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Catalogue 21

SCHOOLS IN FACT, FICTION & FANTASY

INCLUDING SOME ITEMS SOLD BY AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE OXFORD CHILDREN’S HOSPICE
BIDS
How to bid on items 1 to 3:
Please go to the bidding page for our ongoing silent auction at www.thebibliomaniacs.co.uk/silent-bidding To
bid, you must enter your name, email address, the ID of your selected silent auction book (as per the Lot
numbers in this catalogue), and the highest price you are prepared to pay for the book. You can fill out the
form several times if you wish to make bids on several lots or change a bid. We will always use your most
recent offers when we compare offers after the auction closes. If you are the winner of one of the auctions, we
will contact you at the supplied email address to ascertain your preferred method of payment (cash, bank
transfer or Paypal) and how you should like the books delivered to you. Note, no payment will be taken via
our website. All Lots remain the property of the Bibliomaniacs or individual Consignors until after full
payment has been made. All lots in this silent auction will have bidding increments of £5. This means that if
you bid £50 and another bidder bids £30, your winning bid will be £35. If two leading bids are received at the
same price, that which was received earlier takes precedent. All lots have a reserve price set at the lower
estimate or just below. We have tried to err on the low side when setting estimates.
Bids can also be made by e-mail to info.bibliomaniacs@gmail.com or post to The Bibliomaniacs, c/o Anthony
Zhang, Papplewick, Ascot, as well as in person. Orders will be prioritised strictly by time of receipt. Books
remain the property of the Bibliomaniacs until the full amount is paid. Good luck! The Bibliomaniacs
The Bibliomaniacs are very grateful to the Consignors of items 1—3 in this catalogue for allowing 50% of the
final hammer price to be donated to Helen & Douglas House. the Oxford Children’s Hospice. We would
encourage all our supporters to bid on a number of lots and to bid high! However, do please be careful not
to place a bid at a higher amount than you are willing to pay as bids cannot be cancelled after 6pm on
Wednesday 6 July.

SUPPLY AND RETURN

The Papplewick Bibliomaniacs have the right to withdraw books from sale without any given reason. Sales are
non-refundable, unless the book is proved to be otherwise as described. Full terms and conditions for this
catalogue are available on our website.

COLLECTION & DELIVERY OF GOODS

Books should preferably be collected in person at a time mutually agreed. Postage and packing for those items
for which this service is offered (N.B. we are unable to post the “Frank Richards” items) will be at cost, and
please be aware that some of the books listed here are heavy items. In this case we are not able to post the
item and the purchaser will need to organise collection from Papplewick on or before Friday 8 July.

PAYMENT
Goods should preferably be paid for by Paypal or bank transfer with details provided with invoice. Personal
UK cheques made out to Jonathan Cooper or cash payments up to £1,000 will also be accepted.

SENIOR COMMITTEE Sherlock Ni, Anthony Zhang, Sebastian Cunningham-Day, Frazer Fielding, Henri
Lhomond, Jake Merritt, Jonathan Cooper

HONORARY BIBLIOMANIACS Michael Meredith (Roxburghe Club and Eton College), Brian Alderson
(Children’s Book History Society), Marc and Marcia Harrison (PBFA), Lucas Marsden-Smedley (founder
member), Katia Haddad, Anthony West (Compiler of Census of Shakespeare’s First Folio), Rachel
Cuningham—Day.
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 SECTION ONE: SILENT AUCTION
50% of the amount paid for the following three lots will be sent to Helen and Douglas House, the Oxford
Children’s Hospice.
1. J. K. Rowling and Harry Potter
A Collection of rare books and ephemera related to the most famous
and popular fictional schoolboy of the past sixty years.
Including:
(i) Rowling, J. K . Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. New York: Ar-
thur A. Levine, 2000, 226 x 147mm., viii, 309, [3]pp., first edition of the
US Collector’s edition. Dark green leather binding lettered and decorat-
ed elaborately gilt, colour illustration by Mary GrandPré inset to upper
cover, all edges gilt, red and blue endpapers decorated to a diamond de-
sign, frontispiece of Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, some tiny dents to
rear board but otherwise in fine and unread condition.
The American “Collector’s” or “Deluxe” edition is a massively superior
production to its flimsy British counterpart. It is probably the only both
desirable and affordable copy of the first Harry Potter novel, and rare in
the UK. The current copy was bought contemporaneously at the Books
of Wonder shop in Manhattan.
(ii) Rowling, J. K . (as Kennilworthy Whisp) Quidditch through the ages.
Bloomsbury, 2001, paperback, first edition
(iii) Rowling, J. K . (as Newt Scamander) Fantastic Beasts and where to
find them. Bloomsbury, 2001, paperback, first edition
(iv) [Rowling, J. K.] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Origi-
nal promotional paper book bag exclusive to Waterstone’s bookshop
and only available on the first day of the book’s sale. The bag has an
enlarged detail from the first edition’s dust jacket upon it and is dated
21 June 2003.
(v) [Rowling, J. K.] Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Original
promotional plastic bag exclusive to Ottakar’s bookshop, advertising
“New on the 16th July. Pre-Order Harry Potter and the Half Blood
Prince for only £10.99”. The bag has an enlarged detail from the first
edition dust jacket of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
(vi) (Sotheby’s London) Auction Catalogue for the sale of an original manuscript of J. K. Rowling’s Beedle the Bard.
The sale took place on 13 December 2007 and the manuscript made £1.95 million.
(vii) (Sotheby’s London) Badge with “I have seen Beedle the Bard” upon it. This was given to children at the auction
house viewing of the manuscript
(viii) Rowling, J. K . The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Bloomsbury, 2008, first
edition
Together eight items. The badge and bags, as essentially ephemeral
items, will only become increasingly rare and desirable objects for the Pot-
ter completest.

