Dominic Winter 21 June 2012

CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MODERN FIRST EDITIONS THURSDAy 21 JUNE 2012

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East coast of England, with an inset map of the River Thames by Capt. Greenville Collins, c.1700. Est. £200-300

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CONTENTS Antiquarian Juvenile Books Bygone Toys & Games Ephemera & Collectables Original Illustrations & Artwork Private Press Children’s & Illustrated Books Rupert Bear American & British Comics Wilfred Haughton Collection Film Posters Jack Cardiff Collection Autographs Modern First Editions

1-48 49-80 81-91 92-141 142-161 162-276 277-292 293-308 309-318 319-365 366-375 376-381 382-574

ANTIQUARIAN JUVENILE BOOKS & LITERATURE To commence at 11am

2 Belson (Mary). The Rambles of a Butterfly, 1st ed., printed by and for W. Darton, 1819, eng. frontis. and two eng. plts., generally toned, some leaves starting, G2 sl. frayed at fore-edge, contemp. ms. inscription on front pastedown, lacking front free endpaper, orig. roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed and some wear, 12mo in 6s, together with The Live Doll; or Ellen’s New-Year’s Gift, 1st ed., pub. William Darton, [1833], eng. frontis., addn. title, and nine eng. plts. (incl. vign. on final leaf below text), 4pp. pubs. ads. at rear, A3 and A4 with lower blank gutter corners torn away, stitching largely broken and text block becoming loose in orig. green cloth gilt, dampspotted, 12mo in 6s, plus Elliott (Mary), Tales of Truth, 1st ed., William Darton, c.1836, hand-col. eng. frontis., and four eng. plts., 6pp. pubs. ads. at rear, some light spotting, contemp. pencil inscription at head of title-page, endpapers renewed, orig. blindstamped morocco, faded spine with gilt lettered label, extrems. rubbed and sl. worn in places, sm. 8vo, plus thirty-eight other antiquarian children’s books similar, some defective, some odd vols., the majority from the library of Lawrence Darton Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£200-300

3 Berquin (Arnaud). L’Ami des Enfans, 23 vols. (of 24), London: Elmsley, 1782-83, contemp. half sheep gilt, extrems. worn, some spine labels missing and a few marbled sidings detached, 16mo in 8s, together with Adam (Victor), Les Enfans de la Mere Gigogne, Brussels, c.1840, half-title, twenty-four hand-col. litho. plts., incl. frontis. and title-page, lightly toned, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., orig. blindstamped calf gilt, rubbed and lightly stained, spine faded, sq.

12mo in 6s, plus Arnault (A.V.) Fables, Paris: Chaumerot, 1812, double-page eng. frontis., scattered foxing, moiré pink silk endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. straight-grained navy morocco, elaborately gilt dec., one or two faint marks to lower cover, large 12mo, plus Delafaye (Julie), Les Soupers de Famille ou Noveaux Contes Moraux, Instructifs et Amusans Pour les Enfans..., 3 vols., Paris, 1817, twelve eng. plts., occn. foxing, ms. names on endpapers, bookseller’s eng. ticket on front pastedowns, contemp. half calf gilt, extrems. rubbed, spines faded, 12mo in 6s, plus La Recreation de L’Enfance ou Joli Recueil de Gravures Amusantes. Dedie aux petits garcon..., Paris: Alexis Eymery, 1812, eng. title-page and fifteen eng. plts., incl. frontis., some light foxing, stitching strained, contemp. ms. ownership name on front pastedown, orig. boards with printed label on upper cover, rubbed and soiled, spine lacking, oblong 12mo, plus nine other antiquarian children’s books in French

1 Ballantyne (R.M.). The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1858, colour frontispiece of “Terrible encounter with a shark”, additional colour title, six colour plates, some spotting throughout, early owner inscription to front endpaper of Mary Ann S. Colyer, Hombush Hall, 1861, pale yellow endpapers renewed, original variant blindstamped red cloth gilt with circular illustration in gilt to upper cover, rebacked with orig. spine laid down, rubbed, 8vo Ballantyne’s classic adventure story, which strongly influenced R.L. Stevenson, and which led William Golding to write Lord of the Flies in an attempt to update the original.

(1) £300-400

See Osborne Collection, 1, p.232 for the London edition of ‘L’Ami des Enfans’.

Berquin’s work was first published in Paris in 1782 in twenty-four monthly parts. The French Academy awarded Berquin ‘A prize for usefulness’, and this work was acclaimed the most famous children’s book in France and England.

(38) £300-400

Left: Lot 64 5

4 Bishop (James). A Visit to the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent’s Park..., 7th ed., n.d., c. 1850, folding hand-col. frontis., hand-col. vign. title, ten hand-col. plts., eng. illusts. to text, some staining to endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, wear and fading to covers, small 4to (1)

£150-200

6 Buchan (John). Sir Quixote of the Moors. Being some Account of an Episode in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine, 1st ed., 1895, woodcut device at front, 4pp. ads at end, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo

5 Bohny (Nicholas). The New Picture Book, Being Pictorial Lessons on Form, Comparison, and Number, for Children Under Seven Years of Age, 1st ed., Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1858, thirtysix leaves of hand-col. illusts. (complete), a few leaves with pencilled annotations, first plt. with closed tear repaired on verso, some marginal toning and finger marks, title-page foxed and torn with loss, endpapers renewed, orig. col. pictorial boards, soiled and edges worn, spine sometime crudely repaired, oblong 4to (1)

(1)

£100-150

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£200-300

9 Collins (Wilkie). Mr. Wray’s Cash-Box; Or, The Mask and The Mystery, 1st ed., 1852, half title, engraved frontispiece after J.E. Millais, 4pp. pubs. ads. at end, one or two spots, original blue cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£250-350

7 Burnett (Frances Hodgson). Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1st UK ed., pub. Warne, 1886, num. eng. plts. and illusts., some scattered spotting, orig. cloth covers bound in at rear, a.e.g, recent blue crushed morocco gilt by Baynton, 8vo This was Burnett's first children's book. Little Lord Fauntleroy first appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine between 1885 and 1886. Scribners first published it in book form in 1886. It lead to an increase in mothers dressing there children in velvet suits to match the dress of Oscar Wilde.

(1) £100-150

10 Crawhall (Joseph). Old Aunt Elspa’s A B C. We’ll soon learn how to read, Then-how clever we’ll be, Leadenhall Press, 1884, wood eng. throughout, with the alphabet and accompanying illusts., orig. eng. wrappers, lower edges frayed, oblong 4to

8 Chapbooks. Marks’s History of an Apple Pie [drop-title], J.L. Marks, c.1840, pp.8, alphabet illustrated with wood engs. throughout, first page hand-col., orig. printed wrappers, sl. marked and frayed, slim 8vo, together with Alphabet of Comicalities [covertitle], T. Goode, c.1860, pp.14, wood engs. throughout, first page (forming front cover) hand-col., slim 8vo, together with Mother Goose and the Golden Egg [cover-title], W.S. Fortey, c.1860, pp.8, wood engs., some hand-col., untrimmed, orig. printed wrappers, sl. edge-frayed, slim 8vo, plus approx. twenty-seven other chapbooks or similar, incl. The Dogs’ Dinner Party, Dean & Son, c.1860, and several Cock Robin items, a number sometime sewn into a fabric tartan folder (worn), some defective (approx. 30)

(1)

£150-200

11 Darton (William, pub.). Series of Scripture Prints [running title], c.1838-43, thirty-nine hand-col. copper-eng. plts., the first pasted to the front free endpaper, the others mounted back to back, text leaf mounted below each plt. with imprint ‘Edward Suter, Printer, Infant School Depository, 19, Cheapside’, some edge-tears and corners neatly repaired, early ms. inscription on front pastedown, stitching strained, contemp. qtr. morocco, sometime rebacked, rubbed, extrems. worn, folio Lawrence, The Dartons, H1354 - this is the actual copy referred to: from the library of Lawrence Darton. Rare: COPAC lists only the Oxford copy.

(1) £80-120

£100-150

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12 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1866, illustrations by John Tenniel, half title lacking, p.119 with small piece of lower corner torn away, p.81 with short foredge tear, one or two other leaves with repaired marginal tears, occasional light spotting, later red morocco by Maltby, spine a little faded, a.e.g., 8vo Avery 7.

(1)

£1500-2000

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13 Ducray-Duminil (Francois Guillaume). Contes des Fees, 4 vols., Paris, 1819, fifteen eng. plts., vol. 1 wormed at gutter through most of vol., marbled endpapers, green silk markers, a.e.g., contemp. marbled calf, sl. rubbed and corners showing, vols. 1 and 3 with minor worming to spines, spines divided by gilt rules between rope rolls and scallop rolls, red leather labels in second and fourth compartments, remainder with gilt star and palmette tool, covers with gilt fillet and scrolling roll border, 12mo in 6s (4)

£70-100

14 Granville (Austyn). The Fallen Race, 1st ed., Neely, New York and Chicago, 1892, five b & w illustrations, light toning and a few spots, blindstamp and booklabel at front, contemporary red half calf, spine faded and lightly rubbed, 8vo Strange early sci-fi/fantasy novel set in Australia.

(1)

£200-300

15 Hamilton (Elizabeth). Exercises in Religious Knowledge; for the Instruction of Young Persons, 1st ed., Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1809, 4pp. ads. for Edinburgh House of Industry at rear, followed by 2pp. pubs. ads., crest ink stamp at head of first text leaf (A1), E12 with small burn hole in blank fore-margin, ms. inscription on prelim. blank ‘From the Author’, marbled endpapers, contemp. armorial bookplate on front pastedown of William Blair Esqr. of Blair, early ms. ownership name of Mrs. Blair of Blair on verso of front free endpaper, contemp. sprinkled calf, gilt dec. spine and edges rubbed, 12mo Rare. Elizabeth Hamilton (1756-1816) was an Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet, satirist and novelist. She was a prominent voice for moral and educational reform, advocating equal education for all, and emphasising Mary Wollstonecraft’s belief in the importance of education for girls. At a time when female writers were relegated to novels and children’s literature, Hamilton delved into history, philosophy, political satire, educational reform, and Oriental studies, discourses normally considered the realm of men. She wrote ‘The Cottagers of Glenburnie’ (1808), a tale which had much popularity in its day, and had some effect in the improvement of certain aspects of humble domestic life in Scotland. As well as writing prolifically, Hamilton managed the Edinburgh House of Industry, a shelter and training facility for women.

(1) £150-200

Lot 13

16 Hardy (Thomas). Life’s Little Ironies, 1st ed., 1894, light toning, original cloth, spine lightly rubbed, slight lean, 8vo, together with The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, 1st ed., 1923, illustrations, one or two spots, original cloth gilt, spine ends rubbed, 8vo, with others by Hardy including Late Lyrics and Earlier, 1922, Human Shows Far Phantasies, 1925 and Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, 1928 (8)

£150-200

17 [Hays, Mary]. The Brothers; or, Consequences. With an account of Savings Banks, and other essays, Edinburgh, printed for Oliver and Boyd, 1819, pp.[5]+6-173+[1](blank), five full-page wood engs., incl. frontis., contemp. ms. inscription on front free endpaper, hinges splitting, orig. roan-backed marbled boards gilt, lightly rubbed and sl. loss at spine ends, 12mo in 6s First published in London in 1815, all editions are scarce. COPAC lists only one copy, at Oxford (the 1815 first edition, varying from our edition, with slightly different title, 71pp. of text, and advertisements on the final page).

Not in Osborne or Gumuchian. Mary Hays was a close friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, a correspondent of William Godwin, and author of scandalous and feminist novels, radical pamphlets, and her acclaimed ‘Female Biography’.

Hays was an associate of radicals such as William Blake and Thomas Paine, and also of leading dissenters, including George Dyer and Joseph Priestley.

‘The Brothers’ is a juvenile moral tale, which includes a piece extolling the virtues of saving with the Savings Bank.

(1) £100-150

Lot 14

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18 Hieroglyphic Bible. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth..., 13th ed., printed Robert Bassam, 1796, woodcut frontis. laid down to front pastedown, woodcut illusts. throughout, orig. dec. boards, spine lacking, 12mo, plus one other similar (defective) (2)

£70-100

19 The Infant’s Library. Books 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, & 14, 1st eds., printed and sold by J. Marshall, No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, c.1800, full-page wood engs. on letterpress, some hand-col., some browning and cornercreasing, one or two closed tears, Books 7 and 14 lacking free endpapers, orig. boards with printed oval label on upper covers, dusty and worn, with old repairs to spines (mostly sewn), 60 x 47 mm (2.25 x 1.75 ins), together with eighteen other Infant’s Library titles, comprising seven 1st eds. lacking covers (Books 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 x 2, 15), four 2nd eds. (Books 4, 8, 11, 14), and seven incomplete vols. (1st and 2nd eds.)

Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£300-500

20 Jameson (Anna Brownell). A First or Mother’s Dictionary for Children; Containing upwards of Three Thousand Eight Hundred Words which occur most frequently in Books and Conversation; simply and familiarly explained, and Interspersed throughout with Occasional Remarks: the Whole Adapted to the Capacities of Younger Pupils, by Anna Brownwell Murphy, 1st ed., W. Darton, [1815], ink ownership to front endpapers, hinges cracked, contemp. red half sheep, rubbed, 12mo Osborne p.125. Two UK institutional locations (British Library and V & A).

(1) £70-100

21 [Malory, Sir Thomas]. The Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of Kyng Arthur; Of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, Theyr Merveyllous Enquestes and Adventures..., Introduction and Notes by Robert Southey, Printed from Caxton's Edition 1485, 2 vols., pub. Longman, 1817, eng. vign. title to vol. 1, vol. 2 lacking title, pencil underlining throughout, scattered spotting, recent morocco gilt, 4to This was the first modern text of Malory. He tried to recapture the original text of Caxton. Later versions of the book contained illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and Arthur Rackham. See lot 178 for the Beardsley version.

(2) £200-300

22 Miniature books. Pictures of English History, in Miniature, Designed by Alfred Mills. With Descriptions, 2 vols., printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton... and J. Harris, 1811, ninety-six eng. plts. (one with closed tear), orig. red roan gilt, spines faded and sl. rubbed at ends, 63 x 58mm (2.5 x 2.25ins), together with seven other miniature books (some defective), incl. Instructive Stories; Consisting of Rashness - Alonzo, and Indolence Reclaimed, Cabinet of Lilliput, J. Harris, 1802, lacking frontis., and a Bryce’s Holy Bible (9)

25 My Father. [Drop-title], n.p., c.1839, pp.16, printed on one side of the page only, eight hand-col. engs. with text in verse beneath, lacking title-page (?), front pastedown inscribed to Mary Catherine Wallace, 1839, with a note beneath in a childish hand ‘from her Dear father’, orig. blindstamped brown morroco, rubbed, gilt titled on upper cover, sm. 8vo, together with Darton (William) The True History of a Little Boy who Cheated Himself. Founded on Fact, By a Young Naval Officer, 1813, twelve eng. plts., pubs. ad. leaf at rear, generally soiled, one text leaf detached and frayed, contemp. ms. inscription on front free endpaper, orig. printed wrappers, dusty and frayed, with some loss, 12mo, plus Lewis (Matthew Gregory), A True History of a Little Old Woman, who found a Silver Penny, printed for Tabart and Co., 1806, twelve hand-col. eng. plts. on six leaves, plus a hand-col. folding double-page plt. (old stitched and fabric repairs to folds, generally foxed and a little edge-frayed, title-page with early ink trials, later wrappers, with orig. printed rear wrapper bound in, 12mo, plus three other early children’s books with handcol. engs.: Costumes or a Short Sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Principal Foreign Inhabitants of the Globe (not in Osborne or COPAC); The History of Ann and her Eleven Sisters, pub. T. Hughes; Cock Robin, n.p., c.1840s

£100-150

23 Morgan (Lady Sydney Owenson). Woman: Or, Ida of Athens, 4 vols., 1809, modern speckled calf, 8vo (4)

£150-200

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

(1) £500-800

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£200-300

Lot 24

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Lot 27

26 Paper Doll Book. A manuscript paper doll book, c.1820, 18pp. manuscript in a neat copperplate hand (and a number of blank leaves), with hand-drawn frontis., and nine hand-drawn and coloured cut-out paper doll figures loosely inserted (one in duplicate), with interchangeable head, and one hat, to illustrate the various tales in verse, incl. one moveable figure, and one depicting playing cards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, orig. green calf notebook, covers blind panelled and with gilt double fillet and palmette border, three leather pencil-holder loops on fore-edge of covers, 12.5 x 10.5cm (5 x 4ins), together with Ellen, or the Naughty Girl Reclaimed, 3rd ed., 1811, 19pp., orig. printed wrappers, sl. frayed and soiled, with one orig. hand-col. cut-out figure only (Ellen seated with a book in her hand) plus four contemp. hand-made cut-out figures (one damaged) and one hand-made head With tales of children in verse, e.g.: ‘The untidy little girl’; ‘Christmas Day’; ‘The rude girl’.

(2) £300-500

27 Paper Doll Book. Ellen, or The Naughty Girl Reclaimed, a Story, Exemplified in a Series of Figures, 3rd ed., printed for S. and J. Fuller, 1811, nine cut-out hand-col. figures in aquatint loosely inserted, with orig. interchangeable head, plus four head-pieces (of five), orig. printed wrappers, in orig. printed slipcase (split along bottom edge, and a few stains), 16mo

28 Paper Doll Book. The History of Little Fanny. Exemplified in a Series of Figures, 10th ed., printed for S. & J. Fuller, 1830, seven cut-out hand-col. figures in aquatint loosely inserted, with interchangeable head, plus two head-pieces (of four?), 4pp. pubs. ads. at rear, orig. printed wrappers with silk ties to spine, in matching card slipcase (sl. split and soiled at edges), 16mo

See Osborne p.1051 for the first edition, 1811, (lacking the five head-pieces and the slipcase). No edition in Gumuchian.

(1) £300-500

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£150-200

29 Paper Doll Book. Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper: Beautifully Versified, and Illustrated with Figures, 1st ed., printed for S. and J. Fuller, 1819, six cut-out hand-col. figures and a cut-out handcol. folding coach and horses in aquatint loosely inserted (latter split at fold and neatly repaired with archive tape on verso), lacking the interchangeable head and the four head plumes, text with scattered light foxing, orig. printed wrappers with orig. ribbon tie (upper cover with short tear and sl. loss to lower edge), in matching printed slipcase (dusty and split along one side), 16mo See Osborne p.1051 for the first edition of 1814 (with no mention of headpieces). No edition in Gumuchian.

(1) £100-150

30 Paper Doll Book. Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper: Beautifully Versified, and Illustrated with Figures, 1st ed., printed for S. and J. Fuller, 1819, six cut-out hand-col. figures and a cut-out handcol. folding coach and horses in aquatint loosely inserted (latter split at fold and repaired with fabric tape on verso), lacking the interchangeable head and the four head plumes, text with occn. spotting, orig. printed wrappers, sl. edge-frayed, lacking ribbon tie, in matching printed slipcase (worn and split along two sides, with old paper repairs), 16mo See Osborne p.1051 for the first edition of 1814 (with no mention of headpieces). No edition in Gumuchian.

(1) £100-150

32* Paper dolls. A large collection of hand-made paper dolls and clothes, c.1900, approx. 160 card/paper cut-outs with watercolour, comprising four figures of small girls, with eighty-three interchangeable outfits (smocked dresses, coats, sailor suits, etc.); three figures of boys, with twenty-two outfits (suits, blousons, sailor suits, cricket whites, dinner suits, etc.); one figure of a housemaid, with ten garments (grey dresses, aprons, etc.); and three figures of young ladies, with fourteen dresses and skirts, plus twenty-three hats and head-pieces, one or two unfinished, some damage and occn. adhesive tape repairs, but generally in good condition, figures approx. 175mm (7ins) high and smaller

31* Paper Dolls. Dollie Daisie Dimple, and her Travelling Trunk, with complete set of Gowns and other clothing..., Hindes, c.1890, cutout card figure of Dollie with thirteen cut-out garments, incl. corset, night-dress, bloomers, dresses, apron, etc., and another approx. nine addn. cut-out clothes and props, e.g. cap, dog, racket, hat, music case, etc., together with 8pp. accompanying booklet in printed wrappers, entitled The Birthday of Dollie Daisy Dimple, all contained in orig. cardboard trunk with hinged lid, rubbed and sl. worn, 52 x 179 x 70mm (2 x 7 x 2.75ins), together with three stencilcol. litho. sheets of paper dolls, titled Neue Ankleidefiguren, Weissenburg, c.1900, approx. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13.5ins) and nine sheets of paper doll figures from early 20th c. American publications for children, approx. 295 x 210mm (11.75 x 8.25ins) (1)

A remarkable survival of an ephemeral and fragile plaything, all the clothes and dolls skillfully drawn and meticulously detailed, showing late Victorian/early Edwardian fashions. (approx. 160) £200-300

£150-200

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Lot 34

33 Phillips (Watts). An Accommodation Bill..., D. Bogue, [covertitle], c.1850, eighteen hand-col. etched caricature plts., joined concertina-style, orig. printed upper board (sl. rubbed and marked), lacking spine and lower board, 138 x 99mm (5.5 x 4ins), together with The History of Prince Lee Boo, Son of Abba Thulle, King of the Pelew Islands..., printed for Thomas Hughes, 1823, three handcol. eng. plts., incl. frontis. (detached), orig. roan-backed boards, spine deficient and upper cover detached, 12mo in 6s (2)

35 [Ritson, Anne]. Classical Enigmas, adapted to Every Month in the Year, composed from the English and Roman Histories, Heathen Mythology, and Names of Famous Writers: Meant to amuse Youth of all Ages..., 1st ed., printed by W. Darton, 1811, two full-page eng. illusts. (one with lower blank corner torn away), letterpress vigns., Key to the Enigmas at rear, one or two marks, orig. pictorial wrappers, rubbed and soiled, sm. 8vo, together with Belson (Mary), Grateful Tributes; or, Recollections of Infancy, 1st ed., printed by W. Darton, 1811, wood eng. letterpress vigns., first and final pages a little dusty, orig. pictorial wrappers, rubbed and soiled, sm. 8vo

£100-150

34 Picture book. Bilder-Sammlung. Picture-book. Collection d’images, Guben: F. Flechner, c.1854, hand-col. engs. throughout, printed on facing versos and rectos, contemp. ms. inscription on front pastedown, orig. patterned boards with hand-col. eng. label on upper cover, upper cover detached, sq. 8vo, together with Language of Flowers, by Kate Greenaway, pub. Warne, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, illust. Margaret Tarrant, pub. Dent, 1950 (3)

Both titles scarce.

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£100-150

36 Russell (Lady Rachel Evelyn). Memoirs of Two Favourites, privately printed, 1839, half-title, contemp. ms. inscription from the author on front free endpaper ‘To Miss Jago from Rachel E. Russell, Camden Hill, 1843’, a.e.g., orig. moiré green cloth, gilt titled on upper cover, lacking spine, corners rubbed, sm. 8vo

£100-150

Rare: British Library copy only on COPAC. The book contains two stories: ‘Memoirs of a Dormouse’ and ‘Memoirs of a Doll’, each written as if by their subject. Lady Rachel Russell was the daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford, and she married Lord James Butler. Edwin Landseer painted her portrait when she was a child; unsubstantiated gossip said that Rachel was his daughter.

(1) £100-150

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37 Smith (Rev. Thomas). The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology, 6 vols., 1st ed., printed for J. Wallis and J. Harris, 1806, half-title to first vol., eng. frontis. to each vol. (offset to title), some gatherings near-detached, blue sprinkled edges, orig. red roan-backed boards gilt, spines with insect damage (that to vol. 1 extensive), 12mo, contained in original sycamore box in the form of a bookcase, vertical sliding lid with hand-col. eng. label (sl. rubbed) and a Sheraton-style pediment, box lined with pink paper, base with near contemp. ms. inscription ‘Amelia Gordon Presented to her by Capitan Watt 27th April 1815’, box 187 x 107 x 105mm (7.5 x 4.25 x 4.25ins) Extremely rare; we have been unable to trace a set in the original box sold at auction.

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£700-1000

38 Stoker (Bram). Dracula, 1st ed., 2nd issue(?), pub. Constable, 1897, 390pp., 8pp. adverts at rear commencing with The Amazing Marriage and ending with the Works of Shakespeare (with no mention of Dracula), lacking front blank and half title, last contents leaf with marginal tear, some short closed tears and light spotting, previous owner signatures and bookplate removed from front pastedown, original cloth, tears at spine ends and upper joint, a little soiled and stained, slight lean, 8vo

41 Tabart (Benjamin, pub.). Authentic Memoirs of the Little Man and the Little Maid: with Some Interesting Particulars of Their Lives.

Illustrated with Engravings, A New Edition, 1808, [cover-title], twelve hand-col. stipple eng. plts., lacking title-page, generally toned, some edge-tears (with one or two paper repairs), hand-col. eng. of the Witch of Rona mounted on verso of rear wrapper, orig. printed wrappers, rubbed, edge-torn and chipped, sometime crudely rebacked, sq. 12mo in 6s

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Moon, Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library, 109(3a). Some copies are interleaved with a musical setting; ours is not. All editions are scarce.

(1) £70-100

£600-800

39 Stoker (Bram). Dracula, 1st ed., 3rd issue(?), pub. Constable, 1897, 16pp. ads. at end begining with ‘The Shoulder of Shasta’, bound without front blank and half title, some leaves with repairs to outer margins, some light spotting, original covers and part of spine boundin at end (some stains), modern half calf, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, 8vo, together with Personal Reminicences of Henry Irving, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1906, illustrations, endpapers toned, original red cloth gilt, spines a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, with two others (5)

42 Verne (Jules). The Clipper of the Clouds, 1st UK ed., 1887, b & w frontispiece and 41 illustrations (three loose), 32pp. pubs. ads. at rear dated October 1886, one or two minor spots, previous owner signature, a.e.g., original pictorial cloth, spine ends a trifle rubbed, 8vo A good copy of a scarce title. Although Myers notes a copy with 24 page publisher’s catalogue at the end, all the other copies located have the 32pp. ads. as above. Myers 12.

(1) £800-1200

£500-700

40 Stoker (Bram). Dracula, 1st ed., later issue, 1897, ‘Shoulder of Shasta’ advert. (recto blank) and 16pp. pubs. ads. dated 1898 at end, some leaves loose, some soiling and marginal tears, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, hinges reinforced, original yellow cloth, spine ends torn with loss, spine darkened, rubbed with small stains, 8vo (1)

43 Verne (Jules). The Green Ray, 2nd impression, 1883, woodengraved frontispiece and 43 illustrations, 32pp. pubs. ads. at end dated September 1883, contents loosening, booklabel, original green and brown pictorial cloth, spine head torn, 8vo, together with Five Weeks in a Balloon, 2nd ed., 1874 and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 9th ed., 1876

£400-600

Myers 31.

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£400-600

44 Verne (Jules). Dr. Ox’s Experiment, and Other Stories, 1st UK ed., 1874, b & w illustrations, some light spotting, hinges cracking, previous owner inscription, a.e.g., original red pictorial cloth gilt, spine a little rubbed, 8vo Myers 16.

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£200-300

45 Wilde (Oscar). Intentions, 1st ed., 1891, a few minor spots, previous owner signature, original green cloth gilt, edges a little rubbed, one or two marks, 8vo (1)

£150-200

46 Wright (George). The Young Moralist, consisting of Allegorical and Entertaining Essays, in Prose and Verse; compiled from Various Authors..., 3rd ed., printed for H. Turpin, 1782, oval eng. letterpress illusts., 6pp. pubs. ads. at rear, occn. early ms. marginalia, some staining, mostly to margins, 19th c. half roan gilt, extrems. rubbed, 12mo in 6s, together with twenty-one other antiquarian children’s books, mostly defective or odd vols.

Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£70-100

47 [Yonge, Charlotte Mary]. The Instructive Picture Book. Lessons from the Geographical Distribution of Animals, or the Natural History of the Quadrupeds which Characterise the Principal Divisions of the Globe, pub. Edmonston and Douglas, 1860, sixty hand-col. plts. (complete), hinges a little weak, orig. cloth-backed pict. boards, some wear and splitting to spine, wear to extrems. small folio (1)

£150-200

48 The Young Lady’s Parental Monitor, Containing I. Dr. Gregory’s “Father’s Legacy to His Daughters”, II. Lady Pennington’s “Unfortunate Mothers Advice”..., Printed for Joseph Wenman, 1790, eng. frontis., contemp. calf with label to spine, cracking to joints, wear to extrems., 8vo

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£70-100

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BYGONE TOYS & GAMES 49* Alphabet. A set of alphabet counters, early 19th c., twenty-six circular ivory discs each with a painted letter of the alphabet in black, diameter 22mm, housed in orig. ivory cylindrical container (with vertical crack), lid with the letter ‘A’ in gilt and black surrounded by floral and foliate decoration (rubbed), thread damaged, cyclinder height 40mm (1)

£100-150

50* Alphabet. A set of alphabet tiles, c.1790, eighty-two rectangular bone tiles stained red, each with an incised letter of the alphabet on both sides (upper case on one side and lower case on the other), comprising three sets of the alphabet with long ‘s’ (one set lacking the letter ‘s’) and an extra set of vowels (a, e, y, o, u), 17 x 15mm (.75 x .5ins), contained in orig. wooden box, sliding lid with inset bone panel incised with the words ‘spelling alphabet’, base of box with contemp. ms. note ‘3 Setts Letters & Set Extra Vowels’, box 72 x 105 x 45mm (2.75 x 4.25 x 1.75ins) (1)

£300-500

51* Brickplayer. The Bricks and Mortar Building Kit, J.W. Spears, c.1950s, a large quantity of Brickplayer, comprising: two boxed sets of Brickplayer Kit 3, both largely untouched, with bricks and windows in orig. cellophane; two boxed sets of Brickplayer Accessory Outfit 3A, which converts Kit 3 into Kit 4, one largely untouched in cellophane wrapping, the other also apparently complete with bricks still in cellophane; boxed Windows and Doors set; boxed Tiling and Capping set No.8112, 10 (of 12) tiling sheets, 21 (of 24) capping tiles; six Concrete Roofing sheets No.112, wrapped in cellophane (torn in places); eight unopened pack of Brickplayer Cement (still soft); six Ground Plans for Models 1 to 12, No.8109, all in orig. printed envelope (one torn); and five Brickplayer Farm and How to Build It booklets, all with plans in pocket at rear

Lot 49

An unusually large quantity of largely unused Brickplayer. (a carton)

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£150-200

54* Disney. A large Minnie Mouse toy, Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd., c.1930s, velvet stuffed body, with white-spotted red skirt, bearing Dean’s label to left foot, some wear, length 270mm (10.5ins)

52* Counties of England. A Geographical Game, Jacques and Son, c.1890, 188 cards (four sets of 47), many with colour-printed views, complete as listed on the four key cards, cards 86 x 65 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), lacking instructions, contained in later mahogany box, part of orig. label mounted on sliding lid, box 207 x 169 x 45mm (6.75 x 8 x 1.75ins), together with Historical Steamship Game, Reichardt, late 19th c., comprising eight identical chromo. cards each depicting a steamship, 165 x 242mm (6.5 x 9.5ins), each with eight slots (a few sl. torn) containing a chromo. portrait, eg. monarchs, presidents, authors, inventors, military leaders, etc., one portrait missing, addn. slot on each card containing a flag, lacking instructions, contained in orig. cardboard box with col. label of a steamship on lid, 184 x 265 x 24mm (7.25 x 10.5 x 1ins), plus Trouble Wit, or, Fifty Different Designs from a Piece of Paper..., late 19th c., two large pieces of blank paper folded concertina style (sl. foxed in places), with metal clip, and large folded and rolled instruction sheet with illusts., showing how to make 24 different figures, incl. Nigger Shirt, Toilet Tidy, Tomahawk, Epaulette, Muff, Parachute, etc., all contained in orig. cardboard box, with printed label on hinged lid, some minor wear to extrems., 168 x 257 x 28mm (6.75 x 10 x 1ins) (3)

Dean’s were the first company to persuade Walt Disney to market a toy based on the characters.

(1) £70-100

£100-150

53* Disney (Walt). A collection of approx. thirty-five coloured glass lantern slides, c.1940s, incl. Mickey Mouse, Snow White, The Pied Piper, Three Little Pigs, all part-sets, some in orig. boxes (generally worn), each slide approx. 4 x 13.5cm (1.5 x 5.25ins), together with a metal viewer, and nine sets of printed instructions, plus a few other misc. items, incl. The Amazing Dancing Charlie, jointed cardboard figure (legs probably supplied from another copy), contained with instruction leaf (trimmed to left-hand edge) in orig. printed cardboard envelope (a small carton)

£100-150

55* Dominoes. The Modern Game of Domino, [Germany], n.p., c.1843, sixty-one (of 64) wooden dominoes, each with one or two hand-col. eng. pictures, each titled below image, sl. toned, a few pieces with indentations, approx. 50 x 25mm (2 x 1ins), contained in orig. wooden box, hand-col. eng. label on sliding lid, sl. rubbed and dusty, base of box with contemp. ms. inscription, approx. 120 x 120 x 50 mm (4.75 x 4.75 x 2ins), together with The Art of Parqueter, [Germany], n.p., c.1850, fifty (of 51) geometric wooden pieces, with six hand-col. pattern sheets, contained in orig. wooden box, handcol. eng. label on sliding lid (creased and sl. worn), approx. 180 x 180 x 35mm (7 x 7 x 1.5ins), plus a mid-to-late 19th c. box of hand-col. litho. pictorial puzzle cubes, dusty, with five (of 6) key sheets, dusty and edge-torn, contained in orig. pictorial box (worn), plus The Game of Schimmell or Bell and Hammer, various cards and counters etc. contained in orig. wooden box with sliding lid (incomplete) (4)

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£100-150

56* Fortune-telling. A large handkerchief printed with a fortunetelling game, Germany, late 19th c., red cotton handkerchief, printed in black and cream with three concentric circles composed of ninety numbered counter squares each with illusts., enclosing an illust. of a blindfolded boy holding a ticket aloft next to a lottery wheel, border composed of circles containing signs of the zodiac alternating with European town names in German with numbers beneath, hemmed to top and bottom edge, occn. minor foxing, approx. 530 x 570mm (21 x 22.5ins)

Lot 57

A most unusual survival in remarkable condition. The illustrations include a hot air balloon, an elephant, playing cards, a pistol, a skull and bell, a boneshaker bicycle, a horned devil with pitchfork, a man playing snooker, a gibbet, and a coffin.

