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Penzance, Cornwall
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  • Ended 15 Oct 2021 19:12 BST

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David Lays Auctioneers Alverton, Alverton, Penzance, Cornwall, TR184RE , United Kingdom

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PERCEVAL LANDON. 'The Opening of Tibet. An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent Th...

T. H. WILLIAMS. 'Picturesque Excursions in Devonshire and Cornwall.' First edition,engraved title page, original cardboard boards, illustrations i...

WILLIAM BORLASE. 'Observations on the Antiquities and Monuments of the County of Cornwall.' First edition, contemporay calf, cracking to hinge, ed...

FORTESCUE HITCHINS and SAMUEL DREW. 'The History of Cornwall.' Two vols, half calf worn with vol II missing front board, missing title page, Willi...

VANITY FAIR. 1879-1880, one volume of the the full year, 204 full page illustrations with associated text, bound in half red leather, hinges crack...

VANITY FAIR. 1877-1878. 73 illustrations with accompanying text, bound in half red leather, hinges cracked, inscribed picture index on pastedown a...

WILLIAM BORLASE. 'Antiquities Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall.' Facsimilie, original cloth, unclipped dj, EP Publishing, 1973....

LADY BIRD. Hundred and twenty-nine 1960's and 70's Lady Bird books, mostly all previous owner pen inscription, mostly all vg. (129) Condition: pl...

RICHARD & BRIDGET LARN. 'Shipwreck Index of the British Isles.' Original cloth, unclipped dj's, vols 1, 5, 4, 6, Loyd's Register of Shipping, Lond...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Life in Cornwall in the Early Nineteenth Century,' original cloth, clipped dj, D. Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro, 1970; 'Life in C...

D'ANVILLE. 'Compendium of Anvient Geography.' Translated from french, folding maps, half calf on martbled boards, bumped, chipped and worn, clean ...

'The London Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art.' Vol 29, illustrated throughout, G. Vickers, London, 1859. Condition: pleas...

EDWARD GIBBON. 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' Six volumes (missing 7th), original cloth, coners bumped, spines faded and some soiling...

BINDINGS. 'Jane Austen: The Novels,' 6 works, bound in 5 volume, raised bands, ornate gilt tooling, decorative gilt top board to each volume, full...

2000AD COMICS. Two large boxes full of approx 800, with some earlier programs 356-585 up to programs 887-1054. Condition: please request a condit...

(GEORGE REMI) HERGE. 'The Adventures of Tintin.' Seven first British Methuen editions: 'King Ottokar's Sceptre,' 1958; 'Red Rackham's Treasure, 19...

J. M. BARRIE. 'Peter and Wendy.' Illustrated by F. D. Bedford, first second and third editions, original publishers gilt cloth, pictorial title, e...

ARTHUR RACKHAM. 'Peter Pan in Kensington Garden's.' By J. M. Barrie, original cloth, 50 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, inc...

MONICA JACKSON & ELIZABETH STARK. 'Tents in the Clouds: The First Women's Himalayan Expedition.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Coll...

Harold Pinter. 'The Hothouse.' original cloth, unclipped dj, Eyre Methuen, London; PHILLIP MARSDEN. 'The Main Cages.' Signed, first edition, origi...

MICHAEL CHABON. 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.' Scarce UK first edition, limpback, foxing to edge of text block, Fourth Estate, Londo...

DAVID MITCHELL. 'number 9 dream.' Proof copy, limpback, no publishers logo, acknowledgment to be supplied, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001; 'Slade House,...

WILLIAM PLOMER. 'Celebrations.' Signed and inscibed by author, Jonathan Cape, 1972; DOUGLAS DUNN. 'Terry Street.' Faber & Faber, 1969; IAN HAMILTO...

CHRISTOPHER REID. 'In the Echoey Tunnel.' Signed, Faber & Faber, 1991; 'A Scattering.' Arete Books, 2009; ELEZABETH JENNINGS. 'Songs for a Birth o...

RON HANSEN. 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.' Uk first edition, clipped dj, Souvenir Press, 1983; RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA...

THE LATIN PRESS. 'Poems,' by Lewis Grahame, ex libris of John Blowey to pastedown, printed by Guido Morris, Saint Ives, 1953; 'A Fortress in Anglo...

'The Cornish Review,' first nine issues, edited by Denys Val Baker, illustrated boards, cellophane protective wraps, small amount of spotting and ...

A. L. ROWSE. 'Poems of a Decade 1931-1941.' Signed, original cloth, unclipped dj, Faber & aber; 'Poems of Deliverance,' signed, original cloth, un...

D. M THOMAS. 'In The Field.' Signed by author, 120 copies hand printed, Five Seasons Press, Hereford press, 1978; 'Dear Shadows,' signed, first ed...

