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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)

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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)