Auction No 436, Category: Fiction

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

A collection of ‘World’s Classics’ including 18 with jackets designed by Lynton Lamb. VG condition. (44)

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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A collection of ‘World's Classics' including 18 with jackets designed by Lynton Lamb. VG condition. (44)

A collection of ‘World’s Classics’ including 49 in dust- jackets. Includes a few early editions by Grant Richards. (91)

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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A collection of ‘World's Classics' including 49 in dust-jackets. Includes a few early editions by Grant Richards. (91)

Lynton Lamb illustrated books, largely in d/jackets, seven with his artwork confined to the jacket only, others with line-drawings or woodcuts

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Lynton Lamb illustrated books, largely in d/jackets, seven with his artwork confined to the jacket only, others with line-drawings or woodcuts by the artist. Mostly VG/VF (24)

Mixed fiction with several firsts in d/jkt including Isaac Asimov "The Winds of Change", Granada 1983; Winston Graham "Warleggan" 1953

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Mixed fiction with several firsts in d/jkt including Isaac Asimov The Winds of Change, Granada 1983; Winston Graham Warleggan 1953 (d/jkt damaged); and Zelda Fitzgerald Save Me the Waltz Cape, 1968. (16)     

"The Novels of George Eliot", William Blackwood, 1890s, eight vols in seven, half-leather gilt, VG, b/w plates, very clean internally,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £32
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The Novels of George Eliot, William Blackwood, 1890s, eight vols in seven, half-leather gilt, VG, b/w plates, very clean internally, no inscriptions. (7)

Dornford Yates (pseud. of Cecil William Mercer). A collection of fiction published by Ward, Lock & Co., with 24 in d/jkt.

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Dornford Yates (pseud. of Cecil William Mercer). A collection of fiction published by Ward, Lock & Co., with 24 in d/jkt. Includes a biography by A.J. Smithers. Some mixed condition. (35)

Zane Grey, a collection of Westerns and similar including h/bks (41) mostly published Hodder & Stoughton and Walter Black, 14 in d/jkts,

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Zane Grey, a collection of Westerns and similar including h/bks (41) mostly published Hodder & Stoughton and Walter Black, 14 in d/jkts, plus 40 p/bks. Mixed condition but mostly VG. (81)

Howard Spring fiction published by Collins including "All the Day Long" signed by the author, 4 in d/jkts. Good/VG (6)

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £15
SOLD £7
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Howard Spring fiction published by Collins including All the Day Long signed by the author, 4 in d/jkts. Good/VG (6)

H. Rider Haggard: early 20th Century 2-page autograph letter signed, written from his residence in Bungay.

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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H. Rider Haggard: early 20th Century 2-page autograph letter signed, written from his residence in Bungay.

Catherine Cookson: autograph letter signed, from her home in Corbridge, together with a cut signature matted with a photo, in card mount.

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Catherine Cookson: autograph letter signed, from her home in Corbridge, together with a cut signature matted with a photo, in card mount.

John Galsworthy: 1915 autograph letter signed, from his flat in London, commenting on the death of his mother.

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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John Galsworthy: 1915 autograph letter signed, from his flat in London, commenting on the death of his mother.

English Literature with works by Graham Greene, Storm Jameson, Ted Hughes, and a variety of others, with several first editions. Many in d/jkts.

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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English Literature with works by Graham Greene, Storm Jameson, Ted Hughes, and a variety of others, with several first editions. Many in d/jkts. VG condition. (34)