COSTLY BOOKS.
LONDON, July 27. A clean copy of the Kilmarnock edition of Burns’s poems, dated 1786, was sold at Sotheby.s lor £7BO. A copy of a privately printed issue of Dickens’s three readings, “Bardeli and Pickwick.” “Mr .Chops the Dwarf.” and “Mr. Bob Sawyer’s Party,” with considerable deletions, corrections, and additions in the author’s handwriting, was sold for £IOO. A fine copy of Milton’s poems, 1040. wanting the first blank leaf, was sold for £l9O. , '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 9
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76COSTLY BOOKS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 9
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