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Click here to subscribeJOHN S GOODALL: PADDY FINDS A JOB A POP-UP STORY, 1981, 1st edn, obl, orig pict laminated bds + L FRANK BAUM: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, 1987, orig pict cl, d/w + ENID BLYTON: NODDY’S ABC A POP-UP PICTURE BOOK, 1968, obl, orig pict laminated bds + KENNETH GRAHAME: TALES FROM THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, ill Val Biro, 1987, 4to, orig pict laminated bds + three others (7)
L LESLIE BROOKE, 3 ttls: THE STORY OF THREE LITTLE PIGS, nd, prize label dtd 1944, orig pict bds soiled; JOHNNY CROW’S NEW GARDEN, circa 1948, orig pict bds, d/w (tatty); A NURSERY RHYME PICTURE BOOK NUMBER TWO, nd, mod reprint, 4to, orig cl, pict paper label, d/w + HENRY BROOKE: LESLIE BROOKE AND JOHNNY CROW, 1982, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w (4)
CHARLES DICKENS, 3 ttls: MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK, 1840-41, 1st edn in book form, 3 vols in 1, lacks ttl pge to vol 3, vol 1, old hf cf gt, spine gt in compartments + LITTLE DORRIT, ill H K Browne, 1857, 1st edn in book form, added engrd ttl pge, old hf cf gt, slightly worn + THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, [1862], old full cf gt, rebkd, orig backstrip re-attached, aem + NEW COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS …… AND THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT ……, 1867, old hf cf gt worn (4)
Five soft cover copies of `Bobby Bear`s Annual` published by The Daily Herald, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1939 and 1931, another early children`s book `The Milk Maid` with sketches by R Caldecot, three small albums of cigarette cards `Radio Celebrities` and an album of `Film Stars` (two) and two boxes of mixed books
REEL: An ex rare Allcock`s Double Ventilated Aerial model 7950-T7 (1923-34) 4.5" diameter (rare size), 6 spoke with tension regulator, 12 large holes plus 12 small holes per flange, twin crazed handles, backplate ratchet button on internal v check spring, makers round and straight line logo to backplate, fine condition with lead finish. Illus. * See ref book The Allcock Aerial A Collectors Guide, B. Singleton, p 68 notes the 12 double hole reel in 4.5" diam. is a 5 star rated rare example for collectors.
REEL: Allcock`s Aerial model 7950-T5 (1916-1925) rare 3" size alloy wide drum centre pin reel, 8 large hole ventilations, twin ivorine handles, 6 spoke with tension adjuster, BP alloy factory line `guide, ratchet button to backplate, V spring internal check, Allcock`s round logo to backplate, retains virtually all original finish, spins well. Illus. See ref book The Allcock Aerial A Collectors Guide, B. Singleton, p 64 notes the 3" diam wide drum is a 5 star rated rare example for collectors.
REEL: An rare Hardy Longstone 1921 Model, 4" alloy casting reel with black ebonised stained wood drum with incised rings, with alloy rear flange, twin bulbous horn handles to brass eye plates, knurled nickel drag adjuster, side lever check to internal mechanism, German silver line guide, correct brass foot, maker`s details stamped to backplate, very minor filing to foot toe. Illus. For ref see JOHN DREWETT book. HARDY BROTHERS, THE MASTERS THE MEN AND THEIR REELS, pages 438 on.
REEL: A rare Allcock`s 3.5" Double Ventilated Aerial alloy 6 spoke trotting reel, rarely seen in this small size with single row of 12 large ventilations to each drum flange, twin ivorine handles, spoke tensioner, correct brass foot, backplate check button to internal V spring check, Red Design and Allcock`s round logo impressed to backplate, fine honest condition. Illus. See ref book The Allcock Aerial, the Collectors Guide Bob Singleton pages 107/8. Bob comments as his was the only reel seen at time it may have been modified, but now appears to be production.
