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
495	Stein (Gertrude)	Everybody's Autobiography...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	17.00
496	Stein (Gertrude)	The World is Round...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	22.00
497		Stevens (Wallace) Harmonium...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
498		STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) A COLLECTION or WORKS comprising: An Inland Voyage...		1878-98	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	750.00
499	Stevenson (R. L.)	An Inland Voyage		1878	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
500	Stevenson (R. L.)	Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes		1879	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	62.00
501	Stevenson (R. L.)	Works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	52.00
502	Stevenson (Robert Louis)	Works		1911-12	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	7.00
503		Stevenson (R. L.) Weir of Hermiston...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	22.00
504		Stevenson (R. L.) St. Ives...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	19.00
505		Strachey (Julia) Cheerful Weather for the Wedding...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	11.00
506		Strong (L. A. G.) The Big Man...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	8.00
507		Swinburne (A. C.) Bothwell...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	19.00
508		Swinburne (A. C.) Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
509	Symonds (John Addington)	New and Old		1880	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	48.00
510	Symonds (John Addington)	Vagabunduli Libellus		1884	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	50.00
511	Symonds (John Addington)	The Sonnets of Michaelangelo and Campanella...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	14.00
512		Symonds (John Addington)--Symonds (J. A. [Snr.]) Miscellanies...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
513	Symons (A. J. A.)	Emin		1928	GBP 12.00 - 18.00	16.00
514	Symons (A. J. A.)	Emin, the Governor of Equatoria		1928	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	11.00
515		Synge (J. M.) The Autobiography...			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	34.00
516		Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and other Poems...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	22.00
517		This Quarter...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	18.00
518	Thomas (Dylan)	The Map of Love		1939	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	16.00
519	Thomas (Dylan)	Deaths and Entrances		1946	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
520	Thomas (Dylan)	Bolteghe Oscure	Rome	1952-4	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	13.00
521	Thomas (Dylan)	Under Milk Wood		1954	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
522	THOMAS (DYLAN)	Bronze head of Dylan Thomas by Olaf de Wett			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	38.00
523	THOMAS (EDWARD)	Selected Poems		1927	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	62.00
524		Thompson (Francis) Works...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	Not Sold
525	Tolkien (J. R. R.)	The Fellowship of the Ring		1954	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	Not Sold
526		Tomlinson (H. M.) All Our Yesterdays...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	65.00
527		Transition, no. 14, 18, 19/20 and 22		1928-33	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	58.00
528		Trevelyan (R. C.) Poems and Fables...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	50.00
529		Turner (W. J.) The Hunter...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
530		Walpole (Sir Hugh) The Cathedral...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
531		Waugh (Alec) The Lonely Unicorn...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	38.00
532	WAUGH (EVELYN)	HEAD AND SHOULDERS PORTRAIT OF EVELYN WAUGH IN HIS YOUTH			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	820.00
533	Waugh (Evelyn)	Wine in Peace and War		[1949]	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	14.00
534	Waugh (Evelyn)	Black Mischief...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	32.00
535		Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
536	Wells (H. G.)	The Time Machine		1895	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
537	Wells (H. G.)	The Time Machine		1895	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	30.00
538	Wells (H. G.)	The War of the Worlds		1898	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	34.00
539	Wells (H. G.)	The War of the Worlds		1898	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	34.00
540	Wells (H. G.)	The First Men in the Moon		1901	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	32.00
541	Wells (H. G.)	The First Men in the Moon		1901	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	54.00
542	WELLS (H. G.)	WORKS		1924-27	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	320.00
543	Wells (H. G.)	The Wonderful Visit...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	55.00
544	Wells (H. G.)	Tono-Bungay...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	24.00
545	Wells (H. G.)	Tono-Bungay...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	28.00
546	Wells (H. G.)	First and Last Things...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	28.00
547	Wheatley (Dennis)	"Old Rowley"...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	62.00
548	Wheatley (Dennis)	Faked Passports...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
549	Wheatley (Dennis)	Murder off Miami...		[1936-38]	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
550	Wheatley (Dennis)	Murder off Miami...		[1936-39]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	36.00
551		Wheatley (Dennis) Murder off Miami...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	11.00
552		Wheels, fifth and sixth cycle...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	58.00
553	Whistler (J. A. MacNeill)	The Gentle Art of Making Enemies		1890	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	18.00
554		Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	22.00
555	WILDE (OSCAR)	Ravenna	Oxford	1878	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	98.00
556	WILDE (OSCAR)	THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY		1891	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	220.00
557	Wilde (Oscar)	Lady Windermere's Fan		1893	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	62.00
558	WILDE (OSCAR) AND OTHERS	The Chameleon		1894	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
559	Wilde (Oscar)	The Ballad of Reading Goal		1898	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	28.00
560	Wilde (Oscar)	The Ballad of Reading Goal		1898	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	75.00
561	[Wilde (Oscar)]	The Importance of Being Earnest		1899	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	65.00
562	[Wilde (Oscar)]	The Importance of Being Earnest		1899	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
563	[Wilde (Oscar)]	The Importance of Being Earnest		1899	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
564	Wilde (Oscar)	The Importance of Being Earnest	New York	1956	GBP 35.00 - 45.00	26.00
565	Wilde (Oscar)	Works		1905-11	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	6.00
566	Wilde (Oscar)	De Profundis...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	12.00
567		Wilde (Oscar) De Profundis...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	5.00
568		Wilde (Oscar) The Soul of Man under Socialism...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
569	Wolfe (Thomas)	Look Homeward	New York	1929	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	9.00
570	Bell (Clive)	The Legend of Monte Delia Sibilla		1923	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
571	Fry (Roger)	Twelve Original Woodcuts		1922	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	48.00
572		Gorky (Maxim) Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
573	Jeffers (Robinson)	Hogarth Living Poets...		1928-30	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	36.00
574	Murry (J. Middleton)	The Critic in Judgement		[1920?]	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	22.00
575	Sackville-West (Victoria)	Sissinghurst		1931	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	50.00
576	Sackville-West (Victoria)	Collected Poems...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	22.00
577	Smith (Robert Pearsall)	How Little Logan was Brought to Jesus	Stanford Dingley	1934	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	110.00
578	WOOLF (LEONARD)	The Village in the Jungle		1913	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	310.00
579	WOOLF (VIRGINIA)	THE MARK ON THE WALL		1919	GBP 90.00 - 120.00	220.00
580	WOOLF (VIRGINIA)	KEW GARDENS		1919	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	210.00
581	Woolf (Virginia)	Monday or Tuesday		1921	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	85.00
582	Woolf (Virginia)	Mrs. Dalloway		1925	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	130.00
583	Woolf (Virginia)	Kew Gardens		1927	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	58.00
584	Woolf (Virginia)	To the Lighthouse		1927	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
585	Woolf (Virginia)	A Room of One's Own		1929	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
586	WOOLF (VIRGINIA)	On Being Ill		1930	GBP 75.00 - 90.00	84.00
587	Woolf (Virginia)	The Waves		1931	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	24.00
588		Woolf (Virginia) Orlando...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	28.00
589	WOOLF (VIRGINIA)	Orlando, a Biography		1928	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	280.00
590		Woolf (Virginia) Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	40.00
591	Wren (P. C.)	Beau Ideal...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	48.00
592		Yeats (Jack B.) James Flaunty, or The Terror of the Western Isles...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
593		Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	38.00
594	YEATS (W. B.)	The Wanderings of Oisin and other Poems		1889	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	58.00

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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.
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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.