28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 164
 

164

Minton (John, illustrator). Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica. Written by Alan Ross, 1st...

Minton (John, illustrator). Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica. Written by Alan Ross, 1st edition, London: John Lehmann, 1948. 8vo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket, front inner hinge cracked, jacket price-clipped and with loss to spine-panel - Freud (Lucian, illustrator). The Glass Tower by Nicholas Moore, 1st edition, London : PL, 1944. 8vo, original quarter cloth, decorative boards, dust jacket, spotting to outer leaves, dust jacket spotted, price-clipped, and with a few water-stains - Steadman (Ralph, illustrator). Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, 1st edition thus, London: Dobson Books, 1967. 4to, original boards, dust jacket (price-clipped) - Leighton (Claire). Country Matters, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket - ibid. Four Hedges. A Gardener's Chronicle, 1935. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped) - together with approx. 30 similar illustrated books (various formats, mainly in dust jackets, artists including Mervyn Peake, David Hockney, David Gentleman, etc.), approx. 10 related modern reference works (e.g. James Russell, Ravilious in Pictures, Sparham: Mainstone Press, 2011), and a quantity of related ephemera including Ralph Steadman-illustrated Oddbins lists (qty: 3 cartons)

Sold for £700
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021

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