Estimate: £150 — 200

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2. Billy Bunter and
Tom Merry.
A Collection of books
and annuals by Charles
Hamilton, aka Frank
Richards, aka Martin
Clifford and many,
many more pseudo-
nyms. Hamilton was
the king of the school
story for the first six
decades of the twentieth
century. His writing is
still fresh and funny,
and many of his charac-
terisations are excel-
lent.

To include:
The Billy Bunter Holiday Annual 1967. Odhams, 1966 containing new illustrations by the famous Bunter illustrator C. H.
Chapman
Tom Merry’s Annual. Mandeville, 1949, dust jacket
Tom Merry’s Own. Mandeville, 1950—1954, 5 volumes, dust jackets.
These annuals, as well as the tales of Tom Merry of St. Jim’s School, contain numerous other stories featuring Charles
Hamilton’s creations. These include Billy Bunter stories set at Greyfriars School and school stories based at Rookwood,
High Coombe, Carcroft. They also have adventure stories about the cowboy Rio Kid, King of the Island and Jack Free.
The last is probably Hamilton’s most interesting character.
“Tom Merry” hardbacks. Spring Books, 1955—1958. 7 volumes The titles are: 1. Tom Merry’s Triumph; 2. Tom Merry
& Co Caravanners; 3. The Disappearance of Tom Merry; 4. Through Thick and Thin; 5. Cardew’s Catch; 6. Triumph for
Tom Merry; 7. Down and Out.
These novel-length stories were written as “Frank Richards” and are all complete in excellent, full-colour dust jackets.
“Tom Merry” paperbacks. Goldhawk, February 1952 to February 1953. 11 volumes. The titles are: 1. Tom Merry’s
Secret; 2. Tom Merry’s Rival; 3. The Man from the Past; 4. Who Ragged Railton?; 5. Skimpole’s Snapshot; 6. Trouble
for Trimble; 7. D’Arcy in Danger; 8. D’Arcy on the Warpath; 9. D’Arcy’s Disappearance; 10. D’Arcy the Reform-
er; 11. D’Arcy’s Day Off.
The Magnet Companion. Howard Baker, 1971, dust jacket. An excellent guide to the
story paper that made Billy Bunter famous.
Map of Greyfriars School. Howard Baker, 1969, framed and glazed print
Also a large number of early “fanzines”: The Collector’s Miscellany, 11 issues (and
one duplicate), October 1945 to September 1952, The Story Paper Collector, 13 is-
sues, October 1956 to July 1966, magazines with numerous notes on Hamilton’s work
and six biographies and reference works.
In total: 56 volumes and one framed print.
Estimate: £70 — 100

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3. Eton College in the Nineteenth Century.
(1) The Adventurer. Conducted by Present Etonians.
Eton: E. P. Williams, 1868, Volumes 1—6, 215 x
133mm., 144pp., publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt
with gilt Eton crest within a double gilt border, text
block split between pp. 56 and 57., lacking one leaf
(pages 59/60), initial leaves loose, binding worn at cor-
ners. Provenance: Mercantile Library Philadelphia,
blind stamp to upper cover, library stickers to spine, ink
stamp on title page
Despite the imperfections, this is a rare and remarkable
survival of a Victorian boy-produced (or at least written)
magazine with an intriguing American provenance. The
tone is witty and mildly satirical. It ran from 1867 (the
first edition included here) until 1872. Although Eton
College Library has two complete sets as well as three
part sets, it does not have the first volume in this hand-
some binding. We have traced five other copies in institutional libraries worldwide, and none other in the trade.

(2) Eaton Chapel (sic) c. 1820, Engraving, 70

x 106mm., with view of Eton College Chapel
from a distance, nicely hand-coloured, pasted
to card
(3) Ante-Chapel of Eton College. London: R
[udolph] Ackermann, 1816, Aquatint, 255 x
300mm., some dab colouring to figures, some
staining and closed tears, pasted to card. This
is from Ackermann’s famous History of the
Eton College. Based on a drawing by Augus-
tus Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832), the plate was
made by Daniel Havell (1785 – 1822).
(4.) Eton College Chapel. London: J.T.
Wood, c. 1860, Engraving, 125 x 230mm., with short text beneath in English, French and German. Wood
was a purveyor largely of street literature including songsters and
very cheap children's books.

