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LOT 2242
Observer Book Collection - 14 Titles
1951-1982 A.D.
5 3/4 x 3 5/8 in. (2.36 kg total, 14.5 x 9.3 cm).
Comprising The Observer's books on: architecture, aircraft, dogs (2), soccer, horses and ponies, show jumping and eventing, flags, motorcycles, music, manned spaceflight and castles; all hardback, some with dustjackets, monochrome illustrations. [14, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
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Group of Various Novels and Other Books - 7 Titles
1897-1930 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: The Wayfarer's Library - Pebbles on the Shore - hardcover, 255 pp; G.C. Field - Prejudice and Impartiality - London, hardcover, 232 pp; D.H. Edwards - Sixteenth Series. Modern Scottish Poets. With biographical and critical notices - 1897, hardcover, 315 pp; James Lane Allen - The Choir Invisible - London, 1909, hardcover, 256 pp; Stories From Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion - retold by Beatrice Clay, hardcover, 208 pp; J. Rawson Lumby - The Acts of The Apostles with introduction and notes - Cambridge, 1898, hardcover, 160 pp; Poems by Robert Herrick, hardcover, 374 pp. 1.34 kg total, 15.5 x 10.6 - 18 x 11 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
Group of Various Novels - 8 Titles
1899-1980 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: Michael Scott - Tom Cringle's Log - hardcover, 576 pp; R.H. Barham - The Ingoldsby Legends - London, hardcover, 518 pp, monochrome illustrations, dedication to the front page; Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral. A novel - London, 1925, hardcover, 529 pp; Frederic W. Farrar - St. Winifred's or The World of School - London, 1899, hardcover, 536 pp, monochrome illustrations; W.H.G. Kingston - The Three Midshipmen - London, hardcover, 336 pp, colour illustrations, a prize for good conduct and regular attendance awarded to Willie Hennessey by St Clement Danes Sunday School in 1921; W. Peacock - Selected English Essays - 1923, hardcover, 543 pp; G Bernard Hughes - The Country Life. Collector's Pocket Book - Richmond upon Thames, 1980, hardcover, 351 pp, monochrome illustrations; Vera I. Arlett - Repertory Plays no. 60. A Corber in Dreams - 1927, 57 pp. 2.37 kg total, 15.2 x 10.5 - 18.5 x 13 cm
Provenance: From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore
Circa 1920 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
R.D. Blackmore, London & Edinburgh, hardcover, 687 pp, colour and monochrome illustrations, awarded to Edith Evans for dressmaking, session 1919-1920 by Lancasterian Continuation School, Church Road, Tottenham. 324 grams, 17 x 11.5 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
