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BETJEMAN John, Continual Dew, 1937; Old Lights for New Chancels, 1940, without dustwrappers; Antiquarian Prejudice, 1939, wraps; New Bats in Old Belfries, 1945; A Few Late Chrysanthemums, 1954; Summoned by Bells, 1960, in dustwrappers, all London first editions (6)
Sold for £150
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ELIOT T S, East Coker, 1940, Faber; Dry Salvages, 1941; Burnt Norton, 1941; Little Gidding, 1942, wraps; The Elder Statesman, 1959, in dustwrapper; Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, 1939, without dustwrapper, all London first editions (6)
Sold for £340
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AUDEN W H, Another Time, London, 1940, first edition in dustwrapper (1)
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HARDY Thomas, Jude the Obscure, London 1896, Osgood McIlvaine, first edition (Vol VIII Wessex Novels), cloth, lacks front blank, map and plate present; Yuletide in a Younger World, London 1927, Faber (Ariel No.1) (2)
Sold for £20
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GRAVES Robert, Treasure Box, London n.d. Chiswick Press (1919 200 copies), original blue paper wraps, inscribed to Mary Blunden and signed by Robert Graves and his wife Nancy Nicholson who did the illustration (1)
Sold for £450
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GRAVES Robert, Country Sentiment, New York 1920, paper on boards, inscribed by Graves 'Mary and Edmund from Robert 1920' (1)
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SHAKESPEARE, Dramatic Works, London 1839, sm 8vo contemporary embossed leather, gilt, inscriptions include 'R R Graves from his Papa...1911' and 'Mary Blunden from her friends Nancy Nicholson & Robert Graves', each signing their own names (1)
Sold for £220
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SITWELL Sacheverell, Two Poems and Ten Songs, London 1929, 4to limited to 275 signed, numbered copies; MACAULEY Rose, Personal Pleasures, London 1935, 1st edition, cloth, author signed on title page, and 4 private press books (6)
Sold for £90
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SASSOON Siegfried, Collected Poems, 1947; Poems Newly Selected 1940, both London first editions in dustwrappers; An Octave, 1966, Shenval Press limited to 350 numbered copies; To The Red Rose, 1931 wraps (Ariel 34); PREUSLER Walter, Modern English Lyrics, Leipzig, 1928 with Preusler's card with a handwritten note to Sassoon on the reverse, and Ariel Poems Nos. 4, 37 and 8 (8)
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BLUNDEN Edmund, signed handwritten letters dated 27th July 1938 to his daughter Clare in which he discusses his new friendship with C Day Lewis and play in the current Test Match, in a reprint of Rupert Brookes Poems 1938 together with a letter from her mother, probably all received together (3)
Sold for £50
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DAVIES W H, Raptures, Beaumont Press, 1918, limited to 250 numbered copies (this one not signed by Davies), signed and inscribed from Cyril Beaumont to Edmund Blunden, 1923; BEAUMONT Cyril, The Mysterious Toyshop, 1924, signed and inscribed by Beaumont to Mary Blunden; The First Score, 1927, limited to 310 numbered copies with handwritten letter from Beaumont (3)
Sold for £70
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Small box, collection of books given by Edmund BLUNDEN to his daughter Clare and variously inscribed by him and DICKINSON Emily, Select Poems 1933, inscribed to Clare Blunden from Rupert Hart Davis (11)
Sold for £40
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Two small boxes; SPARK Muriel and STANFORD Derek, My Best Mary, London 1953 first edition, inscribed to Edmunds BLUNDEN from the authors, and 8 others author inscribed to him, and box of 20 books in which he has inscribed his name, put his book plate or inscribed comment (29)
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Collection of books inscribed by Edmund BLUNDEN to Mary BLUNDEN between 1918 and 1928, and Mary Blunden's own copy of Christopher SMART's A Song to David, London 1924 (KIRKPATRICK Bll) (7)
Sold for £45
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GAWSWORTH John (Ed.), Known Signatures, London 1932, limited edition of 80 signed, numbered copies, 8vo, 1/2 vellum paper on boards, includes two Blunden poems (in CBEL but KIRKPATRICK only includes trade edition); HARDIE A M and DOUGLAS K C (Eds.), Augury, Oxford 1940, includes poems by BLUNDEN, CS LEWIS et al, 8vo paper on boards (KIRKPATRICK B90 500 copies printed) (2)
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BOX, GARDNER Helen, book and 2 pamphlets with a.l.s and 3 others; MORTON A L, 2 signed books and associated pamphlets; GARROD H W, Oxford Poems, London 1912, inscribed in pencil 'Humbert Wolfe', and 3 others
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ROSENBERG Isaac, Collected Works, 1937; DOUGLAS Keith, Alamein to Zem Zem, 1946; BATTERHAM Eric N, A Kite's Dinner, n.d., all London first editions in dustwrappers, the first somewhat worn (3)
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Two boxes, BATES H E, Story Without an end, 1932; WHARTON Edith, Custom of the Country, NY 1913, without dustwrapper, and GASCOYNE David, Night Thoughts, 1956, RAINE Kathleen, Collected Poems, 1956 and other modern first editions literature and poetry (46)
Sold for £100
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CARROLL Lewis, Two Letters to Marion, Bristol 1932, Douglas Cleverdon, limited to 300 numbered copies, this being 'No.98 for Edmund Blunden', wraps; Useful and Instructive Poetry, London 1954, first edition, glassine wraps, and one other (3)
Sold for £80
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CARROLL Lewis, The 'Wonderland' Postage Stamp Case, complete in its' cloth lined envelope; Eight or Nine Words About Letter Writing, Oxford 1890, first edition together with the original printed envelope in which they came, envelope has some damage but not to text (3)
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(BUSCH Willhelm), Pious Jemima: A Doleful Tale, Edinburgh 1872, first edition, publishers green cloth; Hookeybeak the Raven, London n.d. (circa 1875), George Routledge, illustrated card cover, old taped repair to spine (2)
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HUEFFER Ford Madox (Ford Madox Ford), The Feather, London 1892, first edition, 12mo, paper on boards, spine missing (unrecorded binding) (1)
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Small box, SHERWOOD Mrs, The Robins Nest, 1864; Uncle Manners and other children's including 4x H Belloc (12)
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FRASER Sir James George, The Golden Bough, London 1936, 13 volumes, 8vo, complete in dustwrappers (13)
Sold for £110
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BOX, WHITE's Selbourne; THORNE James, Rambles by Rivers, 1847, 4 16mo vols in 2 and other travel and natural history (18)
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Two boxes, CROSS J W (Ed.), George Eliot's LIfe, 1885, Tauchnitz, 4 vols in 2 and other small 8vo and pocket edition of literature, several leatherbound (100)
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Two boxes, JOHNSON Samuel, Works, London 1806, 12 vols, 8vo; GIBBON's Decline and Fall, London 12 vols, 8vo; SWIFT J, Works, 12 vols, small 8vo copper plates and 6 others, all worn old full calf (42)
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Two boxes, DRYDEN Works, London 1757, 6 vols, 12mo; GROTE G, History of Greece, London 1851, 8 vols, 8vo, and 45 other old leatherbound volumes (59)
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CARY John, Traveller's Companion, London 1791, small 8vo, general map and 42 county maps, hand coloured, some tape repairs (1)
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GODWIN William, Essay on Sepulchres....London 1809, small 8vo, paper on boards, spine covering missing (1)
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