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Lot 368
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, first impression, light marginal toning, bookplate on pastedown, later cloth, a little rubbed, 1954; The Two Towers, second impression, light toning strip and ownership name on endpapers, original cloth, spine ends a little bumped, gilt a little dulled, dust-jacket, portions of loss to spine ends, spine browned, toning and surface soiling to panels, chipping and creasing to extremities, 1955; The Return of the King, first impression with signature mark "4" and sagging text on p.49, original cloth, spine faded and scuffed, ends frayed and rubbed, 1955, folding maps, 8vo.
Lot 171
NO RESERVE Hartley (Dorothy) Food in England, first edition, plates and illustrations, neat ink ownership inscription to endpaper, occasional light foxing, original cloth, light mottling to covers, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped with neat tape strengthening to head of spine verso, some light marking and surface soiling to panels, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, 8vo, 1954.⁂ Dorothy Hartley's classic combination history and cookbook, rare with the dust-jacket in such good condition.
![[Vickers (William Edward)], "David Durham". The Exploits of Fidelity Dove, 'lent/returned' table in biro on pastedown, origin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/013bc1ec-a2f0-4a0c-8277-b0cf00c8c65b/9df07446-3523-4e11-805d-b0cf00d3e26e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 384
[Vickers (William Edward)], "David Durham". The Exploits of Fidelity Dove, 'lent/returned' table in biro on pastedown, original cloth, surface soiling and rubbing, spine faded, ends bumped, [1924] § Morrison (Arthur) The Dorrington Deed Box, illustrations, endpaper chipped, cloth lightly rubbed, [1897] § Hunt (Peter) Murders at Scandal House, endpapers lightly toned, occasional light spotting, New York, [1934], first editions, original cloth; and 7 others, crime and mystery novels, 8vo (10)⁂ The first is a scarce collection of stories featuring a female criminal. See previous lot for details.
![NO RESERVE [Everett (Percy W., attributed to as editor)] Ghost Stories and Other Queer Tales, first edition, light spotting t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/013bc1ec-a2f0-4a0c-8277-b0cf00c8c65b/3a2b438b-34f0-4d91-9c31-b0cf00d47fb3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 113
NO RESERVE [Everett (Percy W., attributed to as editor)] Ghost Stories and Other Queer Tales, first edition, light spotting to first few pages, cloth lightly rubbed, jacket with light abrasion marks to upper cove, nicks and chips to extremities, spine browned, 1931 § Sullivan (Alan) The Jade God, "Popular edition", jacket with new price sticker on upper panel, central portion of spine lacking, ends chipped, extremities frayed, 1924 § Sorensen (Villy) Strange Stories, first English edition, light creasing to spine ends, 1956, original boards, dust-jackets; and 6 others, ghost stories and weird fiction, 8vo (9)
Lot 326
NO RESERVE Reitzenstein (Baroness Josephine von) The Enchanted Fountain, introduction by Vera Brittain, signed presentation inscription from the author, original wrappers, 1945 § Shaw (George Bernard) Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War, some light spotting, original cloth, bump to foot of spine, dust-jacket, short nick to head of lower joint, light creasing to head, 1919 § Read (Herbert) Naked Warriors, original stiff wrappers, some very light spotting, 1919, first editions, excellent or near-fine copies, 8vo (3)⁂ An excellent trio of First World War works, the first of which is scarce.
