hand-col. vign. (and faint contemp. inscription at head), hand-col. letterpress illusts. throughout, lightly toned, orig. colour pictorial card wrappers, toned and rubbed, with some sl. wear to extrems., tall 8vo (3)

£100-150

50* Dominoes. A set of early 19th century French Napoleonic prisoner-of-war dominoes, thirty-six bone dominoes (complete) with red and black stained markings, each approx. 25 x 11mm (1 x 0.5ins), three carved bone marker pegs only, contained in orig. bone box, carved overall with semi-circles, stars, and roundels, and stained in colours, supported on four carved legs (two sl. chipped and one replaced), box size 16 x 6 x 3.5cm (6.25 x 2.5 x 1.5ins) Many of the large number of prisoners held across Europe at this period were permitted to make objects that could be sold to allow them a better standard of food. Items were crafted in materials which were easily accessible, such as straw, bone and wood.

(1) £150-200

51* [Greenaway, Kate]. A collection of ‘Mother Goose’ nursery china, Ridgways, late 19th c., thirty pieces of a dinner set, transfer decorated with scenes of children taken from Kate Greenaway’s ‘Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes’ (first pub. 1881), comprising two large and one smaller quatrefoil tureen, all with lids, a quatrefoil dish (with short hairline crack), a gravy boat, nine large plates, and nine smaller plates, a large deeper plate, five quatrefoil platters of graduating size, and a narrow rectangular dish, all goldrimmed, some with maker’s mark on base, others stamped ‘England’, varying sizes, plus a small Kate Greenaway soap dish, rimmed in green

49* Darton (William, pub.). British and Foreign Birds. A New Game, Moral, Instructive, and Amusing; Designed to Allure the Minds of Youth to an Acquaintance with the Wonders of Nature, c.1820, hand-col. eng. sheet, sectionalised into twelve and mounted on linen, with twenty-five oval illusts. of birds arranged in a spiral, with a coiled viper as background, sl. dusty and one or two marks, two corners sl. creased, 50 x 39.5cm (19.5 x 15.5ins), without rules, but contained in orig. pastepaper slipcase, with hand-col. eng. label on front and publisher’s eng. label on back, rubbed and sl. edge-wear Whitehouse, p.94.

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£200-300

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£250-350

53* Jigsaw. A New Map of the World According to the Latest Discoveries, printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer, 1788, wooden double-hemisphere world map jigsaw, hand-col. in outline, several of the smaller pieces missing, toned, some surface rubbing and marks, 36 x 69.5cm (14 x 27.25ins), contained in orig. wooden box, sliding lid with eng. title label on front (dusty), and eng. guide illust. with imprint on reverse, box 18 x 21 x 7cm (7 x 8.25 x 2.75ins) (1)

£150-250

54* Magic tricks. An original boxed set titled “Conjuring Tricks”, Nuremberg: J.W. Spear & Sons, c.1900, containing numerous tricks, some of wooden construction, some tricks contained in paper envelopes and cardboard containers, incl. changeable playing cards, with original 16pp. instruction booklet, and an issue of “Abracadabra”, Christmas Special 1947, contained in orig. compartmentalised cardboard box with pictorial label on pull-off lid, soiled and some edge-wear, 26 x 38 x 5cm (10 x 15 x 2ins), together with Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse Drawing Tutor, Welsotoys, c.1950s, thick card jointed Mickey Mouse with metal tracing needle and pencil holder on pictorial tinplate base, slots on base to hold image to be copied (with orig. b & w illust. of a pig playing a violin), red plastic clips for securing blank paper, overall size 48 x 21cm (19 x 8.25ins), contained in orig. cardboard box, lacking one end flap, plus Outcault (R.F.), Buster Brown Necktie Party, New York, Selchow & Righter, c.1905, large colour-printed illust. on linen, of Buster Brown and his dog, eleven fabric neckties cut from the sheet as usual, overall size 75 x 61cm (29.5 x 24ins), contained in orig. printed cardboard folder, rubbed and worn (with repairs and one flap detached) 52* Indian mica paintings. A transformation game, mid. 19th c., together sixteen mica paintings, each of a single male or female figure engaged in an activity, mostly dancing or playing a musical instrument, some chipping to edges, plus a watercolour on card depicting a striped floor and balustrading with a male head above, to be used as a backdrop for each transformation cell, possibly lacking equivalent for female head, although three of the six female figures have facial features, all approx. 11 x 7.5cm (4.25 x 3ins), contained in earlier blue pastepaper-covered wooden box with sliding lid, early ms. inscriptions on base (1)

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£100-150

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£150-200

55* Music Cards, or Royal Musical Games, by Fanny Everest [covertitle], n.p., mid. 19th c., 112 cards with printed musical notation (36 grey, 47 blue, and 29 pink), together with two folded printed key sheets (Key to Second Set and Key to Third Set), contained in orig. cloth bookform box gilt, sl. broken, lower cover marked, spine and upper cover faded, with printed Testimonials mounted inside hinged lid, 8vo

57* Optical Toy. An alabaster peep egg, c.1860s, with four internal hand-col. eng. scenes on revolving spindle operated by two side knobs, comprising two views of the Thames Tunnel, a view of the exterior of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, and a view of the exterior of the Houses of Parliament, exterior with floral transfer incorporating the words ‘bought in the Thames Tunnel’ (a little rubbed), approx. 11.5cm (4.5ins) high

Presumably incomplete, but extremely rare; we have been unable to trace another copy.

(1) £100-150

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56* Noah’s Ark. A straw-work Noah’s Ark, 19th century, wooden construction with multi-coloured straw-work decoration, flat bottom, sloping roof, and sliding side panel, sl. springing of straw and loss in places, height 30cm (12ins), length 66cm (26ins), width 19.5cm (7.5ins), together with composition (incl. wood and plaster) figures of Noah and his wife, two daughters, and a son, and approx. 100 animals including elephants, camels, a giraffe, squirrels, monkeys, birds, lions, bears, and cats, most in pairs or threes

£150-200

58* Paper doll game. La Psyche, Paris: Narcon, c.1860s, tinted litho. figure of a young girl dressed in a petticoat (neck repaired), twelve hand col. litho. gowns (incl. wedding dress), and five headpieces, each item of clothing composed of a front and a back glued at the edges to allow template figure to be inserted between, height of template figure 13cm (5ins), together with orig. slotted wooden base, contained in orig. cardboard box, pull-off lid with hand col. litho. illust., lid dusty and broken, with loss to one side, box 22 x 14.5 x 2.5cm (8.5 x 5.75 x 1ins)

Probably made by a Napoleonic prisoner of war. Such prisoners earned money by selling craft items to local people, and were noted for their skill in straw-work. (a carton) £400-600

Extremely rare paper doll game; we have been unable to trace another.

(1) £100-150

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59 Peepshow. English Garden, n.p., c.1830s, eight division handcol. litho. peepshow (incl. backdrop and front cover with large irregular-shaped viewing hole framed by trees), showing figures and dogs, a fountain, statuary, garden urns, boating on a river, etc., each scene framed by trees, with vista of buildings at the end, contemp. ms. inscription on first set of bellows, 11.5 x 14.6cm (4.5 x 5.75ins), extending to approx. 72.5cm (28.5ins), contained in later(?) patterned slipcase with orig. hand-col. litho. label mounted on front (rubbed and toned) A rare and very attractive peepshow.

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61 Peepshow. Interior of the Magnificent New Crystal Palace at Sydenham. A Present, c.1854, hand-col. six-division peepshow, one division coming loose at one side (previously re-attached with stamp paper) and another with one side held in place by an old pin, upper cover with hand col. eng. label and circular peep-hole, lacking most of embossed border, 14 x 18cm (5.5 x 7ins), approx. 71cm (28ins) long

£300-500

Published to celebrate the move of the Crystal Palace from Hyde Park to Sydenham, which was due to be opened May 1st, 1853, but in fact did not re-open until 1854.

(1) £200-300

60 Peepshow. Les Tuileries, Paris, c.1830s, six division hand-col. litho. peepshow, incl. backdrop and front cover depicting the Arc du Carrousel with one square and two circular viewing holes (dusty), showing the Tuileries Gardens, Avenue des Champs-Elysées, and the Arc de Triomphe at the end, with statues, fountains, people promenading, children playing, horse-drawn carriages, etc., one bellow with old linen repair, 12.5 x 18.5cm (5 x 7.25ins), extending to approx. 48cm (19ins), contained in orig. marbled slipcase, with ink monogram label titled in contemp. ms., sl. rubbed and marked, and a little frayed in places (1)

62 Peepshow. Telescopic View of The Great Exhibition, printed by C. Moody, 1851, hand-col. ten-division peepshow, linen bellows, front cover a trifle rubbed and dusty, peep hole glass becoming loose, approx. length 68.5cm (27ins), contained in orig. cardboard slipcase, with label on front, rubbed and soiled, some wear and repairs

£200-300

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£300-400

63* Polyorama Panoptique. Brevet D’Invention S Gtie du Gouvt, c.1850s, green paper-covered wooden box (rubbed), mahogany front panel with viewing lens, green-paper bellows (joints rubbed and with some tiny splits), hinged top and back sections (former with curved title label), containing six hand-col. litho. views of the Crimean War, dusty, two sl. damaged, each in a wooden frame (printed title on verso) with linen tab at top, each 97 x 145mm (3.75 x 5.75ins)

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Optical toy invented by Pierre Seguin and based on Daguerre’s Diorama, of which it was a small-scale, simplified version intended for domestic use.

(1) £250-350

64* Puzzle Blocks. Hawthorn Farm. With Horses, Cows, Sheep, Pigs, Geese, Ducks, Fowls, mid. 19th c., thirty-six col. litho. oblong wooden blocks, forming a pastoral scene with manor house and farm buildings, animals, labourers, children playing, carts, etc., brick pattern on versos, overall size 26 x 45cm (10.25 x 17.75ins), together with orig. col. litho. guide sheet (in six pieces, with loss), contained in orig. wooden box with sliding pictorial lid (with several horizontal breaks, reinforced with thick card on verso), together with a Jacques wooden bagatelle board, late 19th/early 20th c., with metal balls present, and The Ernest Sewell “Tiddlytennis” game, 1930s, reboxed, with part of orig. box mounted on lid (3)

£70-100

65* Steiff. Lulac Floppy Rabbit, mid. 1960s, stuffed mohair rabbit with jointed limbs and head, glass eyes, and embroidered nose, shaggy paws, neck and tail, lacking neck-ribbon and ear-button, length including ears 60cm (23.5ins)

66* Table game. Willy’s Walk to See Grandmamma, A.N. Myers & Co., [1869], col. litho. with counter squares in a spiral, sectionalised on linen, with twelve compartments, somewhat rubbed and soiled, and some minor loss, 51 x 59cm (20 x 23ins), eight glazed earthernware counters marked with the letters A-H, bone six-sided teetotum (sl. rubbed), contained in orig. green cloth box, pictorial label mounted on hinged lid (rubbed), lined with patterned paper, printed label on inside of lid ‘From Emma S. Windsor, Kindergarten Toy, Crawling Rug, General Toy & Doll Depot... Near South Kensington Station...’, box 15 x 22.5 x 4.5cm (6 x 9 x 2ins), together with a mid 19th c. miniature set of twenty-one bone dominoes, approx. 18 x 6mm, contained in orig. wooden box, sliding lid with crack along its length, 55 x 20 x 16mm

The rare larger version, measuring 60cm in length. The distinctive and highly original ‘lulac’ design, was introduced by Steiff in the early 1950s. Lulac animals have comically long and lanky torsos, arms and legs, are usually fiveways jointed, and have a very playful air about them. The Floppy Rabbit was the very first lulac animal produced; he measured 43cm long and was manufactured between 1952 and 1974. He was subsequently also produced in this larger version, measuring 60cm long; fewer of these were made as production was only between 1964 and 1966. The success of Floppy Rabbit inspired the Steiff design team to create many more lulac-styled products, and lulac animals are still an important part of Steiff production today.

(1) £70-100

Unusually for a 19th century game of morals, some of the rules seem to be the opposite of what one might expect. For example a forfeit is given for helping an animal: ‘Sees some boys teasing a dog, begs the poor creature off and misses two turns’, whereas the player is rewarded for getting a lift on a cart, an action which would normally be punished as laziness.

(2) £100-150

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67* Wallis (E., pub.). Elegant and Instructive Game exhibiting the Wonders of Nature, in Each Quarter of the World, 1818, hand-col. eng. sheet, sectionalised into twelve and mounted on linen, with twentysix scenes arranged in a spiral around the central title, showing waterfalls, tornadoes, rock formations, waterspouts, icebergs, etc., close-trimmed to lower margin (clipping imprint), 47.5 x 62.5cm (18.75 x 24.5ins), without rules, but contained in orig. marbled slipcase, with hand-col. eng. label on front, sl. rubbed and dusty Whitehouse, pp.38-39 (illustrated).

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£200-300

68* Wallis (E., pub.). Picturesque Round Game of the Produce & Manufactures, of the Counties of England & Wales, c.1835 [but later re-issue], hand-col. aquatint sheet sectionalised into sixteen and mounted on linen, showing a county map with numerous small vigns. depicting trades and industries, lightly toned and foxed, two corners sl. creased, 66 x 50cm (26 x 19.75ins), folded into orig. blindstamped brown cloth binding gilt, together with 12pp. explanatory booklet in orig. printed wrappers (sl. soiled), pub. J. Passmore, slim 8vo J. Passmore took over Wallis’s stock in 1847 and re-issued this game shortly afterwards.

(1) £300-400

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CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

70 Aldin (Cecil). A Gay Dog, The Story of a Foolish Year, Pictured

by Cecil Aldin, 1st ed., William Heinemann, 1905, twenty-four colour lithograph plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and light soiling (generally in good condition), large 4to

69 Ainslie (Kathleen). Catharine Susan and Me Goes Abroad, c.1905; “Catharine Susan and Me’s Coming Out”, [1907]; Catherine Susan’s Calendar, 1906, [1905]; Catharine Susan’s Calendar, 1907, [1906], all 1st eds., Castell Brothers, together 4 vols., col. illusts. throughout, some foxing and offsetting, first vol. with juvenile pencil scribbles on one text leaf, all orig. col. pictorial wrappers with silk tasselled cord, three vols. with orig. spine cords, some minor rubbing and marks, all sm. 4to, together with This is the time of Christmas [cover-title], printed in Bavaria, Castell Brothers, c.1900, 8pp. Christmas card greetings booklet (unused), each page printed on recto with col. illust. and cumulative rhyming tale beneath, verso of final page with printed Christmas greeting, first and final pages with a few faint fox spots, top left corner with staple and pink silk ribbon tie, 15 x 11.5cm (6 x 4.5ins), plus five others by Ainslie, comprising Sammy Goes a’Hunting, Lady Tabitha and Us, “Why Was He Late?”, At Great-Aunt Martha’s, Mops Versus Tails, all orig. pictorial boards/wrappers (10)

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£100-150

71* Awdry (Rev. W., 1911-1997). Two typed letters, one from Rev. W. Awdry with his signature, 1958, together two typed letters, one from Mr. Evans to Rev. Awdry, dated June 2nd 1958, praising the Railway Series books and suggesting an improvement to the musical notation at the end of ‘Percy the Small Engine’: ‘I hope you will not consider it an impertinence if I offer a suggestion... In the printed version the rhythm of the tune does not coincide with the rhythm of the words... moreover there seems little opportunity for the fireman to replenish his lungs’, suggesting an extra bar and a rest at the end of each of the first two lines, sl. edge-frayed, 25.5 x 20.5cm (10 x 8ins), two folds, the other a reply from Rev. Awdry, dated 5/June/1958, thanking Mr. Evans for his letter, saying ‘it is indeed an improvement to have a rest at the end of the first two lines. Certainly the fireman after his hard work all the way down would need time for lung replenishment’, adding that he will try to get it altered, and going on to say ‘It may amuse you to know that in the next book (No 13), City of Truro makes a brief appearance, also a somewhat sinister Deisel!’, signed by the author in ink, a little creased, 12.5 x 20cm (5 x 8ins), one fold, together with two 1st eds. of Percy the Small Engine, one with leaves becoming detached, and twelve other books from the series, nine 1st eds., five with d.j.s. (two price-clipped), varying condition

£150-200

Provenance: the current vendor is the son-in-law of Mr. Evans, who was a music teacher at a small public school, as well as being a railway enthusiast.

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72 Blyton (Enid). Real Fairies, J. Saville, 1st ed., 1923, half-title, edges lightly foxed, endpapers partially toned, contemp. ms. name on front free endpaper, orig. brown cloth gilt, in d.j., spine a little darkened, sl. frayed to extrems. and with two small pieces missing from upper edge, sm. 8vo Enid Blyton’s scarce third book, which is rarely found in the dustjacket; the second issue in yellow pictorial wrappers is more commonly found.

(1) £100-150

73 Crane (Walter). Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Tempest, 1893, eight engraved plates, each mounted with captioned tissue guards (last two detached with sellotape marks), one extra plate, original cloth foldover box, some damp stains and edge wear, folio, limited edition, 166/600 signed by artist and engraver, together with Carmen, by Prosper Merimee, [1916], 16 colour plates by Rene Bull, one detached, one tissue guard torn, endpapers browned, a.e.g., original vellum., some soiling, 4to, limited edition, 66/100 signed by the illustrator, with other illustrated including Shakespeare’s Comedy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, illustrated by William Heath Robinson, 1914 (in later variant binding and d.j.), Grace James’s Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, 1910, with plates by Warwick Goble (rebound) and Hassan, by James Elroy Flecker, illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie, 1924 (8)

£150-200

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74 Crane (Walter (1845-1915)). Four photogravure plates from the Book of Genesis, Lemercier, Paris 1899, captioned tissue guards, some marginal repairs to plates and guards, sheet size 54 x 39.5cm (21.25 x 15.5ins), loose and contained in modern cloth dropback box The plates are captioned ‘Genesis III: 4. Serpens Decipit Evam; Genesis III: 19. Poena Hominis; Genesis VI: 22. Consruitur Arca; Genesis VII: 23.

Diluvium’. The plates were designed by Crane to appear in a projected Bible, to have been published by the Illustrated Bible Society in 1901, with illustrations by other artists including Riviere, Uhde, Gerome, Abbey, Tissot et al. An example of the proposed publication is held at the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum.

(4) £70-100

75 Dahl (Roald). James and the Giant Peach, 1st UK ed., George Allen, 1967, illusts. by Michel Simeon, occn. light foxing (mostly to endpapers), orig. pictorial laminated boards, minor chips at spine ends and short split in laminate at lower joint, 8vo, together with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1st UK ed., George Allen & Unwin, 1967, illusts. by Faith Jacques, a few corners creased and one or two with sl. loss, one page with some biro doodles in lower blank margin, edges foxed, orig. pictorial laminated boards, some edge-wear, with loss to rear cover, 8vo (2)

£150-200

76 Dean’s Rag Books. A collection of nine Walt Disney Baby-Safe Books, 1960s, printed in colours throughout, sewn on spines as issued, each with pinking-shear finish to upper and lower edges, 8vo & sm. 4to Provenance: From the Dean archive. All in fine condition. Titles are: The Jungle Book; ABC; Figaro the Playful Kitten; Mickey the Gardener; Donald Duck and His Nephews; Pluto and His Friends; Nursery Rhymes; Dumbo; Bambi and Thumper.

(9) £80-120

77 Dean (& Son). The Painted Picture Play-Book. Illustrated with nearly Three Hundred Coloured Pictures, and an Explanatory Verse to Each. The Engravings by Various Eminent Artists, the Verses by James Bishop, [1855], hand-col. illusts. throughout, generally foxed and toned, some minor edge-fraying, pubs. ads. on endpapers, hinges repaired, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, edges showing, folio, together with Pat-aCake, Pictured by Gordon Robinson, c.1911, six full-page col. illusts., letterpress vigns., lightly toned, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, surface chipping to edges, upper cover with some minor worming in joint (going through to first few leaves), folio (2)

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£300-400

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79 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1st ed., 1st issue, Macmillan, 1872, misprint ‘wade’ for ‘wabe’ on p. 21, b & w illusts.

by John Tenniel, occn. minor marks, half-title with 4pp. booklet ‘To all child-readers’ sewn in, early ms. inscription on verso of front free endpaper, hinges split, bookplate of Paul Latham on front pastedown, a.e.g., a few gatherings starting, orig. red cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and dusty, some splitting and fraying to spine extrems., repair to lower joint, 8vo, together with A Tangled Tale, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1885, half-title, full-page illusts., incl. frontis., early ms. ownership name on title, hinges split and free endpapers sl. chipped, Oratory School bookplate on front pastedown, orig. red cloth gilt, spine darkened and frayed at ends, upper cover partially faded, 8vo, plus The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1898, orig. cloth, spine darkened and frayed, 8vo (3)

80 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], thirty col. plts., with tissue guards, half-title browned, scattered foxing to text, early ms. ownership name on front free endpaper, edges foxed, orig. gilt and blindstamped terracotta cloth, extrems. lightly rubbed, 4to

78 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing, Oxford: Emberlin, 1890 [but later], comprising 40pp. booklet (with ad. for ‘Feeding the Mind’, first pub. in 1907), stamp-case, verso with words ‘published by Emberlin and Son, 4, Magdalen Street, Oxford’ printed above the Cheshire cat, and below ‘(post free, 13d.) price one shilling’, containing stampholder with twelve separate pockets, each containing a postage stamp (mostly franked), and orig. printed envelope (sl. frayed and creased), together with another copy similar, comprising 40pp. booklet, stamp-case, stamp-holder (without stamps), and printed envelope, plus an additional stamp-case and stamp-holder See Williams, Maddan, Green 223.

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£400-600

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£100-150

81 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], thirty col. plts., with tissue guards, occasional scattered spotting, early ms. ownership name to front free endpaper, orig. gilt and blindstamped terracotta cloth, extrems. lightly rubbed, 4to

£100-150

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£100-150

Lot 82

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82 Felix the Cat. The Felix Annual, Picture Stories of the Famous Film Cat, pub. Daily Sketch & Sunday Graphic, [1927], colour plates, b&w cartoon illustrations, pictorial endpapers, orig. red cloth-backed colour pictorial boards, with design to upper cover of Felix in a stained glass window, sl. rubbed and minor edge wear (generally a good copy), 4to, together with Felix Kept on Walking, words by Ed E. Bryant, music by Hubert W. David, pub. Lawrence Wright, n.d., c.

1923, (3 copies), 4 pp., orig. pictorial printed wrappers, with design of Felix the Cat in black to upper wrapper (one issue printed in black and red, and marked ‘Export Edition’), slim folio, plus three copies of the sheet music for ‘I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat’, by Sam Costa, c.

1920s, and a French-language Felix the Cat story, entitled Felix le Chat et ses neveux a Hollywood, Paris, Editions Azur, 1960, slim 4to (8)

87 Hoffmann (Heinrich). The English Struwwelpeter or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures for Little Children, After the Nineteenth Edition of the Celebrated German Work, 21st ed., c. 1870, handcoloured illustrations, text block loose, original printed boards, cloth reback, light edge wear and a few stains, 4to, together with The Political Struwwelpeter, by Harold Begbie, 1899, hand-coloured illustrations by F. Carruthers Gould, hinges tender, original clothbacked boards, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to, with three other Struwwelpeter’s including the 45th and 46th eds. of the English Struwwelpeter, c. 1890’s (5)

88 Housman (Laurence, illust.). Jump to Glory Jane, by George Meredith, Edited and Arranged by Harry Quilter, pub. Swan, SonnenSchein & Co., 1892, b & w frontis., plates and illustrations, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original boards, slightly marked, 8vo, together with Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti, pub. Macmillan & Co., 1893, decorative title, b & w plates and illustrations, a.e.g., original gilt decorated green cloth, 12mo, with The End of Elfintown, by Jane Barlow, puc. Macmillan & Co., 1894, b & w plates and illustrations, a.e.g., original gilt decorated cloth, 8vo, and The Viol of Love, Poems

by Charles Newton-Robinson, pub. London & Boston, 1895, decorative title, edges untrimmed, original gilt decorated cloth, 8vo, (limited edition of 350 copies), plus Green Arras, pub. London & Chicago, 1896, b & w frontispiece and decorative title, plates and decorative initials, edges untrimmed, original gilt decorated cloth, 8vo, plus An Englishwoman’s Love-Letters, [by Laurence Housman], 1900, hinges cracked, original japanese vellum, gilt decorated spine, green silk ties, 8vo

£50-80

83 Giles. Daily Express & Sunday Express Cartoons, nos. 1-43, 4549, 52-53, 1946-2000, b & w illustrations, a few previous owner inscriptions, some light toning and sellotape marks to early issues, a few price-clipped, original colour wrappers, chips and repairs to no. 1, a few creases and spine wear to early issues, oblong 4to (50)

£150-200

84 Giles. Daily Express & Sunday Express Cartoons, nos. 1-10, 1946-56, b & w illustrations, a few light spots and some light toning, First Series price-clipped, original pictorial wrappers, some edge wear and creases to First Series, closed tear and abrasion to Seventh Series, oblong 4to (10)

£100-150

85 Hankey (W. Lee, illust.). The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith, Constable, 1909, half-title, forty tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards (one or two torn, and one deficient), b & w illusts., some full-page, endpapers and edges foxed, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. japanese vellum, dust-soiled, sl. chipped at head of spine, lacking ties, 4to Limited edition, 134/250 copies, signed by the artist.

