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Lot 389

Herrick, Robert. One Hundred and Eleven Poems Selected, Arranged and Illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint, limited edition 250/550, The Golden Cockrel Press, 1955. Parchment backed boards, slipcase, quarto, plus Flint, W. Russell. (Illustrator) Savoy Operas, first edition, London George Bell & Sons, 1909. Publishers gilt lettered cloth, colour illustrations, quarto, plus The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, limited edition 127/500, London The Medici Society, 1912. Limp vellum with silk ties, quarto. (3)

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Lot 392

Le Mair, H. Willebeek. The Children's Corner, first edition, London Augener Ltd, [1914]. Cloth, laid down colour plates, oblong quarto, plus Little Songs of Long Ago, first edition [1912], plus eleven others by the illustrator, plus Spielmann, M. H. & Layard, G. S. Kate Greenaway, first edition, London A & C Black, 1905. Rubbed cloth, quarto, plus other works. (shelf)

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Lot 393

Lofting, Hugh. The Story of Mrs Tubbs, plus Porridge Poetry, both first editions, London Jonathan Cape, 1924 & [1925]. Oblong octavo, plus Sowerby, Millicent & Githa. The Bumbletoes, first edition, London Chatto & Windus 1907. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus Dickens, Charles. The Magic Fishbone; The Trial of William Tinkling; Captain Boldheart. (6)

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Lot 394

Macfall, Haldane. (Editor) Aubrey Beardsley. The Man and His Work, first edition, London John Lane, 1928. Cloth backed boards, presentation inscription to front free endpaper " For Guy Martineau from the Mother of Aubrey Beardsley 1929" quarto, plus Hind, C. Lewis. (Editor) The Uncollected Works of Aubrey Beardsley, first edition, London John Lane, 1925. plus Marillier, H. C. (Editor) The Early Works of Aubrey Beardsley, first edition, London John Lane, 1899, plus Beardsley, Aubrey. Under the Hill, reprint. (4)

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Lot 397

Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six, first edition. London Methuen & Co., 1927. Gilt decorated cloth, illustrated, octavo.

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Lot 398

Morris, William. The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems, first edition, London John Lane, 1905. Publishers gilt decorated red cloth, illustrated by Jessie M. King, octavo.

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Lot 401

Peake, Mervyn. Ride a Cock-Horse and or the Nursery Rhymes, first edition, without dedication, London Chatto & Windus, 1940. Dust wrapper, quarto, plus Peake, Mervyn. (Illustrator) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, London Allan Wingate,. 1954. Dust wrapper, octavo plus others by the illustrator. (22)

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Lot 406

Rackham, Arthur. (Illustrator) Irish Fairy Tales, first edition, London MacMillan & Co.,1920. Green cloth gilt, octavo, plus The Ring of the Niblung, 1939; The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1943; Goblin Market, 1933, (4)

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Lot 408

Rackham, Arthur. (Illustrator) Grimm's Fairy Tales, first edition, London Constable & Co. Ltd., 1909. Publisher's red cloth gilt, tipped in colour illustrations, quarto.

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Lot 411

Rackham, Arthur. Book of Pictures, first edition, London William Henemann, 1913. Cloth, tipped in colour illustrations, quarto.

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Lot 412

Rackham, Arthur. (Illustrator) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London Hodder & Stoughton, no date. Green cloth gilt, octavo, plus Milne, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London Methuen & Co., 1928. Coth, spine faded, octavo, plus other childrens/illustrated. (13)

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Lot 414

Robinson, W. Heath. (Illustrator) The Water Babies, first edition, London Constable & Co., 1915. Rubbed cloth gilt, stamped Presentation Copy, octavo, plus Railway Ribaldry, first edition, 1935, plus A Song of the English, London no date, plus White, Colin. The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King, first edition, London Canongate, 1989, plus other works. (10)

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Lot 415

Robinson, Charles. (Illustrator) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, first edition, London Collins [1928]. Gilt decorated calf, remains of glassine wrapper and box, quarto, plus Halder, Asit-Kumar. (Illustrator) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Allahabad, The Indian Press, no date. Pages tipped onto heavy card loosely inserted into publisher's binder, folio. (2)

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Lot 419

Sendak, Maurice. (Illustrator) Dear Mili, first edition, New York 1988. Dust wrapper, signed by author to half title, octavo, plus six others by/about the illustrator plus four other volumes. (11)

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Lot 421

Shepard, Ernest H. (Illustrator) Everybody's Boswell, signed limited edition 302/350, London G. Bell & Sons, 1930. Cloth, octavo, plus Farjeon, Eleanor. Illustrated Shepard, The Silver Curlew, first edition, O. U. P., 1953. Dust wrapper, long author's dedication to half title, octavo, plus other volumes illustrated by Shepard. (12)

