Forum Auctions: 10th Anniversary Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale, 71626, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 16, 2026 - July 16, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | Evans Mary Ann | Middlemarch |
1871-72 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 128 | Austen Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
1894 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Unknown | |
| 129 | Simmons Owen | The Book of Bread |
1903 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 130 | Hardy Thomas | Tess of the d'Urbervilles; The Mayor of Casterbridge |
1925 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 131 | Keynes John Maynard | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
1936 | GBP 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 132 | Churchill Winston Spencer | The Second World War |
1948-54 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 133 | Churchill Winston Spencer | The Collected Essays |
1976 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 134 | Adams Richard | Watership Down |
1972 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 135 | Alain-Fournier Henri | Le Grand Meaulnes |
Paris | 1913 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 136 | Christie Agatha | Poirot Investigates |
1924 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 137 | Christie Agatha | Murder in Mesopotamia |
1936 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 138 | Cunard Nancy;Auden W.H.;Beckett Samuel;Eliot T.S.;Waugh Evelyn | Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War |
1937 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 139 | Dahl Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
New York | 1964 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 140 | Faulkner William | Light in August |
New York | 1932 | GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | Unknown |
| 141 | Fitzgerald F. Scott | Works |
1971-75 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 142 | Fleming Ian | Casino Royale |
1953 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 143 | Fleming Ian | You Only Live Twice |
1964 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 144 | Grahame Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows |
1908 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 145 | Heaney Seamus;Cooke Barrie | Bog Poems |
1975 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 146 | Heaney Seamus | Ugolino |
Dublin | 1979 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 147 | Heaney Seamus;Egan Felim | Squarings |
Dublin | 1991 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 148 | Hesse Hermann | Steppenwolf |
1929 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 149 | Huxley Aldous | Brave New World |
1932 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 150 | Ishiguro Kazuo | Never Let Me Go |
2005 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 151 | Larkin Philip | High Windows |
1974 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000