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
200		Coterie, no. 1-6/7		1919-21	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
201	CRAWFORD (F. MARION)	Doctor Claudius...		1884-99	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	50.00
202	Crowley (Aleister) and others	The Equinox		1909-13	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	50.00
203	Crowley (Aleister)	Confessions		1929	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	20.00
204	Cunard (Nancy)	Poems (Two) 1925		1930	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	55.00
204A		Davidson (H. C.) Hypocrites...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	13.00
205	Davies (W. H.)	Selected Poems		1928	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	42.00
206		Davies (W. H.) The Soul's Destroyer...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	42.00
207		Davies (W. H.) The Hour of Magic...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	14.00
208		Davies (W. H.) The Song of Love...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
209		Davies (W. H.) Forty New Poems...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	22.00
210		Delafield (E. M.) The Optimist...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
211	DE LA MARE (WALTER)	POEMS		1937	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
212	de la Mare (Walter)	Desert Islands...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	16.00
213	de la Mare (Walter)	Peacock pie...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
214	de la Mare (Walter)	The Three Mulla-Mulgars...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	5.00
215	de la Mare (Walter)	Seven Short Stories...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
216	de la Mare (Walter)	The Veil, and Other Poems...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
217	de la Mare (Walter)	The Riddle and Other Stories...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	32.00
218	de la Mare (Walter)	Henry Brocken...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	17.00
219	de la Mare (Walter)	Come Hither, a Collection of Rhymes made by Walter de la Mare...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
220		de la Mare (Walter) Two Tales...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	25.00
221		de la Mare (Walter) On the Edge...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
222	Douglas (Lord Alfred)	Lyrics; Sonnets		1935	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	15.00
223	Douglas (Norman)	One Day	Chapelle-Reanville	1929	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	22.00
224		Douglas (Norman) D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	5.00
225	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) and Sir J. M. Barrie	Jane Annie, or the Good Conduct Prize		1893	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	38.00
226	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1894	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
227	DOYLE (Sir ARTHUR CONAN)	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes		1893-94	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	80.00
228	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1894	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	38.00
229	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Hound of the Baskervilles		1902	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	30.00
230	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Hound of the Baskervilles		1902	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
231	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Wanderings of a Spiritualist		[1921]	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	60.00
232	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Valley of Fear...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	18.00
233	Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)	The Sign of Four...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
234		Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)--Bangs (John Kendrick) The Pursuit of the House-Boat...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	90.00
235		Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)--Five Complete Novels from Lippincott's Magazine...			GBP 30.00 - 45.00	110.00
236		Du Maurier (George) Trilby...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	8.00
237	Durrell (Lawrence)	Prospero's Cell...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
238	Eliot (T. S.)	The Sacred Wood		1920	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
239	Eliot (T. S.)	Journey of the Magi		1927	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	52.00
240	Eliot (T. S.)	Triumphal March		[1931]	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	58.00
241		Flint (F. S.) In the Net of the Stars...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
242	Read (Sir Herbert)	Mutations of the Phoenix		1923	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
243	Read (Sir Herbert)	Collected Poems...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	20.00
244	Eliot (T. S.)	Homage to John Dryden		1924	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	12.00
245	Perse (St.-J.)	ELIOT (T. S.)-- Anabasis		1930	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	42.00
246	Eliot (T. S.)	Homage to John Dryden...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	30.00
247	Eliot (T. S.)	Burnt Norton...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	52.00
248		Eliot (T. S.) Burnt Norton...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	16.00
249		Eliot (T. S.) Sweeney Agonistes...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	18.00
250		Eliot (T. S.) Dante...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
251		Farnol (Jeffery) The Broad Highway...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
252	Faulkner (William)	Go Down Moses	New York	1942	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
253	Flecker (James Elroy)	Don Juan		1926	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
254		Flecker (James Elroy) Collected Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	24.00
255	Fleming (Ian)	Casino Royale...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	80.00
256	Fleming (Ian)	Dr. No. 1958; Goldfinger...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	8.00
257		Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
258		Ford (Ford Maddox) New York Essays...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	70.00
259	Forster (E. M.)	A Passage to India		1924	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
260	Forster (E. M.)	A Passage to India		1924	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	5.00
261	Forster (E. M.)	The Eternal Moment and other Stories		1928	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	14.00
262		Forster (E. M.) A Passage to India...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
262A	FROST (ROBERT)	A BOY'S WILL		1913	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	125.00
263	Fry (Roger)	Living Painters: Duncan Grant...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	48.00
264		Fuller (Roy) Poems...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	65.00
265	Galsworthy (John)	The White Monkey...			GBP 10.00 - 15.00	16.00
266		Galsworthy (John) Caravan...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	14.00
267		Galsworthy (John) The Little Man and other Satires...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	10.00
268		Galsworthy (John) To Let...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	17.00
269	Garnett (David)	A Man in the Zoo...			GBP 20.00 - 25.00	14.00
270		Gilson (Hibbart) Giant and Pygmy, an Appreciation of Thomas Hardy...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
271		Gogarty (Oliver St. John) Collected Poems...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	24.00
272		Gosse (Edmund) Questions at Issue...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	18.00
273	Grahame (Kenneth)	The Headswoman...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	50.00
274	Beerbohm (Sir Max)	Zuleika Dobson		1911	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
275	ELIOT (T. S.)	PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS		1917	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	420.00
276	GRAVES (ROBERT)	OVER THE BRAZIER		1916	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
277	GRAVES (ROBERT)	Fairies and Fusiliers		1917	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	115.00
278		K[nox] (R. A.) Signa Severa...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	5.00
279	Owen (Wilfred)	Poems		1920	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
280	Wilde (Oscar)	Poems		[1907]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
281		de la Mare (Walter) Self to Self...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
282	Greene (Graham)	The Lawless Roads		1939	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
283	Greene (Graham)	The Complaisant Lover		1959	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
284	Greene (Graham)	A Burnt-Out Case		1961	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
285		Sassoon (Siegfried) Counter-Attack...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	10.00
286	Greene (Graham)	The Heart of the Matter...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	36.00
287	Greene (Graham)	The End of the Affair...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	45.00
288		Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
289	Gregory (Lady)	The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish	Dublin	1918	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
290		Gregory (Lady) New Comedies...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
291	Haggard (Sir H. Rider)	Allan Quatermain...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	24.00
292	Haggard (Sir H. Rider)	Beatrice...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	38.00
293	Haggard (Sir H. Rider)	Doctor Therne...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	38.00
294	Haggard (Sir H. Rider)	The Way of the Spirit...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	52.00
295	Haggard (Sir H. Rider)	Regeneration...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	28.00
296	Scott (J. E.)	A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard		1947	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	48.00
297		Haggard (Sir H. Rider) She, upper hinge broken...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	4.00

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