Monday 6th July - Antiques, Jewellery, Militaria, Coins, Vinyl, Toys, Ceramics, Collectables
Monday 6th July - Antiques, Jewellery, Militaria, Coins, Vinyl, Toys, Ceramics, Collectables
This lot comprises several collectible printed works across three distinct groupings. The first is a single volume titled The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels, which includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear. This edition is authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited with notes by Leslie S. Klinger, and published by W.W. Norton and Company. It features a pictorial dust jacket and a matching illustrated slipcase.
The second grouping is a set of seven classic literature volumes printed and bound in Great Britain by Greycaine Limited, Watford. The titles included are The Count of Monte Cristo (Volumes 1 and 2) by Alexandre Dumas, Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, and Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. These volumes are uniformly bound in textured brown material with decorative gilt-stamped spines and blind-stamped floral motifs. The top edges of the text blocks are stained red.
The third grouping consists of three bound volumes of Punch, or The London Charivari. This includes Volume XXII from 1852, published at 85 Fleet Street, London, featuring half-leather binding and marbled paper boards. Also included are two volumes from 1904, numbered 1 and 2, bound in dark green half-leather or cloth with gilt-stamped titles on the front covers and marbled edges to the text blocks.
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