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
595	Yeats (W. B.)	The Celtic Twilight		1893	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	36.00
596	Yeats (W. B.) and others	Ideals in Ireland		1901	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
597	Yeats (W. B.)	In the Seven Woods	Dundrum	1903	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
598	Johnson (Lionel)	Yeats (W. B.)--Twenty One Poems	Dundrum	1904	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
599	YEATS (W. B.)	COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE	Stratford-on-Avon	1908	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
600	YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER)	POEMS WRITTEN IN DISCOURAGEMENT 1912-1913	Dundrum	1913	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	410.00
601	Yeats (W. B.)	Eight Poems		1916	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	36.00
602	Yeats (W. B.)	Four Plays for Dancers		1921	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	19.00
603	Yeats (W. B.)	The Trembling of the Veil		1922	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
604	Yeats (W. B.)	The Winding Stair and other Poems		1933	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
605	Yeats (W. B.)	The Words Upon the Window Pane		1934	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
606	YEATS (W. B.)	MOSADA		1949	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	250.00
607	Yeats (W. B.)	The Shadowy Waters...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	17.00
608	Yeats (W. B.)	Responsibilities...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
609		Yeats (W. B.) The Wild Swans at Coole...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
610	Yeats (W. B.)	Where there is Nothing...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	22.00
611	France (Anatole)	YEATS (W. B.)--The Garden of Epicurus...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
612	Zangwill (Israel)	Works		1925	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
613		Allen (Grant) Vignettes from Nature...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
614		Bjornson (Bjornstjerne) The Heritage of the Kurts...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	26.00
615	Cammell (Charles Richard)	Lyrical Poems...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	8.00
616		Doyle (Sir A. Conan) The Great Shadow...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
617	Gale (Norman R.)	A Country Muse...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	30.00
618		Machen (Arthur) The Hill of Dreams...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	52.00
619		Masefield (John) The Tragedy of Nan and other Plays...			GBP 15.00 - 20.00	10.00
620	Gide (Andre)	Millard (C. S.) "Stuart Mason"--Oscar Wilde, a Study	Oxford	1905	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
621		Reeves (W. P.) New Zealand, and Other Poems...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	28.00
622	Sitwell (Sir Osbert) and Margaret Barton	Sober Truth		1930	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
623		Watson (William) Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	48.00
624		Adventures in Time and Space...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	58.00
625		Amazing Stories, vol. 10 no. 6--vol. 13 no. 9	Springfield	October 1935-September 1939	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	40.00
626		ASTOUNDING STORIES (later entitled Astounding Science-Fiction)...		1935-60	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	170.00
627		Keller (David H.) Life Everlasting...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
628		Russell (Eric Frank) Dreadful Sanctuary...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	38.00
629		Thrilling Wonder Stories, vol. 3 no. 3--vol. 13 no. 3			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	42.00
630		Trevarthen (Hal P.) World D...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	44.00
631		Unknown (later entitled Unknown Worlds) [British Edition]		August 1940- Winter 1949	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	34.00
632		Wonder Stories...			GBP 35.00 - 40.00	74.00

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