Hansons: The Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions), 52026a, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Page Size: 252 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Jolas Eugene

I Have Seen Monsters and Angels; The Language of the Night; Cinema: Poems

Paris; The Hague (Holland); New York 1938; 1932; 1926 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 118.75
27 Cather Willa; Whitman Walt; Symonds John Addington

Shadows on the Rock; Leaves of Grass; Walt Whitman: A Study

New York; Boston; London 1931; 1899; 1893 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 300.00
28 Shaw Bernard; Terry Ellen; St. John Christopher

9 Books, including: The Doctor's Dilemma

London; New York 1911; 1921; 1910; 1930; 1939; 1933; 1891; 1931 GBP 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
29 Moore George; Bennett Arnold

4 Books, including: In Single Strictness

London; New York 1922; 1912; 1895; 1926 GBP 60.00 - 120.00 GBP 75.00
30 St. Vincent Millay Edna

5 Books, including: The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems

London; New York & London 1928; c. 1930; 1923; 1931 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
31 Craig Edward Gordon; Fitch George Hamlin

Nothing or the Bookplate of Edward Gordon Craig; Comfort Found in Old Books

London; San Francisco 1925; 1911 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 42.50
32 Moore Thomas

Moore's Poetical Works

London 1861-1868 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 143.75
33 Harris Frank

My Life

Nice 1925 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 81.25
34 James Henry; Lawrence T. E.; O'Neil Eugene; Meyrink; Galsworthy John; Maugham W. Somerset

6 Books, including: A Small Boy and Others

London; New York 1913; 1927; 1928; 1928; 1932; 1919 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
35 Stuart John Watson

5 Books, including: The Gentleman’s and Citizens Almanack for 1814

Dublin 1814 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 25.00
36 Kipling Rudyard

The Jungle Book; Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses

New York; London 1894; 1892 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
37 Kipling Rudyard

The Light that Never Failed; Many Inventions

London 1891; 1893 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
38 Riding Laura; Hall Ratcliffe; Barker Elsa; Woolf Virginia

5 Books, including: Love as Love, Death as Death

London; Paris 1928; 1914; 1917; 1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 375.00
39 Milton John

Lycidas

Paris 1933 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 450.00
40 Wassermann Jacob; Wells H. G.

6 Books, including: My Life As A German And Jew

London; New York 1934; 1928; 1935; c. 1929; 1934; 1927 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
41 Alestree Richard; Wister Owen; Ferguson Samuel; Newman John Henry; Wilmshurst W. L.

5 Books, including: The Causes of Christian Piety

London; New York 1671; 1915; 1868; 1864; 1928 GBP 100.00 - 250.00 GBP 87.50
42 Tomlinson H. M.; Harte Bret; Barrie J. M.; Wilde Oscar; Jerome Jerome K.

6 Books, including: All Our Yesterdays

London; Boston; New York 1930; 1871; 1909; c. 1932; c. 1885; 1898 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 25.00
43 Berry Jean; Ward Mrs. Humphry; Meredith George; Gide Andre; Tridon Andre; Ramacharake Yogi

7 Books, including: Finding Oneself in the Universe

New York; Paris; Chicago 1923; 1897; 1894; 1922; 1919; 1905 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
44 Marquis de Sade

La Nouvelle Justine, ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu, Suivie de l’Histoire de Juliette, Sa Soeur

En Hollande; Paris 1797; 1799-1801 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
45 Arthur William Johnson (1920-2004); Tobolka Zdenek

Kniha

Praha 1949 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 937.50
46 Arthur William Johnson (1920-2004)

The Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding

London 1978 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,250.00
47 Arthur William Johnson (1920-2004); Hartnoll Phyllis

The Grecian Enchanted

London 1952 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 937.50
48

Operation Overlord strategic planning dossier

1943 GBP 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
50 William Golding (1911-1993); Sam Neill; Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008); Laurie Lee (1914-1997); Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993); Beryl Cook (1926-2008); Glenda Jackson (1936-2023); Bill Tidy (1933-2023); Tony Benn; Dora Bryan; Joan Bakewell; Barry Fantoni; Jos Ac

Archive of source material for Yours Faithfully, Letters From the Famous About God and Celebrities' Favourite Books

1986; 1988; 1990; 2009 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 937.50
51 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944)

An archive of testimonials endorsing the Hammond organ

1938-39 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 187.50
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’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. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’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. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’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. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’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. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’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 June
    Sotheby’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.