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SCOTT, Sir WALTER. The Poetical Works. 12 vols., Edinburgh and London, 1833-34. 16mo., orig. cloth (vo 1 not uniform, spines faded). Engraved titles, and frontispiece (12) £20-30 | Nil |
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| 602 | SCOTT Sir WALTER. The Poetical Works. ed. J.G. lockhart, Edinburgh A. & C. Black, 1882. 8vo., cont. red morocco gilt, a.e.g. Engraved plates after Turner. -- BELLOC, H. The Old road. 1904. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. Plates by W. Hyde. With 4 others (6) £30-40 | Nil |
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| 603 | SCOTT Sir WALTER. Waverley Novels. Border Edition, 24 vols., 1901. Cont. half green stained calf, spines gilt a.e.g (edges scuffed, spines faded). Etched plates; THE POETICAL WORKS. 11 vols. Edinburgh 1830. Cont. half green stained calf (not uniform). (spines faded, scuffed, lacks some spines labels). Engraved titles and portrait frontispiece. Bookplate of J.A. Busfeild. All 8vo., (35) Loosely inserted in vol 1 of the Poetical Works is an envelope front, apparently in the hand of the author. £200-300 | Nil |
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| 604 | SMOLLETT, TOBIAS. Select Works..With A Memoir..by Sir Walter Scott. New Edition, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1836. 8vo., cont. calf. Engraved portrait. With 4 other volumes. (6) £30-40 | Nil |
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| 605 | STEINBECK, JOH. La Flamme (burning Bright) Paris 1951. 8vo., orig. boards, d.w. (frayed). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Arthur from a fellow but elder revolutionary John Steinbeck qui est flambe" With T.L.S. from the same loosely inserted, to Art Elliot (sic) from Sag Harbor, Long Island, November 1, 1962. He thanks Elliott for his congratulations, "Your wish make the prize more valuable". and in a MS postscript, (3) Steinbeck had received the Nobel prize of Literature £200-400 | Nil |
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| 606 | STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. The Novels and Tales. 21 vols. (lacks vol 2). Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1896-98 With The Letters 2vols., 1899; The Life by Graham Balfour,vol 1 only. 1901 and Letters and Miscellanies. New Letters, Selected and Edited by Sideny Colvin, 1912. Together 25 vols., 8vo., uniform half maroon morocco, spines gilt, t. e.g other edges uncut. Portraits. (25) SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN £200-300 | Nil |
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| 607 | SYNGE, JOHN. M. The Works. 4 vols., Maunsel and Company, Dublin 1910. First Edition, 8vo., cont. half green morocco gilt, t.e.g. (spines darkened). Portrait frontispiece (G) (4) £150-200 | Nil |
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| 608 | TALLIS, JOHN. & Co. Tallis's Illustrated Scripture History. 2 vols., 1851. 8vol., cont. half brown morocco gilt, a.e.g Engraved titles and frontispiece (stained), and plates. -- BREVIRIUM ROMANUM. 4 vols., Paris 1750. 8vo., cont. calf (spines chipped, joints cracked). (6) £40-60 | Nil |
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| 609 | THACKERAY, W.M. The Virginians. First Edition in book form, 2 vols., 1858-59. 8vo., cont. half calf. Engraved plates and tect illustrations (spotted) With 3 others, including a scrap album (5) £20-40 | Nil |
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| 610 | THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. Ed. W.E. Church. 1884. Large 8vo., cont. half green morocco gilt. Mounted engraved portrait and text illustrated. with 3 other volumes (4) According to a pencil note on blank half title, only 75 copies were printed of this essay which originally appeared in the Westminster Review £20-40 | Nil |
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| 611 | THEATRE. Memoirs of Mrs. Billington.., 1792. 8vo,. cont. calf. Engraved portrait(Elizabeth Billington, opera singer) -- Authentic Memoirs of the Green-Room.., J. Roach at the Theatrical Library (c. 1814) 8vo., 18th c. half brown morocco (upper cover detached). -- Covent Garden Theatre! remarks on the Cause of the Dispute..(1809). 8 vo., qtr. calf. Folding caricature frontis. By Cruikshank -- Robinson, Mrs. Mary Pardita. Memoirs. 4vols., First Edition, 1801. 16mo., cont. tree calf (some wear to spines). (7) £200-400 | Nil |
