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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 3rd August 2011 | Time: | 12:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am |
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| Page: | 1 2 3 4 5 | ||
| Auction Lots - Page 2 | |||
| 51 | |||
| McGill (Donald) - Original Artwork "Look at that - pure French!", "Well - French!!", nd., signed watercolour, 200mm x 150mm, manuscript title to verso, mounted £200 - 300 |
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| 52 | |||
| Miniature Books Mills (Alfred), Pictures of English History in Miniature, 1811, 2 vols., 96 engraved plates, id., Pictures of Roman History in Miniature, 1809, 48 engraved plates; each with pages 60mm x 55mm, red roan (3) £80 - 120 |
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| 53 | |||
| Bysh (John) publ. The World in Miniature; or Panorama of the Costumes, Manners, & Custom, of All Nations, 1825, John Bysh, 22 (of 23) hand-coloured plates, quarter roan [the title page states 24 plates but the Bodleian library gives 23 plates as being correct] £40 - 60 |
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| 54 | |||
| Ransome (Arthur) Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, nd. [1919], numbered ltd. edition of 250 signed by the illustrator Thomas Mackenzie, 12 tipped-in colour plates with titled tissue guards, original cloth gilt (cloth soiled, spine gilt faded) [Hammond A19a] £500 - 800 |
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| 55 | |||
| Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1999, Bloomsbury deluxe edition, first impression, original cloth (inscription to front free endpaper); id., Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, Bloomsbury deluxe edition, first impression, original cloth; id., Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999, Bloomsbury deluxe edition, second impression, original cloth (3) £100 - 200 |
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| 56 | |||
| Rolleston (T.W.) Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail, 1912, Harrap, 16 tipped-in colour plates after Willy Pogany, t.e.g., original green suede gilt with yapp edges (binding weak); id., The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, nd., Harrap, 8 tipped-in colour plates after Willy Pogany, t.e.g., original green suede gilt with yapp edges (binding weak) £100 - 200 |
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| 57 | |||
| Lassalle (L.) Costumes Suisses des 22 Cantons, Dessines par L. Lassalle, nd., Geneve, S. Morel, 24 tinted litho. plates with hand-colouring, original printed paper boards with ?later cloth spine £100 - 200 |
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| 58 | |||
| Turner (J.M.W.) The Turner Gallery, A Series of Sixty Engravings from the Principal Works of Joseph Mallord William Turner, with a Memoir and Illustrative Text by Ralph Nicholson Wornum, 1875, large folio, portrait frontis and 60 engraved plates, on India paper laid down on larger card (restoration to some card edges, foxing, foisty odour), a.e.g., half morocco £100 - 150 LITERATURE |
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| 59 | |||
| Sassoon (Siegfried) The Old Huntsman, and other Poems, 1917, first edition, errata slip, original boards (spine tanned) £50 - 100 |
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| 60 | |||
| Homer (Translated by Alexander Pope) The Iliad of Homer, 1743, 6 vols., portrait, title/frontis, 2 folding maps, 2 folding plates, 25 single page plates, with The Odyssey of Homer, 1725-6, 5 vols., 24 plates, small 8vo., uniform contemporary calf (worn, joints cracked, board detached) [note; the 4to. edition of the Odyssey calls for a portrait, no portrait is present in this 8vo. copy] £100 - 200 |
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| 61 | |||
| Autograph Material A small collection of letters and cropped signatures, fifteen items including a cropped signature of C.L. Dodgson £40 - 60 |
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| 62 | |||
| Pepys (Samuel) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1904-00-03, George Bell, 10 vols., edited by Henry B. Wheatley, t.e.g., half calf by Bickers £150 - 200 |
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| 63 | |||