Lot 42
NO RESERVE Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, limited edition signed by the author, publisher's bookmark loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, short split to lower joint with neat tape repair to verso, minor chipping to spine tips, 1960 § A Catalogue of Works by Sir John Betjeman from the collection of Ray Carter with an unpublished poem, one of 80 copies signed by Betjeman, John Piper, Phillida Gili and Glynn Boyd Harte, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, else fine, Warren Editions, 1983, first editions; and another, Betjeman, 8vo (3)
Lot 203
NO RESERVE James (Peter) Dead Letter Drop, signed by the author on title, 1981 § Williams (Elma M.) Tomorrow a Stranger, signed presentation inscription from the author on endpapers, additionally signed by the author on title, jacket price-clipped, 1962 § Gardner (John) Understrike, endpapers toned, 1965 § Blackburn (John) The Flame and the Wind, 1967, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light scuffing to extremities, spines very lightly faded; and c.40 others, crime fiction, 8vo (c.45)
Lot 130
NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 14th printing paperback edition, marginal browning, "Domino" letter loosely inserted, original pictorial wrappers, creasing to spine, extremities rubbed, 1965 § Eco (Umerto) and Oreste del Buono, editors. The Bond Affair, first English edition, original boards, dust-jackets, some light marking or soiling, 1966, 8vo (2)⁂ The first with the 'movie cover', being a promotional copy of Player's Cigarettes, accompanied by the scarce letter from "Domino" to James Bond, addressed as "Darling", reminiscing about their first supper together and mentioning Player's Cigarettes. The second is a consideration of the influence of James Bond, following the success of the films, a scarce Umberto Eco item.
Lot 123
Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, boards with skeletal hand in blind to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, light strip of fading to upper cover, corners bumped, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, ownership name on endpapers, boards with dagger motif blocked to front boards in silver and blind, spine lettered in silver, spine head bumped, jacket price-clipped, jacket nicks reinforced with tape verso, 1962, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, lightly toned, heaver to spines, nicks and short tears along edges, spine ends frayed and chipped, 8vo (2)
Lot 255
NO RESERVE Manning (Olivia) The Great Fortune, jacket with light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, short nick to head of lower panel with some light creasing, 1960 § Mansfield (Katherine) The Aloe, one of 750 copies, jacket with very light surface soiling, 1930 § Sackville-West (Edward) The Sun in Capricorn, light browning and ink ownership inscription to endpaper, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, light rubbing to extremities, 1934, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, excellent or fine copies; and 4 others, modern first editions, 8vo (7)
Lot 79
NO RESERVE Cornwell (Bernard) Sharpe's Sword, jacket with light sunning to spine and some marking to flaps, 1983; Sharpe's Enemy, light marginal browning, jacket with light sunning to spine, 1984; Sharpe's Honour, some light foxing to endpapers, light marginal browning, 1985, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light creasing to head, near-fine, 8vo (3)
Lot 155
Graves (Robert) John Kemp's Wager, ALs from the author discussing persons involved in putting on the opera, including a mention of a promise from Vaughan Williams to arrange the music, folds, on his letterhead, 1925, together with 2 other letters written in 1953, one to Vaughan Williams asking whether this original plan ever came into fruition, and a TLs response from Williams, all loosely inserted, light toning and rust-stain from staple on half-title, original boards, edges browned and creased, upper joint cracked, Oxford, 1925; Welchman's House, first edition, one of 525 copies, wood engravings by Paul Nash, bookplate and book-label on pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, spine lightly rubbed, 1925; Count Belisarius, reprint, signed presentation inscription from the author on endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, light fading and creasing to spine, 1970; and another work signed by Graves, 4to & 8vo (4)
Lot 85
Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Great Glass elevator, ninth printing, signed presentation inscription from the author "Timothy love Roald Dahl" on endpapers, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, spine lightly faded, dust-jacket, chips and creasing to spine ends and extremities, a few light surface markings, 8vo, New York, 1972.
Lot 33
NO RESERVE Banks (Iain M.) The Player of Games, jacket with slight fading to spine, short nick to head of upper panel, light creasing to head, 1988 § Crichton (Michael) Jurassic Park, jacket with light creasing to spine tips, 1991, first of first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine; and a signed first edition of The Testaments, 8vo (3)
Lot 115
Fermor (Patrick Leigh) Between the Woods and the Water, first edition, signed by the author on title with strike through printed name, jacket spine lightly faded, 1986; Three Letters from the Andes, signed by the author on front free endpaper, jacket price-clipped, spine faded, 1991; A Time of Gifts, light tape stains to endpapers, jacket extremities lightly creased, price-clipped, 1977, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (3) ⁂ Sharp and excellent copies.
