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
101		Rivate Drafts.	Nicosia	1955	USD 350.00 - 500.00	345.00
102		Prospero's Cell.	London	1945	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
103		The Red Limbo Lingo: A Poetry Notebook.	London	1971	USD 1,000.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
104		Revolt of Aphrodite.	London	1974	USD 100.00 - 150.00	103.00
105		Tunc: A Novel.	London	1968	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
106		White Eagles over Serbia.	London	1957	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
107		Group of 5 volumes	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	115.00
108		Greek Poems. Number 6 in Poets Reading series * Contemporary Poets Set in Jazz.	London	1962; 1966	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
109	Maureen Morelle; Bryan Drake; and Diana Wright	Songs About Greece.	Jupiter Recordings	1964	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
110		Ulysses Come Back: Sketch for a Musical.	London	1970	USD 150.00 - 250.00	115.00
111		Group of 4 recordings	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	115.00
112	ECO, UMBERTO	The Name of the Rose.	San Diego	1983	USD 350.00 - 500.00	747.00
113	ELIOT, T. S.	The Four Quartets:	London	1940-42	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	862.00
114	ELIOT, T. S.; Perse, St. John	Anabasis.	London	1930	USD 300.00 - 400.00	316.00
115	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	Essays: Second Series.	Boston	1844	USD 400.00 - 600.00	373.00
116	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Doctor Martino and Other Stories.	New York	1934	USD 600.00 - 900.00	690.00
117	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Doctor Martino and Other Stories.	New York	1934	USD 350.00 - 500.00	546.00
118	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	The Mansion.	New York	1959	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,035.00
119	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	The Reivers.	New York	1962	USD 600.00 - 900.00	920.00
120	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Requiem for a Nun.	New York	1951	USD 500.00 - 750.00	747.00
121	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Requiem for a Nun.	New York	1951	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
122	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	Salmagundi and a Poem by Ernest M. Hemingway.	Milwaukee	1932	USD 500.00 - 750.00	460.00
123	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	The Sound and the Fury.	New York	1929	USD 350.00 - 500.00	632.00
124	FAULKNER, WILLIAM	To the Voters of Oxford.	Oxford	Sep-50	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,725.00
125	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT	Flappers and Philosophers.	New York	1920	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
126	FITZGERALD; F. SCOTT	The Great Gatsby.	New York	1925	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,092.00
127	FLEMING, IAN	Casino Royale.	New York	1954	USD 200.00 - 300.00	1,265.00
128	FLEMING, IAN	For Your Eyes Only.	London	1960	USD 150.00 - 250.00	690.00
129	FLEMING, IAN	The Man with the Golden Gun.	London	1965	USD 100.00 - 150.00	161.00
130	FLEMING, IAN	Octopussy and the Living Daylights.	London	1966	USD 100.00 - 150.00	69.00
131	FLEMING, IAN	On Her Majesty's Secret Service.	London	1963	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,600.00
132	FLEMING, IAN	Thunderball.	London	1961	USD 100.00 - 150.00	161.00
133	FLEMING, IAN	You Only Live Twice.	London	1964	USD 100.00 - 150.00	161.00
134	FLEMING, IAN	Group of 7 First American Editions.	New York	vd	USD 350.00 - 500.00	1,092.00
135	FROST, ROBERT	Collected Poems.	New York	1930	USD 350.00 - 500.00	488.00
136	FROST, ROBERT	A Masque of Mercy.	New York	1947	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
137	FROST, ROBERT	A Masque of Reason.	New York	1945	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
138	FROST, ROBERT	New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.	New York	1923	USD 300.00 - 400.00	862.00
139	FROST, ROBERT	Steeple Bush.	New York	1947	USD 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
140	GARCIA MARQUEZ; GABRIEL	El General en su Laberinto,	Mexico City	1989	USD 600.00 - 900.00	402.00
141	GARCIA, MARQUEZ; GABRIEL	Love in the Time of Cholera.	New York	1988	USD 400.00 - 600.00	373.00
142	GINSBERG, ALLEN	Original typescript of a poem entitled POEM Rocket.	Patterson	October 15 1971	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
143	GOLDMAN, WILLIAM	Marathon Man.	New York	1974	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
144	GORDIMER, NADINE	My Son's Story.	New York	1990	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
145	GRASS, GUNTHER	The Flounder.	New York	1978	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
146	GRASS, GUNTHER	Kinderlied.	Northridge	1982	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
147	GREENE, GRAHAM	Reflections on Travels with My Aunt.	New York	1989	USD 300.00 - 400.00	316.00
148	GREENE, GRAHAM	The Third Man.	Helsinki	1988	USD 300.00 - 400.00	373.00
149	HALEY, ALEX	Roots.	New York	1976	USD 350.00 - 500.00	747.00
150	HARRISON, JIM	The Raw and the Cooked.	New York	1992	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
151	HARRISON, JIM	The Theory and Practice of Rivers.	Seattle	1986	USD 250.00 - 350.00	402.00
152	HARRISON, JIM	Warlock.	New York	1981	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
153	HARRISON, JIM.	Blind Men:	Fremont	1970	USD 300.00 - 400.00	431.00
154	HEANEY, SEAMUS	Field Work.	New York	1979	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
