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Auction No 368, Category: Literature

16 Lots (displaying 1 - 16)

Edward Larocque Tinker and Frances Tinker "Old New Orleans: Widows Only, the Sixties", D. Appleton, 1931,

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Edward Larocque Tinker and Frances Tinker Old New Orleans: Widows Only, the Sixties, D. Appleton, 1931, First Edition, signed & inscribed by the authors; original cloth with pictorial onlay; illustrated endpapers. VG 

Ezra Pound "Canzoni", Elkin Matthews, 1911, brown printed boards, gilt, author's name on front cover,

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £26
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Ezra Pound Canzoni, Elkin Matthews, 1911, brown printed boards, gilt, author’s name on front cover, slight wear to top and tail of spine, uncut, 4pp of adverts at rear. Fine internally. 

Henry Carey "The Dramatick Works of Henry Carey", S. Gilbert, 1743, first collected edition,

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Henry Carey The Dramatick Works of Henry Carey, S. Gilbert, 1743, first collected edition, later full leather, ex-library; title and dedication pages heavily foxed, some spotting and peripheral browning elsewhere; pp.187/188 missing; some other pages repaired. Offered “as found”.

A Selection published from 1652 to 1914 including "The Diary of the late George Bubb Dodington", 1784;

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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A Selection published from 1652 to 1914 including The Diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, 1784; Lettres Choisies du Si. De Balzac, 1652; and A Hundred Mery Talys, John Russell Smith, 1866. Fair to VG (6) 

Thomas James Wise "A Bibliography of the Writings in Verse and Prose of George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron",

Lot: 115

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £48
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Thomas James Wise A Bibliography of the Writings in Verse and Prose of George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron, London, 1933, quarto, 2 Vols, original gilt cloth, VG; one of 180 sets printed; uncut two sides, t.e.g.; each with a frontisp, plus 96 plates in total; endpapers and some pages of text foxed. (2)

Tobias Smollett "Peregrine Pickle", 1778, 6th Edition, 4 Volumes, full calf, rebacked and new endpapers;

Lot: 116

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Tobias Smollett Peregrine Pickle, 1778, 6th Edition, 4 Volumes, full calf, rebacked and new endpapers; each volume with engraved frontisp; title pages and frontispieces browned o/w VG. (4)

"Theatre De Pigault-Lebrun", Barba, Paris, 1818, set of 6 volumes, half-calf, gilt, slight wear at extremities,

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Theatre De Pigault-Lebrun, Barba, Paris, 1818, set of 6 volumes, half-calf, gilt, slight wear at extremities, marbled boards; original owner’s bookplates; slight foxing to prelims o/w VG. (6)

Jean Boucher "Sermons De La Simulee Conversion, Et Nullite Pretendue Absolution De Henry de Bourbon",

Lot: 118

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £66
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Jean Boucher Sermons De La Simulee Conversion, Et Nullite Pretendue Absolution De Henry de Bourbon, Prince de Bearn, a S.Denys en France, le Dimenche 25, Iuillet, 1593, G. Chaudiere, Paris, 1594; 12mo, later full calf, gilt, raised bands, few peripheral scuffs, front hinge weak; previous owners’ bookplates; collated as complete. Fine internally. 

[Charles Gildon] "The Post-Boy Robb'd of His Mail: or The Pacquet Broke Open.

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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[Charles Gildon] The Post-Boy Robb'd of His Mail: or The Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of Letters of Love and Gallantry, and All Miscellaneous Subjects, John Sprint, London, 1706, 2nd Edn; octavo, contemp. leather, worn, boards detached; title page loose and dust-affected; last 28pp damp-stained. 

George Grosz "A Post-War Museum", Faber 1931, printed wraps, plus other literary pamphlets,

Lot: 121

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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George Grosz A Post-War Museum, Faber 1931, printed wraps, plus other literary pamphlets, Aerial Poems (2) and other private press, many topographical engravings of North West England, 18th Century tragedies (disbound) by various playwrights, etc. Good to VF (Qty, in carton)

Francis Durbridge selection including Samuel French plays 1973-93 complete (all Firsts, fine),

Lot: 123

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Francis Durbridge selection including Samuel French plays 1973-93 complete (all 1sts, fine), Paul Temple Library (4, corner creasing), The World of Tim Frazer 1962 1st Edn in d/jkt, etc. Varied condition. (18)

Leslie Charteris "Saint" novels 1947-75, Hodder & Stoughton h/bks in d/jkt, plus two p/bks;

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £52
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Leslie Charteris Saint novels 1947-75, Hodder & Stoughton h/bks in d/jkt, plus two p/bks; eight are First Editions in d/jkts including The Saint Returns 1969, The Saint’s Choice 1967, The Saint to the Rescue 1961, and Catch the Saint 1975. Most d/jkts are good to fine & not price-clipped; none are ex-library, and none have inscriptions. (17)

                                                                                                

"The Complete Works of George Farquhar", edited Charles Stonehill, The Nonesuch Press, 1930, quarto, 2 volumes,

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £60
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The Complete Works of George Farquhar, edited Charles Stonehill, The Nonesuch Press, 1930, quarto, 2 volumes, quarter vellum, gilt, decorated boards, No. 81 of 100 sets issued on English hand-made paper, uncut two sides, very good. (2)

"The Complete Works of Thomas Otway", edited Montague Summers, The Nonesuch Press, 1926, quarto, 3 volumes,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £84
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The Complete Works of Thomas Otway, edited Montague Summers, The Nonesuch Press, 1926, quarto, 3 volumes, quarter vellum gilt, decorated boards, No. 68 of 90 sets issued on English hand-made paper, uncut two sides, light browning to endpapers, VG. (3) [Issue date of 1927 at foot of each spine]

William Fryer Harvey "The Beast With Five Fingers", Dent, 1932, original printed cloth,

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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William Fryer Harvey The Beast With Five Fingers, Dent, 1932, original printed cloth, spine a little faded; and Francis Beeding Murder Intended, Hodder & Stoughton, 1934, original printed cloth, a free endpaper apparently missing. Good  (2)

Thomas Brown (1663-1704) "Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c." John Sparks, 1699, First Edition; small octavo,

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
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Thomas Brown (1663-1704) Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c. John Sparks, 1699, First Edition; small octavo, full leather, rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the boards overlaid with the original leather covering; light browning affects much of the text to varying degrees. Worming at foot of last few leaves and a damaged corner to pp.341/2. Collated as complete; page 349 shows pagination error “493”. A remarkable collection both erotic and satirical, and at times, scurrilous! Wing B5051/52.