Presentation Copies First Editions Catalogue (67 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 84 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Auction catalog, softcover, 9 3/4 by 6 1/4 inches, 90 pages, 597 lots, Catalog of sale which took place in London, May 10-11, 1971. Front cover has "NYPL" written in marker, otherwise covers clean as are pages.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

60 S + Price List 24,7x15,7cm, Broschur, Gebrauchsspuren und kleiner Eintrag auf Umschlag, innen sauberes Exemplar.

Saddle-stapled wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 45pp Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Like New. In unused condition, may show some slight shelf wear, but otherwise unread. This title was digitally scanned from a rare, out of print edition, and will have some visual artifacts from that process.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", pict stapled wraps, (100)pp. Covers soiled, stained and creased, spine peeling, torn along edges and missing pieces, light staining along page edges, introduction torn at staples else good. Each page lists one book for sale. Some of the books: Bronte, Jane Eyre $3500, Carroll, Alice's Adventures $800, John Donne, Poems $600, Spenser, Faerie Queen $5500. This catalogue is a fun read because North doesn't only describe the books but he talks about the books and their authors. North started out as a rare bookseller in New York in 1902 and became one of the preeminent antiquarian booksellers of his generation. SCARCE.…

70 S 24,8x15,5cm, Broschur, Gebrauchsspuren und kleiner Eintrag auf Umschlag, innen sauberes Exemplar.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Dampstaining to rear cover, seen as colored spots on last six pages. Light dampstaining to front cover spine and lower edges, seen slightly to lower edges of first two pages. Tearing to upper outer corner of front cover. Notation written on front cover, number written on title page. …

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 791 lots on 138 pages, the properties of Lady Pooley, Rev Bishop C. E. Storrs, Raymond Mortimer, Mrs Bodkin Mrs Bagshawe, etc. a lit5tle rust discolouration to fore edge, loosely inserted prices realised and buyers sheets. VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Catalogue referred to as 'Early' Stapled booklet, good, unpaginated 0.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. A 1966 Sotheby book catalogue for 6th to the 8th of December 1966 comprising 672 lots on 116 pages with prices realised and buyers names and with two loosely inserted errata slips, cream thin card covers, a few age spots along the bottom edge, contents very good.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. 537 lots. 71 pages. With illustrations. Loosely inserted slips with Prices Realized. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners.; Octavo (standard book size).

First Edition. CATALOGUE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY & MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, Sotheby & Co., 1974, first edition, very good plus to near fine in wraps.

Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 71 pp, 2 plates, ills. 537 lots. The sale included (lots 193 -271) "A complete set of the poetry pamphlets written or printed by Frédéric Prokosch, excluding his own printed poems, of which there are 32 titles. This is the only set of these books to be formed." Good.

Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. 537 lots. 70 pages. With illustrations. Loosely inserted slip with Prices Realized. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Front cover slightly creased.; Octavo (standard book size).

Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 116 pp, 1 plate. 672 lots. The illustrated version of this catalogue with a single frontispiece plate illustrating a page from the manuscript of Housman's The Name and Nature of Poetry. Among the highlights noted were the following: First Editions and Presentation Copies of Auden, Beckett, Beerbohm, Belloc, Brooke, Lewis Carroll, Churchill, Conrad, de la Mare, Norman Douglas, Conan Doyle, Robert Graves, Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Joyce, Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Macneice, Maugham, Orwell, Pound, Anthony Powell, Shaw, Evelyn Waugh, Wells, Wilde and Yeats; a Collection of Wise Forgeries; an Important Collection of Poetry of the First World War Letters of Beerbohm, Robert Bridges, Samuel Butler, Churchill, Alfred Douglas, Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Shaw and Mark Twain; an Important Series of Letters of Conan Doyle and Letters Concerning the First World War; Autograph Manuscripts of Beerbohm's Not That I Would Boast and Housman's The Name and Nature of Poetry; an Autograph Notebook of Churchill at Sandhurst; Manuscripts and Letters of John Oliver Hobbes. Minor wear to spine. Otherwise Good. List of prices realized and buyers and errata sheet laid in.…

Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 98 pp, ills. 633 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Eliot's Prufrock and other observations, 1917, and other works inscribed to Virginia or Leonard Woolf; Cape Ann, 1935 and Old man's song, 1936; Joyce's Ulysses, 1922, signed by the author; Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom, 1926; Maugham's Liza of Lambeth, 1897, signed by the author, and Virginia Woolf's Jacob's room, 1922; first editions or presentation copies of Richard Aldington, Auden, H.E. Bates, Beckett, Beerbohm, Belloc, Arnold Bennett, Betjeman, Roy Campbell, Churchill, Conrad, A.E. Coppard, W.H. Davies, Norman Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, E.M. Forster, Graves, Rider Haggard, Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Rolfe, Siegried Sassoon, Shaw, Spender, Lytton Strachey, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Wilde and Yeats Very Good. Printed list of buyers and prices realized laid in.…

Yellow printed wrappers, 8vo, 60 pp, 2 plates. 301 lots. The sale was stated to comprise: first editions or presentation copies of W.H. Auden, John Betjeman, sir Winston Churchill, Lawrence Durrell, T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, William Morris, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, W.B. Yeats and Walt Whitman; Robert Frost's A boy's will and North of Boston, both first editions, first issue; a collection of drawings and proof impressions for Gordon Craig's illustrations to the Cranach Press Hamlet; autograph letters of W.S. Landor, Dickens, Wilke Collins, Lear, Browning, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Kipling, Robert Bridges, Edward Thomas, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.E. Lawrence and admiral Earl Beatty; autograph manuscripts of William Morris, Conrad, Hardy, James Elroy Flecker, G.K. Chesterton, John Betheman and dame Edith Sitwell; and fine series of letters and mss. of sir James Barrie. Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in.…