Catalogue of Nineteenth century and Modern First Editions, Presentation Copies, Autograph Letters and Literary Manuscripts. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 16-17 December, 1974 ]

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th and 17th December, 1974. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 82 pp, 1 plate. 430 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Meredith's Modern love, 1891, inscribed for Lady Jean Palmer, Yeats's The shadowy water, 1900, inscribed for John Masefield, Joyce's The day of the rabblement, (1901), Hugh Kennedy's copy, and Eliot's poems, New York, 1920, inscribed for Ezra Pound; first editions and presentation copies of Becket, Blunden, Roy Campbell, Churchill, Robert Frost, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf; collections of H.E. Bates, A.E. Coppard, Rhys Davies, Somerset Maugham, J.C. and T.F. Powys; interesting series of letters of Rupert Brooke, Hardy, D.H. Lawrence and Siegfried Sassoon to Walter de la Mare; a portrait of Kafka; a remarkable series of letters of T.E. Lawrence to George Brough; an autograph poetical manuscript of Robert Nichols; a good series of letters of Eugene O'Neill; letters and manuscripts of Auden, H.E. Bates, Blunden, Beerbohm, Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, De La Mare, Conan Doyle, Gogarty, W.W. Jacobs, Kipling, Masefield, V. S. Pritchett, Rolfe, Shaw, Dylan Thomas and Yeats. The copy of A R A Hobson, (Head of Sotheby's Book Dept.) with a note in his hand recording the purchase of one lot by Rota on his behalf (1 bid up from his instruction) and lot nos on the wrappers. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in. Very Good.