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The March Harry Potter & Library Auction

March 7, 2023

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, 11th issue, signed & inscribed by the author, 'To Anna, Best wishes, J. K. Rowling, 17/3/98', London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback. Contents good & bright, some light fold-lines to page corners and a few small marks in places, covers creased with slight wear to corners but otherwise bold & vibrant, one neat owner inscription being the vendor & recipient of author's inscription Provenance: Our vendor has kindly provided the

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Realised Price: £1400

Estimate£1,500 - £2,500

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter en de Halfbloed Prins [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince], first Dutch edition, signed by the author, Antwerp: De Harmonie Standaard, 2005. Hardback, signed by the author on title, a few small bumps to corners & edges but otherwise in near fine, unread condition Provenance: Vendor's late aunt was a keen puzzler and entered a competition in De Telegraaf newspaper, unaware that the prize was this signed book. She was delighted to win the competition, despite havi

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Realised Price: £3000

Estimate£600 - £1,000

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter collection comprising: Philosopher's Stone, second issue, Ted Smart, 1998; Chamber of Secrets, first issue, Ted Smart, 1998; Prisoner of Azkaban, first issue, Ted Smart, 1999; Order of the Phoenix (x2), first edition, Bloomsbury, 2003; Half-Blood Prince, first edition, Bloomsbury, 2005 (lacking dust-jacket); Goblet of Fire, second issue, Bloomsbury, 2000, all hardbacks with dust-jackets except Half-Blood Prince, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults

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Realised Price: £35

Estimate£50 - £80

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, first edition, signed by the author on Bloomsbury bookplate, London: Bloomsbury, 2005, hardback with dust-jacket. In fine, unread condition - a pristine example Provenance: Western Mail, Harry Potter Book Competition, 2005, runner-up prize. The book comes with a typed letter signed by the Consumer Marketing Assistant at Western Mail informing our vendor that they have won this book, dated 9 August 2005

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Realised Price: £460

Estimate£600 - £1,000

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5

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, 23rd issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, paperback. Together with an original photograph of Rowling with school pupils at the signing event (Waterstones in Wells, Somerset), plus two unsigned first issue paperbacks of Chamber and Azkaban. The two signed books are internally go

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Realised Price: £1000

Estimate£1,500 - £2,500

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6

Rowling, J. K. Collection comprising: Harri Potter a Maen yr Athronydd [Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone], first Welsh edition, first issue, Bloomsbury, 2003, hardback with dust-jacket and protective mylar cover, in fine/unread condition; Chamber of Secrets, first adult edition, second issue, Bloomsbury, 1998, paperback, creased at corners, otherwise fine; Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, first issue, Bloomsbury, 1999, paperback, full number line, '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', very good, un

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Estimate£80 - £120

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StatusCLOSED!

7

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, second issue, London: Ted Smart, The Book People Ltd., 1998, hardback, unclipped dust-jacket, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2', in protective mylar cover. In near fine, unread condition

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Realised Price: £100

Estimate£100 - £200

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8

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Ted Smart, The Book People Ltd., 1998, hardback, unclipped dust-jacket, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', in protective mylar cover. In near fine, unread condition, light bump to base of spine, otherwise appears new

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Realised Price: £460

Estimate£500 - £700

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

8A

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, two first deluxe editions, second issues, both with a reverse-bound error (contents upside down and back to front), London: Bloomsbury, 1999, number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2', internally fine/unread with the exception of two small marks on the half-title of one book, cloth well-preserved & bright with light bumping to corners. Together with a fifth issue of the same in original cellophane wrappers bearing labels, opened along one edge of c

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Estimate£500 - £700

StatusUnsold

9

Nicolson, Benedict. Joseph Wright of Derby, in two volumes, London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1968. Quarto, bearing bookplates of Michael Robert Handley, Newby Hall. Contents good & bright, dust-jacket of first volume with slight wear at top of spine, protective mylar jackets. Together with three other works on Wright of Derby: Life & Works, Bemrose, [c. 1885], featuring six etched plates (The Twins, by F. Seymour Haden inscribed '1st Proof') and other illustrations, 4pp. plus illustrations, remain

