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Lot 1300Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Bradbury & Evans 1857, together with Bleak House, 1853, both first editions in book form, both rebound with replaced spines, elements of original binding reta...
Unsold
Lot 1301Boccaccio - Decameron, 2 Vols. published Shakespeare Head Press, numbered from a limited edition of 325, full blue morocco
Sold for £150
Lot 1302Ashley Montagu - The Anatomy of Swearing, 1967, in fine modern binding
Sold for £36
Lot 1303Sheridan - The School for Scandal, Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1930, limited edition of 475, quarto
Lot 1304The Rev. Edward Trollope - Illustrations of Ancient Art, selected from objects discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum, published George Bell, London 1854, original blue...
Lot 1305Decorative bindings, including Spencer and his Poetry, 3 vols in 1, 1845; Baring-Gould - Nero, in good full morocco binding by Otto Schultze & Co. Edinburgh, three others
Sold for £65
Lot 1306Grace James - Green Willow and other Japanese fairy tales, illustrated Warwick Goble, 1920, and three other illustrated books
Sold for £100
Lot 1307James Croxall - Fables of Aesop and others, 1792, and various other collectors including good bindings, Ian Fleming, T. S. Eliot etc
Sold for £50
Lot 1308Antiquarian books. (3 boxes)
Sold for £130
Lot 1309W. B. Yeats - The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919 1st edition, blue cloth binding
Sold for £75
Lot 1310Poetry, including T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land, 3rd impression; James Yates - War Lyrics, 1919, David Gascoyne - Poems, illustrated by Graham Sutherland, 1943, various others
Sold for £85
Lot 1311Ezra Pound - Cathay, London, Elkin Mathews, 1915, first edition, original tan wraps printed in black
Sold for £260
Lot 1312Ballet related publications
Lot 1313Children’s illustrated
Sold for £280
Lot 1314New Naturalist - Dartmoor and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, illustrated by Vassos
Lot 1315Collection of literature including first editions
Lot 1316Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love, signed first edition, 1945, with dust jacket and Love in a Cold Climate, 1949 first edition. (2)
Sold for £1,600
Lot 1317Enid Blyton - group of first editions, together with Angela Brazil and Susan Coolidge books. (1 box)
Sold for £210
Lot 1318Collectible books. (2 boxes)
Sold for £110
Lot 1319William Cooke - New Picture of The Isle of Wight, 1808, full calf binding
Sold for £70
Lot 1320Collection of Tolkien related books
Sold for £55
Lot 1321Decorative bindings including book bound in Chinese textiles, also Stories from Dante, illustrated by Evelyn Paul, first American edition of Somerset Maugham - Theatre
Sold for £40
Lot 1322Group of four books including Arthur Rackham illustrated edition of Snowdrop
Sold for £60
Lot 1323Victor Vasarely - Progressions 3
Lot 1324Francesco De Lemene - Dio. Sonetti ed hinni consecrati al vicedio Innocenzo Undecimo pontefice ottimo massimo. Milan (Camillo Corrada) 1684.
Lot 1325Collection of hardback science fiction and fantasy books
Sold for £170
Lot 1326Stephen King, collection of hardbacks, and various other horror, (2 boxes)
Lot 1327Large collection of Terry Pratchett hardback novels
Lot 1328Collection of various fantasy and science fiction hard back novels
Lot 1329Group of antiquarian books
Lot 1330Collection of collectible books, 4 boxes
Lot 1331James Miller - Mahomet the Imposter, 1744, chapbook presented in vellum binding
Lot 1332The Alhamambra by Geoffrey Crayon 1832
Lot 1333George Cheyne - Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion, 1715
Lot 1334The Seasons Thomson, James, London, 1793
Lot 1335J Compton Rickett - The Quickening of Caliban - an early Sci-fi titl...
Sold for £20
Lot 1336Pennant - History and Antiquities of London, 1814.
Lot 1337Collection of collectible books, 6 boxes
Sold for £120
Lot 1338Eugene O'Neill, Lazarus Laughed - 1928, fourth printing signed and with lengthy note from the author to Doctor Edmund Waller, inscribed Paris '29, and another The Great God Brown, 1926 first edi...
Sold for £200
Lot 1339John Mawe - The Linnean system of Conchology, 1823, extensively illustrated with hand coloured prints, marble board ends
Lot 1340George Moore - Aphrodite in Aulis, limited edition, signed by the Author, together with various other publications by George Moore
Lot 1341Betjeman, John - Summoned by Bells, 1960 first edition signed by the author, 'Beaulieu 1961' with dust jacket
Sold for £140
Lot 1342Bartholomew Howlett - A Selection of Views in the County of Lincolnshire, dated in pencil 1797, printed by Bulmer and Co. with hand coloured map, engravings after Girton and others, marbled boar...
Sold for £80
Lot 1343Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party, Verona Press, with illustrations by Marie Laurencin, numbered from an edition of 1200, with dust jacket and slip case
Sold for £180
Lot 1344Album of Victorian cartes de visite portrait photographs, the album with metal clasps and Greek key ornament
Sold for £95
Lot 1345Private Press - group of limited edition publications, including Nonesuch Press - Astrophel and Stella, 675/725; Histories told by Mother Goose, 1925, 276/1250
Sold for £400
Lot 1346Hugh Walpole: Judith Paris; Captain Nicholas; Vanessa; The Fortress, all signed limited large paper editions
Sold for £30
Lot 1347Collectible books, including Plato's Symposium, Fortune Press, signed and limited to 16/175; Tennyson - Idylls of the King, 1859, E.C. Wren - Ulta Pulta; Eden Phillpotts - A Hundred Lyrics, 1930...