Estimate: £50—70

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 SECTION TWO: TEXT BOOKS
4. [Lily, William] A short introduction of grammar, generally to be used; compiled and set forth for the bringing up of
all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latin tongue. “London” [i.e. Leeds?]: printed for John Ward
and W. Lily, 1789 `
xvii, [3], 71, [5]pp. 12mo, 154 x 98mm., woodcut border to title-page
Binding: contemporary calf, blind double border, ink ownership name and date on upper cover
lacking last two leaves of Part I and entirety of Parts II and III (but see below), D6 torn with slight loss to text, pages
browned, some pages creased, binding rubbed and rear board coming loose
Reference: ESTC T185374 (copies in the British Library and Birmingham Central Libraries only)

Provenance: Thomas Wright, ownership inscriptions, “Thomas Wright’s Book 1801” on front endpaper, “Thomas
Wright his Book God giveve [sic] him Grace on it to look and not to look but Understand that Learning his [sic] bet-
ter than House or Land when House and Land and Money is spent than Learning his [sic] most exsolent [sic] Thom-
as Wrights Book Newton upon Derwent July 5th 1802” on rear endpaper, “Mr Tho Wright Book Pocklington April
25 1806 Grammar” on upper cover; David Wright , signature on verso of title-page. Pocklington is a small town in the
East Riding of Yorkshire.
The imprint is false and conceals the true printer and publisher of this pirated edition of this famous Latin grammar.
In fact is a fun, if not particularly subtle, joke. John Ward, professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, had written
had edited the grammar into a new edition in 1732 (his introduction is included in this edition) and William Lily, first
High Master of St. Paul’s School, who is designated authorship of this work by ESTC but who was probably responsi-
ble for the second and third parts largely (lacking here). The two “publishers” had died in 1522 and 1758 respectively!
On the rear endpaper and impinging upon the rear pastedown are two short prayers “Before Meat” and “After Meat”
written in pencil in the same handwriting (we think) as the signature “David Wright”.
Although this would appear, on the face of it, to be a very incomplete copy of the original work, we hypothesise that it
was in fact sold as a stand-alone version and was certainly bound in this form at a very early stage. Interesting a single
80 page edition of the Propria section of Lily’s grammar printed by Buckley and Longman also in 1789 is Eton Col-
lege Library Ic5.4.32(02).
ESTC’s suggestion that this was printed in Leeds and not London is supported by the Yorkshire provenance of this
copy. However, a copy we have traced in Ellis of Bond Street, Catalogue 215 number 110, 1923, is bound in contem-
porary red morocco lettered “A Present from York”. There are two recorded later edition with the same printing
information: one dated 1793 and the other undated.
£50.00
5. [Valpy, Richard] The Elements of Greek Grammar, with notes. D.N. Shury, 1807.
205pp. 215 x 135 mm., one folding engraved plate
Binding: disbound but with what initially seems original near-contemporary calf boards but on closer inspection reveal
to be from two different books originally (one board is diced calf and the other plain)
Other copies: of this edition three copies only listed on WorldCat (British Library, London; Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris; Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada)
Valpy was Headmaster of Reading Grammar School for fifty years
£12.00

Anthony Zhang—deciphering inscription— “Be present at our lottery fund” (it actually reads the more prosaic “Be
present at our table Lord”)

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6. Farthar English Examples or Book of Cautions in Rendering English into Latin. Eton: E. Williams and Son, 1836
viii, 159. [1]pp., 153 x 90 mm.
Binding: contemporary blind tooled calf, disbound with first leaf detached, Norfolk Library stamp on lower edge of
text block, stamps and withdrawal stamp of the “Norfolk Library & Information Service”
This is a late (possibly the last) edition of a book that had first been composed for use “at Eton School”. It is an inter-
esting guide to avoiding various pitfalls when composing Latin Prose Composition. There is no internal evidence that
this copy was used at Eton itself, but it may well have been.
A very rare book. The only institutional copy recorded is in the New York Public Library.
£30.00

7. An Introduction to the Latin Tongue, for the Use of Youth. Eton: Printed and Sold by E. P. Williams, 1850
Theo Gaidai: “It 190, [2]pp., 178 x 100mm.,
has a printing
Binding: contemporary calf, blind-ruled spine, spine cracking and upper board coming loose but
blab on G6”. This
currently holding
means that there
is a folded corner A nice very clean copy of the classic Latin Grammar, also “Sold at the Eton Warehouse”. This
on this leaf that would still be a nice usable book, albeit with certain eccentricities to the modern English school-
when unfolded boy. The first item is “hic, haec, hoc” described as the “article”. The past tenses are denoted as
reveals the extent “Preterimperfect, Preterperfect and Preterpluperfect”. The case order is Nominative, Genitive,
of the page before Dative, Accusative, Vocative, Ablative: an order still retained by Latin grammars in North America.
trimming. `
£20.00

