Forum Auctions: Online: Fin-de-siecle, the gothic and weird, inc. further books from the Library of Barry Humphries, 62526, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Swinburne Algernon Charles | Songs Before Sunrise |
1871 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 304.80 | |
| 27 | Bierce Ambrose | The Fiend's Delight |
[1873] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 635.00 | |
| 28 | Bierce Ambrose | Can Such Things Be? |
New York | 1893 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 889.00 |
| 29 | Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan | The Evil Guest |
[1895] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 30 | Johnson Lionel | Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower |
Chester | 1885 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,556.00 |
| 31 | Gosse Edmund | Firdausi in Exile and other poems |
1885 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 482.60 | |
| 32 | Hearn Lafcadio | Gombo Zhebes. Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs |
New York | 1885 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 2,032.00 |
| 33 | Saltus Edgar | Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure |
New York | 1887 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 241.30 |
| 34 | Le Gallienne Richard | My Ladies' Sonnets |
1887 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 35 | Le Gallienne Richard | English Poems |
1892 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 406.40 | |
| 36 | Smith Elias | Atlas of Colored Plates illustrating Features of Anatomy, Surgery, Deformities |
Peoria, IL | 1889 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 37 | Romance of My Alcove |
London | 1889 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 39 | Dowson Ernest | Autograph letter signed to his good friend Charles Sayle |
[1890s] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 40 | The Magazine of the Blackburn Technical School |
Blackburn | 1891 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 215.90 | |
| 41 | Hickers Francis | Lucian's True History |
1894 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 381.00 | |
| 42 | O'Sullivan Vincent | The Houses of Sin |
1897 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 43 | Symons Arthur | Aubrey Beardsley |
1905 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 304.80 | |
| 44 | Paget Violet | Vanitas. Polite Stories |
1892 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,905.00 | |
| 45 | Couperus Louis | Ecstasy |
1892 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 533.40 | |
| 46 | Longus | Daphnis and Chloe |
1893 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 431.80 | |
| 47 | Harraden Beatrice | Ships that Pass in the Night |
1893 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 457.20 | |
| 48 | Warren John Leicester | Poems |
1893 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 431.80 | |
| 49 | Schwob Marcel | Mimes |
Paris | 1894 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 825.50 |
| 50 | Smithers Leonard C. | The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam |
1894 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 330.20 | |
| 51 | Harris Frank | Elder Conklin and other stories |
New York | 1894 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 304.80 |
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