Cycling Ephemera For Sale
(and other items)
The Biggleswade History Society wishes to dispose of the following ephemera and artifacts that are surplus to our requirements
(all prices are plus postage; payment can be via Paypal, cheque or of course good old cash for callers).  
If you think I have a price wrong please do let me know why and I shall be pleased to negotiate.

The CTC Book of Cycling by John Whatmore 1st Edition 1983
Surely this must be in every cyclists collection?  The first part provides a general guide to cycling and the second part details 60 circular routes over the UK.  Unfortunately its jacket is missing but the brown cover is in fine order with no bumping of corners or sign of spine pull.  A telephone number for the CTC is written on the inside of the cover otherwise there is no mark-up or inscription, the text block of the 140 pages is fine.

 £4.50

North Middlesex & Herts Cycling Gazette
Bound annual volumes for 1925 and 1926

£30.00 per volume

"Strange But True" A collection of cycling publication cartoon advertisements placed by Curry's Ltd from 1885 to 1912 .  Reprinted by J. Pinkerton & F. Whitt in 1978

£5.00

Veteran-Cycle Club - News & Views
Issues 232-5, 238-256, 258-63 and 265 (30 issues) plus Yearbooks for 1996/7 and 1997/8, Index for Issues 239-250

£15.00 (weight 3.5kg so postage £8.24 UK standard parcels) 

Riding High - The Story of the Bicycle by Arthur Judson Palmer.
Contains over 250 pictures within its 192 pages.  There is an inscribed date 21-5-58 which ties in with the imprint date of 1958.  There is no jacket and the cover is a bit scruffy with bumped corners and spine pull.  However, there is a wealth of interesting monochrome pictures on absolutely clean pages.

 £6.00

Cycling for Health and Points For Cyclists by Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Bt, FRGS - 1913
Frank Bowden was born 30th Jan 1848 and died 25th April 1925.  The fabric cover of this hardback book is rather tired with fading and spine pulls, there is heavy foxing on the front and rear flyleaves and the binding paper has split at both front and read, the fabric is holding the binding intact. The front flyleaf is inscribed Mr J Ballantyne, Nursery Road, Southgate, Middlesex.. The text block is yellowed and spotted and a couple of pages are very lightly spotted.  Although not in perfect order this book is probably quite scarce now so this may be your only opportunity to obtain this part of cycling history.

  £4.00

The Cyclist and the Law by P.F. Carter-Ruck and I.R. Mackrill 1953
This rare little 1st edition hardback book does not have a jacket, is stamped and inscribed on the flyleaf.  Unfortunately there is damage to the corners (about an inch triangle) on three pages and indelible margin and text marks on four pages otherwise the 171 pages are in excellent condition with slight dust marks on the text block. Priced accordingly.

  £2.00

Dunlop Guide to Great Britain 1955 - Complete Gazetteer - 11th Edition
The jacket is a little split at the spine but this 816-page treasure of Town descriptive summaries, Street plans, London Exits, Hotels, Rapairers, Parking Places etc, etc is a useful historical record. The pages are in perfect order with no fading or spotting on the text block and the original red cord mounted page  marker is intact with its eclectic Daimler Hire Ltd advertisement.

  £4.00

Combines & Harvesters - Photographic History by Jeff Creighton
Published by Motorbooks International 1996.  It carries a stamp that says "DAMAGED" on the front and rear leaves but the only evidence of anything untoward is a tiny stain at the top of the jacket under the plastic coating, other than this it appears to be as new.

 £4.00

Vintage Farm Machines by John Vince - Shire Album 1
The cover has slightly chipped edges and a crease on one corner otherwise the booklet is in nice condition; second edition 1978.

 £1.00

The Country Garage by Llyn E. Morris - Shire Album 129
The cover only has minor shelving marks and two pen marks against lines at the back of the book; first edition 1985.

 £1.00

Harvests of Change - The Royal Agricultural Society of England 1838-1988
By Nicholas Goddard
First edition from 1988; the jacket has minor fading on the spine and minor shelving marks on the jacket, it is unclipped. This book is in beautiful condition not having being inscribed nor annotated.  This is 359 pages and over 100 illustrations are in fine order.

