Sothebys: Illustrated and Private Press Books Conjuring and Circus Children's Books and Juvenilia Related Drawing, GRAIL,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 17, 1987 - June 17, 1987

Page Size: 867 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
701	E. H. Shepard	A pencil study of Christopher Robin seated on a settee		GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,300.00
702	E. H. Shepard	A large ink drawing with three illustrations of a fisherman and his dreams around the poem "Nothing Doing"		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	528.00
703	Paul Simmons	A series of twelve paintings depicting scenes from "The Hardy Boys" adventure stories		GBP 350.00 - 500.00	275.00
704	Bernard Sleigh	Watercolour drawing of a young fawn running with a naked youth and two girls		GBP 500.00 - 750.00	3,300.00
705	Bernard Sleigh	Nine wood-engravings including a naked girl by a rocky shore		USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
706	Dorothy Carleton Smyth	A series of eight ink and watercolour drawings illustrating the works of Samuel Clemens		USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
707	Edmund J. Sullivan and others	A collection of drawings for illustrations including two ink designs by Sullivan for "The Vicar of Wakefield"		GBP 350.00 - 500.00	440.00
708	Arthur Szyk	A fine watercolour drawing of an oriental street scene	1948	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,200.00
709	Arthur Szyk	A fine watercolour drawing of a man and woman in oriental dress	1948	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,200.00
710	Sir John Tenniel	Fourteen early pencil drawings of historical costumes; a watercolour copy of an illustration of a helmet; and a pencil portrait of Leopold Martin		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	220.00
711	Hugh Thomson	Ink drawing of an elderly woman seated at a desk	1903	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	660.00
712	Hugh Thomson	Ink drawing of a furious elderly woman approaching a young lady seated with her companions	1903	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	660.00
713	Hugh Thomson	Ink drawing of a man holding a letter away from a young lady	1903	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	550.00
714	Hugh Thomson	Ink drawing of a man talking to a young lady	1903	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
715	Hugh Thomson	Ink drawing of an elderly woman gesticulating at a man holding up a candle	1903	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
716	Hugh Thomson	Ink drawing of two laughing couples seated at a table	1903	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
717	Hugh Thomson	Ink and watercolour drawing of a young couple dancing in a crowded ballroom	'02	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,090.00
718	James Thorpe	A collection of drawings including a large pencil and wash drawing of a suffragette addressing a crowd; 5 ink drawings for cartoons		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	770.00
719		To Dreamland		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
720	William Timlin	Oval watercolour drawing on silk of a girl seated on a couch teasing a parrot with a feather		GBP 500.00 - 750.00	528.00
721	Louis Wain	A large ink and watercolour drawing of two cats seated fishing on a wooden fence over a river		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	935.00
722	Louis Wain	A watercolour drawing of cat and dog lying side by side on the grass		GBP 350.00 - 500.00	1,100.00
723	P. Waller	An album containing a series of fifty two fine pencil drawings	[c.1850]	USD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
724	Norman Wilkinson	An extensive collection of drawings including over 70 for costume designs		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	935.00
725	L. Ashwell Wood	Eighteen ink and watercolour drawings and six in ink and wash to illustrate two volumes in the "Inside Information" series: Racing Cars; World Car Speed Records		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	528.00
726	L. Ashwell Wood	Eighteen ink and watercolour drawings and six in ink and wash to illustrate two volumes in the "Inside Information" series: Modern Ships; Naval Ships		USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
727	L. Ashwell Wood	Twenty seven ink and watercolour drawings and eleven in ink and wash to illustrate four volumes in the "Inside Information" series: Tanks and Armoured Cars		GBP 350.00 - 500.00	550.00
728	L. Ashwell Wood	Twenty seven ink and watercolour drawings and eleven in ink and wash to illustrate four volumes in the "Inside Information" series: Trains Today		GBP 350.00 - 500.00	308.00
729	L. Ashwell Wood	Six large ink and watercolour drawings of a lifeboat		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
730	Jack Yeats	Watercolour drawing of a lady riding a white horse on stage		USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
731	Owe Zerge	A large ink and watercolour drawing of a troll peering from the mouth of a cave behind the trunk of a large tree	1916	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	660.00
732	H. Isobel Adams	Three ink drawings of Tom Thumb kneeling before the king and his courtiers; Little Red Riding Hood speaking to the wolf in her grandmother's bed; and a title page with ornamental border incorporating both characters		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	286.00
733	Jean C. Archer	Twelve ink drawings for Matthew Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman"		USD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
734	Edward Ardizzone	The complete set of sixteen drawings to illustrate john BuCHAn's "The thirty Nine Steps"		GBP 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	6,380.00
735	Edward Ardizzone	The complete set of thirteen ink drawings to illustrate john SyMONDS' "The Stuffed Dog"		GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,520.00
