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Auction No 401, Category: Literature

26 Lots (displaying 21 - 26)

Jean de la Fontaine "Fables de La Fontaine", Alfred Mame, Tours, 1875; quarto, handsome three-quarter leather binding,

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £28
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Jean de la Fontaine Fables de La Fontaine, Alfred Mame, Tours, 1875; quarto, handsome three-quarter leather binding, the spine with raised bands, each compartment with foliate gilt & red inlay, slight wear; engraved frontispiece portrait and 50 additional engravings by Foulquier laid down in the text. Some occasional minor spotting to text margins. Small ownership inscription to first free endpaper

"The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray", Smith, Elder & Co, 1893-95, set of 26 volumes in attractive maroon half-leather bindings,

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £220 - £260
SOLD £160
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Smith, Elder & Co, 1893-95, set of 26 volumes in attractive maroon half-leather bindings, the spines with raised bands, gilt title labels & decoration to the compartments; marbled boards with matching sides and endpapers. Some scuff marks. Internally fine with wood engravings in text; free from inscriptions. (26)

Frances and Edward Larocque Tinker "Widows Only - Old New Orleans, the Sixties", D. Appleton, 1931, 1st Edition, orig.cloth with onlay titles,

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Frances and Edward Larocque Tinker Widows Only – Old New Orleans, the Sixties, D. Appleton, 1931, 1st Edition, orig.cloth with onlay titles, front board slightly marked, signed & warmly inscribed by the authors on reverse of frontispiece. Pictorial endpapers. 165pp. Fine internally. 

Leonard C. Smithers (Ed.) "The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour", H.S. Nichols, London 1893; tall octavo, large paper edition,

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Leonard C. Smithers (Ed.) The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour, H.S. Nichols, London 1893; tall octavo, large paper edition, one of 650 printed; three-quarter cloth over marbled boards, gilt leather title, minor wear; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere; some light spotting to prelims o/w fine internally, no inscriptions.VG

[Charles Benjamin Taylor, 1797-1875] "A Fireside Book, or the Account of a Christmas Spent at Old Court", J.A. Hessey, London, 1828;

Lot: 119

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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[Charles Benjamin Taylor, 1797-1875] A Fireside Book, or the Account of a Christmas Spent at Old Court, J.A. Hessey, London, 1828; first edition, sm.octavo, original boards, scuffed & marked, the later paper backstrip and title label fine; uncut; engraved frontispiece after George Cruikshank; small repair to corner of the Dramatis Personae leaf o/w VG internally, a few minor tone marks; no inscriptions; (3)229,(2)pp.    

John Farrimond "Dust in My Throat", George Harrap, 1963, First Edn., gilt cloth, fine, in a VG near-complete d/jkt

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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John Farrimond Dust in My Throat, George Harrap, 1963, First Edn., gilt cloth, fine, in a VG near-complete d/jkt (slightly chipped top & tail of spine), no inscriptions. Minor spotting to edge of text block occasionally straying on to text margins.. A tale of a mining community. 222pp