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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
6 BEERBOHM | "A Constitutional Monarch" [Edward VII], ink and watercolour, [c.1910]
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
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