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| 612 | VILLALUMBRALES. P. HERNANDEZ. Il Cavallier de Sole..Tradotoo nuovamente di Spagnuolo in Italiano, per M. Pietro Lauro. Venice, Giorgio Valentini, 1620. 12mo., old calf (title soiled and with small repairs) The British library catalogue lists this work, but not this edition, under Caballero de Febo, a translation of Peregrinacion de la Vida Hombre by Villalumbrales £50-80 | Nil |
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| 613 | WEST, Mrs. JANE. Letters to A Young Lady, in which the Duties and Characture of Women are Considered..., Second edition, 1806. 3 vols., 12mo., cont. half green roan gilt (spines faded). 19th c. bookplates of Hannah Withers Clark (3) £30-50 | Nil |
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| 614 | WHITE, CHARLES. Almack's Revisited. First Edition, 3 vols. 1828 cont. half calf gilt (head of spine of vol 2 chippd). -- BRITTON, JOHN. Mirth verses Misery The Pleasures of Human Life. Second Edition, February 1808. Cont. mottle calf gilt (upper cover detached). Engraved title, frontispiece and 5 ahnd coloured plates by Rowlandson. With 2 vols. of verse by Henry Lutterll, Advice to Julia, 1820 and Crockford-House, 1827. 12mo., and 16mo., (6) £150-250 | Nil |
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| 615 | WILDE, OSCAR. The Sphinx. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies London and New York 1920. 4to., orig. pictorial buckram gilt, t.e.g other uncut (somehate soiled). 12 blue and black printed plates, and large initial letters by Alastair £80-120 | Nil |
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| 616 | ALBUM. 4to., orig. cloth, late 19th c., moslty of theatrical interest, containing cut signatues or brief notes and a few autograph letters. Signatues include Oscar Wilde, Ellen, Marion and Edward Terry. Mrs. M. E. Braddon, Osmond Tearle, Arthur Severn, and others £50-80 | Nil |
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| 617 | ALBUM, 19th c. containing approx. 60 photographs, various sizes, European views etc. including Switzerland, by Sommer of Naples; Rome, Florence, Venice; also groups of Cambridge undergraduates. (some spotting). Oblong folio, half balck morocco. £80-120 | Nil |
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| 618 | BADEN-POWELL, LORD ROBERT. A.L.S., The Boy scouts Associations, London, 6 April 1928. One page, 4to., "To the Scouts of St. Saviours I am very glad to hear of the big good turn which you are proposing to do for the Victoria Hospital. It will mean a lot of hard work on the part of you all - but you wont mind that when you think of the good it is going to do for other" Laid down on photograph album leaf. The alum contains photgraphs of scout camps at Wlaton-on-the Naze, Freat Stambridge etc, (2) £150-250 | Nil |
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| 619 | CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON. L.S. Calligraphic quotation in black and blue inks from his specch, "Never before in the field of human conflict has so much been owned by so many to so few" signed by Churchill beneath. Framed and glazed Signed by Churchill, c.1948/49 when he attended a parade of local ex-serivemen in Woodford Green, Essex, where he was the local M.P. £300-500 | Nil |
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| 620 | MANUSCRIPT. Circular calligraphic manuscript, beginning (from the outside) 2The Lords prayer, Creed & Decalogue, in brief: together with A prayer of the English Liturgy.." dated 1678. Glazed, in oval black frame, with damaged inscription on reverse. 105 x 85mm (to edge of frame). With another itme (G) (2) £20-40 | Nil |
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| 621 | ROYALTY. Military commission on vellum, signed by William IV, 1836, one page,4to., (slightly defective) and manuscript licence to plead in a case of fraud, 1868, signed by Queen Victoria. 2pp., on paper, folio (2) £30-50 | Nil |
