Sales by Author, Title, Subject and Collection

This index is compiled from the sales reports published in every issue of The Book Collector. These reports have themselves been assembled principally from eye-witness accounts by our correspondents. It is therefore a record of context as much as of cost. Who was bidding against whom, what was sold afterwards, the cataloguing errors, extraordinary provenances, rarity considered objectively - so on and suchlike. Some account of this system can be found in The Price of Passion ( 2016-04).

Entries are differentiated between Author, Title, Subject and Collection. It should be noted, however, that in the case of most classical texts and many cartographers, the author is also the title.

When typing an author's name into the Search bar please do so either as Smith, John or as Smith or as John.

Suggestions on how to improve any aspect of this archival information will be welcomed at archive@thebookcollector.co.uk.

An asterisk (*) against an entry indicates that issue of The Book Collector is no longer available in print.


Title Sales Category Sub Category Sale Price View PDF
The Rival Beauties 1772 Book Title Only 2 or 3 copies known Subscribe
to View 		1954-03
The Road to Oxiana 1937 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2017-04
The Road to Oxiana 1937 Book Title Near fine in d/w Subscribe
to View 		2021-01
The Road to Oxiana 1937 Book Title Bill Reese sale Subscribe
to View 		2022-03
The Road to Oxiana 1937 Book Title 'Unusually fine' Subscribe
to View 		2010-03
The Road to Wigan Pier 1937 Book Title Price not shown 2016-01
The Road to Wigan Pier 1937 Book Title 'The rare "public" edition', in d/w Subscribe
to View 		2019-02
The Rock Pool 1936 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
The Rock Pool 1936 Book Title Olympia Press in wrappers, signed to John Arlott Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
The Roots of the Mountains 1890 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1968-02
The Roots of the Mountains 1890 Book Title Inscribed from William Morris to Oscar Wilde Subscribe
to View 		2016-01
The Royal Entertainement of...the Earle of Nottingham 1605 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2012-04
The Royal Entertainement of...the Earle of Nottingham 1605 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2008-01
The Royal Game of the Ombre 1660 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2018-04
The Royal Pavilion at Brighton 1820/25 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1954-03
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám Book Title Illuminated Subscribe
to View 		1983-03
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám Book Title A Doves binding Subscribe
to View 		2010-04
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám Book Title The 'odd' oblong edition Subscribe
to View 		2004-02
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title In ?original wrapper Subscribe
to View 		1954-02
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title The Kern copy sold in 1929 for $8,000. Here - Subscribe
to View 		1963-01
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1978-02
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title In much-restored wrappers Subscribe
to View 		2001-02
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2005-01
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2010-01
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title The Hogan-Kettaneh collection of 4 editions, together - Subscribe
to View 		1999-03
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1859 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1963-01
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1862 Book Title Madras, one of fifty copies, with additions (£38 in 1959) Subscribe
to View 		1999-03
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám 1896 Book Title In an 'outstandingly nauseating binding'. Subscribe
to View 		1977-02
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám [1859] Book Title A 'darkened' copy Subscribe
to View 		2017-02
The Ruins of Desert Cathay 1912 Book Title Two volumes Subscribe
to View 		2018-04
The Ruins of the Palace at Spolatro 1764 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1956-02
The Ruins of the Palace at Spolatro 1764 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2005-03
The Rural Poems 1835 Book Title 'Signed by Clare in his asylum', very rare Subscribe
to View 		1993-01
The Savoy Cocktail Book 1930 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2021-02
The Scalawagons of Oz 1941 Book Title Two drawings for the front cover Subscribe
to View 		2014-01
The Scarlet Letter 1850 Book Title Page proofs 'with many corrections' Subscribe
to View 		2005-01
The Scarlet Letter 1850 Book Title Presentation copy Subscribe
to View 		2005-03
The Scarlet Letter 1850 Book Title Original cloth Subscribe
to View 		2008-03
The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Book Title Lacking one title-page Subscribe
to View 		1971-02
The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1976-02
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