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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: 133

HARDY, THOMAS: THE DYNASTS
Lot 25 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: THE DYNASTS
London, Macmillan & Co., 1910

First one volume edition. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Sir Frederick Treves, Bt. on New Year’s Eve 1910, a month after publication. 8vo., original green cloth, an exceptionally bright copy in a quarter morocco drop-back box.

*Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) was a respected surgeon from Dorset who had attended the school kept by William Barnes, the Dorset dialect poet. He published Highways and Byways in Dorset in 1906 and several other works
but is best known as the doctor who cared for John Merrick, ‘The Elephant Man’. Provenance:…
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £2,500 - £4,000
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HARDY, THOMAS: TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES
Lot 26 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES
London, Macmillan & Co., 1909

FIRST EDITION, with 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO EDMUND GOSSE IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION. 8vo., original olive-green cloth with TH monogram medallion blocked in gilt on upper cover, later green cloth chemise and full green morocco box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
WITH THREE SIGNED LETTERS BY HARDY TO EDMUND GOSSE, ISAAC LEVINE & HARRY POUNCY tipped-in or…
Hammer price: £7,000
Estimate: £7,000 - £10,000
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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 MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
Lot 28 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1886

FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo., original blue cloth, blocked in black with gilt lettering to spine, original floral endpapers. Later quarter green morocco and green solander box. Hinges and head and tail of spine repaired, a little foxing and joints a trifle rubbed.

Provenance: Booklabel of woman collector Martha Napier

Reference: Purdy, pp.50-54
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £2,800 - £4,000
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HARDY, THOMAS: THE WOODLANDERS
Lot 29 Unsold
HARDY, THOMAS: THE WOODLANDERS
London, Macmillan & Co., 1887

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN PRIMARY BINDING. 3 vols. 8vo., original dark green buckram, blocked in black on front and in blind on back with 2-rule border and inner frame with rounded corners, spine lettered in gilt, dark brown endpapers, in later brown cloth chemises and quarter brown morocco slipcase. Top of spines chipped volumes 1 & 2, volume 3 with repairs to top and bottom of spine, bit shaken with some rubbing, chipping and creasing.
Provenance: Booklabel of Alfred and Sara Bernheim  Reference: Purdy, pp.54-57
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
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HARDY, THOMAS: THE WOODLANDERS
Lot 30 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: THE WOODLANDERS
London, Macmillan & Co., 1887

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title-page of volume 1. 3 vols. 8vo., rebound by Riviere with original spines pasted in at the rear of each volume, half blue morocco, blue cloth sides, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, all edges gilt. Joints a bit rubbed with a little splitting.

Reference: Purdy, pp.54-57
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
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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, TE: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. A TRIUMPH.
Lot 33 Sold
LAWRENCE, TE: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. A TRIUMPH.
[London, Privately Printed, 1926.
SUBSCRIBERS’ OR “CRANWELL” EDITION. 1 of 170 COMPLETE COPIES, inscribed ‘Complete copy I.XII.25, TES’ by Lawrence on p. xix, together with his ink correction of the artist for ‘The gad-fly’ plate from Roberts to ‘K’[ennington]. Frontispiece portrait of King Feysal, 66 plates (mostly colour) & text illustrations after Roberts, Eric Kennington, Paul Nash, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Nicholson and others, decorative initials by Edward Wadsworth, endpapers by Kennington,
4 folding maps. This includes the ‘Prickly Pear’ plate not called for in the list of illustrations…
Hammer price: £52,000
Estimate: £30,000 - £50,000
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LAWRENCE, T.E.: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ARAB REVOLT
Lot 34 Sold
LAWRENCE, T.E.: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ARAB REVOLT
[London, privately printed, 1924]

FIRST STATE OF THE VERY RARE PROSPECTUS FOR THE SUBSCRIBERS’ EDITION OF SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. Pp.44. 8vo., original off-white wrappers, in original mailing envelope (postmarked London 28th April 1925) addressed to Lt. Col. R.V. Buxton D.S.O. Very good. Later quarter green morocco solander box.
Robert ‘Robin’ Buxton’s copy of the first 8 chapters of Seven Pillars of Wisdom which served as an…
Hammer price: £19,000
Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000
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LAWRENCE, T.E: THE MINT
Lot 35 Unsold
LAWRENCE, T.E: THE MINT
Garden City NY, Doubleday Doran & Co, 1936

