Forum Auctions: Online: The Pity of War, The First World War in words and images
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| Auction Name | Online: The Pity of War, The First World War in words and images | Total Sales (GBP) | 295,763.95 |
| Auction Date | November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 149,820.00 |
| Sale Number | #1054 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 216,030.00 |
| Total Lots | 221 | ||
| Sold Lots | 208.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 156,620.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 94.12% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 226,080.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 13 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 130.82% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 122 | Sassoon (Siegfried) | The Old Huntsman. And other Poems |
1917 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 34,925.00 |
| 123 | Sassoon (Siegfried) | The Old Huntsman |
1917-05-01 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 26,035.00 |
| 45 | Graves (Robert) | Over the Brazier |
1916 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,700.00 |
| 61 | Hardy (Thomas) | Late Lyrics and Earlier |
May 24th. 1922 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 12,065.00 |
| 59 | Hardy (Thomas) | Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses |
1917 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,985.00 |
| 207 | Fraser (Claud Lovat) | De Re Belli. A Book of Drawings made in Ypres during the Campaign of 1914-1916...for his friend Holbrook Jackson... |
21. March. 1916 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,588.00 |
| 132 | Sassoon (Siegfried) | Vigils |
1934 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,334.00 |
| 121 | Sassoon (Siegfried) | Morning Glory |
[1916] | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,080.00 |
| 48 | Graves (Robert) | Fairies and Fusiliers |
1917 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,572.00 |
| 158 | Yeats (William Butler) | Yeats (William Butler) Selected Poems |
Nov. 15 1929 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,572.00 |
| 70 | Jones (David) | In Parenthesis. Seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu |
1937 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,318.00 |
| 105 | Pound (Ezra) | Cathay: Translations by Ezra Pound for the most part from the Chinese |
1915 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,318.00 |
| 38 | Frost (Robert) | Mountain Interval |
1916 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 |
| 125 | Sassoon (Siegfried) | To Any Dead Officer. Reprints from the Cambridge Magazine |
August, 1917 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 3,556.00 |
| 56 | Gurney (Ivor) | War's Embers and other Verses |
1919 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 |
| 60 | Hardy (Thomas) | A Call to National Service |
1917 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 |
| 39 | Frost (Robert) | Mountain Interval |
1916 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 58 | Hardy (Thomas) | Hardy (Thomas) Selected Poems |
1916 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 69 | Huxley (Aldous) | The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems |
[1918] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 97 | Owen (Wilfred) | Owen (Wilfred) Poems |
1920 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 209 | Lawrence (T.E.) | Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
1935 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 149 | Wharton (Edith) | Wharton (Edith) Twelve Poems |
1929 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 2,794.00 |
| 85 | [Manning (Frederic)] | The Middle Parts of Fortune |
1929 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 2,540.00 |
| 28 | Cannan (May Wedderburn) | In War Time: Poems |
1917 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 2,413.00 |
| 31 | Crosby (Harry) | Red Skeletons, one of 333 copies on on verge Hollande Van Gelder, signed |
1927 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 2,413.00 |
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