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Auction date Tuesday 7 December 2021 10:00 GMT

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 793

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
546 'THE NOTEBOOKS OF HENRY JAMES' ED. MATTHIESSEN AND MURDOCK, O.U.P. 1947
with inscr. 'Given by Mrs James, wife of James' nephew to Rebecca West...', and other books about and by James (from the library of Kitty Church/West)
£20 - £40 £90 View
547 WALTER DE LA MARE, ILLUS. ARDIZZONE: 'PEACOCK PIE, A BOOK OF RHYMES'
Faber & Faber Ltd. 1946, and other books
£30 - £50 £35 View
548 J.M. RICHARDS: 'A MINIATURE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH HOUSE'
The Architectural press 1938, and other books incl. 'British artists of today' and 'Britain in pictures' series, and similar (worn)
£30 - £50 £45 View
549 SACHEVERELL SITWELL, ILLUS. JOHN FARLEIGH: 'OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS'
Curwen Press 1959, and other books (worn)
£20 - £40 £30 View
550 REBECCA WEST / H.G.WELLS: VARIOUS BOOKS
from the library of Kitty West/Church
£20 - £40 £35 View
551 SIGNED BY H.G. WELLS: A.S. PUSHKIN: 'EVGEY ONEGIN' PUSHKIN PRESS 1937
copy no. 154, inscribed by H.G. Wells; 'Anthony with love from his Father HG' (Anthony West, Wells' son with Rebecca West; from the library of Kitty West/Church)
£50 - £100 £120 View
552 NORTHROP FRYE: 'FEARFUL SYMMETRY. A STUDY OF WILLIAM BLAKE', PRINCETON 1947
and 'Visions of the daughters of Albion', J.M. Dent & Sons 1932
£30 - £50 - View
553 ANTHONY ROSSITER: 'THE PENDULUM' GOLLANCZ 1966
inscr. by the author,; 'For Kitty - a soul mate in so much,.'and 'The golden chain', similarly inscribed (2) (library of Kitty Church/West)
£20 - £40 £20 View
554 MARY DE MORGAN, ILLUS. WALTER CRANE: 'THE NECKLACE OF PRINCESS FLORIMONDE'
Macmillan 1880 (poor copy), with 'The baby's opera', and 'At home' (3)
£20 - £40 £50 View
555 FORD M. HUEFFER:, 'FORD MADOX BROWN'
Longmans, Green & Co. 1896, with A.H. Palmer: 'The life and letters of Samuel Palmer' Seeley & Co 1892 (2)
£20 - £40 £45 View
556 A COLLECTION OF 'HORIZON' REVIEW
'The Cornhill magazine', and other literary periodicals, 1940s and later
£30 - £50 £50 View
557 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, MANY FIRST EDITIONS
in worn condition (from the library of Kitty West/Church)
£20 - £40 £120 View
558 HENRIK IBSEN: PROSE DRAMAS, EDITED BY WILLIAM ARCHER, 3 VOLS.
Walter Scott publ. 1890
£20 - £40 - View
559 W.H. AUDEN: 'THE ORATORS', FABER & FABER 1932
and other works by Auden and Isherwood (4)
£20 - £40 £50 View
560 ROBERT GRAVES: 'POEMS 1926-1930', HEINEMANN LTD 1931
and 'The poet's eye', chosen by Grigson, Muller 1944 (2)
£20 - £40 £20 View
561 JAMES STERN: 'THE MAN WHO WAS LOVED', SECKER & WARBURG 1951
inscr. by the author to Kitty (West/Church), with other similar items, and Rebecca West's own copy of Walter De La Mare's 'Stuff and nonsense', and Hugh Walpole's own copy of Goethe's 'The sorrows of…
£30 - £50 £15 View
562 JOHN OSBORNE: FABER PAPER COVERED EDITIONS
'Look back in anger' and 'The entertainer', pan edition 'Cathy come home', and a quantity of various paperbacks
£20 - £40 £20 View
563 A LARGE QUANTITY OF BOOKS £30 - £50 £80 View
564 A COLLECTION OF MEDICAL BOOKS £40 - £60 £20 View
565 A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS £30 - £50 £100 View
566 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON LONDON AND HISTORY £30 - £50 £40 View
567 A COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS £30 - £60 £40 View
568 'LLADRO, THE MAGIC WORLD OF PORCELAIN', SALVAT EDITORES 1991
and other books
£10 - £20 - View
568a A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS £20 - £40 £25 View

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