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
401 NORRIS, FRANK McTeague: a Story of San Francisco. New York

1899

USD - 65.00
402 NORRIS, FRANK The Octopus, The Pit, A Deal in Wheat. New York

1901-03-03

USD - 37.00
403 O'NEILL, EUGENE Tomorrow. New York

1917

USD - 40.00
404 O'NEILL, EUGENE The Emperor Jones. New York

1928

USD - 55.00
405 PAGE, THOMAS NELSON In Ole Virginia. New York

1887

USD - 20.00
406 POETRY QUARTOS Complete set of 12 pamphlets. New York

1929

USD - 50.00
407 PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE Flowering Judas. New York

1930

USD - 27.00
408 PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE A Defence of Circe. New York

1954

USD - 17.00
409 PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE Pale Horse, Pale Rider., The Leaning Tower., Ship of Fools., Katherine Arme Porter: a Critical Symposium Vp

1939, 1944, 1962, 1969, 1939-69

USD - 17.00
410 RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN Golden Apples, The Yearling, When the Whippoorwill, Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery. New York

1935-42

USD - 12.00
411 READE, CHARLES The Cloister and the Hearth: a Tale of the Middle Ages. London

1861

USD - 130.00
412 REMINGTON, FREDERIC Crooked Trails. New York

1898

USD - 65.00
413 REMINGTON, FREDERIC Sundown Leflare, Men With the Bark On. New York

1899, 1900

USD - 35.00
414 RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB Armazindy. Indianapolis

1894

USD - 20.00
415 RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB A Child-World. Indianapolis

1897

USD - 17.00
416 ROBERTS, KENNETH Arundel. Garden City

1933

USD - 12.00
417 ROBERTS, KENNETH Trending Into Maine. Boston

1938

USD - 50.00
418 ROBERTS, KENNETH Boon Island. Garden City

1956

USD - 15.00
419 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON The Town Down the River. New York

1910

USD - 20.00
420 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice. New York

1923, 1924

USD - 27.00
421 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON The Glory of the Nightingales, Nicodemus, King Jasper. New York

1930-32-35

USD - 37.00
422 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON Avon's Harvest, Sonnets, The Prodigal Son., Cavender's House, Matthias at the Door, Talifer, Amaranth, King Jasper. New York

1921-35

USD - 17.00
423 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.; Alfred E. Smith The Happy Warrior Boston

1928

USD - 10.00
424 RUSKIN, JOHN The Stones of Venice. London

1851-53-53

USD - 50.00
425 SANDBURG, CARL Good Morning America. New York

1928

USD - 27.00
426 SANDBURG, CARL Bronze Wood. San Francisco

1941

USD - 17.00
427 SANDBURG, CARL Remembrance Rock. New York

1948

USD - 37.00
428 SANDBURG, CARL Lincoln Collector: the Story of Oliver R. Barrett's Great Private Collection. New York

1949

USD - 15.00
429 SANDBURG, CARL Potato Face, Home Front Memo, Storm Over the Land, Honey and Salt. New York

1930-42-42-63

USD - 12.00
430 SCOTT, MICHAEL The Cruise of the Midge. Edinburgh

1836

USD - 12.00
431 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Ivanhoe; a Romance. Edinburgh

1820

USD - 85.00
432 SCOTT, SIR WALTER The Fortunes of Nigel. Edinburgh

1822

USD - 15.00
433 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Quentin Durward, Redgauntlet Edinburgh

1823, 1824

USD - 25.00
434 Buck; Golding; Gallico SIGNED COPIES., The Mother, Garland. Back-Trailers from the Middle Border., Sinclair., Prophet and Fool, Love of Seven Dolls. Boston, New York

USD - 15.00
435 Addams; Bennett; Bates; Bates SIGNED LARGE-PAPER EDITIONS., Twenty Years at Hull-House., The Clayhanger Family., Charlotte's Row., A Threshing Day. New York, London

1910, 1925, 1931, 1931, 1910, 1925-31

USD - 35.00
436 SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE Southward Ho! a Spell of Sunshine. New York

1854

USD - 22.00
437 SMITH, F. HOPKINSON Colonel Carter of Cartersville, Colonel Carters Christmas. Boston, New York

1891, 1903

USD - 12.00
438 STEIN, GERTRUDE Three Lives. New York

1909

USD - 180.00
439 STEIN, GERTRUDE Picasso, Wars I Have Seen, Brewsie and Willie. London, New York

1938-45, 1946

USD - 25.00
440 STEIN, GERTRUDE Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces, Stanzas in Meditation, Alphabets and Birthdays. New Haven

1953-56-57

USD - 32.00
441 STEINBECK, JOHN Cup of Gold: a Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. New York

1929

USD - 90.00
442 STEINBECK, JOHN The Pastures of Heaven. New York

1932

USD - 120.00
443 STEINBECK, JOHN To a God Unknown. New York

1933

USD - 90.00
444 STEINBECK, JOHN Tortilla Flat. New York

1935

USD - 45.00
445 STEINBECK, JOHN In Dubious Battle. New York

1936

USD - 210.00
446 STEINBECK, JOHN Saint Katy the Virgin. New York

1936

USD - 350.00
447 STEINBECK, JOHN Of Mice and Men. New York

1937

USD - 100.00
448 STEINBECK, JOHN Of Mice and Men. New York

1937

USD - 30.00
449 STEINBECK, JOHN The Red Pony. New York

1937

USD - 90.00
450 STEINBECK, JOHN The Grapes of Wrath. New York

1939

USD - 75.00
451 STEINBECK, JOHN The Moon Is Down: Play in Two Parts. New York

1942

USD - 45.00
452 STEINBECK, JOHN East of Eden. New York

1952

USD - 80.00
453 STEINBECK, JOHN Positano. Salerno

1954

USD - 27.00
454 STEINBECK, JOHN The Long Valley, The Moon is Down. New York

1938, 1942

USD - 10.00
455 STEINBECK. JOHN The Forgotten. Village, Bombs Away, A Russian Journal, America and Americans. New York

