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
101	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Home As Found 2 volumes.	Philadelphia	1838	USD -	12.00
102	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Pathfinder, or the Inland Sea.	London	1840	USD -	110.00
103	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Mercedes of Castile, or the Voyage to Cathay.	Philadelphia	1840	USD -	37.00
104	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	The Deerslayer, or the First War-Path.	Philadelphia	1841	USD -	50.00
105	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Wyandotte, or the Hutted Knoll.	Philadelphia	1843	USD -	20.00
106	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef.	New York	1848	USD -	150.00
107	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Group of 5 of his three-deckers, as below.	London	1823-45	USD -	200.00
108	CRANE, HART	White Buildings.	New York	1926	USD -	140.00
109	CRANE, HART	The Bridge, a Poem.	Paris	1930	USD -	200.00
110	CRANE, HART	The Bridge, a Poem.	New York	1930	USD -	30.00
111	CRANE, HART	Collected Poems., Seven Lyrics.	New York	1933, 1966, 1933, 1966	USD -	35.00
112	CRANE, HART	Letters, Literary Manuscripts, The Poet's Vocation: Selections from Hölderlin, Rimbaud, and Crane., Voyager, The Poetry of Hart Crane	Vp	1965, 1967, 1962, 1969, 1967, 1962-69	USD -	27.00
113	CRANE, STEPHEN	The Black Riders and Other Lines.	Boston	1895	USD -	55.00
114	CRANE, STEPHEN	The Red Badge of Courage.	New York	1895	USD -	180.00
115	CRANE, STEPHEN	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.	New York	1896	USD -	65.00
116	CRANE, STEPHEN	The Victory of the Moon.	New York	1897	USD -	37.00
117	CRANE, STEPHEN	The Little Regiment, George's Mother, The Third Violet, Great Battles of the World.	New York	1896-96-97-1901	USD -	37.00
118	CRANE, STEPHEN	Sullivan County Tales and Sketches., Stephen Crane, Stephen Crane	Vp	1968, 1966, 1968, 1966-68	USD -	10.00
119	DE QUINCEY, THOMAS	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.	London	1822	USD -	110.00
120	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.	London	1839	USD -	15.00
121	DICKENS, CHARLES	Master Humphrey's Clock.	London	April 4, 1840-November 27, 1841	USD -	650.00
122	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.	London	1844	USD -	25.00
123	DICKENS, CHARLES	Little Dorrit; in the original parts.	London	December 1855-June 1857	USD -	200.00
124	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Mystery of Edwin Drood.	London	1870	USD -	20.00
125	DINESEN, ISAK	Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny., Shadows on the Grass, Ehrengard.	London, New York	1934, 1938-63	USD -	20.00
126	DISRAELI, BENJAMIN	Two Autograph Letters Signed, on mourning stationery, to Lady Emily Peel, Whitehall Gardens, regretting his inability to find a post "of a character, or rank, which it would become Sir Robert Peel to accept."		1877, 1879	USD -	45.00
127	DISRAELI, BENJAMIN	Endymion.	London	1880	USD -	15.00
128	DIXON, THOMAS, JR.	The Leopard's Spots, The Clansman, The Traitor, Comrades.	New York	1902-05-07-09	USD -	15.00
129	DOS PASSOS, JOHN	Three Soldiers [second issue], A Pushcart at the Curb, Orient Express, 1919, Adventures of a Young Man.	New York	1921-39	USD -	60.00
130	DOS PASSOS, JOHN	The Prospect Before Us, The Men Who Made the Nation, The Ground We Stand On, Occasions and Protests', World in a Glass, The Best Times, The Portugal Story.	Vp		USD -	25.00
131	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Sign of the Four.	London	1890	USD -	210.00
132	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The White Company.	London	1891	USD -	300.00
133	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Great Shadow.	Bristol	1892	USD -	70.00
134	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.	London	1892	USD -	100.00
135	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.	London	1894	USD -	40.00
136	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, Adventures of Gerard.	London	1895, 1903	USD -	17.00
137	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	A Duet; with an Occasional Chorus.	London	1899	USD -	27.00
138	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Hound of the Baskervilles.	London	1902	USD -	65.00
139	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Return of Sherlock Holmes.	London	1905	USD -	166.00
140	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	Micah Clarke: bis Statement.	London	1909	USD -	22.00
141	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Valley of Fear.	London	1915	USD -	25.00
142	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	His Last Bow: Some Raniniscences of Sherlock Holmes.	London	1917	USD -	37.00
143	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.	London	1927	USD -	75.00
144	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Crown Diamond: an Evening with Sherlock Holmes.	New York	1958	USD -	50.00
145	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Firm of Girdlestone, Round the Red Red Lamp, The Stark-Munro Letters.	London	1890-94-95	USD -	27.00
146	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	Rodney Stone, Uncle Bernac, A Duet; with an Occasional Chorus, The Green Flag.	London	1896-1900	USD -	22.00
147	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	Through the Magic Door, Round the Fire Stories, The Lost World.	London	1907-08-12	USD -	22.00
148	DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN	The Land of Mist, The Maracot Deep, Our African Winter, The Spiritualists' Reader.	London, Manchester	1926-29-29, 1924	USD -	25.00
