Gorringes: Weekly Featuring Books, 22425, Lewes

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 24, 2025 - February 24, 2025
Page Size: 258 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1392 Piper, John

Brighton Aquatints. Twelve original aquatints of modern Brighton with short descriptions by the artist

1939 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,100.00
1393 Moore, George

Heloise and Abelard.

1921 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
1394 Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows

1908 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,600.00 GBP 2,625.00
1395 Ecclesiasticus

The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach

1932 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,231.25
1396 Shakespeare, William

The Works of Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare)

1904-26 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 65.63
1397 Perrault, Charles

Tales of Passed Times

1922 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 65.63
1398 Twain, Mark

The Prince and the Pauper

1881 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 78.75
1399

Olsen's Fisherman's Nautical Almanack

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 52.50
1400 Woolf, Virginia

To The Lighthouse

1927 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,181.25
1401 Pratchett, Terry

Reaper Man. First Edition

London 1991 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 131.25
1402 Hirst, Damien

The Souls I-IV. First Edition.

2011 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 236.25
1403 Marcus Aurelius Antonius

[Thoughts]

London 1908 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 65.63
1404 Campbell, Bruce

The Bird Paintings of Henry Jones

1976 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 98.44
1405 Rego, Paula

Nursery Rhymes

London 1994 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 472.50
1406 Tolkien, J. R. R.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers ; The Return of the King

1977 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 144.38
1407 Folio Society

Shakespeare, William. 31 vols

1960's-70's GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 170.63
1408 Folio Society

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

London 1973 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 223.13
1409 Folio Society

Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron

1969] GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
1410 Russell, Bertland

History of Western Philosophy

1946 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 498.75
1411 Wilde, Oscar

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 420.00
1412 Blaber, David

Haixls, Brussels 1994

1994 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1413 Conan Doyle, Arthur

Works; Sherlock Holmes Long Stories; Sherlock Holmes Short Stories; Historical Romances (2) & Stories,

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 630.00
1414 Boyd, William

A Good Man in Africa

1981 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 393.75
1415 Isherwood, Christopher.

The World In The Evening,

1954 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1417 Waugh, Evelyn

A Handful of Dust

1934 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 446.25
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    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
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    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Lansford W. Hastings. The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California. Cincinnati. George Conclin, 1845. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE SCARCE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS.
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