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A collection of 30 Phoenix Broadsheets produced by Toni Savage of Leicester 1983-1985, includes artists/poets Paul Ward, Arth

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Lot 7217

A collection of 30 Phoenix Broadsheets produced by Toni Savage of Leicester 1983-1985, includes artists/poets Paul Ward, Arthur Caddick, Stanley Simmonds, John Clare, Edward Murch, Kathie Layfield, Chris Challis, Richard Gilbertson, Eric Swift etc, comprises numbers, 231, 232, 234, 235, 237-243, 245-250, 253-261, 263-265 (30). From the estate of Michael Clutton (1934-2016), resident of Leicester from the 1950's who had a longstanding career in the paper trade and supplied handmade papers to Toni & Cynthia Savage, Trevor Hickman, Rigby Graham et al for their various Private Press publications/collaborations

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A collection of 28 Phoenix Broadsheets produced by Toni Savage of Leicester 1978-1991, includes Spike Milligan: 'Esquimau', 1

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Lot 7218

A collection of 28 Phoenix Broadsheets produced by Toni Savage of Leicester 1978-1991, includes Spike Milligan: 'Esquimau', 1987, No.310, illustration by Robert Tilling, also includes artists/poets/ills. Rigby Graham (3), Rod Felton, Pauline Clarke, Richard Gilbertson, Chris Challis, Arthur Caddick, Duine Campbell etc, comprises numbers 167, 236, 237, 275, 281, 285, 286, 296, 301, 306, 310, 326-330 (2 copies 329), 335, 336, 341, 355 (3 copies), 356-360 (28). From the estate of Michael Clutton (1934-2016), resident of Leicester from the 1950's who had a longstanding career in the paper trade and supplied handmade papers to Toni & Cynthia Savage, Trevor Hickman, Rigby Graham et al for their various Private Press publications/collaborations (28)

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A collection of typography, private press, illustrated etc, including Simon Gantillon: 'Maya', Waltham St. Lawrence, The Gold

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Lot 7219

A collection of typography, private press, illustrated etc, including Simon Gantillon: 'Maya', Waltham St. Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1930, limited edition, (287/500), numbered, 13 wood engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton as called for, of which 5 full page and 8 vignette tailpieces, original polished buckram gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; Salvador de Madariaga: 'Don Quixote: An Introductory Essay in Psychology', The Gregynog Press, 1934, limited edition, (138/250), numbered, original quarter buckram, printed paper label to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; V. Babington Smith: 'A Development of Ordinary Books from 1550 until 1880 using examples from a private library', Printed at the College of Technology and School of Art, Oxford, [1964], hand printed on handmade paper, one of probably only a few copies printed, almost certainly Veronica Babington-Smith (1943-2010), Dragon School etc, 14pp, large 4to, original cloth; Ted Hughes: 'Crow Wakes', Poet & Printer, 1971, limited edition, one of no more than 30 out of series copies for review, this copy for Kenneth Hardacre with his name written in pen and ink to limitation page by Alan Tarling, plus typed letter signed from Tarling to Hardacre and some other associated items loosely inserted, original paper covered boards; G.A. Beale: 'Homo Intelligens: A Speculative Essay on the Origins of Civilization', Blandford, Gilbert Beale at the Cadenza Press, 1991-1995, limited edition, (stated "about 100 copys printed" to limitation page), 5 volumes, wood engraved initials by Simon Brett, uniform original cloth gilt by Cedric Chivers, Bath, slipcase; Francis Meynell: 'Poems & Pieces 1911 to 1961', The Nonesuch Press, 1961, limited edition, stated by Meynell in his hand to limitation page "one of ten un-made ready proofs", and to FFEP in his hand "Proof only F.M.", original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; plus Webb & Skipwith 'Design - Paul Nash John Nash', & 'Design - Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon Curwen Press', others Shakespeare Head Press, Daedalus Press, Brewhouse Press, 'Verve' 1947 Pierre Bonnard issue Vol V No's 17 & 18, etc

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Typography, Printing, Private Press) Collection of books, booklets, periodicals, including/relating to Stanley Morison; Stanl

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Lot 7220

Typography, Printing, Private Press) Collection of books, booklets, periodicals, including/relating to Stanley Morison; Stanley Jones and the Curwen Studio; 'Hollingworth Papers. A Book of Samples...', Turkey Mill, Maidstone, Hollingworth & Co, [1930], large 4to, quarter japanese vellum gilt; Rampant Lions Press; White 'The Ladies of Gregynog'; 'Parenthesis' 12 numbers; 'Quote' 5 numbers; Penrose Annual 1956; Goldsmith 'Deserted Village', London, Linotype & Machinery Ltd, 1921; Keppsake PRess; Monotype Newsletter etc (2 boxes)

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Collection of art, private press, illustrated etc, including Edward Gorey: 'The Gorey Alphabet', London, Constable, 1961, 1st

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Lot 7221

Collection of art, private press, illustrated etc, including Edward Gorey: 'The Gorey Alphabet', London, Constable, 1961, 1st edition, ills. by author throughout, original pictorial cloth; Francis Bacon exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1977, colour illustrated throughout, original pictorial wraps; Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Elfriede Abbe: 'Aeschylus Prometheus Bound', Ithaca (NY), Abbe Press, 1952, limited edition, (147/150), signed by Elfriede Abbe and numbered, full page and in text wood engraved ills. by Abbe throughout, 56pp, large 4to, original quarter cloth, marbled paper covered boards (worn); plus others Roger de la Fresnaye, Edward Bawden, Redfern Gallery Summer Exhibition 1962 catalogue; scrap album titled 'Carol Manheim Presents Edward Ardizzone', plus another similar Frank Martin, plus some letters/ephemera sent to Carol Mannheim including Ronald Searle signed card etc; Barbizon House Illustrated Records 1937 & 1938, both limited numbered editions presented to HRH Princess Marie Louise, each original pictorial wraps; Lawrence Mynott signed and numbered coloured print 'the Sunderland Jug', Merivale Editions; Picasso Matisse exhibition booklet circa 1950s; Gilbert & George China Exhibition 1993 sleeve containing packet of photographs of them, etc etc

