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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Slavomir Rawicz. The Long Walk. Good+. Dustjacket (not price-clipped)with one-inch tear, sl. bumped and sl. worn in parts, mainly vg. INSCRIBED by autho on title-page: "To Dagmar Jenkin: Slavomir Rawitz / 6th June 1956." Also inscription on front free endpaper by former owner, "Ian" [Jenkin] (also dated 6 June 1956).	Literature	£250.00
Societe Asiatique. Societe Asiatique. Seance Generale Annuelle Du 28 Avril 1825. [75]pp., inc. Table, 8vo, original green printed wraps, back cover soiled, stitches loose, and other minor defects.	French, Travel and Topography	£50.00
Societe Asiatique. Societe Asiatique. Seance Generale Annuelle Du 28 Avril 1826. [75]pp., inc. Table, 8vo, original green printed wraps, covers soiled and dulled, stitches loose, and other minor defects.	French, Travel and Topography	£50.00
Society for the Taxation of Land Values, Liverpool [nineteenth-century land reform; Victorian radical socialism] Handbill, with diagram, expounding the aims of the Society, headed 'Meetings along the Line of Docks'. 12mo bifolium (leaf dimensions 22 x 14 cm): 4 pp. Text clear and complete, on lightly-aged and grubby paper with wear to extremities. The first pages includes a section beginning 'Land in Liverpool has been sold at £226 the square yard; £1,093,840 an Acre! \| PAY YOUR RENTS! and YOUR RATES!! \|...		£85.00
Society of British Artists. Illustrated ticket to 'Smoking Evening', addressed in manuscript to 'Mr. W. Dalziel' (the engraver William Dalziel, 1805-1873?). Dimensions roughly 5 1/2 inches by 4 inches. Must predate 1887, when the prefix 'Royal' was added. Amusing modern-looking cartoon-style illustration by 'F C' of furious pipe-smoking pianist jumping up to hammer the keys, with his hair forming into the 'S' of 'Society', with moustachioed cigar-...	Art and Architecture	£45.00
Captain Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey [H. W. Aubrey] (c.1859-1934), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Unpublished Holograph First World War Poem (signed 'H W Aubrey') by English army officer Captain Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey [H. W. Aubrey], titled 'To our offspring - America' ('You're blood of our blood, & bone of our bone'). Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment Militia on 21 April 1875, and resigned his commission three years later. He qualified as a Doctor in 1885 and practiced in Clifton, where he was a keen cricketer and golfer. During the First World War he...		£120.00
Sotheby & Co Catalogue of the Westbury Collection of Cookery Books Wraps, v.g., with prices and buyers' list enclosed. With:(Catalogue) A. Rosenthal Ltd, Catalogue 56, Food and Drink. A private collection formed by a Lady of 16th to 19th Cenbtury Cookery Books in various languages (no date). Two items,		£50.00
Sotheby and Co Catalogue of the well-known collection of Ballooning and Aeronautical Prints and Drawings, the Property of Col. R.L. Preston Printed wraps, illus.., fold mark mainly affecting covers, mainly v.g. NO estimate or price lists	Book Trade History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£45.00
Sotheby's Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts, Printed Books and Americana formed by the Late Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Esq. The property of Mrs Gordon Mathias" Wraps, illustrated, 5 June 1961, inscribed by the scholar C.E. Wright who has noted prices and purchasers beside 9 items which interested him. He also notes that Cherry-Garrard originally paid £5000 for a missal. A flick through the pages throws up Back, Bligh, Dalrymple, Scoresby for polar...	Book Trade History, Travel and Topography	£50.00
Kenneth Hopkins [Hector Kenneth Hopkins] (1914-1988), poet, critic and crime writer [Andrew Block, London bookseller] [Kenneth Hopkins, poet, critic and crime writer.] ‘Three Sonnets’ by Kenneth Hopkins in ‘The Grasshopper Broadsheets’ series of publications, with Signed Autograph Inscription to London bookseller Andrew Block. See Hopkins’s entry in the Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. His papers are in the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas. The obituary of the recipient Andrew Block (1892-1987) in ‘The Private Library’ was subtitled ‘the doyen of booksellers’; his business was...		£56.00