CATALOGUE & BOOKS: Hardy 1960 Angler`s Guide c/w price list, fine, 6 x "How To Catch Them Series", 2 x Tope 1st. edition, 1x Salmon 3rd. edition, 1xRiver Fly Fishing 1st. edition, 1x The Fixed Spool 1st. edition, 1x Loch Fishing 1st. edition and The Observer Book of Fly Fishing by Peter Wheat, all with D/Js. (8)
Twenty boxes of various books to include two volumes Ward Lock & Co. "Illustrated Guide to Torquay & South Devon" and "Oxford", one volume "Black`s Guide Book to East Kent", one volume "The New Cyclopaedia of Illustrative Anecdote", published London 1872, "The Illustrated London News Record of The Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)", numerous novels and hardback titles
A collection of early 20th Century Japanese children`s books to include "Japanese Fairytale Series no. 24 The Old Woman who Lost her Dumpling", "The Japanese Fairy Book", "Japanese Fairytales", etc, together with an Oriental silk picture depicting stork, an Oriental silk picture depicting geese, various prints, together with an Oriental rectangular brass lidded box containing a seal and various wax sticks
Two boxes of books to include two volumes "The French Revolution", illustrated by E.J. Sullivan, one volume JENKYN THOMAS "The Welsh Fairy Book", one volume "Kneightley`s Mythology of Greece & Italy", and one volume JOHN GALSWORTHY "Soames and The Flag", limited edition No. 588/1025, signed by the author, vellum binding, published London 1930
* Coronation Street. The cremated remains of Frisky, the Coronation Street cat, contained in a sealed wooden casket with small brass plaque (contents not examined), 11 x 14 x 9cm, together with the accompanying certificate by the Elysian Fields Pet Crematorium confirming that Frisky was cremated on 17th November 2000, plus compliments slip, plus a group of nine postally unused colour publicity postcards of Frisky and all but three showing the cat with Coronation Street actors, plus a signed colour photograph of the newsreader Martyn Lewis holding Frisky and reading a copy of his book ‘Cats in the News’. Provenance: John & Joyce Rimington, Frisky’s owners. A cat had appeared in four successive title sequences to the programme and in 1990 Frisky beat off 5,000 other cats to become the latest feline star in the new montage. From then until 2001 Frisky appeared in the Soap’s opening credits, crouching on the roof of Jack Duckworth’s pigeon loft. Frisky got to meet the actors on the show and until his death in 2000 at the age of 14 he earned thousands of pounds for charities by making personal appeareances. (12)
Woodall (John) [The surgeons mate 1639 Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest ye vses of the instruments the vertues and operations of ye medicines w[i]th ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott...] second edition engraved portrait of Charles I on horseback and 4 plates 1 folding folding letterpress table woodcut illustration lacking title portrait laid down on preceeding endpaper and with ink writing showing through from verso repaired tear to folding plate no loss 2 plates trimmed to within platemark 3O4 torn at foot with loss stained a few tears within text but with no loss ?later mottled calf spine in compartments later ink label to spine foot of spine worn rubbed [GM 2144; Krivatsy 13141; STC 25963] folio [Rob: Young [J. Legate? and E. Purslowe] for Nicholas Bourne] [1639]. ***The second edition but the first to include all of Wodall`s works. The author was surgeon-general to the East India Company. He was one of the first doctors to realise the importance of citrus fruits as a preventative measure against scurvy. Provenance: John Bull of Yalding Kent with the cost of the book above (17th century ink inscriptions to front free endpaper); Charles Broster (2 17th century ink inscriptions). .
Fairbairn`s Book of Crests of the Families of Grea 2 vol. fourth edition plates finger soiling original cloth spines darkened labels rubbed 1905 § Nobel Prize Library (The) 20 vol. frontispieces plates original rexine a clean set New York 1971; and c.50 others literature and history 4to and 8vo(c.70)
Blackburn (Henry) The Art of Illustration original cloth minor marking 1894 § [Morison (Stanley) and others.] An Exhibition of Printing original wrappers preserved in modern cloth drop-back box Cambridge 1940 § Bennett (Richard) The Story of Bovril wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings publisher`s slip tipped in original cloth dust-jacket some tears 1953 § Broomhead (Frank) The Book Illustrations of Orlando Jewitt limited edition illustrations original cloth Pinner 1995; and 10 others most book illustration including a portrait of Samuel Beckett v.s.(17)
Thorburn (A) A Naturalist`s Sketch Book first edition 24 colour and 36 collotype plates after Thorburn tissue guards original cloth t.e.g. little rubbed & marked modern cloth case [Anker 509; Nissen IVB 940; Wood p.597] 1919 § Nicholson (George editor) The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening 12 divisions plates and illustrations some colour a little very light browning and foxing ink inscriptions on half-title of vol. I original decorative green cloth gilt g.e. rubbed [?c.1887-89]; and c.15 others natural history etc. 8vo & 4to(c.25)
Hall Appleton`s...United States & Canada folding maps New York 1867 § The Englishman`s Illustrated Guide Book to the United States and Canada folding coloured map illustrations g.e. 1874 § Godfrey (Edward K.) The Island of Nantucket maps Boston 1882; and two other United States and Canada Guides 8vo(5)
Burton.Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage.. 2 vol. Memorial Edition half-titles portrait frontispiece folding colour map 14 plates (mostly tinted or chromolithographs) and 3 folding plans illustrations light browning at beginning and end hinges weak one reinforced original pictorial cloth gilt rubbed vol.2 with spine ends fraying vol.1 rebacked preserving original spine and with new endpapers 1893 § Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (The) translated by R.F.Burton 12 vol. Library Edition plates by Letchford all artist`s proofs and signed in pencil also with the etched plates by Lalauze captioned tissue guards some foxing original decorated cloth gilt rubbed vol.1 rather worn with joints split and crudely reinforced 1897 8vo
Tardieu (P.F.) Atlas de Tableaux et de Cartes... Atlas only 20 folding/double-page engraved maps most hand-coloured in outline folding tables family notes on rear pastedown contemporary sheep a little worn Paris 1804 § [Beckford (William)] Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha first edition half-title engraved portrait frontispiece foxed original cloth paper label on spine rubbed 1835 § M`Leod (John) Voyage of His Majesty`s Ship Alceste to China Corea and the Island of Lewchew third edition engraved portrait and folding map 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates light water-staining at beginning and end affecting frontispiece book-label of Captain Small on front pastedown contemporary half calf worn spine defective 1819 4to & 8vo
Hill (W. Henry Arthur F. and Alfred E.) Antonio S tissue guarded plates contemporary quarter calf rubbed and faded contents slightly shaken 1902 § The Strad. A Monthly Journal for Professionals & Amateurs vol.1-7 library book plates to front paste downs cloth 1890-1896; and 2 others similar v.s.(10)
(BOOKS) CONSTANTINE LEARIE, Cricket Crackers, London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., n.d.; M. A. Noble, Gilligan`s Men, London: Chapmen and Hall, 1925; The Girl`s Budget, London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d.; The Deathless Story of the Titanic magazine, a further commemorative book and three commemorative magazines
A Large Folder of 1960`s Hand Blocked and Printed Wallpaper Samples, mostly from Coles & Sons of Mortimer Street and Sandersons, including Flute by Edward Bawden, Sabines by John Drummond, Butterflies by Una Lindsay and Design 706 by Frank Lloyd Wright; and Two Volumes of The Architect`s Book of One Hundred Wallpapers 1958/9 and 1960/1 (qty)
A Pair of Robert "Mouseman" Thompson Oak Bookends, each carved as open books and inscribed LGHS (Leeds Girls` High School) AGE QVOD AGIS LIBRARY 1934 and FB (Fred Broadbent) with Masonic devices respectively, each carved with a mouse, 15cm wide, 17cm high See illustration Tennants sold the Leeds Girls` High School Robert "Mouseman" Thompson Library on Saturday 19 July 2008. Fred Broadbent was the Leeds Education Committee`s architect who worked with Robert Thompson on the design of the LGHS library. The bookends were a gift from Robert Thompson. From the order book, the bookends are listed as "1 pair of carved bookends £3".
