Bidspirit auctions | Chaucer Auctions Auction Nov 4

Chaucer Auctions, Nov 4 18:00. 700 lots, estimates 4 - 100 £.

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Lots in this catalog (700)

Lot 1: Curiosities of Psychical Research by the Author of Spiritualism Charles J. Seymour Hardback Book. Second Impression. — £12 - £14
Lot 2: Doors of The Mind by Michael Bentine Hardback Book. Published: 1984. ISBN 0-246-11845-8. — £12 - £14
Lot 3: Swan on a Black Sea transmitted by Geraldine Cummins edited by Signe Toksvig with a Forword by C. D. — £10 - £12
Lot 4: Violins & Violinists by Franz Farga Translated by Egon Larsen Hardback Book. Copyright 1950. Foxing. Inscribed. — £10 - £12
Lot 5: Magic White & Black by Franz Hartmann, M. D. Hardback Book. Page 2 loose inside book. Sixth Edition. — £16 - £20
Lot 6: Seeing The Invisible by James Coates Hardback Book. With Five Plates. Bottom of Spine Torn/Marks on back of Book. — £16 - £20
Lot 8: Series "B" A Course of Practical Psychic Instruction Hardback Book. — £20 - £30
Lot 9: Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd Hardback Book. Published: 1987. ISBN 0-241-12348-8. Fair Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 10: City of London Churches A Pitkin Guide by John Betjeman Paperback Book. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 11: After 'Alice' a hundred years of children's reading in Britain Author: Christine A. Kloet Paperback Book. — £6 - £8
Lot 12: Somerset Maugham and his world by Frederic Raphael Hardback Book. Published: 1976. ISBN 0 500 13059 0. Signs of Age. — £8 - £10
Lot 13: The Agatha Christie centenary Paperback Book. Author: Lynn Underwood. Published: 1990. ISBN 0 00 637675-4. — £16 - £20
Lot 14: A Hind in Richmond Park by W. H. Hudson Hardback Book. MCMXXI. Split slightly torn. — £20 - £30
Lot 15: James Bond A Celebration 007 by Peter Haining Hardback Book. Published: 1987. ISBN 1 85227 020 9. Fair Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 16: Heads And How to Read Them a Popular Guide to Phrenology by Stackpool E. O'Dell Hardback Book. Fair Condition. — £16 - £20
Lot 17: Cheiro's Memoris Hardback Book. Foxing. Signs of Age. Page inside slightly torn. — £8 - £10
Lot 18: John Lennon His Own Write Hardback Book. Front page torn. Some pages inside Book Lose. Fair Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 20: "Psychical Research Today by D. J. West Hardback Book. First Published 1954. Cover Torn. Signs of Age. — £8 - £10
Lot 21: The Amis Anthology Chosen and Edited by Kingsley Amis Hardback Book. Published: 1988. Fair Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 22: Great Medical Disasters by Richard Gordon Hardback Book. Edition: 1. Published: 1983. Fair Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 23: Antiquarian books An Insider's Account by Roy Harley Lewis Hardback Book. Published: 1978. Was previously Library Book. — £6 - £8
Lot 24: London Bridge by G. B. Besant Hardback Book. First Printed October 1927. Foxing. — £30 - £40
Lot 25: British Radio Drama 1922-1956 A Survey by Val Gielgud with a foreword by Sir William Haley. K.C.M.G. Hardback Book. — £16 - £20
Lot 27: Leonard Rossiter Author, Robert Tanitch Paperback Book. Publisher: R. Royce. Published: 1985. Fair Condition. — £4 - £6
Lot 28: Understanding Book-Collecting by Grant Uden Paperback Book. Reprinted 1983 Paper Edition 1986. — £6 - £8
Lot 29: Surrey Shire County Guide by John Drewett Paperback Book. Edition: 2. Published: 1990. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 30: Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh Paperback Book. Published in Penguin Books 1953. Fair Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 31: The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Collected & introduced by Peter Haining Paperback — £8 - £10
Lot 32: Eric Brighteyes By H. Rider Haggard Hardback Book. Stain Marks front pages inside Book. Signs of Age. — £12 - £14
Lot 33: The Lost Childhood & other essays by Graham Greene (1951 Eyre & Spottiswoode London) Hardback Book. — £16 - £20
Lot 34: The University and Colleges of Oxford by John Richard Thackrah Hardback Book. Published: 1981. ISBN 0 86138 002 9. — £8 - £10
Lot 35: Debrett's Distinguished People of Today Authors: Patricia Ellis; David Williamson Hardback Book. Published: 1989. — £8 - £10
Lot 36: AA Town & Country Auctions in Britain by Eric Green. The Bargain Hunters Handbook. © 1991. Good Condition. — £20 - £30
Lot 37: The Story of two villages Great & Little Bookham by Sed Fortescue Paperback Book. — £14 - £16
Lot 38: Seventeen Steps To 22Ib by English Writers / James Edward Holroyd Hardback Book. First Published 1967. Fair Condition. — £18 - £20
Lot 39: The Book About Books The anatomy of bibliomania By Holbrook Jackson Hardback Book. Published: 1981. Fair Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 40: Lewis and Lewis, The Life & Times of a Victorian Solicitor by John Juxon Hardback Book. Published: 1983. — £6 - £8
