Catalogue of modern first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters and literary manuscripts ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W.1 ...; days of sale: first day: Monday, 11th March, 1968 ... lots 1-362; second day: Tuesday, 12th March, 1968 ..., lots 363-660 ..., lots 661-851
Publisher: Sotheby & Co.
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Notes: 851 lots.

Sale code: RUSKIN.

" ... comprising Lawrence's The white peacock, 1911, presentation copy; Robert Frost's North of Boston, 1914, presentation copy; Noctes binaniae, 1939, and first editions and presentation copies of Auden, Beerbohm, Belloc, Betjeman, Blunden, Bridges, Churchill, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Hardy, Hemingway, Joyce, Kipling, Ezra Pound, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf and Yeats; drawings of Beerbohm, Dulac, Furniss, Raven Hill, D.H. Lawrence, Donald McGill, E.H. Shepard, Thurber and Denton Welch; two nonsense alphabets of Edward Lear; a sculpture portrait of R.L. Stevenson; autograph manuscripts of Arnold manuscripts of Arnold Bennett's Accident, Wilkie Collin's The Guilty river, Conan Doyle's The great shadow, William Morris's The roots of the mountains and Well's The man who could work miracles; the printer's copy for The Diary of a nobody, 1892; letters and manuscripts of Belloc, Blunden, Bridges, Chesterton, Churchill, Gordon Craig, Dowson, T.S. Eliot, Rider Haggard, Hardy, Bret Harte, Aldous-Huxley, Jerome K. Jerome, T.E. Lawrence, Andrew Lang, Pinero, Quiller-Couch, Charles Reade, Swinburne, Ellen Terry, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse and Yeats; an important collection of letters of Rudyard Kipling."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Mar. 11-12, 1968.