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A collection of art, printing, typography etc books, including 'William Nicholson', biography by Marguerite Steen, signed by

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Lot 7223

A collection of art, printing, typography etc books, including 'William Nicholson', biography by Marguerite Steen, signed by William Nicholson to title page, and further signed & inscribed by Steen, Collins, 1943, 1st edition, original cloth; plus others Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Eric Gill, Ben Nicholson, John Minton, Paul Nash, Pascal Cucaro; good qty. Penguin Modern Painters series including Paul Nash, John Piper, Edward Bawden, Duncan Grant, Richard Chopping, William Nicholson, Ben Nicholson etc; 'Some Vorticist Poetry and a Piece of Prose', London, Privately Printed, 1985, frontis, orig. stitched printed wraps, etc

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Gilles Mora: 'Walker Evans: Havana 1933', NY, Pantheon, 1989, 1st US edition, 80 photographic images of pre-revolutionary Cub

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Lot 7226

Gilles Mora: 'Walker Evans: Havana 1933', NY, Pantheon, 1989, 1st US edition, 80 photographic images of pre-revolutionary Cuba as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; together with Belinda Rathbone: 'Walker Evans A Biography', Thames & Hudson, 1995, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (2)

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Roger Fry: 'Cézanne a Study of his Development', London, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1927, 54 ills. on

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Lot 7227

Roger Fry: 'Cézanne a Study of his Development', London, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1927, 54 ills. on 50 plates as called for, 4to, original quarter cloth; Ernest Rathenau: 'Kokoschka Drawings', London, Thames & Hudson, 1962, limited edition (308/500), numbered, 146 plates, 4to, original buckram gilt, original acetate wrapper; Franz Meyer: 'Marc Chagall', Thames & Hudson, 1964, 1st edition, profusely illustrated throughout including many tipped in coloured and black & white plates as called for, thick 4to, original pictorial cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Drawings of Mervyn Peake', 1974, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper (4)

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(Edward Bawden illustrated), comprising Gustave Flaubert: 'Salammbo', Cambridge, The Limited Editions Club, 1960, limited edi

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Lot 7230

(Edward Bawden illustrated), comprising Gustave Flaubert: 'Salammbo', Cambridge, The Limited Editions Club, 1960, limited edition (469/1500), numbered & signed by Bawden to limitation page, 8 double page colour lithographs + 50 black & white line illustrations by Bawden as called for, 4to, original cream buckram, decorative patterned dust wrapper and paper covered slipcase; 'The Histories of Herodotus', Haarlem, The Limited Editions Club, 1958, limited edition, (38/1500), numbered & signed by Bawden to limitation page, numerous double page colour and in text black & white illustrations by Bawden as called for, original buckram gilt, top edge gilt, decorative patterned paper covered slipcase; B. Webb & P. Skipwith: 'Edward Bawden Design', Acc Art, 2016, illustrations throughout, original decorative boards, dust wrapper (3)

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Edmund Dulac (illustrated): 'Treasure Island', by R.L. Stevenson, London, Ernest Benn, 1927, 1st Dulac trade edition, 1st imp

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Lot 7232

Edmund Dulac (illustrated): 'Treasure Island', by R.L. Stevenson, London, Ernest Benn, 1927, 1st Dulac trade edition, 1st impression, 12 coloured plates and black & white ills. in text as called for, previous owners bookplates/address blindstamps at front, 4to, original cloth gilt, calf gilt title label to spine. Dulac considered his watercolour illustrations for Treasure Island as amongst his finest work

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Edmund Dulac: 'Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z', London, Frederick Warne, 1908, 1st edition, 24 coloured plates as

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Lot 7233

Edmund Dulac: 'Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z', London, Frederick Warne, 1908, 1st edition, 24 coloured plates as called for, 4to, replenished end papers, original quarter cloth over pictorial paper covered boards

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Harry Clarke (illustrated): 'The Year's at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by L.D.'O. Walters', London, Ha

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Lot 7235

Harry Clarke (illustrated): 'The Year's at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by L.D.'O. Walters', London, Harrap, 1920, 1st trade edition, 24 plates by Harry Clarke as called for (12 colour, 12 black & white), plus ills. in text, 4to, original decorative cloth. Henry Patrick (Harry) Clarke (17 March 1889 - 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Edmund Blampied (illustrated): 'The Blampied Edition of Peter Pan, the Original Text of Peter & Wendy, by J. M. Barrie',

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Lot 7237

Edmund Blampied (illustrated): 'The Blampied Edition of Peter Pan, the Original Text of Peter & Wendy, by J. M. Barrie', Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, 1st Blampied edition, 12 tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guard, plus 17 black & white plates as called for, 4to, original cloth; W. Heath Robinson (illustrated): 'A Song of the English. By Rudyard Kipling', London, Hodder & Stoughton, [nd], c.1909, 30 tissue guarded tipped in coloured plates by W. Heath Robinson as called for, 4to, original cloth gilt (worn); Edmund Dulac (illustrated): 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', London, H & S, circa 1915, 2nd printing of the trade edition, 19 (of 20) tipped in coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt (worn); Edmund Dulac (ill.): 'Stories from the Arabian Nights', L, H & S, c.1927, 28 tipped in coloured illustrations by Dulac as list, small 4to, original decorative cloth (worn); Arthur Rackham (ill.): 'A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens', L, Heinemann, c.1933, 12 tipped in coloured plates by Rackham + black & white ills as called for, small 4to, original pictorial cloth (5)

