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

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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
201 Keeble (Sergeant Walter)

Battle of the Somme.- A First-Hand Account of the First Day of the Battle

12th July 1916 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 533.40
202 Bucci (Anselmo)

Le Releve

1915 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
203 Cornwall, Looe

Sedding & Wheatly, Architects

Truro [c.1919] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
204 Dunn (James Churchill)

The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919

1938 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 698.50
205 Edward VIII (King of Great Britain, 1894-1972)

Draft of a Speech in Honour of Marshal Foch

[1919] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
206 Edward VIII (King of Great Britain, 1894-1972)

The Unveiling of the Thiepval Memorial to The Battle

1932 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 431.80
207 Fraser (Claud Lovat)

De Re Belli. A Book of Drawings made in Ypres during the Campaign of 1914-1916...for his friend Holbrook Jackson...

21. March. 1916 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,588.00
208

History of the Great War based on Official Documents...

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 609.60
209 Lawrence (T.E.)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,048.00
210 Lee-Hankey (William)

Portrait of a Young Soldier, L B Ford

1915 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 203.20
211 Nevinson (C. R. W.)

Modern War Paintings [&] The Great War

1917-18 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,413.00
212 Bowen (Driver A. J.)

Poetry broadside.- A Little bit of truth

no place [c.1919] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 69.85
213

Poetry.- Nursing.- Winter 1917 / Spring 1917

[c.1917] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
214 Robinson (William Heath)

Cold Charity [A Kind Hearted Prussian Officer Giving His Clothes to a Needy Belgian Peasant]

1917 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,016.00
215 Robinson (William Heath)

The Kiss of Peace 1916-1917

[1917] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
216 Taylor (Wilfred)

Royal Air Force.- Notebooks and drawings by Air Mechanic Wilfred Taylor

c. 1916 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
217 Popham (Sir (Henry)

Royal Flying Corps.- Robert Moore Brooke-, air force officer

Larkhill 9th August n.y. [c. 1914] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
218 Lamb (Lynton)

Sassoon (Siegfried).- Two original illustrations for The Folio Society edition of Sassoon's 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'

[circa 1974] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
219 Edelbuttel (Richard)

Satirical propaganda map.- Europa im zweiten Kriegsjahr 1915/16

1915/16 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
220

Seven notebooks chronicling the Great War

1910, 1915-18 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
221 White (Bernard Charles de Boismaison, war poet), "Bianco"

Archive of 62 Autograph Letters signed

various places 1909, 1914-16 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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