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
101 Greene (Graham) A Visit to Morin

1959

 USD - 126.00
102 Greene (Graham) A Burnt-Out Case

1961

 USD - 50.40
103 Greene (Graham) In Search of a Character

1961

 USD - 44.80
104 Greene (Graham) Three Plays

1961

 USD - 61.60
105 Greene (Graham) Introductions to Three Novels Stockholm

1962

 USD - 22.40
106 Greene (Graham) A Sense of Reality

1963

 USD - 28.00
107 Greene (Graham) The Revenge

1963

 USD - 84.00
108 Greene (Graham) Carving a Statue

1964

 USD - 16.80
109 Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock

USD - 39.20
110 Greene (Graham) Works

1947-55

 USD - 61.60
111 Grossmith (G. and W.) The Diary of a Nobody

USD - 72.80
112 Guinness (Bryan) [Lord Moyne] Under the Eyelid

USD - 33.60
113 Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Poems

USD - 50.40
114 Hodgson (Ralph) The Last Blackbird

USD - 84.00
115 Hopkins (Gerard Manley) Poems

1918

 USD - 89.60
116 Hopkins (Gerard Manley) Poems

1918

 USD - 70.00
117 HORIZON

Jan. 1940-Jan. 1950

 USD - 72.80
118 Housman (A. E.) A Shropshire Lad

USD - 72.80
119 Huxley (Aldous) Time must have a Stop

USD - 22.40
120 Isherwood (Christopher) The Memorial

USD - 61.60
121 Jones (David) In Parenthesis

1937

 USD - 19.60
122 Jones (David) The Anathemata

1952

 USD - 42.00
123 Joyce (James) Ezra Pound

1914

 USD - 266.00
124 Joyce (James) Pomes Penyeach Paris

1927

 USD - 22.40
125 Joyce (James) Ulysses

USD - 33.60
126 Laski (Marghanita) The Victorian Chaise-longue

1953

 USD - 8.40
127 Lawrence (D. H.) Love Poems and Others

1913

 USD - 84.00
128 Lawrence (D. H.) New Poems

1918

 USD - 61.60
129 Lawrence (D. H.) Love among the Haystacks

1930

 USD - 19.60
130 Lehmann (Rosamond) Invitation to the Waltz

USD - 50.40
131 Lewis (C. Day) A Hope for Poetry

USD - 28.00
132 Lewis (P. Wyndham) Tarr

1918

 USD - 145.60
133 Lewis (P. Wyndham) The Ideal Giant

USD - 39.20
134 Lucas (F. L.) Authors Dead and Living

USD - 16.80
135 MacNeice (Louis) Blind Fireworks

1929

 USD - 44.80
136 MacNeice (Louis) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

USD - 50.40
137 MacNeice (Louis) Selected Poems

USD - 33.60
138 MacNeice (Louis) Collected Poems

USD - 16.80
139 Mallarme (Stephane) Poems

1936

 USD - 16.80
140 Masefield (John) Sonnets and Poems

1916

 USD - 84.00
141 Maugham (Somerset) The Unconquered

USD - 61.60
142 Miller (Henry) Black Spring Paris

USD - 2.80
143 Moore (George) The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

USD - 8.40
144 Moore (Marianne) Selected Poems New York

1935

 USD - Not Sold
145 Muir (Edwin) First Poems

USD - 39.20
146 NIGHT AND DAY

1937

 USD - 210.00
147 O'Hara (John) Butterfield 8 New York

1935

 USD - 154.00
148 Penrose (Roland) The Road is Wider than it is Long London

1939

 USD - 16.80
149 Perse (St.-John) [Alexis Leger] Exile New York

USD - 5.60
150 Poetry

1933-65

 USD - 154.00
151 Poetry

USD - 182.00
152 Pound (Ezra) A Quinzaine for this Yule

1908

 USD - 308.00
153 Pound (Ezra) Personae

1909

 USD - 61.60
154 Pound (Ezra) Exultations

1909

 USD - 56.00
155 Pound (Ezra) The Spirit of Romance

[1910]