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Five children's & illustrated titles, including 'The Secret Garden', illustrated Charles Robinson, 1913, 8 coloured plate

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Lot 7240

Five children's & illustrated titles, including 'The Secret Garden', illustrated Charles Robinson, 1913, 8 coloured plates as called for, small 4to, original cloth gilt; 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens', illustrated Arthur Rackham, a/f, 16 coloured plates, couple loose at front, small 4to, original cloth gilt; 'The Hungarian Fairy Book' Nandor & Willy Pogany, 1913, 1st edition, colour frontis, ills. throughout, a/f, original pictorial cloth gilt (worn/soiled); Andrew Lang: 'The Lilac Fairy Book', 1910, 6 coloured plates + ills. in text as called for, a/f some plates coloured in by child, original pictorial cloth gilt (worn); plus 1 other (5)

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A.A. Milne: 'The House at Pooh Corner', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1928, 1st edition, full page and in text b

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Lot 7241

A.A. Milne: 'The House at Pooh Corner', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1928, 1st edition, full page and in text black & white illustrations throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt (some fading, else VGC), top edge gilt, 'When We Were Very Young', 1925, 8th edition, original pictorial cloth gilt (VGC), top edge gilt (2)

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A.A. Milne: 'Now We Are Six', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1927, 1st edition, full page and in text black &

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Lot 7242

A.A. Milne: 'Now We Are Six', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1927, 1st edition, full page and in text black & white illustrations throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt

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A.A. Milne: 'Winnie-The-Pooh', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1926, 1st edition, full page and in text black &amp

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Lot 7243

A.A. Milne: 'Winnie-The-Pooh', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1926, 1st edition, full page and in text black & white illustrations throughout, original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. An excellent example of Milne and Shepard's collaborative classic children's novel

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Mary Tourtel: 'Margot the Midget and Little Bear's Christmas', London, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, [1922], 1st edition, 68p

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Lot 7244

Mary Tourtel: 'Margot the Midget and Little Bear's Christmas', London, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, [1922], 1st edition, 68pp, illustrations throughout, original pictorial boards (slightly worn, lacking backstrip, 15.5 x 15.5cm) by Mary Tourtel. The authors third book and the third Rupert the Bear book publication. Scarce

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Gerard Hoffnung (1925-1959), artist, cartoonist, illustrator & musician, collection of titles including some signed/with

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Lot 7248

Gerard Hoffnung (1925-1959), artist, cartoonist, illustrator & musician, collection of titles including some signed/with original pen & ink cartoons, including Gerard Hoffnung & James Broughton: 'The Right Playmate', Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952, 1st edition, original pen & ink sketch of a cat to FFEP by Hoffnung and inscribed by him "To my George, the old dear, from Gerard. March 1953. A Pusso for George.", black & white ills. throughout, original pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper; 'Ho Ho Hoffnung', Putnam, 1959, 1st edition, inscribed by author FFEP "For George and Irene with [small sketch of heart with arrow through it] from [humorous sketch of the author as a tuba smoking a pipe] London 1959",black & white ills. throughout, original pictorial paper covered boards; 'Hoffnung's Encore', Dennis Dobson, 1968, 1st edition, inscribed by his wife, Annetta Hoffnung, verso FFEP, coloured and black & white ills. throughout, orig. pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper; Gerard Hoffnung & Colette: 'The Boy and the Magic', 1964, 1st edition, 14 full page colour ills. by Hoffnung as called for, oblong 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper; plus a packet of Hoffnung ephemera including exhibition catalogues, national film theatre programme, Annetta Hoffnung Christmas card etc

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(Pop up) Vojtech Kubasta: 'Tip + Top Build a Motorcar', London, Bancroft & Co, 1961, 1st edition, six double page colour

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Lot 7250

(Pop up) Vojtech Kubasta: 'Tip + Top Build a Motorcar', London, Bancroft & Co, 1961, 1st edition, six double page colour illustrated pop up scenes, lacks crate hanging from crane in last scene (as often), else all pop ups/moving parts functioning and complete, large oblong format, original pictorial paper covered boards

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Eleven 1950's children's annuals, comprising five Lion annuals 1955-1959 & six various Superman annuals and Superman Adve

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Lot 7253

Eleven 1950's children's annuals, comprising five Lion annuals 1955-1959 & six various Superman annuals and Superman Adventure Books 1954-1960, internally leaves exceptionally clean/VGC with no names, gift inscriptions, none price clipped, none with "This book belongs to" filled in, uncommon to find in such condition internally (11)

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Collection of seventeen 1930's small format children's books, all edited by Mrs Herbert Strang and in the Tippenny-Tuppenny,

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Lot 7255

Collection of seventeen 1930's small format children's books, all edited by Mrs Herbert Strang and in the Tippenny-Tuppenny, Teeny-Weeny & Henny-Penny series, published by Humphrey Milford/OUP, including 'Teeny-Weeny's Own Fables', 1935, 'Teeny-Weeny and Piggy-Wiggy', 1933; 'Toy Tales', 1930, 'The Tippenny-Tuppenny Zoo', 1932; 'Dear Doggie', 1931, 'Piggywiggy', 1936, 'Baa-Baa and Moo-Cow', [nd], plus 2 others similar (19)

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J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George

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Lot 7257

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, November 1955, 4th impression; 1955, 2nd impression; November 1955, 2nd impression, 3 volumes, 3 folding maps of Middle Earth as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (The Two Towers dust wrapper with part loss at head and foot of spine, all with 21s net prices intact) (3)

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J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1955, 7th impression overall, colour frontis, full page black

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Lot 7258

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1955, 7th impression overall, colour frontis, full page black & white illustrations, map endpapers, original pictorial cloth, dust wrapper (9s 6 net price intact)