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8. Sertum, A Greek Reading Book, for the use of the Form at Eton.
Eton: E. P. Williams and Son, 1870
176 x 105mm. [2], 122, [4]pp.
Original blind-stamped plum coloured cloth, copiously annotated
throughout.
Provenance: bookseller’s stamp of Thomas Page, Brighton, on front
pastedown; T. Cusack Smith, ownership signature on front pastedown
dated May and on title-page dated November 22 1872. This is almost
certainly Thomas Berry Cusack Smith (1859—1929) who was
schooled at Eton and was later fifth baronet, British consul in Samoa
(1890—1898), amateur photographer, polo player and all-round sport-
ing enthusiast. Indeed his copy of the then earliest known F. A. Cup
final programme (from 1882) was sold for £30,000 by Graham Budd at
Sotheby’s in May 2013.

£50.00
9. Outline of Universal History Compiled for Indian Schoolmasters.
Bombay: Printed at the Education Society’s Press, Byculla, 1870.
170 x 122mm., [2], [ii], 61pp.
Original letterpress pink paper wrappers strengthened with cloth at
spine, wrappers soiled and slightly stained, front gutter visible
Inscribed on the front endpaper, “From the Author to his Dearest
Dick. With the same remarks as to ?Bond?, only more so. Bombay.
Feb 8 1871”
Provenance: J. H. F. Peile, signature on upper cover.
A series of thirty lessons, designed to be used in association with a map
or atlas. As a relatrvely early teaching tool for the colonial market this is
an interesting, unusual and very rare survival. Indeed we have been un-
able to trace another copy either in an Institution or in trade.

£25.00
10. Bolton, Geoffrey. A Classical Note Book (Summer Fields).
Oxford: at the University Press, 1951, 187 x 126 mm., 31pp ,
red boards, with black lettering to front top. Boards slightly
sunned, spine sunned., rear board stained. Copious notes inter-
nally by a contemporary Summer Fields student.
Originally this notebook for success at Scholarship Classics had
been compiled by the sometime headmaster, Dr Williams.
However, Bolton compiled this version when the school ran out
of copies. In the original, Bolton said, there were words and ir-
regularities that he hadn’t ever come across. So, in this version,
Bolton cuts down the complexity, whilst adhering to the origi-
nal’s principle. It still has a value as a text book today.
£6.50

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 SECTION TWO: SCHOOL PRIZES
11. Vergilius Maro, Publius. Opera Omnia. Oxford: James Parker, 1899
123 x 90mm., [4], 414, [2]pp.
Contemporary vellum, gilt stamped on upper cover and spine, including a
prize stamp of Summer Fields School, Oxford, on both covers, gilt
stamped brown morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, green marbled endpa-
pers, silk book mark, binding warped (as usual with vellum), mark on upper
cover
Provenance: Peter J. Fried, inscription on front pastedown dated 1941.
A highly attractive prize binding £20.00
The following items are all attractive hardback volumes, with decorated
cloth, dating from between the last years of the Victorian era and the Second
World War. They were all awarded as prizes to pupils at various schools.

12. Scott - Hopper, Queenie. Aladdinetta and Co. Thomas Nelson &
Sons. Awarded to Irene Butler for being the top girl in B division for the
Xmas (Christmas) exam. Ryland Road Senior School. £3.00

13. [No author found] Brave Dame Mary or the siege of Corfe castle. The
Sheldon Press, 1924. Awarded to Gwendeline Laudoel for General progress March 1925. Soleworth School. £3.00

14. Glasspool, Alfred J. Charlie Wilson’s Prophecy, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1907. Awarded to Ronald Jolley for 1st
prize in 4th division for Maths, French and home lessons. 1908. £2.00

15. Kingston, W.H.G. Hurricane Hurry. Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Awarded to Sarah Bryan. Mansfold St. Ive
School. £4.00

16. Kingston, W.H.G. With Axe and Rifle, Thomas Nelson & Sons. Awarded to Jack Martin for Religious
Knowledge. St. Mary’s Boys school Hornsey. £4.00

17. Crumps, Lucy. The House of Five Poplars. Blackie and Sons. This is an earlier edition with gold lettering on the
spine. Awarded Jane Sinfield for general progress. Wenlock Road school. 1913. £3.00

18. Crump, Lucy. The House of the Five Poplars. Blackie and Sons. This is a later edition with green lettering on the
spine. Awarded to Hilda Sheer for conduct industry (first for year), Monson Road School in
1923. £3.00

19. Molesworth, Mrs. Little Mother Bunch. Cassell and Company, 1900. Awarded to Helence Brauill for good con-
duct, satisfactory progress, and regular attendance. 1905. £3.00

