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Fine and Rare Books and Works on Paper

Ends: 8th Apr, 2026 19:30
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A select offering of fine and rare books, letters and works on paper. Highlights include a first edition, second impression of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, with its original dust wrapper preserved pasted to the blanks, still in all its vivid glory. Also offered is a presentation copy of The Last Battle (1956) by C. S. Lewis, inscribed to F. H. P. Knight. Further highlights include Edmund Campion (1935) by Evelyn Waugh - a signed limited edition inscribed to Diana Cooper, signed limited edition poems by T S Eliot, 1909 to 1925 and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus 1922 first edition.