1941-42-48-66

USD - 15.00
456 STEINBECK, JOHN The Moon Is Down, Burning Bright, Log from the Sea of Cortez, Once There Was a War. New York

1942-50-51-58

USD - 15.00
457 STEINBECK, JOHN Cannery Row, The Pearl, The Wayward Bus, Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York

1945-47-47-51

USD - 17.00
458 STEINBECK, JOHN The Red Pony., Sweet Thursday, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, Travels with Charley. New York

1945-54-57-62

USD - 15.00
459 STOCKTON, FRANK R. The Lady, or the Tiger? and Other Stories. New York

1884

USD - 50.00
460 STOCKTON, FRANK R. The Late Mrs. Null, Pomona's Travels, Adventures of Captain Horn, Mrs. Cliff's Yacht, The Associate Hermits., Kate Bonnet. New York

1886-1902

USD - 22.00
461 STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Uncle Tom's Cabin., La Case de l'Oncle Tom., Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin., Dred., The Minister's Wooing. London's, Paris and London, Boston's, Vp

1852, 1853, 1853, 1856, 1859, 1852-59

USD - 25.00
462 TARKINGTON, BOOTH The Magnificent Ambersons. Garden City

1918

USD - 42.00
463 TARKINGTON, BOOTH Monsieur Beaucaire, His Own People, The Guest of Quesnay, Penrod, Alice Adams, Gentle Julia, Growth. New York & Garden City

1900-27

USD - 22.00
464 TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD Maud, Enoch Arden, The Holy Grail, Gareth and Lynette, Harold, Becket, Tiresias, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, Demeter, The Foresters. London

1855-92

USD - 30.00
465 THACKERAY, W. M. Comic Tales and Sketches London

1841

USD - 42.00
466 THACKERAY, W. M. The Irish Sketch-Book London

1843

USD - 12.00
467 THACKERAY, W. M. Notes of a Journey from Comhill to Grand Cairo. London

1846

USD - 22.00
468 THACKERAY, W. M. Vanity Fair. London

1848

USD - 250.00
469 THACKERAY, W. M. The Kickleburys on the Rhine. London

1851

USD - 20.00
470 THACKERAY, W. M. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. London

1852

USD - 90.00
471 THACKERAY, W. M. The Virginians: a Tale of the Last Century. London

1858-59

USD - 15.00
472 THACKERAY, W. M. The Students' Quarter, or Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Since. London

1874

USD - 25.00
473 THOMAS, DYLAN Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. London

1940

USD - 50.00
474 THOMAS, DYLAN Deaths and Entrances. London

1946

USD - 37.00
475 THOMAS, DYLAN In Country Sleep, and Other Poems. New Directions

1952

USD - 65.00
476 THOMAS, DYLAN Adventures in the Skin Trade. London

1955

USD - 50.00
477 THOMAS, DYLAN Rebecca's Daughter. London

1965

USD - 10.00
478 THOMAS, DYLAN A Child's Christmas in Wales, Quite Early One Morning, The Doctor and the Devils, Notebooks New Directions

1954-54-66-67

USD - 15.00
479 THOREAU, HENRY D. Waiden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston

1854

USD - 425.00
480 THOREAU, HENRY D. Excursions. Boston

1863

USD - 35.00
481 THOREAU, HENRY D. Cape Cod. Boston

1865

USD - 50.00
482 THOREAU, HENRY D. Letters to Various Persons. Boston

1865

USD - 22.00
483 TOURGEE, ALBION W. A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools. New York

1879

USD - 25.00
484 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY The Last Chronicle of Barset. London

December 1866-July 1867

USD - 325.00
485 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY Phineas Redux. London

1874

USD - 17.00
486 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY The Prime Minister. London

1876

USD - 110.00
487 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY Dr. Wortle's School. London

1881

USD - 40.00
488 TWAIN, MARK The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches. New-York

1867

USD - 500.00
489 TWAIN, MARK Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches. New York

1878

USD - 95.00
490 TWAIN, MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York

1885

USD - 140.00
491 TWAIN, MARK Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York

1894

USD - 60.00
492 TWAIN, MARK The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. Hartford

1894

USD - 25.00
493 TWAIN, MARK Letter to the California Pioneers. Oakland

1911

USD - 37.00
494 TWAIN, MARK Slovenly Peter, translated into English Jingles. New York

1935

USD - 30.00
495 TWAIN, MARK Life on the Mississippi. New York

1944

USD - 45.00
496 TWAIN, MARK The Stolen White Elephant, The American. Claimant, The £ 1,000,000 Banknote, Tom Sawyer Abroad, etc., A Double Barrelled Detective Story, A Horse's Tale. Boston, New York

1882, 1892-1907

USD - 95.00
497 TWAIN, MARK Is Shakespeare Dead?, Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, The Curious Republic of Gondour, Saint Joan of Arc, Autobiography. New York

1909-24

USD - 37.00
498 TWAIN, MARK Burlesque Autobiography., Sketches, New and Old., A Connecticut Yankee., Following the Equator., Christian Science. Vp

1871, 1875, 1889, 1897, 1907, 1871-1907

USD - 27.00
499 WARREN, ROBERT PENN; John Brown Selected Poems, Incarnations. New York

1939-66-68

USD - 110.00
500 WAUGH, EVELYN The Holy Places. London & New York

1953

USD - 80.00
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