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'Gucci. The Making of'. The luxury edition, full embossed leather with Gucci colour ribon, maching slip case, profusely illustrated throughout, vg...

Lot 2

'Dior'.

'Dior'. Text by Farid Chenoune, photography by Laziz Hamani, folio, original cloth, unclipped dj, profusely illustrated throughout, Assouline, New...

Eight high-gloss works by leading fashion houses. 'Roxanne Lowit Backstage. Dior' foreward and fashion by John Galliano, original cloth, unclipped...

Royal Binding. 'The Book of Common Prayer,' 'And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the ...

LEWIS CARROLL. 'The Hunting of the Snark'. Eleventh thousand, original pictorial cloth, tear and loose bottom half of spine panel, contemporary in...

Rene Bull Illustrations. 'The Arabian Nights'. Cheaper reprint, original decorative cloth, staining to spine panel, spotting and toning to edges o...

Signed Bernard Leach. 'Drawings, Verse & Belief,' signed by the author, 140/500, spotting to orignal cloth and edge of textblock, card slip, Jupit...

Kay Nielsen Illustrations. 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses'. 'And Other Fairy Tales', retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch, original pictorial cloth, rep...

ERNEST H. R. COLLINGS. 'Outlines. A Book of Drawings'. Dedicated to D. H. Lawrence, original boards, Co-operative Printing Society, vg, London, 19...

Kay Nielson Illustrations. 'Fairy Tales by Hans Anderson'. First edition, original green silk cloth with gilt embossed decorations, rubbed, staini...

Harry Clarke Illustrations. 'The Fairy Tales of Perrault'. First edition, staining to original original cloth as is the norm, spotting to half tit...

Harry Clarke Illustrations. 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'. By Edgar Allan Poe, reprint, handsomely bound in full dark blue leather with picto...

Bronte sisters interest. Three works. 'Wuthering Heights' by Ellis Bell (Emily Bronte) and 'Agnes Grey' by Acton Bell (Anne Bronte), bound in one ...

Arthur Rackham Illustrations. 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'. By J. M. Barrie, early trade edition, original cloth with gilt tooled Pan to fron...

GEORGE ORWELL. 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. Left Book Club Edition, original orange wraps, soiling to extremities and small tear to top of spine pane...

Stephen F. Geoffroy (1672-1731). 'A Treatise of the Fossil, Vegetable, and Animal Substances, That are made Use of in Physick...,' translated from...

Percivall Pott (1714-1788). 'Observations on the Nature and Consequences of Wounds and Contusions of the Head, Fractures of the Skull, Concussions...

Jean Vigier. 'La Grande Chirurgie Des Tumeurs...' 'En Laquelle, Selon Les anciens Grecs, Latins, Arabes & modernes approuuez....,' full contempora...

Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689). 'Observationes Medicae circa Morborum acutorum Historiam et Curationem,' later quarter calf with marbled boards and g...

Signed Alan Garner. 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,' flat signed to title page, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with small nibbles to ...

A. A. Milne. 'Now We Are Six'. First edition, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, original burgundy cloth with gilt decorations, illustrated pink en...

Rosemary Sutcliff. 'The Eagle of the Ninth'. First edition, original blue cloth, small nibbles to unclipped dj, glassine wrap, illustrations by C....

Pierre Jurieu (1637-1713). 'L'Histoire Du Concile De Trente'. Full vellum with leather lables, fold out engraving of the council, paignation runs ...

Lot 24

Bindings.

Bindings. A handsome set of nine works by Charles Dickens, half black calf with marbled boards and comparmentalised gilt spines, frontis, Chapman...

Jane Austen. Ten uniform volumes. 'Pride and Prejudice,' edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson, two vols, original cloth with gilt decorations, gilt ...

'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'. Three works. The Photogravure Series, tenth thousand, illustrated by Gilbert James, original decorative cloth, Bla...

Arhtur Rackham Illustrations. 'Gulliver's Travels,' by Jonathan Swift, reprint, original cloth, staining and nibbles to unclipped dj, ink inscript...

A signed 'Port Isaac's Fishermans Friends Sailing at Eight Bells'. Signed by 7 members, good condition, Simon & Schuster, 2011 ...[more]

Arhtur Rackham Illustrations. 'Rip Van Winkle,' by Washington Irving, reprint, original cloth, clipped dj, colour illustrations, Chancellor Press,...

C. COLLLODI. 'Pinocchio. The Tale of a Puppet'. Reprint, original cloth, colour plates, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1981 ...[more]

Limited edition Thomas Hardy. 'Selected Poems of...,' 355/1025, original boards, unclipped dj, printed in the Ricardi fount on handmade Ricardi pa...

