Sworders: Books, Manuscripts and Maps, A1231, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 02, 2025 - November 02, 2025

Page Size: 376 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
350	DULAC, Edmund	1- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam		-1909	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
351	RACKHAM, Arthur (ill)	The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm..		1909	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 750.00
352	Shakespeare	RACKHAM, Arthur (ill): 1- A Midsummer Night's Dream	Heinemann	1908	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.00
353	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	RACKHAM, Arthur (ill): 1- A Wonder Book		-1922	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.00
354	J M Barrie- Peter Pan	Arthur RACKHAM (ill); 1- In Kensington Gardens		1908	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 262.50
355	SWINBURNE	Signed Limited Edition: RACKHAM, Arthur (ill): Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes		1913	GBP 250.00 - 400.00	GBP 275.00
356	RACKHAM, Arthur (ill)	Signed Limited Edition: AESOP'S FABLES		1912	GBP 250.00 - 400.00	GBP 762.50
357	Charles & Mary Lamb	Arthur RACKHAM (ill)- Signed: Tales from Shakespeare		1909	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 400.00
358	Arthur RACKHAM	SIGNED: 1- The Allies' Fairy Book		-1916	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 325.00
359	Shakespeare	Signed Limited Edition: HEATH-ROBINSON (ill): A Midsummer Night's Dream		1914	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 587.50
360	R.C. Lyle	SIGNED LIMITED EDN. Lionel Edwards (ill); Brown Jack		1934	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
361		SIGNED PORTRAITS: Marchioness of Granby		1900	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.50
362	John GIELGUD (Signed)	1- An Actor's Biography in Pictures		1952	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
363	LAMB, A.C	Dundee: Its Quaint and Historic Buildings	Dundee	1895	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 175.00
364	Evelyn WAUGH (Two Signed Limited Edns)	1- Black Mischief		1932	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
365	MACILWAIN, George (Inscribed & Signed)	Memoirs of John Abernethy		1856	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
366	Thompson, Hunter SL Ralph Steadman (ill)	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream		1972	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 156.25
367	Signed Winston CHURCHILL	Onwards to Victory		1944	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 762.50
368	Donald Trump & Lyndon B Johnson	Two American Presidents Signed	New York	1990	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
369	BARACK OBAMA	SIGNED, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (With certificates): 1- The Audacity of Hope	NY	2006	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 262.50
370	Rowling, J. K (Signed)	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	London	2000	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 562.50
371		A collection of signed fiction books			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
372	Leifer, Neil	Boxing - 60 years of fights and fighters			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
373		Signed Pele photograph		2015	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.00
374		The Rolling Stones		12.4.1964	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 700.00

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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