Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 447
447. [Haggard (Bazzett Michael)] ob J e C t S o f pi t y, p r e S e n tat i o n
C o p y f r o m t h e a u t h o r, author’s ink corrections to text, small dampstain
to head, upper hinge weak, original stiff wrappers, original
glacine jacket with gilt lettering, g.e., chips to spine and corners,
some light soiling, [Ferguson 10155a; Prideaux p.314], sm.4to,
Amsterdam [but Sydney], [1892]. £600 - £800
*** Bazzett Michael Haggard, brother of Henry Rider Haggard,
British Land Commissioner in Apia, Samoa. Objects of Pity was
conceived as a response to An Object of Pity, written by Robert
Louis Stevenson and others, in which Haggard featured as the
central character. Stevenson himself features pseudonymously
as Tusitala ‘The Writer of Tales’ in the present work. ‘Stevenson
insisted on having it printed and took it to Sydney and had it printed.
I was riled at being called “an object of Pity” rather; so set to and
gave them a Roland for their Oliver.’ - Bazzett M. Haggard. The
book appears to have been taken to the printers rather prematurely
and all copies appear with the author’s autograph corrections.
‘Privately printed and very rare’ - Ferguson.
448. Hardy, (Thomas) [no v e l S] 15 vol., 14 novels (of 15) and
‘Wessex Tales’, engraved or illustrated frontispiece, some with
further plates, original boards, decorative gilt device to front
cover, gilt titles, slightly dusty otherwise a very clean set, Harper
& Brothers, New York, 1896-1905. £400 - £600
449. Violins.- Heron-Allen (Edward) violin ma K i n g a S it w a S
a n d iS, frontispiece, folding plates, illustrations, numerous viloinrelated
notes to endpapers, ownership inscription to endpaper,
original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and faded, n.d. § Morris
(Rev. W. Meredith) British Viloin-Makers, plates, illustrations,
occasional spotting, original cloth, rubbed, 1904 § Hart (G.) The
Violin, its Famous Makers and Their Imitators, advertisements,
plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, joints split,
rubbed, 1909; and 10 others, violins, 8vo (13) £100 - £150
450. [Brooke (Rupert)] Synge (John M.) th e pl ay b o y o f t h e
we S t e r n wo r l d a Co m e d y in th r e e aC t S, front free end paper,
inscribed: “re g i n a l d be r K e l e y f r o m ru p e rt br o o K e de C e m b e r
1913, “ foxed, contemporary vellum-backed boards, edges marked
and stained, Dublin, Maunsel and Company, 1912 § Harrer
(Heinrich) Meine Tibet-Bilder, S i g n e d a n d i n S C r i b e d b y t h e a u t h o r
on front free end paper, original cloth, Seebruck Am Chiemsee,
1953; Seven Years in Tibet, S i g n e d a n d i n S C r i b e d b y t h e a u t h o r
on front free endpaper, front hinge pulling at title, original cloth,
marked, spine sunned, 1953, 8vo (3) £300 - £500
*** By descent from Reginald Cheyne Berkley MC (1890-1935);
trained as a barrister; served in the Great War before becoming MP
for Nottingham Central and then a successful playwright.
451. Rosenbach ( A.S.W.) bo o K S a n d bi d d e r S, 1928 § Wolf
(Edwin, 2nd) and John F. Fleming. Rosenbach, a Biography, 1960
1928 § Wolf (Edwin, 2nd) and John F. Fleming. Rosenbach, a
Biography, 1960 § Partington (Wilfred) Forging Ahead, New York,
1939 § Wise (Thomas J.) Letters to John Henry Wrenn, edited by
Fannie E. Ratchford, New York, 1944 § Collins (John) The Two
Forgers, 1992 § Winship (George Parker) Daniel Berkely Updike
and the Merrymount Press, Rochester, 1947 § Lehmann-Haupt
(Hellmut) Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz, Rochester,
1950, plates or illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the
first in dust jackets, the second and sixth torn, 8vo (7) £150 - £200
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