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- Auction Name
- Online: Modern Literature
- Auction Date
- 12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
- Sale Number
- #1051
- Total Lots
- 334
- Sold Lots
- 302.0
- Lots Sold
- 90.42%
- Unsold Lots
- 32
- Total Sales (GBP)
- 136,303.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 67,550.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 95,100.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 78,460.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 111,240.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 122.53%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 228 | Milne (A.A.) | When We Were Very Young |
1924 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,318.00 |
| 1 | Mitford (Nancy) | The Pursuit of Love |
1945 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 34 | [Russell (George) | ] |
1936 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,286.00 |
| 94 | Cocteau (Jean) | La Difficultie D'etre |
1947 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,159.00 |
| 31 | Gregory (Isabella Augusta, Lady) | Seven Short Plays |
1909 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 2,159.00 |
| 24 | Yeats (William Butler) | Eight Poems |
1916 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 2,159.00 |
| 235 | Murdoch (Iris) | Under the Net |
1954 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,032.00 |
| 225 | McCarthy (Cormac) | The Road |
2006 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,905.00 |
| 268 | Remarque (Erich Maria) | All Quiet on the Western Front |
1929 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,905.00 |
| 234 | Murakami (Haruki) | The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
1991 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,778.00 |
| 246 | Orwell (George) | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
1949 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,778.00 |
| 115 | Du Maurier (Daphne) | The Loving Spirit |
1931 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,651.00 |
| 20 | Yeats (William Butler) | Where There Is Nothing: A Play in Five Acts. Supplement to The United Irishman |
1902 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,524.00 |
| 37 | Roosevelt (Franklin D.).- Lindley (Ernest K.) | Franklin D. Roosevelt. A Career in Progressive Democracy |
1931 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,397.00 |
| 174 | Hughes (Ted) | The Iron Giant |
1968 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,397.00 |
| 4 | Mitford (Nancy) | Noblesse Oblige |
1956 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,397.00 |
| 96 | Cornwell (Bernard) | Sharpe's Eagle |
1981 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,206.50 |
| 301 | Tolkien (J.R.R.) | A Middle English Vocabulary |
1922 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,143.00 |
| 100 | Cornwell (Bernard) | [The Saxon Stories] |
2004-2019 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,079.50 |
| 302 | Tolkien (J.R.R.) | The Hobbit |
1946 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,079.50 |
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![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
