Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Circus and magic memorabilia, posters, books etc- Timed online Auction, 70726, Norwich
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 07, 2026 - July 07, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Spring Howard | Sampson's Circus |
London | 1936 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 50 | Ferris Helen; Fitzsimons Raymund; Harris Neil; Saxon A H; Kunhardt Philip B | 5 Books, including: Here Comes Barnum |
New York; London; Boston | 1932; 1969; 1973; 1989; 1995 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown |
| 51 | Croft-Cooke Rupert; O'Brien Esse Forrester; Sutton Felix; Plowden Gene; Kunzog John C | 5 Books, including: The Circus Has No Home |
London; Texas; New York; Idaho | 1950; 1959; 1971; 1968; 1970 | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 52 | Macgregor-Morris Pamela; Rivel Charlie; Lord Fred A; Gollmar Robert H; Chindahl George H; Sherwood Bob | 6 Books, including: Chipperfield's Circus |
London; Idaho; New York | 1957; 1971; 1965; 1965; 1959; 1932 | GBP 25.00 - 65.00 | Unknown |
| 53 | Court Alfred; Frey Jim; Keller George; Cansdale George; Baumann Charly; Williams J H | 6 Books, including: Wild Circus Animals |
London; New York | 1954; 1958; 1961; 1965; 1975; 1959 | GBP 25.00 - 55.00 | Unknown |
| 54 | Remy Tristan; Hippisley Coxe Antony; Skeaping John; Hammarstrom David Lewis; Cottle Gerry; Laster Lloyd | 5 Books, including: Clown Scenes |
Chicago; London; Texas | 1962; 1980; 1983; 2006; 1984 | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 55 | North Henry Ringling; Hatch Alden; Graves Charles; McKennon Joe; McConnell John H; Kelley F Beverly | 5 Books, including: The Circus Kings |
New York; London; Florida; Detroit; Missouri | 1960; ND; 1975; 1992; 1982 | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 56 | Blunt Wilfrid; Hedren Tippi; Adamson Joy; Shuttlesworth Dorothy E; Vevers Gwynne | 6 Books, including: The Ark in the Park |
London; New York | 1976; 1985; 1960; 1961; 1977; 1976 | GBP 25.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 57 | Norwood Edwin P; Eberle Irmengarde; Hopper DeWof; Grock; Lathrop West | 5 Books, including: The Other Side of the Circus |
New York; Boston; London | 1926; 1948; 1927; 1931; 1953 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | Unknown |
| 58 | Whanslaw H W; Allen A B; Wilkinson Walter; Macnamara Desmond; Bussell Jan | 6 Books, including: Bankside Book of Puppets |
London; Surrey | ND; 1947; 1947; 1948; 1953 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown |
| 59 | Dickens Charles; Remy Tristan; Popov Oleg; Kern Alfred; Green Stanley | 5 Books, including: Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi |
New York; Chicago; London; Oxford | 1968; 1962; 1970; 1960; 1984 | GBP 20.00 - 50.00 | Unknown |
| 60 | Bradna Fred; Disher M Willso; Williamson A Stanley; Smith Eleanor; Fellows Dexter W; Freeman Andrew A | 5 Books, including: The Big Top |
New York; London | 1952; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1936 | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 61 | Wallace Irving; Fitzsimons Raymund; O'Leary John G; Ware W Porter; Lockard Thaddeus C | 4 Books, including: The Fabulous Showman |
London; Baton Rouge | 1930; 1969; 1967; 1980 | GBP 15.00 - 20.00 | Unknown |
| 62 | Ward Eric; Fitz-Grald S J Adair; Stanley Adrian; Lane Yoti | 5 Books, including: A Book of Make-Up |
London | 1930; ND; 1953; 1950 | GBP 20.00 - 50.00 | Unknown |
| 63 | Benton Joel | A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum |
1891 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown | |
| 64 | Disher M Willson | Clowns and Pantomimes |
London | 1925 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 65 | Le Roux Hughes; Garnier Jules | Acrobats and Mountebanks |
London | 1890 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 66 | Barnum P T | Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P T Barnum |
London | 1869 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 67 | Elliott Hugh S R; Thacker A G | Beasts and Men |
London | 1909 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 68 | Kelly Emmett; Kelley F Beverly | Clown |
London | 1956 | GBP 40.00 - 50.00 | Unknown |
| 69 | Coco the Clown | Behind My Greasepaint |
London | 1950 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown |
| 70 | Findlater Richard | Grimaldi King of Clowns |
London | 1955 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | Unknown |
| 71 | Reynolds Butch | Broken Hearted Clown |
London | 1954 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown |
| 72 | Carter Angela | Nights at the Circus |
London | 1984 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown |
| 73 | Erskine Gladys Shaw | Broncho Charlie a Saga of the Saddle |
New York | 1934 | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | Unknown |
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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