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BERLIN, Sven. A large quantity of autograph material, original drawings, notebooks, correspondence and ephemera including the original typescript of his 1961 memoir 'I Am Lazarus' together with numerous manuscripts written during his war service and later used for the book; also present are 48 original pencil or pen and ink drawings of the same date, many later used as illustrations, together with correspondence, further artwork, cuttings, the manuscript of his article on Alfred Wallis, photos and other ephemera including Berlin's army pay book, the whole contained in one binder, one separate notebook and four portfolios. See illustration £500-800 | Nil |
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| 472 | BERLIN, Sven. The Dark Monarch, drawings by the author. Galley Press, 1962. Proof copy with the author's autograph corrections in red ink throughout text and his signature on the flyleaf, a proof dust-wrapper, also corrected, bound in. Full white morocco with overall abstract designs in gilt, red and blue, a.e.g., by A.Winstanley, in book-form folding box. Together with the original typescript with autograph corrections and occasional revisions, and a large quantity of correspondence, cuttings and legal documentation relating to the book's publication and suppression and the subsequent litigation surrounding it, contained in a large portfolio and a box file. (4) See illustration £450-650 | Nil |
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| 473 | BOER WAR. The Illustrated London News Record of the Transvaal War 1899-1900, with eight photogravures. ILN, ca. 1900. Folio, chromo wrappers; and 4 others. (5) See illustration £40-60 | Nil |
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30 |
| 474 | WILSON, H.W. With the Flag to Pretoria. After Pretoria. [Illustrations.] Harmsworth, 1900-02. 4 vols 4to, quarter morocco, cloth gilt. (4) £40-70 | Nil |
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120 |
| 475 | MacMUNN, G.F. The Armies of India, painted by A.C. Lovett. [Plates.] A. & C. Black, 1911. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the publisher. 4to, cloth; and 5 others. (6) £50-80 | Nil |
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40 |
| 476 | LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Cape, 1935. First trade edn. Buckram; and over 30 others plus pamphlets and ephemera by or about Lawrence. (Box) £100-150 | Nil |
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| 477 | BLYTON, Enid. Jinky Nature Books 1-4. E.J.Arnold & Son, Leeds, [ca.1950]. 4 vols, wrappers; and other children's books, plays, theatre programmes. (Box) £40-60 | Nil |
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40 |
| 478 | FIELD, E.M. Two are Company or Madge and May at Work and Play, illustrated by F.D. Bedford. Wells Gardner, Darton, 1914. Pictorial boards; and ca. 20 others, miscellaneous. (Box) £30-50 | Nil |
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| 479 | ALDIN, Cecil. Ratcatcher to Scarlet. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; SNAFFLES. 'Osses and Obstacles. Collins, 1935. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and 3 others, hunting. (5) £50-80 | Nil |
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300 |
| 480 | SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays. H. Baldwin, 1798. 9 vols 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, red and black double labels; and 32 others, Cooke's edition of the poets, uniformly bound, plus 2 others; sold as bindings w.a.f. (43) £40-60 | Nil |
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130 |
| 481 | SMITH, J.M., and J.B. PAYNE. The Anglican Mysteries of Paris revealed in the Stirring Adventures of Captain Mars. [Illustrated throughout.] Moxon, 1870. 4to, cloth gilt, gutta percha binding perished; CUMING, E.D., ed. The Hunting Tours of Surtees. [Plates.] Blackwood, 1927. Cloth gilt; and 5 others. (7) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 482 | KUBIN, Alfred. Ein Totentanz. [24 plates and cover design.] Bruno Cassirer, Berlin, 1918. First edn. 4to, pictorial boards £100-150 | Nil |
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95 |
| 483 | HAFTMANN, Werner. E.W. Nay. [Plates.] DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, 1960. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper, signed by the artist on end-paper and dated 1960; and 10 others, mostly German art books. (11) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 484 | GROSZ, George. Ecce Homo. Malik-Verlag, Berlin, 1923. First edn. Folio, pictorial wrappers; the 'C' edition with the full suite of 100 plates including sixteen in colour £500-1000 | Nil |
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| 485 | SCRAP ALBUM. Album of photos and chromolithograph greetings cards, 1880s and 90s, 4to, half morocco; and 2 other albums. (3) £40-60 | Nil |
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90 |
| 486 | PHOTOGRAPHS. 1920s album, photos including S.E. Asia big game hunting and military £20-30 | Nil |