155	HEANEY, SEAMUS	Poems 1965-1975.	New York	1980	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
156	HEANEY, SEAMUS	Sweeney Astray.	New York	1984	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
157	HELLER, JOSEPH	Something Happened.	New York	1974	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
158	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	Across the River and into the Trees.	London	1950	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
159	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	Across the River and into the Trees.	New York	1950	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
160	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	Death in the Afternoon.	New York	1932	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,150.00
161	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	For Whom the Bell Tolls.	New York	1940	USD 350.00 - 500.00	460.00
162	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	The Old Man and the Sea.	New York	1952	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
163	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	The Torrents of Spring.	New York	1926	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,220.00
164	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	Group of 3 First Editions.	New York	vd	USD 350.00 - 500.00	632.00
165	HOWARD, ROBERT E.	Always Comes Evening.	Sauk City	1957	USD 200.00 - 300.00	431.00
166	HOWARD, ROBERT E.	Skull-Face and Others.	Sauk City	1946	USD 300.00 - 400.00	373.00
167	HUXLEY, ALDOUS	Arabia Infelix and Other Poems.	New York	1929	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
168	HUXLEY, ALDOUS	Brave New World.	Garden City	1932	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,150.00
169	HUXLEY, ALDOUS	The Burning Wheel.	Oxford	1916	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	632.00
170	HUXLEY, ALDOUS	Essays New and Old.	London	1926	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
171	HUXLEY, ALDOUS	They Still Draw Pictures!:	New York	1938	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
172	ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER	My Guru and His Disciple.	New York	1980	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
173	JEFFERS, ROBINSON	Cawdor and Other Poems.	New York	1928	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
174	JEFFERS, ROBINSON	The Women at Point Sur.	New York	1927	USD 300.00 - 400.00	258.00
175	JOYCE, JAMES	Anna Livia Plurabelle. Preface by Padraic Colum. 8vo, gilt- and blindstamped brown cloth. Fine.		1928	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	2,990.00
176	JOYCE, JAMES	Finnegan's Wake.	New York	1939	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
177	JOYCE, JAMES	Haveth Childers Everywhere.	Paris	1930	USD 400.00 - 600.00	575.00
178	JOYCE, JAMES	Ulysses.	New York	1934	USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
179	JOYCE, JAMES; Beckett; Samuel; et al.	Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.	Paris	1929	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
180	KESEY, KEN	Sometimes a Great Notion.	New York	1964	USD 300.00 - 400.00	431.00
181	KILMER, JOYCE	Trees and Other Poems.	New York	1914	USD 200.00 - 300.00	373.00
182	KING, STEPHEN	The Dark Half.	New York	1989	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
183	KING, STEPHEN	Different Seasons.	New York	1982	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
184	KING, STEPHEN	The Plant. Part Two.	Bangor	1983	USD 500.00 - 750.00	575.00
185	KING, STEPHEN; Borst; Ronald V.; Burns, Keith; and Adams; Leith, editors.	Graven Images: The Best of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Film Art from the Collection of Ronald V. Borst.	New York	1992	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,150.00
186	KING, STEPHEN; Shelley; Mary	Frankenstein.	New York	1983	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
187	KING, STEPHEN; Shelley; Mary	Frankenstein.	New York	1983	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
188	KIPLING, RUDYAR	Captains Courageous.	London	1897	USD 300.00 - 400.00	230.00
189	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Some Notes on a Bill. One of 100 numbered copies * The Art of Fiction.	Little Rock: Incunabula Bookshop; London	1929 1926	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
190	KIPLING, RUDYARD	They.	London	1905	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
191	KOSINSKY, JERZY	Group of 4 Signed and Inscribed First Editions,	Vp	vd	USD 250.00 - 350.00	161.00
192	KUNDERA, MILAN	The Unbearable Lightness of Being.	New York	1984	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
193	LARDNER JR.; RING	The Ecstasy of Owen Muir.	London	1954	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
194	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Pansies.	London	1929	USD 500.00 - 750.00	805.00
195	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The Virgin and the Gipsy.	Florence	1930	USD 300.00 - 400.00	201.00
196	LEARY, TIMOTHY	Psychedelic Prayers after the Tao Te Ching.	Kerhonkson	1966	USD 100.00 - 150.00	230.00
197	LEONARD, ELMORE	The Bounty Hunters.	Boston	1954	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
198	LEVERTOV, DENISE	Psalm Concerning the Castle.	Np	1966	USD 200.00 - 300.00	373.00
199	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Arrowsmith.	New York	1925	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,092.00
200	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Arrowsmith.	New York	1925	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00

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