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Auction No 417, Category: Literature

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

Uncorrected Proofs including works by William Styron, Bernard Cornwell, Henry Cecil, Julian Symons, Jon Cleary, Ellis Peters, Miss Read (2),

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Uncorrected Proofs including works by William Styron, Bernard Cornwell, Henry Cecil, Julian Symons, Jon Cleary, Ellis Peters, Miss Read (2), and various others. Good/VF. Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Eagle 1980 is the first in the Sharpe series of books. (34)

Ben Brierley "Ab-o’th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories", W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Ben Brierley Ab-o'th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories, W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles, one ex-library in poor condition, others good/VG. (8)

E.M. Forster "A Room with a View", Edward Arnold, 1908, First Edition, original gilt ribbed maroon cloth, worn & marked, the spine faded;

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £600 - £900
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E.M. Forster A Room with a View, Edward Arnold, 1908, First Edition, original gilt ribbed maroon cloth, worn & marked, the spine faded; blank bookplate to front pastedown, pencil ownership signature to front endpaper dated 1912, inner front and rear hinges weak showing the webbing, some occasional marginal tone-marks to text but generally clean internally; small remnants of a lending library label to rear pastedown (no other library markings). Complete with the 8-page publisher's catalogue.

Henry Fishwick (Ed.) "The Works of John Collier (Tim Bobbin) in Prose and Verse", James Clegg, 1894, No.3 of 20 printed on Whatman Paper,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Henry Fishwick (Ed.) The Works of John Collier (Tim Bobbin) in Prose and Verse, James Clegg, 1894, No.3 of 20 printed on Whatman Paper, signed by Henry Fishwick, bound in quarter-vellum, gilt, worn front corners; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere, two neat ownership signatures to front endpaper. Fine internally.

"The Poems of William Shakespeare printed after the Original Copies", David Paradine, 1975, facsimile of the Kelmscott Press edition,

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £68
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The Poems of William Shakespeare printed after the Original Copies, David Paradine, 1975, facsimile of the Kelmscott Press edition, bound in full limp vellum with silk ties, No.63 of 100 numbered copies, complete with the companion prospectus similarly numbered, in slipcase. Fine.   

C.S. Lewis "The Four Loves", 1960, 1st Edn., in d/jkt; J.M. Synge "Translations", Dolmen Press, No.313 of 750; Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot",

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £88
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C.S. Lewis The Four Loves, 1960, 1st Edn., in d/jkt; J.M. Synge Translations, Dolmen Press, No.313 of 750; Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot, Folio Society, 2000; R.C. Jebb The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry, 1893, full leather, gilt; and other literature, fair to fine. (15).