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Auction No 416, Category: History

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Melvyn Bragg First Editions in d/jkts all warmly inscribed to his close friend the songwriter Alan Blaikley (1940-2022),

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Mar 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Melvyn Bragg First Editions in d/jkts all warmly inscribed to his close friend the songwriter Alan Blaikley (1940-2022), plus one to Alan's sister Marian; together with a novel by Melvyn Bragg's daughter Marie-Elsa similarly inscribed to Alan Blaikley. Alan Blaikley in collaboration with Ken Howard wrote a series of international hits in the 1960s and 1970s. Fine (7)

"The ‘Land & Water' Edition of Raemaekers' Cartoons", Land & Water, London,1916-17, two volumes, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, faded & worn, tape-r

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Mar 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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The ‘Land & Water' Edition of Raemaekers' Cartoons, Land & Water, London, 1916-17, two volumes, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt,  faded & worn, tape-repairs at spine extremities; front endpaper of Vol.1 creased o/w fine internally with 310 plates and text.

J. R. Green "A Short History of the English People", Macmillan,1903, illustrated edition, four vols, gilt cloth, wear to top & foot of spines o/w VG,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Mar 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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J. R. Green A Short History of the English People, Macmillan, 1903, illustrated edition, four vols, gilt cloth, wear to top & foot of spines o/w VG, with the colour plates, the folding plate of Old London Bridge creased.    

William A. Shaw "Manchester Old and New", Cassell, [1894], 3 vols, illustrated by H.E. Tidmarsh, b/w plates and illustrations in text;

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Mar 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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William A. Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell, [1894], 3 vols, illustrated by H.E. Tidmarsh, b/w plates and illustrations in text; tall quarto, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, endpapers browned, few page corners toned o/w fine internally. A good set. (3)