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Bibliophile Sale
Live
Venue address
Baverstock House
93 High Street
Godalming, Surrey
GU7 1AL
United Kingdom
Bibliophile Sale

Godalming

Auction dates
16 Apr 2015 11:00 BST
Viewing dates
14 Apr 2015 09:00 - 17:00 BST
15 Apr 2015 09:00 - 17:00 BST
Auction currency
GBP
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There are 570 lots within this auction
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Homer. - The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, vol.1-5 only (of 6),   half-title in vol.1,
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200 - 300 GBP
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Pope (Alexander) - The Works, With his last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, [edited by
200 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Johnson (Samuel) - The Lives of the English Poets, 4 vol.,   first edition  ,   some staining to
300 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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[Burney (Fanny)] - Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, A New
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Godwin (William) - Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and
220 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Autograph Letter signed to Bernard Barton of Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1p  (Dorothy,  writer, sister of
700 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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] The Antiquary, 3 vol., engraved bookplate of The Spital, bookseller's/binder  ( Sir   Walter)]
360 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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The Works, 3 vol., contemporary calf stamped in gilt and blind, spines faded  (George Gordon
340 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Gibbon (Edward) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vol. in 6,
480 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Evelyn (John) - Memoirs, edited by William Bray, 5 vol.,   engraved frontispieces (lightly
750 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Dickens (Charles) - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,  first issue  with "visiter" on
750 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Dumas (Alexandre) - The Count of Monte-Cristo, 2 vol.,   first English edition in book form  ,
900 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Thackeray (W.M.) - The Book of Snobs,  advertisement leaf at beginning, name on half-title, p.126
180 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Dickens (Charles) - David Copperfield  first edition in bookform  ,   frontispiece, vignette
380 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) - The Song of Hiawatha,  first edition, first issue  with "dove" on
750 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Maud, and other poems, first edition, later issue with 8pp  (Alfred,  Lord  )     Maud, and other
220 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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De Quincey (Thomas) - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, revised and enlarged by De Quincey,
480 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Gaskell (Elizabeth Cleghorn) - The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vol.,   first edition  ,   half-
200 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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[Evans (Marian)], "George Eliot". - Adam Bede, 3 vol.,   signature of L.Egerton Leigh at head of
320 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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[Newman (John Henry)] - [Apologia Pro Vita Sua], 7 parts only (lacking Apendix) in 1 vol.,  first
400 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Trollope (Anthony) - The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol.,   wood-engraved plates, without
400 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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[Hughes (Thomas)] - Tom Brown's School Days,  first illustrated edition, engraved portrait and
70 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Darwin (Charles) - The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection,   sixth edition, "with
600 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Jerome (Jerome K.) - The Diary of a Pilgrimage,  illustrations by G.G.Fraser, Bristol  &
220 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Morris (William) - Poems by the Way,  original buckram, spine slightly worn at head,   1891 §
200 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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The Stark Munro Letters, 24pp.catalogue at end  ( Sir   Arthur Conan)   The Stark Munro Letters,
110 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Hardy (Thomas) - Jude the Obscure,  etched frontispiece, map at end, modern half green morocco,
420 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Stevenson (Robert Louis) - A Child's Garden of Verses,  first illustrated edition  ,   pictorial
550 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Kipling (Rudyard) - 'Captains Courageous',  light foxing, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt,
0 GBP
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James (Henry) - The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw; Covering End,   first edition, first
550 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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White (Gilbert) - The Natural History of Selborne, edited by Grant Allen,   illustrations by
220 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Holmes (Oliver Wendell) - The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table;
500 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Wilde (Oscar).- Sherard (R.H.) - Oscar Wilde: The Story of An Unhappy Friendship,   first edition  ,
280 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Bradley (A.C.) - Shakespearean Tragedy,  contemporary morocco prize binding, gilt, g.e.,   1904 §
300 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Conrad (Joseph) - Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard,   first edition in book form, first impression
120 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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Gosse (Edmund) - Father and Son,  with T.L.s. from the author     tipped in,   1907 § Strachey (
650 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Chesterton (G.K.) - The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare,   first edition  ,   modern half morocco,
380 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Wilde (Oscar) - Lady Windermere's Fan, 1908; The Importance of Being Earnest, 1908; Intentions and
160 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Scott Autograph letter signed to 'My Dear Sir' , 1p, sm  Scott ( Captain   Robert Falcon,  naval
700 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Beerbohm (Max) - Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story,   first edition  ,   half-title, title in
140 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Wilde (Oscar) - Salome,  decorative title and 15 plates by Aubrey Beardsley on Japon, plus a
170 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Drinkwater (John) - Abraham Lincoln, A Play,   first edition, signed and inscribed by the author
160 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Maugham (W.Somerset) - The Moon and Sixpence,  first edition, first issue  ,   half-title, 4pp.
400 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Nichols (Beverley) - Prelude: A Novel,   second impression,   inscribed by the author "Oliver,
240 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Moore (George) - Héloise and Abélard, 2 vol.,   limited edition signed by the author  ,   with
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Austen (Jane) - The Novels, edited by R.W.Chapman, 5 vol.,   one of 1000 large paper sets,
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600 - 800 GBP
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Huxley (Aldous) - Antic Hay,  first edition  ,   original cloth,   an excellent copy,    1923;
130 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Finberg (Alexander J.) - The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum with a new Catalogue Raisonné,
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Great Western Railway. - Cathedrals; Abbeys; Castles, together 3 vol.,   the second with title
20 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Galsworthy (John) - Caravan,  first edition  ,   original cloth, dust-jacket, with glacine wrapper
140 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Woolf (Virginia) - Mrs. Dalloway,  light spotting, original cloth, rubbed, a few small stains, spine
500 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Webb (Beatrice) - My Apprenticeship,  signed and inscribed by the author     to ?Miss Bradbury on
350 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Wells (H.G.) - The World of William Clissold, 3 vol.,   one of 198 édition de luxe sets signed by
260 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Hardy (Thomas) - The Dynasts, 3 vol.,   one of 525 large paper copies signed by the author  ,
200 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Barrie (J.M.) - The Plays of J.M.Barrie. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up,   original blue
550 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Grahame (Kenneth) - The Golden Age,  number 130 of 275 large paper copies signed by the author and
380 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Gill (Eric) - Art-Nonsense and other essays,  number 89 of 100 large paper copies signed by the
260 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Milne (A.A.) - Toad of Toad Hall,  first edition  ,   original blue cloth with gilt toad on upper
180 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Priestley (J.B.) - The Good Companions,  signed presentation copy from the author to K.Mackay
180 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Sherriff (R.C.) - Journey's End, A Play ,   first edition, signed and inscribed by the author     "
600 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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