Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana., 7574,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 20, 1992 - November 20, 1992

Page Size: 330 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM	The Music Master ... 1855.			USD 500.00 - 700.00	605.00
2	ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM	Poems.	Boston	1861	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,210.00
3	ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM	Irish Songs and Poems. With Nine Airs harmonized for Voice and Pianoforte.	London	1887	USD 500.00 - 700.00	880.00
4	ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM; FERGUSON, Sir SAMUEL	Lays of Western Gael, and Other Poems	London	1865	USD 600.00 - 800.00	715.00
5	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Cromwell: a Prize Poem, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1843.	Oxford	1843	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	880.00
6	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems.	London	1849	USD 600.00 - 800.00	660.00
7	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Empédocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852			USD 600.00 - 800.00	550.00
8	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Essays in Criticism, 1865, slight rubbing, front inner hinge cracked, half morocco slipcase			USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
9	ARNOLD, MATTHEW,. SAINTE-BEUVE, CHARLES AUGUSTUS	Tableau Historique et Critique de la Poésie Française et du Théatre Français au XVIe Siècle.	Paris	1843	USD 350.00 - 450.00	418.00
10	ARNOLD, MATTHEW; SENANCOUR, ETIENNE PIVERT DE.	Isabelle, Lettres Publiées ... 1833, contemporary cloth, morocco spine label, rear cover detached			USD 500.00 - 700.00	770.00
11	ARNOLD, MATTHEW; FAURIEL, CLAUDE	Histoire de la Poésie Provengale, Paris 1846			USD 400.00 - 600.00	528.00
12	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Autograph letter signed to the poet Roden Noel, Harrow, 2 February 1873.			USD 400.00 - 600.00	352.00
13	AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH	About the House.	New York	1965	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,420.00
14	BEARDSLEY, AUBREY	Autograph letter signed to Edmund Gosse ("Mon cher Maître")	London	5 September 1894	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	3,520.00
15	BEERBOHM, Sir MAX	Self-caricature captioned "MR. BEERBOHM READING MRS.	presumably Rapallo	28-Feb	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,760.00
16	BENNETT, ARNOLD	Typescript signed of the article "Literature of the Last Hundred Years."	London	1/Oct/1928	USD 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
17	BIN YON, LAURENCE	The Followers of William Blake.	London and New York	1925	USD 200.00 - 300.00	187.00
18	BLAKE, WILLIAM, BINYON, LAURENCE	Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "William Blake; Painter, Poet, Seer" N.p., n.d.	N.p.	n.d	USD 700.00 - 900.00	550.00
19	BROWN, FORD MADOX	Two autograph letters signed to the Rev. Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth	London	16 September 1868 and 21 March 1876	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	660.00
20	BROWN, OLIVER MADOX	Gabriel Denver.	London	1873	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,210.00
21	BROWN, OLIVER MADOX	The Dwale Bluth, Hebditch's Legacy, and Other Literary Remains ...	London	1876	USD 400.00 - 600.00	352.00
22	BROWN, OLIVER MADOX	Autograph manuscript signed ("Oliver Madox-Brown" at end) of the poem entitled "Before & After-From an unfinished story	London	ca. May 1874	USD 600.00 - 800.00	880.00
23	BROWNING, ROBERT	Two autograph letters signed to the poet Roden Noel, 19 Warwick Crescent [London], 31 March and 22 July 1886.			USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
24	BURNE-JONES, Sir EDWARD	The Flower Book.	London	1905	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	4,950.00
25	BURNE-JONES, Sir EDWARD. KELMSCOTT PRESS; WILLIAM MORRIS	Five drawings and one partial preparatory outline sketch		1905	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,400.00
26	BURNE-JONES, Sir EDWARD, KELMSCOTT PRESS; WILLIAM MORRIS	Seventeen proofs of illustrations comprising			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,850.00
27	BURNE-JONES, Sir EDWARD, illustrator. MACLAREN, ARCHIBALD	The Fairy Family: a Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe			USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	770.00
28	BURNE-JONES, Sir EDWARD. DIGBY, KENELM HENRY	The Broad Stone of Honour; or, the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry	London	1875-1877	USD 350.00 - 450.00	220.00
29	BURNE-JONES, Sir EDWARD. GUILLIM, JOHN	A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting A more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof than hath beene hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method ... third edition, corrected and much enlarged	London	1638	USD 400.00 - 600.00	275.00
30	BUTLER, SAMUEL	Autograph letter signed ("S. Butler") to Corwin Knapp Linson (artist and close friend of Stephen Crane's) at Scribner's Magazine in New York; Cliffords Inn	London	18 October 1896	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,100.00
