Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Two Day Books, Maps, Ephemera and Works on Paper, 72926, Norwich

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 29, 2026 - July 30, 2026
Page Size: 1243 items in 50 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
202 Brett Simon

2 Titles, including: Star Trap

London 1977;1976 Not Available Unknown
203 Brett Simon

2 Titles, including: Dead Giveaway

London 1985;1978 Not Available Unknown
204 Bellairs George

11 Titles, including: The Case Of The Headless Jesuit

London 1950;1960;ND;1967;1965 GBP 20.00 - 35.00 Unknown
205 Deighton Len;Stout Rex;Simenon Georges;Chandler Raymond

4 Titles, including: An Expensive Place To Die

London;Cleveland 1967;1976;1946 GBP 30.00 - 60.00 Unknown
206 Corbett James

3 Titles, including: Gallows Wait

London ND GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
207 Bentley E C

Trent's Last Case

London ND Not Available Unknown
208 Cameron Don

White For A Shroud

London ND Not Available Unknown
209 Fox James M; Pollard A O

2 Titles, including: The Inconvenient Bride

London 1951; ND GBP 15.00 - 30.00 Unknown
210 Bramah Ernest; Tregarron Yate

2 Titles, including: The Specimen Case

London 1924; 1925 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
211 Charteris Leslie

5 Titles, including: Saint Overboards

London 1938; 1951; 1956; 1948; 1936 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
212 Dentinger Jane; Rosten Leo

Murder On Cue; The Return Of Hyman Kaplan

London 1985; 1959 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
213 Oppenheim E Phillips

What Happened To Forester; Mr Wingrave Millionaire; The Double Four

London 1929; 1919; 1931 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
214 Charteris Leslie

Saint Errant

London 1949 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
215 Christie Agatha

The Hound Of Death And Other Stories

London 1933 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
216 James P D

Original Sin

London 1994 Not Available Unknown
217 Deighton Len

Spy Story; Close Up; Yesterday's Spy

London 1974; 1972; 1975 GBP 10.00 - 25.00 Unknown
218 Chandler Raymond

The Raymond Chandler Omnibus

London 1953 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
219 Le Carre John

Our Game; The Tailor Of Panana; Absolute Friends; The Night Manager; A Perfect Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; The Secret Pilgrim; Omnibus; Absolute Friends; A Murder Of Quality

London 1995; 1996; 2004; 1993; 1986; 1977; 1991; 1979; 1979 GBP 25.00 - 55.00 Unknown
220 Deighton Len

Funeral In Berlin; Horse Under Water

London 1964; 1963 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
221 Tanner William

The Book Of Bond Or Every Man His Own 007

London 1965 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
222 Cross Mark

Once Too Often

London 1960 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
223 Doyle Arthur Conan

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

London 1961 GBP 15.00 - 20.00 Unknown
224 Le Carre John; Dexter Colin; Clarke Arthur C; Francis Dick

Smiley's People; The Remorseful Day; 3001 The Final Odyssey; Comeback

London 1980; 1999; 1997; 1991 Not Available Unknown
225 Knox Bill

17 Hardback Titles

N/A GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
226 Woolf Leonard; Adam Ruth; English Isobel; Whipple Dorothy; Mansfield Katherine; Laski Marghanita; Collins Wilkie; Miller Betty; Graham Virginia; Randell

Persephone Books

Bath c2000-2016 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000