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BENTLEY, Nicolas.
" … Stockton down the drain?" 1962
£325
The upcoming Stockton-on-Tees by-election was seen as an opportunity for a protest vote against the increasingly unpopular Macmillan administration.
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink with blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 27 March 1962, and with... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
" … you're annuver - so are you. Tell my muvver, 'tisn't true." 1959
£375
Vice-President Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev shown as squabbling schoolboys following their ill-tempered "kitchen debate" on the relative abilities of communism and capitalism...
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 25 July 1959, and with pencil reproduction... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
" 'stonishing the difference this new fuel makes!" c. 1955
£400
Sheet size: 187 × 240 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper.
Sheet size: 187 × 240 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
"Über der Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri)", 1877
£6,500
First edition of Freud's first published paper. "Freud's second piece of student research, on the function of the large Reissner cells in the spinal cord of the primitive fish...
Octavo, Freud's paper pp. 15-27. Original blue printed wrappers. Custom blue cloth folding case, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Folding lithographed plate.... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"'Av'nt seen your 'usband knockin' about lately, Mrs. Waters." "Oh. Well 'e 'as been. Look at the eye I got on me!" c. 1935
£450
A working class woman shows her black eye to her neighbour.
Sheet size: 230 × 275 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Artists' agency ticket of R. P. Gossop Limited on verso. Read more
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
"A" 1–12. 1959
£750
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Colombo, always, Louis Zukofsky. Nov 19, 1960, Toronto". John Colombo is a Canadian poet...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. Spine rolled, margins of contents tanned. An excellent copy. Read more
ALDIN, Cecil.
"And when the tim'rous trout I wait ..." from the Angler's Song 1902
£175
Delightful fishing print by this acclaimed and sought after artist. Mounted with text beneath. By Cecil Alden, from the work entitled A Sporting Garland, published by Sands and Co.
Mounted size: 46 x 52 cm. Lithograph. Printed colour. In fine condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"And you're not one of Noel Coward's ballet guardsmen, remember." "And we don't want any of that 'Up, Guards, and at 'em' stuff around here!" 1959
£350
A cartoon with two variant captions. Noël Coward had composed London Morning for the London Festival Ballet.
Sheet size: 190 × 140 mm. Pen and ink and blue crayon on wove paper. Stamped for publication in the Daily Mail, 4 Aug 1959. Read more
ALDIN, Cecil.
"As inward love breeds outward talk, - ..." from the Angler's Song 1902
£175
Delightful fishing print by this acclaimed and sought after artist. Mounted with text beneath. By Cecil Alden from the work entitled A Sporting Garland, published by Sands and Co.
Mounted size: 46 x 52 cm Lithograph. Printed colour. Fine condition. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"But I don't want to go to Brightlingsea. I want to go to Mars." c. 1955
£400
Sheet size: 235 × 233 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Pencilled at head as done for the News Chronicle, wanted 8.55 [August 1955].
Sheet size: 235 × 233 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Pencilled at head as done for the News Chronicle, wanted 8.55 [August 1955]. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Can you think of a single battle worth mentioning that's been won on the playing fields of your time?" 1958
£325
Sheet size: 190 × 139 mm. Pen and ink and blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Written on verso "No". Unpublished.
Sheet size: 190 × 139 mm. Pen and ink and blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Written on verso "No". Unpublished. Read more
KNOCK, Sydney.
"Clear Lower Deck." 1932
£135
First edition. Uncommon, particularly in jacket. More usually encountered as the "Nautilus Library" second edition of the following year. Knock served as a stoker from 1903 to 1924...
Octavo, original yellow cloth, title in black to spine. In the dust jacket. 8 plates. boards a little soiled at the edges, spine a touch mottled, endpapers... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Come in with us, lady, & split the profits!" c. 1950
£400
Sheet size: 188 × 239 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper.
Sheet size: 188 × 239 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur)
"Come, now bait your hook again, and lay it into the water, for it rains again". 1931
£18,000
An original illustration by Arthur Rackham for his edition of Walton's Compleat Angler (1931), showing Venator and Piscator. The illustration appears opposite page 122 in the...
Ink and watercolour (216 × 178 mm). Read more
ATKINSON, George Francklin.
"Curry & Rice" on Forty Plates; c.1860
£500
The third edition, believed to be two years after the first. Classic images of the Raj by an officer of the Bengal Engineers. "This famous and often reprinted work provides an...
Quarto (282 × 199 mm) Contemporary half burgundy pebble-grained morocco on dun pebbled-grained cloth, title direct to the spine which is gilt in compartments with... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Darling, I know I ought to feel absolutely mizz about Dick Crossman, but all I really feel is good-oh for Polly Elwes." 1960
£325
Polly Elwes, BBC announcer and reporter, married sports broadcaster Peter Dimmock on 12 March. The Dick Crossman reference likely relates to his election as chairman of the National...
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink with overlaid crosshatched film on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 16 March 1960, and... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Dear Santa, Please I would like a broken ancle so I can put it in plarster." 1958
£375
A small boy writes his Christmas list.
Sheet size: 190 × 134 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for Christmas Eve publication in the Daily Mail, 24 Dec 1958. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Did you dig the remarks of that crazy Prime Minister?" 1958
£325
Harold Macmillan's optimistic leader's speech to to the 1958 Conservative party conference at Blackpool, boosting Britain's successes, was widely commented on, with the New York...
Sheet size: 191 × 140 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 27 Sep 1958. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Did you remember to post the Christmas cards?" 1958
£375
Refers to the attempt by the balloon Small World at an Atlantic crossing. Setting out from Tenerife on 12 December the vessel covered 1200 nautical miles before being forced to ditch...
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink with blue pencil crayon on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 17 December 1958, and with... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Don't lose your sense of proportion, darling. Forget about Tulyartos and imagine you're Sophia Loren." 1960
£325
The reference is to Anthony Asquith's hit film, a loose adaptation of the Shaw play The Millionairess.
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink with blue crayon on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 2 June 1960, and with pencil... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Either he's flogging seats for My Fair Lady, or he's an AEU bloke going to King Street." 1958
£250
Two bobbies discuss a skulking figure, his face concealed by a broad-brimmed fedora. By the mid-1950s more members of the AEU - Amalgamated Engineering Union - belonged to the...
Sheet size: 192 × 140 mm. Pen and black ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 29 April 1958, and with pencil reproduction... Read more
NANSEN, Fridtjof.
"Farthest North" 1897
£350
First edition in English, published in Norwegian in the same year. "Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin...
2 volumes octavo, original green combed cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, gilt pictorial vignettes to the upper boards. Etched portrait frontispiece to... Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Fortunately he's a great lover of cats." 1945
£425
The chairman murmurs sympathetically to another man on the platform, as the prospective Conservative candidate hurls a dead cat back into the riotous crowd. The General Election of...
Sheet size: 177 × 197 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. The cat thrower with an overslip. Signed Nicolas Bentley and dated "45". Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Frank always feels a bit de-valued after Christmas." 1958
£325
The French government enacted a 17.5% devaluation of the franc.
Sheet size: 193 ×134 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 27 Dec 1958. Read more
BENTLEY, Nicolas.
"Frankly, I feel more hopeful about Agreement in the Ascot Stakes than in Geneva." 1959
£350
The Geneva Conference of Foreign Ministers, begun on 10 May 1959, attempted to find new solutions to the problems of Cold War diplomacy, though not much was achieved.
Sheet size: 190 × 140 mm. Pen and ink on wove paper. Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 16 June 1959. Read more
