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Auction No 362, Category: Literature

16 Lots (displaying 1 - 16)

Selection of 1920s & 1930s Prize Bindings, full (2), half (3) or quarter blue calf and gilt,

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Selection of 1920s & 1930s Prize Bindings, full (2), half (3) or quarter blue calf and gilt, all with coats of arms to front cover; including The Forsyte Saga, The Wonders of Salvage, Lord Jim, and Reeves The Long White Cloud. (8)

William Congreve "A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer'd to the King On His Taking Namure" Jacob Tonson, London, 1695,

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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William Congreve A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer'd to the King On His Taking Namure Jacob Tonson, London, 1695, folio, untrimmed; title+11pp+publisher's list; title and publisher's list dust-affected; some tone marks; bound in 20th century boards with leather backstrip. (Wing 5871)

John Dryden "The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition" Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue);

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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John Dryden The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue); small quarto, disbound from a combined colume; [12] + 20pp. Title page dust-affected o/w VG. (Wing D2311)

John Smith "The Dark Side of Love" 1952, and "The Birth of Venus", both First Editions in d/jkts;

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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John Smith The Dark Side of Love 1952, and The Birth of Venus, both First Editions in d/jkts; slight wear to corners of dustjackets; both with the bookplate of Walter De La Mare. (2)

Diana White "The Descent of Ishtar" Eragny Press, 1903, small octavo, one of 226 printed;

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £100
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Diana White The Descent of Ishtar, Eragny Press, 1903, small octavo, one of 226 printed; original patterned paper covered boards & title label, VG; red & black lettering on handmade paper, uncut; woodcut frontispiece designed by Diana White, the ornate double border and initials by Lucien Pissarro, engraved by Esther Pissarro; browning to endpapers o/w fine internally. 32pp

John Dryden "Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., An Historical Poem.

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £180 - £220
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John Dryden Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., An Historical Poem. Also a Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Late Sacred Majestey Charles the Second. Likewise a Panegyrick on His Cononation. Together With a Poem to My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day. 1662. Henry Herringman and Jacob Tonson, London, 1688. Small 4to, stitch bound in wraps, [20], 116pp, each poem with its own title page. The initial title page dust-affected and small ink-mark at foot o/w VG. (Wing 2240)

[Charles Dickens and Edward Caswall] "Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples"

Lot: 115

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £250
SOLD £240
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[Charles Dickens and Edward Caswall] Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples Chapman & Hall, 1843, small octavo, original gilt cloth, a.e.g., VG; 18 engraved plates by Phiz (17 tissue-guarded) of which ten show some spotting.  

Richard Morris (Ed.) "The Story of Genesis and Exodus, an Early English Song. About A.D. 1250"

Lot: 116

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Richard Morris (Ed.) The Story of Genesis and Exodus, an Early English Song. About A.D. 1250 Trubner & Co, 1865; bound with Walter Skeat (Ed.) The Romans of Partenay, 1866; full panelled calf, gilt, worn at periphery, rear board detached; bookplate of Anthony Trollope; fine internally

Arthur Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld "Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened: consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Arthur Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened: consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, London, 1826, 14th Edn, set of four small volumes, full grained green morocco, red title labels, gilt, Vol.1 with small piece of backstrip missing. Few light pencil annotations o/w very good internally.  (4)

George Bernard Shaw "Saint Joan" Constable 1924, first edition, signed by Sybil Thorndike

Lot: 118

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan Constable 1924, first edition, signed by Sybil Thorndike on the front endpaper; orig.cloth, gilt, VG; endpapers browned. (Bernard Shaw wrote Saint Joan especially for Sybil Thorndike who went on to play the title role with great success on stage and in a short film adaptation of 1927.)

Virginia Woolf "Mrs Dalloway" Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1925, First Edition in dustjacket;

Lot: 119

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1925, First Edition in dustjacket; the rare first state dustjacket, now in three pieces, is chipped & worn with the lower half of the spine largely missing but is still worthy of professional repair; the cloth-covered boards and title label are sound though the spine is somewhat faded; the text block is uncut on 2 sides with some spotting which has also strayed on to pages 286 to 288.          

Publications of Philip Lee Warner and the Riccardi Press comprising Ludovic C. Purser (Ed.) "Psyche et Cupido"

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Publications of Philip Lee Warner and the Riccardi Press comprising Ludovic C. Purser (Ed.) Psyche et Cupido, 1913, (numbered 204 but one of only 12 bound in vellum with fabric ties) fine, in slipcase; and Boccaccio The Story of Griselda, no. 473 of 500. (2)

Schoolgirl fiction by Monica Edwards (4), Margaret Biggs (6), Gwendoline Courtney (5) & various others,

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £48
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Schoolgirl fiction by Monica Edwards (4), Margaret Biggs (6), Gwendoline Courtney (5) & various others, all modern reprint softbacks in the Girls Gone By series (21

"Schoolgirls' Own Library" Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) late 1940s to early 1960s,

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £62
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Schoolgirls’ Own Library Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) late 1940s to early 1960s, a collection in varied condition, most with worn spines but covers largely intact with bright colours. (136)

"Schoolgirls Own Library" Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) late 1940s to early 1960s,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Schoolgirls’ Own Library Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) late 1940s to early 1960s, a collection in varied condition, most with worn spines but covers largely intact with bright colours. (130)

"Girls' Crystal" Amalgamated Press 1942-1946, a collection in folders contained in two lever-arch files,

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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Girls’ Crystal, Amalgamated Press 1942-1946, a collection in folders contained in two lever-arch files, plus one issue from 1939. Most with rusted staples. (163 issues)