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
400 Priestley (J. B.) The Good Companions

USD - 14.00
401 Rosenberg (Isaac) Youth

1915

 USD - 98.00
402 Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

1931

 USD - 14.00
403 Sassoon (Siegfried) Emblems of Experience Cambridge

1951

 USD - 61.60
404 Sillitoe (Alan) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

USD - 33.60
405 Welch (Denton) I Left My Grandfather's House Cambridge

[1958]

 USD - 33.60
406 Zangwill (Israel) Ghetto Tragedies

USD - 16.80
407 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY) A SERIES OF FOUR MENU HOLDERS AND SEVEN PLACE CARDS

June 27, 932

 USD - 280.00
408 Beardsley (Aubrey) Menu card with a pen and ink drawing by Beardsley of Mr. Pickwick pointing an accusing finger at a figure with arms raised in surprise

USD - 67.20
409 Beardsley (Aubrey) A Christmas card drawn by Beardsley in pen and ink depicting two Dickensian characters in the yard of an inn

June 27, 932

 USD - 84.00
410 Beardsley (Aubrey) Pen and ink drawing entitled "Scene from "Love for Love" (Congreve) Foresight and Angelica"

USD - 154.00
411 Beardsley (Aubrey) Pen and ink portrait of Sophia Western [from Fielding's "Tom Jones"]

USD - 168.00
412 Beardsley (Aubrey) A set of proofs for 14 illustrations to Morte d'Arthur

[c. 1893]

 USD - 39.20
413 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY) A COLLECTION OF PROOFS

USD - 252.00
414 Beardsley (Aubrey) Lucian

1894

 USD - 22.40
415 Beardsley (Aubrey) The Yellow Book

1894-95

 USD - 44.80
416 Beardsley (Aubrey) The Savoy

1896

 USD - 14.00
417 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock

1896

 USD - 25.20
418 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Jonson (Ben) Volpone

1898

 USD - 89.60
419 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Jonson (Ben) Volpone

1898

 USD - 33.60
420 Beardsley (Aubrey) Sous La Colline Paris

1908

 USD - 16.80
421 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Walker (R. A.) Some Unknown Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley

1923

 USD - 22.40
422 Beardsley (Aubrey) The Uncollected Work

1925

 USD - 11.20
423 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Macfall (Haldane) Aubrey Beardsley

1928

 USD - 14.00
424 Beardsley (Aubrey) Letters to Leonard Smithers

1937

 USD - 11.20
425 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Walker (R. A.) A Beardsley Miscellany

1949

 USD - 8.40
426 Beardsley (Aubrey) A Letter to Smithers

USD - 78.40
427 Beardsley (Aubrey)-Rickett (Arthur) Lost Chords

USD - 28.00
428 Benson (A. C.) Le Cahier Jaune Eton

1892

 USD - 14.00
429 Bridges (Robert) Now in Wintry Delights Oxford

1903

 USD - 5.60
430 Buchanan (Robert) The Fleshly School of Poetry and other Phenomena of the Day

1872

 USD - 56.00
431 Davidson (John) A Random Itinerary

USD - 25.20
432 Dowson (Ernest) Decorations

1899

 USD - 28.00
433 Gale (Norman) A Country Muse [limited to 500 copies]

USD - 50.40
434 Grahame (Kenneth) The Golden Age

USD - 28.00
435 Gray (John) Park

1932

 USD - 16.80
436 Gray (John) and Andre Raffalovich A Northern Aspect

1895

 USD - 19.60
437 HERON-ALLEN (EDWARD) The Love Letters of a Vagabond

USD - 61.60
438 Hobby Horse (The)

1891

 USD - 2.80
439 Le Gallienne (Richard) The Romantic '90s

USD - 50.40
440 PATER (WALTER) Studies in the History of the Renaissance

1873

 USD - 224.00
441 Pater (Walter) An Imaginary Portrait Oxford

1894

 USD - 16.80
442 Pater (Walter) Marius the Epicurian

USD - 33.60
443 Periodicals

USD - 11.20
444 Peters (William Theodore) The Tournament of Love Paris

1894

 USD - 44.80
445 Quartier Latin (The)

