for our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Wednesday 5th of April 2006
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| 251 | George Eliot, volumes one to three "Felix Holt", published by William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh £150-200 | - |
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| 252 | George Eliot, volumes one to eight "Daniel Deronda", first edition 1876, published by William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh and London, half calf, bound £150-200 | - |
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| 253 | George Eliot, volumes one to four "Middlemarch", first edition 1866, published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London £100-150 | - |
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| 254 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, volumes one to three "Transformation", first/second edition? 1860, published by Smith, Elder & Co. 65 Cornhill, London, half leather bound £100-150 | - |
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| 255 | Nathanial Hawthorne, volumes one and two "Our Old Home", first edition 1864, published by Smith, Elder & Co. London £100-150 | - |
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| 256 | Nathanial Hawthorne, "The Snow - Image and Other Tales", first edition 1851, published by Henry G Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, London £100-150 | - |
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| 257 | Nathanial Hawthorne, volume one "Blithedale Romance", first edition 1852, published by Chapman & Hill, 193 Piccadilly, London, £30-50 | - |
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| 258 | Mark Twain, "Tom Sawyer Detective", first edition 1897, published by Chatto & Windus, London £30-50 | - |
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| 259 | Frank Norris, "A Deal in Wheat", first edition 1903, published by Doubleday-Page & Co. New York, £10-20 | - |
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| 260 | William Carlos Williams, "Journey to Love", first edition 1955, published by Random House New York, together with "Paterson Book Five", first edition 1958, published by New Direction and "Yes, Mrs Williams" first edition 1959, published by McDowell-Obolensky of New York (3) £30-50 | - |
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| 261 | Elizabeth Bishop, "The Complete Poems 1927-1979", proof copy by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, first edition, together with one volume "The Collected Prose", first edition 1984 (2) £20-30 | - |
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| 262 | Elizabeth Bishop, "Questions of Travel", first edition 1965, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux New York £100-150 | - |
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| 263 | Edith Wharton, "French Ways and Their Meaning", first edition 1919, published by D.Appleton & Co. New York £20-30 | - |
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| 264 | Edith Wharton, "Summer A Novel", first edition 1917, published by D.Appleton & Co New York | - |
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| 265 | Edith Wharton, "The Customs of the Country", first edition 1913 published by Charles Scribner's & Sons New York £30-50 | - |
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| 266 | Edith Wharton, four volumes Old New York "The Forties - False Dawn" first edition 1924, published by D.Appleton & Co. New York, "The Fifties The old Maid", third impression 1924, "The Sixties The Spark", first edition 1924 and "The Seventies New Year's Day", first edition 1924 £40-60 | - |
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| 267 | Edith Wharton, "The Mothers Recompense" 1925, published by D.Appleton & Co. New York, complete dust cover (tear to dust cover) £50-75 | - |
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| 268 | Edith Wharton, "The Buccaneers A Novel", first edition 1937, published by D.Appleton (Century) Co. New York and London complete with dust cover, formerly the property of Sir Arthur Gregory - rubber stamp to first page, £50-75 | - |
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| 269 | Edith Wharton, "The Reef A Novel", first edition 1912 published by D.Appleton & Co. New York £30-50 | - |
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| 270 | Edith Wharton, "The House of Mirth", first edition 1905, published by Charles Scribner's & Sons £30-50 | - |
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| 271 | Edith Wharton, "The Touchstone", first edition 1900, published by Charles Scribner's & Sons (some slight damage to edges) £30-50 | - |
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| 272 | Edith Wharton, "Ethan Frome" published by Charles Scribner's & Sons New York, "A Motor Fight Through France" published by MacMillan & Co 1908 and "Backward Glance", published by D.Appleton Century Co. New York 1934 (3) £30-50 | - |
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| 273 | Henry James, "A Passionate Pilgrim and other Tales", first edition 1875, published by James R Osgood & Co. Boston £150-200 | - |
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| 274 | Henry James, "The Europeans A Sketch", second edition 1879, published by MacMillan & Co London £100-150 | - |
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| 275 | Henry James, "Daisy Miller and Other Stories", second edition 1880, published by MacMillan & Co. London £50-75 | - |
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