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
301	SOLOMON, CARL	Emergency Messages: An Autobiographical Miscellany.	New York	1989	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
302	SOLOMON, CARL	Mishaps, Perhaps.	San Francisco	1966	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
303	STEGNER, WALLACE	A Shooting Star.	New York	1961	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
304	STEGNER, WALLACE	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs.	New York	1992	USD 100.00 - 150.00	138.00
305	STEIN, GERTRUDE	Lucy Church Amiably.	Paris	1930	USD 600.00 - 900.00	546.00
306	STEIN, GERTRUDE	Portraits and Prayers.	New York	1934	USD 400.00 - 600.00	517.00
307		Burning Bright.	New York	1950	USD 100.00 - 150.00	149.00
308		Cup of Gold.	New York	1936	USD 350.00 - 500.00	431.00
309		East of Eden.	New York	1952	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	2,300.00
310		East of Eden.	New York	1952	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,265.00
311		East of Eden.	New York	1952	USD 300.00 - 400.00	201.00
312		East of Eden.	London	1952	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
313	Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid	The Forgotten Village.	New York	1941	USD 200.00 - 300.00	161.00
314		The Grapes of Wrath.	New York	1939	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	4,830.00
315		The Grapes of Wrath.	New York	1939	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	977.00
316		The Grapes of Wrath.	New York	1939	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	690.00
317		The Grapes of Wrath.	New York	1939	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	3,105.00
318		The Long Valley.	New York	1938	USD 200.00 - 300.00	431.00
319		The Moon is Down.	New York	1942	USD 300.00 - 400.00	258.00
320		Once There was a War.	London	1959	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
321		The Pastures of Heaven.	New York	1932	USD 600.00 - 900.00	747.00
322		The Winter of Our Discontent.	New York	1961	USD 500.00 - 750.00	345.00
323		The Winter of Our Discontent.	New York	1961	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
324	Bennett, Robert	The Wrath of John Steinbeck.	Los Angeles	1939	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
325	Scott, Zachary	John Emery.	New York	1964	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
326	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	Island Nights' Entertainments.	London	1893	USD 250.00 - 350.00	161.00
327	STYRON; WILLIAM	Sophie's Choice.	New York	1979	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
328	TAN; AMY	The Kitchen God's Wife.	New York	1991	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
329	TARKINGTON; BOOTH	Penrod.	New York	1914	USD 80.00 - 120.00	172.00
330	THOMAS, DYLAN	Selected Writings.	New York	1946	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,035.00
331	THURBER, JAMES	The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities.	New York	1931	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
332	UPDIKE, JOHN	Collected Poems 1953-1993.	New York	1993	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
333	UPDIKE, JOHN	Museums & Women * A Month of Sundays.	New York	1972; 1975	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
334	UPDIKE, JOHN	Rabbit Redux.	New York	1971	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
335	UPDIKE, JOHN	A Soft Spring Night in Shillington.	Northridge	1986	USD 100.00 - 200.00	103.00
336	VIDAL, GORE	Lincoln: A Novel.	New York	1984	USD 100.00 - 150.00	69.00
337	VONNEGUT, KURT, JR.	The Sirens of Titan.	New York	1959	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
338	WARREN, ROBERT PENN	Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.	New York	1983	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
339	WARREN, ROBERT PENN	A Place To Come To.	New York	1977	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
340	WAUGH, EVELYN	Love Among the Ruins.	London	1953	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
341	WELLS, H. G.	The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.	London	1904	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
342	WELLS, H. G.	The Outline of History.	London	1919-20	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
343	WELTY, EUDORA	The Optimist's Daughter.	New York	1972	USD 300.00 - 400.00	316.00
344	WHITMAN, WALT	Leaves of Grass.	Boston	1860	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
345	WHITMAN, WALT	Specimen Days & Collect.	Philadelphia	1882	USD 400.00 - 600.00	287.00
346	WILDE, OSCAR	The Importance of Being Ernest.	London	1908	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
347	WILDER, THORNTON	The Bridge of San Luis	New York	1927	USD 100.00 - 150.00	138.00
348		Androgyne, Mon Amour.	New York	New Directions, 1977	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
349		The Glass Menagerie.	New York	1945	USD 200.00 - 300.00	862.00
350		Grand.	New York	1964	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
351		I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix.	New York	1951	USD 400.00 - 600.00	546.00
352		In the Winter of Cities.	New York	1946	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,495.00
353		It Happened the Day the Sun Rose.	Los Angeles	1981	USD 150.00 - 250.00	115.00
354		A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.	New York	1980	USD 100.00 - 150.00	373.00
355		Memoirs.	New York	1975	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
356		Moise and the World of Reason.	New York	1975	USD 350.00 - 500.00	258.00
357		One Arm * Hard Candy.	New York	1948; 1954	USD 200.00 - 300.00	488.00
358		Out	New York	1973	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
359		The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde.	New York	1984	USD 100.00 - 150.00	126.00
360		The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.	New York	1950	USD 100.00 - 150.00	201.00
361		The Rose Tattoo.	New York	1950	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
362		Steps Must Be Gentle.	New York	1980	USD 80.00 - 120.00	126.00
363		A Streetcar Named Desire.	New York	1947	USD 400.00 - 600.00	4,140.00
364	Al, Hirschfeld	A Streetcar Named Desire.	New York	1982	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
365		Un Tramway Nommé Desir	Bordas	1949	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
366		Tennessee Williams's Letters to Donald Windham 1940-65.	Verona	1976	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
367		The Two-Character Play.	New York	1969	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
368		The Vengeance of Nitocris in Weird Tales, Volume 12, No. 2 August 1928. Written as Thomas Lanier Williams. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 2 sections of spine reinforced with cellotape * Battle of Angels: A Play.	Chicago	1928 1945	USD 500.00 - 750.00	805.00
369		You Touched Me! Group of 3 Inscribed and Signed volumes.	New York & London	1947	USD 350.00 - 500.00	1,092.00
370		Group of 3 First Editions Signed by Williams.	New York	vd	USD 250.00 - 350.00	431.00
371		Group of 3 Signed volumes	Vp	vd	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
372		Group of 4 volumes Signed by Williams.	New York	vd	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
373		Group of 4 First Editions,	New York	vd	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
374		Group of over 25 pieces of ephemera	Vp	vd	USD 300.00 - 400.00	201.00
375	Choukri, Mohamed	Tennessee Williams in Tangier.		1979	USD 100.00 - 150.00	103.00
376	WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS	The Collected Later Poems.	Norfolk	1950	USD 500.00 - 750.00	805.00
377	WILLIAMSON, HENRY	The Gale of the World.	Np	1968	USD 300.00 - 400.00	373.00
378	WOLFE, THOMAS	Look Homeward, Angel.	New York	1929	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,610.00
379	WOLFE, THOMAS	Au Fil du Temps	Paris	1951	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
380	WOOLF, VIRGINIA	Flush: A Biography.	London	1933	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
381	WOOLF, VIRGINIA	Kew Gardens ... Second Edition.	Richmond	19-Jun	USD 200.00 - 300.00	373.00
382	WOOLF, VIRGINIA	Dalloway.	London	1925	USD 300.00 - 400.00	517.00
383	WOOLF, VIRGINIA	Dalloway.	London	1925	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
384	YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER	On the Boiler.	Dublin	1939	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
385	YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER	The Winding Stair.	New York	1929	USD 350.00 - 500.00	920.00

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