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Auction No 428, Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST

183 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Mix in carton with many softback publications,19th Century portrait photographs (25), various PPCs, and assorted ephemera;

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £38
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Mix in carton with many softback publications, 19th Century portrait photographs (25), various PPCs, and assorted ephemera; the softbacks include maritime/naval themes, postal history interest, modern items including Star Wars sticker books, etc. (10 kilos).

"Sibford Magazine" and Annual Reports, 1931-73, issued by the Quaker school at Sibford, Banbury. Few early issues in mixed condition but mostly VG/F

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
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Sibford Magazine and Annual Reports, 1931-73, issued by the Quaker school at Sibford, Banbury. Few early issues in mixed condition but mostly VG/Fine. (45)  

F. Hackwood "Staffordshire Worthies", 1911, gilt cloth; "The History of the House of Stanley to which is added a Complete History of the Isle of Man"

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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F. Hackwood Staffordshire Worthies, 1911, gilt cloth; The History of the House of Stanley….to which is added a Complete History of the Isle of Man, 1821, nicely rebound in half-leather, five plates, few pages repaired, some loss of text; Bury related pamphlets (4) including Sanitary Inspector Reports for 1883, 1888 and 1895; brochure of 1885 concerning the proposed restoration of the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London, with hand-coloured plan; Lancashire bibliographies, etc. (13)

Selection of Bookplates (11) from 1808, together with booksellers’ and binders’ tickets (21) and gramophone records tax labels (78). Varied condition.

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £42
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Selection of Bookplates (11) from 1808, together with booksellers' and binders' tickets (21) and gramophone records tax labels (78). Varied condition.

"Recording Britain", Oxford, 1946-49, 4 vols, in d/jkts (spines of jackets poor); and various small books including "Holland & Britain"

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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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)

Victorian Valentines, a selection of three unused examples, together with a related decorated envelope. All with elaborate applique. VG condition.

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £52
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Victorian Valentines, a selection of three unused examples, together with a related decorated envelope. All with elaborate applique. VG condition. Also unrelated items including WW2 National Savings Committee publicity leaflets (3), and a 1938 German PPC publicising the anti-semitic film Der Ewige Jude. (Qty)

Selection of small tin boxes issued by Collectable Tins, mostly reproducing images from Carreras "Amusing Tricks & How To Do Them" cigarette cards,

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Selection of small tin boxes issued by Collectable Tins, mostly reproducing images from Carreras Amusing Tricks & How To Do Them cigarette cards, one lacking the base. VG (33)

A post-WWI Photo Album with a collection of snapshot photos, mainly views of the South West of England and Isle of Wight,

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £34
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A post-WWI Photo Album with a collection of snapshot photos, mainly views of the South West of England and Isle of Wight, most with locations identified, one dated 1919. VG/VF (90)

"Country Life" 1910/1911, 1912/1913, July-Dec.1915, and July- Oct. 1917, bound volumes, the 1912/13 volume lacking Feb. to April 1912,

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £115
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Country Life 1910/1911, 1912/1913, July-Dec.1915, and July-Oct. 1917, bound volumes, the 1912/13 volume lacking Feb. to April 1912, the 1915 & 1917 volumes with light damp staining (a few pages adhering at foot). Occasional colour plate. Gilt cloth. (4)

Books & ephemera; including 1887 Sales Particulars for property in Broughton-in-Furness with two large folding Plans;

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £64
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Books & ephemera; including 1887 Sales Particulars for property in Broughton-in -Furness with two large folding Plans; T.C. Emmott An Outlaw in the Twentieth Century, Wycollar, c.1970; Poets of Merseyside Merton Press, 1923; various trade catalogues & handbooks including Highland Dress by Paisley's, 1952, and John Harvey's Wine List, 1952; Crosby Carnival Programme 1950; and various other items. Fair to VF. (over 5 kilos)

Herge "The Adventures of Tintin", Egmont, 2015, pictorial boards, fine boxed set of eight vols; "The Poems of T.S. Eliot", Annotated Text, Faber,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Herge The Adventures of Tintin, Egmont, 2015, pictorial boards, fine boxed set of eight vols; The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Annotated Text, Faber, 2015, two vols, in d/jkts, fine, and various others. No inscriptions

James Joyce "Ulysses", Folio Society, 2017, illustrated by John Vernon Lord, restored text, first printing; and other Folio Society titles

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £120
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James Joyce Ulysses, Folio Society, 2017, illustrated by John Vernon Lord, restored text, first printing; and other Folio Society titles including Paul Auster The New York Trilogy, 2014. Fine, all in the slipcases. (5)  

W. Audry "Troublesome Engines", 1967, and a collection of other Audry’s railway engine titles with many reprints in pictorial boards.

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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W. Audry Troublesome Engines, 1967, and a collection of other Audry's railway engine titles with many reprints in pictorial boards. Mainly VG to fine. (41)

Children’s books by Dr.Seuss (26) and Roald Dahl (21), most with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts. Five with ownership inscriptions. Mostly VG/VF (47)

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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Children's books by Dr.Seuss (26) and Roald Dahl (21), most with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts. Five with ownership inscriptions. Mostly VG/VF (47)   

Children’s comic-strip books, chiefly Asterix titles, plus few Beano Annuals and similar. Eleven are h/bks. VG/VF (32)

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
SOLD £12
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Children's comic-strip books, chiefly Asterix titles, plus few Beano Annuals and similar. Eleven are h/bks. VG/VF (32)

Children’s Books by Alison Uttley (43, fourteen in d/jkts), and Jill Barklem’s ‘Brambly Hedge’ series (14, nine in d/jkts). Mostly VG/VF (57)

Lot: 16

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  • Est: £40 - £60
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Children's Books by Alison Uttley (43, fourteen in d/jkts), and Jill Barklem's ‘Brambly Hedge' series (14, nine in d/jkts). Mostly VG/VF (57)

Beatrix Potter selection, 1940s/60s, all with pictorial onlay to front boards, six in d/jkts, good to fine;

Lot: 17

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  • Est: £40 - £60
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Beatrix Potter selection, 1940s/60s, all with pictorial onlay to front boards, six in d/jkts, good to fine; together with a modern pop-up and a Complete Tales in d/jkt. (17)

Rupert Bear annuals (22) from 1970, VG/Fine, and seven 1930s/50s children’s annuals with some peripheral wear to the boards. (29).

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Rupert Bear annuals (22) from 1970, VG/Fine, and seven 1930s/50s children's annuals with some peripheral wear to the  boards. (29). 

Illustrated Children’s Books, mostly 1970s/1990s with a few 1930s, the majority with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts.

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Illustrated Children's Books, mostly 1970s/1990s with a few 1930s, the majority with pictorial boards, some in d/jkts. Some with ownership inscriptions. Mainly good to VF. (72)

Children’s Fiction 1900s to 1990s, including Helen Bannerman "The Story of Little Black Sambo", 1911; many illustrated including Arthur Rackham

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Children's Fiction 1900s to 1990s, including Helen Bannerman The Story of Little Black Sambo, 1911; many illustrated including Arthur Rackham (7, modern reprints). Some with ownership inscriptions. (34)