Swann Galleries: First Editions & Presentation Copies: Of American & English Authors, Of The 19th & 20th Centuries. The Fine Collection Of The Late, Dr. Robert W. Buxton, Baltimore, Maryland. Sold By Order Of The Executor, The Estate Of Robert W. Buxton., 858,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 07, 1971 - October 07, 1971

Page Size: 551 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY	Little Men	Boston	1871	USD -	60.00
2	ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY	The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems.	New York	1859	USD -	10.00
3	ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY	The Story of a Bad Boy IN: Our Young Folks	Boston	1869	USD -	35.00
4	ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY	The Story of a Bad Boy	Boston	1870	USD -	55.00
5	ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY	Rower and Thorn, The Stillwater Tragedy, Unguarded Gates, Wyndham Towers, Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book, Ponkapog Papers.	Boston	1877-1903	USD -	15.00
6	ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY	The Stillwater Tragedy., Poems., The Sisters' Tragedy., Two Bites at a Cherry., Ponkapog Papers.	Boston, London	1880, 1882, 1891, 1894, 1903, 1880-1903, 1891	USD -	32.00
7	ANDERSON, SHERWOOD	Winesburg, Ohio, Many Marriages, A Story Teller's Story, A New Testament.	New York	1919-23-24-27	USD -	20.00
8	ANDERSON, SHERWOOD	No Swank	Philadelphia	1934	USD -	70.00
9	ANDERSON, SHERWOOD	Spratling & Faulkner., Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles., Anderson's Memoirs: Critical Edition, The Achievement of Anderson		1967, 1969, 1966, 1966-69, 1967	USD -	12.00
10	ARLEN, MICHAEL	The London Venture, These Charming People, The Green Hat, May Fair.	London	1920-23-24-25	USD -	60.00
11	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Culture and Anarchy: an Essay in Political and Social Criticism.	London	1869	USD -	27.00
12	ATHERTON, GERTRUDE	The Splendid Idle Forties, The Conqueror, Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-Hand, The Bell in the Fog, The Crystal Cup, The Immortal Marriage, The Jealous Gods, Dido.	New York	1902-29	USD -	20.00
13	BEERBOHM, MAX	Zuleika Dobson	London	1911	USD -	40.00
14	BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT	Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer	Weston, Vt.	1938	USD -	22.00
15	BIERCE, AMBROSE	Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.	San Francisco	1891	USD -	32.00
16	BIERCE, AMBROSE	Oan Such Things Be?	New York	1893	USD -	32.00
17	BIERCE, AMBROSE	In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.	New York	1898	USD -	15.00
18	BIERCE, AMBROSE	The Cynic's Word Book	New York	1906	USD -	27.00
19	BIERCE, AMBROSE	The Cynic's Word Book	New York	1906	USD -	20.00
20	BIERCE, AMBROSE	The Shadow on the Dial, and other Essays	San Francisco	1909	USD -	17.00
21	BIERCE, AMBROSE	Battle Sketches	London	1930	USD -	30.00
22	BORROW, GEORGE	Collected set of his most important works, as below, uniformly bound	London	1841-62	USD -	100.00
23	BORROW, GEORGE	The Turkish Jester: or the Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi	Ipswich	1884	USD -	30.00
24		BORZOI, THE, 1925: being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing.	New York	1925	USD -	25.00
25	BRONTE, CHARLOTTE	The Prof essor, a Tale	London	1857	USD -	45.00
26	BROOKE, RUPERT	Five Sonnets.	London	1914, 1915	USD -	35.00
27	BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN	Wieland; or the Transformation.	New York	1798	USD -	160.00
28	BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN	Wieland; or the Transformation.	New York	1798	USD -	150.00
29	BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN	Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793.	Philadelphia	1799	USD -	75.00
30	BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN	An Address to the Government of the United States, on the Cession of Louisiana to the French, and on the late Breach of Treaty by the Spaniards ...	Philadelphia	1803	USD -	55.00
