Hansons: The Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions), 52026a, Etwall, Derbyshire
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park |
London | 1816 | GBP 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,875.00 |
| 2 | D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | Autograph Letter Signed to Frederic Moulder regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover |
1929 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 4,500.00 | |
| 3 | D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | Autograph Letters Signed to Frederic Moulder regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover |
1929 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 5,375.00 | |
| 4 | Aldous Huxley; D. H. Lawrence; Edwin Bjorkman | 8 Books, including: Sea and Sardinia |
London; New York | 1914; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1928; 1929; 1932 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Alexander Harvey | The Toe and other Tales |
New York | 1913 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,875.00 |
| 6 | James | The Workes of the Most High and Mighty Prince, James, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith |
London | 1616 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 687.50 |
| 7 | Rudyard Kipling | Just So Stories |
London | 1919 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 375.00 |
| 8 | Andrew Charles Parker Haggard (1854-1923); Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933); Gilbert Parker (1862-1932); Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944); Norman Douglas (1868-1952); Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | 7 Manuscripts, including: Autograph on card from Rudyard Kipling |
1912; 1926; 1927; 1928 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 100.00 | |
| 9 | Alfred Vogt (1879-1943); Georges Borach (1892-1934) | Autograph Letter Signed to James Joyce; Typed Letter Signed from Alfred Vogt |
1931 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 400.00 | |
| 10 | Andre Gide (1869-1951); Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966); Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) | 6 Manuscripts, including: Autograph Letter Signed by Andre Gide |
1931; 1932; 1933; 1936; 1943 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 168.75 | |
| 11 | Eugene Jolas | Transition; This Quarter |
Paris | 1927-1938; 1929 | GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,687.50 |
| 12 | Gertrude Stein | The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress |
Paris | 1925 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Gertrude Stein; G. Quitter-Allatini | Dix Portraits; Reves De Gloire, Prague la Ville D'Or |
Paris | c.1930; 1938 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 687.50 |
| 14 | Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer |
Paris | 1934 | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 875.00 |
| 15 | Henry Miller | Black Spring |
Paris | 1936 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 193.75 |
| 16 | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front; The Road Back |
London | 1929; 1931 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Aldous Huxley; Hendrik Van Loon; Moma Clarke | Ends and Means; The Story of Mankind; French Cameos |
London | c.1924; 1927; 1937 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 50.00 |
| 18 | Lord Byron; Samuel Johnson; Stephen Phillips; Walter Scott | 5 Books, including: Byron's Poems |
Edinburgh; London | 1814-1817; 1822; 1823; 1860; 1900 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | Harriet Shelley; James Haynes; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley; T. J. Wise | A Shelley Library; The Cenci: A Tragedy, In Five Acts |
London | 1820-1825; 1924 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 20 | Gerald H. Rendell; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Henry James; Joseph Adshead | 4 Books, including: Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Boston; London | 1834; 1853; 1878; 1910 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | Dr. G. J. Renier; Lord Alfred Douglas; Robert Harborough Sherard | Andre Gide's Wicked Lies about the Late Mr. Oscar Wilde in Algiers in January, 1895; A Letter from Lord Alfred Douglas on Andre Gide's Lies about Himself and Oscar Wilde; |
Calvi [Corsica] | 1933 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 193.75 |
| 22 | Brice Parain | La Morte de Jean Madec; La Morte De Socrate |
Paris | 1945; 1950 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London |
London | 1790 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 875.00 |
| 24 | Michael Arlen | The Green Hat |
London | 1924 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 25 | Marcus Aurelius; Meris Casaubon; M.S. Buck; Pierre Louys | Marcus Aurelius Antonius, His Meditations concerning Himselfe; Byblis Leda, a New Pleasure |
London; New York | 1900; 1920 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 81.25 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000 -
Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
Live Sale 24 JuneSotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.