 USD - 44.80
156 Pound (Ezra) The Spirit of Romance

[1910]

 USD - 33.60
157 Pound (Ezra) Canzoni

1911

 USD - 672.00
158 POUND (EZRA) Personae & Exultations

1913

 USD - 2,240.00
159 Pound (Ezra) Ripostes

1915

 USD - 11.20
160 POUND (EZRA) Cathay

1915

 USD - 784.00
161 POUND (EZRA) LUSTRA

1916

 USD - 2,380.00
162 Pound (Ezra) Dialogues of Fontanelle

1917

 USD - 280.00
163 Pound (Ezra) Quia Pauper Amavi

[1919]

 USD - 238.00
164 Pound (Ezra) Quia Pauper Amavi

[1919]

 USD - 67.20
165 Pound (Ezra) Quia Pauper Amavi

[1919]

 USD - 140.00
166 P[ound] (E[zra]) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

1920

 USD - 672.00
167 P[OUND] (E[ZRA]) HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY

1920

 USD - 1,260.00
168 Pound (Ezra) Umbra

1920

 USD - 28.00
169 Pound (Ezra) Indiscretions Paris

1923

 USD - 308.00
170 Pound (Ezra) Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony Paris

1924

 USD - 98.00
171 Pound (Ezra), T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings and others Active Anthology

1933

 USD - 70.00
172 Pound (Ezra) The Pisan Cantos

1949

 USD - 196.00
173 Pound (Ezra) Section Milan

1955

 USD - 14.00
174 Pound (Ezra) La Martinelli Milan

1956

 USD - 44.80
175 Pound (Ezra) Antologia Rome

1956

 USD - 78.40
176 Pound (Ezra) Selected Poems

USD - 50.40
177 Pound (Ezra) Riccardo da S. Vittore

USD - 22.40
178 Pound (Ezra) Confucian Analects

USD - 28.00
179 Quennell (Peter) A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf

USD - 16.80
180 Raine (Kathleen) Stone and Flower

USD - 112.00
181 Read (Sir Herbert) The End of a War

USD - 14.00
182 Ridler (Anne) The Nine Bright Shiners

USD - 30.80
183 Rolfe (Frederick, "Baron Corvo") Symons (A. J. A.)

1927

 USD - 140.00
184 Rolfe (Frederick, "Baron Corvo") Symons (A. J. A.)

1934

 USD - 33.60
185 Rolfe (Frederick, "Baron Corvo") Without Prejudice

1963

 USD - 25.20
186 Sassoon (Siegfried), C. Day Lewis and William Plomer 1896 EB 1946

1946

 USD - 252.00
187 Sitwell (Dame Edith) The Mother Oxford

1915

 USD - 78.40
188 Sitwell (Dame Edith) The Pleasures of Poetry

1931

 USD - 78.40
189 Sitwell (Dame Edith) Green Song and other Poems

1944

 USD - 28.00
190 Sitwell (Dame Edith) The Song of the Cold

1945

 USD - 33.60
191 Sitwell (Dame Edith) The Shadow of Cain

1947

 USD - 22.40
192 Sitwell (Dame Edith) A Notebook on William Shakespeare

1948

 USD - 22.40
193 Sitwell (Dame Edith) The Canticle of the Rose

1949

 USD - 33.60
194 Sitwell (Dame Edith) A Book of the Winter [an anthology]

1950

 USD - 22.40
195 Sitwell (Dame Edith) A Book of the Winter New York

1951

 USD - 16.80
196 Sitwell (Dame Edith) The American Genius

1951

 USD - 16.80
197 Sitwell (Dame Edith) Planet and Glow-Worm [an anthology]

USD - 22.40
198 Sitwell (Dame Edith, Sir Osbert and Sacheverell) and others Wheels

USD - 28.00
199 Sitwell (Sir Osbert) Left Hand

1945-50

 USD - 44.80
200 Skelton (Robin) Two Ballads of the Muse

USD - 50.40
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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
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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.