Rackham (Arthur)The Allies' Fairy Book, nd. [1916], Heinemann/Lippincott, numbered limited edition of 525, signed by the artist, twelve tipped-in coloured plates, original cloth (hinge broken between p120/1);Lang (Andrew), The Princess Nobody, a Tale of Fairy Land., Longmans Green, colour illustrations after Richard Doyle, (loose pages) original pictorial boards (worn) (2) £200 - 300
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Rackham (Arthur)The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1909, Constable, 4to., numbered limited edition of 750, signed by Arthur Rackham, forty tipped-in colour plates, each with printed tissue guard, original vellum gilt (some pages loose, some damp staining);Fouque (de la Motte), Undine, 1909, Heinemann, 4to., numbered limited edition of 1000, signed by Arthur Rackham, fifteen tipped-in colour plates after Rackham, each with tipped-in tissue guard, original vellum gilt (pages loose, damp staining);Shakespeare (William), A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 1908, Heinemann, forty tipped-in colour pates after Arthur Rackham, (the majority loose), each with printed tissue guard, original cloth (cloth worn and stained, endpapers damp stained) £300 - 500
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Rackham (Arthur)Wagner (Richard), The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, 1910, Heinemann/Doubleday, numbered limited edition of 1150, signed by Arthur Rackham, 34 tipped-in colour plates, each with printed tissue guard, full vellum (not the publisher's vellum);Swinburne (Algernon Charles), The Springtide of Life, Poems of Childhood, 1918, Heinemann, 8 colour plates after Arthur Rackham, original cloth (2) £80 - 120
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Dasent (George Webbe) transl.Norse Fairy Tales..., 1910, Freemantle and Lippincott, colour plates as called for, original pictorial cloth, dust wrapper (dust wrapper worn and chipped)[Sold on behalf of a charity] £100 - 200
JAMES GILLRAY |
Gillray (James)The Works of James Gillray from the Original Plates with the Addition of Many Subjects not before Collected, 1847, Bohn, large folio, portrait frontis, 582 plates, a.e.g., half morocco gilt £1500 - 2000
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Gillray (James)Light Expelling Darkness_Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations ..., April 30th, 1795, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 347mm x 446mm, restoration to lower corner with loss, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8644] £300 - 400
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Gillray (James)Search-Night_or_State-Watchmen .., March 20th, 1798, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 260mm x 362mm, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount [BM9189] £500 - 700
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Gillray (James)The Death of Admiral Lord Nelson ..., Dec. 23rd 1805, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, impression 385mm x 278mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10442] £1000 - 1500
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Gillray (James)Uncorking Old Sherry, March 10th 1805, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, margins cropped inside plate impression, sheet 358mm x 254mm, restoration to upper left edge, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10375] £600 - 800
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Gillray (James)The Gout, May 14th 1799, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 257mm x 358mm, some spotting, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM9448] £2500 - 3500
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Gillray (James)The Chancellor of the Inquisition marking the Incorrigibles, March 19th 1793, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 350mm x 250mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8316] £600 - 800
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Gillray (James)Pacific Overtures_or_ a flight from St Clouds_"over the Water to Charley'', April 5th, 1806, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 295mm x 388mm, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10549] £600 - 800
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Gillray (James)The Union Club .., Jan'y 21st 1801, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 302mm x 442mm, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM9699] £500 - 700
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Gillray (James)Patriotic Regeneration_viz_Parliament Reform'd, a la Francoise ..., nd. [1795 in ink to lower margin], hand-coloured etching, margins cropped inside plate impression, sheet 305mm x 415mm, chip to right side, slight loss of text to lower corner, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8624] £500 - 700
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Gillray (James)The Lover's Dream. A Thousand Virtues seem to lackey her ...., Jan'y 24th 1795, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, impression 320mm x 425mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8610] £500 - 700
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Gillray (James)Orange Jumper, March 6th 1809, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 277mm x 210mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM11241] £250 - 350
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Anon [Gillray (James)]The Royal Lounger, nd [26th June 1804], hand-coloured etching, impression 250mm x 201mm, narrow margins, minor restoration to lower corner, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10296] £100 - 200
LITERATURE |
'Several Hands'The Court of Atalantis, containing A Four Years History of that Famous Island ..., 1714, recent half calf (restoration to gutter margin of title and A2;Rack (Edmund), Essays, Letters, and Poems, 1781, advert leaf, half calf (some wear);Miniature, The Book of Common Prayer, nd., OUP and Henry Frowde, 128mo., frontis, a.e.g., morocco with embossed silver upper board depicting cherubs after Reynolds (3) £100 - 200
