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Auction No 370, Category: Books

181 Lots (displaying 161 - 180)

Znosko-Borovsky "The Art of Chess Combination", 1951, Tartakower "A Breviary of Chess", 1956, both in d/jkts;

Lot: 187

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £46
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Znosko-Borovsky The Art of Chess Combination, 1951, Tartakower A Breviary of Chess, 1956, both in d/jkts; and other chess books from early 20th Century to 1970s including Franklin Young & Edwin Howell The Minor Tactics of Chess, 1910, VG but with some underling of text on two pages. Most are h/bks, some in d/jkts. Fair to VF (27)

Lipton, Matthews, Rice "Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art", Faber, 1963 in VG d/jkt;

Lot: 188

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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Lipton, Matthews, Rice Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art, Faber, 1963 in VG d/jkt; Paul Schmidt How Chessmasters Think, 1989, printed wraps; Chess Combination as a Fine Art, Crowood Press, 1989; and other Chess titles, many devoted to Chess Problems. Mainly good to VF (27)

Collection on Chess Openings including Jovicic "Modern Chess: French Defence", 1998;

Lot: 189

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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Collection on Chess Openings including Jovicic Modern Chess: French Defence, 1998; Hartston The Exchange Variation of the Gruenfeld; Bill Wall 500 King’s Gambit Miniatures, 1986; Minev & Donaldson Dutch Defense, 2003; Wade & Harding The Marshall Attack, 1974, in d/jkt. Fair to Fine. (28)

Chess Strategy including Wenman "I75 Chess Brilliancies", 1947 in d/jkt; Speelman "Endgame Preparation", 1989;

Lot: 190

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £48
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Chess Strategy including Wenman I75 Chess Brilliancies, 1947 in d/jkt; Speelman Endgame Preparation, 1989; Rubin & Emms Chess for the Rank and File, Tournament Chess, 1992; and others with many modern softbacks; fair to fine, mostly VG/Fine. (38)

Edward North Buxton "Two African Trips with Notes and Suggestions on Big Game Preservation in Africa"

Lot: 191

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £88
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Edward North Buxton Two African Trips with Notes and Suggestions on Big Game Preservation in Africa, Edward Stanford, 1902, 1st  Edn, original pictorial buckram, spine darkened and a little frayed at extremities; internal hingeing weak in places; uncut; clean interior with 80 fine photographic plates; fine map in rear pocket.

Edward North Buxton "Short Stalks: or Hunting Camps North, South, East and West", 1892 and 1893,

Lot: 192

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £52
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Edward North Buxton Short Stalks: or Hunting Camps North, South, East and West, 1892 and 1893, the First and Second Editions, and Short Stalks – Second Series, 1898, all in the original pictorial buckram, the spines badly darkened. The 1892 and 1898 editions have been recased, the former with new endpapers; the texts and plates all clean and complete, the Second Series with fine folding maps in front and rear pockets. (3)

Augustus Grimble "More Leaves from My Game Book", London, 1917, half-vellum, darkened, gilt title label,

Lot: 193

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £26
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Augustus Grimble More Leaves from My Game Book, London, 1917, half-vellum, darkened, gilt title label, one of 250 issued; previous owners’ signatures to front endpaper; clean text & illustrations. 270pp

J.J. Manley "Notes on Game Shooting". L. Upcott Gill, The Bazaar Office, London, 1880, original gilt cloth

Lot: 194

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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J.J. Manley Notes on Game Shooting. L. Upcott Gill, The Bazaar Office, London, 1880, original gilt cloth, worn at extremities, corners bumped; foxing to frontispiece and occasional minor spotting elsewhere but largely clean internally with all illustrations; publisher’s 32pp catalogue at rear dated 1885. 

H.C. Folkard "The Wild-Fowler: A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling, Historical and Practical,"

Lot: 195

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £86
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H.C. Folkard The Wild-Fowler: A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling, Historical and Practical, Piper, Stephenson and Spence, 1859, First Edn, orig.gilt cloth, tissue-guarded engravings complete, some minor foxing; together with the 3rd Edn of 1875 (published Longmans); and related titles including Payne-Gallwey The Fowler in Ireland 1882 (recased) and Gladstone Record Bags and Shooting Records 1922. Mixed condition. (6)

J. H. Walsh "The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle" 1882-84, two volumes, recased, plus a further Vol. 2 requiring attention;