| Evelyn (John) Diary of John Evelyn, 1906, 4 vols., edited by William Bray & Henry B. Wheatley, t.e.g., half morocco by Zaehnsdorf £100 - 150 |
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| 64 | |||
| Anon. [Lockhart (John Gibson)] Reginal Dalton, 1823, 3 vols., Newby Hall calf; Kingsley (Charles), Two Years Ago, 1857, 3 vols., original cloth; Clarke (Adam), Detached Pieces, 1844, 3 vols., original cloth; Holcroft (Thomas), Memoirs of ..., 1816, 3 vols., quarter calf; Holmes (Oliver Wendell), Breakfast Table novels, nd., Dent, 3 vols., half morocco; Anon., The Clubs of London .., 1828, 2 vols., half calf (17) £200 - 400 |
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| 65 | |||
| Rushdie (Salman) Grimus, A Novel, 1975, first edition, dust wrapper; Adams (Douglas), The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979, first edition, dust wrapper; id., The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 1980, first edition, dust wrapper; Pullman (Philip), The Subtle Knife, 1997, first edition, dust wrapper; Heller (Joseph), Catch-22, 1962, first edition, 2nd state dust wrapper; le Carre (John), The Looking Glass War, 1965, first edition, signed, dust wrapper; Gash (Jonathan), The Judas Pair, 1977, first edition, dust wrapper; Lewis (C.S.), The Screwtape Letters, 1942, first edition, cloth (8) £200 - 400 |
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| 66 | |||
| Twain (Mark) A Tramp Abroad, 1880, Chatto & Windus, first single vol. edition, Aug 1880 catalogue, original cloth; id., A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, 1889, Chatto & Windus, Oct 1889 catalogue, original cloth; id., The £1,000,000 Bank-Note etc., 1893, Chatto & Windus, first edition, March 1893 catalogue, original cloth; with a small quantity of others (qty) £100 - 200 |
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| 67 | |||
| Milne (A.A.) The Secret and Other Stories, 1929, signed by the author, original cloth £80 - 120 |
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| 68 | |||
| Kipling (Rudyard) The Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling, 1912, Hodder & Stoughton numbered edition de luxe of 500, handmade paper, signed by the publisher and the printer, t.e.g., original limp vellum with yapp fore-edge £100 - 150 |
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| 69 | |||
| Ch[ou]x (J.) Le Petit Citateur, Notes Erotiques et Pornographiques .., 1881, numbered ltd. edition of 300, half morocco £50 - 100 |
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| 70 | |||
| Wilde (Oscar) The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1908 [1910], Paris; Charles Carrington, first illustrated edition with publisher's note re publication year tipped in, dust wrapper £200 - 400 |
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| 71 | |||
| Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol .., 1843, 3rd edition, 4 hand-coloured plates, a.e.g., original cloth; id., The Chimes, A Goblin Story .., 1845 [1844], first edition, first state engraved title, all issue points present [Smith p 35], a.e.g., original cloth; id., The Cricket on the Hearth .., 1846 [1845], first edition, second state advertisement leaf, all issue points present except those described for p. (iv) & 79-5, (both of which only occur in 'some copies' of the first edition) [Smith p. 42], a.e.g., original cloth (joints split); id., The Battle of Life, A Love Story, 1846, first edition, fourth state engraved title, over half the issue points present [Smith p. 63], a.e.g., original cloth; (4) [Sold on behalf of a charity] £300 - 500 |
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| 72 | |||
| Francis (Dick) Nerve, 1964, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s.) [sold on behalf of a Hospice] £80 - 120 |
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| 73 | |||
| Thomas (Edward) Last Poems, 1918, Selwyn & Blount, first edition, boards; id., The Heart of England, 1906, Dent, colour plates, t.e.g., original decorative cloth; James (Norman G. Brett) et al., On Edward Thomas, 1995, Demeter Press, numbered ltd. edition of 110, original cloth backed boards; with a small quantity of others by or about Thomas (qty) £50 - 100 |
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| 74 | |||
| Wells (H.G.) A large quantity of books by or about H.G. Wells, including first editions (qty) £200 - 400 |
