PDF Catalogue Advanced Search ▼ Lots Per Page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Original Artwork, Children's and Illustrated Foreign Travel and Mountaineering Maps and Atlases Natural History Military, Naval, Aviation and Transport Literature Religion Antiques, Art Reference and Architecture Sport Music British Topography and Local History Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing lots 1-23 of 23. View <<|1|>> Lot 11 Onwhyn, Thomas Glass of Grog. Read & Co., 1853. 12mo, 10-leaves, concertina-folded between boards, upper board with paper label duplicating first leaf; ilus. by Onwhyn. 'Containing 50 excuses for the GLASS, and only one objection against it.'' A satirical piece of ephemera in support of drinking spirits with a humorous nod to balance in the one objection offered as from a 'distinguished member of the Tem. Soc.' - 'Taking a glass too much'. Onwhyn was well-known illustrator and cartoonist, especi Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£550Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£550Status:Closed Lot 12 Richards, Frank [Hamilton, Charles] Billy Bunter and related books. A selection of various editions of Bunter books, including 16 first editions and Armada and Merlin paperbacks, with Magnet facsimiles, Greyfriar's Holiday Annuals and others featuring Tom Merry and one Bessie Bunter first edition. Along with the Magnet Companion and The World of Frank Richards. Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£200Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£200Status:Closed Lot 13 Cottingley Fairies Interest Wright (Elsie) Two watercolours, one signed Elsie Wright 1918 and one Elsie Hill 1948 (Elsie's married name), both framed and glazed. The 1918 picture is Cottingley Beck, which ran at the bottom of Elsie's garden, and by which Elsie and Frances Griffiths took their famous fairy pictures. These photographs were first taken in 1917. The story goes that Elsie's mother was frustrated with the girls coming back wet from playing in the Beck. They insisted they went to see Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£180Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£180Status:Closed Lot 14 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Singapore: Lotus Library Publications, [c.1911]. 4to, org. cloth-backed boards; 17 black and white illus. and decorative images to margin. Limited edition, no. 277 [of 1000]. A sinuous and exciting Eastern take on Fitzgerald's translation of the poem. There is an intriguing bibliographic point on one of the plates. There is a modification to a peacock feather on an illustration of a woman. Some have this black and some have decoration on the feather. Lo Estimate:£250 - £350Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£250 - £350Status:Not Sold Lot 15 Benson, A.C. & Weaver, Sir Lawrence (ed.) The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Vol. 1. Methuen & Co., 1924. 4to, org. linen-backed boards, spine with paper label; 92 photographic plates; provenance: gift copy from Queen Mary ('Mary R.') to ?Jean Crawford. Limited edition 1249 of 1500. The first volume only (lacking second on library) of the delightful dolls' house designed by Sir Edwyn Lutyens for the Queen, in conjunction with many of the top designers of the day - including a Gertrude Jekyll g Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 16 Hartley, Marie The Yorkshire Dales and The Yorkshire Dales - A Further Selection. Otley: Smith Settle, 1989-91. 4to (2 vols). Buckram-backed pattern-paper covered boards, together in one slip-case; illustrated with wood engravings after Hartley. Signed limited editions (Dales 80 of 250 (and 10 out of series); Further Selection 56 of 250 (and ten out of series)). Hartley wrote in her introduction to the 1988 edition of Wharfedale that re-reading the book was like being 'wafted back in time' to an Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£150Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£150Status:Closed Lot 17 Catherine of Wickham [Catherine Gladstone Stewart] Two unpublished manuscript fairy tales. The Fairy Tale of the Ugly King, 1863, pp. 225 and Princess Liliola, 1865, pp. 403. 8vo, similarly bound in panelled calf, blind roll-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled endpapers. From the nineteenth-century school of such tales, replete with fey knights, glittering Courts and a very clean faux-medieval chivalry. The Ugly King bears a dedication to 'My dear sister'. A brief pencil note at the front of Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£750Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£750Status:Closed Lot 18 BB [Watkin-Pitchford, D.J.] The Little Grey Men; The Idle Countryman; Brendon Chase; The Wayfaring Tree; The Fisherman's Bedside Book. Eyre and Spottiswoode or Hollis & Carter, 1942-1945. All 8vo with unclipped djs (Fisherman 12mo); illus by Watkins-Pitchford. with two early reprints of Wild Lone and Sky Gypsy, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1941-2. [7] Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 19 Early 19th-century Children's Literature Lives of Learned and Eminent Men, taken from Authentic Sources, Adapted to the Use of Children of Four Years Old and Upwards. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823. 12mo (2 vols). Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards; port. frontis in each; provenance: Stones (armorial bookplate upper pastedowns). with Markham, Mrs [Penrose, Elizabeth] A History of France with Conversations at the end of each chapter. John Murray, 1830. 