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      • Lewis (Cecil Day) Poems 1943-47, first edition, dedication copy to Laurie Lee, 1948.
        Sep. 19, 2024

        Lewis (Cecil Day) Poems 1943-47, first edition, dedication copy to Laurie Lee, 1948.

        Est: £300 - £400

        Lewis (Cecil Day) Poems 1943-47, first edition, dedication copy to Laurie Lee, "Laurie with much love from Cecil Oct /48 | 'The wind is rising we must try to live'" on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly spotted, original cloth, dust-jacket, portion of loss to lower panel, other smaller portions of loss to edges, some nicks and tears, lightly rubbed along joints, slightly faded and discoloured, 8vo, 1948. *** The quotation is from Paul Valéry's Le Cimitière Marin, Day Lewis's translation of which is included in the contents.

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      • [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". A Question of Proof, first edition, 1935 & others, crime fiction (c.150)
        Sep. 19, 2024

        [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". A Question of Proof, first edition, 1935 & others, crime fiction (c.150)

        Est: £150 - £200

        [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". A Question of Proof, ownership name on browned front free endpaper, cloth a little discoloured, 1935 § Crispin (Edmund) The Long Divorce, small ownership name on front free endpaper, dust-jacket, spine a little probed, the odd chip and nick to extremities, 1951 § Marsh (Ngaio) Singing in the Shrouds, dust-jacket, small portion of loss to spine head, the odd chip and nick to extremities, 1959, first editions, original boards or cloth; and c.145 others, 20th century crime fiction, 8vo (c.150)

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      • [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". The Deadly Joker, first edition, initialled presentation inscription from the author to his nanny, additionally initialled from Daniel Day Lewis, 1963.
        Jul. 18, 2024

        [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". The Deadly Joker, first edition, initialled presentation inscription from the author to his nanny, additionally initialled from Daniel Day Lewis, 1963.

        Est: £500 - £700

        [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". The Deadly Joker, first edition, initialled presentation inscription from the author "for Nan on her 60th birthday | with love from CDL" on front free endpaper, additionally initialed by Daniel Day Lewis below previous inscription, endpapers a little toned, original boards, dust-jacket, nicks and creasing to edges, the odd closed tear, 8vo, 1963.  *** The recipient was Minnie Bowler, nanny to Cecil Day Lewis’s children. Rare to be signed from the author with warmth, and with association inscriptions from the actor Daniel Day Lewis.

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      • [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". Autograph Manuscript of 'End of Chapter', 3 vol., with revisions and additions, [c.1957].
        May. 30, 2024

        [Lewis (Cecil Day)], "Nicholas Blake". Autograph Manuscript of 'End of Chapter', 3 vol., with revisions and additions, [c.1957].

        Est: £3,000 - £4,000

        [Lewis (Cecil Day, author, 1904-1972)], "Nicholas Blake". Autograph Manuscript of 'End of Chapter', 3 vol., c.235pp., mostly on recto, frequent autograph amendments and additions, final blank ff. torn out, 1f. loosely inserted unrelated to the work with the author's jottings (margin frayed and browned), original cloth, tall 8vo, 1957. *** Though Day Lewis is known primarily as a member of the lionised group known as the ‘Thirties Poets’, the author was also a bestselling crime novelist, writing under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. “I have a feeling,” he once remarked, “that people who read detective novels don’t like the detective novelist to be anything like a serious poet.” Day Lewis first turned his hand to detective fiction in 1935 to earn funds to repair the roof of his Cheltenham cottage. After the success of A Question of Proof, he obtained a 3-year contract with Cape guaranteeing £300 per year to write novels. End of Chapter is the twelfth in that series which features the private detective Nigel Strangeways. The sleuth protagonist has been variously compared with W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender, and there are similar resemblances between the main victim, the highly strung novelist Millicent Miles, and Day Lewis’s mistress, Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was best friend of his second wife Jill Balcon. The autograph manuscript often has numerous instances of amendments to a page, either specific word or phrase changes, or insertions written on the opposite leaf. The author also plays with potential alternative titles of ‘The Buried Day’ or ‘End of a Chapter’ which are crossed through. Included also is a stray scrap of jottings on the same paper, on which Day Lewis has written notes for a lecture on theatre, giving thoughts on Juno and the Paycock, As You Like it, The Browning Version, and others. Written on the same leaf verso is a draft speech given on behalf of Mr Emlyn Williams at Oxford in the late ‘50s. All together a unique and important piece of genetic literary history. Provenance: Gifted from the author to his cleaner, then by descent as stated in letter (included).

