Gorringe's Auctioneers Spring Fine Sale 2022

Lot 49
° Christie, Agatha - Hickory
Dickory Dock, 1st edition,
8vo, cloth, dust wrapper,
(presentation inscription on front
free endpaper ‘For James / with
love from / Agatha / Oct.1955’).
This seems likely to be an
inscription either to the author’s
brother-in-law or nephew, both
named James Watts. Greenway
House copy, W. Collins for The
Crime Club, London 1955
Lot 50
£1,000 - 1,500
° Christie, Agatha - Death
In The Clouds, 1st edition,
8vo, cloth (front free endpaper
signed ‘Love from / Ange’). The
indistinct signature appears to
be ‘Punkie’ which was Agatha
Christie’s nickname for her elder
sister, Madge. Greenway House
copy, W. Collins for The Crime
Club, London, 1935
Lot 51
£600 - 900
° Raspe, Rudolph Erich -
The Travels and Surprising
Adventures of Baron
Munchausen, illustrated with
10 coloured plates by Alfred
Crowquill, London 1859, octavo,
cloth gilt
Lot 52
£40 - 60
A 19th century rosewood
and Tunbridgeware box, of
square form, the hinged lid with
‘tumbling cube’ design within a
Berlin work border, 15.5cm
Lot 53
£100 - 150
A 19th century rosewood
and Tunbridgeware dressing
table stand, fitted with a pair of
cut glass scent bottles, having
hinged lid enclosing a removable
tray, decorated with bands of
geometric and Berlinwork inlay,
on bun feet, 22cm wide (a.f.)
£200 - 300
Lot 54
° Christie, Agatha - Ten Little
Niggers, 1st edition, cloth with
facsimile d/j, repair to front inner
hinge, The Crime Club, London,
1939
Lot 55
£300 - 500
° Christie, Agatha - A Murder is
Announced, 1st edition, cloth,
in unclipped d/j, The Crime Club,
London, 1950
Lot 56
£200 - 300
° Christie, Agatha - They do it
with Mirrors, 1st edition, cloth,
with clipped d/j, The Crime Club,
London, 1952
Lot 57
£100 - 150
° Christie, Agatha - Two
works - After the Funeral, 1st
edition, cloth, in clipped d/j
The Crime Club, London, 1953
and Destination Unknown, 1st
edition, cloth, in unclipped d/j,
The Crime Club, London, 1954
(2)
Lot 58
£150 - 200
° Christie, Agatha - Two works
- Hickory Dickory Dock, 1st
edition, cloth, in unclipped
d/j, The Crime Club, London,
1956 and Dead Mans Folly, 1st
edition, cloth, in unclipped d/j,
presentation inscription to front
fly leaf, The Crime Club, London,
1956 (2)
Lot 59
£150 - 200
° Christie, Agatha - Three
works - The Pale Horse, 1st
edition, cloth, in clipped d/j, with
presentation inscription to front
fly leaf, The Crime Club, London,
1961; The Mirror Crack’d from
Side to Side, cloth, in unclipped
d/j, The Book Club, London,
1962 and At Bertram’s Hotel,
cloth, in unclipped d/j, The Book
Club, London, 1965
Lot 60
£150 - 200
° Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
- Autograph letter, 1 p, 8vo,
from Undershaw, Hindhead,
Haslemere, dated 24.XI.1902,
to an unknown recipient, - ‘’Dear
Sir, Very many thanks for your
kind thought of me and the
excellent razor strap you and
your son have been so good
as to send. I have no doubt but
that it’s use will materially add to
the comfort of existence. Yours
faithfully, Arthur Conan Doyle’’,
together with 2 printed copies
of his last will and testament
(undated) (3)
Lot 61
£300 - 500
° Christie, Agatha - The
Listerdale Mystery, 1st
edition, front fly leaf inscribed
‘’To C.T [Dr. Reginald Campbell
Thompson, Oxford professor of
Assyriology (1876-1941] from
Agatha Christie, 8vo, cloth, spine
sunned, back board mildewed,
Collins, London, 1934
Lot 62
£400 - 600
° Christie, Agatha - The A.B.C
Murders, 1st edition, front fly
leaf inscribed [to Dr. Reginald
Campbell Thompson, Oxford
Professor of Assyriology (1878-
1941] - ‘’Once again a tale is
submitted to a critic who’s most
fitted to exclaim ‘’This seems
to me just as plain as A.B.C’’,
A.C.’’, 8vo, cloth, spine sunned
and bumped, The Crime Club,
London, 1936
£800 - 1,200
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