Bonhams: Deeds Not Words. A Women's Suffrage Collection, 31671, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 61 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
43 PANKHURST (SYLVIA)

The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst: the Suffragette Struggle for Women's Citizenship, FIRST EDITION

 , 1935 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,664.00
44 HAMILTON (CICELY)

A Pageant of Great Women, FIRST EDITION,

 1910 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 486.40
45 PANKHURST (CHRISTABEL)

Pressing Problems of the Closing Age, [1924]; and others

 1924 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 588.80
46 DAVISON (EMILY WILDING)

Two memorial service programmes, 14 June 1913 and 6 June 1914

 1913 and 1914 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,088.00
47 PETHICK-LAWRENCE (EMMELINE)

My Part in a Changing World, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO KATHERINE PRYCE HUGHES, 1938

 1938 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 384.00
48 MORRIS (WILLIAM)

News from Nowhere, NORAH DUVAL'S COPY, SIGNED BY 1910; and another, EMILY DUVAL'S COPY, SIGNED BY HOLLOWAY PRISONERS

 1910 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
49

Forcible Feeding', completed and framed wooden jigsaw puzzle,

c.1911 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 832.00
51

A complete set of WSPU playing cards, belonging to Mary Phillips

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,664.00
52 TERRERO (JANIE) -- HOLLOWAY PRISON

Manuscript letter book compiled after her imprisonment in Holloway, 1912 [post-1918]

 1912 [post-1918] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,632.00
53 PEARSON (ANNIE SEYMOUR)

Scrapbook compiled by Annie 'Nance' Seymour Pearson, [first quarter twentieth century]

 [first quarter twentieth century] GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
54 PETHICK LAWRENCE (FREDERICK W.)

Women's Fight for the Vote, FIRST EDITION, [1910]--The Reformer's Year Book, 1908 (2)

 [1910]-- 1908 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 217.60
55

Group of 11 pamphlets belonging to the Bradford-born suffragette Fanny Gladys Roberts

 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,216.00
56 [STAUNTON (J.S.)]

The Home-Breakers by a Looker-On, 1913; and 4 others

 1913 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 115.20
57

Souvenir and official Programme,

1909 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 704.00
58

Souvenir and Official Programme,

1911 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 537.60
59

Two fundraising promise cards, with original pencils, 1908 and 1912

 1908 and 1912 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,408.00
60

Collection of printed ephemera, including a WSPU membership card, fundraising promise cards, invitations and tickets

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,280.00
61 LYTTON (CONSTANCE)

Prisons & Prisoners, FIRST EDITION,; and 2 others

 1914 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 460.80
62

[BAILLIE-WEAVER (GERTRUDE)] Suffragette Sally. By G. Colmore, [1911]; and 11 others

 1911 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,024.00
63 PANKHURST (EMMELINE)

My Own Story, 1914--PANKHURST (SYLVIA) The Suffragette Movement, 1931; and 2 others owned by Mary Phillips

 1914 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 512.00
64 BODICHON (BARBARA LEIGH SMITH)

Reasons for and Against the Enfranchisement of Women, 1872; and 8 others

 1872; and 8 others GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 204.80
65 DE HAVILLAND (GLADYS)

The Woman's Motor Manual. How to Obtain Employment in Government or Private Service as a Woman Driver, 1918; and 5 others

 1918; and 5 others GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 51.20
66 Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence

Votes for Women, vol. 1-4 & 6, October 1907-December 1913

 1913 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
67 Edited by Christabel Pankhurst.

The Suffragette, c.1118 issues, 8 November 1912-8 October 1915

 1912-1915 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,120.00
68 Edited by Christabel Pankhurst.

Britannia. Edited by Christabel Pankhurst, c.95 issues, 15 October 1915-13 December 1918

 1915-1918 GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,664.00
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