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20 |
| 487 | SHOWBIZ PHOTOS. A quantity of signed photographs and postcards of actors, actresses, comedians, musicians &c, including Gracie Fields, George Formby, Charlie Kunz, Florence Desmond, Kitty Masters, Evelyn Lay, and a number of autograph letters and photos of Wee Georgie Wood. (ca. 80) £200-250 | Nil |
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| 488 | CINEMA. 6 full size coloured French film posters, 1980s. (6) £20-40 | Nil |
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| 489 | AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, 1960s: various musicians and TV personalities including Cathy McGowan and Michael Aldred of 'Ready, Steady, Go!', Lenny Davidson of The Dave Clark Five, Terry Sylvester (The Escorts, later The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Hollies) and others, illegible £30-50 | Nil |
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| 490 | LORDS TAVERNERS. Album of over 70 signed autograph tributes to Dorothy Carline on her retirement from the Lords Taverners, 1973. 4to, morocco gilt, scarlet shot silk linings, a.e.g., by Aspreys; contributions by numerous sportsmen, principally cricketers, including Ken Barrington, Alec and Eric Bedser, Colin Cowdrey, Jim Laker, Peter May, and among others Brian Johnston, Graham Hill, Harold Wilson, Laurence Olivier (a poem), John Mills, Billy Butlin, Brian Rix, Ian Carmichael, Jimmy Edwards, Harry Secombe, Victor Silvester and Jack Warner £300-500 | Nil |
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| 491 | ARNOLD, Edwin. Six autograph letters, signed, to Showell Rogers, ca. 16pp., 1893-97, together with an a.l.s. from his son Edwin Lester Arnold to Hall Caine mentioning his fantasy novel 'Phra the Phoenician', three with original envelopes £30-60 | Nil |
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| 492 | CUMMING, David. 18 autograph letters from Cumming and other members of his family, Calcutta, Liverpool and elsewhere, many dated from the East Indiaman James Crossfield, mostly 1860s, together with an 1867 issue of The Dumfries and Galloway Courier, a related cutting and a jet bead and chenille mourning shawl; Cumming was captain of the James Crossfield and was lost when his ship was wrecked off the Isle of Man in December 1867 £80-120 | Nil |
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| 493 | CAMDEN, William. [Britannia. Vol. IV. ca. 1750.] Folio, vellum, gilt, defective, some coloured engravings in text £50-100 | Nil |
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| 494 | FOX, John. Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church. Ninth Edition. [Portrait, plates, engravings in text.] Company of Stationers, 1684. Folio, calf, worn, Vols. I and III only. (2) £100-200 | Nil |
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| 495 | CICERO. Cato Major; or a Treatise on Old Age…with explanatory notes…by Mr. Logan. Philadelphia printed, Glasgow reprinted by R. Urie, 1751. Old calf; PERRON, Jacques du. Perroniana sive Excerpta ex ore Cardinalis Perronii. Ulacq, Hague, 1669. 12mo, vellum; and 10 others. (12) £50-100 | Nil |
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150 |
| 496 | CORNEILLE, Pierre. Theatre…avec des commentaires &c. &c. &c. S.l., 1764. 12 vols, contemporary mottled calf, worn, labels defective; David Garrick's copy with his bookplate in Vol. I; anecdotal evidence records that the set was bought by the Rev Thomas Rackett at the sale of Mrs Garrick's effects in 1823. (12) £100-150 | Nil |
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140 |
| 497 | BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Decamerone: or, Decads, consisting of one hundred ingenious Novels: written by John Boccacio. The Second Edition carefully corrected. [Portrait, frontispiece to Part II.] John Nicholson, 1712. Nineteenth century polished calf by Larkins £80-120 | Nil |
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70 |
| 498 | ANON. A small late seventeenth century volume containing 19 original figure studies executed apparently on gesso, all chipped or fragmentary and mounted on earlier vellum manuscript leaves in an ornate but distressed morocco gilt binding £100-150 | Nil |
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| 499 | TAVERNER, Richard, ed. The Epistles and Gospelles with a brief Postyl upon the same from Advent tyll Lowe sondaye whiche is the Wynter parte… [and: the Somer parte.] Richard Banks, ca. 1540. 2 vols sm 4to in one, limp vellum, woodcut titles, black letter, 4, 154ff; 4, 186ff; 1 (blank), 64ff £500-800 | Nil |
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MISSAL. Incipit ordo missalis s[ecundu]m consuetudinem romane curie. Georg Stuchs, Nuremberg, 1484. 6, 255ff, printed in red and black Gothic letter, lacks three leaves; [With] In nocte natiuitatis dnt. Ad primam missam, Sequentia. Johann Knobloch, Strasbourg, 1516. Two vols in one, sm. 4to, old blind-stamped calf, worn, wormed at end £800-1500 |
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