A collection of assorted literature, poetry etc., seventeen ...

Hammer

£150

A collection of assorted literature, poetry etc., seventeen titles, including Leo Tolstoy: 'Master and Man', translated A. Hulme Beaman, London, Chapman & Hall, 1895, 1st UK edition, 125,[1]pp, contemporary cloth, leather gilt label to spine, verso of FFEP signed binding printed at head "J. & E. Bumpus Ltd 350 Oxford Street"; Thomas Mofolo: 'Chaka An Historical Romance', Introduction Sir Henry Newbolt, London, Oxford University Press, 1931, 1st English language edition, translated from the original Sesotho by F.H. Dutton, xv,198pp, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (with part losses/restoration). The third and final novel by Lesotho writer Thomas Mofolo, a mythic fictional retelling of the story of the rise and fall of the Zulu emperor-king Shaka; [Edward Bulwer Lytton]: 'Deverux. A Tale', New York, J. & J. Harper, 1889, 1st US edition, 2 volumes, orig. cloth backed boards worn, printed paper labels to spines; Doris Langley Moore: 'Pandora's Letter Box being a Discourse on Fashionable Life', ill. Georgiana Frost, London, Gerald Howe, 1929, 1st edition, limited edition, number 92 of 200 copies only numbered and signed by the author, original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, dust wrapper; Rev. H.H. Milman, 3 titles: 'Belshazzar: A Dramatic Poem', L, John Murray, 1822, 'The Martyr of Antioch', L, Murray, 1822, 'Anne Boleyn', L, Murray, 1822, 2nd edition, uniform 19th Century full calf gilt by Hatchard & Son, each with pencil ownership signature "AM Gurney Sep. 1852" on FFEP; Ruth Rendell: 'The Crocodile Bird', L, Hutchinson, 1993, 1st edition, No. 11 of 150 copies only signed by the author and specially bound, orig. quarter cloth gilt, glassine dust wrapper; Mallock: 'Lucretius on Life and Death', L, A & C Black, 1900, orig. cloth gilt; Percy W. Ames: 'The Mirror of the Sinful Soul', L, Asher & Co, 1897, signed & inscribed, contemp. half calf gilt; Arthur Humphreys: 'The Private Library', L, Hatchards, 1897, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt; James Makgill: 'Discours particulier d'Escosse', Edinburgh, 1824, Edited by Thomas Thomson, "Fifty-two copies ... were printed, and 52 extra copies on thin common paper." - Lowndes, 7 unnumbered pages, 32 pages, 4to, old half calf gilt; W. Somervile: 'Hobbinol, Field Sports, and the Bowling GReen', London, William Bulmer for R. Ackermann, 1813, engraved vignette ills., 4to, later paper covered boards; plus 3 others (17)