Lot: 21
Alice Walker The Color Purple, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, the 10th Anniversary edition, 1st printing, signed by the author on title page. Fine, in complete d/jkt and Waterstone's publicity band, the jacket with some slight creasing at periphery.
Lot: 22
Ted Hughes Birthday Letters, Faber, 1998, quarter-cloth, gilt, No.57 of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author, in acetate jacket. Fine
Lot: 23
Pat Barker signed Viking first editions of The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road, and Another World; plus an unsigned first of Regeneration. All fine, in fine d/jkts. (4)
Lot: 24
Iain M. Banks Inversions, Orbit, 1998, 1st Edition, signed by the author on title page, fine in a fine complete d/jkt, and Waterstone's publicity band.
Lot: 25
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods, Doubleday, 1997, First edition in complete d/jkt, signed by the author on title page. Very fine.
Lot: 26
Nick Hornby High Fidelity, 1995, and About a Boy, 1998, both Gollancz 1st Editions signed by the author on title page, in complete d/jkts. Very fine. (2)
Lot: 27
A selection of signed first editions, all in complete d/jkts, fine condition; plus an unsigned first of Iain Banks The Crow Road. (12)
Lot: 28
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace, Folio Society, illustrated by Igor Karash, 2014, first printing, two volumes in slipcase, very fine, the base of the slipcase with slight shelfwear.
Lot: 29
James Joyce Ulysses, Easton Press, 1996, illustrations by Henri Matisse, bound in full leather, gilt, very fine.
Lot: 30
William Faulkner novels published by Easton Press, 1998, all in full leather, gilt, some faint offset of the gilding affecting front boards o/w VF. (5)
Lot: 31
Henry James novels published by Easton Press, 1994, all in full leather, gilt, very fine. (6)
Lot: 32
Edith Wharton novels published by Easton Press, 1994, all in full leather, gilt, very fine. (4)
Lot: 33
James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, 3 vols, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Easton Press 1993, all in full leather, gilt, very fine. (4)
Lot: 34
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged, two vols, and The Fountainhead, two vols, Easton Press, 1989, all in full leather, gilt, very fine. (4)
Lot: 35
A selection of Easton Press leather bound volumes in very fine condition including Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson & Tennyson. (10)
Lot: 36
A selection of American Literature, all Easton Press leather bound volumes in very fine condition. (6)
Lot: 37
Richard F. Burton The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night together with Supplemental Nights, Easton Press, 1994, set of 17 volumes, leather bound, gilt, very fine, all bar one still in shrinkwrap. (17)
Lot: 38
Crime Fiction selection with several first editions, all (bar one) in dustjackets, mixed condition. (36)
Lot: 39
Crime Fiction UK first editions, a selection in d/jkts, in mixed condition; Agatha Christie's After the Funeral a poor copy in a VG d/jkt, complete though edgeworn, small internal tape-repair; Raymond Chandler's The Long Good-Bye near fine in a damaged d/jkt with pieces missing. (6)
Lot: 40
Crime Fiction selection, all (bar one) first editions in d/jkts; mixed condition, Colin Watson's rare Coffin Scarcely Used (1958) in a VG d/jkt has the front endpaper removed and foxing to half-title. (9)