Lot 18
NO RESERVE Ackerley (J.R.) My Dog Tulip. My Life with an Alsatian, Autograph Letter signed by the author loosely inserted, pencil ownership inscription of T. C. Worsley to front free endpaper, jacket with light toning to spine and minor chipping to head, 1956 § Fossey (Dian) Gorillas in the Mist, plates, 1983, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine copies, 8vo (2)⁂ A pair of classic works on human-animal relationships, both adapted for film. The first is with a nice association being owned by the journalist Cuthbert Worsley. In the letter, Ackerley thanks Worsley for his "kind and sensitive" review of his book in the New Statesman.
Lot 236
NO RESERVE Lewis (Wyndham) Left Wings Over Europe, some light scattered spotting, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light surface soiling, 1936 § Faulkner (William) A Fable, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, New York, 1954 § Sherriff (R. C.) and Vernon Bartlett. Journey's End, limited edition signed by the authors, browning to endpapers, light soiling to spine, 1930, first editions, original boards, excellent or near-fine copies; and a first edition of If I Die in a Combat Zone, 8vo (4)
Lot 211
NO RESERVE King (Stephen) The Shining, first English edition, page margins lightly toned, jacket with very light creasing to extremities and the odd scuff, otherwise a tight and excellent example, 8vo, 1977; Christine, first English edition, 1983; Pet Sematary, first edition, New York, 1983; The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, first trade edition, New York, 1987, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (4)
Lot 54
Bowen (Marjorie) More Great Tales of Horror, first edition, spotting to first and last few pages, foxing to pp.216-244, cloth with bumping to spine ends, jacket with chipping and creasing to edges, short tear to lower joint, light foxing on inner flap, 1935; The Last Bouquet, reprint, 4pp. adverts at end, ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers, cloth lightly soiled, jacket with very faint foxing to flaps, otherwise a remarkably crisp and bright example, 1933, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (2)⁂ A pair of scarce horror stories by Bowen; the second is in an remarkably bright example of a rare jacket.
Lot 304
Palmer (Tony) The Trials of Oz, first edition, signed by the author, Richard Neville, Jim Anderson, and Felix Dennis on endpapers with drawing by Feliks Topolski, original wrappers, light surface staining, corners and extremities creased, spine faded, 8vo, 1971.⁂ This work documents the trials of Oz, a landmark six-week trial in June and July 1971 of the joint editors of the counter-culture magazine Oz in which the three men were prosecuted on three charges, including obscenity, for the 28th issue known as Schoolkids Oz. The three accused were convicted of obscenity and given sentences ranging from nine to fifteen months, but released on appeal at which the trial judge was severely reprimanded for misdirecting the jury.
Lot 107
NO RESERVE Edmonds (Harry) The North Sea Mystery, presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, 1930 § Dane (Clemence) Enter Sir John, plates, New York, 1928 § Knox (Father Ronald) & H. Harrington. The Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1928, second impression, 1929 § Bedford Jones (H.) The Trail of the Shadow, [?1922], some with toning to endpapers, original cloth, light creasing to spine ends; and 5 others, crime and detective fiction, 8vo (9)
Lot 55
NO RESERVE Boyd (William) A Good Man in Africa, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, slight sunning to top edge, spine tips a little bumped, dust-jacket, sunning to spine and head of upper panel, minor chipping to spine tips, light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1981.⁂ The author's first novel, winner of the Whitbread Book and Somerset Maugham awards.
