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Auction date Friday 17 June 2022 10:30 - 17:30 BST
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Friday 17th June at 10.30am

Including property from the library of a remarkable collector of English literature, who sought out important association copies and first editions of the works of Hardy, Lawrence, Austen, Fleming, Tolkien, Milne, Trollope et al (Lots 1-49).

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Total lots: 96

CHRISTIE, AGATHA: HALLOWE'EN PARTY
Lot 6 Sold
CHRISTIE, AGATHA: HALLOWE'EN PARTY
London, Collins Crime Club, 1969

PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed by the author to Mrs Honeybone on front free endpaper in the year of publication. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., red cloth, original dust jacket. Few small nicks to edges.

*Mrs Daphne Honeybone was Agatha Christie’s private secretary for many years and also the dedicatee of her novel ‘Nemesis’.
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £600 - £1,000
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CHRISTIE, AGATHA: ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER
Lot 7 Sold
CHRISTIE, AGATHA: ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER
London, Collins Crime Club, 1972

PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed by the author on title page to her private secretary Daphne Honeybone (see above) in the year of publication. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., red cloth, original dust jacket.
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £600 - £1,000
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CHRISTIE, AGATHA: POIROT'S EARLY CASES
Lot 8 Sold
CHRISTIE, AGATHA: POIROT'S EARLY CASES
London, Collins Crime Club, 1974.

PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed by the author on title page to her private secretary Daphne Honeybone (see above) in the year of publication. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., brown cloth, dust jacket. Small tear and a little creasing to jacket.
Hammer price: £1,800
Estimate: £600 - £1,000
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DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Lot 10 Sold
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
London, George Newnes, 1902

FIRST EDITION, first issue with ‘you’ for ‘your’ p.13, line 3. Frontispiece and 15 plates by Sidney Paget. 8vo., original scarlet cloth blocked in black and gilt.

Reference: Green & Gibson A26a
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
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FLEMING, IAN: DR. NO
Lot 14 Sold
FLEMING, IAN: DR. NO
London, Jonathan Cape, 1958

FIRST EDITION. 8vo., original black cloth with dancing girl in brown on upper cover, original dust jacket. Very good.
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
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HARDY, THOMAS: UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
Lot 18 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
London, Tinsley Brothers, 1876

FIRST ONE VOLUME & FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Frontispiece, illustrated title page and plates by R. Knight. 8vo., original green cloth, decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt. Rather shaken, hinges splitting with some marking to cloth and chipping to top and bottom of spine and corners, booklabel and ownership inscription.

Very rare first illustrated edition.

Reference: Purdy, p.8
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £200 - £400
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HARDY, THOMAS: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
Lot 20 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
London, James R. Osgood & McIlvaine, 1891

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. One of 1000 copies. 3 vols. 8vo., handsomely bound in later half tan morocco, marbled paper covered boards, spine decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, in slipcase. Very good
Reference: Purdy pp.67-78
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
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HARDY, THOMAS: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
Lot 21 Unsold
HARDY, THOMAS: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
London, James R. Osgood & McIlvaine, 1892

FIRST EDITION, second impression. One of 500 copies. vols. 8vo., original cloth with honeysuckle design by Charles Ricketts in gilt on upper cover, spine decoratively titled in gilt. Very bright set with aonly few small marks to upper board of vols. 2 and 3 and slight fading to lower board of vol. 1.

Reference: Purdy pp.67-78
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
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HARDY, THOMAS: DESPERATE REMEDIES
Lot 24 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: DESPERATE REMEDIES
London, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896

Vol XII of the Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.’s Wessex Novels. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, dated Dec. 1913. Frontispiece of Knapwater House, map of Wessex at end, with February 1896 preface by Hardy. 8vo., very bright copy in original dark green cloth blocked in gilt, later green cloth drop-back box. Head of spine with small repair, bumped.

Provenance: Booklabel of American collector Carroll Atwood Wilson.
Reference: Purdy p.280
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
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HARDY, THOMAS: THE TRUMPET MAJOR
Lot 27 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: THE TRUMPET MAJOR
London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1880

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 8vo., original red pictorial cloth, blocked in black and gilt, in recent red cloth slipcase. Internally clean, rebacked with original spines laid down and new endpapers, lower cover of volume 1 with a little staining, small mark on front of volume 3.

Provenance: Booklabel of the colourful Dorset collector A.M. Broadley (1847-1916)

Reference: Purdy, pp.31-35
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
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HARDY, THOMAS: THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA: A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS
Lot 31 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA: A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS
London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1876

FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., advertisement leaf at the end of each volume. Wood engraved frontispieces and 9 plates by George Du Maurier. 8vo., original red brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt and lettered in gilt and blind, later brown cloth chemises and quarter brown morocco slipcase. Rather shaken and worn.

One of Hardy’s scarcest titles.