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Realised Price: £10

Estimate£20 - £40

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10

Boothby, Sir Brooke. Sorrows Sacred to the Memory of Penelope, London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1796. Illustrated with three stipple-engraved plates: The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby, frontispiece after Henry Fuseli; portrait of Penelope after Sir Joshua Reynolds; the Ashbourne memorial stone by Thomas Banks, plus seven etchings & engravings within the text. Folio, contemporary polished calf, marbled endpapers, 89pp. plus illustrations, internally good & bright, some incredibly pale spotting, mostly c

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Realised Price: £340

Estimate£200 - £400

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10A

Thomas, Edward. Collection, some first editions, to include Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, 1917; Rest and Unrest, London: Duckworth, 1910; Rose Acre Papers, London: Duckworth, 1910; The Country, London: Batsford, 1913; Maurice Maeterlinck, London: Methuen, 1911; In Pursuit of Spring, London: Thomas Nelson, 1914; Walter Pater, London: Martin Secker, 1913; Beautiful Wales, London: A. & C. Black, 1905; Some British Birds, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; British Butterflies, London: Hodder & Stou

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Realised Price: £160

Estimate£200 - £300

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11

Williams & Stafford. England's Battles by Sea and Land, volumes 1 to 5, London: London Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., n.d., [c. 1860]. Large octavo, publisher's gilt purple cloth, all edges gilt, illustrated with numerous engraved plates. Contents generally good & bright, cloth with some discolouration (5)

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Realised Price: £15

Estimate£20 - £40

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12

Fleming, Ian. Dr. No, third impression, Jonathan Cape, 1958, in d.j., tog. w/ Goldfinger, third printing, Pan paperback, 1961, both books bearing spurious 'Ian Fleming' signature [not deemed genuine] (2)

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Realised Price: £35

Estimate£20 - £40

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13

Banks, Iain M. Inversions, signed paperback edition, 1998, tog. w/ Complicity, signed paperback (2)

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Realised Price: £12

Estimate£20 - £40

Winning BidN/A

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14

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species, sixth edition, London: John Murray, 1878. Octavo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, one folding diagram, [iii]-xxi, 458pp. Contents good, clean, bright, some pale spotting to folding plate, some offsetting to title, top corner removed on title, lacking ffep & leaf before title, cloth worn at corners & headcaps with slight splitting to rear joint but otherwise good

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Realised Price: £100

Estimate£50 - £80

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StatusCLOSED!

14A

Noble, Mark. Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell, second edition in two volumes, Birmingham: Pearson & Rollason, 1787, illustrated with 12 engraved plates including frontispiece, five of which are folding. Octavo, full contemporary calf with morocco title labels lettered in gilt, bearing armorial bookplates for George Montgomery Traherne. Vol. I., pp. [xxxii], 448, additional subscribers tipped-in; Vol. II., pp. [viii], 464. Contents very good & bright, plates well-preserved, bindings w

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Realised Price: £22

Estimate£50 - £80

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

15

The Beatles. Five books to include Shout!, London: Elm Tree Books, 1981; The Beatles Sent to Coventry, by Pete Chambers, signed by the author, 2006 (5)

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Estimate£20 - £30

StatusUnsold

16

A miscellaneous collection of books comprising The People of the Abyss, by Jack London, first UK edition, London: Isbister & Co., 1903; The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, New Edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913; Rodney Stone, by Arthur Conan Doyle, London: Thomas Nelson, [1917]; The Mystery of the Sea, by Bram Stoker, London: Rider & Co., [c. 1914]; Aucassin & Nicolete, by Michael West, George G. Harrap, [c. 1910]; Liverpool, History of the Mersey, by Benjamin Blower, wi

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Realised Price: £40

Estimate£80 - £120

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

16A

Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961, hardback with price-clipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Octavo, publisher's cloth with blind-embossed skeletal hand, contents very good & bright, neat owner inscription and tape residue to endpapers, binding good, tight & square, very faint bumping to corners, dust-jacket bold & bright, light chipping to corners & edges of spine. Together with For Your Eyes Only, second impression, London: Jonathan Cape, June 19

