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Auction date Tuesday 14 June 2022 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Tuesday 14th June starting at 10:00am

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Lot 529Sold

GRAHAM GREENE, OUR MAN IN HAVANA

1st edition, 1958, with dust jacket

Hammer price: £20

Estimate: £30 - £50

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Lot 530Unsold

(Collected) WILLIAM CHARLES COTTON: 'MY BEE BOOK'

J.G.F. & J. Rivington 1842 (damage to spine)

Estimate: £40 - £60

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Lot 531Sold

CLAUD LOVAT FRASER

A Painting Book of Designs, with Jean de Brunhoff, Baba the King, Helen Bannerman, Little Black Sambo and three Billy Bunter and one Biggles 1st editions

Hammer price: £50

Estimate: £30 - £50

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Lot 532Unsold

RAY ALLISTER: 'FRIESE-GREENE, CLOSE-UP OF AN INVENTOR'

Marsland publications 1948 (damaged jacket)

Estimate: £30 - £50

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Lot 533Sold

EDWARD ARDIZZONE, MICHAEL AYRTON AND REX WHISTLER ILLUSTRATIONS

The School in our Village, Joan Goldman, Not Such an Ass, Henry Cecil and In Search of Elsie Pidduck. Ayrton The Unfortunate Traveller, Whistler OHO,

Hammer price: £10

Estimate: £30 - £50

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Lot 534Sold

BEATRIX POTTER: 'THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET'

(poor condition), and a collection of other books and ephemera

Hammer price: £10

Estimate: £20 - £40

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Lot 535Sold

A COLLECTION OF MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

Brian Aldiss, An Age, David Lodge, Small World, David Lodge, Paradise News (signed), Tom Sharpe, Blott on the Landscape, Arthur Koestler, Thieves in the Night, Howard Jacobsen, A Novel (signed), Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Angela Huth, Nowhere Girl (signed)

Hammer price: £20

Estimate: £30 - £50

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Lot 536Sold

D H LAWRENCE, ETRUSCAN PLACES

1st edition, with Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, 1st edition and Lawrence, Assorted Articles, 1st edition. First two inscribed by Rebecca West's daughter

Hammer price: £20

Estimate: £30 - £50

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Lot 537Sold

W.J. LUCAS: 'BRITISH DRAGONFLIES (ODONATA)'

L. Upcott Gill 1900, with G.d. Leslie; 'Our river' Bradbury, Agnew & Co 1888 (2)

Hammer price: £20

Estimate: £40 - £60

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Lot 538Unsold

BRADSHAW, GEORGE 'Bradshaw's Railway Companion'

publ. 1843, Bradshaw's Railway Information Office, 59 Fleet Street, London, W.J. Adams agent; together with 'Bradshaw's Continental Railway, Steam Transit and General Guide' in embroidered cloth jacket; and three of Badeker's guides 'Central Italy', 'Northern Italy' and 'Paris et ses Environs' (5)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

Estimate: £20 - £40

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Lot 539Unsold

(collected) JOHN COWPER POWYS: 'DUCDAME'

Grant Richards 1928, with (damaged) jacket

Estimate: £50 - £100

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(collected) J. E. HARTING: 'THE RABBIT' FUR, FEATHER AND FIN SERIES

Longmans Green and Co 1898 (large paper ed.) 149/157, and an ordinary copy, together with William Charles Cotton: My Bee Book, J.G.F. & J. Rivington 1842 (damage to spine)

Estimate: £20 - £40

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