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  • Property from the Collection of Jayne Wrightsman
Lot 148

Ladies' Reading Library

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Current Bid
$600

Bid Increments

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Comprising 82 volumes:

Berlin, Isaiah: The First and the Last, 1999

Berlin, Isaiah: Against the Current, 1980

Berlin, Isaiah: Personal Impressions, 1980, signed by the author with an inscription dated Oct 30, 1980

Berlin, Isaiah: Russian Thinkers, 1979

Berlin, Isaiah: Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty, 2002

Berlin, Isaiah: Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, 1978

Berlin, Isaiah: The Magus of the North, 1993, signed by the author

Berlin, Isaiah: The Crooked Timber of Humanity, 1990

Berlin, Isaiah: Mr Churchill in 1940, 1949

Berlin, Isaiah: The Proper Study of Mankind, 1997, signed by the author with an inscription dated Feb 8, 1997

Berlin, Isaiah: The Sense of Reality, 1996

Berlin, Isaiah and Planowska-Sygulska, Beata: Unfinished Dialogue, 2006

Buchanan, W.: Memoirs of Painting, Vol. I-II, 1824, with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into Englad since the French Revolution

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George: The Last Days of Pompeii, 1957, with an introduction by Edgar Johnson and illustrations by Kurt Craemer

Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1983, with illustrations by John Tenniel

Cartwright, Julia: Beatrice D'este: Duchess of Milan, 1926

Cartwright, Julia: Isabella D'este: Marchioness of Mantua, Vol. I-II, 1932

Casanova de Seingalt, Jacques: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. I, 1925

Cellini, Benvenuto: The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Vol. I-II, 1906, edited and translated by John Addington Symonds with a biographical sketch of Cellini by the same hand, together with an introduction to this edition by Royal Cortissoz with reproductions of forty original portraits and views illustrating the life

Dennistoun, James: Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Vol. II-III, 1909, with notes by Edward Hutton

Desclozeaux, Adrien: Gabrielle D'estrées, 1907

Diesbach-Soultrait, Verene de: Six Siècles de Litérature Française, 2007, in French

Doughty, Charles M.: Travels in Arabia Deserta, 1953, with illustrations by Edy Legrand

Eliot, T. S.: Murder in the Cathedral, 1935

Eliot, T. S.: The Waste Land, 1971, a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts including the annotations of Ezra Pound, edited by Valerie Eliot

Eliot, George: The Best-Known Novels of George Eliot, 1940

Elliott, Grace Dalrymple: Journal of My Life During the French Revolution, 1859

Evelyn, John: The Diary of John Evelyn, 1959, edited by E. S. de Beer

Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary, 1928, translated with an introduction by J. Lewis May, illustrated by John Austen

French, Sidney James: Torch & Crucible: The Life and Death of Antoine Lavoisier, 1941

Fumaroli, Marc: The Poet and the King, 2002, translated by Jane Marie Todd, signed by the author with an inscription in French, dated 8.09.02

Goethe, J. W.: Italian Journey, 1962, translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer

Graves, Robert: The Greek Myths, Vol I, 1957

Hardy, Thomas: Thirteen Novels, 1928, including: The Mayor of Casterbridge; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Far from the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure; A Pair of Blue Eyes; The Trumpet-Major; The Well-Beloved; A Laodicean; Under the Greenwood Tree; Life's Little Ironies; The Return of the Nati

Hausset, Madame du: The Private Memoirs of Louis XV, 1895, limited edition of 500 copies

Herzen, Alexander: My Past & Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Vol. I-IV, 1968, translated by Constance Grant, with an introduction by Isaiah Berlin

Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables, c. 1920, illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

Huxley, Aldous: Brief Candles, 1948

Ignatieff, Michael: Isaiah Berlin: A Life, 1998

Jahanbegloo, Ramin: Conversations with Isaiah Berlin, 1992

James, Henry: Ten Short Stories of Henry James, 1948, selected with an introduction by Michael Swan

Karpeles, Eric: Paintings in Proust, 2008

Keats, John: The Poems of John Keats, 1905, edited with an introduction and notes by E. de Sélincourt with a frontispiece in photogravure

