The Library Sale

MENNIE (Major John, 1831-1876, MRCS) commemorative album of sketches, photographs, prints, etc, some of Poona interest. Including portraits, few a...

CHRISTIE (James; auctioneer) 'The Specious Orator; Will your Ladyship do me the honor to say £50-00, A mere trifle - a brilliant of the first wate...

Prints, offprints and other. New Declaration of the Confederate Princes and States, translated out of the French, 1689, damaged title, 28pp., disb...

An illuminated Italian certificate awarded to Cecil Phillip Adcock for his work for the Singer Manufacturing Company, hand-painted in gouache by G...

A stained glass window design for St Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York titled 'St Paul's Buffalo' and dated June (18)89ink and watercolour47 x 2...

§ Attributed to Edward Ardizzone CBE RA (British, 1909-1979) Three ink studies to include a head of a lady ('Portrait of Paula Pike') and mother a...

Crests and armorial bearings. Three albums of mounted coloured shields and crests, 2 of which are early 20th century and set out alphabetically, t...

Delhi Durbar 1911, album of mounted snap-shot photographs taken on the spot, of officials and camp scenes, and including a 5 fold panoramic view m...

Whittington and other private press. SMITH (Edwin) A View of the Cotswolds, 2005, folio, no.199/350 copies, slip case; Poems for Alan Hancox, 1993...

Album of postcards, theatre and music hall. Including Lily Langtry, Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry (one is signed), Sir Henry Irving, Beerbohm Tree,...

A cigar butt smoked by Sir Winston Churchill, A Wartime era vestigial cigar butt, believed to have been smoked by the then prime minister onboard ...

Circle of Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (British, 1775-1851) A view of Tasso's oak with the convent of St Onofrio beyondpencil drawing on laid ...

DELIUS (Frederick) Portrait photograph signed below the mount 'For Norman Cameron from Frederick Delius 1932', signed lower right 'E. Parcieux / F...

Manner of Archibald Wortley Portrait of the famous cricketer W G Grace (1848-1915) inscribed lower left 'Dr W. G. Grace 1879' oil on canvas 25 x ...

Theatre and music hall actors, early 20th century. Two albums with cards, including Ethel Irving, Esme Beringer, Maud Jeffries, Lewis Waller, Dor...

Bibliography from the library Robin Myers. A general collection, including personalities, biographies and collecting, printing and typography, his...

CAXTON (William) collection of related works, ex. Robin Myers. Sex Quam Elegantissimae Epistolae, facsimile, Lawrence & Bullen 1892, 8vo, one of 3...

Printing illustration. KITTON (F G) Dickens and his Illustrators, 2nd edition 1899, 4to, cloth; JACKSON (John) A Treatise on Wood Engraving, 1839,...

Irish writing and literature. The Cabinet of Irish Literature, 4 vols., 1902-03, 4to, cloth gilt; and others, by Sean O'Casey, Lady Gregory, Jane ...

HARRISON (Tom) Letter to Oxford, Hate Press, 1933; Le Rire, April 1932, an anti-Hitler satire; Le Milieu, April 1934, with Sennep satirical cartoo...

SCOTT (Peter) Wild Chorus, 1951; The Martyrs of Tolpuddle 1934-1934; NICHOLS (B) Book of Old Ballads, 1934; MANN (H) The Technique of Portrait Pai...

French early 20th century illustrated works in decorative covers. CARAN D'ACHE. Nos Soldats du Siecle, Librairie Plon, oblong 4to; JOB. Memoires ...

HEMINGWAY (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1st UK edition 1941, dust jacket

Roycroft and others, reverse calf bindings. STEVENSON (R L) Virginibus Puerisque, 1903, 8vo; LANG (A) Aucassin and Nicolete, 1899, 8vo; MAETERLINC...

Children's. DARWIN (B & E) The Tale of Mr Tootleoo, Nonesuch Press, oblong 8vo, dust jacket; TRAVERS (P L) Mary Poppins, 3rd impression 1936, dust...

St Dominic's Press, Ditchling. An English Mass Book, 1927, square 12mo, cloth backed boards; The Dormouse, Rhyme Sheet No.4, printed in black and ...

CHRISTIE (Agatha) Murder in Mesopotamia, A New Poirot Story, first or early variant edition, 1936, published for The Crime Club, Collins, Pall Mal...

LANG (Andrew) Collection of Fairy Books, 1st editions: Lilac Fairy, 1910; Olive Fairy, 1907; Blue Fairy 1889 (frontis and title spotted); Violet F...

Children's illustrated. BEAMAN (S-G Holme) The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, 1926; Aladdin, Bodley Head ltd, 1924, dust jacket; Collection o...

Juvenile literature, late 19th century and 20th century. Large assortment including nursery tales, natural history, and stories by E. Nesbit, Beat...