(1) £300-500

57* [Greenaway, Kate]. A collection of ‘Mother Goose’ nursery china, Ridgways, c.1900, sixteen pieces of china, transfer decorated with scenes of children taken from Kate Greenaway’s ‘Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes’ (first pub. 1881), comprising three large and two smaller plates, four dishes, a quatrefoil tureen with a lid and a base, and a larger quatrefoil tureen base, goldrimmed, and with maker’s mark on reverse, together with three other items of Kate Greenaway china, comprising a jug, a pin tray, and a bucket with wire handle (small chip on rim), rimmed in green and stamped ‘England’ on reverse, largest item (tureen base) 144 x 180mm (5.5 x 7ins) (16)

£150-200

58* Harris (John, and Wallis, John, pubs.). Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third, 1803, hand-col. eng. game dissected in twelve sections and mounted on linen, featuring a snail-shell pattern with a portrait of George III in the centre, some faint foxing, 560 x 515mm (22 x 20.25ins), without slipcase and rules Whitehouse, pp.27-28.

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Lot 58

£100-150

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59* Jacob’s Ladder. A mid. 19th century toy Jacob’s Ladder, E. Spurin (late Thos. Edlin), six oblong wooden sections, each with a hand-col. eng. mounted on both sides, depicting a number of children’s games and pastimes, some minor rubbing and marks, with pub’s eng. label and wooden handle on first section, each section approx. 100 x 70mm (4 x 2.75ins), webbing and paper securing strips renewed, overall length 625mm (24.75ins) A rare survival, depicting: Hunt the Slipper; Archery; Flying Kytes; Peg Top & Marbles; Battledore & Shuttlecock; Skipping Rope & Horses; Trundling Hoops; Thread-My-Needle; Blindmans Buff; Whipping Top & Skaiting; Cricket; Trapball.

(1) £200-300

60* Jigsaw maps. The World on Mercator’s Projection, printed for Bowles & Carver, c.1800, eng. wooden jigsaw, hand-col. in outline, approx. 35 pieces, lacking one piece, 25 x 35.5cm (9.75 x 14ins), contained in orig. wooden box, with eng. oval label on sliding lid, together with Wallis’s New Dissected Map of England, Engraved from the latest authorities for the use of Young Students in Geography..., J. Wallis, c.1820, eng. wooden jigsaw, hand-col. in outline, approx. 70 pieces, lacking 3 pieces (Cardigan, Radnorshire, and Bedfordshire), 42.5 x 39cm (16.75 x 15.25ins), contained in orig. wooden box, with eng. label on sliding lid, label rubbed and with one corner chipped (2)

£150-200

61* Jigsaw Puzzles. The Crystal Palace. Monster Building for the Grand International Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, Read & Co., [1851], hand-col. eng. wooden jigsaw puzzle, forty-eight pieces, complete but two pieces with sl. loss, foxed and toned, overall size 247 x 573mm (9.75 x 22.5ins), with hand-col. eng. key sheet (torn into four pieces and each portion frayed with some loss), contained in orig. wooden box, sliding lid with pictorial label (rubbed and soiled, with sl. edge-wear), 170 x 220 x 47mm (6.75 x 8.75 x 1ins), together with English History, Barfoot, c.1851, hand-col. eng. wooden jigsaw puzzle, approx. seventy pieces, with six hand-col. litho. historical scenes representing Julius Caesar, Magna Carta, the first Protestant Bible, the Spanish Armada, Cromwell dissolving Parliament, the first Great International Exhibition, one piece rubbed, 275 x 470mm (11 x 18.5ins), contained in orig. wooden box, pictorial label on sliding lid, lid with edge strip missing, 222 x 192 x 51mm (8.75 x 7.5 x 2ins), plus two other boxed wooden jigsaws (New Disected Maps, England & Wales; Bacon’s Reversible Map Puzzles, An Amusing Aid to the Study of Geography), both incomplete (4)

£150-200

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62* Jigsaw Puzzles. Wallis’s Royal Chronological Tables of English History, on a Plan similar to that of the Dissected Maps, John Wallis, 1788, eng. wooden jigsaw, forty-three pieces, one piece lacking from border (with loss of title) and supplied as a blank, one border piece with contemp. ms. ink trials and missing connecting lugs, dusty and toned, overall size 416 x 607 (16.5 x 24ins), contained in orig. wooden box (damaged), printed label on sliding lid (with contemp. ms. ownership name), 183 x 217 x 64mm (7.25 x 8.5 x 2.5ins), together with The Principal Events in the History of England, to the Reign of George the III, Darton, Harvey & Darton, 1814, hand-col. eng. wooden jigsaw, forty-eight pieces, rubbed and dusty, one piece broken in two and repaired on verso, another piece with portion supplied in facsimile, a number of lugs broken off, overall size 430 x 550mm (17 x 21.5ins), contained in later wooden box with sliding lid, 200 x 180 x 67mm (8 x 7 x 2.5ins) (2)

63* Jigsaw Map. South Britain or England & Wales, Divided into its Counties, Drawn from the Latest Authorities, by Thomas Kitchin, pub. Laurie & Whittle, 1794, sixty-six pieces (of 70), several pieces with surface loss, small pieces missing etc., contained in orig. wooden box, overall worn condition, map measures approx. 20.5 x 17.5 inches (1)

ÂŁ150-200

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ÂŁ100-150

64* Leigh (Samuel, pub.). Urania’s Mirror, or, a View of the Heavens, 2nd ed. c.1825, thirty-two pictorial handcoloured constellation cards, engraved by Sidney Hall, each depicting a constellation pierced with holes of varying size comensurate with the magnitude of the stars within each constellation, and designed to be held to the light, occn. fox spots, each card 200 x 140mm (8 x 5.5ins), without instructions, but contained in orig. cardboard box, some wear, with loss of one side of base and some adhesive tape repairs, pull-off lid with hand-col. eng. pictorial label (browned) Rarely found complete and in the original box. There are two versions of the cards: in the first edition only the stars in those constellations named on each card heading were included, leaving the figures looking rather lonely and isolated; in the second edition, which followed soon after the appearance of the first, stars were added in the surrounding constellations.

‘Urania’s Mirror’ features eighty constellations, not all of them still recognised by astronomers, plus three sub-constellations.

The idea of constellation cards were copied by other publishers, but none of the subsequent versions have the artistic flair of ‘Urania’s Mirror’.

(1) £700-1000

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65* Magic Lantern Slides. A collection of twelve late 19th/early 20th c. slides, together twelve glass slipper slides (two sliders broken), depicting a dancing negro, a monkey dropping a cat into a barrel of water, a shopkeeper coshing a thieving boy over the head, a road sweeper with cap in hand, etc., 102 x 178mm (4 x 7ins) (12)

£80-120

66* Magic Lantern Slides. A collection of twelve slides showing scenes from Robinson Crusoe, late 19th/early 20th c., together twelve static colour glass slides in mahogany frames, 98 x 17mm (4 x 7ins), together with two incomplete sets of lantern slides similar (9 of 12 and 10 of 12), both showing scenes from William Cowper’s John Gilpin (31)

Lot 65

£80-120

67* Military strategy aid. An early 19th century set of wooden blocks for devising military tactics and drill, twenty-three (of 24?) varnished wooden blocks, with hand-col. engs. of a volunteer cavalry regiment, comprising eight large blocks which interlock in pairs, representing the right division, right centre division, left centre division, and left division, 136 x 82 x 42mm (5.5 x 3.25 x 1.75ins), and fifteen smaller blocks representing individual troops, 85 x 40 x 20mm (3.25 x 1.5 x .75ins), rubbed, contained in orig. oak box, beveledged sliding lid inscribed with contemp. ms. ownership name of Capt. Hanum, 195 x 316 x 125mm (7.75 x 12.5 x 5ins) Extremely rare.

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£300-500

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68* Miniature cooking range. A toy cooking range, c.1900, wooden cooking range with metal fixtures incl. hob, spirit burners, utensil rack, plate rack, and bread oven, one door detached with sl. loss, overall height 440mm (17.25ins), width 260mm (10.25ins), together with a number of cooking utensils, some later (some stamped Bavaria), incl. saucepans, colanders, baking tray, roasting dishes, ladels, frying pans, etc.

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£200-300

70* Peepshow. Der Tunnel, German, c.1830, peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, with six hand-col. litho. divisions (incl. box), showing a perspective view of the twin shafts of the Tunnel with pedestrians and carriages beneath the arches, and shipping craft on the River Thames above, paper bellows (tear in one fold with old fabric repair) incorporating lid and base of box, lid with hand-col. pictorial label and three circular viewing holes, box rubbed and browned, 161 x 191mm (6.5 x 7.5ins), extending 680mm (26.75ins) (1)

71* [Potter, Beatrix]. Peter Rabbit’s Race Game, A Very Amusing & Interesting Game Introducing the Famous Characters created by Miss Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne, c.1950s, folding col.-printed game board 525 x 750mm (20.75 x 29.5ins), painted lead figures of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Squirrel Nutkin and Jeremy Fisher, with dice, but lacking shaker and instruction sheet, in orig. cardboard box, with col. pictorial label on lid, sl. rubbed and dusty, lid with closed tear, 272 x 385 x 50mm (10.75 x 15 x 2ins), together with A Jig-Saw Puzzle of Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter’s Famous Character, c.1960s, col-printed plywood jigsaw puzzle, fiftytwo pieces, approx. 375 x 230mm (14.75 x 9ins), in orig. cardboard box with col. pictorial label on lid, lid rubbed in places and split at one corner, 220 x 220 x 40mm (8.75 x 8.75 x 1.5ins), plus Squirrel Nutkin, Beatrix Potter’s Famous Character, A Jig-Saw Puzzle, Frederick Warne, c.1960s, col-printed plywood jigsaw puzzle, 426 x 275mm (16.75 x 10.75ins), fifty pieces, two pieces sl. rubbed, in orig. cardboard box with col. pictorial label on lid (rubbed and spotted), 220 x 220 x 40mm (8.75 x 8.75 x 1.5ins), plus a large moulded plastic model of Peter Rabbit wearing a yellow coat, with a carrot tucked under one arm, c.1970s, height 400mm (15.75ins)

69* 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 750 x 610mm (29.5 x 24ins), contained in orig. printed cardboard folder, rubbed and worn (in three pieces), together with Davis (Marguerite), An educational toy for telling stories, Boston, Judge Baker Foundation, 1918, two large col-printed wooden panels, one with five illusts. and the other with six illusts., each illust. with a small cut out square (rubbed at edges), 255 x 270mm (10 x 10.5ins), together with sixty col-printed pictorial square tiles which fill the voids, showing objects such as vehicles, clocks, animals, flags, etc., 25 x 25mm (1 x 1ins), contained in orig. wooden box, with hinged lid, 300 x 280 x 40mm (11.75 x 11 x 1.5ins) (2)

£200-300

£150-200

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£100-200

72* [Potter, Beatrix]. A unique collection of miniature pottery figures based on the characters of Beatrix Potter, by Anna Awdry, commissioned by Leslie Linder, early 1960s, twenty-eight hand-painted pottery figurines, some with sl. damage and loss, each approx. 40mm high, together with four similar figures of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, Peter Rabbit, and two mice, all with ms. on base ‘Copyright F. Warne, England’ Comprising: Benjamin Bunny; Cecily Parsley; Duchess and Ribby (from ‘The Pie & the Patty Pan’); Ginger and Pickles; Hunka Munka and seven plates of food (from ‘The Tale of Two Bad Mice’); Jemima Puddleduck on a nauralistic feather and wood bark base; Jeremy Fisher; Johnny Town Mouse and Timmy Willie; The Lady Mouse and the Gentleman Mouse (from ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’); Peter Rabbit; Pigling Bland and Pigwig; Samuel Whiskers, Anna Maria and Mrs. Ribby; Squirrel Nutkin on a naturalistic wooden base (detached) and Timmy Tiptoes; Mrs. Tittlemouse; Mr. Tod and Tommy Brock; Tom Kitten, Tabitha Twitchit, Moppet and Mittens. This remarkable collection is the painstaking creation of Anna Awdry, of Farnham, Surrey. It was specially commissioned during the 1960s by her friend, Beatrix Potter bibliographer, Leslie Linder. As each figure was completed it was sent by post from Farnham to Linder’s house, St. Just, Buckhurst Hill, where the collection was on permanent display. After Linder’s death the figures were bequeathed by his sister, Enid, to their house-keeper Margaret Smith, whose daughter Jane subsequently inherited them. Each figure shows meticulous attention to detail and narrative incident, capturing the true essence of Beatrix Potter’s original illustrations.

(39) £10000-15000

73* Potter (Beatrix). A set of magic lantern slides of The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., c.1920s, twenty-nine numbered lantern slides, hand-col. with some hand-finishing, 83 x 83mm (3.25 x 3.25ins), contained in an old tea tin (29)

£100-150

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74* Rocking horse. A fine Edwardian English dapple grey rocking horse by F.H. Ayres for Harrods, "D" type quality carved wooden rocking horse with glass eyes, arched neck, tilted head turned to left rein, pricked ears, mouth baring teeth and showing tongue, new leather saddle and bridle, and new horse-hair mane and tail, on original pine and beech swing stand with twin turned pillars and shaped side-rails, nickel-plated metal rockers, base of stand stencilled 'Harrods Knightsbridge' (rubbed), height 120.5cm (47.5ins), body length 116cm (45.75ins), overall length 138cm (54.25ins), together with new saddle cloths and other accessories 窶連irborne' (named after the famous Derby winner of 1946) has been in the same family since 1942. He was professionally restored by Robert Mullis of Wroughton, Swindon, approximately twelve years ago.

The wooden horses made by Frederick Henry Ayres are generally considered the 'Rolls Royce' of rocking horses. Ayres's London company produced beautiful rocking horses from the middle of the 19th century until about 1950 (in 1940 the original company was taken over by Sykes and soon after by Slazenger). Ayres's horses are particularly known for their generous dimensions, wellproportioned bodies, delicately carved legs and exquisite heads. His top of the range models featured a turned and tilted head and impressive detail in the carving of the fine muzzle showing the teeth and tongue. The delicate lower jaws are quite often missing or replaced (here intact) as a result of enthusiastic children pulling too hard on the reins.

Reference: Mullins (Patricia), The Rocking Horse. A History of Moving Horses, pub. New Cavendish Books, 1992, see pages 68-69.

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Lot 75

75* The Royal Game of British Sovereigns, Exhibiting the Most Remarkable Events in Each Reign From Egbert, the First King, to that of Her Present Majesty, John Passmore, c.1838, hand-col. eng. game dissected in fifteen sections and mounted on linen, with 55 counter squares depicting various events in royal history culminating in a large vignette of the young Queen Victoria enthroned within the Royal arms, 485 x 630mm (19 x 24.75ins), folded into orig. gilt and blindstamped brown cloth, remains of ties, sm. 4to, together with the instruction booklet ‘Explanation to the Royal Game’, pp.19, lightly foxed, some minor corner-creasing, orig. printed wrappers, neardetached and splitting at spine, sm. 8vo Rare. Whitehouse lists only J. Wallis’s version of the game, which does not have the central vignette of Victoria (pp.25-26).

(1) £700-1000

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76* The Royal Game of British Sovereigns, Exhibiting the Most Remarkable Events in Each Reign From Egbert to George III, c.1820, hand-col. eng. game dissected in twelve sections and mounted on linen, with 53 counter squares depicting various events in royal history (paper fault across two squares), with the title and ‘Rules of the Game’ in the centre, a little dusty, some minor edge-curling and short split in one fold, 496 x 633mm (19.5 x 25ins), housed in orig. cardboard slipcase, with hand-col. pictorial eng. label on upper side, rubbed and sl. wear to extrems.

Whitehouse, pp.25-26.

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£400-600

77* Sandown. Roulette horse racing game, F.H. Ayres Ltd., c.1910, revolving metal disk applied with col. printed images of seven horses

by Finch Mason, diameter 21mm (8.25ins), with green baize surround, together with printed paper betting sheet sectionalised on linen, contained in wooden box with pull-off lid (lid cracked), 330 x 330 x 98mm (13 x 13 x 4ins), plus other misc. items and games, e.g. playing cards (incl. a wooden boxed set with counters), a framed embroidery picture, a New Dice-Box, a Mikiphone Pocket Phonograph, a number of old farm animals, carts, tractors, fencing, churns, etc.

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Lot 79

£150-200

78* Teddy. A large teddy bear, mid. 20th c., a large jointed teddy bear, with red silk ribbon, approx. height 930mm (36.5ins), together with a mid. 20th c. stuffed toy bull, length 410mm (16ins), height 260mm (10.25ins) (2)

80* Zoetrope. An early 20th century zoetrope, Hudson Scott and Sons Ltd, a slotted metal drum, patterned with passion flowers, 125mm (5.75in) in diameter, with pictorial lid (showing four maidens surrounded by stars) which forms the base (with spike on which drum revolves), some rusting and scratches, together with four duotone (red and black) pictorial paper motion strips, showing a sequence of figures engaged in various activities, incl. a negro woman drinking tea, some staining, approx. 400mm (15.75ins) long

£70-100

79* Wallis (J. & E., pub.). New Game of Heathen Mythology, c.1820s, hand-col. eng., featuring sixty-three illusts. in a spiral, with Rules for Playing in the centre, and Greek and Romans gods and demi-gods listed on either side, in ten sections mounted on linen, dusty and one or two marks, 400 x 655mm (15.75 x 25.75ins), without slipcase Rare. Not in Whitehouse.

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A photograph of this scarce tin, from the collection of Richard Balzar, can be seen in ‘Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination’, edited by Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan, University of California Press, 1995.

Hudson Scott and Sons Ltd were lithographers and printers, who manufactured tins of every kind and shape, including biscuit tins for Carr’s.

(1) £150-200

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EPHEMERA & COLLECTABLES 81* Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). A set of early 20th c. doilies illustrated with Tenniel characters from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, together twelve square doilies, printed on cream silk, with fringed edging, occn. faint foxing, and a few edge-creases, but otherwise clean and bright, overall size approx. 150 x 150mm (6 x 6ins) (12)

£100-150

82* Embroidered map. Needlework map of England & Wales by Jane Wicks, dated 1813, the map divided into counties and showing principal towns, decorative title incorporating Britannia, all round broad border of distinctive oak leaf & acorn design, 650 x 520 mm, contemp. fluted gilt frame (1)

£200-300

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83 Greenaway (Kate). A scrap album of greetings cards, postcards, and chromolithograph plates, late 19th c., fifty-seven cards, postcards, and illusts., mostly mounted but one or two loose, incl. approx. eleven Kate Greenaway items, approx. sixteen Valentine cards (twelve elaborately embossed, pierced or moveable), approx. eight other embossed greetings cards, and a number of Christmas cards, varying condition, gilt patterned endpapers, hinges splitting, contemp. ms. inscription on verso of front free endpaper ‘To E.S. Barlow. from Charlie. March 20th 1879’, a.e.g., orig. blindstamped black morocco gilt, initials E.S.B. in gilt on upper cover, extrems. rubbed, and upper joint splitting at head, 4to (1)

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£200-300

84* Manuscript map. England & Wales, by S.T. Ostliffe, Barnet Grammar School, Midsr. 1853, manuscript map of England and Wales, with counties outlined in colour, drawn on litho. grid and within decorative litho. border, approx. 348 x 270mm (13.75 x 10.75ins), glazed maple frame (1)

£100-150

85 Manuscript. Fresh Eggs, by A. Maud Goodwin, late 19th c., pen, ink, and watercolour illusts., vigns., and decorations throughout, with calligraphic ms. text in verse, on rectos and versos of twentyone thick card leaves, one or two leaves detached, some foxing, title-page browned and a little edge-chipped and creased, moiré endpapers, hinges strengthened with fabric tape, a.e.g., orig. blindstamped blue morocco gilt, rebacked, edges worn, 4to A humorous tale of three anthropomorphic eggs who resided in a little house on the edge of a wood and “lived on mince pies/and stewed bluebottle files”.

The story tells of how they left their cottage after being frightened by a toad, setting sail in a bucket first to France, and then to Norway, Bengal, and Jamaica, where “they hired a balloon/for a trip to the moon/which they thought to accomplish with ease/but when they got there/they did nothing but stare/to find it composed of green cheese”.The tale draws to a close with the return home of the three little characters and a number of morals drawn from their story.

(1) £300-500

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87 Penmanship. A Compleat Writing Book. Of all the hands now in Use by Tho. Cary, 1736, 25ff. manuscript, written in a neat hand on rectos only, with a proverb or other piece of writing, each exemplifying a different script, and most decorated with flourishes and illustrations of mythical beasts, heads, etc., sl. dusty and foxed, orig. drab wrappers, with vertical crease, 105 x 200mm (4.25 x7.75ins), together with a framed mezzotint port. of The Countess of Chesterfield eng. by Beckett after Lilly, plus a late Victorian small framed Chinese-style embroidery An early and skillful example of a scholar’s exercise book, with such maxims as: ‘If you would win a pen of Gold/Yo [sic] must learn first the pen to hold’, and ‘A skilfull Shoe-maker knows how to fit a Shoe to a Ladies foot with his Hand and Glove without Instr,mts’.

(3) £200-300

86* Penmanship. A large decorative engraved sheet with manuscript examples of penmanship, by James Johnson, December 12th, 1793, hand-col. sheet eng. by R. Carpenter with blank area in centre filled with fifteen lines of ms. on the subject of Christmas, exemplifying different scripts, with eng. vign. above entitled ‘The Bombardment of Valenciennes’, and three eng. ovals to each side entitled ‘Military Uniforms’ (English, Russian, Spanish, Hessian, French, Dutch), lightly foxed and creased, some closed edge-tears, and sl. loss to lower right-hand corner (clipping the last two letters of ‘Dutch’), framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

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88* Rabier (Benjamin, illust.). Les Fables de La Fontaine en Action, Paris: Librarie Delagrave, c.1920s, a set of twelve colourprinted posters, with metal hanging rods top and bottom (one lacking), some light soiling, chips and tears, approx. 950 x 405mm (37.5 x 16ins) Rare. Best-known for his animal drawings, Benjamin Rabier was one of the masters of early French comics and an animation pioneer.

(12) £200-300

89* Sampler. An embroidered linen sampler, 1772, finely stitched with three alphabets (all without the letter ‘J’), and a pair of birds flanking a flower, above a bowl of pears, with other floral designs (stylised tulip, carnation, and roses), a peacock, a cockerel, and two crowns, with the date ‘1772’ and initials ‘A S W’ in the centre, and ‘by SS’ to lower margin, the whole enclosed within a zig-zag border, all worked in coloured threads, predominantly green, blue, yellow, and cream, with touches of black, in cross-stitch and eyelet embroidery, toned, 325 x 350mm (12.75 x 13.75ins), gilt frame, glazed (1)

Lot 90

£70-100

90* Sampler. An embroidered linen sampler, by Margaret Brown, 1826, stitched with a variety of alphabets and numbers, with borders between, worked in cross-stich and eyelet embroidery, in a variety of colours (red, pink, black, green, grey, yellow), 415 x 235mm (16.5 x 9.25ins), framed and glazed Stitched to lower edge: ‘Margaret B. Brown Sowed this Sampler 1826’.

(1) £70-100

91* Silhouette picture. An attractive silhouette picture of a family group singing round the piano, mid. 19th c., hand-painted silhouette on glass, showing an interior scene against a large window, of a gentleman playing the piano surrounded by two ladies, two gentlemen and two small girls singing, with black and gilt border, image size 295 x 388mm (11.5 x 15.25ins), framed and glazed (1)

£200-300

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ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS & ARTWORK

92* Aldridge (John A. Malcolm, 1905-1984). An original design for a sign advertising the opening of the garden at Place House, Great Bardfield, double-sided sign, watercolour and stencilled gouache on paper, each side with the words “Garden Open Today” in green on a background wallpaper design of a white trellis entwined with pink and blue ribbon, one side with sl. loss and reinforced at margins with brown paper tape, the other side sl. frayed at lower edge (and with earlier sign beneath advertising an exhibition of works at Place House by Lucie and John Aldridge), some waterstaining, 56 x 74cm (22 x 29ins, loosely attached to old wooden noticeboard-style frame with two screw-eyes for hanging

Lot 93

Provenance: from a former owner of Place House, Great Bardfield, the house previously owned by John Aldridge from 1933 until his death in 1984. Aldridge was an accomplished oil painter, skilled draftsman, wallpaper designer, and esteemed art teacher. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1954 and a Royal Academician in 1963. Aldridge was a close friend of Edward Bawden, and collaborated with him in the production of a series of wallpaper designs which were printed by Cole & Sons Ltd. Aldridge and Bawden shared another interest - both were enthusiastic and imaginative gardeners and plantsmen. John and Lucie Aldridge fell in love with, and moved to, The Place, Great Bardfield, in 1933, where the garden, with its stream, giant hogweed, planned vistas and luxuriant herbacious borders, was in the Gertrude Jekyll tradition. Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious rented part of Brick House, Great Bardfield, as a country retreat, from 1925 until 1932, when Bawden and his wife, the potter Charlotte Epton, acquired the whole house. Other artists who lived in the village between 1930 and 1970 are: George Chapman, Stanley CliffordSmith, Audrey Cruddas, Walter Hoyle, Sheila Robinson, Michael Rothenstein, Kenneth Rowntree and Marianne Straub. Many other artists visited or became associated with the artistic community there, which became known as the Great Bardfield Artists. During the 1950s The Great Bardfield Artists organised a series of large open house exhibitions which attracted national and international press attention, leading to thousands visiting the remote village during the summers of 1954, 1955 and 1958. The Great Bardfield Artists also held exhibitions of their work in Cambridge (1956) and Bristol (1959), and they organised a multi-city tour of England and Ireland during 1957 and 1958. By the early 1960s the majority of the Great Bardfield artists had left the village.

(1) £200-300

93* Anderson (Anne, 1874-1930). “Clearing the Site”, pencil and watercolour, showing three young children and a dog excavating soil, with building materials, tools, and plan at hand, 353 x 290mm (14 x 11.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed Anne Anderson was a prolific Scottish illustrator, primarily known for her children’s book illustrations, although she also painted, etched and designed greeting cards. She was influenced by her contemporaries, Charles Robinson, Mabel Lucie Attwell and Jessie M. King, and also by her husband, artist Alan Wright, with whom she collaborated on many projects.

(1) £200-300

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94* Blegvad (Erik, 1923-). Original dustjacket design for Bedknob and Broomstick, by Mary Norton, 1957, pen, ink, and watercolour, showing three children on a flying bed, signed upper left, 295 x 220mm (11.5 x 8.75ins), mounted, together with a 2nd imp. of the dustjacket, rubbed, spine lightly sunned and with vertical crease ‘Bedknob and Broomstick’ was a reworking of Mary Norton’s ‘The Magic Bedknob’ (1945) and ‘Bonfires and Broomsticks’ (1947). Some alterations were made to the text by the author, and American artist Eric Blegvad was commissioned to illustrate the new title with line drawings and to supply the dustjacket design (the final version of which differs slightly to ours). As the dustjacket blurb proclaims, Blegvad’s pictures ‘have a delicate realism and a subtly fantastic quality thoroughly in keeping with the story’.

(2) £200-300

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95* Caldecott (Randolph, 1846-1886, style of). A humorous tea-time scene, pen, ink, and watercolour, of a young lady holding a fruit cake on a plate, a gentleman clutching his jaw after eating a piece of cake, an older lady in a mob cap looking on in horror, and a cat in the fore-ground, 205 x 180mm (8 x 7ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

96* Comic artwork. A collection of original artwork used in Valiant, Lion and Tiger comics, 1960s, comprising sixteen sheets, pen and ink on artists board or card, some correction fluid used, including a complete Captain Hurricane strip on three sheets, other stories include Paddy Payne, The Trolls, etc., publishers markings to margins, some tears and abrasions, sheet size 560 x 405 mm (16)

£100-150

97* Comic artwork. A collection of approx. 90 sheets of original artwork used in children’s comics Jack and Jill, Teddy Bear and Playhour, 1960s-80s, gouache or pen & ink on artists board, some printers marks and annotations to margins, stories include The Wombles, Paddy Paws the Puppy, Toad of Toad Hall, etc., illustrators include Hugh McNeil, Peter Woodcock, etc., sheet size typically 540 x 380 mm (approx. 90)

Lot 97

£300-400

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99* Comic artwork. Fifteen sheets of original artwork as used in Shoot! magazine, c.1980s, pen & ink on artist’s board, each a humorous football related strip signed “Rowe”, 200 x 545 mm (15)

98* Comic artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original childen’s comic artwork, 1960s-80s, pen & ink on artist’s board, mostly monochrome puzzle pages including spot-the-difference, mazes, quizes, etc., from publications including Buster, Playhour, Fun to Do, Princess, etc., includes a few publishers mock-ups of front covers for 1980s issues of Eagle, and some corrected proofs of stories, etc., sheet size 425 x 310 mm or 257 x 205 mm (approx. 100)

£100-150

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£100-150

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100* Coton (Graham, b.1926). The Last Battleground, striking original artwork depicting two paratroopers manning a machine gun position, as used on the cover of War Picture Library no. 1326, circa early 1970s, gouache on artists board, unsigned, 50.5 x 35.7 cm, framed and glazed, together with two similar examples of original cover artwork, including one by Coton, publication details verso, both gouache on board, one overlaid with typography on clear plastic sheet, one framed and glazed Graham Coton is best known for his atmospheric Second World War paintings. He attended Goldsmith’s College of Art in London, but described the experience as a “disaster” and was largely self-taught. He started as a strip-cartoon artist by drawing Kit Carson for Cowboy Comics Library and later drew four short strips for the Thriller Comics Library, but it was when he started drawing Captain Phantom, the World War II Master Spy, for Knockout in 1953 that he really came into his own. Coton is fondly remembered for his car racing strips in Tiger, his superb war strips in Top Spot and most of all, for his dynamic War Library covers.

(3) £300-400

102* Disney Studios. A drawing of a skeleton from ‘The Skeleton Dance’, 1929, graphite on paper, image size approx. 3.5 x 3 inches, together with A drawing of Pluto being held by his tail from ‘Society Dog Show’, 1939, graphite on paper, signed in ink at a later date to lower right corner ‘(?) Cox’, image size approx. 6.5 x 5.75 inches, plus A drawing of Pluto, n.d., c. 1930s, graphite on paper, image size approx. 7.5 x 8.25 inches, plus A drawing of Flora from ‘Sleeping Beauty’, 1959, graphite on paper with some colour pencil, ms. notes in pencil and ink to upper right corner, partly reading ‘Key Drawings

by Frank T. !!!’, image size approx. 10.5 x 7.5 inches (4)

103* Disney Studios. A cell of Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge, leaning over the arm of a chair, from ‘Mickey’s Christmas Carol’, 1983, gouache on full celluloid with Walt Disney Productions seal, framed and glazed, image size approx. 11. 5 x 15. 5 inches, together with Three cells from ‘Cinderella’, 1950, comprising, the Grand Duke, the King at the ball and the Footman blowing a horn, all gouache on full celluloid, image sizes approx. 6.5 x 4 inches; 3.25 x 5.5 inches; 8.25 x 5 inches respectively

101* Cotter (Rita, 20th century). Children at play, a pair of original watercolour illustrations of children playing, with handwritten calligraphic verses from a Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson, each signed and dated 1949, 53.5 x 36.5 cm (21 x 14.5 ins), framed and glazed (2)

£200-300

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£70-100

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£200-300

104* Gifford (Denis, 1927-2000). Twenty sheets of original comic artwork as used in Davy Crockett, Gunhawks and TV Features comics, published by Mick Angelo Ltd, c.1960, pen & ink on card, stories include stereotyped American chacacters including Jim Pooey, Wynott Burp, Sam Gass, etc., sheet size 355 x 250 mm, together with a collection of 26 sheets of rough strip cartoons drawn with a blue pen by Gifford featuring stories involving real-life comedians Morecombe & Wise, Bob Monkhouse & Jill Day, they are possibly storyboards for TV shows or mock-ups for cartoon strips in Radio Fun comic, sheet size 220 x 255 mm, with other similar cartoons drawn by Wally Robertson including stories involving Jimmy Hanley, Max Miller, and others

105* Gray (Thomas, late 19th c.). Pastimes of Youth, c.1880s, twelve mounted pencil drawings with sepia wash, showing children at play, etc., title-page drawn in pencil but unfinished, marbled endpapers, orig. maroon half morocco, gilt dec. spine, upper cover with morocco label gilt lettered ‘Presented to my sister S. W. Gray’, folio Possibly by the painter Thomas Gray who exhibited between 1881 and 1914.