736	Maxwell Armfield	Ink and watercolour drawing of a young man and his companions greeting a princess below a pine tree		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	462.00
737	Maxwell Armfield	Four ink drawings		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
738	Maxwell Armfield	A fine tempera painting of a boulder-strewn beach with breakwaters	'44	GBP 500.00 - 750.00	3,740.00
739	Maxwell Armfield	A series of twenty one ink drawings for the Tales of Hans Andersen	'50 or 1951	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,080.00
740	Edward Bawden	A series of thirty ink drawings to illustrate Robert Paltock's "The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins"	1924-1926	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,420.00
741	Aubrey Beardsley	A fine ink and wash drawing of "The Achieving of the Sangreal"		GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	104,500.00
742	Aubrey Beardsley	Large ink drawing for the upper cover of "Le Morte Darthur"		GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	11,000.00
743	Aubrey Beardsley	Ink drawing for the decorated spine of "Le Morte Darthur"		GBP 500.00 - 750.00	1,650.00
744	Aubrey Beardsley	A fine ink drawing for an ornamental title page		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,840.00
745	F. D. Bedford	A series of seven large ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate "The Vicar of Wakefield"		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,100.00
746	F. D. Bedford	The complete set of twelve large ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate "The History of Henry Esmonde"		GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,200.00
747	Robert Anning Bell	Twenty nine ink drawings for Mrs. A.B. Jameson's "Shakespeare's Heroines"		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,760.00
748	Robert Anning Bell	Twenty eight ink drawings for Palgrave's "Golden Treasury"		GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	550.00
749	Robert Anning Bell	Ink and watercolour drawing of a man in a cloak approaching a woman asleep outside an Italian villa		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	352.00
750	Robert Anning Bell	Nine ink drawings for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" including an illustration of two girls seated on a bench; the pictorial headpiece and borders for the first page of text		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	330.00
751	Robert Anning Bell	A series of forty five ink drawings for the grimms' "household tales"		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,520.00
752	Charles Edward Brock	A series of nine large ink drawings to illustrate SIR walter scott's "Ivanhoe"	1898	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	880.00
753	Charles Edward Brock	Four fine ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate jane AuSTEn's "Sense and Sensibility"	1898	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,090.00
754	Charles Edward Brock	Four fine ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate JaNE austen's "Pride and Prejudice"	1898	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,280.00
755	Charles Edward Brock	Four fine ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate Jane Austen's "Persuasion"	1898	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,740.00
756	Charles Edward Brock	Six fine ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate Jane Austen's "Emma"	1898	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,960.00
757	Charles Edward Brock	A large series of forty seven ink drawings to illustrate DlCKENs' "THE holly Tree and the Seven Poor Travellers"	1900	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	8,800.00
758	Charles Edward Brock	Nineteen drawings to illustrate Dickens' "A Christmas Carol": 7 large designs in ink and watercolour depicting Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig dancing	1905	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	13,750.00
759	Charles Edward Brock	Eleven drawings to illustrate dlckens' "the cricket on the hearth": 8 large designs in ink and watercolour depicting Mr. and Mrs. Peerybingle	1905	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,200.00
760	Charles Edward Brock	Eighteen drawings to illustrate Dickens' "The Chimes": 7 large designs in ink and watercolour depicting Trotty Veck	1905	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	6,600.00
761	Charles Edward Brock	Eighteen drawings to illustrate Dickens' "The Haunted Man": 7 large designs in ink and watercolour depicting Mr. and Mrs. Tetterby	1906 or 1907	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,860.00
762	Charles Edward Brock	Nineteen drawings to illustrate Dickens' "The Battle of Life": 8 large designs in ink and watercolour depicting the sisters and Doctor by the fireside	1907	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,640.00
763	Charles Edward Brock	Twelve ink drawings to illustrate walter raymond's "TrYPHENA in love & Young Sam and Sabina	1912	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,760.00
764	Charles Edward Brock	Twenty ink and watercolour drawings for jane austen's "pride and Prejudice"	1907	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	12,650.00
765	Charles Edward Brock	Fourteen ink and WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS FOR JANE AuSTEn's "NORTHANGER Abbey"	1907	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	8,250.00
766	Charles Edward Brock	Seventeen ink and watercolour drawings for Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"	1908	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	24,200.00
767	Charles Edward Brock	Twelve ink and watercolour drawings for Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"	1908	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	13,200.00
768	Charles Edward Brock	The complete set of TWENTY FOUR INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS FOR JaNE Austen's "Emma"	1909	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	46,200.00
