Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins
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Lots: 347
Chiswick Auctions’ Books and Works on Paper sale, on August the 24th, will include the boxing collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins. A lifetime’s passion, it features several exceptionally rare titles previously unrecorded at auction or in public libraries.
Amongst the highlights are a first edition of Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza’s memoirs, published in 1808 and estimated at £4,000 - 6,000. Although the text is thought to have been written around 1806, when Mendoza spent time in debtor’s prison, some libraries have even called the edition’s existence into question.
Another lot representative of the rarity of the collection is a catalogue of the property auction which followed bare-knuckle boxer Tom Sayers’ death in 1865. His funeral was attended by 10,000 people and descended into a riot, described by The Daily News as “disgraceful”. The copy, estimated at £1,000-1,500, is annotated with the prices achieved, including for Sayers’ loyal mastiff dog “Lion”. Sayers’ tomb, crowned with a statue of Lion, is a landmark of Highgate Cemetery.
Aside from boxing, the sale includes a rare purple variation uncorrected proof copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, at £3,000 - 4,000. The purple wrappers indicate an earlier state than the more common version in green and only fifty are thought to have been printed. Also offered is a first edition of pioneering Scottish photographer John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People, 1873 (£3,000 - 4,000).
Lot 100 - Harrison. 'I, Me Mine', limited ed. half mor. 1980
Sold for £3,000
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Lot 101 - Harrison. 'I, Me, Mine', Ltd edition full mor. 1980
Sold for £4,000
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Lot 109 - Churchill (Winston S.) Painting as a Pastime, first ed. Inscribed. 1948
Sold for £3,250
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Lot 110 - Collection of Penguin & Pelican Paperbacks. 516 vols.
Sold for £500
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![Lot 117 - Englands Black Tribunall Set forth in the Triall of K. Charles I, [1660]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/207848-0-small.jpg?v=63827282827287)
Lot 117 - Englands Black Tribunall Set forth in the Triall of K. Charles I, [1660]
Sold for £88
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![Lot 121 - [Markham]. Covntrey Contentments, or The English Huswife. 1623](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/207361-1-small.jpg?v=63827191552887)
Lot 122 - Marx & Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party. fifth ed. 1888
Sold for £3,500
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Lot 124 - Morris (William) The Manifesto of The Socialist League, 1885, and other pamphlets.
Sold for £625
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Lot 125 - Otway (Thomas) Venice Preserv'd or, A Plot Discover'd. 1696
Sold for £125
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Lot 126 - Pearson’s Miniature Dictionary. The Smallest English Dictionary in the World
Sold for £125
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![Lot 127 - Poetry. WWII. McMurtrie. Diary of a Heart. 1951 [1941-43]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/205134-1-small.jpg?v=63826150909610)
Lot 127 - Poetry. WWII. McMurtrie. Diary of a Heart. 1951 [1941-43]
Sold for £188
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Lot 128 - Satire.- ‘Stern (Mervyn)’ What I Know about Foreign Securities
Sold for £25
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Lot 129 - Shakespeare (William) Works, The National Shakespeare Edition
Sold for £125
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Lot 131 - Trollope. The Last Chronicle of Barset, in original parts, 1866-67
Sold for £938
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![Lot 132 - [Wagstaffe] A Vindication of K. Charles the Martyr bound with 2 others, 1711 & 1694](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/204699-0-small.jpg?v=63826150352613)
Lot 132 - [Wagstaffe] A Vindication of K. Charles the Martyr bound with 2 others, 1711 & 1694
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 140 - Johnson. Traveling People, first ed. Insc. 1963 & others.
Sold for £625
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Lot 143 - Powell.Collection of from ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ series.
Sold for £188
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Lot 144 - Galbraith. Lethal White, signed by the author, 2018
Sold for £812
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Lot 145 - Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, First edition, second printing, 1997
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000
Lot 146 - Rowling. Prisoner of Azkaban, Proof copy - purple ed. 1999
Sold for £10,625
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Lot 150 - Tolkien. Farmer GIles of Ham. 1st. ed. with Als from Pauline Baynes.
Sold for £875
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Lot 151 - Wells. First Men in the Moon, 1901; Stoker. Lair of the White Worn, 1911 and others
Sold for £450
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Lot 153 - Chinese School. Original watercolours on Pith paper.
Sold for £475
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Lot 154 - Colvin (Sidney, Sir) The Drawings Of Flaxman In The Gallery Of University College London
Sold for £100
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Lot 165 - Doré (Gustave) Illustrator. Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Guinevere (and) Vivien
Sold for £162
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Lot 168 - Etchings for the Art-Union of London by the Etching Club, 1857
Sold for £1,188
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Lot 174 - Ranson (René), Baudelaire (Charles), Les Fleurs du Mal
Sold for £375
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Lot 189 - Tarrant. Little Girl in the Woods, original preliminary drawing.
Sold for £25
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Lot 192 - Taschen.- Bowie (David) & Rock (Mick) The Rise of David Bowie 1972-1973
Sold for £1,125
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