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Auction No 350, Category: Literature

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

[John Taylor] " A Manual of Laconics; or Many Things for Many Minds, J. Taylor 1841

Lot: 136

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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[John Tatylor] A Manual of Laconics; or Many Things for Many Minds, J. Taylor, 1841, new edition, full contemporary leather lightly marked & worn, a.e.g., fine internally, 462pp; plus Thomas Moore Irish Melodies, J. Power, 1823, 4th Edition, full leather, gilt, rebacked. (2)

Robert Burns "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" Kilmarnock, 1867

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Robert Burns Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, 1867, facsimile edition of the original John Wilson 1786 edition, printed by James McKie and signed by him, numbered 184 of 600; bound in red half-morocco, gilt, over marbled boards with peripheral wear, t.e.g.; 1875 Carlton Club bookplate; VG internally.

John Duncan "The Woodman & The Elves" Valentine & Sons [1911]

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £100
SOLD £56
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John Duncan The Woodman & The Elves, Valentine & Sons, Dundee [1911], oblong quarto, pictorial boards with some wear, title page with few finger marks and small tear at foot, occasional tiny marginal tear elsewhere; 8 full-page colour plates. Rare

"Othello" The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007

Lot: 147

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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Othello, The Folio Society Letterpress Shakespeare edition, 2007, in presentation case, folio, in three-quarter goatskin over marbled boards together with a small companion volume edited by Michael Neill. No. 151 of 3,750 produced. VF, the case slightly marked. 

H. B. Marriott-Watson "Diogenes of London and Other Fantasies and Sketches" Methuen 1893

Lot: 150

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £180 - £220
SOLD £165
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H.B. Marriott-Watson Diogenes of London and Other Fantasies and Sketches, Methuen, 1893, First Edition, original gilt cloth with some wear at corners, old bookseller's label on rear panel; uncut two sides; sound binding and clean text. viii+232pp. A collection of Gothic Horror stories and a rare First Edition.