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Sat 20th Feb 2021 -
10:30am
Antique & Collectors Book Sale
This is our first sale catalogue of 2021. Due to the current restrictions, we felt this sale was the best type of sale to return with- welcome to our first ever ‘Rare & Collectable Book Sale’…
Firstly, please note that all lots within this sale catalogue are used and have varying levels of use and age-related wear. However, we can inform that all entries have come from the same vendor, whom, was the owner of an established book shop.
There are some new and remaining alterations that we are making to our sales, they are as follows:
1- There will continue to be no viewing for this sale. Each lot has a description based on the information we have. Furthermore, there are multiple images to accompany each lot (which can be zoomed in on). If there is a question you have (that cannot be answered through the description or images) please contact us via email.
2- The sale will continue to be held from home; however, we will be working with a further reduced workforce. We will be unable to answer phone calls on sale day and therefore ask that if you have a request for a condition report, that these are in by 12pm on Friday 19th and that all commission bids are placed by 7pm on this same date- anything received after these times, will not be accepted.
3- Due to our current reduced workforce and the restrictions, we are working with, we will only be able to pack and send individual books. If you purchase multiple books, you will be required to arrange a courier. Alternatively, if you prefer to collect your winning lot/s in person, we can hold these until restrictions are eased and you are able to do so.
4- Please, please, please only bid on lots that you are certain to pay for within our terms (5 working days on receipt of your invoice). We would be so incredibly grateful for your cooperation with this.
Firstly, please note that all lots within this sale catalogue are used and have varying levels of use and age-related wear. However, we can inform that all entries have come from the same vendor, whom, was the owner of an established book shop.
There are some new and remaining alterations that we are making to our sales, they are as follows:
1- There will continue to be no viewing for this sale. Each lot has a description based on the information we have. Furthermore, there are multiple images to accompany each lot (which can be zoomed in on). If there is a question you have (that cannot be answered through the description or images) please contact us via email.
2- The sale will continue to be held from home; however, we will be working with a further reduced workforce. We will be unable to answer phone calls on sale day and therefore ask that if you have a request for a condition report, that these are in by 12pm on Friday 19th and that all commission bids are placed by 7pm on this same date- anything received after these times, will not be accepted.
3- Due to our current reduced workforce and the restrictions, we are working with, we will only be able to pack and send individual books. If you purchase multiple books, you will be required to arrange a courier. Alternatively, if you prefer to collect your winning lot/s in person, we can hold these until restrictions are eased and you are able to do so.
4- Please, please, please only bid on lots that you are certain to pay for within our terms (5 working days on receipt of your invoice). We would be so incredibly grateful for your cooperation with this.
451 Lots
Lot 333
Three Volumes 'Letters and Literary remains of Edward Fitzgerald, edited by William Aldis Wright- dated 1889.Two Volumes of The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood- published by E.MOXON SON & Co.
Complete Concordance to Miscellaneous writings- Boston, U.S.A Published by Allison V. Stewart- dated 1917..
Estimate: £ 30 - £ 60
Lot 338
A Large quantity of war novels, books and booklets which include: TEE EMM No.1 April 1942 [official use only], Ballads of battle, For the war fund- any soldiers to his son, The drama of 365 days scenes in the great war by Hall Caine, The Northern Garrisons by Eric Linklater, Soldier songs by Patrick Macgill, The Nazi Kultur in Poland, Among those present, Polish Invasion by Ksawery Pruszynski, At the war by Lord Northcliffe. The Prisoners of Mainz by A Waugh, Mr Bunting at War by Robert Greenwood, Rhymes of a red cross man by Robert W. Service, Justice in war time and the road back by Erich Maria Remarque..Hammer: £ 50
Lot 340
A Quantity of John Buchan books which include: Two copies of John Buchan and his world by Janet Adam Smith, A History of English Literature edited by John Buchan, The Kirk in Scotland, Homilies and recreations - 1st edition, Julius Caesar- dated 1932 and The Kings Grace- dated 1935..Estimate: £ 30 - £ 60
Lot 344
A Large quantity of Rudyard Kipling novels and Bibliographies which includes various 1st editions. Titles include Kim, Letters and travels, The years between, The Five Nations, The Seven seas, The Brushwood Boy, Many Inventions, Captains Courageous, Land and sea tales for scouts and guides, Toomai of the elephants, Sea Warfare, 1st edition in French- L'Homme Qui voulut etre roi, France at War & 1st school edition 'A School History of England.Hammer: £ 65
Lot 346
A Selection of various novels which include The Mousewife by Rumer Godden, Meeting at the Sphinx Gabriel Pascal's Production of Bernard Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra, Every Boy's Book, Dagonet the Jester, Amiel's Journey Volume I & II, Mark Rutherford, Prince Recardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of prince Prigio's son, by Andrew Lang, 1st edition Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, The Diary of Pilgrimage by Jerome J. Jerome, By Bog and sea in Donegal by Elizabeth Shane and Tarzan.Hammer: £ 28
Lot 347
A Selection of hardback novels which includesPaul Theroux- The Mosquito Coast, The Consul's File, The Family Arsenal- 1st U.S.A. Edition, Picture Palace and O-zone which is an uncorrected proof.
