A selection of REFERENCE BOOKS to include DICTIONARY OF INSULTING QUOTATIONS by Jonathon Green, THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS, THE HUTCHINSON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY and THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF PHRASE, SAYING AND QUOTATION etc.

WEBSTER'S Twentieth Century HUGE DICTIONARY of the English Language Noah Webster by The World Publishing Company Cleveland & New York 1953

Needlework pattern books to include NEEDLEPOINT: A FOUNDATION COURSE by Sandra Hardy, DECORATIVE VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK by Elizabeth Bradley, ELIAN MCCREADY'S NEEDLEPOINT, PICTURE IT IN NEEDLEPOINT by Julie Clayton and Deborah Dow, BETH RUSSELL'S TRADITIONAL NEEDLEPOINT, VICTORIAN NEEDLEPOINT by Beth Russell, NEEDLEPOINT DESIGNS by Graham Rust, BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO BERLIN WOOLWORK by Jane Alford, ENGLISH CREWEL DESIGNS by Mary Eirwen Jones. All in very good condition.

For all fans of CLARICE CLIFF - 2 books, the first produced by THAMES & HUDSON " The BizarreAffair" with lots of colour plates, the second "The Clarice Cliff Colour Price Guide" (1995)

A collection of vintage cookery books including 'How to cook the Prestige way', 'Practical Cookery the Electrical Way', 'Simple Everyday Cooking for the Busy Houswife' produced by Tate & Lyle, and much more

Rare to find 19th century AUGENER & CO publications all edited by ERNST PAUER to include MENDELSSOHN PIANO WORKS vol l (3rd edition) (stamped Augener & Co library 1887), and vol lll edition No 8233, SCHUMANN PIANO WORKS vol lV 4th edition with partially excised stamp (maybe for Wood & Co of Edinburgh), HAYDN PIANO WORKS, WEBER PIANO WORKS all in reasonable condition given their age

A collection of vintage Scots humour in the form of the BROONS and OOR WULLIE , plus various collected editions from the Roaring Forties, 1960-69, commemorative editionsFabulous Fifties etc and a copy of The Simpsons

A small BATMAN case approx 35x30x13cm filled with reading matter in the form of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics

Vintage LADYBIRD books with dust jackets Series 587 A Ladybird Book of Travel Adventure Flight One : Australia (1958), Flight Two: Canada (1959), Flight Four: India (1960), Flight Five: Africa (1961), from Series 536 - British Wild Flowers (1957), British Wild Animals (1958), What to Look For in Autumn (1960), Garden Flowers (1960), The Weather (1962), from Series 549 - A Robin Hood Adventure - The Silver Arrow

Vintage LADYBIRD books with dust jacket from Series 561 An Adventure from History: William the Conqueror (1956), Sir Walter Raleigh (1957), The Story of the First Queen Elizabeth (1958), The Story of Captain Cook (1958), Florence Nightingale (1959), Julius Caesar and Roman Britain (1959), King Alfred the Great, The Story of Charles ll (1960), Stone Age Man in Britain (1961), Marco Polo (1962)

A collection of hardbacked BEATRIX POTTER tales including The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse,The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, The Tale of Pigling Band, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes plus The Brownies Annual from 1962, and books 1-5 and bk 11 of the Scottish Country Dance Book series

Twenty volumes of The NEW PUNCH LIBRARY referring to the period 1900-1930 plus 2 volumes of the ICS Reference Library (1907) - Vol 8 Carpet, Wallpaper, Bookcover, Linoleum and Architectural Design, and Vol 5B Geometrical, Ornamental, Architectural Freehand, and Perspective Drawing, both volumes are half bound leather with brown cloth covered boards and gold lettering with some colour plates

A collection of vintage books to include a first edition (1920s) TRAINS, CARS AND PLANES by GG Jackson with colour illustrations, in fair condition with no loose pages, two boys adventure books by PERCY F WESTERMAN -The Last of the Buccaneers with dust jacket, and Rounding up the Raider, no dust jacket plus The Rival Treasure Hunters by ROBERT MACDONALD with dust jacket plus a BOOKMARK with a quotation from King George Vl's Christmas message in 1940 (The future will be hard, but our feet are planted on the path of victory and with the help of God we shall make our way to justice and to peace)

Four vintage early edition books by ENID BLYTON to include TOYS OF TOYLAND and Other Stories (c1963) with dust jacket and THE THREE GOLLIWOGS (1968 edition) with dust jacket, WELL, REALLY MR TWIDDLE (1968) with dust jacket, TALES AFTER TEA (1969), three LADYBIRD BOOKS including Animals and How they Live (1965), The Sailor (1967) and The Circus comes to Town (1957)

An interesting vintage book lot to include OUR SOUTH AFRICAN FLORA/ONS SUID-AFRIKAANSE PLANTEGROEI edited by RH Compton filled with 100 cigarette cards plus a cased book about MAYNARD DIXON and his work plus a Scottish poetry anthology, A Gathering, edited by ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH