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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 05, 2024 - December 05, 2024
Page Size: 261 items in 11 pages

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

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
2 Adams (Douglas)

[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series]

1979 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 693.00
3 Adams (Douglas)

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 302.40
4 Adams (Douglas)

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

1980 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 252.00
5 Adams (Douglas)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

1987 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 151.20
6 Adams (Douglas)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

1987 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 163.80
7 Adams (Douglas)

The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1994 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 693.00
8 Aiken (Joan, writer, 1924-2004)

6 Typed Letters signed to her publisher Tom Maschler

The Hermitage, Petworth 1991-1997 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
9 Ambler (Eric)

Passage of Arms

1959 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 163.80
10 Amis (Kingsley)

That Uncertain Feeling

1955 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 75.60
11 Amis (Martin)

The Rachel Papers

1973 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 327.60
12 Asimov (Isaac)

I, Robot

1952 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,008.00
13 Ayrton (Michael)

Collection of Typed Letters signed from and to publishers Stephen Brook and Douglas Cleverdon

1974-1975 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
14 Bailey (David)

David Bailey's Box of Pin-Ups

1965 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
15 Ballard (J. G.)

The Crystal World

1966 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.40
16 Banks (Lynne Reid)

The L-Shaped Room

1960 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 554.40
17 Banks (Iain)

The Wasp Factory

1984 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 252.00
18 Banks (Iain M.)

Consider Phlebas

1987 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 453.60
19 Banks (Iain M.)

The Player of Games

1988 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.20
20 Banks (Iain M.)

The State of the Art

1989 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 604.80
21 Barker (Cicely Mary)

[The Flower Fairies books]

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 277.20
22 Barker (Cicely Mary)

Fairies of the Flowers & Trees

1950 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
23 Bates (H. E.).

Down the River

1937 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 176.40
24 Beckett (Samuel)

Malone Meurt

1951 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 176.40
25 Bedford (Sybille)

The Faces of Justice

1961 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 352.80
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