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
301 Hardy (Thomas) Selected Poems

1916

 USD - 112.00
302 Hudson (W. H.) Idle Days in Patagonia

1893

 USD - 2.80
303 Hudson (W. H.) Green Mansions

1904

 USD - 67.20
304 Savoy (The)

1896

 USD - 11.20
305 Yeats (W. B.) Reveries over Childhood and Youth

1915

 USD - 72.80
306 Yeats (W. B.) Reveries

1916

 USD - 22.40
307 Yeats (W. B.) Per Arnica Silentia Lunae

1918

 USD - 28.00
308 Yeats (W. B.) The Wild Swans at Coole

1919

 USD - 22.40
309 Yeats (W. B.) The Cutting of an Agate

1919

 USD - 33.60
310 Yeats (W. B.) The Wind among the Reeds

USD - 28.00
311 Yeats (J. B.) Passages from Letters

1917

 USD - 50.40
312 Yellow Book (The)

1894-97

 USD - 140.00
313 Acton (Harold) The Last of the Medici Florence

1930

 USD - 33.60
314 Beardsley (Aubrey) -Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock

1896

 USD - 44.80
315 Beardsley (Aubrey) The Savoy

1896

 USD - 224.00
316 Beardsley (Aubrey) An Issue of Five Drawings

1913

 USD - 84.00
317 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Wilde (Oscar) Salome title

USD - 44.80
318 Beerbohm (Sir Max) Fifty Caricatures

USD - 39.20
319 Bennett (Arnold) Imperial Palace

1930

 USD - 25.20
320 Bennett (Arnold) These Twain

USD - 33.60
321 Brooke (Rupert) Collected Poems

USD - 14.00
322 [Brown] (George Douglas) The House with the Green Shutters

1901

 USD - 22.40
323 Carlyle (Thomas) Sartor Resartus number 68 of 150 copies on Japanese vellum

USD - 39.20
324 Conrad (Joseph) Notes on My Books

1921

 USD - 44.80
325 Conrad (Joseph) The Secret Agent

1923

 USD - 22.40
326 Conrad (Joseph) Nostromo

USD - 67.20
327 Douglas (Norman) Alone

1921

 USD - 19.60
328 Douglas (Norman) South Wind

1922

 USD - 84.00
329 Douglas (Norman) D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus portrait

1924 [1925]

 USD - 11.20
330 Galsworthy (John) A Modern Comedy

USD - 33.60
331 Huxley (Aldous) Point Counter Point

1928

 USD - 44.80
332 Jefferies (Richard) Wood Magic

1881

 USD - 33.60
333 Jefferies (Richard) The Dewy Morn

1884

 USD - 44.80
334 Lawrence (D. H.) Look

1917

 USD - 33.60
335 Lawrence (D. H.) Touch and Go

1920

 USD - 33.60
336 Lawrence (D. H.) Aaron's Rod New York

1922

 USD - 16.80
337 Lawrence (D. H.) England

USD - 28.00
338 Lawrence (D. H.)-M[agnus] (M[aurice]) Memoirs of the Foreign

1924

 USD - 11.20
339 Lawrence (D. H.) Reflections of the Death of a Porcupine Philadelphia

