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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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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
56	A GROUP OF THREE PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) of the Drury sisters, Emmie, Ella and Minnie, taken 1869-1870. Provenance: Emily (Emmie) Wyper, née Drury and thence by descent to the Preston Family	£1,500 - £2,500	£2,200	View
57	CHURCHILL, WINSTON S: THE WAR SPEECHES comprising Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory and Secret Session Speeches, all edited by Charles Eade, first editions…	£1,100 - £1,500	-	View
58	CHURCHILL, WINSTON S: POST-WAR SPEECHES comprising The Sinews of Peace, Europe Unite, In The Balance, Stemming the Tide and The Unwritten Alliance, all edited by Randolph S. Churchill, first editions 1948-1961 published by Cassell, in…	£800 - £1,200	-	View
59	CROWLEY, ALEISTER: MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE first edition, published by Castle Books, Secaucus, 1991, maroon cloth bound with dustwrapper; sold together with Waite, Arthur Edward: The Mysteries of Magic, revised edition, published by Kegan…	£60 - £80	£120	View
60	DICKENS, CHARLES: TWO VOLUMES - DAVID COPPERFIELD AND BLEAK HOUSE first edition, both illustrated by H.K. Browne (Phiz) and published by Chapman & Hall, 1850 and 1853 respectively, both in full green calf binding	£200 - £300	-	View
61	DRYDEN, John. The Satires of Juvenal and Satires of Persius, 1693 The SATIRES of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated into ENGLISH VERSE, By Mr DRYDEN .... Together with the SATIRES of Aulus Persius Flaccus ... Printed for Jacob Ronson. Dedicated to Charles, Earl…	£200 - £300	£200	View
62	ESCOFFIER, AUGUSTE.: A GUIDE TO MODERN COOKERY revised edition, pulished by William Heinemann, London, 1909, later green three quarter binding	£60 - £80	£250	View
63	FLEMING, IAN: TWO VOLUMES comprising From Russia, Wth Love, first edition 1957 and You Only Live Twice, third impression 1965 both published by Jonathan Cape; sold together with Gardner, John: For Special Services, first…	£200 - £400	£220	View
64	FRANCIS, JULIAN: TOM CHADWICK AND THE GROSVENOR SCHOOL OF MODERN ART published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2012, half cloth binding with pictorial boards and slip case, sold together with two other Fleece publications of wood engravings -The Great Storm of…	£300 - £400	£460	View
65	GARWOOD, TIRZAH: LONG LIVE GREAT BARDFIELD published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2012, half red cloth binding with pictorial boards and slip case	£150 - £200	£150	View
66	HALL, CAPTAIN BASIL: ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY together with a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language, published by John Murray, London, 1818, three quarter leather binding	£100 - £150	-	View
67	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: GILL, ERIC 'Art & Love' publ. Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, 1927, printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press and completed on the 30th June 1927, limited edition 189/260, signed by Gill Provenance: Kerrison…	£300 - £500	£360	View
68	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: JONES, GWYN AND JONES, THOMAS 'The Mabinogion' A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, 1948, one of 550 copies, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby, original publisher's half morocco over cream buckram by…	£300 - £500	£460	View
69	HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT: MAN IN ART published by Macmillan & Co, London, 1892, in vellum folio size binding	£60 - £80	-	View
70	THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928): A SIGNED LETTER ADDRESSED TO 'MY DEAR MOULE' thought to be Henry Joseph Moule (1825-1904) relating to the artist's stay at Max Gate, dated May 20th 1903, 'and signed 'Yours T. Hardy', double sided on paper 18cm x 22.5cm Henry Joseph Moule was…	£800 - £1,200	£2,600	View
72	HASELDEN, THOMAS: THE SEAMAN'S DAILY ASSISTANT printed by the Executors of David Hay, Dublin, 1774, full brown calf binding	£600 - £800	-	View
73	HOUSMAN, LAURENCE: STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS illustrated by Edmund Dulac, published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1907, red three quarter leather binding; sold together with Browning, Robert; Pippa Passes; & Men & Women, illus. Eleanor…	£150 - £200	£160	View
74	HUTCHINS, REV.: THE HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET second edition, four volumes, with a copy of Domesday Book and the Inquisitio Ghedi for the County, corrected, augmented and improved by R. Gough, extra illustrated beyond the original 196 plates…	£1,500 - £2,000	-	View
75	HUTCHINS, JOHN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET volumes I and II, printed by Bowyer and Nichols 1774, rebound in gilt tooled full red calf	£600 - £800	-	View
76	HUTCHINS, JOHN., THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, 'The Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, And Improved By William Shipp And James Whitworth Hodson', Volumes I-IV, published 1861-1870, Westminster, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons (4)	£200 - £400	£100	View
77	IBSEN, HENRIK AND RACKHAM, ARTHUR 'Peer Gynt' limited edition of 460 copies signed by Rackham, of which this is copy number 1, publ. George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., London, 1936, publishers full vellum, front board and spine stamped in gilt,…	£400 - £800	£1,200	View
78	KITCHINER, WILLIAM: THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING LIFE new edition, printed for Hurst, Robinson & Co, London, 1824, blue card binding	£60 - £80	£40	View
79	LAWRENCE, T.E: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1935, brown cloth binding with dustwrapper and sold together with a Lawrence of Arabia Memorial leaflet	£100 - £150	£240	View
80	LEECH, JOHN: PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER series I-IV, published by Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, two volumes with three quarter leather binding; sold together with a cloth bound copy of the First Series published by Bradbury, Agnew &amp…	£150 - £200	-	View

Total lots: 96

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