Malraux, André: Antimemoirs, 1968, translated by Terence Kilmartin

Malraux, André: The Metamorphosis of the Gods, 1960, translated by Stuart Gilbert

Malraux, André: Les Voix du Silence, 1956, in French, signed by the author with an inscription dated May 1962

Maugham, W. Somerset: The Works of W. Somerset Maugham, Ten Volumes, 1977, with an introduction by Michael G. Wood. Comprising the following titles: Christmas Holiday; Mrs. Craddock; The Hour Before the Dawn; Catalina; Ashenden: Or, The British Agent; Theatre; Then and Now; Up at the Villa; The Hero; and The Narrow Corner

Maugham, W. Somerset: The Complete Short Stories, Vol. I-III, 1971

Mérimée, Prosper: A Slight Misunderstanding, 1959, translated by Douglas Parmée

Mérimée, Prosper: Nouvelles, Vol. I-II, 1986, in French

Muhlstein, Anka: Monsieur Proust's Library, 2012, signed by the author with an inscription

Multiple Authors: Great German Short Novels and Stories, 1952, edited and with an introduction by Victor Lange

Multiple Authors: The Oxford Book of Essays, 1991, chosen and edited by John Gross

Multiple Authors: The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, 1994, edited by John Gross and signed with an inscription

Multiple Authors: The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, 1936, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Multiple Authors: The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, 1973, chosen and edited by Helen Gardner

Multiple Authors: Malraux: Life & Work, 1976, edited by Martine de Coucel

Multiple Authors: Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration, 1991, edited by Edna and Avishai Margalit

Multiple Authors: The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin, 2009, edited by Henry Hardy

Multiple Authors: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, 2001, edited by Ronald Dworkin, Mark Lilla, and Robert B. Silvers

Painter, George D.: Marcel Proust: A Biography, Vol. I-II, 1961

Paleologue, Maurice: An Ambassador's Memoirs 1914-1917, 1973, translated by Frederick A. Holt

Pater, Walter: Imaginary Portraits, 1887

Pater, Walter: The Renaissance, 1950

Pepys, Samuel: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. I-XI, XIII-XIV, and XVI-XIX, 1893, limited edition numbered 44 of 250, edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley

Pernoud, Georges and Flaissier, Sabine: The French Revolution, 1960, translated by Richard Graves

Poe, Edgar Allen: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, 1938, with an introduction by Hervey Allen

Prescott, Orville: Princes of the Renaissance, 1969

Proschwitz, Gunnar von: Catherine II et Gustave III: Une correspondance retrouvée, 1998, in French

Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. I-XII, 1964, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and illustrated by Philippe Jullian

Riqueti, Honoré Gabriel: The Love-Letters of Mirabeau, 1909

Roberts, Andrew: Napolean's Last Charge

Ruskin, John: The Stones of Venice, Vol. I-III, 1935, edited by Ernest Rhys

Sackville-West, V.: The Edwardians, 1960

Shakespeare, William: Henry V, 1958, edited by John Dover Wilson

Spalding, P. A.: A Reader's Guide to Proust, 1959

Stanhope, Philip Dormer: Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, 1969, with an introduction by R. K. Root

Stendhal: Scarlet and Black, 1966, translated and with an introduction by Margaret R.B. Shaw and wood engravings by Frank Martin

Sterne, Laurence: A Sentimental Journey, 1941

Strachey, Lytton: Elizabeth and Essex, 1948

Unterkircher, F.: King René's Book of Love, 1975, translated by Sophie Wilkins

Wright, Rev G. N.: Life and Times of Louis Philippe, c. 1850

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Condition

Individual condition report not available for this lot. Each with a bookplate inscribed "Ex Librus Jayne Wrightsman" on the inside cover or first flyleaf.

All items are in good condition, with any exceptions listed below.

The following volumes with significant damage to the cover and spine:

Cartwright, Julia: Beatrice D'este: Duchess of Milan
Casanova de Seingalt, Jacques: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. I
Cellini, Benvenuto: The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Vol. I-II
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Pepys, Samuel: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. I-XI, XIII-XIV, and XVI-XIX

Notwithstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.

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