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Auction date Tuesday 16 January 2024 10:00 - 17:30 GMT
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Tuesday 16th January starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 826

ISAAC ROSENBERG
Lot 573 Sold
ISAAC ROSENBERG
Poems, Heinemann 1922, with presentation inscription by Rosenberg's sister
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £60 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
RUPERT BROOKE AND SKYROS
Lot 574 Sold
RUPERT BROOKE AND SKYROS
Stanley Casson, Elkin Mathews 1921
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £60 - £120
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
HYGINI GROMATICI ET POLYBII MEGALOPOLITANI DE CASTRIS ROMANIS
Lot 575 Sold
HYGINI GROMATICI ET POLYBII MEGALOPOLITANI DE CASTRIS ROMANIS
Amsterdam 1660
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
ISAAC ROSENBERG
Lot 576 Sold
ISAAC ROSENBERG
Moses, a play, London 1916, complete, but yellow covers detached
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
DOMESDAY BOOK STUDIES, DORSET
Lot 577 Sold
DOMESDAY BOOK STUDIES, DORSET
Alecto Editions, London 1987, 1988, 1991, 3 volumes in a slipcase, with The Family of Sir Thomas More, a portfolio of drawings afler Holbein
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
THOMAS HARDY: 'LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER', WESSEX EDITION
Lot 578 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: 'LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER', WESSEX EDITION
Macmillan and Co 1926 (ex library copy), with 'The hand of Ethelberta' Osgood, McIlvaine and Co 1896, 'Tess of the Durbervilles', Macmillan and Co, edn of 1500 copies 1926; 'Good words for 1880' (The Trumpet-Major, and Carl J. Weber 'Hardy of Wessex' Routledge and Kegan Paul 1965 (all with some marks, fading to covers etc) (5)
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £80 - £150
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Lot 579 Sold
MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
John Minton, Gwen Raverat, Joan Hassell
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS, ROBERT HARLING
Lot 580 Sold
ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS, ROBERT HARLING
with Curwen proof pulls of Ravilious wood engravings and Laurence Whistler, The English Festivals
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE, THOMAS HUGHES
Lot 581 Sold
THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE, THOMAS HUGHES
with illustrations by Richard Doyle, !st edition, Macmillan, Cambridge, 1859
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A POPE, THE OLD STONE CROSSES OF DORSET
Lot 582 Sold
A POPE, THE OLD STONE CROSSES OF DORSET
2nd edition, Whittingham Press, London, 1906,zauthor's inscription, with A Rimmer, Ancient Stone Crosses of England, London 1875
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER AND T F POWYS
Lot 583 Sold
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER AND T F POWYS
as collection of limited edition Woburn and Dolphin books, two signed by Townsend Warner, the Dolphin books with Edward Bawden decorations
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
JAMES SAVAGE, THE HISTORY OF DORCHESTER
Lot 584 Unsold
JAMES SAVAGE, THE HISTORY OF DORCHESTER
first edition, Dorchester, 1832, card binding, with A Walk Round Dorchester, J Criswick, 1820, later binding
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
EARLY EDITIONS OF LATE VICTORIAN CLASSICS
Lot 585 Sold
EARLY EDITIONS OF LATE VICTORIAN CLASSICS
George du Maurier, Trilby, Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau and Dolly Dialogues
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
CHARLES WARNE FSA, ANCIENT DORSET
Lot 586 Sold
CHARLES WARNE FSA, ANCIENT DORSET
The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, first edition 1872, published by D. Sydenham, leather binding, Wolverhampton Free Library stamps, with The Victoria County History of Dorset, vol 2 only
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £70
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY SOMERSET GUIDE
Lot 587 Sold
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY SOMERSET GUIDE
by Maxwell Fraser, 1934, with other guide books issed by the GWR and the Southern Railway, also a 1938 GWR timetable and books on the Grand Western and Somerset & Dorset canals, and a box of railway photographs
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
CERNE ABBAS, PARTICULARS OF RTHE SALE OF THE PITT-RIVERS ESTATE IN SEPTEMBER 1919
Lot 588 Sold
CERNE ABBAS, PARTICULARS OF RTHE SALE OF THE PITT-RIVERS ESTATE IN SEPTEMBER 1919
Illustrated and detailed particulars by Senior & Godwin, lacking map
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
REV JOHN COLLINSON, HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET
Lot 589 Sold
REV JOHN COLLINSON, HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET
R Cruttwell, Bath, 1791, three vols in leather bindings, with the Index, Taunton 1898
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
MISS PARDOE, THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS
Lot 590 Sold
MISS PARDOE, THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS
drawings by William Bartlett, London 1839/40
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
RUPERT BROOKE
Lot 591 Sold
RUPERT BROOKE
Four Poems, Scolar Press 1974
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
L'ABBE DE LILLE, LES JARDINS
Lot 592 Sold
L'ABBE DE LILLE, LES JARDINS
L'art d'embellir les paysages, Paris 1782, Franc Ambr Didot
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
VITRUVE LES CINQ MANIERES DE COLONNES
Lot 593 Sold
VITRUVE LES CINQ MANIERES DE COLONNES
Jean Bullant a Efcouen. Incomplete with restoration and rebound
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
HAROLD MONRO, REAL PROPERTY
Lot 594 Sold
HAROLD MONRO, REAL PROPERTY
The Poetry Bookshop 1922, signed, no.92 of 100, with John Drinkwater, Tides, Beaumont Press, no. 106 of 250
