Books & Ephemera

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Location: Diss Auction Rooms
Date: 11th February 2021
Starts: 10:00 am

Online deadline: 11th February 2021, 9:30 am
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Lot No: 8239 (zero)

Dodie Smith: 'I Capture the Castle', London, William Heinemann, 1949, 1st edition, illustrations in the text by Ruth Steed from sketches by the author,...

Sale Price: £42.00

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Lot No: 8240 (zero)

Serena Livingstone-Stanley [i.e. Joan Lindsay]: 'Through Darkest Pondelayo, an account of the adventures of two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island', Chatto & Windus,...

Sale Price: £30.00

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Lot No: 8241 (zero)

C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde] : 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', stated London, Leonard Smithers, 1899, but a pirated edition circa 1899-1907, authors name printed on...

Sale Price: £42.00

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Lot No: 8242 (zero)

Elizabeth David: 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', London, John Lehmann Ltd., 1950, 1st edition, illustrations by John Minton, original cloth, dust wrapper (part loss...

Sale Price: £140.00

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Lot No: 8243 (zero)

Dylan Thomas: 'Under Milk Wood', London, J.M. Dent, 1954, 1st edition, original cloth gilt (VGC), dust wrapper (spine slightly faded, small closed tear to...

Sale Price: £200.00

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Lot No: 8244 (zero)

Ian Fleming: 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', London, Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1st edition, original cloth silvered, dust wrapper

Sale Price: £280.00

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Lot No: 8245 (zero)

John le Carr?, 3 titles: 'The Honourable Schoolboy', 1977, 1st edition, 'Smileys People', 1980, 1st edition, 'A Perfect Spy', 1986, 1st edition , all...

Sale Price: £190.00

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Lot No: 8246 (zero)

Richmal Crompton: 'Just-William', London, George Newnes, [1922], 1st edition, 35 illustrations by Thomas Henry including frontis as called for, 4 pages of adverts at...

Sale Price: £270.00

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Lot No: 8247 (zero)

Richmal Crompton: 'William and the Masked Ranger', London, George Newnes, 1966, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper

Sale Price: £90.00

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Lot No: 8248 (zero)

Hugh Lofting: 'The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle' New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1922, 1st edition, 1st printing, second book in the Doctor Dolittle...

Sale Price: £65.00

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Lot No: 8249 (zero)

Philippe Halsman: 'Piccoli', illustrated Paul Julian, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1953, 1st edition, coloured illustrations and chapter heads throughout, original pictorial printed...

Sale Price: £30.00

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Lot No: 8250 (zero)

A collection of children's books including Compton Mackenzie : 'The Naughtymobile', Oxford, Basil Blackwell, [nd], circa 1932, original cloth, mounted coloured illustrations. H.Tennyson :...

Sale Price: £32.00

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Lot No: 8251 (zero)

J.M. Barrie: 'Quality Street', illustrated Hugh Thomson, Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1913, 22 tipped in coloured plates, large 4to, original vellum gilt, top edge...

Sale Price: £48.00

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Lot No: 8252 (zero)

W.M. Thackeray: 'Vanity Fair', illustrated Lewis Baumer, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], deluxe edition, signed by Baumer and numbered (120/350), 20 tipped in coloured...

Sale Price: £110.00

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Lot No: 8253 (zero)

Small collection of circa late 19th Century Randolph Caldecott Picture Books and illustrated titles including 'An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog',...

Sale Price: £65.00

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Lot No: 8254 (zero)

Two boxes of children's and illustrated books

Sale Price: £200.00

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