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Lot 422

Smith, Pamela Colman. (Illustrator) Widdicombe Fair, limited edition 148/500, London Harper, 1899. Publishers illustrated cloth, folio, plus Pogany, Elaine & Willy. The Golden Cockerel, first edition, New York Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1938. Dust wrapper, illustrated, folio, plus three other illustrated volumes. (5)

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Lot 423

Stein, Gertrude. The World is Round, first edition, New York William R. Scott, 1939. Dust wrapper, quarto, plus Bosschere, Jean De. (Illustrator) Christmas Tales of Flanders, first edition, New York Dodd, Mead, 1917. Cloth gilt, quarto, plus others similar. (shelf)

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Lot 431

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451, first edition, London Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. Chipped dust wrapper, spine and edges faded, octavo.

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Lot 433

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister, first edition, London Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Rubbed and chipped dustwrapper, octavo, plus first Hamish Hamilton editions of Playback, in a chipped dust wrapper and The Long Goodbye in a damaged dust wrapper. (3)

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Lot 434

Charteris, Leslie. The Saint to the Rescue, first edition, London Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus six other by the author, five in dust wrappers. (7)

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Lot 438

Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca, first edition, London Victor Gollancz, 1938. Black cloth, spine faded, octavo.

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Lot 441

Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first edition, London Jonathan Cape, 1963, plus The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition 1965, plus Octopussy and the Living Daylights, first edition 1966, all in protected dust wrappers, octavo. (3)

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Lot 442

Forester, C. S. The African Queen, first edition, London, William Heinemann, 1935. Publishers cloth, signed "C. S. Forester" to front free end paper and also inscribed "To Ingle Barr, twenty two years after first signing the book, with a second signature; C. S. Forester April 1957." Barr's bookplate to front paste down, octavo. Ingle Barr was a Californian book collector who corresponded with Forester.

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Lot 444

Highsmith, Patricia. The Talented Mr. Ripley, first edition, London Cresset Press, 1957. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus three other first editions by the author, two of which are signed. (4)

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Lot 446

Leiber, Fritz. Ship of Shadows, signed limited edition 48/500, London Victor Gollancz, 1979. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus Clarke, Arthur C. Imperial Earth, first edition, London Victor Gollancz, 1975. Dust wrapper, signed by author to title page, octavo, plus other science fiction volumes. (shelf)

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Lot 450

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel, first edition, London Secker & Warburg, 1949. Green dust wrapper, chipped and torn, boards faded at edges, octavo, plus an illustrated edition of Animal Farm. (2)

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Lot 451

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye, first edition, London Hamish Hailton, 1951. Chipped dust wrapper, octavo.

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Lot 452

Scott, Paul. Staying On, first edition, London Heinemann, 1977. Dust wrapper, signed by author to title, octavo.

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Lot 458

Trevor, William. The Old Boys, first edition, London The Bodley Head, 1964. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus The Boarding House, first edition 1965, plus other irst editions by the author. (20)

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Lot 459

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slauterhouse Fire or the Children's Crusade. A Dance with Death, first edition, London Jonathan Cape, 1970. Dust wrapper, signed by author to front free endpaper, octavo, plus Ballard, J. G. High Rise, first edition, London Jonathan Cape, 1975. Dust wrapper, signed by author to title page, plus other works by the authors. (12)

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Lot 460

Waterhouse, Keith. Billy Liar, first edition, London Michael Joseph, 1959. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus, Charteris, Leslie. The Saint and the People Importers, first edition, London Hodder & Stoughton, 1973. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus other fiction. (box)

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Lot 461

Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man, A Grotesque Romance, first edition, London C. Arthur Pearson, 1897. Cloth, first page mis-numbered, octavo.

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Lot 462

Wells, H. G. The First Man on the Moon, first edition, London George Newnes, 1901. Cloth, octavo.

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Lot 463

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds, first edition, London William Heinemann, 1898, with 1897 adverts. Cloth, octavo.

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Lot 464

Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. An Invention, first edition, London William Heinemann, 1895. Cloth, no adverts., octavo.

