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    Printed Books including Fine Library Sets

    London, South Kensington

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    24 March 2004

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    Lot 77

    HENTY, George Alfred (1832-1902). No Surrender!, London: Blackie & Son, 1900. 8° (185 x 120mm). 8 half tone plates after Stanley L. Wood. (Hinges slightly weak, occasional light spotting or thumbmarking.) Original red pictorial cloth gilt (spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: contemporary ink presentation inscription on half title. FIRST EDITION. Newbolt 92.1.

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    GBP 239

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    GBP 500 - GBP 800

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    HENTY, George Alfred (1832-1902). No Surrender!, London: Blackie & Son, 1900. 8° (185 x 120mm). 8 half tone plates after Stanley L. Wood. (Hinges slightly weak, occasional light spotting or thumbmarking.) Original red pictorial cloth gilt (spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: contemporary ink presentation inscription on half title. FIRST EDITION. Newbolt 92.1.

    With 6 other first editions by George Henty in varying condition including By Right of Conquest: or, with Cortez in Mexico (London, 1891), When London Burned (London, 1895) and With Buller in Natal (London, 1901); and a small quantity of reprints. (33)

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    Pre-Lot Text

    THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE DAVID H L NUGENT ESQ, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS

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    VARIOUS PROPERTIES


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