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
201	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Babbitt.	New York	1922	USD 300.00 - 400.00	747.00
202	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Babbitt.	New York	1922	USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
203	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	It Can't Happen Here.	New York	1936	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
204	LEWIS, SINCLAIR	Main Street.	New York	1920	USD 350.00 - 500.00	862.00
205	Wyndham, Lewis	The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature.	Londo,	1927-29	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
206		Group of over 45 issues	Vp	1920s-50s	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
207		Adventure.	New York	1911	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,092.00
208	LOWRY, MALCOLM	Under the	New York	1947	USD 350.00 - 500.00	230.00
209	LOWRY, MALCOLM	Under the	London	1947	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
210	LOWRY, MALCOLM	Unter Der Vulkan [Under the Volcano].	Stuttgart	1947	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
211	MCGUANE, THOMAS	Ninety-Two in the Shade.	New York	1973	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
212	MCGUANE, THOMAS	The Sporting Club.	New York	1968	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
213	MACLEAN, NORMAN	A River Runs Through It.	Chicago	1976	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,220.00
214	MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD	New and Collected	Boston	1976	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
215	MCMURTRY, LARRY	Lonesome Dove.	New York	1985	USD 400.00 - 600.00	488.00
216	MAILER, NORMAN	Ancient Evenings * Tough Guys Don't Dance.	New York	1983; 1984	USD 100.00 - 150.00	115.00
217	MAILER, NORMAN	The Naked and the Dead.	New York	1948	USD 150.00 - 250.00	862.00
218	MAILER, NORMAN	Group of 4 Signed First Editions.	New York	vd	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
219	MALLARME, STEPHANE	Un Coup de des jamais n'Abolira le Hasard.	Paris	1914	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
220	MAMET, DAVID	Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations.	New York	1978	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
221	Ruby,Harry; Kalmar Bert; and Jones; Grover	Two early scripts for Duck Soup and Cracked Ice [Grasshoppers].	Np	1933	USD 600.00 - 900.00	920.00
222	MASTERS, EDGAR LEE	Spoon River Anthology.	New York	1916	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
223	MASTERS, EDGAR LEE	The New Spoon River.	New York	1924	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
224	MATTHIESSEN, PETER	At Play in the Fields of the Lord.	New York	1965	USD 350.00 - 500.00	258.00
225	MATTHIESSEN, PETER	The Cloud Forest.	New York	1961	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
226	MATTHIESSEN, PETER	Wildlife in America.	New York	1959	USD 300.00 - 400.00	287.00
227	MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET	Of Human Bondage.	Garden City	1936	USD 200.00 - 300.00	862.00
228	MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET	The Summing Up.	Garden City	1954	USD 250.00 - 350.00	373.00
229	MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET	The Unconquered.	New York	1944	USD 200.00 - 300.00	373.00
230	MERWIN, W. S.	Regions of Memory: Uncollected Prose 1949-82.	Urbana	1987	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
231	MICHENER, JAMES A. and LEVINE; JACK	Facing East.	New York	1970	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
232	MILLER, ARTHUR	Death of a Salesman.	New York	1949	USD 400.00 - 600.00	3,220.00
233	MILLER, ARTHUR	Plexus.	Paris	1953	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
234	MILLER, ARTHUR	Timebends: A Life.	New York	1987	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
235	MILLER, HENRY	Manuscript Broadside	Np	early 1940s	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
236	MILLER, HENRY	Order and Chaos Chez Hans Reichel.	New Orleans	1966	USD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
237	MILLER, HENRY	The Rosy Crucifixion: Book One, Sexus.	Paris	1949	USD 400.00 - 600.00	373.00
238	MILLER, HENRY	The Waters Reglittered.	Santa Barbara	1973	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
239	MILNE, A. A.	The Secret and Other Stories.	New York	1929	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
240	MITCHELL, MARGARET	Gone with the Wind.	New York	1936	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,725.00
241	MITCHELL, MARGARET	Gone with the Wind.	New York	1936	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	805.00
242	MORRISON, TONI	Beloved.	New York	1987	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
243	MORRISON, TONI	Jazz.	New York	1992	USD 150.00 - 250.00	149.00
244	MORRISON, TONI	Tar Baby.	New York	1981	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
245	NABOKOV, VLADIMIR	Glory.	New York	1971	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
246	NERUDA, PABLO	Aun.	Santiago	1969	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	690.00
247	NIN, ANAIS	The Diary 1931-1934.	New York	1966	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
248	OATES, JOYCE CAROL	The Seduction & Other Stories * Season of Peril.	Los Angeles	1975; 1977	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
249	OLSEN, TILLIE	Tell Me a Riddle.	New York	1961	USD 100.00 - 150.00	69.00
250	O'NEILL; EUGENE	Days Without End.	New York	1934	USD 500.00 - 750.00	345.00
251	O'NEILL; EUGENE	Dynamo. 4to	New York	1929	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