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Lot 473

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works, facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer, limited edition 701/1000, London The Folio Society, 2002. Goatskin, slip case, folio, plus limited editions by the Society of Le Morte D"Arthur; Tractatus de Herbis; Ulysses; The First Folio of Shakespeare, (5)

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Lot 474

Dulac, Edmund. (Illustrator) Rubaiyat of Omar Khaym, London Hodder & Stoughton, no date. White cloth gilt, quarto, plus Milne, A. A. The House at Poo Corner, first edition, London Methuen & Co. 1928, cloth, octavo, plus other books. (box)

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Lot 485

Miller, Lee. Wrens in Camera, first edition, London Hollis & Carter, 1945. Damaged dust wrapper, octavo, plus Belloc, H. Advice, first edition, London Harvill Press, 1960. Dust wrapper, octavo, plus other volumes, including some leather bound. (shelf)

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Lot 5

Bates (H.E.). Down the River, illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker, original cloth, dust-wrapper, 4to, 1937 - and 11 others including The Crossing of Antarctica signed by Sir Edmund Hillary, and the First Trade Edition of The Seven Pillars in torn dust-wrapper. (12)

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Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Story of the Malakand Field Force, First Edition, portrait and 6 maps, front free endpaper

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Lot 13

Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Story of the Malakand Field Force, First Edition, portrait and 6 maps, front free endpaper with edges chipped and loose, one map loose and with one edge slightly chipped, original cloth, bookplate, rubbed, slightly soiled, head and foot of spine and corners knocked, small tears at foot of spine, 1898.

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Lot 15

Curzon (George Nathaniel, Lord). Tales of Travel, plates, original cloth, 1923; Wood (Herbert) The Shores of Lake Aral, 2 folding maps (one in pocket), a few foxmarks, ownership signature to title, original decorated cloth, 2cm piece torn from head of spine, spine stained, hinges broken, 1876; Hedin (Sven) Central Asia and Tibet, First Edition, 2 vols., 4 folding maps, original decorated cloth, spines faded and with extremities rubbed, lower cover of vol. 1 stained, 1904; Fraser (David) The Marches of Hindustan, 2 folding maps, the first torn and repaired, the second in pocket, plates, original cloth, spine rubbed and repaired, 1907 - and 3 others. (8)

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Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan). The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, illustrations by Sidney Paget, original dark blue c

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Lot 16

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan). The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, illustrations by Sidney Paget, original dark blue cloth, gilt, nicks to extremities of spine, and slit to centre of spine, corners knocked, George Newnes, 1894.

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Lot 17

Edgeworth (Maria). Harrington, a Tale, First Edition, 3 vols., wanting half-titles and publishers' adverts, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, 1817 - and 12 similar volumes. (15)

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Lot 21

Halls (J.J.). The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt, Second Edition, 2 vols., contemporary polished calf, gilt, 1834; [Warburton (George D.)] The Conquest of Canada, 2 vols., similar binding, 1849 - and 4 others, including a set of Prescott's Conquest of Mexico (the first 2 with ink ownership inscriptions). (8)

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Lot 23

Hassall (Arthur). Christ Church, Oxford, original buckram, slightly soiled, 4to, 1911 - and 19 others including a First Edition of Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, [1956-58], in dust-wrappers and 1950s Enid Blytons. (20)

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Lot 36

Le Carré (John). The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, First Edition, ink ownership signature on front endpaper, original cloth, dust-wrapper, wrapper slightly frayed at head and foot of spine, and with 1.5cm x 1cm piece torn from foot and corresponding fading, 1963.

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Lofting (Hugh). Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, First Edition, ink signature on endpaper, original decorated cloth, slightly

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Lot 37

Lofting (Hugh). Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, First Edition, ink signature on endpaper, original decorated cloth, slightly soiled, New York, [1923]; Doctor Dolittle's Circus, ink signature on endpaper, original decorated cloth, slightly soiled, warped, New York, [1924]; and Doctor Dolittle in the Moon, torn, loose frontispiece, New York, [1928]. (3)

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Lot 39

Milne (Alan Alexander). Winnie-the-Pooh, First Edition, ink ownership signature on the half-title, original green cloth, gilt, head and foot of spine and corners slightly bumped, [1926]; The House at Pooh Corner, First Edition, small stain to half-title, original pink cloth, spine nicked, a little faded, [1928] - and a 12th Edition of When We Were Very Young. (3)

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Stoker (Bram). Dracula, First Edition, later issue, with 6pp. of adverts. at end, ink ownership signature on half-title, end

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Lot 61

Stoker (Bram). Dracula, First Edition, later issue, with 6pp. of adverts. at end, ink ownership signature on half-title, endpapers slightly browned, a few blank upper margins with dampstains at end, original yellow cloth, soiled and shaken, hinges broken, the spine darkened and with small (c.1cm.) tears at head and foot, edges rubbed, corners knocked, a little cockling to covers, [Shadows in the Attic p. 46], 1897.

