Sothebys: NINETEENTH CENTURY AND MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, BINA,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 12, 1966 - July 12, 1966
Page Size: 793 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 AUDEN (W. H.) POEMS

1928

 USD - 1,820.00
2 Auden (W. H.) Poems

1930

 USD - 72.80
3 Auden (W. H.) The Orators

1932

 USD - 182.00
4 Auden (W. H.) The Dance of Death

1933

 USD - 22.40
5 AUDEN (W. H.) POEM [New Haven]

1933

 USD - 728.00
6 Auden (W. H.) Look Stranger!

1936

 USD - 182.00
7 Auden (W. H.) Another Time

1940

 USD - 50.40
8 Auden (W. H.) Spain

USD - 39.20
9 Auden (W. H.) Collected Shorter Poems [Bloomfield A27] 1950

USD - 67.20
10 Auden (W. H.) and Christopher Isherwood The Dog Beneath the Skin

USD - 117.60
11 Barker (George) Poems

USD - 33.60
12 Beerbohm (Sir Max) A Luncheon

1946

 USD - 84.00
13 Betjeman (John) Continual Dew

1937

 USD - 22.40
14 Betjeman (John) Continual Dew

1937

 USD - 22.40
15 [Betjeman (John)] Sir John Piers

1938

 USD - 154.00
16 Betjeman (John) Old Lights for New Chancels

1940

 USD - 50.40
17 Betjeman (John) Old Lights for New Chancels

1940

 USD - 16.80
18 Betjeman (John) New Bats in Old Belfries

USD - 22.40
19 Betjeman (John) How to get on in Society

USD - 117.60
20 Boas (F. S.) Songs of Ulster and Balliol

USD - 22.40
21 Bottomley (Gordon) The Mickle Drede and other Verses

1896

 USD - 117.60
22 Bowen (Elizabeth) Seven Winters

1942

 USD - 25.20
23 Bowen (Elizabeth) Encounters

USD - 61.60
24 Bowen (Elizabeth) The House in Paris

USD - 98.00
25 Bowen (Elizabeth) Encounters

USD - 84.00
26 Brooke (Rupert) 1914 and other Poems

1915

 USD - 39.20
27 Cary (Joyce) The Old Strife at Plants Oxford

1956

 USD - 134.40
28 Claudel (Paul) Partage de Midi

USD - 28.00
29 Connolly (Cyril) The Rock Pool Paris

1936

 USD - 126.00
30 Connolly (Cyril) Enemies of Promise

1938

 USD - 106.40
31 [Connolly (Cyril)] The Unquiet Grave

1944

 USD - 140.00
32 [Connolly (Cyril)] The Unquiet Grave

1944

 USD - 67.20
33 [Connolly (Cyril)] The Unquiet Grave

1945

 USD - 61.60
34 Connolly (Cyril) Bond Strikes Camp

1963

 USD - 106.40
35 Connolly (Cyril) The Condemned Playground

USD - 56.00
36 Cornford (Frances) Poems

[1910]

 USD - 56.00
37 Cornford (Frances) Spring Morning

USD - 39.20
38 Cornford (Frances) Different Days

USD - 42.00
39 Cornish (Mrs. F. W.) Cornishiana Cairo

1947

 USD - 44.80
40 De la Mare (Walter) The Traveller

1947

 USD - 308.00
41 De la Mare (Walter) Lewis Carroll

USD - 50.40
42 Devlin (Denis) Lough Derg

USD - 33.60
43 Douglas (Norman) London Street Games

1931

 USD - 22.40
44 Durrell (Lawrence) A Private Country

1943

 USD - 22.40
45 Durrell (Lawrence) Prospero's Cell

1945

 USD - 14.00
46 Durrell (Lawrence) On Seeming to Presume

1948

 USD - 16.80
47 Durrell (Lawrence) Deus Loci Ischia

1960

 USD - 78.40
48 Durrell (Lawrence) Sappho

USD - 22.40
49 [ELIOT (T. S.), G. C. FABER, F. V. MORLEY AND JOHN HAYWARD] NOCTES BINANIANAE

1939

 USD - 980.00
50 [ELIOT (T. S.), G. C. FABER, F. V. MORLEY AND JOHN HAYWARD.] NOCTES BINANIANAE an uncorrected copy of the first proof

