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Auction No 371, Category: Literature

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

Folio Society publications, all in slipcases, including sets of Mervyn Peake (3 volumes) and Jane Austen (7 volumes).

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £92
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Folio Society publications, all in slipcases, including sets of Mervyn Peake (3 volumes) and Jane Austen (7 volumes). Good to VF (25)

Folio Society publications all in slipcases including VF boxed sets of Ernest Hemingway (5 vols), Raymond Chandler (7 vols)

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £105
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Folio Society publications all in slipcases including VF boxed sets of Ernest Hemingway (5 vols), Raymond Chandler (7 vols) and Pepys’ Diary (3 vols). Good to VF (25)

Cowper "Table Talk, Minor Poems and The Task", John Sharpe, 1825, 3 Volumes, 12mo, full leather, good;

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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Cowper Table Talk, Minor Poems and The Task, John Sharpe, 1825, 3 Volumes, 12mo, full leather, good; The Poetical Works of the Rev.George Crabbe, 1834, 8 volume set, orig.gilt, cloth, engraved plates, near fine; Isaac Watts The Improvement of the Mind, 1798, full calf, gilt, VG; Graves Haughton Prodomus, or An Inquiry into the First Principles of Reasoning, 1839, poor binding; A. Egmont Hake Paris Originals, 1878, twenty etchings, some foxing, fine modern quarter-leather, gilt; Hans Andersen The Flying Trunk, The Wild Swan and other Tales and Stories, Routledge, 1853, fair cond; and others. Varied condition. (23)

                                                

Geoffrey Stavert "A Study in Southsea: The Unrevealed Life of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle", Milestone, 1987

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Geoffrey Stavert A Study in Southsea: The Unrevealed Life of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, Milestone, 1987, 1st Edn in fine d/jkt, signed by the author; plus The Seven Per-Cent Solution, 1975 in VG d/jkt; and others either by or about Arthur Conan Doyle, h/bk & s/bk, poor to fine. (27)

Robert W. Service collection including "Bar-Room Ballads", 1940, 1st UK Edn; "The Roughneck", Grosset & Dunlap, 1924;

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £70
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Robert W. Service collection including Bar-Room Ballads, 1940, 1st UK Edn; The Roughneck, Grosset & Dunlap, 1924; Why Not Grow Young? 1928, 1st UK Edn; Ploughman of the Moon, Dodd Mead, 1945, fine h/bk in poor d/jkt; The Poisoned Paradise, 1923; and others, with several early editions, plus 4 biographical works. Mixed condition but mainly good to fine. (26). Also few photocopies.

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

Lot: 123

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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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)

Mostly 19th Century Yorkshire Poetry 1st Editions in original cloth; including Matthew Willis "The Mountain Minstrel", York, 1834

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £56
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Mostly 19th Century Yorkshire Poetry 1st Editions in original cloth; including Matthew Willis The Mountain Minstrel, York, 1834; Stephen Fawcett Bradford Legends, 1872; William Newsam (Ed.) The Poets of Yorkshire 1845; Benjamin Dawson Poems, Ballads and Love Lyrics, Leeds, 1891; Joseph Senior Smithy Rhymes and Stithy Chimes, Sheffield, 1882; and Thomas Lister The Rustic Wreath, 1834. Mostly VG/Fine (12)

Frederic Charles Spencer "The Vale of Bolton....and Other Poems", Hurst, Chance & Co, [1829],

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Frederic Charles Spencer The Vale of Bolton…and Other Poems, Hurst, Chance & Co, [1829], Robert Carrick Wildon Tong, on a Summer’s Day; The Forbidden Union; and Other Poems, Leeds, 1850, some spotting to text; and William Dearden The Vale of Caldene, London & Halifax, 1844; all original worn cloth bindings, Caldene lacking front endpaper & half-title. (3)

Antoine Edouard Foley "Eki Tou-Mata Ouengha, Pere et Dieu des Cruels Humains", Paris, 1874,

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
UNSOLD
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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]

Novels of Charles Dickens, Folio Society 1994, 15 (of 16) volumes, pictorial cloth, VG/fine,

Lot: 131

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Novels of Charles Dickens, Folio Society 1994, 15 (of 16) volumes, pictorial cloth, VG/fine, all in VG/F slipcases, illustrated by Charles Keeping. (15)

Sir John Vanbrugh "Plays Written by Sir John Vanbrugh", J. Tonson & others, London, 1730, small octavo,

Lot: 132

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £20
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Sir John Vanbrugh Plays Written by Sir John Vanbrugh, J. Tonson & others, London, 1730, small octavo, contemp. calf, worn, gilt title labels replaced; occasional minor browning. Good (2)

"The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince", Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, quarto, 2 Vols,

Lot: 133

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, quarto, 2 Vols, original gilt cloth, VG; large paper edition, No.45 of 100 issued; front inner hinge to Vol. 1 frayed o/w fine. (2)