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
151 Williams (Alfred)

War Sonnets and Songs

 1916 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 889.00
152 Williams (Charles)

Divorce

 1920 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 825.50
153 Noyes (Alfred)

Wilson (Edmund).- A Book of Princeton Verse 1916

 1917-08-22 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 190.50
154 Yeats (William Butler)

The Wild Swans at Coole, other Verses and a Play

 Dundrum 1917 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
155 Yeats (William Butler)

The Wild Swans at Coole

 1919 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,159.00
156 Yeats (William Butler)

Yeats (William Butler) Later Poems

 Macmillan 1922 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,778.00
157 Yeats (William Butler)

Plays in Prose and Verse

 1922 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 952.50
158 Yeats (William Butler)

Yeats (William Butler) Selected Poems

 Nov. 15 1929 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,572.00
159 Tipton (Capt. R. J.)

Airmen.- Captain R. J. Tipton: An Appreciation

 Liverpool 1918 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
160 Knox (Ronald Arbuthnott)

Brooke (Rupert).- Patrick Shaw-Stewart

 1920 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 825.50
161 Buchan (John)

These for Remembrance

 1919 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 825.50
162 Brown (Walter)

Canada.- To the Memory of Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander Turner, D.S.O., M.C.

 New York [c.1921] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
163 Christie (P.N.J.)

Letters written on Active Service 1917

 [c.1918] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
164 Astley (Constance)

Eton College.- Richard Vincent Sutton

 1921 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 241.30
165 Verner (Rudolf)

Gallipoli.- The Battle Cruisers at the Action of the Falkland Islands

 1920 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
166 Desborough (Lady)

Grenfell brothers.- Pages from a Family Journal 1888-1915

 1916 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 508.00
167 Fox (Victor W.D.)

Irish.- Letters from France, Feb.-May, 1915

 [c.1916] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 381.00
168 Kay-Shuttleworth (Edward James)

Kay-Shuttleworth (Edward James) [Memoir]

 1918 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 279.40
169 Addy (G. H.)

King's Royal Rifle Corps.- Addy (G. H.) A Memoir...of his son Kenneth James Balguy Addy

 1916 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
170 Malins (Joseph)

Edward: Selections from the letters of Edward Francis Malins

 Birmingham [1919] GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 254.00
171 Bartram (Capt. Harry Brocklesby)

Marlborough College.- Diary of the Retirement from Mons August 1914

 1915 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
172 Webster (John Alexander Croom)

Mesopotamia.- Mesopotamia: 1916-1917, Letters from....

 1918 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 381.00
173 Coles (2nd Lieut. A.E.)

Messines Ridge.- Leaving Rouen for the Somme

 [c.1918] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 165.10
174 Haworth (Philip Theodore)

Old Wykehamists.- Haworth (Philip Theodore) Letters 1917

 Manchester 1919 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 609.60
175 Loxdale (Private Edward)

Other ranks.- In Memoriam. A Souvenir of a Soldier

 1916 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
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    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.
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    Book Week
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
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    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.
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    Book Week
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    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.
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    Rare Books Signature Auction
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