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O'Brian (Patrick)Master and Commander, 1970, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £1.50, 30s.) £200 - 300
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O'Brian (Patrick)The Mauritius Command, 1977, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £3.95);idem, The Fortune of War, 1979, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £5.50);with ex-library copies of H.M.S. Surprise and The Surgeons's Mate (4) £100 - 200
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Shelley (Percy Bysshe)The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1839, Moxon, four volumes, frontis, a.e.g., morocco gilt extra by Roger de Coverly & Sons;Shakespeare [William], [The Works of ..,], 1925-7, O.U.P., three volumes, India paper, a.e.g., half morocco by Riviere;with fourteen others (21) £200 - 300
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Burton (Robert)The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1997-2000, Clarendon Press, four volumes, dust wrappers;Kipling (Rudyard), The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volumes 1 to 6, 2004, Palgrave, six volumes, edited by Thomas Pinney, dust wrappers;Woodforde (James), The Diary of a Country Parson, 1968, Clarendon Press, five volumes, dust wrappers (spines faded);London (Jack), The Letters of Jack London, 1988, Stanford, 3 volumes, original cloth, slipcase;Owen (Wilfred), Collected Letters, 1967, OUP, dust wrapper;with eight volumes from James Lees-Milne's series of Diaries £300 - 500
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Williams (Ralph Vaughan)A small archive of manuscript and other material sent by the composer in the late forties and early fifties to Marjorie Jordan, a Dorking Veterinary Surgeon and musician, comprising;Two 1 page A.Ls.S.;Seven 1 page T.Ls.S.;Five 'postcards' with short A.L.S. or T.L.S.;A large portrait photograph with signature to lower margin;Three programmes, one signed by R.V.W.;1 page A.L.S. from Adeline Vaughan Williams;One A.L.S., one T.L.S. and one inscribed Christmas card from Zebedee Vaughan Williams (the family cat);early letters are fully signed, then initialled and then the later letters are signed 'Uncle Ralph'. £200 - 400
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ComposersA collection of autographs by classical composers and musicians, collected by Marjorie Jordan, comprising;Two 1 page A.Ls.S. from Pablo Casals;A.L.S. on portrait postcard from George Henschel;A 'programme' signed by Jean Sebelius;A collection of directly signed autographs in an album, 1925 onwards, including; Carl Fuchs (with two bars of music); Pablo Casals (with inscription); Nicolai Malko; Arthur Bliss (with two bars of music); Leonard Isaacs (with two bars of music); and many more;A framed print with five images of Brahms conducting, ?printed signature below (framed and glazed) £100 - 200
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Forster (E.M.)One page autograph letter signed, dated 18th October, 1946, in which Forster requests a visit from Miss Jordan (Forster's vet) to put his old cat to sleep. He does not want to upset the cat with a journey to Dorking and asks the vet to bring 'the necessary apparatus', (some wear to horizontal fold) £100 - 200
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Rendell (Ruth)Vanity Dies Hard, 1966, John Long, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 15s.) £100 - 200
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Greene (Graham)The Man Within, 1929, Heinemann, first edition, dust wrapper (worn, unpriced) £400 - 600
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Deighton (Len)The Ipcress File, 1962, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s);idem, Horse Under Water, 1963, Jonathan Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s);Deighton (Len) et al, The Assassination of President Kennedy, nd., Jackdaw, contents as called for, original folder;with five others (8) £200 - 400
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Lessing (Doris)The Golden Notebook, 1962, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper;idem, The Doris Lessing Reader, 1989, Cape, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper (2) £100 - 200
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Murdoch (Iris)Sartre, Romantic Rationalist, 1953, Bowes, first edition, dust wrapper;idem, Reynolds Stone .., 1981, Warren, limited edition signed by the author, original wraps;Spark (Muriel), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961, Macmillan, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 13s 6d);Francis (Dick), Nerve, 1964, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s);with eleven others (15) £200 - 400
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Austen (Jane)[The Works of Jane Austen], 1907-9, Dent & Dutton, six volumes, colour plates after C.E. Brock as called for, t.e.g., half calf by Riviere £100 - 200
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Gibbon (Edward)The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1781-8, six volumes (vol. 1, 4th edition; vols. 2 & 3, 2nd editions, the remainder first editions), portrait frontis, 3 maps (2 folding), calf (re-backed, one spine head pulled) £300 - 500
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Tolkien (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, comprising;The Fellowship of the Ring, 1963, thirteenth impression;The Two Towers, 1962, ninth impression;The Return of the Ring, 1963, George, Allen & Unwin, tenth impression;George, Allen & Unwin, dust wrappers, original slipcase £80 - 120
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Rowling (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003, stated 'First Edition', inscribed 'J.K. Rowling' on title page (no provenance available), dust wrapper ('adult' version, priced £16.99) £80 - 120