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      • Whittington Press.- Lewis (Cecil Day) Posthumous Poems, 1979 & 5 others, all from the press (6)
        May. 09, 2024

        Whittington Press.- Lewis (Cecil Day) Posthumous Poems, 1979 & 5 others, all from the press (6)

        Est: £300 - £400

        Whittington Press.- Lewis (Cecil Day) Posthumous Poems, original buckram-backed boards, 1979 § Walker (Richard) Hellmuth Weissenborn: Painter & Graphic Artist, one of 200 copies, illustrations, original cloth, 1976 § Reeves (James) Arcadian Ballads, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, original patterned cloth, 1977, Whittington Press, slip-cases; and 3 others, all printed at the press, folio (6)

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      • Lewis (Cecil Day) From Feathers to Iron, Hogarth Living Poets no.22, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, pen annotation from Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1932; and …
        Aug. 24, 2023

        Lewis (Cecil Day) From Feathers to Iron, Hogarth Living Poets no.22, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, pen annotation from Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1932; and …

        Est: £100 - £150

        Lewis (Cecil Day) From Feathers to Iron, Hogarth Living Poets no.22, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpapers, purple ink pen annotation from Virginia Woolf on list of titles page, original boards, light surface soiling, spine browned, joints splitting, [Woolmer 251], Hogarth Press, 1932; and another by the same, 8vo (2) ⁂ A small pen notation in Woolf's signature purple ink corrects the price to '3/6' of the most recent work of the Hogarth Living Poets series, being this title.

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      • Lewis (Cecil Day) The Buried Day, 1960 & others, biographies and literary criticism (c.55)
        Jun. 24, 2021

        Lewis (Cecil Day) The Buried Day, 1960 & others, biographies and literary criticism (c.55)

        Est: £80 - £120

        Lewis (Cecil Day) The Buried Day, 1960 § Cecil (David) Two Quiet Lives, pictorial title by Barbara Jones, 1948 § Gaunt (William) Arrows of Desire: A Study of William Blake and his Romantic World, 1956 § Gérin (W.) Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius, Oxford, 1967 § Bryant (Arthur) Samuel Pepys, Cambridge, 1938, first editions, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the last with dust-jackets, the first two price-clipped, a little rubbed; and c.50 others, biographies and literary criticism, 8vo & 4to (c.55)

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      • Lewis (Cecil Day) Good group of autograph material from when he was a Director at Chatto & Windus, comprising Readers' Reports, draft letters, blurbs etc, 1950.
        Jun. 09, 2020

        Lewis (Cecil Day) Good group of autograph material from when he was a Director at Chatto & Windus, comprising Readers' Reports, draft letters, blurbs etc, 1950.

        Est: £600 - £800

        Lewis (Cecil Day) Good group of autograph material from when he was a Director at Chatto & Windus, comprising: Readers' Reports, draft letters, blurbs etc, including various rejections, suggestions regarding revisions etc., the blurbs for new publications or re-issues including Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and other works by William Sanson, V.S. Pritchett, Richard Hughes etc., c.25 items on c.50pp. in total, 1950s. ⁂ Rare to find such a batch of original manuscript material by C. Day Lewis. Such manuscripts would have been passed to a typist and then discarded. A young Spaniard working for the publishers from 1948-54 obtained permission to rescue some pieces for his own collection, where they remained until recently.

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      • Cecil Round (1865-1933) - A mackerel day, Petit
        Apr. 01, 2014

        Cecil Round (1865-1933) - A mackerel day, Petit

        Est: £80 - £120

        Cecil Round (1865-1933) - A mackerel day, Petit Tor & Oddicombe Bay, Torquay: oil on canvas, 48 x 76, signed lower right and dated 1881/2.

        Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
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