Lot 56
A collection of modern English literature, including
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Orwell, George Homage to Catalonia. London: Secker and Warburg, 1938. First edition, green cloth; Fleming, Ian The man with the golden gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, black-cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped but slightly chipped; Hemingway, Ernest For whom the bell tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, beige cloth with later issue dust-jacket, dust-jacket worn and chipped; Byatt, A.S. The virgin in the garden. New York: Alfred A. Knopff, 1979. First U.S. edition, signed with autograph letter, blue quarter-cloth, dust-jacket slightly chipped; Spark, Muriel The girls of slender means. London: Macmillan & Co., 1963. First edition, blue cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped but a little faded and worn; Steinbeck, John The wayward blues. New York: Viking Press, 1947. First edition, original brown-orange cloth, a little faded; 5 others by Graham Greene, and 10 others (21)