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
201 FROST, ROBERT New Hampshire. New York

1923

USD - 15.00
202 FROST, ROBERT A Masque of Reason, A Masque of Mercy, Come In, and Other Poems, Steeple Bush, Selected Prose, To Russia with Frost New York, Boston

1943-56, 1963

USD - 15.00
203 GALSWORTHY, JOHN From the Four Winds London

1897

USD - 75.00
204 GALSWORTHY, JOHN Jocelyn London

1898

USD - 75.00
205 GALSWORTHY, JOHN A Man of Devon London

1901

USD - 60.00
206 GALSWORTHY, JOHN The Forsyte Saga, A Modern Comedy. London

1922, 1929

USD - 37.00
207 GALSWORTHY, JOHN Caravan, Swan Song, The Silver Spoon, On Forsyte Change, End of the Chapter, Soames and the Flag. London, New York

1925, 1935, 1930

USD - 32.00
208 GLASGOW, ELLEN The Descendant. New York

1897

USD - 12.00
209 GLASGOW, ELLEN The Battle-Ground, The Deliverance, The Wheel of Life, The Ancient Law, The Miller of Old Church. New York, Garden City

1902-08, 1911

USD - 10.00
210 GLASGOW, ELLEN Virginia, The Builders, The Romantic Comedians, They Stooped to Folly, Vein of Iron, The Woman Within. Garden City, New York

1913-29, 1935-54

USD - 10.00
211 GREY, ZANE Wanderer of the Wasteland, The Vanishing American, Under the Tonto Rim., Forlorn River., Fighting Caravans, The Lost Wagon Train. New York

1923-36

USD - 20.00
212 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Cetywayo and his White Neighbours, or Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal. London

1882

USD - 70.00
213 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Allan Quatermain. London

1887

USD - 50.00
214 HAGGARD, H. RIDER She: a History of Adventure. London

1887

USD - 27.00
215 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Mr. Meeson's Will. London

1888

USD - 40.00
216 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Cleopatra. London

1889

USD - 40.00
217 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Heart of the World. London

1896

USD - 37.00
218 HAGGARD, H. RIDER The Lady of Blossholme. London

1909

USD - 60.00
219 HAGGARD, H. RIDER The Mahatma and the Hare: a Dream Story. London

1911

USD - 37.00
220 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Red Eve. London

1911

USD - 45.00
221 HAGGARD, H. RIDER The Ivory Child. London

1916

USD - 80.00
222 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Maiwa's Revenge, Allan's Wife, Eric Brighteyes. London

1888-89-91

USD - 12.00
223 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Nada the Lily, A Strange Career, Heart of the World. London

1892-94-96

USD - 12.00
224 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Joan Haste, Dr. Theme, Swallow. London

1895-98-99

USD - 10.00
225 HAGGARD, H. RIDER; Lysbeth Swallow, The Brethren. New York

1899-1901-03

USD - 10.00
226 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Black Heart and White Heart, Pearl-Maiden, Stella Fregelis. London

1900-03-04

USD - 40.00
227 HAGGARD, H. RIDER The Brethren, Ayesha, Benita. London

1904-05-06

USD - 40.00
228 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Morning Star, Queen Sheba's Ring, Marie. London

1910-11-12

USD - 10.00
229 HAGGARD, H. RIDER Child of Storm, The Holy Flower, Wisdom's Daughter. London

1913-15-23

USD - 35.00
230 HARDY, THOMAS Tess of the D'Urbervilles. London

1926

USD - 65.00
231 HARTE, FR. BRET The Lost Galleon, and Other Tales. San Francisco

1867

USD - 120.00
232 HARTE, BRET The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches. Boston

1870

USD - 110.00
233 HARTE, BRET A Ward of the Golden Gate, A Sappho of Green Springs, Susy. London

1890-91-93

USD - 17.00
234 HARTE, BRET Poems, East and West Poems, Two Men of Sandy Bar, Thankful Blossom, In the Carquinez Woods, On the Frontier, First Family of Tasajara, and six later titless; together with Merwin's "Life. Boston

1871-1911

USD - 20.00
235 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Famous Old People: being the Second Epoch of Grandfather's Chair. Boston

1841

USD - 37.00
236 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Scarlet Letter. Boston

1850

USD - 85.00
237 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Life of Franklin Pierce. Boston

1852

USD - 55.00
238 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Tanglewood Tales, The Marble Faun., Our Old Home. Boston

1853-60-63

USD - 60.00
239 HEARN, LAFCADIO Stray Leaves from Strange Literature. Boston

1884

USD - 55.00
240 HEARN, LAFCADIO Some Chinese Ghosts. Boston

1887

USD - 35.00
241 HEARN, LAFCADIO France, Anatole. New York

1890

USD - 10.00
242 HEARN, LAFCADIO Youma, "Out of the East", In Ghostly Japan, Shadowings, A Japanese Miscellany. Boston

1890-1901

USD - 35.00
243 HEARN, LAFCADIO Kotto, Kwaidan, The Romance of the Milky Way, Letters from the Raven, The Temptation of St. Anthony, Some Strange English Literary Figures. Vp

1902-27

USD - 27.00
244 HEARN LAFCADIO: Life and Letters of Boston

1906

USD - 200.00
245 HEARN LAFCADIO: in Japan., London and Yokohama, Father and I, Hearn Boston, Vp

1935, 1961

USD - 10.00
246 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Men Without Women. New York

1927

USD - 130.00
247 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST A Farewell to Arms. New York

1929

USD - 100.00
248 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York

1940

USD - 10.00
249 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Winner Take Nothing, Green Hills of Africa, All the Brave. New York

1933-35-39

USD - 37.00
250 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, Across the River and Into the Trees, A Moveable Feast. New York

