The April Library Auction - Rare Books & Manuscripts Including Children's & Illustrated

CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED. A miscellaneous collection of books to include Biggles and Billy Bunter, some first editions, including The Snowman, by ...

MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh, FIRST EDITION, first printing, 8vo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, map endpapers, top edge gilt, binding ...

BLYTON, Enid. The Secret Seven, first edition, first printing, 8vo, publisher's cream boards, unclipped dust-wrappers (priced 5/-), a very good ex...

MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh, second edition, 8vo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, map endpapers, top edge gilt, binding good with a few...

BLYTON, Enid. The Secret Seven Adventure, and Well Done Secret Seven, first editions, first impressions, unclipped but worn dust-wrappers, Leicest...

KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1902. Quarto, publisher's pictorial cloth, half-title. Contents generally goo...

DONALDSON, Julia & SCHEFFLER, Axel (Illus.). The Gruffalo, first edition, later printing, SIGNED by Axel Scheffler and featuring an ORIGINAL INK D...

DONALDSON, Julia & SCHEFFLER, Axel (Illus.). The Gruffalo, 20th Anniversary Edition, 1st printing, SIGNED by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, fea...

DONALDSON, Julia & SCHEFFLER, Axel (Illus.). Tiddler: The Story-Telling Fish, first edition, first printing, SIGNED by Julia Donaldson & Axel Sche...

ANDERSEN, Hans. Fairy Tales, together with R. L. Stevenson's Prayers (2)

DONALDSON, Julia & SCHEFFLER, Axel (Illus.). Tabby McTat, first edition, first printing, SIGNED by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, featuring an ...

DONALDSON, Julia & SCHEFFLER, Axel (Illus.). The Smeds and The Smoos, first edition, first printing, SIGNED by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, f...

DONALDSON, Julia A collection of ten picture books, ALL SIGNED by Julia Donaldson, comprising: Monkey Puzzle, first edition, later printing, hardc...

DONALDSON, Julia & SCHEFFLER, Axel (Illus.). A collection of five first editions, first printings, comprising: Stick Man, Alison Green Books, 2008...

DAHL, Roald. Matilda, first edition, first printing, London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Octavo, publisher's red imitation cloth lettered in gilt, unclip...

DAHL, Roald. The BFG, 1st edition, ex-library, London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 (plus later edition of same); Boy, 1st edition, unclipped but creased d...

DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Special Edition, limited edition for Fenwick [one of 1000], including an exclusive hand-numbered p...

BLAKE, Quentin (Illus.). A collection of first editions, first printings, comprising: Three Little Monkeys, SIGNED by Quentin Blake & Emma Chiches...

MCKEE, David. Not Now, Bernard, 35th Anniversary Special Edition [one of 300 copies SIGNED and numbered by the author within a protective slipcase...

ROSEN, Michael. We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Limited Edition, SIGNED by Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury, London: Walker Books, 2016, together with a...

BRIGGS, Raymond. A collection of four first editions, first printings, comprising: Gentleman Jim, SIGNED and inscribed by the author, "For John, w...

John Harrold (b. 1947). Greenchase Book Club, 2005, signed l.l., a pair of illustrations, one ink & watercolour, 14 x 14cm, the other pencil, 12 x...

Stuart Trotter (Contemporary). The 80th Rupert Annual, six copies signed by the illustrator, each bearing an original ink remarque of Rupert, and ...

PHILLIPS, William Francis. [Seaman, HMS Calypso]. A manuscript journal of a training voyage to the West Indies in 1890 with entries recorded in in...

Education. A collection of three manuscript workbooks comprising: 1. Miss Eliza Clare, 1819, 'English Exercises', filled to end with 111 manuscrip...

Urbain-Alexandre-Henri, Count Greffulhe (1815-1879), President of the General Council of Seine-et-Marne, French politician and Senator for life. P...

MEDICINE & MAGIC. A 19th-century West African set of manuscript leaves in Arabic, entirely handwritten in various hands & inks, featuring numerous...

