Forum Auctions: The Library of Barry Humphries, 1172, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 26, 2025 - March 26, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Famous hoax.- Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, practised upon the Benevolence of a Lady residing in the Vicinity of the City of Bristol |
Bristol & London | 1817 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
| 27 | Poesias Eroticas Escolhidas |
Paris, n.p. | 1818 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 28 | [Polidori (John)] | The Vampyre; A Tale... |
1819 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 29 | [De Quincey (Thomas)] | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
1822 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 30 | Ghost Stories; Collected with a Particular View to Counteract the Vulgar Belief in Ghosts and Apparitions |
1823 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
| 31 | [Morier (Sir James Justinian)] | [Collected oriental romances]... |
1824 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 32 | [Hogg (James)] | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
1824 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 33 | [Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)] | Specimens of German Romance |
1826 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 34 | Pushkin (Alexander) | The Talisman... |
Ipswich | 1884 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 35 | [Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan)] | Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery |
Dublin | 1851 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 36 | Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan) | The Wyvern Mystery |
1889 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 37 | Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan) | The Watcher and Other Weird Stories |
[1894] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 38 | Baudelaire (Charles) | Les Fleurs du Mal |
Paris | 1857 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 39 | Crowe (Catherine) | Ghosts and Family Legends |
1859 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 40 | Cardoze (Jules) | Lortic (Marcellin, binder).- Lina, Histoire Vraie... |
Paris | 1860 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 41 | Symonds (John Addington) | [Collected works]... |
Oxford | 1860 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 42 | Symonds (John Addington) | In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays |
1893 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 43 | [Bierce (Ambrose)], "Dod Grile" | The Fiend's Delight |
[1873] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 44 | Eleonore ou l'Heureuse Personne |
Amsterdam [Brussels, Poulet-Malassis] | 1875 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 45 | Wilde (Oscar) | Ravenna. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878, from the Newdigate Prize Poem series |
Oxford | 1878 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 46 | Wilde (Oscar) | The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published appearance in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine |
1890 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
| 47 | Wilde (Oscar) | After Reading [&] After Berneval |
1921-22 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
| 48 | Saltus (Edgar) | Wilde (Oscar).- The Philosophy of Disenchantment |
Boston | 1885 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 49 | Saltus (Edgar) | Wilde (Lady Jane).- The Pace that Kills |
Chicago, New York and San Francisco | 1889 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 50 | May (Phil) | Artist's sketchbook with over 80 original drawings |
[circa 1880s and 1890s] | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |