Trafford Books

Auction No 349, Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT

417 Lots (displaying 161 - 180)

Frederick Marryat "The Pirate, and The Three Cutters" 1867

Lot: 161

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  • Est: £15 - £20
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Frederick Marryat The Pirate, and The Three Cutters, Bell & Daldy, 1867, rebound in fine green quarter calf, gilt; 20 steel engravings mainly after Clarkson Stanfield; 1870 gift inscription top of page iv; some fox marks

R. Ellis Gerrard "Ballads of Battle and Poems of Peace" Newcastle 1914 and other war poetry

Lot: 162

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  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £28
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R. Ellis Gerrard Ballads of Battle and Poems of Peace, Newcastle 1914 (Afghan Wars, Boer War etc); A.W. Black Pilau: Being Lays of East and West, A. Stockwell, 1924 (WWI Campaign in Iraq and Persia); & C.E. Howarth War and other Poems, London 1904. All gilt cloth, VG. (3)

Robert Morgan "Voices in the Dark", Arc Publications, 1976 & another

Lot: 163

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  • Est: £15 - £20
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Robert Morgan Voices in the Dark, Arc Publications, 1976, signed & inscribed by the author; and Peter J. Neville Havins The Matchbox, Swansea, 1975; both fine First edition in VG d/w. (2)

Alice Daglish & Ernest Rhys "The Land of Nursery Rhyme" 1932, Illustrated Charles Folkard

Lot: 164

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  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
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Alice Daglish & Ernest Rhys The Land of Nursery Rhyme, Dent, 1932, First Edition, illustrated by Charles Folkard including 8 colour plates; original pictorial cloth, rubbed at periphery, fine internally

Anglo-Indian Fiction with Helen Forbes "It's a Way They Have in the Army" 1905 & 2 others

Lot: 165

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  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £26
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Anglo-Indian Fiction comprising Lady Helen Forbes It's a way They Have in the Army, 1905, 1st Edn; M. Leonora Eyles Captivity,1922, 1st Edn, some foxing; and Harold Begbie The Challenge, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. All original cloth, browning to endpapers. (3)

Frederic Dillaye "Les Etapes du Cirque Zoulof" Paris, c.1895

Lot: 166

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  • Est: £20 - £30
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Frederic Dillaye Les Etapes du Cirque Zoulof, Paris (c.1895), original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine a little faded; a.e.g.; illustrated by Charles Clerice; rear inner hinge with tape repair. 421pp

Selection of Gaelic and Scots Dialect Poetry 1909-1940, largely First Editions (7)

Lot: 167

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  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £40
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Selection of Gaelic and Scots Dialect poetry 1909-1940, largely First Editions, including works by Albert Mackie, James Mackereth, Angus Robertson and Charles Murray. (7)

Len Deighton "Funeral in Berlin", Cape, 1st Edition in VG d/w

Lot: 168

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  • Est: £10 - £20
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Len Deighton Funeral in Berlin, Jonathan Cape, 1964, First Edition in VG complete d/w; ownership label top of front endpaper o/w fine internally.

Book-Lore: A Magazine devoted to Old Time Literature,1884-1887

Lot: 169

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  • Est: £30 - £50
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Book-Lore: A Magazine devoted to Old Time Literature, Elliot Stock, December 1884 to November 1887, Vols I to IV complete, bound into 3; quarto, original leather covered boards very worn & now covered in protective brown paper wrappers; text-block uncut 2 sides and very clean internally in sound bindings. (3)

William E.A. Axon "Stray Chapters in Literature, Folk-Lore, and Archaeology" 1888

Lot: 170

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  • Est: £15 - £20
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William E.A. Axon Stray Chapters in Literature, Folk-Lore, and Archaelogy, John Heywood, Manchester, 1888, 1st Edition; original gilt cloth, worn at corners, frayed at top & foot of spine; clean text, 309pp + Axon bibliography.

Ulick Ralph Burke "Sancho Panza's Proverbs and others which occur in Don Quixote" 1872

Lot: 171

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  • Est: £30 - £50
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Ulick Ralph Burke (Ed.) Sancho Panza's Proverbs and others which occur in Don Quixote, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1872, 1st Edition;original blue gilt cloth, gilt library number at foot of spine; endpapers browned; engraved title. 

Charlotte Bronte "The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte, edited by Clement Shorter" 1923

Lot: 172

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  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
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Charlotte Bronte The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte, edited by Clement Shorter, Hodder & Stoughton, 1923, First Edition; original boards with quarter cloth, gilt, slight wear at corners; ownership inscriptions front endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; xxi+244pp

Edward Moxon "Sonnets" London, 1830, First Edition

Lot: 173

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  • Est: £30 - £50
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Edward Moxon Sonnets, London, 1830, First Edition, privately printed; re-cased, original leather over new boards & endpapers; old library stamp; clean text. 46pp

Isaac D'Israeli "Curiosities of Literature" 1817, 3 vols, and others

Lot: 174

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  • Est: £20 - £30
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Isaac D'Israeli Curiosities of Literature, John Murray, 1817, 3 volumes, nicely rebound in modern cloth, gilt; and D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature, Edward Moxon, 1842, 3 volumes, original cloth, gilt, top of spine of Vol.2 badly chipped. (6)

Ian Miller "Doorstep", Newnes [1938], 320pp

Lot: 175

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  • Est: £20 - £30
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Ian Miller Doorstep, Newnes [1938], original cloth, spine darkened o/w VG, ex-libris bookplate, 320pp

Sheila Burnford signed & inscribed books (5) incl. The Incredible Journey

Lot: 176

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £28
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Sheila Burnford signed & inscribed books (5), all in good to fine d/w including The Incredible Journey, 1965; plus another signed by John Timpson. (6)

Daddy's Bobby; by Hesper and Naomi, and Other Stories of Street Life, 1884

Lot: 177

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  • Est: £20 - £30
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Daddy's Bobby; by Hesper and Naomi, and Other Stories of Street Life, Liverpool Caxton Brigade, original decorated cloth, gilt, good; gift inscription of 1884; modern ownership stamp. 70pp

A. A. Milne "Winnie the Pooh" 1927, "Now We are Six" 1927 and two others

Lot: 178

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh, 1927, 3rd Edition, original gilt cloth, VG; Now We are Six, 1927, 1st Edition, a little worn & faded; and Toad of Toad Hall, 1929, 1st Edition, original gilt cloth, VG; first two titles with brief ownership inscription. Together with Kate Greenaway Mother Goose, Frederick Warne, c.1900, pictorial boards. (4)

Othello, The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007

Lot: 179

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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Othello, The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007, in special case, folio, in three-quarter goatskin over marbled boards together with a small companion volume edited by Michael Neill. No. 151 of 3750 produced. VF, the case slightly marked.

C.J. Apperley "Nimrod Abroad" Henry Colburn, 1842, 2 Vols

Lot: 180

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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C.J. Apperley Nimrod Abroad, Henry Colburn, 1842, 2 volumes; full 19th Cent. leather, gilt, for the Society of Writers, spines worn with some professional repairs, marble edged; minor damp staining to margins of first & last few pages of each volume o/w VG internally. Much detail on horse-racing in Europe & America, Hunting in India, etc. 285+306pp (2)