![Eliot (T.S.) [Four Quartets], 4 vol., comprising East Coker, first Faber edition, ink ownership inscription of J. H. Plumb on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/013bc1ec-a2f0-4a0c-8277-b0cf00c8c65b/c2a578ae-7f4d-4f6a-9f16-b0cf00d4e957/468x382.jpg)
Lot 110
Eliot (T.S.) [Four Quartets], 4 vol., comprising East Coker, first Faber edition, ink ownership inscription of J. H. Plumb on endpapers, light foxing, spine broken, chipping and browning to extremities, splitting to joint, 1940; Burnt Norton, first separate edition, light soiling mark to upper wrapper, 1941; The Dry Salvages, first edition, light toning to marks, edges a little creased, 1941; Little Gidding, first edition, ink ownership inscription on endpapers, first issue sewn wrappers, spine lightly faded, 1942, original wrappers, [Gallup A36c, A37, A39 & A42], 8vo.⁂ East Coker with the ownership inscription of John H. Plumb (1911-2001), an eminent British historian.
Lot 28
Amis (Martin) The Rachel Papers, presentation inscription to front free endpapers, 1973; Dead Babies, jacket price-clipped with new £4.95 price sticker, 1975; Success, 1978; London Fields, 1989, first editions, all signed or with signed presentation inscriptions from the author on titles, original boards, dust-jackets, very light chips to extremities, otherwise fine copies, 8vo (4)
![NO RESERVE Morris (James) [Pax Britannica trilogy], 3 vol. comprising Pax Britannica, card signed by the author loosely inser](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/013bc1ec-a2f0-4a0c-8277-b0cf00c8c65b/054d2acd-74ed-4bba-b473-b0cf00d4f18b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 279
NO RESERVE Morris (James) [Pax Britannica trilogy], 3 vol. comprising Pax Britannica, card signed by the author loosely inserted, jacket price-clipped, 1968; Heaven's Command, light stain to foot of spine, 1973; Farewell the Trumpets, 1978, first editions, plates, original boards, dust-jackets, very slight sunning to spine, light creasing to head and foot, near-fine overall, 8vo.⁂ Jan Morris' acclaimed trilogy detailing the history of the British empire.
Lot 372
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, seventh impression, lower fore-edge and jacket tail stained with red, slightly seeping up lower panel joint, 1957, The Two Towers, fifth impression, third impression jacket, 1957, The Return of the King, third impression, very light marking to upper panel, 1957, folding maps, very occasional spot, original cloth, spine ends very lightly bumped, dust-jackets, light toning and fading to spine, spine ends a little bumped, otherwise very sharp copies, 8vo.
Lot 57
NO RESERVE Braine (John) Room at the Top, first edition, some scattered edge spotting and small patch of staining, original boards, sunning to head and foot, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners with neat tape repairs head of spine verso, light spotting to lower panel, original publisher's wraparound band (a little sunned at spine), an excellent example, 8vo, 1957.⁂ The author's first book and a key title by one of the Angry Young Men.
Lot 52
Bond (Michael) Paddington Helps Out, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, endpapers lightly toned, jacket price-clipped, lightly spotted, 1960 § Blyton (Enid) Five Go to Mystery Moor, pictorial endpapers and illustrations, jacket with biro marks to upper panel, portion of loss to spine head, 1954; Five on Finniston Farm, jacket with very light creasing to extremities, otherwise fine, 1960, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and c.60 others, children's literature, v.s. (c.65)
Lot 112
NO RESERVE Endo (Shusaku) Silence, bookplate to front pastedown, jacket with, some light marking and the odd light splash mark, Peter Owen, 1976 § Mishima (Yukio) Death in Midsummer, 1966, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light sunning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to head and foot, excellent copies generally, 8vo (2)⁂ Two classic works of Japanese literature, the first one of the most celebrated Japanese novels of the 20th century, adapted three times for the cinema.