Two of the illustrations are not captioned, but the rest are titled: The Launch; The Swing; The Captive; The Hayfield; The Angler; Bo-Peep!; The Slide; The Robin; Daddy’s Coming; Bedtime.

(1) £200-300

Denis Gifford (1927-2000) was an illustrator, writer and historian who, as well as being an accomplished comic artist, possessed a fine collection of comics and wrote key texts on the subject of comic collecting. He also wrote scripts for television and worked on the first Morecambe and Wise series. (approx. 140) £100-150

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108 Imagerie d’Epinal. 18 lithographic comic-strip sheets comprising nos 1-9, 15-19, 23-24 & 47-48 (from a series of 60), published for the Humoristic Publishing Co., Kansas City, MO, [1888], each sheet printed on one side only, original hand colouring, a few nicks at the extreme edges, the sheets untrimmed and measuring 403 x 300 mm (15 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches), together with two French language sheets from the same series

106* Hall (Dorothy, 20th c.). A small archive of original artwork, approx. 100 drawings, in a variety of media incl. pencil, pen & ink, and watercolour, comprising historical/costume drawings, figure studies and nudes, animals and birds, botanical drawings, and drawings of fairies, mermaids, sea nymphs, children, etc., some signed/dated, 380 x 280mm (15 x 11ins) and smaller, together with a sketch book containing approx. 40 leaves of pencil sketches of fairies, animals, children, etc., 4to, plus two albums containing mounted col. printed illusts. by Theaker, Mackenzie, Margaret Tarrant, and others Dorothy Hall illustrated books for Enid Blyton, amongst others. (a folder)

This series is now considered to be the first original American comic book. It was printed and hand coloured by Pellerin in France being issued as loose untrimmed sheets numbered from 1-60 and also as a bound collection of 50 plates with slightly trimmed margins. This collection includes nine of the ten scarce sheets not present in the collected edition. The stories include Julian the Coward, William Tell & The Selfish Little Boy, among many others.

(20) £100-150

£150-200

107* Hunt (William Henry, 1790-1864). “The Attack”;”The Defeat”, together two hand-col. engs. of a young boy eating a huge pie, eng.

by William Finden after Hunt, sheet size 490 x 325mm (19.25 x 12.75ins), framed and glazed ‘Who,’ wrote Thackeray, ‘does not recollect “Before and After the Mutton Pie,” the two pictures of that wondrous boy?’.

(2) £70-100

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109* Leigh (Howard, 1896-1981). An illustration of a bi-plane in flight, watercolour, on textured paper, signed lower right, image size 280 x 192mm (11 x 7.5ins), together with a monochrome print of a bi-plane by Leigh, 280 x 190mm (11 x 7.5ins) Renowned aviation artist, Howard Leigh is perhaps best known for his illustrations for the Biggles books by W.E. Johns. He was the younger brother of Doris Leigh, who Johns met after leaving his wife in 1923; although Johns never divorced his wife, he and Doris lived together until her death in 1969.

Howard Leigh had no formal training at art school, but was encouraged by Johns (also an artist) to join him in his studio and become an aviation artist.

By the 1930s Leigh was a much sought-after specialist in aviation illustration and he is still highly regarded.

(2) £150-200

110* Marwood (Timothy, 1995-2008). Four drawings of Thomas the Tank Engine and friends, four pen & ink drawings, all signed and dated lower right, approx. 12 x 12cm (4.74 x 4.75ins) and sl. smaller, mounted as one, framed and glazed, together with three other similar drawings by Marwood, incl. one of Toby, and one of Bertie, Henry, and Thomas, all signed lower right, each approx. 12 x 12cm (4.74 x 4.75ins), all mounted, one framed (3)

£150-200

111* McNeill (Hugh, 1910-1979). A collection of twenty original illustrations and storyboards for Harold Hare, 1960s/70s, together twenty pen & ink illustrations for Jack and Jill, variously on card/artist’s board, five signed, sheet size 420 x 320mm (16.5 x 12.5ins) and smaller, together with two other orig. illustrations of Harold Hare, one

by John Lewis and one by Peter Woolcock, both parodying the artist, and a mounted newspaper cutting about Hugh McNeill with a pen & ink drawing of Harold and Dicky Dormouse to lower right (23)

£100-200

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112* Original artwork. A collection of 20 sheets of original artwork illustrating the “Catweazle” and “Inspector Gadget” comic strips in “Look-In” magazine, 1970s & 80s, ink and grey wash on artists board, publishers markings to margins, sheet size 470 x 370 mm and 430 x 320 mm respectively (20)

£100-150

114* Original artwork. A collection of 25 sheets of original artwork, 1970s & early 1980s, mostly gouache on artist’s board, some sheets comprising multiple images, as used in children’s publications Look and Learn, World of Knowledge, etc., artists include Andrew Howat, Michael White, Harry Green and others, some publication markings to borders, board size approx. 510 x 390 mm (25)

113* Original artwork. A collection of 25 watercolour illustrations

by Janet Wickham, c.1990s, as used to illustrate an edition of Black Beauty, each drawn on artist’s board, board size 260 x 380 mm or 190 x 260 mm (25)

£100-150

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£100-150

115* Original artwork. A collection of 29 sheets of original artwork, 1960s & 1970s, gouache on artist’s board, as used in children’s publications Storyland, Pixie, Hey Diddle Diddle and Bumper Book for Girls, some publication markings to margins, board size 480 x 360 mm (29)

£100-150

116* Original artwork. A collection of 31 sheets of original artwork, as used in children’s comic Teddy Bear, 1972 & 1973, gouche on artist’s board, mostly from the “Out with Mummy” series, sheet size typically 460 x 660 mm (31)

£100-150

117* Original artwork. A collection of 50 sheets of original artwork mostly depicting animals, 1970s & 1980s, gouache on artist’s board, as used in children’s publications including Look & Learn, Treasure and Once upon a Time, artist’s including J. Chalkley, Reginald Davis, A. Oxenham, Gerry Wood and others, size typically 470 x 390 mm (50)

£100-150

118* Original artwork. A collection of 25 sheets of original artwork, 1970s & 1980s, gouache on artist’s board, as used to illustrate children’s periodicals including Hey Diddle Diddle, The Tesco Book of Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Toby Special, artists include R.B. Davis, Gerry Wood and Peter Woolcock, sheet size typically 480 x 660 mm (25)

£100-150

Lot 115

119* Original artwork. A collection of 40 sheets of original artwork, c.1980, gouache on artists board, some pen and ink drawings, as used in children’s periodicals including Toby, Hey Diddle Diddle and Storyland, sheet size typically 265 x 335 mm

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£100-150

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120* Original artwork. A collection of 40 sheets of original artwork, 1960s-80s, gouache on artists board, as used to illustrate children’s periodicals including Toby, Hey Diddle Diddle, TV Toyland, TV Wonderland and Storyland, artists including Peter Woolcock and Jesus Blasco, sheet size typically 270 x 395 mm (40)

£100-150

121* Original artwork. A collection of 28 sheets of original artwork, 1980s, gouache on artists board, as used in children’s periodicals including Treasure, Look & Learn, Bible Stories, etc., artists include R.B. Davis, Ken Petts, John Noakes, Clive Uptton and others, sheet size typically 530 x 390 mm (approx. 28)

£100-150

Lot 120

122* Original artwork. A collection of 40 sheets of original artwork illustrating the “Woody Woodpecker” and “Canon & Ball” comic strips as published in “Look-In” magazine, 1980s, ink and grey wash on artists board or card, artists include Bill Titcombe and Andy Lanning, sheet size 230 x 330 mm (40)

£200-300

123* Original artwork. A collection of 20 sheets of original artwork illustrating the “Scooby Doo” and “Monsieur Dodo” comic strips as published in “Look-In” magazine, 1980s & 90s, ink and grey wash on artists board or card, artists include Bill Titcombe and Andy Lanning, sheet size 230 x 350 mm (20)

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£150-200

124* Original artwork. A collection of 30 sheets of original artwork illustrating “Catweazle” and “Galaxy High School” comic strips published in “Look-In” magazine, 1970s & 80s, pen & grey wash on artists board or card, artists include Gerry Embleton and Andy Lanning, sheet size 425 x 310 mm (30)

£150-200

125* Original artwork. A collection of 20 sheets of original comic artwork illustrating the “Bucks Fizz” and “Doctor at Sea” comic strips in “Look-In” magazine, 1970s & 80s, ink and wash on artists board, artists include Kim Raymond and John Cooper, sheet size 520 x 390 mm and 470 x 360 mm respec.

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£100-150

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126* Original artwork. A collection of 10 sheets of original artwork illustrating the “Charlie’s Angels” comic strip as published in “LookIn” magazine, c.1979, ink and wash on artists board, some publishers markings to borders, sheet size 520 x 390 mm (10)

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£70-100

127* Original artwork. A collection of 24 sheets of original artwork illustrating “The Fall Guy” comic strip by Jim Baikie, as published in “Look-In” magazine, c.1983, ink and polychrome watercolour or grey wash, drawn on artists board or card, sheet size 510 x 360 mm (24)

£100-150

128* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 56 sheets of original artwork, 1970s & 80s, including twelve sheets of gouache comic strips by Bert Felsted illustrating “Fliptail the Otter” as published in “Jack and Jill” magazine in 1981, sheet size 560 x 380 mm, twentyfour sheets of ink and watercolour artwork used to illustrate comic strips from “Hey Diddle Diddle” and “Storyland”, sheet size 380 x 300 mm, plus other watercolour artwork illustrations by Glenn Steward and John Green (approx. 56)

£150-200

Lot 127

129* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 53 sheets of original artwork, 1970s & 1980s, including fifteen sheets of pen and wash comic strip illustrations featuring “Wizard Weezle” from children’s periodical “Playhour”, sheet size 470 x 360 mm, twenty-eight sheets of pencil or pen & ink artwork from teenage romantic magazines “Oh Boy”, “Mates” and “Fabulous”, plus ten sheets of comic strip pen and wash artork by Bill Titcombe for the “Mind your Language” comic strip in “Look-In” magazine, sheet size 460 x 350 mm, all on artists board or card (approx. 53)

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£150-200

130* Original artwork. The return from battle, c.1880, grisaille watercolour on artist’s board, showing Civil War soldiers on horseback riding through a castle portal and being greeted by womenfolk, with an injured soldier at the front, image size 29 x 40.5cm (11.5 x 16ins) (1)

ÂŁ100-150

131* Peake (Mervyn, 1911-68). Head of a monster, with claw hands holding a flowerpot, pen & ink on paper, painted with black wash to verso, signed in pencil lower left, some discolouration to margins from sellotape, 165 x 115 mm (6.5 x 4.5 ins), with card mount, together with another study of a clawed and hairy hand, in sepia crayon, and black ink, with single-rule border in black ink, signed in pencil lower right, 248 x 162 mm (9.75 x 6.4 ins) (2)

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132* Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943). A pair of original paintings from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, pen, ink, and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, on cream silk, both depicting Peter Rabbit dressed in a white-spotted red handkerchief and his cousin Benjamin Bunny, the first showing them outside Mrs. Rabbit’s burrow and captioned ‘Mrs. Rabbit’s voice was heard inside the rabbit hole calling - “Cotton-tail! Cotton-tail! fetch some some camomile!” Peter thought he might feel better for a walk’, the second showing the cousins standing on a wall overlooking Mr. McGregor’s garden and captioned ‘Peter’s coat and shoes were plainly to be seen upon the scarecrow, topped with an old tam-o-shanter of Mr. McGregor’s’, some very faint spotting, approx. 112 x 112mm (4.5 x 4.5ins), framed and glazed Provenance: Originally given by Beatrix Potter to the Townley family, gifted by Mrs. Townley to a family friend in around 1913, and from thence by descent, until 1996 when they were sold at Christie’s South Kensington (31st May, lot 249) where they were purchased by the present vendor. The Townley family owned Hardcragg Hall in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria. As a friend of the family Beatrix Potter was a regular visitor to the Hall, where its fine panelled interior, together with its piggery, inspired ‘The Tale of Pigling Bland’ which she dedicated to the Townley’s children, Charlie and Cicely. In appreciation of the family’s kindness to her Beatrix gave them a set of twelve silk doilies, decorated with her original drawings representing the front cover and the first eleven illustrations of ‘The Tale of Bejamin Bunny’, of which these are two.

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133* Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). An original pen & ink drawing

by Arthur Rackham on the verso of the front free endpaper of A Wonder Book, by Nathaniel Hawthorn, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, [1922], pen & ink sketch of two old women gossiping, signed by Arthur Rackham and dated 14.12.22, sixteen tipped-in col. plts. (one detached and sl. frayed to fore-edge) and eight other col. plts., pictorial endpapers, with contemp. ms. inscription on front pastedown, orig. gilt dec. red cloth gilt, faded in places, some loss at foot of spine, in remains of pictorial d.j. (in two pieces, torn and lacking spine), 4to (1)

£500-800

134* Revill (Cottrell, early 20th c.). The Forty Thieves; The Babes in the Wood; Jack and the Beanstalk; Blue Beard; Sinbad the Sailor; Aladdin, 1913, together six pen, ink, and watercolour illustrations, on artist’s board, all signed and dated, approx. 180 x 200mm (7 x 8ins) (6)

£100-150

135* Searle (Ronald, b. 1920). 282 Ways of Making a Salad, including Some Special Salads, Salad Dressings and Favourite Recipes by British and American Personalities and Stars, compiled

by Bebe Daniels and Jill Allgood, 1st ed., Cassell, 1950, front free endpaper with an original pen & ink sketch of the face of a St. Trinian’s schoolgirl, inscribed in ms. beneath ‘Good Eating! Ronald Searle’, orig. green cloth, extrems. sl. worn and some markings, 8vo With spontaneous sketch by Searle of his trademark subject, an angry-looking befreckled St. Trinian’s schoolgirl.

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136* Sendak (Maurice). Advertising poster for The Horn Book Magazine, 1985, colour-printed poster, advertising a children’s book review journal, showing a cariacture of Randolph Caldecott with the artist portrayed as a ‘wild thing’ learning to draw by looking over Caldecott’s shoulder, limited edition 204/300 copies signed by the artist, 610 x 415mm (24 x 16.25ins), laid down on card, together with Advertising poster for Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Houston Grand Opera, February 1985, colour-printed poster, advertising an opera for which Sendak designed the set, limited edition 108/250 copies signed by the artist, 508 x 659mm (20 x 26ins) (2)

£100-150

138* Strakhovskaia (M., and Kudinov, A.). Original publisher’s mock-up for Priroda Poslovitsi Zagadki [Nature Proverbs and Riddles], c.1920s, ten gouache illustrations, incl. wrappers, eight captioned below in pencil with a Russian proverb, and loosely contained in the wrappers, front cover with paper correction strips added below title and authors, 285 x 215mm (11.25 x 8.5ins) Probably executed in Moscow for the State Publishing House, the largest producer of children’s literature in the early twentieth century.

(1) £80-120

137* Sharman (John Frederick, late 19th/early 20th c.). Original publisher’s mock-up for Tinker and the Twins, Rag Book 272, Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd., 1929/30, fourteen captioned watercolours on artists’ board, incl. orig. cover designs, mounted together on folding linen, According to Cope ‘Dean’s Rag Book & Rag Dolls’, this title never went into production.

(1) £150-200

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139* Tarrant (Margaret W., 1888-1959,).

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

£100-150

140* Winnie the Pooh. Four original illustrations for The St. Michael book of Winnie the Pooh Favourites, pub. 1978, together four charcoal, gouache, and watercolour illustrations, showing Pooh and friends, three 350 x 535mm (13.75 x 21ins), the other 212 x 315mm (8.25 x 12.5ins), the smaller illust. with a couple of faint creases, together with a copy of the book for which they were produced (spine sl. worn) (5)

£70-100

141* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “Wait a bit Susie”, watercolour and gouache, on artists’ board, of a beach scene with a chimpanzee life guard sitting on a look-out chair and too preoccupied peeling an apple to notice an emergency offshore, being poked from behind by a female chimp wielding an umbrella, with various young chimps playing in the sand, a few minor marks at corners, ms. title on reverse, 383 x 305mm (15 x 12ins), together with another similarly-sized original watercolour by Lawson Wood entitled “Another branch of the Family Tree!” showing two chimpanzees in a cart pulled by a pig, with a family of chimps in a tree house above, image ink spotted and lower blank margin soiled (2)

Lot 140

£700-1000

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PRIVATE PRESS 142 Ashendene Press. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe. Traduction de Messire J. Amyot, editee et corrigee par PaulLouis Courier, 1933, printed in red and black, blue initials, wood-engraved illustrations by Gwendolen Raverat, original vellumbacked boards, light edge wear, 8vo Limited edition of 290.

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£500-800

143 Brewhouse Press. Seriatim. Paintings, Places and Asides, by Rigby Graham, 1978, numerous colour and b & w illustrations, a.e.g., original full grey morocco by Trevor Hickman, upper cover with multicoloured onlaid illustration of a castle ruin, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 20/28 signed by the artist, together with Mountains, by Mervyn James, 1972, colour illustrations by Rigby Graham, original boards, small 4to, limited edition, 183/200, plus The Oakham Canal,

by David Tew, 1968, illustrations by Rigby Graham, original cloth gilt, folio, limited edition, 136/450, with other Brewhouse Press books, mostly limited editions, illustrated by Rigby Graham including Gold & Books, 1969, Tom Cribb at Thistleton Gap, 1971, The Toper’s Rant, 1974 and A Broken String of Beads, 1980 (36)

£250-300

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144 Cresset Press. The Shepheardes Calender, Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monthes, by Edmund Spenser, 1930, colour illustrations by Paul Nash, loose 4pp. prospectus, small bookplate, t.e.g., original vellum-backed boards, one or two light stains, slipcase, folio Limited edition, 65/350.

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£150-200

145 De La More Press. The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes or the Life of Sir Thomas More, Knight, by His Son-in-Law William Roper, 1902, additional eng. series title, title-page printed in red and black with eng. vign. port. of Thomas More, t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. crushed quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards by BayntunRiviere, folio One of 150 copies printed for America, this copy unnumbered.

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£100-150

146 Eragny Press. Abregé de l’Art Poetique François, by Pierre De Ronsard, 1903, dec. title and ornate lettering after Lucien Pissarro, browning to endpapers, orig. dec. boards gilt, 8vo, VG One of 226 copies.

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£150-200

147 Eragny Press. Christabel, Kubla Khan, Fancy in Nubibus, and Song from Zapolya by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1904, woodcut frontispice, decorative border and initials by Lucien Pissarro, endpapers browned, orig. decorative cloth gilt, spine fraying with significant loss, 8vo Limited edition of 226 copies.

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£100-150

148 Essex House Press. The Eve of St. Agnes, by John Keats, 1900, hand-col. frontis. and colophon, hand-drawn and col. initial letters in green, red, and blue, untrimmed, orig. blindstamped vellum, spine gilt lettered, covers sl. bowed, slim 8vo Limited edition, 72/125 copies, printed on vellum. See illustration inside rear cover of this catalogue.

(1) £300-500

149 Essex House Press. Adonis, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1900, hand-col. frontis., hand-drawn and col. initial letters in green, red, and blue, contemp. ms. inscription on Penrhyn Castle headed notepaper tipped-in to front pastedown, untrimmed, orig. blindstamped vellum, sl. bowed, gilt lettered spine and upper cover a little dusty, slim 8vo

Lot 150

Limited edition, 7/50 copies, printed on vellum. See illustration inside rear cover of this catalogue.

(1) £300-500

150 Golden Cockerel Press. Narratives of the Wreck of the WhaleShip Essex..., 1935, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, loose 4pp. prospectus, t.e.g., original yellow and green cloth, a little rubbed and dust-stained, folio, limited edition, 267/275, together with Songs & Poems by Henry Carey, 1924, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, original vellum-backed boards, 4to, limited edition, 343/380, plus Miscellaneous Writings of Henry the Eighth..., 1924, illustrations by Robert Gibbings, sellotape marks to endpapers, original vellum-backed boards, 4to, limited edition, 255/365, with four other limited editions published by Golden Cockerel including Red Wise, 1926, Lord Adrian. A Play in Three Acts by Lord Dunsany, 1933 and Sermons by Artists, 1934

151 Golden Cockerel Press. Pelagea & Other Poems, by A.e.

Coppard, 1926, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, Golden Cockerel Press bookplate, original cloth-backed boards, d.j., small loss to rear panel, a few spots, 8vo, limited edition, 217/425, together with When Thou Wast Naked, 1931, wood-engravings by John Nash, bookplate, t.e.g., original calf-backed boards (spine faded), 8vo, limited edition, 280/500, plus A Circle of the Seasons.

A Translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa made from Various European Sources by E. Powys Mathers, 1929, illustrations by Robert Gibbings, t.e.g., original cloth, spine darkened, 8vo, limited edition, 321/500, with six others by the Golden Cockerel Press including Initiation. Translations from Poems of the Didinga & Lango Tribes by J.H. Driberg, 1932, Count Stefan, by A.E. Coppard, 1928 and Engraved by Robert Gibbings. A Portrait of Lady Hester, 1987

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£300-400

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£200-300

152 Golden Cockerel Press. Miscellaneous Poems, by Jonathan Swift, 1928, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, original vellumbacked boards, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, limited edition, 285/375, with a presentation inscription to Brian Rhys from Robert Gibbings, together with A Mirror for Witches... by Esther Forbes, Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1928, illustrations by Robert Gibbings, bookplate, original vellum-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition, 137/220 signed by author and artist, plus Samson and Delilah, 1925, illustrations by Robert Gibbings, original cream cloth, 4to, limited edition, 226/325, with others related including The Lives of Gallant Ladies, by Pierre de Bourdeille, Siegneur & Abbot of Brantome, 2 vols., 1924, The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, Limited Editions Club, New York, 1939 and The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, 1959 (12)

£250-300

153 Golden Cockerel Press. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, a New Translation by F.L. Lucas, with Ten Engravings by Mark Severin, 1948, woodcut frontis. title dec. and illusts. to text, t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little rubbed, folio, without slipcase Limited edition 52/100 specially-bound copies from a total edition of 750, signed by F.L. Lucas.

(1) £300-400

154 Greenwood (Jeremy). Omega Cuts, Woodcuts and Linocuts

by Artists Associated with the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press, Wood Lea Press, 1998, num. illusts., after Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, McKnight Kauffer, Simon Bussy, Edward Wadsworth and others, incl. seventeen tipped-in col. plts., orig. morocco-backed patterned boards, with slipcase, folio, VG Special edition 104/105. Accompanied by the booklet ‘Original Woodcuts by Three Artists’ that only comes with this edition.

(1) £150-200

155 Gregynog Press. The Misfortunes of Elphin, by Thomas Love Peacock, 1928, letterpress engs., largely unopened, untrimmed, orig. cloth-backed patterned cloth, spine and upper margins of covers lightly faded, 8vo, (limited edition 181/250 copies), together with Selected Poems of Edward Thomas, with an Introduction by Edward Garnett, 1927, initial letters printed in red, orig. yellow cloth, gilt lettered spine lightly faded, 8vo in 4s, (limited edition 179/275 copies), plus Chosen Essays by Edward Thomas, 1926, letterpress engs., first and final leaves foxed, untrimmed, orig. blue cloth gilt, spine and lower return faded, 4to, (limited ed. 321/350 copies) (3)

156* Kelmscott Chaucer. An original leaf from The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Kelmscott Press, 1896, single leaf entitled Troilus and Criseyde, Liber Primus, printed in red and black with large wood eng. by Edward Burne-Jones, decorative border by William Morris, and a large initial letter, lightly foxed, 400 x 275mm (15.75 x 10.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed The Kelmscott Chaucer is a landmark of printing and represents the pinnacle of Morris’s career as a typographer and designer.

(1) £100-150

£100-150

157 Nonesuch Press. The Holy Bible, 5 vols. including Apocrypha, 1924-27, engraved titles and head and tail-pieces by Stephen Gooden, untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. boards, spines darkened, spine ends and joints rubbed, final vol. of NT with joint splitting at head, folio Limited edition, one of 1000 copies, Apocrypha 1080/1250 copies, printed on japon vellum.

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158 Pandora Press. Fingal’s Cave, by Thea Scott, 1961, colour illustrations by Rigby Graham, original cloth, 4to, limited edition, 119/150, together with Count Potocki of Montalk, 1966, illustrations

by Rigby Graham, original wrapper, 8vo, limited edition of 50 copies, plus Machines. A Book of Prints, Leicester, 1968, colour illustrations, original cloth gilt, 4to, limited edition, one of 14 copies, with other private press including Paper Making as an Artistic Craft, 1963, Pattern of Brickwork, Threoteotha Press, 1966, Slieve Bingian, Cog Press, 1968, Petra, Wattle Grove Press, 1966 (one of 100 copies), Wilhelm Hiener’s South Africa. A Cycle of Thirty Poems, Wattle Grove Press, 1966 (one of 100 copies) and a letter and some proof illustrations from Rigby Graham regarding the Wattle Grove Press’s Petra (approx 56)

£300-400

159 Parenthesis. The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, 6 vols, comprising nos 4,5,6,9,10 & 11, 2000-2005, each comprising an illustrated book with separate folder of printed samples, bound in orig. boards and contained in the orig. slipcases, together with The Matrix. A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles, nos. 14 & 17, 19941997, numerous illusts and printing samples, orig. boards in dust-wrappers, all folio (8)

£300-400

160 Ravilious (Eric, illust.). The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, As it was playd before the King and Queene, in His Majesties Theatre at White-Hall, by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit, Written by Christopher Marlowe & Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, 1633, Newly Imprinted... for The Golden Hours Press, 1933, four eng. plts., incl. frontis., free endpapers with mottled toning, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. bevel-edged green cloth gilt, spine and margins faded, housed in orig. cardboard slipcase (edges sl. worn), 4to Limited edition, 147(a)/200 copies (of a total edition of 250 copies).

(1) £100-150

161 Ricketts (Charles, illust.). Beyond the Threshold, by Jean Paul Raymond, Translated from the French and illustrated by Charles Ricketts, printed at the Curwen Press, 1929, five b&w plates, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. maroon full crushed morocco gilt designed by Charles Ricketts, with his monogram to foot of each cover, some minor marks to spine (generally in very good condition), large 4vo (1)

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£300-500

CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

Lot 163 162 Ainslie (Kathleen). Me and Catharine Susan, [1903]; Catharine Susan’s Little Holiday, [1905]; Catharine Susan and Me Goes Abroad, [c.1905]; Me and Catharine Susan Earns an Honest Penny, [c. 1907]; Catherine Susan’s Calendar, 1911, all 1st eds., pub. Castell Brothers, together 5 vols., illusts. throughout, all orig. col. pict. wrappers, three vols. with orig. spine cords, some wear to extrems., all sm. 4to, together with five other Catherine Susan related

166 Aldin (Cecil, illust.). The Romance of the Road, pub. Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928, eleven mounted col. plts., six plans, folding map in front pocket (complete as list), t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. vellum gilt, folio

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167 Aldin (Cecil, illust.). Roads and Vagabonds, by Kenneth Hare, [1930], colour plates and illustrations, t.e.g., original vellum-backed boards, 4to

Limited edition 28/200, signed by the illustrator. A good copy.

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£200-300

163 Aldin (Cecil). Cecil Aldin’s Happy Family, Told by May Byron, 6 vols. (complete), c. 1912, thirty-six col. plts. (incl. six double-page), num. b&w illusts. (three illusts. in vol. 1 neatly coloured), some scattered spotting and minor cracking to a few hinges, all orig. printed boards with pictorial illustration mounted to front cover, small 4to A nice set.

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Limited edition, 44/50 signed by author and artist.

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£150-200

168 Aldin (Cecil, illust.). A Dog Day, Or Angel in the House, by Walter Emanuel, 1st ed., 1902, 28 tinted lithographed illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed, light stains, 4to

£300-500

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164 Aldin (Cecil). Ratcatcher to Scarlet, [1926], colour title and 15 colour plates, illustrations, a few light spots, presentation inscription, a.e.g., original vellum-backed boards, 4to

£70-100

169 Ardizzone (Edward). Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 1936, col. litho. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards, slight split to base of spine, rubbed to extrems., in matching d.j., torn and frayed with flaps detached, all laid down, folio

Limited edition, 4/100, with an original pencil sketch of a fox signed by the artist.

(1) £400-600

The first volume in the “Tim” series.

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165 Aldin (Cecil). Scarlet to M.F.H., 1933, colour and b & w illustrations, one or two fingermarks, t.e.g., original vellum-backed boards, covers with faded patches, 4to Limited edition, 2/50 numbered and signed by the author.

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£300-400

£250-300

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£150-250

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170 Attwell (Mabel Lucie, illust.). Father Tuck’s Annual, c. 1920s, eight col. plts., b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, 4to, together with Peter Pan & Wendy, by J.M. Barrie, c.

1921, num. tipped-in col. plts., orig. yellow dec. cloth, some rubbing, 8vo, plus Peter Pan & Wendy, by J.M. Barrie, reprinted, 1932, col. plts., b&w illusts. throughout, orig. blue dec. cloth gilt, 4to, plus five others, incl. The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley, Illustrated by Harold Jones, 1961; The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, reprinted, 1939, etc.

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£100-150

171 Awdry (Rev. W.). Railway Map of the Island of Sodor, Where Thomas the Tank Engine & his friends have their Adventures [covertitle], pub. Edmund Ward, 1st ed., [1958], colour-printed linen-backed map, some minor rubbing at folds, 209 x 536mm (11.5 x 21.25ins), folded into original pictorial card wrappers, sl. rubbed and creased, spine split and frayed with some loss, 4s. price label on inside front cover covering 2s. 8d. printed price, 107 x 145 mm (4.25 x 5.75 ins) A scarce and ephemeral Thomas the Tank Engine item. The printed note on the inside cover reads as follows: ‘When the Rev. W. Awdry began writing the stories in the Railway Series, he created an imaginary island called Sodor on which he planned the Fat Controller’s Railway System. He placed this island between the Isle of Man and the North West Coast of England, with connections to the mainland. All the children who love the stories in this series can now see on this brightly coloured map the places where Thomas and his friends live and work.’

(1) £70-100

172 Bannerman (Helen). The Story of Little Black Sambo, 1st ed., Grant Richards, 1899, twenty-seven full-page col. illusts., some faint creasing to title, front endpapers lightly foxed, spine of page block neatly strengthened, orig. green striped cloth, lightly rubbed (mainly to spine), but a nice copy, 129 x 79mm Helen Bannerman (1863-1946) married an army doctor and spent much of her life in India. In 1899, when she was returning there after leaving her two small daughters to be educated in her native Scotland, she wrote and illustrated this story of the adventures of a little black boy who outwits several tigers. ‘Little Black Sambo’ achieved a popularity not matched by Bannerman’s later work. Critics praised the book as entertaining and humorous, and at first it was seen as a book that positively portrayed black characters, especially in comparison to other books of the time. But as the years passed, Bannerman’s book came to attract harsh criticism and heated debate. There were successful calls to remove the book from library shelves. At the end of her life Helen Bannerman knew that her work was seen by some as racist and found this hard to understand; the child is the hero of the story and in her pictures he and his parents are lovingly drawn. Some thought that the names of Sambo’s parents, Mumbo and Jumbo, made them objects of ridicule. Yet these are just an echo of affectionate names for parents and grandparents in Helen’s own childhood. As her son Robert put it in a letter to The Times on 1 May 1972 when the book was under attack: ‘My mother would not have published the book had she dreamt for a moment that even one small boy would have been made unhappy thereby’.

(1) £1500-2000

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173 Barker (Ronnie, 1929-2005). The Book of Nonsense, Comprising One Hundred and Twelve Humorous Illustrations by Edward Lear, 39th ed. with Biographical Sketch of the Author, n.d., c. 1910, 112 illustrated limericks printed on one side of each leaf, with versos blank, a few with old neat juvenile hand colouring, all but the frontispiece limerick annotated by Ronnie Barker, the majority with the last line by Lear deleted and replaced with a new one, four limericks (pp. 65, 71, 127 and 177) noted as ‘fine’ or similar, the limerick on page 131 (‘There was an old Man of the South’) with Barker noting ‘impossible - no further rhymes’, half-title with original introductory limerick signed by Barker and dated November 2001, ‘There was an old fossil named Lear, Who’s [sic] verses were boring and drear, his last lines were worse - just the same as the first! So I’ve tried to improve on them here’, the first two lines with some overwriting by Barker due to a malfunctioning pen, torn post-it note tipped in with a note in Barker’s holograph, ‘Can’t do this one! p. 77’ and noting the words ‘inhabits’ and ‘cohabits’ as possible ideas, some mostly marginal browning, a few short closed marginal tears without loss, orig. burgundy cloth, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed and sl. frayed at spine ends, 8vo An extraordinary and unique item, associating two British masters of comic language and wordplay. Lear’s limericks were truly nonsensical and mostly devoid of punchlines or any point, the first and last lines usually ending with the same word rather than a new rhyming one. Nonetheless, Lear’s book, first published in 1846, helped popularise the form which later became standardised in five lines with a humorous new rhyming last line often acting as a punchline. The pen used

by Barker is the same throughout, suggesting that this was a minor diversion carried out in a short space of time, rather than a serious project to come up with the best possible final line. Certainly, the final initialled limerick suggests that he had had enough by the time he got to the end: ‘There was a Young Lady of Clare, who was sadly pursued by a bear; When she found she was tired, she abruptly expired, And so do these rhymes - in despair!’. See also Spike Milligan below.

