Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £20 |
MISCELLANY - E. R. PENNELL (1855-1936) & J. PENNELL (1857-1926). The Life of James McNeill Whistler. London: William Heinemann, [November] 1908. 2 volumes, 4to (255 x 195mm). Half titles, 2 etched frontispieces, plates and illustrations). Original buckram-backed paper boards lettered in gilt, uncut. FIRST TRADE EDITION, second impression. With various other miscellaneous works in c.35 volumes including W. S. Gilbert's The Bab Ballads (London, 1908, 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary half morocco gilt, sixth edition), Winston Churchill's The World Crisis 1911-[1918] (London, 1924-27, vols. I-IV only (of 5), large 8vo, plates and maps, original cloth, without the dust-jackets, mixed editions), R. H. Bacon's The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone. Admiral of the Fleet (London, 1929, 2 vols., large 8vo, plates, original cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION), Douglas Goldring's South Lodge. Reminiscences of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review Circle (London, 1943, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Frank MacShane's The Life and Work of Ford Madox Ford (New York, 1966, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, reprint) and Christopher Milne's The Enchanted Places (London, 1974, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: The Property of a Collector. Please note that only part of the lot is illustrated. The lot sold as a quantity, not subject to return. (c.35)