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Auction Date
December 05, 2024 - December 05, 2024
Page Size: 261 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Beerbohm (Max)

Zuleika Dobson

1911 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 239.40
27 Bennett (Alan)

Untold Stories

2005 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 214.20
28 Betjeman (John, editor)

Collins Guide to English Parish Churches

1958 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 529.20
29 Blackwood (Algernon)

The Dance of Death

1927 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 478.80
30 Blackwood (Algernon)

Strange Stories

1929 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 478.80
31 Blake (Quentin).- Tolkien (J.R.R.)

& E.V. Gordon

1949 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 214.20
32 Blish (James)

A Case for Conscience

1959 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
33 Blyton (Enid)

The Twins of St Clare's

1943 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
34 Bond (Michael)

More About Paddington

1959 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 302.40
35 Boyd (William)

Stars and Bars

1984 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.00
36 Boyne (John)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2006 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 201.60
37 Bradbury (Ray)

The Last Circus and The Electrocution

1980 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 107.10
38 Bradley (Helen)

4 Autograph Letters signed to her publisher Tom Maschler

1971 -n.d. 1970-79 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.00
39 Brent-Dyer (Elinor)

The Rivals of the Chalet School

1929 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
40 Brent-Dyer (Elinor)

The Exploits of the Chalet Girls

1933 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,386.00
41 Brent-Dyer (Elinor)

The New Chalet School

1938 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,394.00
42 Briggs (Raymond)

Father Christmas

1973 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
43 Briggs (Raymond)

Collection of Autograph Letters signed to Tom Maschler

v.s., v.d. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.20
44 Brookner (Anita)

Hotel du Lac

New York 1985 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 18.90
45 Buchan (John)

The Moon Endureth

1912 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 352.80
46 Buchan (John)

The Thirty-Nine Steps

1915 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 201.60
47 Buchan (John)

The King's Grace

1935 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 69.30
48 Burningham (John)

Collection of Correspondence to his publishers at Jonathan Cape

Hampstead, London, 1977-1996 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 327.60
49 Burroughs (William S.)

The Naked Lunch

Paris, 1959 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
50 ?apek (Karel)

R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots

Prague 1924 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 428.40
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