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Auction No 427, Category: Literature

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

Penguin publications, 1939-73, mostly 1940s to early ‘60s, mainly fiction, very mixed condition, 28 with ownership inscription to front cover.

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Penguin publications, 1939-73, mostly 1940s to early ‘60s, mainly fiction, very mixed condition, 28 with ownership inscription to front cover. Most are first printings in Penguin including five by Simenon and nine by Freeman Wills Crofts. (59)

Signed First Editions comprising Yao-wen Li and Carol Kendall "Sweet and Sour:Tales from China", signed & inscribed by Yao-wen Li on the half-title,

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
UNSOLD
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Signed First Editions comprising Yao-wen Li and Carol Kendall Sweet and Sour: Tales from China, signed & inscribed by Yao-wen Li on the half-title, the d/jkt edgeworn; and novels by Graham Swift, Iain Banks Yann Martel and Adam Haslett in fine d/jkts. (5)

[Horace Walpole] "The Castle of Otranto", J. Dodsley, 1782, fourth edition, old worn calf binding

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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[Horace Walpole] The Castle of Otranto, J. Dodsley, 1782, fourth edition, old worn calf binding, boards detached, pp.113/114 damaged & repaired (no loss of text) o/w VG internally; xxiv,200pp

Virginia Woolf "To The Lighthouse", Hogarth Press, 1927, First Edition, orig. blue cloth, gilt, light wear to spine extremities, slightly marked,

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £400 - £500
SOLD £480
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Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse, Hogarth Press, 1927, First Edition, orig. blue cloth, gilt, light wear to spine extremities, slightly marked, variable foxing to first 12 leaves, occasional spotting elsewhere; together with Mrs Dalloway, Sept.1925, second edition in the original brown cloth, VG. Both vols with ownership signature to front endpaper. (2) [Offered on behalf of Englesea Brook Museum.]

UK First Editions in d/jkts including Peter Tinniswood "A Touch of Daniel", 1968; James Hanley "A Walk in the Wilderness", 1950;

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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UK First Editions in d/jkts including Peter Tinniswood A Touch of Daniel, 1968; James Hanley A Walk in the Wilderness, 1950; Alain Robbe-Grillet The Erasers, 1966; and various others. Also four reprints (one without d/jkt) including Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek, Cassirer, 1959. Seven have ownership signatures. (29) [Offered on behalf of Englesea Brook Museum.]

Anatole France "Penguin Island", illustrated by Frank Pape, Bodley Head, 1925, gilt cloth, VG; and David Day "A Tolkien Bestiary", 1979,

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Anatole France Penguin Island, illustrated by Frank Pape, Bodley Head, 1925, gilt cloth, VG; and David Day A Tolkien Bestiary, 1979, in slightly frayed d/jkt. (2)

J.R.R. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings", George Allen & Unwin, 1957, the three volume set, in gilt cloth bindings, with price-clipped d/jackets

Lot: 100

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Jul 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £800 - £1200
SOLD £820
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J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, George Allen & Unwin, 1957, the three volume set, in gilt cloth bindings, complete with price-clipped d/jackets, Fellowship of the Ring the seventh impression in eighth impression d/jacket, The Two Towers fifth impression in fifth impression d/jacket, The Return of the King fourth impression in fifth impression d/jacket. The jackets show some minor peripheral wear but are o/w in very good condition. The maps are intact, the map of Fellowship of the Ring detached and strengthened along the folds with cloth strips. Very clean internally, no inscriptions. A very good set. (3)