Books, Medals, Militaria, Coins, Stamps and Collectables (Cheltenham)

Dylan Thomas interest - "Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas with Richard Burton and all Welsh cast in the original BBC production", vinyl long playin...

Thorburn, A , F.Z.S. "British Birds ...", in four vols, 2nd edition Longmans Green & Co 1916, colour plates with tissue guards, text pages some fo...

Dickens, Charles "Little Dorritt", Bradbury & Evans 1857, with illustrations by H K Browne, three line errata slip on page xiv for  errors,  page ...

Mitford, Mary Russell "Our Village; Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery", 3rd edition, Geo. B. Whitaker 1825, 3 vols, dark green calf over gre...

Munnings, Sir Alfred "An Artist's Life, the Autobiography of ...", Museum Press Limited 1950, illustrations, photographic plates throughout, orang...

Mrs Beetons Household Management, a Complete Cookery Book ..., new edition, Ward Locke & Co, colour frontis, colour plates and other illustrations...

Gibbings, Robert - various first editions, three with d-w to include "Lovely is the Lee", "Till I End My Song", "Coming Down the Seine", other vol...

Poetry and others to include:- Lawrence, D H "Pansies", Martin Secker 1929, d-w Thomas, Dylan "The Map of Love", J M Dent 1939 Woolf, Virginia "Th...

Pevsner, Nikolaus - The Buildings of England -  "Cambridgeshire", "Cheshire", "Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough", "Essex", "An Outline of...

Freke Gould, Robert "The History of Freemasonry ...", in 3 vols, Edinburgh, TC & EC Jack, plates with tissue guards, marbled ep, half red morocco ...

Ball, Sir Robert "An Atlas of Astronomy", George Philip & Son 1892, numerous plates with tissue guards, maps and plans, some foxing to plates 1 an...

Tolkien, J R R "The Hobbit or There and Back Again", George Allan & Unwin 1979, colour frontis with colour plates as from the original publication...

Hunt, P Francis "Orchidaceae", plates drawn by Mary A Grierson, the Bawton Press 1973, no.180/1260 for public sale, this copy is subscribed by Hen...

Lowe, E J "Beautiful Leaved Plants ...", Groombridge & Sons 1868, colour plates with tissue guards, inked name dated March 1870 on tp, the hinges ...

Collectors Library Editions  Bullen, Arthur Henry (ed) and Gilbert, Sir John (ills) "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare", fully illustrated...

Antiquarian - "The Book of Psalms", Keegan, Paul, Trench & Co 1884, full velum with gilt rules, a.e.g. Poe, Edgar Allan "The Raven", Griffith, Far...

Cromwell and Civil War interest to include:-  Buchan, John "Oliver Cromwell", Hodder & Stoughton 1934, green cloth Belloc, Hilaire "Cromwell", Cas...

Lipscombe, Nick "The Peninsular War Atlas", published by Osprey, octagonal folio within original slip case, "The Peninsular War", published by Gre...

Lang, Andrew (ed) to include:- "The Waverley Novels", Border edition, 16 vols, "The Strange Storybook", Longmans Green & Co 1913, colour and other...

Johns, Captain W E "The Man Who Vanished into Space", 1963, turquoise cloth, d-w not price clipped, "To Outer Space", Hodder & Stoughton 1957, sta...

Quantity of illustrated books, artists to include W Strang, Russell Flint, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Warwick Goble, George Morrow, Harry C Thea...

The Works of R L Stevenson, limited edition of 1550 copies, this is no.470, published by Cassell in association with Chatto & Windus 1908, 20 vols...

Nelson, Jimmy (photography) "Before They Pass Away", photography project by Jimmy Nelson, published by Booqs, with various pamphlets, leaflets, wh...

Pre-Raphaelite and art interest to include:-  Bullen, J B "Rosetti Painter and Poet", "J W Waterhouse the Modern Pre-Raphaelite", "Pre-Raphaelite ...

Sadlier, Michael "XIX Century Fiction, a Bibliographical Record based on his Collection ...", 2 vols, printed at the University Press, Cambridge 1...

Erotica Elmer Batters,"  Legs that Danced to Elmer's Tune", Taschen, n.d., text in English and other languages, pictorial ep, pictorial boards, sm...

Blackwood, Algernon, various titles to include "The Promise of Air", Macmillan & Co 1918, "Pan's Garden", Macmillan & Co 1912, pictorial boards, "...

Tartarus Press, various volumes to include:- volumes 2, 3, 4 of "Strange Tales", edited by Rosalie Parker, all with d-w Pierce, Ambrose "An Occurr...

Ash-Tree Press - Cowles, Frederick "The Night Wind Howls, Complete Supernatural Stories", Ash-Tree Press 1999, red ep, maroon cloth, d-w Benson, ...