Reference: Purdy P.20-23
Hammer price: £750
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
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HARDY, THOMAS: THE FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL AT TINTAGEL IN LYONNESSE.
Lot 32 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: THE FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL AT TINTAGEL IN LYONNESSE.
London, Macmillan & Co., 1923

FIRST EDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY, formerly owned by H.A. Martin, President of the ‘Hardy Players’ who first performed the play and member of the original cast. Initialled AUTOGRAPH NOTE BY HARDY tipped onto first blank and a long explanatory note by Martin tipped-in facing half-title. Frontispiece and one illustration reproduced from drawings by Hardy. 8vo., original green cloth, blocked in blind and gilt, original dust jacket.
Lower half of dust jacket torn away and repairs to edges, a little browning to endpapers. Hardy’s…
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,800
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[LAWRENCE, T.E]: MASEFIELD, JOHN: SALT-WATER BALLADS
Lot 36 Sold
[LAWRENCE, T.E]: MASEFIELD, JOHN: SALT-WATER BALLADS
London, Elkin Mathews, 1918

Sixth edition. OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF T.E. LAWRENCE on front free endpaper in pencil (‘TEL, Paris 1919]’)* 8vo., original blue cloth. With letter from Bertram Rota Booksellers dated July 1951 certifying this copy belonged to T.E. Lawrence and was formerly in his library at Cloud’s Hill in Dorset.

*In 1919 Lawrence was at the Paris Peace Conference.
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £800 - £1,800
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LAWRENCE. T.E: CRUSADER CASTLES
Lot 37 Sold
LAWRENCE. T.E: CRUSADER CASTLES
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936

FIRST EDITIONS. 2 vols. 4to., half brown morocco, cream cloth, top edges gilt, cloth slightly spotted.

Lawrence gathered material for Crusader Castles on a solitary walking trek in the Near East in 1909. Vol. I contains Lawrence’s Oxford thesis of 1910 and vol. II contains letters written to his family about military architecture with photographs and drawings made by Lawrence.

Reference: O’Brien A188 & A189
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £600 - £1,000
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MILNE, A.A: THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
Lot 39 Sold
MILNE, A.A: THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
FIRST EDITION. Decorations by E.H. Shepard, 8vo., original olive green leather blocked in gilt, gilt edges, original tissue wrapper IN THE ORGINAL PUBLISHER'S BOX with two printed labels. Very good
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
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MILNE, A.A: WINNIE THE POOH
Lot 40 Sold
MILNE, A.A: WINNIE THE POOH
London, Methuen Children’s Books, 1973

ONE OF 300 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Colour illustrations by E.H. Shepard. Large 8vo., original blue morocco blocked in gilt by Sangorski, all edges gilt, original slipcase. Near fine.
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £500 - £1,200
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RACKHAM, ARTHUR - GRAHAME, KENNETH: WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Lot 42 Sold
RACKHAM, ARTHUR - GRAHAME, KENNETH: WIND IN THE WILLOWS
London, Methuen, 1951

ONE OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, on hand-made paper. Special 100th edition. 12 colour plates and other illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to., original white calf, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, others uncut, original card slipcase with printed label, largely unopened. Very good.
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
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RACKHAM, ARTHUR - SWIFT, JONATHAN: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Lot 43 Sold
RACKHAM, ARTHUR - SWIFT, JONATHAN: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1909

ONE OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 13 colour plates and other illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to., original white cloth blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, red silk ties. Slightly soiled, booklabel to front pastedown.
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £600 - £1,200
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AUSTEN-LEIGH, R.A.: BYGONE KING'S
Lot 50 Unsold
AUSTEN-LEIGH, R.A.: BYGONE KING'S
published by Spottiswoode & Co, Eton College, 1907, half cloth binding with blue papered boards; sold together with Hussey, Christopher: King's College Chapel
The Austen Leigh volume has slight sun damage to spine and the spine is slightly bumped. There is…
Estimate: £60 - £80
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AUSTEN, JANE: EMMA, ILLUSTRATED BY HAMMOND
Lot 51 Sold
AUSTEN, JANE: EMMA, ILLUSTRATED BY HAMMOND
published by George Allen, London, 1898, gilt tooled green cloth binding
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £300 - £350
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WILLIAM BARNES (1801-1886): A SIGNED LETTER
Lot 52 Sold
WILLIAM BARNES (1801-1886): A SIGNED LETTER
to Miss Bayley, regarding their previous conversation concerning wild plants and mentioning an enclosure of Mugwort leaves, signed W Barnes and dated 1876; sold together with the mentioned Mugwort leaves, along with three other letters to Miss Bailey
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £400 - £600
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BURTON, RICHARD F.: ULTIMA THULE; OR A SUMMER IN ICELAND
Lot 53 Sold
BURTON, RICHARD F.: ULTIMA THULE; OR A SUMMER IN ICELAND
first edition, volumes I & II, published by William P. Nimmo, 1875, three quarter blue leather binding
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £70 - £90
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BUTTS, MARY: ASHE OF RINGS
Lot 54 Sold
BUTTS, MARY: ASHE OF RINGS
published by Contact Editions, Paris, green paper bound with unopened pages
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £50 - £70
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CAMDEN, WILLIAM: BRITANNIA, OR A CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, TOGETHER WITH ADJACENT ISLANDS
Lot 55 Sold
CAMDEN, WILLIAM: BRITANNIA, OR A CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, TOGETHER WITH ADJACENT ISLANDS
second edition, two volumes, with eleven plates and fifty-one maps, printed by Mary Matthews for Awnsham Churchill, London, 1722, in full brown calf leather binding
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £1,250 - £1,500
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Total lots: 96

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