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A collection earlier 20th Century children's books etc, including Beatrix Potter: 'The Tale of Little Pig Robinson', London,

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Lot 7260

A collection earlier 20th Century children's books etc, including Beatrix Potter: 'The Tale of Little Pig Robinson', London, Frederick Warne, 1930, 1st edition, 6 coloured plates + 22 black & white plates as called for, original cloth gilt, the final book in the Peter Rabbit series; Margaret Tarrant: 'Joan in Flowerland', L, Warne, 1935, 16 coloured plates, original cloth; Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book', L, Macmillan, 1909, 1st reprint of Detmold colour illustrated edition, 16 colour plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; Kate Greenaway (ill.): 'Little Ann and other Poems', L, Warne, [nd], orig. cl. backed pict. boards (worn a/f); A.A. Milne: 'Once a Week', 1914, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; Montgomery: 'Anne of Greengables', Boston, Page, c.1920's reprint, orig. cloth; plus others Monro S. Orr, Emma Leslie, Henry Bett etc (13)

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Tove Jansson, 2 titles: 'The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My', London, Ernest Benn, 1953, 1st UK edition, 24 colour i

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Lot 7262

Tove Jansson, 2 titles: 'The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My', London, Ernest Benn, 1953, 1st UK edition, 24 colour illustrated pages, cut-out details, small folio, original cloth backed colour illustrated pictorial boards, front cover with round cut-out window, internally leaves clean & bright/VGC, externally very minor wear to extremities, else VGC. Very scarce. 'Moominland Midwinter', London, Ernest Benn, 1958, 1st UK edition, full page and in text illustrations by Jansson throughout, original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Two scarce titles by the creator of the Moomin books for children, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award 1964 (2)

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Andrew Lang, 3 titles: ‘The Green Fairy Book’, London, Longmans, 1892, 1st edition, frontispiece plus numerous other black &a

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Lot 7265

Andrew Lang, 3 titles: ‘The Green Fairy Book’, London, Longmans, 1892, 1st edition, frontispiece plus numerous other black & white full page plates and in text ills. by H.J. Ford as called for, advert leaf at end, lacks FFEP, original pictorial green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, ‘The Gold of Fairnilee’, Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, [1888], 1st edition, 14 full page coloured plates (frontis by T. Scott), some plates loose, plus in text ills. by E.A. Lemann, 4to, original cloth gilt, ‘The Nursery Rhyme Book’, L, Warne, [nd], circa early 20th Century, profusely illustrated with full page black & white plates & in text ills. by L. Leslie Brooke, original cloth gilt, mounted colured illustration to front cover (3)

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Two titles illustrated W. Heath Robinson, comprising ‘Mediaeval Stories by Professor H. Shuck, translated from the Swedish by

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Lot 7266

Two titles illustrated W. Heath Robinson, comprising ‘Mediaeval Stories by Professor H. Shuck, translated from the Swedish by W.F. Harvey’, London, Sands, 1902, 10 black & white plates and ills. in text by W Heath Robinson, original pictorial cloth gilt, ‘How to Live in a Flat’, L, Hutchinson, c.1937, 11th impression, numerous full page black & white ills by W Heath Robinson, original pictorial cloth (2)

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Two early 20th Century titles designed, written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski (1862-1932), ‘The Sermon on the Moun

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Lot 7268

Two early 20th Century titles designed, written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski (1862-1932), ‘The Sermon on the Mount’, 1911, and ‘Prayers Written at Vailima’, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1910, each published London, Chatto & Windus, each with [24] leaves finely printed in chromolithograph with gilt, each 4to, original japanese vellum; together with (cover title): ‘Book of Daily Readings’, manuscript book with 1910 gift inscription to FFEP, containing [62] pages of manuscript extracts of prose by George Eliot, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Henry More, Emanuel Swedenborg, and other theologians, philosophers etc, 8vo, contemporary vellum gilt, m/s title in gilt to front cover and spine (3)

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Louis Wain (illustrated): ‘Full of Fun’, London, Ernest Nister, c.1912, tipped in coloured frontis + black & white illust

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Lot 7269

Louis Wain (illustrated): ‘Full of Fun’, London, Ernest Nister, c.1912, tipped in coloured frontis + black & white illustrations throughout by Louis Wain, unpaginated, [ii,84,2]pp, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards by Wain, together with two other Ernest Nister late 19th Century titles, ‘Childhood Valley. The Favourite Songs of Childhood, with New Pictures in color by John Lawson and Vignettes by St. Clair Simmonds, Maud West and Others’, [1889], 12 full page cromolitho plates by Lawson + vignettes in text, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, ‘Falling Leaves’ by E Nesbit & Robert Ellice Mack, c.1887, illustrated throughout, original stitched pictorial wraps (12 x 10cm) (3)

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J.M. Barrie: ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’, illustrated F.D. Bedford, Henry Frowde; OUP; H & S, [1915], authorised school edition

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Lot 7271

J.M. Barrie: ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’, illustrated F.D. Bedford, Henry Frowde; OUP; H & S, [1915], authorised school edition, 8 black & white plates as called for, original pictorial cloth, plus ‘J.M. Barries Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’, L, H & S, [nd], 6 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham + 15 black & white ills. in text, original cloth (2)

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G.E. Farrow, 3 titles: 'The Escape of the Mullingong, a Zoological Nightmare', illustrated Gordon Browne, London, Blackie, 19

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Lot 7272

G.E. Farrow, 3 titles: 'The Escape of the Mullingong, a Zoological Nightmare', illustrated Gordon Browne, London, Blackie, 1907, 1st edition, frontis + 57 full page plates & ills. as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, 'The Wallypug in London', illustrated Alan Wright, London, Methuen, 1898, 1st edition, b & w plates and in text ills. as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, ‘The Adventures of a Dodo’, illustrated Willy Pogany, L, T Fisher Unwin, 1907, 2nd impression, 70 ills. as called for, original pictorial cloth (3)

