23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Le Carre (John) - Signed Copies.
A Small Town in Germany.
Heinemann, 1968, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust jacket (priced 30s.);
idem, The Little Drummer Girl.
NY; Alfred A. Knopf, April 1983, fifth printing, inscribed and signed by the author on half title (presenting the book to the RNLI) with Phillips auction 'certificate' stating that the book was sold for the RNLI on the 8th May 1986, dust jacket (priced $15.95)
idem, The Russia House.
Hodder and Stoughton, 1989, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust jacket (priced £12.95);
idem, The Night Manager.
Hodder and Stoughton, 1993, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust jacket (priced £15.99);
idem, The Constant Gardener.
Hodder and Stoughton, 2001, first edition, first printing, signed by the author on title page, dust jacket (priced £16.99);
idem, Absolute Friends.
Hodder and Stoughton, 2004, first edition, first printing, signed by the author on title page, dust jacket (priced £18.99). (6)
Sold for £380
Estimated at £300 - £500
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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