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ENGELS (FRIEDRICH) Papers of Friedrich Engels as Corresponding Secretary of the First International for Italy and Spain in 1871-73ENGELS (FRIEDRICH) Papers of Friedrich Engels as Corresponding Secretary of the First International for Italy and Spain in 1871-73. Sold for £140,500 inc. premium
BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1875-6 Illustrated autograph journal kept by Commander Albert Hastings Markham, Captain of HMS Alert, and second-in-command of the British Arctic Expedition under Sir George Nares on the Discovery, Markham's journal kept on board the Alert during the expedition itself and recording the sledge journey in which he achieved the record of Farthest North; Portsmouth to Spithead via the Arctic, 29 May 1875 to 14 October 1876BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1875-6 Illustrated autograph journal kept by Commander Albert Hastings Markham, Captain of HMS Alert, and second-in-command of the British Arctic Expedition under Sir George Nares on the Discovery, Markham's journal kept on board the Alert during the expedition itself and recording the sledge journey in which he achieved the record of Farthest North; Portsmouth to Spithead via the Arctic, 29 May 1875 to 14 October 1876. Sold for £104,500 inc. premium
NEWTON (ISAAC) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, first edition, Joseph Streater, 1687NEWTON (ISAAC) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, first edition, Joseph Streater, 1687. Sold for £92,500 inc. premium
ORWELL (GEORGE) Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony Powell from Geo: Orwell" on front free endpaper, Secker & Warburg, 1945ORWELL (GEORGE) Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony Powell from Geo: Orwell" on front free endpaper, Secker & Warburg, 1945. Sold for £92,500 inc. premium
HUGHES (TED) The Ted Hughes Archive formed by his friend and manuscript advisor Roy Davids, including a large quantity of poetical manuscripts, including working drafts, presentation copies and occasional verses, drawings, and a series of autograph letters signed by HughesHUGHES (TED) The Ted Hughes Archive formed by his friend and manuscript advisor Roy Davids, including a large quantity of poetical manuscripts, including working drafts, presentation copies and occasional verses, drawings, and a series of autograph letters signed by Hughes. Sold for £76,900 inc. premium
JOYCE (JAMES) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, FIRST EDITION, WITH DUST-JACKET, New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1916JOYCE (JAMES) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, FIRST EDITION, WITH DUST-JACKET, New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1916. Sold for £40,000 inc. premium
TURING (ALAN) Autograph letter signed ("Alan Turing"), to Maria Greenbaum ("Dear Maria"), the eight-year-old daughter of his Jungian analyst, explaining with the aid of three diagrams the moves needed to play out successfully at solitaire, Hollymeade, Adlington Road, Wilmslow, despatch (Wilmslow) datestamp 10 July 1953, with enclosed diagram and envelopeTURING (ALAN) Autograph letter signed ("Alan Turing"), to Maria Greenbaum ("Dear Maria"), the eight-year-old daughter of his Jungian analyst, explaining with the aid of three diagrams the moves needed to play out successfully at solitaire, Hollymeade, Adlington Road, Wilmslow, despatch (Wilmslow) datestamp 10 July 1953, with enclosed diagram and envelope. Sold for £40,000 inc. premium
SHEPARD (E.H.) 'The Wolery', [1950s-60s]SHEPARD (E.H.) 'The Wolery', [1950s-60s]. Sold for £35,000 inc. premium
MALLORY (GEORGE LEIGH) Series of thirty-four autograph letters and cards, all but one signed, to Lytton Strachey; together with a black-edged memorial envelope with his name painted [by Dora Carrington], St John's Vicarage, Birkenhead, Pythagoras House and The Old Lodge Magdalene College, Cambridge, Charterhouse, Haileybury, Dartmouth, Camberley, Paris, Roquebrune, Valentia Harbour, and SS Sardinia nearing Colombo, 1909-1921MALLORY (GEORGE LEIGH) Series of thirty-four autograph letters and cards, all but one signed, to Lytton Strachey; together with a black-edged memorial envelope with his name painted [by Dora Carrington], St John's Vicarage, Birkenhead, Pythagoras House and The Old Lodge Magdalene College, Cambridge, Charterhouse, Haileybury, Dartmouth, Camberley, Paris, Roquebrune, Valentia Harbour, and SS Sardinia nearing Colombo, 1909-1921. Sold for £18,750 inc. premium

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BARBIER (GEORGES) La Guirlande. Album mensuel d'art et de litterature, [LIMITED TO 800 COPIES], [Paris, 1919-1920], sold as a periodical not subject to return
BEARDSLEY (AUBREY) Autograph pen and black wash drawing of a youth making to pluck a flower from a bush, standing behind a fence, with a well in the foreground, [1894]
CASAS (RAMON) AND MIQUEL UTRILLO Pèl & Ploma, 4 vol. containing 100 issues [all published], Barcelona, 3 June 1899-December 1903, sold as a periodical not subject to retuen
