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Auction Name | Signed and Inscribed: A Gentleman's Library of Modern Literature | Total Sales (GBP) | 850,220.00 |
Auction Date | July 07, 2021 - July 07, 2021 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 331,310.00 |
Sale Number | #1075 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 469,230.00 |
Total Lots | 510 | ||
Sold Lots | 503 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 342,610.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 98.63% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 485,930.00 |
Unsold Lots | 7 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 174.97% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
132 | Forster (E.M.) | A Room With a View |
1908 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 30,000.00 |
141 | Forster (E.M.) | A Passage to India |
1924 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 25,000.00 |
95 | Crowley (Aleister) | Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light |
1907 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 22,500.00 |
293 | Kerouac (Jack) | Book of Dreams |
1961 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 21,250.00 |
184 | Golding (William) | Lord of the Flies |
1954 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 15,000.00 |
354 | Proust (Marcel) | Sodome et Gomorrhe II |
1922 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 15,000.00 |
130 | Forster (E.M.) | Where Angels Fear to Tread |
1905 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 13,750.00 |
133 | Forster (E.M.) | Howards End |
1910 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 13,750.00 |
295 | Kerouac (Jack) | Satori in Paris |
1966 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 13,750.00 |
353 | Proust (Marcel) | Du côté de chez Swann |
1913 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 13,750.00 |
261 | Isherwood (Christopher) | All the Conspirators |
1928 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,625.00 |
365 | Remarque (Erich Maria) | All Quiet on the Western Front |
1929 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 10,625.00 |
149 | Forster (E.M.) | Abinger Harvest |
1936 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 10,000.00 |
178 | Ginsberg (Allen) | Howl and other poems |
1956 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,000.00 |
306 | McCarthy (Cormac) | Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West |
1985 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 9,375.00 |
185 | Golding (William) | The Inheritors |
1955 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,750.00 |
271 | Isherwood (Christopher) | Goodbye to Berlin |
1939 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,750.00 |
300 | Lawrence (T. E.).- Homer. | The Odyssey [translated by T.E.Lawrence] |
1932 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,750.00 |
100 | Crowley (Aleister) | Moonchild. A Prologue |
1929 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,125.00 |
145 | Forster (E.M.) | The Eternal Moment and Other Stories |
1928 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 8,125.00 |
101 | [Crowley (Aleister)] The Master Therion. | Magick in Theory and Practice [Book Four. Part Three]4 vol. in 1 |
1929 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 7,500.00 |
355 | Proust (Marcel) | Sodome et Gomorrhe II |
1922 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 7,500.00 |
99 | Crowley (Aleister) | Mortadello; or the Angel of Venice |
1912 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 6,250.00 |
464 | Whitman (Walt) | Leaves of Grass |
1884 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 6,250.00 |
472 | Williams (Tennessee) | The Glass Menagerie |
1945 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,000.00 |