Chorley's: The Christmas Auction 2025, 120925, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 23 items in 1 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Dickens (Charles)

A Christmas Carol

London n.d. [late 19th Century], GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
152 Westwood (Vivienne)

Opus: Active Resistance

London 2008 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
153 Milne (A A)

Winnie the Pooh

London 1926 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
154 Milne (AA)

House at Pooh corner

London 1928 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
155 [Monvel (M.B. de) illustrator]

to include Vieilles Chanson pour les Petits Enfants,

Paris n.d. GBP 70.00 - 90.00 Unknown
156 Rackham (Arthur) Walton (Izaak and Charles Cotton)

The Compleat Angler

London 1931 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
157 Bawden (Edward)

Hold Fast by Your Teeth

London 1963 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
158 [Z] [Fine Binding, Sangorski & Sutcliffe] Galsworthy (John)

The Forsyte Saga,

London 1922 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
159 [ Fine Bindings by Riviere & Son]

Three volumes of poetry from The Augustan Books of English Poetry,

London [1930s] GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
245 Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter signed ICAA greeting card

1927 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
255

A map of the Cotswold Hunt Country

1988 Not Available Unknown
256

Two maps of the Cottesmore Hunt Country

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
257

A map of the Hertfordshire Hunt Country

Not Available Unknown
258

A map of the Berkeley Hunt Country

Not Available Unknown
260

Romain de Tirtoff Erte (1892 -1990)

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
261 Bryn Parry (1956-2003)

Teamwork * For Goodness Sake, Will You Stop that Ghastly Noise! * All Fish to be Caught on the Fly

Not Available Unknown
283 George Dannatt (1915-2009)

Sand & Bright Yellow, with Silver

1980 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
284 Jak (Raymond Allen Jackson) (1927-1997)

Original Cartoon

1978 Not Available Unknown
290 David Jones (1895-1974)

A set of fourteen woodcuts from A Child's Rosary

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
291 After Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

The Green Bird

Paris 1962 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
292 Chris Duffy (1933-2010)

Girl with Chauffeur, for 'Queen' Magazine, 1965

1965 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
293 Anthony Hodge (1948-2009)

Figures in a Landscape

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
294 John Kelly (born 1965)

Japanese Hot Air Balloons

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
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