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£200-300

89 Housman (Laurence, illust.). Poems by Francis Thompson, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, and Boston: Copeland & Day, 1893, b & w frontispice, and decorative title, contemporary ownership to half-title, edges untimmed, orig. gilt decorated boards, joints rubbed and worn at head & foot of spine, 4to, (limited edition of 500 copies), together with Sister-Songs, An Offering to Two Sisters, by Francis Thompson, pub. London & Boston, 1895, b & w frontispiece, and decorative title, edges untrimmed, original gilt decorated cloth, 4to, with Will-Fellows, Seven Legends of Lower Redemption with Insets in Verse by Laurence Housman, 1896, engraved frontispiece, decorative title in red and b & w plts., edges untrimmed, original gilt decorated green cloth, 4to, plus five others similar

£100-150

86 Harrison (Florence, illust.). Poems by Christina Rossetti, Introduction by Alice Meynell, Blackie, 1910, half-title, thirty-six tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, full-page b & w illusts., pictorial endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cream cloth, lightly dust-soiled (most noticeable on spine), thick 4to, together with Thomson (Hugh illust.), Quality Street, a Comedy in four acts, by J.M. Barrie, Hodder & Stoughton, 1901, twenty-two tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, fullpage letterpress illusts., endpapers dusty and toned, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, some dust-soiling and marks, some edge-rubbing in places, ribbon tied renewed, large 4to, (limited edition 355/1000 copies, signed by Thomson) (2)

£100-150

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£200-300

90 Housman (Laurence, illust.). The Venture, An Annual of Art and Literature, edited by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham, 1903, woodcut frontis. and plates, edges rough-trimmed, orig. clothbacked boards, with b & w blocked illustration by Housman to upper cover, slightly rubbed, 4to, together with A Farm in Fairyland, by Laurence Housman, 1894, b & w frontispiece and decorative title, edges untrimmed, orig. pictorial cloth by Housman, spine slightly faded, 8vo, with The House of Joy, by Laurence Housman, 1895, b & w frontispiece and decorative title, edges untrimmed, orig. pictorial cloth by Housman, spine slightly faded, 8vo, and The Nature Poems of George Meredith, 1907, sixteen photogravure plates by William Hyde, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated cloth by Housman, tall 8vo, plus other similar late 19th/early 20th c. works, many with decorative covers by Housman

£100-150

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£200-300

91 Macdonald (George). The Princess and Curdie, with Eleven Illustrations by James Allen, 1st bookform ed., Chatto & Windus, 1883, half-title present (with early ms. ownership names), eleven eng. plts., incl. frontis. decorative head and tail-pieces and initial letters, 32pp. pubs. cat. at rear dated July 1882, some gatherings starting, foliate endpapers, yellow edges, orig. pictorial olive green cloth, some light soiling and rubbing, with a few tiny holes in joints, 8vo Sadleir 1480; Shaberman 74; Wolff 4299. Scarce. First published in serial form in ‘Good Things’ from January to June 1877.

(1) £500-800

92 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, Methuen, 1974, numerous illusts. by E.H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers, pastedowns with adhesive tape marks, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. light blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, lightly rubbed, 8vo Limited edition of 300 copies, this lettered ‘B’, signed by Christopher Milne.

(1) £150-200

93 Morpurgo (Michael). The White Horse of Zennor, 1982; Twist of Gold, 1983, 1st eds., previous owner signatures, White Horse in original laminated boards, spine a little toned, signed by the author, Twist of Gold in original cloth, d.j., 8vo, with others by Michael Morpurgo including Jo-Jo the Melon Donkey, 1987, signed by the author, Farm Boy, 1997 (signed by the author and illustrator Michael Foreman), The Rainbow Bear, 1999 and others, some signed (35)

£100-150

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94 Moveable. Living Nursery Rhymes newly treated with Moving Pictures, by Mrs. M.J. Wells, Dean & Son, c.1880, six moveable col. plts., all with parts and mechanisms intact, except penultimate plt. with the king’s left arm lacking, all with short handling tears (first plt. with small hole), generally foxed and toned, first and final plts. form pastedowns (as issued), first plt. with contemp. ms. ownership signature to upper blank margin, orig. blue cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and some marks, with small hole to head of upper return and board edges showing, 4to Scarce; not in Osborne. Part of the series entitled ‘Deans New Surprise Picture Books’.

(1) £200-300

96 Nister (Ernest, pub.). The Robins at Home, with an Introduction

by Fred E. Weatherley, [1896], four double-page pop-up chromo. plts., one or two minor creases, letterpress illusts., patterned endpapers, faint ownership ink stamp on front free endpaper, recased and hinges repaired, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and marked, 4to (1)

£150-200

95 Nicholson (William). The Square Book of Animals. Rhymes by Arthur Waugh, Heinemann, 1900, printed throughout on japanese vellum, twelve col. litho. plts. of animals, some finger-soiling and light offsetting, orig. full pictorial cloth, sl. frayed at spine ends, but in bright condition, large 4to Usually found printed on paper and bound in cloth-backed boards, this ‘deluxe’ copy is very rare. We have not seen another, and the only copy we could trace is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (from the Reva and David Collection of Illustrated Books).

(1) £400-600

97 Nister (Ernest, pub.). Wild Animal Stories. A Panorama Picture Book. With an Introduction by G. Manville Fenn, [1897], six chromo. pop-up plts., letterpress illusts. marginal toning to text, patterned endpapers, free endpapers browned and creased, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and marked, oblong folio (1)

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£200-300

98 Norton (Mary). The Borrowers, 1st ed., J. M. Dent, 1952, halftitle present, col. frontis., text and endpaper illustrations in sepia, recent blue morocco, dotted line decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder gilt panelled with central fleur-de-lys tool, covers with gilt single fillet border, upper cover with gilt illust., housed in blue cloth slipcase, 8vo (1)

ÂŁ200-300

99 Pogany (Willy, illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, pub.

George G. Harrap, 1930, addn. etched frontis. signed in pencil by the artist, dec. title, twelve tipped-in col. plts., b & w illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed (few leaves uncut), publisher’s turquoise morocco with gilt floral device incorporating red morocco onlay on upper cover, 4to, wrapped in original tissue paper and contained in original box Limited edition 170/750 of the English issue.

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Lot 98

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ÂŁ500-800

100 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, [Strangeways], December 1902, col. frontis and fifteen col. plts., three plts. detached and one plt. reattached with adhesive tape (erroneously placed), generally finger-soiled, free endpapers browned, upper hinge partially split, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, orig. pink boards, rubbed and soiled, edge-worn with spine deficient, upper cover with printed lettering and vignette of three mice sewing, 12mo Linder, p.420; Quinby 3. Rare: only 500 copies printed. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: ‘To Nellie Wilkinson Christmas Day 1902 With best wishes from Beatrix Potter’. Nellie was the niece of the two sisters, Hannah and Elizabeth Harper, whom Beatrix’s mother brought from her childhood home in Stalybridge to work at the Potter family house in Bolton Gardens, Kensington. Beatrix was very fond of Nellie and apparently gave her a copy of each new book as it was published (Judy Taylor, The Beatrix Potter Society Newsletter No. 61, p.18). The story of the Tailor of Gloucester was first told in a letter from Beatrix to Freda Moore, daughter of her former governess, Annie Carter. Although Frederick Warne had taken up Beatrix’s ‘Bunny Book’, as they referred to ‘Peter Rabbit’, and published it in October 1902, the author felt that they might not wish to publish a second book so soon, or that they might want to alter it too much. So she returned to Strangeways, the original printers of ‘Peter Rabbit’, and herself paid for a private edition of 500 copies to be printed. The book differs considerably in both text and illustration from Warne’s later edition of 1903. Of all her books ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ remained Beatrix Potter’s own favourite.

(1) £1500-2000

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102 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 4in), each with tissue guard and enclosed in printed grey wrappers, together with 25pp. booklet in loose printed wrappers, small 8vo, contained in original grey cloth solander box, gilt titled on spine and with inset illust. on upper cover Limited edition, 127/250 copies, signed by Maurice Sendak and the printer Iain Bain.

(1) £200-300

101 Potter (Beatrix). Ginger & Pickles, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, halftitle, col. frontis. and nine full-page col. illusts., finger-soiled and some short edge tears, pictorial endpapers, upper hinge split, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper, orig. pale olive green boards with pictorial label on upper cover, rubbed and soiled, lacking spine, 8vo

103* [Potter, Beatrix]. A pair of Peter Rabbit red leather girl’s shoes,

by Kreider-Creveling Shoe Co., 1936, with bow, Peter Rabbit logo and fabric label to inner, Neolite soles in unused condition, lacking buckles, wrapped in original tissue paper, contained together in original green shoe box (stock no. 7031 4120), shoe length 20.3cm (8in)

Linder, p.428; Quinby 17. Inscribed ‘For Nellie Wilkinson from Miss Potter Dec 21st 09 Wishing her Many Happy Returns of the Day’.

(1) £300-500

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£70-100

105* [Potter, Beatrix]. Timpo Models of the Famous Peter Rabbit Characters by Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., c.1950, together four cast lead alloy characters comprising Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jeremy Fisher and Jemima Puddle-Duck, wholly or partially painted, slightly rubbed to extremities, contained in original pictorial card box, figure height approx. 3cm (1.25in), together with Peter Rabbit’s Race Game, A new and exciting game introducing Beatrix Potter’s world-famed characters - Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jeremy Fisher & Jemima Puddle-Duck, copyright Frederic Warne & Co. Ltd., c.1950, folding games board , includes four lead alloy characters contained in original box, figure height approx. 3cm (1.25in), plus a worn Peter Rabbit board game, by Milton Bradley Co., Massachusetts, c.1930s, game within base of box, includes two wooden counters only and numbered card spinner with metal hand (1)

£70-100

106 Potter (Beatrix). Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st ed., Warne, [1922], half-title, col. illusts., some light finger-soiling and one or two corners creased, pictorial endpapers, orig. red boards with pictorial panel to upper cover, rubbed and a few light marks, spine faded, 12mo Linder, p.430; Quinby 26.

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£100-150

104 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, pub. The Saalfield Publishing Co., New York, Akron, Ohio, 1916, illustrations throughout, original colour printed die cut wrappers, short piece of adhesive tape to upper cover, slim 8vo, together with The Story of Peter Rabbit (with Dick Whittington & His Cat), Pictured by John R. Neill, pub. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1908, full-page colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, original cloth with colour illustration to upper cover, slightly rubbed to extremities, small 8vo, with The Tale of Petter Rabbit, pub. David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1907, full-page colour illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, d.j. slightly torn with loss and few adhesive tape repairs, 8vo, and Petter Rabbit Painting Book, pub. Charles E. Graham & Co., New York, 1913, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth-backed die cut pictorial boards, small area of image skinned at foot of upper cover, small slim folio, plus nine other similar Peter Rabbit themed American publications, including colouring books, cut out & paste books etc.

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£200-300

107 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, col. illusts. throughout, occn. light creases and marks, and a few leaves with minor surface loss (just clipping a letter in one instance), pictorial endpapers, upper hinge split, orig. brown boards, upper cover with inset illust., 16mo

Lot 105

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£200-300

Lot 108 108* Potter (Beatrix). A Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit tea set by Grimwades, c.1925, a complete seventeen piece tea set comprising one teapot and lid, four cups and saucers, four side plates, two cake plates, milk jug and sugar bowl, all with colour transfer illustrations of Peter Rabbit, gilt-rimmed, minor small chip to outer rim of milk jug, small hairline crack to one cup, small chip and the usual factory firing faults to inner rim of teapot, varying sizes (1)

£400-600

109 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st ed., 1911, colour illustrations, a few light fingermarks, contemporary presentation inscription to half title, original green boards, upper cover with ionset illustration, tiny closed tear at head of spine, 16mo. together with The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st ed., 1913, colour and b & w illustrations, a few leaves loosening, occasional light soiling, presentation inscription to front pastedown and endpapers, hinges breaking, original green boards, picture inset to upper cover, tear and small chip at head of spine, small split to lower joint, 16mo (2)

£100-150

110 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, 1st ed., 1930, colour and b & w illustrations, contemporary presentation inscription to half title, a few minor spots front and rear, original blue cloth, spine a little faded, d.j., spine slightly faded, square 4to (1)

£100-150

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111 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st ed., later issue, Warne, [1918], with ‘London’ printed correctly on the titlepage, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. green boards with mounted col. illust. to upper cover, covers v. sl. bowed and spine with vertical crease, but a good copy, 12mo

113 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Illustrated Guide to Sheringham,

by Lemmon Lingwood..., Jarrold & Sons, [1910], numerous b & w illusts., incl. three vigns. by Rackham, title-page foxed, ads. at front and rear, orig. printed wrappers, with illust. on front cover (probably

by Rackham), stained and frayed, with sl. loss to extrems., slim 8vo

Linder, p.430; Quinby 25.

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Rare. Not recorded in Riall.

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£150-200

£70-100

114 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). East Coast Scenery, Rambles through Towns and Villages; Nutting, Blackberrying, and Mushrooming; Sea Fishing, Wild-fowl Shooting, etc., by William J. Tate, 1st ed., Jarrold & Sons, 1899, numerous b & w illusts., incl. seven by Rackham, occn. finger-soiling, some faint corner-creasing, 10pp. ads. at rear, floral endpapers, free endpapers browned, sl. splitting to rear hinge, orig. two-tone cloth, with illust. mounted on upper cover, some soiling and bubbling, spine rubbed at ends and with small nick at foot, 8vo Riall, p.27. Scarce.

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£80-120

112 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Wonder Book, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1st. ed., pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1922] twenty-four colour plates, including sixteen tipped-in with captioned tissue guards, twenty illustrations to text, pictorial endpapers in tan and white, t.e.g., original cream buckram gilt, minor dust-soiling to spine, 4to

115 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Book of Betty Barber, by Maggie Browne, with Illustrations drawn by Arthur Rackham, A.R.W.S. and Coloured by Harry Rountree, 1st ed., Duckworth and Co., [1910], six col. plts., incl. frontis., twelve full-page b & w illusts., scattered light foxing, free endpapers browned, contemp. ms. ownership name on front free endpaper, orig. brown cloth (some faint spotting), with col. illust. mounted on upper cover, sm. 4to, contained in orig. cardboard box, pull-off lid with mounted col. illust., a little soiled, repair to base, and two corners of lid split

Riall, p.146. Limited edition 74/600 copies, signed by the artist. A good copy.

(1) £500-800

Riall, p.98. Unrecorded in the publisher’s box.

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£400-600

Lot 116

116 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, 1st ed., Constable, 1917, thirteen tipped-in col. plts., letterpress illusts., some full-page, a few text leaves creased to lower outer blank corner, pictorial endpapers browned and foxed, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. grey cloth gilt, occn. very minor rubbing to extrems., large 4to, together with the extra mounted plate ‘He hurried away with long strides’, signed by Rackham, contained in orig. printed envelope (foxed and sl. frayed)

117 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens,

by J. M. Barrie, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906, fifty tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, correct as list, first few leaves lightly foxed, bookplate tipped-in on front pastedown, front free endpaper sl. brittle and chipped at edges, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, covers bowed, spine and upper cover rubbed in places and dust-soiled, silk ties lacking, 4to Riall p.74. Limited edition, 305/500 copies, signed by Rackham.

(1) £700-1000

Riall p.129. Limited edition, 242/525 copies, signed by Rackham.

(1) £700-1000

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Lot 119

118 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Undine by De La Motte Fouqué, adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney, 1st ed., William Heinemann, 1909, fifteen tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, foxing to first and final leaves, pictorial endpapers, and edges, orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, corners v. sl. bumped, in d.j. (trimmed a little short as usual), toned spine with 1cm loss at head, flap folds sl. nicked at head, 4to Riall p.93.

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£150-200

119 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, 1st ed., William Heinemann, 1910, thirty-four tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, some minor toning and foxing (latter mostly to first few leaves and edges), pictorial endpapers, orig. gilt dec. tan buckram, spine ends lightly faded, one or two minor marks to lower cover, in rubbed and edge-frayed d.j., with spine sl. darkened, 4to Riall, p.103.

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£150-200

120 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, 1926, 20 tipped-in colour plates, top edge stained yellow, original black cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed at spine ends, d.j., spine darkened and chipped at ends, 4to Riall p.161.

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Lot 120

£300-400

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121 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, new impression, 1917, 24 colour plates, one or two light spots, original boards in bright condition (spine ends a little faded), d.j., spine a little rubbed and chipped with small hole, 4to (1)

124 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends, Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1907, 24 tipped-in colour plates, some light toning and spotting, light marginal water stain towards end, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, contemporary ties, covers a little bowed, a few damp stains, 4to

£150-200

Riall p.83. Limited edition, 446/560 signed by the artist.

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122 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, Abridged from Malory’s Morte D’Arthur

by Alfred W. Pollard, 1917, 16 mounted colour plates, partly unopened, marginal water stain to rear endpaper and pastedown, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, some soiling, 4to Riall p.130. Limited edition, 12/500 signed by the artist.

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125 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, Translated by Margaret Armour, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, scattered light spotting, bookplate, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, lacking ties, a little soiled, 4to Riall p.103. Limited edition, 389/1150 signed by the artist.

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£300-400

£400-600

126 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, 1915, 12 tipped-in colour plates, scattered light spots, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, one silk tie detached (but present), lacking the other, upper cover with slight bowing, 4to

123 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Undine, by de la Motte Fouque, Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney, 1909, 15 tipped-in colour plates, occasional light offsetting, presentation inscription, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, lacking ties, covers bowing, some soiling, 4to Riall p.93. Limited edition, 141/1000 signed by the artist.

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£250-300

Riall p.124. Limited edition, 194/525 signed by the artist.

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£200-300

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£700-1000

Lot 126

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127 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods,

by Richard Wagner, Translated by Margaret Armour, 1911, 30 tippedin colour plates, scattered light spotting, bookplate, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, lacking ties, a little soiled, 4to Riall p.109. Limited edition, 389/1150 signed by the artist.

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128 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti, 1933, four colour plates, t.e.g., original limp vellum, slipcase (slight soiling), 8vo

£300-400

Riall p.179. Limited edition of 410, this copy unumbered, signed by the artist.

A good copy.

(1) £400-600

129 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, 100th ed., Methuen & Co., 1951, Introduction by A.A. Milne, 12 tipped-in colour plates, partly unopened, t.e.g., original cream full calf, one or two light marks, publisher’s card slipcase (light edge wear), 4to Riall p.200. Limited edition of 500, this an out of series publisher’s presentation copy to A.A. Milne.

(1) £1200-1800

130 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

From the Little White Bird, by J.M. Barrie, new ed., [1912], 50 tippedin colour plates, a few light spots, previous owner signature, original green cloth gilt, spine faded and torn at head, 4to (1)

£150-200

131 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles & Mary Lamb, 1909, 13 tipped-in colour plates, a few minor spots, previous owner inscription, t.e.g., contemporary black full morocco, one or two light marks, 4to Riall p.90. Limited large paper edition, 83/750 signed by the artist.

(1) £200-300

Lot 129

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Lot 129

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132 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Aesop’s Fables. A New Translation

by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton, 1912, 13 tipped-in colour plates, occasional light spotting and marginal damp stain towards end, t.e.g., original cream cloth gilt, spine darkened and soiled, a few light stains, 4to Riall p.111. Limited edition, 570/1450 signed by the artist.

(1)

£200-300

Lot 135

133 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Dish of Apples, by Eden Phillpotts, 1921, three tipped-in colour plates, t.e.g., original cream cloth gilt, spine lettering a little rubbed, 4to Riall p.144. Limited edition, 433/500 signed by author and artist.

(1) £300-400

134 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1929, 12 colour plates, one or two light spots, t.e.g., original cream cloth gilt, 4to Riall p.170. Limited edition, one of 575 signed by the artist, this copy unnumbered.

(1) £200-300

135 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Sleeping Beauty, Told by C.S. Evans, [1920], tipped-in colour frontis., colour and b & w illustrations in silhouette, presentation inscription and tiny bookplate at front, original cloth-backed pictorial boards in bright condition, one or two minor marks, d.j., spine and margins faded, 4to Riall p.141.

(1)

£200-300

136 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas, 1909, 40 tipped-in colour plates, t.e.g., contemporary burgundy full morocco, a little rubbed, 4to Riall p.39. Limited edition, 38/750 signed by the artist.

(1)

£400-600

Lot 136

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137 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Allies’ Fairy Book, wih an Introduction by Edmund Gosse, [1916], 12 tipped-in colour plates, some light toning and offsetting, bookplate, t.e.g., original blue buckram gilt, small loss at head of spine, 4to Riall p.128. Limited edition, 198/525 signed by the artist.

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£200-300

138 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes, 1913, 13 tipped-in colour plates (last plate leaf loose), light browning and a few spots front and rear, t.e.g., original white cloth gilt, spine a little darkened, some light soiling, 4to Riall p.115. Limited edition, 304/1130 signed by the artist.

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£400-600

Lot 137

139 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Cinderella. Retold by C.S. Evans, 1919, tipped-in colour frontis., colour and b & w illustrations, bookplate, t.e.g., original vellum-backed boards gilt, one or two light marks, corners bent, 4to Riall p.134. Edition de Luxe, 178/525 signed by the artist.

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£300-500

140 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Chimes, by Charles Dickens, Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht, Limited Editions Club, 1931, b & w illustrations, original tan buckram, spine darkened, a few spots, original publisher’s card slipcase, light edge wear, small folio Riall p.173. Limited edition, 1396/1500 signed by the artist.

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Lot 138

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£100-150

141 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Land of Enchantment, 1907, tinted illustrations, occasional light soiling, original pictorial cloth, spine a little rubbed and darkened, 4to, with an original self portrait sketch by the artist to the front endpaper and inscribed “With best wishes from A.R., 1913” (1)

£200-300

142 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,

by Lewis Carroll, with a Proem by Austin Dobson, [1907], 13 tippedin colour plates, scattered light spotting and offsetting, endpapers browned, t.e.g., contemporary full red morocco gilt, 4to Riall p.77. Limited edition, 875/1130.

(1)

£400-600

143 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, 1908, 40 tipped-in colour plates (one loose), scattered spotting, prize label to front endpaper, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed and toned, 4to, together with Some British Ballads, [1919], 16 tipped-in colour plates, a few detached, some spotting and offsetting, original blue cloth gilt, joints splitting, spine a little rubbed and faded, 4to, plus Tales of Mystery & Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1935, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, 4to, plus others illustrated by Arthur Rackham including La Legende du Roi Arthur, 1920 (limited edition of 1500) and Das Sagenbuch, 1920 (limited edition of 1000) (8)

£150-200

Lot 141

144 Rackham (Arthur, Louis Wain, & others). Snowflake’s Picture Book, by Uncle Maurice, S.W. Partridge, [1910], chromo. frontis., b & w illusts. throughout, some full-page, incl. one story illustrated with three vigns. by Rackham, and four illusts. by Louis Wain, Sunlight soap ad. leaf bound in, pubs. ads. on endpapers, orig. pictorial glazed boards, extrems. rubbed, small old adhesive tape repair at foot of spine, 4to Unrecorded by Riall or Gant.

(1)

£100-150

145 Robinson (W. Heath, illust.). Shakespeare’s Comedy of A Midsumer-Night’s Dream, Constable, 1914, twelve mounted col. plts., incl. frontis., captioned tissue guards, letterpress illusts., some full-page, free endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, rubbed and soiled, covers a little bowed, 4to Limited edition, 39/250 copies, signed by W. Heath Robinson.

(1)

Lot 142

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£300-400

146 Robinson (Charles and Copeland, Walter). The Silly Submarine, Blackie, [1907], half-title, thirty full-page col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, contemp. ms. inscription on front free endpaper, small stain to upper edge of page block, orig. pictorial cloth, sl. rubbed, 7.5 x 15cm (3 x 6ins) (1)

148 Rupert Bear. Rupert Little Bear Library, numbers 7, 8, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 34, 40 & 44, 11 vols., all 1st eds., 1920s-30s, b & w illustrations throughout, original yellow boards, all in d.j.s (including one or two later issues), a few rubbed with some chips to edges, 8vo, together with ten futher first editions from The Little Bear Library (numbers 10, 12, 18, 20, 27, 30, 32, 37, 41 & 45) all original yellow boards without wrappers, plus eleven reprint issues and 49 modern reprint editions of the same series, all 8vo

£100-150

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£400-600

149 Rupert Bear. A collection of modern Rupert Bear hardback annuals, magazines, jigsaws and postcards, including Rupert Annual for 2010 (two copies), Rupert Favourites, 21 Rupert jigsaws, a quantity of Rupert Weekly, Rupert Workbook Stories, Nutwood Newsletters, etc, some contained in modern ring binders (2 cartons)

£100-150

150 Rupert Bear. The New Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express Publications, [1936], illustrations printed in red and black, some scattered spotting, p.11/12 creased with closed tears to lower margin, one or two leaves strengthened with sellotape to inner margin, original red cloth, fading to extremities, 4to, together with Rupert Annuals for 1950, 1951 & 1952 and 20 other Rupert Annuals mostly from the 1960’s, including a few duplicates, and Rupert Adventure Series numbers 2, 3, 5, 15, 18, 19, 21, 24 & 26 etc (38)

151 Simpson (Frances). The Book of the Cat, 1st ed., 1903, twelve colour plates, numerous b&w illustrations to text after photos, original decorated cloth gilt, together with Spielmann (M. H.), Henriette Ronner: The Painter of Cat Life and Cat Character, new ed., 1892, photogravure portrait frontispiece, b&w plates and illustrations to text, some light scattered spotting, publisher’s catalogue loosely inserted, original pictorial grey cloth gilt, both 4to

147 Robinson (Charles, illust.). Nonsense Nonsense!, by Walter Jerrold, Blackie & Son, 1902, numerous colour illustrations, one or two closed tears and a few spots, small presentation inscription, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some wear to spine ends and edges, 4to One of the rarest Charles Robinson illustrated books.