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Peter Newell: ‘The Slant Book’, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1910, 1st edition, 22 full page illustrations as called for,

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Lot 7273

Peter Newell: ‘The Slant Book’, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1910, 1st edition, 22 full page illustrations as called for, some leaves with closed tears/marginal losses, original oblique cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards (worn)

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Richard Doyle (illustrated): ‘The Story of Jack and the Giants’, London, Cundall & Addey, 1851, 35 engraved illustrations

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Lot 7275

Richard Doyle (illustrated): ‘The Story of Jack and the Giants’, London, Cundall & Addey, 1851, 35 engraved illustrations by Doyle engraved by the brothers Dalziell as called for, comprising full page frontis, added engraved title page + 5 full page engraved plates, plus engraved vignettes, initials, ills. in text, small 4to, original blindstamped cloth gilt (worn)

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Donald Hall: 'Andrew the Lion Farmer', illustrated Ann Reason, London, Methuen, 1961, 1st UK edition, [46]pp, leaves illustra

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Lot 7276

Donald Hall: 'Andrew the Lion Farmer', illustrated Ann Reason, London, Methuen, 1961, 1st UK edition, [46]pp, leaves illustrated throughout, illustrated EP's/pastedowns, oblong, original pictorial boards, dust wrapper; Aaron Judah: 'God and Mr. Sourpuss', London, Faber, 1959, 1st edition, black & white ills. by Richard Kennedy throughout, 4to, original pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper; Aylmer Hall: 'The Tyrant King A London Adventure', published London Transport Board, 1967, 1st edition, numerous full page and in text ills. by Peter Roberson, original, 178pp, orig. pictorial wraps, scarce; Charles Keeping: 'The Spider's Web', London, OUP, 1972, 1st edition, colour illustrated leaves throughout, original pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper; plus 1 other similar (5)

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Michael Bond: 'A Bear Called Paddington', illustrated Peggy Fortnum, Collins, 1958, 1st edition, 128pp, black & white ill

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Lot 7277

Michael Bond: 'A Bear Called Paddington', illustrated Peggy Fortnum, Collins, 1958, 1st edition, 128pp, black & white ills. throughout, original cloth, spine lettered in silver. First edition of the first book in the Paddington series; together with one other Paddington item (2)

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First editions of the first four Puffin Story Books for children, comprising Barbara Euphan Todd: 'Worzel Gummidge, or the Sc

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Lot 7282

First editions of the first four Puffin Story Books for children, comprising Barbara Euphan Todd: 'Worzel Gummidge, or the Scarecrow of Scatterbrook', ill. E Alldridge, 1941, 1st Puffin paperback edition, Puffin Story Book No.1, Derek McCulloch: 'Cornish Adventure', 1941, 1st Puffin paperback edition, PS No.2, Mrs Molesworth: 'The Cuckoo Clock', 1941, 1st thus, PS No.3, Herbert Best: 'Garram The Hunter', 1941, 1st thus, PS No.4, all published Penguin Books Ltd, all original wraps, plus Puffin Catalogues 1963-64 & 1970, each original pictorial wraps, plus Worzel Gummidge PS No.1 1946 reprint, orig. pictorial wraps, plus two Purnell Bobtail All Colour Books for children by Ruth Ainsworth, 'Earnest the Elephant', 1969, and 'The Lost Duck', 1969, each orig. pictorial boards (9)

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Various 19th Century children's/juvenile titles, including Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Abenteuer

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Lot 7283

Various 19th Century children's/juvenile titles, including Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland', illustrated John Tenniel, Leipzig, Johann Hartnoch, [nd], c.1870, early German edition of Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, [9],178pp, engraved frontis + full page and in text engraved ills. by Tenniel, original green cloth gilt, all edges gilt (worn copy); 'Mary Howitt's Illustrated Library for the Young', London, W Kent, 1856, volume 2 (6 parts, each with separate pagination), engraved ills. of Shells and Corals, China and the Chinese, Pets, Bears, Dogs & Insects, by Whymper, Dalziel et al, 4to, original printed paper covered boards (worn), lacks backstrip); 'Buzz a Buzz, or the Bees, done freely into English from the German of Wilhelm Busch', L, Griffith & Farran, [1872], [xvi],72pp, ills., original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards; FE Weatherly: 'Punch & Judy and Some of their Friends', ill. Patty Townsend, L, Marcus Ward, [1885], 24 chromolitho illustrations as called for, orig. cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards (worn); J.J. Wright: 'Play With Your Own Marbles, and Other Stories', London, Partridge, [1880], 112pp, lacks rear EP, orig. cloth gilt, scarce; several Marcus Ward Royal Illuminated Nursery Rhymes published WP Nimmo, Edinburgh (a/f); A.L.O.E. [i.e. Charlotte M. Tucker]: 'The children's tabernacle: or Hand-work and heart-work', [1872], orig. cloth gilt; plus 2 others similar (9)

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Percy Billinghurst (ill.): 'A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine', London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, viii,202pp + [2]pp ads

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Lot 7285

Percy Billinghurst (ill.): 'A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine', London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, viii,202pp + [2]pp ads at end, profusely illustrated with full page and in text black & white ills. throughout, original pictorial cloth; Lila Scott MAcDonald: 'Babies' Classics', illustrated Arthur Hughes, L, Longmans, 1904, xi,79pp, black & white ills. throughout, 4to, original cloth gilt (2)

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A collection of mainly mid 20th Century children's books, including C.S. Lewis: 'Prince Caspian The Return to Narnia', L, Ble