20. Southey, Robert. Life of Nelson. Bickers and Son, 1893. Gold on front
cover. Awarded for Latin in form II a. Bedford Modern School. £4.00

21. Ballantyne, Robert Michael. The Coral Island. Thomas Nelson and
Sons. Awarded to George T. Mouberry for successfully passing Standard
III, 1881. Essendine Board School. A handsome edition of this classic
novel. £5.00

22. Stables, Gordon. A Fight for Freedom. Nisbet & Co. London. Awarded
to Eveline Dennis for the Henry Balt Memorial Prize. December 1929.
Eton College. We are not convinced all is what it may seem with this
inscription... £4.50

23. Kingston, W.H.G. Afar in the forest. Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. Awarded to Herbert Balls for regular
attendance and good conduct, as well as passing the 5th standard in Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Norwich School
Board. October 1885. Silver Road School. £3.00

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 SECTION FOUR: SCHOOL STORIES “FOR BOYS”
24. Wood, Mrs Henry. (i.e. Ellen Price Wood). The Elchester College Boys. Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [c. 1880],
164 x 101mm., 92pp., frontispiece, original decorative pictorial boards, tears to front endpaper (formerly glued to
pastedown) repaired with archival tape, some bumping to boards)
provannace: E. J. Oakley, signature on title-page and prize inscription on front endpaper “Miss Oakley. A reward.
Xmas. 1882”.
“originally published in the Golden Casket… 1861” (Kirkpatrick, p. 25), and the first edition in 1866, which sold for a
shilling, had blue boards and four illustrations. This is a later “pocket” edition, the sort of item sold at railway stations.
The survival rate of such publications is dire and they only appear in trade infrequently. Although a sixpence “reprint”
this is a more decorative and rarer than the first. Wood was certainly not the first woman to have written school
stories, Ellenor Fenn, Dorothy Kilner and many others predated her, but she was a comparatively rare example of a
Victorian woman wtiting about a boys’ school. Mrs Wood was best known for her “sensational” novels such as East
Lynne and was a huge successfully writer.
£22.00

25. Kipling, Rudyard. Stalky & Co. New York: Doubleday & McClure co., 1899. 207 x 135mm., [12], 310pp., 8 plain
plates of illustrations, green cloth boards, blind illustration of a ship to upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine and upper
cover, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, front board slightly scraped, rear board with some damp staining.
Internally, an excellent copy of this famous and lively school story. This is arguably a preferable copy to own than the
first English edition published by MacMillan the same year, which is unillustrated.
£14.00

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 26. Finnemore, John. Three School Chums. W. & R. Chambers Ltd, [1907]
189 x 135mm., 318 pp, first edition, decorative illustrat-
ed green cloth, gilt and red lettered to spine and upper
cover, lightly sunned
A very attractive first edition of the first of the “Teddy
Lester” stories. These stories were, unusually for boys’
school stories of this decade, reprinted in the post-
Second World War period (see number 24) and are still
very readable and have a following today.
£25.00

27. Finnemore, John. Teddy Lester’s Schooldays. Latimer House Limited [1953]. 189 x 131 mm., 214 pp, red
boards, black lettering to spine, dust jacket, some slight spotting, a few small tears to DJ, a particularly nice copy.
£20.00
28. Coke, Desmond. The Bending of a Twig. Hodder & Stoughton, 1908 , sixth Edition, 196 x 142mm., 350pp
decorative pictorial blue cloth lettered gilt to upper cover and spine, binding slightly bubbled, worn and sunned, the
first colour plate detached £4.00

29. Coke, Desmond. Youth, Youth! Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1919, 195 x 136 mm., 304pp, first edition, blue cloth,
gold lettering to top front board and spine, top edge gilt, foxing to endpapers (different paper stock to the rest of the
book”, signed by the author on the front endpaper and warmly inscribed to C. James L’Estrange, himself a promi-
nent contemporary writer of books for boys as one member of the writing duo whose penname was “Herbert
Strang”. This copy comes with a photocopy of the first edition dust jacket (for which no addition has been made to
the price).
A nice copy of a rare Coke title, signed and containing a fascinating association.
£30.00

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30. Benson, E.F. David Blaize. Hodder & Stoughton, 1916, 199 x 134 mm., 365 pp, first edition, light blue boards with
black lettering to upper cover and spine, front and rear boards marked, spine sunned
This is an interesting copy of a famous book. It is a 365pp version, as printed in the USA by Doran. However, the title-
page and binding give the publisher as Hodder & Stoughton. This London publisher produced the English first edition,
which had 316 pages. This is not it and could pre-date it. So, this copy could represent an EXTREMELY RARE
temporary solution for Hodder & Stoughton. We hypothesise that they bound imported US sheets whilst waiting for
their own edition to be printed. We have not been able to locate another copy thus produced. This copy comes with a
photocopy of the first UK edition dust jacket (for which no addition has been made to the price).
£20.00
31. Rhoades, Walter C. “Quills,” A School Story. Blackie and Son Limited, [1918], 191 x 133 mm., 288 pp, first
edition, six plain illustrations, decorative illustrated beige and green boards, “Quills” written in Green to upper cover and
“A school story by Walter C. Rhoades” in black to upper cover, spine lettered in black, some slight wear and marking to
boards, otherwise a very good copy of an extremely readable title. This copy comes with a photocopy of the first edition
dust jacket (for which no addition has been made to the price). £12.00

