Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1193, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
Page Size: 263 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102 Fleming (Ian)

For Your Eyes Only,

1960; 1961; 1962, GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,230.63
103 Fleming (Ian)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service; You Only Live Twice,; The Man With the Golden Gun; Octopussy

1963; 1964; 1965; 1966 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 737.87
104 Graves (Robert)

Treasure Box,

[1919]. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,054.10
105 Graves (Robert)

Good-bye to All That,

1929 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,757.68
106 Graves (Robert)

I, Claudius,

1934 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,932.94
107 Hemingway (Ernest)

A Farewell To Arms,

1929 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,338.83
108 Joyce (James)

Ulysses,

Paris 1922 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,332.44
109 Joyce (James) Collins (Dr. Joseph)

Taking the Literary Pulse,

New York 1924 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,811.78
110 Joyce (James) Shipley (Joseph T.)

King John,

New York 1925 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,054.10
111 Lewis (C.S.)

[The Chronicles of Narnia],

1950-1956 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,460.52
112 Manning (Olivia)

[The Balkan Trilogy],

1960; 1962; 1965 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 702.31
113 Manning (Olivia)

[The Levant Trilogy],

1977; 1978; 1980 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,932.94
114 Milne (A.A.)

[The Set of Pooh Books],

1925; 1926; 1927; 1928 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 5,623.56
115 Powell (Anthony)

[A Dance to the Music of Time],

1951-75 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 12,204.36
116 Remarque (Erich Maria)

All Quiet on the Western Front,

1931 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,919.98
117 Roth (Philip)

Goodbye, Columbus,

Boston 1959 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 668.02
118 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,

1999 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 966.47
119 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,

New York 1999 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 966.47
120 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,

2000 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,514.09
121 Steinbeck (John)

The Grapes of Wrath,

1939 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,987.04
122 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit,

1937 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 15,690.78
123 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit,

1955 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,493.52
124 Uhlman (Fred)

Reunion,

Adam Books 1971 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
125 Waugh (Evelyn)

Brideshead Revisited,

1945 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,230.63
126 Waugh (Evelyn)

Unconditional Surrender,

1961 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,514.09
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    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
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    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
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    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
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    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
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    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
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    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
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    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
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    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
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