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
596 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 98.00
597 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 196.00
598 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 78.40
599 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 70.00
600 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 84.00
601 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Draft

USD - 98.00
602 DE LA MARE (WALTER) HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH NAOMI ROYDE-SMITH

USD - 7,840.00
603 DE LA MARE (WALTER) A.L.S.

USD - 11.20
604 Lawrence (D. H.) David A Play New York

1926

 USD - 126.00
605 ADAMS (KATHARINE) Autograph MSS

USD - 39.20
606 ADAMS (KATHARINE) Her Visitor's Book

1901-15; 1936-7

 USD - 22.40
607 ADAMS (KATHARINE) Seven transfer-drawings used for decorative bindings

USD - 238.00
608 BRIDGES (ROBERT) Two A.Ls.s. to Katharine Adams

USD - 22.40
609 CHARRINGTON (JOHN) A series of fifty-two A.Ls.s.

USD - 14.00
610 COCKERELL (DOUGLAS) Seven A.Ls. s. to Katharine Adams

USD - 78.40
611 MCLACHLAN (Dame LAURENTIA) O.S.B.

USD - 98.00
612 MORRIS (WILLIAM) An album containing photogravure portraits of William Morris

USD - 154.00
613 NICHOLSON (Sir WILLIAM) Eleven A.Ls.s.

USD - 39.20
614 PRIDEAUX (SARAH TREVERBIAN) Bookbinder

USD - 56.00
615 SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD) A.L.s. to Katharine Adams

USD - 89.60
616 WELLINGTON (ARTHUR WELLESLEY, first Duke of) A.L.s. to William Dacres Adams

USD - 22.40
617 AUDEN (W. H.) A series of two A.Ls.s. Italy

1950

 USD - 78.40
618 BETJEMAN (JOHN) A series of six amusing letters to John Hayward

USD - 134.40
619 EMPSON (WILLIAM) A series of letters to John Hayward

USD - 50.40
620 GREENE (GRAHAM) A series of Letters and cards to John Hayward

USD - 42.00
621 POUND (EZRA) FOUR LETTERS TO T. S. ELIOT

USD - 448.00
622 SITWELL (Dame EDITH) A SERIES OF 19 A.Ls.s.

USD - 476.00
623 SITWELL (Dame EDITH) Some notes on King Lear

USD - 19.60
624 THOMAS (DYLAN) A.L.s.

USD - 308.00
625 ALBUM containing A.Ls.s.

USD - 70.00
626 ALDINGTON (RICHARD, 1892-1962, poet and novelist) Interesting series of seven letters

USD - 154.00
627 BANCROFT (Sir SQUIRE, actor) AUTOGRAPH NOTEBOOK containing a complete record of the parts he played throughout his theatrical career

USD - 106.40
628 BARRIE (Sir J. M.) A.L.s. Lancaster Gate

13 February 1904

 USD - 33.60
629 BARRIE (Sir J. M.) Interesting series of 14 A.Ls.s.

USD - 224.00
630 BEERBOHM (Sir MAX) Series of 18 A.Ls.s.

USD - 504.00
631 BARRIE (Sir J. M.) A.L.S.

USD - 28.00
632 BEERBOHM (Sir MAX) TWO A.Ls.s.

USD - 28.00
633 BENNETT (ARNOLD) SERIES OF 62 LETTERS

USD - 420.00
634 BENNETT (ARNOLD) Interesting A.L.s. Hockliffe

24 August 1901

 USD - 22.40
635 BENNETT (ARNOLD) The Autograph Draft

USD - 33.60
636 BETJEMAN (JOHN) Autograph Manuscript of a poem

1964

 USD - 70.00
637 BRANGWYN (Sir FRANK) A SERIES OF 119 A.Ls.s.

USD - 154.00
638 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) AMUSING EARLY A.L.S.

USD - 420.00
638A CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM

USD - 1,400.00
639 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) FINE A.L.S.

November/December 1899

 USD - 2,100.00
640 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) L.S. to him from Joseph Chamberlain Birmingham

13 November 1899

 USD - 72.80
641 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) Typed L.s.

USD - 61.60
642 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) A.L.S.

USD - 78.40
643 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) Typed L.s. Whitehall

24 July, 1926

 USD - 98.00
644 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) A.L.s.

USD - 182.00
645 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) THREE TYPED LS.S.

USD - 1,176.00
646 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) Typed L.s.

21 October, 1959

 USD - 70.00
647 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) Typed L.s.

