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Auction No 437, Category: Literature

11 Lots (displaying 1 - 11)

Selection of author signed books including Antony Sher "Characters" 1989, in d/jkt; David Hare "We Travelled" 2021 in d/jkt;

Lot: 2

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  • Est: £30 - £50
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Selection of author signed books including Antony Sher Characters 1989, in d/jkt; David Hare We Travelled 2021 in d/jkt; and Richard Eyre Place to Place 2018. All first editions. VG/VF (6)

Philip Norman "London Vanished & Vanishing" A. & C. Black 1905, gilt cloth, 75 colour plates with titled tissue-guards,

Lot: 12

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Philip Norman London Vanished & Vanishing  A. & C. Black 1905, gilt cloth, 75 colour plates with titled tissue-guards, and Holbrook Jackson The Eighteen-Nineties: a Review of Art and Ideas Grant Richards 1913, gilt cloth, 24 b/w plates (5 after Aubrey Beardsley). London Vanished with browning to endpapers. First Editions. VG (2) 

Alan Garner "Thursbitch" Harvill Press, 2003, 3rd printing, signed by the author on title page, in a fine d/jkt.

Lot: 23

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  • Est: £60 - £80
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Alan Garner Thursbitch Harvill Press, 2003, 3rd printing, signed by the author on title page, in a fine d/jkt.

Alan Garner "The Moon of Gomrath" Collins 1963, First Edition, in complete d/jkt, signed & inscribed by the author on title page,

Lot: 24

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  • Est: £100 - £150
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Alan Garner The Moon of Gomrath Collins 1963, First Edition, in complete d/jkt, signed & inscribed by the author on title page, the d/jkt with two small peripheral tears along top edge, some browning to half-title and final page.

Alan Garner "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" Collins 1960, First Edition, in good d/jkt, signed & inscribed by the author on title page,

Lot: 25

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  • Est: £250 - £350
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Alan Garner The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Collins 1960, First Edition, in good d/jkt, signed & inscribed by the author on title page, the jacket chipped at foot of spine and slightly pulled at top. 

Alan Garner "The Weirdstone of Brisingham" Collins 1984; "Boneland" Collins 2012, first edition; and "The Lad of the Gad" Collins 1980, first edition,

Lot: 26

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Alan Garner The Weirdstone of Brisingham Collins 1984; Boneland Collins 2012, first edition; and The Lad of the Gad Collins 1980, first edition, all signed and inscribed by the author, all in fine d/jkts. (3)  Also two items of related ephemera.

Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass", 2005, tenth anniversary editions, all signed,

Lot: 28

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, 2005, tenth anniversary editions, all signed, in d/jkts, in slipcases. VF, still in original shrinkwrap. (3)       

Selection of signed first editions in d/jkt comprising Stephen Fry "Making History", Andrew Morton "Monica’s Story"signed by Monica Lewinsky,

Lot: 29

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Selection of signed first editions in d/jkt comprising Stephen Fry Making History, Andrew Morton Monica's Story signed by Monica Lewinsky, and four by Ian Rankin. Also Louis de Bernieres Birds Without Wings signed limited edition in slipcase. Fine. Obtained through Waterstones. (7)

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

Lot: 33

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  • Est: £40 - £50
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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) 

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: 34

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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)  

Edgar Allan Poe "Le Corbeau - The Raven" illustrated by Edouard Manet, Easton Press, 1995, facsimile of the Richard Lesclide edition of 1875,

Lot: 35

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Edgar Allan Poe Le Corbeau – The Raven illustrated by Edouard Manet, Easton Press, 1995, facsimile of the Richard Lesclide edition of 1875, folio, quarter-leather, gilt, in the issued folder, print on India paper loosely inserted, one of 240 printed. Fine.