Spark, Muriel
Collection of works
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Authors' Ghosts, Seven Poems, Rees & O'Neill, 2004. First edition, one of 20 numbered copies bound in yellow quarter morocco, signed by the author and with a holograph quotation from the text (from the total edition of 56 copies), 4to;
A Hundred and Eleven Years without a Chauffeur, Colophon Press, 2001. First edition, one of 125 numbered copies sewn in blue card covers and signed by the author (from the total edition of 157), 4to;
The French Window and the Small Telephone, Colophon Press, 1993. First edition, one of 105 numbered copies bound in blue quarter Nigerian goatskin and signed by the author (from the total edition of 123);
Doctors of Philosophy, 1963. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, signed by the author on the title-page;
The Comforters, 1957. First US edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket;
Memento Mori, 1959. First edition, 8vo, original cloth (spine sunned, spotting to cloth), dust jacket;
The Ballad of Peckham Rye, 1960, First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket;
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket;
and approx. 39 others, including first editions in dust jackets of The Go-Away Bird (1958), Voices at Play (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963, lacking front free endpaper), The Mandelbaum Gate (1965), The Driver's Seat (1970), The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Loitering with Intent (1981), A Far Cry from Kensington (1988), and others including criticism by and about Spark, dust jackets in variable condition with usual rubbing and the occasional nick to extremities, a few ownership inscriptions