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Auction No 372, Category: Books

132 Lots (displaying 101 - 120)

Ellis Peters signed reprint hardbacks in complete good to fine dustjackets comprising "Death Mask" (2 copies),

Lot: 115

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Ellis Peters signed reprint hardbacks in complete good to fine dustjackets comprising Death Mask (2 copies), The Grass Widow’s Tale, Flight of a Witch (U.S. 1st Edn), The Piper in the Mountain, Mourning Raga, and Death and the Joyful Woman. Signed on the title page or half-title. (7)

Ellis Peters "A Morbid Taste for Bones", Fawcett Popular Library, New York, 1980,paperback edition

Lot: 116

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Ellis Peters A Morbid Taste for Bones, Fawcett Popular Library, New York, 1980, paperback edition, slight creasing to cover and spine o/w good; signed and inscribed by the author on title page. Very Scarce 

Ellis Peters "The Summer of the Danes", The Mysterious Press, 1991, 1st USA Edition, in complete near fine dustjacket,

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Ellis Peters The Summer of the Danes, The Mysterious Press, 1991, 1st USA Edition, in complete near fine dustjacket, signed and inscribed by the author on the title page; an autograph compliments card from the author loosely inserted complaining of the lateness of her US publisher!

Ellis Peters "The Rose Rent", William Morrow, 1986, 1st Edn; "St.Peter's Fair", William Morrow 1981, 1st Edn;

Lot: 118

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Ellis Peters The Rose Rent, William Morrow, 1986, 1st Edn; St.Peter’s Fair, William Morrow 1981, 1st Edn; and The Raven in the Foregate, Macmillan, 1986, 1st Edn; all in dustjackets, St. Peter’s Faird/jkt chipped at top & tail of spine o/w VG/Fine; all signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. A few page corners of The Rose Rent creased. (3)

Ellis Peters "Holiday with Violence" Headline, 1992, in fine d/jkt, signed & inscribed by the author;

Lot: 119

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Ellis Peters Holiday with Violence Headline, 1992, in fine d/jkt, signed & inscribed by the author; together with signed & inscribed reprints of The Sanctuary Sparrow (1983 p/bk), A Rare Benedictine (1990 p/bk) and Brother Cadfael’s Penance (1994 h/bk in d/jkt). Fair to VF (4)

Le Sage "The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane", translated by Percival Proctor, London, 1774, 2 Vols,

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Le Sage The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, translated by Percival Proctor, London, 1774, 2 Vols, octavo, contemp. full leather, worn, backstrips heavily darkened, hinges weak, fine internally including all 21 plates as called for (instructions to the binder at end of Vol. 2) 

Georges Carpentier "Brothers of the Brown Owl: A Story of the Boxing Ring", Cassell & Co [1921], original pictorial cloth, VG;

Lot: 121

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Georges Carpentier Brothers of the Brown Owl: A Story of the Boxing Ring, Cassell & Co [1921], original pictorial cloth, VG; contemp. gift inscription; 4 colour plates, plus b/w illustrations; occasional minor tone mark. 

Antoine Edouard Foley "Eki Tou-Mata Ouengha, Père et Dieu des Cruels Humains", Paris, 1874, contemp. half-calf, gilt, VG;

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £62
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Antoine Edouard Foley Eki Tou-Mata Ouengha, Père et Dieu des Cruels Humains, Paris, 1874, contemp. half-calf, gilt, VG; bookplate of Lord Houghton of Crewe; pictorial title page; fine text; 148pp. [A semi-fictional work based on Maori myths and legends of the Banks Peninsula, New Zealand]

Elinor Brent-Dyer "Joey Goes to the Oberland", Chambers 1954, "The Chalet School Does it Again", Chambers 1955

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Elinor Brent-Dyer Joey Goes to the Oberland, Chambers 1954, The Chalet School Does it Again, Chambers 1955, and Joey and Co. in Tirol, Chambers 1960, all First Editions, and ten similar works including three first editions; all original cloth, lacking d/jkts; two poor, others fair to fine. (13)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising "Shocks for the Chalet School", 1952;

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising Shocks for the Chalet School, 1952; A Future Chalet School Girl, 1962; Theodora and the Chalet School, 1959 (spine faded), and A Problem for the Chalet School,1956 (prize bookplate, text browned throughout). Original cloth, lacking d/jkts; fair to fine. (4)   