Lot 1348Collection of children's books and illustrated
Lot 1349Collection of decorative leather bindings
Sold for £190
Lot 1350Decorative bindings
Lot 1351James Fuller - History of the Holy Warre, 1651, with map, binding deteriorated, together with La Sainte Bible, David Martin, 1742. (2)
Lot 135219th century scrap book, together with a modern Smithsons of Bond Street 'Cellar Book, boxed. (2)
Lot 1353Charles Dickens - Works, 19 vol., the Biographical Edition, plates after the original illustrations, contemporary half-calf
Lot 1354Collection of various collectible books. (4 boxes)
Lot 1355Johann Leonhard Frisch - Dictionnaire des Passages, Leipzig, 1712
Sold for £22
Lot 1356Milbert - Pittoresque a l'Ile-de-France, others
Lot 1357Mervyn Peake - Ride a cock horse and other children’s titles.
Lot 1358Casati - Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha. London & New York, 2 vols., Frederick Warne & Co, 1891.
Lot 1359John Yonge Akerman - Remains of Pagan Saxondom - John Russell Smith, London, 1855, signed and dated by the author.
Lot 1360W. B Tegetmeier - Pheasants for Coverts and Aviaries, 1873 first edi...
Lot 1361Charles Dickens - The Chimes, 1931 edition printed by George W Jones for members of the Limited Editions Club, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, signed by Rackham and numbered 1251/1500
Lot 1362Edgar Allan Poe - The Bells, illustrated Edmund Dulac, Hodder & Stoughton, tooled cloth binding, good clean copy
Lot 1363Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories, 2012 Folio Society, numbered from 1000 copies and signed by the illustrator to etching, Niroot Puttapipat, Folio edition in slip case, as new condition
Lot 1364Frank Brangwyn - Spirit of the Age, Hodder & Stoughton, 1905, restored cloth binding
Lot 1365Two boxes Gollancz thriller and detection books
Lot 1366Shakespeare, the works 15 vols.
Lot 1367Evelyn Waugh - Scoop, 1933 first edition, together with Black Mischief, 1932 first edition, decorative cloth. (2)
Lot 1368Aldous Huxley: ‘Brave New World. A Novel.’, London, Chatto & Windus, 1932, 1st edition, blue cloth
Sold for £90
Lot 1369Messiah, Sacred Oratorio Composed by G.F. Handel, 1741, printed by Button, Whitaker, & Beadnell, leather bound
Lot 1370Large collection of annuals, including Rupert, Western subjects, Dandy, Beano etc. (6 boxes)
Lot 1371A.A. Milne, 1882-1956 and E.H. Shepard, 1879-1976, Winnie the Pooh interest, an ink draft letter from A.A. Milne to E.H. Shepard with suggested inscriptions for the unpublished sketch
Lot 1372A A Milne - House at Pooh Corner, 1928 first edition, together with When We Were Very Young, 1925 thirteenth edition, Now We Are Six, 1927 third edition. (3)
Lot 1373John Betjeman - Summoned by Bells first edition and signed John Major autobiography (2).
Lot 1374W. H. St Hope John - Windsor Castle, an Architectural History, pub. Country Life 1913, Folio - 2 vol.. Red cloth. Illustrated from photographs and coloured prints and a supplementary portfolio o...
Lot 1375Geoffrey Gambado Richard Cobbold) - A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism
Sold for £42
Lot 1376Large collection of annuals
Lot 1377Aesop's Fables, by Sir Roger L'Estrange, 1704 4th edition, in two parts, folio size, marbled board ends
Lot 1378Six volumes- H. M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa
Lot 1379W. Jenkin-Thomas, The Welsh Fairy Book
Lot 1380Collection of books relating to shooting
Lot 1381Large collection of annuals, Beano, Dandy, others. (6 boxes)
Lot 1382Collection of books relating to architecture
Lot 1383Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire, first UK edition 1949, together with various Folio society publications and other books
Lot 1384The Anglers Vade Mecum containing “A Descriptive Account Of The Water Flies…” by W. Carroll printed by George Ramsay and Co, for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburg 1818, 12 coloured plates in...
Lot 1385Collection of original book illustration art
Lot 1386Lawson Wood (1878-1957) original book illustration - The Crab that made the tides, signed, and another by the same hand, with a pen and ink study - David. (3)
Lot 138726 volumes of the Tourists Guide to English Counties 1880's/90's in a mahogany book trough
Lot 1388Birds of the British Isles, 11 volumes, illustrated by George Lodge, 1st edition
Lot 1389Box of old books with decorative bindings
Lot 1390Lord Byron - The Works, published John Murray 1819, 3 vols.
Lot 1391Hugh Thomson (Illustrator), Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer, ornate cloth binding and original box case, together with As you Like it, illustrated by Thomson
Lot 1392The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott. Second edition published in 1816 in 3 volumes, in contemporary quarter calf bindings
Lot 1393Arthur Ransome - Edgar Allan Poe, a critical study, Martin Secker, 1910, cloth ends
Lot 1394Walter Montagu - The Queens Closet Opened.
Lot 1395P.G. Woodhouse - four titles, including A few Quick Ones, first edition. (4)
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