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Auction No 420, Category: Literature

13 Lots (displaying 1 - 13)

"The Monthly Review", John Murray, April-June 1901, Oct.-Dec, 1903, and April-Dec.1906, bound into 5 volumes, gilt cloth,

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £72
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The Monthly Review, John Murray, April-June 1901, Oct.-Dec, 1903, and April-Dec.1906, bound into 5 volumes, gilt cloth, bookplates of Hulme Hall Library; includes contributions by Winston Churchill, Lady Gregory, William Archer, Isabella Blackwood, Arthur Symons, Edward Grey, A.T. Quiller-Couch, Roger Fry, and Capt. F.E. Younghusband. VG (5)

"The Strand Magazine" 1891-1892, four volumes, Vols. 2-4 with the complete text of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Vol.1 in publisher’s cloth,

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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The Strand Magazine 1891-1892, four volumes, Vols. 2-4 with the complete text of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Vol.1 in publisher's cloth, others in half-leather, gilt. Binding of Vol.1, worn, inner-hinge cracked; others with some discolouration to the cloth-covered boards o/w sound, some minor spotting to text. (4)

"The Strand Magazine", George Newnes, 1891-1895 complete in 10 volumes, with "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and other Conan Doyle stories.

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £105
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The Strand Magazine, George Newnes, 1891-1895 complete in 10 volumes, with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and other Conan Doyle stories. Cloth bound with gilt leather titles, some moderate wear, occasional light foxing. (10)    

Assorted books & pamphlets including Havelock Ellis "Sonnets with Folk Songs from the Spanish", Golden Cockerel Press, 1925, fine;

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Assorted books & pamphlets including Havelock Ellis Sonnets with Folk Songs from the Spanish, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925, fine; John Ward Moston Characters at Play, 1905, with folding map, lacking title page; E. Darbyshire Ballads, Poems and Recitations, Sheffield, 1885; John Sutton The Date-Book of Nottingham 1878, 8 parts, and The Nottingham Date-Book, 1884, 19 parts, in the original wraps, mixed condition; Macaulay Essays, 1902 in a fine full-leather prize binding; Barrow Naval Worthies, 1845, ex-library; Wills and Inventories of New Mills People, 1995, Parts 1 & 2; Hewitson Our Churches and Chapels, Preston, 1869 (some loose pages); and various others. (57 items)  

Franklin Library publications, all quarter-leather, gilt, comprising Homer’s "Odyssey", Hemingway "Farewell to Arms", Mark Twain "Huckleberry Finn"

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £15
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Franklin Library publications, all quarter-leather, gilt, comprising Homer's Odyssey, Hemingway Farewell to Arms, Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn, Cervantes Don Quixote, and Voltaire Candide. VG/VF, no inscriptions. (5)   

Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks [Isabella Banks] "The Manchester Man", 1896, illustrated by Charles Green & Hedley Fitton, signed by Isabella Banks

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £400 - £500
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Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks [Isabella Banks] The Manchester Man, 1896, illustrated by Charles Green & Hedley Fitton, signed by Isabella Banks on the half-title, complete with the many plates and three maps (two folding). Large paper edition, top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere. This scarce signed edition was jointly published by Abel Heywood of Manchester, and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, London. Some variable foxing to text, the plates & maps largely unaffected, one map with small marginal tear strengthened with archival tape.

"Fables de La Fontaine avec les Dessins de Gustave Dore", Hachette, Paris, 1890, folio, re-backed in fine red morocco, gilt,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £58
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Fables de La Fontaine avec les Dessins de Gustave Dore, Hachette, Paris, 1890, folio, re-backed in fine red morocco, gilt, the cloth-covered boards worn & faded, cloth to back board torn; internally VG with most of the fine wood-engraved full-page plates after Dore clean, the last 60pp damp-stained upper right affecting the plate margins and straying on to four of the plates. A re-issue of the 1868 edition. Small ownership inscription to second free endpaper; lx,864pp

Cervantes "The History of Don Quixote….Illustrated by Gustave Dore", Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1870s], tall 4to., half-leather, gilt, marbled sides

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Cervantes The History of Don Quixote….Illustrated by Gustave Dore, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1870s], tall 4to., half-leather, gilt, marbled sides & endpapers; browning to first & last few leaves o/w fine internally. Some wear to extremities of the binding. 118 full-page engravings.

Charles Dickens selection, including "Christmas Books", 1869, front inner hinge cracked; "Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi",1853 (repaired);

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Charles Dickens selection, including Christmas Books, 1869, front inner hinge cracked; Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 1853 (repaired); Sketches by Boz, 1850, half-leather; The Chimes, 1898; The Battle of Life, 1899, full leather; and five others including two biographical works by Robert Langton and T.P. Cooper. Most with previous owner's label to front endpaper. (10).

"The Book of Elizabethan Verse", Chatto & Windus, 1908, full decorated vellum, gilt, leather title label, near fine;

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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The Book of Elizabethan Verse, Chatto & Windus, 1908, full decorated vellum, gilt, leather title label, near fine; and a collection of other Literature, 1828 to early 20th Century, in a range of attractive bindings, most with previous owner's label to front endpaper. (17) 

G.R. Oakley "In Olden Days: Lancashire Legends", Rochdale, 1923; Ben Brierley "Ab-O'Th-Yate's Dictionary", 1881, pictorial cloth;

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £44
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G.R. Oakley In Olden Days: Lancashire Legends, Rochdale, 1923; Ben Brierley Ab-O'Th-Yate's Dictionary, 1881, pictorial cloth; and other Lancashire poetry & prose, 1880s/1930s. Mixed condition. Ownership stamps at front of each volume. (8)

The ‘Essex' Edition of the works of H.G. Wells, Ernest Behn, 1926-27, 11 of 24 volumes including "The Time Machine", "The First Men in the Moon"

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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The ‘Essex' Edition of the works of H.G. Wells, Ernest Behn, 1926-27, 11 of 24 volumes including The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Dr.Moreau, orig. gilt cloth, VG/VF, no inscriptions; and five early 1920s editions of novels by Thomas Hardy, four in full leather.

[Walter Scott] "Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland",

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Sep 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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[Walter Scott] Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1867, folio, original gilt cloth, together with seven companion volumes issued 1868-78, similarly bound, each with six engravings for The Lady of the Lake, Old Mortality, The Pirate, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, and The Fair Maid of Perth. Browning to first plate of Lady of the Lake o/w clean throughout with all text and tissue-guards. Front cover of Fair Maid of Perth slightly stained. (8)