(1) £1000-1500

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Lot 177 174 Bawden (Edward, illust.). Adam and Evelyn at Kew or Revolt in the Gardens, by Robert Herring, pub. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930, col. plts. and illusts., orig. cloth-backed patterned boards, in d.j., loss to spine ends (wrapper in two pieces), 8vo, together with Here are Set Forth, The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus..., pub. Haarlem, 1958, col. and b&w illusts., t.e.g., orig. cloth with gilt label to spine, in slipcase, large 8vo (limited edition 1147/1500, signed

by Edward Bawden), plus The Victim, by Saul Bellow, 1st ed., 1948, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., rubbed, 8vo, plus five other Bawden related (8)

176 Bawden (Edward, illust.). The Life & Adventures of Peter Wilkins, by Robert Paltock, 1928, numerous col. and b&w illusts. by Bawden, some light spotting to first and last few leaves and foreedges, orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, 4to Edward Bawden’s first illustrated book.

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177 Map of the Air Route Cairo-Capetown Imperial Airways 193435, colour-printed brochure, printed concertina-style, with b&w illusts. after photographs and continuous coloured map to one side, and further printed information, extensively decorated with illustrations

by Edward Bawden, orig. orange printed wrappers, a little rubbed to edges and one or two small chips, slim 8vo, together with A New Essay upon Tea addressed to the Medical Profession, issued by the Empire Tea Market Expansion Board, 1936, b&w illusts. by Edward Bawden, orig. printed grey boards, some minor marks, slim 8vo

£150-200

175 Bawden (Edward, illust.). Death and the Dreamer, by Denis Saurat, 1st ed., 1946, b&w illusts., orig. printed cloth in price-clipped d.j., some wear to spine, 8vo, together with London is London. A Selection of Prose & Verse, by D. M. Low, 1949, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 8vo, plus Bliss (Douglas Percy), Edward Bawden, pub. Pendomer Press, [1979]. col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 4to, plus nineteen other Bawden related (22)

£70-100

Both of these works are scarce examples of Bawden’s commercial output in the 1930s.

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£100-150

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178 Beardsley (Aubrey, illust.). Le Morte Darthur, by Sir Thomas Malory, 3 vols., pub. Dent, 1893-94, two photogravure frontispieces on India paper, and eighteen wood eng. plts., some double-page, a couple of plts. misbound but all present as called-for, numerous letterpress illusts. and decs., some off-setting, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Edward Malins M.D. on front pastedowns, t.e.g., untrimmed, near contemp. vellum gilt, spines soiled, 4to

182 Crane (Walter). The First of May, A Fairy Masque presented in a series of 52 designs, Henry Sotheran, 1881, fifty-seven b & w illusts. on india paper, mounted on thick card leaves, complete, some foxing, soiling, and water-staining, occn. minor edge-fraying, loosely contained in later cloth portfolio, folio Limited edition, 176/200 copies, India Proofs, signed by Walter Crane.

(1) £100-150

Limited edition of 300 copies on Dutch hand made paper, this copy unnumbered.

(3) £500-800

183 Dean & Co. (pub.). Something About China and the Chinese, pub. Messrs. Dean & Co., Threadneedle St., n.d., [1844-1847], 32 pp., including outer wrappers, twenty hand-coloured litho. illusts., mostly two or three to a page, rear wrapper torn across with old crude repair to outer wrapper, spine restrengthened with silk cloth, with closed tear to inner margin of illustration to front endpaper, slim small 4to

179 Blyton (Enid). Five Get into Trouble; 1949; Five on a Hike Together, 1951, 1st eds., illustrations by Eileen Soper, previous owner inscriptions to Five Get into Trouble, original cloth, d.j.s, a few chips and tears, mainly to first title, 8vo (2)

£100-150

Scarce. A description, for younger readers, of China, its manners and customs, cities and islands, including Hong Kong.

(1) £150-200

180 Bonte (Louise Quarles and George Willard Bonte). ABC in Dixie. A Plantation Alphabet, pub. Nister, c. 1900, colour dedication and title, 26 colour plates in bright condition, text leaves opposite in red and black, one or two marginal repairs, some strengthening at gutter, light fingermarks or stains, previous owner initials to front endpaper, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, corners a little chipped, some minor marks, 4to (1)

£300-500

181 Clarke (Harry, illust.). The Year’s at the Spring, An Anthology of Recent Poetry, compiled by L.D’O Walters, 1st ed., pub. George G. Harrap, 1920, twenty-four col. and b&w plates, orig. grey-brown cloth in d.j., a little soiled and frayed to edges, with minor loss to head of spine, 4to (1)

184 Disney (Walt). Mickey Mouse in King Arthur’s Court, 1st ed., Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1933, four colour pop-ups in good condition, illustrations, one or two marginal fingermarks, original pictorial boards, d.j., two short closed tears along folds, 4to

£100-150

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£200-300

185 Dobson (Austin). Eighteenth Century Vignettes, 1st & 2nd series, 1892-94, b & w plates and portraits, spotting front and rear, small booklabel, original vellum-backed boards, a few light spots, 4to, limited large paper editions, 248/250 and 125/200 respectively, together with The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, 1892, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, light spotting to endpapers, small booklabel, original cloth, spine toned, a few spots, 4to, limited edition, 244/250, with three others: W. Carew Hazlitt’s Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, 1867, Geoffrey Glaister’s Glossary of the Book, 1960 and Edward Marsh & Christopher Hassall’s Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts by Rupert Brooke, 1970 (6)

£150-200

187 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). La Chasse au Snark, Crise en Huit Episodes, Traduction nouvelle de Henri Parisot, Illustrations de Max Ernst, Paris, 1950, eight full-page illusts., untrimmed, orig. pink wrappers, spine and returns faded, upper cover detached, 8vo, together with a copy of The Hunting of the Snark, illust.

by Mervyn Peake, 1941, orig. pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and dusty Limited edition, 284/775 copies.

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188 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice in Wonderland. A Dream Play for Children, in Two Acts. Founded upon Mr. Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” and “Through the Looking-Glass,” with the express sanction of the Author. By H. Savile Clarke. Music by Walter Slaughter, 1888, pp.56, orig. printed wrappers, somewhat soiled, and edges sl. frayed in places, slim 8vo

186 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 18th thousand, Macmillan, 1869, halftitle present, b & w illusts., sl. foxed, a couple of leaves lightly water-stained, uniformly bound with Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1872, half-title present, b & w illusts., a few leaves lightly water-stained, marbled endpapers, ms. inscription on verso of front free endpapers, orig. cloth covers bound in to both vols. at rear, a.e.g., 20th c. maroon morocco by Henry Sotheran, a few light marks, raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder with gilt foliage spray tool, date lettered at foot, covers with central gilt roundel each enclosing one of the characters, double fillet on edges, gilt dec. turnins, 8vo A pleasing set.

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£100-150

Scarce.

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£100-150

189 Dolly’s Mansion. Jarrolds’ Ever Welcome Series No. 18 [covertitle], Jarrold & Sons, c.1890, four chromo. leaves showing interiors of a dolls’ house, with entrance hall, kitchen, dining room, drawing room, bedroom, etc., orig. chromo. boards which form a triangular house with roof, with closure tab, oblong 4to, together with From Toy-Land, pub. Frederick Warne & Co., c. 1900, (2 copies), col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. wrappers, splitting to spine ends, oblong 4to, plus eight others

£200-300

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£150-200

190 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, [1909], twenty tipped-in col. plts. (corner crease to one plt.), orig. gilt dec. cloth, slightly rubbed, folio (1)

192 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights, retold by Laurence Housman, 1st deluxe ed., Hodder and Stoughton, [1913], ten tipped-in col. plts., each with captioned tissue guard, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, armorial bookplate of Cuthbert Headlam on front pastedown, orig. cream buckram, blocked in green and gilt, a trifle dusty and marked in places, spine sl. darkened, but generally a bright copy, 4to, together with a single advertisement leaf for the exhibition of Dulac’s orignal drawings for the work, Leicester Galleries, 1913

£150-200

191 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). The Bells and other Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1st ed., Hodder and Stoughton, [1912], half-title, twentyeight col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, patterned endpapers, free endpapers browned, orig. gilt dec. grey cloth, spine a trifle rubbed, 4to, together with Laboccetta (Mario, illust.), Tales of Hoffmann, Harrap, 1st ed., 1932, half-title, ten col. plts., col. vigns., marbled endpapers, t.e.g., orig. pubs. deluxe red morocco gilt, spine rubbed, 4to (2)

Limited edition, 247/750 copies, signed by Dulac.

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£400-600

193 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, [1916], fifteen tipped-in col. plts., endpapers browned and foxed, armorial bookplate on front pastedown (offset to front free endpaper), untrimmed, orig. cream cloth, blocked in blue and gilt, somewhat soiled, spine darkened, 4to, (limited edition, 190/350 copies, signed

by Dulac), together with Princess Badoura, A Tale from the Arabian Nights, retold by Laurence Housman, 1st ed., Hodder and Stoughton, [1913], ten tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, patterned endpapers with mottled browning, armorial bookplate of Francis Graham Arnould on front pastedown, orig. cream buckram, blocked in green and gilt, rubbed and dusty, with some damp-soiling to lower cover, 4to

£150-200

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£400-600

194 Fell (Herbert Granville, illust.). The Book of Job, With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, 1896, dec. title and frontis., num. b&w illusts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed, 4to, together with The Song of Solomon, 1897, b&w plts. and illusts., first few leaves detached, orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine darkened, rubbed, 4to, plus Sullivan (Edmund J.), A Dream of Fair Women & Other Poems, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1900, b&w plts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine darkened, rubbed, 4to (3)

£100-150

195 Gibbings (Robert). Iorana! A Tahitian Journal, with woodengravings by the author, 1st ed., 1932, b&w wood engraved illusts., orig. green cloth-backed pattern boards, a little rubbed, large 8vo, together with A True Tale of Love in Tonga, 1st ed., pub. Faber & Faber, 1935, b&w wood eng. illusts., orig. green cloth-backed pictorial boards in clean condition, with d.j., a little rubbed to extrems., plus John Graham (Convict, 1824), An Historical Narrative, 1st ed., pub. Faber & Faber, 1937, b&w wood engraved illusts., orig. cloth in rubbed and sl. frayed d.j., with several small nicks, and others illustrated by Gibbings, plus several magazines with contributions by him, various, many in d.j.s, mostly 8vo (40)

Lot 192

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£200-300

198 Greenaway (Kate, illust.). A Day in a Child’s Life, Music by Myles B. Foster, pub. George Routledge and Sons, [1881], col. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, with partial d.j. (front cover and front flap only), 4to, together with Marigold Garden, Pictures and Rhymes, pub. Frederick Warne & Co., c. 1910, col. illusts. throughout, some foxing to endpapers, orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards in price-clipped d.j., spine ends split, 4to, Almanack, 2 vols., 1885 & 1926 respectively, col. illusts. throughout, both orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, rubbed, 12mo, plus four other Greenaway related (8)

£150-200

199 Greenaway (Kate, illust.). Birthday Book for Children..., Verses

by Mrs Sale Barker, 1st ed., George Routledge and Sons, [1880], twelve col. plts., manuscript annotations, endpapers replaced, dark blue morocco with title & figure of a child blowin bubbles in gilt to upper board (fore-edge neatly repaired), modern neat matching sheep covered lower board and spine, 16mo in 8s, (Schuster & Engen 393d), together with Shakespeare (William), The Works of William Shakespeare, 40 vols., Allied Newspapers, [1930?], orig. cloth, binding approx. 5 x 3.5cm, plus other miniature & small volumes (approx. 70)

£150-200

196 Gill (Eric, illust.). A Christmas Book, by E., P. and J. Gill, D., S. and M. Pepler, 1st ed., S. Dominic’s Press, Ditchling, 1919, 18 b & w woodcut illustrations, one or two light spots, original wrapper with woodcut illustration, spine and edges rubbed, 8vo (1)

£150-200

200* Greenaway (Kate). Four Kate Greenaway calendars, George Routledge, 1884, together four single-sheet calendars printed in colours, each to a different design, each approx. 17 x 23cm (6.75 x 9ins), mounted, framed and glazed

197 Gill (Eric, illust.). Uncle Dottery. A Christmas Story, by T. F. Powys, D. Cleverdon, Bristol, 1930, two wood-engraved illustrations, original vellum-backed boards, 8vo Limited edition, 34/50 numbered and signed by the author, with extra suite of the illustrations contained in rear envelope.

(1) £200-300

The four calendars conform in design to Schuster & Engen 325, 327, 328, and 329.

(4) £100-150

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203 Jones (David, illust.). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929, ten coppereng. illusts., all but two full-page, partly uncut, orig. green buckram gilt, a little rubbed and spine sl. faded, 4to, together with a loose copper-eng. plt. on wove paper, a duplicate of the plt. to face page 8 201 Guinness Christmas Books. A group of nineteen of the twenty-four Christmas advertising booklets, 1933-39, 1950-56 & 1961-65, col. illusts. by Edward Ardizzone, Rex Whistler, John Gilroy, H.M. Bateman, Antony Groves-Raines and others, plus five duplicates for the first four years including two duplicates for 1934, all orig. col. pict. wrappers, some scattered spotting and marks, a few staples rusted, mostly slim 8vo

Limited edition of 460 copies, this copy unnumbered.

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204 Kauffer (E. McKnight, illust.). Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville, Nonesuch Press, 1926, colour illustrations, original cloth, d.j., some chips and tears, folio Limited edition, 1230/1650.

(1)

Lacks the editions for 1957-60 & 1966. A second edition for the first issue of 1933 (GA281a) is not represented in this lot. No issues appeared between 1940 and 1949.

(24) £200-300

202 Henderson (Keith, and Wilkinson, Norman, illusts.). The Romaunt of the Rose, rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer, Chatto & Windus, 1911, twenty mounted col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, correct as list, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, modern crimson crushed morocco, raised bands between gilt double rules, gilt lettered leather label in second compartment, remainder with fleuron tool in centre, covers with gilt scalloped volute roll border between black fillets, 4to (1)

£300-400

£70-100

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£100-150

205 King (Jessie M., illust.). A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde, Methuen, [1915], colour title, 16 tipped-in colour plates, endpapers slightly toned, t.e.g., original decorative cloth, spine a little faded, 4to (1)

£200-300

206 Kipling (Rudyard). The Jungle Book, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1894, b & w frontis. and illusts. throughout, some full-page, occn. foxing spots, contemp. ms. inscription on prelim. blank, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, spine ends a trifle rubbed, upper cover with faint discolouration to lower outer corner, 8vo A bright copy.

(1)

Lot 206

£300-400

207 Kubasta (Voitech). Cindrella; Goldilocks; Snow White; Hansel and Gretel; Puss in Boots; The Brave Tin Soldier, Prague: Artia, 1977, together six pop-up books, with colour pop-up and moveable illusts. throughout, together with a German edition of Open Sesame by Kubasta, orig. glazed pictorial boards All in fine working condition.

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£70-100

208 Lang (Andrew). The Brown [and Orange] Fairy Book, 1st eds., 1904-06, eight col. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. to each, some spotting at front and rear of each, hinges sl. cracked, a.e.g., orig. gilt. pict. cloth, both sl. rubbed and dust soiled, 8vo (2)

£80-120

209 Lang (Andrew). The Gold of Fairnilee, Bristol & London, [1888], 15 chromo. plates by T. Scott, advert. leaf at end, original cloth, edges slightly rubbed, 4to (1)

£100-150

Lot 207

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210 Lang (Andrew, ed.). The Grey Fairy Book, 1st ed., 1900, halftitle, numerous b & w illusts. by H.J. Ford, some full-page, ms. ownership name scratched out on verso of front free endpaper, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. grey cloth, a little rubbed in places and a small mark on upper cover, but overall a good copy, 8vo, together with The Book of Princes and Princesses, by Mrs. Lang, 1st ed., 1908, halftitle, eight col. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. (some full-page) by H.J. Ford, 6pp. pubs. ad. at rear, free endpapers foxed, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, spine ends sl. rubbed and a few unexceptionable marks to lower cover, but a bright copy, 8vo, plus The Book of Romance, 1st ed., 1902, half-title with contemp. ms. inscription at head, numerous b & w illusts. by H.J. Ford, some full-page, pictorial endpapers, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, extrems. a trifle rubbed, lower cover with a few faint marks, a bright copy, 8vo, plus two other 1st ed. Andrew Lang books, The Red Romance Book, 1905 (orig. cloth, worn), and The Animal Story Book, 1896 (orig. cloth, marked) (5)

211 Lang (Andrew, ed.). The Brown Fairy Book, 1st ed., 1904, halftitle, eight col. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. by H.J. Ford, some full-page, silver-patterned endpapers, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. brown cloth, lower cover with a few faint marks, but a bright copy, 8vo, together with The Book of Princes and Princesses, by Mrs. Lang, half-title (with faint crease), eight col. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. by H.J. Ford, some full-page, 6pp. pubs. ad. at rear, free endpapers foxed, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, extrems. rubbed and some marks, spine darkened and gilt dulled with sl. fraying at head, plus a 1st ed. of The Violet Fairy Book, 1901, lacking a plt.

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£100-150

£150-200

212 Mackley (George, illust.). Weeds and Wild Flowers. Some Irreverent Words, by Armida Maria-Theresa Colt, Two-Horse Press, 1965, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper, with a suite of 11 loose wood-engravings contained in a portfolio, slipcase, 4to Limited edition, 132/250 signed by artist and publisher.

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Lot 211

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£200-300

216* Milligan (Terence “Spike”, 1918-2002). A scrap album of quotations, rhymes and a few drawings compiled and owned by Lily East, 1930s, a total of fifty-four leaves with hand-written entries or drawings by friends, etc., many signed and dated by the inscriber, thirteen pages ‘defaced’ with rude and witty rhymes and doodles by Spike Milligan (Lily’s boyfriend?), e.g. ‘I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, Here I am by the sea today, Sitting on the rocks, Why did I come to the see today? Ah! Yes. To wash my smelly socks. If you go down to the sea today and you are a young boy scout At Brighton between the piers Beware of all the queers, and dirty perverts, They like a young boy scout, Oscar Wilde’, and ‘What is this life if full of woe. We have no time to kick a schmoe.

What is this life if we never knew How to bomb the Inland Revenue.

What is this life and could not see that we should shoot every MP. What a life, What a borer, Cheer up and let’s kill every lawyer Don’t follow leaders Rob the gas meters, Jim Moriarty, Apologies to W.H. Hudson’, ‘Stop doing that or you’ll go blind, Terence Milligan, Catford, April 1st 1937’ and beneath ‘There was a young lady from Ealing, Who had a peculiar feeling, It’s all lies officer, I was in Catford when it happened, Terence Milligan, Armageddon, Arm a geddon outa here’, character names used by Milligan include Daniel Eccles and Hugh Jampton (both later to be characters in the Goons Show, one page with various autographs of friends of Lily East includes Terence Milligan dated June 1937 and in the same hand P. Longton, Daniel Eccles, Jim Moriarty and Constance Cummings with Hugh Jampton, some finger soiling and marks, contemp. cloth, rubbed and heavily damp-marked, a little frayed on spine, 8vo At what date Spike Milligan intercepted and added to this 1930s scrap album is not entirely clear. While most of his dated entries suggest the 1930s in keeping with the genuine entries the presence of the character name Hugh Jampton and Eccles suggest that the date may be later. Milligan did have a girlfriend called Lily Dunford around this time but there seems to be no connection between her and Lily East about whom nothing is known.

Additionally there is one verse, a nonsense Anglo-German variant on the wartime British ‘propaganda’ ditty ‘Hitler Has Only Got One Ball’.

(1) £300-500

217 Milne (A.A.). The Christopher Robin Verses, 1st ed., Methuen, 1932, twelve col. plts. and b&w decs. by E. H. Shepard, orig. blue cloth gilt, some minor marks to rear cover, in d.j., a little frayed and closed tears to head and foot of rear joint, with rear wrapper discol., plus an additional publisher’s wrapper for this work, printed in black on orange paper, rubbed and somewhat frayed to edges, spine faded and a little chipped to head and foot, 8vo

213 Mackley (George, illust.). Engraved in the Wood. A Collection of Wood Engravings by George Mackley, with an appreciation by Ruari McLean and with a glimpse of the artist by Armida MariaTheresa Colt, Two-Horse Press, 1968, 68 wood-engraved illustrations, loose as issued in original wrapper, together with an appreciation and prospectus, original foldover box, a trifle rubbed, 4to Limited edition, 20/300 signed by the artist.

(1)

(1)

218 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 1st ed., 1924, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, minor spotting and marks and light browning to endpapers, contemp. ink inscription to front f.e.p., t.e.g., orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and bumped, a few marks and some damp fading to fore-edges of both covers, 8vo

£200-300

214 Magnet. Howard Baker reprints, 34 vols., c. 1970s, b&w illusts., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, together with thirty-two other Howard Baker reprints by Frank Richards, c. 1970s-80s, incl. fifteen Greyfriars Holiday Annual (2 cartons)

(1)

£200-300

219 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 4th ed., 1924, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, pp.52-53 with offsetting from bookmark, presentation inscription to half title, t.e.g., original blue cloth gilt in bright condition, 8vo, together with Now We Are Six, 1st ed., 1927

£100-150

215 Meggendorfer (Lothar). Always Jolly! A Movable Toybook, H. Grevel & Co., [1890], eight full-page hand-col. moveable illusts. with tab mechanisms, three not working, occn. sl. loss and repairs, contemp. ms. inscription at head of first text leaf, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, sl. dusty, and extrems. a trifle worn, together with two other moveable books by Meggendorfer (Travels of Little Lord Thumb and His Man Damian, and Immer Lustig! Ein Ziehbilderbuch), both defective Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

(3)

£200-300

(2)

£100-150

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£100-150

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Lot 222

220 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 1924; Winnie-ThePooh, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, 1st eds., illustrations by E.H. Shepard, p.123 of The House at Pooh Corner with lower outer corner torn away, a few minor spots, previous owner inscriptions or signatures to last three titles, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, Now We Are Six upper cover with a few light stains, 8vo (4)

223 Milne (A.A.). Now We Are Six, 1st ed., deluxe issue, Methuen, 1927, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, half-title with contemp. ms. inscription (ink blot showing through and offset to title), pictorial endpapers, green silk ribbon marker, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. olive green limp morocco, spine rubbed and with sl. loss at head, 8vo, together with Now We are Six, 1st ed., Methuen, 1927, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, half-title browned, pictorial endpapers, ink stamp on front pastedown, orig. gilt dec. red cloth, spine faded and sl. rubbed at ends, in chipped and dust-soiled d.j., spine browned and with loss at ends, lower panel with closed tear in lower margin (repaired on verso with adhesive tape), 8vo, plus Now We are Six, 4th ed., Methuen, 1928, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers, early ms. name on front free endpaper, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed (foxed), orig. gilt dec. red cloth, head of spine sl. faded, in edge-torn d.j., spine sunned and with loss at ends, 8vo, plus four others by Milne

£800-1200

221 Milne (A.A.). Winnie-The-Pooh, 4th ed., 1927; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, 1st eds., illustrations by E.H. Shepard, presentation inscription to Winnie-The-Pooh, a.e.g., original cloth gilt, marginal fading to last two titles, 8vo (3)

£80-120

222 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, t.e.g., original salmon cloth (some fading), d.j., chipped at spine ends, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Now We Are Six, 4th ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, t.e.g., original red cloth gilt, rubbed at spine ends, d.j., spine darkened, a few chips and tears, 8vo, plus When We Were Very Young, 16th ed., 1927 and Winnie-the-Pooh, 12th ed., 1933, both in d.j.s, 8vo (4)

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£300-400

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£200-300

224 Nash (John, illust.). The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White, Limited Editions Club, Ipswich, 1972, colour and b & w illustrations, original calf-backed boards, slipcase, 4to, limited edition, 757/1500 signed by the artist, together with Dressing Gowns and Glue, by L. de G. Sieveking, ed. Paul Nash, [1919], b & w illustrations

by John Nash, marginal abrasions to frontispiece verso, original pictorial boards, joints and edges rubbed, small 4to (first book to be illustrated by John Nash), plus The Wood-Engravings of Paul Nash...

Compiled by Jeremy Greenwood, Wood Lea Press, Liverpool, 1987, portrait frontispiece, colour and b & w illustrations, original clothbacked boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition, one of 750, with others illustrated by John Nash including Celeste and Other Sketches, by Stephen Hudson, Blackmore Press, 1930 (limited edition, 256/700), Walter de la Mare’s Seven Short Stories, 1931, Ovid’s Elegies, 1925 and English Garden Flowers, 1948 (30)

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

£300-500

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£300-400

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226 Nicholson (William). An Alphabet, W. Heinemann, 1898, title with woodblock vignette, 26 full-page colour woodblock illustrations, 1pp. advert tipped-in at rear, light spots to endpapers, original clothbacked pictorial boards, lower corner chipped, light edge wear, 4to (1)

£300-500

227 Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Words by Rudyard Kipling, 1898, 12 colour woodblock illustrations, light spots to endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, light edge wear, 4to (1)

£200-300

228 Nicholson (William). London Types. Quatrozains by W.E. Henley, 1898, 12 full-page colour woodblock illustrations (light offsetting to text), advert. leaf at end, hinges a little tender, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, light edge wear, 4to (1)

£200-300

Lot 228

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231 Nister (Ernest, pub.). Our Darlings Surprise Pictures, [1895], eight slatted moveable chromo. plts., all in working order, b & w text illusts., some minor soiling and edge-tears, patterned endpapers, contemp. ms. inscription on front free endpaper, rear free endpaper with neatly repaired closed tear, hinges split and sometime strengthened, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed, and a trifle worn in places, sm. folio, together with fifteen other moveable books, various publishers, generally in poor condition/defective Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£200-300

229 Nister (Ernest, pub.). Wild Animal Stories; A Panorama Picture Book. With an Introduction by G. Manville Fenn, [1897], six chromo. pop-up plates, a few hinges professionally replaced, black & white illusts to text, decorative endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, corners bumped amd some light marks, oblong folio (1)

£200-300

232 Nister (Ernest & E.P. Dutton, publishers). My Own Picture Book and How To Make It, 1st ed., [1907], seven sheets of colour illusts. and three sheets of b & w illusts. loosely inserted in pocket inside front cover, the first sheet of six colour illusts. and first sheet of seven b & w illusts. cut out and pasted in to the correct position as indicated by the publisher, some spotting and finger soiling, no inscription and frontispiece box for owner’s self-portrait left blank, hinges cracked, lacks front f.e.p., orig. linen-backed pict. boards, rubbed and soiled, sl. edge and corner wear, 4to A rare and complete survival of Nister no. 1860 (sometimes mistaken for the date). As with the Osborne copy some of the pictures have been cut and pasted in to the book.

(1) £300-500

233 O’Connor (John, illust.). The Funeral Oration of Pericles, Translated by E.H. Blakeney, Dropmore Press, 1948, Frontispiece and initials by John O’Connor, t.e.g., original vellum-backed boards, d.j., a little faded with spots, 4to, limited edition, 87/300, inscribed by the translator, together with Thyme and Bergamot, by Christopher Sandeman, Dropmore Press, 1947, illustrations by John O’Connor, original cloth, d.j., loss at lower margin, 4to, limited edition, 63/550, plus An Essex Dozen. A Twelve-Point Progress from London to the Coast, Benham, Colchester, 1953, colour illustrations, previous owner inscription, original boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 176/500, with others illustrated by John O’Connor including Together and Alone, 1945 and The Poems of William Wordsworth, Limited Editions Club, 1973

230 Nister (Ernest, pub.). Magic Moments, Verses by Clifton Bingham, Pen and Ink Illustrations by Florence Hardy, c.1890s, seven chromo. circular revolving transformations, each operated with a silk ribbon, and in working order, one with silk ribbon re-attached, sepia text and letterpress vigns., some toning and minor edge chipping, stitching partially broken and one leaf detached, patterned endpapers, free endpapers browned, orig. cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, lightly rubbed, 4to (1)

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£150-200

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£150-200

234 Phillips (Tom). Dante’s Inferno. The First Part of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Translated and Illustrated by Tom Phillips, pub. Thames & Hudson, 1985, colour illustrations, original cloth, d.j., slipcase, 4to Limited edition, 28/100 signed by the artist, with a loose ten-colour screenprint, numbered and signed by the artist.

(1) £150-200

235 Piper (John). British Romantic Artists, 1942, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. pict. boards in d.j. (wear to spine), 8vo, together with To John Piper on His Eightieth Birthday, ed. Geoffrey Elborn, 1983, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. pict. cloth, 8vo, plus Murray’s Berkshire.

Architectural Guide, ed. John Betjeman & John Piper, 1st ed., 1949, num. b&w illusts., orig. pict. cloth in price-clipped d.j., slight chipping to spine ends, 8vo, plus approx. thirty-five other Piper related (38)

238 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st ed., Warne, 1911, lacking frontis., col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. brown boards with inset pictorial panel to upper cover, spine slghtly rubbed, 16mo, together with The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, col. plts. throughout, some surface loss to one plt., neat inscription, pictorial endpapers, orig. green boards with inset pictorial panel to upper cover, some fading to spine and covers, 16mo, plus The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st ed., Warne, 1910, frontis detached, col. plts. throughout, neat inscription, pictorial endpapers (slight wear and staining), upper hinge broken, orig. cream boards with inset pictorial panel to upper cover, splitting to spine ends, stain to lower part of rear cover, some wear to extrems., 16mo, plus The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st ed., Warne, 1913, frontis. detached, col. plts. throughout, neat inscription, pictorial endpapers, orig. maroon boards with inset pictorial panel to upper cover, some fading to spine and rear cover, 16mo, plus five others

£100-150

236 Pogany (Willy, illust.). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, New York, E.P. Dutton and Co., 1929, num. eng. illusts. to text, orig. cloth-backed patterned boards, some fading to spine, contained in orig. slipcase, some wear and fading, 8vo Limited edition ‘M’ of fourteen presentation copies, signed by Willy Pogany (overall limitation 200 copies).

(1) £200-300

237 Pogany (Willy, illust.). Tannhauser. A Dramatic Poem, by Richard Wagner, Brentano’s, New York, 1911, 12 mounted colour plates, illustrations, one or two tears, original cloth gilt, joints and edges lightly rubbed, 4to, together with The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan after the Drama by Richard Wagner, by T.W. Rolleston, [1913], 8 mounted colour plates by Pogany, illustrations, t.e.g., original blindstamped morocco (gilt decoration rubbed off upper cover), 4to (2)

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£100-150

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£150-200

239 Potter (Beatrix). Ginger & Pickles, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, col. and b&w illusts., pictorial endpapers, some cracking to upper hinge, orig. pict. boards, lacking spine, rubbed, 4to, together with The RolyPoly Pudding, Warne, 1908, col. and b&w illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. red cloth with inset pictorial panel to upper cover, rubbed, 4to, plus five others by Potter, incl. three 1st eds. (worn with frontispieces missing) (7)

241 Potter (Beatrix). Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st ed., Warne, [1917], half-title, col. frontis. and illusts., orig. green boards with inset col. pictorial panel to upper cover, a bright copy, 12mo, together with The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, half-title, col. frontis. and illusts., occn. light finger-soiling, front free endpaper torn along upper margin (with sl. loss), rear hinge split, stitching broken, orig. brown boards with inset col. pictorial panel to upper cover, occn. minor marks and rubbing, some loss at head of spine, 12mo, plus a 1st ed. of Ginger & Pickles, and three other Beatrix Potters, later eds.

£150-200

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£200-300

242 Potter (Beatrix). The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, 1st ed., Warne, 1906, fourteen col. illusts. with corresponding text leaves bound concertina-style, some faint creasing and one or two marks, contemp. ms. inscription on verso of final leaf, orig. wallet-style red cloth binding with black lettering, upper cover with mounted col. illust., sl. splitting to some joint ends, loss to tab and fastening (old adhesive tape repair on verso of flap), 16mo See Linder, p.426 & Quinby 12 for the first edition bound in the usual green cloth. This red cloth binding is extremely rare: two copies emerged from the Warne archive some years ago, both stamped ‘Not to be taken away’, but this copy is one of only a handful of copies known to exist.

(1) £300-500

240 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st trade ed., Warne, [1902], early issue with ‘wept’ for ‘shed’ on p.51, col. illusts., halftitle, some minor soiling, grey leaf-patterned endpapers, contemp. ms. inscription on front free endpaper, rear hinge split, orig. green boards lettered in white with rectangular pictorial panel to upper cover, one or two minor marks, 12mo Linder, p.421; Quinby 2.

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£300-500

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Lot 243 243 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st ed., deluxe issue, Warne, 1908, half-title, twenty-seven full-page col. illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt lettered and decorated terracotta cloth, with rectangular col. pictorial panel inset to upper cover, in printed glassine wrapper, a trifle chipped and frayed at edges, 12mo, with two slips of paper loosely inserted inscribed in Leslie Linder’s hand ‘I would consider this a first LL’ and ‘Accepted as a 1st LL’, housed in a custom-made maroon qtr. morocco solander box, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment Linder, p.427. A virtually mint copy of the rare deluxe issue in the even rarer wrapper; certainly the finest copy we have seen. The wrapper displays the correct price of 1/6 on the spine (trade copies were 1/-), but announces new books for late 1904; it is not uncommon for deluxe issues to appear in earlier wrappers.