31	BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN	Carwin, the Biloquist, and Other American Tales and Pieces.	London	1822	USD -	275.00
32	BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN	Edgar Huntly; or the Sleep Walker.	London	1831	USD -	17.00
33	BUCHAN, JOHN	The Kings Grace, 1910-1935.	London	1935	USD -	15.00
34	BUCHAN, JOHN	The Marquis of Montrose, Salute to Adventurers, The Power-House, The Blanket of the Dark, The Island of Sheep.	London	1913-36	USD -	20.00
35	BYRNE, DONN	Stories Without Women (and a few with women).	New York	1915	USD -	15.00
36	BYRNE, DONN	The Strangers' Banquet, The Foolish Matrons, The Wind Bloweth, The Changeling, Blind Raftery, Crusade.	New York, Boston	1919-24, 1928	USD -	12.00
37	BYRNE, DONN	Hangman's House, Crusade, Field of Honor.	New York, Boston	1926-29, 1928	USD -	20.00
38	BYRNE, DONN	Blind Raftery, O'Malley of Shanganagh, Hangman's House, Crusade, A Party of Baccarat, Rivers of Damascus, A Woman of the Shee, Donn Byrne	New York, Boston	1924-29, 1928	USD -	40.00
39	CABELL, JAMES BRANCH	Jurgen.	New York	1919	USD -	30.00
40	CABELL, BRANCH	Smirt: an Urbane Nightmare.	New York	1934	USD -	35.00
41	CABELL, JAMES BRANCH	Taboo, The Music from Behind the Moon, Sallades from the Hidden Way.	New York	1921-26-28	USD -	32.00
42	CABELL, JAMES BRANCH	The Music from Behind the Moon, The White Robe, Some of Us.	New York	1926-28-30	USD -	25.00
43	CABELL, JAMES BRANCH	The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, Straws and Prayerbooks, The Silver Stallion, Something About Eve, The Way of Ecben, There Were Two Pirates, Let Me Lie.	New York	1915-47	USD -	25.00
44	CABLE, GEORGE W.	Old Creole Days.	New York	1879	USD -	55.00
45	CABLE, GEORGE W.	The Creoles of Louisiana, Strange True Stories of Louisiana.	New York	1884, 1889	USD -	35.00
46	CABLE, GEORGE W.	The Grandissimes, Strong Hearts, The Cavalier, Bylow Hill, Gideon's Band, The Amateur Garden.	New York	1880-1914	USD -	27.00
47	CARLYLE, THOMAS	The French Revolution.	London	1837	USD -	130.00
48	CARMAN, BLISS	Wild Garden.	New York	1929	USD -	15.00
49	CARROLL, LEWIS	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking' Glass.	London	1866, 1872	USD -	250.00
50	CARROLL, LEWIS	Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.	London	1872	USD -	350.00
51	CARROLL, LEWIS	Rhyme? and Reason?	London	1883	USD -	30.00
52	CARROLL, LEWIS	A Tangled Tale.	London	1885	USD -	35.00
53	CARROLL, LEWIS	Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.	London	1893	USD -	140.00
54	CATHER, WILLA	The Troll Garden.	New York	1905	USD -	75.00
55	CATHER, WILLA	The Song of the Lark.	Boston	1915	USD -	27.00
56	CATHER, WILLA	April Twilights, and Other Poems.	New York	1923	USD -	42.00
57	CATHER, WILLA	My Mortal Enemy.	New York	1926	USD -	27.00
58	CATHER, WILLA	Shadows on the Rock.	New York	1931	USD -	40.00
59	CATHER, WILLA	Lucy Gayheart.	New York	1935	USD -	32.00
60	CATHER, WILLA	Alexander's Bridge [second issue], Youth and the Bright Medusa, A Lost Lady, My Mortal Enemy, Death Comes for the Archbishop.	Boston, New York	1912, 1920-27	USD -	22.00
61	CATHER, WILLA	A Lost Lady, Obscure Destinies, December Night, The Old Beauty and Others, Willa Cather in Europe, The Kingdom of Art.	New York, Lincoln	1923-56, 1966	USD -	27.00
62	CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S.	My African Journey.	London	1908	USD -	70.00
63	CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S.	Marlborough., Step by Step., A Roving Commission., The Churchill Wit.	New York	1933, 1939, 1930, 1958, 1965, 1930-65	USD -	12.00
64	CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S.	The Second World War., A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.	Boston, New York	1948-53, 1956-58	USD -	45.00
65	CIARDI, JOHN	In the Stoneworks. Signed, Person to Person, The King Who Saved Himself, The Monster Den, The Strangest Everything, An Alphabestiary.	Vp	1961-66	USD -	22.00
66	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	Literary Remains.	London	1836	USD -	40.00