Lot 41: London Immortals by Theodora Benson Hardback Book. First Published in 1951. Marked on front of Book. Signs of Age. — £8 - £10
Lot 42: Adventuring in England with Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle by Alvin E. Rodin & Jack D. Key Paperback Book. © 1986. — £20 - £30
Lot 44: Joan Sutherland By Norman Major Hardback Book. First published 1987. Good Condition. — £16 - £20
Lot 45: Never A Normal Man Author: Daniel Farson Hardback Book. Published: 1997. Good Condition. — £16 - £20
Lot 46: The Surrey Village Book by Graham Collyer Paperback Book. Edition: 2. Published: 1998. Scribble on first page. — £4 - £6
Lot 47: Pawnbroking: an aspect of British Social History Author: Kenneth Hudson Hardback Book. Published: 1982. Inscribed. — £4 - £6
Lot 48: Martin Secker & Warburg the First Fifty Years A Memoir by George Malcolm Thomson Hardback Book. First Published 1986. — £10 - £12
Lot 49: Bonhams 1793 The Roy Davids Collection Monday 3 October 2005 London Paperback Book. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 50: Charles Dickens Author: Martin Fido Hardback Book. Published: 1970. Fair Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 51: Introduction to Dickens by Peter Ackroyd, published by Sinclair-Stevenson in 1991. Hardback with dust cover. — £8 - £10
Lot 52: A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, published by Mandrake Press Ltd in 1930. Second Edition, — £20 - £30
Lot 53: J. Paul Getty, The Richest American by Ralph Hewins, published by Sidwick and Jackson in 1961. — £10 - £12
Lot 54: Dickens by Andre Maurois, translated by Hamish Miles and published by John Lane the Bodley Head in 1934.Hardback. — £14 - £20
Lot 55: How to become an author: A practical guide by Arnold Bennett, published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1903. Hardback. — £16 - £20
Lot 56: A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman, published by Grant Richards. Hardback. Discolouration on cover and signs of foxing. — £10 - £12
Lot 57: The Second Mrs Hardy by Robert Gitting and Jo Manton, published Heinemann in 1979. Hardback with dust cover. — £8 - £10
Lot 58: The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill and illustations by John Lawrence. — £8 - £10
Lot 59: An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavsky and translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. Published by Geoffrey Bles. — £20 - £30
Lot 60: Reach For the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader by Paul Brickhill. Published by Collins clear-type press. Hardback. — £8 - £10
Lot 61: Opus Pistorum by Henry Miller, published by Grove Press in 1983. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 62: Glimpses and Reflections by John Galsworthy. Published by Heniemann in 1937. Hardback. Good Condition. — £12 - £14
Lot 63: The Reporter by Edgar Wallce. Published by Allied Newspapers Ltd. Hardback. Good Condition. — £4 - £6
Lot 64: Matthew Arnold Poet and Prophet by A.L. Rowse. Published by Thames and Hudson in 1976. Hardback. Good Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 65: The War Againsr Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis. Published by Jonathan Cape in 2001. — £8 - £10
Lot 66: Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Gasson. Published by Oxford University Press in 1998. Hardback. — £4 - £6
Lot 67: Joseph Conrad, part of The British Library Writers' Lives series by Chris Fletcher, published by The British Library. — £4 - £6
Lot 68: STRATFORD MONTAGE 1949–1956 - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Paperback. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 69: Agatha Christie, Official Centenary Celebration 1890-1990. Published by Belgrave Publishing Ltd. Paperback, — £6 - £8
Lot 70: Alexandre Dumas by Michael Ross. Published by David & Charles. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 71: Dick Francis: A Racing Life by Graham Lord. Published by Little, Brown and Company in 1999. Hardback with dust cover. — £4 - £6
Lot 72: First Hits: The Book of Sheet Music 1946-1959 by Brian Henson and Colin Morgan. Published by Box tree Limited in 1989. — £4 - £6
Lot 73: There goes that song again, One Hundred Years of Popular Song compiled and written bu Colin Walsh. — £6 - £8
Lot 74: 1900 by Rebecca West, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1982. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 75: Fantastic Voyage II, Destination Brain by Issac Asimov. Published by Grafton Books in 1987. Hardback with dust jacket. — £6 - £8
Lot 76: The Bedside Companion to Crime by H.R.F Keating. Published by The Mysterious Press in 1989. Hardback with dust cover. — £6 - £8
Lot 77: The 2 and half Men in a Boat by Nigel Williams, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1993. Hardback with dust cover. — £6 - £8
Lot 78: Robert Louis Stevenson by Amy Cruse, published by George G. Harrap & Company. Hardback. Fair condition. — £14 - £16