1938-50-64

USD - 20.00
251 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Death in the Afternoon., The Old Man and the Sea. New York

1954, 1952-54

USD - 35.00
252 HEMINGWAY ERNEST: a Comprehensive Bibliography. Princeton

1967

USD - 17.00
253 HERGESHETMER, JOSEPH The Presbyterian Child. New York

1923

USD - 20.00
254 HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH The Three Black Pennys, Linda Condon, Bali-sand, Quiet Cities, Swords & Roses. New York

1917-29

USD - 15.00
255 HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH Cytherea, Tampico, Tropical Winter. New York

1922-26-33

USD - 35.00
256 HERSEY, JOHN Hiroshima, The Wall, Here to Stay, White Lotus, Under the Eye of the Storm. New York

1946-67

USD - 12.00
257 HILTON, JAMES And Now Good-Bye, Good-bye Mr. Chips, Random Harvest. New York, London

1932, 1934-41

USD - 12.00
258 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Dissertation on the Question How Far are the External Means of Exploring the Condition of the Internal Organs to be considered Useful and Important in Medical Practice? Boston

1836

USD - 30.00
259 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Astraea: the Balance of Illusions. Boston

1850

USD - 20.00
260 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston

1858

USD - 12.00
261 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Songs In Many Keys. Boston

1862

USD - 17.00
262 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Elsie Venner., Mechanism in Thought and Morals. Boston

1861, 1871

USD - 15.00
263 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL The Last Leaf. Boston

1886

USD - 40.00
264 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, Sound ings from the Atlantic, Songs of Many Seasons, John Lothrop Motley, Before the Curfew, Proceedings at the Dinner to Holmes. Boston, New York

1860-88, 1883

USD - 25.00
265 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Professor, The Poet. London

1905

USD - 27.00
266 HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN Venetian Life. Boston

1892

USD - 40.00
267 HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN The Lady of the Aroostook, Tuscan Cities, A Boy's Town, The Kentons, Letters Home, Roman Holidays and Others. Boston, New York

1879-86, 1890-1908

USD - 12.00
268 Leda; HUXLEY, ALDOUS Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Jesting Pilate, Eye less in Gaza. London, New York

1920-26, 1936

USD - 30.00
269 HUXLEY, ALDOUS The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell, Brave New World Revisited, Island, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley New York

1954-69

USD - 40.00
270 IRVING, WASHINGTON The Crayon Miscellany. Philadelphia

1835

USD - 20.00
271 IRVING, WASHINGTON Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia

1836

USD - 35.00
272 IRVING, WASHINGTON A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. London

1828

USD - 27.00
273 JEFFERS, ROBINSON Roan Stallion, Tamar, etc., Cawdor, Dear Judas, Thurso's Landing, Solstice, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, Hungerfield, Selected Letters New York

1925-54, 1968

USD - 80.00
274 JOHNSON, MERLE American First Editions. New York

1947

USD - 35.00
275 KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA The Tramping Methodist. London

1908

USD - 17.00
276 KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA Joanna Godden, The George and the Crown, Shepherds in Sackcloth, The Mirror of the Months. London

1921-25-30 and nd

USD - 10.00
277 KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON Swallow Barn, or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion Philadelphia

1832

USD - 60.00
278 KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON Horse Shoe Robinson: a Tale of the Tory Ascendency, Rob of the Bowl : a Legend of St. Inigoe's. Philadelphia

1835, 1838

USD - 55.00
279 KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON Quodlibet, containing Some Annals There of ... Philadelphia

1840

USD - 25.00
280 KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON At Home and Abroad, Occasional Addresses, Political and Official Papers. New York

1872

USD - 37.00
281 KILMER, JOYCE Trees and Other Poems, The Circus and Other Essays, Main Street and Other Poems, Yanks. New York, Np

1914-16-17, 1918

USD - 25.00
282 KIPLING, RUDYARD Group of 16 issues, as below, of the United Services College Chronicle, each containing contributions by or references to Kipling, who edited Numbers 4-10. Bideford

Dec. 15, 1881-December 17, 1904

USD - 42.00
283 KIPLING, RUDYARD Echoes. Lahore

1884

USD - 400.00
284 KIPLING, RUDYARD Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Lahore

1886

USD - 275.00
285 KIPLING, RUDYARD Plain Tales from the Hills. Calcutta

1888

USD - 32.00
286 KIPLING, RUDYARD Under the Deodars. Allahabad

1888

USD - 80.00
287 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Story of the Gadsbys, Under the Deodars. Allahabad

1888

USD - 32.00
288 KIPLING, RUDYARD Letters of Marque. Allahabad

1891

USD - 17.00
289 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book. London

1894, 1895

USD - 100.00
290 KIPLING, RUDYARD Soldier Tales. London

1896

USD - 37.00
291 KIPLING, RUDYARD 'Captains Courageous' a Story of the Grand Banks. London

1897

USD - 32.00
292 KIPLING, RUDYARD Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. London

1897

USD - 22.00
293 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Dipsy Chanty: and other selected Poems. East Aurora

1898

USD - 35.00
294 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Vermonter St Albans

April 1899

USD - 12.00
295 KIPLING, RUDYARD Just So Stories. London

1902

USD - 55.00
296 KIPLING. RUDYARD Letters to the Family (Notes on a recent trip to Canada). Toronto

1908

USD - 32.00
297 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Outlaws.

1914

USD - 17.00
298 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Potted Princess. New York

1925

USD - 20.00
299 KIPLING, RUDYARD On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art. Cleveland

1926

USD - 75.00
300 KIPLING, RUDYARD Songs of the Sea. London

1927

USD - 37.00
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