Covid-safe Spring 2021 online silent book auction (instead of a book sale)
The Big Book of Sports
LTA Robinson Ltd.
Probably 1956.
Large format.
Photos on every page.
Board cover is scuffed, and dust jacket is ripped. Book holding together nicely.
BIDS FROM 50p (postage £3.50)
Longfellow illustrated
Author's complete copyright edition
Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, RA
Routledge, 1881 650pp
Previously owned by writer/broadcaster Ray Gosling
Stunningly beautiful board cover, gold coloured page ends
Some foxing with age
A few pages have come loose
BIDS FROM £2.50 (postage £4)
Scholars of the Heart
Essays in Criticism
S. Gorley Putt
Faber & Faber 1962 239pp
Dust jacket torn in places, book itself in nice clean condition, with good tight binding.
BIDS FROM £1.00 (postage £4)
The Book of Etiquette
Lady Troubridge
Cedar Special 1958 475pp
Paperback
A bit scruffy and dogeared, but perfectly readable.
BIDS FROM £0.30 (postage £3)
The Squirrel Book
Phyllis Kelway
Collins, 1946 Hardback with DJ 78pp
B/W plates and drawings
Good condition. Sewn binding still tight. DJ a little scuffed.
BIDS FROM £1.50 (postage £3)
The Children’s Book of Achievement (Wonders of modern enterprise)
Ed. J.E. Pryde-Hughes.
Collins 1959.
Large format. Red boards. 288pp.
4 colour and many b/w illustrations.
Science, in its broadest terms, and then a little broader.
Clean inside. Boards faded. Sewn binding still tight.
BIDS FROM £1 (postage £3.50)
The Laughtermakers
(A Quest for Comedy)
David Nathan
Peter Owen 1971
0720603617
Hardback DJ 240pp B/W photos
DJ and book in very good condition.
Clean. Binding still excellent.
Includes the Goons, Marty Feldman, Monty Python.
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BIDS FROM £2.50 (postage £3.50)
Mr Punch’s Theatricals
Volume IX of The New Punch Library
The Educational Book Company Ltd.
Hardback 240pp
Many, many drawings and cartoons throughout
Colour frontispiece
No DJ
Condition very good.
Binding holding together very well.
Clean inside.
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BIDS FROM £1.50 (postage £3.50)
Phogey! (How to have class in a classless society)
Malcolm Bradbury
Max Parrish 1960
Hardback 124pp
Drawings by Smilby
DJ
Condition excellent.
Binding holding together very well. Clean inside.
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BIDS FROM £2 (postage £2)
Poems & Ballads (First series)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
William Heineman 1918
Hardback 295pp
Gold top to pages
No DJ. Very nice gold pattern on spine.
Condition very good for age. Clean.
Binding holding together well.
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BIDS FROM £2 (postage £1.50)
The Common Market
Stuart de la Mahotiere
Hodder and Stoughton 1962 3rd impression
Paperback 192pp
Very good condition for age. Page edges yellowed, as expected.
Those were the days.
BIDS FROM 70p (postage £1.50)
The Story of the Daily Worker
William Rust
edited & completed by Allen Hutt
People's Press Printing Society (London) 1949
Hardback with DJ 128pp
8 pages (16 sides) B/W plates
Very good condition for age. DJ tatty.
BIDS FROM £1.50 (postage £2)
Challenge
The magazine about Boys’ Clubs
2/-. 1963/4. 45 pages.
Includes “What to do about the girls?” article. B/W illustrations. Adverts.
Clean inside. Cover slightly creased.
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BIDS FROM £1.50 (postage £1.20)
ExLibris Bear
Not even slightly foxed.
BIDS FROM WHATEVER.
