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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
76	Calvino (Italo)	The Baron in the Trees		1959	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 584.20
77	[Campbell (Donald Malcolm)] Person, John	Bluebird and the Dead Lake		1965	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 120.65
78	Carr (J. L.)	A Month in the Country		1990	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 241.30
79	Chandler (Raymond)	The Little Sister		1949	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 165.10
80	Chatwin (Bruce)	The Songlines		1987	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 228.60
81	Cheever (John)	The Wapshot Chronicle	New York	1965	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 215.90
82	Christie (Agatha)	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	New York	1926	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 355.60
83	Christie (Agatha)	P.G. Wodehouse and others. The Strand Magazine,		1935-41	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 203.20
84	Christie (Agatha)	They Do It With Mirrors		1952	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 584.20
85	Christie (Agatha)	After the Funeral		1953	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
86	Christie (Agatha)	A Pocket Full of Rye		1953	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 508.00
87	Christie (Agatha)	Hickory Dickory Dock		1955	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 330.20
88	Christie (Agatha)	Dead Man's Folly		1956	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 330.20
89	Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer)	The Story of the Malakand Field Force		1898	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 431.80
90	Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer)	London to Ladysmith via Pretoria		1900	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
91	Churchill (Sir Winston)	I Support...		1956	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
92	Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer).- Noble (Walter)	With a Bristol Fighter Squadron		1922	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
93	[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)]"Mark Twain".	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	New York	1889	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 330.20
94	Cocteau (Jean)	La Difficultie D'etre		1947	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,159.00
95	Cornwell (Bernard)	[The Sharpe Novels]		1981-2006	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,016.00
96	Cornwell (Bernard)	Sharpe's Eagle		1981	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,206.50
97	Cornwell (Bernard)	[The Starbuck Chronicles]		1993-96	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
98	Cornwell (Bernard)	[The Warlord Chronicles]		1995-97.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 508.00
99	Cornwell (Bernard)	[The Grail Quest novels]		2000-2012	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
100	Cornwell (Bernard)	[The Saxon Stories]		2004-2019	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,079.50

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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