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Dilke, Lady [Emilia Francis]
The Shrine of Death and Other Stories
£1,063
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1886. First edition, trade issue, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, bookplate, covers rubbed, spotting to endpapers;
Haggard, H. Rider. She. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original cloth, double-page colour lithographic frontispiece, advertisement leaf, spine rolled, frontispiece working loose and with contemporary ownership inscription recto;
Wodehouse, P. G. Mike. A Public School Story. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 12 plates, ex-library with associated markings, frontispiece frayed, plate facing p. 228 apparently supplied from another copy;
and 10 others, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, London: Kegan Paul [etc.], 1933 (second edition, original cloth), Shane Leslie, The Oppidan, 1922 (first edition, inscribed 'To my brother of the Cape and Sword, Shane Leslie, in the first year of the pontificate of the Holiness of Pius XI', bookplate of Viscount Tredegar), Walter de la Mare, The Connoisseur, 1926 (limited edition, one of 250, signed by the author, damp-staining to binding), Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus and his Legends of the Old Plantation, London: David Bogue, 1881 (first UK edition, original cloth, 4 plates, shaken, toned, spotting), Rudyard Kipling, Traffics and Discoveries, 1904 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket), Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Antony, London: H. S. Nichols, 1895 ('authorised edition', original blue pictorial cloth gilt, a bright copy), Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, 1917 (first edition, original cloth, excision from front free endpaper), E. M. Forster, The Eternal Moment, 1928 (first edition, original cloth, ownership inscription of Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree), and a volume of manuscript poetry, 'Poems, 1913-14, Charles Graves' (46 pp., title en collage, contents including 'Dedication to Modern Scottish Poetry: To Lewis Spence', 'The Ilex Tree, Garsington', 'Junks off Hong Kong', etc.) (12)