(1)

£150-200

(2)

£100-150

Lot 148

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£100-150

Lot 154 152 Studdy (G.E.). A Lucky Dip, 1st. ed., pub. John Swain & Son, [circa 1924], twelve full-page colour plates, printed back-to-back, b & w illustrations, scattered spotting, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine faded, small 8vo, together with two Bonzo’s Annuals for 1949 & 1951, and a copy of Terrier, V. C. by Julia Lowndes Tracy, c.1918 (4)

£70-100

153 Tennant (Dudley, illust.). Poems of Passion and Pleasure, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, [1912], twenty tipped-in colour plates, a few minor spots, t.e.g., remainder uncut, original cream vellum gilt, lacks cloth ties, 4to Limited edition 86/500, signed by author and artist.

(1)

£150-200

154 Tennant (Dudley, illust.). Poems of Passion and Pleasure, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Gay & Hancock, [1912], half-title, twenty tippedin col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, one plt. with a corner crease, some light spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cream vellum, spine a trifle dusty, covers sl. bowed, lacking one cloth tie, the other extant but detached, contained in orig. moire paper-covered board slipcase (stained and edge-worn), 4to Limited edition, 167/500 copies, signed by both author and artist.

(1) £150-200

155 Wain (Louis, illust.). In Cat and Dog Land, Raphael Tuck, c.1906, twelve full-page chromo. illusts., some with sl. adhesion from facing page, duotone illusts. to text throughout, toned, recased and endpapers renewed, orig. pictorial bevel-edged brown cloth, somewhat dusty and marked, with sl. fraying to extremities, folio Gant 25.

(1)

Lot 155

£200-300

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156 Wain (Louis, illust.). Cats... Versed by “Grimalkin”, Sands & Company, [1901], half-title (‘Cats! Cats!! Cats!!!’), numerous fullpage b & w illusts., some foxing, mostly to margins and edges, orig. pictorial blue cloth, spine lightly faded, sm. folio Gant 31.

(1)

£150-200

157 Wain (Louis, illust.). To Nursery Land, edited by Edric Vredenburg... with Verses by Clifton Bingham, S.K. Cowan, etc., etc., Raphael Tuck, c.1909, col. frontis., b & w and duotone illusts. throughout, toned, hinges repaired, orig. pictorial blue cloth, some faint dust-soiling and discreet spine repairs, 4to Gant 105.

(1)

£150-200

158 Wain (Louis, illust.). The Lament of Billy Villy, after a Long Fellow, Told by Emily Rowley Watson, Raphael Tuck, [1894], numerous chromo. and b & w illusts., one double-page, orig. card wrappers with red silk bow, a bright copy, in d.j., some tears and edge loss, sm. 4to Gant 65. A rare book, with the even rarer dustjacket, in remarkable condition.

(1) £150-200

Lot 156

159 Wain (Louis, illust.). A Little Book of Pussy Cats, The Little Folks Library, [1908], numerous full-page duotone illusts., one or two pages foxed, patterned endpapers, orig. pictorial scarlet cloth, sm. 8vo

Lot 158

Gant 66. A very bright copy.

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£70-100

162 [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, endpapers browned, orig. pictorial boards with upper cover showing Hitler in Struwwelpeter style with swastika-tipped long fingernails, covers sl. bowed, and a trifle rubbed to edges, 4to

160 Wain (Louis, illust.). Daddy Cat, Blackie and Son Limited, [1914], full-page col. illusts. throughout, occasional finger-soiling, lower gutter corners a little creased and frayed, one leaf with short tear in fore-edge, free endpapers browned, rear free endpapers with juvenile scribblings in pencil, orig. red cloth-backed boards, with col. illust. mounted on upper cover, foxed and soiled, extremities rubbed, large 8vo Gant 40.

(1)

Inscribed by the illustrator on the verso of the front free endpaper ‘To Marjorie Coed. with love from the illustrator of these vitriolic pages, A. Sawry, Oct. 1933’. A good copy of this uncommon early anti-Nazi comic satire.

(1) £150-200

£200-300

Christopher Holtom OBE (1927-2013)

161 Weir (Harrison, illust.). Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens.

By An Old Tabby, 1st ed., Grant and Griffith, 1851, four b&w etched plates, some light spotting, mainly to plates, original blindstamped green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded to spine and edges, 8vo, together with a 3rd edition of the same work, published by Griffith and Farron, 1856, in original blindstamped and gilt-decorated green cloth, and another copy of the same work, 7th thousand, undated, with presentation inscription dated February 9th 1878 to front endpaper, in original gilt-decorated blue cloth, all 8vo, and Stories About Cats, by Mrs. Surr, pub. T. Nelson and Sons, 1882, b&w frontispiece and plates after Harrison Weir, some light spotting to margins, orig. publisher’s decorated brown cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor fraying to extremities, 4to (4)

Please note that we will offer the remaining stock of the late Chris Holtom in our book auction on Wednesday 18 June.

Chris was a familiar and friendly face at our auction rooms over the decades, specialising in antiquarian children’s and illustrated books sold by catalogue.

The sale will also include antiquarian children’s books and juvenilia from other vendors.

£70-100

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JESSIE M. KING 163 King (Jessie M., illust.). Friendship, by R. Waldo Emerson; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Aucassin & Nicolette; Hand and Soul,

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Friendship Booklets, T.N. Foulis, [1913], colour illustrations, a few spots, previous owner inscriptions, original limp calf, upper covers designed by Jessie M. King, spines and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with others illustrated by King, cloth and leather-bound, including J.H. Crawford’s The Wild Flowers, 2nd ed., 1909, Alladine and Palomides, 1911 and James McCardel’s The Parish of New Kilpatrick, 1949 (30)

£100-150

164 Taylor (John Russell). The Art Nouveau Book in Britain, 1980, b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with Women Bookbinders 1880-1920, by Marianne Tidcombe, 1996, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, plus The Glasgow Style, by Gerald and Celia Larner, 1979, b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 4to, with other art and bibliographical reference including Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau. From Mackintosh to Liberty, 2000 and A.D. Portno, The German Cover Designs of Jessie M. King, 2003 (20)

£70-100

165 King (Jessie M., illust.). Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Band XV, Oktober 1904-Marz 1905, colour and b & w illustrations, hinges a little tender, original decorative boards, spine and edges lightly rubbed, 4to, together with Modern Book-Bindings & their Designers, Winter Number of the Studio, 1899-1900, [and] The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine & Applied Art, vol. 36, Dec. 15, 1905, colour and b & w illustrations, a little light toning and chipped foredges, original wrappers, 4to, plus Art et Decoration. Revue Mensuelle d’Art Moderne, vols. XXIII & XXIV, 1908, colour and b & w illustrations, occasional light toning, contemporary calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, 4to, with other related periodicals including The Studio vol. XIV, 1898 (the first appearance in print of Jessie M. King), The Annual Report of the Glasgow School of Art. Session 1908-09 and 1909-10, Hullo Girls. The Wireless Aunties’ Annual for 1924 & 1925, Hullo Boys. The Wireless Uncle’s Annual for 1924 & 1925 and The Gallovidian Annuals for 1932, 1933 and 1935-36 (20)

£150-200

166 King (Jessie M., illust.). Ponts de Paris, by Edme Arcambeau, Paris & London, 1912, 18 colour plates, occasional light marginal water stains, original green buckram, upper cover colour illustration, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 4to One of 1000 copies.

(1)

£100-150

Lot 166

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Lot 167

167 King (Jessie M., illust.). A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde, 1915, colour title, 16 tipped-in colour plates, scattered light spotting, light toning to endpapers, t.e.g., original blue decorative cloth, spine a trifle faded and rubbed at ends, 4to (1)

£300-400

168 King (Jessie M., illust.). L’Habitation Forcee, by Rudyard Kipling, Editions Rene Kieffer, Paris, 1921, hand-coloured title, 28 hand-coloured pochoir illustrations, light uniform toning to title, t.e.g., contemporary tan half calf, spine with label and gilt decoration, covers slightly bowed, 4to Limited edition, 331/500.

(1)

£300-400

169 King (Jessie M., illust.). A Carol. Good King Wenceslas, c.

1920, 14 tipped-in colour plates, original buff wrapper, upper wrapper with colour title, bound-in contemporary tan calf, 4to (1)

Lot 168

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£100-150

170 King (Jessie M., illust.). Comus. A Masque, by John Milton, 1906, 11 photogravure and half-tone illustrations, some light toning, small previous owner inscription, t.e.g., original green and red cloth gilt, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

£100-150

171 King (Jessie M., illust.). The Enchanted Capital of Scotland, from a Story Told by a Merchant of Edinburgh, Retold in Words by Isobel K.C. Steele, Plaid, Edinburgh, [1945], two double-page colour illustrations, light marginal yellowing, original blue cloth, d.j., one or two minor nicks and closed tears, 4to (1)

£100-150

Lot 170

172 King (Jessie M., illust.). The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, by William Morris, John Lane, 1904, b & w illustrations, light toning and a few spots to endpapers, t.e.g., original red cloth gilt, spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo (1)

Lot 171

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£150-200

Lot 174

173 King (Jessie M., illust.). The High History of the Holy Graal.

Translated from the Old French by Sebastian Evans, 1903, 24 fullpage illustrations, including title, previous owner signature, light spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., original pale blue cloth, upper cover and spine illustrations heightened in gilt, spine a trifle faded and rubbed at ends, corners a little bumped, 8vo (1)

£300-400

174 King (Jessie M., illust.). “Seven Happy Days”. A Series of Drawings by Jessie M. King, with Quotations from John Davidson & others, Christmas Supplement to The Studio 1913, seven colour illustrations, heightened in gold and silver, eight b & w illustrations, bound-in The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. Volume 60, 1914, original green cloth gilt, spine and edges with mottled stains, 4to, plus “Seven Happy Days”, facsimile edition, Fraser Press, 1993 (2)

£150-200

175 King (Jessie M., illust.). Glasgow. The City of the West, Le Roy Phillips, Boston, c. 1911, 25 tipped-in b & w plates, a few light spots, original boards, original colour wrapper, one or two small marginal chips, 8vo, with two others illustrated by Jessie M. King: The Grey City of the North, November 1910 and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Memories, May 1922 reprint (3)

£100-150

Lot 175

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176 King (Jessie M., illust.). Goblin Market and Other Poems, by Christina Rossetti, 1907; The Seven Princesses. A Play by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1909; The Intruder. A Play by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1913; The Apple Tree, by Harold Brighouse, 1923, occasional light spotting and toning, original colour wrappers illustrated by Jessie M. King, some browning to Goblin Market and Seven Princesses a little chipped and stained with two folds detached, 12mo, Gowan’s International Library and Repertory Plays series, together with others with illustrated wrappers by King, published by Gowan’s and Gray, some duplicates and reprints, including The Interlude of Youth, 1922, The Hundred Best Latin Hymns, 1926 and A Bundle of Yarns, Tales and Memories, 1931 (19)

£150-200

178 King (Jessie M., illust.). Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, by John Keats, 1st ed., 1907, five colour plates, one or two light spots, original pictorial wrapper, spine faded, a little soiled, 8vo, together with The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, [1913], four colour plates, a few spots, original pictorial wrapper, light toning, 8vo (Friendship booklet ‘b’ wrapper), plus The Dream of Gerontius, by Cardinal Newman, [1913], four colour plates, a few minor spots, original pictorial wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo (Rose of Sharon booklet no. 1), with nine others in pictorial wrappers by Jessie M. King including Poems of Longfellow, c. 1911, Selected Poems of Alindsay Gordon, 1913, A Little Book of Sundial Mottoes, 1913 and The Lover of Gardens, 1914

177 King (Jessie M., illust.). Friendship Booklets. A complete set of all seven titles: Friendship, by R.W. Emerson; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; The Blessed Damozel, by D.G. Rossetti; Aucassin & Nicolette; Hand & Soul, by D.G. Rosetti; Rabbi Ben Ezra, by Robert Browning; Christmas Carols, T.N. Foulis, [1913], colour illustrations by various artists, scattered light spotting, presentation inscription to Rabbi, original colour pictorial wrappers by Jessie M. King, one or two slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (7)

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£200-300

179 King (Jessie M., illust.). Our Lady’s Garland, by Arthur Corder, 1st ed., De La More Press, 1934, b & w illustrations, text block loosening, original wrapper, one or two small light stains, 8vo, together with The Legends of the Flowers: Or “‘Tis Love that Makes the World Go Round”, Translated from the Italian of Paolo Mantegazza by Mrs. J. Alexander Kennedy, 1st-3rd Series, Foulis, 1908-10, colour frontis. to each by Walter Crane and Auguste Rodin, some light toning and spotting, bookplate and presentation inscription to First Series, original cloth, First Series upper cover with gilt design by Jessie M. King, spines darkened, a few stains, 8vo, plus R.L. Stevenson’s Memories, 1912

£200-300

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£100-150

180 King (Jessie M., illust.). Album von Berlin, 55 Ansichten nach Momentaufnahmen in Photographiedruck, Berlin, Globus, 1st ed., [1899], half-tone illustrations, one or two closed tears, original cloth, upper cover with colour armorial design by Jessie M. King, some soiling and light edge wear, oblong folio, together with Die Denkmaler der Sieges-Allee, Berlin, Globus, [1901], half-tone illustrations, endpapers browned, original cloth, upper cover with armorial design, vertical crease to each cover, a few light stains, oblong folio, with six other Album von Berlin copies, oblong folios and oblong 8vo, and two others in German with cover designs by King (10)

£200-300

183 King (Jessie M., illust.). Album von Dresden und Sachsische Schweiz.

47 Ansichten nach Momentaufnahmen in Photographiedruck, Berlin, Globus, [1899], half-tone illustrations, marginal water stains, original white boards, upper cover with colour design by Jessie M. King, one or two small marginal repairs and lightly rubbed patches, oblong folio (1)

184 King (Jessie M., illust.). Album von Berlin, Berlin, Globus, [1899], half-tone illustrations, a few spots, bound-with at end Unserekunst Sechzehn Werke Moderner Meister (Berliner Ausstellung),b & w and sepia illustrations, contemporary previous owner inscription, original boards, upper cover with a design of a girl

by Jessie M. King, heightened with gilt, small marginal repair and light edge wear, oblong folio

181 King (Jessie M., illust.). View Album of Edinburgh and District, [Globus, 1900], half-tone illustrations, a few foredges a little frayed, original green pictorial wrapper designed by Jessie M. King, edges a little rubbed and toned, light crease mark, oblong folio (1)

£150-200

(1)

£100-150

£150-200

182 King (Jessie M., illust.). Rund um Berlin. 55 Ansichten nach Momentaufnahmen in Photographiedruck, Berlin, Globus, [1900], half-tone illustrations, light stains to endpapers, original grey boards, upper cover with colour ‘wirework’ design by Jessie M. King, some edge wear and a couple of small waterstains, oblong folio Provenance: Carl Probst (1854-1924), Austrian artist, signature to title.

(1) £150-200

Lot 185

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185 King (Jessie M., illust.). Werke Alter Meister. Konig Museum Berlin, Berlin, Globus, [1902], half-tone illustrations, decorative endpapers (hinges a little tender), original boards, upper cover with a colour design of a girl with flowers and birds by Jessie M. King, small chip at head of spine and outer edge, one or two small repairs, 4to (1)

189 King (Jessie M., illust.). The Life of Saint Mary Magdalen, Translated from the Italian of an Unknown Fourteenth Century Writer

by Valentina Hawtrey, 1984, b & w illustrations, a few light spots, previous owner inscription, t.e.g., original blue cloth, covers and spine with gilt illustrations by Jessie M. King, bright condition, 8vo, together with The Wild Flowers, by J.H. Crawford, 2nd ed., 1909, tipped-in colour illustrations, t.e.g., original brown cloth, upper cover with design blocked in gilt, spine a little faded, 8vo, plus The Boy’s Own Book of Natural History, by the Rev. J.G. Wood, c. 1907, woodengraved illustrations, presentation inscription and a few spots to endpapers, original green cloth, covers with pictorial design in white, spine faded, 8vo, with ten other books with cover designs by King, including Cook’s Voyages, c. 1900 and Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables, 1905

£100-150

186 King (Jessie M., illust.). What Katy Did; What Katy Did at School, by Susan Coolidge, Collins Bumper Reward Books, [1926], colour frontis. and title to each, some light spotting, first title lacking rear endpaper, presentation inscription to front endpaper, original colour pictorial boards by Jessie M. King, edges a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with five others with cover designs by King, including Danesbury House, by Mrs Henry Wood and Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, [1927], and A Book of Sundials, and Corners of Grey Old Gardens, both 1917 reprints (8)

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£150-200

£100-150

187 King (Jessie M., illust.). Nature Pictures. A Portfolio of Photographs from Life, 1st ed., 1908, half-tone illustrations, original green cloth gilt, upper cover designed by Jessie M. King, one or two light marginal water stains, 4to, together with Tableaux de la Nature, Paris [1908], b & w illustrations, original wrapper designed by King, 4to, plus Musik und Gesang, [1902], rebound with upper cover design only relaid (3)

£100-150

188* King Jessie M., illust. Birthday card, c. 1900, one printed leaf headlined ‘A Birthday Wish’, with manuscript inscription ‘Frank, with love xx’, original buff wrapper, upper cover with cottage design

by Jessie M. King, printed in colour and heightened in silver, silk ribbon, 8.5 x 10.5cm, rare, together with five others including two postcards with designs to versos, c. 1905 and a ‘Paul Jones’ TeaRoom, Kirkcudbright postcard (6)

190 King (Jessie M.). Mummy’s Bedtime Story Book, by “Marion”, Cecil Palmer, [1929], 14 full-page colour illustrations, including title, numerous colour illustrations, occasional light soiling, contemporary presentation inscription to frontis. verso, original pictorial boards, approx. 6cm loss at foot of spine, small loss at head, 4to

£150-200

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£300-500

191 King (Jessie M.). Budding Life. A Book of Drawings, Edition de Luxe, December, 1907, 16 b & w illustrations, including titles, original grey wrapper, upper wrapper illustration heightened in silver, slight fraying to edges, a few faint stains, 4to (1)

£100-150

192 King (Jessie M.). The Little White Town of Never Weary, [1917], four colour plates, b & w illustrations from photos. by J. Bruce Cameron, illustrations and diagrams to text, scattered light spotting, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to A children’s book written by Jessie M. King for her daughter Merle. It combines a moral fairy-tale with instructions (including diagrams and photographs), on making a model village in cardboard.

(1) £150-200

Lot 191

193 King (Jessie M.). Kirkcudbright. A Royal Burgh, Cowans & Gray, 1934, b & w illustrations, original colour pictorial wrapper in bright condition, light fading to rear wrapper, 8vo, together with The City of the West, 1911, 25 tipped-in b & w plates, original boards, light stains, original colour pictorial wrapper, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, with two others illustrated by Jessie M. King: Budding Life, November 1907 reprint and R.L. Stevenson’s Memories, October 1919 reprint (4)

Lot 192

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£100-150

LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939) An Important Private Collection 196 Nister (Ernest, pub.). Some Funny Folk, c.1900, mounted chromo. frontis., seven illusts. of cats by Louis Wain, incl. doublepage centre spread, pubs. ads. at rear, upper hinge split, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed, 4to, together with Fun For Everyone, [1902], mounted chromo. frontis., four illusts. of cats

by Louis Wain, incl. double-page centre spread, some spotting, contemp. ownership name and school ink stamp to front free endpaper, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed, 4to, plus The Animals’ Trip to Sea..., Described by Clifton Bingham, Pictures by G.H. Thompson, six full-page chromos., b & w illustrations throughout, occ. scattered spotting, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slight rubbing to extremities, oblong 8vo, plus When All Is Young, by Robert Ellice Mack, Illustrated by Harriet M. Bennett, c.1880s, numerous full-page chromos. and duotone illusts., text block a little loose, contemp. presentation inscription to front free endpaper, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, some dust marks and sl. rubbing to extremities, 4to, plus other children’s books, including Nister publications, some with illusts. by Louis Wain (41)

£200-300

194 Gale (Norman). On The Land with Louis Wain, No. 9276, pub.

Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., c.1910s colour frontispiece, five full-page red and black illustrations and other similar illustrations to text, few finger marks to margins, previous owner’s inscription to front pastedown, original duotone pictorial card wrappers with mounted colour illustration to upper cover, small losses to lower corners, spine restored, some surface soiling and spotting, 4to, together with a copy of Elizabeth Gant’s Catalogue 26 (Children’s & Illustrated Books) A scarce title listed in Elizabeth Gant’s Catalogue 26 as “Not in Dale and would appear to be unrecorded.” The only work produced by Wain for the War Effort.

(2) £150-250

197 Wain (Louis). Pa Cats Ma Cats and their Kittens, pub. Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., [1902], illustrated title page (with repaired closed tear to upper fore-edge), eleven chromo. illustrations (including one double-page), b & w illustrations throughout, occasional light spotting, some corners slightly chipped, inner hinges and one inner margin strengthened, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slight marks and edge wear, folio

195 Knight (George, pseud. R. Norman Silver). The Owl Book, 1st. ed., pub. Knight Brothers, n.d., circa 1910, six full-page chromos. and twelve full-page b & w illustrations by Louis Wain, occasional scattered spotting, endpapers lightly toned, period gift inscription to front pastedown, spine neatly restrengthened, original cloth-backed boards, colour pictorial front cover, some light dust-soiling and rubbing at extremities, oblong 8vo Apparently unrecorded.

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£150-250

61

£400-600

198 Wain (Louis). With Louis Wain to Fairyland, Described by Nora Chesson, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1904], illustrated title, twelve full-page chromolithograph illustrations, small repaired tear to lower margin of final plate (Beauty and the Beast), numerous b & w illustrations, occasional minor marginal soiling, inner hinges a little weak, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, lightly rubbed and some minor marks, folio Gant 111. Rare.

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ÂŁ700-1000 62

Lot 199

199 Wain (Louis). At the Pantomime with Louis Wain, 1st ed., pub.

Raphael Tuck, n.d., circa 1900, pictorial title with near-contemporary ownership inscription, twelve chromolithograph plates, numerous duo-tone illustrations to text (complete), lacking front free endpaper, upper hinge cracked, original red cloth gilt, spine a little faded, lightly rubbed at extremities (generally a good copy), folio Gant 20.

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£300-500

200 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Cats and Dogs, Linen Edition, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1902], pictorial title-page, twenty-two chromo. illustrations (two double-page), b & w illustrations, some minor spotting and finger soiling, original cloth-backed boards with colour illustration to upper cover, some marks, rubbed at extremeties, folio Not listed in Gant.

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£200-300

Lot 200

63

201 Wain (Louis). Cats of Many Lands, 1st. ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, n.d., circa 1912, eight full-page colour illustrations printed back-toback, with eight pages of illustrated text (including endpapers) printed in blue and black, few small chips and marks to margins, contemporary owner’s presentation inscription to first leaf, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked, with professional restoration to margins, slim folio Gant 35. Scarce.

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202 Wain (Louis, illust.). Kittenland ABC, Father Tuck’s “Little Pets’” Series, [cover-title], c.1902, four full-page chromos., b & w illustrations, a little offsetting, colour pictorial wrappers, slightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, with Comic Animals ABC by Louis Wain, William Collins Sons & Co., 1st ed., [1903], colour illustrations throughout, a few small closed tears to margins, original colour pictorial wrappers, spine strengthened with fabric tape, loss to lower outer corner of upper cover, repaired closed tear to rear cover, slim folio, and “Tiny Folks” First Spelling Book ABC, Valentine & Sons, [1921], front cover with moveable dial, a little rubbed to extremities, together with five additional Louis Wain illustrated items

£400-600

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£150-200

203 Wain (Louis, illust.). Puss in Boots, Pantomime Toy Books, New York: McLoughlin Bros., c.1880, chromolitho. transforming illusts. throughout, original pictorial boards, some loss to spine, 4to, with Tom Mitten’s Cousins, by Dolores McKenna, New York: Sam’l Gabriel, colour and b & w illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, plus Puss in Boots, Father Tuck’s “Quick Change” Series, (Untearable Linen), pub. Raphael Tuck, c.1908, full page chromos. with duotone illustrations, text block loose in original pictorial stiff card wrappers, a little chipped and rubbed, 4to, plus sixteen additional Louis Wain illustrated titles (16)

£200-300

64

204 Wain (Louis). Animal Frolics, pub. John F. Shaw, [1919], four mounted colour plates, numerous full-page b & w illustrations, original cloth-backed printed wrappers with mounted colour illustration, a few small marks, slightly rubbed at extremities, 4to, with Les Distractions de Minet, Series de Recreations de l’Oncle Tuck, c.1900, four full-page colour illustrations and b & w illustrations to text, colour pictorial wrappers, some slight marks and dust soiling, a little rubbed to extremities, 4to, and Mother Goose In Catland, Raphael Tuck, c.1890s, colour frontispiece (contemporary presentation inscription to verso), duotone illustrations throughout, some light finger marks (mostly to margins), original pictorial printed wrappers, with mounted colour illustration to front cover, slight wear and some rubbing to extremities, 4to (3)

£150-200

205 Wain (Louis). Cats at Play, pub. Blackie & Son, [1917], 12 pages of colour illustrations, some light soiling and spotting, mostly to margins, original stiff pictorial wrappers, resewn, with restrengthening to inner hinge, some marks and creasing, mainly to upper and lower outer corners of upper cover, slim folio

206 Wain (Louis). “Tinker, Tailor”, Stories by Edric Vredenburg, Illustrated by Louis Wain, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck and Sons, [1914], twelve col. plts., with numerous b & w illustrations to text, one col. plate (The Busy Tailor) with some marginal creases and minor short tears to edges, occasional scattered light spotting (mostly to margins), endpapers and first and last leaf of printed text lightly browned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards with mounted colour plate to upper cover, slight wear to edges, 4to

Dale 34. This title particularly rare, due to its format and fragility.

