Sothebys: NINETEENTH CENTURY AND MODERN FIRST EDITIONS AND PRESENTATION COPIES, 03Dec1973,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 03, 1973 - December 03, 1973

Page Size: 474 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Blunden, Edmund	The Waggoner		1920	GBP -	20.00
2	Blunden, Edmund	The Shepherd, and other Poems of Peace and War Poems		1922, 1930	GBP -	7.00
3	Bridges, Robert; Binyon, Laurence; Housman, A. E.	Poetical Works		1898-1905, 1927, 1904, 1909, 1922, 1936	GBP -	12.00
4	De la Mare, Walter	The Listeners; Motley and other Poems; Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination; Poems; Memoirs of a Midget; The Veil and other Poems; Come Hither; Ding Dong Bell; The Fleeting, and other Poems; Bells and Grass; Inward Companion, and other Poems; O		1912, 1918, 1919, 1901 to 1918, 1920, 1921, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1941, 1950, 1953	GBP -	22.00
5	Drinkwater, John	Cotswold Characters	New Haven	1930, 1923	GBP -	14.00
6	Drinkwater, John	Collected Poems; From the German; Christmas Poems		1923, 1924, 1931	GBP -	6.00
7	Drinkwater, John; Robert E. Lee	Swords and Ploughshares.		1915, 1921-1922, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1933, 1924-1933, 1933	GBP -	7.00
8	Housman, Laurence	Mendicant Rhymes; The Chinese Lantern; Cynthia		1904, 1906, 1908, 1947	GBP -	38.00
9	James, M. R.	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary		1912, 1911	GBP -	2.00
10	Masefield, John	A Sailor's Garland; Ballads and Poems; The Widow in the Bye Street; Dauber Philip the King		1906, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914	GBP -	10.00
11	Sidgwick, Ethel Promise	Le Gentleman, Herself; Succession, inscribed to M. C. Sidgwick.		1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1924, 1928, 1931	GBP -	2.00
12	Synge, J. M.	The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea		1905	GBP -	6.00
13	Synge, J. M.	The Well of the Saints		1905	GBP -	6.00
14	Synge, J. M.	The Playboy of the Western World	Dublin	1907	GBP -	38.00
15	Synge, J. M.	Works	Dublin	1910	GBP -	20.00
16	Tynan, Katherine; Macaulay, Rose	Innocencies: a Book of Verse; Irish Poems; Flower of Youth; Poems in War Time; The Holy War; Late Songs; The Two Blind Countries; Three Days		1905, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1914, 1919	GBP -	18.00
17	Wells, H. G.; Brooke, Rupert; Shaw, G. B., Lawrence, T. E.	The History of Mr. Polly; John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama; The Apple Cart; Seven Pillars of Wisdom		1910, 1916, 1930, 1935	GBP -	9.00
18	YEATS, W. B.	COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE		1908	GBP -	170.00
19	Auden, W. H.	The Ascent of F6 On the Frontier		1936, 1938	GBP -	18.00
20	Auden, W. H.	Look Stranger!		1936, 1955, 1972	GBP -	3.00
21	Beerbohm, Sir Max	Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story		1911	GBP -	20.00
22	Betjeman, Sir John	Mount Zion, or In Touch with the Infinite		1931	GBP -	100.00
23	Betjeman, Sir John	Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture		1933	GBP -	12.00
24	Betjeman, Sir John	Continual Dew, a Little Book of Bourgeois Verse		1937	GBP -	12.00
25	Betjeman, Sir John	A Few Late Chrysanthemums		1954	GBP -	12.00
26	Binyon, Laurence; Housman, A. E.	The Death of Adam, and other Poems; The Burning of the Leaves; and other Poems; More Poems; Some Poems; Some Letters; and a Personal Memoir by his Brother		1904, 1944, 1936, 1937	GBP -	7.00
27	Buchan, John	The Thirty-Nine Steps; The Power-House; Mr. Standfast; The Massacre of Glencoe		1915, 1916, 1919, 1933	GBP -	6.00
