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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
251 Peake (Mervyn)

Titus Groan

 1946 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
252 Peake (Mervyn).- [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll".

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass

 1946 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 279.40
253 Pevsner (N. B. L.)

[The King Penguin Series]

 1939-1959 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 355.60
254 Pinter (Harold)

Poems

 1971 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 107.95
255 Pinter (Harold)

Betrayal

 1978. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.70
256 Plath (Sylvia)

Crossing the Water

 1971 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 228.60
257 Plath (Sylvia)

Crystal Gazer and Other Poems

 1971 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 952.50
258 Pound (Ezra)

Guide to Kulchur

 1938 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 355.60
259 Powell (Anthony)

[A Dance to the Music of Time]

 1951-75. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
260 Powell (Anthony)

At Lady Molly's,

 1957 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
261 Pratchett (Terry)

Reaper Man

 1991 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
262 Price (Anthony)

The Alamut Ambush

 1971 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
263 Proust (Marcel)

[In Remembrance of Things Past]

 1922-1961 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,016.00
264 Pym (Barbara)

A Glass of Blessings

 1958 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 825.50
265 Pynchon (Thomas)

V.

 1963 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
266 Rankin (Ian)

The Flood

 1986 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
267 Rankin (Ian)

Knots and Crosses

 1987 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 406.40
268 Remarque (Erich Maria)

All Quiet on the Western Front

 1929 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
269 Robilliard (David)

Swallowing Helmets

 1987 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 482.60
270 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

 1999 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
271 Rowling (J.K.)

[The Harry Potter novels]

 2003-7 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 406.40
272 Rowling (J.K.)

The Casual Vacancy

 2012 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 279.40
273 Russell (Bertrand)

Power. A New Social Analysis

 1938 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
274 Russell (Bertrand)

History As An Art. Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture

 Aldington 1954 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
275 Sackville-West (Vita)

More for Your Garden

 1955 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 482.60
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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.
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    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.
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    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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