Trafford Books: Books, Autographs, Photographs, Ephemera, Postcards, Stamps and Postal History, 431, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 08, 2025 - January 08, 2025
Page Size: 281 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Ben Brierley

Ben Brierley's Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life,

1882-85 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
152

Dialect stories, mostly Lancashire

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
153

Gollancz Thrillers and Crime Fiction, with works by W.J. Burley (5), June Drummond (4) and three others.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
154

Gollancz Thrillers and Crime Fiction, a selection of First Editions including Iain Pears "The Titian Committee"

1991 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
155 John Harland

"Ballads and Songs of Lancashire",

1865 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
156 C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis selection including "The Abolition of Man",

Oxford 1944 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
157 Friedrich Nietzsche

"Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None",

1908 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
158

English Poets,

1913-67 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
159

Wesleyan interest including John Wesley "Sermons on Several Occasions",

1863 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
160 George Bellairs

George Bellairs Crime Fiction, all Thriller Book Club editions

GBP 15.00 - 30.00 Unknown
161 George Sims

George Sims thrillers,

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
162 Derek Robinson

"Damned Good Show",

2002 GBP 10.00 - 20.00 Unknown
163 Gwendoline Butler (a.k.a. Jennie Melville)

Gwendoline Butler (a.k.a. Jennie Melville), a selection of UK First Editions in d/jkts including "Coffin in Malta"

1964 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
164

Historical Fiction, all fine First Editions in complete d/jkts, including John Gloag "Caesar of the Narrow Seas",

1969 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
165

Modern First Editions, all Crime Fiction & Thrillers including A.E.Maxwell "The Frog and the Scorpion",

1986 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
166

Modern First Editions, all Crime Fiction & Thrillers including John Gregory Dunne "True Confessions",

1977 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
167

Modern First Editions in mainly fine d/jkts including Georges Simenon "The Rules of the Game,"

1989 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
168

Canonical Histories and Apocryphal Legends relating to the New Testament represented in drawings with a Latin text,

Milan, 1873 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
169 Alan Moorehead

"The Rage of the Vulture",

1948 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
170 James Andrews (1801-76):

Botanical studies. A selection of hand-coloured lithographs. Initialled 'JA' in the designs.

c.1865. GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
171 C.H. Dick

"Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick",

1916 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
172 George Bridge

"The Mountains of England and Wales"

1973 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
173

Lake District interest including Sansom "Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War"

1982 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
174

Mountaineering and Rambling with many Wales related, plus few West of England, and some Alpine titles

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
175

Beneath the Lakeland Fells: Cumbria's Mining Heritage, Red Earth

1992 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
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