Forum Auctions: The Library of Barry Humphries, 1172, London

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 26, 2025 - March 26, 2025
Page Size: 243 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 [Voigt (Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von)], "Alastair"

22 Autograph Letters on 39 pages...

Paris [c.1927-32] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
177 Nesbit (E.)

Fear...

1910 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
178 Eric Herald Macbeth Robertson (1887-1941)

Three Figures

1911 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
179 Custance (Olive)

The Inn of Dreams

1911 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
180 Blackwood (Algernon)

Pan's Garden

1912 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
181 Swain (E. G.)

Stoneground Ghost Tales

Cambridge 1912 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
182 Mann (Thomas)

Der Tod in Venedig

1914 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
183 Spare (Austin Osman)

The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love), The Psychology of Ecstasy

1913 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
184 France (Anatole)

Aussourd (Rene, binder).- Ce Que Disent Nos Morts...

1916 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
185 Badreddine-el-Bass Raoui (Hassan)

van Dongen (Kees).- Conte des 1001 Nuits

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
186 Fuller (Henry Blake)

Autograph manuscripts of 2 short stories

[c.1880] GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
187 [Fuller (Henry Blake)]

Autograph manuscript comprising the first four chapters of an unfinished novel

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
188 Fuller (Henry Blake)

5 A.L.s. and 1 T.L.s. from Fuller to Llewellyn Jones

[c.1918-26] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
189 Baudu (Rene)

Chimot (Edouard).-Les Apres-Midi de Montmartre

Paris [1919] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
190 Otto Schoff (1884-1938)

Lady seated in a fur coat

[circa 1920s] GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
191 Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)

Two nude women (Sunita)

[circa 1920] GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
192

This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
193 Waller (Pickford Robert)

A sketchbook with over 180 pp. of original drawings...

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
194 Baudelaire (Charles)

Magron (Dominique Jouvet).- IX poemes des Fleurs du mal

[1920s] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
195 Baudelaire (Charles)

Magron (Dominique Jouvet).- Les VI poemes des Fleurs du Mal condamnees en 1857

[probably Paris] [c.1930] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
196 Baudelaire (Charles)

Blanchetiere (Henri, binder).- Les Fleurs du Mal

1923 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
197 France (Anatole)

Vaillant (Jean, binder).- Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux

Paris 1921 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
198 Verlaine (Paul)

Farge (Henri).- Les Amies. Scene d'Amour Sapphique

Paris 1921 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
199 Louys (Pierre)

Kieffer (Rene, binder).- Aphrodite

Paris 1923 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
200 Pellar (Hans)

Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo'

1919 and 1922 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
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