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Auction No 372, Category: Literature

20 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Selection of author Signed Books in fine dustjackets including Helen Mirren "In the Frame"(1st Edn);

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £70
SOLD £92
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Selection of author Signed Books in fine dustjackets including Helen Mirren In the Frame (1st Edn); Margaret Thatcher The Path to Power (1st Edn) and The Downing Street Years; and Charles Spencer Blenheim: Battle for Europe (1st Edn). Also a softback. Fine lot. (8)

"The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, of the Year 1759"

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £125
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The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, of the Year 1759, Dodlsey, 1760; and 24 subsequent volumes from 1760 to 1842;  octavo, uniform tree-calf bindings, some wear, mainly to the backstrips which are chipped in places; texts complete and generally VG, but the volumes for 1760 and two later are dampstained. Our photo shows 18 of the 25 volumes in this lot. (25)

"The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne", Chatto & Windus, 1912, 6 volume set, orig.cloth, VG;

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
UNSOLD
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The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Chatto & Windus, 1912, 6 volume set, orig.cloth, VG; Robert Peary My Arctic Journal, 1893, 1st Edn, later cloth, VG; Parry Some Famous Medical Trials, 1927, orig gilt cloth, VG; John Pudney The Seven Skies, 1959, in d/jkt; and others, chiefly aviation and criminal history. Fair to VF (22)

Folio Society publications all in slipcases, including set of Pepys' Diaries. Few slipcases slightly marked

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Folio Society publications all in slipcases, including set of Pepys’ Diaries. Few slipcases slightly marked . VG/VF (16)

Folio Society publications all in slipcases. VG/VF (17)

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Folio Society publications all in slipcases. VG/VF (17)

Folio Society publications all in slipcases. Includes several by the Brontes (one with spine rubbed).

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
UNSOLD
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Folio Society publications all in slipcases. Includes several by the Brontes (one with spine rubbed). Mainly VG/VF (25)

Jack Kerouac "Big Sur", Andre Deutsch 1963, 2nd Impression, in VG dustjacket, gift inscription front endpaper;

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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Jack Kerouac Big Sur, Andre Deutsch 1963, 2nd Impression, in VG dustjacket, gift inscription front endpaper; and The Dharma Bums, Andre Deutsch, 1973, 3rd Impression, in near fine price-clipped dustjacket, bookplate to front endpaper. (2)

Jack Kerouac selection including "Vanity of Duluoz", Deutsch, 1969, 1st Edn, fine d/jacket;

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £38
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Jack Kerouac selection including Vanity of Duluoz, Deutsch, 1969, 1st Edn, fine d/jacket; The Subterraneans, Deutsch, 1960, 2nd Impression, in fair d/jkt; and Beat Generation, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005, 1st Edn in fine d/jkt. Mainly VG/VF. (7)

Jack Kerouac selection including "Book of Dreams", City Lights, 1961, 1st Edn, blue wraps, gift inscription;

Lot: 95

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £54
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Jack Kerouac selection including Book of Dreams, City Lights, 1961, 1st Edn, blue wraps, gift inscription; Satori in Paris, Deutsch, 1967, 1st Edn, in d/jkt, VF; Old Angel Midnight, Booklegger/Albion, [Brighton, 1973], card wraps, near fine; and Visions of Gerard, and Tristessa, Deutsch, 1964, 1st Edn, in d/jkt, near fine. VG/VF (6)

Jack Kerouac "San Francisco Blues", Pacific Red Car 1991, wraps, VF; "The Scripture of the Golden Eternity", Totem Press, 1960

Lot: 96

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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Jack Kerouac San Francisco Blues, Pacific Red Car 1991, wraps, VF; The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Totem Press, 1960, First Edn, card wraps a little toned; Scattered Poems, City Lights, 1972, VF; and The Paris Review, 1968 (Issue 43) with Kerouac Interview. VG/VF (4)

Jack Kerouac selection including "Desolation Angels", Deutsch, 1966, and "Visions of Cody", Deutsch, 1973

Lot: 97

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £34
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Jack Kerouac selection including Desolation Angels, Deutsch, 1966, and Visions of Cody, Deutsch, 1973, both 1st Edns in VG/F d/jkts, gift inscriptions; Selected Letters 1940-1956 and 1957-1969, in VF d/jkts; and others including six in d/jkts. Fair to VF (15)

A collection of biographies of Jack Kerouac, hardbacks in d/jkt (4) and softbacks. Good to VF (16)

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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A collection of biographies of Jack Kerouac, hardbacks in d/jkt (4) and softbacks. Good to VF (16)

Folio Society publications, a collection in VG/VF condition, all in VG to VF slipcases. (18)

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Folio Society publications, a collection in VG/VF condition, all in VG to VF slipcases. (18)

Peter Whitehead "Wholly Communion", 1966; William Burroughs "Junkie", 1966; Michael McClure "Rare Angel", 1974;

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Peter Whitehead Wholly Communion, 1966; William Burroughs Junkie, 1966; Michael McClure Rare Angel, 1974; Burroughs and Kerouac And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, 2008, 1st Edn, in d/jkt; Peter Finch (Ed.) For Jack Kerouac – poems on his death, Second Aeon, 1970, 1st Edn; and other Beat Generation literature including Gregory Corso (5). Good to VF. (29)

Patti Smith "Babel", Virago, 1978, 1st Edn, card wraps, near fine; and "Patti Smith: Camera Solo", Yale, 2011,

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Patti Smith Babel, Virago, 1978, 1st Edn, card wraps, near fine; and Patti Smith: Camera Solo, Yale, 2011, 1st Edn, card wraps, exhibition catalogue edited by Susan Talbott, card wraps, VF. (2)

Gary Snyder selection, all softbacks, including "The Old Ways", 1977, 1st Edn; "Myths & Texts", Totem Press, 1960, 1st Edn;

Lot: 103

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £22
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Gary Snyder selection, all softbacks, including The Old Ways, 1977, 1st Edn; Myths & Texts, Totem Press, 1960, 1st Edn; Passage Through India, Grey Fox, 1983, 1st Edn; The Fudo Trilogy, Frederic Brunke, 1973, 1st Edn, with woodcuts; and 7 others, mostly verse. VG/VF (11)

                                                                                                

Bob Dylan "Poem to Joanie", Booklegger, c.1973, card wraps, VG; "Tarantula", MacGibbon & Kee, 1971, in VG d/jkt;

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Bob Dylan Poem to Joanie, Booklegger, c.1973, card wraps, VG; Tarantula, MacGibbon & Kee, 1971, in VG d/jkt; Paul Williams Dylan – What Happened? And Books, 1980, card wraps, fine; and related. VG/VF (5)

            

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

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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) 

C. E. Heanley "The Granite Hills", 1920, Chapman & Hall, First Edn., original printed cloth,

Lot: 131

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £6
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C. E. Heanley The Granite Hills, 1920, Chapman & Hall, First Edn., original printed cloth, a little worn & discoloured; endpapers browned, small handstamp of Yealand Old School; clean text. A Charlotte Heanley novel set in Cornwall. 246pp

Paul Dunbar "Les Aventures de Staline", Cirque Divers, 1980, large format s/back,

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Paul Dunbar Les Aventures de Staline, Cirque Divers, 1980, large format s/back, creasing to top right corner o/w VG; a graphic novel; no internal inscriptions. One of 1000 printed. 58pp