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Printed Books, Manuscripts and Maps

Auction date Thursday 9 December 2021 13:00 - 17:00 GMT

Thursday 9 December - 1pm
Lot 501 - 696 Printed Books, Manuscripts and Maps

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
608	BÉASLAI, Piaras (1881-1965). Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, Dublin, 1926, 2 vols., original cloth. FIRST EDITION. (2)	£70 - £100	£20	View
609	BUCHAN, John (1875-1940). Castle Gay, [London, 1930], original fawn buckram. AUTHOR'S PROOF COPY. With 2 other books by John Buchan. (3)	£200 - £300	£750	View
610	CRICK, Francis (1916-2004). Of Molecules and Men, Seattle, 1966, original buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With another book by the same author. (2)	£50 - £80	£20	View
611	CRONIN, A. J. (1896-1981). The Citadel, London, 1937, original buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION.	£100 - £150	-	View
612	MISCELLANY - Daphne DU MAURIER (1907-89). The Loving Spirit, London, 1931, original blue cloth (rubbed and scuffed, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION of the author's very scarce first novel. With 20 other books. (21)	£150 - £250	£90	View
613	SCOTT FITZGERALD, F. (1896-1940). The Vegetable, New York, 1923, original green cloth. FIRST EDITION. With another play by Edward Sackville-West. (2)	£70 - £100	£35	View
614	JACKSON, Holbrook (1874-1948), and others - Claud LOVAT FRASER (1890-1921). Sixty-Three Unpublished Designs, London, [1924], original cloth-backed decorated boards. NUMBER 2 OF 500 COPIES. With 8 other books. (9)	£150 - £250	£140	View
615	WHISTLER, James McNeill (1834-1903) - Sheridan FORD (d. 1922, editor). The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, New York [?but Antwerp], 1890, contemporary full vellum. Pirated Edition.	£200 - £300	£170	View
616	HAMILTON, Patrick (1904-62). Impromptu in Moribundia, London, 1939, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With another book by the same author. (2)	£100 - £150	£400	View
617	HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Death in the Afternoon, London, 1932, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books by the same author. (5)	£200 - £300	£110	View
618	LEE, Laurie (1914-97). Cider with Rosie, London, 1959, original buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books by the same author. (3)	£100 - £150	£35	View
619	MANN, Thomas (1875-1955). Death in Venice, London, 1928, original cloth. FIRST U.K. EDITION.	£70 - £100	£130	View
620	ORWELL, George (1903-50). Animal Farm, London, 1945, original cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. With 2 other editions of the same work. (3)	£70 - £100	£420	View
621	WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946). The Time Machine [in:] The New Review, London, 1895, Chapters XIII-XV, wrappers. With 6 other books. (7)	£70 - £100	£350	View
622	JACKSON, Holbrook (1874-1948). Oscar Wilde's Salome, London, 1938, original wrappers. NUMBER ONE OF 50 COPIES. With 7 other books. (8)	£100 - £150	£80	View
623	WARREN, Suzanne [i.e. Suzanne Henriette Angèle WARENGHEM ([?]1921-99)] - Gordon YOUNG (b. 1905). In Trust and Treason. The Strange Story of Suzanne Warren, London, 1959, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY SUZANNE WARREN.	£200 - £300	£80	View
624	JARDINE, William (1800-74). The Natural History of the Felinæ, Edinburgh, 1834, hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, modern buckram-backed marbled boards. With another book. (2)	£70 - £100	£45	View
625	[ANON.]. The Young Ladies' Assistant in Writing French Letters, London, 1810, contemporary calf (upper cover detached). Second edition.	£70 - £100	-	View
626	TEBB, William (1830-1917) and Edward Perry VOLLUM (d. 1902). Premature Burial and How It May be Prevented, London, 1896, original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION.	£70 - £100	£25	View
627	MISCELLANY - Walter SCOTT (1771-1832). Quentin Durward, Edinburgh, 1823, 3 vols., original boards. FIRST EDITION. With 13 other books. (16)	£300 - £500	£120	View
628	ALLINGHAM, Helen (1848-1926). Happy England, London, 1909, coloured plates, original decorated cloth gilt. SIGNED by Helen Allingham, and further inscribed by Nellie and Henry Allingham.	£200 - £300	£70	View
629	"Mineral and Rock Specimens", [No place, early 20th-century], 40 specimens contained in a compartmentalised book box, with tie.	£70 - £100	£100	View
630	"THE PHONEY-WAR", DUNKIRK, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ - "The Leader Foolscap Folio Diary for 1940". Manuscript diary on c. 50 leaves kept by Thomas A. Johnson.	£200 - £300	£20	View
631	BETJEMAN, John (1906-84). 3 typed letters to Michael Harrison, signed, dated variously 1946-63; and an autograph letter to Harrison from [Capt.] William E. Johns. (4)	£200 - £300	£120	View

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