20th-century authors
Collection of works ex libris science-fiction author Christopher Priest (1943-2024)
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Christopher Priest written in ink to free endpapers in most books. All listed titles first edition.
Greene, Graham. Stamboul Train. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1932. Lacking dust jacket, ink inscription to free endpaper; idem. British Dramatists. London: William Collins, 1942. Library plate on pastedown endpaper, clipped poem pasted to free endpaper. idem. Nineteen Stories. London: William Heineman, 1947. Lacking dust jacket. idem. The Heart of the Matter. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. Dustjacket price-clipped. idem. The Heart of the Matter. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. Lacking dust jacket, pencil inscription to free endpaper. idem. The Lost Childhood. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. idem. The End of the Affair. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. Dust jacket price-clipped, ink inscription to free endpaper. idem. The Potting Shed. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1958. Ink inscription to free endpaper. idem. Our Man in Havana. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1958. idem. Our Man in Havana. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1958; and 35 further books by the author (45);
Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1963. Dust jacket price-clipped. idem. The Mandelbaum Gate. Macmillan and Company, 1965. Dust jacket price-clipped, ink inscription to free endpaper; idem. Not to Disturb. London: Macmillan London Ltd, 1971; and 11 further books by the author (14);
Highsmith, Patricia. A Game for the Living. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1959. Dust jacket price-clipped. idem. Edith's Diary. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. Dust jacket price-clipped; idem. People Who Knock on the Door. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1983; and 6 further books by the author (9);
Sansom, William. Fireman Flower. London: The Hogarth Press, 1944. Lacking dust jacket; idem. South. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. idem. Something Terrible, Something Lovely. London: The Hogarth Press, Ltd, 1948. idem. The Passionate North. London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. idem. Pleasures Strange and Simple. London: Hogarth Press, 1953; and 3 further books by the author (8);
Amis, Kingsley. Take a Girl Like You. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. idem. One Fat Englishman. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963; and 6 further books by the author (8);
Morris, Jan. Conundrum. London: Faber and Faber, 1974. Dust jacket price-clipped, author's inscription to Christopher Priest on free endpaper; idem. Last Letters from Hav. London: Viking, 1985. idem. Manhattan '45. London: Faber and Faber, 1987 (3);
Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom (Abridged Edition). London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1946 (79)