Charles II period vellum indenture, dated 1666 [Annus mirabilis year of Isaac Newton's "apple" and the Great Fire of London], signed by Charles Ta...

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HERALDRY. Grant of Arms to George Frederick Jackson of Springfield House in Knowle, Warwickshire, illustrated manuscript on vellum scroll, body-co...

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, second issue bearing bookplate signed by the author in green ink on front free endpaper, ...

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first deluxe edition, sealed in original cellophane wrappers bearing barcode label, print...

ROWLING, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector's Edition, first edition, London: Children's High Level Group, December, 2008. Bound in ful...

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 40th printing, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket, together wi...

ROWLING, J. K. & KAY, Jim (Illus.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 14th printing thus, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 1st pri...

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The Golfers - A Grand Match Played Over St. Andrew's Links, a colour mechanical process print of the engraving by Charles E. Wagstaffe after a pai...

Adolphe Forestier (French, 1801-1885). Queen Victoria, bust-length portrait, etching with drypoint on vellum, engraved by Armand Mathey, signed by...

Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo, publisher's black cloth with unclipped dust-jacket designed...

A late-Victorian scrapbook, 18 pages filled with pasted chromolithographic illustrations of animals, people, flowers, soldiers, comic scenes, rema...

Ralph, Benjamin. The School of Raphael, Or, The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting, illustrated with engravings by Duchange and ...

A miscellaneous collection of books comprising The Castles and Abbeys of England, by William Beattie, illustrated with steel-engraved plates, firs...

Grimethorpe Colliery (NCB): New Head Gear No.3 Shaft, scale 1/8” = 1-0”, drawing No.74/G492B/A21. Coloured architect's top and side elevations pla...

WALLACE, Edgar. A collection of mixed editions comprising The Strange Countess, 33rd edition, 1941; The Crimson Circle, 28th edition, 1947; The Fo...

DAHL, Roald. Matilda, SIGNED first edition, first printing, signed & inscribed in bold black ink by the author, "To Naomi, Love, Roald Dahl 1988",...

GREAT EXHIBITION. The Crystal Palace and Its Contents; Being an Illustrated Cyclopaedia of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations 185...

HOROLOGY. A collection of horological reference books, c. 1920s to modern, condition varied, sold with all faults (18)

BONE, Muirhead (Illus.). The Western Front, in two volumes, each volume illustrated with 100 plates (total 200), quarto, half buckram with morocco...

DICKENS, Charles. The Works, "London Edition", in 18 volumes, octavo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, condition varied, sold with all fa...

THOMAS, Myfanwy. One of These Fine Days, first edition, featuring three loosely-inserted autograph letters signed, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1982

A collection of reference works on bookplates to include The Bookplate Society Newsletter, 1972-1990; The Bookplate Journal, 1983-1990; The Journa...

Stockdale (John): A Map of Cornwall, original/early 19th century outline colouring, Scilly Isles within cartouche frame, latitudes and compass, un...

SITWELL, Osbert. Four signed & inscribed presentation copies for Sitwell's close friend and treasured physiotherapist, Leonard Green, all first ed...

CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. Uncle Bernac, The Tragedy of the Korosko, and The Green Flag, three stories bound as one, London: George Newnes, 1902; Ro...

DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1837; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1839; The Life and Adventures of...

DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species, Sixth Edition with Additions and Corrections (forty-fifth thousand), London: John Murray, 1894. Octavo, bl...

The Art Bible, tall octavo, finely bound in crushed morocco lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, sold with all faults, London: Geo...

BINDER, Pearl. Misha Learns English, Puffin Picture Book No. 25, first edition, Penguin Books Ltd., [1942]. Oblong format, colour lithographic pap...

Stockdale (John): A Map of the south part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, hand coloured outlines. List of 11 Wapentakes and compass. Some light d...

ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets, London: Faber & Faber, 1944; Collected Poems 1909-1935, sixth impression, London: Faber & Faber, 1944. Octavo, publish...