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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