31	COCKERELL, Sir SYDNEY	Autograph manuscript signed of his schoolboy prize essay on shells	London	1884	USD 500.00 - 700.00	880.00
32	COCKERELL, Sir SYDNEY	Autograph manuscript of "Notes on my friendship with Ruskin.	Cambridge	1920	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,870.00
33	COLLINSON, JAMES	Autograph letter signed ("J. Collinson") to Frederic George Stephens, fellow member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood			USD 700.00 - 900.00	660.00
34	COMPTON-BURNETT, IVY	Three autograph letters signed to Edward Sackville-West	London	28 March and 4 December 1949	USD 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
35	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Almayer's Folly.	London	1895	USD 600.00 - 800.00	715.00
36	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Shadow-Line.	London	1917	USD 700.00 - 900.00	990.00
37	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Notes on Life & Letters.	London	1921	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	880.00
38	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Autograph letter signed ("J. Conrad") to [Edward] Moore (of his publisher Methuen & Co.)			USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,100.00
39	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Autograph letter signed ("J. Conrad") TO ARTHUR SYMONS	n.p. [Someries, Luton]	29/Aug/1908	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	4,400.00
40	CRANE, WALTER	Sketchbook containing approximately 80 pencil drawings			USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	20,900.00
41	CRANE, WALTER	Autograph manuscript signed of the poem "Rondeau: Seedtime	Shepherd's Bush	9 December 1888	USD 250.00 - 350.00	440.00
42	DE QUINCEY, THOMAS	Autograph manuscript of the essay "Picture-cleaners.	N.p.	n.d	USD 600.00 - 800.00	935.00
43	DE QUINCEY, THOMAS	Autograph manuscript of the essay "On Hogarth's Funeral in the Harlot's Progress--As Noticed by Lamb.	N.p.	1811	USD 400.00 - 600.00	825.00
44	DOWSON, ERNEST	Autograph letter signed to his good friend Charles Sayle			USD 400.00 - 600.00	715.00
45	EDGEWORTH, MARIA	Autograph letter signed to Madame de Pastoret in Paris, Edgeworth's Town, Ireland, 6 June 1814.	Paris	6 June 1814	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,045.00
46	ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS	Typed letter signed ("T.S. Eliot") TO ED WIN MUIR	London	24/Apr/1941	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
47	BUCHANAN, ROBERT	FIRST BOOKS.			USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
48	FLECKER, JAMES ELROY	The Golden Journey to Samarkand	London	1913	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,320.00
49	FORD, FORD MADOX	The Brown Owl.	London	1892	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,100.00
50	FORD, FORD MADOX	The Queen Who Flew.	London	1894	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,760.00
51	FORD, FORD MADOX	Ancient Lights and Certain New Reflections.	London	1911	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
52	FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN	A Passage to India.	London	1924	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,090.00
53	FORSTER, E. M.	The Eternal Moment and Other Stories.	London	1928	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,210.00
54	FORSTER, E.M. DICKINSON, GOLDSWORTHY LOWES	Poems.	London	1896	USD 500.00 - 700.00	495.00
55	FORSTER, E. M.	Autograph letter signed TO VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, West Hackhurst	Abinger Hammer	5 April, 1942	USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
56	FORSTER, E.M. PLOMER, WILLIAM	Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "Forster as a Friend.	N.p.	1969	USD 700.00 - 900.00	605.00
57		THE GERM.	London	January-April 1850	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,200.00
58		THE GERM.	Portland, Maine	1898	USD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
59	GRAHAME, KENNETH	Two autograph letters signed and one autograph postcard signed to the publishers Elkin Mathews and John Lane at The Bodley Head	London	19 January and 26 and 28 September 1893	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,210.00
60	GREENE, GRAHAM	Typescript of The Lawless Roads, his book about Mexico.	London	late 193	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	27,500.00
61	GREENE, GRAHAM; WAUGH, EVELYN	Autograph letter signed and autograph postcard signed (initials) TO GRAHAM GREENE, Piers Court, Stitchcombe	Gloucestershire	[27 February 1939] and n.d. 1939	USD 700.00 - 900.00	825.00
62	HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST	A Book of Verses.	London	1888	USD 250.00 - 350.00	308.00
63	HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY	Autograph letter signed ("Gerard M. Hopkins S.J.") to his close friend the poet Canon Richard Watson Dixon			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,980.00
64	HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN	Illustrated autograph letter signed ("W. Holman Hunt") to the artist Michael Halliday ("My dear Mike")	n.p.	12 August 1865	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,760.00
