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Cambridge, Bloomsbury & Bletchley Park | The Literary Life of F. L. Lucas

Cambridge, Bloomsbury & Bletchley Park | The Literary Life of F. L. LucasA remarkable collection of rare manuscripts assembled by wartime intelligence officer Frank Laurence Lucas (1894–1967) will feature in our Books & Manuscripts auction on 16 June 2026.

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Lewis, C. S.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Estimate: £600 - £800

Dahl, Roald

The Limited Commemorative Edition

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

Milne, A. A.

The House at Pooh Corner

Estimate: £600 - £800

Rowling, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

Rowling, J. K.

[Complete set of deluxe editions of the Harry Potter series]

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

Rowling, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Rowling, J. K.

Two signed Harry Potter books

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Rowling, J. K.

Signed prize-set of the first three Harry Potter books:

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Potter, Beatrix

Collection of first editions gifted by Beatrix Potter's father Rupert

Estimate: £300 - £500

Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)

[The Ring of the Niblung:] The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie [and:] Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods

Estimate: £300 - £500

Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Estimate: £200 - £300

Tolkien, J. R. R.

The Lord of the Rings

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Tolkien, J. R. R.

[The Lord of the Rings:]

Estimate: £300 - £400

Tolkien, J. R. R.

[The Lord of the Rings:]

Estimate: £300 - £400

James, M. R.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Estimate: £300 - £500

Koestler, Arthur

Darkness at Noon

Estimate: £200 - £300

Burgess, Anthony

A Clockwork Orange

Estimate: £500 - £800

Joyce, James

Chamber Music

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Woolf, Leonard

Stories of the East

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

Eliot, T. S.

Marina

Estimate: £300 - £500

Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)

Testament of Youth

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)

Two inscribed first editions and an important association copy

Estimate: £500 - £800

Mid-20th-century English poetry

Large collection of works from the library of literary critic W. J. Harvey

Estimate: £500 - £800

Larkin, Philip

XX Poems

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Amis, Kingsley

Lucky Jim

Estimate: £200 - £300

Minton, John (illustrator)

Time Was Away

Estimate: £300 - £400

Waugh, Evelyn

Collection of works

Estimate: £300 - £500

Naipaul, V. S.

Collection of works

Estimate: £400 - £600

Powell, Anthony

[Dance to the Music of Time]

Estimate: £400 - £600

Hanley, James

Collection of first editions and signed copies

Estimate: £400 - £600

William Boyd, Julian Barnes and David Lodge

Collection of first editions and signed limited editions

Estimate: £300 - £500

Adams, Douglas

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Estimate: £200 - £300

Modern literature

Collection of works

Estimate: £200 - £300

20th-century literature, philosophy, art

Collection of works including signed limited editions

Estimate: £300 - £500

Stoker, Bram

Dracula

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

Mitchell, Margaret

Gone with the Wind

Estimate: £300 - £500

Folio Society

Collection of deluxe limited editions

Estimate: £600 - £800

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Works

Estimate: £300 - £500

Shakespeare Head Press

The Noble and Joyous Boke Entytled le Morte Darthur

Estimate: £300 - £500

Woman bookbinder

Autograph album, early 20th century

Estimate: £600 - £800

Gregynog Press

The Revelation of Saint John the Divine

Estimate: £400 - £600

Bakst, Léon; Cocteau, Jean; Dufy, Raoul; Gleizes, Albert; Iribe, Paul; Lhote, André; SEM (contributors)

Le Mot, 1914-1915

Estimate: £300 - £500

Hirst, Damien (designer)

Snowblind: a Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

Estimate: £300 - £500

Jones, David (illustrator)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Estimate: £300 - £500

Lawrence, T. E.

Crusader Castles

Estimate: £300 - £500

Lawrence, T. E.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Estimate: £300 - £500

Lawrence, T. E. (1888-1935), ‘Lawrence of Arabia’

Autograph letter signed to E. M. Forster

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Forster, E. M. (1879-1970)

Group of autograph letters signed to F. L. Lucas

Estimate: £400 - £600

Lawrence, T. E. (1888-1935), 'Lawrence of Arabia'

Collection of autograph letters signed to F. L. Lucas

Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000

Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932)

Four autograph letters signed to F. L. Lucas

Estimate: £300 - £500

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)

Two autograph letters signed to F. L. Lucas

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Bell, Julian (1908-1937)

Autograph letter signed to F. L. Lucas

Estimate: £300 - £500

Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946)

Typed letter signed to F. L. Lucas at Bletchley Park

Estimate: £500 - £800

Lucas, F. L. (1894-1967)

