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| Auction Name | Modern Literature | Total Sales (GBP) | 168,480.90 |
| Auction Date | February 20, 2025 - February 20, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 75,000.00 |
| Sale Number | #22025 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 105,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 309 | ||
| Sold Lots | 287 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 80,450.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 92.88% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 112,750.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 22 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 149.43% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 307 | Wyndham (John) | The Day of the Triffids |
1951 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 5,796.00 |
| 309 | Wyndham (John) | The Kraken Awakes |
1953 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 5,544.00 |
| 19 | Eliot (T.S.) | "The Waste Land" in The Criterion. A Quarterly Review |
1922 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,788.00 |
| 148 | Carter (Angela) | Archive of Correspondence and related material |
[c.1980s-early 1990s]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 4,032.00 |
| 220 | Milne (A.A.) | Winnie-the-Pooh |
1926 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,528.00 |
| 3 | Archive of Letters.- An archive of letters from literary figures |
v.d. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,024.00 | |
| 12 | Burgess (Anthony) | A Clockwork Orange |
1962 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 42 | Lewis (C.S.) | [The Space Trilogy] |
1938 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 280 | Timlin (William M.) | The Ship that Sailed to Mars |
[1923]. | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 50 | Lowry (Malcolm) | Ultramarine |
1933 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
| 74 | Waugh (Evelyn) | [The Sword of Honour Trilogy] |
1962 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
| 236 | Orwell (George) | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
1949 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
| 295 | Wodehouse (P.G.) | The Swoop! Or How Clarence Saved England |
1909 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
| 33 | Heaney (Seamus) | The Haw Lantern |
1987 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 117 | [Abbott (Edwin A.) | Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions |
1884 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 143 | Carter (Angela) | Heroes & Villains |
1969 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 256 | Rendell (Ruth) | Road Rage |
1999 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 25 | Greene (Graham) | The Lawless Roads |
1939 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,638.00 |
| 228 | Nashe (Thomas) | The Unfortunate Traveller |
1950 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,638.00 |
| 26 | Greene (Graham) | The Revenge |
1963 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 43 | Lewis (Wyndham) | The Ideal Giant, the Code of a Herdsman, Cantelman's Spring-Mate |
[1917]. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 85 | Farrell (J.G.) | Troubles |
1970 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 144 | Carter (Angela) | Love |
1971 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 141 | Carter (Angela) | Several Perceptions |
1968 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |
| 298 | Wodehouse (P.G.) | The Man with Two Left Feet |
1917 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |