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Auction No 367, Category: Autographs

3 Lots (displaying 1 - 3)

A selection of biographies from the personal library of Valentine Ackland (1906-1969)

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £100
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A selection of biographies from the personal library of Valentine Ackland (1906-1969) and Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) both of Maiden Newton, Dorset. These English moderninst literary figures and feminists formed a long-lasting lesbian relationship of 39 years and throughout most of that time lived in Maiden Newton. The books contain the bookplates or handstamps of Ackland (9), or the bookplate of Warner (2), three have been signed by Ackland (one inscribed to Sylvia), another has been inscribed to Valentine from Sylvia, and finally a copy of Joseph Ashby of Tysoe has been inscribed to Sylvia by the author M.K.Ashby. These books appear to have been acquired during the period 1945-1961. The condition is fair to fine. (12)

C.G.Bruce "Himalayan Wanderer" 1934, orig.cloth; Joe Tasker "Everest: The Cruel Way" 1981, in d/jkt;

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £20
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C.G.Bruce Himalayan Wanderer 1934, orig.cloth; Joe Tasker Everest: The Cruel Way 1981, in d/jkt; Ralph Barker The Last Blue Mountain, Chatto & Windus, 1959,in d/jkt; and a collection of other Mountaineering books, mostly in djkts, very largely first editions, one signed by Chris Bonnington. Good to VF (18)

Edmund Hillary "High Adventure" Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, 1st Edn., signed by the author on the half-title,

Lot: 100

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Apr 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Edmund Hillary High Adventure Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, 1st Edn., signed by the author on the half-title, spine faded o/w VG; and Wilfrid Noyce Climbing the Fish’s Tail, 1958, in slightly chipped price-clipped djkt. (2)