28	Eliot, T. S.	Dante, Murder in the Cathedral; The Family Reunion		1929, 1935, 1939	GBP -	3.00
29	Eliot, T. S.	The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding; The Cocktail Party; The Confidential Clerk		1941, 1942, 1950, 1954	GBP -	4.00
30	Huxley, Aldous	The World of Light; Brave New World; The Art of Seeing; The Perennial Philosophy; The Genius and the Goddess	Limbo	1920, 1931, 1932, 1943, 1946, 1955	GBP -	8.00
31	James, Henry	Terminations; The Better Sort; The Finer Grain		1895, 1903, 1910	GBP -	16.00
32	Lang, Andrew; Kipling, Rudyard; Watson, Sir William; Bridges, Robert	Letters to Dead Authors; In the Wrong Paradise; Lost Leaders; Barrack-Room Ballads and other Verses; The Five Nations; Lachrimae Musarum; Odes; For England; Milton's Prosedy		1886, 1886, 1889, 1892, 1903, 1892, 1894, 1904, 1893	GBP -	16.00
33	Lewis, C. Day	Transitional Poem; A Time to Dance; Noah and the Waters; Word over All; Poems		1929, 1935, 1936, 1943, 1943-1947, 1948	GBP -	14.00
34	MacNeice, Louis; Whistler, Laurence; Keyes, Sidney	Sassoon; Siegfried The Road to Ruin; Poems; In Time of Suspense; Minos of Crete		1933, 1935, 1940, 1948	GBP -	9.00
35	Sitwell, Dame Edith; Barton, Margaret	The English Eccentrics; The Song of the Cold; Fanfare for Elizabeth; and Sir Osbert Sitwell; Victoriana: a Symposium of Victorian Wisdom		1933, 1945, 1946, 1931	GBP -	4.00
36	Stevenson, R. L.; W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson; R. L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne	Three Plays; Across the Plains; Island Nights' Entertainments; The Ebb Tide,	Kidnapped	1886, 1892, 1892, 1893, 1894	GBP -	1.00
37	Wain, John	Mixed Feelings		1951	GBP -	16.00
38	Watts-Dunton, Theodore; Lawrence, D. H.; Mackenzie, Sir Compton; Graves, Robert; Powell, Anthony	Assorted Articles; Buttercups and Daisies; I Claudius; At Lady Molly's	Aylwin	1899, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1957	GBP -	16.00
39	West, Victoria Sackville	The Dragon in Shallow Waters; All Passion Spent; The Dark Island; The Garden		1921, 1932, 1934, 1946	GBP -	16.00
40	WHITMAN, WALT	LEAVES OF GRASS; with Sands at Seventy and A Backward Glance o'er Travel's Roads	Philadelphia	1889	GBP -	48.00
41	Woolf, Virginia	Jacob's Room; Three Guineas		1922, 1938	GBP -	14.00
42	Auden, W. H. and Christopher Isherwood	Journey to a War		1939	GBP -	22.00
43	Auden, W. H.	Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno	Milan	1958	GBP -	8.00
44	Auden, W. H. and Louis MacNeice.; Auden, W. H. and Chrisopher Isherwood	Letters from Iceland; On the Frontier		1937, 1938	GBP -	10.00
45	Auden, W. H.	Spain; Making, Knowing and Judging; About the House	New York	1938, 1956, 1965	GBP -	12.00
46	Auden, W. H.	For the Time Being; The Age of Anxiety; Nones, The Shield of Achilles		1945, 1948, 1952, 1955	GBP -	12.00
47	Auden, W. H.; Spears, Monroe K.	Homage to Clio, The Dyer's Hand and other Essays; The Poetry of W. H. Auden	New York	1960, 1963, 1971, 1963	GBP -	8.00
48	Barker, George	Collected Poems; The True Confession of George Barker; The View from a Blind I; The Dead Seagull		1930-1955, 1957, 1957, 1962, 1965	GBP -	4.00
49	Christopher Saltmarshe	Cambridge Poetry	New Road	1929, 1929, 1941, 1944, and 1945, 1944-45, 1936-1946, 1946, 1946-1948, 1952-4, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1953-60	GBP -	8.00
50	Campbell, Roy; Douglas, Keith; Empson, William; Eberhart, Richard	Collected Poems; Collected Poems; Collected Poems; Great Praises; Collected Poems	Adamastor	1930, 1957-60, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1930-1960, 1960	GBP -	16.00