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Portrait photograph, signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), reproduced as a postcard and captioned in the image 'Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill./ First Lord of the Admiralty', [c.1907]
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to "My dear Northcliffe", making arrangements to meet him for a walk, Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., 11 May 1908
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Typed letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to the Lord Provost of Glasgow ("My dear Lord Provost"), thanking him for the reception he and Mrs Churchill received in Glasgow, 10 Downing Street, 28 January 1941
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Photograph signed ("W.S. Churchill") on the mount, taken by Walter Stoneman, [3pm, 1 April 1941]; with accompanying letter and compliments slip
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) My Early Life; a Roving Commission, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "To Nurse Dorothy Pugh from Winston S. Churchill February 1943" on front free endpaper, 8vo, Macmillan, 1941; and Pugh's five-year manuscript diary for 1942-46 (some blank days), with insertions (2)
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Collection of material relating to Sister Mary Bigmore, who nursed Winston Churchill for a few months at Chartwell after his stroke in June 1953, including a signed presentation copy of Lord Randolph Churchill, signed photograph by Vivienne, 1951 and Sister Bigmore's diary and letters home, Chartwell, July 1953
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Photograph, signed on the mount ("Winston S. Churchill"), taken by Vivienne in 1951, showing Churchill seated half-length in black formal jacket and bow-tie, presented to the Steward of the House of Commons Smoking Room, Leonard Simmonds, with accompanying letter, 28 July 1964
CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'MARK TWAIN' The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches... Edited by John Paul, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, New York, C.H. Webb, 1867
CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'Mark Twain' Autograph letter signed ("From your well-wishing friend Mark Twain"), to "Jack", promising to celebrate his birthday that evening and enclosing his poem 'Invocation', At Sea, August 28 1895
CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'Mark Twain' Autograph letter signed ("Mark Twain"), to Miss Helen Ingleby "& the other friends", of Heacham Hall, Norfolk, 'IT IS A PLEASANTLY ASTONISHING THING TO BE GREETED WITH SALUTATIONS FROM THE BLOOD OF POCAHONTAS', Riverdale-on-Hudson, 1 November 1901
COSWAY-STYLE BINDING LUDWIG (EMIL) Napoleon, George Allen & Unwin, 1927
DALI (SALVADOR) [DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE)] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, NUMBER 2050 OF 2500 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the title, New York, Maecenas Press, 1969; sold together with a Lincoln Mint "Alice in Daliland" silver bell (2)
ELIOT (T.S.)] Catholic Anthology 1914-1915, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, [Chiswick Press for] Elkin Matthews, 1915
FLEMING (IAN) Moonraker, FIRST EDITION, Jonathan Cape, [1955]
FORSTER (E.M.) A Passage to India, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Harold [Barger] with Morgan's love 7.6.24" on front free endpaper, Edward Arnold, 1924
FROST (ROBERT) Autograph manuscript of his poem 'A Peck of Gold', signed ("Robert Frost"), [1920's]
GANDHI (M.K., 'Mahatma') Portrait, signed ("MKGandhi"), being a half-tone reproduction of the drawing by Yuping Wong showing him head and shoulders, wearing his khadi and facing to his left, original drawing 1931
GANDHI (M.K., 'MAHATMA') Series of five typed letters signed and two autograph postcards signed ("MK Gandhi"), to Harold K. Hales, MP, Stayagraha Ashram, Yeravda Central Prison and elsewhere, the postcards 7 February 1931 and 9 October 1932; the letters 5 September, 12, 20, 31 October, and 1 November 1933
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I, NUMBER 92 OF 488 COPIES, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931
GREENWOOD (WALTER) Printer's final copy, marked up by the author, of Love on the Dole: A Tale of the Two Cities, here titled "They Call It Love: A Tale of Two Cities", Manchester, 1932
HARDY (THOMAS) Autograph draft of his poem 'A Singer Asleep', signed ('By Thomas Hardy/A.C.S. 1837-1909), Bonchurch, 1910
HARDY (THOMAS) Tess of D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman, ONE OF 325 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Macmillan, 1926
HEANEY (SEAMUS) Eleven Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, Belfast, Festival Publications, Queen's University, [1965]
HEANEY (SEAMUS) Series of nearly thirty autograph and typed (or word-processed) letters signed, cards and other material, to the manuscript collector and dealer Roy Davids, Dublin and elsewhere, 1979-2012
