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The Bibliophile Sale: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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Venue address
Baverstock House
93 High Street
Godalming, Surrey
GU7 1AL
United Kingdom
The Bibliophile Sale: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Bloomsbury Godalming

Auction dates
16 Jul 2015 11:00 BST
Viewing dates
14 Jul 2015 09:00 - 17:00 BST
15 Jul 2015 09:00 - 17:00 BST
16 Jul 2015 09:00 - 11:00 BST
Auction currency
GBP
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There are 460 lots within this auction
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Brassey -  A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', 1881 § Heckstall-Smith & Capt. E  ( Lady   Anna)   A Voyage in
200 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Greenaway (Kate) - A Day in a Child's Life, [1882]; Marigold Garden, [1885]; Little Ann and Other
180 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Stevenson (Robert Louis) - The Black Arrow,  bookplate to front pastedown,   1888; The Master of
110 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Doyle -  Strand Magazine , 5 vol., illustrations, occasional spotting  ( Sir   Arthur Conan)
110 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Hardy (Thomas) - Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman, 3vol., first edtion, first issue , with
800 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Scrapbooks - German Wehrmacht,  faux leather binder with cord ties, swastica to upper board, printed
20 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Haggard -  Autograph Note signed, 1p., 8vo, Ditchingham House, Norfolk  ( Sir   Henry Rider,
0 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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James (Henry) - The Spoils of Poynton,  first edition, first issue  ,   original blind-stamped
700 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Fothergill -  An Old Rabyhunt Club Album, number 93 of 100 de luxe copies  (George A.,
0 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Burton (Richard F.) - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, 17 vol  The Book of the
80 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Miniature Books.- - The Thistle Library,  collection of  18 miniature books bound in cloth tartan
200 GBP
200 - 200 GBP
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Carroll (Lewis) - Alice in Wonderland,  frontispiece, plates,  &  illustrations by Millicent
130 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Morris (William) - A Dream, Being a Romance, Contributed to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856,
190 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Dickens (Charles) - The Pickwick Papers,  20 tipped-in colour plates, original illustrated cloth,
600 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, 7 vol., 1910-1931 § Hastings (  Major   R.H.W.S.) The Rifle Brigade
160 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Butler (Samuel) - The Complete Works…, edited by Henry Festing Jones and A.T  The Complete
0 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Austen (Jane) - The Novels…, 5 vol., second edition, slightly browned  The Novels ,   5 vol.,
190 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Turbervile (George) - The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso,  one of 350
380 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Cran (Marion) - Wind-Harps, 1929; Gardens in America, 1931; I Know a Garden, 1933; The Squabbling
0 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Churchill -  My Early Life: A Roving Commission, plates, slightly browned  ( Sir   Winston Leonard
130 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Sherriff (R.C.) & Vernon Bartlett. - Journey's End,  first edition  ,   some spotting and
350 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Keynes (John Maynard) - The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money,  first edition ,
300 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Anthony (Gordon, photographer) - Ballet: Camera Studies,  introduction by Arnold Haskell,
20 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Lawrence (T.E.) - The Diary...MCMXI,  number 85 of 203 copies, head-piece printed in black and gold,
320 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Rich (E.E.) - Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company 1671-1674, 1942; Minutes of the Hudson's Bay
150 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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Bestall (Alfred) - Rupert Adventure Series, numbers 8, 11-21, 24  &  25,   ink annotations in number
300 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Greene (Graham) - The Little Fire Engine,  first edition  ,   illustrations, a little soiling,
350 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Chapman -  The Letters of Samuel Johnson …, 3 vol.  (R.W.,  editor  )   The Letters of Samuel
270 GBP
200 - 250 GBP
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Bawden (Edward) - & Cecil Keeling The Queen's Beasts…, 1953 § Barclay Stonehenge and...   &  Cecil
300 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Rural.- - Orwin The Open Fields, second edition, plates  Orwin (C.S.  and   C.S.)   The Open Fields,
70 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Swift (Jonathan) - Miscellanies, The Third Volume, one vol. only (of 4),   advertisement leaf at
60 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Bullough (Geoffrey) - Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, 8 vol.,   original boards,
160 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Medieval.- - Stenton Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England  Stenton (Doris Mary,  editor  )
200 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Suffragettes & related.- Lancaster (Osbert) - "Great News! Aunt Ethel has just been chosen to play
350 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Yeats (J.B.).- - [O'Connell ] A Lament for Art O'Leary, translated by Frank O'Connor  [O'Connell (
20 GBP
60 - 80 GBP
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Various photographers - Untitled (Royalty), 1970s Three gelatin silver press prints with various
0 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Domesday Book.- - Surrey [&] Buckinghamshire, together 6 vol  Surrey [ & ] Buckinghamshire,
40 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Stevenson (Tom) - Sotheby's World Wine Encyclopaedia, 1988 § Andries de Groot (Roy) Feasts for all
0 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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Clemens (Samuel Langhorne), "Mark Twain" - The Oxford Mark Twain, 29 vol.,   original boards, dust-
200 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Law & Religion.- - Downer Leges Henrici Primi, original cloth, dust-jacket, Oxford  Downer (L.J.,
80 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Military.- Fermer (Douglas) - Sedan 1870: The Eclipse of France, plates, original boards  Sedan
80 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Aldington (Richard) - Images (1910-1915),  inscribed by the author  ,   light spotting, original
280 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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Banks (Iain M.) - Consider Phlebas,  signed by the author ,  light browning to margins,   1987;
320 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Banks (Iain) - The Wasp Factory,  uncorrected proof copy, signed presentation inscription from the
110 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Banks (Iain) - The Wasp Factory,  first edition, signed by the author  on title, original boards,
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Banks (Iain) - The Wasp Factory,  signed by the author,  Boston,   1984; Walking on Glass,  jacket
280 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Barnes (Julian) - Flaubert's Parrot,  a little rubbed at extremities,   1984; A History of the World
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Bellow (Saul) - Dangling Man,  the author's first book  ,   light spotting to extremities, ink
150 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Chandler (Raymond) - Red Wind,  jacket spine faded, short closed tears to head, New York,   1946;
160 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Chatwin (Bruce) & Paul Theroux. - Patagonia Revisited,  number 66 of 250 copies signed by the
80 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Christie (Agatha) - Sad Cypress,  ink ownership inscription to half-title, spine faded, spine ends
160 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Christie (Agatha) - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe,  first edition,  ink ownership inscription, original
0 GBP
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Christie (Agatha) - N or M?,  corners and spine ends a little bumped and faded, jacket price-
0 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Christie (Agatha) - Evil Under the Sun,  ink ownership inscription, spine slightly faded, jacket
160 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Christie (Agatha) - Five Little Pigs,  spine ends and corners a little bumped, jacket browned, spine
160 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Christie (Agatha) - The Body in the Library,  first edition,  some spotting to title, original
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Christie (Agatha) - Towards Zero,  ink ownership inscription, jacket price-clipped, spine ends and
0 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Churchill -  Savrola, first English edition, half-title  ( Sir   Winston Spencer)   Savrola, first
0 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Comics.- - Tha Magnet, c.140 vol., c.1938 § The Gem, c.70 vol. c.1939 § The Sexton Blake Library,
180 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Conrad (Joseph) - Nostromo,  light spotting to title, bookplate,   1904; Typhoon,  16 pp.
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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