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
101	Wilde (Oscar)	Intentions		1891	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
102	Wilde (Oscar)	An Ideal Husband		1899	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	52.00
103	Wilde (Oscar)	De Profundis		1905	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	18.00
104	Wilde (Oscar)	After Reading...		1921-22	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	50.00
105	Yeats (W. B.)	Celtic Twilight		1893	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
106	Yeats (W. B.)	The Land of Heart's Desire		1894	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
107	Yeats (W. B.)	Four Plays for Dancers		1921	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
108	Yeats (W. B.)	The Trembling of the Veil		1922	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	45.00
109	Yeats (W. B.)	A Vision		1925	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	46.00
110	Yeats (W. B.)	The Tower		1928	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
111		Beerbohm (Sir Max) The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
112	Belloc (Hilaire)	Verses and Sonnets...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	75.00
113	Belloc (Hilaire)	Esto Perpetua...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	38.00
114		Bridges (Robert) Poetical Works...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
115		Chesterton (G. K.) The Wild Knight...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	70.00
116		Cloud (Evonne) Pastiche...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
117		Compton-Burnett (Ivy) The Present and the Past...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	18.00
118	CONRAD (JOSEPH)	Works		1921-27	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	110.00
119		de la Mare (Walter) Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	12.00
120	Dryden (John)	Eliot (T. S.)--Of Dramatic Poesie		1928	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
121		Huxley (Aldous) Two or Three Graces...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	22.00
122	James (Henry)	Portraits of Places		1883	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
123	James (Henry)	French Poets and Novelists...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
124	James (Henry)	The Better Sort...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
125		James (Henry) Notes on Novelists...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
126		Jones (Henry Festing) Samuel Butler...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	28.00
127	LAWRENCE (D. H.)	The Collected Poems		1928	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	135.00
128	Meredith (George)	Letters...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
129		Moore (George)--Pure Poetry...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	26.00
130		Moore (George) Vale...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	35.00
131	Proust (Marcel)	A la Recherche du Temps Perdu...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	25.00
132	Sackville-West (Victoria)	Poems of East and West		1917	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
133	Shaw (George Bernard)	Works		1930-34	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
134		Shaw (G. B.) The Quintessence of Ibsenism...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	8.00
135	WELLS (H. G.)	WORKS		1924-27	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	330.00
136	Acton (Harold)	Cornelian		1928	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
137		Acton (Harold) Five Saints and an Appendix...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
138	Aldington (Richard)	Death of a Hero		1929	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
139	Aldington (Richard)	Last Straws	Paris	1930	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	24.00
140	Aldington (Richard)	The Colonel's Daughter		1931	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	22.00
141	Aldington (Richard)	All Men Are Enemies		1933	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	20.00
142		Aldington (Richard) Death of a Hero...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	32.00
142A	Anderson (Sherwood)	The Modern Writer...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	5.00
143		Armstrong (Martin) Saint Christopher's Day...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	15.00
144	Auden (W. H.)	Poems		1930	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	52.00
145		Auden (W. H.) and Louis MacNeice. Letters from Iceland...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
146		Auden (W. H.) Mountains...		1954	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	12.00
147		Austin (Alfred) Savonarola...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	34.00
148		Baring (Maurice) Gaston de Foix, a play in four acts...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	45.00
149	Barrie (Sir J. M.)	Auld Licht Idylls...			GBP 10.00 - 15.00	18.00
150	Bates (H. E.)	The Story Without an End		1932	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
151		Bates (H. E.) The Story Without an End...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	20.00
152		Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, Petits Poems en Prose, and Les Paradis Artificiels...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	46.00
153	BECKETT (SAMUEL)	MURPHY		1938	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	1,100.00
154	Beckett (Samuel)	Molloy	Paris	1951	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
155	Beerbohm (Sir Max)	A Christmas Garland		1912	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	16.00
156	[McFall (Francis Elizabeth)]	BEERBOHM (Sir MAX)--"Sarah Grand"		1916	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
157	Beerbohm (Sir Max)	Observations		1925	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
158		Beerbohm (Sir Max) And Even Now...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	38.00
159		Beerbohm (Sir Max) A Christmas Garland...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	10.00
160		Beerbohm (Sir Max) Seven Men...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
161	Belloc (Hilaire)	In Praise of Wine		1933	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	30.00
162		Belloc (Hilaire) Sonnets and Verses...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	62.00
163		Belloc (Hilaire) Avril...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
164		Belloc (Hilaire) Cautionary Tales for Children...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
165	Bennett (Arnold)	Don Juan de Marana		1923	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	8.00
166	Bennett (Arnold)	The Bright Island		1924	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
167	Bennett (Arnold)	The Old Wives' Tale		1927	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	14.00
168		Bennett (Arnold) Don Juan de Marana...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	20.00
169		Bennett (E. A.) Fame and Fiction...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	26.00
170	BENSON (A. C.)	Le Cahier Jaune...			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	65.00
171	Betjeman (Sir John)	Ghastly Good Taste		1970	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	22.00
172	Betjeman (John)	Antiquarian Prejudice...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	20.00
173		Biggers (Earl Derr) The Chinese Parrot...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	6.00
174		Binyon (Laurence) and others. Primavera...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
175		Blunden (Edmund) Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
176	Blunt (W. S.)	My Diaries		1919-20	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	14.00
177		Bone (Gertrude) Oasis...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
178	Boothby (Guy)	Doctor Nikola		1898	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
179	Bridges (Robert)	A Tract on the Present State of English Pronunciation		1913	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	22.00
180	Bridges (Robert)	Demeter...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
181		Broster (D. K.) The Yellow Poppy...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	30.00
182		Bullet (Gerald) Nicky Son of Egg...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	1.00
183		Burgin (G. B.) Tomalyn's Quest...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	1.00
184	Burke (Thomas)	The Wind and the Rain		1924	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
185	BURROUGHS (WILLIAM)	Ali's Smile	Brighton	1971	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
186		Carpenter (Edward) Iolaus...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
187		Cather (Willa Silbert) April Twilights...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	12.00
188		CHAPBOOK (THE), no. 1-40		1919-25	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	80.00
189		Chesterton (G. K.) The Collected Poems...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
190		Chesterton (G. K.) Robert Browning...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	22.00
191	Churchill (Sir Winston)	London to Ladysmith, via Pretoria		1900	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	4.00
192	Churchill (Sir Winston)	A History of the English-Speaking Peoples		1956-58	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	9.00
193	Churchill (Sir Winston S.)	Honorary Citizen of the United States of America by Act of Congress	Worcester, Mass.	1964	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
194	Churchill (Sir Winston S.)	Head and shoulders pencil caricature of Churchill with hat and cigar			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
195	Cyril Ray, editor	Compleat Imbiber (The)		1956-71	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	58.00
196	Connolly (Cyril)	Enemies of Promise		1938	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	11.00
197		Conrad (Joseph) A Set of Six...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	14.00
198		Conrad (Joseph) Works...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	28.00
199	Coppard (A. E.)	Count Stephan		1928	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00

Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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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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.