23rd Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Dickens (Charles).
Our Mutual Friend.
Chapman and Hall, 1865, first edition, first issue with all points present (Smith 15), forty plates (stich holes on some), original cloth (faded, wear to heads and tails of spine);
idem, The Personal History of David Copperfield.
Bradbury & Evans, 1850, first edition, first issue with all but one of Smith's issue points (screwed present), forty plates (stitch holes present on some), lacking half-title, two leaves bound out of sequence, half morocco gilt (rubbed);
with six others by the author - Nicholas Nickleby (1839); Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); Dombey and Son (1848); Bleak House (1853); Little Dorrit (1857); Edwin Drood (1870), all first editions, issues not stated, various half leather bindings, Nickleby rear board detached. (9)
Sold for £650
Estimated at £200 - £400
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Nov, 2022
Highlights include a collection of Opera scores and books from the Library of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, and two first edition Harry Potter books. Also included are early antiquarian books, modern first editions, illustrations, manuscripts, maps, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents.
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