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Realised Price: £230

Estimate£150 - £250

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

17

Boulestin, X. M. [Xavier Marcel]. The Finer Cooking or Dishes for Parties, first edition, together with The Recipes, first edition, London: Cassell, 1937, illustrated by J. E. Laboureur, hardbacks, housed in card slipcase. Finer Cooking, pp. [xii], 198; Recipes, pp. [vii], 198. Contents very good, clean & bright, spotting to endpapers with a mounted contemporary clipping relating to the author, Finer Cooking dust-jacket present with toning to spine and some wear to edges. Together with Mrs. Beet

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Realised Price: £100

Estimate£80 - £120

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

17A

Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds, second edition, Newcastle upon Tyne: Hodgson, Beilby & Bewick, 1791, octavo, pp. [x], 483, illustrated with numerous wood-engravings, internally very good & bright, a couple of pages with repaired margins, handsomely rebound in half-calf with marbled boards and crushed morocco title label lettered in gilt. Together with A History of British Birds, in two volumes, Newcastle: Cook for Bewick, 1832, contents good with pale spotting, heavier in places

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Realised Price: £100

Estimate£80 - £120

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18

Carr (John) Viaggio in Olanda E Nel Mezzodi della Germania, etc. [Journey Into Holland and In the Middle of Germany] Vol. 1 & Vol. 3 only [of 3], Napoli: Mirelli, 1833, printed paper wrappers, worn, with 8 hand coloured engraved plates, small octavo. Together with Barozzi (Jacopo) L’Architettura, etc. 2 parts in 1 “Trattato di Meccanica & Ex Fabrica et Ratiocinatione, Venezia: Locatelli, 1778, 54 copper engraved plates, quarter calf, marbled paper boards, reverse of final plate has a small rubbe

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Realised Price: £90

Estimate£100 - £200

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

19

Scoto (Francesco) Or, Franz Schott. Itinerarium Nobiliorum Overo Nova, etc. 2 volumes with vignette title page and engraved half title, with 50 folding town plans and regional maps of Italy. Some worming affecting some pages near the gutters and touching on the text in these areas; the worming is not widespread. Full vellum worn, labels on the spines, some age stains to paper and one or two rubber stamps for “Biblioteca G. Salomone, Nicosia, 1911”. Small octavo, printed Padua 1658-59 (2)

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Realised Price: £400

Estimate£700 - £1,000

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

20

Battista (Giovanni). Romanorum Imperaturum Effigies Elioghii Ex Diversis Scriptoribus, etc. 157 copper plate engraved portraits, several poor strikes with bleeds and faded quality, some foxing from foredge in, a few plates are affected, vellum worn and darkened with some old staining to the covers, the covers loose and contents separated from the boards. Printed Rome, 1592. Library label inside front board of Biblioteca di G. Salomone, Nicosia, 1911.

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Realised Price: £200

Estimate£200 - £400

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

21

Steadman, Ralph. America, signed first edition, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974. Quarto, publisher's black cloth with unclipped dust-jacket. Signed & dated by the author, 12 March 1974. Contents very good, clean, bright, binding tight & square, dust-jacket good with some chipping to edges and a couple of short tears around the top of spine

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Realised Price: £110

Estimate£80 - £120

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

22

Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan, scarce first edition, stated First Printing, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Octavo, publisher's navy blue cloth lettered in white, unclipped first state dust-jacket priced $3.50 on front flap, bearing a blind-embossed ownership stamp at foot of title page (from the personal library of Calvin W. Fox Jr.). Contents very good, clean, bright, binding good with slight wear to inner gutter and some discolouration to cloth at edges of spine, dust-jacket with discol

Sale has ended!

