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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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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
573	ISAAC ROSENBERG Poems, Heinemann 1922, with presentation inscription by Rosenberg's sister	£60 - £80	£200	View
574	RUPERT BROOKE AND SKYROS Stanley Casson, Elkin Mathews 1921	£60 - £120	£40	View
575	HYGINI GROMATICI ET POLYBII MEGALOPOLITANI DE CASTRIS ROMANIS Amsterdam 1660	£100 - £200	£100	View
576	ISAAC ROSENBERG Moses, a play, London 1916, complete, but yellow covers detached	£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	£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…	£80 - £150	£45	View
579	MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS John Minton, Gwen Raverat, Joan Hassell	£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	£20 - £40	£100	View
581	THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE, THOMAS HUGHES with illustrations by Richard Doyle, !st edition, Macmillan, Cambridge, 1859	£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	£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	£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	£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	£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…	£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…	£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	£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	£200 - £300	£240	View
590	MISS PARDOE, THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS drawings by William Bartlett, London 1839/40	£40 - £60	£70	View
591	RUPERT BROOKE Four Poems, Scolar Press 1974	£20 - £40	£20	View
592	L'ABBE DE LILLE, LES JARDINS L'art d'embellir les paysages, Paris 1782, Franc Ambr Didot	£100 - £200	£100	View
593	VITRUVE LES CINQ MANIERES DE COLONNES Jean Bullant a Efcouen. Incomplete with restoration and rebound	£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	£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	£60 - £80	£380	View
596	EZRA POUND Homage to Sextus Propertius, Faber & Faber 1934, 1st edition	£20 - £40	£40	View
597	JOHN PIPER English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape with Piper lithographs, second impression 1945, with Laurence Whistler, The English Festivals	£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	£20 - £40	£15	View
599	DENTON WELCH, MAIDEN VOYAGE Second printing, with Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet, 1st edition	£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,	£40 - £60	£60	View
601	LAWRENCE DURRELL Bitter Lemons, Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, 1st editions	£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	£30 - £50	£40	View
603	RONALD KNOX Essays in Satire, In Three Tongues, Let Dons Delight, 1st editions	£20 - £40	£25	View
604	PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, THE TRAVELLER'S TREE 1st edition John Murray 1950, with dust wrapper	£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	£60 - £120	£80	View
606	RUPERT BROOKE 1914, Collected Poems, Letters from America, John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, early editions	£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)	£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	£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	£50 - £80	£35	View
610	A COLLECTION OF FREYA STARK BOOKS and other travel literature	£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	£20 - £40	£110	View
612	A QUANTITY OF CHILDRENS BOOKS including 1920s 'Hullo, Boys!' and 'Hullo, Girls!' wireless annuals	£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	£40 - £60	£360	View
614	RUPERT BROOKE A collection of books by and about Brooke, including some early editions	£40 - £60	£200	View
615	A COLLECTION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF BOOKS with books by Iris Murdoch, and other writers of the period	£30 - £50	£240	View
616	A COLLECTION OF TRAVEL BOOKS India, Asia, Far East, Italy	£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	£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	£40 - £60	£120	View
619	A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY JOHN BUCHAN AND DORNFORD YATES various editions	£20 - £40	£10	View
620	A COLLECTION OF BOOKS including history, literature, modern French fiction, fiction and literature series editions etc.	£20 - £40	£10	View

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