1897-98

 USD - 2.80
446 [Rolfe (Frederick)] Baron Corvo) Stories Toto told Me

1898

 USD - 39.20
447 [Rolfe] (Frederick, Baron Corvo) In his own Image

1901

 USD - 33.60
448 [Rolfe] (Frederick, Baron Corvo) Chronicles of the House of Borgia

1901

 USD - 56.00
449 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) Hadrian the Seventh

1904

 USD - 16.80
450 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) Hadrian the Seventh

[c. 1907]

 USD - 11.20
451 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) A set of eight sheets of notepaper each headed with elaborate armorial devices designed by Rolfe

USD - 50.40
452 [Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) and C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon] The Weird of the Wanderer

1912

 USD - 44.80
453 [Rolfe] (Frederick, Baron Corvo) In his own Image

1924

 USD - 2.80
454 [Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) and C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon] Hubert's Arthur

1935

 USD - 19.60
455 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) Nicholas Crabbe

1960

 USD - 19.60
456 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo). Symons (A. J. A.) The Quest for Corvo

1934

 USD - 56.00
457 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) Without Prejudice

1958

 USD - 33.60
458 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) Life and Letters

1964

 USD - 22.40
459 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) World Wide Magazine vol. 2

1924

 USD - 19.60
460 Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo)-Leslie (Shane) The Cantab

USD - 61.60
461 Swinburne (A. C.) A Song of Italy

USD - 16.80
462 Symonds (J. A.) The Escorial Oxford

1860

 USD - 61.60
463 Symonds (J. A.) Sketches in Italy and Greece

1874

 USD - 22.40
464 Symonds (J. A.) New and Old

USD - 16.80
465 Symonds (J. A.) In the Key of Blue

1893

 USD - 2.80
466 Symonds (J. A.) The Renaissance

1898

 USD - 2.80
467 Symonds (J. A.) A Problem in Modern Ethics

USD - 14.00
468 Symonds (J. A.) An Introduction to the Study of Dante

USD - 25.20
469 Symons (A. J. A.) Bibliographical Catalogue of the first Loan Exhibition held by the First Edition Club

USD - 8.40
470 Drayton (Michael) Vale Press

1896

 USD - 19.60
471 Watts-Dunton (Theodore) The Coming of Love

1898

 USD - 8.40
471A Wilde (Oscar) Kottabos Dublin

1873-1891

 USD - 14.00
472 Wilde (Oscar) Ravenna Oxford

1878

 USD - 50.40
473 Wilde (Oscar) Intentions

1891

 USD - 14.00
474 Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx without a Secret

USD - 44.80
475 Wilde (Oscar), Lord Alfred Douglas, and others The Spirit Lamp

USD - 28.00
476 Wratislaw (Theodore) The Pity of Love

1895

 USD - 22.40
477 Aragon (Louis) La Naissance de la Paix par Rene Descartes Paris

USD - 28.00
478 Churchill (Sir Winston) Group Photograph of staff and cadets at Sandhurst Royal Military College

1894

 USD - 42.00
479 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

1898

 USD - 210.00
480 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE Longmans

1898

 USD - 532.00
481 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE Longmans

1898

 USD - 280.00
482 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE Longmans

1898

 USD - 420.00
483 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) THE RIVER WAR Longmans

1899

 USD - 252.00
484 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) The carbon copy of the telegram sent from Pretoria to Johannesburg

USD - 364.00
485 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Savrola Longmans

1900

 USD - 16.80
486 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) SAVROLA Longmans

1900

 USD - 14.00
487 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria Longmans

1900

 USD - 56.00
488 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria Longmans'

1898

 USD - 30.80
489 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Ian Hamilton's March Longmans

1900

 USD - 78.40
490 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Lord Randolph Churchill

1906

 USD - 33.60
491 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Lord Randolph Churchill

USD - 84.00
492 Churchill (Sir Winston) Lord Randolph Churchill

1907

 USD - 56.00
493 Churchill (Sir Winston) My African Journey

1908

 USD - 50.40
494 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) My African Journey

1908

 USD - 56.00
495 Churchill (Sir Winston) My African Journey

1908

 USD - 50.40
496 Churchill (Sir Winston) My African Journey

1908

 USD - 28.00
497 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

1909

 USD - 308.00
498 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Liberalism and the Social Problem

1909

 USD - 196.00
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    Sotheby’s
    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.