Lot: 1
Ephemera and documents, 1870s to 1950s, including Dublin United Tramways Co. Timetable 1920s (6pp); Insurance Policies, copy wills, used cheques (1902), etc, with interest in N.W. Hampshire & Berkshire, most from the estate of G. Prior of Yateley. (Qty.)
Lot: 2
Various including Thomas Rose Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland, 1833, Vols.1 & 2, engraved plates complete (Vol.1 lacking front board); two early-19th Century bound vols. of sheet music (popular arias, rondos, etc); Demmin Weapons of War, 1870; and assorted others. Mixed condition. (12)
Lot: 3
Ephemera and photographs of all periods; including theatre programmes, 19th Century cabinet & carte-de-visite photos, many Victorian and later greetings cards (some laid down in old album),19th Century engravings, correspondence, billheads & receipts, FDCs, etc. (Large qty.) (8 kilos)
Lot: 4
Penguin publications, 1939-73, mostly 1940s to early ‘60s, mainly fiction, very mixed condition, 28 with ownership inscription to front cover. Most are first printings in Penguin including five by Simenon and nine by Freeman Wills Crofts. (59)
Lot: 5
The Whitbread Library 1947-1953, set of 11 volumes, complete with the Chairman's letter, all first editions with good to VF d/jackets except Inns of Sport which is a 2nd Edn. and lacks the jacket. Published by Whitbread & Co or Naldrett Press for Whitbread. Some with browning to endpapers. No inscriptions. (11)
Lot: 6
Recording Britain, Oxford, 1946-49, 4 vols, in d/jkts (spines of jackets poor); and various small books including Holland & Britain and Greece and Britain; About Britain Nos.1 to 9, Collins, 1951; King Penguins (5), and eight of the In Praise Of series, Frederick Muller 1949-59. Fair to VF. (32)
Lot: 7
Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures, Collins, 1941-1949, a set of 126 volumes including the British C/Wealth issues and the six volumes of English Poets in Pictures in a smaller format. A high proportion are first editions and 93 have the dustjackets including Orwell's The English People 1947. Also two larger ‘Guinea Volumes', a spare copy of Trees, and Carney's Britain in Pictures: A History and Bibliography, 1995. Some wear to spines, mostly to the extremities. (130)
Lot: 8
Assorted books including The Spectator, Routledge, 1860, complete in 2 vols, worn leather; Genestoux Les Trois Petits Chats, Hachette, 1936, in poor d/jkt o/w VG; Mayhew London Labour and the London Poor – Those That Will Not Work, [1861], one leaf of the Contents missing; Brown's Signalling, James Brown, 1920; Smith The Class Book of Anatomy, 1837, old calf, some damp staining to first & last few leaves; and four others. Mixed condition. (10)
Lot: 9
Autographs collection in modern album with signed photos (36) and signed cuttings/pages; the photos include Gene Pitney, Stephanie Beacham, Anthea Turner, Toyah, Lynn Redgrave, John Altman, George Maharis, Beau Bridges, and Frank Finlay. Some mixed condition. (44). Also few unsigned or with printed signatures.
Lot: 10
Album of signed photos, cuttings and many autographed cards/pages; includes signed photos of Rachel Weiss, Norman Collier, June Brown, Ranulph Fiennes, and Linda Kozlowski; the signed cuttings/pages include P.J. Proby, Robert Atkins, Joan Plowright, and many other entertainers. (96). Also some unsigned photos.
Lot: 11
Autographs in modern album, with signed photos, cuttings & pages, mosly entertainers and sport, including Daniel Massey, George Cole, Barbara Cartland, Donald Sinden, Jude Law, Richard Todd, Angela Rippon, Sebastian Koch, Jonny Wilkinson, and various others, several with multiple siignatures. (77 items). Also few unsigned photos or with printed signatures.
Lot: 12
Tobacco Wrappers, 1920s/1940s, unused, 25 different, two of each. Fine lot. (50)
Lot: 13
The Saturday Evening Post, Curtis Publishing, March to June 1958, November-December 1958, September to December 1959, bound into five volumes, gilt cloth, the original pictorial wraps intact, VG condition.
Lot: 14
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 2003, 3 volume set in slipcase; and Burke's Landed Gentry – The Kingdom of Scotland (19th Edn., Vol.1). Small repair to foot of rear hinge of Vol.1 of Burke's Peerage o/w fine. (4)
Lot: 15
Tudor & Stuart history including Orlin Locating Privacy in Tudor London, 2009; Hoyle The Pilgrimage of Grace and the politics of the 1530s, 2001; Phillips The Anglo-Scots Wars 1513-1550, 1999; and related titles. 17 are h/bk in d/jkts. Also a pamphlet. (29). [This and the following 50 lots comprise the collection of the historian Jennifer Holt. Unless otherwise stated many bear her initials on the front endpaper, or occasionally her bookplate. Condition is largely fine..]
Lot: 16
The Management of Common Land in North-West Europe, c.1500-1850, Brepols, 2002, and other titles in the Comparative Rural History Series, all in card wraps. (8)
Lot: 17
The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (8 vols.); The Place-Names of Westmorland (2 vols.), and The Place-Names of Cumberland (3 vols.); Cambridge University Press for the English Place-Name Society, 1961-99; all in d/jkts. (13)
Lot: 18
Lewis The Medieval Earthworks of the Hundred of West Derby, British Archaeological Reports, 2000, and other BAR publications including Evans Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes of Cumbria, 2008, and similar. A4, card wraps. (9)
Lot: 19
Surtees Society publications including Records of the Borough of Crossgate, Durham, 1312-1531, 2008; Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland 1687-1688, 2003; Naworth Estate and Household Accounts 1648-1660, 1958, and others, all in the gilt cloth bindings. (10)
Lot: 20
Local and Family History pamphlets (120), books (2), photocopied articles, etc, many with annotations. (360+)