Children's illustrated, novels etc. CROMPTON (Richmal) six William novels in dust jackets, mostly 1938 reprint editions, including Just William (1...

Children's illustrated. RACKHAM (A) The Ring of the Nieblung, Heinemann 1939, 4to, 2 parts in one, colour plates, front panel of dust jacket remai...

Children's literature. POTTER (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, F. Warne & Co. 1903, lacking spine strip, taped inner hinge; NESBIT...

DULAC (Edmund; illustrator) The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Hodder & Stoughton,...

LUCAS (E V), WEAVER (Sir L) & A C BENSON. Editors) The Book of the Queens Dolls House and Library, 2 vols., Methuen and Co. 1924, 8vo, one of 1500...

POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr Tod, 1st edition, Frederick Warne and Co., 1912, 12mo, colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, original boards ...

POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition 1913, frontis loose, rear hinge split, owner's name; Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st edition, 1908...

RACKHAM (A, illustrator) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J M Barrie, Hodder & Stoughton 1906, small 4to, 50 tipped in colour plates, captioned...

Children's illustrated. ROBINSON (C) The Sensitive Plant, by P B Shelley, Heinemann no date, c.1911, 4to, 18 mounted colour plates, lengthy gift i...

MILNE (A A) Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition 1926, 8vo, illustrated by E H Shepard, generally clean condition in bright cloth gilt, edges slightly rub...

MILNE (A A) Now We Are Six, 1st edition 1927, 8vo, illustrated by E H Shepard, offset pale brown stain to half title and final leaf otherwise gene...

MILNE (A A) When We Were Very Young, 2nd edition, 1924; Winnie-The-Pooh, 12th edition, 1933; Now We Are Six, 1st edition 1927; The House At Pooh C...

MILNE (A A) & E H SHEPARD. The four Winnie-the-Pooh stories, 1956-57 reprints, bright copies in dust jackets, edges slightly foxed; The House at P...

FISCHBACH (Friedrich) Die wichtigsten Webe-Ornamente, no date, 51 chromolithographed plates of woven fabric designs, loose in folder; MURRAY (A S)...

Irish scenery and reference. JOYCE (P W) Irish Names of Places, 3 vols., 1995 facsimile reprint by De Burca, green cloth, slip case; with a collec...

BAKER (E C Stuart) The Indian Ducks and their Allies, 1908, 8vo, colour plates, general toning, later binding; 'CARROLL (Lewis)' Through the Looki...

Literature, various. STRUTHER (Jan) Mrs Miniver, 1939, slip case; WAUGH (E) The Ordeal of Gilbert Penfold, 1957, dust jacket; DARWIN (C) The Desce...

MANNOCK (J P) Billiards Expounded to All Degrees of Amateur Players, 2 vols., Grant Richards, 1904, 8vo, author's presentation inscriptions dated ...

WILSON (Mona) The Life Of William Blake, The Nonesuch Press, 1927, small folio, no. 463/1480 copies, illustrations, edges toned, uncut, quarter ve...

Bindings. KINGSLEY (Charles) Works, 14 vols., Library Edition, New York 1903, 8vo, frontispieces and illustrations, half red morocco, top edges gi...

Erotica. Orfevres a la Saint-Eloi, du quartier Latin a la Salle de Garde, Tome 1, En Sorbonne ... 1430, [1930], 8vo, limited edition, title in red...

MELVILLE (Herman) Moby Dick, first Rockwell Kent illustrated edition, New York, 1930, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, with silvered blocking, in fa...

LANG (Andrew) The Fairy Books. Collection of works, including first editions: The Orange Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book (lacking first free end ...

Ariel Poems, a collection, including: no.3 Binyon/Freedman, boards; no.6 Gibson/Nash, boards; no.8 Eliot/McKnight Kauffer; no.10 Davies/Nicholson,...

Games and juvenile. WELLS (H G) Floor Games 1911, signed with initials by the author dated M'21, cloth; CARROLL (L) Alice's Adventures in Wonderla...

COLLYNS (Charles Palk) Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and Somerset, 1862, 8vo, tinted plates, illustrations, ori...

BOSSERT (H Th) Peasant Art in Europe, Berlin: Ernest Wasmuth Ltd, 1926, folio, colour plates, original cloth; Eski Türk Halilarindan ve Kilimlerin...

WEAVER (Lawrence) Houses and Gardens by E. L. Lutyens, London: Country Life, 1913, folio, illustrated, cloth backed boards, rather worn; Grey Wall...

HOGARTH (W) & TRUSLER (Rev J) The Complete Works of William Hogarth, The London Printing and Publishing Company, circa 1860, 4to, added steel engr...

Illustrated. BARRIE (J M) Quality Street, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Hodder & Stoughton 1901, 4to, tipped in colour plates, bright cloth in dama...