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
THE MONTHLY CHAPBOOK
Lot 595 Sold
THE MONTHLY CHAPBOOK
published by the Poetry Bookshop,incomplete run 1919-1923, with covers by Albert Rutherston, C Lovat Fraser, Paul Nash, McKnight Kauffer etc , with James Elroy Flecker, The Old , 1915
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £60 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
EZRA POUND
Lot 596 Sold
EZRA POUND
Homage to Sextus Propertius, Faber & Faber 1934, 1st edition
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
JOHN PIPER
Lot 597 Sold
JOHN PIPER
English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape with Piper lithographs, second impression 1945, with Laurence Whistler, The English Festivals
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
CHRISTOPHER HASSALL, PENTHESPERON
Lot 598 Sold
CHRISTOPHER HASSALL, PENTHESPERON
Joan Hassall title page, with Christopher Hassall, Bell Harry and other Poems, Laurence Whistler cover and title page
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
DENTON WELCH, MAIDEN VOYAGE
Lot 599 Sold
DENTON WELCH, MAIDEN VOYAGE
Second printing, with Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet, 1st edition
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
JOAN HASSALL
Lot 600 Sold
JOAN HASSALL
a collection of books with Hassall woodcuts, one signed by her, with a signed presentation copy of Christopher Hassall, Devil's Dyke,
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Lot 601 Sold
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Bitter Lemons, Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, 1st editions
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
WALTER DE LA MARE, A COLLECTION OF POETRY BOOKS
Lot 602 Sold
WALTER DE LA MARE, A COLLECTION OF POETRY BOOKS
including first editions, with an autographed letter to Mr Russell, October 4 1906
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
RONALD KNOX
Lot 603 Sold
RONALD KNOX
Essays in Satire, In Three Tongues, Let Dons Delight, 1st editions
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, THE TRAVELLER'S TREE
Lot 604 Sold
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, THE TRAVELLER'S TREE
1st edition John Murray 1950, with dust wrapper
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
JAMES ELROY FLECKER
Lot 605 Sold
JAMES ELROY FLECKER
The Letters of J E Flecker to Frank Savery, Beaumont Press 1926, two copies, one signed, no. 17 of 80, the other unsigned, no.241 of 310
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £60 - £120
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
RUPERT BROOKE
Lot 606 Sold
RUPERT BROOKE
1914, Collected Poems, Letters from America, John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, early editions
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
JOHNSTON, HARRY, ‘LIBERIA’
Lot 607 Sold
JOHNSTON, HARRY, ‘LIBERIA’
volumes I & II, published by Hutchinson & Co, London 1906, red cloth bound; Savory, Lt. Gen Sir Reginald, ‘His Britannic Majesty’s Army’, inscribed by author, and two other books (5)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £50 - £100
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
OSCAR WILDE, A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES
Lot 608 Sold
OSCAR WILDE, A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES
illustrations by Jessie M King, 6th edition 1915, with Rudyard Kipling, A Song of The English, illustrations by W Heath Robinson and Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
RUPERT BROOKE
Lot 609 Sold
RUPERT BROOKE
Democracy and the Arts, Rupert Hart Davis 1946, with Lithuania, a play in one act, Sidgwick & Jackson 1935
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF FREYA STARK BOOKS
Lot 610 Sold
A COLLECTION OF FREYA STARK BOOKS
and other travel literature
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF ART DECO BOOKS
Lot 611 Sold
A COLLECTION OF ART DECO BOOKS
mostly French designers, Ruhlmann, Chareau, Sue et Mare etc, with major general style guides
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A QUANTITY OF CHILDRENS BOOKS
Lot 612 Sold
A QUANTITY OF CHILDRENS BOOKS
including 1920s 'Hullo, Boys!' and 'Hullo, Girls!' wireless annuals
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF 20th CENTURY POETRY BOOKS
Lot 613 Sold
A COLLECTION OF 20th CENTURY POETRY BOOKS
including WW1 poets, James Elroy Flecker, Georgian poetry, Ezra Pound, etc, anthologies, books about poets, some early editions
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
RUPERT BROOKE
Lot 614 Sold
RUPERT BROOKE
A collection of books by and about Brooke, including some early editions
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF BOOKS
Lot 615 Sold
A COLLECTION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF BOOKS
with books by Iris Murdoch, and other writers of the period
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF TRAVEL BOOKS
Lot 616 Sold
A COLLECTION OF TRAVEL BOOKS
India, Asia, Far East, Italy
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF LITERATURE
Lot 617 Sold
A COLLECTION OF LITERATURE
including Pepys' Diary, the Journals and Letters of Byron and studies of major authors, dictionaries etc
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF 20th CENTURY FICTION
Lot 618 Sold
A COLLECTION OF 20th CENTURY FICTION
including Eric Linklater, E F Benson, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Stewart, Ian Hay, Olivia Manning, Rose Macaulay, Arthur Waley and others, some 1st editions
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY JOHN BUCHAN AND DORNFORD YATES
Lot 619 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY JOHN BUCHAN AND DORNFORD YATES
various editions
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 620 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including history, literature, modern French fiction, fiction and literature series editions etc.
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024

Total lots: 826

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