Paul A. Whyles - Second-Hand Books
Curiosities

Address - Canadian Women Artists Address Book. International Marketing Magic, Canada, 1997. Rather a nice address book illustrated with colour reproductions; captions in both English and French. 7¼" x 8¼", enough room, illustrated wipe-clean paper, hb. Fine, un-used.
[Order code: 2863 / Price £6.00]

Albums - 5 Photograph albums. c.'50s-'60s. Contents are mostly postcards of places and art, much of a Dutch nature. There are also a few monochrome photographs. One album contains what appear to be the fronts of rather artistically drawn Christmas cards. There is nothing valuable here, however the contents are quite interesting, especially if Holland (Netherlands) is your thing. Inc. post in UK.
[Order code: 3547 / Price £12.00]

Anon - Gotta Go Bell: A Chiming Idea for your Bathroom Door!. 8" x 4" (approx), wood and metal. 1960s/70s? Appears never used. Solid construction complete with somewhat distressed original box.
[Order code: 13078 / Price £4.00]

Atlas - Atlas Handicrafts Price List: 1956/57. Illustrated with monochrome drawings. 5¾" x 7½", 52pp, illustrated card, sb booklet. Very good. Inc. post in UK.
[Order code: 2926 / Price £1.00]

Autographs - Autograph Book. Unused. 1940s? 6½" x 8¼", 78 pages (aprox.), padded dark blue buckram, hb. All edges gilt. Very good. Price inc. postage in UK.
[Order code: 2674 / Price £2.00]

Bantock, Nick - Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence. Chronicle Books. 8" x 8", paper covered boards, hb. Fine in fine, price cut, wrapper.
[Order code: 2307 / Price £15.00]

Bryant, Arthur - Historian's Holiday. A collection of 20 essays. Monochrome decorations by Brian Hope-Taylor. Collins, 1951, 1st thus. Contents: An Artist in Hair; Catching Trains; Cricketer's Dreams; Harrow and Eton; Hunter's Moon; The Bells; "Anne Carter Her Book"; On Discovering the Past was Real; A Holiday in Time; The English Gentleman; Doomed Treasures; Childhood from the Blitz; Cows in Wartime; A Good Biter; Sammy the Cat; A Dog that Choose; The Road to Wales; Oxford in Retrospect; In Darkest Kensington; O, Listen to the Band!. 8¾" x 5½", 128pp, red cloth. Spine sunned; a browned strip down the inside of the half-title and last page; but otherwise fine due to slip-case (probably unread); complete with fine clear plastic wrapper and very good (sunned edges; slightly 'dusty') decorated slip case.
[Order code: 106 / Price £8.00]

Coulson(Secretary), A. G. - Old Citizens' Athletic Union: List of Members, 1929. 7¼" x 4¾", 32pp, dark green paper, booklet. Good. Price inc. postage in UK.
[Order code: 2665 / Price £0.50]

Coulson(Secretary), A. G. - Old Citizens' Athletic Union: List of Members, 1931. 7¼" x 4¾", 32pp, light blue paper, booklet. Good. Price inc. postage in UK.
[Order code: 2666 / Price £0.50]

Coulson(Secretary), A. G. - Old Citizens' Athletic Union: List of Members, 1932. 7¼" x 4¾", 32pp, pinkish-peach paper, booklet. Good. Price inc. postage in UK.
[Order code: 2667 / Price £0.50]

Coulson(Secretary), A. G. - Old Citizens' Athletic Union: List of Members, 1933. 7¼" x 4¾", 32pp, dark green paper, booklet. Good. Price inc. postage in UK.
[Order code: 2668 / Price £0.50]

Domino - 28 Piece Animal Pictures Domino Set. Each piece is 1½" x 2¾" approx, made from plywood. Used but in reasonable condition, NO box.
[Order code: 11624 / Price £1.50]

