Lot: 2
Joseph Lambeth Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries 1937, 2nd edition, complete with the many plates (some in colour), the 48pp Supplement & adverts; lacks the loosely inserted template o/w fine. Decorated gilt cloth, tall 4to. Gift inscription dated 1938 to front endpaper.
Lot: 3
The Book of the Home Gresham 1900, eight volume set, first edition, in the Talwin Morris art nouveau bindings, complete with colour & b/w plates. VG condition.
Lot: 4
William S. Murphy The Textile Industries Gresham 1910, eight volume set, complete with 24 coloured plates and 101 monochrome plates, sectional model of Ribbon Loom laid down on rear pastedown of volume one. Decorated gilt cloth bindings. Some light foxing but generally very clean internally.
Lot: 5
Maurice Adams Modern Decorative Art, Batsford 1930, numerous plates, plans/diagrams in pocket at rear; and Houses, Cottages & Bungalows Architectural Press 1926, illustrated throughout. Bindings marked. Also The Practical Grocer Gresham 1911, Vols 1 & 2 only.
Lot: 7
Publications of the Society of Wood Engravers (3), Murray's Railway Timetable for Scotland 1951, Christmas Boxes Mandeville Press 1990 (signed by authors & illustrator) and other Christmas related titles; plus ephemera and an 18th Century map of Africa. VG/VF (26 items).
Lot: 9
Selection on Banknote collecting, cheques etc, including catalogues of German inflation notes and Notgeld, UK Provincial notes etc, and related reference works. VG/VF (21)
Lot: 11
19th Century French Newspapers, mostly 1812-22 with many Napoleonic Wars period especially Le Moniteur Universel. Good to fine. (54)
Lot: 12
Roger Ressmeyer Space Places Collins, 1990, in d/jkt, signed by all 9 members of the crew and back-up crew of STS-55 or D-2 on contents leaf. This was the 14th flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. A resume of the book identifying the signatures of each astronaut is loosely inserted.
Lot: 13
Jimmy Nelson Before They Pass Away teNeues Publishing, 2015, large format, in d/jkt, fine. (Weight 5.5 kilos)
Lot: 14
The Ashendene Press 1922-24 Publicity Sheets (4), a letter counter-signed by W.W. Downing, two unused order forms and a short note. Fine (8 items)
Lot: 33
Nathaniel Hawthorne A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys London 1892, illustrated by Walter Crane, pictorial cloth, armorial bookplate, gift inscription dated 1892; some light wear to spine ends o/w fine.
Lot: 34
A.R. Hope-Moncrieff Romance & Legend of Chivalry [1912] and the five other volumes in the Gresham ‘Myth & Legend' series, art nouveau bindings, all bar Teutonic Myth & Legend with the front endpapers removed, Egyptian Myth & Legend with frontispiece loose. (6)
Lot: 35
Charles Kingsley The Water Babies illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots the Chemists, pictorial cloth, gilt, some occasional spotting (plates unaffected), gift inscription dated 1929.
Lot: 36
The Grey City of the North: A Book of Drawings by Jessie M. King, Foulis, 1910, card wraps, in d/jkt; and The Wind in the Pines Foulis 1922, faded cloth, some light foxing, art nouveau illustrations. (2)
Lot: 37
Children's Books published by Blackie, c.1910-20, all bar one with VG matching art nouveau bindings designed by Ethel Larcombe, spines a little faded; all with plates, some foxing, nine with prize bookplates or inscriptions. (12)
Lot: 38
American comics with many Marvel, DC, and Valiant plus a variety of others, 1980s/1990s, mostly VG to VF. (328).
Lot: 39
Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac Hodder & Stoughton, gilt cloth, 40 colour plates, VG; gift inscription dated 1919.
Lot: 40
Allen Ginsberg Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960, City Light Books 1978, signed & inscribed by Ginsberg on title page, obtained in 1979 during his visit to Manchester. Fine
Lot: 41
John Peel and others The Star Trek Files and related titles, 1980s/90s, 12 different; and a selection of 26 American comics by Valiant, Marvel and similar. (38)
Lot: 42
Shannon Chakraborty The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi Harper Voyager 2023, special signed first edition in a limited edition binding in a complete d/jkt.