32. Hughes, Thomas. Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Ward, Lock and co., [1920s], 190 x 124mm., 320pp, one illustration,
patterned beige boards surrounding illustration on front middle surrounded with black boarders, slight stains on back
and foxing, spine crumpled at head and foot. A nice later “cheap” edition of this classic. £4.00

33. Goodyear, R.A.H. Young Rockwood at School. Ward, Lock and Co., [1920s] 179 x 124mm, 256pp., red cloth with
black lettering on upper cover and spine, lightly foxed £3.00

34. Avery, Harold. Heads or Tails. Thomas Nelson And Sons, Ltd., 194 x
136mm., 496 pp, beigy grey illustrated cloth, brown lettering on upper cover and
spine, slight foxing. £4.00

35. Reed, Talbot Baines. Tom Dick and Harry. The Religious Tract Society,
[1920s], 200 x 136 mm., 320 pp, dark green decorative illustrated cloth, white letter-
ing to upper cover and spine, some foxing and sunning.
Stories based on Radley College.

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 Four titles by Edwy Searles
Brooks under different pseudo-
nyms. Brooks was really second
only to Charles Hamilton
(Frank Richards, Martin
Clifford et al) as a prolific and
amusing writer of school stories
before 1950. He is better
known under the names he
wrote many mysteries,
“Berkeley Grey” and “Victor
Gunn”.

36. Browne, Reginald. Fortescue of the Fourth. Gerald G. Swan, 1945, first edition,
blue cloth, blind lettering to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket, a lovely copy
of a cheaply produced wartime book.
The dust jacket art here is different from that for the 1947 reprint. £8.00

37. Browne, Reginald. The Rotter of Whitelands. Gerald G. Swan, 1955, first brown
cloth, blind lettering to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket, small tears and
chips to DJ, including 20 x 12mm. chip to upper cover
First published in 1947, this is a “chunkier” edition £5.00

38. Browne, Reginald. School in Space. Gerald G. Swan, 1947, first edition, blue cloth,
blind lettering to upper cover and spine, dust jacket, four colour plates (many copies
were issued without these), some tape strengthening to back of dust jacket, small graze
to upper cover, otherwise a lovely copy.
A truly bizarre combination of Science Fiction and School Story, in which schoolboys
end up in peril on the planet Venus. Perhaps equally bizarrely, it had translations into French (La Croisie de l’Asterion)
and Spanish (Il grande volo del professor Bonnard) £10.00

39. Thornton, Edward. Whoopee at Westchester. Gerald G. Swan, 1947, first edition, green cloth, blind lettering to
upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket, evidence of damp damage and tape strengthening to underside of DJ
£6.00

40. Elrington, H. The Manor school. T. Nelson & Sons, 283 pp, 193 x 126 mm. Boards green, black lettering to top
front cover and to spine. Illustrations on middle front cover and spine, foxed £3.50

41. Malan, A.N. Schooldays at the Highfield House. The Religious Tract Society. Later reprint. 242 pp, 190 x 124 mm.
Boards blue, engravings of title to front top, gold lettering to spine. Spine sunned, front board stained, pages foxed. En-
graved illustrations to front cover and spine. £3.50

42. Gurner, Ronald. The Day-Boy. Grant Richards Ltd. 1924. 306pp 194 x 127mm. Turquoise cloth on board black
engravings to front top of title. black engravings to front top of illustration. Bubbling front cover, slight foxing, and spine
slightly bent in.
“The Day-Boy" poses questions on the “state versus private” education divide, through the eyes of a new master at a
London elementary school and one of his brightest pupils, who goes on to teach at a public school. £3.50

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 43. Buckeridge, Anthony. Stories for
Boys. Faber & Faber, 1957, first edition,
beige cloth, dust jacket; In and Out of
School. Faber & Faber, 1958, first edition,
beige cloth, dust jacket; Stories for Boys 2.
Faber & Faber, 1965, first edition, brown
cloth, dust jacket. Three volumes.
Stories by writers as diverse as Doris
Lessing, John Wyndham, Brian Aldiss,
Geoffrey Trease, Frank Richards, W. E.
Johns and P. G. Wodehouse, selected and
introduced by a master of the comic
school story. £20.00