252	O'NEILL; EUGENE	Gold: A Play in Four Acts.	New York	1920	USD 300.00 - 400.00	862.00
253	O'NEILL, EUGENE	The Hairy Ape/Anna Christie/The First Man.	New York	1922	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,840.00
254	O'NEILL; EUGENE	Strange Interlude.	New York	1928	USD 350.00 - 500.00	230.00
255	O'NEILL; EUGENE	Group of 5 First Editions,	New York	vd	USD 300.00 - 400.00	517.00
256	O'NEILL; EUGENE	Group of 6 Signed volumes	New York	vd	USD 300.00 - 400.00	690.00
257	PALEY, GRACE	Later the Same Day.	New York	1985	USD 100.00 - 150.00	69.00
258	PAZ, OCTAVIO	Archivo Blanco.	Madrid	1995	USD 350.00 - 500.00	230.00
259	PAZ, OCTAVIO	El Arco y la Lira.	Mexico City	1956	USD 600.00 - 900.00	431.00
260	PERCY, WALKER	Love in the Ruins.	New York	1971	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
261	PERCY, WALKER	Novel Writing in an Apocalyptic Time.	New Orleans	1986	USD 350.00 - 500.00	316.00
262	PERCY, WALKER	The Second Coming.	New York	1980	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
263	PERCY, WALKER	The Second Coming.	New York	1980	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
264	PERCY, WALKER	The Thanatos Syndrome.	New York	1987	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
265	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Raven and Other Poems.	New York	1845	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,910.00
266	Lauren Bacall, William Styron, and George Plimpton	POETS AND WRITERS, INC. Tenth Birthday Party.	Roseland	22-Oct-80	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
267	PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE	The Collected Essays and Occasional Writ ings.	New York	1970	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
268	POUND, EZRA	The Cantos.	New York	1948	USD 500.00 - 750.00	345.00
269	POUND, EZRA	Lustra with Earlier Poems.	New York	1917	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
270	POWYS, JOHN COWPER	Autograph Quotation Signed,	Corwen	Oct-41	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
271	POWYS, T. F.	Christ in the Cupboard.	London	1930	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
272	POWYS, T. F.	The Dewpond.	London	1928	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
273	POWYS, T. F.	Feed My Swine.	London	1926	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
274	POWYS, T. F.	The Scapegoat.	Hastings	1966	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
275	POWYS, T. F.	A Strong Girl and The Bride: Two Stories.	London	1926	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
276	POWYS, T. F.	A Stubborn Tree.	London	1926	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
277	POWYS, T. F.	Uriah on the Hill * Hunter, William. The Novels and Stories of T. F. Powys.	Cambridge	1930	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
278	POWYS, T. F.	What Lack I Yet?	London	1927	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
279	PURDY, JAMES	Group of 5 Signed First Editions	Vp	vd	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
280	PYNCHON, THOMAS	Gravity's Rainbow.	New York	1973	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	14,950.00
281	PYNCHON, THOMAS. V.	Thick 8vo, silver-lettered violet cloth; dust jacket, folds and ends of spine panel rubbed, scrape and other rubbed spots on front panel, few clean tears along edges.		1963	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	14,950.00
282	RAND, AYN	Atlas Shrugged.	New York	1957	USD 400.00 - 600.00	977.00
283		American Book Prices Current.	New York	1988-95	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
284	RICE, ANNE	Lasher.	New York	1993	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
285	RICE, ANNE	The Queen of the Damned.	New York	1988	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
286	RICE, ANNE	The Tale of the Body Thief.	New York	1992	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
287	ROBBINS, TOM	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.	Boston	1976	USD 300.00 - 400.00	488.00
288	ROTH, PHILIP	Zuckerman Unbound.	New York	1981	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
289	ST. VINCENT MILLAY; EDNA	Group of 4 First Editions.	Vp	vd	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
290	SALINGER, J. D.	The Catcher in the Rye.	Boston	1951	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	5,290.00
291	SALINGER, J. D.	Nine Stories.	New York	1953	USD 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
292	SANDBURG, CARL	Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years.	New York	1926	USD 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
293	SANDBURG, CARL	Cornhuskers.	New York	1918	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
294	SANDBURG, CARL	Remembrance Rock.	New York	1948	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
295	SCHWARTZ, DELMORE	In Dreams Begin Responsibilites.	Norfolk	1938	USD 500.00 - 750.00	690.00
296		Group of 3 Signed Trade Editions	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	149.00
297	SEUSS, DR.; Geisel, Theodore	The Seven Lady Godivas.	New York	1939	USD 300.00 - 400.00	201.00
298	SHAPIRO, KARL	The Kenyon Review.	Kenyon	1945	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
299	SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS	The Magician of Lublin.	New York	1984	USD 300.00 - 400.00	316.00
300	SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS	The Manor.	New York	1979	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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