Lot 79: Swindon Steam 1921-1951 by Kenneth J. Cook. Published by Ian Allen Ltd in 1974. Hardback. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 80: The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison, published by Smith Gryphon in 1993. Hardback, good condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 81: A Primer of Book Classification by W. Howard Phillips, F.L.A. Printed by Beck & Inchbold Ltd. Hardback. — £8 - £10
Lot 82: A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman, published by The Richards Press LTD. Hardback. Signs of foxing. — £10 - £12
Lot 83: Lecoq, The Detective. By Emile Gaboriau. Published by Vizetelly & Co. Hardback. Signs of age along spine and foxing. — £80 - £100
Lot 84: The Chronicles of Barsetshire: VOL 1 by Anthony Trollope. Published by Chapman and Hall. Hardback. Good Condition. — £30 - £40
Lot 85: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord. Published by Longmans, Green and Co in 1956. Hardback. Fair condition, — £16 - £20
Lot 86: Unpopular Opinions by Dorothy L. Sayers. Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1951, Second Edition. — £12 - £14
Lot 87: Catalogue of The London Library, St James's Square, London - Supplement 1 (1914 & 1915) by C.T. Hagberg Wright and C.J. — £8 - £10
Lot 88: Ken Dodd Laughter and Tears by Gus Smith published by Virgin Books in 1989. Hardback with dust cover. Good condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 89: It's a small world - All about midgets by Walter Bodin and Burnet Hershey. Published by The Van Rees Press. — £20 - £30
Lot 90: The Book of Musical Anecdotes by Norman Lebrecht published by Andre Deutsch in 1985. Hardback with dust cover. — £8 - £10
Lot 91: Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey autobiography. Published by Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd in 1977. — £8 - £10
Lot 92: Composers' Gallery by Donald Brook, published by Salisbury Square 1946. Hardback. Fair condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 93: A State of Heat by Sheilah Graham published by W.H. Allen & Co in 1973. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 94: Lelia The Life of George Sand by Andre Maurois and translated from French by Gerard Hopkins. — £10 - £12
Lot 95: The Benny Hill Story by John Smith published by W.H. Allen. Hardback with dust cover. Good condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 96: Memoirs of a Professional Cad by George Sanders. Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd in 1960. Hardback. Good Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 97: Marie Tempest by Hector Bolitho published by Cobden-Sanderson 1936. Hardback. Signs of age on cover and spine. — £8 - £10
Lot 98: Franz Liszt in Bohemia by Dr Alexander Buchner and translated by Roberta Finlayson Samsour. — £16 - £20
Lot 99: Good morning, boys, Will Hay Master of Comedy by Ray Seaton & Roy Martin. Published by Barrie and Jenkins Ltd in 1978. — £20 - £30
Lot 100: You've Had Your Time: Being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess. — £4 - £6
Lot 101: The Saturday Book Edited by John Hadfield Published by Hutchinson & Company Ltd 1964. Hardback. Good Condition. — £14 - £16
Lot 102: Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985 Edited by Anthony Thwaite. Published by Faber & Faber in 1992. — £12 - £14
Lot 103: The Abbey National Story: A Key to The Door by Berry Ritchie published in 1990. Hardback with dust cover. — £8 - £10
Lot 104: London The Biography by Peter Ackroyd, published by Chatto & Windus in 2000. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 105: Marcel Proust Selected Letters Volume Three 1910-1917 Edited by Philip Kolb and translated by Terence Kilmartin. — £100 - £120
Lot 106: Ivy The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Hardback with dust cover. — £10 - £12
Lot 107: Authord I Never Met by Frank Swinnerton, published by Frederick Books in 1956. Hardback with dust cover. — £10 - £12
Lot 108: The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleston by Hugh Robert Mill, published William Heinemann Ltd in 1923. Hardback. — £8 - £10
Lot 109: The Lost Library: The Autobiography of a Culture by Walter Mehring and translated by Richard and Clara Winston. — £8 - £10
Lot 110: The Franglais Lieutenant's Woman by Miles Kington. Published by Robson Books in 1986. Hardback with dust jacket. — £4 - £6
Lot 111: Paradise in Piccadilly: The Story of Albany by Harry Furniss. Published by The Mayflower Press in 1925. Hardback. — £12 - £14
Lot 112: Lord Beaverbrook A Lift by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie. Published Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. — £6 - £8
Lot 113: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann published by Hamish Hamilton in 1987. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £20 - £30
Lot 114: The World of Franz Kafka Edited by J.P. Stern published by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. — £20 - £30
Lot 115: Critical Observations by Julian Symons published by Faber and Faber in 1981. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £8 - £10
