Forum Auctions: Online: Modern Literature, 42326, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 23, 2026 - April 23, 2026

Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	Disch Thomas M.; Peake Mervyn; Ballard J.G.; Aldiss Brian W.	334		1972; 1975; 1969	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
127	Douglas Norman	Unprofessional Tales		1901; 1929; 1927; 1925	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
128	Drinkwater John; Seymour William Kean; Gibson Wilfrid	The Gentle Art of Theatre-Going		1927; 1927; 1946; 1932	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
129	Du Maurier Daphne	My Cousin Rachel		1951; 1941; 1943	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 228.60
130	Durrell Gerald	My Family and Other Animals		1956; 1953; 1954	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 228.60
131	Eliot T.S.	The Criterion. A Quarterly Review		1923-1937; 1954	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
132	Eliot T.S.	A Song for Simeon		1928; 1927; ND	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,778.00
133	Eliot T.S.	Four Quartets		1944; 1931; 1962	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 952.50
134	Eliot T.S.	Geoffrey Faber 1889-1961		1961	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 584.20
135	Fanthorpe U.A.	Selected Poems	Liskeard	1986	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
136	Faulks Sebastian	The French Trilogy		1989; 1993; 1998	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 127.00
137	Ferguson John	The Man in the Dark		1928	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
138	Ferguson Rachel	False Goddesses		1923; 1934; 1933	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 228.60
139	Figes Eva	Equinox		1966; 1972; 1977	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
140	Fleming Ian	Moonraker		1958	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
141	Fleming Ian	Diamonds are Forever		1956	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,286.00
142	Fleming Ian	From Russia, With Love		1961	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 533.40
143	Fleming Ian	Goldfinger		1959	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 457.20
144	Fleming Ian	For Your Eyes Only		1960; 1961; 1957	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
145	Fleming Ian	The Spy Who Loved Me		1962; 1964; 1965	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
146	Fleming Ian	On Her Majesty's Secret Service		1963; 1964; 1965; 1966	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 508.00
147	Fleming Ian; Deighton Leigh; Harris Thomas	The Man with the Golden Gun		1965; 1963; 1982	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
148	Ford Ford Madox	The Good Soldier		1915	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,016.00
149	Forsyth Frederick; Clancy Tom	The Odessa File		1972; 2002	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 127.00
150	Fowles John	The Aristos	Boston	1964	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 558.80

Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7

Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000

Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500

Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000

Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000

Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.