FIRST EDITION (first American copyright edition). No. ‘9 UK’ of 50 copies. ASSOCIATION COPY BELONGING TO THE AUTHOR’S BROTHER, with two ownership inscriptions of A.W. Lawrence on back of free endpaper (“the property of A.W. Lawrence”) and one with his address on the back of title page. He has added ‘this has ceased to be, AWL’ to the first inscription.
Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000
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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 38 Sold
MILNE, A.A: THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
London, Methuen & Co., 1920

ONE OF 20 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ARTIST. Decorations by E.H. Shepard. 4to., full vellum with lettering in gilt, yapp edges. In later green cloth chemise and slipcase, unopened copy. Very good.
Hammer price: £12,500
Estimate: £8,000 - £15,000
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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 - BARRIE, J.M: PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS
Lot 41 Sold
RACKHAM, ARTHUR - BARRIE, J.M: PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906

ONE OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 50 colour plates and other illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to., original full vellum blocked in gilt, yellow silk ties, front free endpaper with map of Kensington Gardens. Booklabels to front pastedown.
Hammer price: £2,900
Estimate: £2,500 - £5,000
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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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TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE HOBBIT
Lot 44 Sold
TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE HOBBIT
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1937

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with ‘Dodgeson’ corrected in ink on inside lower flap of dust jacket. 10 illustrations, pictorial endpapers. 8vo., original green pictorial cloth, original dust jacket, in a later green morocco and marbled paper solander box. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped, jacket with a little professional restoration to top and bottom edges, with some minor staining to very top edge of jacket.
Hammer price: £30,000
Estimate: £30,000 - £40,000
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TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE HOBBIT
Lot 45 Sold
TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE HOBBIT
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1971

Third edition, sixth impression. SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE BY THE AUTHOR (“signed for B.R. Witherden’), ownership inscription of ‘Brian Witherden, Merton’ on front free endpaper. 4 colour plates, 8 illustrations & pictorial endpapers. 8vo., original green cloth blocked in gilt with gilt stamp of Merton College, Oxford on the front boards, original dust jacket. Dust jacket a little chipped with small area of loss (16 x 23mm) from top edge.
*The first owner was a student at Merton College, Oxford between 1969 & 1974 while Tolkien was a…
Hammer price: £9,500
Estimate: £2,500 - £5,000
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TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Lot 46 Unsold
TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1965

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING – 14th impression SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front free endpaper; THE TWO TOWERS – 11th impression; THE RETURN OF THE KING – 11th impression.
3 vols. 8vo., all in original red cloth, original jackets. Gift inscriptions on front free endpapers. Some darkening, slight chipping to dustjackets which have been covered in clear plastic, edges slightly rubbed.
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
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TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL
Lot 47 Sold
TOLKIEN, J.R.R: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper “Love and memories of ‘Miramar’”. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. 8vo., original pictorial boards with matching original dust jacket. Edges of jacket chipped.

*The Tolkiens spent holidays at the Miramar Hotel in Bournemouth. They moved to Bournemouth in 1968 not far from the hotel.
Hammer price: £7,500
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
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TROLLOPE, ANTHONY: HOW THE "MASTIFFS" WENT TO ICELAND
Lot 48 Sold
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY: HOW THE "MASTIFFS" WENT TO ICELAND
London, Virtue & Co, 1878

FIRST EDITION, issued privately. Frontispiece colour map, 14 lithographs by Mrs Hugh Blackburn, 2 mounted photographic plates. 4to., original blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, with the RARE DUST JACKET, not mentioned by Sadleir. Occasional spotting to plates, jacket with some soiling and slight chipping, a mark to upper cover and a small tear to bottom of upper fold.
The Mastiff was a yacht belonging to John Burns, later Lord Inverclyde, in which Trollope sailed to…
Hammer price: £5,000
Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
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Total lots: 133

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