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Auction No 351, Category: Literature

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

'Alternative' journals etc, 1970s, including "Communes Network" (7) & others

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
SOLD £10
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'Alternative' journals etc, 1970s, including Communes Network (7 issues), Wark (3), and Alternative Title. (14) 

Signed Books, a collection, mainly paperbacks but including Margaret Thatcher "The Downing Street Years" 1st Edn

Lot: 130

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £44
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Signed Books, a collection, mainly paperbacks but including Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years, 1993, 1st Edn, fine in d/w; others include Harold Robbins, Maisie Mosco (2), Joan Collins, David Niven (book damaged), Eric Newby, and Alan Whicker. (All obtained "in person" at booksignings). (13)

[John Taylor] "A Manual of Laconics; or many Things for Many Minds" 1841

Lot: 133

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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[John Taylor] A Manual of Laconics; or many Things for Many Minds, J. Taylor, 1841, new edition, full contemporary leather lightly marked & worn, a.e.g., fine internally, 462pp; plus Thomas Moore Irish Melodies, J. Power, 1823, 4th edition, full leather, gilt, rebacked. (2)

Robert Burns "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" Kilmarnock, 1867

Lot: 134

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Robert Burns Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, 1867, facsimile edition of the original John Wilson 1786 edition, printed by James McKie and signed by him, numbered 184 of 600; bound in red half-morocco gilt, over marbled boards with peripheral wear, t.e.g.; 1875 Carlton Club bookplate. VG internally. 

"Othello" The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007, in presentation case

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £48
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Othello, The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007, in presentation 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 presentation case slightly marked.

Signed Books, a collection including Brian Blessed, John Mortimer

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Signed Books, a collection including Brian Blessed, John Mortimer (2), Tommy Steele, Barry Norman, Bruce Allsopp. (10)

George Eliot "Felix Holt, the Radical" William Blackwood, 1866, 1st Edn, 3 Vols

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £76
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George Eliot Felix Holt, the Radical, William Blackwood, 1866, First Edition, 3 volume set, original red-brown cloth, gilt; 4pp publisher's catalogue in vol.3; clean internally but hinges cracked or weak with few gatherings loose; some pencil annotations to rear pastedowns. 

James Joyce "Ulysses" John Rodker for the Egoist Press, Paris , 1922

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £400 - £500
SOLD £280
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James Joyce Ulysses, John Rodker for the Egoist Press, Paris, 1922, No. 1659 of 2000 published on handmade paper; later gilt cloth, the front cover of the original paper wraps bound in at the rear; lacks errata list. Brief gift inscription front endpaper. Bookplate of Paul Baxter of Dowing College, Cambridge. Occasional minor tone mark otherwise VG internally.