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
501 WELLS, H. G. Text-Book of Biology. London

1893

USD - 65.00
502 WELLS, H. G. The Time Machine: an Invention. London

1896

USD - 65.00
503 WELLS, H. G. The War of the Worlds. London

1898

USD - 100.00
504 WELLS, H. G. The Stolen Bacillus, When the Sleeper Wakes, Mankind in the Making, Food of the Gods, Kipps, In the Days of the Comet, Mr. Britling Sees It Through. London

1895-1916

USD - 55.00
505 WELLS, H. G. The Future in America, Socialism and the Family, History of Mr. Polly, Marriage, The Passionate Friends, The World Set Free, Wife of Sir Isaac Harman, Bealby. London

1906-15

USD - 15.00
506 WHARTON, EDITH Ethan Frome. New York

1911

USD - 45.00
507 WHARTON, EDITH Twelve Poems. London

1926

USD - 55.00
508 WHARTON, EDITH The Greater Inclination, The Touchstone, Crucial Instances, Madame de Treymes, Artemis to Actaeon. New York

1899-1909

USD - 22.00
509 WHARTON, EDITH Madame de Treymes, Artemis to Actaeon, The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, Book of the Homeless, The Gods Arrive, Ghosts, and four others. New York

1907-37

USD - 40.00
510 WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass. Boston

1860-61

USD - 45.00
511 WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass. Boston

1860-61

USD - 17.00
512 WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia

1884

USD - 30.00
513 WHITMAN, WALT Good-Bye My Fancy. Philadelphia

1891

USD - 30.00
514 WHITTIER, JOHN G. Justice and Expediency, or Slavery considered with a View to its Rightful and Effectual Remedy, Abolition. New-York

September 1835

USD - 150.00
515 WHITTIER, JOHN G. Mogg Megone: a Poem. Boston

1836

USD - 70.00
516 WHITTIER, JOHN G. Leaves from Margaret Smiths Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1678-9. Boston

1849

USD - 40.00
517 WHITTIER, JOHN G. Snow-Bound. Boston

1866

USD - 20.00
518 WHITTIER, JOHN G. At Sundown. Cambridge

1890

USD - 10.00
519 WHITTIER, JOHN G. Poems., Old Portraits and Modern Sketches., Literary Recreations and Miscellanies. Philadelphia, Boston

1838, 1850, 1854, 1838, 1850-54

USD - 15.00
520 WHITTIER, JOHN G. The Panorama, The Tent on the Beach, Among the Hills, Miriam, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, Hazel Blossoms, Mabel Martin, The Vision of Echard. Boston

1856-78

USD - 25.00
521 WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Boston

1903

USD - 20.00
522 WILDE, OSCAR The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by C.3.3. London

1898

USD - 85.00
523 WILDE, OSCAR Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories. London

1891

USD - 40.00
524 WILDE, OSCAR De Profundis. London

1905

USD - 60.00
525 WILDER, THORNTON The Angel That Troubled the Waters, and other Plays. New York

1928

USD - 17.00
526 WILDER, THORNTON The Cabala, The Woman of Andros, Heaven's My Destination. New York

1926-30-35

USD - 15.00
527 WILDER, THORNTON Heaven's My Destination, The Ides of March, The Eighth Day. New York

1935-48-67

USD - 15.00
528 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS Paterson. New Directions

1946-58

USD - 350.00
529 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS Paterson. Book Two, Book Five. New Directions

1948, 1958

USD - 17.00
530 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS Autobiography, The Build-Up, Selected Essays. New York

1951-52-54

USD - 15.00
531 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS; Ostrom; Whitaker. W. C. Williams; Guimond; Paul Wallace., Bibliography of W. C. Williams, The Poetical World of W. C. Williams, The Art of W. C. Williams Vp

1966-68

USD - 15.00
532 WILSON, WOODROW When a Man Comes to Himself. New York

1915

USD - 65.00
533 WISTER, OWEN The Virginian. New York

1902

USD - 32.00
534 WISTER, OWEN A Journey in Search of Christmas, Lady Baltimore, Mother, Padre Ignacio, A Straight Deal, Neighbors Henceforth, Owen Wister Out West. New York, Chicago

1904-22, 1958

USD - 20.00
535 WOLFE, THOMAS Of Time and the River. New York

1935

USD - 25.00
536 WOLFE, THOMAS From Death to Morning. New York

1935

USD - 40.00
537 WOLFE, THOMAS The Web and the Rock. New York

1939

USD - 12.00
538 WOLFE, THOMAS You Can't Go Home Again. New York

1940

USD - 12.00
539 WOLFE, THOMAS The Hills Beyond. New York

1941

USD - 25.00
540 WOLFE, THOMAS Gentlemen of the Press: a Play. Chicago

1942

USD - 40.00
541 WOLFE, THOMAS Look Homeward, Angel., The Face of a Nation., The Marble Man's Wife New York

1947, 1939, 1947, 1939-47

USD - 12.00
542 WOLFE, THOMAS A Stone, a Leaf, a Door, Mannerhouse, The Short Novels, A Western Journal. New York, Pittsburgh

1946-48-61, 1951

USD - 15.00
543 WOOLF, VIRGINIA Orlando: a Biography. New York

1928

USD - 47.00
544 WOOLF, VIRGINIA The Waves, Flush, a Biography. London

1931, 1933

USD - 20.00
545 WOOLF, VIRGINIA A Letter to a Young Poet., A Writer's Diary., Contemporary Writers. London, New York

1932, 1954, 1966, 1932, 1954-66

USD - 12.00
546 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peas antry. London

1888

USD - 110.00
547 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER The Celtic Twilight: Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries. London

1893

USD - 75.00
548 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER Poems. London

circa 1923

USD - 55.00
549 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER Early Poems and Stories. New York

1925

USD - 85.00
550 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER Last Poems and Two Plays. Dublin

1939

USD - 85.00
551 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER The Variorum Edition of the Poems. New York

1957

USD - Not Sold
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