(1) £150-200

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65

£150-200

207 Wain (Louis). Merry Times with Louis Wain, Stories in Prose & Verse by Dorothy Black, Grace C. Floyd, Norman Gate & Others, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, n.d., c. 1917, chromolitho. frontispiece (His Mother’s Present), fifteen col. illustrations and numerous b & w illustrations within text, slight browning to margins throughout, two small tears to outer edge of rear free endpaper, small cracks to front and rear hinges, original colour pictorial boards, minor wear to extremities, 4to (1)

£150-200

208 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Father Xmas, 1st. ed. pub. John F. Shaw, [1907], vignette title-page, three mounted photolitho. plates, including frontispiece (complete), numerous b & w illustrations, original pictorial boards, slight spotting and minor wear to rear cover, colour plate to upper board in facsimile, bumped and a little rubbed to extremities, 8vo (1)

£50-80

209 Wain (Louis). Little Red Riding Hood and Other Tales by Louis Wain, 1st. ed., pub. Gale & Polden, [1917], six colour illustrations, illustrations to text, printed in brown, scattered spotting, occasional marginal finger soiling, short repaired tear to one text leaf, inner hinges partly cracked, original colour pictorial boards, slightly rubbed at head and foot of spine, slightly rubbed, 4to Gant 67.

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£100-150

Lot 207

210 Wain (Louis). The Story of Tabbykin Town In School and at Play, Told by Kitty Cat, With Illustrations by Louis Wain, 1st. ed., pub. C. W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd., [1920], four colour illustrations and seven b & w illustrations, small tear to one leaf, small original printed wrappers, 4to

Lot 209

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66

£150-250

211 Wain (Louis). Miss Lovemouse’s Letters, Illustrated By Louis Wain, pub. Nelson and Son, 1896, numerous illustrations to text, front free endpaper lacking, scattered spotting, owner’s inscription to titlepage, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor rubbing to extremities, slim folio (1)

Lot 213

£100-200

212 Wain (Louis). Days in Catland with Louis Wain (Father Tuck’s Panorama), 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1903], four colour plate sections, with fourteen coloured figures that slot into the scenes depicted, b & w illustrations by Arthur Burnaby to verso, some small closed tears to slot edges, linen reinforced hinges, restored rear envelope flap with some soiling, pictorial front cover with small losses, slightly rubbed at extremities, large oblong 4to, together with a modern facsimile of the same work, pub. B. Shackman & Co. Inc., N.Y. (1991) Rare.

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Lot 214

£400-600

214 Wain (Louis). Puss in Boots by Louis Wain (The Stump Books), 1st ed., Chicago, pub. M. A. Donohue & Co., [1904], rectangular stump book with sixteen chromo. plates, minor spotting and marks, a few leaves reinforced at the gutter margin, original pictorial blue cloth, slight rubbing and small repair to top edge of front board, with original bone toggle tab

213 Wain (Louis). The Louis Wain Kitten Book, pub. Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd., 1904, twenty colour illustrations, advert leaf at rear, original linen-backed boards with colour illustration to upper cover, 12mo Gant 73. A scarce edition in near fine condition.

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£300-500

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Lot 212 67

£300-400

Lot 215 215 Wain (Louis). With Louis Wain In Fun-Land, Father Tuck’s Panorama Series, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, n.d., circa 1910, concertina-style folding panorama with twenty colour illustrations, adhesion damage to margins of the two plates entitled ‘The New Governess’ and ‘Bluebeard’, particularly to seconf image (some consequent repairs), original red cloth, a little faded and slightly rubbed at extremities, 8vo Rare.

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£500-800

217 Wain (Louis). Souvenir of Louis Wain’s Work, 2nd ed., pub. Louis Wain Fund, [1925], 98 pp., numerous illustrations, occasional spotting to margins, original green wrappers, some chips and losses at extremities, together with Exhibition of Drawings by Louis Wain, Brook Street Galleries, 1931, printed catalogue of Wain’s work including ‘An Appreciation of Louis Wain and his Work’ by Gustave Tuck, original grey paper wrappers, slim 8vo

216 Wain (Louis). Cat’s Cradle, A Picture-Book for Little Folk, Cats

By Louis Wain, Rhymes By May Byron, 1st. ed., pub. Blackie and Son Ltd., [1909], numerous colour illustrations, including six fullpage, original grey boards with mounted colour illustration to upper cover, one or two minor marks to extremities with red silk tie to spine, 4to Gant 32. A very good copy.

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(2)

£300-500

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£100-150

218 Wain (Louis). Family Cares - Calendar for 1905, pub. Raphael Tuck, 1905, four leaves with colour illustrations, later red cord and ribbon ties, slight dust soiling to front cover, minor surface loss to blank margin of front card, 4to (1)

£100-200

220 Wain (Louis). To Nursery Land With Louis Wain, ed. Edric Vredenburg, with Verses by Clifton Bingham, S.K. Cowan, etc., (Father Tuck’s “Golden Gift” Series), 1st. ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1909], colour frontispiece, numerous duotone and b & w illustrations, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded, a little rubbed, 4to (1)

£100-150

219 Wain (Louis). Pussies And Puppies, 1st. ed., pub. S. W. Partridge, [1899], single colour plate (An Intruder), twenty-five fullpage and numerous b & w illustrations to text, pubs. advertisements to endpapers, original pictorial boards with Cadbury’s advertisement to rear cover, minor chipping to edges, 4to

221 Wain (Louis). A Cat Alphabet And Picture-Book For Little Folk, 1st ed., pub. Blackie and Son, [1914], thirty-six colour illustrations (including frontispiece), minor scatttered spotting to margins, pictorial endpapers with contemporary inscription at front, original cloth-backed boards with mounted colour illustration to upper cover, some corner wear, 4to

Gant 94. Scarce early work.

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Gant 24.

(1)

£150-200

69

£200-300

222 Wain (Louis). Daddy Cat, 1st. ed., pub. Blackie and Son, n.d., [1915], colour illustrations throughout, some minor marginal soiling, contents partly loosened, pictorial endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, mounted colour illustration to front cover, some marks and edge wear, 4to (1)

£200-300

223 Wain (Louis). The Happy Family Pictured by Louis Wain, Stories & Poems by Edric Vredenburg, Clifton Bingham, Norman Gale, Grace C. Floyd, etc, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1910], eight full page photolitho. plates (one plate ‘Going To School’ creased and frayed at edges), seven full page and numerous b & w illustrations to text, small repaired tears to titles, some spotting at front and rear, inner hinges cracked, original cloth-backed boards with mounted colour illustration to front cover, some surface scratches and corners a little rubbed, large 4to Gant 52.

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£200-400

Lot 222

224 Wain (Louis). Cinderella and Other Fairy Tales, 1st. ed., pub.

Gale & Polden, [1917], six full-page colour and five full-page b&w illustrations, crease to bottom corner of ‘Hey-Diddle-Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle’, some scattered spotting and occasional marks to margins, chipped at lower edge of front endpaper and title-page, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, red mark to lower front cover, large 4to (1)

Lot 223

70

£150-250

225 Wain (Louis). Cats at Play by Louis Wain, Father Tuck’s Indestructable Board Series, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d., six full-page chromolitho. plates, minor scattered spotting, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slight fraying to head and foot of spine, somewhat scuffed with small loss to lower edge, 4to A scarce form of this title, unrecorded in Rodney Dale or Gant.

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£100-200

226 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Animal Show, With Stories In Prose And Verse, 1st. ed., pub. James Clarke, 1905, numerous b & w illustrations throughout, occasional marks to margins, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, original pictorial boards, slight rubbing to spine ends, 4to A good copy.

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£100-150

Lot 225

227 Wain (Louis). Kits and Cats, (Father Tuck’s Hurrah Series), pub.

Raphael Tuck, [1904], four full-page colour plates (including one double-page), b & w illustrations to text, original shaped pictorial boards, small chips and wear to edges, spine ends slightly rubbed with slight losses, slim folio Rare.

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Lot 226

71

£300-500

228 Wain (Louis). Pussies at Work, (Father Tuck’s “Little Pets” Series), 1st. ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, n.d., circa 1900, four full-page chromos., numerous b & w illustrations to text, slight toning, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed, 4to A clean copy.

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230 Wain (Louis). Kits and Cats, Father Tuck’s “Little Pets” Series (Untearable), 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1904], four full-page colour illustrations, eight duotone illustrations to text, original pictorial boards, some creases, few small losses to outer corners, spine neatly repaired, 4to

£200-300

Gant 63.

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£100-150

229 Wain (Louis). Life in Catland, Verses by Norman Gale, (Father Tuck’s Nursery Series), 1st. ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, n.d., c. 1912, four full-page chromos., ten duotone illustrations to text, occasional scatttered spotting, original pictorial boards, slightly chipped and rubbed to extremities, spine partly split and restored with red cloth tape, oblong 4to Dale 139. Scarce.

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£300-500

Lot 231

72

231 Wain (Louis). The Kings and the Cats, Munster Fairy Tales for Young & Old, with a Preface by Father Matthew Russell, S. J., and a Verse for the Children by Katherine Tynan, 1st ed., pub. Burns & Oates Ltd., 1908, eleven b & w illustrations (including frontispiece), scattered spotting, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed, 4to (1)

£100-150

Lot 233

232 Wain (Louis). Somebody’s Pussies, 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1925], 20 pp., fourteen colour illustrations, b&w illustrations to text, some minor marks and juvenile colouring to a few plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed, outer corners bumped, 4to Gant 95. A good copy.

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£150-200

233 Wain (Louis). Tatters The Puppy (Valentine’s Book Toys), 1st ed., pub. Valentine & Sons, [circa 1919), die-cut dog-shaped book, sixteen pages with seven full-page red and black illustrations, original colour pictorial card wrappers, some creases and small chips to edges, spine lightly rubbed in places, 4to Gant 102. A good copy.

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£100-200

234 Wain (Louis). Fun and Frolic, Louis Wain and Clifton Bingham, 1st ed., pub. Ernest Nister, [1902] six full-page colour illustrations, four double-page and numerous b & w illustrations to text, period gift inscription to front free endpaper, hinges split, original clothbacked pictorial boards, minor rubbing and marks, 4to Gant 50.

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£100-150

Lot 234

73

235 Wain (Louis). Such Fun with Louis Wain, Stories written by Norman Gale, Grace C. Floyd & others, ed. Capt. Edric Vredenburg (Father Tuck’s “Children’s Own” Library), 1st ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1910], two colour plates (including frontispiece), numerous duotone illustrations to text, occasional finger soiling to margins, period gift inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, 4to Gant 97. A clean copy.

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£100-200

236 Wain (Louis). In Catland with Louis Wain, Untearable Series, pub. Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1901], eighteen full-page colour illustrations, illustrations to text, new endpapers, original pictorial boards, some surface scratches, slight edge and corner wear, 4to Unrecorded.

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£200-400

Lot 235

237 Wain (Louis). Pussy Cat Capers, pub. McLoughlin Bros., Springfield, Mass., [c. 1905], die-cut cat-shaped book, four full-page colour illlustrations with numerous b & w illustrations to text, a few marks to margins, colour pictorial card wrappers, extremities creased and a little frayed, small split to lower spine, slim folio Very scarce.

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Lot 236

74

£200-400

238 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Annual, pub. Antony Treherne, [1901], numerous b & w illustrations, including many full-page, light scattered spotting with occasional finger-soiling to margins, contemporary presentation inscription by the author to front free end-paper “With many compliments & good wishes from Louis Wain, Those with feelings wondrous kind / Can love with felines ever bind”, a.e.g., (some leaves starting), contemporary vellum-backed green boards, rubbed, light discoloration to spine, 4to Signed presentation copy of the first Louis Wain annual.

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£200-300

239 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Annual for 1902, 1903, 1905-1908, 1909-10, 1910-11, 1912-14, 1915 & 1921, 13 vols., pub. George Allen & Sons/John F. Shaw, 1902-1921, full-page tipped-in colour plates, numerous illustrations throughout, 1910-11 Annual with an upper outer corner excised at pages 77/78, original colour pictorial wrappers (except 1907 Annual rebound in contemporary maroon half morocco and 1921 Annual in original cloth-backed pictorial boards), a little rubbed, with occasional small losses to extremities, together with a duplicate for 1921, all 4to A run of Louis Wain’s Annuals, lacking 1911. No annual was issued for 1904 or between 1916 and 1920.

(13) £500-800

Lot 238

Lot 239 75

Lot 241

240 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Annual, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1911, pub. P. S. King & Son, 1905-11, ten tipped-in colour plates, numerous illustrations throughout, contemporary cloth, rubbed and faded on spine, 4to (1)

£200-300

241 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Summer Book for 1903, pub.

Hutchinson & Co, 1903 b & w illustrations throughout, many fullpage, printed advertisements to endpapers, original yellow pictorial boards, small losses to spine, slightly rubbed at extremities with some corner wear, 4to (1)

£100-150

241 Wain (Louis). Louis Wain’s Summer Book for 1903, pub.

Hutchinson & Co, 1903 b & w illustrations throughout, many fullpage, printed advertisements to endpapers, original yellow pictorial boards, small losses to spine, slightly rubbed at extremities with some corner wear, 4to (1)

£100-150

242 Wain (Louis). Peter, A Cat o’ One Tail, His Life and Adventures,

by Charles Morley, 1st ed., pub. Pall Mall Gazette, 1892, numerous b & w illustrations to text, endpapers a little toned, original pictorial orange cloth, lightly faded, 4to Scarce early title.

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Lot 242

£100-200

76

243* Wain (Louis). The Laughing Cat, Wilkinson, Royal Staffordshire Pottery, circa 1910, pottery cat figure with black/grey glazed finish, green ribbon bow to neck, “The Laughing Cat - Louis Wain” inscribed to the tail, manufacturer’s stamp to base, 7.5ins (19cm) high (1)

£500-800

244* Wain (Louis). The Louis Wain Mazawattee tea box, c.1910, an original rectangular paper-covered cardboard tea box, each panel depicting a colour illustration of a cat tea dance scene, gold paper lined interior with decorative text “Delicious Mazawattee Tea, Genuine only in Sealed Packets & Tins”, some age wear and small scuffs to extremities, corners rubbed and showing in places, 9.5” x 5 x 6ins (24 x 12.5 x 15cm) Rare.

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£400-600

Lot 243

245 Wain (Louis). Two Cats at Large, A Book of Surprises, with verses by S. C. Woodhouse, 1st ed., pub. George Routledge & Sons, [1910] twenty full page colour plates featuring kittens Albert and Tom, original cloth-backed boards with colour pictorial front cover and publisher’s advertisment to rear, edges lightly rubbed with a few chips to extremities, 4to

Lot 244

A good copy.

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77

£300-600

246 Wain (Louis). In Nurseryland with Louis Wain, with Stories and Verses by Sheila Braine and Grace C. Floyd, edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg, 1st. ed., pub. Raphael Tuck, [1916], colour frontispiece, numerous duotone illustrations to text, occasional light finger marks to margins, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing and edge wear, 4to, together with I’ll Tell You a Tale, (Father Tuck’s “Furry Mascot” Series), pub. Raphael Tuck, circa 1920s, black “Velvette” silhouette cat with moveable tail to the cover, one (of two) colour plates (lacking the second plate), numerous duotone illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, and other Raphael Tuck titles including Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, [1914], Fairy Tales, [1903], Ginger The Cat, The Strange Tale of a Tail, [1945], etc.

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£150-250

247 Wain (Louis, et al.). Doctor Quack and His Comical Cures, 1st ed., pub. Ernest Nister, c.1880s, three full-page chromo. illusts., numerous additional colour and b & w illustrations to text, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor rubbing to extremities, 4to (1)

£100-200

Lot 246

248* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). “Milk has gone up in price!”, original pen & black ink on paper, heightened with white body colour, signed lower left, with annotations in pencil by Louis Wain to lower margin, with additional pencil sketch of the head of a cat to verso, sheet size 275 x 192mm (10.8 x 7.6ins), framed and glazed The original drawing for the full-page illustration which appeared on page 35 of Louis Wain’s Annual for 1915.

(1) £600-800

Lot 247

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Lot 250

249* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). ‘An extra tasty glass. “Don’t give me away”‘, pen and black ink on paper, heightened with white body colour, signed lower right, inscribed by the artist with the title in ink to lower right hand margin ‘An extra tasty glass, don’t give me away!’, sheet size 286 x 230mm (11.25 x 9ins) Published on page 28 of Louis Wain’s Annual for 1915.

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£600-800

250* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). An original pen and ink sketch of a cat’s head, 1920, drawn on light pink paper from a small album, signed, with mirror writing in Wain’s holograph beneath, ‘Those with feelings wondrous kind, Can love with kitties ever bind, Louis Wain, Sept 15th 1920’, additional signature with underscore beneath, sheet size 10 x 8cm (4 x 3.25ins), conjugate blank leaf attached with hinge labels (1)

£150-200

251 Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). In Animal Land With Louis Wain, 1st ed., S. W. Partridge, [1904], full-page colour frontispiece, numerous b & w illustrations to text, occasional marks to margins, original pictorial boards, some chips to spine, 4to, together with a variant copy of the same title, four colour and numerous b & w illustrations, occasional scattered spotting, small repairs to spine, 4to Gant 57.

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£200-300

Lot 251

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Lot 252

252 Wain (Louis, and Rowntree, Harry, illusts.). Cats and Dogs, pub. The Children’s Press, c.1940s, colour frontispiece, numerous b & w illustrations, scattered spotting, original cloth-backed boards with colour illustration to front cover, slightly rubbed to spine ends, 4to, and Happy Hours with Louis Wain, pub. John F. Shaw, [1913], numerous full-page colour illustrations tipped-in (some replaced?), b & w illustrations throughout, occasional spotting and toning, original pictorial cloth-backed boards with mounted illustration to front cover, lightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, together with Louis Wain’s Father Xmas, pub. John F. Shaw, [1912], three full-page tipped-in colour plates, numerous b & w illustrations, original clothbacked boards with mounted colour illustration to upper cover, corners and spine ends a little rubbed, 4to (3)

£150-200

253 Wain (Louis, illust.). The Monkey That Would Not Kill; Childrens Stories by Henry Drummond, 1st ed., pub. Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, numerous b & w illustration plates, scattered spotting and toning to endpapers, a.e.g., original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some marks to rear cover, spine lightly faded and with some fraying at ends, 8vo, together with Mephistopheles, or The Autobiography and Adventures of a Tabby Cat, by Keiro [Charles Yates Stephenson], Jarrold & Sons, [1907], b & w plates throughout, some occasional toning and spotting, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed to extremities and a little faded to spine, 8vo, plus Louis Wain’s Great Big Midget Book, assisted by Claire Wain, pub. Dean & Son, [1934], numerous b & w illustrations, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo (11.4 x 10.6cm, 4.5 x 4.25ins) and A Little Book of Pussy-Cats, Sands and Company, [1901?], numerous b & w plates, original cloth-backed decorative boards, lightly rubbed to extremities, small 8vo (4)

Lot 253

£200-300

80

254 [Wain, Louis, illust.]. Bed-time Book-lets, pub. by “Home Chat”, c.1920s, comprising six stapled booklets: Winnie’s Visitors, The Would-Be Sparrows, Molly’s Angel, The Professor’s Temper-Pills, Our Adventure, and Tommy’s Fright, latter with three illusts. of cats (incl. cover) by Louis Wain, 13.5 x 9cm (5.25 x 3.5ins), contained together in orig. printed envelope, some spotting and wear, together with Little Pets, John F. Shaw, c.1900, four col. illusts., incl. one of a cat by Louis Wain, numerous letterpress illusts., orig. printed card covers, with circular col. illust. mounted on front cover, lower inch of spine frayed, 8vo, plus others similar relating to cats, incl. magazine issues and shaped books, some illustrated by Wain, and a trade catalogue for Jays’ Ltd of Regent Street, containing an illustrated advert by Louis Wain for Millson’s Baby Cars (approx. 50)

£150-200

255 Wain (Louis, illust.). Jingles, Jokes, and Funny Folks, Illustrated

by Louis Wain, and written by Clifton Bingham, pub. Ernest Nister, [1898], mounted col. frontis. (not by Wain), numerous b&w illusts. to text, one leaf loose, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked, together with More Jingles, Jokes and Funny Folks, by Louis Wain and Clifton Bingham, pub. Ernest Nister, [1899], mounted colour frontispiece (not by Wain), numerous b&w illusts. by Louis Wain, including double-page illustrations of a cat’s cricket match and rugby match, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and a little corner wear, both 4to (2)

£100-150

256 Wain (Louis, illust.). More Jingles, Jokes, and Funny Folks, by Louis Wain and Clifton Bingham, 1st US ed., pub. McLoughlin Bros., New York, n.d., c. 1900, numerous b&w illusts., original colour pictorial wrappers, with design to upper cover by Louis Wain, stapled as issued, a little rubbed and some minor marks, slim 4to Scarce.

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Lot 256

£100-150

257 Wain (Louis, illust.). Full of Fun, Illustrated by Louis Wain, Verses by Clifton Bingham, pub. Ernest Nister, n.d., c. 1908, colour frontispiece, numerous b&w illusts., some minor handling marks to margins, school prize label to front endpaper, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked, 4to, together with Holiday Stories and Rhymes, 1st ed., pub. Ernest Nister, [1909], tipped-in colour frontis., numerous b&w illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, with design to upper cover by G. H. Thompson, spine renewed, sl. rubbed and minor edge wear, 4to, plus Some Funny Folk, pub. Ernest Nister, [1904], b&w illustrations throughout by Louis Wain and others, edges lightly browned, front endpaper lacking, orig. cloth-backed colour pictorial boards, with design to upper cover by G. H. Thompson, sl. rubbed, 4to (3)

£150-200

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258 Wain (Louis, illust.). The Children’s Tableaux, A Novel Colour Book with Pictures arranged as Tableaux, pub. Ernest Nister, [1895], five double-page chromolithographed plates (including two by Louis Wain), each with pop-up scenery, b&w illustrations to text, minor marginal soiling, one or two minor defects (generally in good condition), original cloth-backed chromolithograph boards (by Louis Wain), rubbed and some light soiling, some marks to edges, folio, together with Oranges and Lemons: A book of pictures and stories for children, with verses by Clifton Bingham, pub. Ernest Nister, n.d., c. 1897, chromolithographed plates, b&w illusts., including several

by Louis Wain, frontis. repaired to upper outer corner, and rear endpaper repaired to lower outer corner, orig. cloth-backed chromolithographed boards, a little rubbed and some marks (generally in good condition), folio, plus Something Nice to Look At, A Volume of Pictures & Stories, pub. Ernest Nister, [1895], chromolithograph plates and b&w illusts., some minor marginal marks, one leaf with closed tear to fore-margin, original cloth-backed colour pictorial boards, minor soiling and rubbed to edges, folio, plus two others similar (Fine Fun for Everyone, pub. Ernest Nister, c.

1895, & Hey! Diddle Diddle! A Book of Nursery Rhymes, pub. Ernest Nister, c. 1900) (5)

Lot 259

£200-300

259 Wain (Louis, illust.). Cats At School, by S.C. Woodhouse, 1st ed., pub. George Routledge, [1911], twenty-one large colour illustrations, owner inscription to front free endpaper, original clothbacked colour pictorial boards, rubbed and some surface marks, 4to (1)

£200-400

260 Wain (Louis, illust.). Comical Customers, At the Stores of Comical Rhymes and Stories, 1st. ed., pub. Ernest Nister, [1896], frontispiece, numerous b & w illustrations to text, occasional marks to margins, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed to extremities and a little corner wear, 4to (1)

£200-400

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261 Wain (Louis, illust.). The Tale of Little Priscilla Purr, The Tale of Naughty Kitty Cat, The Tale of the Tabby Twins, by Cecily M. Rutley, 1st eds., Valentine & Sons, [1920], three volumes with illustrations by Louis Wain, colour plates and b & w illustrations throughout, original boards with mounted colour illustration to front cover, slightly soiled and rubbed to extremities, second title with wear to spine and rear endpaper missing, all 8vo Scarce.

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£100-200

263 Wain (Louis, illust.). Seaside Joys, by Mabel Mackintosh, pub.

John F. Shaw, circa 1910-1920, two full-page colour plates, two fullpage b & w illustrations with further smaller illustrations throughout, ink stamp to title-page and verso of frontispiece, original grey paper wrappers with mounted colour plate and decorative title, 8vo

262 Wain (Louis, illust.). Little Soldiers by May Crommelin, 1st ed., Hutchinson, [1916], thirty-nine colour illustrations throughout, occasional spotting (mostly to endpapers), original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some small cracks to spine and lightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, together with a copy of Elizabeth Gant’s Catalogue 29 (Children’s & Illustrated Books) A good copy.

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An unrecorded early work illustrated by Wain.

