Swann Galleries: Swann Galleries : 1624, 1624,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 1993 - January 01, 1993

Page Size: 277 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
217	(PENNYROYAL PRESS)	Men of Printing: Anglo-American Profiles. Edited by John J. Walsdorf.	[Easthampton, Mass.]	(1976)	USD 150.00 - 250.00	440.00
218		PEREGRINE PRESS Sampler [cover title].	Np	vd	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
219	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Mask of the Red Death.	Baltimore	1969	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
221	(POGANY, WILLY.) Omar Khayyam	Rubaiyat.	Philadelphia	(1942)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
222	(PREISSIG, VOJTECH.) Franklin, Benjamin	The Way to Wealth.	New York	(1930)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	165.00
223	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Barrie, J. M.	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.	New York	1907	USD 80.00 - 120.00	143.00
224	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Goldsmith, Oliver	The Vicar of Wakefield.	Philadelphia	[1929]	USD 100.00 - 150.00	247.00
225	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Lamb, Charles and Mary	Tales from Shakespeare.	London	1909	USD 400.00 - 600.00	825.00
226	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Milton, John	Comus.	London	[1921]	USD 300.00 - 400.00	467.00
227	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Morley, Christopher	Where the Blue Begins.	London and New York	[1925]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	522.00
228	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR)	Mother Goose.	London	(1913)	USD 400.00 - 600.00	880.00
229	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Poe, Edgar Allan	Tales of Mystery & Imagination.	London	(1935)	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,090.00
230	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Rossetti, Christina	Goblin Market.	London	(1933)	USD 350.00 - 500.00	660.00
231	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Stephens, James	Irish Fairy Tales.	London	1920	USD 80.00 - 120.00	247.00
232	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels.	London	1909	USD 600.00 - 900.00	770.00
233	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Wagner, Richard	Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods.	London	1911	USD 80.00 - 120.00	143.00
234	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Walton, Izaak	The Compleat Angler.	London	(1931)	USD 300.00 - 400.00	192.00
235	(RACKHAM, ARTHUR)	Group of 3 volumes illustrated by Rackham.	Vp	vd	USD 100.00 - 200.00	110.00
239	ROUAULT, GEORGES	Divertissement.	[Paris]	(1943)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
240	SCARRON, PAUL	Le Romant comique.	Np	1945	USD 500.00 - 750.00	715.00
241	(THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT)	Die Bergpredigt Jesu Christi.	(Leipzig)	(1908)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
242	(SHAHN, BEN)	Ecclesiastes; or, the Preacher.	(Paris)	(1967)	USD 500.00 - 750.00	522.00
243	(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.) Shakespeare, William	A Midsommer Nights Dreame.	London	1924	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
244	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Macbeth.	Np	1970	USD 150.00 - 250.00	110.00
245	SHEPARD, ERNEST H.	Fun & Fantasy. A Book of Drawings. Introduction by A. A. Milne.	London	(1927)	USD 200.00 - 300.00	467.00
246	(SHEPARD, ERNEST H.) Grahame, Kenneth	The Golden Age * Dream Days.	London	(1928; 1930)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	412.00
247	(SLEVOGT, MAX.) Cooper, James Fenimore	Lederstrumpf-Erzahlungen.	Berlin	1909	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	935.00
248	(SLIDE MOUNTAIN PRESS)	Tristram and Iseult. A Play by Amory Hare.	Gaylordsville	1930	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
249	SPENSER, EDMUND	The Faerie Queene.	London	1897--1896	USD 150.00 - 250.00	825.00
250	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	The Silverado Squatters.	New York	1923	USD 100.00 - 200.00	55.00
251	SZYK, ARTHUR	Ink & Blood: A Book of Drawings. Preface by Struthers Burt.	New York	1946	USD 150.00 - 250.00	385.00
252	(TICE, CLARA) Voltaire.	Candide.	New York	1927	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
253	TUTTLE, RICHARD	Stacked Color Drawings.	Munich	1971	USD 200.00 - 300.00	550.00
254	TUTTLE, RICHARD	Two Books.	Cologne	1969	USD 600.00 - 900.00	660.00
255	(VALE PRESS.) Browne, Sir Thomas	Religio Medici . . . and Other Essays.	(London)	(1902)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
256	(VALE PRESS.) Drayton, Michael	Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium.	(London)	(1896)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
