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Lot 843: A Traditional Armchair with Floral and Striped Damask Upholstery
An assortment of books comprising various genres and editions from the mid-to-late 20th century. The collection includes a two-volume set of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales published by the Folio Society, bound in brown buckram with gilt-decorated spines. Other hardcover titles include Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday and Secret Water in publisher’s green cloth, Alan Moorehead’s Cooper’s Creek, and Dylan Thomas’s Quite Early One Morning and A Prospect of the Sea published by J.M. Dent and Sons. Notable paperbacks include Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift published by Penguin, James Joyce’s Dubliners, and Raymond Chandler’s The High Window. A decorative cloth edition of A Short History of English Literature and Anne Whitehead’s Bluestocking in Patagonia with its original dust jacket are also present. The lot is contained within a green cardboard transport box bearing a handwritten auction tag marked 2393.
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