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£100-200

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£150-200

265 Wain (Louis, and others, illust.). In Nurseryland with Louis Wain, (Father Tuck’s “Golden Gift” Series), With Stories and Verses

by Sheila Braine and Grace C. Floyd, ed. Capt. Edric Vredenburg, 1st ed., pub Raphael Tuck, c.1900, col. frontis and col. illusts., original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly dust-soiled to rear cover, lightly rubbed at extremities, 4to Scarce.

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£100-200

264 Wain (Louis, and Pope, Jessie). The Cat Scouts, A Picture Book For Little Folk, Cats by Louis Wain, Verses and Tales by Jessie Pope, 1st ed., pub. Blackie and Son, [1912], numerous colour illustrations, including eight full-page, small tear to margin of one illustration, minor scattered spotting to first and last leaves, textblock stitching slightly loose at lower end, original cloth-backed boards, mounted colour illustration to upper board, rubbed at extremities, 4to (1)

£200-300

266 Wain (Louis & Bingham, Clifton). All Sorts of Comical Cats, 1st ed., pub. Ernest Nister, [1902], chromo. frontispiece, numerous duotone and b & w illustrations throughout, inscription to verso of front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, with colour pictorial front cover, spine a little rubbed, 4to (1)

£100-150

267 Wain (Louis). A large group of approx. seventy annuals and periodicals, mostly c. 1890-1910, the majority with one or more illustrations after Louis Wain, including ILN (July to December 1888), The Sketch (October to December 1900), Stories for Somebody’s Darlings [1906], The Play Box (x 6 vols.), Our Darlings (x 4), The Infants’ Magazine, The Rosebud Annual, The Bystander, The Idler, Windsor Magazine, Boy’s Own Annual (x 8), etc., various bindings and sizes, together with two original ILN engravings by Louis Wain (Out for an Outing/Maypole Soap!) and a colour lithograph sheet music cover featuring cats by H.G. Banks, titled ‘Talk o’ the Night Lancers’ (approx. 70)

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£200-300

ORIGINAL ARTWORK & ILLUSTRATIONS

268* Alice in Wonderland. A pair of late 19th c. wax relief illustrations after Tenniel, sculpted wax on black velvet, one showing The Duchess’s Kitchen, the other showing The Mouse’s Tale, some cracking to wax, both indistinctly signed lower right, 7.5 x 12.5cm (3 x 5ins) and 9 x 9cm (3.5 x 3.5ins) respectively, matching black frames, glazed (2)

£400-600

269* Animal Farm. Four original animated film cells, 1954, showing three dogs cavorting, a dove in flight, a chicken, and a large brown pig, latter lightly foxed, alphanumeric codes to lower margins, acetate sheet size 24 x 30cm (9.5 x 12ins), all in clip frames 270* Beek (Harmsen Van Der, 1897-1953). “Well Done, Noddy!”, c.1952, original watercolour illustration for page twenty of Enid Blyton’s “Well done, Noddy!” pub. Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1951, printed title caption mounted above artwork, mounted on cream card, 11.5 x 12cm (4.5 x 4.75ins)

This film by John Halas and Joy Batchelor was the first full-length British animated feature to be released.

(4) £200-300

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£400-600

273* Crane (Walter). Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Tempest, [1893], six fine uncoloured wood engravings on thin Japan paper, from the set of eight printed by Duncan C. Dallas in 1893, issued in a limited edition of 650, image size 193 x 142mm (7.6 x 5.6ins), matching black painted wood frames, glazed

271* Boldero (Stephen Richard, 1898-1987). Original cover design for Frank B. Linderman, Beyond Law, published by Corgi Books, 1957, gouache on card, with colour text layout provided on a transparent overlay, signed lower left, 505 x 400mm (20 x 15.75ins), together with a copy of the published paperback edition of the story (1)

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£100-150

274* Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Original artwork by the American artist Byron Sewell for The Hunting of the Snark, pub. Catalpa Press, 1974, together seventeen pen & ink drawings on board, sheet size 52 x 63.5cm (20.5 x 25ins), together with The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll, Catalpa Press, 1974, large folding plate, b & w illustrations including one with red overlay to make Baker disappear, rear pocket containing interchangeable cards of faces of the crew, original black buckram, small folio

272* Bruna (Dick, 1927-). Miffy on a Bicycle, colour silk screen print, of Miffy in a yellow dress riding a blue bicycle and surrounded by flowers, signed in pencil lower right, 53 x 73cm (21 x 28.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed Limited edition, 5/75 copies, signed by Dick Bruna.

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£70-100

Limited edition 18/250. Byron’s striking illustrations contributed to an interesting and unusual edition, and they capture the spirit of Carroll’s classic poem. The artist has also illustrated an Alice translated into Pitjantjatjara, the language of Australian aborigines.

(18) £200-300

£300-500

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276* Foreman (Michael, 1938-). Original illustration to Ted Hughes’ ‘Where is the Key to the Universe’, 1995, original pen and ink illustration on paper, to the poem of this title by Ted Hughes, in Michael Morpurgo’s Muck and Magic: Stories from the Countryside, (1995), signed lower right, image size 29 x 20.5cm (11.5 x 8ins), framed and glazed (1)

275* Film Posters & Film Stills. An assorted group of approx. 180 US film stills and odds for films including Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (12), Pope Joan (7), Morecambe & Wise (4), The Blonde and the Black Pussycat, (6), The Survivors (8), Superman II (8), Swing Shift (8), Just a Gigolo (12), etc., plus approx. 200 mostly rolled film posters including door panel, video, French, Italian and Spanish posters, film titles include Batman Returns, Thomas Crown Affair, Deep Impact, The Avengers, A Bug’s Life, Notting Hill, Crimson Tide, Big Foot and the Hendersons, Sea of Love, etc., mostly rolled condition, various sizes (a carton)

£100-150

277* Foreman (Michael, 1938-). ‘As soon as he said it, the strong hobos, with cudgels came out of the bottle ‘, 1986, original watercolour illustration for Edna O’Brien’s Tales for the Telling, Irish Folk and Fairy Stories (1986), signed, image size 33 x 15cm (13 x 6ins), framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

£100-150

278* Harwood (John). Seven original pen & ink drawings used to illustrate Worzel Gummidge and Saucy Nancy for the Puffin edition of 1947, pen & ink drawings on paper, each signed, including three images of nancy, approx. 12.5 x 13.5cm (5 x 5.25in) and smaller, recent gilt frames as two pairs and one group of three, glazed John Harwood was a well known illustrator who worked mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating a number of books for Penguin. The vendor originally bought these drawings from a dealer who cleared his studio in the late 1980s.

(3) £300-400

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280* Hassall (John, 1868-1948). Aladdin, pen and black ink illustration, possibly for a theatre poster, c. 1910, unsigned, image size 21.5 x 21.5cm (8.5 x 8.5ins), framed and glazed Provenance: Given by Joan Hassall, the daughter of John Hassall, to Simon Lawrence, of the Fleece Press, c. 2000-2001, at the time of the publication by the press of Dearest Joana, A Selection of Joan Hassall’s lifetime letters and art, edited by Brian Northlea, and published in 2001.

(1) £100-150

279* Hassall (John, 1868-1948). ‘“But e aint dead yet,” said a weak voice behind the boulder’, original pen and black ink illustration with grey wash, heightened with white body colour, signed, including artist’s handwritten caption in ink at foot, signed in ink lower left, 28 x 20.5cm (11 x 8ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£150-250

281* Hassall (John, 1868-1948). Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes, 1909, a series of twenty-two original pen and ink illustrations for Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes, edited by Walter Jerrold, published by Blackie & Son in 1909, all except one signed, 9.5 x 19cm (3.75 x 7.5ins) and slightly smaller, near-matching gilt frames, glazed, each with Chris Beetles gallery label to verso With details of the title and page number for each illustration attached to the back of each frame. The images include the House That Jack Built, Cock Robin, Simple Simon, London Bridge, Old Mother Goose, etc.

(22) £400-600

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284* Jones (Barbara, 1912-1978). Christ’s Hospital Girls’ School, Hertford, 1950s, watercolour on paper, 32 x 44cm (12.5 x 17.25ins), framed and glazed with printed caption label (Katherine House Gallery, Marlborough) to glass lower right stating that the watercolour is signed to verso

282* Hassall (John, 1868-1948). ‘Toboganning’, original pen, black ink and watercolour on thick textured paper, signed lower right, some light surface soiling, 137 x 170mm (5.4 x 6.7ins) (1)

£70-100

Graphic designer, writer and broadcaster, Barbara Jones studied mural decoration at the Royal College of Art and was part of the circle of artists associated with its heyday in the 1930s. Various shipping companies, hotels and restaurants commissioned her designs and she worked on many important exhibitions including Festival of Britain in 1951. Much of her work is best known in the form of illustrations and dust-jackets to her books published by Architectural Press, Penguin, A. & C. Black, etc.

(1) £300-500

283* Horley (Frank, 20th c.). Original artwork for the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a Poem of the Supernatural, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [1971], original pen and ink artwork and calligraphic text on tracing paper, comprising forty-seven leaves with eleven full-page illustrations (including dec. title) and thirty-three pages of text, hole punched to inner margin (few leaves detached), contained in original ring-binder, title in pen & ink to upper board, large 4to (44 x 47cm, 17.25 x 18.5in) Front free endpaper inscribed “For Geof - with thanks from Frank - London, 1971”.

(1) £200-300

285* Littlewood (Valerie, 20th/21st century). Two original watercolour illustrations on thick paper for The Scarecrow, written and illustrated by Valerie Littlewood, published by Julia MacRae Books, 1992, entitled Strange Sightings & Clappers & Callers, each signed lower right, sheet size 38 x 38cm (15 x 15ins), together with a copy of the published book signed by the artist to title page (3)

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£70-100

286* Ogle (Richard Bertram, 1889-1976). A diaphanous nymph floating on a moonbeam, gouache and watercolour on artist’s board, showing a reclining nude female above a floral bower silhouetted against the moon, with winged creatures flying above, 37 x 27cm (14.5 x 10.75ins), together with “Ghost Wood”, watercolour on card, showing two young girls clad in gauzy white dresses in a wood, with an owl perched on a branch and a shadowy devil figure lurking nearby, signed lower right, pencilled title on verso, 38.5 x 28.5cm (15.25 x 11.25ins) (2)

£200-300

287* Ogle (Richard Bertram, 1889-1976). Illustration of fairies and gnomes, pen, ink, and monochrome watercolour, on card, showing a number of fairy folk and anthropomorphic insects bringing a large balloon to a chef in whites and slippers looking out from a wooden door set into a large tree trunk, signed lower right (and again in pencil on verso), indistinctly titled in pencil to lower margin, 25 x 31.5cm (10 x 12.5ins), together with “Beauty and the Beast!”, watercolour on artist’s board, showing a small girl standing on an upturned terracotta flower pot, looking at a toad on the ground, signed lower right, pencilled title in lower margin, artist’s ink stamp on verso, 31.5 x 24.5cm (12.5 x 9.75ins), plus “Safety First!”, pen & black/red ink, on artist’s board, showing three elves playing at the top of a tall toadstool, with a large stag beetle at the bottom of the stalk, signed upper right, pencilled title in lower margin, artist’s ink stamp on verso, 36.5 x 27cm (14.5 x 10.5ins), plus”Suggestion for Dance Series. ‘Moonlight Frolics’”, gouache illust. on card of two pierrot figures dancing against the moon, signed lower left, verso with pencilled title and artist’s ink stamp, 31.5 x 23.5cm (12.5 x 9.25ins) (4)

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£200-300

290* Posters. A collection of approx. 25 posters, 20th c. comprising twelve col. litho. posters illustrating Peter Pan, c.1930s, and twelve 1960/70s col. posters relating to Tolkien together with one relating to C.S. Lewis (incl. several by Pauline Baynes), plus two others, varying condition and sizes (25)

£100-150

288* Ogle (Richard Bertram, 1889-1976). A young mother with her newborn baby, April 1918, watercolour on card, showing a young woman with long dark hair lying in bed cradling her newborn baby, signed and dated lower right, 27 x 36.5cm (10.75 x 14.5ins), together with “Ruby”, unfinished pencil and watercolour sketch on paper, half-length portrait of a young lady wearing a coat with a wide collar and a scarf around her head, seated in the countryside, titled lower left, 27.5 x 21.5cm (11 x 8.5ins), plus Portrait of a small girl, 1946, pastel on thick card, head and shoulders portrait of a small girl wearing a blue dress and with a matching ribbon in her curly blonde hair, signed and dated lower right, 38 x 31.5cm (15 x 12.5ins), plus three other portraits (“Zulu Witch Doctor”, “Zulu Bride”, “Senegalese Girl, Dakar”) (7)

£150-250

291* Robinson (Charles, 1870-1937). ‘“Begorrah!” said one of the courtiers’, pen and black ink illustration on paper, as published in The True Annals of Fairyland: The Reign of Old King Cole, by J. M. Gibbon, published by J. M. Dent in 1900 (page 114), inscribed with title, 125 x 77 (4.9 x 3ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed, with Chris Beetles gallery label to verso Exhibited in The Brothers Robinson exhibition held at Chris Beetles in 1992, no. 153, and in The Illustrators, 1786-2003, at Chris Beetles, 2003, no. 172.

(1) £70-100

289* Ogle (Richard Bertram, 1889-1976). A small archive of original and printed illustrations, approx. thirty original illusts., various media, incl. watercolour, gouache, pen & ink, for storybooks, book covers, dustjackets, Christmas cards, etc. incl. silhouette illusts., animals, children, cartoons, portraits, mostly signed or initialled, together with approx. fifty printed illusts. similar, various sizes and condition (a small folder)

£150-200

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292* Rupert Bear. Original artwork for a Selfridges Christmas poster, by Alfred Bestall, 1982, watercolour with pen & black ink, heightened with bodycolour, on artist’s board (sl. bowed), showing a snowy scene with Rupert, Bill Badger, and Algy Pug building a snowman, watched by Dinkie, Pong-Ping and Willie, signed lower right, in bright fresh condition, image size 50 x 33cm (19.75 x 13ins), together with a copy of the print for which it was done, inscribed by the artist to lower margin ‘With all good wishes Alfred E. Bestall. 16.XI.’82’ Provenance: being sold by a graphic designer who worked at the in-house design studio of Selfridges in Oxford Street in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Each year Selfridges put on a large Christmas exhibition, and in 1982 the theme was Rupert Bear. Arthur Bestall was commissioned to paint this special artwork, which was based on the 1954 annual cover, but with the ‘Coons’ removed to make the image more politically correct. The artwork was then reproduced in silk screen and overprinted with the words ‘Come up and meet Rupert and Father Christmas on the Fourth Floor’.

(2) £3000-5000

293* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). Danse Micawber, pen and black ink on laid paper, inscribed with title in capitals below image, sheet size 24 x 18cm (9.5 x 7ins), framed and glazed, with Chris Beetles gallery label to verso

294* Solon (Léon Victor, 1872-1957). Original illustration for Sir Walter’s Ward. A Tale of the Crusades, by William Everard, circa 1887, original illustration in watercolours with black and white ink on paper,

by Leon Solon, probably for the front cover of Everard’s novel, published by Blackie & Son in 1888, signed with monogram lower right, image size 18.5 x 12cm (7.25 x 4.75ins), framed and glazed

Exhibited in The British Art of Illustration 1850-2000, at Chris Beetles Gallery, no. 714.

(1) £300-500

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£70-100

295* Tarrant (Margaret Winifred, 1888-1959). Fairy with Cherry Blossom, watercolour with pencil on paper, signed lower right, 19 x 14cm (7.5 x 5.5ins), framed and glazed (1)

ÂŁ1500-2000

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297* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). Gentleman About Town, 1907, original pen and blue-black ink on pale yellow paper, with traces of pencil, signed lower left and dated 14.8.07 lower right, sheet size 175 x 143mm (6.9 x 5.6ins), contained in an autograph album belonging to J. H. Cozens, General Manager of the Crystal Palace London, and containing in addition thirty autographs of various singers, musicians, composers, conductors, etc., dating from 1904 to 1922, and including Admiral Edward Evans (Second in command to Captain Scott on the 1910-13 Antarctic Expedition), Mackenzie Rogan {Coldstream Guards), John Philip Sousa (Composer), Jan Kubelik, Clara Butt-Rumford, M. Covarrubias, Herbert Godfrey (with watercolour cartoon), several Japanese officers from the N.Z.M.S. Kashima, Gilbert Frankau, Walter Hedgcock (Composer), etc., bound in original black limp morocco, with visiting card of J. H. Cozens pasted to front endpaper, oblong 8vo

296* Tozer (Mary, 1947-). The Autumn Fairy Banishing Summer, 1977, watercolour, showing a fairy in long blue robes surrounded by autumn leaves dripping with dew, berries, and mushrooms, with a swarm of butterflies in the distance, signed and dated lower right, 38 x 29cm (15 x 11.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed Mary Tozer was born in Surrey and now lives and works from her home in Devon. She studied at the Reigate School of Art and has exhibited her work in London, Seattle and New York. Besides book illustration, Mary has created many textile and tile designs as well as jigsaw puzzles and greetings cards.

(1) ÂŁ70-100

Provenance: This album belonged to J. H. Cozens, General Manager of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill in South London. Thence by descent.

(1) ÂŁ400-600

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299* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “A Take-over Bid”, watercolour on paper, showing an amorous chimpanzee beside s flower stall, offering a bloom to the female chimp on the arm of a sailor chimp, 39 x 31cm (15.25 x 12ins), mounted

298* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “Urgent Call”, watercolour on artist’s board, showing a young chimpanzee holding the receiver of a telephone, with the base and lead trailing after, dashing towards an older chimpanzee digging a hole in the ground, signed lower right, 38 x 30.5cm (15 x 12ins) (1)

The information on the verso suggests the work was created as a calendar design.

(1) £500-800

£700-1000

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RONALD SEARLE (1920-2011)

Ronald Searle and Fitzwillliam Barrington met during World War II when both were captured after the fall of Singapore and incarcerated in notorious Changi Prison between 1942 and 1945. They both survived a horrific regime in the midst of which a lifetime friendship was forged. After the war Fitz (as he was known by his family and friends) worked for the publisher Max Parrish and was able to facilitate the publication of Searle’s work. Searle reciprocated by giving his friend an inscribed copy of every book he had published. Searle often went to stay at Fitz’s house in Chelsea and they frequently dined at The Black Sheep nearby, which was owned by their mutual friend Mark Monk. When Searle moved to Paris Fitz was a frequent visitor. Fitz, who would never talk about his wartime experiences, escaped from Changi three times, and when he was recaptured the final time he was tortured, suffering long-term back problems as a result.

Ronald Searle wrote of his experience as a prisoner of war: “When one has touched bottom, become the lowest of the low and unwillingly plumbed the depths of human misery, there comes from it a silent understanding and appreciation of what solidarity, friendship and human kindness to others can mean. Something that is difficult to explain to those unfortunates who are on the outside of our ‘club’, who have never experienced what it means to be dirt and yet be privileged to be surrounded by life-saving comradeship.”

It is remarkable that the wonderful sense of sharp wit and humour shared by the two friends, which is so clearly depicted in Searle’s inscriptions, his drawings and his text, was never extinguished by their wartime experiences.

300 Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). The Terror of St Trinian’s or Angela’s Prince Charming, by Timothy Shy and Ronald Searle, 4th imp., Max Parrish, 1952, numerous b & w illusts., some full and double-page, front free endpaper with pen & ink full-length portrait of a St. Trinian’s girl holding a bunch of flowers, with inscription by Searle above ‘For Fitz the terror of Rathbone Place with the artists best wishes’, orig. black boards gilt ( a little bowed), in d.j., with sl. sunned spine, 8vo Provenance: the niece of Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington, known as ‘Fitz’.

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£500-800

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301 Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). Down with Skool! A guide to school life for tiny pupils and their parents, written by Geoffrey Willans, Illustrated by Ronald Searle, 1st ed., Max Parrish, 1953, numerous b & w illusts., some full and double-page, a few corner tips creased, verso of front free endpaper with pen & ink full-length portrait of Molesworth, with inscription by Searle above ‘For Fitz (who should be sick of it now.) with the artists devotion on the day of The lunch’, signed below and dated 25 March 1954, orig. black boards gilt, in sl. dusty d.j., some minor rubbing to top edge, spine a little darkened, 8vo (1)

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303 Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). Whizz for Atomms, A guide to survival in the 20th century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any others who are interested, by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, 1st ed., Max Parrish, 1956, numerous b & w illusts., some full and double-page, front free endpaper with pen & ink illust. of Molesworth holding a shepherd’s crook and blowing some pipes, with a sheep looking on, with inscription by Searle above ‘Signed for the producer, specifyer & conoisuer of gally proofs Fitz at the sign of the Black Sheep.’ signed ‘Ronald’ below and dated 6 March 1958, orig. black boards gilt, in d.j., spine sl. sunned, a trifle edge-rubbed in places, front panel with two small nicks in upper edge, 8vo

£400-600

302 Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). How To Be Topp, A guide to Sukcess for tiny pupils, including all there is to kno about SPACE, by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, 1st ed., Max Parrish, 1954, numerous b & w illusts., some full and double-page, half-title with pen & ink full-length portrait of a female in strapless evening gown, carrying a cigarette holder, with ‘How to be topp’ incorporated into the brim of her hat, with inscription by Searle ‘For Fitz Molesworth’s mum’ and signed ‘Ronald’, orig. maroon boards gilt, in d.j., spine a trifle sunned and rubbed at ends, one or two unexceptionable marks and nicks, 8vo (1)

Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington worked for Max Parrish and therefore would have helped with the production of this book. Fitz, as he was known, and Ronald Searle dined frequently together at The Black Sheep in Chelsea, which was owned by their mutual friend Mark Monk.

(1) £400-600

£400-600

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304 Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). The Rake’s Progress, by Ronald Searle, 1st ed., Perpetua Books, 1955, port. frontis., full-page b & w illusts. throughout with text below, p.9 with pen & ink cartoon drawing of Fitzwilliam Barrington, showing him using a rake, with a bird perched on his head, inscribed by Searle ‘For Fitz some awful warnings... as always Ronald Christmas 1955’, with Fitzwilliam Barrington’s name underlined in the list of printed acknowledgements above, orig. black cloth gilt, covers v. sl. bowed, in d.j., a trifle rubbed to extrems. and with a couple of edge-tears, spine lightly sunned, 4to (1)

£300-500

Lot 303

305 Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). The Journal of Edwin Carp, edited

by Richard Haydn, Embellished by Ronald Searle, 1st ed., Hamish Hamilton, 1954, numerous full-page b & w illusts., incl. frontis., front free endpaper with pen & ink cartoon of a pair of amorous fish, with inscription by Searle above ‘Happy Birthday Fitz! with love & best wishes from Kaye and Ronald Carp.’, dated Nov 19, 1954, orig. yellow boards, in price-clipped d.j., a trifle rubbed and dusty, short split at head of upper joint, 8vo (1)

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£300-500

306 Searle (Ronald). Forty Drawings, Cambridge University Press, 1946, [cover-title], forty b & w plts., inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper ‘For Fitz - who was there too! Ronald Searle Christmas 1946’, orig. printed boards, sl. dusty, slim 4to, together with a photocopy of a typed statement written by Ronald Searle for an Imperial War Museum reunion on 7th February 2002 loosely inserted, in which Searle describes the ‘depths of human misery’ and the ‘life-saving comradeship’ which he experienced with his fellow prisoners of war in Singapore

308 Searle (Ronald). The Female Approach, with Masculine Sidelights... with a letter from Max Beerbohm, 1st ed., Macdonald, 1949, b & w illusts. throughout, minor crease at head of gutter throughout, endpapers partially lightly toned, inscribed by Ronald Searle on the front free endpaper ‘For Fellow-jailbird Fitz with the artists best wishes Christmas 1949’, orig. cream cloth, upper cover with a few light marks, in sl. chipped d.j., front panel with 5” closed tear repaired with adhesive tape on verso, 8vo, together with Life in Thin Slices, by Patrick Campbell, 1st ed., The Falcon Press, 1951, numerous b & w illusts., inscribed by Searle on the front free endpaper ‘Fitz - with Best Christmas wishes Kaye & Ronald 1951’, orig. beige cloth, in d.j., rear panel foxed and dusty, spine sl. darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo, plus Back to the Slaughterhouse and Other Ugly Moments, 1st ed., Macdonald, 1951, b & w illusts. throughout, endpapers faintly partially toned, front free endpaper inscribed by Searle ‘for Fitz with love.

Ronald’, orig. red cloth, in dusty d.j., spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends, small nick in upper edge of front panel, 8vo

Ronald Searle’s first book, reproducing drawings made whilst he was in captivity in Changi Prison between 1942 and 1945.

(1) £150-200

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£200-300

309 Searle (Ronald). Merry England, etc., 1st ed., Perpetua Books, 1956, b & w illusts. throughout, front free endpaper with ms. inscription

by Searle ‘for Fitz with love from Mr & Mrs Artist! for Christmas 1956.

Ronald Searle’, orig. black cloth gilt, in d.j., edges sl. rubbed in places and with a couple of nicks, spine a trifle sunned, 4to, together with Paris Sketchbook, by Ronald Searle and Kaye Webb, 1st ed., The Saturn Press, 1950, numerous b & w illusts., front free endpaper with ms. inscription by Searle ‘Fitz with love from the author and artist Christmas 1950’, orig. blue cloth, in d.j., spine darkened and sl. frayed at ends, 4to (2)

£150-200

310 Searle (Ronald). Souls in Torment... with a Preface & a Short Dirge by C. Day Lewis, 1st ed., Perpetua, 1953, b & w illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, front free endpaper with ms. inscription by Searle ‘For Fitz with love from the artist and Perpetua.

