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ENID BLYTON, TALES AND PLAYS including Six O’Clock Tales, 1942 and Twenty-Minute Tales, 1940 - both 1st Editions along with Five-Minute Tales, Poetry Book and Six Enid Blyton Plays, original dust wrappers, all MethuenQty: 5

Gershwin (Ira).- Milburn (George) The Hobo's Hornbook, ink and pencil ownership inscriptions of Ira Gershwin light toning, occasional surface marks to a few leaves, bumping to spine ends with slight fraying, uncut fore-edge, New York, 1930 § Bacon (Peggy) Off With Their Heads!, light toning to margins, Ira Gershwin's posthumous bookplate to front pastedown, toning to spine, some spotting to joints, dust-jacket, loss to spine, panels detached or becoming so, chipped, torn and worn, New York, 1934; Isaacs (J.) The Background of Modern Poetry. Based on the Broadcast Talks, presentation note to Gershwin from Sidney Bernstein attached "I think, this book shld be in the Gershwin library. S", bumping to spine and joints, dust-jacket, fading to spine, toning to edges and lower panel, small nicks and bumps with a few small tears and one or two chips to upper panel, 1951, first editions, original cloth or boards, 4to & 8vo; and two others owned by Ira Gershwin (5)

* KERRY DARLINGTON (WELSH b. 1964), TREE OF LIFE original mixed media and resin on board, signed framed image size 27cm x 80cm, overall size 56cm x 109cm Note: in The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 6th March 2022 two new auction records were achieved at £6500 and £9500 (both hammer) for original paintings by Kerry Darlington. Note 2: Kerry Darlington was born in 1974 in Rhyl, North Wales. She was inspired by magical fairy tale picture books and stories during her childhood and held a particular fascination for Arthur Rackham's intricate pen and ink work. This influenced her to take a degree in Illustration, with intentions of becoming a children's book Illustrator. During this period she discovered the Pre-Raphaelite artists and Art Nouveau. She found this work so hauntingly beautiful that it captivated her completely and it still has a profound effect on her own art. In the years that followed, Kerry began to build a reputation for her original, decorative designs using 3D elements and resin which became hugely popular, focusing primarily on trees and nature. Inspiration for these was taken from the Art Nouveau period, particularly Klimt’s infamous ‘Tree of Life’. Today, she continues to paint themes of myth and legend, poetry and stories.

Lady Gregory. The Kiltartan Poetry Book. 1919. 1st and Lady Gregory's 1916-1930. Edited by Lennox Robinson. 1946. 1st (2)

Irish Poetry: The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909 COOKE, John. Published by Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd, 1924; Poems of old and new by L Murphy Talbot Press, 1925; Poems by K M Murphy -First prize Tailteann Literary Competition, 1932 plus 5 others (8)

A VICTORIAN SCRAP BOOK BELONGING TO A RELATIVE OF CAPTAIN JAMES MUDDLE,Exceptionally detailed, well presented and complete, to include various watercolours, engravings, poetry, signed letters.To include watercolours possibly by Captain James Muddle depicting Island of Timidada (Trinidad), Martim Vas Rocks, St Pauls Island (Malta).Also a copy of the Speech of the Five Nations in Council at Fort George, written by Mrs Foulkes 1826, a niece of the Late Dr Edward Jenner.Watercolour of the Island of Rotumah (Fiji).Watercolour of the Island of St Anthony, by Master J. Smith.Watercolour of Volcano Island by Smith.A watercolour View of the Eastermost End of San Christobal (Soloman Islands) from The Deliverance.Anecdote of Fanny Kemble.Watercolour and letter by C Green (Charlers Green?).Signed letter, agreement between the candidates to close the poll at Rochester, Signed H. Dundas, W. Armstrong, A Bernal.Report on the Death of the King of the Sandwich Islands.An account of the cure of Mr Grosvenors deafness by the smoke of tobacco, copied from a letter to Lord Nelson.30cm x 25cm x 6cmJames Muddle was born at Gillingham in Kent on 31 January 1785. James probably went to sea at a fairly young age and worked his way up to become a master mariner. The first record of him at sea, at the age of 25, is as the master of the small single mast sloop Boston sailing in coastal waters. In 1814, James then became master of the 356-ton ship ‘Leng’, armed with six 6-pounder guns, bound for the West Indies. The Lloyd's Register for 1820 also recorded that during that year James took over from as master of the 410 ton convict ship Lord Sidmouth. By the age of 35, James had progressed from being master of ships sailing in coastal waters to sailing to the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic, and now to the other side of the World. In 1820 it was reported that the Lord Sidmouth captain Muddle had sailed from Portsmouth on for New South Wales. After a voyage of 107 days, they arrived at Sydney in Australia on 19 February 1821, where 160 male prisoners were disembarked. James and the Lord Sidmouth also sailed to Jakarta, Calcutta, Mauritius. Upon arriving back to England in 1821, James became captain of the prison ship the ‘Andromeda’, which sailed from Leith to to Van Diemans Land and New South Wales. During the following two decades of travels in and around Australia, James will have collected many of the items in the collection. James is also known to have been captain of the ship ‘Lang’, as well as the “Mandarin’, ‘Glenbervie’ and the ‘Roseanne’. He sailed on prison ships to New Zealand and even China. James died in 1865 at the age of 80, and his collection has been passed by descent down the generations to the present owners.For more information please see the link below:https://www.muddlefamilies.info/harrietsham/22eaa.htm

NINE BOXES OF BOOKS AND CDS to include a box of ordnance survey maps, a book of railway junction diagrams, a quantity of Polish language books, assorted railway interest books to include steam railways, British and Continental networks, assorted vintage poetry books, a group of rugby and Leicester Tigers related titles, a copy of the Karma Sutra, a box of mixed classical music CDs to include Beethoven Chopin, Haydn etc, approximately thirty 45RPM singles, etc (9 boxes) (s.d)

Commonplace Book, manuscript, 105pp. of poetry and prose, 7 drawings/watercolours including: Minster Church, Isle of Thanet; Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield; "Glengarry's Bowling Green from Loch Oonigan" etc., original half straight-grained morocco, edges rubbed, 205 x 135mm., 1820-31; and another, v.s., v.d. (2).

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962, 1st edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, internally leaves with no previous owner names or inscriptions, clean/VGC, original pictorial paper covered boards (very slightly worn at top edge, else near fine), dust wrapper (neatly price clipped, some very light spotting/foxing, else near fine). An excellent first edition copy of this collection of poetry by J.R.R. Tolkien, very difficult to find in such condition which. Like the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring, it is presented as if it is an actual translation from the Red Book of Westmarch, and contains some background information on the world of Middle-earth that is not found elsewhere

The Folio Society books including Shakespeare's Life and World; The Folio Anthology of Poetry; The Face of Battle; Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life; Letter from America; Travels in West Africa; The Back of the Northwind; The Habsburgs; Josephus Life of Herod; The Folio Book of Humorous Verse; Crusader Castles; The Best of the Ranconteur and the Best After Dinner Stories (13)

Highly limited edition (number 343/1000) deluxe box set celebrating Nick Drake. The set contains The 10" John Peel Session (ANTARMP003 - lovely Ex+/Ex+ condition showing minimal wear), book signed by Gabrielle Drake and Cally, 3 prints with signed slip by Julian Lloyd with this copy also rather charmingly coming with a ticket and programme for the Wenlock Poetry Festival 2012.

Noel Coward: From the Collection of his Dresser, William 'Billy' Duffy, includes, caricature of Noel Coward mounted, framed and glazed, 13.5 x 12.5 inches overall, B&W promo photo of Eamon Andrews show with guests Muhammed Ali, Lucille Ball, Noel Coward and Dudley Moore, 9 x 7.5 inches with ABC Television stamp to rear, an envelope addressed to Peter Rendall Associates that has been split open and contains handwritten poetry, sketches and thoughts possibly by Coward's hand, a postcard from Zurich to Billy Duffy signed 'Master' (nickname for Coward), an order of service for Noel Coward 1973 St Martin-In-The-Fields, a newspaper clippng and a paperback book (6).

