29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 60
 

60

The Fortune Press.
Grenville-Hearne (Gundry), Boy Sailors.
Fortune Press, no date [c.1947], taped dust jacket [Timothy d’Arch Smith 249];
idem, Who Will Sing Their Requiem. Fortune Press, no date [1947], price-clipped dust jacket [d’A.S. 252]; idem, Night Club Queen, Paris: Fortune Press, no date, pages loosening, cloth [this edition not in d’A.S.]; idem, Schools for Scandal, Fortune Press, 1961, cloth. [d’A.S. 253]
Brown (Richard Blake), A Broth of a Boy.
Fortune Press, no date [1933], cloth [d’Arch Smith 92 (373 [1] pages)];
Rumbold (Richard), Little Victims.
Fortune Press, 1933, cloth [d’A.S. 477/8];
Scarrott (Michael), Ambassador of Loss.
Fortune Press, 1955, frontis, plates, gather E misplaced after F, cloth (punctured) [d’A.S. 492];
Noon (James), Ultramarine, A Novel.
Fortune Press, no date [1939], worn dust jacket (priced 7s.6d.) [d’A.S. 407];
Underwood (Reginald), Hidden Lights.
Fortune Press, 1937, portrait frontis, cloth [d’A.S. 566];
Cook (Lennox), Dark to the Sun.
Fortune Press, 1952, cloth [d’A.S. 129];
Egan (Beresford), Epitaph.
Fortune Press, no date [1943], illustrated, cloth [d’A.S. 174 (82 pages)];
With twenty-nine others published by The Fortune Press.
[sold not collated] (40)

Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 29th Sep, 2023


Highlights include a Late Medieval Prayer Book; a Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons, by John Gould, (1875), with forty-seven superb hand-coloured lithographic plates; an outstanding early album of Austrian topographical woodcuts and watercolours; a fascinating album of late 19th century photographs of Brisbane, Queensland and surrounding areas; the first part of the York library of Hugh Murray, author and historian; a collection of vintage playing cards and a large folding map of India.

 

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