Forum Auctions: Online: Modern Literature, 1051, London

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
276	Saint-Exupery (Antoine de)	Night Flight		1932	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 762.00
277	Sansom (William)	The Loving Eye		1956	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 355.60
278	Sassoon (Siegfried)	Counter-Attack and other Poems		1918	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 431.80
279	Schreiner (Olive)	Undine		1929	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 107.95
280	Scott (Peter)	Five Oil Paintings, 5 colour plates loose as issues each signed by the artist in the margin lower right	Gloucestershire	1952	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 38.10
281	Searle (Ronald)	More Scraps in no particular order: unpublished sketchbooks [&] Watteau Revisited: Drawings	Church Hanborough	2008	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
282	Serraillier (Ian)	The Silver Sword		1956	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
283	[Shaffer (Peter) and Anthony], "Peter Anthony".	How Doth the Little Crocodile		1952	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
284	Shaw (George Bernard)	Two autograph cards signed		1935	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 215.90
285	Simenon (Georges)	The Patience of Maigret		1940	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
286	Simmel (Johannes Mario)	It Can't Always Be Caviar		1965	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 139.70
287	Sjowall (Maj)	and Per Wahloo. The Man on the Balcony		1969	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 139.70
288	Smith (Stevie)	Over the Frontier		1938	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
289	[Southern (Terry) and Mason Hoffenberg], "Maxwell Kenton".	Lillipop	Paris	1959	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
290	Spark (Muriel)	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie		1961	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
291	Spark (Muriel)	The Driver's Seat		1970	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 215.90
292	Steinbeck (John)	Of Mice and Men	New York	1937	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 825.50
293	Steinbeck (John)	The Grapes of Wrath	New York	1939	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 69.85
294	Steinbeck (John)	The Moon is Down	New York	1942	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
295	Steinbeck (John)	Sweet Thursday		1954	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
296	Steinbeck (John)	Sweet Thursday	New York	1954	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 215.90
297	Stout (Rex)	Mr. Cinderella	New York	1938	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 355.60
298	Tagore (Rabindranath)	The Post-Office		1914	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
299	Thomas (Dylan)	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog		1940	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
300	Thomas (Dylan)	Under Milk Wood		1954	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 203.20

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.
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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