67	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Almayer's Folly.	London	1895	USD -	180.00
68	CONRAD, JOSEPH	An Outcast of the Islands.	London	1896	USD -	70.00
69	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Nigger of the "Narcissus.	London	1898	USD -	70.00
70	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Tales of Unrest.	London	1898	USD -	75.00
71	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Lord Jim.	Edinburgh & London	1900	USD -	60.00
72	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Typhoon, Typhoon and Other Stories.	New York, London	1902, 1903	USD -	37.00
73	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard.	London	1904	USD -	25.00
74	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Secret Agent.	London	1907	USD -	65.00
75	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Notes on My Books.	London	1921	USD -	75.00
76	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Dover Patrol: a Tribute.	Canterbury	1922	USD -	32.00
77	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Secret Agent: a Drama in Three Acts.	London	1923	USD -	55.00
78	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Frontispiece.	Privately Printed for Jerome Kern	1925	USD -	80.00
79	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Inheritors, Youth, The Mirror of the Sea.	London	1901-02-06	USD -	60.00
80	CONRAD, JOSEPH	A Set of Six, Under Western Eyes, Some Reminiscences.	London	1908-11-12	USD -	20.00
81	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Twixt Land & Sea, Chance, Within the Tides.	London	1912-14-15	USD -	12.00
82	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Rescue.	London	1915-17-19-20	USD -	35.00
83	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Rover, The Nature of a Crime, Suspense, Tales of Hearsay, Last Essays.	London	1923-26	USD -	55.00
84	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Conrad to a Friend., Letters from Conrad, Bibliography of Conrad	London, Indianapolis	1928, 1895-1924, 1928, 1964, 1928-64, 1928	USD -	12.00
85	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Symons, Arthur.	London	1926	USD -	22.00
86	CONRAD, JOSEPH; Curie; Curie; Walpole; Conrad, Jessie	Conrad: a Study. Two editions., Into the East., Conrad., Conrad As I Knew Him.	London, Garden City	1914, 1923, Circa 1916, 1926, 1914-26, 1914	USD -	12.00
87	COOKE, JOHN. ESTEN	The Virginia Comedians: or, Old Days in the Old Dominion.	New York	1854	USD -	37.00
88	COOKE, JOHN ESTEN	Surry of Eagle's-Nest, or Memoirs of a Staff-Officer serving in Virginia.	New York	1866	USD -	17.00
89	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Pilot: a Tale of the Sea.	New York	1823	USD -	40.00
90	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Lionel Lincoln, or the Leaguer of Boston.	New-York	1825-24	USD -	60.00
91	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground.	Paris	1825	USD -	55.00
92	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Last of the Mohicans: a Narrative of 1757.	Philadelphia	1826	USD -	210.00
93	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Prairie, a Tale.	London	1827	USD -	70.00
94	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Red Rover.	Philadelphia	1828-27	USD -	27.00
95	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Notions of the Americans: picked up by a Travelling Bachelor.	London	1828	USD -	47.00
96	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Water Witch, or the Skimmer of the seas.	London	1828	USD -	220.00
97	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Bravo: a Venetian Story.	London	1831	USD -	55.00
98	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Heidenmauer, or the Benedictines.	Philadelphia	1832	USD -	30.00
99	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	A Letter to his Countrymen.	New-York	1834	USD -	47.00
100	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Homeward Bound, or the Chase.	London	1838	USD -	32.00

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