Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Modern Literature, 940, London

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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
76 Conrad (Joseph)

The Arrow of Gold

1919 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 214.20
77 Cookson (Catherine, writer 1906-1998)

2 Typed Letters signed to Iris Davies

Bristol Lodge, Northumberland, 1987 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.60
78 Crowley (Aleister)

Ambergris

1910 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 604.80
79 Cunard (Nancy), W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, etc...

Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War

1937 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,134.00
80 Dahl (Roald)

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

1985 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 126.00
81 Dahl (Roald)

Matilda

1988 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 478.80
82 [Day-Lewis (Cecil)], "Nicholas Blake".

A Question of Proof

1935 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 226.80
83 [Day-Lewis (Cecil)], "Nicholas Blake".

The Beast Must Die

1938 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 630.00
84 [Day-Lewis (Cecil)], "Nicholas Blake".

Minute for Murder

1947 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 226.80
85 de la Mare (Walter)

The Connoisseur and other Stories

1926 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.00
86 Deighton (Len)

An Expensive Place to Die

1967 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 327.60
87 Dick (Philip K. )

The World Jones Made

1968 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 630.00
88 Diment (Adam)

The Bang Bang Birds

1968 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
89 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

The Lost World

1914 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,386.00
90 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

1894 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
91

Dust-jacket designs.- A Collection of c.240 dust-jacket proof file copies for Heinemann

late 20th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 327.60
92 Fassett (Kaffe)

Collection of 15 original illustrations for Pamela Harlech's 'Feast Without Fuss'

1975 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
93 Faulks (Sebastian)

A Trick of the Light

1984 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 277.20
94 Faulks (Sebastian)

[The French Trilogy]

1989 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 302.40
95 Faulks (Sebastian)

Devil May Care

2008 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.00
96 Fermor (Patrick Leigh)

& Deborah Devonshire. In Tearing Haste

2008 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 252.00
97 Fleming (Ian)

Live and Let Die

1954 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,071.00
98 Fleming (Ian)

From Russia With Love

1957 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,638.00
99 Fleming (Ian)

Dr. No

1958 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
100 Fleming (Ian)

Goldfinger

1959 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 945.00
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