Swann Galleries: 19th AND 20th CENTURY, FIRST EDITIONS., 1080,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 10, 1977 - November 10, 1977

Page Size: 373 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	HUNT, LEIGH	Wit and Humour, selected from the English Poets; A Book for a Corner, or Selections in Prose and Verse; Readings for Railways; The Religion of the Heart.	London	1846, 1849, 1849, 1853., 1846-53	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
202	IRVING, WASHINGTON	The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.	New-York	1819-20	USD 100.00 - 150.00	95.00
203	IRVING, WASHINGTON	Bracebridge Hall, or the Humorists.	London	1822	USD 70.00 - 100.00	60.00
204	IRVING, WASHINGTON	A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.	London	1828	USD 35.00 - 50.00	16.00
205	JAMES, HENRY	The Wings of the Dove.	New York	1902	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
206	JAMES, HENRY	Confidence, The Wings of the Dove; The Sense of the Past.	Boston, New York	1880, 1902-17	USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
207	JAMESON, MRS. ANNA	The Loves of the Poets	London	1829	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
208	JEFFERIES, RICHARD	The Amateur Poacher.	London	1879	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
209	JEFFERIES, RICHARD	Hodge and his Masters.	London	1880	USD 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
210	JOYCE, JAMES	Pomes Penyeach.	Paris	1927	USD 70.00 - 100.00	110.00
211	JOYCE JAMES	Electrotype, mounted on heavy wood block, of C. P. Curran's famous photograph of Joyce at 22, taken in 1904 in a garden just outside a large window.			USD 80.00 - 120.00	60.00
212	KENNEDY, JOHN F.	Profiles in Courage.	New York	1956	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
213	KEROUAC, JOHN	The Town & the City.	New York	1950	USD 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
214	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Light That Failed.	Philadelphia	1891	USD 35.00 - 50.00	35.00
215	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Barrack-Room Ballads and other Verses.	London	1892	USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
216	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Just So Stories for Little Children.	London	1902	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
217	KIPLING, RUDYARD; Kim	"Captains Courageous", Debits and Credits.	London	1897-1926	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
218	KIPLING. Clemens, Will M.	A Ken of Kipling: a Biographical Sketch, with an Appreciation and some Anecdotes.	New York	1899	USD 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
219	KNIGHT, CHARLES	Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century; with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences.	London	1864-64-65	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
220	KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN	he Hunchback: a Play in Five Acts.	London	1832	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
221		THE LARK. Numbers 4-12.	San Francisco	August 1895-April 1896	USD 30.00 - 40.00	13.00
222		THE LARK.	San Francisco	1896-97	USD 50.00 - 75.00	50.00
223	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Women in Love.	New York	1920	USD 125.00 - 175.00	170.00
224	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Assorted Articles.	New York, London	1923, 1930	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
225	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine, and Other Essays.	Philadelphia	1925	USD 35.00 - 50.00	19.00
226	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Lady Chatterley's Lover.		1929	USD 40.00 - 60.00	16.00
227	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Birds, Beasts, and Flowers: Poems.	London	1930	USD 50.00 - 75.00	100.00
228	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Letters.	London & New York	1932	USD 60.00 - 90.00	85.00
229	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Young Lorenzo: Early Life of D. H. Lawrence, containing hitherto Unpublished Letters, Articles and Reproductions of Pictures.	Florence	1931	USD 60.00 - 90.00	35.00
230	LAWRENCE, T. E.	Revolt in the Desert.	New York	1927	USD 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
231	LAWRENCE, T. E.	Seven Pillars of Wisdom.	Garden City, N.Y.	1935	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
232	LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD	An Old Country House.	New York	1902	USD 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
233	LEVER, CHARLES	The Daltons, or Three Roads in Life.	London	1852	USD 35.00 - 50.00	18.00
234	LEVER, CHARLES	Barrington.	London	1863	USD 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
235	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Arrowsmith.	New York	1925	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
236	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth.	New York	1927, 1929	USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
237	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	A Feather in His Hat, Reverse English.	Np	1943	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
238	LINDSAY, VACHEL	A Letter about My Programmes, for Committees in Correspondence.	Springfield, 111.	circa 1916	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
239		The Paris Review., Evergreen Review., Yale French Studies., Kenyon Review., Hudson Review.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
240	LONDON, JACK	The Call of the Wild.	New York	1903	USD 40.00 - 60.00	160.00
241	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	Voices of the Night.	Cambridge	1839	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
242	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	The Belfry of Bruges, and Other Poems.	Cambridge	1846	USD 40.00 - 60.00	17.00
243	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	Tales of a W lyside Inn.	Boston	1863	USD 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
244	LOVER, SAMUEL	Handy Andy: a Tale of Irish Life.	London	1842	USD 60.00 - 90.00	50.00
245	LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL	Poems.	Cambridge	1844	USD 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
246	MCCARTHY, MARY THERESE	Touchstone Ambitious.	Poughkeepsie	May 1933	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
247	McCLURE, MICHAEL	Muscled Apple Swift.	Topango	1968	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
248	MACKAYE, PERCY	The Mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark, or What We Will.	New York	1950	USD 35.00 - 50.00	25.00
249	MASTERS, EDGAR LEE	Spoon River Anthology.	New York	1915	USD 100.00 - 150.00	160.00
250	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard.	London	1930	USD 40.00 - 60.00	25.00