 £12.00

20th Century Inventions That Changed The World - Readers Digest
In unmarked fine condition other than minor shelving marks on the surface of the hard cover, this is a 1997 reprint and amended edition of the 1996 first edition.

 £6.00

Life During the Industrial Revolution - Readers Digest
In fine condition throughout other than four minor black marks on the outer edge of the rear cover.

 £7.00

 Veteran & Vintage Cars by Peter Roberts - 1st Edition, 1974
The only signs of this not being new are bumped lower corner and surface marks of the hardback cover.  It is beautifully illustrated throughout its 128 pristine pages.

   £3.00

A Century in Oil - The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company 1897-1997
Superbly written by Stephen Howarth, this excellent copy of probably the most important study of the history of the oil industry has an unclipped jet black dust jacket which is marred by slight creasing of the slight extension beyond the hardback cover and a what looks like a production fault on the rear surface. The 397 pages are in fine condition with not a mark to even suggest that it has ever been read, there is no inscription or annotation.

The cover price in 1997 was £25.00 so this must be very well priced.

   £12.00

Manual of Photography, C.H. Bothamley, c1905, Ilford, London. some stains on the cover, no writing, some scuffing and tear on fabric edge, no wrapper.

£5.00

How to Make Good Pictures
The Kodak Manual for Amateur Photographers. Pages good, inscribed Hockey and Skevington, no dust jacket, cover worn on edges and spine faded. Published by Kodak Ltd. Revised 1951.

 £2.50

The Derby, Epsom, June 4th, 1975
Official Race Card, some races marked. Very clean condition

 £10.00

Sheet Music from around the time of WW1.  It is quite a long list and condition is variable but useable and complete.  See spreadsheet for details.

 Make an offer for the lot.

LIST OF ROYAL MEMORABILIA FOR SALE
(Open to offers)

Newspaper Supplements

• Souvenir supplement from Biggleswade Chronicle to mark visit of The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to Mid Bedfordshire on November 17 2006
• Daily Mail Tribute to the Queen Mother died 30 March 2002
• Daily Mail Souvenir Picture Magazine 1952 - 2002
• The Illustrated London News, Coronation Ceremony Number, 6 June 1953
• The Bedfordshire Times Coronation Supplement, 29 May 1953
• Picture Post, Special Coronation Souvenir Number 10, 6^th June 1953
• Picture Post Special Coronation Souvenir Number 11, 13 June 1953
• Daily Mirror, Royal Funeral Number, 30 January 1936  

Biggleswade Items

• Coronation Souvenir Programme, Biggleswade, 2^nd June 1953

 Books 

• Elizabeth Our Queen by Reginald Davis published 1976
• George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir by F.G.H. Salusbury 1936
• Daily Telegraph, Royal Family Picture Annual Vol. One 1952
• Royal Family Yearbook Vol.III text by Trevor Hall 1984
• The Royal Wedding, official souvenir “Charles & Diana” 1981 (originally £1.95)
• The Prince and Princess of Wales’ Wedding Day 1981 (originally £1.95)
• The Royal Wedding Souvenir Edition “Andrew & Sarah” 1986 (originally £1,95)
• The Royal Wedding official souvenir “Andrerw & Sarah” 1986 (originally £2.25)
• Royal Romance, An illustrated history of the Royal love affairs, 1977
• Ladybird souvenir of the royal day – Royal Wedding of Charles & Diana
  

Royal Miscellaneous

• Six large photographs of  the wedding of Princess Margaret to Anthony Armstrong Jones
• Charles & Diana stamps & postcards & posters 

NON-ROYAL MISCELLANEOUS 
(Open to offers) 

• Reproduced photograph:  Country Lovers No.94 Sunday Best 1991 sepia finish
• 6 London Prints, coloured
• Postcard of John Speed’s map of the County of Warwick 1610
• 125 Years in Words and Pictures The Daily Telegraph 1855-1980
• The Chronicles of a Village – Croxton – 1996
• Dunstable Decade – The Eighties – A collection of photographs, book dated 1990
• Mirror – Dunkirk Veterans Association 1940