Also includes The Kidnapped Saint and other stories by B Traven and The Confessions of Nat Turner a novel by William Styron..
Hammer: £ 20
Lot 348
A Selection of Sherlock Holmes novels which include 5 Complete stories box set, 1st edition Baker Street By-Ways by James Edward Holroyd, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William's Baring Gould, Sherlock Holmes and his Creator by Trevor H. Hall and the world of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison..Hammer: £ 60
Lot 350
A Quantity of vintage comic and music books which include Christabel Aberconway- The story of Mr Korah, The Coloured Lands by G.K.Chesterton, Kate Greenaway, Come Lasses and lads- R. Caldecott Picture Book, The Man in the Moon- dated 1872, Punch book, Patriots and People, Three volumes of Leems Kaye, Nellie Come home, An Alphabet of musical Bogeys by Arthur Layard and one other childs music book..
Hammer: £ 45
Lot 351
A selection of collectable books which authors and titles: Birket Foster- H.M. Cundall, Progress at Pelvis Bay by Osbert Lancaster, The story of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith by Nigel Playfair, Aquarelles: or Summer Sketches by Samuel Sombre, Prisoners of hope by Constance Smith, English Wild flower by J.T. Burgess, British Columbia and Vancouver Island by William Carew Hazlitt- 1858 and Peter Parleys Annual 1868, The Suburban Child by James Kenward and Birds and Man by W.H, Hudson-dated 1901..Hammer: £ 20
Lot 352
A Collection of various novels and booklets which have been signed by the authors and publishers. Includes Cromwell and other Poems by John Drinkwater, The Mayor of Zalamea by Calderon de la Barca [limited edition, signed by author], Riders and Horses [Comes with letter from publisher], V.- The Far Calling by A.V. Stuart, Streets & Shadows by Mercedes de Acosta, Subline Tobacco by Compton Mackenzie, Mary Queen of Scots by Eric Linklater, A Man over Forty by Eric Linklater, Le Roman D'un Roi d' Ecosse Par J.J. Jusserand, Printing in Stirling by William Harvey, The Hidden Land by Robert Rendall, The British Museum is falling down by David Lodge, Glasgow Central Station by Deric Bolton, The old wife by Morley Jamieson & Terry Street by Douglas Dunn. All signed- see images..Hammer: £ 80
Lot 353
A Selection of various novels which include titles and authors: Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers by R.A. Walker, Salome by Oscar Wilde, Green Bays verses and Parodies by Q, 1st edition Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie, Blind a play in three acts by Laurence Oliver, Mrs Lancelot a comedy of assumptions by Maurice Hewlett, Lochinvar by S.R. Crockett & Shandon Bells by William Black..Hammer: £ 60
Lot 354
6 Various books which include titles and authors: Penicillin: its properties, uses and preparations - dated 1946, Life and letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe edited by Annie Fields [Ltd Edition 152/250], Cloudland; or Winnie Hetherington's Dream by S.S. Wynne, Vocal score of The Gondoliers; or the King of Barataria by W.S. Gilbert, Mariale Novum: A series of sonnets on the titles of our lady's Litany by Members of the society of Jesus & The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronomer poet of Persia translated by Edward Fitzgerald..Hammer: £ 25
Lot 356
A Selection of various novels which include titles and authors: Carotid Cornucopius by Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens, Lday into Fox by David Garnett edited notes by Michio Yoshitake, Letters to Women by Joseph Auslander, Urania by Ruth Pitter, Translation or Travesty? by John Charles Edward Bowen, Illustrations of the book of job by William Blake, Early British Railways by Christian Barman & My Mither's Aunt and other verses by William Ogilvie to L.W.S. [Signed L.S.W].Hammer: £ 34