769	Charles Edward Brock	Eighteen ink and WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS FOR JANE AuSTEn's "Persuasion"	1909	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	33,000.00
770	Henry Matthew Brock	Eleven ink drawings to illustrate Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"		GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	2,200.00
771	Henry Matthew Brock	Seven fine ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate jane austen's "Pride and Prejudice"	1898	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	6,380.00
772	Henry Matthew Brock	Nine fine ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate jane AuSTEn's "Mansfield Park"	1898	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,400.00
773	Henry Matthew Brock	Five fine ink and watercolour drawings to illustrate Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey"	1898	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,310.00
774	Mabel Chadburn	A series of 50 drawings to illustrate "The Fairy Bird and Piggy Wig		USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
775	Thomas Derrick	A large series of 74 drawings to illustrate Hakluyt's Voyages		GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	880.00
776	E.J. and CM. Detmold	Four ink and watercolour drawings for "pictures FROM BiRDLAND"		USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
777	E. J. Detmold	A pair of fine botanical drawings of an apple and a plum	'18	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	5,280.00
778	Edmund Dulac	A series of ten watercolour drawings to illustrate charlotte BRONTE's "jane Eyre"		GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	9,900.00
779	Edmund Dulac	Watercolour drawing for Charlotte Bronte's "The Professor"		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	880.00
780	Edmund Dulac	Two watercolour drawings to illustrate Charlotte Bronte's "Shirley"	1904	GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	1,870.00
781	Edmund Dulac	Five watercolour drawings to illustrate Charlotte Bronte's "Villette"	1905	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,180.00
782	Edmund Dulac	Three watercolour drawings to illustrate Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"	1905	GBP 1,750.00 - 2,250.00	3,300.00
783	Edmund Dulac	Two watercolour drawings to illustrate ANN BrONTE's "THE tenant of WILDFELL Hall"		GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	1,320.00
784	Edmund Dulac	Watercolour drawing to illustrate Ann Bronte's "Agnes Grey"	'05	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	825.00
785	Lionel Edwards	Twenty four drawings to illustrate Primrose Cumming's "The Great Horses"		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	660.00
786	Lionel Edwards	Thirty three drawings to illustrate R.D. Blackmore's "Lorna Doone"	'43	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,080.00
787	Lionel Edwards	Twenty four drawings to illustrate Caaptain Marryat's "The Children of the New Forest"		GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,650.00
788	Lionel Edwards	Twenty five drawings to illustrate R.L. Stevenson's "The Black Arrow"		GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	880.00
789	H. Granville Fell	Twenty seven ink drawings for "The Book of Job": 10 large full-page illustrations		GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	1,100.00
790	H. Granville Fell	A collection of nine ink drawings illustrating fairy tale subjects		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
791	Charles Folkard	Twenty six drawings to illustrate "The Swiss Family Robinson": 9 watercolour designs for coloured plates depicting the family approaching the island		GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	12,980.00
792	Charles FoLKARD	Thirty eight drawings to illustrate Alice Hoffmann's "The Children's Shakespeare": 17 ink and watercolour drawings for coloured plates illustrating scenes from "As You Like It"	1910-1911	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	13,200.00
793	Charles Folkard	Seventy seven drawings to illustrate "PINOCCHIO": 8 ink and watercolour designs for coloured plates depicting Pinocchio sitting down for a meal with the cat and the wolf		GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	7,700.00
794	Charles Folkard	Nineteen drawings to illustrate "The Land of Nursery Rhyme" : 8 fine large watercolour and gouache designs illustrating I saw a ship a-sailing		GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	26,400.00
795	Charles Folkard	Fifty three drawings to illustrate the Grimms' Fairy Tales: 4 ink and watercolour drawings of Hansel and Gretel at the witch's cottage		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	9,350.00
796	Charles Folkard	Ten drawings to illustrate Helena Nyblom's "Jolly Calle and other Swedish Fairy Tales": 8 ink and watercolour drawings for the pictorial title-page and seven coloured plates depicting a young knight attacking a dragon	1911 or 1912	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	11,550.00
797	Charles Folkard	Twenty two drawings to illustrate George Macdonald's "The Princess and Curdie": 8 fine ink and watercolour drawings depicting Curdie standing by an old woman at a spinning wheel		GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	13,750.00
798	Charles Folkard	Seventeen drawings to illustrate George Macdonald's "The Princess and the Goblin": 8 fine ink and watercolour drawings depicting the young princess entering a room in which a white-haired woman is spinning		GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	16,500.00
799	Charles Folkard	Four fine ink and watercolour drawings for "the book of nonsense"		GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	9,350.00
800	Winifred Green	Thirty nine ink drawings to illustrate charles and Mary Lamb's "mrs. Leicester's School"		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,200.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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