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Auction No 349, Category: Literature

17 Lots (displaying 1 - 17)

Eric Gillett "Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, selected with a Memoir" 1932

Lot: 155

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
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Eric Gillett Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, selected with a Memoir, Oxford, 1932, original cloth, gilt, faded; clean text; b/w frontispiece.

Edna Lyall "The Autobiography of a Slander", Longmans, 1892

Lot: 156

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Edna Lyall The Autobiography of a Slander, Longmans, 1892, First Edition, original pictorial cloth, slight wear at extremities; gilt edged; 20 b/w plates by L. Speed; binding weak between pp.128/129 o/w VG

The Poetical Works of John Milton, Macmillan, 1890, 3 Vols

Lot: 157

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited David Masson, Macmillan, 1890, 2nd Edition (revised), 3 Vols., original cloth, gilt, VG; uncut 2 sides; engraved portraits; few pages with marginal notes/markings in pencil.536+642+618pp

The Casquet of Literature, Blackie & Son, 1873

Lot: 158

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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The Casquet of Literature, Blackie & Son, 1873, 4 vols in 2; half-red morocco, gilt, with raised bands, some wear; a.e.g.; 36 fine steel-engraved plates; some occasional spotting, some pages stained from dried flowers. 

Frederick Marryat "The Pirate, and The Three Cutters" 1867

Lot: 161

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Frederick Marryat The Pirate, and The Three Cutters, Bell & Daldy, 1867, rebound in fine green quarter calf, gilt; 20 steel engravings mainly after Clarkson Stanfield; 1870 gift inscription top of page iv; some fox marks

Robert Morgan "Voices in the Dark", Arc Publications, 1976 & another

Lot: 163

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Robert Morgan Voices in the Dark, Arc Publications, 1976, signed & inscribed by the author; and Peter J. Neville Havins The Matchbox, Swansea, 1975; both fine First edition in VG d/w. (2)

Anglo-Indian Fiction with Helen Forbes "It's a Way They Have in the Army" 1905 & 2 others

Lot: 165

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £26
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Anglo-Indian Fiction comprising Lady Helen Forbes It's a way They Have in the Army, 1905, 1st Edn; M. Leonora Eyles Captivity,1922, 1st Edn, some foxing; and Harold Begbie The Challenge, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. All original cloth, browning to endpapers. (3)

Frederic Dillaye "Les Etapes du Cirque Zoulof" Paris, c.1895

Lot: 166

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Frederic Dillaye Les Etapes du Cirque Zoulof, Paris (c.1895), original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine a little faded; a.e.g.; illustrated by Charles Clerice; rear inner hinge with tape repair. 421pp

Book-Lore: A Magazine devoted to Old Time Literature,1884-1887

Lot: 169

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Book-Lore: A Magazine devoted to Old Time Literature, Elliot Stock, December 1884 to November 1887, Vols I to IV complete, bound into 3; quarto, original leather covered boards very worn & now covered in protective brown paper wrappers; text-block uncut 2 sides and very clean internally in sound bindings. (3)

William E.A. Axon "Stray Chapters in Literature, Folk-Lore, and Archaeology" 1888

Lot: 170

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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William E.A. Axon Stray Chapters in Literature, Folk-Lore, and Archaelogy, John Heywood, Manchester, 1888, 1st Edition; original gilt cloth, worn at corners, frayed at top & foot of spine; clean text, 309pp + Axon bibliography.

Ulick Ralph Burke "Sancho Panza's Proverbs and others which occur in Don Quixote" 1872

Lot: 171

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Ulick Ralph Burke (Ed.) Sancho Panza's Proverbs and others which occur in Don Quixote, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1872, 1st Edition;original blue gilt cloth, gilt library number at foot of spine; endpapers browned; engraved title. 

Charlotte Bronte "The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte, edited by Clement Shorter" 1923

Lot: 172

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
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Charlotte Bronte The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte, edited by Clement Shorter, Hodder & Stoughton, 1923, First Edition; original boards with quarter cloth, gilt, slight wear at corners; ownership inscriptions front endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; xxi+244pp

Edward Moxon "Sonnets" London, 1830, First Edition

Lot: 173

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Edward Moxon Sonnets, London, 1830, First Edition, privately printed; re-cased, original leather over new boards & endpapers; old library stamp; clean text. 46pp

Isaac D'Israeli "Curiosities of Literature" 1817, 3 vols, and others

Lot: 174

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Isaac D'Israeli Curiosities of Literature, John Murray, 1817, 3 volumes, nicely rebound in modern cloth, gilt; and D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature, Edward Moxon, 1842, 3 volumes, original cloth, gilt, top of spine of Vol.2 badly chipped. (6)

Ian Miller "Doorstep", Newnes [1938], 320pp

Lot: 175

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Ian Miller Doorstep, Newnes [1938], original cloth, spine darkened o/w VG, ex-libris bookplate, 320pp

Sheila Burnford signed & inscribed books (5) incl. The Incredible Journey

Lot: 176

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £28
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Sheila Burnford signed & inscribed books (5), all in good to fine d/w including The Incredible Journey, 1965; plus another signed by John Timpson. (6)

Othello, The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007

Lot: 179

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Mar 2015 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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Othello, The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007, in special case, folio, in three-quarter goatskin over marbled boards together with a small companion volume edited by Michael Neill. No. 151 of 3750 produced. VF, the case slightly marked.