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
401	Simenon, Georges	Havoc by Accident; Escape in Vain; On the Danger Line; Magnet of Doom; Black Rain; Chit of a Girl; A Wife at Sea; Strange Inheritance; The Strangers; The Window; The House; The Trial of Bébé Donge; Act of Passion; Across the Street; Ticket of Leave; Dange		1943, 1943, 1944, 1948, 1949, 1949, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1951, 1952, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1965	GBP -	35.00
402	Sitwell, Dame Edith	Clowns' Houses	Oxford	1918	GBP -	10.00
403	Sitwell, Dame Edith	Popular Song; Jane Barston		1928, 1719-1746, 1931	GBP -	5.00
404	Sitwell, Dame Edith; Rustic Elegies	The Sleeping Beauty; Gold Coast Customs; I Live Under a Black Sun		1924, 1927, 1929, 1937	GBP -	3.00
405	Sitwell, Dame Edith	Collected Poems; Aspects of Modern Poetry		1930, 1934	GBP -	5.00
406	Sitwell, Sir Osbert	The People's Album of London Statues		1928	GBP -	8.00
407	Sitwell, Sir Osbert	Argonaut and Juggernaut; Out of the Flame; Dumb-Animal and other Stories; Miracle on Sinai		1919, 1923, 1930, 1933	GBP -	1.00
408	Sitwell, Sir Osbert	Penny Foolish; Left Hand; Right Hand		1935, 1946-50	GBP -	4.00
409	Sitwell, Sacheverell	The People's Palace; The Thirteenth Caesar and other Poems; The Cyder Feast, and other Poems; Two Poems; Ten Songs; Doctor Donne and Gargantua	Oxford	1918, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1930	GBP -	16.00
410	Stein, Gertrude	How to Write	Paris	1931	GBP -	12.00
411	Stein, Gertrude; Toklas, Alice B.	The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book	New York	1933, 1933, 1954	GBP -	2.00
412	Stephen, J. K.; Campbell, Roy	Quo Musa Tendis?, The Georgiad		1891, 1931	GBP -	9.00
413	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Familiar Studies of Men and Books		1888	GBP -	5.00
414	Stevenson, R. L.; Hardy, Thomas	Prince Otto; The Trumpet-Major		1886, 1889, 1892	GBP -	8.00
415	Strachey, Lytton; Maugham, W. Somerset; O'Casey, Sean; Morgan, Charles	Elizabeth and Essex; The Summing Up; I Knock at the Door; Reflections in a Mirror		1928, 1938, 1939, 1944	GBP -	1.00
416	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Strand Magazine (The)		1891-1901	GBP -	4.00
417	Symons, Arthur	London Lights; Silhouettes; Amoris Victimax; Collected Works		1895, 1896, 1897, 1924	GBP -	22.00
418	Symons, Arthur; Galsworthy, John; Maurois, André	Notes on Joseph Conrad, with some Unpublished Letters; Loyalties; Chelsea Way		1926, 1930, 1930	GBP -	2.00
419	Synge, J. M.	The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea		1905	GBP -	12.00
420	Synge, J. M.	The Aran Islands	Dublin and London	1907	GBP -	12.00
421	Synge, J. M.; Kinglake, A. W.	The Playboy of the Western World, Eöthen		1927, n.d.	GBP -	9.00
422	Thomas, Dylan	18 Poems		1934	GBP -	36.00
423	Thomas, Dylan	Under Milk Wood		1954	GBP -	14.00
424	Thurber, James	Let your Mind Alone!; The Beast in Me, and other Animals; The Seal in the Bedroom and other Predicaments; The Thurber Album; Thurber Country; Further Fables of our Time; The Years with Ross; Lanterns and Lances		1937, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1961	GBP -	3.00
425	Eugene Jolas	Transition	The Hague	1932	GBP -	5.00
426	Wallace, Edgar; Lawrence, D. H.; Hemingway, Ernest	Unofficial Despatches; The Lost Girl; The Old Mand and the Sea	New York	1901, 1920, 1952	GBP -	22.00
427	Wallace, Lew	Ben Hur	New York	1880	GBP -	1.00
428	Waugh, Evelyn; R. T. Lomax	Edmund Campion		1935	GBP -	100.00
429	Waugh, Evelyn	Scoop		1938	GBP -	6.00
430	Waugh, Evelyn	Scott-King's Modern Europe		1947, 1947	GBP -	28.00
431	Wells, H. G.	Text-Book of Biology		1893	GBP -	80.00
432	Wells, H. G.	The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth		1904	GBP -	50.00
433	WELLS, H. G.	WORKS		1924-27	GBP -	170.00