Sept 1953’, orig. grey cloth gilt, in d.j., sl. edge-frayed in places, spine toned, 4to, together with Paris Sketchbook, by Ronald Searle and Kaye Webb, new and revised ed., 1957, numerous b & w illusts., front free endpaper with ms. inscription by Searle ‘For Fitz with love from the author & artist! Sept 1957 Kaye and Ronald’, orig. black cloth, in d.j., spine toned and with small nick at head, 4to (2)

£150-200

311 Searle (Ronald). Russia for Beginners, By Rocking-Chair Across Russia, by Alex Atkinson & Ronald Searle, 1st ed., Perpetua, 1960, numerous b & w illusts., front free endpaper with ms. inscription by Searle ‘Fitz with all good wishes Ronald - Christmas 1960’, orig. black cloth gilt, in d.j. with sl. sunned spine and one or two short edge-tears, 4to, together with USA for Beginners, By Rocking-Chair Across America, by Alex Atkinson & Ronald Searle, 1st ed., Perpetua, 1959, numerous b & w illusts., front free endpaper with ms. inscription by Searle ‘For Fitz on his new legs. (the inside story at last!) love Ronald Oct 1959, orig. black cloth gilt, spine faded and frayed at head, 4to

307 Searle (Ronald). Le Nouveau Ballet Anglais, 16 dessins avec une Introduction par Janet Leeper, Paris: Les Editions Montbrun, 1946, sixteen full-page b & w illusts., signed by Ronald Searle on the limitation leaf, orig. glassine-covered printed wrappers, spine sl. darkened, slim 8vo

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Limited edition, 144/650 copies. A scarce book, unusually signed by the artist.

‘Le Nouveau Ballet Anglais’ was published for the French market, following the commercial failure of Searle’s first published book of work ‘Forty Drawings’. Although now best-known for his humorous illustrations, in the immediate post-war years Searle hoped to establish himself as a serious artist chronicling the times.

(1) £100-150

£100-150

312 Searle (Ronald). The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Showing how he went farther than he intended and came safe home again, by William Cowper, 1st ed., Chiswick Press, Christmas 1952, b & w illusts. throughout with verse below, title-page with ms. inscription by Searle ‘For Fitz the first folio with the artist’s love Feb 1953’, and additionally signed by the artist to the first illust., orig. pictorial wrappers, spine lightly faded, tall 4to, (limited edition of 1600 copies), together with five others related, incl. Hurrah for St. Trinian’s, 1st ed., 1948, orig. cloth in d.j., and Ronald Searle, A Biography by Russell Davies, inscribed by the author ‘To “Fitz” Barrington with very many thanks for your help. On publication day, 5th November 1990 Russell Davies’ (6)

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£100-150

BRITISH CARTOONS

313* Adams (Christian 1966 -). Tony Blair in a strait jacket, 2001, pen and ink caricature on card, heightened with watercolour, signed and dated by artist mid left, sheet size 24.5 x 12cm (9.75 x 4.75ins)

315* Adams (Christian 1966 -). Prince Philip ‘Stand-up’, 1998, pen and ink caricature on card, laid on black paper, signed and dated by artist below image, card size 27 x 15cm (10.5 x 6ins)

Published in the London Evening Standard in 2001.

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Published in The London Evening Standard in 1998.

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£150-200

£100-150

316* Adams (Christian 1966 -). ‘Etonians’ with acknowledgements to Jimmy Sime, 2014, pen, ink and wash caricature on card, signed and dated by artist to upper left, sheet size 29.5 x 42cm (11.5 x 16.5ins) Published in The Daily Telegraph in March 2014.

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314* Adams (Christian 1966 -). John Major as a circus clown, 1997, pen and ink caricature on card, laid on black paper, signed and dated by artist to lower right, card size 20.5 x 19.5cm (8 x 7.75ins) Published in the London Evening Standard in 1997.

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£150-200

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£150-200

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317* Adams (Christian 1966 -). Hallelujah!!, 2014, pen, ink and watercolour caricature on card, signed and dated by artist to lower right, sheet size 29.5 x 42cm (11.5 x 16.5ins) Published in The Daily Telegraph in April 2014.

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£200-300

318* Adams (Christian 1966 -). “I’m Doing all the Right Policies But not Necessarily in the Right Order”, pen, ink and watercolour caricature on card, signed and dated by artist to lower right, sheet size 29.5 x 42cm (11.5 x 16.5ins) Published in The Daily Telegraph.

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£200-300

319* Adams (Christian 1966 -). The Queen and George Osborne, 2014, pen, ink and watercolour caricature on card, signed and dated by artist to lower right, sheet size 29.5 x 42cm (11.5 x 16.5ins) Published in The Daily Telegraph in January 2014.

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£200-300

320* Crisp (Quentin, 1908-1999). Caricature portrait of Quentin Crisp’s head in profile by Brian Grimwood, 2010, pen and ink on a sheet of off-white A4 paper, Crisp wearing his trademark hat, signed and dated ‘7.X.10’ by artist to upper margin, 297 x 209mm (11.5 x 8.25ins) Drawn impromptu from memory by Grimwood while reminiscing about Quentin Crisp with the vendor. Brian Grimwood (born 1948) is one of the most influential illustrators of recent decades and founder of the Central Illustration Agency. One of his business cards is included with this lot.

(1) £150-200

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321* Davey (Andy, 1956-). Budge up, Pal, original pen, black ink and watercolour on paper, published in The Times, 16 September 2008, signed lower right, 27 x 34.5cm (10.75 x 13.5ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

323* Duggan (Chris). Time to Start Bailing?, black ink and watercolour on paper, published in The Times, 17 September 2008, signed and dated in pencil, 135 x 150mm (5.25 x 6ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed

£200-300

The well-known cartoonist Chris Duggan worked for the Financial Times for twelve years, and is a Business Cartoonist for The Times. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including the New Statesman, Spectator, Punch, New Law Journal and many others.

(1) £100-150

322* Dickens (Frank, 1932-). Bravo Boffo! An original cartoon storyboard, n.d., pen, ink, coloured pencils and watercolour on two boards, a total of fifteen vignettes and telling the story of how Uncle Boffo won the 1905 Great Motor Race with the help of milk churns, the pencil-written storyline only partially completed, each board size 56 x 41cm (22 x 16ins) (2)

324* Duggan (Chris). The Germinator, 2007, black ink and watercolour on paper, published in The Times, 13 January 2007, signed and dated in pencil, 150 x 140mm (6 x 5.5ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

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£100-150

325* Duggan (Chris). A Tale of Two Banks, 2009, black ink and watercolour on paper, heightened with bodycolour, published in The Times, 4 November 2009, signed and dated in pencil, 130 x 195mm (5.2 x 7.75ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

327* Duggan (Chris). Elvis... Nevermind, 2006, black ink and watercolour on paper, published in The Times, 26 October 2006, signed and dated in pencil, 125 x 145mm (5 x 5.75ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

326* Duggan (Chris). £3 million, 2007, black ink and watercolour on paper, published in The Times, 5 July 2007, signed and dated in pencil, 120 x 140mm (4.75 x 5.5ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

328* Duggan (Chris). Getting Better All the Time, 2005, black ink, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, signed and dated in pencil, 135 x 145mm (5.25 x 5.75ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

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£100-150

331* Duggan (Chris). The Man who would be King, 2007, black ink, watercolour and gouache on paper, as published in The Times, 25 September 2007, signed and dated, sheet size 125 x 125mm (5 x 5ins), framed and glazed

329* Duggan (Chris). Job Lot, 2005, black ink and watercolour on paper, signed and dated in pencil, 152 x 160mm (6 x 6.25ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

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£150-200

£100-150

332* Fawkes (Wally, ‘Trog’, 1924-). ‘Buy British’, c. 1980s, original pen and black ink cartoon on paper, signed Trog lower right, 215 x 315mm (8.5 x 12ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

330* Duggan (Chris). Never-Neverland, 2005, black ink and watercolour on paper, signed and dated in pencil, 145 x 145mm (5.75 x 5.75ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

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£70-100

335* Lee (Joseph, 1901-1975). Tube Booking Offices “Is this the Nearest station for Rotton Row?” [and] Escalators “Put her in reverse Bill, there’s a bloke somewhere in front without a ticket”. together two pen and ink drawings on artist’s board, both signed by artist to lower right, one with manuscript title, one with a typed title, slight marginal dust and finger soiling, board size 53.5 x 38cm (21 x 15ins) Published in the series ‘London Laughs’ which appeared in the London Evening News from the 1930s to the 1960s.

(2) £150-200

333* Gould (Francis Carruthers, 1844-1925). Waiting for the Home Rule Bill. There were three crows sat on a tree - they looked as black as black could be (Mr Bonar Law, Mr F E Smith and Sir Edward Carson), Westminster Gazette, October 9, 1912, original pen and black ink cartoon on white paper, with shaded background in blue crayon, with autograph signatures of the three politicians, dated 24th July 1914, signed with artist’s initials lower right, 16.5 x 24.5cm (6.5 x 9.6ins) mount aperture, period frame, glazed (1)

£100-150

336* Lee (Joseph, 1901-1975). Edgware - Morden Line, “Y’know Bert, it’s nice to get back to these warm-hearted Southerners in Morden after those cold-blooded Northerners in Edgware”, Smiling Through Habit. “You can put ‘em out if you like, but I warn you, they won’t be cleaned” [and] Change Machines, Piccadilly Underground.

The man who got the Jack-Pot, together three pen and ink caricature on artist’s board, each signed by artist, two with a manuscript title and one with a printed title, slight marginal dust and finger soiling, each approx. 53.5 x 38cm (21 x 15ins)

334* Gould (Francis Carruthers, 1844-1925). “The Harp that once again.” Mr. Winston Churchill moved the Second Reading of the Home Rule Bill yesterday afternoon, Westminster Gazette, 1st May 1912, original pen and black ink cartoon on paper, with shading in blue crayon, signed with initials lower right, sheet size 275 x 315mm (10.8 x 12.4ins), mounted (1)

Published in the London Evening News and produced for the ‘London Laughs’ series, which ran from the 1930s to the 1960s.

(3) £200-300

£70-100

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338* McGill (Donald Fraser Gould, 1875-1962). ‘I don’t know where I’ve been on a Cruise or a booze!’, original watercolour on Winsor & Newton drawing board, heightened with bodycolour, signed lower right, inscribed with title to verso, 220 x 160mm (8.7 x 6.3ins), framed and glazed (1)

£300-400

337* Lee (Joseph, 1901-1974,). ‘Good Morning ... Is there anybody in?’, 1954, pen and black ink cartoon on paper, signed, as published in the Evening News 23 November 1954, image size 48 x 27cm (19 x 10.6ins), framed and glazed, together with another similar pen and ink cartoon by Joseph Lee depicting a salesman calling at Wormwood Scrubs prison, signed, as published in the Evening News 12 April 1937, image size 37 x 27.5cm (14.5 x 10.75ins), both framed and glazed, with Chris Beetles gallery labels to verso Produced for the cartoonist’s popular series entitled ‘London Laughs’ which appeared in the Evening News from the 1930s to the 1960s, and were the first non-political topical cartoons in Britain.

(2) £150-200

339* Morland (Morten, 1979-). I do get angry sometimes ... but I have never, never HIT anybody in my life!, probably published in The Times, 22nd February 2010, signed and dated lower left, 220 x 285mm (8.6 x 11.25ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed Morten Morland was born in Norway, but came to the UK where he studied graphic design at Surrey Institute of Art and Design. He became a political cartoonist for The Times in 2002. Gordon Brown was one of his favourite subjects.

(1) £150-200

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Michael ffolkes was born Brian Davis in London on 6 June 1925. He studied art at St Martin's School of Art under wood-engraver John Farleigh. In 1942 ffolkes sold his first drawing to Punch, signing it "brian". After the War he studied painting at Chelsea School of Art, adopting the name Michael ffolkes after thumbing through a copy of Burke's Peerage. From 1946 ffolkes's work appeared primarily in Punch, but also the Daily Telegraph, Lilliput, Daily Sketch, Playboy, Private Eye, New Yorker, Reader’s Digest, Esquire, etc. He also designed clothes for Anya Scott as ‘ffanya’, the original logo and many original drawings for which, are offered below. Michael ffolkes published his autobiography ffundamental ffolkes in 1985, and died in London on 18 October 1988 at the age of 63. It is believed that the majority of drawings, poems and documents within this archive have never been previously seen in public.

Lot 341

340* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). ‘Love locked out’ (Merritt) by Michael ffolkes, orig. pen, pencil and monochrome watercolour on board, image 28 x 19cm (11 x 7.5ins), card window mount with felt tip pen inscription by the artist to lower mount and additionally inscribed by him ‘Michael painting himself at the door self portrait’ This drawing was used as the dust wrapper design for ffolkes’s autobiography ‘ffundamental ffolkes’.

(1) £300-400

341* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). Three original cartoons, n.d., two in pencil and one pen and felt tip with wash, all with artist’s name stamp ‘ffrough’, each captioned in ink in the artist’s hand, “I can say you just dropped cigar ash in your brandy in seven languages”, “He’s either very professional or an awful amateur”, and “I love you George. Anyone who can wear a tie like that with a shirt like that needs love”, each sheet size 28 x 38cm (11 x 15ins)

342* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of four pen and pencil cartoon roughs, n.d., all captioned in ink by the artist ‘Unexpected guest’, ‘The return of the Scarlet Ibis - 6.0 pm.

On the hour’, ‘Private test match’ and ‘Adventist tent’, each sheet size 29 x 34cm (11.5 x 13.5ins), modern clip frames

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£300-500

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£200-300

343* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of seven pen and pencil rough cartoons, n.d., each captioned in the artist’s hand in ink, ‘Time warp’, ‘Pancho’, ‘Swamp’, ‘Limbo’, ‘Dead cinema’, ‘Red hot mooma’, and ‘Health hazard’, sheet sizes approx.

33 x 28cm (13 x 11ins) and similar, modern clip frames (7)

£300-500

344* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). Unique lefthanded self-portrait on ffolkes’ letterhead, pen and ink cartoon with a little red and yellow watercolour tint, captioned and inscribed as a letter (right-handed) to Michelle thanking her for the lovely flowers, continued by his wife Elsa and signed Michael lower right, together with an original pen and ink and watercolour self caricature by K. Waite on Daily Mirror letterhead, dated 14 February 1985, showing the artist with a broken left arm and inscribed in the artist’s hand for ffolkes, ‘Pleasse sstop pilffering my besst ideass, K. Waite, hiss mark’, each 29 x 20cm (11.5 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (2)

£300-400

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345* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of five pen or pencil life and figures studies, n.d., two of women (possibly his first wife Sophie), one male torso, another of a full-length nude woman from behind with a young male figure to sheet verso, 20 x 13cm (8 x 5ins) and sl. larger, a few creases, short splits and marks, together with four further sheets with pencil doodles and sketches, all attributed to ffolkes, various sizes, the collection contained in eight modern frames, glazed (8)

347* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of four ffanya pencil and watercolour fashion designs, one titled ‘Limerick’, another ‘Zouave’, the others with pencil design notes in the artist’s hand, each sheet size 28 x 20cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (4)

£200-300

£200-300

346* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of three ffanya pencil and watercolour dress designs, titled ‘Bedaz’, ‘La matador’ and ‘Valencia’, all with marginal pencil notes in the artist’s hand, plus a fourth unfinished vignette of a woman’s head with hat, sheet size 28 x 20cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed, together with the original gold on black ffanya logo design on paper, a pencil rough of the logo, two related letters to ffolkes from Caroline Hobhouse and Claudie of the Daily Telegraph in reference to the ffanya ffashion show and a related photograph, contained in four modern A4 frames, glazed, plus a group of sixteen photocopies of ffolkes’ fashion designs

348* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of four ffanya pencil and watercolour dress designs, one titled ‘Hostess’, the others titled ‘Blouse’, ‘Blouse 5’ and ‘Blouse 6’, sheet sizes 28 x 20cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (4)

ffolkes designed clothes for Anya Scott as “ffanya”, but it is thought that most of these drawings may be previously unseen.

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£200-300

351* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of six pencil fashion designs, titled ‘Gatsby’, ‘Ms.’, ‘Montmartre’, ‘Boadicea’, ‘Astaire’ and ‘Circus’, sheet sizes 28 x 20cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (6)

£300-400

349* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of four ffanya pencil and watercolour dress designs, one on ffanya letterhead entitled ‘Peacock’, the others titled ‘ffolly’, ‘Barcelona’ and ‘Jus d’Orange’, sheet sizes 28 x 20cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (4)

£300-400

352* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of six pencil fashion designs, all with titles and pencil notes in the artist’s hand, five titled ‘Black Champagne’, ‘Bride’, ‘Cat ffancy dress’, ‘Queen of Spades’ and ‘Maga’, sheet sizes 28 x 20cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (6)

£300-400

350* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of six pencil fashion designs, three with additional watercolour, all uncaptioned and each showing a single full-length female figure, sheet sizes 28 x 28cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (6)

£300-400

353* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A group of six pencil fashion designs, titled ‘Bolero’, ‘Buttons and bows’, ‘Peacock’, ‘Louisa’, ‘ffancy dress - Picasso abstract design’ and ‘Black mamba’, some with additional pencil design notes by the artist, sheet sizes 28 x 20cm (11 x 8ins), modern frames, glazed (6)

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£300-400

Lot 355

354* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). Poetry and Correspondence, mostly c. 1970s/1980s, including approx. forty mostly short pen or pencil hand-written poems, many on ffolkes headed paper, some titled and including ‘The Money Sucker’, ‘Country Matters’, ‘Sometimes’, ‘The Garden of Eden’, ‘Spring Madness’, ‘Lover’s Stuff’, ‘Envoir’, ‘Never Be The Same’, ‘Tower of Babble’, ‘Dear Heart’, ‘Improper Sonnet’, etc., together with a quantity of other short extracts and writings by ffolkes, letters from family and friends, photographs, some photocopies, etc., mostly sheets of A4 paper but some smaller, contained in flimseys in four modern ring binders and four frames, glazed (a small carton)

£200-300

355* Harpur (Merrily). An original pen and ink cartoon, n.d., signed ‘Harpur’ with typed caption, “Since you ask, I had you, Samantha, because the birth-rate was falling; and you, David, as a revenge on Society; and you, Mark, as a beautiful lost youth; and you, Jason, were a mistake”, pencil production marks to margins, sheet size 23 x 20cm (9 x 8ins), together with two further unidentified cartoon sketches, plus a small pen and ink portrait of ffolkes [by Pamela Grant?], inscribed ‘Thanks Michael’, sheet size 16 x 13cm (6.25 x 5ins), plus a group of fourteen letters to ffolkes from William Hewison, Mel Calman, Kenneth Mahood, ‘Chic Jacob’, Terrence Parkes and others, plus four photographs and an exhibition invitation signed by Alfred Daniels, the collection presented in twenty modern frames, glazed (21)

Lot 356

£150-200

356* ffolkes (Michael, 1925-1988, i.e. Brian Davis). A large archive of letters, personal papers, photos and photocopies, etc., c.

1960s/1980s, a mixture of work and personal material, correspondents include Hugh Hefner and other Playboy staff, plus staff at Private Eye, Punch, family and friends, solicitors, etc., etc., semi-arranged in various modern wallets and folders (a carton)

£200-300

357* Robinson (William Heath, 1872-1944). ‘For Medicinal Comfort’, pen and black ink on white paper, title inscribed in pencil to lower edge, 95 x 102mm (3.75 x 4ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

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358* Scarfe (Gerald, 1936-).

Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby, in Yes Minister, original pen, black ink and watercolour caricature on paper, with white body colour, signed lower left, sheet size 540 x 348mm (21.25 x 13.75ins) (1)

ÂŁ2000-3000

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359* Springs (John 1962 -). Damien Hirst, pen & ink caricature on card with addn. colour ink hatching and gouache colouring, signed by artist to lower right, 23.25 x 22.5cm (9.25 x 9ins) Possibly published in The Daily Telegraph, to coincide with the famous sale of Damien Hirst’s work at Sotheby’s in September 2008.

(1) £200-300

360* Springs (John 1962 -). George H. W. Bush, pen and ink with red and blue ink cross hatching on card, signed by artist in lower right, sheet size 28 x 20.25cm (11 x 8ins) Probably published in the late 1980’s to coincide with Bush’s election as U.S. president in January 1989.

(1) £200-300

Lot 359

361* Springs (John 1962 -). Sir Wilfred Thesiger, pen and ink caricature on card, signed by artist to lower right, sheet size, 34 x 22cm (13.25 x 8.5ins) Wilfred Thesiger, the noted soldier, explorer and writer, died in 2003.

Published possibly alongside an obituary.

(1) £200-300

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362* Springs (John 1962 -). Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947), pen and ink caricature finished with black acrylic on card, signed by artist to lower right, sheet size 31.25 x 30cm (12.5 x 12ins) Crowley was an English painter, mountaineer, magician, poet and novelist who is best remembered as an occultist who attracted the soubriquet of ‘The Wickedest Man in the World’.

(1) £200-300

363* Springs (John 1962 -). Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), blue pen and ink caricature with additional red hatching on card, signed by artist to lower right, some short marginal closed tears, with another unsigned caricature to verso, sheet size 33 x 30cm (13 x 11. 75ins) (1)

£200-300

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364* Springs (John 1962 -). Baroness Margaret Thatcher, pen and ink cariature with additional red hatching and acrylic colouring, signed and dated by artist to lower right, sheet size 42 x 30cm (16.5 x 11.75ins) (1)

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£200-300

367* Springs (John 1962 -). Kenneth Baker and Margaret Thatcher, pen and ink caricature with additional red hatching on card, finished with acrylic, signed by artist to lower right, sheet size 28 x 26cm (11 x 10.25ins) Probably produced in the early 1990’s, Kenneth Baker (now Lord Baker of Dorking) is shown looking positively mischievous whilst Baroness Thatcher frowns in his direction.

(1) £200-300

365* Springs (John 1962 -). Aubrey Beardsley, pen and ink caricature with additional red hatching on card, finished with watercolour, signed by artist to lower right, sheet size 26.5 x 20cm (10.5 x 8ins) (1)

£200-300

366* Springs (John 1962 -). Gordon Brown and Cherie Blair, pen and ink caricature on card, signed by artist (with an acknowledgement to Robbie Burns) to bottom left, sheet size 20 x 26cm (8 x 10.25ins) Published in The Sunday Telegraph in c.2008.

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368* Springs (John 1962 -). Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956), pen and ink drawing on card with additional red hatching and watercolour, signed by artist to lower right, sheet size 32.5 x 24cm (12.75 x 9.5ins)

£100-150

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£150-200

369* Springs (John 1962 -). Kingsley Amis dining with Aristotle Onassis, c.1989, pen and ink caricature on card, finished with black ink, signed by artist to lower right, sheet size 27 x 39.5cm (10.5 x 15.5ins) Apparently published in Harpers & Queen in 1989.

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£200-300

370* Springs (John 1962 -). Winston Spencer-Churchill & Sir Winston Churchill, pen & ink drawing on card, finished with black ink, signed by artist to lower right, image size 26 x 14cm (10.25 x 5.5ins), mounted Published in The Financial Times in 2010.

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£150-200

Lot 369

371* Springs (John 1962 -). George Bernard Shaw and his biographer Michael Holroyd, pen & ink caricature on card, with additonal red and green hatching, finished with watercolour, signed by artist to lower right, image size 34.5 x 29.5cm (13.5 x 11.5ins), mounted (1)

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£200-300

PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS 372 Beardsley (Aubrey, illust.). Volpone, or the Foxe, by Ben Jonson, A New Edition with a Critical Essay on the Author by Vincent O’Sullivan, and a Frontispiece, Five Initial Letters and a Cover Design Illustrative and Decorative by Aubrey Beardsley, together with An Eulogy of the Artist by Robert Ross, Leonard Smithers, 1898, frontis., five plts., and letterpress illusts., bookplate of Haldane McFall on front pastedown, with his signature in ink below, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, covers sl. bowed, rear cover with some minor spotting and marks, large 4to Limited edition, 28/100 copies printed on japanese vellum and bound in vellum, with the extra suite of plates bound in. (There were also 1000 copies printed on paper and bound in cloth.)

(1) £500-800

373 Golden Cockerel Press. Crusader Castles, by T.E. Lawrence, 2 vols. (Thesis/Letters), 1936, b & w illusts., lacking two folding maps loosely inserted at end of vol. 2 and now supplied in facsimile, t.e.g., original half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, slight rubbing to extremities and some fading to spines, 4to Limited edition, 228/1000.

(2)

£100-150

374 Le Cain (Errol, illust.). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Arcadia Press, 1972, ten tipped-in col. plts., printed calligraphic text in green and black by David Howells, on seaweed paper by Philip H. Rowson, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, half vellum over seaweed paper sidings, with folded prospectus for the book loosely inserted, contained in orig. card slipcase, folio Limited edition 54/110 copies, signed by Errol Le Cain, David Howells, and Philip H. Rowson.

(1) £300-500

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375 St. Dominic’s Press. Sculpture. An Essay on Stone-cutting and a Preface about God, Ditchling, Sussex, [1918], woodcut illustration of a torso to title (repeated to upper cover), woodcut device of a cross at end, one or two light spots, original cloth, a few light spots, small 4to, together with Nisi Dominus, by H.D.C. Pepler, 1919, woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill, presentation inscription to front endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, spine a little darkened, 8vo, signed by the author to title, plus The Philosophy of Art. Being “Art et Scholastique” by Jacques Maritain, Translated by the Rev. John O’Connor, 1923, woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill, contemporary calf, lacking spine, rubbed, 8vo, with Welfare Handbook No.8. Education.

