Lot 677
Wilson, A.N.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
A collection of works, to include: The Sweets of Pimlico. London: Secker & Warburg, 1977. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, slight wear to extremities of wrappers, with Bruce Ritchie's bookplate and inscribed to Bruce Ritchie on the titlepage; [Idem] Unguarded hours. London: Secker & Warburg, 1978. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, inscribed to Bruce Ritchie on the titlepage; [Idem] Kindly light. London: Secker & Warburg, 1979. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, inscribed to Bruce Ritchie on the titlepage; [Idem] Scandal or Priscilla's kindness. London: Hamish Hamliton, 1983. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, inscribed to Bruce Ritchie on the titlepage; [Idem] Stray. London: Walker Books, 1987. Uncorrected proof, 8vo., printed paper wrappers, signed by Wilson on the titlepage; [Idem] The Life of John Milton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, inscribed to Bruce Ritchie on the titlepage; [Idem] The Faber book of London. London: Faber and Faber, 1993. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers; [Idem] Tolstoy. Hamish Hamilton, 1988. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers; [Idem] Dream children. London: John Murray, 1998. First edition, publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, inscribed to Bruce Ritchie on the titlepage; Iris Murdoch as I knew her. London: Hutchinson, 2003. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, inscribed on the titlepage to Bruce Ritchie; [Idem] The Victorians. London: Hutchinson, 2002. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, inscribed to Bruce Ritchie on the titlepage, and 25 others, all in dustwrappers (unless issued as paperbacks), of which twenty are signed (36)
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