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| 75 | |||
| Wells (H.G.) The Time Machine, An Invention, 1895, Heinemann, UK first edition, ? impression, 8 titles of Pioneer series to verso of half title, 16 leaf (32pp.) catalogue to rear, original oatmeal buckram with purple lettering and sphinx to upper board [Wells 4] £300 - 500 |
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| 76 | |||
| Wells (H.G.) The Wonderful Visit, 1895, Dent, UK first edition, lacking 'r' from 'reader' (p. 198), t.e.g., red cloth with gilt angel by Rackham to upper board [Wells 5]; id., The Stolen Bacillus, 1895, Methuen, first edition, 16 leaf (32pp) catalogue to rear (dated Sept 1895), original cloth navy blue cloth with gilt design (re-backed with original back-strip laid down, later endpapers) [Wells 7] (2) £200 - 300 |
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| 77 | |||
| Wells (H.G.) The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1896, Heinemann, first edition, 17 leaf (33pp) catalogue to rear, original pictorial cloth with publisher's blindstamped device to rear (restoration to spine, library stamp to lower spine with pastedown label) [Wells 8]; id., The Wheels of Chance, 1896, Dent, first edition, ex library with stamps, original cloth (grubby, label shaded) [Wells 9]; id., When the Sleeper Wakes, 1899, Harper & Brothers, first edition, frontis, original red cloth [Wells 15]; id., The First Men in the Moon, 1901, Newnes, UK first edition, black endpapers, original dark blue cloth (lacking rear free endpaper) [Wells 18]; with three others (7) £100 - 200 |
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| 78 | |||
| Wells (H.G.) The Invisible Man, 1897, Arthur Pearson, first edition, page 1 numbered '2', 2 page catalogue to rear, original cloth (spine streaked and a little faded) [Wells 11] £100 - 200 |
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| 79 | |||
| Wells (H.G.) The War of the Worlds, 1898, Heinemann, first edition, 8 leaf (16 p.p.) catalogue to rear (dated Autumn 1897), original grey cloth (free endpapers possibly replaced) [Wells 14] £100 - 200 |
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| 80 | |||
| Barrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, nd. [1911], Hodder and Stoughton, first edition, frontis, title and eleven further plates, a previous owner's name dated 1911 to front endpaper, original cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white lettering and decoration to upper board £100 - 200 |
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| 81 | |||
| Smalley (Peter) HMS Expedient, A Sea Story, 2005, id., Port Royal, 2006, id., Barbary Coast, 2007, id., The Gathering Storm, 2009, id., The Pursuit, 2010, first edition, first impressions, each flat signed, some dated and inscribed, each with dust wrapper; Stockwin (Julian), Kydd, 2001, id., Artemis, 2002, id., Sea Flower, 2003, with eight others by the author, each a signed first impression, some with limitation numbers, dust wrappers; Beard (G.S.), Mr Midshipman Fury, 2006, first edition, first impression, signed and numbered, dust wrapper; id., Lieutenant Fury, 2007, signed, dust wrapper; with four others (22) £100 - 200 |
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| 82 | |||
| Scarrow (Simon) Under the Eagle, 2000; The Eagle's Conquest, 2001; When the Eagle Hunts, 2002; The Eagle and the Wolves, 2003; The Eagle's Prey, 2004; The Eagle's Prophecy, 2005; The Eagle in the Sand, 2006; Centurion, 2007, The Gladiator, 2009, Young Bloods, 2006, The Generals, 2007, Fire and Sword, 2009, The Fields of Death, 2010, first editions, first impressions, all bar the first title are flat-signed by the author (one dated), clean examples, free of inscriptions, complete with dust wrappers (13) £400 - 600 |
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| 83 | |||
| Donachie (David) On A Making Tide, 2000, signed, id., Nelson, Breaking the Line, 2002, id., By the Mast Divided, 2004, signed, id., A Shot Rolling Ship, 2005, id., An Awkward Commission, 2006, signed, id., A Flag of Truce, 2008, signed, id., The Admirals' Game, 2008, signed, each a first edition, first impression in dust wrapper; Lunn (Jonathan), Killigrew R.N., 2000, id., Killigrew and the Golden Dragon, 2001, id., Killigrew and the Incorrigibles, 2002, id., Killigrew and the North-West Passage, 2003, id., Killigrew's Run, 2004, id., Killigrew and the Sea Devil, 2005, first edition, first impressions, the last title signed, dust wrappers (13) £100 - 200 |
