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
Page Size: 321 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
98 Stott R Toole

Circus and Allied Arts - A World Bibliography

Derby N/A GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
99 McKennon Joe

A Pictorial History of the American Carnival

Florida 1977-1981 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
100 Stott R Toole

Circus and Allied Arts - A World Bibliography

Derby N/A GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
101 Adair Ian; Miller Hugh; Baker Roy; Ganson Lewis

5 Books, including: Conjuring as a Craft

Newton Abbot; Devon 1972; 1978; 1981 Not Available Unknown
102 Love Edward G; Lewis Eric C; Miller Hugh

5 Books, including: Card Fantasies

London; Birmingham; Devon 1964; 1951; 1978 Not Available Unknown
103 Strickland William G; Dexter Will; Ganson Lewis

4 Books, including: Introducing Bill's Magic

Devon; London ND; 1971 Not Available Unknown
104 Brandreth Gyles; Morley John; Houdini Harry; Sandford Christopher; Silverman Kenneth

4 Books, including: The Magic of Houdini

London; New York 1978; 1972; 2011; 1996 Not Available Unknown
105 Tyler Wilfred; Miller Hugh; Ganson Lewis; Ostin Bob; Warlock Peter

6 Books, including: Playing with Magic

London; Devon 1953; 1978; ND; 1976 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
106 Ayling Will; Adair Ian; Griffith Tony; Miller Hugh

5 Books, including: The Art of Illusion

Devon 1990; ND; 1977; 1978 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
107 Hawkesworth Eric; Adair Ian; Baker Roy

6 Books, including: Rag Picture Shows

Devon; Newton Abbot 1984; ND; 1972; 1978 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
108 Griffith Tony; Hawkesworth Eric; Adair Ian; Lewis Eric C; Tyler Wilfred

6 Books, including: An Invitation to Mystery

Devon 1977; 1984; ND; 1980 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
109 Hoffman Professor; Okito; Cannell J C; Lemezma Mar

4 Books, including: Later Magic

London 1953; ND; 2008 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
110 Cremer W H; Hoffmann Professor; Elliott Bruce; Hugard Jean

4 Books, including: The Secret Out

Edinburgh; London ND; 1953; 1957 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
111 Elliott Bruce; Baron Harry; Gill Robert; Fitzsimons Raymund; Dexter Will

5 Books, including: Classic Secrets of Magic

London; Devon 1953; 1955; 1976; 1980; 1973 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
112 Goodliffe; Miller Hugh; Warlock Peter; Ganson Lewis

6 Books, including: Simply Wizard

Devon 1946; 1978; 1980 GBP 25.00 - 60.00 Unknown
113 Goldston Will; Elliott Bruce; Baker Roy; Dexter Will; Ganson Lewis; Koran Al

6 Books, including: Tricks and Illusions

London; Devon; Preston ND; 1951; 1981; c1963; 1964 GBP 25.00 - 60.00 Unknown
114 Douglas Bert; Roberts Charles; Crayford Charles; Tuffs J Elsden

4 Books, including: Club Magic

London 1930; ND; 1957; 1954 GBP 15.00 - 25.00 Unknown
115

Louis Tannen's Magic Catalogue

N/A GBP 10.00 - 15.00 Unknown
116 Adair Ian

Encyclopaedia of Dove Magic

Devon 1970 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 Unknown
117

The Magic Wand and Magical Review

1930s-1940s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
118

Abracadabra

1946-1947 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
119 Stanyon Ellis

Stanyon's Serial Lessons in Conjuring

Washington DC 1996 GBP 30.00 - 60.00 Unknown
120 Alborough John; Strickland W G; Edwin The Magician; Murphy T G; Racherbaumer John

5 Books, including: Mainly Manipulative Magic

Devon 1978; 1976; 1989 GBP 25.00 - 55.00 Unknown
121 Marshall Frances; Marshall Jay

The Success Book

N/A GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
122 Daniel Noel

Magic 1400S - 1950S

N/A GBP 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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