Lot 358
A Selection of various art and design books which include Pre- Raphaelite Painters Phaidon, Brian Howard portraits of a failure , The Technique of Pastel Painters by L. Richmond, Max Presents portraits, Sketches, Vignettes and pictorial Memoranda of Men, Women and other animals, Victoria and Albert Museum Louis Wain by Brian Reade, Cecil Beaton by Philippe Garner & David Alan Mellor, The Weimar Years and Blue 52 by David A. Carter.Hammer: £ 25
Lot 359
A Selection of various art and design books which includes Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the modern movement by Thomas Howarth, Man Photographs of the male Nude, Lionel Wendt's Ceylon, Tea and taste The Glasgow tea rooms 1875-1975, Looking at paintings by Michael Rothenstein, The Forties by Alan Ross, W.G. Gillies A Very Still Life, William Gillies Watercolours of Scotland and John Piper The Tate Gallery..Hammer: £220
Lot 361
A Selection of art and design books which includes: Journal & Drawings by Keith Vaughan, Chinese and Indian Architecture by Nelson L Wu, Two Books by Helen Bradley, Private View by Beryl Cook, Native and primitive artists, Movie Parade, Beaton, Joan Eardley RSA By Cordelia Oliver, Modern War painters by C.R.W. Nevinson and two others..Hammer: £190
Lot 362
A Collection of Plays and comedies, books and booklets which includes Gordon Daviot- The Laughing Woman A Play, Lyrics, The Wayward way a comedy in four acts by Matthew Service, Overturf by Sutton Vane, Roy Fisher- Consolidated Comedies, Mona Inglesby- Ballerina and Choreographer, Miss Julia- The Stronger, Dictionary to the Plays and novels of Bernard Shaw by C.L. & V.M. Broad, Judas Iscariot by E. Temple Thurston, Quiet week-end, A Scrape of the pen, The Prisoners of War by J.R. Ackerley, Ruskin Politics by Bernard Shaw, Bernard Shaw Dramatische werke three volume box set and Deanes Series of Plays.Hammer: £ 24
Lot 363
A Selection of various Play books and booklets : The Wayward Way- A Comedy in four acts by Matthew Service, The Collected plays of Jack B. Yeats, Easy Virtue by Noel Coward, Waiting in the wings by Noel Coward, The last of the DeMullins. A Play by St. John Hankin, East of Suez and The Sacred Flame by W. Somerset Mmaughan..Hammer: £ 15
Lot 364
A Selection of Art & Design books which include Christopher Wood, David and Francina Irwin- Scottish Painters, E. McKnight Kauffer: a designer and his public by Mark Haworth- Booth, Graham Greene Country, Moscow 1900-1930 edited by Serge Fauchereau, Pablo Picasso, Art & War, Storyteller without words, Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, Bakst The Fine Art Society Ltd and Baskt Exhibition 1973..Hammer: £ 80
Lot 365
A Selection of novels which include authors and titles: Thirty Years with G.B.S by Blanche Patch [Proof, Uncorrected] The wide arch by Dal Stivens, Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, George Meredith 1909 by J.M. Barrie, Midnight Love by Sydney Morler, Prose Dramas by Henrik, U.S.A Edition- Earth Conquerors by J. Leslie Mitchell, The Peat Fire Flame by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, 1st edition Uncle Remus or Mr Fox, Mr Rabbit and Mr Terrapin by Joel Chandler Harris- dated 1888, The Night Comers by Eric Ambler and The New Shepherd by A.J. Young..Hammer: £ 45
Lot 366