The Monk’s School, 1922, signed by Pepler (4)

377 Vale Press. The Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupide and Psyches by Lucius Apulieus translated out of Latine into English

by William Adlington, 1566, Vale Press, 1897, text printed in red and black, with wood engraved illustrations by Charles Ricketts, partly untrimmed, orig. pale cream cloth gilt, generally in very good condition, 8vo Limited edition of 210 copies.

(1)

£200-300

£200-300

376 St. Dominic’s Press. Pertinent & Impertinent, An Assortment of Verse [by Hilary Pepler], Ditchling, 1926, nine wood-engs. by Desmond Chute, David Jones and Harold Purney, some full-page, author’s initialled presentation inscription to Cornelia G. Lunt at head of title-page, dated 25th November 1931, and with twenty-four-line poem ‘To a gracious lady of 88 from HDCP’ to facing endpaper verso, a few additional pencil notes in another hand, an additional initialled note from Pepler to Miss Lunt, ‘Please excuse the verses - but they may help you to remember your friend’ loosely inserted, a little marginal soiling, uncut, orig. cloth-backed patterned boards with printed paper label to upper cover, rubbed and a little corner wear, slim 8vo (1)

£100-150

378 Vale Press. Fifty Songs by Thomas Campion, Vale Press, 1896, decorative title and large woodcut initials by Charles Ricketts, partly untrimmed, orig. patterned boards, with paper label to spine, rubbed, and with minimal wear to head and foot of spine and outer corners, 8vo Fraser, Bibliography of Modern Presses, p. 165. Printed in an edition of 210 copies.

(1) £150-200

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379 Vale Press. Julia Domna, A Play by Michael Field, Vale Press, 1903, text printed in red and black, with decorated first leaf of text

by Charles Ricketts, partly untrimmed, orig. patterned boards with paper label to spine, rubbed and some wear to head and foot of spine and outer corners, with a little loss of paper, 8vo, printed in an edition of 240 copies, together with others decorated by Charles Ricketts, including The Poetical Works of James Thomson, 2 vols., 1895, some library marks, original cloth designed by Ricketts, The Tragedy of Othello (The Vale Shakespeare), 1900, with decorations

by Ricketts, Poems Dramatic and Lyrical by John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley, illustrated by Charles Ricketts, 1893, two volumes of Poetry by Michael Field (both ex-library copies), and T. Sturge Moore’s monograph on the artist 1933 (8)

£150-200

380 Vale Press. The Vale Shakespeare, edited by T. Sturge Moore, 39 vols., 1900-03, b & w decorations by Charles Ricketts, occasional spotting, partly untrimmed, original blind-decortaed uniform green cloth gilt, rubbed and some discolouration to spines, 8vo Tomkinson, Bibliography of Modern Presses p.171-73. Printed in an edition of 310 copies.

(39) £300-500

382 Whittington Press. The Four Elements, published for the Friends of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 1991, a complete set of sixteen printed broadside poems, loosely contained in four paper sleeves with printed label to upper cover of each, each poem signed by the poet, and illustrated with a wood engraving by Helmuth Weissenborn, John O’Connor, Miriam Macgregor and Gwenda Morgan, slim folio, each sheet numbered 119 from a limited edition of 125 copies, together with an additional copy of the broadside poem by Lawrence Sail entitled Water, with an engraving

by Weissenborn, in clip-frame

381 Whittington Press. Poems for Alan Hancox, The Whittington Press, 1993, title decorated with two wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor, printed in brown, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original brown quarter morocco gilt, with slipcase, together with an Alan Hancox printed book catalogue for 1987, and a single-sheet printed order form for the book

The poets represented are Seamus Heany, Laurie Lee, Jenny Joseph, and Lawrence Sail, each contributing one poem to each of the four portfolios.

Mint condition.

(1) £400-600

Limited edition of 350 copies, this being one of fifty copies signed by the contributors, and with two separate signed proofs of the wood engravings

by Miriam Macgegror contained in pocket at rear. The poet-contributors, each of whom have signed this volume on the blank leaf before the title page are: Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Charles Tomlinson, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Horovitz, John Fuller, Ursula Fanthorpe, Jon Stalworthy, Jenny Joseph, Lawrence Sail, Brian Patten, D. J. Enwright, Melvin Bragg, Jon Silkin, Duncan Forbes, Laurie Lee, Peter Levi, Adrian Mitchell and Michael Foot.

(1) £200-300

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MODERN FIRST EDITIONS 384 Benson (Raymond). Zero Minus Ten, 1997; The World is Not Enough, 1999; Doubleshot, 2000; Never Dream of Dying, 2001; Die Another Day, 2002, 1st eds., Never Dream of Dying a US 1st ed. signed by the author, occasional light toning, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, together with John Gardner’s For Special Services, 1982, Icebreaker, 1983 andf Seafire, 1994, 1st eds., and others including Ian Fleming’s Thrilling Cities, 1963, John Pearson’s The Life of Ian Fleming, 1966 (with Ian Fleming’s bookplate), Roger Moore’s My Word is My Bond, 2008, signed by the author and Diana Rigg’s So to the Land, 1994, signed copy (27)

£100-150

385 Block (Lawrence). The Burglar in the Block, 1997; Hope to Die, 2001; All the Flowers are Dying, 2005, Scorpion Press, top edges blue, original green morocco-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo, limited edition of 99 and 90 numbered copies, each signed by the author, together with Mankell (Henning), The White Lioness, 2003; The Man Who Smiled, 2005; Kennedy’s Brain, 2007, Scorpion Press, top edges green, original brown morocco-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo, limited edition of 90 and 80 numbered copies, each signed by the author, with nine other Scorpion Press signed limited editions including Robert Crais’s L.A. Requiem, 1999 and Hostage, 2001, Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, 2001, Shutter Island, 2003 and The Given Day, 2008 and Ken Bruen’s Priest, 2006 and Cross, 2007 (16)

£200-300

386 Boyd (William). A Good Man in Africa, 1981; An Ice-Cream War, 1982; The New Confessions, 1987; Brazzaville Beach, 1990, 1st eds., light toning and previous owner signature to New Confessions, oeiginal Cloth, d.j.s, Ice Cream and New Confessions price-clipped, A Good Man spine a little faded, 8vo, with eight others by Boyd (9)

£250-300

387 Burke (James Lee). Sunset Limited, 1998; Crusader’s Cross, 2005; Pegasus Descending, 2006; Rain Gods, 2009; The Tin Roof Blow Down, 2007; Swan Peak, 2008; The Glass Rainbow, 2010; Feast Day of Fools, 2011; Creole Belle, 2012; Light of the World, 2013, Scorpion Press, top edges yellow, original brown moroccobacked boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo

383 [Amis, Kingsley]. Last Poems & A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman, 2 vols., pub. Richards Press, 1932 and 1938 respectively, signed blindstamped green cloth, slightly rubbed, each inscribed in blue ink to front endpaper ‘K.W. Amis April 1938’,

Limited edition of between 110 and 65 numbered copies, each signed by the author.

(10) £150-200

Ex libris Kingsley Amis, close friend and fellow student of Philip Larkin at Oxford. Given to Philip Brown, also a student at St. John’s, Oxford with Amis and Larkin in the early 1940s.

(2) £100-150

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388 Christie (Agatha). The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1st ed., [1928], original blue cloth lettered in red, a couple of tiny tears at spine ends, d.j., repairs and restorations to verso, 8vo (1)

ÂŁ3000-4000

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390* Christie (Agatha, 1891-1976). A Victorian sycamore spicebox, turned wood of circular form with lid bearing the engraved word ‘Spiece-Box’ and an engraving of ‘The New Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden’ [opened 15 May 1858], containing seven pots with lids for allspice, cloves, cinnamon, mace, pepper, saffron and vanilla, 16.5cm (6.5ins) diameter The spice box was given by Agatha Christie to her long-term literary agent Edmund Cork in gratitude for all his help. Cork of Hughes Massie became Agatha Christie’s literary agent in 1923 and managed her affairs until her death, with some help from his daughter Pat towards the end. While music and opera do make appearances in several of her stories and books there doesn’t appear to be any literary meaning intended by the spice box or operatic motif. What is known is that Agatha Christie was very fond of opera and and had wanted to be a singer, an opera singer perhaps. In her early life she sang at parties and local concerts and, according to Laura Thompson’s biography of 2007, a visit by Christie with her sister Madge to see Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Covent Garden in 1909 inspired thoughts of becoming an Isolde.

This ambition foundered as she found success as a writer, and it was a combination of Christie’s business toughness and Edmund Cork’s manner and negotiating skills that saw her commercial success soar ever upwards.

Provenance: From the family of Edmund Cork, by descent. A handwritten letter, dated 22 May 2014, confirming the provenance, will be provided with the lot.

(1) £1000-1500

391 Cornwell (Bernard). Sharpe’s Tiger, 1997; Sharpe’s Trafalgar, 1999; Sharpe’s Prey, 2001; Sharpe’s Havoc, 2003; Sharpe’s Escape, 2004; Sharpe’s Fury, 2006, top edges salmon pink, original red morocco-backed boards, 8vo Limited edition of between 99 and 85 numbered copies, each signed by the author.

(6) £150-200

392 Crompton (Richmal). Just William, 1st ed., Newnes, [1922], b & w illustrations by Thomas Henry, 4pp. pubs. ads. at end, a few light spots, neat contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original red cloth, lower joint split, spine faded, 8vo, together with two copies of Just William. The Story of the Film, 1939, one in d.j.

389 Christie (Agatha). The Body in the Library, 1st ed., 1942, lacking rear endpaper, front endpaper with contemporary presentation inscription and previous owner signature, original orange cloth, some mottled fading to spine and edges, d.j., split along lower joint, spine ends a little chipped, light toning to rear panel, 8vo (1)

(3)

£400-600

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£200-300

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Lot 395

393 Crompton (Richmal). William the Fourth, 1924; Still William, [1925]; William in Trouble, [1927], William’s Crowded Hours, [1931], William and the A.R.P., 1939; William Carries On, 1942; William and the Brains Trust, 1945, 1st eds., b & w illustrations by Thomas Henry, a few spots, a couple of previous owner signatures, Crowded Hours with ‘Colonial Edition’ ink stamp to half title, original cloth, one or two spines faded, 8vo (7)

397 Crompton (Richmal). William the Superman, 1st ed., 1968, illustrations by Henry Ford, original green cloth, d.j., spine a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£150-200

£200-300

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395 Crompton (Richmal). William the Outlaw, 1st ed., [1927], b & w illustrations by Thomas Henry, one or two minor spots, contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original red cloth, upper cover a little bowed, d.j., a few tears and losses, mainly to spine ends and upper panel, 8vo (1)

£300-400

399 Crompton (Richmal). William the Explorer, 1960; William’s Treasure Trove, 1962; William and the Witch, 1964; William and the Pop Singers, 1965; William and the Masked Ranger, 1966, 1st eds., illustrations by Thomas Henry and Henry Ford, previous owner signatures to Explorer and Masked Ranger, original cloth, d.j.s, Explorer and Witch price-clipped, spine ends a little rubbed and creased, 8vo

£200-300

396 Crompton (Richmal). William the Lawless, 1st ed., 1970, illustrations by Henry Ford, presentation inscription to front endpaper, original red cloth, d.j., spine a trifle faded and rubbed at ends and folds, 8vo The last ‘William’ hardback to be published.

(1)

£100-150

398 Crompton (Richmal). William and the A.R.P., 2nd impression, 1939; Just William’s Luck, 1948; William the Bold, 1950; William and the Tramp, 1952; William and the Moon Rocket, 1954; William and the Space Animal, 1956; William’s Television Show, 1958, 1st eds., illustrations by Thomas Henry, a few light spots, previous owner ink stamp to A.R.P., presentation inscription to Bold, original cloth, d.j.s, A.R.P. in 2nd impression 2/6 d.j., Moon Rocket price-clipped, Bold spine faded, a few chips and tears, 8vo

394 Crompton (Richmal). William the Good, 1st ed., [1928], b & w illustrations by Thomas Henry, scattered spotting, original red cloth, d.j., loss at spine head, a few chips and repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

Lot 396

(5)

£200-300

400 Crompton (Richmal). William reprint series, nos. 1-25, 19451949, illustrations by Thomas Henry, a few bookplates to front endpapers, original cloth, a few covers slightly bowed, d.j.s, spines with uniform ‘saluting William’ design and number, occasional minor edge wear, 8vo

£300-400

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£250-300

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401 Crompton (Richmal). William series reprints/cheap editions/ later impressions, 14 titles from More William, 1928 to William the Film Star, 1958, illustrations by Thomas Henry, scattered spotting, More William lacking rear endpaper, some previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, occasional fading and mottled stains, d.j.s, some chips and losses, mainly to spines, a few repairs, 8vo

406 Crompton (Richmal). William the Lawless, 1st ed., 1970, illustrations by Henry Ford, original red cloth, d.j., spine a little rubbed and faded, horizontal crease along lower margin with faint water stains, 8vo

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407 Crompton (Richmal). Just William’s Luck, 1948; William and the Space Animal, 1956; William’s Television Show, 1958; William the Explorer, 1960; William’s Treasure Trove, 1962; William and the Witch, 1964; William and the Pop Singers, 1965; William and the Masked Ranger, 1966, 1st eds., illustrations by Thomas Henry and Henry Ford, a few light spots, one or two previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, Just William’s Luck price-clipped with lightly faded spine, a few small chips and tears, manuscript numbers to spines of Explorer, Treasure Trove and Pop Singers, 8vo

(1)

£200-300

402 Crompton (Richmal). William Again, 1st ed., 1923, illustrations

by Thomas Henry, one or two light spots, original red cloth, d.j., a few chips and creases, repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

£300-400

403 Crompton (Richmal). William the Fourth, 1st ed., 1924, illustrations by Thomas Henry, original red cloth, a trifle faded at foot of spine, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo (1)

(8)

£250-300

£200-300

£250-300

405 Crompton (Richmal). William the Superman, 1st ed., 1968, illustrations by Henry Ford, original green cloth, d.j., 3/6 manuscript price to front flap, a little light edge wear, 8vo

408 Crompton (Richmal). William’s Happy Days, March 1932 reprint; William the Dictator, November 1938 reprint; William the Showman, November 1938 reprint; William and the A.R.P., October 1939 reprint, illustrations by Thomas Henry, a few spots, Showman with front endpaper excised and previous owner inscription erased, original cloth, Happy Days spine a little rubbed, d.j.s, Happy Days in 3/6 10th impression d.j., the others priced 2/6, a few chips and tears, 8vo, together with 21 other reprints in d.j.s plus Mary Cadogan’s The William Companion, 1990

(1)

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404 Crompton (Richmal). William the Good, 1st ed., [1928], illustrations by Thomas Henry, light spots front and rear, original red cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo (1)

£200-300

£100-150

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£200-300

412 Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, 1st ed., 1938, some light spotting, small contemporary presentation card tipped-in to front endpaper, small abrasions to pastedowns, original black cloth, d.j., spine toned and chipped at ends, closed tear to one fold, 8vo

409 Dexter (Colin). The Jewel That Was Ours, 1991; Morse’s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories, 1993; The Way Through the Woods, 1992, Scorpion Press, top edges red/pink, original red morocco-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo, limited edition of 150 and 99 numbered copies, each signed by the author, together with Hill (Reginald), Recalled to Life, 1992; Pictures of Perfection, 1993; The Wood Beyond, 1996; On Beulah Height, 1998, Scorpion Press, original blue morocco-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo, limited edition of between 99 and 75 numbered copies, each signed by the author, plus five other Scorpion Press signed limited editions, including Len Deighton’s Violent Ward, 1993 and Hope, 1995, R.D. Wingfield’s Hard Frost, 1995 and Jack Higgins’ Dark Justice, 2004 (12)

(1)

413 Eliot (T.S.). Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, 1st ed., 1939, a few light marginal spots, original yellow cloth, d.j., spine a little darkened, light marginal soiling, 8vo (1)

410 Doyle (A. Conan). The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1st ed., 1902, 16 b & w plates, occasional spotting, marginal red stains at front, contemporary previous owner inscription, original red cloth gilt, spine faded with small tear at head, a few mottled stains, slight lean, 8vo, together with Souvenir editions of A Study in Scarlet, and The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902

(4)

£100-150

415 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, contemporary previous owner inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, d.j., spine and folds repaired to verso, a little rubbed and toned, 8vo, with two price-clipped copies of You Only Live Twice, 1964

£200-300

411 Doyle (A. Conan). Songs of the Road, 1st ed., 1911, scattered spotting, original cloth, some mottled fading and stains, 8vo, with a loose postcard inscribed: “Crowborough. 11/4/22. In “Songs of the Road” under the title “Bendy’s Sermon” A.C.D.” Conan Doyle referring to the narrative verse on p.60, about a Nottinghamshire prize fighter ‘Bendigo’ who became a preacher, later separately published by Ishmael Wilson (1)

£150-200

414 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., scattered spotting, original cloth, d.j.s, Golden Gun price-clipped, spines a little toned, some chips, tears and spots, 8vo, together with a Reprint Society copy of Live and Let Die, 1956

£150-200

(3)

£500-800

(3)

£150-200

£100-150

416 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, original cloth, d.j., spine a little toned, 8vo (1)

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£300-400

417 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1st ed., 1961, original cloth, d.j., tiny closed tear to front panel, 8vo (1)

424 Fleming (Ian). Diamonds are Forever, 1st ed., 1956, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and small losses, mainly to the head of spine and rear panel lower margin, 8vo

£150-200

(1)

418 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, original cloth, d.j., spine a trifle toned, 8vo (1)

425 Gash (Jonathan). The Lies of Fair Ladies, Scorpion Press, 1991, slight marginal toning, top edge green, original white morocco-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 33/99 signed by the author, together with Ellroy (James), My Dark Places, Scorpion Press, 1996, top edge pink, original red moroccobacked boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 5/85 signed by the author, plus Booth (Stephen), Blood on the Tongue, Scorpion Press, 2002, top edge green, original green morocco-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition, 16/80 signed by the author, with other Scorpion Press signed limited editions by Dick Francis, George Macdonald Fraser, George P. Pelecanos, Mark Billingham, Walter Moseley et al

£150-200

419 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, a couple of small nicks to OHMSS, 8vo (2)

£100-150

420 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st eds., a few light spots, previous owner signature to OHMSS, original cloth, d.j.s, Spy a little spotted with one or two nicks, 8vo (4)

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£150-200

£80-120

422 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, original cloth, d.j., spine a trifle toned, 8vo (1)

£150-200

423 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, together with Kingsley Amis’s The James Bond Dossier, 1965 and Colonel Sun, 1968, 1st eds., plus Diamonds are Forever, 1st ed., 1956 (in later issue d.j.), and reprints of Goldfinger, 1960, Casino Royale, 1962, Dr No, 1962 and The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965 (10)

£150-200

426* Gordimer (Nadine, born 1923). A group of eight typed letters signed, ‘Nadine Gordimer’, Johannesburg, 1993/2004, all to Ian Snelling, initially concerning book signings on behalf of Mr Snelling, and then concerning a publishing project of Gordimer’s early works, the penultimate letter, dated 16 February 2004, thanking Mr Snelling for the Isaac Basehvis Singer letter, ‘I am so moved to think that this writer whose work I admire and have enjoyed som much, should think so well of my books’, then concerning reservations about the merit of the publishing project if published for a limited market ‘who would understand the naivety and uneven quality of the writing in terms of a writer’s development rather than judge the work as a proof of her limitations etc.’, and the final letter, dated 15 May 2004, tackling the project head-on, ‘overcoming my lack of interest in my own past...’, and concluding, ‘The children’s stories seemn so derivative of everything the prodigy had read and mawkish, here and there. That’s being hard on her tender age, but who has better right to be?’, all one page, 4to, four with original postally used envelopes, plus a plain postcard signed and a receipt signed, plus two copy letters from Snelling to Gordimer concerning the origins of the publishing idea

421 Fleming (Ian). Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1st ed., 1966, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with For Your Eyes Only, 2 copies, 1960, The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962 (ex-libris), You Only Live Twice, 1964 and Kingsley Amis’s The James Bond Dossier, 1965, all 1st eds. without d.j.s, plus another three 1st eds. in d.j.s of Octopussy (9)

£300-400

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£200-300

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£150-200

429 Greene (Graham). The Name of Action, 1930; It’s a Battlefield, 1934; England Made Me, 1935; The Ministry of Fear, 1943, 1st eds., scattered spotting, Name of Action ex-libris with usual labels and stamps front and rear, original cloth, England spine faded, Name of Action with small split to lower joint, a few light stains, 8vo, together with 11 others by Graham Greene, including Nineteen Stories, 1947, The End of the Affair, 1951, The Lost Childhood and Other Essays, 1951, Loser Takes it All, 1955, The Quiet American, 1955 and The Spy’s Bedside Book, 1957 (15)

430 Haggard (H. Rider). Cetywayo and His White Neighbours; Or, Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal, 1st ed., Trubner, 1882, half-title present, rough-trimmed edges sl. foxed, upper hinge split, orig. green cloth gilt, spine ends sl. frayed, 8vo

427 Greene (Graham). Stamboul Train, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1932, one or two light spots, original cloth, light mottled stains, small indentation to one edge, slight lean, 8vo

The author’s first book, of which only 750 copies were printed. It was not well-received at first; a year after publication only 154 copies had been sold and the publishers were out of pocket. However, as Haggard became betterknown for his works of fiction, the edition eventually sold out and a second edition of 1000 copies was printed in 1888.

(1) £200-300

Rare first issue, with ‘Q.C. Savory’ uncorrected to pages 77, 78, 82, 98 & 131.

‘Q.C. Savory’, a somewhat imperious character in the book was changed to ‘Quin Savory’ in later issues, to placate J.B. Priestley, who, after reading a review copy, thought the unflattering character was based on himself and threatened a libel case. Heinemann readily agreed to make the change, as Priestley was one of their biggest selling authors, and only a few copies remain with the text uncorrected.

(1) £700-1000

431 Haggard (H. Rider). Cleopatra, 1889; Swallow, A Tale of the Great Trek, 1899; Black Heart and White Heart, 1900; Lysbeth, A Tale of the Dutch, 1901; Ayesha, 1905, 1st eds., b & w illustrations, one contents leaf in Cleopatra with repaired tear, scattered spotting, original cloth, edges a trifle rubbed, 8vo

428 Greene (Graham). The Heart of the Matter, 1st ed., 1948, endpapers browned, original cloth, d.j., spine faded, small nicks and tears, 8vo, together with The End of the Affair, 1st ed., 1951, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo, plus Our Man in Havana, 1st ed., 1958, a few spots, original cloth, d.j., spine a little toned, a fewe spots, 8vo, with others by Graham Greene and related, including The Ministry of Fear, 1943, The Lost Childhood and Other Essays, 1951, The Little Horse Bus, 1952, and A Burnt-Out Case, 1961 (78)

£300-400

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£100-150

432 Hughes (Ted). The Hawk in the Rain, 1957; Crow, 1970; Season Songs, 1976, 1st eds., contemporary inscription to Hawk, previous owner signature and blindstamp to Crow, original cloth, d.j.s, light toning to spines, one or two light spots to Crow, 8vo (3)

£200-300

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£150-200

433 Huxley (Aldous). Eyeless in Gaza, 1st ed., 1936, original cloth, d.j., spine faded, one or two closed tears, 8vo, together with Brave New World, 1st ed., 1932, a few light spots, original cloth (spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends), later cheap edition d.j., 8vo, plus Proper Studies, 1st ed., 1927, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, with others related including The Discovery. A Comedy in Five Acts, by Frances Sheridan, Adapted for the Modern Stage by Aldous Huxley, 1924 (limited edition, 124/200), The Olive Tree, 1936, The Devils of Loudon, 1952 and Brave New World Revisited, 1959

440 King (Stephen). Salem’s Lot, 1st ed., 2nd issue, Doubleday, New York, 1975, previous owner signature, a few light stains, original cloth-backed boards, spine a little rubbed, price-clipped 2nd issue d.j. with $7.95 price and ‘Father Cody’ to flap text, a few creases and repairs to verso, slight lean, 8vo, together with The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 1st ed., Donald Grant, Rhode Island, 1982, illustrations by Michael Whelan, one or two light spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., small chips and creases, 8vo, with five others by Stephen King including 1st UK eds. of Firestarter, 1980 and Christine, 1983

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£100-150

£300-400

434 Ishiguro (Kazuo). A Pale View of the Hills, 1st ed., 1982, light spots to endpapers, original cloth, d.j., spine a trifle faded, 8vo (1)

£150-200

435 James Bond 007. Eight Playboy/Penthouse magazines, 1960’s90’s, mainly US editions, some featuring a serialisation of the Man with the Golden Gun, Bond girls etc., one or two covers a little soiled and rubbed, 4to (8)

£70-100

436 Jerome (Jerome K.). Three Men in a Boat, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1889; The Diary of a Pilgimage, [1891]; Three Men on a Bummel, [1900], 1st eds., b & w illustrations, a few spots, contemporary previous owner signature to Bummel, original cloth, spines a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, Three Men inscribed to title: “Yours sincerely, Jerome K Jerome, June 1910” (3)

£100-150

437 Johns (Captain W.E.). The Black Peril. A “Biggles” Story, early issue [1936], colour frontis., four tinted plates, 17 ‘Ace’ titles listed from The Black Peril to War in the Air, without the pubs. catalogue at end, a few light spots, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original blue cloth, sundial device at foot of spine, joints and edges a trifle rubbed, 8vo (1)

£150-200

438 Keating (H.R.F., ed.). The Man Who..., Scorpion Press, 1992, light toning, top edge silver, original white morocco-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 31/125 signed by all 13 contributors, together with No Alibi, ed., Maxim Jakubowski, Scorpion Press, 1995, top edge pink, original red morocco-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 9/150 signed by all 29 contributors, plus Like a Charm, ed., Karin Slaughter, Scorpion Press, 2004, top edge green, original green morocco-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition, 11/120 signed by all 15 contributors, with seven other Scorpion Press signed limited editions including Ted Allbeury’s Show Me a Hero, 1992, The Detection Collection, 2005, Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Fencing Master, 1999 and Jeffery Deaver’s The Empty Chair, 2000 (10)

£150-200

439 King (Stephen). Rose Madder, 1st UK ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, original red leatherette, slipcase, 8vo, signed limited edition, 63/250, together with Desperation/The Regulators, 1st UK 2 vol. set, 1996, original blue leatherette, single slipcase, 8vo, signed limited edition, 15/250, with others by Stephen King/Richard Bachman including Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993, Insomnia, 1994 (both in cloth with slipcases and facsimile signatures), Cujo, 1982, Thinner, 1984, It, 1986 and Gerald’s Game, 1992 (12)

441 Larkin (Philip). The North Ship, 1st ed., Fortune Press, 1945, untrimmed, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in worn d.j., frayed with several closed tears to top and bottom margins, faded towards spine, with loss of the entire spine portion (dust jacket is now in two halves), 8vo Author’s signed presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper ‘To Philip, with affectionate good wishes - Philip Larkin. Dec. 4th 1945’. Rare inscribed copy of Larkin’s first book of poems, presented to his close friend and fellowstudent Philip Brown. Both Larkin and Brown were at St. John’s College, Oxford, during the war, and formed part of a group of college students called The Seven (which also included Kingsley Amis, Bruce Montgomery and Norman Iles) who met to read and discuss poetry and drink.

