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Cotswold Auction Company: Treasures in Boxes and Household Items

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Auction Name	Treasures in Boxes and Household Items	Total Sales (GBP)	5,289.82
Auction Date	November 17, 2024 - November 17, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	2,120.00
Sale Number	#111724	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	3,445.00
Total Lots	62
Sold Lots	61	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	2,200.00
% of Lots Sold	98.39%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	3,565.00
Unsold Lots	1	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	148.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2205	Golden Cockerel Press - Mottram , R .H.	" Strawberry Time and the Banquet"	1934	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 540.96
2224	Tomlinson H.M.	"All Our Yesterdays"		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 540.96
2222		Quantity of modern and mid-twentieth century authors to include Iris Murdoch, Lawrence Durrell , Muriel Spark , Len Deighton, John Braine,		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 360.64
2221	Stout, Rex	Stout, Rex - collection, Crime Club and other - The Father Hunt", " Three Witnesses" , " Trio For Blunt Instruments" ...		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 283.36
2207	Folio Society -	Benjamin Cowburn " No Cloak no Dagger " Dashiell Hammet " The Maltese Falcon" , Graham Greene " The Quiet American", Victoria Finlay " Colour", ...		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 231.84
2206	Folio Society	" The History of England"		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 206.08
2223	Powell, Anthony -	A Dance to the Music in Time - 1951 -1975	1951 -1975	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 206.08
2186		A large quantity of modern hardbacks mainly autobiographical and topographical		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 154.56
2190	Wolfe, Humbert	Wolfe, Humbert - large quantity to include 'This Blind Rose'	1928	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 141.68
2194	Egan, Pierce	"Sporting Anecdotes ..., Persons in Every Walk of Life ...,	1825	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 141.68
2199		Naval History and Warfare interest to include Roskill S.W.R " The War at Sea" 4 vols		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 141.68
2208		Quantity of Folio Society book sets to include Leo Tolstoy "The Collected Stories", Simon Shama "Citizens", Samuel Pepys diary ...		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 141.68
2216		Ephemera - various deeds - mid 19th century, mainly conveyancing , assorted receipts, invoices, postcards, pamphlets, souvenir guides, etc.	mid 19th century	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 141.68
2229		The Folio Society to include 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'		GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 141.68
2215		Naval history, Shipping and ships to include " Shipwrecks along the Atlantic Coast", ...		GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 122.36
2232		Quantity of The Architecture Illustrated magazines - and bound copies of plate from The Architect , " The Builder"		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 115.92
2230		"The Architect "- various vols, late 19thcentury	late 19th century	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 109.48
2187	complied by Brigadier-General J. Evett DSO	Historical Record of the 39th Royal Garhwal Rifles Volume One 1887-1922'	1922	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 103.04
2218		Medical interest to include the African Trypanosomiases, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Memoir 10,...		GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 96.60
2220	Le Carre, John	Le Carre, John - assorted First Editions - ' The Looking Glass War' , ' The Russia House' , ' The Little Drummer Girl'		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 77.28
2189		Detective and spy stories - to include large quantity of paperbacks,		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 70.84
2228	The Folio Society JRR Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings Trilogy three volumes in box set and 'The Hobbit'		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 64.40
2201	Andres, Hunisak and Turner	"The Art of Florence"		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 57.96
2202	Folio Society - Defoe, Daniel	" A Journal of the Plague Year" with woodcuts by Peter Pendry,	1960	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 57.96
2254		Two framed coloured prints of ceremonial elephants		GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 51.52

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD