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    Lot 52

    BEERBOHM, Max. The Works. London: The Whitefriars Press for William Heinemann, 1922. 10 volumes, 8° (207 x 150mm.). Original cloth (each volume in a different colour), dust-jackets (some soiling, some spines slightly faded). Provenance: Percy Withers (bookplate, from a design by William Nicholson); Granville Barker (bookplate loosely inserted in vol.I, from a design by Max). First collected edition. Number 138 of 750 copies with vol.I signed by the author; A Luncheon. [Oxford]: for S.[imon] N.[owell]-S.[mith] by J.[ohn] J.[ohnson], September 1946. 8pp. pamphlet. Stitched. Number 23 of 25 copies. Oliver 35; More. London and New York: for John Lane, 1899. Small 8° (166 x 128mm.). (Slight dampstaining to upper blank margins). Oliver 4b. - With L.Oliver and A.Gallatin's Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm., 8°, London, 1952. (13)

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    GBP 715

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    GBP 400 - GBP 600

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    BEERBOHM, Max. The Works. London: The Whitefriars Press for William Heinemann, 1922. 10 volumes, 8° (207 x 150mm.). Original cloth (each volume in a different colour), dust-jackets (some soiling, some spines slightly faded). Provenance: Percy Withers (bookplate, from a design by William Nicholson); Granville Barker (bookplate loosely inserted in vol.I, from a design by Max). First collected edition. Number 138 of 750 copies with vol.I signed by the author; A Luncheon. [Oxford]: for S.[imon] N.[owell]-S.[mith] by J.[ohn] J.[ohnson], September 1946. 8pp. pamphlet. Stitched. Number 23 of 25 copies. Oliver 35; More. London and New York: for John Lane, 1899. Small 8° (166 x 128mm.). (Slight dampstaining to upper blank margins). Oliver 4b. - With L.Oliver and A.Gallatin's Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm., 8°, London, 1952. (13)

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