Hansons: The Library Auction, 22625, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025
Page Size: 256 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 ELIOTT, E. C.

Kemlo and the Martian Ghosts, 1954; Kemlo and the Craters of the Moon, 1955; Kemlo and the Space Lanes...

GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 375.00
102 NABOKOV, Vladimir.

Lolita

Paris 1955 GBP 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,812.50
103

A selection of Edna O'Brien, including: The Country Girls, SIGNED FIRST edition

GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.00
104 [CROSSFIELD, E. M.].

A Three Months Shooting Diary in British East Africa, 8vo, illustrated cloth, untrimmed edges

1906 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 181.25
105 GILES, Ronald "Carl".

Giles: Daily Express & Sunday Express Cartoons, [the very first Giles annual]

Watford 1946 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
106 JOHNS, (Captain W. E.).

Biggles Breaks the Silence; Another Job for Biggles; Biggles' Second Case; Biggles Fails to Return, ...

1949,1951, 1949; 1950 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 68.75
107

Selection of children's books, including: Biggles Takes A Hand,1963. _ Puffin, Twink & Waggle At the Seaside, c. 1942....

GBP 30.00 - 60.00 GBP 47.50
108

Quantity of books from 19th and 20th century, including: GOLDING, William. The Spire._ AMIS, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman. ...

19th and 20th century GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 75.00
109

Complete 13 volumes of Collins About Britain

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
110 HANKS, Tom.

Uncommon Type,

London 2017 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 75.00
111

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932 - Meeting at the Sphinx, 1946, ...

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
112

Selection of classic Children's books, including: Father Christmas Goes on Holiday

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
113

A collection of classics, including: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, in 4 vol.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 475.00
114

Quality editions of the classics published by The Folio Society, including: London Characters and Crooks

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.00
115

MODERN FIRSTS. The L-Shaped Room, by Lynne Reid Banks

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
116

Adult graphic novels include: Peter Nagarya, Cha Cha Comics

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 156.25
117 JACKSON, Sheila (Illust.).

Ballet in England: A Book of Lithographs, Together with Dogs of Character, by Cecil Aldin...

London & New York London/ New York 1945, 1927, 1845 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.00
118 WAIN, Louis (Illust.).

The Cat Scouts, A Picture-Book for Little Folk, Verses & Tales by Jessie Pope

London 1912 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 81.25
119 H.G. Wells

Collection of H.G. Wells, including: Ann Veronica

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.50
120

Ladybird. A collection of approximately 200-300 vintage Ladybird books

1950s to 1990s GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 125.00
121

Selection P.G. Wodehouse: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

London 1963 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 87.50
122 P.G. Wodehouse

A collection of P.G. Wodehouse: Full Moon

London 1947 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 100.00
123 P.G. Wodehouse

A collection of P.G. Wodehouse: Do Butlers Burgle Banks?,

London 1968 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 181.25
124 P.G. Wodehouse

A Collection of P.G. Wodehouse: Frozen Assets

London 1964 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 52.50
125 CLAVREUL, Denis (Illust.).

Dreaming of Africa

New York 2001 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
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