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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><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Hooke, Robert. <i>Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses.</i> London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Chappuzeau, Samuel. <i>The history of jewels,</i> first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Sowerby, James. <i>Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions,</i> London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.