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Auction No 428, Category: Fiction

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Agatha Christie "Ten Little Niggers", Collins Crime Club, [1939] an early edition, probably for export,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £120
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Agatha Christie Ten Little Niggers, Collins Crime Club, [1939] an early edition, probably for export, no later titles listed under ‘By the Same Author', with the error ‘firt' for ‘first' in opening line of text; 252pp plus 2pp of advertisements at rear. Original brownish-red cloth with title in black, worn and faded; neat ownership signature to front endpaper; stamp of a Cairo bookseller to rear endpaper, a few minor tone spots.  

Jon Gilbert "Ian Fleming: The Bibliography", Queen Anne Press, 2012, preface by Fergus Fleming, signed on title page by Jon Gilbert & Fergus Fleming,

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £250
UNSOLD
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Jon Gilbert Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, Queen Anne Press, 2012, preface by Fergus Fleming, signed on title page by Jon Gilbert & Fergus Fleming, quarto, bound in red cloth, gilt, in slipcase. The slipcase slightly marked o/w fine. Publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.

Ian Fleming "Casino Royale" Vintage, 2013, 60th Anniversary edition for Bentley Motors, No. 422 of 500, bound in full beluga leather

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £350 - £400
SOLD £250
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Ian Fleming Casino Royale Vintage, 2013, 60th Anniversary edition for Bentley Motors, No. 422 of 500, bound in full beluga leather with machine stitched decoration, white metal title plate to spine; together with two packs of Bentley playing cards, and all contained in a luxury solander box. Very fine.

Catherine Heath "Lady on the Burning Deck", Taplinger, New York, 1979, first U.S. Edn., in d/jkt, signed on the half-title,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Catherine Heath Lady on the Burning Deck, Taplinger, New York, 1979, first U.S. Edn., in d/jkt, signed on the half-title, together with two autograph letters from the author to the artist Claude William Harrison, one of which had been enclosed with the signed book. Some wear to the d/jkt (not price-clipped).

‘The Ettrick Shepherd’ [pseud. for James Hogg] "The Shepherd’s Calendar - Dreams and Apparitions", in "Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine"

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £50
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‘The Ettrick Shepherd' [pseud. for James Hogg] The Shepherd's Calendar – Dreams and Apparitions, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vols. XXI & XXII, William Blackwood, May to December 1827. bound in contemporary half-leather, gilt, over marbled boards, some minor wear; fine internally, no inscriptions. These two volumes contain the first appearance of James Hogg's Dreams and Apparitions in four parts, part of his sequence of supernatural stories collectively titled "The Shepherd's Calendar".