Forum Auctions: Online sale: Modern Literature, Children's and Illustrated Books, 2302, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 15, 2024 - February 15, 2024
Page Size: 270 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Douglas Adams

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.40
2 John (1821) Angus

The Homecoming

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 352.80
3 Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 403.20
4 Alexander Baron

The Lowlife

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 277.20
5 Ringo Starr

Postcards from the Boys

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,260.00
6 Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 478.80
7 David Ben-Gurion

and Moshe Pearlman. Ben Gurion Looks Back

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 214.20
8 E. F. Benson

Spook Stories

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 478.80
9 John Berger

uncorrected proof

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 176.40
10 John Betjeman

Summoned by Bells

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
11 John Betjeman

Summoned By Bells

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 88.20
12 Oswell Blakeston

Simon. The Cat With the Moustache

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 403.20
13 Karen Blixen

Out of Africa

New York GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 214.20
14 Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova

Childhood. A Cycle of Woodcuts

Vyskov, Czechoslovakia] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,386.00
15 X.M. Boulestin

The New Keepsake for the Year/ Le Nouveau Keepsake pour l'Annee 1921

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 882.00
16 Marjorie Bowen

The Fetch

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.00
17 Raymond Briggs

The Snowman

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
18 Charles Bukowski

Women

Santa Barbara, GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 604.80
19 Charles Bukowski

You Kissed Lilly

Santa Barbara, GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.40
20 Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,197.00
21 W. R. Burnett

Captain Lightfoot

New York GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.00
22 G.W. Goss

Original dust-jacket artwork for 'Tarzan the Terrible'

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,512.00
23 Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan and the City of Gold

Tarzana GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
24 Tim Burton

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 151.20
25 A.S. Byatt

[The Frederica Quartet]

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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