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The Library of Barry Humphries (at Forum Auctions)
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The auction features a remarkable array of books, manuscripts, works on paper and objets from the extensive library of the legendary comedian, actor, author, and satirist Barry Humphries (1934-2023).
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![θ Beckford (William) [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/c34439de-f11f-45ac-a32e-b299011db143.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Beckford (William)] [Vathek] An Arabian Tale..., first (but unauthorised) edition, later red …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/fd15bc4b-3e5c-4da4-b8f5-b299011d9209.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Beckford (William)] Azemia: A Descriptive Novel...By Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks, 2 vol., …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/14ae68ed-4e9f-4b0a-8648-b299011d04f2.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Beckford (William)] The Story of Al Raoui, a Tale from the Arabic, first edition, original …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/ffb5b01e-905d-463c-bb2f-b299011db80c.jpg?h=175)
![θ Beckford (William).- [Sale Catalogue] The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey, Phillips, …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/973c456e-0fd8-48c1-a424-b299011d4b7b.jpg?h=175)
![θ Beckford (William).- Hamilton (Alexander, 10th Duke) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/e3bf05d9-f691-4741-94bd-b299011cebcb.jpg?h=175)
![θ Beckford (William).- [ Lansdown (Henry Venn)] Recollections of the late William Beckford..., …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/cbdeaba1-9a27-4100-919d-b299011d7fc2.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Radcliffe (Ann)] The Romance Of The Forest: Interspersed With Some Pieces Of Poetry, 3 vol., …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/3eb87601-3743-475d-bf9c-b299011d225c.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Maturin (Charles Robert)],](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/a2745f1d-3899-4f9b-95d0-b299011db1e5.jpg?h=175)
![θ Utterson (Sarah Elizabeth) Tales of the Dead, first edition, [by S. Hamilton] for White, …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/2b01e8ed-f9aa-4980-aed5-b299011d4553.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, third issue, 1819](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/389a2687-8a49-42e1-9edc-b299011d09b5.jpg?h=175)
![θ [De Quincey (Thomas)] Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, first edition, ink presentation …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/51f9d930-109c-42bb-8561-b299011d9eb6.jpg?h=175)
![θ Morier (Sir James Justinian) [The complete prose fiction], 24 vol., first editions, 4 works …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/135bfa49-3c4e-4690-a278-b299011d8ce7.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Hogg (James)] The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, first edition, …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/02d2e494-54d7-4de1-bfe1-b299011da06d.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)] Specimens of German Romance, 3 vol., Geo. B. Whittaker, 1826](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/cfc734a7-8467-496c-b716-b299011db8c0.jpg?h=175)
![θ Pushkin (Alexander) The Talisman... with other pieces, [translated by George Borrow], first …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/1984e02d-d08e-480c-9a9d-b299011d1fda.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan)] Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery, first edition, Dublin, James …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/fc5b3e88-b423-4158-bbdd-b299011d07ad.jpg?h=175)
![θ Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan) The Watcher and Other Weird Stories, first edition, Downey & Co., [1894]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/bb972fcf-b6fc-4a08-835f-b299011db079.jpg?h=175)
![θ Symonds (John Addington) [Collected works], 17 vol., finely-bound, 1860-1902](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/fd254ddc-fa51-49d3-8992-b299011d8dd6.jpg?h=175)
![θ [Bierce (Ambrose)],](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/abdee44d-3da9-43bc-a9b6-b299011d0270.jpg?h=175)
![θ Wilde (Oscar) After Reading [&] After Berneval, 2 vol., each numer 10 of 75 copies on Japanese …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/2abd098b-8cf1-4f90-83db-b299011d6969.jpg?h=175)
![θ Johnson (Lionel) Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower, first edition [1 of 7 copies], [Chester, …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/28190e56-c1b0-4a61-b0eb-b299011d7a19.jpg?h=175)
![θ [ Smithers (Leonard) and Sir Richard Francis Burton, translators and editors ] Priapeia; or the …](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/cdf422ab-51e4-4f53-9629-b299011d4270.jpg?h=175)
![Franz von Bayros (1866-1924) , Die Fünf Sinne - Der Gerüch, Pen and black ink, black wash, [c.1910]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2025/drewea1-10544/images/b3b0053b-ef1f-43be-8c71-b299011d3f02.jpg?h=175)
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