BARGAINS IN BOOKS
LADY OXFORD'S SALE The Cpuntess of Oxford and Asquith told a library of modern literature at Hodgson's on March 10, There were upwards of a thousand volumes, and there were as many as fifty books in a number of the " lots." There was only a small attendance. The first lot, classics in half-leather, and Kipling's " From Sea to Sea " in lambskin, was sold for 325. " Beaconsfield " appeared in the next lot of fifty -books, which realised 12s. Twenty-fivo volumes of novels by Wells, Kipling and others went for 255. liupert Brooke's " 1914 " and other poems were, with twenty-seven othor volumes, sold for 16s. Virginia Woolf's " The Voj'age Out," with an inscription, soared to £4 7s 6d. An autograph presentation copy of Strachey's " Eminent Victorians " was speedily taken away at £9. The books brought in a total of about £IOO. The principal library of tho late Karl of Oxford and the Countess of •Oxford, which was at The Wharf, Sutton Courtenay, is now in London.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)
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