Modern literature and leather bindings
Collection of works
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1958. First edition in English, first impression, 8vo, 20th-century red half morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), top edge gilt, retaining half-title;
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di. The Leopard. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960. First edition in English, first impression, 8vo, recent red half morocco;
MacGowan, J. The Imperial History of China. Being a History of the Empire as compiled by the Chinese Historians. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1906. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary half roan, rebacked with original spine laid down and endpapers renewed, 3 halftone photographic plates, folding map, ink-stamps of Liverpool Public Library;
Lawrence, T. E. The Mint. A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with Late Notes. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, one of 2,000 copies, 4to, original quarter morocco;
Graves, Robert. I, Claudius. [And:] Claudius the God. London: Arthur Barker, 1934. First editions, first and second impressions respectively, 2 works, 8vo, later pink half morocco;
and 26 others, including Muriel Spark, The Only Problem, Franklin Library, 1984 ('signed limited first edition', signed by Spark on initial blank), Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, Franklin Library, 1987 ('signed limited first edition', signed by Burgess on initial blank), and similar, all leather-bound (32)
Provenance
From the library at Park House, Inverkeithing.