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Auction No 370, Category: Fiction

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Folio Society publications, all in slipcases; includes Sherlock Holmes set of 4 volumes.

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Folio Society publications, all in slipcases; includes Sherlock Holmes set of 4 volumes. No internal inscriptions. Good to VF (13)

Folio Society publications all in slipcases, some in boxed sets including "Legends of King Arthur" (3 vols),

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £96
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Folio Society publications all in slipcases, some in boxed sets including Legends of King Arthur (3 vols), The Arabian Nights (6 vols, two slightly marked on the spine), Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories (4 vols). Largely fine/VF. (39) 

H.E. Bates collection of UK Editions including "The Seekers", 1926, First Edn, inscribed presentation copy

Lot: 156

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £42
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H.E. Bates collection of UK Editions including The Seekers, 1926, First Edn, inscribed presentation copy in original glassine wrapper; The Darling Buds of May,1958, 1st Edn in VG d/jkt; Fair Stood the Wind for France, 1944, 1st Edn, in good d/jkt; and The Last Bread, 1926, 1st Edn, printed wraps. Others include many 1960s/70s 1st Edns in djkts. Varied condition. (21)

C.S. Forester "A Pawn Among Kings", Methuen & Co, 1924, First Edition, original gilt cloth, VG;

Lot: 158

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £125
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C.S. Forester A Pawn Among Kings, Methuen & Co, 1924, First Edition, original gilt cloth, VG; prize bookplate to front endpaper; browning to second endpaper, occasional minor foxing elsewhere. 220pp plus prelims. A very good example of Forester’s first book.

Helen Fielding "Bridget Jones's Diary", Picador, 1996, 3rd printing, in complete d/jkt, signed by the author on title page.

Lot: 160

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Helen Fielding Bridget Jones’s Diary, Picador, 1996, 3rd printing, in complete d/jkt, signed by the author on title page. Fine, the jacket in protective mylar. 

Works of Anthony Trollope, Folio Society, 46 of 48 volumes, all in individual slipcases, VF

Lot: 164

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £76
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Works of Anthony Trollope, Folio Society, 46 of 48 volumes, all in individual slipcases, VF, various issue dates (apparently first printings), no internal inscriptions. (46)

Anthony Powell "A Dance to the Music of Time", Folio Society, 2007- 2008, set of 4 volumes in slipcases, VF. (4)

Lot: 165

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £52
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Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time, Folio Society, 2007-2008, set of 4 volumes in slipcases, VF. (4)

Vernon Scannell "Ring of Truth", 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell

Lot: 170

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Vernon Scannell Ring of Truth, 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell, most in VG/fine d/jkts, comprising The Loving Game 1975, The Winter Man 1973, The Face of the Enemy 1961 (worn d/jkt), and Views and Distances 2000, s/bk; also Of Love & War 2002 unsigned 1st Edition. (6)