257	(VALE PRESS.) Field, Michael	The Race of Leaves.	(London)	(1901)	USD 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
258	(VALE PRESS)	The Life of Benvenuto Cellini.	(London)	(1900)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	55.00
259	VERLAINE, PAUL	Dedicaces.	Paris	1925	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
260	(VERTES, MARCEL)	Longus. Daphnis et Chloe.	(Paris)	(1954)	USD 300.00 - 400.00	467.00
261	VILLON, FRANCOIS	Oeuvres.	Maestricht	1929	USD 80.00 - 120.00	121.00
262	(VILLON, JACQUES.) Swinburne, Algernon Charles	Laus Veneris.	[Paris]	(1946)	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,210.00
263	(VLAMINCK, MAURICE.) Radiguet, Raymond	Le Diable au Corps.	Paris	(1926)	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,045.00
264	WADSWORTH, CHARLES E.	Views from the Island.	Boston	1970	USD 350.00 - 500.00	220.00
265	WILLIAMSON, HENRY	Tarka the Otter.	(London)	1927	USD 200.00 - 300.00	550.00
266	(WOOLLY WHALE PRESS.) Dickens, Charles	A Christmas Carol.	New York	1930	USD 100.00 - 150.00	55.00
268	ARISTOPHANES.	Lysistrata	New York	1934	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,420.00
270		THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.	London	1972	USD 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
271		THE BOOK OF JOB.	(New York)	1946	USD 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
272		THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH.	(New York)	1979	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
273		THE BOOK OF PSALMS.	New York	1960	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
274	BRADBURY, RAY	Fahrenheit 451.	New York	1982	USD 100.00 - 150.00	192.00
275	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The Canterbury Tales, done into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill.	New York	1946	USD 150.00 - 250.00	110.00
276	COWLEY, MALCOLM	Exile's Return.	New York	1981	USD 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
277	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Chimes.	London	1931	USD 300.00 - 400.00	660.00
278	DUMAS, ALEXANDRE, fils	Camille.	London	1937	USD 400.00 - 600.00	440.00
279	EPICURUS	The Extant Remains of the Greek Text translated by Cyril Bailey with an Introduction by Irwin Edman.	New York	1947	USD 80.00 - 120.00	88.00
280	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN	The Autobiography.	San Francisco	1931	USD 80.00 - 120.00	44.00
281	GIBBON, EDWARD	The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire.	New York	1946	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
282	HEANEY, SEAMUS	Poems and a Memoir.	(New York)	(1982)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
283	HERSEY, JOHN	Hiroshima.	New York	1983	USD 300.00 - 400.00	605.00
284	JOYCE, JAMES	Ulysses.	New York	1935	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,860.00
285	THE KORAN	Selected Suras translated . . . by Arthur Jeffery and decorated by Valenti Angelo.	New York	1958	USD 80.00 - 120.00	44.00
286	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Main Street.	Chicago	1937	USD 200.00 - 300.00	275.00
287	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	Of Human Bondage.	New York	1938	USD 400.00 - 600.00	715.00
288	MELVILLE, HERMAN.	Moby Dick	(Brattleboro, Vt.)	1943	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
289	MILOSZ, CZESLAW	The Captive Mind.	New York	(1983)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
290	O'NEILL, EUGENE	The Iceman Cometh.	New York	1982	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
291	PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER	The Golden Cockerel.	New York	(1950)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
292	RIGGS, LYNN	Green Grow the Lilacs.	Norman	1954	USD 150.00 - 250.00	247.00
294	SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS	The Magician of Lublin.	New York	1984	USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
295	SWIFT, JONATHAN	A Voyage to Lilliput by Dr. Lemuel Gulliver * A Voyage to Brobdingnag by Dr. Lemuel Gulliver.	New York	1950	USD 80.00 - 120.00	44.00
296	THOREAU, HENRY DAVID	Walden; or, Life in the Woods.	Boston	1936	USD 300.00 - 400.00	357.00
297	WHITMAN, WALT	Leaves of Grass.	New York	1942	USD 400.00 - 600.00	440.00
298	WILDE, OSCAR	Salome; Drame en une acte * Salome; a Tragedy in One Act.	Paris and London	1938	USD 150.00 - 250.00	220.00
299	WILDER, THORNTON	Our Town.	Avon	1974	USD 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
300	WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE	A Streetcar Named Desire.	New York	1982	USD 100.00 - 150.00	143.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
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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.