The Books Auction

Folio Society: Churchill (Winston S.), The Second World War, six vols. in two slipcases.

A collection of Folio Society books, including: Lawrence (T. E.), Seven Pillars of Wisdom; Hughes (Robert), The Fatal Shore; Strong (Ray), The Thi...

A collection of Folio Society books, mainly non-fiction, comprising: Hibbard (Howard), Michael Angelo, folio, contained in slipcase; Clark (Kennet...

Folio Society: a collection of history books, including: four volumes of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, in slipcase; The Fire of Liberty, i...

Folio Society: Greene (Graham), The Great Novels, six vols. in slipcase.

Folio Society: Macauley (Thomas Babington), The History of England from the Ascension of James II, volumes 1-5, and others included, contained in ...

Folio Society: Tolkien (J. R. R.), The Lord of the Rings, comprising: The Followship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, cont...

A collection of Folio Society novels by the Brontë sisters and Thomas Hardy, comprising: Brontë (Charlotte, Emily and Anne), The Complete Novels, ...

Folio Society: William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays, eight vols. contained across two slipcases; and Shakespeare’s Sonnets, contained in slipca...

A collection of Folio Society books, mainly fiction, comprising: Dickens (Charles), three vols. in slipcases, titles including: David Copperfield,...

A collection of Folio Society and other books, including: The Legends of King Arthur, three vols., contained in slipcase; Stevenson (Robert Louis)...

A set of Folio Society Fairy Books, comprising: Lilac, 2012; Grey, 2013; Brown, 2010; Green, second printing; Pink, second printing; Blue, sixth p...

A collection of art, history and other books, including: Dickens’s London, in slipcase, sealed in plastic; More (Sir Thomas), A Man of Singular Vi...

Folio Society: a collection of novels, including: Austen (Jane), Shorter Works, Mansfield Park, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northange...

Folio Society: a collection of novels and other books, including: Windum (John), The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Chrysalids, all...

Folio Society: a collection of history and other books, including: A History of Chinese Civilisation, two vols., contained in slip case; Epics of ...

Folio Society: a collection of history and other books, comprising: The Jubilee Years 1887-1897; Elizabeth I; History of the English Church and Pe...

Folio Society: a collection of plays and other books, including: Romeo and Julliet; The Tragedy of Othello; King Henry VIII; King John; King Richa...

A collection of Folio Society literature editions, to include: Frere (Sheppard), Britannia a History of Roman Britain; Lewis (Cecil), Sagittarius ...

A collection of mostly Folio Society books, including: Dickens (Charles), My Early Times; Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion; Stephenson (...

A selection of books by Kipling (Rudyard), titles including: The Jungle Book, first edition, London 1894, reprinted June 1894; The Second Jungle B...

The Penguin New Writing Series No’s. 1-40, paper covers, Allen Lane, 1940 onwards; Lehmann (John), New Writing in Europe, paper covers, Allen Lane...

Francis (Dick), a collection of novels to include: Flying Finish, first US edition 1966, with d.w.; Flying Finish, Companion Bookclub edition 1966...

Bates (Herbert Earnest), A Breathe of French Air, first edition, 1959, with d.w.; When the Green Woods Laugh, first edition, 1960, with d.w.; and ...

A collection of books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including: Evans (C. S.), The Sleeping Beauty, 4to, cloth, illus., London 1920; The Folio Soc...

A selection of books, to include: Still Life with Bottle: Whisky According to Ralph Steadman; A Picture Song Book; Hartnell (Norman), Silver and G...

Fleming (Ian), From Russia, With Love, 8vo, cloth, Jonathan Cape, London 1957, first edition; and The Man with the Golden Gun, 8vo, cloth with dus...

A collection of novels and pictorial albums by “Beachcomber”, comprising: Morton (John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael, “J. B.”), A Diet of Thistl...

Beaton (Cecil), Ballet, 8vo, cloth, illus., Wingate, London and New York, n.d., with d.w.; and other books, comprising: Moorehead (Alan), The Whit...

Hemingway (Ernest), The Old Man and the Sea, 8vo, cloth, with dust jacket, New York 1952, first American edition.

