Swann Galleries: MODERN LITERATURE: FIRST EDITIONS, LIMITED EDITIONS, SIGNED & INSCRIBED COPIES. Including, Samuel Beckett, Lawrence Durrell, William Faulkner, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, T. F. Powys, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, and, A Selection of 19th Century Literature. LAWRENCE DURRELL., 1828,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 10, 1999 - June 10, 1999

Page Size: 385 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	AGEE; JAMES	The Morning Watch.	Rome	1950	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,380.00
2	ALBEE; EDWARD	Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.	New York	1969	USD 80.00 - 120.00	805.00
3	ALLEN; WOODY	Side Effects.	New York	1980	USD 150.00 - 250.00	161.00
4	ALLEN; WOODY	Without Feathers.	New York	1975	USD 300.00 - 400.00	402.00
5	ASHBERRY; JOHN; et. al.	Apparitions:	Northridge	1981	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
6	ASIMOV; ISAAC.	Foundation's Edge.	New York	1982	USD 250.00 - 350.00	149.00
7	ATWOOD; MARGARET	Cat's	New York	1988	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
8	BALMER; EDWIN; and WYLIE, PHILIP	When Worlds Collide * After Worlds Collide.	New York	1933; 1934	USD 250.00 - 350.00	161.00
9	BARTH; JOHN	Giles Goat-Boy.	Garden City	1966	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00
10	BARTHELME; DONALD	Sixty Stories. 8vo, burgundy cloth; slipcase. FIRST EDI TION. ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY BARTHELME.		1981	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
11	McDarrah; Fred W.	Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Gen eration Album.	New York	1985	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
12	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Beginning to End.	New York	1988	USD 300.00 - 400.00	977.00
13	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Beginning to End.	New York	1988	USD 300.00 - 400.00	977.00
14	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.	Paris	1935	USD 300.00 - 400.00	632.00
15	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.	Paris	1935	USD 250.00 - 350.00	517.00
16	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Ill Seen, 111 Said.	Northridge	1982	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
17	BECKETT; SAMUEL	The Lost Ones.	London	1972	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
18	BECKETT; SAMUEL	More Pricks than Kicks.	London	1970	USD 300.00 - 400.00	316.00
19	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Murphy.	New York	1957	USD 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
20	BECKETT; SAMUEL	No's Knife.	London	1967	USD 300.00 - 400.00	431.00
21	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Three Dialogues.	London	1965	USD 300.00 - 400.00	575.00
22	BECKETT; SAMUEL	Whoroscope.	Paris	1930	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,300.00
23	BELL, CLIVE	The Legend of Monte della Sibilla or Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille.	Richmond	1923	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
24	BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT	Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916.	New York	1916	USD 250.00 - 350.00	161.00
25	BERGER, THOMAS	Little Big Man.	New York	1964	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
26	BORGES, JORGE LUIS	Irish Strategies.	Dublin	1975	USD 350.00 - 500.00	345.00
27	BORGES, JORGE LUIS	Selected Poems 1923-1967.	New York	1972	USD 400.00 - 600.00	690.00
28	BRADBURY, RAY	Dark Carnival.	Sauk City	1947	USD 600.00 - 900.00	431.00
29	BRADBURY, RAY	Green Shadows, White Whale.	New York	1992	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
30	BRADBURY, RAY	The Last Circus & The Electrocution. SIGNED BY BRADBURY * The Love Affair.	Northridge	1980; 1982	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
31	BRADBURY, RAY	The Love Affair: A Short Story and Two Poems.	Northridge	1982	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
32	BRADBURY, RAY	Something Wicked this Way Comes.	New York	1962	USD 300.00 - 400.00	172.00
33	BRODSKY, JOSEPH	First Edition * A Part of Speech.	New York	1973; 1980	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
34	BUCK, PEARL S.	The Good Earth.	New York	1931	USD 250.00 - 350.00	1,035.00
35	BUCK, PEARL S.	The Good Earth.	New York	1931	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
36	BUKOWSKI, CHARLES	Bring Me Your Love. Illustrated by R. Crumb * The Shadow of the Rose.	Santa Rosa	1983; 1991	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00
37	BUKOWSKI, CHARLES	It Catches My Heart in Its Hands.	New Orleans	1963	USD 300.00 - 400.00	460.00
38	BUKOWSKI, CHARLES	Pulp.	Santa Rosa	1994	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
39	BUKOWSKI, ARLES	20 Tanks from Kasseldown.	Washington D. C.	1946	USD 300.00 - 400.00	460.00
40	BUKOWSKI, CHARLES	War All the Time.	Santa Barbara	1984	USD 400.00 - 600.00	805.00
41	BURGESS, ANTHONY	The Kingdom of the World.	New York	1985	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
42	BURLEY, DAN	Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive.	New York	1944	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
43	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.	Queer.	New York	1985	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
44	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.	The Last Words of Dutch Schultz.	London	1970	USD 300.00 - 400.00	258.00
45	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.	Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957.	New York	1982	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
46	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.	Roosevelt After Inauguration by Willy Lee alias William S. Burroughs.	New York	1964	USD 200.00 - 300.00	373.00
