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Auction No 390, Category: Literature

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

"Letters of Edward Fitzgerald", Macmillan, 1894, 2 vols; and "Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883", Richard Bentley, 1895;

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Macmillan, 1894, 2 vols; and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883, Richard Bentley, 1895; uniformly bound in half-vellum, gilt, bookplates of E.L. de Rothschild. VG (3)    

Oliver Wendell Holmes "Autocrat at the Breakfast Table", "The Poet at the Breakfast Table", and "Professor at the Breakfast Table",

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, and Professor at the Breakfast Table, William Paterson, 3 vols, half-polished calf over marbled boards, red & black titles, gilt; bookplates of F. Reddaway; t.e.g.; VG (3)

John Payne "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Villon Society, 1882, 9 volumes, No.181 of 500 printed; and "Tales from the Arabic",

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £76
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John Payne The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Villon Society, 1882, 9 volumes, No.181 of 500 printed; and Tales from the Arabic, Villon Society, 1884, 3 volumes, No.437 of 500; uniformly bound in superb full red morocco, gilt; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere. Occasional minor foxing o/w fine. (12)  

French Literature published by Imprimerie Nationale, 1970s/80s in full leather bindings, gilt, VG/fine. (7)

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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French Literature published by Imprimerie Nationale, 1970s/80s in full leather bindings, gilt, VG/fine. (7)

Rudyard Kipling "Rewards & Fairies", Macmillan, London, 1910, orig. gilt cloth, VG, uncut two sides, one of 775 issued; spotting to endpapers.

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Rudyard Kipling Rewards & Fairies, Macmillan, London, 1910, orig. gilt cloth, VG, uncut two sides, one of 775 issued; spotting to endpapers. This edition includes the first appearance of his poem “If” (pp.195/196). B/w plates. Fine internally

Selection including Nathaniel West "The Day of the Locust", Grey Walls Press, 1951, 1st UK Edn in VG d/jkt;

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £86
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Selection including Nathaniel West The Day of the Locust, Grey Walls Press, 1951, 1st UK Edn in VG d/jkt; Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl, Doubleday, 1952, 1st U.S. Edn. in slightly chipped d/jkt; A Handbook to the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling, 1914, VG; and various others. Fair to fine. (7)

Selection including signed first editions in d/jkt by P.D. James (2), William Boyd (3), Ruth Rendell, Gracie Fields and Ginette Spanier.

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Selection including signed first editions in d/jkt by P.D. James (2), William Boyd (3), Ruth Rendell, Gracie Fields and Ginette Spanier. Good to VF (23)