Christies: Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection, 22992, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | BERTOLD LOFFLER (1874-1960) | Kunstschau Wien 1908 |
1908 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 72 | ALASTAIR [pseudonym of Hans Henning von Voigt (1887-1969)]. | Fifty Drawings. With an Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. |
New York | 1925 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |
| 73 | BURTON, Richard Francis (1821-1890) | A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with introduction explanatory notes on the manners and customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay upon the history of The Night |
Benares [probably London] | 1885 [but 1897]. | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 17,640.00 |
| 75 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) | The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 1. |
Elkin Mathews & John Lane, [c.1894] | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,300.00 | |
| 76 | AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (1872-1898) | Design for The Yellow Book, vol. 1. Design for the back cover |
GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 60,480.00 | ||
| 77 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) | Autograph letter signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') to [John Lane], 114 Cambridge Street, London, n.d. [1894] |
London, n.d. [1894] | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 40,320.00 | |
| 78 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) | Three autograph letters signed (two with initials, 'A.' and 'A.B.', one in full 'Aubrey Beardsley') to Leonard Smithers (2) and Ada Leverson, |
[Boscombe, , Hotel Cosmopolitain, Menton and 114 Cambridge Street, London | 1896, 1898, n.d. | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 6,300.00 |
| 79 | MALORY, Sir Thomas (c.1415-1471) --- Aubrey BEARDSLEY (1872-1898, illustrator) | Le Morte Darthur. The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table ... |
London | 1893-1894. | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 80 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, (1872-1898) | A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. With an iconography by Aymer Vallance. |
London | 1897 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
| 81 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) | Ben Johnson. His Volpone: or The Fox. A new edition, with a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan and a frontispiece, five initial letters and a cover design, illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. |
London | 1898 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
| 82 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) | The Story Of Venus And Tannhauser in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of State held by Madam Venus, Goddess and Meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, ... |
London | 1907 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 83 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) | Cabinet photograph signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') and inscribed to Andre Raffalovich, |
[Bournemouth | 1896 - 1897 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,710.00 |
| 85 | BEERBOHM, Max (1872-1956) | Zuleika Dobson. |
London | 1910 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 86 | BERNERS, Gerald (1883-1950) | The Girls of Radcliff Hall, by 'Adela Quebec'. |
[c.1935]. | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,276.00 | |
| 87 | VERLAINE, Paul (1844-1896) | Choix de Poesies. |
Paris | 1904 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 88 | CONDER, Charles (1868-1909) | Three autograph letters signed ('Charles Conder', 'Conder'), to Mrs [Dalhousie] Young and to [his wife, Stella Maris], |
Chantemerle (France) and n.p. | 1898 and n.d. | GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 89 | CONDER, Charles (1868-1909) | 20 autograph letters signed ('Charles Conder') to Leonard Smithers (3), Mrs Dalhousie Young (7), [Thomas] Way (7), Pickford Waller (2) and unidentified (one), |
Dieppe, Paris, La Roche Guyon, London and Newquay | 1895 - 1906 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 |
| 90 | [CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)] | Jezebel and other Tragic Poems. By the Count Vladimir Shareff. Edited, with an introduction and Epilogue by Aleister Crowley. |
London | 1898 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 91 | CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947) | Songs of the Spirit. |
London | 1898 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 92 | [CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)] | White Stains. The Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop A Neuropath of the Second Empire. |
[Amsterdam | 1898 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 93 | [CROWLEY, Aleister] (1875-1947) | Carmen Saeculare, by St. E. A. of M. and S. |
[London | 1901 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
| 94 | [CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)] | Gargoyles: Being Strangely Wrought Images of Life and Death. |
Foyers | 1906 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 23,940.00 |
| 95 | CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947) | Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light. |
London | 1907 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 96 | CROWLEY Alesteir (1875-1947) | Household Gods. |
Pallanza | 1912 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 13,860.00 |
| 97 | CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947) | The Diary of a Drug Fiend. |
London, | 1922 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 32,760.00 |