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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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Monday 10 July: 10am – 4pm
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Wednesday 19 July                          9am - 4.30pm
Thursday 20 July                               9am-4.30pm 

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Total lots: 209

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
1 ATTLEE, Clement (1883-1967). As It Happened, London, 1954, 8vo, illustrations, original cloth. Reprint. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. £300 - £500 £600 View
2 AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). The Novels, Oxford, 1923, 5 volumes, large 8vo, coloured frontispieces, original buckram-backed boards. ONE OF 1,000 SETS. (5) £100 - £150 £650 View
3 BEERBOHM, Max (1872-1956). The Works, London, 1922-28, 10 volumes, 8vo, original vari-coloured cloth (without the dust-jackets). NUMBER 700 OF 780 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE FIRST VOLUME. With another by Beerbohm. (11) £100 - £150 £700 View
4 BELL, Clive (1881-1964). Since Cezanne, London, 1922, 8vo, half tone plates, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, with a pencil note by Eden and highlighting. With 12 other art reference books, some PRESENTATION COPIES to Anthony Eden. (13) £300 - £500 £240 View
5 BENES, Eduard (1884-1948). Democracy. Today and Tomorrow, London, 1939, 8vo, buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, SPARSELY ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN. £400 - £600 £1,000 View
6 BINDING - The Holy Bible, London, [c.1940], 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary russet crushed morocco gilt by Bumpus, the upper cover lettered in gilt with unusually extensive quotations. Please see the footnote below regarding the provenance. £400 - £600 £800 View
7 BINDINGS - Henry FIELDING (1707-54). The History of Tom Jones, London, 1915, 2 vols., large 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary burgundy morocco gilt by Hatchards. With various other works in 43 vols. bound in calf and morocco. (45) £500 - £800 £1,100 View
8 BINDINGS - [ANON.] Aucassin & Nicolette, London, 1897, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary green morocco gilt by Bumpus. With 16 other books, all FINELY BOUND in morocco gilt. (17) £500 - £800 £1,300 View
9 BINDINGS - [DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)]. La Vita Nuova, [No place, n.d. but late 19th-early 20th-century]. 16mo, FINELY BOUND in red morocco elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt. With another related book FINELY BOUND in full vellum. (2) £300 - £500 £550 View
9a BRYANT, Arthur (1899-1985). The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943, London, 1957, 8vo, original black buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. With another book by Bryant. (2) £500 - £800 £500 View
10 BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, London, 1812, Cantos I-II in one vol., 4to, facsimile letter, FINELY BOUND in contemporary red morocco, FIRST EDITION. With Cantos III & IV (1816-18, 2 vols., FIRST EDITIONS) in wrappers and boards. (3) £500 - £800 £1,500 View
11 BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). The Poetical Works ... A New Edition, London, 1855-56, 6 volumes, large 8vo, attractively bound in full contemporary calf gilt. (6) £100 - £150 £240 View
12 CAMPBELL-JOHNSON, Alan (1913-98). Sir Anthony Eden. A Biography, London, 1955, 8vo, plates, cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. £400 - £600 £400 View
13 [CARTLAND, Ronald (1907-40)] - William LANGLAND. The Vision of Piers the Plowman, London, 1935, 8vo, original cloth. ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed, "In memory of your friendship with my son Ronald, Mary Cartland, April 12, 1942." £200 - £300 £110 View
14 CHURCHILL, Winston (1874-1965). The World Crisis, London, 1923-31, 6 vols., large 8vo, plates, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, VOLUMES ONE AND V ANNOTATED, HIGHLIGHTED AND WITH PASSAGES UNDERLINED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. (6) £700 - £1,000 £2,600 View
15 CLARE, John (1793-1864). Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London, 1820, 12mo, half title, attractively bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. £400 - £600 £350 View
16 COWLEY, Abraham (1618-67). The Works, London, 1708-10, 3 vols., 8vo, 33 engraved plates, contemporary calf. Mixed editions. With 14 other works in 32 volumes. (35) £500 - £800 £1,400 View
17 CRESSWELL, Thomas (1712-88). A Narrative of the Affair, London, [1747] [Bound with:] Miss Scrope's Answer, London, 1749, SIGNED and numbered by the author at the end. 2 works bound in one vol., 8vo, contemporary boards (later spine). FIRST EDITIONS. £70 - £100 £130 View
18 CUNARD, Nancy (1896-1965) - Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-94). A Child's Garden of Verses, London, 1902, 8vo, illustrations, original buckram. INSCRIBED, "From Nancy Cunard, to Antony[sic] Eden, Xmas 1906." £300 - £500 £800 View
19 DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred (1870-1945). Poems, Paris, 1896, 8vo, portrait of the author, early 20th-century tan half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. FIRST EDITION. With the same author's Autobiography (London, 1929). (2) £150 - £250 £320 View
20 EDEN, Anthony (1897-1977), and others. America Looks to the Future. Four Speeches by American Statesman ... With an Introduction by ... Anthony Eden, London, 1942, 8vo, wrappers. With Anthony Eden's annotation at the head of the introduction. RARE. £70 - £100 £90 View
21 EDEN, Anthony (1897-1977). Places in the Sun, London, 1926, 8vo, plates, cloth. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed "Beatrice, from Anthony. Looking back: and looking forward to yet other 'Places in the Sun' to be [?]basked in together. July 17th, 1926." £200 - £300 £260 View
22 EDEN, Anthony (1897-1977). The Gabriel Silver Lecture, New York, Columbia University, 1952, 8vo, 16-pages, FINELY BOUND for Anthony Eden in full dark blue crushed morocco gilt, slipcase. £100 - £150 £190 View
23 EDEN, Anthony (1897-1977). The Memoirs, Boston, 1962-1965-1960, 3 vols., large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in morocco gilt. [?]FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With another cloth-bound set containing ANTHONY EDEN'S PENCIL CORRECTIONS. Please see the full description. (6) £300 - £500 £950 View

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