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
695 HOPKINS FAMILY

USD - 84.00
696 HOPKINS FAMILY

USD - 126.00
697 HOPKINS FAMILY

1839

 USD - 154.00
698 HOPKINS FAMILY

USD - 98.00
699 Pencil Portrait of Kate Smith

USD - 42.00
700 Mackail (J. W.) The Life of William Morris

1899

 USD - 72.80
701 WELLS (H. G.) Kipps

1907

 USD - 28.00
702 FORD (FORD MADOX, novelist) Series of 22 A.Ls.s. (one on card)

USD - 420.00
703 JAMES (HENRY) Interesting A.L.S. Paris

14 March, 1907

 USD - 106.40
704 JAMES (HENRY) Characteristic A.L.s.

2 May 1912

 USD - 39.20
705 Jameson (Storm) Typescript of her novel "The Aristide Case"

USD - 14.00
706 KIPLING (RUDYARD) A MOST ATTRACTIVE SERIES OF SEVEN LETTERS written to the Rt. Hon. Hugh Fraser as a boy

USD - 1,680.00
707 KIPLING (RUDYARD) TWO A.LS.S. to Charles F. Forshaw

USD - 126.00
708 KIPLING (RUDYARD) TWO A.Ls.s.

USD - 84.00
709 KIPLING (RUDYARD) Autograph Verse

USD - 168.00
710 LAWRENCE (T. E.) Characteristic A.L.s. Oxford

25 Oct., [19]19

 USD - 154.00
711 LAWRENCE (T. E.) Interesting A.L.

USD - 112.00
712 LAWRENCE (T. E.) A.L.s. ("T. E. Shaw")

USD - 112.00
713 LAWRENCE (T. E.) A.L.s. ("T.E.S.") Birmingham St., Southampton

31 August, [19]33

 USD - 140.00
714 LEAR (EDWARD) THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (WORDS AND DRAWINGS) OF AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED "NONSENSE" POEM

USD - 980.00
715 LEAR (EDWARD) TWO pen-and-ink drawings: (1) a mouse looking at a wasp

USD - 154.00
716 LEAR (EDWARD) Three delightful "nonsense" drawings of himself

USD - 154.00
717 LEAR (EDWARD) A.L.s. Agra

18 February, 1874

 USD - 50.40
718 LEAR (EDWARD) A.L.

USD - 112.00
719 LEAR (EDWARD) A.L.s.

November, 1880

 USD - 126.00
720 MARSH (NGAIO) Autograph Manuscript of her novel "Deadwater"

USD - 168.00
721 MCCRAE (HUGH, Australian poet) Autograph MSS. of ten poems (including three limericks)

USD - 84.00
722 MAUGHAM (WILLIAM SOMERSET, 1874-1965) Interesting series of 13 A.Ls.s.

USD - 532.00
723 MAUGHAM (WILLIAM SOMERSET) The Autograph Manuscript of his speech in America appealing for financial aid for the Benevolent Fund of the R.A.F.

USD - 532.00
724 MEREDITH (GEORGE, 1828-1909) Series of five A.Ls.s.

USD - 126.00
725 ORCZY (Baroness EMMUSKA, novelist) Series of 38 A.Ls.s.

USD - 112.00
726 ORPEN (Sir WILLIAM) A.L.S.

USD - 50.40
727 RACKHAM (ARTHUR) Pen-and-ink drawing

USD - 112.00
728 RATTIGAN (TERENCE) Autograph Manuscript of the screen play "The V.I.Ps"

USD - 84.00
729 SAINTSBURY (GEORGE E. B., author of "Notes on a Cellar Book", etc.) Autograph Cellar Book (listing wines in their bins) Edinburgh

1895

 USD - 28.00
730 SAINTSBURY (GEORGE E. B.) Autograph Accounts Book covering the period 1875 to 1932

USD - 98.00
731 SHAW (G. B.) Two A.Ls.s. London

19-24 October 1930

 USD - 50.40
732 SHAW (G. B.) The Autograph Draft

USD - 210.00
733 WEDGWOOD (Lieutenant-Colonel J. C, 1st Baron Wedgwood) "With Machine Guns in Gallipoli"

USD - 5.60
734 WOOLF (VIRGINIA) Two A.Ls.s. (one on card) Rodmell

1933

 USD - 50.40
735 SHAW (G. B.) A.L.s. addressed to Stuart-Glennie

USD - 106.40
736 SHAW (G. B.) A.L.S. addressed to the financial journalist Emil Davies

USD - 33.60
737 SHAW (G. B.) Typed Prospectus of the "Fleetway Players"

USD - 126.00
738 SITWELL (Dame EDITH) Interesting series of seven A.Ls.s.

