Lot 265
Modern first editions, and others, 73 books, including
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
Masefield, John The Box of Delights. London: William Heinemann, 1935. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket torn and browned; Steinbeck, John The Moon is Down. London: William Heinemann, 1942. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; [Idem] East of Eden. London: William Heinemann, 1952. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Lee, Laurie Cider with Rosie. London: Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Hemingway, Ernest Death in the Afternoon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; [Idem] The Old Man and the Sea. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First UK edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Wodehouse, P.G. The Inimitable Jeeves. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1923. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; [Idem] Something Fishy. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1957. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Orwell, George Shooting an Elephant. London: Secker and Warburg, 1950. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Stoker, Bram The Jewel of Seven Stars. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. 8vo, original cloth; Yeats, W.B. Plays for an Irish Theatre. London: A.H. Bullen, 1911. First edition, 8vo, original boards; Forsyth, Frederick The Day of the Jackal. London: Hutchinson, 1971. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, author's signature pasted to title; Pullman, Philip Northern Lights. London: Scholastic, 1995. First edition, first printing, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Durrell, Gerald M. The Overloaded Ark. London, 1953. 8vo, dust-jacket; [Idem] My Family and Other Animals. London, 1956. 8vo, dust-jacket price-clipped with a few chips; [Idem] Rosy is my Relative. London, 1968. 8vo, dust-jacket, signed on front free-endpaper; Barnes, Julian The Sense of an Ending. London, 2011. 8vo, dust-jacket, signed on title-page; Naipaul, V.S. In a Free State. London, 1971. 8vo, dust-jacket; McEwan, Ian Amsterdam. London, 1998. 8vo, dust-jacket, signed on title-page; Priest, Christopher The Prestige. London, 1995. 8vo, dust-jacket; Stewart, Mary This Rough Magic. London, 1964. 8vo, dust-jacket, signed on front free-endpaper; and 3 others by Stewart; and 49 others, sold not subject to return (73)