* Peninsular War. A manuscript account of the Storming of the Ciudad Rodrigo, [by Lieutenant William Mackie, 88th Connaught Rangers], paper watermarked 1837, addressed to ‘Sir’ [Lt.-Col. Charles James Napier, 1782-1853], addressing the incorrect recollection of the surrender of the Storming of the Ciudad Rodrigo, on the 19 January 1812, by Colonel John Gurwood [1788-1845], which omitted Lieutenant Mackie’s key role in being the first to accept a sword from the French army in signal of their surrender: ‘Immediately on entering I was hailed by a French Officer, asking for an English General to who they might surrender. Pointing to my epaulets … a sword presented to me in token of surrender, which I accordingly received.’; ‘My chagrin and disappointment may be easily imagined, when Lord Wellington’s dispatches reached the army from England to find my name altogether omitted.’; ‘I do declare on the word of a man of honour, that, I was the first individual, who effected the descent from the main breach into the streets of the town. That I preceded the advance into the body of the place, that I was the first who entered the Citadel, and that the Enemy there assembled had surrendered to myself and party before Lieut Gurwood came up.’; ‘I need not say that this danger is only the more imminent from his statement appearing in a work which, as being published under the auspices of the Duke of Wellington as well as of the Horse Guards, has at least the appearance of coming in the guise of an official authority,’ 17 pages, 8vo, together with:Address to Britannia, on the anniversary of the Battle of Buçaco 27th Sept 1816, a handwritten book of mainly poetry and some prose, by William Mackie, a total of 129 pages, signed to verso of front free endpaper, half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed with some corner wear, 4to, plusLife of Field-Marshall His Grace The Duke of Wellington, by W. H. Maxwell, 3 volumes, 4th edition, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1845, including 3 volumes in defective bindings, 8vo, and Britannia Ingrata: A Tribute to the Peninsular Army, with an introduction and notes by Major William Mackie, London: T. & W. Boone, 1837, lithograph frontispiece, presentation inscription to half-title ‘To Agnes Jane Mackie, From her affectionate father John Mackie, 1st January 1862, Edinburgh’, upper hinge broken with text block detached from spine, all edges gilt, 4toQTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: The vendor was given these items by the great grandson of Major William Mackie in 1979. This the first time they have been offered for sale. During the Peninsular War, the 88th ‘Devils Own’ Connaught Rangers established a reputation as one of the most fearsome battalions in Wellington’s army. The 88th was at the forefront of the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, which took place on 19 January 1812, when Lieutenant William Mackie, who volunteered to lead the 'forlorn hope', led the assault of the 3rd Division against the main breach, losing 63 officers and men. Mackie’s letter challenging Colonel Gurwood’s view of what happened seems to have had some effect on at least one subsequent publication. In The Duke of Wellington by W. H. Maxwell, volume 2, p. 439, it states that: ‘Mackie… reached the citadel; and his gallantry was rewarded by receiving there the submission of General Barrie and such of the garrison as it contained’. Maxwell also goes on to reference the letter: ‘Major Mackie addressed to Lieut.-Colonel Napier a modest but accurate statement of the part he had acted in storming Rodrigo, leaving the world - as I do - the task of deciding to whom, by right of conquest, the sword of General Barrie should have belonged’. Mackie's account has also influenced many modern historians including: Richard Holmes, Tim Saunders, William Grattan, etc.

A quantity of C19th and C20th delicate aged books, including Common Prayer, Love Poetry and a tooled leather volume of VISIT OF COLONIAL PREMIERS AND THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT TO PORTSMOUTH, MAY 1907, with detailed plates of ships; and a fabric bound small book of a manuscript, and this is POSSIBLY relating to letters to the British Library about information concerning a manuscript; and a quantity of old black and white portrait photographs; see all images

ONE BOX OF MISCELLANEOUS SUNDRIES, to include a Doug Hyde 'Sea of Love' vase by John Beswick, height 18cm, two empty vintage 'Dimple' scotch whisky bottles, a mid-19th century book of Plane Trigonometry by James Hann, a 1928 edition of Good Company Poetry arranged by William J. Moughton, an 1894 edition of Little Folks, four copies of early 20th century The Motorcycle magazines, a small framed watercolour signed P.J. Tyler '89 19cm x 24cm, a river scene watercolour signed J. Collins 32.5cm x 40.5cm, a cased set of butter knives, sugar tongs and teaspoons (missing one teaspoon), a 1967 signed weight lifting championships programme, bearing a signature Louis Martin, etc. (s.d) (1 box)

Medical interest to include the African Trypanosomiases, The London School of Hygiene and  Tropical Medicine Memoir 10, General Parasitology, Medical Education at Saint Bartholomew 's Hospital 1123-1925, Protozoology, Science and the Shabby Curate of Poetry, The Art of the Soluble, 'Malaria' three vols and more general volumes - Lehmann , Rosamund " The Echoing Grove', Collins and the Book Society 1953, dust-wrapper, Toynbee 'A Study of History' 2 vols, Cooper 'Memoirs of a New Man' Macaulay ,Rose ' The Towers of Trebizond' Collins and the Book Society 1956, The County Book of Hertfordshire and other vols ( 2 boxes)

MIXED POETRY: 12 Titles: P M ZALL [SELECTED BY]: PETER PINDAR'S POEMS; W R RODGERS: COLLECTED POEMS; W R RODGERS: EUROPA AND THE BULL; THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W H DAVIES; JAMES ELROY FLECKER: FORTY-TWO POEMS AND THE GRECIANS; W R RODGER: AWAKE! AND OTHER POEMS; EWART MILNE: A GARLAND FOR THE GREEN; EDWIN MUIR: THE LABYRINTH; CHARLES CAUSLEY: THE PUFFIN BOOK OF SALT, SEA AND VERSE; JOHN LEHMAN [SELECTED BY]: POEMS FROM NEW WRITING; DEREK STANFORD: THE BODY OF LOVE; POEMS OF TO-DAY [THIRD SERIES] (12)

Childish, Billy (pseudonym for Steven John Bill Hamper). 2005 poems 1996- 2005. Published by Hangman Books, Chatham. Hand painted outer cardboard box shell in brown featuring scene of cyclist atop a bicycle to lid, signed to inner lid & numbered 3 of 100 by Childish; the box containing an original woodblock print numbered 18 of 100, a handmade bar of chocolate produced by Childish wrapped in brown paper, and eight pamphlets of poetry, each with original woodblock print & hand stamped titles to front cover. Poetry booklets being 'i have been lying all my life', 'ghosts at noon', 'the knocker off of tall hats', 'the book of my enimys', 'the perfict life of a poet', 'where the tiger prowls striped and unseen', 'old 4 legs', and 'this is my shit and it smells good to me'. Small 8vo.

Pyne (J. B). Lake Scenery of England, drawn on stone by T. Picken, London: Day & Son, [1859], illuminated chromolithograph title, 24 tinted colour lithographic plates by T. Picken, some scattered spotting, all edges gilt, publisher's original gilt decorated and blind blocked green cloth, corners bumped, tall 8vo, together with:Morris (Francis Orpen). A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 7 volumes (including volume of facsimile autographs), circa 1880, chromolithograph additional titles, numerous chromolithograph plates, letterpress titles to each volume, scattered spotting, publisher's original gilt decorated and blind blocked green cloth, 4toWise (John R.). The New Forest: It's History and its Scenery, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867, folding map, illustrations to text, ownership signatures to title and front bank, publisher's original gilt decorated green gloth, corners rubbed and bumped, 8vo, together with 25 other volumes in gilt-decorated cloth bindings including: S. C. Hall, Book of Gems, London; Bell and Daldy, 1866, Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape, London: Routledge and Sons, 1862, Flower Poetry and the Language of Flowers, London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1877, Scottish Lock Scenery, London: John Walker and Co, 1882 QTY: (34)

Poetry: I Bhreasail A Book of Lyrics by Daniel Corkery, 1921; The Departure of Dermot by Standish O'Grady, 1917; The Outcast by James Stephens, drawings by Althea Willoughby; Irish Eclogues by Edward E Lysaght, 1915 plus 4 others (8)

Poetry: The Sisters, Inisfail and other poems by Aubrey De Vere -, 1861; The Oxford book of English verse 1250-1900 by A T Quiller-Couch, 1906-Full Calf; Cithara Mea Poems by Rev P A Sheehan, 1900; Ben Madigan and others poems by J H Cousins; Irish Love Songs selected by Katharine Tynan1892; Poems by W#Eliza Mary Hamilton, 1838; The Fighting Race and other Poems and Ballads by J C Clarke, 1911; With The Wild geese by Emily Lawless, 1902 (8) HB

SCRIVERIUS, P., (ed.). Het oude Goutsche chronycxken van Hollandt, Zeelandt, Vrieslandt en Utrecht. Als mede met een byvoeghsel en toet-steen verm. Amst., J.H. Boom, (a.o.), 1663. (6), 280 pp. W. engr. front. & 36 engr. portrs. of the Counts of Holland in the text. 4°. Cont. vellum. (Upper spine end dam., discreet annot., & book plate Henri Tak on paste down & first free endp., otherwise a clean & fresh copy). NOTE: Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660) was born in Haarlem, studied and lived at Leiden. He published esteemed editions of classical works, promoted Dutch poetry and wrote Latin and Dutch poetry himself. - Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem 436d; De Wind 412.

