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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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CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Mullyon: Its History, Scenery and Antiquities,' by E. G. Harvey, original boards with gilt embossing, gilt edged text block, W...

EDWIN MULLINS. 'Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive Painter.' First edition, unclipped dj, illustrated throughout, foxing to end papers, small tide m...

ART INTEREST. Thirty-one books including 'Kadinsky,' by Urlike Becks-Malorney, 'Titian: Paintings and Drawings,' and numerous other artists in one...

ART INTEREST. 'Matisse in Morocco: The Paintings and Drawings, 1912-1913.' limpback, tide marks to first few pages, National Gallery of Art, Washi...

ART INTEREST. 'Chaim Soutine (1893-1943): Catolgue Raisonne,' in two volumes, unlcipped dj, carboard slip, slight tear to dj and slip, Taschen, 19...

'The St Ives Times,' print run from Jan 6th-Dec 29th, tight text block with toning to leaves, cellotape repair to hinges; JOHN BRAND. 'Popular Ant...

FELINE INTEREST. Approx thirty books and booklets of mainly poetry and fiction. Condition: please request a condition report if you require addit...

RICHARD and SAMUEL IZACKE. 'Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter: Giving an Account of the Laws and Customs of the Place; the Offices, Cou...

ART INTEREST. 'A Life of Picasso,' by John Richardson, two vols, unclipped dj's, Jonathan Cape, 1991-1996; 'Picasso: Sculptor/Painter, limpback, T...

ART INTEREST. 'St Ives Society of Artists,' exhibition catalogues with a run form 1957-1965, plus a summer exhibition of 1968. (22) Condition: pl...

ART INTEREST. 'The Studio Library: English Water-Colour,' complete in eight parts; 'The Art Illustrator: Spencer Pryse and His Works,' by Percy V....

C. D. GIBSON. 'The Education of Mr Pipp,' riginal cloth, binding loose, b+w illustrations throughout, R. H. Russell, New York, 1899; 'Sketches and...

CAROL BECKWITH & ANGELA FISHER. 'African Ceremonies.' Two volumes in carboard slip case, origianl cloth, colour illustrations throughout, foio, Ha...

'Topolski's Chronicle 1953,' vol one, water damage and tide mark to cardboard case and first and last leaf, bumped and worn, K & C Bednarczyk, Tum...

FORTESCUE HITCHINS and SAMUEL DREW. 'The History of Cornwall.' Two vols, half calf worn, craked joints, page 37/8 tear, generally tight clean text...

W. A. COPINGER. 'The County of Suffolk, Its History as Disclosed by Existing Records and other Documents....' Five vols of which vo 5 is a facsimi...

BROWNE WILLIS. 'History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies and Conventual Cathedral Churches.' Two vols, burn mark and toning to vol I title page ...

HUGH GRAY. 'Letters from Canada, Written During a Residence There in the Wars 1806, 1807, 1808...' missing front board, very good to fine text blo...

BINDINGS. 'Cassell's History of the War between France and Germany 1870-1871.' Two volumes, half red morocco, many steel engravings, marbled edge ...

JOHN VOWELL (alias HOKER). 'The Description of the Citie of Ercester.' Volumes II and III, loose bindings, soiled boards, The Devon and Cornwall R...

JOHN WALKER. 'An Attempt Toward's Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England....of the Grand Rebel...

JOHN SELL COTMAN. 'Engravings of the most remarkable of the sepulchral brasses in Norfolk; tending to illustrate the ecclesiastical, military, and...

CHARLES WICKES. 'Illustrations of the Spires and Towerts of the Medieval Churches of England.' In two volumes, original cloth, loose boards, chiop...

EDWARD LEAR. 'A Book of Nonsense.' Eighteenth edition, publishers pictorial boards, coloured but some wear to front bront, some loss to rear board...

WALTER CRANE. '1, 2, buckle my shoe.' Mounted on linen, re-stiched binding, inscribed by previous owner, George Routledge & Son, London, 1869 (?);...

HENRY MAYER. 'The Adventures of a Japanese Doll.' Original pictorial boards, rebound with new pastedown and endpapers, bumps and tonning throughou...

ART INTEREST. 'The paintings of L.S.Lowry Oils and Watercolours,' Signed and inscribed by author Mervyn Levy, unclipped dj, Book Club Associates, ...

ROBERT HUNTER 'A Box of Rain Lyrics: 1965-1993' Penguin books 1993; inscription on endpaper reads "From Robert Hunter to Christie (Bonne) Segal hi...

SIR PHILIP SIDNAY KNIGHT. 'The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.....Now the ninth time published...' Illustrated title page, contemporay calf, crack...

JAMES GEORGE FRAZER, F.R.S., F.B.A "The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion" MacMillian and Co, LTD 1922, JOHANN JAKOB MEYER, "Sexual Life ...

DENYS VAL BAKER, FIRST EDITIONS, William Kimber LONDON, various titles. (13) Condition: please request a condition report if you require addition...