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Lot 7286

A collection of mainly mid 20th Century children's books, including C.S. Lewis: 'Prince Caspian The Return to Narnia', L, Bles, 1957 reprint, colour frontis + black & white ills. by Pauline Baynes, original cloth lettered in silver; Mary Norton: 'The Magic Bed-Knob', ill. Joan Kiddell-Monroe, L, Dent, 1946, 1st reprint, coloured frontis + coloured and black & white ills., original pictorial cloth, one of the inspirations for the 1971 film 'Bedknobs & Broomsticks'; Hester Wagstaff, 2 titles: 'The Adventures of Velvet' & 'The Tale of the Jolly Robin', each pub. Faber, each 1945 first edition, each illustrated throughout and original paper covered boards, mounted colour illustrations to front covers; E.B. White: 'Stuart Little', ill. Garth Williams, NY & L, Harper & Brothers, c.1950, 5th edition, orig. pictorial cloth; George Theiner & Rudolf Lukes: 'Magnus the Mighty Magician', L, Bancroft, 1964, 1st edition, [12]pp, 6 double page colour illustrations with moving parts, original cloth backed pictorial boards; 'Ferdinand Hirt's Berliner Fibel', ill. Fritz Koch-Gotha, Breslau, 1930, 96pp, colour ills throughout, orig. cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards; 'Another 6', Basil Blackwell, 1959, 1st edition in this form, orig. cloth, dust wrapper; two first editions by Ronald Welch, etc etc (18)

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W.B. Yeats: 'The Celtic Twilight', London, Bullen, 1902, 2nd edition, portrait frontis, ex Repton School Library, original cl

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Lot 7290

W.B. Yeats: 'The Celtic Twilight', London, Bullen, 1902, 2nd edition, portrait frontis, ex Repton School Library, original cloth gilt (slightly worn; Joseph Jacobs (edited): 'Celtic Fairy Tales; More Celtic Fairy Tales', illustrated John D. Batten, London, David Nutt, 1892, 1st edition; 1894, 1st edition, 2 volumes, each with 8 full page black & white plates and ills. in text as called for, uniform original decorative cloth; plus 3 others Irish literature/folk tales, including F.M. Allen [i.e. Edmund Downey]: 'From the Green Bag', L, Ward & Downey, 1889, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, Padraic O Conaire: ‘The Woman at the Window’, trans. Eomonn O Neill, Dublin & Cork, Talbot Press, [1931], new edition, black & white plates and ills. in text by Michael Mac Liammoir, original cloth, printed paper labels to front cover and spine, plus 1 other similar (6)

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Lord Dunsany, Edward Plunkett, 4 titles: ‘The Book of Wonder. A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the End of the World’, illu

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Lot 7291

Lord Dunsany, Edward Plunkett, 4 titles: ‘The Book of Wonder. A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the End of the World’, illustrated S.H. Sime, London, Heinemann, 1912, 1st edition, 10 black & white plates as called for, original quarter cloth gilt, mounted b & w illustration to front cover, ‘The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories’, illustrated S.H. Sime, London, George Allen, 1908, 1st edition, 10 black & white plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, bookplate of the Edwardian actress Muriel Ridley to front pastedown, ‘The Charwoman’s Shadow’, London, Putnam, 1926, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, ‘Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey’, London, Putnam, 1940, 1st edition, ex lib, original cloth gilt (spine browned) (4)

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Alfred Perceval Graves: 'The Irish Fairy Book', London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1909], 1st edition, colour frontis plus numerous fu

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Lot 7292

Alfred Perceval Graves: 'The Irish Fairy Book', London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1909], 1st edition, colour frontis plus numerous full page and in text ills., head & tail pieces etc., by George Denham as called for, xv,355pp, original pictorial cloth gilt

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Edith Somerville & Martin Ross [i.e. Violet Martin], Irish novelists, collection of 20 titles, including 'A Patrick's Day

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Lot 7293

Edith Somerville & Martin Ross [i.e. Violet Martin], Irish novelists, collection of 20 titles, including 'A Patrick's Day Hunt', London, Archibald Constable, [1902], 1st edition, 8 full page colour illustrations as called for, oblong folio, original pictorial cloth; 'French Leave', L, Heinemann, 1928, 1st edition, signed by Somerville to title page, and further signed & inscribed to FFEP "Ethel with love from Edit. Feb. 1928",original cloth gilt; 'In the Vine Country', 1893, 1st edition, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; 'Beggars on Horseback', 1895, 1st edition, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; Stray-Aways', 1920, 1st edition, orig. cloth; 'Irish Memories', 1917, 1st edition, orig. cloth backed boards; 'Dan Russel the Fox', 1911, 1st edition, org. cloth; 'In Mr Knox's Country', 1915, 1st edition, orig. cloth; 'Mount Music', 1919, 1st edition, org. cloth, etc etc (20)

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George MacDonald, 8 titles: ‘A Rough Shaking’, L, Blackie, 1891, [1890], 1st edition, 12 full page black & white plates b

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Lot 7294

George MacDonald, 8 titles: ‘A Rough Shaking’, L, Blackie, 1891, [1890], 1st edition, 12 full page black & white plates by W. Parkinson as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, ‘The Light Princess, and other Fairy Stories’, L, Blackie, 1891, 1st edition in this form, frontis + 1 plate by Leslie Brooke (of 3 plates, lacks plate facing p.89), original decorative cloth gilt, ‘Adela Cathcart’, L, Sampson Low, 1882, iv,412pp + 32pp ads at end, original decorative cloth gilt, ‘Phantastes. A Faerie Romance for Men and Women’, L, Arthur Fifield, 1905, new edition, 33 ills. by Arthur Hughes, a/f, worm damage affecting leaves at front and end and boards, original cloth gilt, ‘The Poetical Works of George MacDonald’, L, Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1st collected edition, 2 volumes, original cloth gilt, ‘Sir Gibbie’, L, Hurst & Blackett, c.1890, 396,[6]pp, ex Newnham College Fiction Library, old rebound cloth gilt, ‘Stephen Archer and other tales’, L, Richard Edward King, c.1900, original cloth gilt, ‘The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623’, London, Longmans, 1885, ex lib, rebound cloth gilt (9)