° ° Milligan, Spike (1918-2002) - a collection of 52 books, including Humour and Satire, which include his ‘’War Memoirs’’, Poetry, Children’s books, Plays and Scripts, Autobiographies and Memoirs. The Mirror Running, 1987, Poems. w. Illusts, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine     Open Heart University, 1980, Poems. w. Illusts, soft cover, Penguin publ. 1980 - condition fineThe Great McGonagall Scrapbook,1976, Mixed content, soft cover, Wyndham Pubs. W. Jack Hobbs - condition fine    Wuthering Heights (acc to SM), 1994, Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j, 3rd impression - condition fineLady Chatterly's Lover (acc to SM), 1994, Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j, 4th impression - condition fine    The Looney, 1987, Comic novel, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        Adolf Hitler, my part in his downfall, 1971, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, Inscription on frontispiece - condition fine    Rommel, Gunner Who, 1974, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        Monty, my part in his victory, 1976, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, Ed by Jack Hobbs - condition fineMussolini, his part in my downfall, 1978, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, Ed by Jack Hobbs - condition fineWhere have all the bullets gone,1986, War memoirs, soft cover, Penguin ed - condition fineGoodbye Soldier, 1986, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, small inscription on frontispiece - condition finePeace Work, 1991, Post war memoirs, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        The Essential Spike Milligan, 2003    Compilation, soft cover, Compiled by Alexander Games - condition fineSpike Milligan, Man of Letters    2014, Compilation, soft cover, Compiled by Norma Farnes - condition fine    The Spike Milligan Letters, 1978, Compilation, hard cover, Compiled by Norma Farnes - condition fine    Scunthorpe revisited, added arts..,    1989, Compilation, soft cover, Ed Jack Hobbs - condition fine    Indefinite articles and Scunthorpe,    1983, Compilation, soft cover - condition fineThe Bible (Old Test) (acc to SM), 1993,    Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        The Goons, The Story, 2001    History of the Goons, soft cover, by Norma Farnes and Chris Smith     - condition fineA Dustbin of Milligan, 1961, Compilation, hard cover, Inscription on frontispiece - condition fine    A mad medley of Milligan, 1999, Compilation, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        William McGonagal meets George Gershwin, 1988, Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        The Goon Show Scripts,    1972, Scripts, hard cover, Inscription inside front cover     - condition fair to goodMore Goon Show Scripts, 1973, Scripts, hard cover, Fwd by PoW. Inscript inside - condition fair to goodThe Q Annual, 1979, Scripts, hard cover - condition fineThe Book of the Goons, 1975, Mixture, soft cover, Letters, scripts etc. - condition fineThe Lost Goon Shows, 1987,    Scripts, hard copy - condition fineThe Melting Pot, 1983, Series scripts, hard cover, with Neil Shand and Bill Tidy - condition fineThe Goon Cartoons, 1982, Graphic scripts, hard cover, ill. By Pete Clarke - condition fineS.M. A Celebration,    1995, Best of M…, hard cover, comp by Roger Sawyer - condition fineFurther Transports of Delight, 1986, Transport pics, soft cover, with comic captions - condition fairStartling Verse for all the family, 1987, Poems. w. Illusts, hard cover, w d/7 - condition fineIt ends with Magic,1990,    Comic family story, hard cover - condition finePuckoon,1972    Comic novel, soft cover, inside page detached, rubbed - condition poorThe Bedside Milligan, 1973, Compilation, soft cover - condition fair        Small Dreams of a Scorpion, 1975, Poems. w. Illusts, soft cover, ill. by Laura Milligan - condition goodThe 101 best and only limericks, 1984, Limericks, soft cover - condition goodA Book of Bits or a Bit of a Book, 1973, Poems and stories, soft cover - condition fairWilliam McGonagal, the Truth at last, 1978, Comic stories, soft cover, ill. by Peter Sellers et al - condition good    The Bed Sitting Room, 1978, Play, soft cover, with John Antrobus - condition goodGoblins, 1978, Verses and Illusts., hard copy, w d/j    Illusts by Heath Robinson - condition fineThe Little Pot Boiler, 1969, Verses and stories, soft cover, inscription inside front cover - condition fair    The Milligan Book of Records, 1977, Off beat records!    soft    cover - condition fair, marking on front cover    DUPLICATESA Dustbin of Milligan, 1963, Compilation, soft cover, inscription on frontispiece - condition poorWuthering Heights (acc to SM), 1995, Spoof novel, soft cover - condition fineThe Spike Milligan Letters, 1979, Compilation, soft cover - condition fairMore Goon Show Scripts, 1973, Scripts, soft cover, Fwd. by PoW - condition fairThe Q Annual, 1980, Scripts, soft cover - condition goodBIOGRAPHYA Biography by Pauline Scudamore, 1987, Biog, soft cover - condition fair to goodBy Humphrey Carpenter, 2003, Biog, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine    By Norma Farnes, 2003,    titled Spike, an intimate memoir, Biog and memoir, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine

watercolour on paper, signed, titled verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 19cm x 17cm, overall size 37cm x 34cm Exhibition label verso: John Busby - Landscapes & Birds, 8 March - 2 April 1997, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Note: John Philip Busby was born in Bradford in 1928 and attended Ilkley Grammar School. After National Service, he studied at Leeds College of Art and then at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) where he was awarded post-graduate and major travel scholarships. On return from France and Italy he was invited to join the staff of ECA, where he taught drawing and painting from 1956 until 1988. In 1959 he was commissioned to paint the mural Christ in Glory in the Scottish Episcopal Church, St Columba-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh. A member of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), he served as President of the Society of Scottish Artists, (SSA) 1976-79. A life-long bird watcher and naturalist (at age 17 he was at the inaugural meeting of the Wharfdale Naturalists Society in 1945), he was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA). He led courses in Switzerland, Crete, the Falklands and Galapagos Islands, in Orkney and at Nature in Art in Gloucestershire, and in 1989 he began a Seabird Drawing course based at North Berwick. Now named after him, this has continued each year since, attracting participants from many parts of the world. He took part in projects with the Artists for Nature Foundation (ANF) in Holland, Poland, Spain, Ireland, India, Portugal and Israel, and in SWLA/Forestry Commission projects in the New Forest and in the oak woods in the west of Scotland. In 1991 he was filmed in Shetland for the Granada TV production “Portrait of the Wild – Summer‘. John Busby illustrated over 35 books about birds and animals, mostly about behaviour, ranging from seabirds and garden birds to tigers and otters, plus a book of poems by Kenneth Steven (Wild Horses) and many of the illustrations in The RSPB Anthology of Wildlife Poetry. His own books are mentioned elsewhere but also include a booklet Landscapes at the Edge of the Sea in 2010 with his rock pool paintings, and another for the first Curious Eye exhibition which he curated at the RSA in 2007. In 2009 he was declared "Master Wildlife Artist" by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin USA. He exhibited widely both at home and abroad and had a major retrospective exhibition at Bradford City Art Gallery in 1999/2000. More recently a retrospective exhibition, planned before his death, was held at Nature in Art, Gloucester in August 2015, and two large exhibitions to celebrate his landscapes (at the Royal Scottish Academy) and drawings (at The Scottish Gallery) were held in Edinburgh in June 2016, with another at the Wildlife Art Gallery in Lavenham, Suffolk in November 2017. In 2019 a major exhibition of his paintings was held during the Edinburgh Arts Festival, 29th July to 2nd September at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh.

Christie (Agatha) The Road of Dreams, first edition, inscribed "with best wishes for xmas" in the author's hand on printed "Mrs Archibal Christie" visiting card, loosely inserted, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed boards, spine label a little toned, otherwise an excellent example, [Cooper & Pike pp.82-9], 8vo, Geoffrey Bles, [1925]. *** A scarce book with an even rarer Christie piece of ephemera, with an inscription in her hand. The Road of Dreams was Christie's first book of poetry, and indeed one of her earliest works in any genre. It was printed at her own expense with sadly negligible sales. Includes Christie's calling or visitors card, used when married to her first husband Archie, and during her time living in Scotswood in Sunningdale. It was a large Victorian house that, by the 1920s, had been split into four apartments, of which Agatha and Archie took one as a respite from London city living. After a few years of poor management of the house, they began looking for other properties. 

