Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Modern Literature, 896, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 09, 2024 - May 09, 2024

Page Size: 360 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
177	William M. Miller	Conditionally Human		1963	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 478.80
178	A. A. Milne	Now We Are Six		1927	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 239.40
179	A. A. Milne	The House at Pooh Corner		1928	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 176.40
180	Edwin Muir	Journeys and Places		1937	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 504.00
181	Iris Murdoch	The Flight from the Enchanter		1956	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 226.80
182	Margaret A. Murray	The God of the Witches		1933	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 327.60
183	V. S. Naipaul	A House for Mr Biswas		1961	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 352.80
184	Ada J. Graves	The House by the Railway		1896	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
185	William F. Nolan	and George Clayton Johnson. Logan's Run		1967	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,071.00
186	E.Phillips Oppenheim	Michael's Evil Deeds	Boston	1923	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 453.60
187	Joe Orton	Entertaining Mr Sloane		1964	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 126.00
188	George Orwell	Animal Farm	New York	1946	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 579.60
189	George Orwell	Coming up for Air		1950	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 882.00
190	George Orwell	The Complete Works		1986	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 945.00
191	Frank L. Packard	Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue	New York	1922	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 302.40
192	Eric Partridge	A Dictionary of the Underworld		1961	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 630.00
193	Boris Pasternak	Dr Zhivago		1958	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 504.00
194	Sylvia Plath	Fiesta Melons	Exeter,	1971	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 504.00
195	Sylvia Plath	Lyonesse		1971	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 504.00
196	Marcel Proust	Swann's Way		1923-22	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,008.00
197	Ayn Rand	Atlas Shrugged	New York	1957	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 630.00
198	Herbert Read	Pursuits and Verdicts		1983	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 277.20
199	George Remi	The Crab with the Golden Claws		1958	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 277.20
200	Ruth Rendell	From Doon with Death		1964	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 756.00
201	Ruth Rendell	Vanity Dies Hard		1966	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 378.00

Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
London auction, 11 June
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Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE BAL FIRST BINDING. $12,000 - $18,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY in wrappers. SIGNED BY PUZO. $3,000 - $5,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HUGHES, Langston. Scottsboro Limited. 1932. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN. $6,000 - $8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HOMANN, Johann Baptist, HOMANN HEIRS, and Georg Matthäus SEUTTER. [Composite Atlas]. [maps dated between 1728-1765]. $30,000 - $40,000.
Sotheby’s
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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD

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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Gates, Bill, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, N Y: Knopf, 2021; first edition, with a handwritten note from Bill Gates

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Something Happened, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, first edition, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, London: John Murray, 1818, in four volumes

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