(1) £6000-8000

244 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st ed., later issue, Warne, [1918], with ‘London’ printed correctly on the title-page, col. illusts., early ms. name at head of half-title, pictorial endpapers, orig. grey boards with mounted col. illust. to upper cover, 16mo Linder, p.430. A good copy.

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£200-300

245 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1st ed., 1907, twenty-four tipped-in col. plts., num. b&w illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, some rubbing to extrems., 4to, together with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, 1st ed., 1908, forty tipped-in col. plts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and some marks, 4to (2)

£100-150

246 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, Translated by Margaret Armour, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, a few minor spots, original cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, together with Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts by J.M. Barrie, 1901, 22 mounted colour plates by Hugh Thomson, one or two closed tears, occasional spotting, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little faded and spotted, 4to (2)

£200-300

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247 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Comus, by John Milton, [1921], 24 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, original green cloth gilt, spine faded, d.j., some chips and tears, 4to (1)

£250-300

248 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, Translated by Margaret Armour, 1910, 34 colour tipped-in plates, occasional light spotting and toning, bookplate removed, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, by Richard Wagner, 1911, 30 tipped-in colour plates, a few light spots, original cloth gilt, 4to (2)

£150-200

249 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). L’Or du Rhin et la Valkyrie par Richard Wagner, Paris: Hachette et Cie, [1910], thirty-four tipped-in col. plts. (one creased), with captioned tissue guards, correct as list, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, some light soiling, top corners sl. bumped, lacking ties, 4to French limited deluxe edition, 132/330 copies.

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£150-200

Lot 247

250 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Vicar of Wakefield, 1st ed., Harrap, 1929, twelve col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., half-title toned, first few leaves and fore-edges lightly foxed, silhouette endpapers, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. olive Persian morocco with elaborate inlaid illustration on upper cover in white, blue, black and pink morocco, 4to Riall, p.170. A good copy; uncommon in the publisher’s special binding.

(1) £150-250

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253 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Some British Ballads, 1st ed., [1919], sixteen tipped-in col. plts., one plt. detached, and two with one corner creased, free endpapers toned, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. vellum-backed boards blocked in gilt, rubbed and marked, 4to Limited edition, 150/575 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham.

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£300-400

254 Raverat (Gwendolen, illust.). The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat, Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone, 1st ed., 1959, b & w illustrations, original boards, d.j., 4to, together with Bestowal. A Dramatic Poem, by Julia Reeve Wood, 1926, woodengraved frontispiece by Raverat, original cloth-backed boards, torn glassine wrapper, 8vo (with a loose manuscript note from the author), plus Shadows of the Christ, by Margaret Clifford Jenkinson, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1921, light spots, original cloth-backed boards, woodcut illustration to upper board, 8vo, with a loose 2pp. autograph letter from the author regarding the play, with others illustrated by Gwen Raverat (22)

£150-200

255 Ravilious (Eric). Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters & Design,

by Anne Ullmann, Christopher Whittick & Simon Lawrence, 2 vols., Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2008, numerous colour illustrations, original contrasting cloth, slipcase, oblong folio, limited edition, one of 750, together with Ravilious Engravings, by Jeremy Greenwood, Wood Lea Press, 2008, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, slipcase, folio, limited edition of 800, plus The Wood-Engravings of Tirzah Ravilious, 1987, b & w illustrations, original wrapper, 4to, with others related including English Wits, 1940 (10)

251 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, Harrap, 1928, eight col. plts., numerous letterpress illusts. and decs., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, pictorial endpapers, orig. gilt dec. ‘antique’ calf, tiny chip at head of spine discreetly repaired, 4to

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

Country Life, 1938, twenty-four col. litho. plts., orig. pictorial boards, extrems. rubbed, sl. loss at head of spine, 8vo

Riall, p.164. Uncommon in the publisher’s special binding; this copy is in good condition.

(1) £100-150

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£800-1200

257 Robinson (W. Heath, illust.). Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales, pub.

Constable, 1913, sixteen tipped-in col. plts., num. b&w illusts., occ. spotting throughout, orig. gilt dec. vellum, wear to spine, rubbed and some marks, 4to

252 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Aesop’s Fables, a New Translation

by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1912, thirteen tipped-in col. plts., a few with cornercreasing, b & w illusts., some full-page, some foxing and marginal staining, endpapers browned, ms. name on front pastedown, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, soiled, spine sl. nicked, 4to Limited edition, 1135/1450 copies, signed by Arther Rackham.

(1)

£250-300

Limited edition 26/100, signed by W. Heath Robinson.

(1)

£150-200

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£300-500

Lot 256

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258 Saville (Malcolm). Mystery at Witchend, 1st ed., 1943, b & w illustrations by G.E. Breary, map endpapers, original cloth, d.j., rubbed and chipped with sellotape residue at head of spine and front flap, repairs to verso, 8vo First of the Lone Pine adventures.

(1)

£300-400

259 Searle (Ronald). Ronald Searle in Perspective, 1st ed., 1984, colour and b & w illustrations, a.e.s., original full black morocco, slipcase, 4to Limited edition, 15/250 with a loose colour lithograph captioned, numbered and signed by the artist.

(1) £200-300

260 Sendak (Maurice). The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma G. Lanes, pub. New York, 1980, (2 copies), col. and b&w illusts. (some folding), one vol. signed by Sendak to front endpaper, both orig. col. pict. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, together with Lullabies and Night Songs, Music by Alec Wilder, ed. William Engvick, pub. Bodley Head, c.

1970s, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards in d.j., folio, plus The Love for Three Oranges. The Glyndebourne Version, by Frank Corsaro, pub. Bodley Head, 1984, col. illusts. throughout, orig. pict. cloth, large 8vo, plus twenty-six other Sendak related (30)

£200-300

261 Sendak (Maurice). In the Night Kitchen, 1st UK ed., 1971, colour illustrations, pictorial boards, price-clipped d.j., edges a trifle rubbed, 4to, together with The Happy Rain, by Jack Sendak, 1st UK ed., 1959, b & w illustrations, original pictorial boards, spine a little faded, 4to, with others illustrated by Sendak including Some Swell Pup Dog, 1976, George Macdonald’s The Light Princess, 1972 & The Golden Key, 1972, I Saw Esau, 1992 (limited edition, 151/300 signed by author & artist) and a small collection of Maurice Sendak illustrated greetings cards, 1980’s

Lot 258

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£150-200

262 Sendak (Maurice). Pictures by Maurice Sendak, Bodley Head, 1972, folded four-leaf text, contents leaf, nineteen col. and b & w plts., a few with light marginal foxing, loose as issued in orig. patterned box, a little worn and split at corners, printed paper label on upper cover, folio Limited edition, 176/1000 copies.

(1)

£70-100

263 Shepard (Ernest H.). Fun & Fantasy, A Book of Drawings by Ernest H. Shepard, with an Introduction by A.A. Milne, 1st ed., Methuen, 1927, seven col. plts., one double-page, numerous b & w illusts., endpapers browned, front free endpaper with ms. inscription, untrimmed, orig. cloth-backed patterned boards, printed paper spine label chipped (spare on rear pastedown), extrems. rubbed and faded, folio (limited edition, 66/150 copies, signed by Shepard), together with another copy, 1st trade ed., orig. printed boards (bowed, extrems. worn) in torn d.j., plus a pen & ink drawing of a Scotsman bearing the signature “Ernest H. Shepard” (3)

£100-150

264 Somerville (E. Oe.). The Story of the Discontented Little Elephant, Told in Pictures and Rhyme, 1st ed., Longmans, Green & Co., 1912, seven col. plts. (one with short tear at head of gutter), b & w illusts. throughout, some faint foxing, contemp. ms. inscription on front pastedown, orig. cloth-backed boards, with pictorial label on upper cover, rubbed and a little edge-worn, upper cover with vertical crease, oblong 8vo Extremely rare.

(1)

Lot 259

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£500-700

Lot 264

265* Soper (Eileen, and others). The Enid Blyton Nature Plates, pub. Macmillan, c.1950s, sixty colour-printed plts., blank margins with pin holes and occn. punch holes and minor tears, approx. 430 x 530mm (17 x 21 ins), contained in orig. cardboard portfolio, sl. worn Eileen Soper was a prolific illustrator. She illustrated many of Enid Blyton’s storybooks, including all of the Famous Five books, as well as books by other authors and her own books. She is particularly known for her drawings of wildlife and fairies, both of which feature in these striking classroom posters.

(1) £100-150

267 Tenniel (John, 1820-1914). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 20th thousand, Macmillan, 1870; Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1872, both with eng. illusts. by John Tenniel, occn. marks and foxing, Through the Looking Glass with contemp. inscription by John Tenniel on the half-title, and with a letter from him in a pocket mounted on the front pastedown, single sheet folded, in orig. envelope addressed to W.H. Bradbury, a.e.g., both vols. in orig. gilt dec. red cloth, some wear and staining, 8vo

266 Stone (Reynolds, illust.). A Shepherd’s Life, by W.H. Hudson, pub. Compton Press, 1977, ten tipped-in wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, each numbered and signed in initials by the artist, t.e.g., original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 79/100, together with The Shepherd’s Calendar, by John Clare, pub.

Paradine, 1978, b & w tipped-in wood engravings by John Lawrence, t.e.g., original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 49/500 signed by artist and printer, with a loose wood-engraving numbered and signed by the artist (2)

Provenance: from the library of Lilian Bradbury, of publishing family Bradbury & Evans. The inscription reads: ‘Miss Lilian Bradbury With Mr. J.T.’s kind love.

Christmas 1871.’ The letter, in Tenniel’s hand, headed 10 Portsdown Road, and dated December 22nd 1871, reads: ‘My dear W. Will you kindly take charge of the accompanying little book, and faithfully present it to Lilian. All good Christmas wishes to each & every-one.’ It is signed ‘JACKIDES’, one of several nicknames John Tenniel was known by to those closest to him.

(2) £500-800

£150-200

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272* Wain (Louis). A group of twelve vintage cat postcards, 19021927, all but one used (nine with postage stamps), several with contemp. ms. on the front, each approx. 9 x 14cm (3.5 x 5.5ins)

268 Thomson (Hugh, illust.). Shakespeare’s Comedy of As You Like It, Hodder, [1909], forty tipped-in col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, slightly marked, lacking ties, 4to Limited edition 219/500, signed by Hugh Thomson.

(1)

Entitled: When the Cat’s away the Kittens will play!; Be careful; You cannot expect us to believe; It’s quite a task; Unhappy and Curly; The Image of his Father; District Visitors; I am so weary; It was most enjoyable; I hope I’m not too late; A pretty Kettle of Fish; I am quite upset (unused).

(12) £150-200

£100-150

269 Upton (Florence K., illust.). Golliwogg in the African Jungle, 1909, colour illustrations, occasional closed tears and pencil scribbling, front hinge breaking, previous owner inscription, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed with juvenile scribbles, oblong 4to (1)

273 Whistler (Laurence). Engraved Glass, 1952-58, pub. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, b&w illusts. throughout, inscribed by Whistler to half-title, t.e.g., orig. cloth-backed boards gilt in d.j., rubbed, large 8vo, together with The Image on the Glass, 1975, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large 8vo, plus Scenes and Signs on Glass, 1985, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, in d.j., 8vo, (limited edition 907/1200, signed by author), plus twelve other Laurence Whistler related

£70-100

270 Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The Golliwogg’s Christmas, 1st ed., 1907, num. col. illusts., some juvenile col. affecting several leaves, rear hinge cracked, orig. cloth-backed pict. boards, some dust soiling, rubbed, oblong 4to, together with The Gollowogg in War!, 1st ed., 1899, num. col. illusts., tears to a few leaves, loss to rear endpaper, binding weak resulting in a few loose leaves, orig. clothbacked pict. boards, worn and dampstained, oblong 4to, plus The Golliwogg’s “Auto-Go-Cart”, 1st ed., 1901, num. col. illusts., several leaves torn, orig. cloth-backed pict. boards, wear to extrems., oblong 4to, plus six others by Florence and Bertha Upton, some defective (9)

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274 Whistler (Rex). The Works of Rex Whistler, by Laurence Whistler and Ronald Fuller, 1960, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j. (small tear), large 4to, together with Rex Whistler. The Konigsmark Drawings, by Laurence Whistler, 1952, num. tipped-in b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, large 4to (limited edition 27/1000), plus The Laughter and the Urn. The Life of Rex Whistler, by Laurence Whistler, 1985, num. b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus fortyseven other Rex Whistler related

£150-200

271 Wain (Louis). Cats, Pictured by Louis Wain, and versed by ‘Grimalkin’, pub. Sands & Company, [1901], colour title, twenty-one b&w full-page illusts., contents somewhat loose, orig. colour pictorial blue cloth, a little rubbed, togther with Louis Wain’s Annual, 1913, six tipped-in colour plates, numerous b&w plts. and illusts., orig. colour printed wrappers, heavily rubbed and frayed to edges, with some loss, small 4to, plus two others related (Our Pussies, pub. Nister & Dutton, n.d., c. 1900, & Brian Reade, Louis Wain, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1972) (4)

£80-120

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£200-300

275 Woodroffe (Paul, illust.). The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, 1908, 20 tipped-in colour plates, bookplate, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Undine,

by De La Motte Fouque, new impression, 1920, 15 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, some light toning, previous owner signature, original cloth, a little rubbed and stained, 4to, plus Michael West’s Clair de Lune and Other Troubadour Romances, c. 1913

£100-150

(3)

£150-200

276 Woodroffe (Paul, illust.). Ye Booke of Olden Time Ballades & Nursery Rhymes, Music by Joseph S. Moorat, 1st ed., [1895], musical notation and illusts. throughout, floral endpapers, upper hinge splitting, orig. silk marker (sl. worn), orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, faintly toned and a little edge-rubbed, oblong 4to, together with Woodroffe, (Paul, illust.), The Second Book of Nursery Rhymes, Set to Music by Joseph S. Moorat, 1st ed., George Allen, [1896], musical notation and illusts. throughout, one or two openings with sl. rust-marks and small holes at gutter as a result of staples, patterned endpapers (toned), hinges strengthened, rough-trimmed, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, somewhat soiled and rubbed, oblong 4to (2)

Lot 272

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£70-100

RUPERT BEAR

277 Rupert Bear. The Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1941, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed, orig. col. pict. boards, spine ends split, some marks to upper cover, rubbed, 4to (1)

279 Rupert Bear. Rupert in More Adventures, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, printed Harrison & Sons, 1944, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, base of spine split, 4to

£150-200

(1)

£100-150

278 Rupert Bear. More Rupert Adventures, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1943, col. illusts. throughout, two colouring pages (one slightly done), inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight wear to spine ends, 4to

280 Rupert Bear. A New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, printed Harrison & Sons, 1945, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrapper, very slight wear to spine ends, 4to

(1)

(1)

£150-200

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£150-200

281 Rupert Bear. A New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1945, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. wrappers, spine ends rubbed, covers slightly foxed and dusty, 8vo

283 Rupert Bear. The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1946, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed, not price-clipped, addn. large inscription to title page, orig. col. pict. wrappers, small ink stain to upper cover, 4to

(1)

(1)

£100-150

284 Rupert Bear. The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1946, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. wrappers, base of spine slightly chipped, some rubbing to upper corner of front cover, 8vo

282 Rupert Bear. The New Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1946, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed or price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight rubbing to extrems., 8vo, together with More Rupert Adventures, 1st ed., 1952, col. illusts. throughout, inscribed and price-clipped, orig. col. pict. boards, spine ends rubbed, 4to, plus More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., 1953, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed or price-clipped, orig. col. pict. boards, slight rubbing to extrems., 4to, plus another copy of More Adventures of Rupert, 1952 (worn) (4)

£100-150

(1)

£100-150

£150-200

Lot 282

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285 Rupert Bear. More Adventures of Rupert, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1947, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight rubbing to spine ends and outer edge of front cover, 8vo

287 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1949, col. illusts. throughout, not inscribed or price-clipped, orig. col. pict. wrappers, slight chip to base of spine, two small closed tears to front cover, 8vo

(1)

(1)

£100-150

286 Rupert Bear. The Rupert Book, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1948, col. illusts. throughout, not price-clipped, neat inscription to ‘belongs to’ box and inside front cover, orig. col. pict. wrappers, base of spine slightly rubbed, couple of minor marks to front cover, 8vo (1)

£100-150

288 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual, 8 vols., pub. Daily Express, 19551962, col. illusts., 1960 & 1961 vols. with magic paintings neatly completed, 1962 vol. with magic paintings only partly completed, all orig. col. pict. boards, 1955-57 vols. with old tape marks to spines, overall excellent condition, 4to

£100-150

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£100-150

289 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual, 3 vols., pub. Daily Express, 196365, col. illusts. throughout, all vols. with magic paintings untouched, all inscribed, 1965 vol. price clipped, all orig. col. pict. boards, overall fine condition, 4to (3)

Lot 286

£100-150

Lot 289 85

AMERICAN & BRITISH COMICS

293 All Star Comics, no. 15, pub. D.C. Comics, 1943, cents copy, neat inscription to first leaf, bright covers, very slight loss to lower edge of rear cover and final two leaves, [FN-]

290 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annual, pub. Daily Express, 1966, col. illusts. throughout, magic painting pages untouched, not inscribed or price clipped, rippling to final leaf, orig. col. pict. boards, overall fine condition, 4to (1)

(1)

£80-120

294 American & British Comics. A collection of approx. 80 American and British comics, c. 1960s-70s, titles incl. Out of this World, Race for the Moon, Secrets of the Unknown, Superman, Fantastic Tales, etc, all orig. col. pict. wrappers, some tears and creasing, generally in read condition

291 Rupert Bear. A collection of 35 Rupert Yellow Library Books, c. 1920s-30s, b&w illusts., a few with some colouring, all orig. yellow printed boards, approx. half with some spine damage (one with complete loss), 8vo (35)

£200-300

(a carton)

£150-200

£70-100

295 American Comics. A collection of 11 American Comics, c.

1940s, incl. Green Lantern, no. 26, pub. D.C., 1947 [FR]; Captain Midnight, no 45, pub. Fawcett, 1946 [FN]; Whiz Comics, no. 94, pub.

Fawcett, 1948 [VG/FN]; Star Spangled Comics, no. 71, pub. D.C., 1947 [GD], etc., balance [GD+ to VG+]

292 Rupert Bear. A collection of six ‘Rupert annual’ cover prints, pub. Clark Brandt, 1971, five signed by ‘Alfred Bestall’ and numbered to the lower margin, image size 42 x 58.5 cm, all framed and glazed, except for the unsigned print which is contained (rolled) in a cardboard tube

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Each signed print is limited to an edition of seventy-five. The annual covers comprise, 1948 (unsigned), 1949 (29/75), 1964 (34/75), 1967 (26/75), 1968 (65/75) & 1969 (30/75).

(6) £300-500

£100-150

296 American Comics. A collection of 25 American comics, c.

1950s, incl. Surprise Adventures, no. 3, pub. Sterling, 1955 [GD+]; This is Suspence, no. 25, pub. Charlton, 1955 [VG]; Kid Colt Outlaw, no. 34, pub. Atlas, 1954 [VG-], etc., balance [GD to VG+], together with a collection of 23 British Comics, c. 1950s-60s, incl. Blackhawk, no. 36, pub. Strato, 1956 [VG]; Astounding Stories, no. 47, c. 1950s [VG+]; Weird Planets, no. 19, pub. Alan Class, c. 1960s, etc., balance [VG- to VG/FN] (48)

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£80-120

Lot 297

297 Avengers, nos. 1-3 & 5-16, pub. Marvel, 1963-65, pence copies, some with pence inkstamp to front cover, a few minor tears and some creasing [VG- to FN] (15)

£500-800

298 Beano, approx. 400 orig. issues, c. 1981-88, incl. complete years for 1984, 1985 & 1987, together with Dandy, approx. 200 orig. issues, c. 1975-84, plus Victor, 53 orig. issues (complete year), 1977, all orig. col. pict. wrappers, overall fine condition, 4to (653)

£80-120

299 Beano. The Magic Beano Book, 1st ed., pub. D.C. Thomson, 1950, duotone illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards, top corner of upper cover bumped, slight rubbing to extrems., 4to (1)

£100-150

300 Comic Free Gifts. A collection of approx. 100 comic free gifts, mostly 1970s-80s, incl. Beano, Dandy, Eagle, etc., some accompanied by the orig. comic, includes some earlier gifts from the 1920s onwards, generally in VG condition (a small carton)

£70-100

Lot 299

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303 Disney (Walt). Walt Disney’s Family Album, Presented by Mickey Mouse and to be Made up by Yourselves, pub. Juvenile Productions, n.d., c. 1935, fifteen mounted col. illusts., couple of leaves loose, orig. col. pict. card wrappers, spine ends split, covers creased with slight loss to upper outer corner of front cover, oblong 4to Scarce.

(1)

£70-100

304 Eagle. A collection of approx. 330 Eagle comics, c. 1955-62, some tears & fraying to edges, balance [VG to FN+] (approx. 330)

£100-150

301 Dandy. The Dandy Monster Comic, 1st ed., pub. D.C. Thomson, 1947, duotone illusts. throughout, not inscribed, orig. col. pict. boards, some wear to spine, 4to (1)

£100-150

305 Eagle. A collection of 200 Eagle comics, 1950-55, comprising, 44 issues (vol. 1, incl. no. 1); 50 issues (vol. 2); 45 issues (vol. 3); 22 issues (vol. 4); 38 issues (vol. 5); 1 issue (vol. 6), tears & fraying to edges, balance [GD+ to VG+] (200)

£200-300

306 March of Comics, nos. 199, 271, 317, 344 & 357, by Hanna Barbera, pub. Western, c. 1960s, together 5 orig. issues, incl. Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound & the Flinstones, col. illusts. througout, file copies with occ. ink stamp etc., orig. col. pict. wrappers, overall fine condition (5)

£70-100

307 New Hotspur, nos. 1-31 (missing nos. 13 & 20), 1959-60, together with Hotspur, nos. 1187-1197 (missing 1195), 1959, plus Adventure, 69 orig. issues, 1959-1961, plus Rover, nos. 1780-1821 (missing nos. 1788 & 1803), 1959-60, plus Rover and Adventure, 45 orig. issues, 1961-62, b&w illusts. throughout, all orig. col. pict. wrappers, some issues with tears and fraying, overall VGC, 4to (191)

£100-150

308 Victor Book for Boys Annuals, 4 vols., pub. D.C. Thomson, 1964 (no. 1)-1967, duo-tone illusts. throughout, 1964-66 neatly inscribed, 1966 price clipped, all orig. col. pict. boards, overall fine condition, 4to, together with Valiant Annual, pub. Fleetway, 1964 (no. 1), col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards, base of spine loose/taped, 4to, plus Hotspur Book for Boys Annual, 2 vols., pub.

D.C. Thomson, 1966-67, duo-tone illusts. throughout, 1966 inscribed and price clipped, orig. col. pict. boards, 4to, plus six other childrens annuals

302 Disney (Walt). Flip the Frog Annual, pub. Dean & Son, [1931], four col. plts., b&w illusts. throughout [by Wilfred Haughton], slight worm damage to first and last couple of leaves, orig. col. pict. boards, spine neatly glued to head of lower joint, thick 4to A bright example. This was the first and only edition of Flip the Frog Annual.

(1) £70-100

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£70-100

THE WILFRED HAUGHTON COLLECTION

Wilfred H. Haughton (born Norwood, London, 1893) was a British cartoonist and commercial artist. In the 1920s and 1930s Haughton drew advertising material for a large variety of different companies, including Cow & Gate Milk, Shell and Nestle, but was best known for his illustrations for Mickey Mouse Weekly. He also drew a comic strip called ‘Eb and Flo’ for the Daily Herald in the early 1930s, which featured two black children called ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘Florence’ and he drew ‘Bobby Bear’ for a time. He was commissioned by Dean & Son to draw illustrations for the Mickey Mouse Annuals and other Mickey Mouse Books as well as the only edition of ‘Flip the Frog’. In 1939 Dean & Son wanted to change the way Mickey Mouse was drawn but Haughton was unable to change his style so unfortunately he was decommissioned. In later years Haughton moved to South Africa to concentrate his efforts on creating a children’s puppet series for television. Haughton died in the early 1980s.

310* Advertising ephemera. A collection of approx. thirty-five printed advertising cards for food, clothes, and household wares, etc., designed by Wilfred Haughton, c.1910s-1940s, together thirtyfive colour-printed advertising cards, mostly moveable/pop-ups, occn. wear and adhesive tape stains, 115 x 183mm (4.5 x 7.25ins) and smaller Advertisements include: Rizla Cigarette Papers; Ideal Milk; Leverlite Inexhaustible Pocket Torch; Engelbert Tyres; Victor Easy Chair; Boosey Cornets & Trumpets; Quickfri Asbestos Heat Retaining Lining; Bovril; Peek, Frean & Co’s Pat-A-Cake Biscuits; Eley Gastight Cartridge; Siemens Electric Lamps; Solex the No-Trouble Carburettor; Roses Lime Juice; Whiteway’s Cyder; Dr. Lovelace’s Family Soap; Imperia Clothing. (approx. 35) £200-300

309* Advertising artwork. A collection of approx. thirty-five original designs by Wilfred Haughton, advertising household wares, food, theatre, and film, c.1910s-1940s, consisting of approx. thirty-six mock-ups for advertising cards, various media, incl. gouache, watercolour, pencil, mostly moveable/pop-up, occn. damage and adhesive tape stains etc., some with ink stamps on reverse ‘rough sketch only’ and ‘original design’, one or two signed by Haughton in pencil 130 x 200mm (5 x 7.75ins) and smaller Advertisements include: Olva Soap; Rothman’s Patent Sahara Bruyere; Swan fountain pens; Rollo Roller Casement Fittings; Ovum Thorleys Poultry Spice; Pheasant Margarine; Lyons Cakes; Avon Tyres; Pratts Spirit; Shell Motor Oil; Bramilow Productions’ Lady Letty; Baby Peggy in silent film Helen’s Babies (1924); W.H. Berry in The Island King, Adelphi Theatre (1922). (approx. 35) £300-500

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311* Artist’s archive. An archive of sketch books, letters and printed material belonging to Wilfred Haughton, c.1930s, comprising a sketch book of pop-up and moveable designs, with eight leaves of pencil sketches, incorporating eleven pop-ups/moveables, of clowns, animals and birds, nursery rhymes, teddy bears, etc., some light foxing and staining, orig. card wrappers, upper cover initialled and titled in pencil

by Haughton ‘Rough Movements’ and ‘Rough suggestions for movement’, slim 4to, together with another sketch book, with fortyseven leaves of pencil/pen & ink drawings with some manuscript notes, mostly figure studies, but also some animal drawings, stitching partially broken and several leaves detached, orig. cloth-backed boards, rubbed, 4to, plus a folder of ephemera, incl. original sketches and cartoons, newspaper cuttings, and a number of letters to Haughton, incl. several typed letters signed from Dennis Gifford (‘It is quite a thrill to write to the man who gave me so much laughter as a lad, and whose work I treasure now...’), plus two scrap books of printed ephemera relating to Haughton (mostly printed cartoons and magazine covers), plus a collection of Mickey Mouse Weekly printed covers designed by Haughton, worn and some laid down (a folder)

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£500-800

312* Cinematographic Camera, 35mm, no. 405, E.F. Moy Ltd., London, 1909, hand-crank mechanism, two internal wood magazines, internal brass plt. reads Moy & Bastie’s Patent, no. 4534, 1909’, internal chain mechanism in excellent condition, wooden case with brass fittings, some general wear, overall in good condition, height 16 inches, width 13 inches, depth 5 inches, together with two associated accessories, comprising, a spare wooden magazine and spare lense board, plus ten non-associated accessories, incl. hand-crank, two lenses, a ‘Premier Precision film Joiner’ (in orig. box) etc., plus three nonrelated, comprising a Cinemax 8TV (in orig. case); a slide viewer; Weston Master II, Universal Exposure Meter (-) £1500-2000

313 Disney (Walt). Mickey Mouse Annual, pub. Dean & Son, 1930 (no. 1), four col. plts. (one trimmed and tippedin), Haughton has initialled the illusts. that he was responsible for, verso of title inscribed by Haughton ‘Jokes & Drawings by W. Haughton by permission of Walt Disney’, orig. col. pict. boards, spine worn with loss, thick 4to Haughton’s own copy.

(1) £100-150

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Lot 315

Lot 318

314 Disney (Walt). Flip the Frog Annual, pub. Dean & Son, [1931], four col. plts., b&w illusts. throughout (a few with juvenile colouring), inscribed by Haughton to front pastedown, ‘All stories and artwork in this book was the work of W. H. Haughton’, binding weak, orig. col. pict. boards, spine worn with loss, thick 4to, (the first and only edition of Flip the Frog Annual), together with Mickey Mouse Annual, pub. Dean & Son, 1931 (no. 2), four col. plts., b&w illusts. throughout (a couple with juvenile colouring), orig. col. pict. boards, spine lacking, thick 4to Haughton’s own copies.

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317* Free gifts. A small collection of original comic free gifts and give-aways, designed by Wilfred Haughton, mostly c.1920s, given away with Playbox, Crackers, Tiger Tim’s Weekly, etc., incl. a Tiger Tim rotating calendar, a word builder for cross word puzzles, a moveable postcard of a clown on a donkey at a fair, a mechanical novelty card of a young man clinging onto a bucking seaside pony, various sizes and condition (-)

£100-150

£70-100

318* Original artwork. A collection of original artwork and mockups for puzzles, games, and books, by Wilfred Haughton, c.1910s-1940s, various media, incl. pencil, gouache, watercolour, incl. a cover for Eb’ and Flo’ Colouring Cards, a card with a pop-up clown, a jointed cardboard monkey, a game in a box entitled Dazzle, various sizes and condition

315* Film & theatre advertising ephemera. A collection of approx. seventeen printed cards designed by Wilfred Haughton advertising plays and films, c.1910s-1940s, seventeen colour-printed cards, mostly moveable/pop-ups, occn. damage and adhesive tape stains, 90 x 154mm (3.5 x 6ins) and smaller, plus a Walt Disney booklet ‘It’s the Night Before Christmas’ advertising Snow White and Pinocchio, with illusts. of Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, etc.

(approx. 20)

Advertisements include: ‘Her Temporary Husband’, Duke of York’s Theatre; ‘The Honeymoon Girl’, Leeds Hippodrome; ‘The Lure’, Savoy Theatre; ‘Patsy from Paris’, Eastbourne Hippodrome; ‘The Man in the Wheel Chair’, Blackpool Winter Gardens and Opera House; Buster Keaton in ‘Our Hospitality’; ‘Tea with a Kick’; ‘The Flight Commander’. (approx. 18) £150-200

316* Film Reels. A collection of fifteen film reels from the estate of Wilfred Haughton, c. 1920s-60s, comprising five 35mm reels (undeveloped), six 16mm reels, two super 8mm reels, one standard 8mm reel, and one further 8mm reel (undeveloped), condition appears to be generally good except for the 35mm reels which are in unknown condition, together with a DVD of some of the footage Two of the 16mm reels have been transferred to DVD (both without sound).

One contains family footage, of which the majority is in colour and appears to date from the 1940s/50s mostly showing the Nomads Golf Club in South Africa, the Nomads National Tournament, players and members arriving in cars, coastal scenery, etc. There is also a short piece of footage in black and white, probably 1930s, showing most notably, a man juggling, and a short film of clowns and gymnasts engaged in a comical, but highly skillful, acrobatic routine. The other transferred reel is labelled ‘Gorton Animation’ and contains several short films featuring animations by Wilfred Haughton: animated musical instruments; a bear in striped pyjamas getting into bed, adertising Permaheat Electric Blankets; a cat with a guitar advertising Tibs Treats for Cats; a clown with a concertina; a talking dog; penguins skipping; and cats and a monkey doing acrobatics. The reel ends with a short film entitled: ‘A Road Safety Mini-Film, The Patsy Story, by Haughton Animated Puppets’, which shows a cat riding a tricycle, falling off, and being taken to hospital, whilst several animal friends demonstrate how to cross the road.

(15) £300-500

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£100-150

THE DEREK EAST COLLECTION OF FILM POSTERS Derek East (1939-2011) was born and educated in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. After two years of National Service with the RAF he trained as a maths teacher, working initially in Birmingham before moving to Hampshire where he taught in Basingstoke until he retired.

A keen film fan from an early age he grew up in a small town where it was then possible to see six different films a week. The passion for films continued into adult life and was shared for a while with his girlfriend Pat who sadly died unexpectedly, just as the hobby had started to become a working business. In memory of Pat, Derek then immersed himself in the study of film and collecting, recruiting his brother Alex to mind his various stalls. More enthusiastic about buying than selling, Derek loved to chat and offered a complete range of film-related posters, portraits, stills, magazines, books and records. From the early 1990s his main outlet was a Saturday stall at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. From there he moved to the grander Westminster Central Hall and drew in clients came from mainland Europe. In 1999 he left Basingstoke and moved back to Pembrokeshire where the logistics of driving to London became untenable and he wound his business up soon after. Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2007 he died from the illness on 1st October 2011, leaving the huge stock of mostly folded British quad posters offered here. The lobby cards and stills will be offered later in 2012.