COMMONPLACE BOOK. A manuscript book of poetry, 4to, c 1840. With 3 early books on German grammar and an illustrated book on Japan with German text, 1957. With two others (7) (box)

Six late Victorian gilt tooled books, comprising 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, published by George Allen, London 1894, 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift, illustrated by Charles E. Brock, Macmillan & Co, London 1894, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Macmillan & Co, London 1891, 'Our Village' by Mary Russel Mitford, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Macmillan and Co, London 1893, 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments' edited by Andrew Lang, Longmans, Green & Co, London 1898 and 'The Blue Poetry Book', edited by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford and Lancelor Speed, Longmans, Green & Co, London 1891 (6).Condition Report: Pride and prejudice - top and bottom of spine are somewhat worn/buckled colour of cover is nice and strong, hardly any scratches scratches, no damage, booksellers small label to inside cover, small area of foxing to title pages and fly sheet, very slight discolouration to edges of pages

Huntley and Palmers - an early 20th century Edwardian biscuit tin in the form of a set of bindings. The set with book spines titled History of Reading, Poetry, Essays, Travels, Science, Modern Reading, Biscuits and Cakes. On red ground with gilt tooling to 'spines' and 'boards', complete with tin leather strap.Measures approx. 16cm x 16cm x 12cm.

[Watson (Thomas, editor)] The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces, first edition, woodcut illustrations, ex-library with ink-stamp to pastedown, foxing, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, upper joint repaired affecting gilt to spine, lower joint cracked, front free endpapers renewed, for J. Fletcher and Co., 1764 § [Whyte (Samuel) and others] A Collection of Poems, The Productions of the Kingdom of Ireland: Selected from...The Shamrock; or, Hibernian Cresses, 19th century ownership inscriptions to pastedown and front free endpaper, a few manuscript annotations to Contents leaves, B4 very small marginal hole, browning to margins of first few leaves, some light browning and foxing elsewhere, contemporary calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, some loss to spine ends, corners quite worn, rubbed, upper joint split and with backstrip peeled away, for S. Bladon, 1773, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others 18th century, most poetry, v.s. (c.35) 

Book: Josephine & Her Dolls by Mrs. H. C. Cradock, Albert The Camel's Son by Hugh Heaton, The Second Book of British Birds & Their Nests & two poetry books including Byron

An original 'A Wartime Log' book, published by the Canadian Y.M.C.A. during World War II, provided to Canadian Prisoners of War (POWs) as a means of documenting their experiences behind enemy lines. This particular log belonged to POWs held at Stalag VIII-B, Lamsdorf—one of the largest and most infamous POW camps in Nazi-occupied Europe. The book contains a fascinating collection of illustrations, drawings, poems, and writings, created by the prisoners themselves, offering a rare and deeply personal insight into life inside the camp.Among the contributors is Warrant Officer William Hughes (RAF, POW No. 26834), whose artistic and literary entries provide a poignant reflection on the hardship, camaraderie, and resilience of the prisoners. His work, alongside that of fellow inmates, captures the emotional and psychological landscape of wartime imprisonment, blending humor, sorrow, and hope through detailed sketches, poetic verses, and diary-like passages.Though the log is incomplete, the material it contains is an invaluable time capsule, offering not just glimpses of POW daily life but also extraordinary examples of wartime creativity. These entries illustrate how the prisoners used art and literature to cope with the horrors of captivity, maintaining a sense of identity and morale. The artwork and poetry, created with whatever limited materials were available, stand as enduring testaments to the human spirit in times of extreme adversity.This logbook is a remarkable piece of history, reflecting the resourcefulness, courage, and hope of those who endured internment at Stalag VIII-B.

A box of miscellaneous Religious artifacts; a silver spoon with knight terminal; poetry book and other ephemera

TWO BOXES OF BOOKS ON POETRY, POLITICS AND THE THEATRE containing approximately fifty-three titles in hardback and softback formats, subjects / titles include The Maisky Diaries 1932 - 1943, Memoirs of a Soviet Ambassador, Never Give In - The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches, Fry; Christopher, A Phoenix Too Frequent, signed by the Autor, London Stage In The 20th Century, Wendell Holmes; Oliver, The Last Leaf, The 101 Greatest Plays, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, Eyre; Richard and Wright; Nicholas, Changing Stages and many others

FOUR 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, comprising John Lawrence 'Days are where we live', a wood engraving for the book A New Treasury of Poetry', signed, titled and marked A.P to lower margin, approximate size 30cm x 25cm, a J. Whiteford etching with colours 'The Bird Bath' numbered 8/15, a Ian Laurie etching with colours 'Newlyn' and a limited edition wood block print after Charles Tunnicliffe, the print was produced in an edition of fifty from the repaired block by Simon Lawrence for Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, together with a Japanese woodblock print, an unworked Festival of Britain embroidery map with printed instructions and a small number of postcards

° ° Milligan, Spike (1918-2002) - a collection of 52 books, including Humour and Satire, which include his ‘’War Memoirs’’, Poetry, Children’s books, Plays and Scripts, Autobiographies and Memoirs. The Mirror Running, 1987, Poems. w. Illusts, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine     Open Heart University, 1980, Poems. w. Illusts, soft cover, Penguin publ. 1980 - condition fineThe Great McGonagall Scrapbook,1976, Mixed content, soft cover, Wyndham Pubs. W. Jack Hobbs - condition fine    Wuthering Heights (acc to SM), 1994, Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j, 3rd impression - condition fineLady Chatterly's Lover (acc to SM), 1994, Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j, 4th impression - condition fine    The Looney, 1987, Comic novel, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        Adolf Hitler, my part in his downfall, 1971, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, Inscription on frontispiece - condition fine    Rommel, Gunner Who, 1974, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        Monty, my part in his victory, 1976, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, Ed by Jack Hobbs - condition fineMussolini, his part in my downfall, 1978, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, Ed by Jack Hobbs - condition fineWhere have all the bullets gone,1986, War memoirs, soft cover, Penguin ed - condition fineGoodbye Soldier, 1986, War memoirs, hard cover, w d/j, small inscription on frontispiece - condition finePeace Work, 1991, Post war memoirs, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        The Essential Spike Milligan, 2003    Compilation, soft cover, Compiled by Alexander Games - condition fineSpike Milligan, Man of Letters    2014, Compilation, soft cover, Compiled by Norma Farnes - condition fine    The Spike Milligan Letters, 1978, Compilation, hard cover, Compiled by Norma Farnes - condition fine    Scunthorpe revisited, added arts..,    1989, Compilation, soft cover, Ed Jack Hobbs - condition fine    Indefinite articles and Scunthorpe,    1983, Compilation, soft cover - condition fineThe Bible (Old Test) (acc to SM), 1993,    Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        The Goons, The Story, 2001    History of the Goons, soft cover, by Norma Farnes and Chris Smith     - condition fineA Dustbin of Milligan, 1961, Compilation, hard cover, Inscription on frontispiece - condition fine    A mad medley of Milligan, 1999, Compilation, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        William McGonagal meets George Gershwin, 1988, Spoof novel, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine        The Goon Show Scripts,    1972, Scripts, hard cover, Inscription inside front cover     - condition fair to goodMore Goon Show Scripts, 1973, Scripts, hard cover, Fwd by PoW. Inscript inside - condition fair to goodThe Q Annual, 1979, Scripts, hard cover - condition fineThe Book of the Goons, 1975, Mixture, soft cover, Letters, scripts etc. - condition fineThe Lost Goon Shows, 1987,    Scripts, hard copy - condition fineThe Melting Pot, 1983, Series scripts, hard cover, with Neil Shand and Bill Tidy - condition fineThe Goon Cartoons, 1982, Graphic scripts, hard cover, ill. By Pete Clarke - condition fineS.M. A Celebration,    1995, Best of M…, hard cover, comp by Roger Sawyer - condition fineFurther Transports of Delight, 1986, Transport pics, soft cover, with comic captions - condition fairStartling Verse for all the family, 1987, Poems. w. Illusts, hard cover, w d/7 - condition fineIt ends with Magic,1990,    Comic family story, hard cover - condition finePuckoon,1972    Comic novel, soft cover, inside page detached, rubbed - condition poorThe Bedside Milligan, 1973, Compilation, soft cover - condition fair        Small Dreams of a Scorpion, 1975, Poems. w. Illusts, soft cover, ill. by Laura Milligan - condition goodThe 101 best and only limericks, 1984, Limericks, soft cover - condition goodA Book of Bits or a Bit of a Book, 1973, Poems and stories, soft cover - condition fairWilliam McGonagal, the Truth at last, 1978, Comic stories, soft cover, ill. by Peter Sellers et al - condition good    The Bed Sitting Room, 1978, Play, soft cover, with John Antrobus - condition goodGoblins, 1978, Verses and Illusts., hard copy, w d/j    Illusts by Heath Robinson - condition fineThe Little Pot Boiler, 1969, Verses and stories, soft cover, inscription inside front cover - condition fair    The Milligan Book of Records, 1977, Off beat records!    soft    cover - condition fair, marking on front cover    DUPLICATESA Dustbin of Milligan, 1963, Compilation, soft cover, inscription on frontispiece - condition poorWuthering Heights (acc to SM), 1995, Spoof novel, soft cover - condition fineThe Spike Milligan Letters, 1979, Compilation, soft cover - condition fairMore Goon Show Scripts, 1973, Scripts, soft cover, Fwd. by PoW - condition fairThe Q Annual, 1980, Scripts, soft cover - condition goodBIOGRAPHYA Biography by Pauline Scudamore, 1987, Biog, soft cover - condition fair to goodBy Humphrey Carpenter, 2003, Biog, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine    By Norma Farnes, 2003,    titled Spike, an intimate memoir, Biog and memoir, hard cover, w d/j - condition fine

