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Auction No 388, Category: Literature

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

Various including "Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain", c.1884; "Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande",

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £28
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Various including Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, c.1884; Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Oxford, [1937], in d/jkt; Ian McEwan The Cement Garden, Simon & Schuster, 1978, 1st Edn in d/jkt; T.H. James Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.21: Three Reflections, printed on rice paper, rear cover torn; and various others. (22)                 

"Songs by Burns", Otto Schulze, Edinburgh, 1901; quarter-vellum, gilt, spine darkened o/w VG; one of 500 printed.

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Songs by Burns, Otto Schulze, Edinburgh, 1901; quarter-vellum, gilt, spine darkened o/w VG; one of 500 printed. Double-page illustrated title, each song with historiated initials. 99pp plus index & limitation page. Fine internally.  

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux "Discours Prononce a L’Academie Francoise le quatre Fevrier 1743…

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
UNSOLD
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Discours Prononce a L’Academie Francoise le quatre Fevrier 1743….lorsqu’il vint prendre séance a la place de feu M. l’Abbe’ de Hauteville. Avec la Reponse de M. l’Archeveque de Sens. Paris, 1743, title page + 22pp of text; later marbled boards, spine slight frayed; small bookplates of Lytton Strachey and Roger Senhouse. Clean text

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Walton", Nonesuch Press, 1929, No. 114 of 1100 for sale in the UK, full grained-morocco, gilt, raised bands, fine;

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £98
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Izaak Walton The Compleat Walton, Nonesuch Press, 1929, No. 114 of 1100 for sale in the UK, full grained-morocco, gilt, raised bands, fine; engraved tissue-guarded plates; 631pp

John Milton "Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake in Two Volumes", Nonesuch Press, 1926, tall octavo, quarter vellum,

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £76
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John Milton Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake in Two Volumes, Nonesuch Press, 1926, tall octavo, quarter vellum, gilt, slightly marked, paper decorated boards, uncut two sides, browning to endpapers o/w fine internally with all plates. VG

Joseph Conrad "Typhoon and Other Stories", Heinemann, 1903, First Edition, original gilt cloth, some wear; previous owner’s bookplate,

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Joseph Conrad Typhoon and Other Stories, Heinemann, 1903, First Edition, original gilt cloth, some wear; previous owner’s bookplate, spotting to pastedown, uncut two sides, clean text.

"The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844", Oxford, 1987, two volumes, original gilt cloth, frontispiece & 8 other plates. Fine (2)

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £36
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The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844, Oxford, 1987, two volumes, original gilt cloth, frontispiece & 8 other plates. Fine (2)

Samuel Beckett "Poems in English", Calder, 1961, 1st Edn in worn d/jkt; "Two Poems by Walter de la Mare and Arthur Rogers", 1938,

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Samuel Beckett Poems in English, Calder, 1961, 1st Edn in worn d/jkt; Two Poems by Walter de la Mare and Arthur Rogers, 1938, one of 200, inscribed by Rogers; Robert Burns Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Werner Laurie, 1927, with prospectus, all in a slipcase; Wheels: A Second Cycle, Blackwell, 1917; Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Pleasure, Siegle Hill, c.1919, illuminated edition; and other poetry. Good/Fine. (13)

H.G. Wells selection of First Editions, 3 in d/jkt; includes "The Wheels of Chance", 1896; "The New World Order", 1940; and "War in the Future", 1917

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £70
SOLD £38
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H.G. Wells selection of First Editions, 3 in d/jkt; includes The Wheels of Chance, 1896; The New World Order, 1940; and War in the Future, 1917 in chipped d/jkt; fair to VG. (17)

Selection including G. Henty (8, pictorial cloth), Ammon Wrigley (2), and Gerald Kersh "The Dead Look On", 1943, 1st Edn in d/jkt.

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £10
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Selection including G. Henty (8, pictorial cloth), Ammon Wrigley (2), and Gerald Kersh The Dead Look On, 1943, 1st Edn in d/jkt. Fair to fine. (16)

D.H. Lawrence "Studies in Classic American Literature", 1924, 1st Edn, "Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence", 1936, 1st Edn;

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £10
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D.H. Lawrence Studies in Classic American Literature, 1924, 1st Edn, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence, 1936, 1st Edn; and Helen Corke D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Princess’: A Memory of Jessie Chambers, Merle Press. 1951, No.166 of 200, signed by the author. VG/Fine (3)    

Collected Letters, journals etc including Saint Theresa of the Infant Jesus (boxed set), Lord Macaulay (2 VF half-leather volumes),

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Collected Letters, journals etc including Saint Theresa of the Infant Jesus (boxed set), Lord Macaulay (2 VF half-leather volumes), Dylan Thomas, George Gissing, Walter Scott, Horace Walpole. Also two works on Autographs. Five in d/jkt. Mainly good to VF. (11)