Lot 170
Woburn Books.- Complete set of 18 vol., 1928-29 (18)
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Woburn Books.- Complete set of 18 vol., comprising: Chesterton (G.K.) The Sword of Wood; Powys (T.F.) The Dewpond; Kaye-Smith (Sheila) A Wedding Morn; Armstrong (Martin) Portrait of the Misses Harlowe; Mottram (R.H.) The Apple Disdained; Benson (Stella) The Man who Missed the Bus; Lawrence (D.H.) Rawdon's Roof; Garnett (David) The Old Dovecote; Benson (E.F.) The Male Impersonator; Anderson (Sherwood) Alice & the Lost Novel; Blackwood (Algernon) Full Circle; Williamson (Henry) The Linhay on the Downs; Sinclair (May) Fame; Morley (Christopher) The Goldfish under the Ice; Leslie (Shane) A Ghost in the Isle of Wight; Graves (Robert) The Shout (gutter splitting slightly); Hergesheimer (Joseph) Triall by Armes; Warner (Sylvia Townsend) Some World far from Ours, each one of 530 copies signed by the author, light browning strips at endpapers, faint offsetting on titles and occasional browning in one or two vol., original decorative boards, light foxing and toning to top edge, all with dust-jackets, some browning to spines and a few chips but generally very good condition, 8vo, Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928-29 (18)
⁂ A complete set of this unique publication of short stories.
Description
Woburn Books.- Complete set of 18 vol., comprising: Chesterton (G.K.) The Sword of Wood; Powys (T.F.) The Dewpond; Kaye-Smith (Sheila) A Wedding Morn; Armstrong (Martin) Portrait of the Misses Harlowe; Mottram (R.H.) The Apple Disdained; Benson (Stella) The Man who Missed the Bus; Lawrence (D.H.) Rawdon's Roof; Garnett (David) The Old Dovecote; Benson (E.F.) The Male Impersonator; Anderson (Sherwood) Alice & the Lost Novel; Blackwood (Algernon) Full Circle; Williamson (Henry) The Linhay on the Downs; Sinclair (May) Fame; Morley (Christopher) The Goldfish under the Ice; Leslie (Shane) A Ghost in the Isle of Wight; Graves (Robert) The Shout (gutter splitting slightly); Hergesheimer (Joseph) Triall by Armes; Warner (Sylvia Townsend) Some World far from Ours, each one of 530 copies signed by the author, light browning strips at endpapers, faint offsetting on titles and occasional browning in one or two vol., original decorative boards, light foxing and toning to top edge, all with dust-jackets, some browning to spines and a few chips but generally very good condition, 8vo, Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928-29 (18)
⁂ A complete set of this unique publication of short stories.
