Recent Specialist (Books & Ephemera) Sale Highlights
Japanese Crepe Paper Fairy Tale Book Collection
A collection comprising of 19 titles ( of 20 ) including the following titles : The Cub's Triumph; The Wonderful Tea Kettle; Urashima, The Fisher Boy; The Serpent With Eight Heads; The Old Man And The Devils; The Tongue-Cut Sparrow; Momotaro; The Ogres of Oyeyama; The Enchanted Waterfall; The Mouse's Wedding; The Old Man Who Made The Dead Trees Blossom; Kachi Kachi Mountain; Schippeitaro; The Battle of the Monkey And The Crab; The Ogre'sArm; The Princes Fire-Flash And Fire-Fade; My Lord Bag-O'-Rice; The Silly Jellyfish; The Matsuyama Mirror. All 16mo folded crepe paper format with coloured woodcut ilustrations and english text. Published by Hasegawa; post 19th.C. editions, provenance suggesting early 1900s. ( Complete or near complete sets of this series are uncommon and some of the individual titles included here are relatively scarce in themselves ).
Sold for £720.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
RAILWAYANA : Colour slides.An extensive collection of colour slides ( card and plastic mounts ) housed in 11 purpose-built cases ( 10 metal, 1 wooden ). Slides feature mainly UK subjects including : Steam Engines; Rolling Stock; Trackside Views; Diesel Engines; Traction Engines; Trams and much more. Sold for £600.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
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A large collection of postcardsmainly of early aeroplanes including the Bleriot monoplane, M. Vuia, Latham's Monoplane, Mr L. W. F. Turner & Passenger in a Grahame White Biplane, Cody Monoplane, Wilbur Wright's aeroplane and two others thought to be figures and an early monoplane photographed at Saunderson's Cow Bridge Works, Bedford, together with others of balloons and airships including the R100 and R101 (in all approximately 160), and a small quantity of related material Sold for £750.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
A SIGNED STANLEY KUBRICKARCHIVE consisting of two books on the Bronx formerly owned by Stanley Kubrick, together with a note from his sister Barbara giving them to him as a gift. Three notes handwritten by Kubrick signed ''5'' together with a note of authenticity from Kubrick's assistant. A Christmas Card Fully Signed 'Stanley Kubrick'. A full copy of the screenplay of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's last film, plus three other books Sold for £350.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
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ADAMS J: ANGLIAE TOTIUSTABULA cum Distantijs notioribus in Itinerantium vsum accommodata. T Bowles (George III) reduced edition C. 1740. Elaborately decorated engraved borders and dedicatory double cartouche. Detailed gazetteer of market towns and cities on either side of map. Counties coloured in outline. Approx. 100 x 70 cm Sold for £2,200.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
Autograph AlbumCompact autograph album (16 x 11 cm) with textured morocco binding, gilt title and aeg. The album features in excess of 70 autographs of film stars and other celebrities including: Rudolph Valentino, Amy Johnson, Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Edward G Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Garry Cooper, Merle Oberon, Errol Flynn, David Niven, Leslie Howard and Edward P (Edward Prince of Wales). Dates ranging from 1930-1940 Provenance - Peter Rattazzl, the vendor's great uncle who, at various periods was manager of the following establishments: Ciro's, Mirabelle and Embassy Clubs Sold for £2,400.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
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Batty R: German Scenery1823. French Scenery 1822. Cockburn J: Swiss Scenery 1820. Light W: Sicilian Scenery 1823. Batty Miss E: Italian Scenery 1820. Many engraved plates. Small folio Qtr. bindings, gilt on spine, marbled boards Sold for £1,150.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
Currier and Ives (publisher)16 coloured lithographs, titled and dated as follows: Sold for £1,100.00 Bedford Auction Centre |
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