13th Dec, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Conrad (Joseph).
[The Works of Joseph Conrad].
Folio Society, 1996-2005, seventeen volumes, pictorial cloth, each volume in slipcase;
Kipling (Rudyard), Collected Short Stories.
Folio Society, 2005, five volumes, pictorial cloth, housed in single slipcase;
Forster (E.M.), A Passage to India.
Folio Society, 1996, six volumes, single slipcase. Fine set;
Wodehouse (P.G.), Jeeves and Wooster.
Folio Society, 1996, 2000, 2010, fourteen volumes in three sets, each set with slipcase. Previous owner's blind stamp to first set. Books VG to Fine, slipcases marked;
idem, Best of Blandings.
Folio Society, 2004, six volumes, slipcase. Faint spotting to fore-edges, marked slipcase;
with nineteen volumes by Thomas Hardy, all published by the Folio Society, in slipcases. (67)
Sold for £380
Estimated at £100 - £200
Conrad - Some very slight shelf wear but contents Fine.
Kipling - Books Fine, slipcase a little dust marked.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 13th Dec, 2023
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