Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
January 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/832
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    214 216 al? 218 219 220 aa1 222 220 arA4 R20 Hardy (T.) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, first issue, original brown cloth gilt, library label removed from outer covers 1891 Meredith (G.) Diana of the Crossways, 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, original cloth, loose, dull, library label removed from outer covers, slight erasure and ink-spot on title of vol. I, 1885; ete.; sold not subject to return (4) Harpy (T.) Tress or THE D’URBERVILLES, 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, original cloth, soiled 1891 Hardy (T.) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 3 vol. second issue, original cloth gilt, unopened 1892 Hardy (T.) A Group of Noble Dames, FIRST EDITIONS, original cloth 1891 Kreting (R.) THe SEvEN SEAS, FIRST EDITION, A. L.s. FROM THE AuTHOR, 1p. 8vo, Aug. 1, 1905, inserted, original cloth, g. t. 1896 Hudson (W. H.) Birds in a Village, original cloth, 1893; A Little Boy Lost, illustrations, original buckram, 1905, both FIRST EDITIONS (2) Knickerbocker (D.) A History of New York, 2 vol. uncut, half calf, top cover of vol. I loose, 1821—Smollett (T.) The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, 2 vol. tetle of vol. I discoloured, old calf gilt, worn, wants top cover of vol. I, 1774 (4) Stevenson (R. L.) The Dynamiter, binder’s cloth, 1885— Wells (H. G.) The New Machiavelli, original cloth, 1911 —[Dodgson (C. L.)] The Hunting of the Snark, original cloth, worn, 1876, all FIRST EDITIONS (3) Kipling (R.) Stalky & Co. 1899—Galsworthy (J.) Swan Song, 1928, both FIRST EDITIONS, original cloth (2) Dickens (C.) The Battle of Life, original cloth gilt, 1846; The Haunted Man, original cloth gilt, 1848; Bleak House, half morocco, 1853, all FIRST EDITIONS; and 3 others (6) Panorama. Two Rolls showing the roadway from Swain’s Lane, Highgate, to Old St. Pancras Church, very neatly and accurately drawn in pen and sepia, and accompanied by manuscript descriptions by the artist, James F. King,
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