Henry Spencer Moore RA, OM, CH, FBA (1898-1986) "Red and Blue Standing Figures" Signed in pencil, bearing the artist`s name within the plate, coloured lithographic print, 29.5cm by 21.5cm; together with a book "Heads, Figures and Ideas" With a comment by Geoffrey Grigson and published by George Rainbird, London 1958, also published by the New York Graphic Society - Greenwich, Connecticut, compiled and designed by the artist in collaboration with George Rainbird using the auto-lithograph method printed on handmade paper. It was drawn by Henry Moore in 1958 and published by Rainbird in the same year (2)
* Ali (Muhammad, b. 1942). Signed b&w photo of Ali and John [Rimington], 1980, showing Ali in white boxing shorts with a clenched right fist standing beside an onlooking and smiling John Rimington, signed and inscribed in blue ink across John’s jumper, ‘To John, Muhammed Ali, Sept 27, 80’, 25 x 20cm, together with a signed copy of Angelo Dundee’s book ‘I Only Talk Winning’, additionally signed by Mike Winters, plus other sporting related material, including an Ali v. Holmes t-shirt, a signed Frank Bruno colour publicity photo, a Great Britain v. New Zealand Rugby League Programme (Leeds, 1989), signed on the covers by various players, etc. (18)
* WWII - Eisenhower vs. Montgomery. Soldier of Democracy, a Biography of Dwight Eisenhower by Kenneth S. Davis, 1st ed., New York, 1945, ownership signature of Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper to half-title and again in pencil to title (‘“Queen Mary” at Sea, Nov. 1945’), map endpapers, orig. cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with three autograph letters to Cooper from Sir Ronald Weekes (31st December 1945?), 2 pp., Field Marshall Montgomery, Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, 24th January 1946, 4 pp., and Viscount Alanbrooke, 31st December 1949, 6 pp., the first tipped on to front pastedown at upper margin, second tipped on to front f.e.p. with a gummed paper slip attaching the two sheets, the third loose, all 8vo. All three letters are letters of thanks to Ashley Cooper for lending them the book and while each writer enjoyed the book and felt it had merits, they all believe that the British are not given enough credit and that Eisenhower’s abilities and achievements are exaggerated. The letter from Montgomery is marked private and reads in full: ‘Dear Cooper, thank you so very much for lending me this book. I have been laid up with influenza and have read it in bed with great interest. It is a great pity that the author in his endeavours to “write up” Ike has found in necessary to decry everything British. A British author might well reply that all Eisenhower’s fighting was handled for him by British Commanders: which is literally true. It was only when Ike, flushed by victory, descended from the lofty perch of a Supreme Commander and took tactical command himself of the armies, that our troubles began. The author is indeed ungenerous to British soldiers throughout his book; he even blames them for the fact that some Germans escaped from the Falaise pocket! For his remarks about myself, I care nothing; I could refute everything he says by written evidence; but his ungenerous attitude to British arms is a pity as some British author is bound to write a counter-blast: which would be a worse pity! Ike was a great Supreme Commander, and should be recognised as such. But in order to assign to him qualities that he does not possess, the author has had to put an entirely false complexion on many things. It would be perfectly simple to prove this “false complexion” but this must never be done. Of one thing I am convinced: we and America have got to come together, definitely, conclusively, and perpetually. Once we can achieve this, all will be well in the world. I think it can be achieved if we set about it in the right way. But we shall achieve nothing if we start emitting boohs about each other. All this is of course private. Thank you again for letting me read the book. Yours sincerely, B.L. Montgomery, Field-Marshall’. (4)
Chapbooks. Voyages and Travels, of that Renowned Capt. Sir Francis Drake, into the West-Indies, and giving A perfect Relation of his strange Adventures and many wonderful Discoveries; of his Fights with the Spaniards and many other Savage Nations; of his taking St. Jago de Cuba, Carthagena, Domingo, St. Augustine, and divers other Places, Preston, E. Sergent, late 18th c., 24pp., woodcut vign. of two ships on title-page, dust-soiled, corners creased, rough-trimmed, stitched as issued, 161 x 85mm (6.25 x 3.25 ins), together with The Second Part of the Witty and Entertaining Exploits of George Buchanan, who was Commonly Called the King’s Fool, to which are added, Witty and Entertaining Jests, &c., Newcastle, printed by G. Angus, in the Side, early 19th c., 24pp., woodcut vign. on title-page and final page, dust-soiled, rough-trimmed, folded as issued, 172 x 100mm (6.75 x 4 ins), plus The History of Jerusalem; or, the Captivities of the Jews..., Coventry, printed by J. Turner, early 19th c., 24pp., woodcut vign. on title-page and tail-piece on final page, foxed and sl. dusty, rough-trimmed, sometime re-sewn, 162 x 93mm (6.5 x 3.75 ins), plus ten others, incl. seven late 19th/early 20th c. pamphlets relating to shipping disasters (Loss of the Mignonette, Drummond Castle, Northfleet, H.M.S. Cobra, etc.), and a defective copy of The Book of Knowledge, mid-17th c. (13)
Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 vols., 1st ed., William Blackwood, 1858, half titles present (with contemp. ms. inscription), stitching strained, and first vol. with a number of leaves detached, orig. blindstamped maroon cloth gilt, by Edmonds & Remnants, with binder’s ticket on rear pastedown of first vol., extrems. lightly rubbed (and spine ends just beginning to fray), spines faded, 8vo. Sadleir 818; Wolff 2062. This, the author’s first book, comprises three tales which first appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1857: ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton’, ‘Mr Gilfil’s Love-Story’ and ‘Janet’s Repentance’. The stories were widely praised for their domestic realism, pathos and humour, and Dickens himself was full of admiration for Eliot’s writings, prompting much speculation about the identity of the author, who was widely supposed to be a clergyman or a clergyman’s wife. George Eliot’s rarest book and particularly so in the original cloth. (1)
[Taylor, Jane & Ann]. Signor Topsy-Turvey’s Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, The World turned upside down... Illustrated with Twenty-Four Engravings, 1st ed., printed for Tabart & Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, 1810, pp.71+[1](ads.), eng. frontis. (close-trimmed at top edge clipping image), and twenty-three eng. plts., contents generally browned, and small stain to fore-margin throughout (just clipping edge of images/text in places), a few short edge tears/nicks, mid. 19th c. half calf gilt, lightly rubbed and spine faded, 16mo. Gumuchian 5517; Moon, Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library, 171(1). Extremely rare. Not in Osborne. A curious and amusing little book, which Marjorie Moon calls “an excellent production”. She adds “the verses are neat, pointed and (as may be expected, considering the authors) easily to be understood by children” and she describes the plates (possibly by Isaac Taylor, junior) as “among the more proficient illustrations in children’s books of the period”. The imaginative engravings and accompanying verse are apparently the result of the Magic Lantern operator’s ineptitude as he shows slides upside down, causing humorous reversals of standard roles, such as: ‘Monkey turned Beau’; ‘The Dunce turned Scholar’; ‘The Boy turned Giant’; ‘The Ass turned Miller’; ‘Game turned Sportsman’; ‘Fish out of Water’; ‘The Moon in the Dumps’; and ‘The Horse turned Driver’. In some cases the ludicrous takes on a rather alarming tone, for example, ‘The Cook Cooked’ shows the cook being roasted on a spit by a hare, ‘The Mare turned Farrier’ shows a horse hammering a nail into the farrier’s foot, and ‘The Hogs Court of Inquiry’ shows a number of bewigged hogs presiding over a butcher with bound limbs. Apart from a partial American reprinting in 1811, the book was never published again, in stark contrast to the rest of the Taylor sister’s oeuvre. This may have been in part because Benjamin Tabart was declared bankrupt in 1810, though it still seems surpring that the work was not taken up by another publisher. It seems probable that, despite the moralistic tone of some of the tales, the over-riding theme of anarchy - more subversive than the standard content of early nineteenth century children’s literature - was just too much for contemporary audiences. (1)
Gray (Henry). Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, 1st ed., 1858, half-title inscribed in contemp. ms. ‘With the Publishers’ Compts’, numerous letterpress engs. by H.V. Carter, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, title-page with early ms. ownership name at head, with portion of blank margin above torn away, occn. minor spotting and off-setting, hinges split, orig. blind-panelled cloth gilt, lightly soiled, extrems. frayed, large 8vo. Garrison Morton 418. The rare first edition of this classic medical text, which has been more widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors than any other. Celebrated physician Henry Gray (1827-1861) was chiefly engaged in anatomical research and teaching at St. George’s Hospital in London. The ambitious and ebullient surgeon performed the dissections required for the book with his shy and retiring colleague, Henry Vandyke Carter, who provided the exquisitely detailed drawings. On publication the book was immediately acclaimed for its simple layout and clarity. Carter’s hand in its success has always been somewhat overlooked, and indeed, Gray himself requested that Carter’s name appear in smaller print than his own on the title-page. However, Gray died suddenly of smallpox at the age of 34, whereas Carter went on to achieve some modest acclaim for his medical research amongst the poorest people in India. (1)
Landen (John). Mathematical lucubrations, containing new improvements in various branches of the mathematics, 1st ed., 1755, five plts. incl. four folding, without final advert page, together with A discourse concerning the residual analysis, a new branch of the algebraic art... , 1st ed., 1758, advert to final leaf verso, some spotting, plus The residual analysis, a new branch of the algebraic art... , Book I, 1st ed., 1764, subscriber’s list, five folding plts., some heavy spotting, plus Observations on converging series, occasioned by Mr. Clarke’s translation of Mr. Lorgna’s treatise on the same subject, 1st ed., printed for the author, 1781, appendix and supplement with separate paginations bound at rear, part title to appendix, some spotting, all recent quarter morocco over marbled boards, 4to (4)
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