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Printed Books, Manuscripts & Maps including Books from the Library of Anthony and Clarissa Eden

Auction date Thursday 13 July 2023 14:00 BST

Thursday 13 July   - Sussex Saleroom 

Lots 1 – 89  Books from the Library of Anthony and Clarissa Eden

Lots 90 – 200  Various Properties

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Total lots: 209

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
24 ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). [Four Quartets], London, Faber and Faber, 1940-42, 4 pamphlets, 8vo, original printed coloured wrappers. FIRST FABER EDITIONS. (4) £200 - £300 £900 View
25 ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). The Literature of Politics. A Lecture ... With a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Eden K.G., M.C., M.P., [London], 1955, 8vo, original stiff blue wrappers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With 2 other books by Eliot. (3) £200 - £300 £950 View
26 ETON - R. A. AUSTEN-LEIGH (1872-1961). Bygone Eton, Eton, 1912, 4to, 47 mounted plates, original cream buckram. Inscribed, "Robert Anthony Eden on leaving Eton from E.L.C. in token of much regard, Midsummer 1915." With 4 other related books. (5) £300 - £500 £200 View
27 [EVELYN, John (1620-1706)]. Acetaria. A Discourse on Sallets, London, 1699, small 8vo, large folding table (heavily spotted and browned throughout, loss of a few letters), 19th-century red half calf gilt. FIRST EDITION. £100 - £150 £240 View
28 FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories, London, 1911, square 8vo, original decorated cloth and endpapers designed by Roger Fry. With 14 other works in 15 vols. (16) £300 - £500 £480 View
29 FREEMAN, Douglas Southall (1886-1953). George Washington, New York, 1948-51, volumes I-IV only (of VI), original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. With 2 other works by the same author in 6 vols. (10) £200 - £300 £550 View
30 GIDE, Andre (1869-1951). Si le Grain ne Meurt, Paris, [1947], 8vo, later blue cloth. "142e édition." PRESENTATION COPY of the author's autobiography, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. £70 - £100 £130 View
31 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - E. Powys MATHERS (1892-1939). Procreant Hymn, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926, large 8vo, 5 engraved plates by Eric Gill, original cream buckram. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 42 OF 175 COPIES. £200 - £300 £280 View
32 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - Theophile GAUTIER (1811-72). Mademoiselle de Maupin, [Waltham St Lawrence], 1938, 4to, 8 engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, original vellum-backed cloth. NUMBER 154 OF 500 COPIES. With another book from the same press. (2) £300 - £500 £200 View
33 GOOCH, G. P. (1873-1968). Germany, London, 1926, large 8vo, cloth. "Second impression". ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. With 2 other related books. (3) £300 - £500 £320 View
34 [HEMING, Joyce (dates unknown)]. A Knight there Was. London, 1946, 8vo, original cream boards gilt. Provenance: Anthony Eden (old armorial bookplate). INSCRIBED BY EDEN in pencil, "Sent me by the mother who wrote it. The boy was in 60th. A. E." RARE. £200 - £300 £260 View
35 HOGARTH PRESS - John MAYNARD KEYNES (1883-1946). The End of Laissez-Faire, London, Hogarth Press, 1926, 8vo, original cloth-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other books from the same press. (4) £200 - £300 £700 View
36 HOGARTH, William (1697-1764, illustrator). The Works, London, 1821, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait and 159 plates by William Hogarth, contemporary black morocco gilt (rubbed, scuffed and scratched). (2) £150 - £250 £160 View
37 Holocaust and Rebirth. Bergen-Belsen 1945-1965. Introduction by Josef Rosensaft, New York and Tel Aviv, 1965, 4to, illustrations, original leatherette, slipcase, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Josef Rosensaft to Anthony Eden. £300 - £500 £480 View
38 HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865). A Century of Ferns, London, 1854, folio, 100 coloured lithographed plates by Fitch, 19th-century half green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. FIRST EDITION. £70 - £100 £220 View
39 HULL, Cordell (1871-1955). The Memoirs, New York, 1948, 2 vols., large 8vo, original non-uniform buckram. Mixed editions. IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Hon. Anthony Eden, with admiration and sincerest friendship, Cordell Hull." (2) £400 - £600 £320 View
40 IRELAND, Samuel (1744-1800). Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire, Avon, London, 1795, 4to, 33 plates, attractively bound in contemporary calf, with a presentation note to The Earl of Avon [i.e. Anthony Eden] loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION. £200 - £300 £190 View
41 JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). The Works, London, 1825, 11 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. one, attractively bound in contemporary half burgundy calf gilt. (11) £70 - £100 £160 View
42 JOUVE, Pierre Jean (1887-1976). Processionnal de la Force Anglaise, Geneva, W. Egloff, 1944, 4to, wrappers. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 10 "HORS COMMERCE" COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to Anthony Eden. RARE. With another related book. (2) £70 - £100 £150 View
42a KENNEDY, John Noble (1893-1970). The Business of War, London, 1957, 8vo, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. £500 - £800 £400 View
43 KING PETER II OF YUGOSLAVIA (1923-70) - A King's Heritage, London, 1955, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PRESENTATION COPY, with a letter from the author presenting the book to Anthony Eden. £400 - £600 £550 View
44 LAPIE, Pierre-Olivier (1901-94). Certitudes Anglaises, Paris, 1938, wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "à Monsieur Anthony Eden, [illegible words] Ministre des Affaires [illegible words], hommage [illegible word], P. O. Lapie". £70 - £100 £50 View
45 LIE, Trygve (1896-1968). In The Cause of Peace. Seven Years with the United Nations, New York, 1954, large 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. £300 - £500 £200 View
46 LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970). Comes the Reckoning, London, 1947, 8vo, original cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Anthony, from Bruce, in gratitude and admiration, R. H. Bruce Lockhart." With 7 other related books. (8) £300 - £500 £220 View

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