Lot 30
NO RESERVE Armstrong (Martin) The Fiery Dive and Other Stories, one of 150 copies signed by the author, lightly spotted, original vellum-backed cloth, a little marked, 1929 § Andom (R.) The Enchanted Ship, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, spine faded, 1908 § Cuming (E.D.) Wonders in Monsterland, gift inscription on pastedown, light foxing, original pictorial cloth, spine faded, ends bumped, 1901; and c.65 others, 20th century fantasy fiction, v.s. (c.70)
Lot 187
NO RESERVE Holroyd (Stuart) Emergence from Chaos, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "The copy is for Jim and Gloria, with love, and in memory of some happy days and stimulating talks we had in Paris. Stuart Holroyd. London, March, 1959" to endpaper, some spotting to endpapers, original boards, light damp-staining to head of covers, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light toning to spine spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short nicks to head and foot of panels, 8vo, 1957.⁂ The first novel by one of the Angry Young Men with an excellent literary association, inscribed here to the author of From Here to Eternity, James Jones, and his wife, Gloria Mosolino.
Lot 137
NO RESERVE Forster (E.M.) Howards End, first edition, second issue with 12pp. advertisements at rear, the odd spot or patch of light soiling, St. John Lucas' copy with his (slightly smudged) ink ownership inscription to endpaper, light browning and faint tape-staining to endpapers, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, splash marks to upper cover, rubbing to spine tips and corners, [Kirkpatrick A4a], 8vo, Edward Arnold, 1910.⁂ With a good literary provenance, having belonged to Rupert Brooke's friend and mentor, the poet St. John Lucas (1879-1934).
Lot 346
Sillitoe (Alan) Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, 4 ALs from the author thanking the recipient for sending various books and maps, on his letterhead, folds, loosely inserted, jacket reinforced with tape verso to spine ends, 1958; The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, 1959, first editions, signed or signed presentation inscriptions from the author to front free endpapers, endpapers a little toned, original boards, dust-jackets, very light creasing to extremities, otherwise excellent, 8vo (2)⁂ The letter references the theatre production of Saturday Night, Sunday Morning in Nottingham which Sillitoe attended. Following the 1960 film by Karel Reisz, the play served as another evolution of the this famous British kitchen sink drama novel.
Lot 59
NO RESERVE Brooke (Rupert), John Drinkwater, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson & Lascelles Abercrombie, editors. New Numbers, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4 (all published), vol. 1 initialled by Abercrombie and with ink inscription to title, scattered foxing, original wrappers, some chipping to spine ends, light toning to spines, some creasing and marking to covers, no.4 with loss to corner of lower cover, Gloucester, Crypt House Press, February-December, 1914; and a second edition of no. 1 signed by Gibson and with an ALs from the same, 4to (5)⁂ New Numbers was a compilation of poems by Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas, and Robert Frost. Its four issues included four poems by Abercrombie, eight by Drinkwater, fourteen by Gibson, and fifteen by Brooke.
Lot 308
NO RESERVE Phillpotts (Eden) The Flint Heart: A Fairy Story, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to this friend, Basil Hastings, from Eden Phillpotts, 1914" on front free endpaper, endpapers toned, occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and frayed, still overall a very attractive copy, 1910; The Miniature, dedication copy with the author's presentation inscription "to J. Keighley Snowden, in friendship [print] from Eden Phillpotts [manuscript]" on dedication page, original cloth, extremities bumped and rubbed, dust-jacket, light bumps to edges, otherwise excellent, 1926; and 4 others, including a copy of The Owl of Athene, with a presentation inscription from the author reading "Buy me for the Charing Cross Hospital", 8vo (6)
Lot 313
NO RESERVE Powell (Anthony) The Soldier's Art, jacket price-clipped with price sticker to front flap, 1965; The Military Philosophers, 1968; Books do Furnish a Room, 1971; Temporary Kings, jacket price-clipped, WHSmith Literary Award winner wraparound band, 1973; Hearing Secret Harmonies, 1975, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, some light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, else near-fine, 8vo (5)⁂ The last five titles in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time sequence.
Lot 278
NO RESERVE Morgan (Richard) Altered Carbon, signed by the author on title, jacket with very slight fading to spine, 2002 § Roshwald (Mordecai) Level 7, jacket with light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, a few short closed tears to head and foot, 1959, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and a first edition set of Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief trilogy, 8vo (5)⁂ A good group of both classic and modern science-fiction.