51	Nathaniel Tarn	Cape Editions		1967-69	GBP -	22.00
52	Causley, Charles; Kavanagh, P. J.; Silkin, Jon; Heaney, Seamus	One and One; The Re-ordering of the Stones; Poems New and Selected; Killhope Wheel; Death of a Naturalist; Door into the Dark	Union Street, Northumberland	1957, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1966, 1969	GBP -	14.00
53	Davie, Donald	A Winter Talent; The Forests of Lithuania; New and Selected Poems; Events and Wisdoms; The Poems of Doctor Zhivago: Pasternak's poems translated into English verse with an introduction and commentary		1957, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965	GBP -	4.00
54	Davies, W. H.	Forty New Poems; Collected Poems; A Poet's Alphabet Ambition; Poems; Poems; The Lonliest Mountain; Poems; Complete Poems		1918, 1923, 1925, 1929, 1930-1931, 1932, 1939, 1963	GBP -	9.00
55	De la Mare, Walter	Poems; The Fleeting and other Poems; Poems; Collected Poems		1901 to 1918, 1920, 1933, 1919 to 1934, 1935, 1942	GBP -	9.00
56	De la Mare; Walter	Ding Dong Bell.		1924, 1925, 1926, 1931, 1941	GBP -	12.00
57	Durrell, Lawrence	On Seeming to Presume		1948	GBP -	9.00
58	Durrell, Lawrence	The Tree of Idleness Selected Poems		1955, 1956	GBP -	8.00
59	Durrell, Laurence; Durrell, Laurence and others., Durrell, Lawrence	Collected Poems; Selected Poems original wrappers; Personal Landscape; an Anthology of Exile; Alfred Perlwes; and Henry Miller. Art and Outrage		1960, 1935-1963, 1964, 1945, 1959	GBP -	12.00
60	Stephen Spender	Encounter		1955-70	GBP -	40.00
61	Fuller, Roy	The Middle of a War; A Lost Season; A Lost Season; Collected Poems; Buff		1942, 1942, 1944, 1962, 1965	GBP -	4.00
62	Gascoyne, David	Poems		1937-1942, 1943, 1950	GBP -	14.00
63	Golding, William	Lord of the Flies; Free Fall; The Spire; The Hot Gates		1955, 1959, 1964, 1965	GBP -	8.00
64	Graves, Robert	Poems; Poems and Satires; Occupation: Writer; Goodbye to All That		1938-1945, 1946, 1951, 1951, 1957	GBP -	5.00
65	Graves, Robert	Collected Poems; More Poems; Collected Poems		1959, 1961, 1964, 1965	GBP -	12.00
66	Gunn, Thorn	Fighting Terms	Oxford	1954	GBP -	22.00
67	Gunn, Thorn	The Sense of Movement; My Sad Captains; Fighting Terms; Positives Moly		1957, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1971	GBP -	7.00
68	Hughes, Ted	Meet My Folks; How the Whale Became; The Iron Man		1961, 1963, 1968	GBP -	5.00
69	Hughes, Ted and Thorn Gunn.; Hughes, Ted	Selected Poems; Scapegoats and Rabies; Poetry in the Making		1962, 1967, 1967	GBP -	4.00
70	Hughes, Ted, Ted Hughes and others, Douglas, Keith; New Writers, Thorn Gunn and Ted Hughes; Ted Hughes; Ted Hughes; Seneca, Ted Hughes	Introduction: Stories; Five American Poets; Here Today: Modern Poems; Selected Poems. Oedipus		1960, 1963, 1963, 1964, 1969	GBP -	8.00
71	Moraes, Dom; Tomlinson, Charles; Jennings Elizabeth	A Way of Looking; Song for a Birth or a Death; Poems; Seeing is Believing; A Peopled Landscape; The Way of a World		1955, 1961, 1960, 1960, 1963, 1969	GBP -	20.00
72	Keyes, Sidney; Michael Meyer	The Iron Laurel, Collected Poems		1942, 1945	GBP -	4.00
73	Larkin, Philip	The North Ship; The Whitsun Weddings		n.d., 1965	GBP -	22.00
74	Lewis, C. Day	Country Comets		1928	GBP -	5.00
75	Lewis, C. Day	We're not going to do Nothing; Enjoying Poetry; Collected Poems; The Buried Day; The Room; Poems		1936, 1947, 1954, 1960, 1965	GBP -	6.00
76	Logue, Christopher	The Arrival of the Poet in the City; Gone Ladies; New Numbers	Amsterdam	1963, 1968, 1969	GBP -	5.00
