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Auction No 436, Category: Literature

13 Lots (displaying 1 - 13)

Various including firsts in d/jkts of Paustovsky "Years of Hope", "The Restless Years", and "Southern Adventure"; works on Old Norse / Icelandic (6);

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £15
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Various including firsts in d/jkts of Paustovsky Years of Hope, The Restless Years, and Southern Adventure; works on Old Norse / Icelandic (6); and others. (11)

A collection of ‘World’s Classics’ including 18 with jackets designed by Lynton Lamb. VG condition. (44)

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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A collection of ‘World's Classics' including 18 with jackets designed by Lynton Lamb. VG condition. (44)

A collection of ‘World’s Classics’ including 49 in dust- jackets. Includes a few early editions by Grant Richards. (91)

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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A collection of ‘World's Classics' including 49 in dust-jackets. Includes a few early editions by Grant Richards. (91)

Lynton Lamb illustrated books, largely in d/jackets, seven with his artwork confined to the jacket only, others with line-drawings or woodcuts

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Lynton Lamb illustrated books, largely in d/jackets, seven with his artwork confined to the jacket only, others with line-drawings or woodcuts by the artist. Mostly VG/VF (24)

"Partisan Review" 1947 (5 issues), Joseph Toole "Fighting Through Life" 1935 1st edn., (rear hinge frayed), "World Review" 1950 (George Orwell number)

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £84
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Partisan Review 1947 (5 issues), Joseph Toole Fighting Through Life 1935 1st edn., (rear hinge frayed), World Review June 1950 (George Orwell number), and others, many Socialism related, with monographs, journals and pamphlets. Some Spanish Civil War interest. Mainly good/fine. (49)           

Sir Walter Scott "Chronicles of the Canongate" 1st & 2nd series, in five vols; together with "The Antiquary" in three vols; and others

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Sir Walter Scott Chronicles of the Canongate 1st & 2nd series, in five vols; together with The Antiquary in three vols; and other historical novels, all uniformly bound in half-calf, gilt; Edinburgh, 1816-29. Occasional minor foxing but generally very clean internally. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedowns. (18)  

"The Novels of George Eliot", William Blackwood, 1890s, eight vols in seven, half-leather gilt, VG, b/w plates, very clean internally,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £32
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The Novels of George Eliot, William Blackwood, 1890s, eight vols in seven, half-leather gilt, VG, b/w plates, very clean internally, no inscriptions. (7)

"The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of his Life, and a Criticism on his Writings", London 1801, 2nd Edition, four vols., full diced calf, gilt

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £48
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The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of his Life, and a Criticism on his Writings, London, 1801, 2nd Edition, four vols., full diced calf, gilt; repair to backstrip of vol.3, clean internally, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedowns. (4)  

Arthur Ransome "The Imp and the Elf and the Ogre", James Nisbet, 1910, First Edition, two-colour cloth, gilt, four plates. VG.

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £72
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Arthur Ransome The Imp and the Elf and the Ogre, James Nisbet, 1910, First Edition, two-colour cloth, gilt, four plates. VG. The book comes with an improvised d/jacket.     

George Bernard Shaw: 1950 autograph letter signed, to the Linotype & Machinery Ltd with their datestamp of receipt at top.

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £80
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George Bernard Shaw: 1950 autograph letter signed, to the Linotype & Machinery Ltd with their datestamp of receipt at top. Small peripheral splits at the folds.  

George Bernard Shaw: 1940 autograph letter signed on a photographic postcard of the author, thanking the recipient for a photo of Ensor Walters

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £180
SOLD £100
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George Bernard Shaw: 1940 autograph letter signed on a photographic postcard of the author, thanking the recipient for a photo of Ensor Walters (Methodist minister & housing reformer), the photograph of Shaw by Marcel Sternberger. Written from Whitehall Court, London. Walters had passed away in 1938.  

T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. ‘Lawrence of Arabia'): 1922 autograph letter signed, on reverse of a postcard of Crackington Haven, posted from Boscastle.

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £800 - £1200
SOLD £600
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T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. ‘Lawrence of Arabia'): 1922 autograph letter signed, on reverse of a postcard of Crackington Haven, posted from Boscastle. I set off to the East Monday and will write to you from there. Yours, T.E.Lawrence.

English Literature with works by Graham Greene, Storm Jameson, Ted Hughes, and a variety of others, with several first editions. Many in d/jkts.

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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English Literature with works by Graham Greene, Storm Jameson, Ted Hughes, and a variety of others, with several first editions. Many in d/jkts. VG condition. (34)