Autographed by Eugene McCarthy, American politician and academic from Minnesota. He served as the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959. Gene McCarthy's Minnesota: Memories of a Native Son, is a hardcover book of poetry and prose, with original dustjacket and 137 pages. Coach's Corner Sports Auction, LCC certificate of authenticity included. ISBN: 9780866836821. Artist: Eugene McCarthyIssued: 1982Dimensions: 5.75"L x 0.5"W x 8.75"HManufacturer: Winston PressCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.

* JOHN PHILIP BUSBY RSA RSW SWLA (BRITISH 1928 - 2015), RESTING KOOKABURRA watercolour on paper, signed, titled verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 19cm x 17cm, overall size 37cm x 34cm Exhibition label verso: John Busby - Landscapes & Birds, 8 March - 2 April 1997, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Note: John Philip Busby was born in Bradford in 1928 and attended Ilkley Grammar School. After National Service, he studied at Leeds College of Art and then at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) where he was awarded post-graduate and major travel scholarships. On return from France and Italy he was invited to join the staff of ECA, where he taught drawing and painting from 1956 until 1988. In 1959 he was commissioned to paint the mural Christ in Glory in the Scottish Episcopal Church, St Columba-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh. A member of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), he served as President of the Society of Scottish Artists, (SSA) 1976-79. A life-long bird watcher and naturalist (at age 17 he was at the inaugural meeting of the Wharfdale Naturalists Society in 1945), he was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA). He led courses in Switzerland, Crete, the Falklands and Galapagos Islands, in Orkney and at Nature in Art in Gloucestershire, and in 1989 he began a Seabird Drawing course based at North Berwick. Now named after him, this has continued each year since, attracting participants from many parts of the world. He took part in projects with the Artists for Nature Foundation (ANF) in Holland, Poland, Spain, Ireland, India, Portugal and Israel, and in SWLA/Forestry Commission projects in the New Forest and in the oak woods in the west of Scotland. In 1991 he was filmed in Shetland for the Granada TV production “Portrait of the Wild – Summer‘. John Busby illustrated over 35 books about birds and animals, mostly about behaviour, ranging from seabirds and garden birds to tigers and otters, plus a book of poems by Kenneth Steven (Wild Horses) and many of the illustrations in The RSPB Anthology of Wildlife Poetry. His own books are mentioned elsewhere but also include a booklet Landscapes at the Edge of the Sea in 2010 with his rock pool paintings, and another for the first Curious Eye exhibition which he curated at the RSA in 2007. In 2009 he was declared "Master Wildlife Artist" by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin USA. He exhibited widely both at home and abroad and had a major retrospective exhibition at Bradford City Art Gallery in 1999/2000. More recently a retrospective exhibition, planned before his death, was held at Nature in Art, Gloucester in August 2015, and two large exhibitions to celebrate his landscapes (at the Royal Scottish Academy) and drawings (at The Scottish Gallery) were held in Edinburgh in June 2016, with another at the Wildlife Art Gallery in Lavenham, Suffolk in November 2017. In 2019 a major exhibition of his paintings was held during the Edinburgh Arts Festival, 29th July to 2nd September at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh.

A collection of GB & World Copper Nickel and Copper Coins including US Dollars, GB Crowns etc along with International Match Corporation Share Certificates , Motor Fuel Ration Book, German 100000 Mark Bank Note F10094950, 2 Mark Notes x2 and a 21st April 1933 Probate/Will Document, Poetry Medal and British Institute of Interior Design Medallion

Kennedy (Richard Hartley) Visconti: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts, advertisement f. at end, lacking half-title, title with old ink ownership inscription faintly offset to head and a few tiny marginal holes, final 3ff. with tear to inner margin, some faint damp-staining at beginning and end, foxed and lightly browned throughout, modern antique-style boards, light soiling, Calcutta, Printed for the Author, 1829 § [Mundy (Francis Noel Clarke)] The Fall of Needwood, presentation inscription "From the author" to title, engraved frontispiece (foxed), armorial bookplate, ink inscription "Bought at Sir William Boothby's sale at Ashbourne Hall Nov. 1847 for £12.15.- W. Mundy" to front free endpaper, poems in ink manuscript in a contemporary hand to verso of title and final f., some leaves with pagination corrected in ink manuscript, the odd spot, some very light browning and soiling, contemporary polished calf, spine lacking label and with ends chipped, small scattered staining to upper cover, rubbed, upper cover detached, Derby, Printed at the Office of J. Drewry, 1808, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, most 19th century poetry, v.s. (c.35)

Dover.- Poetry, photographs & ephemera.- Ramsbottom (Augusta C.) Commonplace Book, manuscript signed, c. 520pp. (c. 300pp. of poetry both extracts and original), c. 50 photographs of Dover and various portraits (including 7 photographs of Dover, the Roman Pharos and Dover Castle), numerous religious cards and military crests, 1f. loose, some photographs slightly faded, inner hinges broken, original blind-stamped morocco, edges rubbed, brass clasp, gilt spine, dulled, g.e., 235 x 170mm., 1856-61.   *** The photograph of the Roman Pharos at Dover can be dated to 1860 as it stands next to the church of St Mary in Castro in Dover Castle which can be seen to be covered in scaffolding for the restoration of 1860-62, undertaken by Giles Gilbert Scott. 

Scottish poetry.- Hamilton (James) Virgil's Pastorals, Translated into English Prose; As Also His Georgicks...To which is added, An Appendix, Shewing Scotland's chief and principal worldly Interest, 4pp. list of subscribers, ink inscription to front free endpaper, C2 vertical tear within text but no loss, C3-4 similar tear repaired with very small loss to few letters, some very small and minor worming to lower blank corner near start, some underlining and annotation in a contemporary hand, scattered spotting, light browning, contemporary calf, lacking spine label, some wear to corners, rubbed, upper cover detached, Edinburgh, W. Cheyne, 1742 § Campbell (Thomas) The Pleasures of Hope, 4 engraved plates (offset), armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett, binder's ticket and contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, one or two corrections in ink, some light spotting, contemporary straight-grain red morocco by C. Meyer, spine gilt but slightly faded, some spotting to covers, rubbed, g.e., Edinburgh, for Mundell & Son, 1799, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, Scottish poetry, including George Smith's "Douglas Travestie" (Aberdeen, 1824), 8vo & 12mo (10)   *** The author of the first mentioned described on the title-page as "Schoolmaster in East Calder". The volume attracted around 60 subscribers, including his namesake the Duke of Hamilton. The Appendix discusses the difference between crop growing in England and Scotland, and the various ways in which the economic prosperity of Scotland could be advanced by not imitating the practices of English farmers working in a different climate. 

Hunt (Leigh) The Poetical Works, presentation inscription "To Mr. Henry William Sparkes, with the Author's best wishes" to half-title, printed slip "The printed List of Subscribers is withheld at present..." tipped-in before title, advertisement leaf at end, bookplate of Henry Charles Blaksley, book-labels of Simon & Judith Adams Nowell-Smith, some spotting to half-title and fore-edge, modern cloth, Edward Moxon, 1832 § [Ainsworth (William Harrison)] May Fair. In Four Cantos, advertisement leaf at end, brief A.L.s. from the author tipped in at beginning "I have much pleasure in complying with your request to possess my autograph", ownership inscription of Brent Gration-Maxfield to head of pastedown, light spotting, original boards, rebacked in cloth, covers quite worn, William H. Ainsworth, 1827, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century poetry, including Thomas Moore's "Odes Upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters", 8vo & 12mo (c.20)  

[Ward (Edward)] The Delights of the Bottle: Or, the Compleat Vintner. With the Humours of Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Dinner Spungers...A Merry Poem. To which is added, A South-Sea Song upon the late Bubbles, first edition, lacking frontispiece, book-labels of Charles Whibley and J.O. Edwards to inside upper wrapper, F1 short tear to head without loss, G2-3 working loose, trimmed at head, affecting pagination and first line of text to final f., stab-holes to gutter, spotting, lightly browned, later wrappers, ink inscriptions and small sticker to upper wrapper, wear to spine, upper joint split at foot, [Foxon W58], W. Downing, 1720 § Paradox (A) Against Liberty. Written by the Lords During their Imprisonment In the Tower. A Poem, title fore-edge trimmed, small stab-holes to gutter, disbound, 1679 § [Plaxton (William), attributed to] The Yorkshire-Racers, A Poem, publisher's catalogue to verso of final f., very light browning, disbound, Printed for the Use of all Sorts of Jockeys, whether North, South, East or West, [1709]; and others, 18th century poetry, a few defective, most disbound, v.s. (c.30)   *** The first mentioned the variant with imprint of W. Downing rather than Sam. Briscoe.