251	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	The Vagrant Mood: Six Essays.	London	1952	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
252	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	Cakes and Ale.	London	1954	USD 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
253	MAYHEW, AUGUSTUS	Paved with Cold, or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets. An Unfashionable Novel.	London	1858	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
254	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.	New York	1851	USD 300.00 - 400.00	400.00
255	MEREDITH, GEORGE	Jump to Glory Jane.	London	1892	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
256	MEREDITH, GEORGE	The Amazing Marriage.	Westminster	1895	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
257	MEREDITH, GEORGE	Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth, The Tale of Chloe, A Reading of Earth, An Essay on Comedy, Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History.	London, Westminster	1883-94-95, 1897-98	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
258	MEREDITH, GEORGE	Letters.	London		USD 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
259	MILLER, HENRY	Tropic of Capricorn.	Paris	1939	USD 70.00 - 100.00	390.00
260	MILLER, HENRY	Order and Chaos Chez Hans Reichel.	New Orleans	1966	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
261	MILNE, A. A.	The House at Pooh Corner.	London	1928	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
262	MITCHELL, MARGARET	Gone With the Wind.	New York	1936	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
263	MOORE, GEORGE	The Making of an Immortal; A Communication to my Friends.	Vp	1927, 1933.	USD 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
264	MORIER, JAMES	The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan.	London	1824	USD 60.00 - 90.00	25.00
265	MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	Parsons' Pleasure.	New York	1923	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
266	MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	Where the Blue Begins, Pandora Lifts the Lid, Religio Journalistici, Two Fables, The Blue and the Gray, Internal Revenue, Thorofare.	New York and Garden City	1924-42	USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
267	MORRIS, WILLIAM	Signs of Change, The Story of the Glittering Plain, News from Nowhere, The Well at the World's End (2 volumes).	London	1888-91-91 -96	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
268	MUIR, JOHN	Our National Parks, The Cruise of the Corwin.	New York	1901, 1917	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
269	NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY	Apologia Pro Vita Sua: being a Reply to a Pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman Mean?"	London	1864	USD 80.00 - 120.00	130.00
270	O'NEILL, EUGENE G. Thirst, and Other	One Act Plays.	Boston	1914	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
271	O'NEILL, EUGENE	All God's Chillun Got Wings, and Welded.	New York	1924	USD 35.00 - 50.00	35.00
272	O'NEILL, EUGENE	Lazarus Laughed.	New York	1927	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
273	O'NEILL, EUGENE	Marco Millions.	New York	1927	USD 35.00 - 50.00	35.00
274	Nemerov.; Merwin.; McClure	PHOENIX BOOK SHOP; The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar's House, Three Poems, Plane Poems.	New York	1968-68-69	USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
275	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine.	Philadelphia	July 1841 -June 1842	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
276	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Ladies' Companion, a Monthly Magazine.	New-York	1843	USD 100.00 - 150.00	175.00
277	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The American Review: a Whig Journal.	New-York	January-June 1845	USD 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
278	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art.	Philadelphia	July 1850-June 1851	USD 35.00 - 50.00	19.00
279	POE, EDGAR ALLAN.; Scott, J. W.	The Dove: a Parody on "The Raven."	Philadelphia	1874	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
280	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	A Memorial Volume.	Baltimore	1877	USD 60.00 - 90.00	50.00
281	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Poets and Poetry of America, a Satire.	New York	1887	USD 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
282		POETRY QUARTOS.	New York	1929	USD 40.00 - 60.00	65.00
283	PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE	A Defense of Circe.	New York	1954	USD 25.00 - 35.00	20.00
284	POUND, EZRA, Translator	The Natural Philosophy of Love	New York	1922	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
285	POUND, EZRA	Letters, 1907-1941.	New York	1950	USD 25.00 - 35.00	35.00
286		PROSE QUARTOS.	New York	1930	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
287	PURDY, JAMES	Group of 10 original pen and ink drawings.		1963	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
288	REED, JOHN	Ten Days That Shook the World.	New York	1919	USD 60.00 - 90.00	95.00
289	RICHARDSON, CHARLES	Notices and Extracts relating to the Lion's Head, which was erected at Button's Coffee-House in 1713.	London	1828	USD 60.00 - 90.00	20.00
290	ROBERTS, ELIZABETH MADOX	The Time of Man.	New York	1926	USD 35.00 - 50.00	14.00
291	ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.	Whither Bound?, The Happy Warrior	Boston	1926, 1928	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
292	RUSKIN, JOHN	Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts perhaps worthy of Memory in My Past Life.	Sunnyside, Kent	1885-89	USD 125.00 - 175.00	100.00
293	SALINGER, J. D.; Elaine	The Young Folks	New York	1940, 1945	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
294	SANDBURG, CARL	Remembrance Rock.	New York	1948	USD 50.00 - 75.00	40.00
295	SANTAYANA, GEORGE	Lucifer, or the Heavenly Truce: a Theological Tragedy.	Cambridge, Mass.	1924	USD 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
296	SAROYAN, WILLIAM	The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and other stories.	New York	1934	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
297	SAROYAN, WILLIAM	Group of 3 issues of Story magazine, each with a Saroyan story, as below.	New York	1934-38	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
298	SAROYAN, WILLIAM	Love Here Is My Hat, Three Plays. SIGNED, My Heart's in the Highlands, Get Away Old Man, Rock Wagram, Papa You're Crazy, Short Drive, Sweet Chariot.	New York etc.	1938-66	USD 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
299	SASSOON, SIEGFRIED	The Heart's Journey.	New York	1927	USD 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
300	SCOTT, MICHAEL	The Cruise of the Midge.	Edinburgh & London	1836	USD 50.00 - 75.00	40.00

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