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Auction No 376, Category: Literature

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

George Eliot "Daniel Deronda", "Romola", "Middlemarch", "Mill on the Floss", "Adam Bede", and "Felix Holt"

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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George Eliot Daniel Deronda, Romola, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, and Felix Holt, William Blackwood, 1870s/1880s, various editions, octavo, uniformly bound in half-calf, gilt; marbled boards, endpapers and sides; Middlemarch with small abrasion to front board o/w VG/Fine. (6)

Mervyn Peake "Titus Groan", "Gormenghast", and "Titus Alone", Folio Society, 1992, pictorial cloth,

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £32
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Mervyn Peake Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone, Folio Society, 1992, pictorial cloth, very fine 3-volume set in a VG slipcase.

 

The A.J. Valpy edition of Latin texts, 1820s/30s, octavo, full calf, gilt, some light wear, two with a board detached,

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £60
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The A.J. Valpy edition of Latin texts, 1820s/30s, octavo, full calf, gilt, some light wear, two with a board detached, all part-sets or odd volumes. All with the bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair. Fine internally. (30)

John Farrimond "Dust in My Throat", George Harrap, 1963, First Edition in VG d/jkt

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
UNSOLD
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John Farrimond Dust in My Throat, George Harrap, 1963, First Edition in VG d/jkt (slightly chipped at top of spine o/w complete), fine internally.

Mr. Addison "Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments..."

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Mr. Addison Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments, tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality, London, 1795-1797, thirteen volumes, octavo, worn half-leather gilt bindings, some foxing; a rare set. (13)

N.P. Willis "Letters from Under a Bridge. And Poems". George Virtue, 1840, quarto, half-calf, gilt, marbled boards, VG;

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £28
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N.P. Willis Letters from Under a Bridge. And Poems. George Virtue, 1840, quarto, half-calf, gilt, marbled boards, VG; boards slightly bowed; engraved frontispiece and title with tissue-guard, some tone marks; 9 further plates, a few with minor spotting in margin; 331pp. The letters were written while the author was living in Wyoming.

John Buchan "The Adventures of Richard Hannay", Folio Society, 2004, set of 5 VF volumes in defective slipcase;

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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John Buchan The Adventures of Richard Hannay, Folio Society, 2004, set of 5 VF volumes in defective slipcase; and Folio Society edition of Doctor Zhivago, 1997, VF in fine slipcase. (6)