18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2089
Milne (A. A.)
Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by E. H. Shepard, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, rubbing to extremities, fraying to spine-ends, tips bumped and worn through, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, together with 4 others including When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, 2nd editions, 1924-7 (WWWVY front inner hinge gone), Ella Higginson, The Voice of April Land, 1st edition, 1903 (small 8vo, original vellum, inscribed by the author), and Thomas Gray Poems, London: privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1946 (4to, original vellum) (qty: 5)
Sold for £320
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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Tuesday 17 May 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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