Lot 510 506 Folio Society. History of the Conquest of Mexico, by William H. Prescott, 1994, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph, by T.E. Lawrence, 2000, Memoirs of a Fighting Captain, by Admiral Lord Cochrane, 2005, The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, 2005, The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, 1998, together with 101 further volumes, all original cloth in slipcases, plus 14 volumes without slipcase, G/VG, 8vo (120)
509 Hutchinson (Horace G., ed.). Golf Greens and GreenKeeping, 1st edition, Country Life, 1906, half-tone plates, one double-page plan, occasional light spotting, front free endpaper with presentation inscription to Chorleywood Golf Club dated March 1931 and also with later inscription beneath, original red cloth gilt, very slight fading to spine & faint mark to rear cover, 8vo Donovan & Murdoch, 1906. (1)
£200-300
510 Illustrated London News. 141 volumes, a lengthy continuous run, volumes 1-138, (including three duplicates) 1842-1910, numerous wood engravings, chromolithographs, maps, advertisements and steel engravings, with folding and panoramic plates, retaining several of the city panoramas including Edinburgh (1845), Dublin (1846), Paris (1848) and Rome (1850), the July-December 1878 (the Cypress volume) is present, all publisher’s original gilt decorated cloth, a few boards are detached and an occasional spine is frayed or lacking but otherwise in bright sound condition, folio, plus 2 supplements
507 Folio Society. The Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, illustrated by E.J. Detmold, 4th printing, 2001, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence, 2000, The Complete Plays, 8 volumes, by William Shakespeare, 7th printing, 2007, The Once and Future King, by T.H. White, 2003, Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee, 2003, togethe with 21 further volumes, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8vo (33)
£70-100
508 Grace (William Gilbert). Cricket, 1st edition, Bristol & London, 1891, portrait frontispiece and engraved plates, a few minor marks, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original black half morocco gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed, a little wear to extremities, 4to
(143)
Large paper issue, limited to 652 numbered copies, of which this is number 32, signed by the author. The subscribers’ list at rear indicates that no. 32 was given to Lord Hawke (1860-1938), captain of England and Yorkshire. There is now no bookplate to front pastedown but evidence of one having been removed. (1) £300-500
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£100-150
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£3000-5000