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Auction No 391, Category: Books

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Bookplates collection in modern album, mainly 20th Century, including many artists’ proofs with several signed.

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Apr 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £145
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Bookplates collection in modern album, mainly 20th Century, including many artists’ proofs with several signed. Many attractive designs. Fine. (235). Also related literature.

A selection of biographical & autobiographical works, from the personal library of Valentine Ackland (1906-1969) and Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Apr 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £175
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A selection of biographical & autobiographical works, from the personal library of Valentine Ackland (1906-1969) and Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) both of Maiden Newton, Dorset. These English modernist 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 (8), or the bookplate of Warner (3); six have been signed by Ackland (three inscribed to Sylvia), and five have been signed by Sylvia (two inscribed to Valentine). These books appear to have been acquired during the period 1930-1970. They include Eugene Lyon’s The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1928. Condition is mixed but mostly good to fine. (18)

"Reports of State Trials – New Series", Volumes 2 to 8 covering the period 1823-1858, published by HMSO, 1889-98; quarter-cloth, gilt,

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Apr 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £70
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Reports of State Trials – New Series, Volumes 2 to 8 covering the period 1823-1858, published by HMSO, 1889-98; quarter-cloth, gilt, good/VG, clean internally, each with b/w frontispiece. (7)

Lancashire Illustrated in a Series of Views, Henry Fisher, 1829, quarto, very worn binding, good internally with all plates,

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Apr 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £58
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Lancashire Illustrated in a Series of Views, Henry Fisher, 1829, quarto, very worn binding,  good internally with all plates, some grubby finger marks; and John Roby Traditions of Lancashire, Routledge, 1892, two vols, gilt cloth, VG. (3)

Cordon & Tindall "Our Hospital: Anzac, British, Canadian", John Lane, c.1917; and Bairnsfather "Fragments from France" Nos.1, 2, 3 and 7.

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Apr 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £28
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Cordon & Tindall Our Hospital: Anzac, British, Canadian, John Lane, c.1917; and Bairnsfather Fragments from France Nos.1, 2, 3 and 7. Good/VG (5)