149	Smith; DOYLE; Morley; Carr; Harrison; Nordon	Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson., The Life of Doyle., In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes., Conan Doyle.	New York	1944, 1944, 1949, 1960, 1967, 1944-67	USD -	47.00
150	DREISER, THEODORE	Sister Carrie.	New York	1900	USD -	150.00
151	DREISER, THEODORE	The Financier, The Titan, The "Genius."	New York	1912-14-15	USD -	32.00
152	DREISER, THEODORE	An American Tragedy.	New York	1925	USD -	50.00
153	DREISER, THEODORE	Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories.	New York	1927	USD -	35.00
154	DREISER, THEODORE	Dawn: a History of Myself.	New York	1931	USD -	27.00
155	DREISER, THEODORE	The Hand of the Potter, An American Tragedy., A Gallery of Women.	New York	1918-25-29	USD -	25.00
156	DREISER, THEODORE	Free, and Other Stories, The Hand of the Potter, The Color of a Great City, Chains, The Bulwark.	New York, Garden City	1918-27, 1946	USD -	20.00
157	DURRELL, LAWRENCE	The Alexandria Quartet.	New York	1962	USD -	65.00
158	ELIOT, GEORGE	Adam Bede.	Edinburgh	1859	USD -	130.00
159	ELIOT, GEORGE	The Mill on the Floss.	Edinburgh	1860	USD -	30.00
160	ELIOT, GEORGE	Felix Holt the Radical.	Edinburgh	1866	USD -	17.00
161	ELIOT, T. S.	The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.	London	1920	USD -	27.00
162	ELIOT, T. S.	Homage to John Dryden.	London	1924	USD -	35.00
163	ELIOT, T. S.	Poems, 1909-1925.	London	1925	USD -	37.00
164	ELIOT, T. S.	Anabasis: a Poem of St.-J. Perse.	London	1930	USD -	110.00
165	ELIOT, T. S.	Sweeney Agonistes.	London	1932	USD -	17.00
166	ELIOT, T. S.	Essays Ancient and Modern.	New York	1936	USD -	22.00
167	ELIOT, T. S.	From Poe to Valery.	New York	1948	USD -	22.00
168	ELIOT, T. S.	The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, The Elder Statesman.	London	1950-54-59	USD -	22.00
169	ELIOT, T. S.	Four Quartets.	London	1960	USD -	130.00
170	ELIOT, T. S.	The Waste Land.	London	1961	USD -	190.00
171	ELIOT, T. S.	Journey of the Magi, Milton, The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.	London	1927-47-54	USD -	17.00
172	ELIOT, T. S.	Thoughts After Lambeth, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding.	London	1931-41-42	USD -	17.00
173	ELIOT, T. S.; ditto	Four Quartets., The Cultivation of Christmas Trees., Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats., Collected Poems, 1909-1935., Poems Written in Early Youth.	New York	1943, 1965, 1956, 1965, 1944, 1967	USD -	10.00
174	ELIOT, T. S.; Twain	The Idea of a Christian Society., Notes towards the Definition of a Culture., On Poetry and Poets., The Frontiers of Criticism.	New York, Minneapolis	1940, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1956, 1940-57, 1956	USD -	15.00
175	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Soldiers' Pay.	New York	1926	USD -	65.00
176	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Sanctuary.	New York	1931	USD -	110.00
177	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	These 13: Stories.	New York	1931	USD -	42.00
178	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Idyll in the Desert.	New York	1931	USD -	200.00
179	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Salmagundi; and a Poem by Ernest M. Hemingway.	Milwaukee	1932	USD -	180.00
180	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	This Earth: a Poem.	Equinox	N. Y., 1932	USD -	35.00
181	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	A Green Bough.	New York	1933	USD -	30.00
182	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Doctor Martino and Other Stories.	New York	1934	USD -	150.00
183	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Pylon.	New York	1935	USD -	42.00
184	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	The Unvanquished.	New York	1938	USD -	27.00
185	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	The Wild Palms.	New York	1939	USD -	150.00
186	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Tandis que J'Agonise.	Paris	1946	USD -	50.00
187	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Intruder in the Dust, The Reivers.	New York	1948, 1962	USD -	22.00
188	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Requiem for a Nun.	New York	1951	USD -	95.00
189	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	A Fable.	New York	1954	USD -	80.00
190	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	The Town, The Mansion.	New York	1957, 1959	USD -	15.00
191	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Big Woods; the Hunting Stories, The Wishing Tree, Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters, Early Prose and Poetry.	New York, Boston	1955-64-65, 1962	USD -	27.00
192	FAULKNER, WILLIAM; Cowley; Robb	Absalom, Absalom! German text Stuttgart, Knight's Gambit., New Orleans Sketches., The Faulkner-Cowley File., Faulkner: an Estimate.	London, New York's, Pittsburgh, Vp	1948, 1951, 1968, 1966, 1963	USD -	15.00
193	FAULKNER. Masson, Linton R.	Man Working" ... a Catalogue of the William Faulkner Collection at the University of Virginia.	Charlottesville	1968	USD -	22.00
194	FISHER, VARDIS	Forgive Us Our Virtues.	Caldwell	Idaho, 1938	USD -	22.00
195	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT	The Great Gatsby.	New York	1925	USD -	55.00
196	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT	All the Sad Young Men.	New York	1926	USD -	22.00
197	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT	Taps at Reveille.	New York	1935	USD -	110.00
198	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT	The Beautiful and Damned.	London	1950	USD -	25.00
199	FROST, ROBERT	A Boy's Will.	New York	1915	USD -	40.00
200	FROST, ROBERT	Mountain Interval, New Hampshire.	New York	1916, 1923	USD -	27.00

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