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1. GEORGE IV, as Prince of Wales, and PRINCE FREDERICK | Letters to the Earl of Holdernesse, and related papers

2. REYNOLDS | Autograph document signed, 18 August 1786

3. WILBERFORCE | An Abstract of Evidence... for the Abolition of Slave Trade, 1791

4. MICHELSON | On the relative motion of the earth..., Philosophical Magazine, December 1887

5. AUTOGRAPH ALBUM | compiled by Richard Temple, c.1890s
![BEERBOHM | "A Constitutional Monarch" [Edward VII], ink and watercolour, [c.1910]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7d36e98/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1543+0+0/resize/150x116!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F7c%2F38%2F47d61098466a9e5ad41f77aa07e6%2Fl20407-9lgqp-1.jpg)
6. BEERBOHM | "A Constitutional Monarch" [Edward VII], ink and watercolour, [c.1910]
![BEERBOHM | "A Suggestion" [George V and Queen Mary], pencil and watercolour, 1924](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/026cee9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1797+0+0/resize/150x135!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fe4%2F27%2F8d3c24fa4c40a5c4e5dbb073e550%2Fl20407-bd524-1.jpg)
7. BEERBOHM | "A Suggestion" [George V and Queen Mary], pencil and watercolour, 1924

8. T.E. LAWRENCE | autograph letter signed, to C.S. Evans, 6 August 1922

9. LINDBERGH | "We", 1927, signed

10. CHURCHILL | A cigarette case once owned by him, 1907

11. CHURCHILL | Autograph letter signed, to Neville Duke, 7 September 1952

12. BIBLE, Irish | 1690

13. BURNS | Poems, 1787, first Edinburgh edition

14. POPE, and others | Collection of four works, 1785-1824, 6 volumes

15. PURCHAS | Purchas his Pilgrims, 1625, 5 volumes

16. BYRON | Hebrew Melodies, 1815, wrappers

17. DICKENS | Oliver Twist, 1840, signed by Cruickshank

18. DOYLE, Sir A.C. | A collection of nine works, 1891-1927

19. DOYLE, Sir A.C. | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892, with The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1894

20. DOYLE, Sir A.C. | The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902

21. FRASER | Coila's Whispers, 1872, fine Riviere binding

22. HEBER | Bibliotheca Heberiana, Catalogue of The Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq., 1834

23. MELVILLE | A collection of five first editions, 1846-1850

24. STEVENSON | Treasure Island, 1883

25. STEVENSON AND OSBOURNE | The Ebb Tide, 1894

26. STEVENSON | Eight first editions, 1883-1900
![WILDE | Autograph letter signed, to Walter Hamilton, [1889]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2c822fd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1363+0+0/resize/150x102!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F2e%2F0e%2F494800b541b8b01d863ff0caa17e%2Fl20407-b7xm2-1.jpg)
27. WILDE | Autograph letter signed, to Walter Hamilton, [1889]

28. BURROUGHS | Tarzan of the Apes, 1914, with a typed letter signed

29. CALDWELL | Tobacco Road, 1932, dust-jacket

30. CHRISTIE | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926

31. FLEMING | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, special edition signed

32. GREENE | Babbling April, 1925, dust-jacket

33. GREENE | The Name of Action, 1930, dust-jacket

34. GREENE | Stamboul Train, 1932, dust-jacket

35. GREENE | It's a Battlefield, 1934, dust-jacket

36. GREENE | Brighton Rock, 1938, dust-jacket

37. GREENE | The Ministry of Fear, 1943, dust-jacket

38. GREENE | The Confidential Agent, 1939, dust-jacket

39. GREENE | Stamboul Train, 1951, presentation copy

40. GREENE--REED | The Third Man, 1969, inscribed by Orson Welles

41. HAMMETT | The Thin Man,1934

42. HEMINGWAY | For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940, inscribed presentation copy

43. MAUGHAM | On a Chinese Screen, 1922, inscribed

44. MAUGHAM | A Collection of 11 works, 1921-1944, most signed or inscribed

45. MICHENER | Tales of the South Pacific, 1947

46. O'FLAHERTY | The Assassin, 1928, signed

47. SASSOON | Vigils, 1934, John Gielgud's copy

48. STEINBECK | The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961, limited edition