Mitchell (Margaret), Gone with the Wind, 8vo, cloth, New York 1936.

Orczy (Baroness), The Elusive Pimpernel, gilt cloth, first edition 1908, Hutchinson and Co.

A collection of mainly fiction books, including: Defoe (Daniel), The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 8vo, cloth, illus., engraved frontisp...

Trollope (Anthony), Trollope’s Novels, thirty vols., 8vo, half calf, engraved frontispiece, various publishing dates, mainly late 19th Century.

Desforges (M.), Tom Jones à Londres: Comédie en Cinq Actes en Vers, Tirée du Roman de Fielding, 8vo, calf, Paris 1782.

Fables de la Fontaine, small 8vo, half calf, Paris 1840.

Clouzot (Henri), Rabelais: Gargantua et Pantagruel, three vols., 8vo, paperback, portrait frontispiece, Bibliothèque Larousse, Paris n.d.

Fielding (Henry), Julien l’Apostat, ou Voyage dans l’Autre Monde, small 8vo, calf, Paris 1784.

Stendhal (Henri Beyle), Various titles, in uniform morrocco bindings, all circa late 20th Century, ten vols.

The Ashendene Press: Spenser (Edmund), Spenser’s Minor Poems, one of two-hundred copies printed on paper, folio, original calf-backed velum, print...

A collection of poetry-related books, magazines and biographies, including: Walton (Izaak), The Life of Doctor John Donne, 8vo, marbled boards wit...

Butler (Samuel), Hudibras: a Poem with Notes selected from Grey and Other Authors, two vols., 8vo, gilt calf, illus., new edition, London 1819.

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth), The Poetical Works, 4to, morrocco, engraved frontispiece, George Routledge and Sons, London 1867.

Lloyd (A.), Poetical Greetings from the Far East: Japanese Poems, from the German Adaptation of Dr Karl Florenz, 4to, paperback, illus., T. Hasega...

Maeterlinck (Maurice), Morceaux Choisis, small 8vo, calf, portrait frontispiece, Nelson, Paris n.d.

A collection of plays and books on theatre and the dramatic arts, comprising: Barrie (J. M.), The Plays of, 8vo, cloth, 1929; Tynan (Kenneth), He ...

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Shakespeare (William), Shakespeare’s Works, eight volumes, large 8vo, half calf, illus., Charles Knight 1843.

A collection of books, including: Dickens (Charles), The Complete Works, six volumes, 8vo, morrocco, Heron Books; The Book of the Motorcar, three ...

Friends: American TV sitcom production scripts: "The One Where Ross is Fine" (Episode 2), final draft August 21, 2003, written by Sherry Bilsing a...

Blyton (Enid): A selection of titles featuring Mary Mouse, Noddy, Clicky, Holly Piglet, and other children’s books, various sizes and formats. (40)

A collection of children’s books, comprising: Travers (P. L.), Mary Poppins Opens the Door, 8vo, cloth, illus. by Mary Shepard, first edition seco...

Potter (Beatrix), The Tailor of Gloucester, small 4to, cloth, illus., Frederick Warne & Co, London and New York 1903.

Latham (Robert), and Mathews (William), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, eleven vols., 8vo, cloth, London 1973-1983, with d.w.

A collection of novels and literary biographies, including: Sitwell (Sacheverell), The Hunters and the Hunted, 8vo, cloth, first edition, 1947; St...

A collection of literary and other biographies, comprising: Tomlinson (H. M.), All Our Yesterdays, 4to, gilt cloth, illus. with portrait frontispi...

A collection of military books, including: After Pretoria: The Guerilla War, folio, cloth, illus.; Glubb (Sir John Bagot), A Soldier with Arabs, 8...

Barrett (Bryant), The Code Napoleon, verbally translated from the French, two vols., 8vo, half calf, London 1811.

Stowe (Harriet Beecher), Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Negro Life in the Slave States of America, Reprinted Verbatim from the Tenth American Edition, publ...

A collection of antique reference books, including: Copping (Harold), Canadian Pictures, English Furniture, and others.