Lot: 196

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £42
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J. H. Walsh The Modern Sportsman’s Gun and Rifle 1882-84, two volumes, recased, plus a further Vol. 2 requiring attention; “Marksman” The Dead Shot or Sportsman’s Complete Guide, 3rd Edn, 1862; Henry Sharp Modern Sporting Gunnery, 1906; P. Hawker Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting, 10th Edn, 1854; mostly fair to VG, and another title in poor condition. (7)

Grantley Berkeley "Reminiscences of a Huntsman", Longman, 1854, orig. gilt cloth, worn, fine plates after John Leech;

Lot: 197

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Grantley Berkeley Reminiscences of a Huntsman, Longman, 1854, orig. gilt cloth, worn, fine plates after John Leech; The Reminscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, 1889, quarto, two vols, fine later half-morocco, fine plates after Joseph Grego; and A.E. Pease The Cleveland Hounds as a Trencher-Fed Pack, Longmans, 1887, orig. cloth, frayed top & tail of spine, folding map, rules, etc. Fair to VG (3)

Lord Wolverton "Five Months' Sport in Somali Land", Chapman & Hall, 1894, orig. buckram, gilt, spine darkened;

Lot: 198

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £36
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Lord Wolverton Five Months’ Sport in Somali Land, Chapman & Hall, 1894, orig. buckram, gilt, spine darkened; 2-inch tear to map requires repair, roughly opened along top edge, plates & text fine; C.G. Schillings With Flashlight and Rifle, Hutchinson, 1906, 2 vols, orig.gilt cloth, spines a little faded o/w good; and two related titles in poor condition. (5)

John Henry Cliffe "Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles Among the Mountains, Valleys and solitudes of Wales

Lot: 199

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £22
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John Henry Cliffe Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles Among the Mountains, Valleys and solitudes of Wales, London, 1860, recased with new endpapers, employing part of the original cloth, fine internally; and ‘Stonehenge’ Manual of British Rural Sports, 1856, quarter leather, gilt, hinges frayed, complete with all plates etc,, clean interior, 720pp.   (2)

Nat Fleischer boxing softbacks comprising "Max Baer, the Glamour Boy of the Ring", 1942, 44pp;

Lot: 200

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Nat Fleischer boxing softbacks comprising Max Baer, the Glamour Boy of the Ring, 1942, 44pp; Jack McAuliffe, the Napoleon of the Prize Ring, 1944, rust marks to title page,77pp; and Terrible Terry, the Brooklyn Terror, 1943, ex-library, some damp-staining, 64pp. Fair to fine. (3)

Michael Herbert "Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester's Black Boxing Hero and Communist"

Lot: 201

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Michael Herbert Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester’s Black Boxing Hero and Communist, Dropped Aitches Press, 1992, A5 s/bk, 123pp; and Fred Deakin Peerless Jim Driscoll, Crescendo Publications, 1987, A5 s/b in d/jkt, 100pp. Fine. (2)

Jack Hare "Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels", Willsons, Nottingham, [1925]

Lot: 202

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Jack Hare Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels, Willsons, Nottingham, [1925], octavo, pictorial boards, spine darkened, good; browning to b/w frontispiece and rear endpaper o/w fine internally; 304pp including photo-plates. 

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

Lot: 203

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £36
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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. 

Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray "Three Tears for Glasgow", 1990, signed by the author;

Lot: 204

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray Three Tears for Glasgow, 1990, signed by the author; Stan Shipley Bombardier Billy Wells, 1993; Alan Roderick Johnny! The Story of the Happy Warrior, 1990; Fred Deakin Tommy Farr, 1989; and others, all first editions, mainly VG/VF. (8)

Pierce Egan "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom"

Lot: 205

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
UNSOLD
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Pierce Egan Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1822, tall octavo, First Edition, third issue (with footnote on p.9 and first sheet of music numbered); contemp. half-calf worn, backstrip repaired and chipped in places; bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown o/w VG internally; complete with half-title & adverts, 36 hand-coloured plates and 21 wood engravings plus an extra coloured plate with adverts; 3 leaves of folding sheet-music; browned offset from each plate on to the facing page. Occasional minor spotting affects some page margins. 

Geoffrey Gambado "Annals of Horsemanship, containing accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents"

Lot: 206

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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Geoffrey Gambado Annals of Horsemanship, containing accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, J. Murray, 1811, original boards with good title label, backstrip worn away, hingeing weak; uncut; fine internally with 17 engraved plates by W.H. Bunbury; frontisp., title, xvi, 95pp