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
298		Haggard (Sir H. Rider) Benita...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
299	Hall (Radclyffe)	The Master of the House		1932	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	28.00
300	Hanley (James)	The German Prisoner		1930	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
301	Hanley (James)	Stoker Haslett		1932	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	13.00
302		Hanley (James) Stoker Haslett...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	15.00
303		Hanley (James) The Last Voyage...		1931-32	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
304	Hardy (Thomas)	Trumpet Major		1880	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	58.00
305	Hardy (Thomas)	Jude the Obscure		1896	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	34.00
306	Hardy (Thomas)	Jude the Obscure		1896	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	2.00
307	Hardy (Thomas)	Jude the Obscure...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	9.00
308	Hardy (Thomas)	Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	30.00
309	Hardy (Thomas)	Satires of Circumstance...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	34.00
310	Hardy (Thomas)	The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
311	HARDY (THOMAS)	A FINE HEAD AND SHOULDERS PORTRAIT OF THOMAS HARDY by Hubert von Herkomer		[19]08	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
312		Hardy (Thomas) A Group of Noble Dames...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
313		Hardy (Thomas) The Woodlanders...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	10.00
314	Harris (Frank)	Oscar Wilde, his Life and Confessions	New York	1916	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	8.00
315	Harte (Bret)	Poems	Boston	1871	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	15.00
315A		Hawkins (Anthony Hope) "Anthony Hope". The Prisoner of Zenda...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	24.00
316		Hornung (E. W.) Irralie's Bushranger...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	11.00
317	Housman (A. E.)	Cambridge Inaugural		1968	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	3.00
318	Housman (A. E.)	Cambridge Inaugural		1968	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	5.00
319	Housman (A. E.)	A Shropshire Lad...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	14.00
320		Housman (A. E.) Last Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	28.00
321	Hudson (W. H.)	Nature in Downland		1918	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	42.00
322	Hughes (Ted)	Animal Poems	Crediton	[1967]	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	180.00
323	Hughes (Ted)	Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices	Crediton	1968	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
324	Hughes (Ted)	Crow Wakes		1971	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	70.00
325	Hughes (Ted)	Prometheus On His Crag		1973	GBP 35.00 - 45.00	52.00
326	Hughes (Ted)	Shakespeare's Poem...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	38.00
327		Hughes (Ted) The Hawk in the Rain...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	82.00
328	HUXLEY (ALDOUS)	The Burning Wheel	Oxford	1916	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
329	Huxley (Aldous)	Brave New World		1932	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	58.00
330	Huxley (Aldous)	Brave New World		1932	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	18.00
331		Huxley (Aldous) Point Counter Point...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	5.00
331A		Isherwood (Christopher) The World in the Evening...			Not Available	42.00
332	James (Henry)	The Spoils of Poynton		1897	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
333	James (Henry)	The Two Magics		1898	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	52.00
334	James (Henry)	Italian Hours		1909	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
335	James (Henry)	The Europeans...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
336	James (Henry)	The American Scene...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	35.00
337		James (Henry) The Bostonians...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	68.00
338		James (Henry) The American...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
339	Jerome (Jerome K.)	Three Men in a Boat	Bristol	1899	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
340	Jerome (Jerome K.)	Three Men in a Boat	Bristol	1889	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	8.00
341	Jerome (Jerome K.)	Three Men in a Boat...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	52.00
341A	Jerome (Jerome K.)	Three Men in a Boat...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	24.00
342	[Johnson (William Cory)]	Ionica		1891	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	12.00
343	[Johnson (William Cory)]	Ionica		1891	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	9.00
344	Joyce (James)	Ulysses		1936	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
345	JOYCE (JAMES)	FINNEGANS WAKE		1939	GBP 400.00 - 550.00	230.00
346	Joyce (James)	Stephen Hero		1944	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	16.00
347	Kipling (Rudyard)	Soldiers Three...	Allahabad	1888	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
348	KIPLING (RUDYARD)	Soldiers Three; The Story of the Gadsbys...			GBP 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
349	Kipling (Rudyard)	The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book		1894-5	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
350	Kipling (Rudyard)	The Absent Minded Beggar		1899	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
351	Kipling (Rudyard)	The Works		1913-27	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	50.00
352	Kipling (Rudyard)	A Fleet in Being...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	12.00
353		Kipling (Rudyard) The Seven Seas...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	19.00
354		Larkin (Philip) The Whitsun Weddings...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	78.00
355	Robins (Elizabeth)	LAWRENCE (D. H.)-- The Convert		1907	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	140.00
356	Lawrence (D. H.)	The White Peacock		1911	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	190.00
357	Lawrence (D. H.)	Look! We Have Come Through		1917	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	12.00
358	Lawrence (D. H.)	England My England	New York	1922	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
359	Lawrence (D. H.)	Lady Chatterley's Lover		1928	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	24.00
360	Lawrence (D. H.)	Pansies		1929	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	11.00
361		Lawrence (D. H.) Pornography and Obscenity...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	17.00
362		Lawrence (D. H.) The Man Who Died...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
363	Lawrence (D. H.)	Aaron's Rod...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
364		Lawrence (D. H.) The Lost Girl...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
365		Lawrence (D. H.) The Plumed Serpent...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	26.00
366		Lawrence (D. H.) A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
367	[Lawrence (T. E.)] and others	A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force	Cairo	1919	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
368	[Lawrence (T. E.)] and others	A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force	Cairo	1919	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	58.00
369	THOMAS (LOWELL)	LAWRENCE (T. E.)-- WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA	New York	1924	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	420.00
370	HOMER	LAWRENCE (T. E.)--THE ODYSSEY		1932	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	210.00
371	Lawrence (T. E.)	Seven Pillars of Wisdom...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	7.00
372	Lewis (C. Day)	The Magnetic Mountain		1933	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	40.00
373		Lewis (C. Day) An Italian Visit...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
374	Lewis (Wyndham)	Blast, no. 2		1915	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	48.00
375	Lewis (Wyndham)	The Enemy, no. 2		1927	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	14.00
376	Lewis (Wyndham)	The Wild Body...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	22.00
377	Lewis (Wyndham)	The Art of Being Ruled...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
378	Lewis (Wyndham)	The Wild Body...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
379		Loos (Anita) Gentlemen prefer Blondes...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
380	Lowenfels (Walter)	Apollinaire	Paris	1930	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
381	Lowenfels (Walter)	Apollinaire	Paris	1930	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
382		Macaulay (Rose) Personal Pleasures...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
383		Machen (Arthur) The Great God Pan, and The Inmost Light...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
384	Mackenzie (Sir Compton)	Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
385		Manhood (H. A.) Bread and Vinegar...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
386		Manhood (H. A.) Bread and Vinegar...			GBP 35.00 - 45.00	42.00
387	[Manning (Frederick)]	The Middle Parts of Fortune...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	58.00
388		Masefield (John) South and East...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	13.00
389	Masefield (John)	Ballads and Poems...			GBP 10.00 - 15.00	9.00
390		Masefield (John) Collected Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
391	Maugham (W. Somerset)	A Writer's Notebook		1949	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
392	Maugham (W. Somerset)	A Writer's Notebook		1949	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	45.00
393	Maugham (William Somerset)	First Person Singular...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	6.00
394	MAUROIS (ANDRE)	Ariel		1935	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00

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.