Sworders: Books and Maps - online 4/19, A1139, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 28, 2024 - April 28, 2024
Page Size: 293 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
75 Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health,

SIGNED, Ron L HUBBARD: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,075.00
76 ARKELL, A. J

1- Early Khartoum An Account of the Excavation of an Early Occupation Site Carried Out by the Sudan Government Antiquities Service in 1944-5.

1949 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
78 NEVIL SHUTE (SIGNED)

On the Beach.

1957 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 775.00
79 RACKHAM, Arthur (ill)

Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

1935 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,175.00
83 including GRIBBLE, Vivien (ill)

Cloister Press; Stanley Morison: Sixe Idillia that is, Sixe Small, or Petty Poems.

1922 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
84 ETC JONES, David

A selection of Poems,

1971 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 150.00
85 John BETJEMAN

Eight SIGNED 1st. edns.

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
86 Hugh THOMSON (ill); J M Barrie

1- The Admirable Crichton.

no date c.1914. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 200.00
87 J K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone First Edition, First Impression.

1997 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,187.50
88 Milne, A A

1- The House at Pooh Corner. 2- Now We are Six.

1928 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,312.50
89 DU MAURIER, Daphne

Rebecca.

1938 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 137.50
90 WHITE, T H

The Sword in the Stone.

1938 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 212.50
91 COLLINS, Wilkie

After Dark.

1872 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
92 KIPLING, Rudyard

The Man Who Would Be King.

New York 1899 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
93 CHRISTIE, Agatha

(Four 1st. Edns): Death On The Nile.

NY 1938 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
94 CHRISTIE, Agatha

(Four 1st. Edns): The Mystery of the Blue Train.

no date (1928) GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 550.00
95 TAYLOR, Deems

Walt Disney's Fantasia.

New York GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
96 RACKHAM, Arthur (ill)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

nd (1917) GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 650.00
97 JAMES, Henry

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw; and Covering End.

NY 1898 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
98 JAMES, M R

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories,

1925 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
99 JAMES, M R

A THIN GHOST And others,

1919 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 400.00
100 JAMES, M R

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

1911 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 225.00
101 JAMES, M R

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

1904 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 900.00
102 STOKER, Bram

The Jewel of the Seven Stars.

1904 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
103 TOLKIEN.

J R R:

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,625.00
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