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Lot 250

STOPPARD, Tom. ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD [and] ARCADIA [and] NIGHT AND DAY. Faber and Faber, London, 1967-1993. First editions, first printings. 8vo. All Fine in wrappers. Arcadia is signed by Stoppard on the half-title. With The Real Thing, a broadside, No 373 of 500, signed by Stoppard, containing Henry's speech comparing writing with hitting a cricket ball, taken from the award winning play. and one other Stoppard play, The Invention of Love. (5) Estimates £120.00 - £180.00

Lot 251

SUSKIND, Patrick. PERFUME. THE STORY OF A MURDERER. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1986. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Slight tanning of the textblock as usual, otherwise a clean bright copy in a very near fine unclipped dustwrapper. BAILEY, PAUL. PETER SMART'S CONFESSIONS. Jonathan Cape, London, 1977. 8vo. First edition, first printing. A fine copy in a price-clipped, publisher-price-stickered dustwrapper, otherwise fine. STOPPARD, TOM. THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS. Faber and Faber, London, 1993. 8vo. First edition, first printing. A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper. With twenty other books of literary interest. (23) Estimates £60.00 - £80.00

Lot 252

TROLLOPE, Anthony. THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET. Smith, Elder, London, 1867. First edition, first printing. Two volumes, Octavo. With thirty-two tissue-guarded full-page illustrations by George H. Thomas and many text illustrations. A nice clean set with occasional spotting to the tissue-guards in contemporary half calf with marbled sides, endpapers and edges. With attractive later bookplates to the front paste-downs. (2) Estimates £120.00 - £180.00

Lot 253

TWAIN, Mark. A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR. Chatto and Windus, London, 1889. First edition, first printing. 8vo. With 220 illustrations by Dan Beard. With the thirty-two page publisher's list at the back, dated October 1889. Internally clean and bright, with new endpapers. In the original red cloth with decorations in black and lettering in gilt on the upper cover and spine. The book is rather cocked and the spine is faded. (1) Estimates £60.00 - £80.00

Lot 254

WATERS, Sarah. TIPPING THE VELVET. Virago Press, London, 1998. Octavo. First edition, first printing. A very fine copy in the original wraps. It looks unread. Estimates £60.00 - £80.00

Lot 255

WAUGH, Evelyn. SCOOP A NOVEL ABOUT JOURNALISTS. Chapman and Hall, London, 1938. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Slight browning to the free endpapers, otherwise internally clean and bright in the original publisher's black and red marbled boards, lettered gilt on the spine. Estimates £80.00 - £120.00

Lot 256

WELDON, Fay. REMEMBER ME [and] THE SHRAPNEL ACADEMY [and] LEADER OF THE BAND. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1976-1988. Octavo. First editions, first printings. Fine copies in fine dustwrappers. Remember Me is signed by the author to the title-page. With four other later Weldon titles, all UK firsts in dustwrapper, including two copies signed by the author. (7) Estimates £60.00 - £80.00

Lot 257

WHEATLEY, Dennis. TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER. Hutchinson, London, 1953. 8vo. First edition, first printing. A clean bright copy in an unclipped dustwrapper with a litle rubbing to some edges and a little wear to the spine extremities. RICE, Anne. THE MUMMY OR RAMSES THE DAMNED. Chatto and Windus, 1989. Large 8vo. A fine copy in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. RICE, Anne. THE WITCHING HOUR. Chatto and Windus, London, 1991. Large 8vo. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. With five other SF/Horror titles. (8) Estimates £60.00 - £80.00

Lot 258

ZANGWILL, Israel. THE BACHELORS' CLUB. Henry and Co., London, 1891. 8vo. First edition. Illustrated by George Hutchinson. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. In the original publisher's cloth with pictorial upper cover, boards faded, edges rubbed and inner hinges cracked. With The Old Maid's Club, Heinemann, 1892, 'Second thousand'. Also inscribed on the half-title by Zangwill. (2) Estimates £40.00 - £60.00

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