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Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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573 |
ISAAC ROSENBERG
Poems, Heinemann 1922, with presentation inscription by Rosenberg's sister
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£60 - £80 | £200 | View |
574 |
RUPERT BROOKE AND SKYROS
Stanley Casson, Elkin Mathews 1921
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£60 - £120 | £40 | View |
575 |
HYGINI GROMATICI ET POLYBII MEGALOPOLITANI DE CASTRIS ROMANIS
Amsterdam 1660
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£100 - £200 | £100 | View |
576 |
ISAAC ROSENBERG
Moses, a play, London 1916, complete, but yellow covers detached
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£80 - £120 | £100 | View |
577 |
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
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£30 - £50 | £60 | View |
578 |
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…
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£80 - £150 | £45 | View |
579 |
MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
John Minton, Gwen Raverat, Joan Hassell
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£20 - £40 | £60 | View |
580 |
ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS, ROBERT HARLING
with Curwen proof pulls of Ravilious wood engravings and Laurence Whistler, The English Festivals
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£20 - £40 | £100 | View |
581 |
THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE, THOMAS HUGHES
with illustrations by Richard Doyle, !st edition, Macmillan, Cambridge, 1859
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£50 - £80 | £80 | View |
582 |
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
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£40 - £60 | £35 | View |
583 |
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
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£30 - £50 | £90 | View |
584 |
JAMES SAVAGE, THE HISTORY OF DORCHESTER
first edition, Dorchester, 1832, card binding, with A Walk Round Dorchester, J Criswick, 1820, later binding
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£200 - £300 | - | View |
585 |
EARLY EDITIONS OF LATE VICTORIAN CLASSICS
George du Maurier, Trilby, Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau and Dolly Dialogues
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
586 |
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…
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£50 - £70 | £30 | View |
587 |
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…
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
588 |
CERNE ABBAS, PARTICULARS OF RTHE SALE OF THE PITT-RIVERS ESTATE IN SEPTEMBER 1919
Illustrated and detailed particulars by Senior & Godwin, lacking map
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£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
589 |
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
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£200 - £300 | £240 | View |
590 |
MISS PARDOE, THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS
drawings by William Bartlett, London 1839/40
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£40 - £60 | £70 | View |
591 |
RUPERT BROOKE
Four Poems, Scolar Press 1974
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
592 |
L'ABBE DE LILLE, LES JARDINS
L'art d'embellir les paysages, Paris 1782, Franc Ambr Didot
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£100 - £200 | £100 | View |
593 |
VITRUVE LES CINQ MANIERES DE COLONNES
Jean Bullant a Efcouen. Incomplete with restoration and rebound
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£40 - £60 | £35 | View |
594 |
HAROLD MONRO, REAL PROPERTY
The Poetry Bookshop 1922, signed, no.92 of 100, with John Drinkwater, Tides, Beaumont Press, no. 106 of 250
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£20 - £40 | £30 | View |
595 |
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
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£60 - £80 | £380 | View |
596 |
EZRA POUND
Homage to Sextus Propertius, Faber & Faber 1934, 1st edition
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£20 - £40 | £40 | View |
597 |
JOHN PIPER
English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape with Piper lithographs, second impression 1945, with Laurence Whistler, The English Festivals
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£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
598 |
CHRISTOPHER HASSALL, PENTHESPERON
Joan Hassall title page, with Christopher Hassall, Bell Harry and other Poems, Laurence Whistler cover and title page
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£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
599 |
DENTON WELCH, MAIDEN VOYAGE
Second printing, with Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet, 1st edition
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£20 - £40 | £80 | View |
600 |
JOAN HASSALL
a collection of books with Hassall woodcuts, one signed by her, with a signed presentation copy of Christopher Hassall, Devil's Dyke,
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£40 - £60 | £60 | View |
601 |
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Bitter Lemons, Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, 1st editions
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
602 |
WALTER DE LA MARE, A COLLECTION OF POETRY BOOKS
including first editions, with an autographed letter to Mr Russell, October 4 1906
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£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
603 |
RONALD KNOX
Essays in Satire, In Three Tongues, Let Dons Delight, 1st editions
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£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
604 |
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, THE TRAVELLER'S TREE
1st edition John Murray 1950, with dust wrapper
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£50 - £80 | £20 | View |
605 |
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
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£60 - £120 | £80 | View |
606 |
RUPERT BROOKE
1914, Collected Poems, Letters from America, John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, early editions
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£50 - £80 | £30 | View |
607 |
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)
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£50 - £100 | £90 | View |
608 |
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
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£50 - £80 | £420 | View |
609 |
RUPERT BROOKE
Democracy and the Arts, Rupert Hart Davis 1946, with Lithuania, a play in one act, Sidgwick & Jackson 1935
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£50 - £80 | £35 | View |
610 |
A COLLECTION OF FREYA STARK BOOKS
and other travel literature
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£20 - £40 | £50 | View |
611 |
A COLLECTION OF ART DECO BOOKS
mostly French designers, Ruhlmann, Chareau, Sue et Mare etc, with major general style guides
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£20 - £40 | £110 | View |
612 |
A QUANTITY OF CHILDRENS BOOKS
including 1920s 'Hullo, Boys!' and 'Hullo, Girls!' wireless annuals
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
613 |
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
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£40 - £60 | £360 | View |
614 |
RUPERT BROOKE
A collection of books by and about Brooke, including some early editions
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£40 - £60 | £200 | View |
615 |
A COLLECTION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF BOOKS
with books by Iris Murdoch, and other writers of the period
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£30 - £50 | £240 | View |
616 |
A COLLECTION OF TRAVEL BOOKS
India, Asia, Far East, Italy
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£20 - £40 | £70 | View |
617 |
A COLLECTION OF LITERATURE
including Pepys' Diary, the Journals and Letters of Byron and studies of major authors, dictionaries etc
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£20 - £40 | £100 | View |
618 |
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
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£40 - £60 | £120 | View |
619 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY JOHN BUCHAN AND DORNFORD YATES
various editions
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
620 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including history, literature, modern French fiction, fiction and literature series editions etc.
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |