Sotheby Parke Bernet: CATALOGUE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY AND MODERN FIRST EDITIONS AND PRESENTATION COPIES. INCLUDING, BECKETT'S Murphy, 1938; MAX BEERBOHM'S COPY OF FRANCIS MCFALL'S The Winged Victory, 1916, WITH A LONG AUTOGRAPH NOTE; DE LA MARE'S Poems, CORVINUS PRESS, 1937; C, 1978(SHR20),

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 20, 1978 - July 20, 1978

Page Size: 638 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Barrie (Sir J. M.) Auld Licht Idylls...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	20.00
2	Bennett (Arnold)	Mr. Prohack		1922	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	40.00
3	Bennett (Arnold)	Elsie and the Child		1929	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
4		Bennett (Arnold) Don Juan de Marana...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	16.00
5	Bennett (Arnold)	Imperial Palace		1930	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	22.00
6		Bennett (Arnold) and Eden Phillpotts. The Sinews of War...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	20.00
7		Bennett (Arnold) and Eden Phillpotts. The Sinews of War...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	36.00
8	Bennett (Arnold)	Journalism for Woman...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	38.00
9		Coppard (A. E.) Pink Furniture...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	45.00
10		Crowley (Aleister) The Collected Works...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	16.00
11	De la Mare (Walter)	Memoirs of a Midget		1921	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	15.00
12	De la Mare (Walter)	Crossings...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	15.00
13	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes		1892	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	65.00
14	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1894	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
15	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Return of Sherlock Holmes		1905	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	44.00
16	Galsworthy (John)	The Man of Property		1906	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	28.00
17	Galsworthy (John)	The Forsyte Saga		1922	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	38.00
18	Marrot (H. V.)	Galsworthy (John)-- A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy		1928	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	48.00
19		Galsworthy (John) A Rambling Discourse...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	48.00
20	Galsworthy (John)	A Modern Comedy...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	22.00
21		Galsworthy (John) A Sheaf...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	18.00
22		Galsworthy (John) The Plays...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	18.00
23	Haggard (Sir H. Rider)	Mr. Meeson's Will		1888	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	10.00
24	HARDY (THOMAS)	THE WOODLANDERS		1887	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	320.00
25	Hardy (Thomas)	Jude the Obscure		1896	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
26	Hardy (Thomas)	Poems of the Past and Present		1902	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	72.00
27	Hardy (Thomas)	Late Lyrics and Earlier		1922	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
28	Hardy (Thomas)	Satires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	18.00
29	Hardy (Thomas)	A Group of Noble Dames...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
30	Harris (Frank)	My Life and Loves...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	8.00
31	Huxley (Aldous)	On the Margin...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	26.00
32	Huxley (Aldous)	Along the Road...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
33		Jerome (Jerome K.) Three Men in a Boat...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	45.00
34	JOYCE (JAMES)	ULYSSES	Paris	1922	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	420.00
35	Joyce (James)	Ulysses	Hamburg	1932	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
36		Joyce (James)--Gorman (Herbert S.) James Joyce, His First Forty Years...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	75.00
37	LAWRENCE (D. H.)	THE RAINBOW		1915	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	920.00
38	Lawrence (D. H.)	Aaron's Rod		1922	GBP 25.00 - 40.00	90.00
39	Lawrence (D. H.)	Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and other Essays	Philadelphia	1925	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
40	Lawrence (Frieda)	Lawrence (D. H.)--"Not I, But the Wind. . . ."	Santa Fe	1934	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	45.00
41	Lawrence (D. H.)	Aaron's Rod...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	10.00
42	Lawrence (D. H.)	St. Mawr...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	18.00
43		Lawrence (D. H.)--Dekker (E. D.) "Multatuli". Max Havelaar...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	32.00
44	LAWRENCE (T. E.)	Seven Pillars of Wisdom		1935	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	90.00
45	Lawrence (T. E.)	Seven Pillars of Wisdom...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	28.00
46		Lawrence (T. E.) Revolt in the Desert...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	52.00
47		Maugham (W. Somerset) The Circle...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	5.00
48	Priestley (J. B.)	The Good Companions...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	28.00