USD - 61.60
648 CHURCHILLIANA

USD - 14.00
649 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) A.L.S. Capetown

3 July 1900

 USD - 280.00
650 MILNER (ALFRED, Viscount, 1854-1925) FINE SERIES OF 95 A.Ls.s.

USD - 3,360.00
651 CLAUDEL (PAUL, 1868-1955, French diplomat, poet and dramatist) Series of seven A.Ls.s.

1933-35

 USD - 98.00
652 CLAUDEL (PAUL) Typescript of Au Milieu des Vitraux de VApocalypse

USD - 126.00
653 Claudel (Paul) Sur la Presence de Dieu

USD - 70.00
654 CLEMENS (S. L., Mark Twain) Portrait photograph with full-page autograph inscription on back

USD - 33.60
655 CONRAD (JOSEPH) A.L.S.

1964

 USD - 72.80
656 D'ANNUNZIO (GABRIELE, author and soldier) Portrait photograph signed and inscribed

USD - 16.80
657 DAVIES (WILLIAM HENRY) Autograph MS. of a poem

1914

 USD - 28.00
658 DICKENS (CHARLES) TWO original letters Lincoln's Inn Fields

5 July-l September, 1859

 USD - 22.40
659 DIXON (Miss ELLA HEPWORTH) Collection of A.Ls.s.

USD - 44.80
660 DIXON (WILLIAM HEPWORTH, 1821-79, author and editor of the "Athenceum") Collection of about 55 A.Ls.s.

USD - 28.00
661 VAUX (WILLIAM S. W., antiquary) Series of three A.Ls.s. British Museum

[c. 1862]

 USD - 16.80
662 WELLS (H. G.) A.L.s. Paris

8 November 1920

 USD - 22.40
663 YEATS (W. B.) TWO A.Ls.s.

USD - 61.60
664 DODGSON (C. L., Lewis Carroll) Characteristic Series of 9 A.Ls.s.

USD - 476.00
665 DODGSON (C. L., Lewis Carroll) Interesting A.L. Oxford

26 April, [18]91

 USD - 112.00
666 DODGSON (C. L., Lewis Carroll) A.L.s.

27 February, [18]72

 USD - 89.60
667 DODGSON (C. L., Lewis Carroll) A.L.s. Oxford

6 August 1883

 USD - 134.40
668 DOYLE (Sir ARTHUR CONAN) A.L.S. Windlesham

19 October, [c. 1924]

 USD - 22.40
669 ELLIS (HENRY HAVELOCK, 1859-1939) Long series of 97 A.Ls.s.

1934-39

 USD - 840.00
670 BARRIE (Sir J. M.) Three A.Ls.s.

1926-8

 USD - 56.00
671 BEERBOHM (Sir MAX) Two A.Ls.s.

USD - 140.00
672 BEERBOHM (Sir MAX) Portrait of Sir Evan Charteris

USD - 28.00
673 BRIDGES (ROBERT) A.L.S. Chilswell, Oxford

14 December, [1918]

 USD - 196.00
674 DOYLE (Sir ARTHUR CONAN) A.L.S.

USD - 16.80
675 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) A.L.S. Stonyhurst

9 June, 1883

 USD - 420.00
676 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) A.L. Dublin

2 November, 1884

 USD - 280.00
677 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM Oxford

1879

 USD - 448.00
678 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS OF TWO SONNETS BY HIM

May, 1877

 USD - 980.00
679 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of his mother

USD - 106.40
680 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of a landscape view

USD - 182.00
681 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of trees

USD - 266.00
682 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of part of the battlements of Carisbrooke Castle

USD - 140.00
683 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of a convolvulus

USD - 168.00
684 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of a group of trees rising above a cottage

USD - 420.00
685 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of trees and grass

USD - 252.00
686 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of fields and trees with barns and outbuildings

USD - 224.00
687 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Studies on one sheet of trees and branches

USD - 196.00
688 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) PEN-AND-INK DRAWING Croydon

April-July, 1862

 USD - 728.00
689 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of an Iris Shanklin

July 8. 1863

 USD - 392.00
690 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of Benenden Church

11 Oct., 1863

 USD - 280.00
691 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of a rocky waterfall

July 18 [1868]

 USD - 308.00
692 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing of the banks of the river Cherwell

USD - 168.00
693 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Pencil Drawing

USD - 448.00
694 HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY) Sheet of pencil studies

USD - 140.00
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