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Orwell (George)Inside the Whale, and other Essays, 1940, Victor Gollancz, first edition, dust wrapper (not price clipped - priced 7/6 on spine) £500 - 800
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Thomas (Dylan)18 Poems, 1934, Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop, first edition, first issue, black cloth with gilt lettering to flat spine, dust wrapper (priced 3/6 net, foxing) [Rolph, B.1.a] £500 - 800
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Hughes (Ted)Crow, From the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970, Faber and Faber, signed by the author to front free endpaper, (tear to half title), dust jacket (priced £1.00) £150 - 200
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Scott (Walter)Scott's Poetical Works, 1867-70, six volumes, a.e.g., Mauchline Tartan-Ware bindings (Lorne, Prince Charlie and Stuart), velvet lined presentation Stuart tartan box with gilt bust on-lay. £100 - 200
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Murdoch (Iris)The Flight from the Enchanter, 1956, Chatto and Windus, first edition, dust wrapper (worn, priced 15s)[Sold on behalf of a charity] £40 - 60
TRANSPORT AND MILITARY HISTORY |
Parrett (Cliff) & Chhina (Rana)Indian Order of Merit, Historical Records 1837-1947, Volume One, 1837 - 1860, 2010, Tom Donovan, dust wrapper, slipcase;Omissi (David), The Sepoy and the Raj, The Indian Army 1860-1940, 1994, dust wrapper;with six volumes from the Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War (8) £100 - 200
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Sandes (E.W.C.)The Military Engineer in India, 1933-5, two volumes, plates and maps as called for, original cloth;Verner (Rudolph), The Battle Cruisers at the Action of the Falkland Islands, 1920, 4to., portrait frontis, plates as called for, original cloth;with five others relating to the Survey of India (8) £100 - 200
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Playfair (I.S.O.) et alHistory of the Second World War, The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume I to Volume VI parts 1 and 3, 1964 - 1988, seven volumes, some ex-library, dust wrappers;Falls (Cyril) et al, History of the Great War, Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine, 1928-30, five volumes including two map cases;Preston R.M.P., The Desert Mounted Corps ..., 1917-1918, 1921, original cloth;with two others (15) £100 - 200
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Lunardi (Vincent)An Account of the first Aerial Voyage in England, in a Series of Letters to his Guardian..., 1784, portrait frontis, two folding plates, signed by author on half title, printed ticket to Mr Lunardi's Ascension, initialled by the author, held in rear pocket, recent calf £600 - 1000
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Anon. [Manning (Frederic)]The Middle Parts of Fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916, 1929, Piazza Press, two volumes, numbered limited edition of 520, original cloth £200 - 400
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Marder (Arthur J.)From The Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, 1961-1970, O.U.P., first editions, folding maps, original cloth £50 - 80
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AND LOCAL HISTORY |
Burton (John)Monasticon Eboracense and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire ..., 1758, folio, 405mm x 260mm, 3 folding maps (one torn at fold), a.e.g., morocco (worn, board detached) [Boyne 2]Travis-Cook (J.), Notes relative to the Manor of Myton, 1890, large 4to., ltd. edition of 30 copies on hand-made paper, t.e.g., half morocco (edges worn);Wildridge (T. Tindall), Old and New Hull ..., 1889, 4to., plates, t.e.g., morocco-backed wooden boards from the 'Grammer School Oak, 1583' (joint split);Gent (Thomas), Gent's History of Hull .., 1869, 4to., folding plates, original cloth;Whitaker (Thomas Dunham), History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York, 1823, folio, lacking engraved plates, half morocco (re-backed);with four others (9) £100 - 200
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Nichols (John)The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester ..., 1795, 1795, 1798, 1800, 1804, 1807, 1811, 1815, four volumes bound as eight, engraved plates, calf (rubbed, boards detached from volume 8), housed in purpose built 'Cotswold School' walnut glazed book cabinet, made at Leicester University c1950, (cf Edward Barnsley) £1600 - 2000
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Dugdale (William)The Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1730, Second edition, two volumes, folio, portrait frontis, maps and plates as called for, early sprinkled calf (joints cracking), preserved in purpose made carrying case [Upcott p 1259-62] £400 - 600
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Scot (Walter)A True History of Several Honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot, in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk and others Adjacent ..., 1776, 4to., recent quarter leather;'A Lady' [Holmes (Augusta MacGregor)], A Ride on Horseback to Florence through France and Switzerland, Described in a Series of Letters .., 1842, John Murray, two volumes, original cloth (restored/worn spine)Grainger (Francis) & Collingwood (W.G.), The Register and Records of Holm Cultram, 1929, original cloth;Forrester (Colin D.I.G.), The Forresters, A Lowland Clan and its Lands, 1997, limited edition of 100, signed by the author, dust wrapper;with a small quantity of others (qty) £200 - 400
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YorkshireA large collection of books on Yorkshire history and topography, particularly the Dales, nineteenth and twentieth century (qty) £400 - 600
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