65	SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL	INSCRIBED BOOKS.	London	1846	USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
66	REID, FORREST	INSCRIBED BOOKS.			USD 500.00 - 700.00	605.00
67	JOHNSON, LIONEL	Poems.	London	1895	USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	1,210.00
68	JOHNSON, LIONEL; ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA	Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems.	London	1879	USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
69	JOHNSON, LIONEL; DARLEY, GEORGE	Nepenthe. A Poem in Two Cantos ... Introduction by R.A. Streatfield, Elkin Mathews, 1897	Streatfield	1897	USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
70	JOHNSON, LIONEL	Autograph postcard signed TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS	London	1 September 1894	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	990.00
71	KELMSCOTT PRESS. MORRIS, WILLIAM	Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.	Hammersmith	1893	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
72	MORRIS, WILLIAM	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Love is Enough, or, The Freeing of Pharamond. A Morality.	Hammersmith	1897 (issued 1898)	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,100.00
73		KELMSCOTT PRESS			USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,540.00
74	MALLOCK, WILLIAM HURRELL	The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House.	London	1877	USD 500.00 - 700.00	462.00
75	MOORE, GEORGE	Modern Painting.	London	1893	USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
76	MOORE, MARIANNE	Poems	London	1921	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,045.00
77	MORRIS, WILLIAM	The Life and Death of Jason.	London	n.d. [?1870s]	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,980.00
78	MORRIS, WILLIAM	A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and Verse.			USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
79	MORRIS, WILLIAM	The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine for 1856.	London	1889	USD 400.00 - 600.00	990.00
80	MORRIS, WILLIAM, FROISSART, Sir JOHN	Chronicles of England, France, Spain ... Translated from the French Editions ... by Thomas Johnes ... London: Henry G. Bohn 1852.	London	1852	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
81	MORRIS, WILLIAM; HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL	Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart.	London	1844-45	USD 1.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
82	MORRIS, WILLIAM	Autograph manuscript signed of the poem "Blanche."	N.p.	n.d. ca. 1855	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,320.00
83	MORRIS, WILLIAM	Autograph letter signed TO ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, Kelmscott House	Hammersmith	22 July 1882	USD 700.00 - 900.00	935.00
84	OLIPHANT, MARGARET	Autograph manuscript of the essay "Tis Sixty Years Since."	N.p.	1897	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,540.00
85	Miss Brown	PAGET, VIOLET			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,980.00
86	PATER, WALTER	Imaginary Portraits.	London	1887	USD 700.00 - 900.00	880.00
87	PATER, WALTER	Plato and Platonism.			USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
88	PATER, WALTER; ARNOLD, MATTHEW	On Translating Homer. Three Lectures Given at Oxford, 1861; On Translating Homer.	Oxford	1861	USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
89	PATER, WALTER	Autograph letter signed to the poet Roden Noel, Brasenose [College, Oxford], 29 December [1872].	College, Oxford	29 December [1872]	USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
90	PATER, WALTER	Autograph letter signed to Marc-André Raffalovich	London	4 July 1884	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	770.00
91	PATER, WALTER	Two autograph letters signed and one autograph letter-card signed to Henry J.C. Cust			USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,100.00
92	PATMORE, COVENTRY	Poems.	London	1844	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
93	PATMORE, COVENTRY	Faithful for Ever.	London	1860	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
94	PATMORE, COVENTRY	Odes.	London	1868	USD 600.00 - 800.00	990.00
95	PATMORE, COVENTRY	The Unknown Eros and Other Odes			USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
96	PATMORE, DEREK	PATMORE, COVENTRY.			USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
97	PATMORE, COVENTRY	Autograph letter signed to "My dear Sir	Mendo	16 January 1846	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,045.00
98	ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM	PRE-RAPHAELITES.			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,760.00
99	RAFFALOVICH, MARC-ANDRÉ	Tuberose and Meadowsweet.	London	1885	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	2,420.00
100	READE, CHARLES	Autograph letter signed TO MATTHEW ARNOLD ("Dear Mr. Arnold"), 2 Albert Terrace, Knightsbridge	London	15 November, 1875	USD 500.00 - 700.00	770.00

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