A Collection of various Novels which includes titles and authors: 1st edition Behind the lines by AA Milne, Loser Takes all by Graham Greene, The Dead King by Rudyard Kipling, The Piper of Hamlin a fantastic opera by Robert Buchanan, The Puck Novels- The Coming Race by Bulwer Lytton- 1873, The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns A Medical Aspect by J. Purves- Stewart, Jonas Fisher- A Poem in Brown & White, 1st edition The Adventures of a Three Guinea Watch by Talboy Baines Reed, House at the corner and The man who stopped to help by Enid Blyton and The Bird- cage by A.J. Young [Signed by the author].Hammer: £ 30
Lot 367
A Selection of novels by T.W.H. Crosland and G.K. Chesterton includes titles: The Suburbans by TWH, Taffy was a Welshman by TWH, The Absent- Minded Mule by TWH, The Beautiful Teetotaller by TWH, Pop Goes the Weasel by TWH, The Rogue by TWH, The Judgement of Dr Johnson by GK, Essays of Today and Yesterday by G.K, William Blake Presentation copy and G.F. Watts by G.K. Chesterton..Hammer: £ 60
Lot 370
A Selection of Robert Louis Stevenson books which include titles: A Bibliography of His complete works by J. Herbert Slater, From Scotland to Silverado edited by James D. Hart, Collected Poems, RBS Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, New Arabian Nights by RBS, Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter, The R.L. Stevenson Originals by E.B. Simpson, Memories & Portraits by RLS- Dated 1887 and Admiral Guinea by W.E. Henley & RLS..Hammer: £ 32
Lot 373
A selection of various poetry Books which include authors and title: Andromeda and other poems by Charles Kingsley, The Death of Cenone, Akbar's Dream and other poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Willie Winkie and other songs and poems by William Miller- dated 1902, Symbols and other poems by John MaCnair Reid [Inscribed], Poems of a South African the collected verse of Arthur Vine Hall [Inscribed by author], Poetry London, Complete poetical works by Robert Carioch, Fleet Street and other poems by John Davidson, Nora's Place by Tom Leonard, Amor Amoris sonnets songs and lyrics by W.D. Scott Moncrieff and Georgian Poetry 1916-1917- The Poetry Bookshop..Hammer: £ 40
Lot 374
A Collection of various poetry books some signed which include titles and authors: Climates by Ruth Fainlight, Look Down, Olympians Poems by Mary Finnin, The Story of Psyche by Robert Cittings, A Trampoline by Gael Turnbull, Poems by M.C. Lochhead, Laurel & Myrtle poems by Armstrong Barry and various others.Hammer: £ 20
Lot 375
A Collection of various poetry by various authors which include signed: Travelling I-V by Michael Hamburger, Three Poems by Jeremy Hooker, The Holy Stone by Thomas Blackburn, The poets way of knowledge by C.Day Lewis, Marching Soldier by Joyce Cary, A Dialogue by Laurence Lerner, From Daer Water by Bessie J.B. Macarthur, Sea Acres by Arthur Ball and various others.Hammer: £ 22
Lot 376
A Selection of Dickens books and catalogues which include: Dickens Dream Children by Angela Dickens, The Childhood and youth of Charles Dickens by Robert Langton- dated 1891, Charles Dickens the world of his novels by J. Hillis Miller, Shakespeare & Dickens A Lecture by Cumberland Clark [Inscribed by Author] and three various catalogues..Estimate: £ 20 - £ 40
Lot 377
A Selection of various novels which includes titles and authors: Sunlight Year Book 1898, English Literature in the sixteenth century by C.S.Lewis, Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons, Byron The last journey April 1823- April 1824. by Harold Nicolson- dated 1924, Livelihood dramatic reveries by Wilfred Wilson Gibson, The manuscripts of a passage to India by E.M. Forster, Jane Austen A Reassessment by P.J.M. Scott, New York By Paul Morand and Emile Zola by F.W.J. Hemmings.Hammer: £ 20