47	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.	The Soft Machine * The Ticket that Exploded.	Paris	1961; 1962	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
48	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.	Wild Boys * Queer.	New York	1971; 1985	USD 350.00 - 500.00	517.00
49	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.	Big Table 1.	Chicago	1959	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
50	BYRNE, DONN	Original manuscript for Ireland: The Rock Whence I was Hewn.	St. Brieuc	Brittany, August 1, 1926	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,265.00
51	BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL	Letter to ** **** [John Murray], on the Rev. W. L. Bowles' Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope.	London	1821	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
52	CALDWELL, ERSKINE	Avon Short Story Monthly:	New York	1944	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
53	CALDWELL, ERSKINE	Tobacco Road.	New York	1932	USD 400.00 - 600.00	805.00
54	CAPOTE, TRUMAN. A.	Christmas Memory.	New York	1956	USD 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
55	CAPOTE, TRUMAN	Other Voices, Other Rooms.	New York	1948	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
56	CARVER, RAYMOND	The Peasant.	Worcester	1982	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
57	CATHER, WILLA.	My Antonia.	Boston	1918	USD 250.00 - 350.00	517.00
58	CATHER, WILLA	My Mortal Enemy.	New York	1926	USD 350.00 - 500.00	431.00
59	CHANDLER, RAYMOND	Playback.	Boston	1958	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
60	CHANDLER, RAYMOND	The Smell of Fear.	London	1965	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
61	CHANDLER, RAYMOND	Group of 6 volumes.	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
62	CHEEVER, JOHN	The Stories.	New York	1978	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
63	CHESTERTON, G. K.	The Sword of Wood.	London	1928	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
64	COCTEAU, JEAN; Butts, Mary	Imaginary Letters.	Paris	1928	USD 500.00 - 750.00	460.00
65	COLETTE, SIDONIE GABRIELLE	Splendeur des Papillons.	Berne	1936	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
66	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Laughing Anne.	London	1923	USD 350.00 - 500.00	488.00
67	CORSO, GREGORY	Gasoline.	San Francisco	1958	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
68	CRADDOCK, HARRY	The Savoy Cocktail Book.	New York	1930	USD 100.00 - 150.00	115.00
69	CRANE, HART; Eliot, T. S.	Poems.	New York	1920	USD 100.00 - 200.00	977.00
70		Group of 3 Limited Editions.	Dublin	vd	USD 200.00 - 300.00	402.00
71	CUMMINGS, E. E.	Eimi.	New York	1933	USD 300.00 - 400.00	230.00
72	CUMMINGS, E. E.	50 Poems.	New York	1940	USD 400.00 - 600.00	546.00
73	CUMMINGS, E. E.	W.[Viva: Seventy New Poems].	Folio, publisher's boards, some soiling, spine ends rubbed. ONE OF ONLY NINETY-FIVE NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY CUMMINGS.	1931	USD 500.00 - 750.00	517.00
74	DAVIS, JOHN FRANCIS, SIR	The Poetry of the Chinese ... New and Augmented Edition.	London	1870	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
75	DELILLO, DON	Libra.	New York	1988	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
76	DICK, PHILIP K.	The Man in the High Castle.	New York	1962	USD 350.00 - 500.00	345.00
77	DONLEAVY, J. P.	The Ginger Man.	Paris	1955	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
78	DREISER, THEODORE	An American Tragedy. 2 volumes. 8vo, black cloth gilt, spines a bit rubbed; owner's signature and address on rear free endpaper; dust jackets; spine panels darkened and slightly soiled; owner's custom slipcase.		1925	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,092.00
79	DUNBAR, PAUL LAWRENCE	Majors and Minors.	Hadley and Hadley	1896	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,092.00
80	DUNSANY, LORD	The Gods of Pegana.	London	1905	USD 300.00 - 400.00	747.00
81	DUNSANY, LORD	The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories.	London	1908	USD 150.00 - 250.00	431.00
82		Autograph Note Signed	Nimes	circa 1962	USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
83	The Alexandria Quartet.	Thick 8vo, publisher's red cloth gilt with black mo rocco spine label; slipcase.		1962	USD 350.00 - 500.00	1,092.00
84		Balthazar.	London	1958	USD 100.00 - 150.00	161.00
85	F. -J. Temple	Beccafico.	Montpellier	1963	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
86		Blue Thirst.	Santa Barbara	1975	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
87		The Booster.	Paris	1937-38	USD 200.00 - 300.00	431.00
88		Collected Poems.	London	1960	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
89	Di Mato Vita	Deus Loci: A Poem.	Ischia	1950	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
90		Down the Styx.	Santa Barbara	1971	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
91		La Descente du Styx	Paris	1964	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
92		In Arcadia.	London	1968	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
93		A Landmark Gone.	Los Angeles	1949	USD 80.00 - 120.00	402.00
94		Mountolive.	London	1958	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
95		Nothing is Lost, Sweet Self.	London	1967	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
96		Nunquam.	London	1970	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
97		On Seeming to Presume.	London	1948	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
98		The Plant-Magic Man.	Santa Barbara	1973	USD 100.00 - 150.00	69.00
98	Sappho, Durrell	On the Suchness of the Old Boy.	London	1972	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
100		A Private Country.	London	1943	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold

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