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Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

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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Monday 15 July          10am – 4.00pm
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Thursday 18 July        9am – 4.30pm
Friday 19 July              9am – 4.30pm
Monday 22 July          9am – 4.30pm
Tuesday 23 July          9am – 4.30pm
Wednesday 24 July   9am – 4.30pm

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
193	RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator). Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, London, 1917, 4to, 13 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, original buckram. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 92 OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.	£400 - £600	£250	View
194	RAVEN, Simon (1908-2001). Alms for Oblivion, London, 1964-76, 11 vols. including one duplicate, 8vo, original cloth; and 3 others by the same author. ALL FIRST EDITIONS, in dust-jackets, two inscribed by the author. Please see the full listing below. (14)	£300 - £500	£220	View
195	RAVEN, Simon (1927-2001). The original autograph manuscript of the first three chapters of the novel "Friends in Low Places", written in blue ink on the rectos only of 174-pages, with a typed covering letter from the author, contained in a cloth box.	£300 - £500	£3,000	View
196	RICCARDI PRESS - The Book of Genesis, London, 1914, 4to, 10 mounted coloured plates by F. Cayley Robinson, original limp vellum gilt, ties. LIMITED TO 512 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 174 OF 500 COPIES ON "HANDMADE RICCARDI PAPER".	£200 - £300	£190	View
197	ROBERTS, James (1753-c.1809). Introductory Lessons, with Familiar Examples in Landscape, London, 1800, 4to, 8 lithographed plates, 5 of which hand-coloured, contemporary half calf. FIRST EDITION. RARE.	£200 - £300	-	View
198	ROLFE, Frederick (1860-1913, i.e. "Baron CORVO"). Three Tales of Venice, [London], The Corvine Press, [1950], 8vo, buckram. LIMITED TO 140 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 10 ON "GOATSKIN PARCHMENT PAPER." JULIAN SYMONS' COPY. With another related. (2)	£200 - £300	£170	View
199	ROSE, Frederick William (1849-1915). Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877, London, G. W. Bacon, [1877], coloured lithographed anthropomorphic political map (lightly browned), 424 x 560mm., framed and glazed. FIRST EDITION, second state. RARE.	£500 - £800	£650	View
200	ROWLING, J. K. (b.1965). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, London, 1998, 8vo, original boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, third impression. With Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (London, 1999, boards, FIRST EDITION, second impression. (2)	£200 - £300	-	View
201	RUSSELL, Bertrand (1872-1970). Satan in the Suburbs & Other Stories, London, 1953, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. With 4 other books by Russell and one by W. H. Auden, FIRST EDITIONS. (6)	£200 - £300	£100	View
202	SALAMAN, Michael (1911-87). A collection of letters to Michael Salaman from Charles Aitken (4 letters), Campbell Dodgson (2), Michael Holroyd (6), Eric Kennington (3), Bernard Leach (3), William Rothenstein (1), Randolph Schwabe (1), and many others.	£300 - £500	£260	View
203	SEGOVIA, Andrés (1893-1987). Autograph music manuscripts comprising an important collection of transcriptions and works commissioned by Segovia for the guitar, [n.d.]. 21 manuscripts, together 60-pages, various sizes, 335 x 265mm to 225 x 175mm.	£5,000 - £8,000	£5,000	View
204	SMITH, Stevie (1902-71). 71 original drawings comprising illustrations for her poems, [n.d. but c.1937-1957], various sizes, depicting animals, birds, children, male and female figures, largely executed in ball-point pen on fragments of paper. (71)	£3,000 - £5,000	£1,900	View
205	SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965). Liza of Lambeth, London, 1947, large 8vo, original vellum-backed paper boards, dust-jacket. NUMBER 288 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. "Jubilee Edition."	£70 - £100	£80	View
206	SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965). The Razor's Edge, New York, 1944, 8vo, original buckram (lacks dust-jacket). FIRST U.S. TRADE EDITION, inscribed "For Madame André de Breyne, hoping she will enjoy this book. W. Somerset Maugham, June 22, 1944."	£200 - £300	-	View
207	STEPHENSON, George (1781-1848). Autograph letter, signed ("Geo. Stephenson"), to his son Robert Stephenson ("My Dear"), Liverpool, 31 January 1828. Four-pages, 203 x 257mm, on the design and manufacture of his locomotive the "Liverpool Travelling Engine."	£2,000 - £3,000	£1,000	View
208	SUTHERLAND, Graham (1903-80). 24 autograph letters & 7 typed letters, signed ("Graham Sutherland" or "Graham"), to Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, West Malling, Cap-d'Ail, Venice, and elsewhere, 1954-64. Together c.80-pages, various sizes. (c.80-pages)	£1,000 - £1,500	£1,600	View
209	SYMONDS, R. W. (1889-1958). Thomas Tompion, London, 1951, 4to, plates, original blue cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "For Conrad Ackner, best wishes from Robert Symonds, Dec. 1951."	£50 - £80	£20	View
210	THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-63). 18 original drawings, in pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour, [n.d.]. Various sizes, from c.115 x 85mm to 178 x 230mm, six in pencil, one in watercolour, 11 in pen and ink.	£1,500 - £2,500	£1,100	View
211	TRUMBULL, Henry (1781-1843). History of the Discovery of America, of the Landings of our Forefathers, at Plymouth, and of their Most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians, Boston, 1819, 8vo, folding hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, 2 plates, calf.	£70 - £100	£60	View
212	TRYPANIS, Constantine Athanasius (1909-93). "Take a Soldier Take a King. A tragedy in three acts," [Oxford], 1957, original typescript on 75-pages of A4, in a cloth-backed folder. With an autograph letter from the author.	£70 - £100	£220	View
213	"TWAIN, Mark" (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York, 1885, 8vo, frontispiece, heliotype portrait, illustrations by E. W. Kemble, original green cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of "one of the great works of American fiction."	£2,000 - £3,000	-	View
214	THE VINE PRESS, STEYNING - Lillygay, Steyning, 1920, 8vo, woodcut illustrations, original wrappers, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 504 OF 550 COPIES "PRINTED ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER". With 3 other books from the same press. (4)	£200 - £300	£80	View
215	[VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778)]. Candide, ou l' Optimisme, Traduit de l' Allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph, [?Geneva], 1759, 12mo, TITLE PRINTED IN RED, contemporary morocco. FIRST EDITION. VERY RARE. Please see the full description below.	£700 - £1,000	£750	View
216	WAGNER, Richard (1813-83). Autograph letter, signed (with initials, "R.W.") to [Heinrich Szadrowsky], [Zurich, c.November 1856]. In German. Four-pages, 136 x 107mm, blue paper, bifolium. On arrangements for his famous concert at St. Gallen with Liszt.	£1,500 - £2,500	£1,100	View

Total lots: 225

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