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Lot 320

319* Pink Floyd. Live at Pompeii, 1972, together with Pink Floyd The Wall, 1982, both British quad posters in fine folded condition, 30 x 40 ins (2)

£100-150

320* Tommy. British quad poster, 1975, fine folded condition, 30 x 40 in (1)

£70-100

321* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 220 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Airplane, The Ambushers, Amadaeus, Absolute Beginners, American Gigalo, Arthur, Arabian Adventures, Alexandra, etc., plus other assorted films including many titles beginning with the letter ‘A’, mostly British quads, including some reissues and a few non-English posters, all in folded condition, mostly VG (approx. 220)

£100-200

322* British Quad Posters. A collection of aprrox. 180 film posters, c. 1970s/1990s, titles include Emanuelle and Francoise, Educating Rita, The Elephant Man, Four Musketeers, Enchanted Island, Evil Under The Sun, Electric Dreams, The Frisco Kid, US and British Films, beginning with the letters ‘E’ and ‘F’, the majority British quads, include some reissues and duplicates, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 180)

Lot 322 323* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 200 film posters, mostly c. 1970s/1990s, including the Great Waldo Pepper, Genevieve/Doctor in the House double bill, Young Einstein, Young Lady Chatterley, Yentl, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan, The Great Gatsby, Gunpoint, Guns of Navarone, Ghandi, etc., plus other film titles beginning with the letters ‘G’ or ‘Y’ and a quantity of Kung Fu and Bronson titles, mostly British quads, including some reissues and duplicates, all in folded condition, mostly VG and better

£100-150

(approx. 200)

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£150-200

324* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 150 film posters, c. 1970s/1990s, film titles include Rocky and Rambo series, Runaway Train, Room with a View, Ruben, Ruben, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Return of the Musketeers, Risky Business, Ring of Bright Water, Red Sun, plus other film titles, mostly beginning with ‘R’, including some reissues and duplicates, mostly British quads, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 150)

326* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 150 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, film titles include Zombie Flesh Eaters, Return of the Swamp Thing, Race with the Devil, Prince of Darkness, Piranha, Prom Night, Star Trek III, The Terminator, They Live, Science Green, etc., mostly British quads, including some duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 150)

327* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1950s/1990s, titles include Mary Poppins, Othello, Out of Africa, The Mission, Marooned, Oh, Lucky Man, and other film titles beginning with the letters ‘M’ or ‘O’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

325* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 British, American and some Continental film posters, mostly c.

1970s/1990s, titles include The Bitch, Brazil, Barfly, Bolero, The Big Chill, Black Beauty, Bandarelo, Barry Lyndon, Barefoot in the Park, Blind Date, Best Shot, and others, mostly beginning with the letter ‘B’, the majority British quads, some duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

£100-150

£100-150

(approx. 170)

£100-150

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£100-150

328* British Quad Posters. A group of approx. 190 film posters, c.

1960s/1990s, including Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Chariots of Fire, Aliens, The Big Bus, Blindfold, Boys from Brazil, The China Syndrome, Beneath of the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, Almost Human, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Critters, Conan the Destroyer, Christine, Carrie, mostly British quads, including duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 190)

330* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1950s/1990s, including Lawrence of Arabia, The Killing of Sister George, Kramer v Kramer, The Killing Fields, King Solomon’s Mines, Legal Eagles, The Lady and the Tramp, Legend of the Lone Ranger, Lady Caroline Lamb, Life Stinks, plus other films with titles beginning with the letter ‘K’ or ‘L’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

£100-150

(approx. 170)

329* British Quad Posters. A group of approx. 190 film posters, c.

1960s/1990s, film titles include The Cotton Club, California Suite, The Colour of Money, Casanova (Spanish), The Cannon Ball Run, The California Dolls, Che Guevara, The Blue Lagoon, Bad Boys, Bronx Warriors, Car Trouble, The Champ, and other film titles largely beginning with the letters ‘B’ and ‘C’, mostly British quads, some duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 190)

£100-150

331* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 150 film posters, c. 1950s/1990s, titles include Wish You Were Here, The Wicked Lady, Wall Street, The Woman in Red, The Wrath of God, White Knights, White Mischief, What’s Up Doc?, Wuthering Heights, The Wife Swappers, Witness, When Harry Met Sally, plus other film titles largely beginning with the letters ‘W’ or ‘Y’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

£100-150

(approx. 150)

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£100-150

332* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 150 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Ten Little Indians (reissue?), Terms of Endearment, Trading Places, Up the Junction, The 39 Steps (Robert Powell), Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Tammy and the Doctor, Tender Mercies, Tess, The Tall Guy, Top Secret, Topkapi, Up the Chastity Belt, Unmarried Woman, The Witches of Eastwick, Victory at Entebbe, plus other film posters largely with titles beginning with the letters ‘T-W’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 150)

£100-150

334* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, mostly c. 1970s/1990s, titles include Flash Gordon, Ferry to Hong Kong, From Hell to Victory, Frances, Fun with Dick and Jane, The Frightened City, Flashpoint, Fame, Frantic, Funny Lady, Flashdance, plus other film titles largely beginning with the letter ‘F’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

£100-150

333* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 150 film posters, c. 1950s/1990s, titles include Master of the World, Move Over Darling, On Golden Pond, Lavender Hill Mob (reissue), It Happened in Athens, Party Girl, Indiscreet, Ned Kelly, The Lady is a Square, Man on Fire, Lord Jim, Mogambo, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG (approx. 150)

£100-150

335* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, The Swinger, Smoky and the Bandit, Secret War of Harry Frigg, Scorpio, A Star is Born, Supergirl, Staying Alive, Sally’s Irish Rogue, The Stalking Moon, Shipwreck, Sexual Fantasies, Shampoo, Shirley Valentine, plus other film titles mostly beginning with the letters ‘S’ or ‘T’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

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£100-150

336* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Raging Bull, The Shooting Party, Still of the Night, Swordsman of Sienna, Stripes, Sleeping Beauty, Straight Time, The Shooting, Raising Arizona, The Rape, Return to Oz, The Running Man, Rollerball, plus other films largely with titles beginning with ‘R’ or ‘S’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

338* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include The Illustrated Man, Night Shift, Night Kill, The Night Comers, Night Porter (Belgian), Nine to Five, The Natural, No Sex Please We’re British, Name of the Rose, No Mercy, and other film titles mostly beginning with the letters ‘I’ or ‘N’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all folded condition, mostly VG or better

(approx. 170)

(approx. 170)

£100-150

339* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 250 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Tickle Me, Terms of Endearment, Trading Places, Turner & Hooch, Time Bandits, A Star is Born, The Sea Walls, Snapshot, Tarzan Goes to India, plus other films with titles mostly beginning with the letters ‘S’ or ‘T’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

337* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 200 film posters, c. 1950s/1990s, film titles include Evil Under The Sun, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Where Eagles Dare, Emanuelle, Quo Vadis, McVicar, Trading Places, etc., mostly British quads, including some double bills and some half posters cut from double bills, duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 200)

£100-150

£100-150

(approx. 250)

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£150-200

342* British Quad Posters. A group of approx. 160 film posters, c.

1960s/1990s, titles include Revenge of the Pink Panther, Return of the Pink Panther, The Reivers, Two of a Kind, Tootsie, Taming of the Shrew, The Never Ending Story, Night Hawks, No Surrender, The Night Porter, Next of Kin, Outrageous Fortune, Over the Top, plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letters ‘N’ or ‘O’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

340* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Heavy Traffic, Dressed to Kill, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Death on the Nile, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, The Dogs of War, Dead Ringers, Diamond Head, plus other films with titles mostly beginning with the letters ‘D’ or ‘H’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

£100-150

(approx. 160)

343* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 160 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include The Hunter, Grand Prix, Goodfellas, Galipoli, Ghandi, Gorky Park, History of the World, The Heist, etc., plus other films mostly beginning with the letters ‘G’ or ‘H’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

341* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1970s/1990s, titles include Tom Horn, The Thomas Crown Affair, Towering Inferno, Too Many Crooks, The Twilight Zone, To Sir With Love, Torn Between Two Lovers, Tootsie, Target, Tough Guys, Table for Five, Thirteen Steps to Death, La Traviata, Thunder Alley, That Summer, plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letter ‘T’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

£100-150

(approx. 160)

£100-150

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£100-150

344* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 190 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Full Metal Jacket, Death on the Nile, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Dead and Buried, The Hand of Night, Mad Max II, The 39 Steps (Robert Powell), Peggy Sue Got Married, The Deer Hunter, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

346* British Quad Posters. A group of approx. 200 film posters, c.

1960s/1990s, titles include Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Sting, Super Vixens, Straw Dogs/Death Weekend double bill, Return to Oz, Rebel, The Rabbit Trap, Reds, The Spikes Gang, plus other film titles largely beginning with the letter ‘S’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

(approx. 190)

(approx. 200)

£100-150

345* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 140 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Flash Gordon, The Howling, Poltergeist, Phantom of the Opera, The Black Hole, Gremlins, The Philadelphia Experiment, Cujo, Clash of the Titans, Warlock, etc., mostly British quads including some duplicates, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 140)

£100-150

347* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 3000 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Myra Brackenridge, Mean Streets, Mutiny on the Buses, My Cousin Vinny, Mississippi Burning, The Man with the Deadly Lens, Meatballs, Madame Sin, Man on Fire, McVicar, Mr. Mum, etc., plus other films with titles largely beginning with the letter ‘M’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

£100-150

(approx. 300)

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£200-300

348* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, film titles include Rough Night in Jericho, Sophie’s Choice, Stir Crazy, Shanghai Surprise, Star Man, Shivers, etc., plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letter ‘S’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

350* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 160 film posters, c. 1950s/1990s, titles include For Love or Money, The Godfather, The Fourth Protocol, Far From the Madding Crowd, Fire Power, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Go Tell the Spartans, Galipoli, Ghostbusters, etc., plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letters ‘F’ or ‘G’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

£100-150

(approx. 160)

351* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 250 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Shampoo, Shout at the Devil, The Stud, Sweet Dreams, The Secret Policeman’s Ball, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

349* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include The Land That Time Forgot, Aces High, The Last Days of Pompeii, Night of the Creeps, Masters of the Universe, Monsters from an Unknown Planet, Kindred, Phantom of the Opera, Pet Cemetery, Being There, etc., mostly British quads, including some duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

£100-150

(approx. 250)

£100-150

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£150-200

352* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1950s/1990s, titles include Desperately Seeking Susan, Don’t Look Now, The Dresser, Dark Crystal, Dr. Zhivago, Dr. Faustus, Dead of Winter, Dial Rat for Terror, etc., plus other films with titles largely beginning with the letter ‘D’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 170)

354* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 140 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include The Getaway, Don’t Look Now, Caldron of Blood, Cool Hand Luke (reissue?), The Long Ride Home, Green Ice, Straw Dogs, etc., mostly British quads, including some duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG (approx. 140)

353* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 150 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Pulp, Peggy Sue Got Married, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Passage to India, Private Function, Prizzi’s Honour, Privates on Parade, plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letter ‘P’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 150)

£100-150

£100-150

355* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 180 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Dune, Frogs, Dark Start, Death Weekend, Frightmare, Dead and Buried, Death Game, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 180)

£100-150

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£100-150

356* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include The Missouri Breaks, Mosquito Coast, Moonstruck, The Main Event, The Might Quinn, Love Story, The Libertine, etc., plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letters ‘L’ or ‘M’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

358* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 250 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include The Deer Hunter, Grease, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Countess Dracula, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Fast Lady, House in Nightmare Park, Honeysuckle Rose, Her Alibi, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

(approx. 170)

(approx. 250)

£100-150

359* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 250 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include The Shining, Papillion, Mean Streets, The Bravados, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Wrath of God, Wild Geese II, Wish You Were Here, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

357* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 180 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Zombie Creeping Flesh, Zulu Dawn, The Valley of the Dolls, The Virgin Soldiers, Voices, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 180)

£150-200

£100-150

(approx. 250)

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£150-200

360* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 140 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Towering Inferno, When Time Ran Out, The Moving Target, The Macintosh Man, The Colour of Money, The Verdict, The Drowning Pool, Cobra, Escape to Victory, Over the Top, Rocky, The Hunter, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 140)

362* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 170 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Cobra, Crocodile Dundee, Cromwell, City Heat, Delta Force, The Deep, Cuba, mostly British quads, including some duplicates and reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG (approx. 170)

£100-150

£100-150

361* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 180 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Back to the Future II, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Barefoot Executive, Biggles, Blind Fury, Bolero, Black Widow, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Breathless, Ambush, etc., plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letters ‘A’ or ‘B’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

363* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 150 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include Vampire Circus, The Way West, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Wonderful World of The Brothers’ Grimm, Triple Cross, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Ultra Vixens, Uranian Boom, Vice Squad, The Thrill of It All, Three Into Two Won’t Go, The Witchfinder General, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better

(approx. 180)

(approx. 160)

£100-150

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£100-150

364* British Quad Posters. A group of approx. 150 film posters, c.

1960s/1990s, titles include Return of the Pink Panther, Ryan’s Daughter, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Room With a View, Private Benjamin, Porridge, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Plaza Suite, The Runaway Train, etc., plus other films mostly with titles beginning with the letters ‘P’ or ‘R’, mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 150)

£100-150

365* British Quad Posters. A collection of approx. 300 film posters, c. 1960s/1990s, titles include National Lampoon’s Animal House, Police Academy (various), Blazing Saddles, Bear Island, North Sea Hijack, A View to a Kill, Batman and Robin, True lies, etc., mostly British quads, including duplicates and some reissues, all in folded condition, mostly VG or better (approx. 300)

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£200-300

JACK CARDIFF (1914-2009) Jack Cardiff was a British cinematographer, director, actor and photographer. His amazing career spanned seven decades, from working as a child actor in Edwardian music hall and silent films to modern era camerawork for Conan the Destroyer and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1984). As a cinematographer his credits include A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and the ravishing The Red Shoes (1948), all directed

by Powell and Pressburger. He also filmed Under Capricorn (1949, Alfred Hitchcock), The African Queen (1951, John Huston), War and Peace (1956, King Vidor), The Prince and the Showgirl (1957, Laurence Olivier), and The Vikings (1958, Richard Fleischer), at which point he made a long foray into directing. As a director his most successful film was arguably Sons and Lovers (1960), nominated for seven Oscars, but he is also remembered now for Scent of Mystery (1960), the first film to be presented in Odorama or 'Smell-OVision', and, somewhat notoriously, the cultish Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), starring Marianne Faithfull. In 1994 Jack was presented with an international award for outstanding achievement from the Los Angeles Society of Cinematographers. The following year he received a lifetime achievement award from the British Society of Cinematographers; in 2000 he was appointed OBE and in 2001 he was awarded an honorary Oscar. His autobiography, The Magic Hour (with a preface by Martin Scorsese), was published in 1996.

366 Braque (Georges, 1882-1963). Braque, Preface de Stanislas Fumet, Paris, 1946, twenty-four col. plts. and several b & w illusts. to text, a little finger soiling to prelims., signed presentation inscription from the artist to Jack Cardiff inscribed to second front f.e.p. recto, Paris, 1949, the autograph including a palette as a paraph, orig. cloth in torn and taped pict. d.j., 4to (1)

£300-500

367 Dali (Salvador, 1904-1989). The History of Don Quixote by Cervantes, the Text Edited by J.W. Clark, and a Biographical Notice of Cervantes by T. Teignmouth Shore, Illustrated by Gustave Dore, pub. Cassell & Co., n.d., c. 1900, wood-eng. illusts. including some full-page, minor spotting, orig. blue and black felt tip double-page drawing of Don Quixote in a landscape to half-title and facing blank page, inscribed for Jack Cardiff in large letters as part of the overall design, some spotting, overall 28.5 x 43 cm (11 x 17 ins), old unrelated book ownership presentation inscription from E. Mackenzie to H. Mackenzie to upper right corner of half-title, a second (Happy Birthday) presentation inscription to Jack from Marianne [Faithfull] dated 1967 to front f.e.p. recto (with some see-through from the left half of the drawing and inscription by Dali), endpapers spotted, upper hinge cracked, orig. pict. cloth gilt, a sl. rubbed and small split at foot of spine, 4to Probably given to Jack by Marianne Faithfull after he had directed her in the lead role for ‘The Girl on a Motorcycle’, released in 1968. Dali’s pictorial homage to Jack Cardiff would have been genuine as he would have known Cardiff’s work as the cinematographer and the celebrated dream sequence filmed by Jack Cardiff in Powell and Pressburger’s ‘The Red Shoes’ (1948).

(1) £1200-1500

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Lot 368 368 Degas (Edgar, illust.). La Maison Tellier [Par] Guy de Maupassant, Paris, 1934, nineteen etched plates (including two colour) executed by Maurice Potin, seventeen wood engraved illusts. to text, including two full-page, t.e.g., modern red crushed morocco gilt, by Degoul, orig. wrappers preserved, matching cloth slipcase, a little marked, 4to

370 Joyce (James). Ulysses, 1st English edition printed in England, pub. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936, a few minor spots, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. green buckram gilt, sl. rubbed and marked, spine faded, 4to Limited edition, 472/900 copies on Japon vellum, from a total edition of 1000 copies. Slocum and Cahoon A23.

Jack Cardiff had one disappointment as a director. In the early '60s, he wanted to film James Joyce's Ulysses with Peter Sellers playing the lead role of Leopold Bloom. Fox was ready to finance the film, but Sellers requested a month's delay by the end of which a new regime had taken over at Fox, and there was no longer any enthusiasm for the project. Cardiff bought back the rights and tried in vain to raise the financing himself. "The great tragedy of my life," he said sadly. "I know I could have made a marvellous film of that."

(1) £300-500

One of 325 copies, this being one of 20 copies not for sale, lettered Q. (1) £800-1200

369 Hatchards Bindings. The Arabian Night’s Entertainments, pub.

Frederick Warne & Co., n.d., sixteen chromoplates, together with Adventures of Don Quixote, De La Mancha ..., pub. Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d., eng. frontis. and b&w illusts., plus The Works of Oscar Wilde, Drawings by Donia Machsen, pub. Collins, n.d., b&w plts., all a.e.g., uniform tan morocco gilt, with raised bands to spines, rubbed and sl. marked, spines darkened, 8vo (none-matching sizes), plus The Bible Educator, ed. Rev. E. H. Plumptree, 2 vols., n.d., modern half morocco gilt over buckram, by Hatchards, sl. rubbed, 4to (5)

£100-150

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371 Lawrence (David Herbert). Rawdon’s Roof, Woburn books series, 1928, uncut, orig. decorative boards, spine browned and damaged, 8vo (signed limited edition 317/530), together with A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lady, Mandrake Press, 1930, ownership signature of Lytton Strachey and his small bookplate to front endpapers, orig. cloth, soiled and torn on spine, plus Kangaroo (1923) and ‘The Problem of Star’ by J. Middleton Murry, 1922, both with the same Lytton Strachey bookplate to front pastedowns, orig. cloth, rubbed and damp soiled, all 8vo, plus Bunting (Basil), Loquitur, 1st ed., Fulcrum Press, 1965, orig. black cloth in somewhat soiled d.j., sl. faded upper margin, small folio (one of 1000 copies) (5)

373* Wilde (Oscar, 1854-1900). Autograph letter initialled ‘O.W.’, n.p., n.d., c. 1884, to [the architect Edward] Godwin, ‘I want you to look at the new work at Tite St. They say it is as you directed. I will be with you at 11-30 tomorrow’, one page with integral blank leaf, 8vo Edward William Godwin (1833-1886), architect and theatrical designer, whose influence can be seen in the Arts and Crafts Movement. In 1877 he was commissioned by the painter James McNeill Whistler to build a house in Tite Street, Chelsea. Godwin’s most famous client was Oscar Wilde with whom he collaborated on the interiors of 16 Tite Street (1884-85). For other letters from Wilde to Godwin concerning designs and expenses for Tite Street see ‘The Letters of Oscar Wilde’ (1962), pp. 160-177.

(1) £700-1000

£100-150

372 Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Widowers’ Houses. A comedy, first acted at the Independent Theatre in London, 1st ed., 1893, publisher’s ad. leaf at rear, author’s signed presentation inscription for John Cardiff to half-title, dated 6 August 1943, partly uncut, orig. olive-green cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, 8vo Shaw’s very scarce first play, published in an edition of 500 copies or less, with only 150 copies sold. In 1897 the publisher (Henry) ceded to Shaw 194 sets of unbound sheets, some of which Shaw had bound for him in purple cloth.

(1) £300-400

374 Wilde (Oscar). An Ideal Husband, 1st ed., Leonard Smithers, 1899, edges uncut, orig. gilt-titled and decorated lilac cloth, rubbed and dust-soiled, somewhat faded and short split at head of upper joint, 4to, contained in a purpose-made red quarter morocco over cloth clamshell book box Mason 385. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies.

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£400-600

375 Wilde (Oscar). Sebastian Melmoth, 1st ed., 1904, partly uncut, half-title with ink monogram initials of ‘O.W.’ in an unidentified hand, orig. printed wrappers, soiled and frayed, upper cover detached, author’s initials to upper wrapper and book title inscribed to spine, also seemingly in the same unidentified hand, 8vo, contained in a modern purpose-made buckram clamshell book-box with leather label to spine, together with The Picture of Dorien Gray, Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908, [1910], seven wood-eng. plts. by Eugene Dete after Paul Thirat, publisher’s edition notice tipped in before halftitle, t.e.g., contemp. crushed red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, rubbed and sl. soiled, 4to Mason 633 & 335 respectively.

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£100-150

WHY I WRITE FOR CHILDREN

This collection of author letters belongs to Brenda Merrett, who obtained these replies directly from each author while working as Head of English at St. Edmund’s Girls’ School, Laverstock, Salisbury, Wiltshire. The authors were partly chosen from first-hand knowledge of their writings and partly inspired by various top book lists from publishers and readers then in circulation. The two questions asked of each author were simply: 1) Why do you write for children? and 2) What is your new millennium wish? The one response that Ms Merrett has chosen to keep in her possession is a card for Raymond Briggs’s ‘The Snowman’ with Briggs's perfunctory answers: 1) ‘To earn a living. It is what I do. It is my profession’, and 2) ‘At 64 now, my millenium wish for myself is to live a bit longer’. Briggs seems to have been one of three authors to be caught out on the correct spelling of the then less familiar word 'millennium'. All the letters were sent in early 1998 with J.K. Rowling's being the only one undated, the original postmarked Owl Post envelope sadly having long since been lost.

377* Hughes (Ted, 1930-1998). Autograph postcard signed ‘Ted Hughes’, Gort Green, North Tawton, Devon, 3 March 1998, to [Brenda] Merrett, in full, ‘Answer to Question One: I like writing for young people because they are the best and most imaginative audience for what the twelve year old part of me loves to write.

Answer to Question Two: That people on earth learn to tolerate each other’s differences and concentrate on saving the planet, two pin holes to upper corners, verso blank, together with two typed letters signed from Ted Hughes to Ms. Merrett, 7th January & 12th June 1995, the first apologising for having to change the dates of a series of readings and schools that he had planned and hoping to reschedule the dates from March to November, address, saluation, and signature in black in ink, in Hughes’s holograph, the second letter a shorter version postponing the readings from November until an unspecified later date, the salutation and signature in blue ballpoint pen, both one page, folio, together with original envelopes addressed in Hughes’s holograph, plus three related printed sheets from late 1994 regarding the intended project

376* Adams (Richard, b. 1920). Typed letter signed ‘Richard Adams’, Benwell’s, 26 Church Street, Whitchurch, Hants, RG28 7AR, 3rd February 1998, to [Brenda] Merrett, in full, ‘Thank you very much for your letter of January 1998 asking for a reply to two questions for display on your “Authors’ Board” with those of other writers.

First, I would apologise for not replying sooner, but I have been extremely busy of late. Anyway, here goes: 1. My writing career came about when my two young daughters begged me to write down the story of ‘Watership Down’, which I had been telling them during car journeys. I had always enjoyed telling them stories, and writing them down was really a natural progression. Of course, other children have also enjoyed my stories and I find their reactions to the various books most encouraging. 2. My Millennium wish is that the Lord Jesus Christ takes Centre Stage in all the celebrations.

After all it is His birthday we are commemorating’, signed in blue ballpoint pen, one page, 4to, tipped onto another sheet of paper with clear sellotape to extreme corners (1)

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£100-150

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£400-500

378* Pratchett (Terry, born 1948). Typed letter signed, c/o Transworld, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London, W5, 19 February 1998, to [Brenda] Merrett, in full, ‘I’m not actually sure that I do write for young people. I get letters from kids about the Discworld books, and letters from grandparents about the book sold as ‘children’s books’.

Really I just write, and the right people find the books. I sometimes thing [sic] that a keen reader, of any age, is in some ways ageless I can still read a good book for children with great pleasure, and when I was twelve I got most of my books off the ‘adult’ shelves.

My wish for the Millenium is: that people will stop all this dumb Mystic Meggery about the fact that one number follows another, and realise that there’s no reason why the ‘bright new future’ shouldn’t start tomorrow’, signed in black felt tip, a few pin marks, tipped onto a second sheet with sellotape to extreme corners, one page, folio (1)

379* Pullman (Philip, born 1946). Typed letter signed ‘Philip Pullman’, 24 Templar Road, Oxford, 1 February 1998, to Brenda Merrett, in full, ‘Thank you for your letter with its millennial questions. Here are my answers: I write for young people because when I do that I have much greater freedom to write any kind of book I want: from historical thrillers to short fairy tales to modern comedy to epic fantasy. If I wrote for adults I would be confined to one genre, because adult publishers are much less flexible than children’s publishers. I think that on the whole children are more open-minded about their reading than adults. Nobody can be more pig-headed and prejudiced, to. My Millennium wish: I’m sure that everyone would wish for world peace, and end to the destruction of the rain forests, enough food for every child, and so on. So things go without saying. My particular additional wish would be that religious bigots of every sort, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, whatever, would wake up on the first morning of the new millennium and find they had become agnostic overnight. I hope you have many interesting replies to your questionnaire!’, signed in blue ballpoint pen at foot, one page, folio, tipped onto a larger sheet of paper with clear sellotape to extreme corners

£100-150

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£100-150

380* Rowling (J. K., born 1965). Autograph letter signed ‘J. K. Rowling’, Owl Post letterhead, n.d., c. February 1998, to [Brenda] Merrett, in full, ‘Thank you for asking me to contribute to your display in the new Resource Centre, it sounds very exciting! In answer to your questions: the best thing about writing for younger people is their enthusiastic response to the characters - they feel (as I do) that these are very real mutual friends. My wish for the Millenium would be a very boring one - more tolerance in the world! Ah well ... we can dream ...’, one page, folio

381* Wilson (Jacqueline, Born 1945). Autograph letter signed ‘Jacqueline Wilson’, Transworld Children’s Books, 8 February 1998, to [Brenda] Merrett, in full, ‘Thank you very much for your letter. It must be very interesting to read the letters of all those ‘golden age’ children’s authors. I was a great fan of Noel Streatfield [sic]. ‘Ballet Shoes’ is still one of my all-time favourite books. It’s great that you’ve started up a similar project. I’ll tell you something though some authors (me!) still don’t use a computer. I write for young people because I naturally idenfity with children and remember my own childhood vividly. My millennium wish is that books will still be important in the 21st century’, written in neat blank with two small illustrations, one upper left of a rabbit with arms stretched and a speech bubble, ‘Hello! I’m Radish, Jacqueline’s little lucky mascot rabbit. I stand on her desk and keep her company when she writes.

She’s put me in her book ‘The Suitcase Kid’’, and a vignette of the smiling author with glasses, spiky hair and raised waving hand, positioned lower right corner adjacent to sentiment and autograph and identified with an arrow ‘me’, one page, 8vo, tipped onto orange paper and corners and the whole laminated

‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ was published in June 1997 in a small print run of no more than 1000 copies. In November it won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and in February 1998 it won the British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year. This undated letter is thus a very early letter from the author and written on the brink of Harry Potter mania.

(1) £1000-1500

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£100-150

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

383 Adams (Richard). Watership Down, 1st ed., pub. Rex Collings, 1972, folding map at rear, small mark to rear endpaper, orig. cloth gilt, small mark to rear cover, in d.j., slight split to spine ends, 8vo (1)

£300-400

384 Adams (Richard). Watership Down, 1st ed., pub. Rex Collings, 1972, folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., a few small tape repairs to verso, large splits to spine ends and front flap, 8vo, together with Watership Down, 1st US ed., New York, Macmillan, 1972, (2 copies), double-page map, both orig. cloth-backed boards in d.j.s, rubbed, 8vo (3)

£100-150

385 Aldington (Richard). Death of a Hero, a novel, 1st ed., Chatto & Windus, 1929, orig. black cloth gilt, in d.j. (designed by Paul Nash), spine lightly toned, some minor marks and closed tears to head of rear joint and outer corner of rear wrapper (with very sl. loss to head of rear joint), 8vo (1)

£70-100

386 Allingham (Margery). Black Plumes, 1st ed., 1940, light browning, previous owner inscription, original cloth (a few minor spots), d.j., losses and abrasions, 8vo (1)

387 Amis (Kingsley). One Fat Englishman, 1963; The Egyptologists, 1965; The James Bond Dossier, 1965; The Anti-Death League, 1966; The Green Man, 1969, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, a couple priceclipped, The Anti-Death League a little chipped, together with other first editions by Kingsley Amis etc. including I Want it Now, 1968; Girl, 20, 1971, The Riverside Villas Murder, 1973 and Ending Up, 1974 and an inscribed Library Association Dinner Menu, 1978

382 Adams (Richard). Watership Down, pub. Penguin/Kestrel, 1976, illustrations by John Lawrence, a.e.g., original full green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slipcase, 8vo Limited edition, 69/250, signed by the author to title.

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£150-200

£200-300

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Lot 385

£250-300

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388 Amis (Kingsley). That Uncertain Feeling, 1955; I Like it Here, 1958; One Fat Englishman, 1963, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, two spines slightly toned 8vo, together with others by Amis including I Want it Now, 1968, The Green Man, 1969, Girl, 20, 1971, Difficulties With Girls, 1988 (signed by the author) and Socialism and the Intellectuals, Fabian Tract 304, 1957 (26)

391 Ballard (J.G.). The 4-Dimensional Nightmare, 1st ed., 1963, original cloth, d.j., minor nicks and short closed tears to spine, 8vo (1)

392 Barnes (Julian). Metroland, 1980; Fiddle City (written under pseudonym ‘Dan Kavanagh’), 1981; A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, 1989, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j., Metroland price-clipped with wraparound Somerset Maugham Award band, Fiddle City lightly rubbed edges, 8vo

£200-300

389 Auden (W.H.). Poems, 2nd ed., 3rd imp., pub. Faber and Faber, 1937, signed by author to title, orig. cloth, spine darkened, rubbed, 8vo, together with Frost (Robert), Selected Poems, 1st ed., 1923, inscribed to front endpaper ‘R. Calder-Marshall, June 1926’, orig. cloth, some fading, in d.j., slight loss to spine ends, spine darkened, rubbed and some marks, 8vo (2)

Metroland inscribed by the author, A History of the World signed by the author.

(3) £150-200

393 Bennett (Arnold). Journalism for Women. A Practical Guide, 1st ed., 1898, scattered light spots, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Loot of Cities. Being the Adventures of a Millionaire in Search of Joy (A Fantasia), 1st ed., 1904, a few spots, previous owner label, original cloth, some fading and stains, 8vo, plus Riceyman Steps, 1st ed., 1923, light spots, original cloth, d.j., a few nicks and creases, 8vo, with others by Bennett including Elsie and the Child. A Tale of Riceyman Steps and Other Stories, 1924, Accident, 1929 and The Author’s Craft, 1914

£100-150

390 Ayres (Ruby M.). From This Day Forward, 1st ed., 1934, previous owner inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, spine faded, a little chipped with creases, small loss to upper panel, 8vo, together with Follow a Shadow, 1st ed., 1936, light stains to endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, d.j., some chips and losses, a few repairs to verso, 8vo (2)

£150-200

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£70-100

£150-200

394 Betjeman (John). Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, 1st ed., 1937, b & w illusts. and decorations throughout, author’s (sl. untidy) presentation inscription to front f.e.p., dated 1960, orig. cloth in d.j. with design by E. McKnight Kauffer, a little browned and sl. torn with loss at foot of spine, 8vo, together with A Nip in the Air, two copies, 1974, t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. yellow cloth gilt in glassine d.j.s, 8vo, (signed limited editions 99 & 142/175), plus Summoned by Bells, 1st ed., 1960, orig. cloth in d.j., plus a proof copy of the same, orig. printed wrappers, sl. toned and creased, plus nine others including four later Betjeman works in d.j.s (14)

£100-150

395 Betjeman (John). John Betjeman’s Collected Poems, reprint, 1960, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., 8vo, with press cuttings and presentation inscription plus a signed typescript note from Betjeman to Frank Michell (Hon. Secretary of Redruth Old Cornwall Society), dated November 1949, thanking him for information about James Hicks, together with Songs and Verses and the True Cross, by G.J. Whyte-Melville, c. 1890, illustrations by S.E. Waller, a few spots, contemporary half calf, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, inscribed: “With the very best of wishes to dear Daisy. From Vita, Oct. 1912” (inscribed in pencil beneath: Wedding present from Vita Sackville West), with seven others including Winston Graham’s The Little Walls (with pasted author signature) and three others inscribed

by Graham, John Collier’s No Traveller Returns, 1931 (one of 210 signed by the author) and Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers, 1975, inscribed by the author (9)

Lot 391

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£150-200

396 Betjeman (John, 1906-1984). Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, 1st ed., 1937, b & w illusts. and decorations, bookplate of Wyndham Lloyd to front pastedown, a.e.g., orig. cloth in somewhat soiled and browned d.j. with small loss to head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with three letters from Betjeman to Wyndham Lloyd, 1950/1960, the first typed on the message side of a folding souvenir postcard with five colour views of Sidmouth by A.R. Quinton, signed in block capitals ‘John Betjeman Art Worker’, the second entirely in Betjeman’s holograph, sl. browned, 2 pp., the third a typed form letter with a long hand-written note, both signed ‘John B’ and with original postmarked envelopes, plus two postcards signed ‘John B’, 1969/1972, both showing colour photos of surfers, one postally used, plus a related typed letter and two typed copies of poems, the first ‘Lines by Sir John Betjeman on the Silver Wedding of Lennox and Freda Berkeley, 14th December 1971’, the second an acrostic sonnet for the same occasion by Paul Dehn (9)

Lot 398

£200-300

397 Blunden (Edmund). The Harbingers, 1st ed., privately printed, Uckfield, 1916, original wrapper, a couple of closed tears, spine faded, small 8vo, signed “P. Blunden” (the author’s sister) to title, together with Pastorals: A Book of Verses, 1st ed., 1916, 6pp. ads. at rear, original wrapper, short closed at upper joint, 8vo, plus Near and Far, New Poems, 1929, original cloth, spine faded, plain wrapper (some tears), 8vo, limited edition, 144/160 signed by the author, with others by Blunden including The Waggoner and Other Poems, 1920, Winter Nights, 1928 (signed limited edition of 500), Retreat, 1928, Nature in English Literature, 1929, Halfway House, 1932 and Thomas Hardy, 1941 (author’s presentation copy) (20)

£250-300

398 Bradbury (Ray). Fahrenheit 451, 1st British ed., pub. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954, b&w frontis. by Joe Mugnaini, orig. red cloth gilt in d.j., spine somewhat sunned, some minor marks and a little rubbed to extrems., 8vo, together with Heinlein (Robert), The Man Who Sold The Moon, 1st British ed., Sidgwick and Jackson, 1953, orig. green cloth, in sl. frayed d.j., with short closed tears to joint extrems., 8vo (2)

£150-200

399 Burgess (Anthony). A Clockwork Orange, 1st ed., 1962, a few marginal spots, bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, original cloth, d.j., spine faded, light spots to flaps, 16s price crossed through with manuscript price of 5/-, 8vo (1)

£300-400

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400 Burgess (Anthony). The Worm and the Ring, 1st ed., 1961, light marginal spotting, previous owner signature, original cloth, slight lean, d.j., chipped at spine ends, some marginal toning, 8vo Withdrawn from circulation shortly after publication following a libel action.

