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Auction No 419, Category: Fiction

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

Ernest Hemingway novels, a selection issued by Easton Press, all in full decorated leather, gilt, 1990, VF, appear unread. (7)

Lot: 42

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £90 - £120
SOLD £150
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Ernest Hemingway novels, a selection issued by Easton Press, all in full decorated leather, gilt, 1990, VF, appear unread. (7)

Ernest Hemingway novels, a selection issued by Easton Press, all in full leather, gilt, 1990, mainly VF

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £90 - £120
SOLD £160
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Ernest Hemingway novels, a selection issued by Easton Press, all in full leather, gilt, 1990, mainly VF but The Dangerous Summer with ink annotations. (8)

Charles Dickens "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club", in 20 parts as originally published, parts XIX and XX in one, facsimile edition,

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, in 20 parts as originally published, parts XIX and XX in one, facsimile edition, Easton Press, publisher's descriptive letter tipped in to part I, in the issued gilt quarter-leather case. Foot of case slightly marked o/w VF.

Charles Dickens selection issued by Easton Press, 1978-81, bound in full leather, gilt, VF, appear unread. (5)

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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Charles Dickens selection issued by Easton Press, 1978-81, bound in full leather, gilt, VF, appear unread. (5)

Easton Press editions of works of Daniel Defoe (3), Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding and Oliver Goldsmith. All in full leather, gilt,

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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Easton Press editions of works of Daniel Defoe (3), Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding and Oliver Goldsmith. All in full leather, gilt, 1970s-1990s; few ink annotations to preliminary pages of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, o/w fine. (7)   

P.G. Wodehouse "The Inimitable Jeeves", "The Code of the Woosters" and "Leave it to Psmith", Easton Press, 1990, full leather, gilt, VF;

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £62
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P.G. Wodehouse The Inimitable Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters and Leave it to Psmith, Easton Press, 1990, full leather, gilt, VF, appear unread. (3)

Easton Press editions of works by D.H. Lawrence (3), Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Joseph Conrad, all full leather, gilt; mainly VF,

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £62
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Easton Press editions of works by D.H. Lawrence (3), Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Joseph Conrad, all full leather, gilt; mainly VF, but Conrad's Heart of Darkness with inked annotations to introduction. (6)

Easton Press editions of British Novels including Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone", and works by George Eliot, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Samuel Butler

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Easton Press editions of British Novels including Wilkie Collins The Moonstone, and works by George Eliot, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Samuel Butler, Conan Doyle, and Jane Austen. All full leather with gilt decoration, Vanity Fair with an ink annotation to a page in the preface o/w very fine. (7) 

Easton Press editions of American Literature including works by Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Washington Irving, Henry James,

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £62
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Easton Press editions of American Literature including works by Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Washington Irving, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, Jack London, and James Fenimore Cooper. All full leather with gilt decoration. The Education of Henry Adams and Melville's Moby Dick with some ink annotations to preliminary pages o/w very fine. (13)

George Orwell "Complete Novels": Burmese Days, A Clergyman’s Daughter, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and Coming Up for Air

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £38
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George Orwell Complete Novels: Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and Coming Up for Air, Folio Society, 2001, pictorial boards, a boxed set. Very fine.

The ‘Essex’ Edition of the works of H.G. Wells, Ernest Behn, 1926-27, 11 of 24 volumes including "The Time Machine", "The First Men in the Moon"

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
UNSOLD
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The ‘Essex' Edition of the works of H.G. Wells, Ernest Behn, 1926-27, 11 of 24 volumes including The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Dr.Moreau, orig. gilt cloth, VG/VF, no inscriptions; and five early 1920s editions of novels by Thomas Hardy, four in full leather.

E.M. Forster "A Room with a View", Edward Arnold, 1908, First Edition, original gilt ribbed maroon cloth, worn & marked,

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £350 - £400
UNSOLD
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E.M. Forster A Room with a View, Edward Arnold, 1908, First Edition, original gilt ribbed maroon cloth, worn & marked, the spine faded; blank bookplate to front pastedown, pencil ownership signature to front endpaper dated 1912, inner front and rear hinges weak showing the webbing, some occasional marginal tone-marks to text but generally clean internally; small remnants of a lending library label to rear pastedown (no other library markings). Complete with the 8-page publisher's catalogue.