HEANEY (SEAMUS) Door into the Dark, FIRST EDITION, AUTOGRAPH POEM "THE PENINSULA" SIGNED ("for Roy, with good wishes Seamus") on half-title, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, Faber, 1969; Poems and a Memoir. Selected and Illustrated by Henry Pearson with an Introduction by Thomas Flanagan and a Preface by Seamus Heaney, NUMBER 1137 OF 2000 COPIES SIGNED BY HEANEY AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS, 1982; and 3 others, Heaney (5)
HEANEY (SEAMUS) Death of a Naturalist, 1966; and approximately 65 others by Heaney, including 27 INSCRIBED OR SIGNED by Heaney (quantity)
HEMINGWAY (ERNEST) A Farewell to Arms, NUMBER 42 OF 510 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929
HEMINGWAY (ERNEST) Death in the Afternoon, FIRST EDITION, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932
HOCKNEY (DAVID) CAVAFY (CONSTANTINE P.) Fourteen Poems by C. P. Cavafy Chosen and Illustrated with Twelve Etchings by David Hockney, EDITION B, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, NUMBERED 373 AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, Editions Alecto, 1966
HOCKNEY (DAVID) WEBB (PETER) The Erotic Arts, NUMBER 40 OF 126 COPIES WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED PRINTS BY HOCKNEY AND ALLEN JONES, Secker & Warburg, 1975
HOUSMAN (A.E.) Autograph drafts of two poems, 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries' and 'Oh Were He and I Together', [around September 1917]
HUGHES (TED) The Ted Hughes Archive formed by his friend and manuscript advisor Roy Davids, including a large quantity of poetical manuscripts, including working drafts, presentation copies and occasional verses, drawings, and a series of autograph letters signed by Hughes
HUGHES (TED) A remarkable collection of 106 works inscribed to his friend and manuscript advisor Roy Davids, including some 63 with the addition of a manuscript poem, and 4 with a drawing, [c.1957-1995]
HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Brave New World. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 297 OF 324 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Chatto & Windus, 1932
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT In die nativitatis domini, illuminated manuscript on thick card, [Fernham Priory, early twentieth century]
JOYCE (JAMES) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, sixth impression, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "To George Cosgrave/James Joyce/5 June 1929, Paris" on front free endpaper, Jonathan Cape, [1928]
JOYCE (JAMES) AND SAMUEL BECKETT Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY SAMUEL BECKETT "for Tristram with gratitude for his kindness - all good wishes from Sam, London Oct. 76" on , Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1929
KAHLO (FRIDA) Autograph transcript in red crayon of the song 'Cruz de Mayo', [United States, between 1929 and 1941]
LAWRENCE (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph, SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION, ONE OF 170 COMPLETE COPIES, WARWICK JAMES'S COPY, [Privately Printed] for the Author by Manning Pike and H. J. Hodgson, 1926
LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Odyssey of Homer, [translated by T.E. Lawrence], LIMITED TO 530 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY FROM T.E. LAWRENCE TO WARWICK JAMES, Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932
LAWRENCE (T.E.) Crusader Castles, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES, 1936; Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, 1933; and other ephemera and manuscripts relating to Warwick James's chapter on music in T.E. Lawrence by His Friends, including material by A.W. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Bob Lawrence, Mrs Lawrence, Eric Kennington and others (small quantity)
LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Mint. Notes Made in the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922, and at Cadet College in 1925. By 352087 A/c Ross, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 7 OF 50 COPIES PRINTED, Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1936
LAWRENCE (T.E.) A Letter from T.E. Lawrence to his Mother, LIMITED TO 24 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 16 OF 12 ON BARCHAM GREEN 'MEDWAY' PAPER, Privately Printed at the Corvinus Press for Mrs Lawrence, 1936
LAWRENCE (T.E.) Autograph letter signed ("TE Shaw"), to Mrs Scott-Paine, saying it gives him "unholy glee" to tell people that no signed copies of Revolt in the Desert exist, which is "a nasty little book that I had to publish for money reasons, but which I have never ceased to resent", [Hythe, Southampton, 1931-2]; with a copy of the book
LITERATURE Collection of mainly typed letters signed by authors including Agatha Christie ("...I do not write biographies, they are not my métier. I prefer fiction..."), P.G. Wodehouse ("...I put the Drones Club in Dover Street in Leave It To Psmith, and I can't back out from that..."), Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Leonard Woolf, Anthony Powell and others
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