JACK CLEMO. 'Broad Autumn.' Signed, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Eyre Methuen, London, 1975; 'The Bouncing Hills: Dialect Tales an...

PETER REDGROVE. 'From the Virgil Caverns.' Signed and inscribed by author, Cape Poetry, 2002; 'The Working of Water,' signed and inscribed by auth...

THE BEAT GENERATION. 'Big Table 1: The Complete contents of the Surpressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review,' featuring Jack Kerouac's 'Old Angle Midnig...

JOHN UPDIKE. 'Midpoint & Other Poems,' First edition (of this anthology), original cloth, unclipped dj, Andre Deutsch, 1969; KENNETH KOCH. 'A Poss...

SAMUEL BECKETT. 'Poems in English.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, John Calder, ondon, 1961; 'Eh Joe,' First editon, clipped dj, Fab...

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE. 'Girl with Curious Hair.' First UK edition, limpback, toning to pages, Abacus, 1986; 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' Fi...

DAPHNE DU MAURIER. 'Spring Picture.' Original pictoria cloth, cracking to hinge, Todd Publishing, London; PETER O'DONNELL. 'Modesty Blaise.' First...

ANDREW MILER. 'The Optimists.' Signed and inscribed by the author, unclipped dj, Sceptre, 2005; JAKE ARNOTT. 'He Kills Coppers.' Signed amd inscri...

TED HUGHES. 'Flowers and Insects.' First edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1986; 'Wolfwatching,' First edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1...

SIMON ARMITAGE. 'All Points North.' Signed, first edition, unclipped dj, Viking, 1998; 'Kid,' first edition, limpback, Faber & Faber, 1992; 'Book ...

C. S. LEWIS. 'Poems.' First edition, uncipped dj, Geoffey Bles, London, 1964; GEOFFREY HILL. 'Mercian Hymns.' First edition, limpback, Andre Deuts...

HENRY MOORE. 'Henry Spencer Moore.' Photographed and edited by John Hedgecoe, original pictoria cloth, hinge cracked, cardboard slip, b+w illustra...

JOHN WHITAKER. 'The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed.' Two volumes, rebound in modern boards with frontispiece half title and t...

WALTER H. TREGELLAS. 'Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families.' Two volumes, original boards, rubbed spines, spotting ...

A. L. ROWSE 'A Cornishman at Oxford: The Education of a Cornishman.' Signed and inscribed by the author '....with all encourgment for the good wor...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'The Granit Kingdom: Poems of Cornwall,' edited by D. M. Thomas, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, slight tear to dj...

'The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal for October 1808....January 1809.' Second edition, vol 13, half leather on marbeled boards, cracked hin...

JACK KEROUAC. 'The Subterraneans.' First UK edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, tears and chips to dj, sporadic foxing throughout, Andre Deutsc...

VIRGINIA WOOLF. 'the London Scene: Five Essays by Virginia Woolf, Howgarth Press, London, 1982. Condition: please request a condition report if y...

SVEN BERLIN. 'I AM LAZARUS.' Signed, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, The Gallery Press, 1961; 'Pride of the Peacock,' first edition, ...

L. T. C. ROLT. 'Narrow Boat.' Fitst edition, illustrated by D. J. Watkins-Pichford, original cloth, unclipped dj, foxing to front and back endpape...

R. S. HAWKER. 'Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall.' Original embossed cloth, fronticpiece, sporadic toning, John Lane, London, MDCCCCIII (si...

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. 'Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, In a Course of Lectures for The Board of Agriculture....' The sixth edition, original boar...

PABLO PICASSO INTEREST. 'The Italian Journey 1917-1924,' edited by Jean Clair, unclipped dj, illustrated throughout, Rizzoli, New York, 1998; 'Pic...

T. E. LAWRENCE 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom.' First public edition, original cloth, frontispiece, foldout map, Johanthan Cape, 1935. Condition: pleas...

JAMES JOYCE. 'Ulysses.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, The Bodley Head, 1958. Condition: please request a condition report if you require addition...

DEREK TANGYE. 'A Quiet Year.' Signed, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Michael Jospeh, 1968; 'A Quiet Year,' signed, first edition, or...

SYLVIA PLATH. 'Fiesta Meons.' Introduced by Ted Hughes, first edition, origianal cloth, soiled to lower edge of board, unclipped dj, dj rebacked d...

ART INTEREST. 'John Hoyland: The Trajectory of a Fallen Angle.' Signed postcard, colour illustration throughout, The Tate, St Ives, 2000; 'Terry F...

ART INTEREST. 'Raffaello: The Paintings, The Drawings,' unclipped dj, Grange Books, Itay, 1998; 'Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, A...

KURT JACKSON. 'Enesow: An exploration of the islands.' Signed, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, 2009; 'Sketchbooks 2003-2004,' signed, Truran, Truro, ...

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