1935-37

 USD - 210.00
739 STEVENSON (R. L.) Tables of Contents of Ballads and Treasure Island

USD - 98.00
740 STEVENSON (R. L.) Autograph Draft of the Table of Chapters for Kidnapped

USD - 224.00
741 STEVENSON (R. L.) ON THE ART OF LITERATURE

USD - 784.00
742 STEVENSON (R. L.) Dedicatory Poem for Underwoods

USD - 140.00
743 STEVENSON (R. L.) Home from the daisied meadows

USD - 140.00
744 STEVENSON (R. L.) Ad Se Ipsum

USD - 70.00
745 STEVENSON (R. L.) Early Draft of Poem on Death

USD - 182.00
746 STEVENSON (R. L.) Autograph Notes of Studies at Anstruther

USD - 84.00
747 STEVENSON (R. L.) Before this Little Gift was come

USD - 98.00
748 STEVENSON (R. L.) Preface to the Master of Ballantrae

USD - 476.00
749 STEVENSON (R. L.) "The Summer Sun Shone round me"

USD - 154.00
750 STEVENSON (R. L.) Unpublished Preface to The Merry Men

USD - 210.00
751 STEVENSON (R. L.) Schumann's Frolicher Landmann

USD - 140.00
752 STEVENSON (R. L.) ON THE MORALS AND ETHICS OF LIFE

USD - 308.00
753 STEVENSON (R. L.) To Kalakana

USD - 168.00
754 STEVENSON (R. L.) Early Memories

USD - 210.00
755 STEVENSON (R. L.) To Time

USD - 238.00
756 STEVENSON (R. L.) Two Autograph Poems addressed to his friend Charles Baxter. The first To Charles Baxter

USD - 210.00
757 STEVENSON (R. L.) THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE

USD - 644.00
758 STEVENSON (R. L.) For Richmond's Garden Wall

USD - 168.00
759 STEVENSON (R. L.) Her Name

USD - 154.00
760 STEVENSON (R. L.) Aye

USD - 126.00
761 STEVENSON (R. L.) Voluntary

USD - 238.00
762 STEVENSON (R. L.) The Sick Child-O Mother

USD - 308.00
763 STEVENSON (R. L.) Letter Samoa

4 November 1894

 USD - 140.00
764 STEVENSON (R. L.) A very interesting and characteristic A.L.s. of 12 pp

2 October, 1868

 USD - 448.00
765 STEVENSON (R. L.) A.L.S.

USD - 308.00
766 STEVENSON (R. L.) A.L.S.

USD - 98.00
767 STEVENSON (R. L.) A.L.S. Montpellier

3 October, 1882

 USD - 140.00
768 STEVENSON (R. L.) A.L.S. (in pencil)

April, 1890

 USD - 196.00
769 STEVENSON (R. L.) Long and interesting A.L. (Samoa)

21-22 May, 1893

 USD - 224.00
770 STEVENSON (R. L.) A.L.S. Pitlochry

[endorsed July 5 1881]

 USD - 126.00
771 STEVENSON (R. L.) A.L.S. Nice

[c. 1884]

 USD - 28.00
772 STEVENSON (R. L.) Humorous A.L.s. (signed "Le Bailli de Skerryvore")

USD - 98.00
773 STEVENSON (R. L.) A.L.S.

USD - 98.00
774 STEVENSON (R. L.) The Autograph Manuscripts

USD - 476.00
775 STEVENSON (R. L.) Autograph Manuscript

USD - 84.00
776 STEVENSON (R. L.) Autograph Manuscript, with revisions

USD - 56.00
777 STEVENSON (R. L.) Autograph Notes

USD - 84.00
778 STEVENSON (R. L.) Autograph Manuscript of his translation of the Swan-Song from Faust

USD - 42.00
779 STEVENSON (R. L.) Autograph Manuscript

USD - 168.00
780 THOMAS (DYLAN) Autograph Drafts

USD - 420.00
781 THOMAS (DYLAN) THREE PAGES OF WORKING DRAFTS FOR HIS LAST POEM "ELEGY"

USD - 420.00
782 DOUGLAS (Lord ALFRED) A.L.S.

2 September, 1938

 USD - 70.00
783 O'FAOLAIN (SEAN) Interesting typed L.s.

21 October, [no year]

 USD - 5.60
784 YEATS (W. B.) Interesting Series of 10 letters

USD - 448.00
785 YEATS (W. B.) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS SEQUENCE OF THREE POEMS "AODH TO DECTORA"

USD - 420.00
786 YEATS (W. B.) A.L.S.

USD - 33.60
787 YEATS (W. B.) The Autograph Draft signed of his letter to the Dublin Daily Express about Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1900

USD - 98.00
  • <b><center>Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!</center></b>
    Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • <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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.