Lot 170
Hartley (L. P.) The Go-Between, first edition, signed by the author on title, faint foxing to first few pages, bookplate and ownership inscription on pastedown, light spotting to fore-edge, original cloth, dust-jacket, small portion of loss to spine head though not affecting title, short closed tears along joints and edges, very light creases and nicks to extremities, still a sharp example overall, 8vo, 1953.
Lot 414
Wodehouse (P.G.) Do Butler's Burgle Banks?, 1968; Ice in the Bedroom, jacket price-clipped, spine faded, 1961; Company for Henry, 1967; Jeeves in the Offing, first issue with incorrect half-title, ownership inscription on endpapers, 1960; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, 1963, first English editions, original boards, some with light bumping to spines, dust-jackets, some very light fading to spine, light creasing to spine ends, still excellent copies overall, [McIlvaine A91b; A84b; A90b; A83b; A86b]; and 19 others by Wodehouse, 1960s-70s titles, 8vo (24)
Lot 92
NO RESERVE Dawkins (Richard) The Selfish Gene, armorial bookplate to endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, some scattered spotting, jacket spine a little sunned, light creasing to head and foot, 1976 § Morris (Desmond) The Naked Ape, surface abrasion to front free endpaper, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1967, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent copies, 8vo (2)⁂ A good pair of important works on human evolution and genetics. A detail of a painting by Desmond Morris is used to illustration the dust-jacket of The Selfish Gene.
Lot 402
Wodehouse (P.G.) Very Good, Jeeves, first edition, one or two spots to fore-edge straying onto margins, cloth lightly soiled and faded, 1930; Young Men in Spats, first American edition, cloth a little faded, 1936; The Crime Wave at Blandings, first edition, 1937; Uncle Fred in the Springtime, first edition, bookplate of James Heineman on pastedown, endpapers a little toned, jacket price-clipped, 1939, original cloth, dust-jackets, creasing and nicks to extremities, light rubbing to corners, overall still very good or excellent copies, [McIlvaine A42a; A55b; A58a; A61a], New York; and 3 others, published in America and Canada, 8vo (7)⁂ A good group of Wodehouse's middle-period titles, all published in New York, all but one first editions preceding the first English editions. The last with good provenance, coming from the library of James Heineman, prominent Wodehousian and co-editor of McIlvaine's bibliography.
Lot 370
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Fellowship of the Ring, second impression, folding map at end, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, dust-jacket, spine a little browned and scuffed, spine ends frayed with some light loss, extremities chipped, 1954; and another seventh impression copy of the same, without a jacket, 1957, 8vo (2)
Lot 289
Newby (P. H.) Something to Answer For, uncorrected proof, light marginal toning, original wrappers, Proof Copy ink stamp to upper cover, light creasing and toning to spine, faint crease to upper cover, 1968; Something to Answer For, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to spine tips, near-fine otherwise, 1968, housed together in custom slipcase, 8vo (2)⁂ The winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.
Lot 318
NO RESERVE Priestley (J.B.) The Prince of Pleasure, 1970 § Hay (Roy) & Patrick M.Synge. The Dictionary of Garden Plants..., 1970, limited editions, signed by the authors, plates and illustrations, original crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, decorative morocco inlays and gilt patterning to upper covers, the first with light toning to spine, g.e., original drop-back boxes, Arcadia, 4to (2)
Lot 398
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Pothunters, first edition, hinge neatly repaired, second state cloth, rubbed and discoloured, spine faded, 1902; The Gold Bat, gift inscription on front free endpaper, 7 plates, light spotting, spine faded, corners and spine ends creased and bumped, 1911; Mike, second edition, plates, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, cloth spine ends bumped and frayed, light soiling, 1910, original cloth; and 2 others by Wodehouse, early 20th century titles, 8vo (5)
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