[Percy (Thomas)] Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles to vol. 2 & 3 (as called for), vol. 1 with initial blank B1, engraved frontispiece, vol. 2 with engraved plate of music bound after C4, vol. 3 with errata and advertisement leaves at end, engraved title-vignettes and head and tail-pieces, morocco book-label of Estelle Doheny, book-label of J.O. Edwards, vol. 1 B2 & I4 with tear into text without loss, vol. 2 R2&3 with short marginal tear, occasional light soiling, light foxing, uncut in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label to spines, vol. 1 rebacked in modern calf preserving original label, some wear to extremities, rubbed, vol. 1 with new endpapers, housed in a cloth drop-back box, [Rothschild 1521], for J. Dodsley, 1765; and others 18th century, including the Thomas Morell edited Canterbury Tales (1737), 8vo (10)

POETRY; SIME (A), MEMORY AND OTHER SONNETS, 1916; BEECHAM (A), THE COAST OF BARBARY, with dedication from ‘The Author’, 1957; LANG (A), THE POETICAL WORKS OF ANDREW LAND, 4 vols in 2, limited edition, 1923; THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COLLINS, later full leather, London, Bensley, 1798; GESENIUS (DR), A BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY, second edition, gilt red cloth, Halle, 1892; SERVICE (R), RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE, William Briggs, 1912; BOOTH (M), SELECTED POEMS, signed limited edition, No 50/75, 1990; LAVER (J), LADIES’ MISTAKES, The Nonesuch Press, 1933; and others, some signed, (36).

Illustrated London News Coronation Panorama Number 1911. Modern Wonder (magazine) comprising 20 issues published 1938 (fighting air raiders, empire exhibition Glasgow, monster of the Algerian railway, King Solomon’s mines, Cheltenham Flyer, Whitley Bomber etc). War Atlas, section of The Philadelphia Inquirer Feb. 13 1942 with map. Kessler’s racing print 1873. Animal Stories book (1920s). Set of Wills Air Raid cigarette cards (50). Antique Poetry booklet (1900). Gilbert Wilkinson comic book (from Daily Herald) Colour decorated telegrams from 1940s

Joyce (James). Ulysses, 8th printing, Paris: Shakespeare and Co., 1926, original wrappers, chips and losses to spine, some edge wear, 4to, together with [Yeats, W. B., Ernest Dowson & others]. The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894, publisher's catalogue at rear, original buckram gilt, small 4to, limited edition, one of 650 copies in total, plus Lawrence (D. H.) Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces, with a reminiscence by David Garnett, London: Nonesuch Press, 1930, some spotting and toning, original contrasting buckram, dust jacket, light partial toning to rear panel, 8vo, limited edition 523/550, with other poetry and literature including Ted Hughes, Ezra Pound, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Lowell etcQTY: (approximately 100)

Billy Childish (British, 1959) - Heaven's Journey - a limited edition vinyl record box set presented in original hand painted outer box. Comprising book 2005 the man with the gallows eyes, selected poetry 1980-2005 publ. The Aquarium, paperback; Heaven's Journey 12" vinyl LP record Heaven's Journey by Wild Billy Childish and the Chatham Singers; a signed limited edition slip hand signed & lettered C by Childish, there being 100 signed & numbered copies produced by The Aquarium and Damaged Goods, this one unnumbered in the limited run. Presented in an original oil painted box featuring the the man with the gallows eyes in blue, red & pink, with Childish's hand painted name in print to bottom.Measures approx. 32cm x 32cm x 2.5cm.

⊕Edmond Xavier Kapp (lots 83-94) Oh to be silent! Oh to be a painter! Oh (in short) to be Mr. Kapp (Virginia Woolf) Introduction Widely remembered for his portraiture, in particular his distinctive form of character types (he did not like his work to be describe as caricature), Kapp was a highly versatile artist with an enquiring mind and a love of music. Appreciated in his lifetime also for his poetry and his evolving interest in abstraction, he aspired to write, mixed with the leading artists of the day and attracted the attention of critics and the cognoscenti. The following eight lots from his estate capture the singularity of his artistic vision and his constant thirst for innovation. Born in Islington, London, the son of Jewish-German parents, Kapp studied in Berlin, Paris and Cambridge, where he had his first exhibition, wrote for Granta and the Cambridge Magazine and attracted the attention of Max Beerbohm. While a 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Sussex Regiment in the First World War, he sketched portraits of his fellow soldiers to amuse them in the trenches, including the young poet Edmund Blunden, and crossed paths with William Rothenstein at Amiens, a meeting Rothenstein recalls in his autobiography Men and Memories. After the Armistice Kapp held his first one man exhibition at the Little Art Rooms, Adelphi, London, the catalogue introduction written by Beerbohm. Commissions followed, together with the publication of his first book: Personalities published in 1919 and reviewed by Virgina Woolf in her essay Pictures and Portraits. Prominent figures who featured in his early work included Edwin Elgar, Percy Wyndham Lewis and Richard Strauss. Later, after the War, subjects ranged from Albert Einstein (1923) to the Duke of Windsor, the future King Edward VIII (1932); of leading personalities in the arts he captured the characters of Aldous Huxley and Noël Coward. Kapp typically rejected supplying caricatures to newspapers, preferring to choose his own subjects. But he did take on commissions, such as his series Ten Great Lawyers published in 1924 in the Law Society Journal. And his work appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time and Tide, output that resulted in the publication of further volumes of his collected portraits, and an exhibition of his work at The Leicester Galleries, the leading contemporary gallery in London of the day. In 1922 Kapp married Yvonne Meyer, journalist, photographer, translator and writer, now best known for her biography of Eleanor Marx. On their honeymoon the young couple visited Beerbohm in Rapallo and settled the following year in Rome where Kapp studied at Sigmund Lipinsky’s art school and under Antonio Sciortino at the British Academy. There too he met the American painter Maurice Sterne who encouraged him to paint in oil. Kapp also developed his interest in lithography as a means to sell limited editions of his more well-known sitters. It led in 1935 to a commission for portraits of twenty-five delegates to the League of Nations in Geneva. Publication of the series brought him to the attention of Pablo Picasso, and the beginning of a close friendship between the two artists. Kapp captured Picasso’s profile in a sketch of him in his studio at 23 Rue La Boetie, Paris in 1938, purportedly the only likeness for which Picasso agreed to sit (collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum). And there are relaxed and informal photos of Picasso in bathing trunks snapped by Kapp in 1948 outside the restaurant Chez Nounou and the Hotel de la Mer in Golfe Juan when holidaying with Picasso in the South of France. During the Second World War Kapp was an Official War Artist; after the War he worked as an Official Artist to UNESCO. He kept a studio at 2 Steeles Studios, Haverstock Hill in Hampstead, North London and in Beausoleil, near Monaco in the Alpes Maritimes, and explored abstraction (lots 91-94). STILL-LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A BLUE AND WHITE JUGoil on canvas59.5 x 49.5cm; 23 1/2 x 19.5in67 x 57cm; 26 1/2 x 22 1/2in (framed)

