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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | A scrapbook of autographs |
1952-59 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 54 | A collection of four cards from Buckingham Palace; two Typed Letters Signed |
2022-25 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 100.00 | ||
| 55 | H. Royce | A handwritten letter |
1926 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 56 | Eva Turner (1892-1990); Myra Hess (1890-1965); Eric Coates; Henry Hargrave | 4 Items, including: The Three Elizabeths |
1968; 1973 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |
| 57 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 21,250.00 |
| 58 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold |
| 59 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Fellowship of the Ring; The Return of the King; The Two Towers |
London | 1954-55; 1965 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,250.00 |
| 60 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King |
London | 1965 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 500.00 |
| 60A | J. D. Beresford | The Hampdenshire Wonder |
London | 1911 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 300.00 |
| 61 | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The True Heart |
London | 1929 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 112.50 |
| 62 | Thomas Hardy; William Barnes | 15 Books, including: Winter Words |
London; Dorset | 1928; 1925; 1895; 1909; 1979; 2002; 1970s | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 63 | D. H. Lawrence | 4 Books, including: Pansies |
London; Buckingham | 1929; 1965; 1970; 1963 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 64 | Ted Hughes; Sylvia Plath; Philip Larkin; Thom Gunn; John Berryman; Robert Lowell | 8 Books, including: The Hawk in the Rain |
London; Chicago; New York | 1960; 1970; 1992; c.1961; 1971; 1967; 1961; 1963; 1979; 1962; 1948; 1859; 1973; 1970; 1966; 1978; 1974 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 200.00 |
| 65 | Derek Walcott; Peter Doig | 6 Books, including: In a Green Night |
London; New York | 1962; 1990; 2000; 2016; 1979; 1986 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 66 | Iris Murdoch; Reynolds Stone | A Year of Birds; A Year of Birds |
Tisbury | 1978; 1984 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 175.00 |
| 67 | Thom Gunn; John Berryman; Robert Lowell | 12 Books, including: My Sad Captains |
Chicago; London; New York | 1961; 1963; 1979; 1962; 1948; 1859; 1971; 1973; 1970; 1966; 1978 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 68 | W. H. Auden | 12 Books, including: The Dance of Death |
London | 1933; 1966; 1940 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | GBP 125.00 |
| 69 | Benjamin Britten | 5 Books, including: Paul Bunyan |
London | 1978; 1966; 1961; 1965; 1947 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 70 | E. M. Forster; John Hampson; Edward Lowbury; A. W. Wheen; Herbert Read; George Barker; Donald Davie; Thomas Randolph; William Barnes; Henry W. Taunt | 13 Books, including: What I Believe |
Bloomsbury | 1939; 1931; 1945; 1976; 1929; 1925; 1964; 1898; 1828; 1911 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 71 | Ian McEwan; Anthony Browne | 8 Books, including: In Between the Sheets |
1978; 1985; 1994; 1983; 2001; 1990; 2016 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 218.75 | |
| 72 | Phillip Pullman | 5 Books, including: Northern Lights |
London | 1995; 1997; 2000; 2017 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 175.00 |
| 73 | Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist of the Floating World; When we were Orphans; Klara and The Sun |
London | 1986; 2000; 2021 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 100.00 |
| 74 | Tracy Chevalier; Anita Brookner; Khaled Hosseini | 4 Books, including: Girl With a Pearl Earring |
London | 1999; 1985; 2007; 2003 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 62.50 |
| 75 | Sebastian Faulks; Julian Barnes; Orhan Pamuk; Stieg Larsson | 7 Books, including: Birdsong |
1993; 2007; 1998; 2018; 2004; 2010 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 131.25 | |
| 76 | J. K. Rowling; William Horwood; JRR Tolkien | 8 Books, including: The Philosopher's Stone |
1999; 2000; 2003; 2005; 2007; 1989; 1984 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
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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. -
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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