Collection of letters to F. L. Lucas

Estimate: £400 - £600

Nicholson, William (1872-1949) (illustrator)

The Hour of Magic and Other Poems by W. H. Davies

Estimate: £300 - £500

North, Stanley Kennedy (1887-1942)

Medieval-style illuminated manuscript of Aucassin and Nicolette, 1918

Estimate: £600 - £800

Brown, George Mackay (1921-1996)

Two holograph poems

Estimate: £300 - £500

Charles III (1948-), King of the United Kingdom

Collection of signed lithographs

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

Charles I (1600-1649), King of Scotland, England and Ireland

Signed warrant approving livery for the Officers of Arms to meet the new Queen

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Bruce, Sir David (c.1650-c.1700), Laird of Clackmannan

'The Genealogical Historie of K. Robert Bruce', 1686

Estimate: £500 - £800

Scotland

Collection of vellum deeds, 15th century and later

Estimate: £300 - £500

Charles VI (1685-1740), Holy Roman Emperor

Letter signed to Count Harrach, Viceroy of Naples

Estimate: £300 - £500

Eminent Georgians

Autograph album

Estimate: £600 - £800

Wilde, Sir William Robert Wills (1815-1876), ophthalmologist & father of Oscar Wilde

Autograph letter signed

Estimate: £200 - £300

Train, Joseph (1779-1852)

Sammelband of holograph and printed poems

Estimate: £400 - £600

Albums, sketches and photographs

Early-19th to early-20th century

Estimate: £200 - £300

Churchill, Sir Winston S. (1874-1965)

Typed letter signed on Lord Nelson and Trafalgar

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Churchill, Sir Winston S. (1874-1965)

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Churchill, Sir Winston S. (1874-1965)

Inscribed copy of Maurice Maeterlink's The Life of the White Ant

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

Churchill, Sir Winston S. (1874-1965)

Marlborough

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Karsh, Yousuf (1908-2002)

Portrait photograph of Sir Winston S. Churchill, 'The Roaring Lion'

Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000

Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)

Collection of printed ephemera

Estimate: £300 - £500

Jenkins, James

The Naval Achievements of Great Britain

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

Collection of printed ephemera relating to the Duke of Wellington & Waterloo

Estimate: £300 - £500

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

19th century military albumen photographs

Estimate: £300 - £500

Playfair, William Henry (1790-1857)

Set of original architectural designs for Barmore, Argyll

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

Grose, Francis (1731-1791)

The Antiquities of Scotland, extra-illustrated with Grose's original watercolours

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

Swarbreck, Samuel Dukinfield

Sketches in Scotland

Estimate: £500 - £800

Railways - Scotland

Large collection of original plans for railways and associated structures, mainly 19th century

Estimate: £500 - £800

Railways - Scotland

Prospectuses for proposed railway lines, mainly 19th century

Estimate: £400 - £600

Civil engineering and industrial history - Scotland and northern England

Group of prints and plans, mainly 19th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

Gibb, William, and John Skelton

The Royal House of Stuart

Estimate: £300 - £500

Glasgow and the West of Scotland

Collection of histories, 18th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

Glasgow and the West of Scotland

Collection of histories, guides and works of local interest, 19th-20th century

Estimate: £400 - £600

Scottish history and law

Collection of works, 17th-19th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

Glasgow

Collection of books, 19th and 20th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

Orkney and Shetland

Collection of works, 17th-20th century

Estimate: £400 - £600

Drummond, James

Ancient Scottish Weapons

Estimate: £300 - £500

Annan, Thomas

Glasgow Improvements Act 1866. Photographs of Streets, Closes, etc. taken 1868-71

Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000

Annan, Thomas

[Photographs of Glasgow and Clyde valley]

Estimate: £300 - £500

Annan, Thomas

The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry

Estimate: £400 - £600

Annan, Thomas

Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow

Estimate: £400 - £600

Annan, Thomas

University of Glasgow Old and New

Estimate: £500 - £800

Turner, J. M. W.

[Turner's Illustrations to Scott's Works]

Estimate: £500 - £800

Blake, William - Illustrations of the Book of Job

Trianon Press proof prints and stencils for facsimile edition, c. 1974

Estimate: £300 - £500

Blake, William

Illustrations of the Book of Job

Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000

Heemskerck, Maarten van (1498-1574)

[Volume of prints]

Estimate: £300 - £500

Stalker, John

A Treatise of Japaning [sic] and Varnishing

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

How, George Evelyn Paget and Jane Penrice

English and Scottish Silver Spoons

Estimate: £300 - £500

John Woodhouse (English fl. 1810-1830)

Silhouette portrait of a Regency lady reading

Estimate: £200 - £300

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