20th Nov, 2023 11:00
The Interiors Sale
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A collection of approximately 160 penguin and pelican books together with others
A collection of approximately 160 penguin and pelican books, largely printed in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s to include the authors: George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maughn, William Golding Lytton Strachey, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Damon Runyon, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, Clive Bell, Williams Shakespeare, Ford Maddox Ford, James Joyce, Jessica Mitford, Iris Murdoch, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Chevalier, E. M. Forster etc; together with Charles Darwin, Climbing Plants, fifth thousand 1891; Charles Darwin, Vegetable Mould and Earthworms, eleventh thousand 1880; 19 early Beatrix Potter books and further bindings
Sold for £50
Estimated at £50 - £100
A collection of approximately 160 penguin and pelican books, largely printed in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s to include the authors: George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maughn, William Golding Lytton Strachey, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Damon Runyon, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, Clive Bell, Williams Shakespeare, Ford Maddox Ford, James Joyce, Jessica Mitford, Iris Murdoch, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Chevalier, E. M. Forster etc; together with Charles Darwin, Climbing Plants, fifth thousand 1891; Charles Darwin, Vegetable Mould and Earthworms, eleventh thousand 1880; 19 early Beatrix Potter books and further bindings
various, generally worn commensurate with age, a few with significant damage to the spines
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Auction: The Interiors Sale, 20th Nov, 2023
To include furniture, paintings, works of art, silver, ceramics, vintage fashion, and fine wines & spirits.
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