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Auction No 406, Category: Literature

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

Mark Twain "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and other New Stories", Chatto & Windus, 1893, ink signed on the title page "S.L. Clemens. Mark Twain";

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £600 - £800
SOLD £740
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Mark Twain The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and other New Stories, Chatto & Windus, 1893, ink signed on the title page S.L. Clemens. Mark Twain; original gilt cloth, spine rolled, bumped corners; numbered annotation at foot of title page o/w free of other inscriptions with good clean text and endpapers. Advertising leaf as second front endpaper and 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear. An excellent example of Clemens' autograph together with his pseudonym.

Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol", Chapman & Hall, 1844, 7th Edition, small octavo (158 x 98mm), in a fine 19th Century full calf binding

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
SOLD £360
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall, 1844, 7th Edition, small octavo (158 x 98mm), in a fine 19th Century full calf binding with raised bands, gilt decoration and ruling, marbled edges and endpapers; complete with half-title, four hand-coloured plates by John Leech & four other engravings in the text, and 2pp of advertisements at rear; old tape repair to reverse of frontispiece; fine internally aside from a few minor tone spots. 

Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra (trans. Charles Jarvis) "Don Quixote De la Mancha", Joseph Thomas, 1840, 3 vols, orig. worn cloth, gilt,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra (trans. Charles Jarvis) Don Quixote De la Mancha, Joseph Thomas, 1840, 3 vols, orig. worn cloth, gilt, some damage to backstrips, armorial bookplates of William Henry White; with 800 illustrations after Tony Johannot, each volume with tissue-guarded frontispiece; occasional tone mark but largely clean internally 

John Rotheram "An Essay on Establishments in Religion with Remarks on the Confessional", White & Saint, 1767, bound with four other 1767 tracts

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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John Rotheram An Essay on Establishments in Religion with Remarks on the Confessional, White & Saint, 1767, bound with four other 1767 tracts comprising James Ibbetson A Plea for the Subscription of the Clergy to the Thirty-Nine Articles, Benjamin Page Five Letters on Several Subjects, Nathaniel Forster A Sermon Preached at the Visitation of the Rev.Dr.Moss, and Thomas Weare A Sermon Preached before the University of Oxford; contemp. worn calf, front board detached. Together with Elizabeth Helme Plutarch's Lives Abridged, 1794, half-leather, worn, gilt title label. Both volumes with good clean text. (2)    

"The Library Shakespeare illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank and R. Dudley", William Mackenzie, 1870, quarto, 3 vols,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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The Library Shakespeare illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank and R. Dudley, William Mackenzie, 1870, quarto, 3 vols, green half-leather, worn, marbled edges & endpapers; illustrated throughout including many coloured plates. Some occasional minor spotting o/w VG internally. (3)

William Baron "Bill O’ Jack’s Lancashire Monthly", 1909-1911, issues 1 to 32 complete in three gilt cloth volumes,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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William Baron Bill O' Jack's Lancashire Monthly, 1909-1911, issues 1 to 32 complete in three gilt cloth volumes, lacking orig. printed wraps, darkening to text; together with Baron's Cuckoo Fowt Chronicles, J.D. Howarth, Rochdale, 1906, orig. printed cloth, VG.