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Click here to subscribeComprehensive Collection Of Railway Memorabilia To Include Guards Whistle, Framed Early Tickets, Pilotman Arm Bands, Lner No.1096 Enamel Porter Arm Badge, Ticket Punch, Lner Beakers, Metal Tokens, Badges, Buttons, Union Medal And Badge In Presentation Case, Postcards, Cigarette Cards, Ephemera, Etc.
ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL FURNITURE AND DECORATIONS: A good Dutch walnut floral marquetry card table, of boldly shaped triangular form, the folding top with green baize lined interior, crossbanded borders, oval guinea wells and inlaid with playing cards, the similarly shaped apronned frieze with a drawer to one side, on moulded cabriole legs, typically inlaid throughout in variously stained and engraved woods with flower filled urn, birds and insects within panels of flowers and foliage, outlined with stringing, 33.5in wide, 30.5in high, mid-18th century
Autographs on small (2in. x 4in.) cards of Fred Terry (1869-1957), his wife Julia Neilson (1869-1957), Paul Robeson; Philip Snowden and his wife Ethel (Lord and Lady Snowden); Henry Alfred Lytton; Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975), Sir Malcom Sargent dated 1940; and others. (18)
STONE (IRVING) Lust for Life: A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh, reprint, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO STEPHEN LONGSTREET "good artist and good friend..." on front free endpaper, New York, 1937; Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London, reprint, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO STEPHEN AND ETHEL LONGSTREET "probably the nicest folks in Hollywood...", 1938 ~ Miller (Henry) The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, FIRST EDITION, New York, 1945; Tropic of Capricorn, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, New York, 1961 ~ Stein (Gertrude) Four in America, FIRST EDITION, New Haven, 1947, the third and last signed by Longstreet on title, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, a little rubbed; and 12 others, mostly literature including 3 Christmas cards from William E.Buckley with poems by Robert Frost and a folder of magazine articles, 4to et infra (17).
Forbes (James D.) Travels through the Alps, edited by W.A.B.Coolidge, portrait frontispiece loose, 3 folding maps, 2 in pocket at end, illustrations, hinges weak, original cloth, head of spine nicked, ( (Neate F45), A. & C. Black, 1900 ~ Caulfield (Vivian) Ski-ing Turns, first edition, 8 instruction cards in pocket at end, all partially browned, some ink and pencil annotations, underlining and sketches of ski-ing figures to text, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded, lower cover cockled, (Fedden 10), 1922; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (4).
Browning (Robert) The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 4 colour plates and plain illustrations by Arthur Rackham, lightly spotted, original pictorial wrappers, rubbed and faded, spine torn at foot, 1934 ~ Andersen (Hans Christian) Stories for the Household, translated by H.W.Dulcken, wood-engraved illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers after A.W.Bayes, title and some other leaves foxed, contemporary half roan, spine gilt, a little worn, upper joint split, n.d. ~ Lear (Edward) The Book of Nonsense, twenty-seventh edition, 1889; More Nonsense, fifth edition, 1897, the last two with illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, the second lacking front free endpaper; and 6 others, children's, including a cigarette card album of 50 cards depicting 'Speed', 8vo & 4to (10).
Short (James) A Large Collection of Original Artwork, sketches for London Transport and other posters, cigarette and other advertisements, magazine illustrations, dust-jacket designs and corresponding book illustrations, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, also caricatures, landscapes and a small amount of correspondence, pen and ink sketches, many with watercolour or gouache, also a few cut-outs and scraperboards, and examples of published images in magazines and newspapers, various sizes and conditions, some in sketchbooks, most loose, some mounted on cards with International Artists Ltd. agency labels, c.1918-c.1942; with further sketches and watercolours by other members of the Short family , some signed Joseph Short, others by F. Short, 4 woodcut bookplates by Frank Brangwyn, and 3 pen and ink drawings by Edward Raleigh (qty).
19th Century Chinese lacquer and gilt painted games box of lobed rectangular section, the raised feet formed as dogs of fo. Intricately decorated with panels of courtiers before pavillions on a scrolling foliage ground. Three interior boxes and lids containing three mother of pearl gaming counters and eight lacquer trays decorated as playing cards, the box lids painted with scenes of figures in river garden landscape, 12.5" x 6.5".
-. Stereocards. A collection, comprising 13 "hold-to-light" tissue cards, genre scenes and views; 28 European views, most by Adolphe Braun; 24 British views by Frith, G.W.Wilson and others; 11 portraits and genre scenes including General Tom Thumb, a basket maker and Welsh costumes; 6 American views including Grand Central Station, exterior and interior (illustrated); 2 views of Melbourne, with 2 cabinet card views of Australia and a small composite on Fiji, mounted albumen prints, each half c.75 x 70mm., some with titles and credits, c.1860s-80s (87).
Theatre.- Portraits of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, in character as Mathias in "The Bells" and Lady Macbeth, two albumen print cabinet cards by the London Stereoscopic Co. and Window & Grove respectively, each c.140 x 100mm., in contemporary card window mounts, each with the subject's ink signature mounted below, framed and glazed, late 19th century (2).