(1) £400-600

£150-200

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446 Lawrence (T.E.). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 5th impression, September 1935, maps and illustrations, original cloth, d.j., a couple of closed tears, 4to, inscribed to half title: “To my old friend the Rev E.W. Cox, in loving memory of the author, S. Lawrence, Jan 1. 1936” (Sarah Junner Lawrence, mother of T.E. Lawrence), together with four loose items of printed ephemera relating to Lawrence of Arabia memorials: a single sheet appeal proposing a bronze plaque to be unveiled at the City of Oxford High School [1936], with manuscript note: “specimen proof sent by Snow to Bob” (possibly Montagu Robert Lawrence (“Bob”,18851971, elder brother of T.E. Lawrence), the Unveiling of the Memorial at the City of Oxford High School for Boys programme, by Winston Churchill, 3rd October, 1936, the St. Paul’s Cathedral Unveiling of the Memorial service, 29 January, 1936 and related Memorial Committee proposal, plus some related press cuttings, plus other books including The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954, inscribed to half title: “To my old friend, the Rev. E.W. Cox, M.A.(Assistant Master at Oxford High School and Lawrence family friend), to the dear memory of my three sons, Sarah Lawrence, July 27, 1954 and The Letters of T.E. Lawrence, ed. David Garnett, 2nd impression, 1938

442 Larkin (Philip). A Girl in Winter, 1st ed., Faber & Faber, 1947, original blue cloth, rubbed and some marks and light staining, a little frayed to upper joint, lettering to spine faded, 8vo Author’s signed presentation copy inscribed to front endpaper ‘with kindest regards to Philip from his friend Philip Larkin. 7.4.47’. Presentation copy to Philip Brown, Larkin’s fellow student at St. John’s College, Oxford.

(1) £200-300

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£250-300

447 Le Fanu (J. Sheridan). The House by the Churchyard. A Novel, new ed., R. Bentley, 1866, wood-engraved frontis. and additional title vignette, occasional minor spotting and toning, bookseller blindstamps to endpapers, manuscript inscription to front pastedown, original red cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, a few light stains, 8vo Originally published in three volumes in 1863, this is the first one volume edition, with the chapters expanded from 88 to 99.

(1) £150-200

448 Lee (Harper). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1st UK ed., 1960, a few light spots, previous owner signature, original red cloth, spine lettered in silver, d.j., a few chips, tears and small loss at foot of spine, 8vo (1)

£100-150

449* Lee (Laurie, 1914-97). A Victorian reading table owned and used by Laurie Lee at his Cotswolds’ home, rectangular top with two raised edges, adjustable and tilting ratchet mechanism, turned column, shaped platform on three castors A clearly well-used and now delicate piece of furniture. Whether Laurie Lee used it for writing, typing, reading or both is unknown but its utilitarian appearance suggests it was used rather than merely decorative. Provenance: Sold by Laurie Lee’s wife Kathy Lee in 2011 and acquired by the current owner. The table is offered with the original signed certificate of authenticity from the sale in 2011.

(1) £1000-1500

443 [Larkin, Philip]. Some Poems to W. H. Auden, 1st ed., Faber & Faber, 1940, light foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, original printed boards in rubbed and marked d.j., sl. frayed to extremities, spine and a little darkened

450 Lessing (Doris). The Golden Notebook, 1st ed., 1962, small contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, original black cloth, d.j., a couple of short closed tears, 8vo

Philip Larkin’s copy, signed by him in blue ink to head of front endpaper, and again in pencil to head of front pastedown, with a further quotation in pencil to the front endpaper, possibly in Larkin’s hand: ‘Yours is the choice, to whom the gods awarded/the language of learning and the language of love” - p. 68 [from Auden’s previously published poem Bride in the Thirties]. Given to fellow student Philip Brown by Larkin while at Oxford.

(1) £200-300

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451 Lewis (C.S.). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 1st ed., 1950, colour frontis. and b & w illustrations by Pauline Baynes, neat previous owner inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, some fading to spine and extremities, d.j., some tears and losses mainly at spine ends and front panel margins, 8vo

444 Larsson (Stieg). The Millenium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2008; The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, 2009, 1st UK eds., original cloth, d.j.s, Dragon with a couple of tiny nicks at corners, 8vo (3)

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£700-1000

452 Masefield (John). The Taking of Helen, 1st ed., William Heinemann, 1923, & Tristan and Isolt, A Play in Verse, 1st ed., William Heinemann, 1927, both t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s quarter vellum gilt, second title in d.j. (some spotting to endpapers), both in clean condition, limited signed editions of 780 and 275 respectively, both 8vo, together with Armstrong (Martin), The Fiery Dive and Other Stories, 1st ed., Victor Gollancz, 1929, original publisher’s quarter vellum gilt, a few minor marks, 8vo, limited signed edition of 150 copies, plus Moore (George), The Talking Pine, 1st ed., Paris, The Hours Press, 1931, 8 pp., including front and rear blank, untrimmed, original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, some soiling, and snagged to rear wrapper, slim 8vo, limited edition 31/500

£100-150

445 Larteguy (Jean). The Centurions, Translated from the French

by Xan Fielding, 1st UK ed., Hutchinson, 1961, original red cloth, d.j., spine a little darkened with small nicks at head and folds, 8vo, together with The Praetorians, 1st UK ed., 1963, original cloth, d.j., spine toned, a few small chips and closed tears, 8vo (2)

£100-150

£200-300

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£150-200

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453 Milligan (Spike). The Bald Twit Lion, 1st ed., 1968, colour illustrations by Carol Baker, presentation inscription, original pictorial boards, spine repaired at head, 4to, together with A Dustbin of Milligan, 1st ed., 1961, b & w illustrations, presentation inscription, original boards, price-clipped d.j., spine faded, 8vo, plus Puckoon, 1st ed., 1963, illustrations, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., a little rubbed, 8vo, with a quantity of others by Spike Milligan including A Book of Bitsor a Bit of a Book, 1965, A Book of Milliganimals, 1968 and Adolf Hitler. My Part in his Downfall, 1971 (approx 90)

456 Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st ed., 1949, some soiling, mainly front and rear, previous owner ink stamp, original green cloth, water stains to covers, red d.j., tears and losses, 8vo, together with Animal Farm, 1st ed., 1945, original green cloth, spine and extremities faded, 8vo (2)

£150-200

£150-200

454 Naipaul (V.S.). The Mystic Masseur, 1st ed.. Andre Deutsch, 1957, scattered light spots, original cloth, d.j., spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, a few spots to rear panel, 8vo The author’s first book.

(1)

£150-200

455 O’Brian (Patrick). The Mauritius Command, 1977; The Fortune of War, 1979; The Surgeon’s Mate, 1980; Treason’s Harbour, 1983; The Letter of Marque, 1988; The Thirteen Gun Salute, 1989; The Nutmeg of Consolation, 1991; Clarissa Oakes, 1992; The Wine-Dark Sea, 1993 (2 copies); The Commodore, 1994; The Yellow Admiral, 1997; Blue at Mizzen, 1999, 1st eds., some marginal toning (as often), original cloth, d.j.s, one or two spines a little faded, Surgeon’s Mate with light marginal yellowing, one Wine-Dark Sea flap printed without price, 8vo The Commodore signed by the author.

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Lot 455

£300-500

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457 Owen (Wilfred). Poems, 1st ed., Chatto & Windus, 1920, portrait frontis., manuscript corrections to Strange Meeting by Siegfried Sassoon, light toning front and rear, rear endpapers with offsetting from small press cutting, small monogram bookplate of Sassoon to front pastedown, original red buckram, paper label to spine, some fading to spine and extremities, square 4to, together with Harold Owen’s Journey from Obscurity. Wilfred Owen 18931918. Memoirs of the Owen Family, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1963-65, two volumes of which inscribed from Harold Owen to Siegfried Sassoon, plus unbound proofs of the 1967 edition of Wilfred Owen’s Collected Poems and a 1 pp typescript letter from the publisher to Sassoon, dated 28 July 1967, enclosing the proofs and inviting him to the Cheltenham Literary Festival and suggesting an evening to be devoted to Wilfred Owen to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the meeting of Owen and Sassoon at Craiglockhart

458 Plath (Sylvia). The Colossus, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1960, one or two light spots, two small corner mounts adhered to half title, small contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original green buckram, d.j., sellotape adhesion marks recto and verso, 8vo

Provenance: Sotheby’s English Literature and Books from the Library of Siegfried Sassoon sale, 18 July 1991. Wilfred Owen famously met Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh in 1917, where he was sent to recover from shell shock, Sassoon also sent there after publishing his Declaration Against the War (his friend Robert Graves convincing the review board that Sassoon must be suffering from shell shock, thus avoiding a Court Martial). Sassoon much influenced Owen’s later poems and edited some, and is the editor in Wilfred Owen’s Poems.

(10) £800-1200

A good set of Anthony Powell’s acclaimed magnum opus, written over a thirty year period.

(12) £1500-2000

(1)

£250-300

459 Powell (Anthony). ‘Dance to the Music of Time’, 12 novels, all 1st eds., 1951-1975, A Question of Upbringing with contemporary previous owner signature to front endpaper, bookseller ink stamp to front pastedown of Acceptance World, original cloth, d.j.s, Buyer’s Market in price-clipped 3rd impression d.j., with small chip and spine a little faded, Question of Upbringing a little rubbed and chipped at head of spine, Valley of the Bones and Books Do Furnish a Room priceclipped, one or two spines with slight fading and minor nicks, 8vo

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460* Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Six signed autograph letters, 1917-20, five letters written to ‘Mart’, mainly concerning building works and studio extensions, “the bookcase would then be 1ft. 9ins from door-corner & 1ft.3 from the other corner. So will you please go ahead with that too - cutting away cornice to allow bookcase to stand right back to wall”, with a small sketch of how it should fit, another addressed to Heron Ward regarding his daughter Barbara’s manuscript, “I haven’t read it - excepting an advance chapter or two she sent us some time ago & which made me wonder how it would be received by her old friends at Bumpus’s... and I have no intention, of course, of interfering: & so feel I had better actually know nothing about it” (6)

£200-300

461 Rankin (Ian). The Hanging Garden, 1998; Beggars Banquet, 2002; A Question of Blood, 2003; Fleshmarket Close, 2004; The Naming of the Dead, 2006; Doors Open, 2008; Standing in Another Man’s Grave, 2012, Scorpion Press, top edges blue, original blue morocco-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo Limited edition of between 99 and 80 numbered copies, each signed by the author.

(7) £150-200

462 Rendell (Ruth). Asta’s Book (as ‘Barbara Vine’), 1993; Road Rage, 1997; A Sight for Sore Eyes, 1998; Harm Done, 1999, Scorpion Press, top edges green, original green morocco-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo, limited edition of 99 numbered copies, each signed by the author, together with eleven other Scorpion Press signed limited edition titles by female crime writers including Minette Walters’ The Scold’s Bridle, 1994, Lindsey Davis’s A Time to Depart, 1995 and A Dying Light in Corduba, 1996, Val McDermid’s The Wire in the Blood, 1997 and others by Sara Paretsky, Karin Slaughter, Barbara Cleverley, Carol O’Connell, Mo Hayder and J. Wallis Martin

Lot 460

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£200-300

Lot 464

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463 Riall (Richard). A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, Ross Press, Bath, 1994, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, small folio, together with Arthur Rackham, his Life and Work, by Derek Hudson, 1960, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., tears and sellotape repairs, 4to, with others related including The Centenary of Arthur Rackham’s Birth, September 19, 1867, 2nd printing, 1969, Fred Gettings’ Arthur Rackham, 1976 reprint and James Hamilton’s Arthur Rackham. A Life with Illustration, 1990 (7)

£70-100

464 Richards (J.M. & Ravilious, Eric). High Street, 1st ed., pub.

Country Life, 1938, twenty-four fine auto-litho. illustrations, some slight spotting to first and last few leaves, orig. pictorial boards in glassine d.j., with paper inner flaps, a little wear to head and foot of spine, corners bumped, d.j. torn with some loss, 8vo (1)

£1000-1500

465 Rosenberg (Isaac). Poems, Selected and Edited by Gordon Bottomley, with an Introduction Memoir by Laurence Binyon, 1st ed., 1922, portrait frontis., previous owner signature, original cloth, some dampstains, d.j. sellotape repair to one fold verso, a few light marks, 8vo, together with Along the Years. Poems 1911-1937, by Joseph Leftwich, 1937, portrait frontis., original cloth, price-clipped d.j., repairs to verso, 8vo, limited edition, 584/750 signed by the author, with additional presentation inscription, with four others including David Jones’ In Parenthesis, 1937 (6)

£100-150

467 Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st ed., 1998, previous owner signature to front pastedown, original boards, d.j., some slight fading, 8vo (250)

£250-300

466 Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1st paperback ed., 1997, slight toning to text block (as often), original pictorial covers, a trifle rubbed at edges, light crease to one corner, else a good copy, 8vo

468 Salinger (J.D.). The Catcher in the Rye, 1st UK ed., 1951, a few minor spots, previous owner signature,original blue cloth, spine a little faded, d.j., spine lightly toned with small loss at head, a few chips at folds, 8vo

(1)

(1)

£300-500

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£150-200

469 Sassoon (Siegfried). Common Chords, Mill House Press, Stanford Dingley, 1950, original cloth, 8vo, limited edition of 107, this copy inscribed to “Uncle Sydney with love”, signed with Sassoon’s monogram signature, additional inscription beneath: “Received 15 Aug 1951, Sydney Cockerell” (Sir Sydney Cockerell, museum curator and collector), together with two others by Sassoon: The Heart’s Journey, 1928 and Sequences, 1956 (3)

£100-150

470 Sitwell (Osbert). Miss Mew, Mill House Press, 1929, original green cloth-backed boards, spine faded, 8vo, limited edition, 73/101 signed by the author, together with Who Killed Cock-Robin, 1st ed., 1921, original wrapper, one or two splits, 8vo, together with others by various authors, including Lord David Cecil, John Masefield, Gabriel Fournier, Oliffe Richmond and Winifred D. Knight all inscribed to members of the Sitwell family, i.e. Sir George, Osbert and Edith (30)

£150-200

471 Tolkien (J.R.R.). Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings, 1954; The Two Towers, 1954; The Return of the King, 1955, 1st eds., folding map to each, light water stain to Fellowship front and rear, contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpapers, original red cloth, spines faded, Fellowship lower joint split, some damp stains, 8vo Binding copies.

(3)

£300-400

472 Verne (Jules). Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. From the French... with sixty-four Illustrations by Riou, Sampson Low, 2nd UK ed., 1874, thirty-three wood eng. plts., letterpress illusts., some full-page, 48pp. pubs. cat. dated October 1873 at rear, some foxing and light marks, hinges split, early ms. ownership name on front pastedown, orig. pictorial red cloth gilt, shaken, spine sl. faded, and frayed at ends, 8vo

Lot 474

First Sampson Low edition, and second UK edition, of Verne’s first book (first published in French in 1863), a fantasy of balloon travel over the African continent and a satire on English books on African travel. The first UK edition was published in 1870 by Chapman & Hall and is now virtually impossible to find. This Sampson Low edition is also scarce (unlisted in Myers), and considerably more difficult to find than either Appleton’s first edition in English (New York, 1869), or James Osgood’s fully illustrated edition (Boston, 1873).

(1) £400-600

473 Verne (Jules). Dr. Ox’s Experiment, and Other Stories, 1st UK ed., 1874, forty-seven wood eng. plts. (correct as list), letterpress illusts., 40pp. pubs. cat. at rear dated August 1874, some light spotting, stitching partially broken, W.H. Smith oval embossed stamp on front free endpaper, lower hinge split, a.e.g., orig. pictorial green cloth gilt, cocked, spine ends and corners sl. frayed, 8vo Myers 16.

(1)

£100-150

474 Verne (Jules). Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery, translated by W. J. Gordon, 1st UK ed., pub. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883, fifty b & w illustrations, thirty-two page publisher’s catalogue at rear, library blind stamp and inscription to front free endpaper, period owner’s library book plate to front endpaper, a.e.g., spine slightly rubbed and faded with neat restrenghtening, original pictorial red cloth-backed boards in black and gilt, few minor cover marks and corners bumped, 8vo (1)

£200-400

475 Waugh (Evelyn). Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, 1st. ed., Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945, original red cloth gilt with a few discoloured marks to front board, original d.j. with some restorations, 8vo (1)

Lot 475

£200-300

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476 Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st ed., 1932, map frontis. (bound upside down), scattered spotting, original cloth, d.j., lower joint split, spine darkened and chipped, slight lean, 8vo, together with Wine in Peace and War, 1st ed., [1947], some spotting to front and rear pstedowns, original illustrated boards by Rex Whistler, one or two light marks, 8vo, plus A Tourist in Africa, 1st ed., 1960, halftone illustrations, original cloth, d.j., short tear and light marks to rear panel, 8vo, with others by Waugh including Scott-King’s Modern Europe, 1947 and A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography, 1964 (11)

£200-300

477 Waugh (Evelyn). Decline and Fall, 1928; Vile Bodies, 1930; Black Mischief, 1932; A Handful of Dust, 1934; Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, 1936; Scoop, 1938, 1st eds., Decline and Fall 1st issue with names Martin Gaythorn-Brodie and Kevin Saunderson pp.168-169 unchanged, Scoop 1st issue with ‘as’ correct to last line of p.88, a few scattered light spots, previous owner signature to Decline and Loveday, Loveday hinges neatly reinforced, original red and black patterned boards, a little rubbed at spine ends and edges, 8vo (6)

£300-400

478 West (Nathanael). Miss Lonelyhearts, 1949; The Day of the Locust, 1951; A Cool Million, 1954, 1st UK eds., original cloth, Lonelyhearts spine a trifle faded, d.j.s, Cool Million price-clipped, Locust spine slightly faded, 8vo (3)

£100-150

479 Wodehouse (P.G.). PSmith in the City, 1st ed., A & C Black, 1910, 12 b & w illustrations, pubs. list at end, one or two leaves detached, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, spine rubbed with small closed tears at ends, 8vo, together with PSmith Journalist, 1st ed., A & C Black, 1915, 12 b & w plates, a few detached, some spotting, front hinge a little tender, original pictorial cloth, small split to upper joint, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Mike, 2nd ed., 1910 McIlvaine A14a, A15c & A12a.2.

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£150-200

480 Woolf (Virginia). Between the Acts, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1941, original blue cloth gilt, in d.j. (design by Vanessa Bell), sl. rubbed and a little chipped with a little loss to head of spine and top edge of upper wrapper, 8vo, together with The Common Reader, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1925, some light spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth-backed boards with cover design by Vanessa Bell, a little rubbed and some light soiling, outer corners a little bumped, both 8vo (2)

Lot 480

£100-150

481 Zola (Emile). Doctor Pascal, or Life and Heredity, 1893; Lourdes, 1894; Paris, 1898; Germinal, or Master and Man, 1901, 1st UK eds., pubs. list at end of each, one or two spots, bookplates to Lourdes and Germinal, original decorative cloth, Pascal spines a little worn, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with others by Zola including The “Assommoir”, 1884, The Conquest of Plassans, 1887, The Soil, 1888, The Downfall, 1892 and Stories for Ninon, 1895 (27)

£100-150

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FINE ART & ANTIQUES INCLUDING: OLD MASTER & MODERN BRITISH PRINTS, CHINESE WATERCOLOURS & JAPANESE PRINTS, ORIENTAL WORKS OF ART, JADE, 18TH-CENTURY AND LATER SILVER INCLUDING TIFFANY, JEWELLERY, OBJETS D’ART, CERAMICS, FURNITURE AND EFFECTS

A George II silver salver by James Morison, London 1751, 30oz.

Estimate £500-700

Part of a large section of silver and jewellery included in the sale.

For more information please contact Nathan Winter nathan@dominicwinter.co.uk Henry Meadows henry@dominicwinter.co.uk

WEDNESDAY 16 JULY 2014 FURTHER ENTRIES INVITED UNTIL 20 JUNE

Zenzi (Hekizan, 18th century) The Shogun Chokatsu Komei flanked by his warriors Chohi and Kanu, watercolour.

Estimate ÂŁ400-600

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Illustration from an album of eleven 19th-century Chinese watercolours on pith paper.

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2. (a) The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle it or re-offer the lot. The Auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine the advance of bidding or refuse a bid, divide any lot, combine any two or more lots or withdraw any lot without prior notice. (b) Where goods are bought at auction by a buyer who has entered into an agreement with another or others that the other or others (or some of them) shall abstain from bidding for the goods and the buyer or other party or one of the other parties is a dealer (as defined in the Auction Biddings Agreement Act 1927) the buyer warrants that the goods are bought bona fide on joint account.

3. The buyer shall pay the price at which a lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer to the buyer (“the hammer price”) together with a premium of 19.5% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the premium will be subject to VAT at 23.40% which under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 19.5% and assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission.

4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the conclusion of the auction the total sum due. (b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion be put up again and resold immediately. (c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased no later than five working days after the auction day. (d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's cheque has been cleared.

5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights: (i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall belong to the seller. (ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract. (b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day. (c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.

6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any lot on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any lot on which a reserve has been placed. (b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer the lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot. (c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by private treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from the seller the normal selling commission and special expenses.

7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue, brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the correctness of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied warranties are hereby excluded.

8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery and within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the same to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the sale and satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the entry in the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. "A deliberate forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive. (b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount paid to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was made out by the Auctioneer.

9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance with 4(d) hereof.

10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to the Auctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.

11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage.

The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the best bid, or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods. (b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s written instructions.

12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.

13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to sell any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in respect of the lot or lots.

14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if incorporated herein.

15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.

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DOMINIC WINTER SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS Saleroom and Offices: Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 Fax: 01285 862461

COMMISSION SLIP Please Bid on my behalf at the sale on 19 June 2014 up to the amount shown.

I acknowledge that I will be required to pay a buyer's premium at the current rate.

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Postage can be arranged for most purchases. For UK and European customers we use DPD (formerly Parceline) or Royal Mail: a separate charge is added to the invoice (minimum ÂŁ15) and parcels are despatched as soon as possible after payment has been received. All framed and glazed items and all lots for overseas customers outside Europe will be sent to Mail Boxes Etc. (tel: Swindon 01793 525009) or R.F. Shipping (tel: London 0845 873 6240). Both of these companies will quote and invoice separately. Please note: DWBA invoices must be paid before consignments are handed to third party shipping companies.

The nearest train station to the saleroom is Kemble (BR) which is on the London (Paddington) to Worcester Shrub Hill line. Train journey times from London are on average 90 minutes whether direct or with one change, and run at about one per hour from early until late. Several of the trains in each direction are direct and about half the services require a brief change at Swindon. Customers are advised to check train times and book as early as possible for the best range of ticket services and discounts.

National Rail Enquiries:

08457 484950

Telephone advance train ticket booking:

08457 000125 (First Great Western)

Online train timetables and online ticket bookings:

www.nationalrail.co.uk

Taxis from Kemble Station (5 miles/10 minutes) Brian's Cabs Cirencester Radio Cars Cirencester Taxis

01285 655299 / 07980 579947 01285 650850 01285 642767

Taxis from Swindon Station (12 miles/25minutes) V-Cars

01793 701701

Cirencester Visitor Information Centre

+44 (0)1285 654180 cirencestervic@cotswold.gov.uk

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