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Greville MacDonald, 2 titles: ‘Billy Barnicoat A Fairy Romance for Young and Old’, illustrated Francis D. Bedford, London, Ge

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Lot 7295

Greville MacDonald, 2 titles: ‘Billy Barnicoat A Fairy Romance for Young and Old’, illustrated Francis D. Bedford, London, George Allen, 1922, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by author to FFEP “Mary Ansley with love from her old cousin Greville MacDonald”, colour frontis + numerous full page & in text ills., chapter headings etc, original pictorial cloth gilt, ‘Count Billy’, illustrated F.D. Bedford, London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons, [1928], 1st UK edition, colour frontis + 6 black & white ills. as called for, original decorative blue cloth (2)

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Adrian Bell, Suffolk Trilogy, comprising 'Silver Ley', London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust

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Lot 7296

Adrian Bell, Suffolk Trilogy, comprising 'Silver Ley', London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, 'The Cherry Tree', L, Cobden-Sanderson, 1932, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper, 'Corduroy', L, Cobden-Sanderson, December 1932 reprint, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper, all in Clifford Webb pictorial dust wrappers, all with prices intact, plus 'The Budding Morrow', L, 1946, 1st edition, signed to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Apple Acre', 1946, 1st illustrated edition, signed & inscribed to half title, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, 'A Countryman's Notebook', 1975, 1st edition, signed to FFEP, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, 'Silver Ley', 1940, 1st Penguin paperback edition, signed to title page, original wraps (7)

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Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including 'Men and the Fields', illustrated John Nash, London, Batsfo

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Lot 7297

Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including 'Men and the Fields', illustrated John Nash, London, Batsford, 1939, 1st edition, 8 coloured litho plates by Nash as called for, original cloth gilt, 'Sunrise to Sunset', 1946, "Services Edition", 1st thus, signed to title page, original wraps, 'A Countryman's Notebook', 1975, 1st edition, signed to half title, original wraps, 'The Balcony', NY, Simon & Schuster, 1935, orig. cloth, 'Sunrise to Sunset', L, 1944, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Budding Morrow', L, 1946, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Black Donkey', L, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Flower and the Wheel', L, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'My Own Master', Faber, 1961, proof copy, orig printed wraps, 'The Cherry Tree', 1940, 1st Penguin paperback edition, orig. wraps, 'Apple Acre', 1964, 1st illustrated edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Apple Acre', 1942, 1st reprint, orig. cloth, d/w, plus Earl of Cranbrook: 'Parnassian Molehill. An Anthology of Suffolk Verse', Ipswich, 1953, limited edition, (463/500), numerous black & white illustrations by John Nash, original decorative cloth, dust wrapper, slipcase, three Batsford Books, each with contributions by Adrian Bell, all 1st editions, all in original cloth, all in Brian Cook dust wrappers, plus Robert Bell: 'After-thoughts', 1929, 1st edition, orig. quarter cloth, dust wrapper, etc (21)

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Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including Suffolk Trilogy 'Corduroy - Silver Ley - The Cherry Tree',

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Lot 7298

Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including Suffolk Trilogy 'Corduroy - Silver Ley - The Cherry Tree', 1951, Country Book Club Edition, colour illustrations by Harry Becker, uniform original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (Corduroy wrapper slightly worn), plus 'Corduroy', London, Cobden-Sanderson, July 1934 reprint, original cloth, Clifford Webb dust wrapper, 'Silver Ley', L, Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, 'By-Road', L, 1937, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, 'A Young Man's Fancy', New York, 1956, 1st US edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Open Air', 1949, 1st illustrated edition, wood engraved illustrations by Reynolds Stone, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Sunrise to Sunset', L, 1944, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Budding Morrow', L, 1946, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'My Own Master', L, 1961, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'A Suffolk Harvest', L, 1956, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, plus 'Country Company', 1949, 1st in wrapper & 'Countryside Character', 1946, 1st in wrapper, each with Adrian Bell contributions, plus 5 others Adrian Bell, plus 1 other (21)

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Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including 'Apple Acre', London, 1942, 1st edition, original cloth, du

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Lot 7299

Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including 'Apple Acre', London, 1942, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Open Air', L, 1936, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, 'A Young Man's Fancy', L, 1955, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Budding Morrow', L, 1946, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Sunrise to Sunset', L, 1944, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Flower and the Wheel', L, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Black donkey', L, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Suffolk Trilogy 'Corduroy - Silver Ley - The Cherry Tree', 1948, 1st illustrated edition, colour illustrations by Harry Becker, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrappers, 3 Batsford Books, all with Adrian Bell contributions, all 1st editions, all orig. cloth, all in Brian Cook dust wrappers (Soul of England couple part losses), plus 'Countryside Mood', 1943 1st in wrapper & 'Christmas Lasts For Ever', c.1950 in wrapper, both with contributions by Adrian Bell, plus 6 others Adrian Bell (21)

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A small collection of titles mainly relating to the Bloomsbury Group, or by associated authors, including Quentin Bell &

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Lot 7302

A small collection of titles mainly relating to the Bloomsbury Group, or by associated authors, including Quentin Bell & Virginia Nicholson: 'Charleston a Bloomsbury house & garden', London, Frances Lincoln, 1997, 1st edition, signed by Virginia Nicholson to title page, photographic illustrations throughout by Alen Macweeney, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Angelica Garnett: 'Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood', L, Chatto & Windus - The Hogarth Press, 1984, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, author's account of her experience growing up in the heart of the Bloomsbury Group, daughter of Vanessa Bell, niece of Virginia Woolf; E.M. Forster: 'Marianne Thornton A Domestic Biography', L, Edward Arnold, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; Virginia Nicholson: 'Singled Out', 2007, 5th impression, signed and inscribed to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper; Adam Nicholson: 'Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History', L, Harper Collins, 2008, 1st edition, signed to title page, orig. cloth, dust wrapper; plus Hugo Vickers: 'Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough', L, W & N, 1979, 1st edition, signed and inscribed to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper (6)

