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Auction Name Modern and Contemporary Editions Total Sales (GBP) 211,620.10
Auction Date November 27, 2025 - November 27, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 143,350.00
Sale Number #1171 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 205,700.00
Total Lots 317
Sold Lots 215.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 213,800.00
% of Lots Sold 67.82% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 305,600.00
Unsold Lots 102 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.25%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 Bob Dylan (b.1941)

Drawn Blank Series (Set of 12): Train Tracks Portfolio, Man on a Bridge Portfolio and Woman At The Red Lion Pub Portfolio (2008)

2008 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,240.00
9 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

H9-4. Politeness, from The Virtues

2021 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 13,970.00
2 STIK (b.1979)

Dancer

2011 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 12,700.00
148 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

The Complete Set of Five Empresses (H10)

2022 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,795.00
1 Invader (b.1969)

Aladdin Sane Clyde (Orange)

2014 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,715.00
17 David Shrigley (b.1968)

I Will Retrieve Your Phone

2021 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 5,715.00
8 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

H19-5. Heavenly Elysia, from The Dreams

2025 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
10 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

H13-2. Kingsdown Beach

2023 GBP 2,200.00 - 2,800.00 GBP 4,445.00
39 Bob Dylan (b.1941)

The Retrospectrum Collection (Set of Six)

2022 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,810.00
140 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

Beautiful, Greater Than Living Beings, Noblest And Most Intelligent Vapor Painting (H12-1)

2023 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,302.00
266 Norman Ackroyd (1938-2024)

Fragments (Set of 12)

2018 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,048.00
294 Carlos Cruz Diez (1923-2019)

Untitled

1996 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,794.00
18 David Shrigley (b.1968)

Old Cat

2022 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,540.00
281 Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Seven Ages of Man, William Shakespeare (CGM 658-667)

1986 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,540.00
93 Dan Budnik (1933-2020)

Selma to Montgomery March, Triumphant Civil Rights leaders entering Montgomery on Oak Street, 25 March 1965

1965 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,286.00
7 Terry Frost (1915-2003)

Lizard Black (Kemp 139)

1995 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,159.00
32 Johnny Depp (b.1963)

Al Pacino, from Friends and Heroes (2022)

2022 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,159.00
146 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

H10-4. Suiko, from The Empresses

2022 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,159.00
147 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

H10-1. Wu Zetian, from the Empresses

2022 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,159.00
29 Terry O'Neill (1938-2019)

David Bowie, Diamond Dogs, Contact Sheet, 1974

1974 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
311 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Portrait de Ronsard, from Les Amours de Cassandre (Field 68-2-A; M&L 248c)

1968 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,905.00
49 Bob Dylan (b.1941)

Man on a Bridge, from The Drawn Blank Series (2010) (Large)

2010 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,651.00
71 Daniel Arsham (b.1980)

Tropical Cave of Zeus

2021 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,524.00
168 Chris Levine (b.1960)

The Lightness of Being (Freedom Edition)

2021 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,524.00
235 Anthony Fry (1927-2016)

Indian Landscape

1999 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,524.00
  • Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
  • Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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