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

Auction Details

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
176	Paterson (Capt. C.J.)	War Diary of the 24th (South Wales Borderers)		October 14th 1914	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 127.00
177	Penrose (Claude)	Penrose (Claude) Poems, with a Biographical Preface		1919	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 279.40
178	Tobin (R.F.)	RAMC.- A Memoir of the late Lieut.-Colonel Charles Dalton		1915	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 203.20
179	Keppel (Lieutenant Albert Edward George Arnold)	Rifle Brigade.- Letters and Correspondence relating to his short life and his death in action		1919	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
180	Carver (Christian Creswell)	Royal Field Artillery.- Carver (Christian Creswell) [Letters]	Birmingham	1920	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 508.00
181	S. (C.G.R. and A.G.)	Betty Stevenson, Y.M.C.A.		1920	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 330.20
182	MacLehose (Norman Crawford)	Rugby School.- MacLehose (Norman Crawford) Letters	Glasgow	1916	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 107.95
183	Hendrie (Private James)	Scottish.- Letters of a Durisdeer Soldier	Dumfries	[c.1920]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
184	Waller (Frederick Claude)	Scottish.- From Bordon to Loos	Winchester	1917	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
185	Long (Brigadier-General Walter)	Senior Officers.- Long (Brigadier-General Walter) A Memoir of...		1921	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 152.40
186	Ely (Capt. Dennis)	Somme.- Ely (Capt. Dennis) [Memoir]	Oxford	1916	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
187	Shears (Edward Hornby)	Somme.- Active-Service Diary 21 January 1917 - 1 July 1917	Liverpool	1919	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
188	Glenconner (Pamela)	Tennant (Edward Wyndham).- Letters from my Sons E.W.T...and C.G.T...During the Great War		1917	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 406.40
189	Thornton (Leslie Irvine Lumsden)	Thornton (Leslie Irvine Lumsden) In Memoriam		[c.1916]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
190	Turner (Richard Radford)	Turner (Richard Radford) [Memoir]		1917	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
191	Cunningham (Frank Leonard)	Ypres.- From Ypres to Loos with the Northumberland Hussars: Diary and and Letters		[c.1916]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 241.30
192	Norton (Tom Edgar Grantley)	Ypres.- Norton (Tom Edgar Grantley) A Memoir...	n.p.	[c.1916]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
193	Blunden (Edmund)	Poems by E. C. Blunden of Christ's Hospital	Horsham	1914	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,016.00
194	Blunden (Edmund)	Pastorals: A Book of Verses		1916	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 330.20
195	Blunden (Edmund)	The Harbingers		1916	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
196	Blunden (Edmund)	De Bello Germanico, A Fragment of Trench History	Hawstead	1930	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
197	Blunden (Edmund)	Leigh Hunt. A Biography		1859	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 139.70
198	Blunden (Edmund)	Large collection of autograph letters and postcards together with manuscripts, proofs and other material with James Stevens-Cox and his son Gregory, comprising: 30 A.Ls.s.		1932	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,159.00
199	Ward (Lynd)	Americana.- Childhood Watercolour		c. 1918	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 69.85
200		Artillery.- Two Pencil Drawings of the 9th Heavy Battery positioned between Armentieres and Houplines		1915	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00

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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.

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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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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.

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