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

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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
201 Smith (Stevie) A Good Time was had by All

USD - 36.40
202 Spender (Stephen) Twenty Poems Oxford

[1930]

 USD - 67.20
203 Spender (Stephen) Poems of Dedication

1947

 USD - 22.40
204 Spender (Stephen) Returning to Vienna New York

1947

 USD - 28.00
205 Spender (Stephen) World within World

1951

 USD - 154.00
206 Spender (Stephen) Spiritual Exercises

USD - 112.00
207 Spender (Stephen) Poems Vienna

USD - 22.40
208 Spender (Stephen) The Still Centre

USD - 14.00
209 Sykes (Christopher) Four Studies in Loyalties

USD - 8.40
210 Thomas (Dylan) 18 Poems

[1936]

 USD - 154.00
211 Thomas (Dylan) Twenty-Five Poems

1936

 USD - 224.00
212 Thomas (Dylan) Deaths and Entrances

1946

 USD - 50.40
213 Thomas (Dylan) The Map of Love

1947

 USD - 50.40
214 Thomas (Dylan) In Country Sleep New York

1952

 USD - 224.00
215 Thomas (Dylan) Collected Poems 1934-1952

1952

 USD - 28.00
216 Thomas (Dylan) Under Milk Wood

1954

 USD - 33.60
217 Thomas (Dylan) Conversation about Christmas New York

1954

 USD - 50.40
218 Thomas (Edward) Poems

1917

 USD - 22.40
219 Thurber (James) The White Deer

USD - 210.00
220 Valery (Paul) Collected Works in English New York

1956-65

 USD - 8.40
221 Waley (Arthur) A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

1920

 USD - 14.00
222 Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited

1945

 USD - 22.40
223 Waugh (Evelyn) Men at Arms

1952

 USD - 33.60
224 Waugh (Evelyn) The Holy Places

1952

 USD - 22.40
225 Woolf (Virginia) Jacob's Room

1922

 USD - 35.00
226 Woolf (Virginia) The Waves

1931

 USD - 33.60
227 Woolf (Virginia) The Years

1937

 USD - 8.40
228 Woolf (Virginia) Orlando

USD - 61.60
229 YEATS (W. B.) THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN

1889

 USD - 448.00
230 Yeats (W. B.) The Wind among the Reeds

1899

 USD - 67.20
231 Yeats (W. B.) Poems

1901

 USD - 42.00
232 Yeats (W. B.) Michael Robartes and the Dancer

1920

 USD - 67.20
233 Yeats (W. B.) The Tower

1928

 USD - 44.80
234 Yeats (W. B.) The Winding Stair New York

1929

 USD - 78.40
235 Yeats (W. B.) Words for Music Perhaps

1932

 USD - 61.60
236 Yeats (W. B.) The Winding Stair and other Poems

1933

 USD - 33.60
237 Yeats (W. B.) Wheels and Butterflies

1934

 USD - 182.00
238 Yeats (W. B.) New Poems

1938

 USD - 56.00
239 Yeats (W. B.) Last Poems and Two Plays

1939

 USD - 50.40
240 Yeats (W. B.) Three Things

1963

 USD - 44.80
241 Blunden (Edmund) Pastorals

1916

 USD - 22.40
242 Blunden (Edmund) Verses to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor

1936

 USD - 22.40
243 Maeterlinck (Maurice) Interieur Paris

1918

 USD - 2.80
244 Hardy (Thomas) Compassion

1924

 USD - 61.60
245 Wilde (Oscar) Ravenna Oxford

1878

 USD - 126.00
246 Firbank (Ronald) Works

1929

 USD - 84.00
247 Harris (Frank) Joan la Romee

USD - 39.20
248 Lawrence (D. H.) Apocalypse

1931

 USD - 33.60
249 Wilde (Oscar) Sixteen letters

USD - 39.20
250 Wilder (Thornton) The Woman of Andros

USD - 28.00
251 BURTON (Sir RICHARD FRANCIS) The Guide Book

1865

 USD - 280.00
252 Clarke (H. Savile) Alice in Wonderland

1886

 USD - 39.20
253 Coterie

1920-21

 USD - 134.40
254 [Crowley (Aleister)] AL The Commentary called

USD - 19.60
255 Dodgson (C. L., "Lewis Carroll") Alice's adventures under ground

1886

 USD - 117.60
256 ELIOT (T. S.) PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS

1917

 USD - 392.00
257 JOYCE (JAMES) THE DAY OF THE RABBLEMENT Dublin

[1901]

 USD - 532.00
258 JOYCE (JAMES) VERBANNTE Zurich

1919

 USD - 392.00
259 JOYCE (JAMES) ULYSSES Paris

1922

 USD - 392.00
260 JOYCE (JAMES) ULYSSES Paris

1922

 USD - 140.00
261 Joyce (James) Ulysses Paris

1922

 USD - 42.00
262 Joyce (James) Stephen Hero

1944

 USD - 5.60
263 Lawrence (D. H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover Florence

1928

 USD - 100.80
264 LAWRENCE (T. E.) SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

1935

 USD - 532.00
265 LAWRENCE (T. E.) SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

1926

 USD - 840.00
266 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935

 USD - 50.40
267 LEAR (EDWARD) JOURNAL OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN CORSICA

1870

 USD - 140.00
268 Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1930

 USD - 168.00
269 Potter (Beatrix) The Fairy Caravan

1929

 USD - 196.00
270 Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester

1903

 USD - 98.00
271 Potter (Beatrix) Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929

1955

 USD - 28.00
272 Shaw (G. B.) Cashel Byron's Profession

1886

 USD - 210.00
273 Symons (Arthur) The Bibelot Portland

1903

 USD - 11.20
274 THOMAS (DYLAN) 18 POEMS

1934

 USD - 196.00
275 Yeats (W. B.) The Land of Heart's Desire

1894

 USD - 112.00
276 Wilde (Oscar) The Happy Prince

1889

 USD - 154.00
277 Wilde (Oscar) A Woman of No Importance

1894

 USD - 14.00
278 Wilde (Oscar) The Importance of being Earnest

1899

 USD - 25.20
279 Wilde (Oscar) An Ideal Husband

1899

 USD - 8.40
280 Wilde (Oscar) The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1898

 USD - 168.00
281 Wilde (Oscar) The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1899 [c. 1900]

 USD - 5.60
282 WILDE (OSCAR) SOME LETTERS TO ALFRED DOUGLAS San Francisco

1924

 USD - 616.00
283 Aldington (Richard) All Men are Enemies

1933

 USD - 11.20
284 Bates (H. E.) Flowers and Faces

USD - 39.20
285 Garnett (David) No Love

USD - 28.00
286 Graves (Robert) To Whom Else Majorca

1931

 USD - 19.60
287 Hughes (Richard) A High Wind in Jamaica

USD - 19.60
288 Huxley (Aldous) The Cicadas

1931

 USD - 33.60
289 Huxley (Aldous) Texts and Pretexts

1932

 USD - 33.60
290 Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World

1932

 USD - 61.60
291 Huxley (Aldous) Beyond the Mexique Bay

1934

 USD - 33.60
292 Huxley (Aldous) Eyeless in Gaza

1936

 USD - 33.60
293 Huxley (Aldous) The Olive Tree

1936

 USD - 39.20
294 Huxley (Aldous) Ends and Means

1937

 USD - 33.60
295 Riding (Laura) Though Gently Majorca

1930

 USD - 14.00
296 Rosenberg (Isaac) Poems

1922

 USD - 22.40
297 Binyon (Laurence) Poems Oxford

1895

 USD - 22.40
298 Butler (Samuel) The Way of all Flesh

1905

 USD - 39.20
299 Dowson (Ernest) Verses

1896

 USD - 39.20
300 Forster (E. M.) A Passage to India

1924

 USD - 78.40
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    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.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
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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.
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    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.
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