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Auction Details

Auction Date: December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025

Page Size: 334 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Mitford (Nancy)	The Pursuit of Love		1945	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,048.00
2	Mitford (Nancy)	The Pursuit of Love		1947	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 698.50
3	Mitford (Nancy)	The Blessing		1951	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4	Mitford (Nancy)	Noblesse Oblige		1956	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,397.00
5	Mitford (Nancy)	Don't Tell Alfred		1960	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 762.00
6	Mitford (Nancy)	The Water Beetle		1962	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 533.40
7	Mitford (Nancy)	The Sun King		1966	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 482.60
8	Mitford (Nancy).- Blaikie (Thomas)	Diary of a Scotch Gardener		1931	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
9	Sackville-West (Vita)	Seducers in Ecuador		1924	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 558.80
10	Sackville-West (Vita)	The Land		1926	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
11	Sackville-West (Vita)	Passenger to Teheran		1957	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 558.80
12	Sackville-West (Vita)	Aphra Behn. The Incomparable Astrea		1927	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50
13	Sackville-West (Vita)	and Harold Nicolson Another World Than This...		1946	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 279.40
14	Sackville-West (Vita)	Nursery Rhymes		1947	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15	Sackville-West (Vita)	Even More For Your Garden		1958	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 533.40
16	Sackville-West (Vita)	Daughter of France		1959	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 635.00
17	Sackville-West (Vita)	No Signposts in the Sea		1961	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 508.00
18	Maugham (William Somerset)	Don Fernando		1952	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
19	Yeats (William Butler, contributor)	Aodh to Dectora in The Dome, No. 5		1897	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 457.20
20	Yeats (William Butler)	Where There Is Nothing: A Play in Five Acts. Supplement to The United Irishman	Dublin	1902	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,524.00
21	Yeats (William Butler)	The Land of Heart's Desire	Portland Maine	1903	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
22	Yeats (William Butler)	The King's Threshold. A Play in Verse	New York	1904	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
23	Yeats (William Butler)	The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats	Stratford-on-Avon	1908	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
24	Yeats (William Butler)	Eight Poems		1916	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,159.00
25	[Yeats (William Butler), contributor]	Seanad Eireann (Parliamentary Debates)	Dublin	1922-1928	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.