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LOT 1668
Books - Various - Mixed Titles [10]
PUBLISHED 19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 x 4 3/8 - 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (4.8 kg total, 15.5 x 11 - 27 x 22 cm).
Group comprising: The Oxford Library of Classic English Short Stories, 1900-1975, London, 1990, 2 volumes in slipcase; Freud, Sigmund, On Dreams, London, 1952, new translation; Russell, Bertrand, Authority and the Individual, Reith Lectures, 1949; Moore, T. Inglis, Selected Poems of Henry Kendall, 1975, reprint; Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, Epochs of Modern History, London, 1878; Macartney, Frederick T., The Collected Verse of A B Paterson, Sydney, 1961, 28th printing; Hudson, W. H., Green Mansions, Collins, 1957, later edition; Adams, David, The Letters of Rachel Henning, Sydney, 1942, illustrated (2 copies) and Mr Middleton's Garden Book, Daily Express, nd, illustrated (spine torn away); mostly hardback. [10, No Reserve]
Provenance
The property of Mr and Mrs PR of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
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