23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Dexter (Colin) - Signed Copies.
Last Bus to Woodstock.
Macmillan, 1975, first edition, signed 'Colin Dexter' on title page, heavily tanned, dust jacket (priced £2.50);
idem, Service of All The Dead.
Macmillan, 1979, first edition, signed 'Colin Dexter' on title page, label scar to title page, dust jacket (priced £4.95);
idem, The Dead of Jericho.
Macmillan, 1981, first edition, signed 'Colin Dexter' on title page, small area of ?repair/erasure in centre of page with spurious ISBN verso, dust jacket
(priced £5.95);
idem, The Riddle of the Third Mile.
Macmillan, 1983, first edition, signed 'Colin Dexter' on title page, price-clipped dust jacket;
with four others, all signed 'Colin Dexter'.
[Some variation in signatures, all illustrated to allow prospective bidders an informed decision] (8)
Sold for £320
Estimated at £150 - £250
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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