Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 905, Edinburgh
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 16, 2026 - June 16, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baynes Pauline | A Story for Children |
London | 1950 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,778.00 |
| 2 | Blake Quentin; Bennett Jill; Burkert Nancy Ekholm; Schindelman Joseph; Pene du Bois William; Chaffin Donald | N Books, including: [The Witches] |
London | 1991 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,524.00 |
| 3 | Shepard Ernest H.; Milne A. A. | The House at Pooh Corner |
London | 1928 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,794.00 |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
London | 1998 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 12,065.00 | |
| 5 | Harry Potter |
London | 1999-2007 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,143.00 | |
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
London | 1997; 1998 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,540.00 | |
| 7 | Rowling J. K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
London | 1997-8 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 8 | Rowling J. K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
London | 1999 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,318.00 |
| 9 | Potter Rupert (1832-1914) | N Books, including: [The Tale of Jeremy Fisher] |
London | 1904; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 482.60 |
| 10 | Wagner Richard; Rackham Arthur | N Books, including: [The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie] |
London | 1907; 1910-11; 1913; 1917; 1918; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1929; 1931; 1932; 1933 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,016.00 |
| 11 | Fitzgerald Edward; Sangorski F.; Sutcliffe G. | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
London | [1911] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 12 | Tolkien J. R. R. | The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers; The Return of the King |
London | 1963; 1964; c.1950 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 |
| 13 | Tolkien J. R. R. | The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King |
London | 1959 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 14 | Tolkien J. R. R. | The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King |
London | 1956-6-5 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 762.00 |
| 15 | The King on His Throne |
London | 1904 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 16 | The Power and the Glory |
London | 1940 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 241.30 | |
| 17 | A Clockwork Orange |
London | 1962 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | |
| 18 | Prufrock and Other Observations |
London | 1907 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,159.00 | |
| 19 | Woolf Virginia | Monday or Tuesday |
Richmond | 1921 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,016.00 |
| 20 | Eliot T. S. | Ash-Wednesday |
London | 1930 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 762.00 |
| 21 | Brittain Vera | Testament of Youth |
London | 1933 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,524.00 |
| 22 | Sassoon Siegfried | War Poems; Counter-Attack and Other Poems; The Old Huntsman and Other Poems |
London | 1917; 1918; 1919 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 6,985.00 |
| 23 | Amis Kingsley; Larkin Philip; Auden W. H.; Spender Stephen; MacNeice Louis; Hall John Clark; Tolkien J. R. R. | 200 Books, including: Bright November; A Frame of Mind; Oxford Poetry 1942-1943; Oxford Poetry, 1928-1930 |
London; Reading; Oxford; Cambridge | 1928; 1929; 1930; 1941; 1942-1943; 1947; 1950; 1953 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,651.00 |
| 24 | Bloomfield A4 |
Belfast | 1951 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,445.00 | |
| 25 | A Novel |
London | 1953 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 355.60 |
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