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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Ross Alan | A Notebook in Corsica |
London | 1948 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 304.80 |
| 27 | Waugh Evelyn; Benson Theodora; Mitford Nancy | 21 Books, including: Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender; Labels; Vile Bodies; The First Time I Went to the North |
London | 1930; 1931; 1935; 1936; 1942; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1952; 1952-55-61; 1957 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,206.50 |
| 28 | Naipaul V. S. | 18 Books, including: The Mystic Masseur; The Suffrage of Elvira; Miguel Street; A House for Mr Biswas; Mr Stone and the Knights Companion |
London; Los Angeles, CA | 1957-81; 1980 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 698.50 |
| 29 | Powell Anthony | 21 Books, including: A Question of Upbringing; A Buyer's Market; The Acceptance World; The Military Philosopher's; Books do Furnish a Room |
London | 1955-75 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 762.00 |
| 30 | Hanley James | 43 Books, including: Drift; Boy; Resurrexit Dominus; Stoker Haslett; At Bay |
London; Chipping Campden | 1930; 1931; 1932; 1934; 1935; 1944; 1946 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 533.40 |
| 31 | Boyd William; Barnes Julian; Lodge David | 28 Books, including: A Good Man in Africa; School Ties; Protobiography; A Haunting; Metroland; Duffy; Fiddle City; Putting the Boot In |
London | 1980; 1981; 1987; 1998; 2000; 2001; 1960; 1962; 1965 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,079.50 |
| 32 | Adams Douglas | 5 Books, including: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
London | 1979; 1980 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 533.40 |
| 33 | Gray Alasdair; Beckett Samuel; Larkin Philip | 21 Books, including: Lanark; Waiting for Godot; The Whitsun Weddings |
Edinburgh; London | 2001; 1956; 1964 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 889.00 |
| 34 | Valery Paul; Russell Bertrand; Heyerdahl Thor; Ede H. S.; Beaton Cecil; Gibbon Edward; Milne A. A.; Masefield John | 30 Books, including: Eupalinos, or the Architect; History of Western Philosophy; The Kon-Tiki Expedition; A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska |
London | 1932; 1946; 1950; 1930; 1945; 1961; 1927; 1926 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 762.00 |
| 35 | Dracula |
London; Westminster | 1901 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 | |
| 36 | Mitchell Margaret | Gone with the Wind |
1936 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 381.00 | |
| 37 | Malory Thomas; Joyce James; Tolstoy Leo; Cervantes Miguel de; Boccaccio Giovanni; Trollope Anthony; Shakespeare William | 7 Books, including: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur |
2003; 2004; 2006; 2005; 2007; 2015; 2009 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,524.00 | |
| 38 | Chaucer Geoffrey | The Kelmscott Chaucer |
London | 2002 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 698.50 |
| 39 | Malory Thomas | The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur |
Oxford | 1933 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 584.20 |
| 40 | A Book of Autographs |
1901-15 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 8,255.00 | ||
| 41 | Eroica |
Newtown | 1932 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 42 | Les Maitres de l'Affiche |
Paris | 1914-1915 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 43 | Sabbag Robert | Snowblind |
Edinburgh | 1998 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 44 | Coleridge Samuel Taylor | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Bristol | 1929 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 482.60 |
| 45 | The Thesis; The Letters |
London | 1936 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 46 | Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
Fordingbridge | 1997 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 47 | Shaw Thomas Edward | Autograph Letter Signed T. E. S. |
1928 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 | |
| 48 | Forster E M | 5 Autograph Letters and Notes |
1939; 1963; 1964 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | |
| 49 | Shaw Thomas Edward | Autograph letters and note |
1926-30 | GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 24,130.00 | |
| 50 | Strachey Lytton | Autograph letters |
1919-27 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,651.00 |
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