Folio Society, two boxed sets of Anthony Trollope combining six novels and various others (1 box) 

Large quantity of volumes by H G Wells to include:- "War and the Future", "The World Set Free", Macmillan & Co 1914, d-w, "The Dream", Jonathan Ca...

Various modern firsts to include:-  Hemingway, Ernest "A Movable Feast", Jonathan Cape 1964, d-w Francis, Dick "Enquiry", Harper & Roe 1969, d-w w...

Detective and crime stories to include:- Innes, Michael "Lament for a Maker", Gollancz 1971, "A Connoisseur's Case", Gollancz 1977, d-w, "A Privat...

Detective and crime to include:- Christie, Agatha "A Caribbean Mystery", the Crime Club 1964, d-w price clipped, "Nemesis", the Crime Club 1971, d...

Walpole, Hugh "Rogue Herries", Macmillan & Co 1930, map ep, "The Fortress", Macmillan & Co 1932, "Vanessa", Macmillan 1933, "The Bright Pavilions"...

Antiquarian/dictionaries to include:- Chambers Information 1908 fine biding, half calf over marbled boards, with gilt decorations and raised bands...

Dickens, Charles "Our Mutual Friend", Chapman & Hall 1865, with illustrations by Marcus Stone, 2 vols, page 155 'Principal', half-morocco over mar...

Cookery - "The Illustrated London Cookery Book ...", by Frederick Bishop, London, 227 The Strand 1852, illustrations, recipes, some foxing, ep mis...

Capote, Truman "Breakfast at Tiffany's - A Short Novel and Three Stories" Random House New York, 1958 dustwrapper shredded by worm, binding tight,...

Quantity of children's books to include:-  Rackham, Arthur (ills), Barrie J M "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", Hodder & Stoughton, n.d., plates ...

Austen, Jane "Pride and Prejudice", J M Dent & Co 1907, illustrated by C E Brock from 'The Series of English Idylls', inked inscription on ffep, h...

Careme, M Antonin "L' Art de la Cuisine Française au XIXème siècle", Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1833, 2 vols, titled vols I and III, engraved portrait ...

Philidor A.D. [Francois-Andre Danican Philidor] "Chess Analysed: or Instructions By which a Perfect Knowledge of this Noble Game May in a short ti...

"Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", with drawings by Arthur Rackham, Hodder & Stoughton 1906, tipped in colour plates, condition: various foxing, t...

Three handwritten ledgers dated 1920's and one dated 1934-1936 from a company that provided catering utensils and repairs. They appeared to have s...

Southwell, the Reverend Henry "The Universal Family Bible......." Printed J. Cooke, embellished with copper plates..., contemporary inked name on ...

Various modern firsts to include:- Reid Banks, Lynne "The L-Shaped Room", Chatto & Windus 1960, bkpl, d-w not price clipped  Atwood, Margaret "The...

"Harrow Memorials of the Great War", vols 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, "Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War", 7 vols, Index included in vol VII,...

Folio society to include:-  The Folio Poets "Kipling", engravings by George Tute, the Folio Society 2004, quarter morocco, portraits on the boards...

Miller-Parker, Agnes (ills) and Bates, H E "Down the River", Victor Gollancz Ltd 1937, numerous illustrations throughout, inked inscription and da...

"The Victoria History of the County of Essex", vol 9, published for the University of London Institute by Oxford University Press 1994, d-w  Goble...

Assorted late 19th century and 20th century children's books to include:-  Lord Alfred Douglas [The Belgian Hare] "The Duke of Berwick - a Nonsens...

Militaria and WWI interest to include:- [Private 19022] "Her Privates WE", G P Putnams Sons 1930, inked name dated 1930, pictorial cloth with glas...

Rice, Ann "Interview with the Vampire", Macdonald Raven Books 1976, signed by the author on the red ffep, d-w not price clipped, glassine cover, "...

Sherlock Holmes and other detective stories to include:- Conan Doyle, A "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", John Murray, "The Complete Sherlock Holmes...

Verne, Jules "A Journey into the Interior of the Earth", Ward Locke & Co, dark green decorated cloth with gilt titles, "The Adventures of Captain ...

Science fiction interest to include:- Matheson "Earthbound", Robinson Publishing 1989, d-w Bradbury, Ray "A Graveyard for Lunatics", Grafton Books...

Detective interest and science fiction to include:- Wyndham, John "The Midwich Cuckoos", Michael Joseph 1957, d-w, "Consider Her Ways and Others",...

Quantity of modern first editions to include:- Mantel, Hilary "Wolf Hall", 4th Estate 2009, d-w, "Bring Out the Bodies", 4th Estate 2012 Rushdie, ...

Jane Austen interest to include:- Folio Society set, without slip case, Readers Union, 6 vols, 3 vols The Works of Jane Austen, Martin Secker, "Em...