77		London Magazine		1954-69	GBP -	24.00
78	MacNeice, Louis	The Earth Compels; Plant and Phantom; Christopher Columbus		1938, 1941, 1944	GBP -	8.00
79	MacNeice, Louis	Autumn Sequel; Visitations	Springboard	1944, 1954, 1957	GBP -	4.00
80	MacNeice, Louis	The Burning Perch; The Mad Islands and The Administrator; The Strings are False; Collected Poems		1963, 1964, 1965, 1966	GBP -	9.00
81	Moraes, Dom; Johnson, B. S. Albert Angelo; Stoppard, Tom	Gone Away; Trawl; The Unfortunates; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Nuttall (Jeff) Bomb Culture		1960, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1967, 1968	GBP -	20.00
82	Moraes, Dom; MacBeth, George	Beldam Etcetera; Finlay (Ian Hamilton) Canal Stripe Series 3		1966, 1967, 1970	GBP -	24.00
83	Muir, Edwin	The Narrow Place, Essays on Literature and Society; Collected Poems; The Estate of Poetry		1943, 1949, 1965, 1953, 1963, 1962	GBP -	4.00
84	Murdoch, Iris	Under the Net; The Bell; The Sandcastle; A Severed Head; An Unofficial Rose; The Unicorn; The Italian Girl; The Red and the Green		1954, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	GBP -	20.00
85	Robert Conquest	New Lines, an Anthology		1956-63, 1958-62, 1960, 1960-61, 1960-61, 1961, 1964, 1964	GBP -	22.00
86	Olson, Charles; Mitchell, Adrian; Sillitoe, Alan; Shaman	Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, Out Loud; Poems		1968, 1968, 1968	GBP -	4.00
87	Patten, Brian	Atomic Adam; Little Johnny's Confession; Notes to the Hurrying Man		1967, 1967, 1969	GBP -	4.00
88		Periodicals; An extensive collection of literary periodicals		1946-56, 1958-65, 1961-69, 1964-70, n.d.-1969	GBP -	60.00
89		Poems in Pamphlet	Aldington	1952, 1951-52	GBP -	8.00
90	Raine, Kathleen	Stone and Flower; The Hollow Hill		1943, 1965	GBP -	6.00
91	Read, Herbert; Moore, Nicholas; Lee, Laurie; Smith, Stevie; Betjeman, Sir John; Plomer, William	The End of a War; The Glass Tower; The Sun my Monument; The Firstborn; Harold's Leap; Collected Poems; Collected Poems; Taste and Remember		1933, 1944, 1944, 1964, 1950, 1958, 1960, 1966	GBP -	8.00
92	Redgrove, Peter; Redgrove, Peter; Barry Tebb	The Collector; Poems; The Nature of Cold Weather; Poems; The Force; Poems; The Sermon; Five Quiet Shouters		1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1966, 1966	GBP -	4.00
93	Sassoon, Siegfried; Wells, H. G.; Amis, Kingsley; Ayrton, Michael	Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Gerhardi (William) Of Mortal Love; The Croquet Player; Star Begotten; The Uncertain Feeling; The Testament of Dedalus		1930, 1936, 1936, 1937, 1955, 1962	GBP -	18.00
94	Spender, Stephen	Poems; Ruins and Visions		1933, 1942	GBP -	4.00
95	Thomas, R. S.	Poetry for Supper; Judgement Day; Tares; The Bread of Truth; Pietà		1958, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1966	GBP -	8.00
96		Transatlantic Review (The)		1959-67	GBP -	12.00
97		Turret Booklet	Turret Books	1965-68	GBP -	16.00
98	Becke, Louis and Walter Jeffery.; Becke, Louis	A First Fleet Family; The Mutineer; Pacific Tales; Rodman the Boatsteerer; Stories; Tom Gerrard; The Adventures of a Supercargo		1896, 1898, 1897, 1898, 1904, 1906	GBP -	6.00
99	Beerbohm, Sir Max	A Christmas Garland		1912	GBP -	24.00
100	Belloc, Bessie Rayner; Barlow, Jane; Clarke, R. Mayant; Weyman, Stanley,	In a Walled Garden; A Creel of Irish Stories; The Valley of Sapphires; The Abbess of Vlaye; Starvecrow Farm		1895, 1897, 1899, n.d, 1904, 1905	GBP -	12.00

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