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Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘The Remains of the Day’, London, Faber & Faber, 1989, 1st edition, signed to title page, original cloth,

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Lot 7303

Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘The Remains of the Day’, London, Faber & Faber, 1989, 1st edition, signed to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper (VGC, £10.99 price intact). Ishiguro’s masterpiece, winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, adapted into a 1993 film of the same starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

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Louis de Bernières: ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’, London, Secker & Warburg, 1994, 1st edition, 1st impression, signed &am

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Lot 7304

Louis de Bernières: ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’, London, Secker & Warburg, 1994, 1st edition, 1st impression, signed & dated 1994 by author to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper (VGC, £14.99 price intact). Adapted into a 2001 film of the same name, starring Nicholas Cage, John Hurt & Penelope Cruz

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Michael Ondaatje: 'The English Patient', Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1992, 1st Canadian edition, signed to title page,

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Lot 7305

Michael Ondaatje: 'The English Patient', Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1992, 1st Canadian edition, signed to title page, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (fine/fine, $26.99 price intact). The most successful novel by one of Canada's most renowned living authors. Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize, basis of the 1996 film of the same name starring Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche, and as of 2021 currently in early development for a BBC television series

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon: 'The Shadow of the Wind', London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005, signed limited 1st illustrated edition

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Lot 7313

Carlos Ruiz Zafon: 'The Shadow of the Wind', London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005, signed limited 1st illustrated edition (942/1000), original cloth, original slipcase

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George Beahm (edited): 'The Stephen King Companion', Kansas City & NY, Andrews & McMeel, 1989, deluxe edition, number

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Lot 7314

George Beahm (edited): 'The Stephen King Companion', Kansas City & NY, Andrews & McMeel, 1989, deluxe edition, numbered 209 of 250 copies, signed by Beahm and 15 contributors including Clive Barker and Roger Zelazny, Werewolf portrait print of Stephen King by Kenny Ray Linkous and publishers typed letter loosely inserted, original boards, dust wrapper, original slipcase

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Richard Church: 'The Solitary Man', 1941, 1st edition (900), rebound decorative paper covered boards gilt, marbled EP's/paste

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Lot 7315

Richard Church: 'The Solitary Man', 1941, 1st edition (900), rebound decorative paper covered boards gilt, marbled EP's/pastedowns, by designer bookbinder Mark Cockram, and housed in hand made cloth solander box. Mark Cockram opened his first studio in Lincoln in 1992 and established 'Studio Five' in Barnes, London in 2003. Fellow of Designer Bookbinders since 2001, and a Brother of the distinguished Art Workers Guild, he has also been commissioned to bind works by Man Booker Prize finalists seven times. His work can be found in the British Library, the Grolier Club and the Victoria & Albert Museum, with some of his works also having been sold at Bonhams.

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A handmade ''Art Binding'' by designer bookbinder Mark Cockram, "Hand & Head", based on a mid 14th Century binding made u

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Lot 7316

A handmade ''Art Binding'' by designer bookbinder Mark Cockram, "Hand & Head", based on a mid 14th Century binding made using traditional materials and techniques. Mark Cockram opened his first studio in Lincoln in 1992 and established 'Studio Five' in Barnes, London in 2003. Fellow of Designer Bookbinders since 2001, and a Brother of the distinguished Art Workers Guild, he has also been commissioned to bind works by Man Booker Prize finalists seven times. His work can be found in the British Library, the Grolier Club and the Victoria & Albert Museum, with some of his works also having been sold at Bonhams.

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Colin Matheson: 'Brown Rats', 1962, in a handmade full rat pelt ''Art Binding'' by designer bookbinder Mark Cockram. Mark Coc

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Lot 7317

Colin Matheson: 'Brown Rats', 1962, in a handmade full rat pelt ''Art Binding'' by designer bookbinder Mark Cockram. Mark Cockram opened his first studio in Lincoln in 1992 and established 'Studio Five' in Barnes, London in 2003. Fellow of Designer Bookbinders since 2001, and a Brother of the distinguished Art Workers Guild, he has also been commissioned to bind works by Man Booker Prize finalists seven times. His work can be found in the British Library, the Grolier Club and the Victoria & Albert Museum, with some of his works also having been sold at Bonhams.

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Aldous Huxley: 'Crome Yellow', L, Chatto & Windus, 1923, 3rd impression, original chrome yellow cloth, printed paper labe

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Lot 7318

Aldous Huxley: 'Crome Yellow', L, Chatto & Windus, 1923, 3rd impression, original chrome yellow cloth, printed paper label to spine; Samuel Beckett: 'Waiting for Godot', L, Faber & Faber, 1956, 2nd impression, original cloth, dust wrapper (9s 6d price intact, generally VGC); William Faulkner: 'Go Down, Moses', L, Chatto & Windus, 1942, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (worn with part loss); Bertrand Russell: 'The History of Western Philosophy', L, George Allen, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth; 'The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia, known also as the Moallakat. Translated from the original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into English verse by W. S. Blunt.', L, Chiswick Press, 1903, 4to, original quarter cloth, pages uncut; Charles Darwin: 'On the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals', L, John Murray, 1873, 10th thou. [but later], 4pp & 32pp publisher's ads at end (2nd catalogue of ads dated January 1882), 7 plates + ills in text as called for, original cloth gilt (6)

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