Auction:
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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Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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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… |
£600 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
7 |
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.… |
£600 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
8 |
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.… |
£600 - £1,000 | £1,800 | View |
10 |
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. … |
£1,500 - £2,500 | £2,000 | View |
14 |
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. |
£800 - £1,500 | £950 | View |
18 |
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… |
£200 - £400 | £260 | View |
20 |
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… |
£1,000 - £2,000 | £1,100 | View |
21 |
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,… |
£800 - £1,500 | - | View |
24 |
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… |
£1,500 - £2,500 | £1,500 | View |
27 |
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… |
£1,500 - £2,500 | £1,400 | View |
31 |
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… |
£800 - £1,500 | £750 | View |
32 |
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.… |
£1,000 - £1,800 | £1,400 | View |
36 |
[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… |
£800 - £1,800 | £2,600 | View |
37 |
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… |
£600 - £1,000 | £850 | View |
39 |
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
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£1,500 - £2,000 | £1,600 | View |
40 |
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… |
£500 - £1,200 | £900 | View |
42 |
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… |
£1,000 - £1,500 | £2,800 | View |
43 |
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,… |
£600 - £1,200 | £1,100 | View |
50 |
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
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£60 - £80 | - | View |
51 |
AUSTEN, JANE: EMMA, ILLUSTRATED BY HAMMOND
published by George Allen, London, 1898, gilt tooled green cloth binding
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£300 - £350 | £420 | View |
52 |
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…
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£400 - £600 | £320 | View |
53 |
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
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£70 - £90 | £200 | View |
54 |
BUTTS, MARY: ASHE OF RINGS
published by Contact Editions, Paris, green paper bound with unopened pages
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£50 - £70 | £280 | View |
55 |
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
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£1,250 - £1,500 | £1,200 | View |