(1) £150-200

401 Burgess (Anthony). Time for a Tiger, 1st reprint, 1956; The Enemy in the Blanket, 1958; Beds in the East, 1959; The Right to Answer, 1960, 1st eds., scattered mariginal spots, original cloth, d.j.s, one or two chips and tears, 8vo (4)

£200-300

402 Burgess (Anthony). The Enemy in the Blanket, 1st ed., 1958, original cloth, d.j., one or two short tears and stains, 8vo, together with three others Anthony Burgess 1st eds: Devil of a State, 1961, Enderby Outside, 1968 and The Kingdom of the Wicked, 1985 (4)

£100-150

403 Burroughs (William). The Naked Lunch, 1st UK ed., 1964, original cloth, d.j., one or two short closed tears, 8vo (1)

£70-100

404 Byatt (A.S.). Shadow of a Sun, 1st ed., 1964, author’s first novel, orig. cloth in d.j., some spotting and browning, especially to spine and lower panel, three short closed tears to upper margin, 8vo (1)

£150-200

405 Carr (John Dickson). The Eight of Swords, 1st ed., Harper Brothers, New York, 1934, one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j., edges rubbed, repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

£150-200

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Lot 409 408 Chaplin (Charles). My Life in Pictures, 1st ed., 1974, numerous illustrations, original cloth, d.j., spine faded, 4to

406 Chandler (Raymond). The Long Good-Bye, 1st UK ed., 1953, a few light spots, original cloth, light stains, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo, together with Le Carre (John), The Russia House, 1st ed., 1989, light spots, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author, plus Greene (Graham), Travels With My Aunt, 1st ed., 1969, original cloth, d.j., one or two minor nicks, 8vo, with others by John Le Carre and John Gardiner, including Raymond Chandler’s The High Window, 2nd Tower Books edition printing, 1946 (20)

Inscribed to title: “Hallo! Charles Chaplin”.

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409 Charteris (Leslie). Meet the Tiger, c. 1929, advert. listing five titles ending with Daredevil, light spotting, previous owner inscription, original cloth, d.j., spine browned and chipped at head, 8vo, together with The Saint Goes West, 1st ed., 1942, printed label pasted at front, original cloth (spine fading and lightly rubbed), d.j., some chips and tears along folds, 8vo, plus The Saint Steps In, 1st ed., 1944, original cloth (fading at spine ends), d.j., losses at spine ends, chips and tears, 8vo, with 26 other ‘Saint’ titles including The Saint on Guard, 1945, The Saint Sees it Through, 1947, Call for the Saint, 1948, Saint Errant, 1949, The Saint in Europe, 1954 and The Saint on the Spanish Main, 1956

£200-300

407 Chandler (Raymond). The Long Good-Bye, 1st ed., 1953, one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and creases, 8vo, together with Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister, 2nd impression, 1949 and The Simple Art of Murder, 2nd impression, 1950 (3)

£150-200

£150-200

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£400-600

410 Chatwin (Bruce). The Songlines, 1987, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 15/150 signed by the author, together with six others: The Viceroy of Ouidah, 1980, On the Black Hill, 1982, Patagonia Revisited (with Paul Theroux), 1985, Utz, 1988, What Am I Doing Here, 1989 and Nicholas Shakespeare’s Bruce Chatwin, 1999 (7)

£200-300

411 Christie (Agatha). One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 1st ed., 1940, 3pp. pubs. ads. at end, one or two spots, original cloth, d.j., loss at head of spine, a few chips and tears, sellotape repair along one fold to verso, 8vo, together with They Came to Baghdad, 1st ed., 1st ed., 1951, previous owner inscription, original cloth, d.j., chipped at spine ends, a couple of closed tears, 8vo, plus Shake Hands For Ever, by Ruth Rendell, 1st ed., 1975, original cloth, d.j., a few chips, 8vo, with other thrillers including Agatha Christie’s The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, 1960 and Ngaio Marsh’s Swing, Brother, Swing, 1949 (29)

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£200-300

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Lot 413

412 Christie (Agatha). Death in the Clouds, 1st ed., 1935, 4pp. ads. at end, previous owner signature to front endpaper, original cloth, 2nd issue d.j. with “3/6” price to spine, spine ends chipped, a few light creases, small hole to rear panel, 8vo (1)

415 Christie (Agatha). The Big Four, 1st ed., 1927, occasional spotting, original blue cloth, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, together with The Hound of Death and Other Stories, 1st ed., 1933, scattered light spotting, original cloth, spine faded, slight lean, 8vo, plus Cards on the Table, 1st ed., 1936, a few spots, previous owner inscription, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, with four other Agatha Christie first editions including Murder in the Mews, 1937 and One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 1940

£500-700

413 Christie (Agatha). N Or M, 1st ed., 1941, original cloth, 2nd issue d.j., price-clipped with “4s.6d. net” price stamped above clipped area of front flap, spine ends and corners with small nicks, 8vo (1)

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£200-300

416 Christie (Agatha). The Secret of Chimneys, 1st ed., 1925, advert. leaf at end, occasional light spotting, original cloth, one or two small stains, slight lean, 8vo

£200-300

414 Christie (Agatha). The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1st ed., [1928], scattered light spots, original cloth, minor tears at spine ends, a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

Lot 416

(1)

£200-300

417 Christie (Agatha). The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1st ed., [1928], scattered light spotting, original blue cloth lettered in red, a trifle rubbed at spine ends, d.j., tears and losses, old repairs to verso, 8vo

£200-300

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£800-1200

418 Christie (Agatha). Poirot Investigates, 1st ed., 1924, 14pp. pubs. ads. at end, loose publisher’s editor review copy slip, one or two light spots, original yellow cloth stamped in blue, in bright condition, d.j., chips at spine ends and folds, small tear to rear panel, one or two minor stains, 8vo Incredibly scarce in the dust-jacket, no auction records found.

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117

ÂŁ3000-5000

419 Christie (Agatha). Ten Little Niggers, 1st ed., 1939, single leaf advert. at end, occasional light spotting, presentation inscription to front endpaper, original orange cloth, d.j., short closed tears at joints, one or two minor chips, 8vo (1)

421 Cornwell (Bernard). Sharpe’s Sword, 1st ed., 1983, original red cloth (short tear at foot of spine), d.j., head of spine with small repair to verso, 8vo The fourth Richard Sharpe novel.

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£1000-1500

420 Cornwell (Bernard). Sharpe’s Gold, 1981; Sharpe’s Enemy, 1984; Sharpe’s Honour, 1985, 1st eds., light marginal toning as often, small circular inkstamps to titles of Sharpe’s Gold and Sharpe’s Enemy, original cloth, d.j.s (Gold and Enemy price-clipped), 8vo, Gold and Honour signed by the author, together with 11 other first editions by Bernard Cornwell, seven signed by the author (14)

£200-300

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£200-300

422 Crowley (Aleister). Magick Without Tears, 1st ed., pub.

Thelema Publishing Co., Hampton, New Jersey, 1954, original red cloth, slight edge wear, 4to

424 Dick (Philip K.). A Maze of Death, 1972; A Scanner Darkly, 1977, 1st UK eds., marginal toning to A Scanner Darkly, original cloth, d.j.s, Scanner spine with slight fading, 8vo

Scarce posthumous collection of 80 letters, edited by Karl Germer, written

by Crowley in the 1940’s to various students of magic on a variety of topics.

(1) £800-1200

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425 Doyle (A. Conan). The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1st ed., 1905, 16 b & w illustrations by Sidney Paget, 2pp. pubs. ads. at end (lacking one advert. leaf), scattered spotting, original cloth, lightly rubbed, 8vo

423 Dexter (Colin). The Wench is Dead, 1st ed., 1989, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with Haddon (Mark), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 1st ed., 2003, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author, plus Robinson (Kim Stanley), Red Mars, 1992; Green Mars, 1993; Blue Mars, 1996, 1st UK eds., light marginal toning to Blue Mars, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, with others by David Roberts, Simon Scarrow, Michael Dibdin, Barbara Cleverley and Christopher Fowler, some signed (40)

£150-200

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£150-200

426 Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, 1st ed., 1938, some light spotting, original cloth, spine a little rubbed, 8vo Signed by the author to bookplate of I.D.C. William.

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£150-200

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£150-200

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428 Faulkner (William). These Thirteen, 1st UK ed., 1933, original cloth, d.j., some light spotting, small neat repair at head of spine, one or two short closed tears, 8vo

433 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, original cloth (slight lean), d.j., a little chipped and stained, together with From Russia With Love, 1st ed., 1957, original cloth (small tear at head of spine), price-clipped d.j., spine browned with losses, 8vo, plus Thunderball, 1st ed., 1961, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo, with other Fleming including On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963, You Only Live Twice, 1964 and The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965

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427 Eliot (T.S.). Ash Wednesday, 1st ed., 2nd imp., Faber, 1930, inscribed by author to title, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, some fading to spine, mark to rear cover, 8vo (1)

£150-200

£250-350

429 Faulkner (William). Intruder in the Dust, 1st UK ed., 1949, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, d.j., a few light spots, 8vo, with two other UK 1st eds. by William Faulkner: The Reivers, 1962 and Mosquitoes, 1964 (3)

£300-500

434 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., spine slightly faded, 8vo (1)

£250-300

£100-150

430 Fermor (Patrick Leigh). Between The Woods and The Water, On Foot to Constantinople from The Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates, 1st ed., 1986, signed by the author to title, a few light spots to prelims., orig. blue cloth gilt in price-clipped d.j., 8vo, G/VG (1)

£100-150

431 Fleming (Ian). You Only Live Twice, 1st ed., 1964, The Man with the Golden Gun, 1st ed., 1965, & Octopussy, and The Living Daylights, 1st ed., 1966, all orig. black cloth gilt, in d.j.s, sl. rubbed, 2nd title with a little fraying to extrems., 3rd title with d.j. priceclipped, 8vo (3)

£150-200

435 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, a few minor spots front and rear, original cloth, slight lean, d.j., ‘First Edition 1959’ inscribed at head of front flap, a little toned, 8vo

432 Fleming (Ian). You Only Live Twice, 1st ed., 1964, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., slight fraying to spine ends, some marks, 8vo, together with The Man With the Golden Gun, 1st ed., 1965, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., some rubbing, 8vo, plus five other later eds., comprising four Fleming’s and one Gardner (7)

Signed by the author to front endpaper.

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£100-150

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£1500-2000

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Lot 441

436 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, original cloth, d.j., minor tears at spine ends, 8vo (1)

£150-200

437 Fleming (Ian). The Man With The Golden Gun, 1st ed., 1965, previous owner name to front endpaper, original cloth, d.j., minor nicks at spine ends, 8vo (1)

£100-150

438 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st eds., OHMSS with previous owner name to front endpaper, original cloth, OHMSS with slight lean, d.j.s, You Only Live Twice spine with loss, a few minor nicks and tears, 8vo (3)

£100-150

439 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, previous owner initials to front endpaper, original cloth gilt, d.j., small hole to upper panel, minor creases and toning, slight lean, 8vo (1)

£250-300

440 Fleming (Ian). You Only Live Twice, 1st ed., 1964, previous owner inscription, price-clipped d.j., spine a little toned, 8vo (1)

£70-100

441 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963, colour portrait frontispiece, t.e.g., original vellum-backed boards, glassine wrapper, small loss at top edge, 8vo Limited edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author. This copy is one of approx. 43 unumbered presentation copies, ten of which were given to Ian Fleming.

(1) £2000-3000

Lot 441

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444 Fleming (Ian). You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, minor nicks and closed tears, 8vo (2)

£100-150

445 Fleming (Ian). You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., previous owner signature and shop stamp to You Only Live Twice, original cloth, one or two corners bunped, d.j.s, You Only Live Twice price-clipped, Golden Gun with loss at foot of spine, folds splitting, 8vo, with other Fleming and Enid Blyton (9)

£100-150

446 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, Golden Gun price-clipped, one or two nicks and tears, 8vo, together with others including John Gardner’s Licence Renewed, 1981, For Special Services, 1982, Nobody Lives For Ever, 1986 and Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man & the Sea, 1952 (11)

£200-300

442 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, one or two light spots, original cloth (a trifle rubbed at spine ends), d.j., short closed tear to lower panel, 8vo (1)

£150-200

447 Forester (C.S.). Payment Deferred, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1926, 8pp. pubs. ads. at end, original cloth, edges a little rubbed, 2nd issue d.j. with “3/6 net” price to spine, loss to outer corner of rear flap, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 8vo (1)

448 Forester (C.S.). The Commodore, 1st ed., 1945, a few light spots, original cloth (slight marginal fading), d.j., a few minor nicks, 8vo

443 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st eds., previous owner signatures to OHMSS and Golden Gun, original cloth, d.j.s, The Man With the Golden Gun price-clipped, minor chips to OHMSS, 8vo (4)

£500-700

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£150-200

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£70-100

449 Forester (C.S.). Lord Hornblower, 1946; Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, 1950; Lieutenant Hornblower, 1952; Hornblower and the Atropos, 1953; Hornblower in the West Indies, 1958; Hornblower and the Hotspur, 1962; Hornblower and the Crisis, 1967, 1st eds., scattered light spots, original cloth, d.j.s, a few chips and tears, 8vo, together with The Sky and the Forest, 1948 (8)

£150-200

450 Forster (E.M.). Aspects of the Novel, 1st ed., 1927, some heavy spotting to first and last leaves, author’s initialled presentation inscription to front f.e.p., ‘AB with EMF’s love, 20-10-27’, with signature of dedicatee Aida Borchgrevink beneath, endpaper somewhat browned, orig. cloth gilt, minor rubbing, 8vo Aida Borchgrevink, nee Ada Starr, was a trained singer and colourful socialite whom Forster knew in Alexandria. She was a friend and correspondent of Forster from around 1912 to 1928.

(1) £300-500

451 Francis (Dick). The Sport of Queens, 1st ed., 1957, colour frontispiece, half-tone illustrations, price-clipped d.j., closed tears at foot of spine, 8vo, together with Odds Against, 1st ed., 1965, one or two light spots, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., rear panel with closed tear and light stains, 8vo (2)

£100-150

454 Golding (William). The Inheritors, 1955; Pincher Martin, 1956, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, Inheritors chipped at spine ends, a couple of closed tears, 8vo (2)

£200-300

452 Fraser (George MacDonald). Flashman, 1969; Royal Flash, 1970; Flash for Freedom, 1971; Flashman at the Charge, 1973, 1st eds., one or two light spots, previous owner inscription to Flashman, original cloth, d.j.s, Flash for Freedom price-clipped, 8vo, together with four other 1st ed. Flashman titles (8)

£150-200

453 Golding (William). William Golding. A Bibliography 1934-1993,

by R.A. Gekowski and P.A. Grogan, 1994, colour illustrations, a.e.g., original blue morocco-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo Limited edition, one of 26 lettered copies (this number ‘K’) signed by William Golding.

(1) £100-150

455 Golding (William). The Brass Butterfly, 1958; Free Fall, 1959; The Spire, 1964, 1st eds., previous owner inscription to The Spire, original cloth, d.j.s, Brass Butterfly spine faded, a few minor chips, 8vo (3)

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£100-150

456 Golding (William). To the Ends of the Earth, 1991, t.e.g., original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition, 76/400 signed by the author, together with Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1983, Sixth Chamber Press, 1984, original wrappers, 8vo, inscribed to Pauline Valentine from the author, plus other William Golding first editions including The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, 1965, The Pyramid, 1967, The Scorpion God, 1971 and Rites of Passage, 1980 (17)

£150-200

457 Graves (Robert). The Meaning of Dreams, 1st ed., 1924, a few light spots, typed booklabel, original cloth, d.j., some tears and losses, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “W. Wagstaff, from Robert Graves, with all good wishes”.

(1) £150-200

458 Greene (Graham). The End of the Affair, 1st ed., 1951, original cloth, d.j., spine toned and chipped at ends, 8vo, together with Our Man in Havana, 1st ed., 1958, original cloth, d.j., a couple of short closed tears, 8vo, with two others by Graham Greene: Introductions to Three Novels, Stockholm, 1962 and The Quiet American, 1955 (lacking front endpaper) (4)

460 Heaney (Seamus). Door into the Dark, 1st ed., 1969, original cloth, d.j., minor closed tear to upper panel margin, 8vo (1)

£250-350

£100-150

459 Greg (Percy). Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record, 2 vols., 1st ed., Trubner & Co., 1880, half-title to each vol., orig. brown cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed, some marks to spines, with small paper label to centre of each, 8vo

461 Heaney (Seamus). Field Work, 1st ed., 1979, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author, 8vo, together with North, 1st ed., 1975, light toning to endpaper, original cloth, d.j., light fading to spine, 8vo, with three others by Heaney: Selected Poems 19651975, 1st ed., 1980, Beowulf, A New Translation, 1st ed., 1999 and Poetry Ireland, 1989, signed by Seamus Heaney and John Montague

Ex libris Charles Bradlaugh, N.P., and C. J. Peacock, with their bookplates to front endpaper and front pastedown respectively. Locke, Voyages in Space 91. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 925. “The most fruitful single romance of interplanetary travel written before Wells” (Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 67-69).

(2) £300-500

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£400-600

462 Hemingway (Ernest). For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1941; Across the River and into the Trees, 1950; The Old Man and the Sea, 1952, 1st UK eds., previous owner inscription to The Old Man and the Sea, original cloth (some fading to last two titles), d.j.s, Old Man spine faded, some chips and creases, 8vo, together with five others including Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, 1962 (UK 2nd issue) and Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels. A Strange and Terrible Saga, 1st ed., 1967 (8)

466 Hueffer (Ford Madox). The Good Soldier, A Tale of Passion, 1st ed., London & New York, 1915, pubs. ads. at rear, slight browning to free endpapers, orig. pale terracotta cloth, boards slight marked in places, 8vo (1)

£200-300

467 Huxley (Aldous). The Doors of Perception, 1st ed., 1954, original cloth (some dampstains), d.j., chipped at head of spine, a little rubbed with closed tears, 8vo, together with Lessing (Doris), The Golden Notebook, 1st ed., 1962, original cloth, d.j., chips and tears, manuscript numbers to rear panel, 8vo, plus Coetzee (J.M.), Dusklands, 1st ed., Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1974, previous owner inscription, original cloth, d.j., tear and loss to rear panel, 8vo, with other first editions etc., including Daphne du Maurier’s The Parasites, 1949, Patrick O’ Brian’s The Unknown Shore, 1959, Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Regiment, 1986 and Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, 1989

£250-300

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£200-300

463 Hemingway (Ernest). For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1st ed., 1st issue, Scribner’s, New York, 1940, light toning, original cloth, d.j., neat repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

£200-300

464 Hilton (James), Lost Horizon, 1st ed., 1933, paper clip rust marks to first few leaves, typed letter signed by the author loosely inserted, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo The letter is addressed to Margaret Pope, thanking her for two kind reviews she wrote about his books in the Telegraph and the Woman’s Journal.

(1) £300-400

468 Isherwood (Christopher). Sally Bowles, 1st ed., 1937, one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j., losses to spine, a couple of closed tears, 8vo

465 Hilton (James). Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1st ed., 1934, some minor edge spotting, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper chipped and fraying to edges, together with To You Mr. Chips, 1st ed., 1938, edge spotting, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with a little fraying to extrems, plus approx. 50 other books, including first editions and 1930s crime fiction, many in VG dust-wrappers, all 8vo (approx. 52)

Woolmer 411.

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£150-200

469 James (P.D.). Unatural Causes, 1st US ed.; The Black Tower, 1975; Death of an Expert Witness, 1977, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, Black Tower lightly rubbed edges, 8vo, with three other P.D. James first editions

£200-300

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£200-300

470 Johns (Captain W.E.). Steeley Flies Again, 1st ed., [1936], a few light spots, original blue cloth, d.j., one or two closed tears and nicks, light creases, 8vo (1)

472 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles Sees it Through, 1st ed., OUP, 1941, colour frontispiece, six illustrations, one or two light stains, original orange pictorial cloth (a few small dampstains), d.j. priced at 4/-, some dampstains, abrasions to upper panel, 8vo, together with Biggles Flies East, OUP, 1937 reprint, colour frontispiece, four b & w illustrations, a few spots, original blue pictorial cloth, light waterstain, d.j. priced at 3/6, loss to upper panel, waterstain, 8vo

£300-400

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471 Johns (Captain W.E.). The Black Peril, early issue, [1936], colour frontispiece and four tinted illustrations, 17 ‘Ace’ titles listed at front ending in War in the Air, 35pp. pubs. catalogue at end dated Autumn 1936, one or two light spots, original blue cloth (waterstained), d.j. priced at 3/6, some chips and tears, waterstains (with blue dyestains from covers) and repairs to verso, 8vo Scarce in a dust-jacket.

(1)

£200-300

473 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles - Air Commodore, 1st ed., OUP, 1937, colour frontispiece, seven illustrations, a few light spots, original grey cloth, a few light marks, d.j. priced at 3/6, small snagged tear to spine, light waterstain and a few nicks and closed tears, 8vo (1)

£600-800

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£400-600

478 Lawrence (David Herbert). Sons and Lovers, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1913, 20 pp. pubs. ads. at rear, orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and sl. fraying to extreme head and foot of joints, minor crease mark towards head of spine, 8vo, together with Touch and Go, a Play in Three Acts, 1st ed., C. W. Daniel, 1920, untrimmed, orig. pale orange boards with paper label to upper cover, in d.j., chipped with sl. loss to head of spine, together with Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces, with a reminiscence by David Garnett, Nonesuch Press, 1930, uncut and untrimmed, orig. hessian-backed yellow cloth, in d.j., VG, limited ed. 665/1600, plus The Man Who Died, 1st ed., 1931, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. green cloth gilt in d.j., some minor pale spotting to upper wrapper and front flap, large 8vo, printed in an edition of 2000, and Apocalypse, Lungarno Series no. 6, 1st ed., Florence, G. Orioli, 1931, b&w photo port. frontis, uncut and untrimmed, orig. red boards with black Phoenix motif to upper cover, and leather label to spine, in orig. pale green d.j., faded to spine, and some light spotting to upper wrapper, one or two small chips to lower margins, limited ed. 462/750, plus A Collier’s Friday Night, with an introduction by Edward Garnett, 1st ed., Martin Secker, 1934, some spotting to fore-edges, orig. green cloth with paper label to spine, in d.j., a little rubbed and some minor marks, all 8vo First item: Roberts A4 variant 1 with dated cancel title.

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£150-200

474 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles and the Deep Blue Sea, 1st ed., Brockhampton Press, 1968, original cloth, d.j., a few minor tears and nicks, 8vo (1)

£200-300

475 Johnson (B.S.). House Mother Normal. A Geriatric Comedy, 1st ed., 1971, original cloth (foot of spine bumped), d.j., edges a little rubbed, 8vo, inscribed by the author, together with Trawl, 1st ed., 1966, one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j., a couple of nicks, 8vo, with two others: Statement Against Corpses, 1964 and House Mother Normal, 1971 (4)

£150-200

476 Joyce (James). Ulysses, 2 vols., Odyssey Press, 1932, manuscript note and previous owner stamp, original wrappers, a little chipped at spine ends, 8vo, together with Stephen Hero, 1st ed., 1944, previous owner inscription, original cloth, d.j., spine browned and chipped at ends, 8vo, plus Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest, by W.H. Hudson, 1926, illustrations

by Keith Henderson, occasional offsetting, original cloth, 8vo, limited edition, 99/165 signed by the artist, with others including T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935 (in torn jacket), Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography, 1938 and 18 Poems, by Dylan Thomas (Fortune Press, 1934) (17)

479 Le Carre (John). Call For the Dead, 1st ed., 1961, scattered marginal spots, stain to foredges, original cloth, d.j., spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few spots and stains, custom-made half morocco foldover box, 8vo

£200-300

477 Joyce (James). Ulysses, 1st English ed., John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. green buckram with gilt bow design by Eric Gill to upper cover, extrems. a trifle rubbed in places, spine faded and with a few small marks, one corner sl. bumped, 4to

Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to title: “John Le Carre, aka David Cornwell, Christmas 2004. With my best wishes! D.C.”.The author’s first book and first appearance of George Smiley.

(1) £1500-2000

Slocum and Cahoon A23. Limited edition number 883/1000 copies on Japon vellum.

(1) £300-500

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480 Le Carre (John). A Small Town in Germany, 1st ed., 1968, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with Martin (J. Wallis), A Likeness in Stone, 1st ed., 1997, light marginal toning, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, plus Peters (Ellis), The Confession of Brother Halvin, 1st ed., 1988, light marginal toning, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with other first editions by Ellis Peters, John Le Carre, Jane Adams, Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin, some signed by the author (36)

485 Lewis (Wyndham). The Apes of God, 1st ed., Arthur Press, 1930, orig. cloth in d.j., some wear to folds of wrapper, 4to Limited edition 374/750 copies, signed by the author.

(1)

£150-200

£150-200

482 Lee (Harper). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1st ed., 2nd impression, Lippincott, Philadelphia & New York, 1960, lacking front endpaper, original green cloth-backed boards, price-clipped d.j., a little rubbed and creased, 8vo (1)

£150-200

Sylvia Barrett, a singer and journalist, published an autobiography titled ‘Beyond the Wilderness: Memoirs of a Post-Christian Christian’, 1968. She also supplied the words for ‘Almighty Word; Hymn-Anthem for Advent and General Use to the Tune by Tallis, Arrangement for Congregation, Choir and Organ, Set by Ralph Vaughan Williams’, c. 1953.

(2) £200-300

483 Lee (Harper). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1st UK ed., 1960, original cloth, d.j., 8vo (1)

£150-200

484 Lee (Harper). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1st UK ed., pub.

Heinemann, 1960, one or two spots, original cloth, spine lettered in silver, d.j., a few chips and creases, 8vo (1)

£150-200

486* Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963 ). Autograph letter signed ‘C.S. Lewis’, Magdalen College, Oxford, 27th December 1943, to Miss [Sylvia] Barrett, ‘Thanks for your kind letter. It is like meeting on a very lonely road! And I admire you for feeling relieved, instead of annoyed, at finding someone had written a book you were thinking of writing yourself. (Though by the bye, that is the proper way to approach writing - “Since nobody’ll write the books I want to read I believe I shall have to do the blank things myself!”)’, giving the Greek derivation of Eschopolis referring to Mammon and the Red Dwarfs, and ending by suggesting that she will like George Macdonald’s books Phantastes and Lilith, somewhat creased and a few minor marginal nicks, pasted at upper margin to rear pastedown of a copy of C.S. Lewis’s book ‘The Pilgrim’s Regress’, new and revised ed., 1943, the gluing with resultant large brown stain affecting initial lines of writing without loss of legibility, one page, 8vo, together with The Screwtape Letters, reprint, 1942, pencil signature of Sylvia Barrett, both books orig. cloth with printed paper labels to spines, rubbed and soiled, 8vo

481 Le Carre (John). The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 1st ed., 1963, previous owner signature, original cloth (spine faded), d.j., spine faded with small chips, light stains, 8vo, together with A Murder of Quality, 1st ed., 1962, occasional light soiling, original red cloth, 8vo, with two others by Le Carre: The Looking-Glass War, 1965 and A Small Town in Germany, 1968 (4)

Lot 488

£100-150

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Lot 491

487 Lewis (C.S.). That Hideous Strength, 1st ed., pub. Bodley Head, 1945, orig. cloth gilt in 3rd imp. d.j., chipped to head of spine, some wear to extrems., 8vo, together with Simak (Clifford D.), City, 1st ed., 1954, orig. cloth in d.j., small tear to upper fold, rubbed, 8vo, plus Clement (Hal), Mission of Gravity, 1st ed., 1955, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., slight splitting to spine ends, some wear, 8vo, plus twentynine other sci-fi related (32)

Lot 492

491 MacNeice (Louis). The Sixpence that Rolled Away, illustrated

by Edward Bawden, 1st ed., Faber and Faber, 1956, half-title, five col. plts., correct as list, full-page b & w illusts., free endpapers partially browned, orig. printed boards in price-clipped d.j., v. short tear in upper edge of front panel, rear panel sl. creased and dusty, but overall a good copy, 8vo (1)

£200-300

£150-200

488 Lewis (C.S.). Rehabilitations and Other Essays, 1st ed., OUP, 1939, light offsetting from bus ticket marker to pp.172-73, original cloth, d.j., spine toned, a few light spots, 8vo

492 Masterman (Walter S.). The Green Toad, 1st ed., 1928, scattered light spots, original cloth (one or two minor stains), d.j., designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, spine slightly toned and rubbed at ends, minor closed tear, 8vo

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£200-300

489 Lewis (C.S.). Prince Caspian, The Return to Narnia, 1st ed., Geoffrey Bles, 1951, col. frontis. and b & w illusts. by Pauline Baynes, edges lightly foxed, orig. boards, bowed, in sl. edge-rubbed and dusty d.j., a little chipped at ends of flap folds, 8vo (1)

493 Maugham (William Somerset). The Hero, 1st ed., pub.

Hutchinson & Co., 1901, new endpapers, orig. gilt dec. cloth, evil eye on upper cover upside down, rubbed, 8vo (scarce), together with another copy of the same work, 1st ed., 1901, missing rear endpaper, orig. gilt dec. cloth, evil eye on upper cover correct way up, faded and some wear, 8vo

£400-600

490 MacLean (Alistair). H.M.S. Ulysses, 1955; The Guns of Navarone, 1957; Where Eagles Dare, 1967; Puppet on a Chain, 1969; Caravan to Vaccares, 1970; Bear Island, 1971; The Way to Dusty Death, 1973; Breakheart Pass, 1974, 1st eds., Caravan with presentation inscription, original cloth, d.j.s, a few nicks and tears, 8vo (8)

£600-800

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£200-300

494 McEwan (Ian). The Child in Time, 1987, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper (closed tear), 8vo, limited edition, 62/150 signed by the author, with four other Ian McEwan 1st eds: Or Shall We Die, 1983, The Child in Time, 1987, The Innocent, 1990 and Saturday, 2005

£100-150

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£70-100

497 [Milne, Alan Alexander, 1882-1956]. The Price of Love, a Tale

by Arnold Bennett, 2nd ed., [1914], publisher’s catalogue at rear, initialled presentation inscription from A.A. Milne to his wife [Dorothy] dated 2nd November 1914, ‘To my dearest wife, wishing her many happy returns of the day - and rather hoping to read it myself one day, which is why I decided against the diamond tiara’, inscribed to front f.e.p. with Dorothy Milne’s pictorial bookplate to facing pastedown, orig. cloth gilt, covers partly faded and damp marked, spine darkened, 8vo (1)

£100-150

498 Mitchell (Margaret, 1900-1949). Gone with the Wind, 7th printing, New York: Macmillan, 1936, author’s signed presentation inscription to front f.e.p., ‘For W[illiam] Collins with many thanks for his encouragement and his kind appreciation of this story of a civilization that went with the wind. Margaret Mitchell, August 26 1936, Atlanta, Ga. USA’, orig. grey cloth lettered in blue, spine sl. toned, corners bumped, 8vo An exceptional association item. Macmillan New York had the rights to the American edition and set about creating publishing interest for the rest of the world. Harold Latham, vice president and editor-in-chief, had great hopes for a commercial success in Britain and saw no reason to simply let the Macmillan brothers in London have automatic rights for a quick sale. Throwing trade courtesy aside he sought out other interested British publishers. In April 1936 Latham sent the Scottish publisher William Collins and Sons an unbound copy of the work intimating that Macmillan believed that the author and book had a potential for massive sales over many years to come. Twisting the truth Latham suggested that Macmillan London had already made a “substantial offer” and that he was simply giving Collins a chance at the book at the author’s request. Collins was advised to keep this confidential and let him know his decision straight away.