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Lot 66

Thomas (Edward). Poems, First Edition, half-title spotted, original boards, paper label, spine slightly rubbed, 1917; Binyon (Laurence) North Star, First Edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper, 1941. (2)

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Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel). [The Lord of the Rings]: The Fellowship of the Ring, first edition, original cloth, dust -wrappe

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Lot 68

Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel). [The Lord of the Rings]: The Fellowship of the Ring, first edition, original cloth, dust -wrapper, [1954]; The Return of the King, First Edition, original cloth, dust-wrapper, [1955]; together 2 vols. of the 3 (without The Two Towers), both wrappers with sunned spine and slightly rubbed at heads of spines. (2)

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BUFFON, COUNT DE. A NATURAL HISTORY, New Edition translated by William Smellie, 2 vols. Vol I has first two plates missing

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Lot 22

BUFFON, COUNT DE. A NATURAL HISTORY, New Edition translated by William Smellie, 2 vols. Vol I has first two plates missing

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DAVID HOCKNEY (BRITISH, B. 1937) MYSELF & MY HEROES Etching and aquatint, signed, dated 1961, edition of 50 29.5cm x 49.5cm

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Lot 5

DAVID HOCKNEY (BRITISH, B. 1937) MYSELF & MY HEROES Etching and aquatint, signed, dated 1961, edition of 50 29.5cm x 49.5cm (10.2in x 19.5in) Notes: 'Myself and My Heroes' was David Hockney's first print which he made on arriving at the Royal College of Art, London. The work shows the artist beside a haloed Mahatma Gandhi and Walt Whitman.

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A Royal Crown Derby Imari Porcelain 1991 Christmas Plate, limited edition No976/1500 (the first plate of the series), 21.5cm

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Lot 215

A Royal Crown Derby Imari Porcelain 1991 Christmas Plate, limited edition No976/1500 (the first plate of the series), 21.5cms diameter, boxed with certificate.

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Milne (AA) Winnie The Pooh, Methuen 1926. First Edition, First Impression, 8vo, 158pp, gilt stamped green cloth, inscription

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Lot 591

Milne (AA) Winnie The Pooh, Methuen 1926. First Edition, First Impression, 8vo, 158pp, gilt stamped green cloth, inscription "EM Brockhurst, from Bean" to front free endpaper dated 24-10-1926 (date of publication) two minor nicks to covers otherwise fine condition ; When We Were Very Young, Methuen 1926 (thireteenth); Plus One Other, unrelated. (3)

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Lot 601

Skinner (EF) A Short History of The Sheffield Royal Hospital 1832-1932, first edition; Together with Photographic Postcard of The Royal Infirmary (2).

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YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) - THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL, first edition, 741 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Yeats, on handmade

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Lot 670

YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) - THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL, first edition, 741 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Yeats, on handmade paper, uncut, publisher's quarter vellum backed boards and dust jacket with title label, London: Privately Printed for Subscribers by T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1922. ++++

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DICKENS (CHARLES) - OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, first edition [in book form] two vols, illustrations after Marcus Stone, original mar

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Lot 676

DICKENS (CHARLES) - OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, first edition [in book form] two vols, illustrations after Marcus Stone, original maroon cloth gilt, bookplate of J C Severn of Penybont Hall, London: Chapman & Hall, 1865 (2) Provenance: Recorded in the (unpublished) Catalogue of Books at Penybont Hall Radnorshire, 1927: Library, shelf 11. ++++

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DICKENS (CHARLES) - BLEAK HOUSE, first edition [in book form] half title, title vignette, frontispiece and engraved illustra

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Lot 677

DICKENS (CHARLES) - BLEAK HOUSE, first edition [in book form] half title, title vignette, frontispiece and engraved illustrations throughout after Hablot Knight Browne, half title, original faded green cloth with ticket of Cawthorn & Co, 34 Cockspur St, Charing Cross, bookplate of J C Severn of Penybont Hall, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853 Provenance: Penybont Hall Catalogue of Books, op cit: Library, shelf 11. ++++

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RIDER HAGGARD (H) - MR MEESON'S WILL, first edition, first issue with 'Johnson' for 'Johnstone' in line one of p284, Catalog

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Lot 678

RIDER HAGGARD (H) - MR MEESON'S WILL, first edition, first issue with 'Johnson' for 'Johnstone' in line one of p284, Catalogue of Books dated October 1888 at the end, engraved frontispiece and illustrations, original scarlet pictorial cloth, London: Spencer Blackett, 1888; - Maiwa's Revenge, first edition, with General List of Works dated June 1888 at the end, original black and red cloth, London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1888; - Allan Quatermain, new edition, 1888, all with engraved bookplate of JP Cheesment Severn of Penybont Hall (3). ++++

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