44. [Buckeridge, Anthony] Cooper, Jonathan. The World of Jennings. David

Schutte, 2005, first edition, 192pp, 210 x 147mm., coloured card wrappers with
wraparound cricket illustration by Val Biro. As New but long out of print. De-
pending upon your point of view: “The lavishly illustrated definitive guide to
Buckeridge” (The Children’s Book History Society) or “At least the pictures are
good” (the author). £17.50

45. Buckeridge, Anthony. The Best of Jennings. Prion, 2009, soft card covers, first
thus, signed on the title-page by Eileen Buckeridge, Anthony’s widow, who provid-
ed an introduction to this edition. The volume consists of the original texts of the
first four books in the series: Jennings Goes to School, Jennings Follows a Clue,
Jennings’ Little Hut, Jennings and Darbishire. Later editions had changed and
“updated” the text. An excellent hopping off point into the wondrous world of
Linbury Court. £10.00

46. Gilchrist, Donald. Young Seeley-Bohn. Faber and Faber, 1956, first edition,
dust jacket, signed on the front endpaper by the author, some slight rubbing to DJ,
otherwise a very nice, clean copy. An excellent series of comic prep school stories:
recommended. £15.00

47. Rowling, J. K . Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bloomsbury, 1999,
first paperback edition, slight creasing to spine, bookseller’s sticker to upper cover
£10.00

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48. Brazil, Angela. A Patriotic Schoolgirl. Blackie and Son, [1918], 288pp., first
edition, grey decorated illustrated cloth with upper cover image of a girl clutching a
large Union Jack, illustrated with six plain plates by Balliol Salmon, dust jacket by
Balliol Salmon of a girl’s head and shoulders profile on the upper cover and a full-
length portrait on the spine. The most recent title listed within the book is The
Madcap of the School (1917) and on the DJ it is this title. Included in the list is For
the School Colours, also 1918, and which is given as successor to this title by Sims and
Clare but which is treated as the predecessor to this title here. Any novel dating from
the First World War with a dust jacket is rare. Any children’s book dating from the
First World War is rarer. That the book and dust jacket are in such excellent state
must be a near unique thing. There is currently another copy in the trade claiming to
be a first edition but we believe this one to be rather later and has a completely differ-
ent dust jacket design.
Much parodied and maligned in later days, Angela Brazil was undoubtedly the doyen
of the girls’ school story and in her time hugely popular. Her writing career was long
and spanned between 1904 (when she was 36) and 1946. Like her contemporary
Charles Hamilton she did not really update her schools and characters to match the
changing times. £70.00

49. Bruce, Dorita Fairlie. That Boarding School Girl. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925, 160pp.,
colour frontispiece by R. H. Brock, plain illustrations within the text, decorated illustrated coloured boards, dust jack-
et, illustrated by Sybil Tawse, original advertising blurb loosely inserted, spotting to page edges (explained by the
cheaper paper stock upon which this title was printed), chips to the top and bottom of the DJ’s spine

An interesting title and copy in a number of ways. It was the first “Nancy” book to be set at Maudsley Grammar
School, a day school. Nancy is “that boarding school girl” who had been expelled from St Bride’s for some elicit
moonlight bathing. 1920s school stories in a dust jacket with an ephemeral blurb must be of the utmost scarcity.
“Oxford University Press… had proposed to bring out Dorita Fairlie Bruce’s new book, That Boarding School Girl, in
their new series of large printed board format at two shillings and sixpence, rather than the standard cloth cover at five
or six shillings. Miss Bruce’s reply… “I am quite willing to accept the terms you propose (a 5% royalty up to 15,000,
rising to 10% afterwards) because it seems to me at such an attractive price sales ought to increase… Also, the 2/6 price
would bring it within the means of the Guildry Companies, who would probably give it as a prize”. Sue Sims
and Hilary Clare,
The Encyclopaedia
of Girls;’School
Stories, p. 26
£70.00

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50. Forsey, Maude S. Norah O’Flanigan Prefect. Thomas Nelson, [1937 272pp., first
edition, colour frontispiece, plain illustrations within the text by W. Lindsay Cable,
decorated illustrated coloured boards, spotting to page edges, top of spine creased
The second of only two school stories published by this author whose work is described by
Sims and Clare as “carry(ing) more conviction than the majority of school stories”
£4.00

“I remember when we sold the Summer Fields Wisden” Aria Shirazi (Head Bibliomaniac
2012—13) at the Papplewick Hog Roast, June 2022.