The Cornish Review. Numbers one, six, ten, twelve (2), twenty-three, twenty-five and twenty-seven. (8) ...[more]

Six books on Newlyn by Ben Batten (Four signed copies). 'Old Newlyn Speech' signed, ' Newlyn of Yesterday' signed, 'Newlyn Heritage' signed, 'Newl...

Twelve works of poetry. Including 'The Ballad of Royal Ann' by Crosbie Garstin, 'Broadsides from Bohemia' by Arthur Caddick, 'The Call of the West...

Eleven various Ward Lock & Co pocket atlases. Including St Ives, Brighton, West Cornwall North Cornwall, Torquay etc. (11) ...[more]

Sporting interest. 'British Sports and Sportsmen. Hunting,' compiled by The Sportsmen, folio, half leather with blue boards, plates and engravings...

'The Etchings of Charles Meryon'. By Campbell Dodgson, original boards with gilt decorations, some missing plates, ex libris 'St Ives Society of A...

Six Works on Cornwall. P. A. S. POOL. 'William Borlase,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, The Royalm Instituition of Cornwall, 1986; W...

Guy Boothby. Four works. 'Doctor Nikola,' original cloth rubbed and bumped, spotting throughout, Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1896; 'My Strangest Case...

Fifteen diverse works. KINGSLEY AMIS. 'My Enemy's Enemy,' original cloth, clipped dj, some staining and spotting, Victor Gollancz, London, 1962; '...

P. G. Wodehouse. Nine reprints. 'The Little Nugget,' fifth edition, 1922; 'Indiscretions of Archie,' popular edtion, n.d; 'The Coming of Bill,' th...

Twelve uncorrected advance proofs. Including George MacBeth, David Garnett, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Nik Cohn, Howard Jacobsob, Lewis Casson, Frede...

Three illustrated works. BERNARD DARWIN & ELINOR DARWIN. 'Tootleoo Two,' first edition, original pictorial boards, repairs to titlepage, colour il...

Seven illustrated works including H. Heath and Ernest M. Jessop. ERNEST M. JESSOP Illustrations. 'Misadventures at Margate. A Legend of Jarvis's J...

John Hassall Illustrations. Three works. 'Aladdin,' original pictorial boards, contemporary inscription to pastedown, some finger soiling, colour ...

Florence K. Upton illustrations. Two works. 'The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls,' first edition, original pictorial boards, tape repair to p4, colo...

Walter Crane 'Sixpenny' toy book. 'Baby's Own Alphabet,' new series, rubbed pictorial thin card wraps, splitting to spine as aspectected, spotting...

H. P. Blavatsky and Theosophy interest. 'Is Theosophy A Religon?' U. L. T. Pamphlet No. 1, thin card wraps, 3cm tear to rear wrap otherwise vg, Th...

Poetry and verse interest. Nineteen works. CHRISTINA ROSETTI. 'Verses,' twentieth thousand, original cloth with bevelled edges, unlcipped to fore ...

RANDOLPH CALDECOTT. 'Graphic Pictures'. Complete edition, half vellum with green boards, Caldecott gold embossed heraldic arms to front board with...

'The Art and Craft of Hairdressing'. New edition, edited by Gilbert A. Foan and N. E. B. Wolters, half pebbled leather with rubbed blue boards, to...

Harry Epworth Allen (1894-1958) 'Catalogue of His works,' written by John Basford, limited edition 58/100, original cloth, unclipped dj, slip case...

Bernard Leach interest. Four works. SOETSU YANAGI. 'The Unknown Craftsman. A Japanese Insight into Beauty,' first edition, adapted by Bernard Leac...

GEORGE MACDONALD Illustrations. 'Dealings With Fairies,' second edition, original green cloth with ornate gilt tooling, rubbed and bumped, endpape...

Lewis Carroll. A first and one other. 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There,' first edition first issue with printing error 'wade'...

'Banbury Chap Books'. By Edwin Pearson, limited edtion of 550, cloth backed pictorial boards, some finger staining, profusley illustrated with woo...

G. B. WORGAN. 'General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall'. Original publishers boards rebacked with modern cloth, ex libris label ...

EDMUND DULAC Illustrations. 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey,' by Anne Bronte, original cloth, colour plates, J. M. Dent & Sons, London...

JESSIE M. KING Illustrations. 'Mummy's Bedtime Story Book by Marion'. First edition, nibbles to edges of vibrant pictorial boards, restoration to ...

JOHN MICHELL. 'The Old Stones of Land's End,' Original cloth, clipped dj, ex libris ink stamp, some spotting, many illustrations, Garnstone Press,...

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