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Wed, 2nd April 2025
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LOT 4115
LOT 4115
MOTOR-RACING. – Murray WALKER. My Autobiography, Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken. London: CollinsWillow, 2002. Limited edition, this being number 22 of 600 copies signed by Murray Walker and Lord March, 8vo (234 x 148mm.) (Toning.) Black cloth with ‘GRRC’ crest in gilt to upper cover, g.e. (minor marks to upper cover). – And a further eleven volumes related to motor-racing, all with signatures (including Alan Henry’s ‘Ronnie Peterson, Grand Prix Racing Driver’, signed by Ronnie Peterson, 1975, 8vo, and Roy Salvadori and Anthony Pritchard’s ‘Roy Salvadori, Racing Driver’, with a mounted signature of Salvadori, 1985, 8vo, and Juan Manuel Fangio and Robert Carozzo’s ‘Fangio, My Racing Life’, with a loosely inserted signed photograph of Fangio, 1990, 8vo, and Robert Edwards’ ‘Archie and the Listers’, with a mounted signature of Archie Scott Brown and signature of the author, 1995, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (12).
Estimate: £150 – £250
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LOT 4117
LOT 4117
NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Collins and Harper Collins, 1945-2021. 144 vols., including 121 first editions and 1 volume with a signed publisher’s slip, 8vo (223 x 151mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional spotting to early volumes, some volumes name or gift inscribed.) Original cloth (extremities bumped to early volumes), dust-jackets (37 volumes are price-clipped, minor chipping to spine ends of early volumes), numbers 97-144 still in the publisher’s shrink-wrap. Note: a run of one hundred and forty-four volumes of the New Naturalist. Numbers 1, 2, 5, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 54, and 58 are reprints. Number 70 is a first edition, first state. Number 143 has a loose publisher’s slip signed by author David M. Wilkinson. – And a further ten volumes (‘New Naturalist Monographs’, numbers 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 19, 21) (155).
Estimate: £1,500 – £2,500
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