Hansons: The Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions), 52026a, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Page Size: 252 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

London 1816 GBP 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,875.00
2 D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Autograph Letter Signed to Frederic Moulder regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover

1929 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 4,500.00
3 D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Autograph Letters Signed to Frederic Moulder regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover

1929 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 5,375.00
4 Aldous Huxley; D. H. Lawrence; Edwin Bjorkman

8 Books, including: Sea and Sardinia

London; New York 1914; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1928; 1929; 1932 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
5 Alexander Harvey

The Toe and other Tales

New York 1913 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,875.00
6 James

The Workes of the Most High and Mighty Prince, James, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith

London 1616 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 687.50
7 Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

London 1919 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 375.00
8 Andrew Charles Parker Haggard (1854-1923); Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933); Gilbert Parker (1862-1932); Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944); Norman Douglas (1868-1952); Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

7 Manuscripts, including: Autograph on card from Rudyard Kipling

1912; 1926; 1927; 1928 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 100.00
9 Alfred Vogt (1879-1943); Georges Borach (1892-1934)

Autograph Letter Signed to James Joyce; Typed Letter Signed from Alfred Vogt

1931 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 400.00
10 Andre Gide (1869-1951); Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966); Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)

6 Manuscripts, including: Autograph Letter Signed by Andre Gide

1931; 1932; 1933; 1936; 1943 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 168.75
11 Eugene Jolas

Transition; This Quarter

Paris 1927-1938; 1929 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,687.50
12 Gertrude Stein

The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress

Paris 1925 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
13 Gertrude Stein; G. Quitter-Allatini

Dix Portraits; Reves De Gloire, Prague la Ville D'Or

Paris c.1930; 1938 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 687.50
14 Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

Paris 1934 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 875.00
15 Henry Miller

Black Spring

Paris 1936 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 193.75
16 Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front; The Road Back

London 1929; 1931 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
17 Aldous Huxley; Hendrik Van Loon; Moma Clarke

Ends and Means; The Story of Mankind; French Cameos

London c.1924; 1927; 1937 GBP 60.00 - 120.00 GBP 50.00
18 Lord Byron; Samuel Johnson; Stephen Phillips; Walter Scott

5 Books, including: Byron's Poems

Edinburgh; London 1814-1817; 1822; 1823; 1860; 1900 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
19 Harriet Shelley; James Haynes; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley; T. J. Wise

A Shelley Library; The Cenci: A Tragedy, In Five Acts

London 1820-1825; 1924 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 75.00
20 Gerald H. Rendell; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Henry James; Joseph Adshead

4 Books, including: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Boston; London 1834; 1853; 1878; 1910 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
21 Dr. G. J. Renier; Lord Alfred Douglas; Robert Harborough Sherard

Andre Gide's Wicked Lies about the Late Mr. Oscar Wilde in Algiers in January, 1895; A Letter from Lord Alfred Douglas on Andre Gide's Lies about Himself and Oscar Wilde;

Calvi [Corsica] 1933 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 193.75
22 Brice Parain

La Morte de Jean Madec; La Morte De Socrate

Paris 1945; 1950 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
23 Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London

London 1790 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 875.00
24 Michael Arlen

The Green Hat

London 1924 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
25 Marcus Aurelius; Meris Casaubon; M.S. Buck; Pierre Louys

Marcus Aurelius Antonius, His Meditations concerning Himselfe; Byblis Leda, a New Pleasure

London; New York 1900; 1920 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 81.25
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
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    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
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