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| 84 | |||
| Mallinson (Allan) A Close Run Thing, 1999, id., The Nizam's Daughters, 2000, id., A Regimental Affair, 2001, id., A Call to Arms, 2002, id., The Sabre's Edge, 2003, id., Rumours of War, 2004, id., An Act of Courage, 2005, id., Company of Spears, 2006, id., Man of War, 2007, id., Warrior, 2007, all but first volume signed, each a first edition, first impression, in dust wrapper; Humphreys (C.C.), The French Executioner, 2002, id., Blood Ties, 2003, id., Jack Absolute, 2004, id., The Blooding of Jack Absolute, 2005, id., Absolute Honour, 2006, id., Vlad, 2009, each a first edition, first impression, each signed, dust wrappers to all but last (as issued); David (Saul), Zulu Hart, 2009, first edition, first impression, signed, dust wrapper (17) £100 - 200 |
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| 85 | |||
| Larsson (Stieg) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2008, Maclehose Press first edition, first impression, dust wrapper; id., The Girl who Played with Fire, 2009, Maclehose Press first edition, first impression, dust wrapper; id., The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009, Maclehose Press first edition, first impression, dust wrapper; with the Millennium Trilogy boxed set, 2010, four vols including Afterword, first impressions thus, original cloth, poster of jacket designs, slipcase (7) £300 - 500 |
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| 86 | |||
| Iggulden (Conn) Emperor, The Gates of Rome, 2003 (signed, wrap-around), another copy (unsigned); id., Emperor, The Death of Kings, 2004, (wrap-around); id., Emperor, The Field of Swords, 2005 (signed); id., Emperor, The Gods of War, 2006 (signed); id., Wolf of the Plains, 2007 (signed, prospectus); id., Lords of the Bow, 2008 (signed, with introductory paperback); id., Bones of the Hills, 2008; id., Empire of Silver, 2010; all first edition, first impressions, with dust wrappers; Sidebottom (Harry), Warrior of Rome - Fire in the East, 2008; King of Kings, 2009; Lion of the Sun, 2010; first editions, first impressions, each signed and inscribed by the author, dust jackets; with seventeen others, first impressions in dust wrappers, many signed and inscribed by the authors (29) £200 - 300 |
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| 87 | |||
| Sansom (C.J.) Dissolution, 2003, Macmillan, wrap-around; id., Dark Fire, 2004; id., Sovereign, 2006; id., Revelation, 2008; id., Heartstone, 2010; Macmillan first edition, first impressions, each signed and with dust jacket; Clements (Rory), Martyr, 2009, first edition, first impression, signed, dust wrapper; with sixteen others, first editions in dust jackets, many signed (22) £100 - 200 |
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| 88 | |||
| Severin (Tim) Viking - Odinn's Child, 2005; id., Sworn Brother, 2005; id., King's Man, 2005; id., Corsair, 2007; first edition, first impressions, each signed, dust jackets; Hume (M.K.), King Arthur - Dragon's Child, 2009, first edition, dust wrapper; Kristian (Giles), Raven - Blood Eye, 2009; id., Sons of Thunder, 2010 (signed), first editions, dust wrappers; Low (Robert), The Whale Road, 2007; id., The Wolf Sea, 2008; id., The White Raven, 2008; id., The Prow Beast, 2010; first editions, each signed and inscribed, some sketches, dust wrappers; with eleven others (22) £100 - 200 |
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| 89 | |||
| Heaney (Seamus) Electric Light, 2001, first edition, first impression, signed, dust wrapper; McGee (James), Ratcatcher, 2006, id., Resurrectionist, 2007, id., Rapscallion, 2008, first impressions, signed, dust wrappers; Goodwin (Jason), The Janissary Tree, 2006, id., The Snake Stone 2007, id., The Bellini Card 2008, first impressions, signed and inscribed by the author, dust wrappers; Wilson (Laura), Stratton's War, 2008, first impression, signed and inscribed, dust wrapper; Pepper (Andrew), The Revenge of Captain Paine, 2007, first impression, signed and inscribed, dust wrapper; with forty-five others (54) £200 - 400 |
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| 90 | |||
