Lot 254
Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Lord of the Rings
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969. First india-paper edition, 8vo, original black cloth decorated in silver and gilt, 2 folding maps, full-page map in text, spine very slightly sunned, slipcase rubbed [Hammond A5h];
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of the Beach of Falesa. The Bottle Imp. The Isle of Voices. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1893. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, colour map, 26 plates (counted in pagination), price on list of publications facing half-title amended in manuscript;
Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818 [c.1900]. Facsimile edition, 8vo, original cloth, paper spine-label, largely unopened;
Henley, W. E. (editor). Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello. Translated into English by Geffraie Fenton anno 1567. With an Introduction by Robert Langton Douglas. London: David Nutt, 1898. One of 18 copies on Japanese paper, this copy 'marked 'File copy' on limitation page, 2 volumes, 4to, original white glazed paper boards, unopened, wear to spine-ends and joints, covers slightly soiled;
Burton, Richard F (translator). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose. London: printed for the translators ... for private subscribers only, 1894. One of 1,000 copies on hand-made paper, 8vo, original quarter japon, spine discoloured, wear to tips;
Baillie-Grohman, William A. & F (editors). The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. 8vo, original vellum gilt, 24 plates, occasional spotting to text;
and 4 others including D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, [Paris]: privately printed, 1929, author's unabridged popular edition, contemporary cloth, retaining original wrappers