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

Auction Details

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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