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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
25	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…	£2,500 - £4,000	£2,600	View
26	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…	£7,000 - £10,000	£7,000	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
28	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…	£2,800 - £4,000	£2,800	View
29	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…	£2,000 - £4,000	-	View
30	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…	£3,000 - £4,000	£2,800	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
33	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…	£30,000 - £50,000	£52,000	View
34	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…	£20,000 - £30,000	£19,000	View
35	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…	£10,000 - £20,000	-	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
38	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…	£8,000 - £15,000	£12,500	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	£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
41	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,…	£2,500 - £5,000	£2,900	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
44	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…	£30,000 - £40,000	£30,000	View
45	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…	£2,500 - £5,000	£9,500	View
46	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…	£2,000 - £4,000	-	View
47	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…	£2,000 - £4,000	£7,500	View
48	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…	£5,000 - £8,000	£5,000	View

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