Section Six: Non-Fiction titles

52. Summer Fields School. The Summer Fields

Magazine. Volume III, numbers 1 –14, December
1910 to April 1915, 232 x 160mm., 220pp.,
contemporary gilt lined quarter vellum over red
boards, red morocco spine lettering piece lettered
gilt
Provenance: S. R. S-B , initials on the front
endpaper. From careful perusal of the contents of
the magazine, this would seem to be Stephen
Richard Stawell-Brown (1876—1954), who is given
as a judge of the swimming competition at
Summer Fields, St. Leonard’s, on p. 137. He was
the brother of Ellen Stawell-Brown, a celebrated
female badminton and tennis player.
A remarkable chronicle of prep school life in the
first half of the tumultuous second decade of the
twentieth century. The pages are full of notes on
pupils past and present (including the cricketer
Gubby Allen and the future Prime Minister, Harold
Macmillan). Notes on sports fixtures, public school
scholarship awards and lantern lectures are mixed
with much more sobering reading, such as the re-
ports of the death of Theodore William Meyer who
inadvertently killed himself at the school, and C. C. Maud, who died during his first year at
Eton. Incidentally the Bibliomaniacs sold Maud’s copy of the Odyssey with his name and
K.S. in gilt lettering stamped to the boards as part of their Catalogue 1 (2013). By the end of
the volume, the tone becomes utterly tragic with long lists of Old Boys wounded and killed
during the first year of the Great War.
£50.00

52. (Board of Education). Special Reports on Educational Subjects. Volume 6. Preparatory

Schools. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1900, 242 x 145mm., 592pp., contemporary
blue boards, gilt lettered to spine, original blue paper wrappers bound in at back, some sun-
ning and marking to boards
A very rare and intriguing insight into the world of the preparatory school at the turn of the
twentieth century. £20.00

53. Cotton Minchin, J.G. Old Harrow Days. Methuen & Co, London. Printed by Turnbull
and Spears, Edinburgh. 1898. 331pp. 199 x 127 mm., navy blue boards, gold lettering to
spine. Harrow School crest gilt to front top. spine slightly bowed, pages foxed. Message in
front in ‘Xmas, 97’. Good to very good condition. £8.50

54. Mileham, Patrick. Wellington College. The First 150 Years. Third Millennium Publish-
ing, 2008, first edition, 278 x 237mm., 224pp., numerous colour photographic illustrations,
black cloth, gilt lettering to spine and gilt Wellington crest to upper cover, dust jacket.
A really handsome celebration of the famous public school. £20.00
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55. Cole, G. D.H. & M. Scandal at School. The Crime Club, 1935, first edition, 284, [4]pp. orange cloth,
black lettering to spine, attempt to remove diminutive ?library labels to front endpaper, small biro scribble
to front endpaper, biro scribbling on pp. 148 and 149, some dampstaining to boards but not affecting text
block, with all faults a very rare crime club classic. This copy comes with a photocopy of the first edition
dust jacket (for which no addition has been made to the price).
The following is taken from an excellent review on the recommended “Dead Yesterday” blog:

“Parents, why not send your children to Santley House School? Nestled in a charming Oxfordshire vil-
lage, Santley House is the modern, experimental school for “more-or-less intelligent and more-or-less im-
pecunious members of the middle and lower-middle-classes.” Here, youngsters are free to grow and learn
at their own pace—if they live that long.”
£30.00

56. Woodthorpe, R. C. The Public School Murders. Penguin, 1943, paperback, 246, [100pp., some
creasing and spotting but a very rare crime book in the iconic Penguin series.
The following is taken from Martin Edwards’ blog “Do You Write Under Your Own Name?”
“The story is agreeably written, and it makes a virtue of the public school ethos, about which views are
probably as divided today as they were in the Golden Age. Much of the tale is told from the viewpoint of
one of the teachers, although it is the head of the governing body of the school who eventually acts as
amateur detective and comes up with a solution to the mystery of how Polchester’s headmaster died.”
Martin was kind enough two years ago to publish a “guest blog” by two Bibliomaniacs to promote our
Crime and Detection catalogue 1 in 2020.
£20.00

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 56. Selver, Paul. Schooling, Jarrold's, 1924, 368 pp, 191 x 142 mm., first edition, black
cloth with tan papered boards, gold lettering to spine, dust jacket, light scattered foxing, s
few short closed tears to DJ, but in particularly good condition, with a rare and wonderful
jacket designed by Laura Knight. Utterly stylish and evocative of the 1920s, the dust jack-
et is in itself a piece of art, we think.
Provenance: Alex Hamilton, signature on front endpaper £65.00

57. Cheetham-Strode, Warren. The Barlowes of Beddington. Robert Hale, 1956, first
edition, claret cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket, signed on the front endpaper by
the DJ artist, the wonderful and prolific Val Biro, very light scattered foxing
Based on a BBC radio series. “Set in a public school and portraying the problems of
school life usual (and unusual) seen from the headmaster’s point of view” (Kirkpatrick)
£10.00

58. Hilton, James. Goodbye Mr Chips. Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. 218 pp, 197 x
151mm. First edition, blue boards, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, dust jacket,
page edges slightly foxed, DJ with a few small tears and chips
One of the all time classic school stories, much filmed and referenced. This is not a rare
book, but it is an iconic one. It is really a rather slight reflection on lifelong devotion to
an institution. Of course, there has never been any teacher like Mr Chippings…
£50.00

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