1939

 USD - 266.00
51 Eliot (T. S.) Johnson (Samuel) London

1930

 USD - 78.40
52 Eliot (T. S.) Donne (John) A Prayer

USD - 140.00
53 Empson (William) Seven Types of Ambiguity

1930

 USD - 33.60
54 Empson (William) Poems

1935

 USD - 70.00
55 Empson (William) Some Versions of Pastoral

USD - 33.60
56 Falkner (John Meade) Poems

USD - 16.80
57 Fedden (Robin) Chantemesle

USD - 84.00
58 Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale

1953

 USD - 168.00
59 Fleming (Ian) Live and Let Die

1954

 USD - 70.00
60 Fleming (Ian) Moonraker

1955

 USD - 84.00
61 Fleming (Ian) Diamonds are Forever

1956

 USD - 61.60
62 Fleming (Ian) From Russia with Love

1957

 USD - 140.00
63 Fleming (Ian) Dr. No

1958

 USD - 112.00
64 Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger

1959

 USD - 84.00
65 Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only

1960

 USD - 61.60
66 Fleming (Ian) Thunderball

1961

 USD - 98.00
67 Fleming (Ian) The Spy who Loved Me

1962

 USD - 78.40
68 Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Service

1963

 USD - 78.40
69 Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice

1964

 USD - 84.00
70 Fleming (Ian) Thrilling Cities

USD - 70.00
71 Frost (Robert) Selected Poems

USD - 61.60
72 Gascoyne (David) Roman Balcony

USD - 182.00
73 Gibson (Wilfred Wilson) Urlyn the Harper

1902

 USD - 39.20
74 Graham (W. S.) The Nightfishing

USD - 50.40
75 Graves (Robert) Over the Brazier

1916

 USD - 224.00
76 Green (Henry) Blindness

USD - 78.40
77 Greene (Graham) Babbling April Oxford

1925

 USD - 140.00
78 Greene (Graham) The Man Within

1929

 USD - 56.00
79 Greene (Graham) The Man Within

1929

 USD - 28.00
80 Greene (Graham) The Name of Action

1930

 USD - 44.80
81 Greene (Graham) Rumour at Nightfall

1931

 USD - 28.00
82 Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train

1932

 USD - 16.80
83 Greene (Graham) It's a Battlefield

1934

 USD - 16.80
84 Greene (Graham) England made Me

1935

 USD - 25.20
85 Greene (Graham) The Bear Fell Tree

1935

 USD - 44.80
86 Greene (Graham) A Gun for Sale

1936

 USD - 39.20
87 Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock

1938

 USD - 33.60
88 Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory

1940

 USD - 28.00
89 Greene (Graham) The Little Train

[1947]

 USD - 11.20
90 Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter

1948

 USD - 61.60
91 Greene (Graham) The End of the Affair

1951

 USD - 117.60
92 Greene (Graham) The Living Room

[1952]

 USD - 168.00
93 Greene (Graham) The Little Steamroller

1953

 USD - 28.00
94 Greene (Graham) The Basement Room and other Stories Tokyo

[1953]

 USD - 33.60
95 Greene (Graham) Loser takes All

1955

 USD - 44.80
96 Greene (Graham) The Quiet American

1955

 USD - 44.80
97 Greene (Graham) The Potting Shed New York

1957

 USD - 39.20
98 Greene (Graham) The Potting Shed

1958

 USD - 56.00
99 Greene (Graham) Our Man in Havana

1958

 USD - 50.40
100 Greene (Graham) The Complaisant Lover

1959

 USD - 61.60
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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.
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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.
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