Forum Auctions: Online: Fin-de-siecle, the gothic and weird, inc. further books from the Library of Barry Humphries, 62526, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
Page Size: 327 items in 14 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
78

6 Books, including: Yvonne or the Adventures and Intrigues of a French Governess

1899 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 825.50
79

Hommage des Artistes a Picquart

Paris 1899 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
80 Crowley Aleister

Jephthah and other Mysteries Lyrical and Dramatic

1899 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 698.50
81 Crowley Aleister

The Argonauts

1904 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
82 Crowley Aleister

In Residence: the Dons Guide to Cambridge; Olla

Cambridge 1904 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 508.00
83 Shiel M. P.

18 Books, including: The Last Miracle

1906 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,079.50
85 Pickthall Marmaduke

14 Books, including: All Fools. Being the Story of Some Very Young Men and a Girl

1900 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,079.50
86 Pickthall Marmaduke

Autograph manuscript for his novel "Said the Fisherman"

c.1903 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
87 Macfall Haldane

5 Books, including: The Masterfolk

1903 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
88 Barnitz David Park

The Book of Jade

New York 1901 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 533.40
89 Barbey d’Aurevilly Jules

What Never Dies

Paris 1902 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
90 Wilde Oscar

Vera: or, the Nihilists; 2 others

1902 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
91 Wilde Oscar

Art and Morality

1908 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,270.00
92 Wilde Oscar

Ballade de la geole de Reading par C33

Paris 1918 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
93 Harris Frank

Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

1918 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 241.30
94 Wilde Oscar

After Berneval. Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross

1922 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 762.00
95 Oliphant Margaret

Stories of the Seen and Unseen

1902 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 558.80
96 Carrington Charles; Farmer John Stephen

N Books, including: Forbidden Books

Paris 1902 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 533.40
97 Baynton Barbara

Bush Studies

1902 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
98 Gray John

Ad Matrem

1904 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
99 James Henry

Autograph Letter signed from the author to Aline Harland

1905 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
100 Swinburne Algernon Charles

Love's Cross-Currents. A Year's Letters

1905 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
101 Barbey d'Aurevilly J.

Le Rideau cramoisi

Brussels 1907 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
102 Geiger Willi

Das Gemeinsame Ziel und Anderes

Munich 1907 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
103 Lucian of Samosata

Die Hetaerengespraeche des Lukian

Leipzig 1907 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,810.00
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