495 Miller (Henry). Tropic of Cancer, 1st ed., Paris: Obelisk Press, 1934, ownership name in ink to front and rear endpaper, rebound in near-contemp. red cloth with original printed front and rear wrappers bound-in, wrappers torn and relaid and with inner flaps pasted down, 8vo (1)

A few days later the American-based Book-of-the-Month Club selected Mitchell’s book, news of which triggered interest from other British publishing firms.

Meanwhile, Macmillan London were unaware that they were to be involved in a bidding war for a book that they thought was rightfully theirs. Latham then disappeared on other publishing business and left his colleague George Brett, president of Macmillan New York, to take up the reins. Macmillan London were forced to agree to publishing a British edition and to pay Mitchell royalties. With that, they thought the deal sealed. However, James Putnam, vice president and assistant to the publishers in New York, then wired Collins instructing him to make an offer without delay. William Collins replied immediately expressing great enthusiasm and offering a £150 advance if that is what Macmillan New York thought reasonable. He assured Putnam that they would get behind the book in a big way and, having effectively offered a blank cheque, expected to clinch the deal. Brett, now taking the matter further, had personal business reasons for wanting Macmillan London to win the deal. He was forced to cable Harold Macmillan explaining the Collins bid and suggesting that they offer a higher advance and increase the royalties. Harold Macmillan, the future prime minister, had no choice but to agree to the new terms. (Harold Macmillan wanting to get an American reader’s opinion of the book had asked his Indiana-born and bred mother to read it, and it was she who gave her son the sign of approval).

£200-300

About all this, it seems, Margaret Mitchell was kept in the dark and, the deal having been sealed, Collins was also left in the dark about the fact that he had lost out. Perturbed by the silence William Collins wired Harold Latham that if he thought the offer was too low he would pay whatever Macmillan New York suggested. Unsurprisingly, Collins took the news about the lost deal very badly, declaring that Mitchell’s book was the best that he had seen since entering the publishing business and sorry not to be part of its success, vowed never to do business with Latham again. In a last ditch effort Collins went to London and asked Harold Macmillan to waive the rights and contacted Macmillan New York again upping his advance offer to £500. Latham did later admit that Collins would have been the better choice, for being more enthusiastic about the book they would have likely promoted it better.

Nonetheless, the book was a runaway sensation and became an instant bestseller, selling over one million copies within the first six months of its publication in America. Margaret Mitchell was overwhelmed with requests to autograph copies of her novel and less than a year after its first publication vowed not to sign any more, even for close friends or relatives. How much of this whole bidding war escapade Margaret Mitchell knew about is unclear and what her full motives for sending this copy to William Collins were may never be known. The highly unusual and possibly unique self-referencing to the title of the novel in Mitchell’s inscription would have surely left a bitter-sweet taste in Collins’s mind for the rest of his days.

(1) £2000-3000

496 Miller (Arthur ). Death of a Salesman, 1st ed., New York, Viking Press, 1949, half-title, pictorial endpapers, with photo of Arthur Miller to rear flap, orig. orange cloth in frayed d.j., very slightly chipped to extrems., 8vo (1)

£200-300

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499 Montgomery (Stuart). Circe, 1st ed., 1969, original cloth (dampstains), d.j., 8vo, inscribed by the author to Robert Graves, together with In Noah’s Wake. Poems by Allan Block, 1st ed., 1972, original cloth, d.j. (small hole in upper panel), 8vo, inscribed to Robert Graves, with 15 others by Philip Roberts, Irving Feldman, Antonio Olinto, Thomas Drayton etc., all presentation copies to Robert Graves (18)

503 Mottistone (Lord (General Jack Seely)). My Horse Warrior, 1st ed., 1934, b & w illustrations by Alfred Munnings, a few light spots, original blue cloth, spine a little faded, one or two lightstains, 8vo The original ‘War Horse’. Known as “The horse the Germans couldn’t kill”, Warrior, a bay gelding saw action under General Jack Seeley during the First World War at Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele and Cambrai. He returned to the Isle of Wight with Jack Seeley, attaining the ripe old age of 33 (he died in 1941).

(1) £70-100

£100-150

504 Munro (H.H., “Saki”). The Square Egg and Other Sketches, with Three Plays and Illustrations... with a Biography by his Sister, 1st ed., 1924, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, advert. leaf at end, light spotting, original cloth (spine slightly faded), d.j., spine browned with splits along joints, 8vo (1)

£70-100

505 Murdoch (Iris). A Severed Head, 1st ed., Chatto & Windus, 1961, orig. cloth in d.j., very sl. frayed to extrems., 8vo, together with other modern literature in first editions, mostly later 20th century, including Iris Murdoch, Anthony Powell, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, C. P. Snow, Kingsley Amis, Angela Carter, Paul Theroux, Anthony Burgess, C. S. Forrester, John Le Carre, Jeanette Winterson (two signed), etc., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, generally VG (79)

£200-300

500 Morpurgo (Michael). War Horse, 1st ed., Kaye & Ward, Kingswood, 1982, minor spots to foredges, neat previous owner signature, original pictorial boards, light yellowing to spine, 8vo A good copy of a scarce title, now very successfully adapted for stage and film. See also lot 503.

(1) £400-600

501 Morpurgo (Michael). Muck and Magic. Stories from the Countryside, 1995, b & w illustrations by Michael Foreman, Anthony Kerins etc., original cloth, upper cover with inset illustration (lacking glassine wrapper), 8vo Limited edition, 77/250, signed by 16 contributors including Michael Morpurgo, Ted Hughes, Quentin Blake, Anthony Browne, Bel Mooney, Tony Ross, Michael Foreman, Joanna Lumley, Anthony Kerins etc.

(1) £100-150

506* Murdoch (Iris). ‘The Unpruned Pear Tree’ manuscript poem (published in ‘Something Special’, Eurographia, 1990), 1pp., 32 lines, with some autograph alterations, signed by the author, together with two typescript copies of the poem (one with handwritten corrections) and a 2pp. signed autograph letter to Tina May: “It would take a long time to list my ‘likes and dislikes’. Let me just tell you that I like Homer and Shakespeare best of all, and that painting (especially Titian) and music (especially Mozart) also mean a lot to me.”

502 Morrison (Toni). Sula, 1974; Song of Solomon, 1977; The Bluest Eye, 1979; 1st UK eds., original cloth, d.j.s (two price-clipped), 8vo, and other American literature including Bernard Malamud’s The Assistant, 1959, Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Unbound, 1981 (limited edition, 93/350 signed by the author) and Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend, 2002, signed by the author (15)

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£150-200

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£250-300

507 Murdoch (Iris). The Message to the Planet, 1989; The Green Knight, 1993, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, both inscribed by the author, together with five other first editions by Iris Murdoch including The Italian Girl, 1964, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, 1970, The Black Prince, 1973 and Henry and Cato, 1976 (7)

£100-150

508 Murdoch (Iris). The Three Arrows and the Servants and the Snow, 1973; Three Plays: The Servants and the Snow, The Three Arrows, The Black Prince, 1989, 1st eds., original cloth d.j.s, 8vo, with other first editions by Iris Murdoch including The Unicorn, 1963, A Severed Head (with J.B. Priestley, 1964 and A Year of Birds, 1984 (25)

£100-150

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

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£150-200

511 Murdoch (Iris). The Sandcastle, 1st ed., 1957, one or two light spots, bookplate, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and minor tears, 8vo, together with The Bell, 1st ed., 1958, light spotting, bookplate, d.j., minor chips, 8vo, plus Existentialists and Mystics, Delos Press, 1993, original wrappers, 8vo, limited edition of 500 signed by the author, with others including Sartre. Romantic Rationalist, 1953, The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts, 1967, The One Alone, Colophon Press, 1995 (42/200 signed by the author) and others, five signed by the author (18)

509 Murdoch (Iris). Under the Net, 1st ed., 1954, light spots to foredges, original cloth, d.j., loss at foot of spine, minor chips, a few spots to rear panel The author’s first novel.

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£250-300

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£250-300

514 O’Brian (Patrick). Post Captain, 1972; The Mauritius Command, 1977; Desolation Island, 1978; The Fortune of War, 1979, 1st eds., original cloth, Mauritius Command faded at lower margin, d.j.s, Desolation Island price-clipped, 8vo, together with ten other ‘AubreyMaturin’ first editions (The Nutmeg of Consolation & Clarissa Oakes 2nd impressions) including Treason’s Harbour, 1983, The Letter of Marque, 1988 and The Thirteen Gun Salute, 1989 (14)

£300-400

512 Nash (John, illust.). Poisonous Plants. Deadly, Dangerous and Suspect, With Brief Descriptions by W. Dallimore, Edited by Dr. A. W. Hill, 1927, 20 full-page wood-engraved illustrations, original twotone cloth, folio Limited edition, 267/350.

(1)

£250-300

513 O’Brian (Patrick). Post Captain, 1st ed., Collins, 1972, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with minor fraying to extrems, together with Desolation Island, 1st ed., Collins, 1978, orig. cloth in VG dustwrapper, 8vo

515 Oxenham (Elsie J.). Rosamund’s Tuck-Shop. A School Story, 1st ed., pub. Girl’s Own Paper, [1937], colour frontispiece, original red cloth, d.j., a little rubbed at spine ends, 8vo

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(1)

£200-300

Lot 514 134

£150-200

519 Powell (Anthony). Caledonia: A Fragment, 1st ed., [1934], fullpage woodcut illust. by Edward Burra, three minor manuscript corrections by the author and signed and dated presentation inscription from Anthony Powell to Wyndham Lloyd at foot of printed dedication, ‘And Wyndham Lloyd, Esquire being the latter of these two gentlemen [referred to in the printed dedication] and this copy being presented by the author himself’, dated 16th February 1935, armorial bookplate of Wyndham Edward Buckley Lloyd to front pastedown, pastedowns somewhat spotted, orig. linen-backed printed tartan boards with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and joints a little frayed, tall 8vo, together with a typed letter signed ‘Tony’, 1 Chester Gate, NW1, 26th August 1949, to Wyndham, begins, ‘Thank you so much for the ‘Wonderful Characters’ who absolutely delighted me. I have done no more than skim through them yet, but particularly liked the man who crucified himself. I see the Powell family seem to have got no further than being pedestrians; and I have yet to find any Lloyds who are surely included’, referring to a stay with Lee and then Alick Dru near Bude, hoping to see him in London soon, and referring to his edition of the Letters of John Aubrey, ‘The new edition is printed on cardboard instead of lavatory paper so that it appears to be at least three times as long. Do not be taken in by this’, a few typed and manuscript corrections, one page, folio

516 Peters (Ellis). One Corpse Too Many, 1979; The Sanctuary Sparrow, 1983; Dead Man’s Ransom, 1984; The Pilgrim of Hate, 1984; An Excellent Mystery, 1985; The Confession of Brother Halvin, 1988, The Heretic’s Apprentice, 1989; The Holy Thief, 1992, 1st eds., occasional light marginal toning, original cloth, d.j.s, One Corpse Too Many spine a little faded, 8vo (8)

£250-300

517 Poe (Edgar Allan). Complete Works, 10 vols., pub. Putnam, 1902, title-pages printed in black and red, num. b&w plts., illusts., and decs., bookplate to front pastedown of each, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, some wear to spines, 8vo Limited edition ‘D’, of a overall limitation of 1000 copies.

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£300-500

518 Poem of the Month Club. Forty-eight broadsides, 1970’s, each signed by poets including Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney, John Betjeman (with two words hand-corrected), Thom Gunn, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Robert Graves, Philip Larkin and Cecil Day Lewis, each sheet 380 x 280 mm (15 x 11 ins), some biographies and other correspondence, loose as issued in original portfolio with cloth ties (1)

£300-500

One of about 100 copies. Wyndham Edward Buckley Lloyd who is referred to in the printed dedication as ‘A gentleman residing in London, member of a Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians’.

His book, ‘A Hundred Years of Medicine’ was first published in 1936.

(2) £700-1000

520 Powys (John Cowper). Ducdame, 1st ed., 1925, scattered light spotting, original cloth, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Porius. A Romance of the Dark Ages, 1st ed., 1951, original cloth, d.j., light toning to spine, sellotape marks to verso, 8vo, plus Atlantis, 1st ed., 1954, original cloth, d.j., a few nicks, 8vo, with others by Powys including The Art of Growing Old, 1944 and Visions & Revisions, 1955 (11)

£100-150

521 Powys (T.F.). What Lack I Yet?, E. Archer, March, 1927, 11pp., printed on Japanese vellum (stitching broken), original wrapper, marginal toning, 4to, limited edition, 8/25 signed by the author, together with Mark Only, 1st ed., 1924, light spotting, original cloth, d.j., spine browned and chipped at ends, a little rubbed with repairs to verso, 8vo, plus Mockery Gap, 1st ed., 1925, a few light spots, original cloth, d.j., spine toned, 8vo, with others by Powys including Soliloquies of a Hermit, 1918, Kindness in a Corner, 1930, The Strong Wooer, 1970 (limited edition of 150) and Theodore. Essays on T.F. Powys, 1964 (one of 450 copies) (18)

£150-200

522 Price (Anthony). The Labyrinth Makers, 3rd impression, 1971; The Alamut Ambush, 1971; October Men, 1973; War Game, 1976; The Old Vengeful, 1982; Sion Crossing, 1984, 1st eds., one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo (6)

£100-150

Lot 519 523 Proust (Marcel). Rememrance of Things Past, 11 vols, Chatto & Windus, 1924-31, includes Within a Budding Grove, 2 vols, 2nd imp., 1924, Swann’s Way, 2 vols, 4th imp., 1925, The Guermantes Way, 2 vols, 1st imp., 1925, Cities of the Plain, 2 vols, 1st imp., 1929, limited edition 1407/2230, The Captive, 1st imp., 1929, The Sweet Cheat Gone, 1st imp., 1930, Time Regained, 1st imp., 1931, limited edition 764/1300, all uniform orig. blue cloth gilt, 8vo (11)

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£100-150

525 Pullman (Philip). Galatea, 1st ed., 1978, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with The Shadow in the Plate, 1st ed., 1986, light marginal toning, original cloth, d.j., 8vo (2)

£250-300

526 Rankin (Ian). Watchman, 1st ed., 1988, light marginal toning, small inkstamp and number erased from colophon, inscription erased from front endpaper, original cloth, d.j., one or two spots and creases, 8vo, together with three others by Ian Rankin: Strip Jack, 1992, Mortal Causes, 1994 (1st eds.) and Knots & Crosses, Collector’s Edition, 2007 (991/1500 signed by the author)

524 Prout (Geoffrey). Scouts in Bondage. A Story of Boy Scouts in Strange Adventure, 1st ed., c. 1935, colour frontispiece, one or two spots, original red pictorial cloth (partial fading to spine), d.j., losses to spine, some tears and light stains, 8vo A must for the Bizzare Books collector, by the author of “Trawler Boy Dick”!

(1) £70-100

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Lot 525

£200-300

Lot 527

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531 Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1st ed., 1st issue, Bloomsbury, 1997, light toning and one or two closed marginal tears, library stamps and stickers, original pictorial boards, some edge wear, 8vo

527 Rankin (Ian). Westwind, 1990; Hide & Seek, 1991; The Black Book, 1993, 1st eds., ight marginal toning as usual, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo (3)

£150-200

The first appearance of Harry Potter. Only 500 copies of the first edition were published, the majority of which were distributed to libraries resulting in a much smaller number of copies in general circulation, pristine examples of which are very scarce.

(1) £1000-1500

528 Rendell (Ruth). A New Lease of Death, 1st ed., 1967, light spots to pastedowns, original cloth, rubbed and chipped d.j., 8vo (1)

£100-150

529 Roberts (David). Sweet Poison, 2001; Bones of the Buried, 2001; Hollow Crown, 2002; Dangerous Sea, 2003; The More Deceived, 2004, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, each signed by the author, together with eight others including three UK 1st eds.

by Arturo Perez-Reverte (The Dumas Club, 1996, The Seville Communion, 1998, The Fencing Master, 1999), Sara Paretsky’s Indemnity Only, 1st UK ed., 1982, Leslie Forbes’ Bombay Ice, 1998, signed by the author and Barbara Cleverly’s The Last Kashmiri Rose, 2001, inscribed by the author (13)

£150-200

530 Rochester (George E.). The Despot of the World; The Flying Spy, c. 1936, b & w illustrations to each, a few light spots, original cloth (Flying Spy a little bowed), d.j.s, a little rubbed and chipped, repairs to verso, 8vo (2)

£100-150

532 Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 1st ed., 2007, original boards, d.j., 8vo Inscribed to title: “To Linzi, J.K. Rowling”, with security hologram sticker and ticket to the moonlight signing at the Natural History Museum, 21 July, 2007.

(1) £250-300

533 Rushdie (Salman). Grimus, a novel, 1st ed., Victor Gollancz, 1975, orig. purple cloth gilt in d.j., 8vo (1)

£100-150

534 Sansom (William). Three, 1st ed., 1946, light marginal toning, original cloth, chipped and repaired d.j., 8vo, together with The Body, 1st ed., 1949, original cloth (faded at spine ends), d.j., spine ends chipped, 8vo, plus Pleasures Strange and Simple, 1st ed., 1953, original cloth, d.j., a little chipped at head of spine, 8vo, with others

by Sansom including Fireman Flower and Other Stories, 1944, Something Terrible, Something Lovely, 1948 and The Face of Innocence, 1951 (26)

£150-200

535 Sapper (pseud. McNeile, Herman Cyril). Tiny Carteret, 1st ed., [1930], one or two minor spots, original cloth (spine slightly faded), d.j., a few chips, 8vo (1)

£100-150

536 Sassoon (Siegfried). Sherston’s Progress, 1st ed., pub. Faber and Faber, 1936, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. blue cloth gilt, one or two minor marks, 8vo Limited signed edition 157/300.

(1)

Lot 531

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£150-200

538 Sieveking (Lance). Smite and Spare Not, 1st ed., 1933, original cloth, d.j. designed by Paul Nash, 8vo (1)

£100-150

539 Simenon (Georges). On the Danger Line, 1st English ed., 1944, orig. cloth in d.j., some fraying to extrems., 8vo, together with Maigret et Son Mort, 1st ed., pub. Paris, 1948, orig. card wrappers in d.j., slight loss to extrems., 8vo, plus Maigret’s Revolver, 1st English ed., 1956, orig. cloth gilt in price clipped d.j., some fraying and chipping to extrems. with soe tape repairs to verso, 8vo, plus forty-one others by Simenon, incl. some duplicates

537 Scott (G. Firth). The Last Lemurian, A Westralian Romance, 1st ed., pub. James Bowden, 1898, half-title, b&w frontis., 4 pp. pubs. list at rear, orig. pict. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, 8vo Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, 191. Bleiler, Guide To Supernatural Fiction, 1450.

(1) £100-150

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£150-200

Lot 540

Lot 538

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540 Sitwell (Osbert). The Winstonburg Line, 1st ed. in book form, September 1919, some spotting, uncut and unopened, orig. sewn orange wrappers with a woodcut illust. of Churchill to the upper wrapper (repeating the illustration on the title-page), minor marks, slim 4to

548 Vonnegut (Kurt). Cat’s Cradle, 1st UK ed., 1963, one or two light stains, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo

The author’s rare second book, containing three satires on Churchill.

(1) £70-100

549 Wallace (Edgar). More Educated Evans, 1st ed., [1926], text block toned, original cloth, d.j., tape repairs to verso, one or two light stains, 8vo

541 Smith (Dodie). The Hundred and One Dalmations, 1st ed., 1956, illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone, original cloth (faded at foot of spine), d.j., spine faded and chipped at foot, a few closed tears, 8vo, together with Garner (Alan), The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A Tale of Alderley, 1st ed., 1960, map endpapers, a few spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., closed tears and creases, 8vo

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(2)

(1)

£150-200

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£150-200

551 Walpole (Hugh & others). Tendencies of the Modern Novel, 1st ed., pub. George Allen & Unwin, 1934, signed by all eight authors to front endpaper (Wassermann’s signature on seperate slip tippedin), orig. cloth gilt in d.j.,, 8vo

£150-200

Authors comprise Hugh Walpole; Hamish Miles; Milton Waldman; Jacob Wassermann; V.S. Pritchett; D.S. Mirsky; Luigi Pirandello; Erik Mesterton.

(1) £100-150

543 Spark (Muriel). Memento Mori, 1st ed., 1959, previous owner inscription, original cloth, marginal fading, chipped and toned d.j., repairs to verso, 8vo, together with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1st ed., 1961, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., 8vo, plus Not to Disturb, 1971, etched frontispiece by Michael Ayrton, t.e.g., original cloth-backed boards, a few light stains, 8vo, limited edition of 500, signed by author and artist, with others related including A Far Cry from Kensington, 1988 (signed limited edition of 150), The Girls of Slender Means, 1963 and The Mandelbaum Gate, 1965 (22)

£100-150

550 Wallace (Edgar). The Four Just Men, 1st ed., 1905, folding frontispiece, competition slip at rear, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, together with Chance. A Tale in Two Parts, by Joseph Conrad. 3rd issue, 1914, cancel title dated 1914 to verso, 8pp. ads. dated Autumn 1913, some spotting, manuscript numbers to front endpaper, original cloth, spine lightly rubbed, light dampstains, 8vo, with two others: Leslie Charteris’ X Esquire, 1929 reprint and Freeman Wills Crofts Fatal Adventure, 1939 (2nd issue in 4/- d.j.?)

542 Spark (Muriel). Harper and Wilton, Colophon Press, 1996, original goatskin-backed boards, tall 8vo, limited edition, 83/110 signed by the author, together with A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur,

by Muriel Spark, Colophon Press, 2001, original wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 33/125 signed by the author, plus Low Sunday, by William Trevor, 2000, original wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 160/200 signed by the author, with other Colophon Press limited editions signed by William Trevor, Alan Wall and Fay Weldon plus some unbound sheets from Muriel Spark’s The French Window and The Small Telephone (12)

£70-100

£250-300

544 Stapledon (Olaf). Star Maker, 1st ed., pub. Methuen & Co., 1937, orig. pictorial stiff wrappers, with design to upper cover by Bip Pares, sl. rubbed, spine lightly toned, and with light waterstain to extreme lower edge of upper cover, 8vo (1)

£100-150

545 Stern (Gladys Bromwyn). A collection of approx. 52 books from the library of Gladys Bromyn Stern (1890-1973), English novelist and Robert Louis Stevenson biographer, including a first US edition copy of C.S. Lewis’s “The World’s Last Night” published in 1960 and inscribed from Lewis to Stern using their nicknames “To Peter from Jack, March 1960”, in rubbed dust-wrapper, together with a first US edition of Lewis’s “Surprised by Joy” published in 1956 and inscribed “C.S. Lewis”, in torn and frayed dust-wrapper, plus other books including many authored by Stern or books by or about R.L. Stevenson, some books inscribed by Stern or with her bookpate, many in dust-wrappers, a few covers with damp blooming, 8vo (approx. 52)

£200-300

546 Swift (Graham). The Sweet Shop Owner, 1st ed., 1980, original cloth, d.j., 8vo Signed by the author, his first book.

(1)

£100-150

552 Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st ed., 1932, map frontis., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., some splitting to head of spine and front fold of wrapper, rubbed to extrems., 8vo

547 Thatcher (Margaret). The Downing Street Years, 1st ed., 1993, photographic illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by Margaret and Denis Thatcher, together with Margaret Thatcher. The Path to Power, 1st ed., 1995, signed by the author (2)

(1)

£150-200

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£150-200

553 Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st ed., 1932, map frontispiece, light stain to foredge, original cloth (slight marginal fading), d.j., spine darkened and chipped, joints and folds splitting, 8vo, together with Scoop, 1st ed., 1938, lacks fep, light stains front and rear, ‘Colonial Edition’ stamp to title verso, original cloth, spine a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

556 Wilde (Oscar). Lady Windermere’s Fan. A Play About a Good Woman, 1st ed., 1893, untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, spine ends chipped, rubbed and some fading, small 4to, An Ideal Husband, by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1st ed., 1899, orig. cloth gilt, spine ends chipped, rubbed and some fading, small 4to (limited edition of 1000 copies), plus The Poems of Oscar Wilde, Ravenna, Poems, The Sphinx, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Uncollected Poems, pub. Portland Maine, 1905, b&w port. frontis., rough-trimmed, orig. printed boards, 8vo, plus seven other Oscar Wilde related

£150-200

(10)

£100-150

557 Wilde (Oscar). Works, De Luxe Edition, 14 vols. (of 15), pub.

Boston, 1910, b&w plts. by Aubrey Beardsley and others, occ. spotting, cracking to a few hinges, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth with printed label to spines, spines faded, one vol. dampstained, 8vo (14)

£150-200

554 Wells (H.G.). When the Sleeper Wakes, 1st ed., 1899, b&w frontis. (loose), two b&w plts., front endpaper excised, orig. red cloth gilt, some marks and spine somewhat dulled, together with Star Begotten, A Biological Fantasia, 1st ed., Chatto & Windus, 1937, orig. black cloth gilt in d.j. (designed by Harold Jones), a few minor marks to extrems., both 8vo (2)

£100-150

555 White (T.H.). Gone to Ground, 1st ed., 1935, partial light browning to endpapers, original cloth, d.j., spine a little rubbed and toned, 8vo, together with Bagnold (Enid), “National Velvet”, 1st ed., 1935, illustrations by Laurian Jones, bookplate removed from front endpaper, original cloth, d.j., some chips and tears, 8vo, plus Maugham (W. Somerset), Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular, 1st ed., 1931, occasional spotting, original cloth, lightly rubbed, d.j., spine browned with loss at head, some chips and stains, 8vo, with others including No Man’s Land, by “Sapper” (i.e.

Herman Cyril McNeile), 1917, Shoal Water, by Dornford Yates and some Nigel Tranter proof copies (20)

558 Wodehouse (P.G.). Jill the Reckless, 1st ed. English ed., 1921, slight weakening to upper hinge, orig. cloth, rubbed and some wear to extrems., 8vo (1)

£150-200

559 Wodehouse (P.G.). Very Good, Jeeves, 1st ed., 1930, scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, num. ink notes to front endpaper, orig. printed cloth, rubbed and faded, 8vo, together with Uncle Dynamite, 1st ed., [1946], orig. printed cloth, some fading, 8vo, plus Full Moon, 1st ed., [1947], erased inscription to front endpaper, orig. printed cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus six other later eds. by P.G. Wodehouse, all in tatty d.j.s

£100-150

(9)

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£100-150

Lot 560

Lot 561

560 Wodehouse (P.G.). William Tell Told Again, 1st ed., 1st issue, pub. A & C Black, 1904, colour illustrations by Philip Dadd, 2pp. advert at end, a few light spots, presentation inscription to front endpaper, t.e.g., original cream pictorial cloth gilt, one or two minor marks, 8vo McIlvaine A5a.

(1)

564 Wodehouse (P.G.). A Gentleman of Leisure, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1910, half title, title and dedication misbound at front, 3pp. ads. at end, occasional spotting, endpapers browned, previous owner signature, hinges tender, original red cloth, spine rubbed and faded, a little stained, 8vo, together with a dampstained 1st ed. of The Coming of Bill, 1920

£200-300

McIIvaine A13b & A23b.

(2)

561 Wodehouse (P.G.). A Prefect’s Uncle, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1903, eight illustrations by R. Noel Pocock, 8pp. pubs. ads at end, small previous owner inscription to rear pastedown, light stains to endpapers, original red pictorial cloth, spine a little faded, 8vo McIIvaine A2a.2.

(1)

£100-150

565 Wodehouse (P.G.). Mike. A Public School Story, A & C Black, 2nd ed. reprint, 1925, four colour illustrations by J.H. Hartley, a few spots, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen, 1st ed., 1974, one or two minor spots, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, plus P.G. Wodehouse’s Batchelors Anonymous, 1973 and two A.A. Milne 1st eds: The Sunny Side, 1921 and The Red House Mystery, 1922

£400-600

562 Wodehouse (P.G.). The Intrusion of Jimmy, 1st US ed., pub.

Watt, New York, May 1910, colour frontispiece, b & w illustrations, occasional light marginal waterstain and soiling, previous owner inscription, original pictorial cloth, spine ends and edges rubbed, 8vo

(5)

£70-100

566 Wodehouse (P.G.). The Mating Season, 1st ed., [1949], one or two light stains, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., chipped at spine ends, 8vo, together with Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, 1st US ed., New York, 1940, endpapers lightly toned, original cloth, d.j., spine fading and chipped at ends, 8vo, with others including Quick Service, 1940 (1st US ed.) and Jeeves in the Offing, 1st ed., 1960

Presentation copy, inscribed to front blank: “To David [Jasen, Wodehouse biographer], from Plum, P.G. Wodehouse”. McIIvaine A13a.

(1) £400-600

563 Wodehouse (P.G.). Love Among the Chickens, 13th printing, c. 1948, a few spots, original cloth, d.j., spine ends chipped, 8vo, together with The Captain, A Magazine for Boys & “Old Boys”, vols.

VI-VIII, October 1901-March 1903, numerous illustrations, marginal toning, original cloth, spines faded and rubbed at ends, 4to (features stories by P.G. Wodehouse), plus other books, magazines, illustrations and articles related to PGW including 5 issues of The Play Pictorial (features Wodehouse musicals and plays), David Jasen’s Wodehouse bibliography (2nd ed., 1986) and some original modern colour illustrations by Ionicus of The Drones Club (“The Club Entrance”, “The Dining Room” and “The Bar”) (approx. 18)

Lot 562

(9)

£70-100

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£150-200

Lot 567

Lot 568

570 Woolf (Virginia). Orlando. A Biography, 1st ed., 1928, half-tone illustrations, presentation inscription, original cloth, faded patches, d.j., some chips and tears, old repairs, 8vo, together with Three Guineas, 1st ed., 1938, illustrations, fep browned, original cloth, a little dusty and faded, d.j. designed by Vanessa Bell, spine faded, a few chips and tape residue, 8vo, plus Between the Acts, 1st ed., 1941, original cloth, d.j., chipped and repaired, with others by or on Virginia Woolf including Haunted House and Other Stories, 1943, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, 1942, The Moment and Other Essays, 1947, The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays, 1950 and Granite and Rainbow, 1958

567* Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville, 1881-1975). Original 6 pp. typescript from Wodehouse’s autobiographical 1956 publication “America, I Like You”, being the chapter headed “Life among the Armadillos”, single-sided, the last page signed clearly in ink by Wodehouse, on American size letter paper (8 x 11 in) The autobiographical “America, I Like You” was published by Simon and Schuster in New York in 1956. Unsurprisingly the UK edition, published later that year, was re-titled “Over Seventy, An Autobiography with Digressions”.

(6) £200-300

568 Woolf (Virginia). The Waves, 1st ed., 1931, one or two spots, original purple cloth, d.j. designed by Vanessa Bell, spine slightly toned with minor fraying at head, 8vo Kirkpatrick A16a.

(1)

Lot 572

(25)

£300-400

571 Woolf (Virginia). Mrs. Dalloway, 1st ed., 1925, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, dampstains to covers, 8vo, together with A Room of One’s Own, 3rd impression, 1929

£300-400

569 Woolf (Virginia). The Voyage Out, 1st ed., 1915, pubs. ads. at rear, one or two leaves loose, occasional spotting, front hinge tender, original cloth, joints splitting, some wear at spine ends and edges, 8vo, together with Night and Day, 1st ed., 1919, one or two tears and light spots, front hinge breaking, original cloth, some wear to spine, 8vo, together with three others including The Years, 1st ed., 1937 and James Joyce’s Ulysses, 2 vols., 1st Odyssey Press ed. revised by Stuart Gilbert, 1932 (vol. I wrappers detached), 8vo

(2)

£150-200

572 Woolf (Leonard). Stories of the East, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1921, bookplate removed from front endpaper, original pictorial wrapper in good condition, one or two small creases, 8vo 300 copies printed. Woolmer 16.

(1)

Provenance: Barbara Hiles, 1891-1984 (owner signature to The Voyage Out).

Hiles studied art at the Slade School of Art along with Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson and Dora Carrington, through whom she became a peripheral member of the Bloomsbury Group. She later married Nick Bagenal and her inscription appears on the endpaper of Night and Day as being the recipient of the book from Virginia Woolf before passing it on to her friend Sheila Dickinson.

(6) £300-400

£400-600

573 Yates (Dornford). Adele and Co., 1st ed., [1931], original cloth, d.j., short closed tear to upper panel, 8vo, together with This Publican, 1st ed., 1936, faint marginal waterstain, original d.j., a few light spots and short closed tears, 8vo (2)

£100-150

574 Yeats (W.B.). The Trembling of the Veil, 1st ed., 1922, untrimmed, orig. two-tone boards, rubbed and some wear, 8vo Limited edition 308/1000, signed by the author.

(1)

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£300-500

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1. The Seller warrants to the Auctioneer and the buyer that he is the true owner or is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims.

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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.

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.

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