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including "Changes for the Chalet School", 1953, 1st Edn, VG;

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £32
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including Changes for the Chalet School, 1953, 1st Edn, VG; Bride Leads the Chalet School, 1955, browning to text; Jo to the Rescue 1951 (front panel of d/jkt laid down on front cover); Summer Term at the Chalet School, 1965 (spine faded); and 7 others in mixed condition including three Firsts. Poor to VG. (11)

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including "The Chalet School in Oberland", Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £50
SOLD £46
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including The Chalet School in Oberland, Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt, recased with new endpapers; The Wrong Chalet School 1958, in VG complete d/jkt; Trials for the Chalet School 1959, First Edn, in poor (& repaired) d/jkt; A Problem for the Chalet School 1956, First Edn., in fair d/jkt (tape stains to flaps, text browned); and two others in d/jkts. Mixed condition. (6)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising "Ruey Richardson – Chaletian" [1960]; "The Chalet School Triplets"

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £74
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising Ruey Richardson – Chaletian [1960]; The Chalet School Triplets [1963], ex-library; The Chalet School Reunion, 1963; Jane and the Chalet School, 1964 (d/jkt with peripheral creasing); Adrienne and the Chalet School 1965 (d/jkt chipped at tail of spine); Challenge for the Chalet School 1966 (d/jkt chipped at top & tail of spine); Althea Joins the Chalet School 1969 (price-clipped); and Prefects of the Chalet School 1970 (price-clipped). Last title with small inked number top of endpaper and Triplets with library markings o/w VG/F internally.(8)

Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2),

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £36
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Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2), plus some related girls’ fiction, Chalet Club publications, and spoof novels by Jackie Roberts & Merryn Williams. VG/VF (23). Also photocopies of Chalet Club News Letters

B.W. Matz (Ed.) "The Dickensian: A Magazine for Dickens Lovers", 1905, Issues 1 to 4, 6, 9 to 12;

Lot: 130

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £32
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B.W. Matz (Ed.) The Dickensian: A Magazine for Dickens Lovers, 1905, Issues 1 to 4, 6, 9 to 12; issues 10 & 11 with covers detached; plus Fred Kitton Phiz (Hablot K. Browne): A Memoir, 1882 (incomplete).

C. E. Heanley "The Granite Hills", 1920, Chapman & Hall, First Edn., original printed cloth,

Lot: 131

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £6
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C. E. Heanley The Granite Hills, 1920, Chapman & Hall, First Edn., original printed cloth, a little worn & discoloured; endpapers browned, small handstamp of Yealand Old School; clean text. A Charlotte Heanley novel set in Cornwall. 246pp

"The Young Ladies' Journal and Illustrated Magazine", complete for 1892 (12 issues), bound volume,

Lot: 132

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £26
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The Young Ladies' Journal and Illustrated Magazine, complete for 1892 (12 issues), bound volume, tall quarto, contemporary gilt cloth, near fine, many wood-engravings of fashions and accessories, plus advertisements, stories, etc. 464pp

"The Works of John Ruskin", George Allen, The Library Edition, 1903-1909, 37 (of 39) volumes

Lot: 133

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £500 - £600
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The Works of John Ruskin, George Allen, The Library Edition, 1903-1909, 37 (of 39) volumes, edited by Cook and Wedderburn; original red cloth, gilt, spines sunned o/w VG with all plates and clean interiors; uncut two sides. Lacks volumes 38 & 39 which were issued in 1911/12. 

"Malcolm Poynter - [Artworks]", 1981, No. 17 of 250, signed & numbered by the artist

Lot: 134

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £110
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Malcolm Poynter – [Artworks], 1981, No. 17 of 250, signed & numbered by the artist, octavo, blue cloth, gilt, VF; reproductions of his drawings and installations, comprising 102pp, mostly b/w (with many hand-tinted) but including a selection of actual photographs in colour. 

W. von Seidlitz "Geschichte des Japanischen Farbenholzschnitts", Dresden, 1910, quarto,

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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W. von Seidlitz Geschichte des Japanischen Farbenholzschnitts, Dresden, 1910, quarto, black and red morocco, gilt, VG; fine internally with colour & b/w plates, further b/w illustrations in text; 228pp