| Davis (Lindsey) The Silver Pigs, 1989, Sidgwick & Jackson, first edition, dust wrapper; id., Shadows in Bronze, 1990, Sidgwick & Jackson, first edition, dust wrapper; id., Venus in Copper, 1991, Hutchinson, first edition, dust wrapper; with the seventeen other Falco novels, as well as The Falco Companion and Rebels and Traitors, all British first editions. A Dying Light in Corduba and all volumes from A Body in the Bath House onwards signed by the author, dust wrappers (22) £200 - 400 |
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| 91 | |||
| Autograph Letters An extensive collection of letters, predominantly a.l.s., as well as some cropped signatures and ephemera, approximately 180 items, late 19th century to early 20th century, with an emphasis on literary and theatrical figures, including H. Belloc (2 p. a.l.s.), J.M. Barrie (2 p. a.l.s.), Edward Burne Jones (1 p. a.l.s.), Arthur Conan Doyle (1 p. a.l.s.), J.K. Jerome (1 p. a.l.s.) and Tolstoy (excised signature), over 100 items tipped in to an album, the remainder loose £300 - 500 |
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| 92 | |||
| Amis (Kingsley) Lucky Jim, 1953, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper (priced 12/6, back-strip faded under wrapper), with 1 page t.l.s. loosely inserted, - in which Amis comments on Welsh cricket and black tie dinners £2500 - 3000 |
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| 93 | |||
| Fleming (Ian) Dr No, 1958, Cape, first edition, original black/brown cloth with female silhouette to upper board, dust wrapper (priced 13s.6d., stain to rear) £200 - 400 |
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| 94 | |||
| Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, 1959, Cape, first edition, signed on title page by three 'Bond girls', Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman and Tania Mallett, original black cloth with skull and gold coin eyes to upper board, dust wrapper (priced 15s.) £500 - 600 |
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| 95 | |||
| Perez-Reverte (Arturo) The Flanders Panel, 1994, Harvill, first English language edition, first impression, dust wrapper £200 - 300 |
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| 96 | |||
| Le Carre (John) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 1963, Gollancz, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 18/-, some sympathetic restoration) £200 - 300 |
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| 97 | |||
| Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, Cape, first edition, title page signed by Britt Ekland 'Mary Goodnight', black cloth, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); id., You Only Live Twice, 1964, Cape, first edition, second impression, black cloth with Japanese lettering, dust wrapper (priced 16s.); id., Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 1966, Cape, first edition, brown cloth, price-clipped dust wrapper; with one other (4) £100 - 200 |
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| 98 | |||
| Forester (C.S.) Lord Hornblower, 1946, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 9/6); id., Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, 1950, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 9s.6d.); id., Lieutenant Hornblower, 1952, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 12s.6d.); id., Hornblower and the Atropos, 1953, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 12s.6d.) signed by it's artist Val Biro on front flap; id., Hornblower and the Hotspur, 1962, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); with a quantity of others (qty) £100 - 200 MILITARY AND TRANSPORT |
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| 99 | |||
| Wilson (H.W.) With the Flag to Pretoria, A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900, 1900-01, 2 vols., with id., After Pretoria: The Guerilla War, 1902, 2 vols., 4to., original cloth (4) £50 - 80 |
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| 100 | |||
| Searle (Mark) Turnpikes and Toll-Bars, nd., 2 vols., 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 500, a.e.g., original half morocco £100 - 200 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 3rd August 2011 | Time: | 12:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am |
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