MARY WILLIAMS, Little Black Pigling; Wordens of Cornwall Limited Marazion and Penzance, signed and dated. Condition: please request a condition r...

BERNARD SHAW, The Adventure of the Black Girl in Her Search for God; R & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh, reprint January 1933, HUGO MANNING, This Ro...

BOB DYLAN INTEREST, various titles and dates, biographies, illustrated histories, in a box. Condition: please request a condition report if you r...

PENGUIN BOOKS, PELICAN BOOKS, SIGNET CLASSICS, paperbacks various titles, two boxes. Condition: please request a condition report if you require ...

BEATLES, JOHN LENNON INTEREST, various titles and publishers. (18). Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional inform...

ROBERT GRAVES, Poems 1968-1970, Cassell & Company PROOF ONLY, from Mrs F Trueman, A. P. W WATT & SON, with corrections in margins. Condition: ple...

G. E. STUDDY. 'Bonzo Alpiniste.' Pictorial limpback boards, Hachette, 1937; 'The Sea Hare,' a Purnell talking book with record, Purnell, 1974; Plu...

CHILDRENS BOOK INTEREST. 'Doll's House,' a spiral bound pop-up cardwrap book opening to 360 degrees with four pop-up rooms, tonining to edges, tea...

J. G. FRAZER 'The Golden Bough.' First three volumes, second edition, original blue cloth with gilt embossed mistletoe, spotting to endpapers and ...

JANE AUSTEN. 'The Novels.' Five volumes, original burgundy cloth with gilt embossing, rubbed and bumped ends to spine, Clarendon Press, 1926. (5) ...

DANIEL DEFOE. 'The Fortunes and Misfortunesof the Famous Mol Flanders.' Two volumes, original cloth with git embossed spine, ex libris, illustrati...

THOMAS HARDY. 'Tess of The D'Urbervilles.' Original burgundy cloth, MacMillian and Co, London, 1930; 'Far from the Madding Crowd,' original burgun...

WINSTON GRAHAM. 'The Tumbled House.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1959; HAMMOND INNES. 'Atlantic Fury....

FREDERICK FORSYTH. 'The Dogs of War.' First edition, unclipped dj, Book Club Associates, London, 1974; ANTHONY BURGESS. 'Devil of a State.' First ...

JOHN LE CARRE. 'The Honourable Schoolboy.' First edition, unclipped dj, Book Club Associates, 1977. Condition: please request a condition report ...

PETER BENCHLEY. 'Jaws.' First edition, unclipped dj, Book Club Associates, 1974; 'The Deep,' First edition, unclipped dj, Andre Deutsch, 1976; Bot...

COLM TOIBIN. 'The Master.' Signed, first edition, unclipped dj, Picador, 2004; SIMON SCHAMA. 'Landscape& Memory.' Signed, first edition, unclipped...

ART INTEREST. Thirty art books including 'Reuben Chappell: Pierhead Painter,' 'No Foreign Lands: Peter Doig,' 'The Glasgow Boys,' and 'Vivien Maie...

ART INTEREST. Twenty-five art books including 'The Evolution of an American Impressionist,' 'The Green Fuse: Pastoral Vision in English Art 1820-2...

ART INTEREST. 'Ravilious in Pictures,' four volumes, 'A Travelling Artist,' 'Sussex and the Downs,' 'The War Paintings,' and 'A Country Life,' by ...

ART INTEREST. 'Kurt Jackson: A New Genre of Landscape Painting,' unclipped dj, Lund Humphries and The Lemon Street Gallery, 2010; With eighteen Ja...

ART INTEREST. Twenty six art books including 'Winslow Homer,' 'Artwork: David Gentleman, 'Mark Rothko,' and 'The Art of William Nicholson.' (26) ...

BRUCE CHATWIN. 'In Patagonia.' First edition, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cape, 1977; 'The Viceroy of Oudah,' first edition, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cap...

PETER TAYLOR. 'A Long Fourth and Other Stories.' First published in 1948 owing to production delays this copie was published in 1949, original clo...

CHARLES FRAZIER. 'Cold Mountain.' First edition, unclipped dj, first state with "man-woman" instead of "mad-woman" on p25, Atlantic Monthly Press,...

E. B. WHITE. 'Charlotte's Webb.' First edition, clipped dj but with price still apparent, foxing to edge of text block, Harper & Row, New York, 19...

ANNE TYLER. 'If Morning Ever Comes.' First edition, clipped dj, owner inscribed on endpaper, foxing to edge of textblock, Alfred. A. Knopf, New Yo...

RICHARD FORD. 'A Piece of My Heart.' Signed, first UK edition, unclipped dj, Collins Harvill, 1987; 'Rock Springs,' signed, first UK edition, uncl...

LOREN EISELEY. 'The Night Country.' First edition, unclipped dj, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1971; ALISTAIR MACLEOD. 'The Lost Salt Gift of...

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