Forum Auctions: Online: The Pity of War, The First World War in words and images, 1054, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 221 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Alaaddin (Ibrahim)

[Traces of Canakkale: To the Eternal Heroes of the Suvla]

 Istanbul 1926 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 355.60
2 Aldington (Richard)

The Berkshire Kennet

 1923 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 889.00
3 Altounyan (E.H.R.)

Ornament of Honour

 Cambridge 1937 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 698.50
4 Anderson (Sherwood)

Mid-American Chants

 New York 1918 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 127.00
5 Apollinaire (Guillaume)

Le Poete Assassine

 Paris 1916 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 558.80
6 Apollinaire (Guillaume)

Calligrammes

 1918 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
7 Aragon (Louis)

Feu de Joie

 Paris 1920 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
8 Arnoux (Guy, illustrator.) and Roger Boutet de Monvel

Carnet d'un permissionaire [&] Le Bon Anglais

 Paris [1917-18] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 482.60
9 Barford (John L.)

Ladslove Lyrics

 [1918] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,032.00
10 Baring (Maurice)

Baring (Maurice) Poems 1892-1929

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
11 Pitt (Sylvain)

Bigot (Georges).- Terre de mon Pays

 Lausanne 1917 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
12 Blunden (Edmund)

Blunden (Edmund) Poems

 Horsham, Sussex 1914 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,079.50
13 Blunden (Edmund)

Graves (Robert).- The Waggoner and Other Poems

 1920 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,032.00
14 Blunden (Edmund)

To Nature

 Westminster 1923 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 698.50
15 Blunden (Edmund)

Undertones of War

 [1928] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 558.80
16 Blunden (Edmund)

Eastward. A Selection of Verses

 [Tokyo] 1950 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 330.20
17 Bourdillon (F.W.)

Christmas Roses for Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen

 [1914] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 825.50
18 Braithwaite (William Stanley)

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

 Cambridge 1914 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
19 Bridges (Robert)

The British Wounded [autograph manuscript]

 n.d. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
20 Brittain (Vera)

Poems of the War and After

 New York 1934 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
21 Broggi (Peter J.) and fellow soldiers

An album of drawings and manuscript poetry collected during

 [c.1909-1918] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
22 Brooke (Rupert)

1914 and Other Poems

 1915 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 254.00
23 Brooke (Rupert)

1914 and Other Poems

 New York 1915 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 431.80
24 Buchan (John)

Poems Scots and English, one of 50 large paper copies

 1917 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 381.00
25 Burgh (F. de) & Walter Stoneman, editors

Rosemary

 [1924] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 533.40
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