49		Ros (Amanda M.) Fumes of Formation...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	35.00
50	Sassoon (Siegfried)	Memoirs of an Infantry Officer		1930	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	38.00
51	Sassoon (Siegfried)	In Sicily		1930	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	30.00
52	Sassoon (Siegfried)	Sherston's Progress...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	35.00
53	Shaw (G. B.)	Cashel Byron's Profession		1886	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
54	Shaw (G. B.)	The Perfect Wagnerite...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	28.00
55		Shaw (G. B.) Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx: a Symposium 1884-1899...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	26.00
56		Sinclair (Upton) Boston...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
57	Stephens (James)	The Crock of Gold...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	11.00
58	Stevenson (R. L.)	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde		1886	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	90.00
59		Strachey (Lytton) Elizabeth and Essex...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	45.00
60	Walpole (Sir Hugh)	The Dark Forest...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	27.00
61	Walpole (Sir Hugh)	Hans Frost...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
62	Webb (Mary)	Precious Bane		1924	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	42.00
63	Wells (H. G.)	The War in the Air		1908	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
64		Wells (H. G.) The History of Mr. Polly...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
65	Douglas (Lord Alfred)	Wilde (Oscar)--Oscar Wilde and Myself		1914	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	48.00
66	Wilde (Oscar)	For Love of the King		1922	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	14.00
67	[Wilde (Oscar)]	An Ideal Husband		1949	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
68		Wilde (Oscar)--Harris (Frank) Oscar Wilde, his Life and Confessions...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	20.00
69	Auden (W. H.) and Louis MacNeice	Letters from Iceland		1937	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	26.00
70		Besant (Walter) The World Went Very Well Then...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	58.00
71	Conrad (Joseph)	'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales'		1912	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	4.00
72	Conrad (Joseph)	Youth: a Narrative and Two Other Stories...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	28.00
73	DOYLE (Sir A. CONAN)	The White Company		1891	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
74	Doyle (Sir A. Conan)	Uncle Bernac...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
75	HARDY (THOMAS)	WORKS		1895-1913	GBP 175.00 - 250.00	280.00
76		Hardy (Thomas) Life's Little Ironies...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
77	Huxley (Aldous)	Brave New World		1932	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	16.00
78		Jerome (Jerome K.) Three Men in a Boat...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	18.00
79	LAWRENCE (D. H.)	The White Peacock		1911	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	115.00
80		Lawrence (D. H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
81	Maugham (W. Somerset)	Liza of Lambeth		1897	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	35.00
82		Moore (George) The Apostle...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	18.00
83	Pound (Ezra)	Cathay		1915	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	20.00
84	Synge (John M.)	Works	Dublin	1910	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
85	Wells (H. G.)	The First Men in the Moon		1901	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	22.00
86	Wells (H. G.)	The World of William Clissold		1926	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
87	Yeats (W. B.)	Poems: Second Series...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	45.00
88	Drinkwater (John)	Collected Poems		1923	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	15.00
89	Huxley (Aldous)	Beyond the Mexique Bay		1934	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	24.00
90		Lawrence (D. H.) The Triumph of the Machine...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	70.00
91		Moore (George) Ulick and Soracha...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
92		Owl (The)...		1919-23	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
93	Pound (Ezra)	Quia Pauper Amayi		[1919]	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
94	Pound (Ezra)	How to Read		1931	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	14.00
95	Powys (T. F.)	Mr. Weston's Good Wine		1927	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
96	Sassoon (Siegfried)	Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man		1929	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	70.00
97	Sassoon (Siegfried)	Memoirs of an Infantry Officer		1930	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
98	Sassoon (Siegfried)	Sherston's Progress		1936	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	38.00
99		Stevenson (R. L.) Kidnapped...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	8.00
100	Synge (John M.)	Works	Dublin	1910	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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