Hansons: An Éminence Grise of the Arts: The Collection of Véra Russell (1911-1992), 40126, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 01, 2026 - April 01, 2026
Page Size: 196 items in 8 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Sergio de Castro (Argentine, 1922-2012)

King Henry VIII

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 263.60
127

[Motley Theatre Design Group]...

N/A GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 131.80
128 Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994), Romanian-French playwright

Autograph Letter Signed to Vera [Russell]...

1962-09-18 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 125.21
129 Yolanda Sonnabend (British, 1922-2012)

Vera Russell

N/A GBP 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
130

[MUSICIANS & COMPOSERS]. A small archive of correspondence (Autograph Letters Signed, Autograph Notes Signed, Typed Letters Signed)...

N/A GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 527.20
131 Denis ApIvor (1916-2004), British Modernist composer known for his Royal Ballet scores A Mirror For Witches (1952) and Blood Wedding (1953)

An original manuscript music score for "La Belle Dame sans Merci", set to the words of John Keats

[c. 1952] GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
132

A miscellaneous group of Autograph Letters & Notes Signed to Vera and John Russell...

N/A GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 276.78
133 Vera Russell (1911-1992)

A collection of 23 personal diaries & address books featuring contact details for numerous important figures including Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Bernard Leach, Lucie Rie, Samuel Beckett, Roald Dahl, C. S. Foreste

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 764.44
134

[WAR REPORTING]. An archive of material recording Vera Russell's brief career as a war reporter, 1942-50...

N/A GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,372.40
135 Vera Russell (1911-1992)

[POLIAKOFF FAMILY]. An archive of photographs of Vera during her youth, her parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles...

N/A GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 606.28
136 Arthur Szyk (Polish-American, 1894-1951)

The original design for the Ex Libris of noted journalist Vladimir Poliakoff (1864-1956)

1933 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 4,217.60
137 POLIAKOFF, (Vladimir)

A collection of works by Poliakoff...

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 474.48
138 [James Joyce]

An archive comprising: Vera Russell's manuscript notes recording conversations with Paul Ruggiero and Carola Giedion-Welcker in 1964-65...

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,647.50
139 Edward Meneeley (American, 1927-2012)

Illustrations for Tender Buttons...

N/A GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 210.88
140 Paul Eluard (1895-1952), poet of the French Resistance

[LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS]. A small collection comprising: A signed presentation copy of "Hands From Pictures in the National Gallery"...

N/A GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 303.14
141

[LIMITED EDITIONS / LIVRES D'ARTISTE & OTHER ART BOOKS]...

N/A GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 197.70
142

[LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS]. A small collection...

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 131.80
143

[ART MISCELLANY]. A mixed collection to include: The Mask: A Monthly Journal of the Art of the Theatre...

N/A GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 263.60
144

[LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS]. A small collection...

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 237.24
145 Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)

Images a la Sauvette

Paris 1939 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 171.34
146 Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Gerald Barry (1898-1968)

[c.1945] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 817.16
147 DAHL, (Roald)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

New York 1964 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 7,249.00
148 Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Autograph Letters and Notes Signed to Vera and John [Russell]

N/A GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 632.64
149 Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

German polymath. An archive comprising: 4 Autograph Letters Signed by Schweitzer to John Russell...

N/A GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,054.40
150

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. A collection of original Kodachrome transparency slides comprising five of Lee Miller (1907-1977)...

[1963-64] GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 131.80
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