Mixed Lot: 1816-1921, Fine Bindings, Signed Copies, First Editions, Five Volumes.

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Mixed Lot: 1816-1921, Fine Bindings, Signed Copies, First Editions, Five Volumes. William Warden's Letters Written on Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland, and at Saint Helena; in which the Conduct and Conversation of Napoleon Bonaparte [...] are Faithfully Described and Related, London: for the author, by Ackerman, 1816, third edition, portrait, three-quarter red morocco, spotting and dampstaining.
George Moore's (1852-1933) Confessions of a Young Man, London: Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., 1888, portrait, cloth from original covers and spine bound in at back, three-quarter rust-colored calf and buckram, spine sunned, dry.
Walter de la Mare's (1873-1956) Songs of Childhood, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1902, first edition of author's first book, in publisher's half cream cloth and blue cloth boards, with gilt emblem, inscribed by de la Mare on ffep, in custom stiff buckram chemise and half-morocco slipcase.
de la Mare's Memoirs of a Midget, London: Collins, [1921], publisher's cloth, inscribed by the author to Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871-1959) on ffep, photograph of the medallion portrait Simson made of de la Mare pasted inside the front board, with Simson's signature, in custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise, white spotting to case and chemise.
William Henry Hudson's (1841-1922) Green Mansions, London: Duckworth & Co., 1904, first edition, publisher's green cloth, housed in half green morocco slipcase, spine faded to a tan color. (5)
Estimate $300-500


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