Lot 4
Early 20th-century literature
Including works by the Bloomsbury Group
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 1 to 78
Description
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. A Raw Youth, A Novel In Three Parts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, From the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1916. First edition in English, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth with decorative roundel blind-stamped to front board, gilt title and decoration to spine, ownership sticker to front board, boards rubbed and spine sunned, edges foxed;
Sackville-West, Vita. Passenger to Teheran. London: Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original decorative cloth, gilt title to spine, 32 photographic plates, occasional foxing not affecting plates;
Ibid. Aphra Behn. London: Gerald Howe Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original patterned dustjacket with 2 short tears to top edge and nibbling to head and tail of spine, original cloth with ‘Representative Women’ blind stamp and gilt title to spine, ownership sticker to front pastedown and pencil inscription to free endpaper;
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Miniature. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. One of a special limited edition of 260 copies signed by the author, 8vo, maroon half buckram, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, bookplate to front pastedown;
Churchill, Winston S. Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt lettering, 21 photographic plates, top edge blue, spine sunned, spine and boards rubbed, corners bumped, ownership sticker to front free endpaper, foxing to edges and free endpapers and up to p.15;
Huxley, Aldous. Limbo. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, ownership sticker to front pastedown, boards rubbed, some dust-staining to free endpapers;
Lawrence, T. E. The Mint. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. One of a limited edition of 1,000 copies, 8vo, original cloth with gilt title to front board and spine, original slipcase with title pasted to front, bookplate to front pastedown, ink inscription to free endpaper;
together with 3 further titles by Sackville-West, and works by E. F. Benson, Jack London, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, ‘Saki’, Evelyn Waugh and others (36)