Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Churchill, Military, History and Fiction Books and Ephemera, 82425, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 24, 2025 - August 24, 2025

Page Size: 328 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	MILNE, A.A.	The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1978	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
2	MILNE, A.A.	The Christopher Robin Story Book... Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.	London	1929	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
3	MILNE, A.A.	Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.	London	1927	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
4	MILNE, A.A.	Now We Are Six. With Decorations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1977	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,206.50
5	MILNE, A.A.	Winnie-the-Pooh. With colour illustrations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1973	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,540.00
6	MILNE, A.A.	When We Were Very Young. With Decorations by E.H. Shepard.	London	1974	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
7	Jane Austen	Five novels by Jane Austen, all are from the uniform edition	in London	1907-1909	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
8		Official Souvenir of the First of Australia's 150th Anniversary Major Sporting Events. A Hughie Dwyer Presentation... between Dick Humphries (Champion) and Allan Westbury (Challenger).	Newcastle	1938	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
9	CHURCHILL, Winston S.	A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.	London	1956-1958	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
10		A complete set of the Second World War Speeches of Winston Churchill, and all are first editions.			AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,524.00
11		Scarce Churchill ephemera, being a pamphlet of eight pages printed on wartime paper stock.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
12		This document is titled "Despatch of Vice-Admiral de Robeck reporting the Landing of the Army on the Gallipoli Peninsula..."		1915	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
13		Self-published account of a Sydney yacht named "Rawhiti", on the high seas to New Zealand (a voyage of 1,200 miles in ten-and-a-half days).		1947	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
14	WOODS, Frederick.	A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill.	London	1979	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
15	SCOTT, Robert F.	Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I Being the Journals of Captain Robert R.F. Scott, R.N. Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition arranged by Leonard Huxley.	London	1913	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 254.00
16	KRAUS, Rene.	Young Lady Randolph. The Life and Times of Jennie Jerome, American Mother of Winston Churchill.	New York	1943	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
17	CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.	Great Contemporaries.	London	1937	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 349.25
18	URQUHART, Frederick (editor) and NICOLSON, Harold (foreword).	W.S.C. A Cartoon Biography.	London	1955	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
19	KNOX, Russell.	National Government. The Churchill Way.	Adelaide	circa1940	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
20	DANIELL, C.R.	Rebellion and Remedy in India. Part I. The Causes.	Dacca (Dhaka present-day Bangladesh]	circa1932	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 2,286.00
21	CHURCHILL, Winston S.	India. Speeches and an introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill P.C., C.H., M.P.	London	1931	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
22	CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.	My African Journey.	London	1908	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
23	[CHURCHILL, Winston].	The Bravest Deed I Ever Saw. Stories of Personal Experience.	London	1905	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
24		Lithographic portrait of Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty,		not dated but circa 1914	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
25	BACON, Admiral Sir Reginald, MAURICE, General Sir Frederick.	The World Crisis by Winston Churchill. A Criticism by Colonel the Lord Sydenham of Combe...	London	no date but 1927	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold

Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.

Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.

Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.

Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.

Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.

Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.

Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.

Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.

Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo.
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