Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 827, Edinburgh

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 05, 2025 - February 05, 2025
Page Size: 393 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
276 Children's and illustrated books

Collection of works - Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - Richard Wagner. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie.

London 1910 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 945.00
277 Tolkien, J. R. R.

[The Lord of the Rings] - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King.

London 1955 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 4,536.00
278 Wells, H.G.

The Time Machine -

London 1895 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 403.20
279 Christie, Agatha

The Murder at the Vicarage -

London 1930 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 453.60
280 Woolf, Virginia

The Years -

London 1937 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
281 Larkin, Philip

High Windows -

London 1974 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 630.00
282 Hardy, Thomas

4 works - Far From the Madding Crowd.

London 1874 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 504.00
283 Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World - A Novel.

London 1933 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,638.00
284 Mitchell, J. Leslie [pseudonym: Lewis Grassic Gibbon] (1901-1935)

Spartactus -

London 1933 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 352.80
285 Jones, David

In Parenthesis - seinyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu.

London 1936 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 693.00
286 Forster, E.M.

4 books from his library - Landells, E. The Boy's Own Toy-Maker: a Practical Illustrated Guide to the Useful Employment of Leisure Hours. Sixth Edition.

London 1873 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
287 Graves, Robert

Good-Bye To All That -

London 1929 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 882.00
288 Sassoon, Siegfried

Group of works by Sassoon and books from his library - Sassoon, Siegfried. The War Poems.

London 1919 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
289 Thomas, Edward

Group of works - Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds.

London 1915 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 504.00
290 Thomas, Edward (his copy)

Poems by Lady Margaret Sackville -

London 1901 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,071.00
291 Owen, Wilfred

Poems - With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.

London 1920 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,284.00
292 [Manning, Frederic]

The Middle Parts of Fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916 -

London 1929 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 554.40
293

War novels and poetry - Collection of works - Waugh, Evelyn. [Sword of Honour trilogy:] Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender.

London 1952-55-61. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 378.00
294

First World War poets and novelists - Collection of works

London 1916 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,260.00
295 Beardsley, Aubrey, and Others

The Yellow Book -

London 1894-7. GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,197.00
296 Detective and adventure fiction

Detective and adventure fiction - Collection of novels in the dust jackets, 1920s and later -

1940 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,772.00
297 Spy and adventure novels

Spy and adventure novels - Collection of works in the dust jackets, 1920s-40s, many with exotic settings -

London 1929 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,638.00
298 Aviation fiction

Aviation fiction - Collection of aviation adventure novels, mainly 1930s -

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 819.00
299 Nautical fiction

Nautical fiction - Collection of nautical adventure novels, mainly 1930s -

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 756.00
300 Crime fiction

Crime fiction - Collection of American crime, detective and adventure novels in the dust jackets, 1910s-50s

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,386.00
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