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Auction date Wednesday, 17 July 2024 13:00 - 17:00 BST

Wednesday 17 July – Sussex Saleroom
Lot 1 – 225 Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts 1pm

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
49	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bensenville, Illinois, Mimeo Press, 1965, 8vo, mimeographed text, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF "NO MORE THAN" 500 COPIES. RARE.	£350 - £450	£300	View
50	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Dangling in the Tournefortia, Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1981, 8vo, original pictorial boards, acetate wrapper. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 243 OF 350 "HARDCOVER COPIES" NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Krumhansl 71c.	£300 - £500	£240	View
51	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Epos. A Quarterly of Poetry. Poems and Drawings by Charles Bukowski, Crescent City, Florida, 1962, 8vo, illustrations by the author, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. No limitation stated but probably ONE OF ABOUT 500 COPIES. RARE.	£500 - £800	-	View
52	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Factotum. A Novel. Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1975, large 8vo, original boards, acetate wrapper. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 56 OF 250 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. RARE. Krumhansl 51c.	£800 - £1,200	£700	View
53	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hollywood. A Novel, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1989, 8vo, original boards. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 398 OF 500 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A SMALL ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. Krumhansl 112c.	£250 - £350	£240	View
54	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hot Water Music, Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1983, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION of this collection of 36 short stories. NUMBER 375 OF 400 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Krumhansl 80.	£300 - £500	£240	View
55	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). In the Shadow of the Rose, Santa Barbara, 1991, 4to, original coloured decorated boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 721 OF 750 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH A SELF-PORTRAIT SKETCH. Krumhansl 122a.	£200 - £300	£200	View
56	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands, New Orleans, Loujon Press, 1963, 8vo, printed on multi-coloured paper, original boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 777 COPIES, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN SILVER INK. Krumhansl 12.	£800 - £1,200	-	View
57	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window, Glendale, California, Poetry X/Change, [1968], square 8vo, illustration by the author, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. RARE.	£200 - £300	£150	View
58	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Run with the Hunted, Chicago, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, 1962, 8vo, original red wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the author's third chapbook, and fourth published book. Probably ONE OF ABOUT 300 COPIES. VERY RARE.	£1,000 - £1,500	-	View
59	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have Taken Over the Ship, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1998, large 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 128 OF 426 COPIES WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR BY ROBERT CRUMB, SIGNED.	£200 - £300	£200	View
60	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Movie "Barfly", Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1987, large 8vo, photographed illustrations, original boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 179 OF 400 "SPECIAL HARDCOVER COPIES" NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Krumhansl 103.C.	£250 - £350	£240	View
61	BULLEID, Arthur (1862-1951) & Harold St. George GRAY (1872-1963). The Glastonbury Lake Village. A Full Description of the Excavations and the Relics Discovered, 1892-1907, London, 1911, 2 volumes, 4to, 101 plates, green buckram. FIRST EDITION. (2)	£50 - £80	£50	View
62	BULOW, Hans von (1830-94). A series of 27 autograph letters, signed ("H. v. Bülow"), to Dr Carl Gille, Berlin, Munich and elsewhere, 18 November [1863] - 30 May 1869. In German. Together c.75 pages, mostly on his relations with Wagner and Liszt.	£3,000 - £5,000	£1,500	View
63	BURKE, Edmund (1729-97). Reflections on the Revolution in France ... The Eighth Edition, London, 1791 [Bound with Paine's:] Rights of Man ... Fourth Edition, London, 1791, 2 works bound in one, 8vo, 19th-century half calf.	£500 - £800	-	View
64	[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1676, folio, half title, engraved pictorial title (some rust holes, spotting and staining to text), modern old-style full calf gilt. The Eighth Edition.	£300 - £500	£420	View
65	BURTON, Robert (1577-1640). The Anatomy of Melancholy, London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925, 2 vols., folio, illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, original vellum-backed boards. NUMBER 364 OF 750 COPIES ON DUTCH PAPER. With 2 other books. (4)	£200 - £300	£160	View
66	BUTTERFLIES, Indian - An album of original watercolours of Indian butterflies and moths mounted on paper, the images 130 x 95mm., inset into 38 thick card mounts, one on each side (some staining), 1868 and later, collected by Julius Barras.	£300 - £500	£4,500	View
67	CARTER, Angela (1940-92). The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, London, 1979. 8vo, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket illustrated by Malcolm Ashman (the jacket very lightly browned at upper edge). FIRST EDITION.	£70 - £100	£110	View
68	CHANCELLOR, E. Beresford (1868-1937). The History of the Squares of London, London, 1907, 4to, 36 plates, some in 2 states, vellum-backed cloth. FIRST EDITION, NO. 5 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With a letter from the author loosely-inserted.	£200 - £300	£100	View
69	CHESSER, Eustace (1902-73). Live and Let live, London, 1958, 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Valerie with nice thoughts, Eustace, Feb. '58". With 11 other books by the same author, some PRESENTATION COPIES. (12)	£200 - £300	£100	View
70	CHEVREUL, M. E. (1786-1889). The Laws of Contrast of Colour, London, 1859, 8vo, 17 plates, all but one printed in colours by Edmund Evans (some spotting), original coloured decorated cloth (neatly rebacked). New Edition.	£200 - £300	-	View
71	CHOPPING, Richard (1917-2008). The Fly, London, 1965, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust-jacket designed by the author. FIRST EDITION.	£50 - £80	£60	View
72	CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1875-1964) - A collection of c.30 books mostly about Churchill, most FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, inscribed by their authors to the late Lady Jane Williams of Elvel. Please see the more detailed listing below. (c.30)	£300 - £500	£200	View

Total lots: 225

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