Lot 628
Spark, Muriel - a large collection, including:
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Child of light. Hadleigh: Tower Bridge Publications, 1951. First edition, original orange boards, [Rees A3(a)]; [Idem] The Fanfarlo. Ashford: Hand and Flower Press, 1952. First edition, light blue wrappers lettered in blue, lower wrapper spotted, [Rees A4]; [Idem] The comforters. London: Macmillan, 1957. First edition, author's signature on a slip of paper loosely inserted at title, original blue boards, pictorial dustwrapper with two tears, slight loss and discoloured, [Rees A6(a)]; [Idem] Robinson. London: Macmillan, 1958. First edition, original green boards, pictorial dustwrapper price-clipped, [Rees A7(a)]; [Idem] The go-away bird. London: Macmillan, 1958. First edition, author's signature on a slip of paper loosely inserted at title, pictorial dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at extremities, [Rees A8(a)]; [Idem] Momento mori. London: Macmillan, 1959. First edition, author's signature on a slip of paper loosely inserted at title, original blue-green boards, pictorial dustwrapper slightly rubbed at extremities, [Rees A9(a)]; [Idem] The ballad of Peckham Rye. London: Macmillan, 1960. First edition, author's signature on a slip of paper loosely inserted at title, original light blue boards, pictorial dustwrapper rubbed at extremities, 1cm tear to lower wrapper, slight staining, [Rees A10(a)]; [Idem] The bachelors. London: Macmillan, 1960. First edition, original red boards, pictorial dustwrapper rubbed with slight loss, short tear at folds and crease, [Rees A11; [Idem] The girl of slender means. London: Macmillan, 1963. First edition, author's signature on a slip of paper loosely inserted, decorative dustwrapper rubbed at extremities and folds, [Rees A16(a)]; [Idem] Voices at play. London: Macmillan, 1961. First edition, pictorial dustwrapper with slight erasure mark to upper wrapper, [Rees A13(a)]; [Idem] The French window and the small telephone. London: Colophon Press, 1993. First edition, number 4 of 105 copies signed by the author, original black morocco-backed boards, t.e.g.; [Idem] The Portobello Road and other stories. Helsinki: Eurographica, 1990. First edition, number 230 of 350 copies signed by the author, original slate blue wrappers, [Idem] All the poems. Manchester Carcanet, 2004. First edition, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; [Idem] Harper and Wilton. Colophon Press, 1996. First edition, number 16 of 110 copies signed by the author, original quarter brown morocco and marbled boards; [Idem] A hundred and eleven years without a chauffeur. Colophon Press, 2001. First edition, number 19 of 157 copies signed by the author, original blue wrappers; and 22 others comprising 21 by Muriel Spark (19 in dustwrappers), and a biography (37)
Footnote
Note: Included in the lot is a typed letter signed from the author to Bruce Ritchie "I never sign slips of paper, but you say such wonderful things about my work that I have made an exception in your case. Thank you very much for what you say. I hope you will continue to derive pleasure from my work...", Civitella della Chiana, 23 October 2005.