Lot 647
Travel & Military, including Carter, Howard
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
The Tomb of Tutankhamen. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1927. Third impression, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth gilt; Lawrence, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Twelfth impression, 8vo, original cloth gilt; Fuchs, Sir Vivian and Hillary, Sir Edmund The Crossing of Antarctica. London: Cassell, 1958. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket; Thesiger, Wilfred Arabian Sands. London: Longmans, Green and Co Ltd, 1959. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little damp-staining and foxing; Stark, Freya Dust in the Lion's Paw. London: John Murray, 1962. Second edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Ross-of-Bladensburg, Sir John The Coldstream Guards, 1914-1918. Oxford University Press, 1928. 2 volumes only (without map volume), 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Blunden, Edmund Undertones of War. London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1928. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth; Churchill, Sir Winston S. Marlborough, his life and times. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1934. New edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, dust-jacket to volume 1 only; [Idem] Savrola... London: George Newnes, c.1908. 8vo, original 'Sixpenny Novels' wrappers torn; [Idem] The British Gazette, no.8, May 13. 1926, discussing the General Strike; Gilbert, Martin Winston S. Churchill. London: Heinemann, 1977. Volume iv in 3 books, and volume v part 1 only, 8vo, dust-jackets; and 5 others (24)