Estimate£1,500 - £2,000

StatusUnsold

23

Herbert, Frank. The Dune Encyclopedia, first Book Club Edition, New York: Berkley Books, 1984. Octavo, hardcover with unclipped dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean, bright, binding good, tight & square, some light bumping, dust-jacket very well-preserved within a mylar cover, some chipping to extremities

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Realised Price: £60

Estimate£100 - £150

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

24

Herbert, Frank. Dune, Book Club Edition, New York: Chilton, copyright 1965, gutter code Y49, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket, internally very good, clean & bright, some bumping to corners, well-preserved d.j. in mylar cover, some chipping to extremities; Children of Dune, Book Club Edition, New York: Berkley & Putnam's, copyright 1976, gutter code J45, hardback with unclipped d.j., internally good with pale spotting to endpapers & outer edges of text-block, d.j. good with slight creasing & w

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Realised Price: £70

Estimate£100 - £150

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

25

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four, true first American edition as stated on copyright, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Octavo, publisher's cloth, first state dust-jacket priced $3.00 on front flap, blue variant [no priority], pp. [iv], [i-ii], 3-314. Contents very good, clean, bright, some light handling marks in places, binding good with slight wear to cloth at edges, dust-jacket well-preserved & vibrant with a short tear at top-right of upper cover, slight loss at upper corner

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Realised Price: £560

Estimate£300 - £500

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

26

Ono, Yoko. Grapefruit, first US edition, stated first printing, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. Hardcover, 12mo, unclipped dust-jacket priced $3.50. Internally very good, clean, bright, binding well-preserved, jacket worn with loss, protective mylar jacket

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Realised Price: £30

Estimate£40 - £60

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

27

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita, first UK edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959. Octavo, publisher's black cloth, unclipped dust-jacket priced 21s. Contents very good, clean, bright, neat contemporary gift inscription on ffep, binding & cloth well-preserved, dust-jacket with some creasing & wear, protective mylar covers

Sale has ended!

Realised Price: £100

Estimate£60 - £80

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

28

A collection of three books comprising: The Flames: A Fantasy, by Olaf Stapledon, first edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1947, internally very good & bright, dust-jacket with some discolouration & wear; The Night of the Hunter, by Davis Grubb, stated first edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953, octavo, publisher's blue & black cloth lettered in white, unclipped dust-jacket, internally very good & bright, endpapers with stamps for Clinton Hill Chemists, Brooklyn, d.j. mounted onto pastedow

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Realised Price: £70

Estimate£50 - £80

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

29

Kurosawa, Akira. Something Like an Autobiography, signed & inscribed by the author, 'To Mr Pete Hamill, Akira Kurosawa', New York: Vintage, 1983, paperback. Text highlighted in places, covers with creasing and a short tear at top edge

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Realised Price: £90

Estimate£150 - £250

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

30

The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece, by Three Initiates, Chicago: The Yogi Publication Society, 1936. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Contents very good, clean, bright, binding tight & square, some very light rubbing & marks to cloth

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Realised Price: £30

Estimate£70 - £100

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

31

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road, first edition, second printing, New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in white, unclipped dust-jacket priced $3.95. Contents very clean & bright, some creasing & wear around top edges of pages in final section, some wear to cloth at spine, dust-jacket with some wear & loss at edges, housed in protective mylar covers. Together with Tristessa, first edition, New York: Avon, 1960, paperback, well-preserved covers, contents with usual

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Realised Price: £140

Estimate£200 - £300

Winning BidN/A

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32

Leroux, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera, first American edition, first printing with 'Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N. Y.' at foot of copyright page, New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. Octavo, publisher's terracotta cloth with blind-embossed illustration on upper board, illustrated with four double-page colour plates by Andre Castaigne [lacking frontispiece]. Contents very good & clean, plates well-preserved & vibrant, a short tear to the top of p. 171 but not affecti

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Realised Price: £300

Estimate£200 - £300

Winning BidN/A

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33

Schwob, Marcel. Mimes, limited edition [one of 500 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper], Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. Octavo, card covers with paper wraps, untrimmed edges. Contents very good, clean, bright, delicate paper covers in good order with some general discolouration and light wear

Sale has ended!