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| 622 | SHROPSHIRE and WORCESYERSHIRE. Cleobury Mortimer, the Childe and Laron families etc. A collection of approx. 35 legal documents on vellum, multi-sheeted, and a further number on paper (approx. 40). Mostly 18th century. (a quantity) A further collection from the same source as lot 201 in our sale of July 2003. £200-300 | Nil |
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| 623 | SOMERSET, POULETT FAMILY. A Collection of approx. 70 legal documents on vellum, multi-sheeted, with a few other itmes on paper, including Copy Settlement of Estates of Earl Poulett and Viscount Hinton, 1842, mostly 19th century. (a quantity) A further collection from the same source as lots 202 and 203 in our sale in July 2003 and lot 601, in January 2004 £100-200 | Nil |
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| 624 | SPENCER-CHURCHILL, Lady LILIAN. Two photgraphic wedding portraits by Lafayette, in sepa. 353 x 250 mm., in hinged wooden and gilt frame. With a collection of seven Grenfall family photgraph albums, including one of South Africa 1904, and other framed photographs. Lady Lilian Spencer-Churchill (1873-1951) was the daughter of the 8th Duke of Marlborough, and married Capt. Cecil Grenfell on 8th October 1898 £40-60 | Nil |
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| 625 | TRAVEL DIARY. Manuscript of a European tour in 1823. 8vo., cont. half green morocco, with ms. label on upper cover. 105pp. giving details of sightseeing etc. on the journey through France, the Rhine, Switzerland, the Simplon, Piedmont and as far as Verona in Itlay. With another manuscript volume. "A collection of Poems from Various Author. Penryne. Oct: 1788". 169pp. 8vo., cont. calf gilt (spine defective) and a late 19th c. autograph book (3) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 626 | VICTORIA, Queen. Military commission signed, made out in respect of William Henry Bond, 6th August 1875. With another similar, 1872, signed by Prince George, later George V (2) £30-50 | Nil |
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| 627 | AMERCIAN WRITERS etc. A Collection of Letters to Lucy Clifford. HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, Jr. A.L.S. 4pp., 8vo., from Beverly Farms, Mass., August 6th 1928, with envelope, mentioning Ernest Hemingway and other writers, with portrait photograph of Holmes in sepia, and bundle of typed transcripts of his letters to Lucy Clifford -- HARLAND, HENRY. novelist. Two A.Ls.S., 1904 and n.d., the undated letter inviting Lucy to dinner with Henry James -- HOWELLS, W.D., novelist, friend of Henry James. (20) £300-500 | Nil |
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| 628 | ARTISTS. A Collection of letters to Lucy Clifford. Collier, The Hon. JOHN. Five. A.Ls.S., 1884, 1885, 1917, 1919 and n.d. from Chelsea Embankment etc. 14pp., 8vo. He offers constructive criticism of her books, including Mrs. Keith's Crime. Aslo Sir Laurence Alma Tadema, A. L.S., 1900; Sir William B. Richamond, A.L.S. (?1892); Sir Frank Dicksee, 3 A.Ls.S., 1925 & n.d. 41/2pp. ; John Brett, A.L.S., 1877; Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley), 2 A.Ls.S. , 6pp., 1882. About her illustrations for Lucy's Anyhow stories (13) £200-400 | Nil |
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| 629 | AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. the. A miscellaneous collection of correspondence to Lucy Clifford and Ethel Dilke, including A.L.S. from Mandell Creighton, Bp. of London (about Aunt Anne); Dean W.R. Inge "There are quite a lot of people whom i want to burn - G.K. Chesteron..and several other mischeif makers", 1926; and many others (approx. 100 items); with a collection of cut signatures (approx. 65, including writers) (a quantity) £200-400 | Nil |
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| 630 | BARRIE, Sir JAMES M. (1860-1937). 10 A.Ls.S. to Lucy Clifford, from Black Lake Cottage, Nr Farnham; Adelphi Terrace House, and Stanway, Glos. 15pp., 8 vo., (one in pencil), 1906-26, with 3 envelopes. The correspondence began after Lucy sent her Anyhow Stories to Barrie, "I kept coming across things that I shall never forget and that also made me sigh for not haveing thought of them myself". Thereafter, he commented on her plays, and in 1920 says she may quote his opinion to Frederic Harrison (10) £600-800 | Nil |
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