434	Wells, H. G.; Walpole, Sir Hugh	The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman; The World of William Clissold; The King who was a King, The Young Enchanted; The Old Ladies; The Fortress; The Inquisitor; The Bright Pavilions		1914, 1926, 1929, 1921, 1924, 1932, 1935, 1940	GBP -	4.00
435	West, Victoria Sackville	The Garden		1946	GBP -	12.00
436	WILDE, OSCAR	WORKS; The Picture of Dorian Gray		1908	GBP -	Not Sold
437	WILDE, OSCAR	WORKS; The Picture of Dorian Gray		1908	GBP -	25.00
438	Wilde, Oscar	Sixteen Letters [to Will Rothenstein]		1930	GBP -	12.00
439	Wilde, Oscar	An early portrait of Wilde		1878	GBP -	95.00
440	Wilde, Oscar, Moore, George and Frank Harris	The Sphinx; Sebastian Melmoth [Oscar Wilde]; Moore versus Harris	Detroit	1901, 1904, 1921	GBP -	18.00
441	Wilde, Oscar; Galsworthy, John; Wolfe, Humbert; Davies, Rhys; O'Flaherty Liam	After Bernival The Craft of Verse Rings on her Fingers The Ecstasy of Angus	New York	1922, 1928, 1928, 1930, 1931	GBP -	22.00
442	Wilde Oscar and others, Yeats W. B., Lennox Robinson	Echoes from Kottabos A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse		1906, 1925	GBP -	1.00
443	Wilder Thornton	The Angel that Troubled the Waters, and other Plays		1928	GBP -	5.00
444	Williamson Henry	The Patriot's Progress The Star-Born		1930, 1933	GBP -	8.00
445	Williamson Henry	Tarka the Otter; The Peregrine's Saga, Salar the Salmon, Goodbye West Country, The Children of Shallow-ford, Tales of Moorland and Estuary		1927, 1923, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1953	GBP -	35.00
446	Wolfe, Humbert; Bridges, Robert; West Victoria, Sackville	Troy; The Testament of Beauty; The Garden	Oxford, Oxford	1928, 1929, 1930, 1946	GBP -	14.00
447	Woolf Virginia	Kew Gardens		1919	GBP -	70.00
448	Maxwell William	Cuala Press; The Dun Emer Press; The Cuala Press: a complete list of the Books; Pamphlets, leaflets, and Broadsides		1932	GBP -	20.00
449	Dowden Edward	A Woman's Reliquary	Dundrum	1913	GBP -	1.00
450	Dowden Edward	A Woman's Reliquary	Dundrum	1913	GBP -	4.00
451	Lawrence D. H.	The Virgin and the Gipsy	Florence	1930	GBP -	12.00
452	O'Casey Sean	The Silver Tassie Oak Leaves and Lavender Rose and Crown		1928, 1946, 1952	GBP -	5.00
453	O'Connor Frank, A. E.	The Wild Bird's Nest: Poems from the Irish with an Essay on the Character in Irish	Dublin	1932	GBP -	28.00
454	O'Connor Frank, A. E.	The Wild Bird's Nest: Poems from the Irish, with an Essay on the Character in Irish	Dublin	1932	GBP -	26.00
455	O'Flaherty, Liam; Clarke, Austin; O'Connor Frank	The Ecstasy of Angus; Forget-Me-Not; The Little Monasteries: Poems translated from the Irish		1931, 1962, 1963	GBP -	26.00
456	Rossi, M. M.; J. M. Hone	Pilgrimage in the West	Dublin	1933	GBP -	2.00
457	Yeats Jack B.	Life in the West of Ireland	Dublin and London	1915	GBP -	5.00
458	Yeats, W. B.; W. B. Yeats	Samhain		1901-03, 1899	GBP -	7.00
459	Yeats, W. B.; Eglington, John; W. B. Yeats	Some Essays and Passages	Dundrum	1905	GBP -	30.00
460	Yeats W. B.	Responsibilities: Poems and a Play	Dundrum	1914	GBP -	28.00
461	Yeats, W. B.; Tagore, Rabindranath; Devabrata, Mukerjea; W. B. Yeats	The Post Office: A Play	Dundrum	1914	GBP -	10.00
462	Yeats W. B.	The Bounty of Sweden	Dublin	1925	GBP -	28.00
463	Yeats W. B.	Words for Music Perhaps, and other Poems	Dublin	1932	GBP -	28.00
464	Yeats W. B.	The Book of the Rhymers' Club; The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club		1892-94	GBP -	130.00
466	Yeats W. B.	The Land of Heart's Desire		1894	GBP -	38.00
467	Yeats W. B.	The Shadowy Waters		1900	GBP -	26.00
468	Yeats, W. B.; W. B. Yeats	The Abbey Row		1907	GBP -	22.00
469	Yeats, W. B.	Plays for an Irish Theatre		1911	GBP -	22.00
470	Yeats, W. B.	A Full Moon in March		1935	GBP -	12.00
471	Aubrey, Beardsley	YELLOW BOOK THE,		1894-97	GBP -	55.00
472	Aubrey, Beardsley	Yellow Book (The)		1894-96	GBP -	20.00
473	Aubrey, Beardsley	Yellow Book (The)		1894	GBP -	3.00
474	Aubrey, Beardsley	Yellow Book (The)		1894	GBP -	4.00
475	Zangwill, Israel	The Old Maids' Club		1892	GBP -	10.00

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