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A. E. Coppard - Collection of Poems published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1928, inscribed to front “To H.E. Bates with every good wish...” from the author and dated 28th Oct. 1928 and with letter to H.E. Bates dated 26.10.28 from A.E. Coppard which he sent to H.E. Bates with a copy of the book £100-150
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Bernard Montorgeuil - “Vier Donnerstage” and “Dressur”, editions Bell-Rose, Rotterdam, with lithographs by the author of bondage scenes (two volumes in German text with cloth bindings - one damaged) £100-150
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H.E. Bates - “The Darling Buds of May”, first edition published by Michael Joseph, London 1958, with original dust wrapper, and sold with letter from W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) printed with address for Villa Mauresque, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, and dated 9th June addressed to the author as “My dear Bates” and thanking him for a copy of the book £80-120
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John Pudney - Five books, mostly poems and mostly signed and inscribed “To Madge and H.E. Bates £100-150
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Eleven “Rupert Bear” annuals from 1958-1968, published by Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd £120-160
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John Ogilby - Facsimile - “Britannia Volume I: Or An Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales.....” - Bound set of coloured road maps published by Alexander Duckham & Co Ltd, 1939, and printed by Waterloo & Sons Ltd, London and Dunstable £80-120
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Arthur G. Grimwade - “London Goldsmiths 1697-1837 - Their Marks and Lives”, published by Faber & Faber, 1976, and Charles J. Jackson - “An Illustrated History of English Plate”, in two volumes - volume 1 only, published by Country Life, London 1911 (with half red leather and cloth binding - rubbed) £30-50
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“The Railway Magazine Illustrated”, volumes 1-3 and 5 (1897-1899), printed by The Economic Printing & Publishing Company Ltd., 30 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, EC (four green cloth volumes), and a quantity of books and magazines of railway interest, various £80-120
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A quantity of books and pamphlets on tramways, including - “The Tramways of Kent”, volumes 1 and 2, by “Invicta”, published by The Light Railway Transport League, 64 Grove Avenue, Hanwell, London W7 3ES (1971), and a small quantity of early 20th Century Ward, Locke & Co local gazetteers and various other titles £80-120
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A single Bible page (printed in English) - “Matthews’s Version of the English Bible 1549”, 10.5ins x 6.5ins, and one other single Bible page - “The First Authorised Version” (King James Version of the English Bible) 1614, 14.25ins x 9.25ins, both in moulded and silvered double sided frames and glazed £80-120
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