Hansons: The Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions), 52026a, Etwall, Derbyshire
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park |
London | 1816 | GBP 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,875.00 |
| 2 | D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | Autograph Letter Signed to Frederic Moulder regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover |
1929 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 4,500.00 | |
| 3 | D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | Autograph Letters Signed to Frederic Moulder regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover |
1929 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 5,375.00 | |
| 4 | Aldous Huxley; D. H. Lawrence; Edwin Bjorkman | 8 Books, including: Sea and Sardinia |
London; New York | 1914; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1928; 1929; 1932 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Alexander Harvey | The Toe and other Tales |
New York | 1913 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,875.00 |
| 6 | James | The Workes of the Most High and Mighty Prince, James, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith |
London | 1616 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 687.50 |
| 7 | Rudyard Kipling | Just So Stories |
London | 1919 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 375.00 |
| 8 | Andrew Charles Parker Haggard (1854-1923); Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933); Gilbert Parker (1862-1932); Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944); Norman Douglas (1868-1952); Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | 7 Manuscripts, including: Autograph on card from Rudyard Kipling |
1912; 1926; 1927; 1928 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 100.00 | |
| 9 | Alfred Vogt (1879-1943); Georges Borach (1892-1934) | Autograph Letter Signed to James Joyce; Typed Letter Signed from Alfred Vogt |
1931 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 400.00 | |
| 10 | Andre Gide (1869-1951); Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966); Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) | 6 Manuscripts, including: Autograph Letter Signed by Andre Gide |
1931; 1932; 1933; 1936; 1943 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 168.75 | |
| 11 | Eugene Jolas | Transition; This Quarter |
Paris | 1927-1938; 1929 | GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,687.50 |
| 12 | Gertrude Stein | The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress |
Paris | 1925 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Gertrude Stein; G. Quitter-Allatini | Dix Portraits; Reves De Gloire, Prague la Ville D'Or |
Paris | c.1930; 1938 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 687.50 |
| 14 | Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer |
Paris | 1934 | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 875.00 |
| 15 | Henry Miller | Black Spring |
Paris | 1936 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 193.75 |
| 16 | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front; The Road Back |
London | 1929; 1931 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Aldous Huxley; Hendrik Van Loon; Moma Clarke | Ends and Means; The Story of Mankind; French Cameos |
London | c.1924; 1927; 1937 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 50.00 |
| 18 | Lord Byron; Samuel Johnson; Stephen Phillips; Walter Scott | 5 Books, including: Byron's Poems |
Edinburgh; London | 1814-1817; 1822; 1823; 1860; 1900 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | Harriet Shelley; James Haynes; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley; T. J. Wise | A Shelley Library; The Cenci: A Tragedy, In Five Acts |
London | 1820-1825; 1924 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 20 | Gerald H. Rendell; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Henry James; Joseph Adshead | 4 Books, including: Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Boston; London | 1834; 1853; 1878; 1910 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | Dr. G. J. Renier; Lord Alfred Douglas; Robert Harborough Sherard | Andre Gide's Wicked Lies about the Late Mr. Oscar Wilde in Algiers in January, 1895; A Letter from Lord Alfred Douglas on Andre Gide's Lies about Himself and Oscar Wilde; |
Calvi [Corsica] | 1933 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 193.75 |
| 22 | Brice Parain | La Morte de Jean Madec; La Morte De Socrate |
Paris | 1945; 1950 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London |
London | 1790 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 875.00 |
| 24 | Michael Arlen | The Green Hat |
London | 1924 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 25 | Marcus Aurelius; Meris Casaubon; M.S. Buck; Pierre Louys | Marcus Aurelius Antonius, His Meditations concerning Himselfe; Byblis Leda, a New Pleasure |
London; New York | 1900; 1920 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 81.25 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000