Lot 116: Madness After Midnight by Jack Glicco published by Elek Books in 1952. Hardback with dust cover. — £30 - £40
Lot 117: Stories of Some Famous Hymns by G.A. Leask M.A. published by George G. Harrap & Co. Hardback. Good Condition. — £6 - £8
Lot 118: Writers At Work by Louise Morgan published by Chatto & Windus in 1931. Hardback with dust cover. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 119: The Oscar Wilde Quotation Book a Literary Companion, Edited by Gyles Brandreth. Published by Robert Hale in 1995. — £10 - £12
Lot 120: Noted on Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. Published by Longman York Press. Paperback. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 121: London (Ward Lock's) Red Guide. Edited by Reginald J. W. Hammond Hardback Book. Fair Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 122: Cambridge University Press (Notes on Its History & Development Hardback Book. Sixth Edition. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 123: The English Gentleman's Mistress by Douglas Sutherland / Illustrated by Timothy Jaques Hardback Book. Published 1980. — £10 - £12
Lot 124: The Wreck of The Titanic by Gillian Hutchinson Paperback Book. Published: 1994. ISBN 0948065230. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 125: Clare's Countryside Natural History Poetry & Prose by John Clare Hardback Book. First Published 1981. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 126: Bognor Regis A Pictorial History by Vanessa Mills Hardback Book. Published: 1995. ISBN 0 85033 975 8. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 127: The Oxford illustrated literary guide to Great Britain and Ireland Hardback Book by Dorothy Eagle. Published: 1985. — £10 - £12
Lot 128: The Great Anglo-Boer war Author: Farwell Byron Hardback Book. Published: 1976. Dust Cover slight Torn on top. — £10 - £12
Lot 129: So Far, So Good: The Autobiography Author: Paul Eddington Harback Book. Published: 1995. Inscribed. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 130: A History of Ilfracombe by Lois Lamplugh Hardback Book. Published 1984. ISBN 0 85033 525 6. Inscribed. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 131: The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and The Supernatural Author: Jack Sullivan Published: 1986. Signs of Age. — £10 - £12
Lot 132: Forbidden Books of The Victorians: Henry Spencer Ashbee's Bibliographies of Erotica Authors: Henry Spencer with an — £10 - £12
Lot 133: Holidays and Happy Days Edited by Oswell Blakeston Hardback Book. — £10 - £12
Lot 134: My Years with Churchill by Norman McGowan Paperback Book. First Published 1958. Marks on top left of book. — £10 - £12
Lot 135: The Lynmouth Flood Disaster by Eric R. Delderfield Paperback Book. Fifth Edition January 1969. Fair Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 136: Surrey in the seventies: photographs and memories of the 1970s Author: Mark Davison Paperback Book. — £10 - £12
Lot 137: Chart Park Dorking a Vanished Surrey Mansion by Doris & Edith Mercer Paperback Book. First Published 1993. — £10 - £12
Lot 138: Sons of The Eagle A Study in Guerilla War by Julian Amery Hardback Book. Publisher MacMillan & Co. Ltd 1948. Inscribed. — £10 - £12
Lot 139: The Memoirs of Lord Ismay Hardback Book. First Published 1960. Dust Cover Slight tear near Spine. Fair Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 140: The Property Boom by Oliver Marriott Hardback Book. First Published 1967. Fair Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 141: A Shropshire Lad Author: A. E. Housman Hardback Book. Published: 1995 Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 142: Enjoying Archives: What they are Where to find Them How to use them By David Iredale Hardback Book. Published: 1973. — £10 - £12
Lot 143: Means To a Kill: An Encyclopaedia Of murder Methods Author: Jon E. Lewis Paperback Book. Published: 1994. — £10 - £12
Lot 144: Wodehouse on Wodehouse Author P. G. Wodehouse Paperback Book. Published: 1981. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 145: The Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar paperback publishing by Steve Holland Paperback Book. Published: 1993. — £10 - £12
Lot 146: Encounter Edited by Stephen Spender & Melvin J. Lasky March 1960 78 Monthly 3s. 6d. Paperback Book. Fair Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 147: The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis by Thomas Dormandy Hardback Book. Published: 1999. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 148: Mini After 25 years (New Edition) By Rob Golding Published: 1984 Hardback Book. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 149: Sherlock Holmes Illustrated Authors: Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Hardback Book. Good Condition. — £10 - £12
Lot 150: The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle mystery: With a Holmesian investigation into the strange and curious case — £10 - £12