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Auction No 368, Category: Books

150 Lots (displaying 141 - 150)

Football softbacks c.1947-1952, mostly pre-1950, published by Provincial Sports of Southport (9),

Lot: 145

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £66
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Football softbacks c.1947-1952, mostly pre-1950, published by Provincial Sports of Southport (9), Grant Hughes (3) and few others; including Football Favourites Books 1 to 5 (plus additional No.1), Soccer Snapshots Nos.1 and 2, Football and Sport Survey 1948, The Cup Naldrett Press 1951, 1947-8 Soccer Highlights, etc. Good to fine. (17)

Pierce Egan "Boxiana" G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition;

Lot: 146

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £155
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Pierce Egan Boxiana G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition; Vols.2 and 3 in 19th Century half-leather, gilt, repaired, with new endpapers; Vol.1 in a fine modern half-leather binding. Most plates intact but 4 folding plates missing from Vol.1, some plates added to Vol.2 (contains 13 instead of 6) and Vol. 3 lacking one of the seven plates. Some damp staining. Also 5 others on boxing. 

Richard Harland "The Hunting Imperative", 2001, and Robert Foran "The Elephant Hunters of the Lado", 2007,

Lot: 147

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £54
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Richard Harland The Hunting Imperative, 2001, and Robert Foran The Elephant Hunters of the Lado, 2007, both VF in d/jkts; Tony Henley Round the Campfire, & Hunting and Wildlife in Botswana, 2002, publisher’s proof copy in gilt cloth binding; and another. (4) VG/VF

[Frank Dowling] "Fights for the Championship; and Celebrated Prize Battles", Bell's Life, London, 1855,

Lot: 148

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £72
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[Frank Dowling] Fights for the Championship; and Celebrated Prize Battles, Bell’s Life, London, 1855, attractive later three-quarter calf rebind by Bayntum-Riviere with gilt boxing motifs in compartments on spine, author’s title label slightly scuffed; backstrip of the original cloth binding laid down on rear endpaper; previous owner’s bookplates on front endpaper. Clean text. pp.iv,410. 

[Sir Richard Clayton] "A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them"

Lot: 149

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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[Sir Richard Clayton] A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them, T. Godsden, 1825, 2nd Edn, small octavo, contemp. half-leather gilt, over marbled boards, VG; first few pages including frontispiece & title page with some light damp-staining at the fore-edge o/w VG internally; uncut two sides; related newscutting on front pastedown; previous owners’ signatures, one dated 1884, the other of C. Ward-Jackson MP, Boer War & WWI veteran; pp.xiii,122. 

"A General Catalogue of Books, arranged in classes, offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch", London, 1868,

Lot: 150

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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A General Catalogue of Books, arranged in classes, offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch, London, 1868, tall octavo, red half-morocco, gilt, raised bands, good; marble-edged & endpapers; 1130pp.

                                                                                                

W. Salt Brassington "Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford", Sampson Low, 1891,

Lot: 151

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £36
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W. Salt Brassington Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Sampson Low, 1891, orig. gilt cloth, worn at top & tail of spine o/w VG; scattered foxing to prelims and introduction, occasional spotting elsewhere; 24 fine plates.

Folio Society publications, all VF in slipcases.

Lot: 152

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Folio Society publications, all VF in slipcases. (One slipcase damaged) (14)

Folio Society publications, VG to VF in slipcases. (17)

Lot: 153

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Folio Society publications, VG to VF in slipcases. (17)

Bruce Bairnsfather "From Mud to Mufti", 1919, orig. cloth, one plate loose o/w VG;

Lot: 154

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £42
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Bruce Bairnsfather From Mud to Mufti, 1919, orig. cloth, one plate loose o/w VG; Patrick Macgill The Amateur Army, 1915; A.E. Shipley The Minor Horrors of War, 1915; and others including two humorous. Fair to VG (6)