Illustrated Books & Modern Literature

Lot 730 - Kafka (Franz). The Metamorphosis, 1st edition in English, 1937

Sold for £1,000

Lot 731 - Lawrence (D. H.) Sons and Lovers, 1st edition, 2nd issue, 1913

Sold for £440

Lot 732 - Lawrence (T. E.). Oeuvres de Emile Verhaeren, Paris, [1912], Clouds Hill library

Sold for £520

Lot 733 - * Le Carré (John, i.e. David Cornwell). An important series of 16 unpublished Letters Signed

Sold for £2,200

Lot 734 - Lewis (C. S.) The Horse and his Boy, 1st edition, 1954

Sold for £1,800

Lot 735 - Lewis (C. S.) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 1st edition, 1950

Sold for £360

Lot 736 - Lewis (C. S.) The Silver Chair, 1st edition, 1953

Sold for £2,600

Lot 737 - * Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898–1963). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘C. S. Lewis’...

Sold for £6,000

Lot 738 - * Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898–1963). Autograph Postcard Signed with initial ‘J.’ for ‘Jack’...

Sold for £650

Lot 739 - Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963). The Demi-Gods, by James Stephens, 1st edition, 1914

Sold for £900

Lot 740 - Lucas (E. V. & George Morrow). What a Life! 1st edition, 1911

Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 741 - Lucas (Victoria, pseud. Sylvia Plath). The Bell Jar, 1964

Sold for £260

Withdrawn

Lot 743 - Mackenzie (Compton). Sinister Street, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1913-14

Estimated at £150 - £200

Lot 744 - Murdoch (Iris). A Severed Head, 1st edition, 1961

Sold for £240

Lot 745 - Murdoch (Iris). A Year of Birds, limited edition, 1978

Estimated at £300 - £400

Lot 746 - Nabokov (Vladimir). Lolita, volume I only, Olympia Press, 1955

Sold for £240

Lot 747 - O'Brian (Patrick). The Commodore, 1st edition, London: Harper Collins, 1994

Sold for £650

Lot 748 - Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, 1949

Sold for £460

Lot 749 - Peake (Mervyn). Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone, 1946, 1950 & 1959..., and others

Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 750 - Poe (Edgar Allan). The Raven, 1887

Sold for £320

Lot 751 - Pratchett (Terry). The Carpet People, 1st edition, 1971

Sold for £220

Lot 752 - Proulx (Edna Ann). The Shipping News, 1st edition, 1993

Sold for £190

Lot 753 - Proust (Marcel). The Guermantes Way, 2 vols., 1st English ed., 1925

Sold for £650