SIR JOSEPH NOEL PATON R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1821-1901) MICHELANGELO SCULPTING THE STATUE OF 'NIGHT' Oil on canvas, arched top 61cm x 76cm (24in x 36in) Presented by A. M. McDougall, Esq., 1932. How is a masterpiece conceived? Sir Joseph Noël Paton invites us to ponder the very alchemy of genius by welcoming us into Michelangelo Buonarotti’s studio as he finishes carving ‘Night’. In a shadowy loggia the Renaissance artist crouches in front of his monumental marble, pausing after a campaign of chiselling to appraise his work. A spent hourglass sits on a nearby table, and a toolbox and sketchbook lie at the artist’s feet, while the view through the arch suggests that Michelangelo has taken the silhouette of Florence as his muse. The city glows blue under the light of the moon, which crests around the arch, illuminating the artist upon the completion of his masterwork.Paton’s use of breaking light to represent ‘divine inspiration’ can be connected to the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt’s seminal 1853 painting ‘The Awakening Conscience’ (Tate Britain). Paton had declined an invitation to join the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, electing instead to return to Scotland, but he continued to paint in a Pre-Raphaelite style and remained familiar with the Brotherhood and their output. So moved was Paton by ‘The Awakening Conscience’ that he was impelled to produce several of his own works exploring the enigma of creation and enlightenment. These include an 1861 painting of Luther who, after a sleepless night induced by a crisis of faith, is suddenly granted spiritual clarity as a ray of dawn sun touches his brow (National Galleries of Scotland), as well as a painting of Dante meditating on the nature of sin beneath an apparition of two adulterous lovers from his Divine Comedy (Bury Art Museum). In the 1860s Paton produced a further painting of Michelangelo in contemplation, which was gifted to the William Morris Gallery in 1935 from the collection of Sir Frank Brangwyn. It might be conjectured that Paton’s interest in the nature of creative conception has something to do with the fact that he received little formal artistic training. At the age of seventeen he took his first job as Head Designer at a muslin manufacturer in Paisley, and after working in this capacity for three years, he briefly studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he formed a lifelong friendship with John Everett Millais. (Rodger, Robin. “The Patons of Dunfermline: Bi-Centenary of Sir Joseph Noël Paton RSA (1821-1901).” Royal Scottish Academy, December 10 2021. [accessed 24th July 2024]). By all accounts, Paton was an expert on folklore and fairytale, themes which inspired many of his paintings and brought him considerable success and renown. In 1861 Paton travelled to Italy, where he likely beheld Michelangelo’s ‘Night’ in the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo, Florence. Upon his return, Paton published a book of poetry which included ‘A Confession’, a tongue-in-cheek reflection on Michelangelo’s art, so majestic as to drive the viewer to distraction:No, Buonarotti, thou shalt not subdueMy mind with thy Thor-hammer! All that playOf ponderous science with Titanic thewAnd spastic tendon - marvellous, ‘tis true! -Says nothing to my soul. Thy “terrible way”Has led enow of worshippers astray;I will not walk therein!(Sir Joseph Noël Paton, Poems by a Painter, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1861, p.156)

A handwritten book of poetry etc belonging to Alice Mary Gilkes, dated October 24th 1865 

Ross, Heroic Poetry from the Book of pf the Dean of Lismore, Scottish Gaelic Text Soc 1939. Anderson, Kings and Kingship in early Scotland, 8vo 1980, dj. Fiona Macleod, The Hills of Ruel and other Stories, 4to, 1921; wonderful col and b/w ills. George Borrow, Celtic Bards, Chiefs and Kings, 1st, 1228, 8vo. (4)

Poetry: Collection of mainly Irish Poetry such as Poems. By 'Eva' of The Nation, 1909; I Bhreasail-a book of lyrics by Daniel Corkery, 1921; The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett, 1919 plus 9 others (12)

The Book of Irish Poetry / introduction by Alfred Perceval Graves ; with illustrations by Gerald F. Metcalfe, published c1900's; Legends of Saints and Sinners. Collected and Translated from the Irish By Douglas Hyde, LL.D., D.Litt. Hyde, Douglas Published by The Gresham Publishing Company, London plus 8 others in this collection (10)

RILKE RAINER MARIA: (1875-1926) Austrian poet and novelist. A.L.S., R M Rilke, one page, 8vo, Venice, 10th August 1912, to [Axel] Juncker, in German. Rilke acknowledges receipt of his correspondent's letter and their cheque for DM 179.20 'for the annual accounts of Das B[uch] d[er] B[ilder]' and concludes by expressing his gratitude and sending his best regards. With blank integral leaf. About EXAxel Juncker (1870-1952) Danish bookseller and publisher who worked in both Germany and Denmark. Das Buch der Bilder ('The Book of Images') is a collection of Rilke's poetry from 1899 onwards and was first published by Juncker in 1902. It would be the last of Rilke's works that Juncker published, despite the two men enjoying a good relationship based on intellectual exchanges and meticulous typographic recommendations, before the poet moved to the Insel publishing house.

Miscellaneous. Binding: Hall (Mrs. S.C., editor), The Drawing-Room Table-Book. London: George Virtue, n.d. [1849], printed in foliate lithographed borders, steel-engraved vignettes with tissue-guards, stained, finely bound in contemporary Renaissance Revival citron morocco, boldly blocked and tooled in gilt with knots and strapwork, six-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, some rubbed portions, spine somewhat sunned, all edges gilt and gauffered, 4to; Buchanan (Robert, editor) & Dalziel (The Brothers, engravers), Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867, half-title, plates and poetry, split with movement, finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt over boards, some rubbed wear, all edges gilt, Merchant Taylors' Company's presentation plate, 4to; Grangerised Copy: Russell's Eccentric Personages, Monsieur le Docteur Devine to Daniel Defoe only, London: John Maxwell and Company, 1865, extra-illustrated with late 18th c and later mixed media prints, though principally 19th c, bound by Root & Son in contemporary blue three-quarter calf gilt over marbled boards, signed, repaired, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 8vo; [&] Ruskin (John, editor), Bibliotheca Pastorum, volume IV only: A Knight's Faith, Orpington: George Allen, 1885, contemporary tan quarter-calf over marbled boards, upper-cover just holding, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (4)  Provenance: 1st: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023), bibliophile, President of The Private Libraries Association and benefactor to The British Museum; his book label to pastedown, with his loosely-inserted and other pencil bibliographic notes. 3rd: William Foyle (1885-1963), of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex; his armorial gilt-tooled morocco bookplate to pastedown.

Burns, Robert - The "Kilmarnock Burns" Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786. First edition, 8vo, 204 x 117mm, late nineteenth century green morocco gilt by F. Bedford, spine gilt, gilt edges Roderick Terry, noted American bibliophile, armorial bookplate; Previously owned by John Dover of Glasgow; offered for sale by a Scottish institution Robert Burns was an intelligent and fun-loving youth, working as a farm labourer by day and reading the works of Scottish Enlightenment authors and philosophers, alongside playing the fiddle, in his spare time. Unusually for the era, although less so for lowland Scotland at the time, the working-class Robert Burns received a formal education in standard English. He combined this with the influences of the Scots language and folklore to create poetry which has appealed to generations worldwide, identifying the truths of human nature. Burns first started to write poetry as a boy of about fifteen, addressing them to a “bewitching” girl he had met during the harvest. Nearly 240 years after the publication of the 1786 “Kilmarnock Edition”, over 2000 editions of his poems and songs have been published.The “Kilmarnock” – or first – edition of Burns’ poems is the single most famous volume in Scotland's impressive literary heritage. However, the work almost never saw the light of day. Burns' farming activities at Mossgiel farm were not profitable and although he wished to marry Jean Armour, who was carrying his child, the marriage was opposed by her father, so Burns made plans to emigrate. It was only the suggestion by a local lawyer, Gavin Hamilton, that he could finance his voyage to Jamaica by publishing some of his poems, that led to him approaching a nearby printer, John Wilson, in Kilmarnock. On the 31st July 1786 Wilson published the volume of poetry by Burns under the unassuming title Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. It sold for three shillings and the entire print-run of 612 copies sold out within a month, bar 13 copies left with the publisher. The volume contained much of his best writing, including The Twa Dogs; Address to the Deil; Halloween; The Cotter's Saturday Night; To a Mouse; Epitaph for James Smith and To a Mountain Daisy, many of which had been written at Mossgiel farm. The success of the work was immediate.The first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is exceptionally rare. As of the 2017 edition of Allan Young's The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census, there were 84 known copies of the book surviving, with 15 of these (including this copy) in private hands. In March 2021, the Burns Chronicle, published by Edinburgh University Press, updated the number to 88 surviving copies. [Literature: Young, Allan. The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census, 2017] 

Occult Cheiro's Private Arcana of Astrology c.1929 or later. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only, 15 volumes numbered 1-10 (including 3a, 4a, 5a, 9a, 10a), 4to (26 x 20cm), original pictorial yellow wrappers, staple-bound along top edges, diagrams in text, printed signatures of ‘Cheiro’ and the editor R. H. T. Naylor to wrappers and title-pages, staples rusted, volume 1 wrappers nicked, volume 3 lacking one staple (of 3) and contents now loose, worming to volume 4 An extremely rare astrological course-book attributed to one of the leading society occultists during the spiritualist heyday of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ‘Cheiro’ is now believed to be the alias of William John Warner (1866-1936), an Irish journalist of apparently humble origins, despite his claims of noble descent and adoption of various aristocratic titles. Having been introduced to London society by Arthur Balfour, he became a celebrity fortune-teller consulted by figures ranging from Edward VII to Oscar Wilde, whose story 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' concerns a rogue chiromantist. He published several hugely successful books on chiromancy, a novel, and a book of poetry. A notice on the title-page of each volume reads: ‘Issued as absolutely private and confidential instruction. Courses issued under similar titles and names are spurious; note is genuine without the signature of “Cheiro” countersigned by the Editor’. The current year in the appendix to the tenth volume, ‘On Time Standards’, is cited as 1929.

