With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
3 days ago
Lot 12Incidentally, Jacket Copy - a Los Angeles Times blog - has a 'fantasy Christmas shopping for book lovers' post on this 'droolworthy auction'. EDIT: And here again.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By Acton Bell. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1848.
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Price realised: $15,000
Lot 13
Charlotte Brontë - Autograph manuscript of two poems, "Found in the Inn Belonging to You" ("Thou art a sweet and lovely flower..."), and "Addressed to the Tower of all Nation" ("O thou great thou mighty tower...") dated respectively "U.T. Sept. 28,1829" and "U.T. Oct 7 1829," with a title and two lines of another poem entitled "The Walk," neatly inked out.
Estimate: $50,000 - $75,000
Price realised: $62,500 (Acquired by the Brontë Society)
Lot 14
BRONTË, Charlotte. Autograph letter signed ("C., Bronte") to Henry Nussey (brother of her friend Ellen Nussey), Haworth, 5 March 1839.
Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000
Price realised: $56,250
Lot 15
BRONTË, Charlotte. Autograph letter signed ("C Brontë") to the Rev. Henry Nussey, Haworth, 26 May 1840.
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000
Price realised: ------ Not Sold
Lot 16
BRONTË, Charlotte. Autograph letter signed ("C., Bronte") to the Reverend Henry Nussey (brother of her friend Ellen Nussey), Upper Wood House, Rawden, May 9 [1841].
Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000
Price realised: ------- Not Sold
Lot 17
[BRONTË, Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848) and Anne (1820-1849)]. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London: Aylott and Jones, 1846.
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
Price realised: $40,000
Lot 18
[BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily and Anne]. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but 1848].
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
Price realised: $2,500
Lot 19
[BRONTË, Charlotte]. Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. London: Smith Elder, 1847.
Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
Price realised: $40,000
Lot 20
[BRONTË, Charlotte]. Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre." London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849.
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Price realised: $4,375
Lot 21
[BRONTË, Charlotte]. Poetry Past and Present. A Collection for Every-Day reading and Amusement. London: John and Charles Mozley, 1849.
Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
Price realised: $50,000
Lot 22
BRONTË, Charlotte. Autograph letter signed ("C Brontë") to "My dear Mrs. Forster (wife of John Forster?), in Rawden, Haworth, 28 October 1851.
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Price realised: $8,750
Lot 23
[BRONTË, Charlotte]. Villette. By Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," etc. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1853.
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Price realised: $6,000
Lot 24
[BRONTË, Charlotte (1816-1855)]. The Professor, a Tale. By Currer Bell. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Price realised: $5,000
Lot 25
[BRONTË, Charlotte (1816-1855)]. The Professor, a Tale. By Currer Bell. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Price realised: ------- Not Sold
Lot 26
[BRONTË, Charlotte]. GASKELL, E.C. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.
Estimate: $300 - $400
Price realised: $1,500
Lot 27
[BRONTË, Emily and Anne. Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By Ellis Bell. -- Agnes Grey. A Novel. By Acton Bell. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847].
Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
Price realised: $86,500
Lot 28
BRONTË, Reverend Patrick (1777-1861). Cottage Poems. Halifax: P.K.Holden for the author, 1811.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Price realised: ------ Not Sold
Pleased to hear about 'Lot 13'!
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