Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £190 |
MISCELLANY, 20TH-CENTURY - Humbert WOLFE (1885-1940). The Silver Cat and Other Poems. London & New York: Ernest Benn & The Bowling Green Press, 1928. Large 8vo (232 x 150mm). Printed in black and silver, pictorial title. Original dark green paper boards, dust-jacket, unopened. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 780 COPIES. With 34 other miscellaneous 20th-century books including Arnold Bennett's Don Juan de Marana. A Play in Four Acts (London, "Privately Printed for Subscribers Only", 1923, large 8vo, photogravure frontispiece, original vellum-backed paper boards, dust-jacket, NUMBER 790 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Thornton Wilder's The Angel that Troubled the Waters (London, 1928, square 8vo, original dark blue buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION; with 3 other books by the same author, all in dust-jackets), Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (London, 1929, large 8vo, illustrated by William Nicholson, original cream pictorial buckram, dust-jacket, frayed, first illustrated edition), C. E. Montague's A Writer's Notes on his Trade ... With an Introductory Essay by H. M. Tomlinson (London, 1930, large 8vo, original buckram-backed patterned paper boards, dust-jacket, NUMBER 687 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY H. M. TOMLINSON), Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Devil and the Lady ... Edited by Charles Tennyson, his Grandson (London, 1930, large 8vo, etched frontispiece, original parchment-backed patterned paper boards, dust-jacket, spotted, FIRST EDITION of this play, written when the author was only fourteen, LIMITED TO 1,500 COPIES), Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza (London, 1930, 8vo, original buckram in a fine dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), H. M. Tomlinson's All Our Yesterdays (London, 1930, 8vo, original buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), the same author's Below London Bridge (London, 1934, large 8vo, photographed illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson, original buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), James Hanley's Aria & Finale (London, 1932, large 8vo, original cloth, stained, dust-jacket with woodcut illustration by James Boswell, FIRST EDITION), Eric Linklater's A Spell for Old Bones (London, 1949, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, repaired, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED, "with all good wishes, from Eric Linklater") and Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God (London, "Arco Publishers Limited," 1955, 4to, woodcut illustrations by the author, original yellow buckram, stained, without the dust-jacket, NUMBER 842 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR). Please note that since the lead item of this lot is unopened, its interior is not included among the illustrations. (35)