Realised Price: £20

Estimate£30 - £40

Winning BidN/A

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34

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, seventh printing, reprinted three times in November 1929 [same year as the first edition]. Octavo, black cloth with gilt paper title labels. Internally very good, square ownership label on ffep, binding good with general discolouration and some light bumping & wear

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Realised Price: £25

Estimate£30 - £50

Winning BidN/A

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35

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness, signed by the author, New York: Walker & Company, stated 1969 but printing unknown. The first edition should be in slate boards with a topstain to pages, and the jacket should include a price on the front flap. Book Club Editions should be stated as such on the front flap. This book doesn't conform to either. The printer & binder is given as Berryville Graphics at foot of copyright page. Octavo, blue paper-covered boards lettered in black. Contents v

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Realised Price: £280

Estimate£300 - £500

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

36

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, New York: Brentano's, 1906. Octavo, publisher's gilt cloth, untrimmed page edges, frontispiece illustration with protective tissue-guard, pp. xv, 334. Contents very good, clean, bright, the occasional very pale mark, p. 137 has a tear through centre but would close neatly for an archival repair, binding very good, tight & square, cloth well-preserved with some light surface marks, slight wear to extreme corners

Sale has ended!

Realised Price: £40

Estimate£50 - £80

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

37

Yeats, W. B. The Poetical Works, signed by the author, Vol. I [of two], New York: Macmillan, 1913. Octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth, top edge gilt, bearing blind-embossed ownership stamp at foot of title (from the personal library of Kenneth Anderson), neat owner inscription from the same on ffep, a bookseller's note in pencil states that this first volume is autographed and the second [no longer present] was initialled. Contents very good, clean, bright, slight surface wear to ffep from prev

Sale has ended!

Realised Price: £130

Estimate£100 - £150

Winning BidN/A

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38

Gide, Andre. Montaigne: An Essay in Two Parts, signed limited edition numbered 455/500, New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt, loosely inserted invoice from Strand Book Store, New York, 1993, protective mylar covers stating signed. Contents very good, clean, bright, binding tight & square, slight discolouration to spine, very light bumping to extremities. Andre Gide (1869 -1951) was a French author who was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature

Sale has ended!

Realised Price: £90

Estimate£70 - £100

Winning BidN/A

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39

Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles, first Book Club Edition, signed later by the author on loosely-inserted bookplate sticker (unused), New York: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in red, blue topstain, dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean & bright, one neat owner inscription on ffep, binding good with very light bumping & wear to cloth in places, d.j. with some wear around corners & edges, protective mylar covers

Sale has ended!

Realised Price: £140

Estimate£70 - £100

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

40

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, limited edition privately printed and signed by the author, the signed page with a protective tissue-guard, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Octavo, full crushed morocco with gilt decoration, all edges gilt, peach silk endpapers, peach silk page marker. Contents very good, clean & bright, appears unread, some incredibly faint spotting, one very light scuff to upper board, near fine

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Realised Price: £180

Estimate£100 - £150

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

41

Nash, John (Illust.). When Thou Wast Naked, by T. F. Powys, signed by the author, limited edition numbered 72/500, Reading: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Tall octavo, quarter crushed morocco lettered in gilt, patterned paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. Contents very good, clean & bright, some incredibly faint spotting to endpapers, binding tight & square, wear & loss to morocco at edges, some scuffs & marks

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Realised Price: £50

Estimate£40 - £60

Winning BidN/A

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42

Rackham, Arthur (Illust.). The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton, signed by Arthur Rackham, deluxe limited edition numbered 510/775, London: George G. Harrap, 1931. Quarto, publisher's full vellum lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, illustrated endpapers, complete with all 12 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards as called for. Contents very good, clean & bright, spotting to endleaves & limitation page, binding tight & square, vellum good with usual discolouration

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Realised Price: £160

Estimate£200 - £300

Winning BidN/A

StatusCLOSED!

43

A collection of four erotic pulp fiction paperbacks comprising: Lust Racket, by Hal Mills, Club Novel (CN 103); Wild Girl, by Lewis Dixon, New York: Detective House, 1952 (Cameo Books No. 323); Love Nest, by Tony Calvano, Nightstand Books, 1961 (NB 1559); In the Prison of Her Skin, by Violette Leduc, translated by Derek Coltman, Panther Books, 1973. Together with Enter the Dragon, by Mike Roote, London: Tandem, 1974, paperback. Condition varied, sold with all faults (5)

Sale has ended!

Realised Price: £25

Estimate£40 - £60

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