1925

 USD - 14.00
340 Lawrence (D. H.) The Story of Doctor Manente Florence

1929

 USD - 33.60
341 Lawrence (D. H.) The Virgin and the Gipsy Florence

1930

 USD - 33.60
342 Lawrence (D. H.) Apocalypse Florence

1931

 USD - 56.00
343 Lawrence (D. H.) Letters

1932

 USD - 33.60
344 Lawrence (D. H.) Aaron's Rod

USD - 33.60
345 Lawrence (D. H.) The Woman who Rode Away

USD - 44.80
346 New Paths

1918

 USD - 72.80
347 Philipotts (Eden) Children of the Mist

USD - 11.20
348 Stevenson (R. L.) The Merry Men

USD - 22.40
349 Watts-Dunton (Theodore) Aylwin New York

1898

 USD - 8.40
350 Wells (H. G.) The Island of Dr. Moreau

USD - 22.40
351 [White (William Hale)] The Revolution in Tanner's Lane

1887

 USD - 11.20
352 Wilde (Oscar) A House of Pomegranates

1891

 USD - 25.20
353 Aldington (Richard) Last Straws Paris

1930

 USD - 11.20
354 Anthologies

USD - 56.00
355 Armstrong (Martin) Desert

USD - 19.60
356 Bates (H. E.) The Seekers

USD - 44.80
357 Bates (H. E.) Seven Tales and Alexander

USD - 44.80
358 Bennett (Arnold) The Loot of Cities

USD - 25.20
359 Cathasaigh (P. O.) The story of the Irish Citizen Army Dublin

1919

 USD - 84.00
360 Chambers (C. Haddon) Thumb-nail sketches of Australian life

USD - 5.60
361 Douglas (Norman) London Street Games

USD - 33.60
362 Falkner (J. Meade) The Lost Stradivarius

1895

 USD - 61.60
363 Gibbings (Robert) Coming Down the Seine

USD - 39.20
364 Gibbings (Robert) Iorana

USD - 39.20
365 Golding (Louis) Luigi of Catanzaro

1926

 USD - 28.00
366 Graves (Robert) Fairies and Fusiliers

1917

 USD - 56.00
367 Graves (Robert) Country Sentiment

1920

 USD - 33.60
368 Graves (Robert) Mockbeggar Hall

1924

 USD - 11.20
369 Graves (Robert) Welchman's Hose

1925

 USD - 33.60
370 Graves (Robert) Poetic Unreason and other Studies

1925

 USD - 33.60
371 Graves (Robert) Lars Porsena

1927

 USD - 22.40
372 Graves (Robert) The Shout

1929

 USD - 39.20
373 Graves (Robert) Good-Bye to All That

1929

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

1931

 USD - 44.80
375 Graves (Robert) Adam's Rib

1955

 USD - 39.20
375A Graves (Robert) The Transformations of Lucius

1960

 USD - 39.20
376 Graves (Robert) The More Deserving Cases

1962

 USD - 11.20
377 Graves (Robert) Love Respelt

1965

 USD - 16.80
378 Graves (Robert) I Claudius Claudius the God

USD - 8.40
379 Graves (Robert) Antigua

USD - 11.20
380 Graves (Robert) But it still goes on

USD - 28.00
381 Graves (Robert) Lawrence and the Arabs

USD - 19.60
382 Graves (Robert) The Real David Copperfield

USD - 22.40
383 Graves (Robert) The Golden Fleece

USD - 22.40
384 Huxley (Aldous) Music at Night New York

1931

 USD - 33.60
385 Huxley (Aldous) On the Margin

USD - 14.00
386 Jerome (Jerome K.) Three Men in a Boat

USD - 8.40
387 [Lahr (Charles)] Charles' Wain

USD - 72.80
388 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935

 USD - 106.40
389 Lawrence (T. E.) Diary

1937

 USD - 112.00
390 Lawrence (T. E.) To his biographer

1938

 USD - 78.40
391 Lawrence (T. E.) The Mint

1955

 USD - 22.40
392 Lewisohn (Ludwig) The Case of Mr. Crump Paris

1926

 USD - 8.40
393 Logue (Christopher) The Man who told of his Love

USD - 33.60
394 [Manning (Frederic)] The Middle Parts of Fortune

USD - 39.20
395 Maugham (W. Somerset) The Vagrant Mood

1952

 USD - 22.40
396 Maugham (W. Somerset) Cakes and Ale

[1954]

 USD - 42.00
397 Maugham (W. Somerset) Cakes and Ale

[1954]

 USD - 44.80
398 Maugham (W. Somerset) Ashenden

USD - 100.80
399 Moore (Marianne) and David Wallace Letters From and To the Ford Company

USD - 22.40
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