Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 110625, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 490 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
74

(Signed Limited Edition) John Betjeman Summoned

London 1976 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 212.84
75 Patrick Geddes publisher

The Evergreen. A Northern Seasonal

Edinburgh; London 1895-97 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 525.84
76

Limited Editions Club Two works

New York 1954-05-11 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
77 Stephen Gooden

(Signed) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

London 1940 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 125.20
78 Christopher Whitfield and Eric Gill

Five scarce publications

Welwyn, Hertfordshire [c.1939] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 43.82
79 S. Matthewman (editor)

Yorkshire Poetry. Five issues

1922-08-01 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 87.64
80 (Harry Clarke illustration)

Lennox Robinson Two works

Dublin & Cork [c.1925] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
81 Grant Richards publishers

The Butterfly [New Series]

[London] [1893] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 125.20
82 William Shakespeare

Four limited editions

London [1923] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
83

(The Limited Editions Club) The Plays of William Shakespeare

New York 1939 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 162.76
84 Jessie M. King (endpapers and illus.)

(Children's Illustrated Literature) Thirty eight works

1925 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
85

Guinness Christmas Booklets Seven works

1934 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
86 (Edmund Dulac designs)

Constant Lambert Horoscope - A Ballet

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
87 Tobias Smollett

The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality Being Lady Vane's Memoirs

London 1925 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 112.68
88 Maria Edgworth

Four volumes

1897 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 187.80
89 Thomas Love Peacock and F. H. Townsend (illustrations)

Four works

London 1895, 1896 and 1897 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 525.84
90

(Illustrated Prose & Poetry) Seventeen works

London 1911 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 187.80
91

(The Art of the Book) Eight works

New York 1919 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
92

Seven works

London 1929 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.60
93 Florence Harrison

In the Fairy Ring

London [1908] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 225.36
94

Art Interest Marc Chagall, Henry Moore and others

New York 1957 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.56
95 Raymond PEYNET(1908-1999)

Original gouache illustration from 'Un Chapeau de Paille D'Italie'

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 187.80
96

(Signed and Inscribed) Allardyce Nicoll Masks Mimes and Miracles. Studies in the Popular Theatre

London 1931 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.56
97 Erik Fischer

Melchior Lorck

Copenhagen 2009 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 75.12
98

Raymond Quenau One Hundred Million Million Poems

1983 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 137.72
  • 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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