Dundee Collection of manuscripts by James Thomson of Dundee, mid-19th century all closely written in an italic hand, most works signed by James Thomson, a few (e.g. ‘The Houff’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains of Foo-Fozzle’) not signed but in the same hand, contents comprise: ‘The Last Literary Remains and Relics of the World-Renowned Foo-Foozle, D.D.D.D. and M.L. of Ching-Chang, and Mandarin of Ten Golden Buttons and Five Siler Tassel; in Joint Stock with those of the ever famous John Young, Late of Forebank, Esquire … Chang-Quang: Souchong, Printer. Young Hyson, Publisher. 14th Day, VIth Moon, Year 1845'. 4to, 206 pp., lined paper wrappers; ‘An Account of the Island of Icolmkill [Iona] as it was in the year 1771. A New Edition revised and corrected. J. Thomson, Scripsit’, Dundee, 15th June, 1852. 4to, green paper wrappers, 16 pp., old staining to rear; ‘Tour through Part of Perth and Fifeshires from Dundee by Ingergowrie, Foulis, Longforgan, Inchture, Dunsinane, Raitt, Errol, Abernethy, Abbey of Lindores and the Abbey of Balmerino to Newport in 1823. Also An Excursion from Dundee to Meigle in the same year … By James Thomson. Third Edition enlarged [sic]’, Dundee, 18232. 8vo, drab paper wrappers, 116 pp., ownership inscription of John Campbell dated Dundee 1837 to title-page; ‘Poems and Songs by Sigma. In Three Volumes, Volume First [ … Second … Third], 1828 [dated at rear]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 125, 43, 126 pp., inscribed on versos of title-page, ‘Dundee 21st July 1841, presented to Mr John Campbell by the author as a small mark of esteem after an acquaintanceship of sixteen years without a cross word occurring during that time to mar the friendship which endured in the course of these years, James Thomson’; 'Gildas Sapiens, de Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. Gildas the Wise, concerning the Subversion and Complaint of Britain; being the Historical Part or First Thirty-One Chapters of his Epistle, Modernised from the Translation made from the Original Latin, and published in 1638. With a New Introduction and Copious Notes. By James Thomson', Dundee, 15th July 1852. 8vo, marbled wrappers, 56 pp.; ‘The Houff: a Selection of the best Epitaphs and Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern, in the Houff or Common Burying Ground, Dundee … By Old Mortality, Junior’, Dundee, 1834. 4to, contemporary limp marbled boards, 150 pp., together with another copy with a slightly variant title, disbound; ‘Narrative of Occurrences in the Parish of Newtyle at the Beginning of the 18th Century, as Illustrative of the Mourners of Former Times. With an Appendix of Select Excerpts from the Parish Register of Auchterhouse. By a Gleaner’, Dundee, 1842. Folio, 22 pp., with a pen-and-ink sketch of Newtyle Castle signed J. Thomson to title-page; ‘The Parish Register or Book of the Session, with Notes and an Appendix of Additional Curious Collections. The whole intended as Authentic Illustrations of Former Times. By James Thomson' [no date]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 211 pp., ownership inscription ‘John Campbell, Crichton Street, Dundee’ to p. 1; ‘The Parish Register or Parochial Annals, Being Extracts from the Records of Various Parishes selected as Illustrations of Ancient Manners’, 1828. 4to, blue paper wrappers, 178 pp.; ‘Supplement to the History of Dundee by James Thomson’, Dundee, 1847. Oblong 8vo, plain paper wrappers, 162 ff., written on rectos only; 'The Book of ye comoun Rentallis of the Burgh of Dundie, Almishous and Kirkwark thairof, this maid … in the tyme of Mr James Haliburtoun, Provost … Extracted from the Locked Book of Burgesses by James Thomson', Dundee, 1838. 8vo, 59 pp., blue paper wrappers (front wrapper missing, front blank detaching), inscription in a separate hand (presumably the recipient's) ‘To Mr J. Campbell from J. Thomson the editor … 1841’ on p. [3]; ‘Observations, Exclamations, and Narrations in Verse; being the Reveries, and Day-Dreams, of [symbols]. In six Cantos, by An Observer. Printed by _ And sold by all the Booksellers’. Dundee, 1825. 4to, plain paper wrappers, 40 pp..Together with a further volume of manuscript notes by Thomson (containing transcripts of 18th-century court of session hearings), and a related printed work (A Feast of Literary Crumbs … By Foo Foozle and Friends, Ancient Citizens of Dundee … Dundee: William Kidd, c.1880, no. 1 in the ‘Dundee Reprints’ series, front wrapper captioned ‘facsimile of original cover’ and including imprint J. Valentine, Dundee, 1848') (15) The author of these manuscripts can be identified with that of the published work The History of Dundee (Dundee, 1847; 2nd edition 1874) on the basis of the introduction to the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee by James Thomson’. A mixture of literary squibs, epic poetry in Byronic cantos, and thorough antiquarianism, they are presented in the style of printed books, with neatly arranged title-pages and in one case ('An Account of the Island of Icolmkill') mock printer's signature-marks to the lower margins. The National Library of Scotland holds a manuscript  by James Thomson of Dundee titled `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ and dated 1825 (Adv.MS.35.6.17). Dundee Central Library holds a small collection of manuscripts by him, including ‘The Houff’ (1835), ‘The Book of the Houff' (1838), and ‘Tours through Parts of Forfar, Perth, and Fifeshires’ (1833). It is possible that parts of the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains … of Foo-Foozle’ appear in printed form in the 1874 edition of The History of Dundee and A Feast of Literary Crumbs (op. cit.) respectively, but it is unclear whether any of the works in the lot have ever been published in their entirety.

Edinburgh Heather Club Collection of manuscript minute books, 1891-1940 4 volumes, 4to (27.5 x 21.5cm) or folio (33 x 29cm), half leather bindings with black cloth sides and canvas jackets with sections cut away from front covers to reveal red morocco labels, respectively covering 1891-1904, 1907-23, 1924-32, and 1932-40, first and third volumes paginated 480 pp., 478 pp., the remaining volumes unpaginated but of similar extents, with a large quantity of printed ephemera (laid, tipped or pasted in), including programmes for annual outings (booklets in decorative card covers incorporating a photographic portrait of the club captain), dinner menus and notices (including a notice of a dinner in honour of Sir Harry Lauder, 1933), lists of committee members, abstracts of accounts, correspondence, etc., notable contents including an account (with a printed notice and related newspaper cuttings including photographs) of Muriel Spark's receipt of the Heather Club Coronet for her poem ‘Out of a Book’ submitted for the club's poetry commemoration in commemoration of the death of Sir Walter Scott, 1932 (‘… the young poetess rose and made her way to the throne, placed above the stage. Here, Miss Esther Ralston the famous screen star and variety artist … placed the coronet on the head of Muriel Camberg, and kissed her …’). Together with an Edinburgh Heather Club manuscript ledger book of members, outings, etc., c.1898 (partly filled, contents water-stained) and an attendance book for the 1960s-70s (6) The Edinburgh Heather Club was founded in 1823 by Joseph Sutherland, a local merchant, originally as a walking club focused on outings in the Pentland Hills. The scope of the club's expedition expanded with the advent of the railway, and in time they also assumed a variety of social and charitable responsibilities, including a yearly poetry competition of which the 1932 edition was won by a young Muriel Camberg, known to posterity as Muriel Spark, who recalled the occasion in her 1992 autobiography Curriculum Vitae: ‘It was 1932, the year of the centenary of the death of Sir Walter Scott. A poetry competition was launched among the schools of Edinburgh by the Heather Club, a men’s club founded in 1823 (for what purpose I do not know, except that it was very Scottish). I won first prize with my poem about Sir Walter Scott, and another girl at Gillespie's got third prize. The school was doubly jubilant; everyone was delighted … I felt like the Dairy Queen of Dumfries, but I endured the experience and survived it'. An Edinburgh Heather Club captain's baton was sold by Lyon & Turnbull in our Scottish Works of Art and Whisky sale on 21 August 2021 (lot 243).