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
395	MAUROIS (ANDRE)	Ariel		1935	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
396		Meek (Charles) The Will to Function...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	12.00
397	[Mercer (Major William)] "Dornford Yates"	Red in the Morning...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	36.00
398		Meredith (George) On the Idea of Comedy...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	22.00
399		Meynell (Viola) Antonia...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	18.00
400	Millay (Edna St. Vincent)	A Few Figs from Thistles	New York	1920	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	8.00
401	Miller (Henry)	Aller Retour New York	Paris	1935	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	320.00
402	Miller (Henry)	What are you Going to do About Alf?	[Belgium]	[1938]	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	32.00
403		Milne (A. A.) The Day's Play...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	13.00
404	Monro (Harold)	The Earth for Sale		1928	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	20.00
405		Monro (Harold) Strange Meetings...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	12.00
406		Monro (Harold) Collected Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
407		Montague (C. E.) Fiery Particles...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	28.00
408	Moore (George)	The Apostle, a Drama in a Prelude, and Three Acts		1923	GBP 12.00 - 18.00	11.00
409		Moore (George) The Talking Pine...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
410		Moore (George) A Story-Teller's Holiday...			Not Available	11.00
411		Moore (George) Fragments from Heloise and Abelard...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	42.00
412		Moore (Marianne) Nevertheless...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
413		Morris (William) Love is Enough...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	19.00
414	[MUIR (EDWIN)]	WE MODERNS: Enigmas and Guesses		1918	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	210.00
415		Murray (Rosalind) The Happy Tree...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
416		Newbolt (Sir Henry) The Sailing of the Longships...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	18.00
417		Newbolt (Sir Henry) Aladore...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
418	O'Connor (Frank)	A Picture Book	Dublin	1943	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
419	O'Flaherty (Liam)	Red Barbara, and other Stories	New York and London	1928	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	17.00
420	O'Flaherty (Liam)	The Ecstacy of Angus		1931	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
421	O'Flaherty (Liam)	The Ecstacy of Angus		1931	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
422	O'Neill (Eugene)	Thirst	Boston	1914	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	58.00
423	O'Neill (Eugene)	The Emperor Jones	Cincinnati	[1921]	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	32.00
424	O'Neill (Eugene)	Marco Millions	New York	1927	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
425	O'Neill (Eugene)	Lazarus Laughed	New York	1927	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
426	O'Neill (Eugene)	The Emperor Jones	New York	1928	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
427	O'Neill (Eugene)	Strange Interlude...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	38.00
428	O'Neill (Eugene)	Thirst...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	40.00
429		O'Neill (Eugene) Beyond the Horizon...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
430	O'Neill (Eugene)	Marco Millions...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	16.00
431	Orwell (George)	Animal Farm		1945	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
432	Orwell (George)	The Road to Wigan Pier, Left Book Club...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	22.00
433	Orwell (George)	The English People...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	28.00
434	Orwell (George)	The Road to Wigan Pier...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
435		Owl (The), no. 1 and 2		1919	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	34.00
436		Pankhurst (Sylvia) Writ on Cold Slate...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	65.00
437		Pember (E. H.) Debita Flacco...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	26.00
438		PERIODICALS. A collection of literary periodicals including Good Words...			Not Available	85.00
439		Pinero (Arthur W.) The Gay Lord Quex...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	24.00
440		Pinter (Harold) Monologue...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
441	Plath (Sylvia)	Ariel		1965	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	54.00
442	Plath (Sylvia)	Three Women		1968	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	38.00
443	Plath (Sylvia)	Winter Trees...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
444	Plath (Sylvia)	Wreath for a Bridal...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	68.00
445	PLOMER (WILLIAM) AND BENJAMIN BRITTEN	GLORIANA, an Opera in Three Acts		1953	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	55.00
446	Pound (Ezra)	Personae		1909	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	24.00
447	Pound (Ezra)	Exultations		1909	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	16.00
448	POUND (EZRA)	Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony	Paris	1924	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	170.00
449		Pound (Ezra) Seventy Cantos...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	26.00
450	Powys (J. C.)	Wood and Stone		[1916]	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	24.00
451		Powys (Llewelyn) Ebony and Ivory...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
452	Powys (T. F.)	Mark Only...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
453	Powys (T. F.)	Soliloquies of a Hermit...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
454		Powys (T. F.) Kindness in a Corner...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
455		Priestley (J. B.) Postscripts...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	16.00
456		Rhythm, no. 3-14...		1911-13	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	95.00
457	Roberts (Cecil)	A Tale of Young Lovers...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	30.00
458	Rolfe (Frederick, "Baron Corvo")	'The Songs of Meleager'		1937	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	32.00
459	Rolfe (Frederick, "Baron Corvo")	Three Tales of Venice		[1950]	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	45.00
460	Rolfe (Frederick, "Baron Corvo")	The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda		1957	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
461	Ros (Amanda M'Kittrick)	Irene Iddesleigh...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	28.00
462	SACKVILLE-WEST (VICTORIA)	Sissinghurst		1931	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	52.00
463	SACKVILLE-WEST (VICTORIA)	Sissinghurst		1931	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	52.00
464	Sackville-West (Victoria)	The Garden		1946	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	52.00
465	[Sassoon (Siegfried)] "Pinchbeck Lyre"	Poems		1931	GBP 12.00 - 18.00	22.00
466	Sassoon (Siegfried)	The Old Huntsman and other Poems...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
467		[Sassoon (Siegfried)] Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	19.00
468		Sassoon (Siegfried) The Heart's Journey...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	20.00
469	[Schiff (Sidney)] "Stephen Hudson"	Myrtle		1925	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	9.00
470		Service (Robert W.) Ballads of a Cheechako...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	19.00
471		Seton (Ernest Thompson) Animal Heroes...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	14.00
472		Shanks (Edward) The Queen of China and other Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
473	Shanks (Edward)	Pen and ink portrait of Edward Shanks by Powys Evans			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	2.00
474	Shaw (G. B.)	Caesar and Cleopatra...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
475		Shaw (G. B.) Dramatic Opinions...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
476	Shaw (G. B.)	Androcles and the Lion...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
477		Shaw (G. B.) The Critics of the White Prophet...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
478	Shaw (G. B.)	The Doctor's Dilemma...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
479		Shaw (G. B.) Saint Joan...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	15.00
480		Shaw (George Bernard) and Ellen Terry. A Correspondence...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	28.00
481		Silkin (Jon) Flower Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
482	Sims (George R.)	Ballads of Babylon...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	60.00
483	Ford (Charles Henri)	The Garden of Disorder		1938	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	28.00
484	Hopkins (Gerard Manley)	Poems		1918	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	26.00
485	Sitwell (Sir Osbert)	Out of the Flame		1923	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	95.00
486	Sitwell (Sir Osbert)	Before the Bombardment		1926	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
487	Sitwell (Sacheverell)	Doctor Donne and Gargantua		1921	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	190.00
488	Sitwell (Dame Edith)	Jane Barston 1719-1746		1931	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	22.00
489	Sitwell (Dame Edith)	Fanfare for Elizabeth		1949	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	13.00
490	Sitwell (Dame Edith)	The Song of the Cold...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
491		Sitwell (Dame Edith) Collected Poems...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	18.00
492	Sitwell (Sir Osbert)	Three-Quarter Length Portrait of Michael Arlen		[1931]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	28.00
493	Sitwell (Sir Osbert)	Before the Bombardment...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	5.00
494		Sitwell (Sacheverell) The Cyder Feast...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	12.00

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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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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.