East - East of India Wooden Box with Puppet inside. Label on bottom of box reads: ' Exclusively designed by East of India. Handmade'; painted words on lid below boat read: 'Treasure from my travels'. Approx. 4¼" high by 8¼" wide by 8¼" deep roughly made and roughly painted wooden box with hinged lid. Contains a traditional puppet on strings that will make all the usual moves in the hands of some one who knows how to operate these things. Looks to have had something circular on the lid at one time causing slight loss of paint; there are numerous slight chips and knocks all around the box but it's difficult to know if these are intentional or added afterwards. The puppet is in excellent shape. There is also a loose 2¾" x 2¼" piece of yellow cloth which I suspect should form a sort of bow-tie but has fallen off. I've absolutely no knowledge about 'East of India' items and can't say if this thing is in good or bad shape for what it is. See photos and please ask any questions you like if anything is not obvious.
[Order code: 14817 / Price £5.00]

Glass - Clear glass bottle with stopper. 1 fl oz/30cc. Penhaligon's, London on front. Glass a bit 'misty' in places. Not my field; if I've missed anything vital please ask.
[Order code: 9463 / Price £1.00]

Nass, Herbert E. - Wills of the Rich and Famous. Robson Books, 1st, 1991. 8¾" x 5½", 318pp, red cloth, hb. Index. Fine c/w fine wrapper.
[Order code: 2811 / Price £6.00]

Perkins (illustrates), Benjamin - A Year in the Meadow: A Book of Days. A universal diary, each day of the year is covered (even February 29th) but not for any particular year, generally a 5" x 1" space is available for each day. Bloomsbury, 1st, 1990. 7¼" x 6", not numbered, colour illustrated laminated boards, hb. Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. As new.
[Order code: 3223 / Price £2.00]

Intercraft - Pooh Picture Frame with (what appears) to be Tigger embossed on the top half. Takes pictures 3" x 2.25. Glass picture cover; easy mout as back just slides out. Unused but has very slight storage wear.
[Order code: 14818 / Price £1.00]

Q.S.L. - CB QSL Cards. Various publishers. Large qty. of CB QSL cards. Hundreds, about 3.75kgs worth. Mostly postcard sized, many interesting designs (some nerdy, some bawdy, some pretty), colour and monochrome. From mid/late 1980s to turn-of-century. Mostly UK/Holland, with other Europe and several from further afield. Would make an interesting starter pack.
[Order code: 7276 / Price £3.50]

Scots - Scots Pictorial Desk Diary:1961. George Outram. 7½" x 5". Plastic covered wire spiral bound. Not really a 'Diary' as such as all it has of that type is s single page compliments page with a 1961 calendar in the lower third of the page with telephone numbher spaces on its verso and a 1960/1962 calendars inside the back-cove. Its main purpose is the contents of 54 sides of monochrome photographs evocative of Scotland c1960. Binding spiral stretched a bit at both ends; a bit 'dusty'; front cover nearly detached; pancil line mark on first page and its verso; some internal marks; good only.
[Order code: 4070 / Price £1.00]

Shew, Betty Spencer - Royal Wedding. (Queen Elizabeth II). Macdonald & co., 1st, 1947. Illustrated with monochrome photographs. 10" x 7¼", 120pp, dark blue buckram, hb. Very good with wrapper that is chipped and has small tears round the edges and rubbed in places.
[Order code: 2365 / Price £12.00]

Trevelyan, George - A Vision of the Aquarian Age. Coventure Ltd, 1st, 1977. 8½" x 5¼", 162pp, illustrated card, sb. Name ins. on front free endpaper. Generally very good. Price inc. postage in UK.
[Order code: 2378 / Price £3.50]

Woodruff, Douglas - More Talking at Random. 1944, 1st, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 7½" x 5", 240pp, blue cloth, hb. A sort of random collection of opinions and thoughts. 4" x 2½" pasted-in strip with a type-written list of those presenting the volume and a hand-written date attached to the front pastedown. Good plus without wrapper.
[Order code: 2251 / Price £2.00]

Yogi - Yogi Bear and Friends Jigsaw Puzzle. Thomas Hope. 9¼" x 13¼", 80 pieces. Three pieces missing, o/w fine, c/w box whose base is broken at all 4 corners. The missing pieces are second piece in from top-right corner, bottom right corner and left-hand edge of table (nearly central).
[Order code: 6446 / Price £1.00]

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