8vo (2 vols). Half calf Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 20 Roberts, Victoria ''Your Waterloo! Your Waterloo! What about my Waterloo?''. Watercolour on paper, signed Victoria Roberts, framed and glazed. Roberts is possibly best known as a Staff Cartoonist for the New Yorker since 1988, though she has produced work for other publications. This cartoon was published in The Australian in 2003, according to a handwritten note included in with the picture, from Roberts to 'Mrs [Eileen] Atkins'. Roberts had written to Dame Eileen Atkins previously after being Estimate:£200 - £400Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £400Status:Not Sold Lot 21 Lithgow, John The Retreat from Moscow, 2003. Cartoon, framed and glazed. Produced by actor John Lithgow for Dame Eileen Atkins to commemorate their appearance together in Retreat from Moscow on Broadway. Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold Lot 22 Ramsey, Remak Pencil Drawing of Roses, 1990, framed and glazed. Dedicated from Remak to 'darlin' Eileen [Dame Eileen Atkins] - a real English rose'. Given the date, it seems likely this gift was given when the two were starring in Prin at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 23 Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, House at Pooh Corner. Methuen & Co., 1928. 8vo (4 vols). Uniformly bound in publisher's deluxe brown leather, upper boards with decorative AAM monogram, spines decorated in gilt, a.e.g. First of Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young 17th, Winnie-the-Pooh 7th, Now We Are Six 4th. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 24 Andersen (Hans) Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911, quarto, 28 mounted colour plates after Dulac as called for, original cloth gilt, remnant glassine wrapper, original presentation box (corners split) Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£250Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£250Status:Closed Lot 25 Potter (Beatrix) Ginger and Pickles, 1909, first edition, original cloth; idem, The Roly Poly Pudding, 1908, first edition, second issue (1908 date on title but not 'All RIghts Reserved'), original cloth (each with lettered wax seal inside); with three others by the author; Jerrold (Walter), The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes, Blackie, n.d., sixteen colour plates, original cloth gilt; Robinson (W. Heath), Bill the Minder, Constable, 1912, sixteen mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, o Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£150Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£150Status:Closed Lot 26 Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]. 8vo, org. green cloth, upper board with central gilt image, spine lettered in gilt, map endpapers, restored dj; pp. [12 (half-title, verso blank, title, verso 'From The Little White Bird', dedication, verso blank, contents, verso blank, illustrations (3), verso blank)]; colour frontis. after Rackham retaining captioned guard, 23 colour plates after Rackham retaining captioned guards with loosely inserted H&S postcard. Tr Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed Lot 27 Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young. Methuen & Co., 1925. 8vo, org. publisher's limp calf gilt, a.e.g., pictorial endpapers, red silk marker (detached and loosely inserted). Tenth ed, second deluxe. Milne's first foray into children's writing, charmingly illustrated by Shephard, was so popular the first printing sold out in a day. Unlike his later books the deluxe edition was produced later in the run, first for the 7th ed and again for the 10th. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 28 Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen & Co., 'First published in 1926'. 8vo, org. publisher's limp blue leather gilt, a.e.g., map endpapers, blue silk marker (detached but loosely inserted); illus by Shephard. First deluxe edition, produced at the same time as the first edition. Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£350Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£350Status:Closed Lot 29 Riley, Harold Street Dogs. Riley, 1985. 8vo, org. wrappers; illus by Riley. Signed by Riley on the title page and ffep with an original drawing of two dogs. Salford artist Riley is particularly known for his sporting paintings and portraits of Royals, Popes and Presidents. This book is a more homely affair, featuring the dogs he saw as he sketched his Street Books around the North of England. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£80Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£80Status:Closed Lot 30 Thompson, Geoff Two cartoons: ''Royal Ascot'' and ''Just a pile of old bricks posing as an art gallery'', original pen and ink with slight corrections in Tippex, framed and glazed Estimate:£60 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£60 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 31 Spectator Four cartoons by Spectator contributors Dish, Rob Murray, RGJ, and McClachlan, original pen and ink, framed and glazed Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lot 32 Cartoons Four newspaper cartoons, original pen and ink, framed and glazed Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lot 33 Cartoons Four newspaper cartoons, original pen and ink, framed and glazed Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lots Per Page 122448 <<|1|>> Previous 1 Next
