Swann Galleries: SWANN GALLERIES, INC., AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12th, 1964, AT 2 P. M., Exhibition from November 9th To Time of Sale. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, A COMPLETE RUN OF T, 658,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 12, 1964 - November 12, 1964
Page Size: 335 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
302 TURGENEV, IVAN Fathers and Sons

1951

USD - Unknown
303 TWAIN, MARK The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1933

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304 TWAIN, MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1942

USD - Unknown
305 TWAIN, MARK Slovenly Peter

1935

USD - Unknown
306 TWAIN, MARK The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1929

USD - Unknown
307 TWAIN, MARK Life on the Mississippi

1944

USD - Unknown
308 TWAIN, MARK A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1949

USD - Unknown
309 UNTERMEYER, LOUIS The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan

1945

USD - Unknown
310 VERNE, JULES Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

1956

USD - Unknown
311 VERNE, JULES The Mysterious Island

1959

USD - Unknown
312 VILLON, FRANCOIS The Lyrics

1933

USD - Unknown
313 MELVILLE, HERMAN Moby Dick

1943

USD - Unknown
313 VIRGIL The Aeneid

1944

USD - Unknown
314 VIRGIL The Georgics

1952

USD - Unknown
315 VIRGIL The Eclogues

1960

USD - Unknown
316 VOLTAIRE The History of Zadig or, Destiny

1952

USD - Unknown
317 WALLACE, LEW Ben-Hur

1960

USD - Unknown
318 WALTON, IZAAK The Compleat Angler

1948

USD - Unknown
319 WELLS, H. G. Tono-Bungay

1960

USD - Unknown
320 WHARTON, EDITH Ethan Frome

1939

USD - Unknown
321 WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass

1929

USD - Unknown
322 WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass

1942

USD - Unknown
323 WHITTIER, JOHN G. Snow-Bound

1930

USD - Unknown
324 WHITTIER, JOHN G. WHITTIER, JOHN G. Poems

1945

USD - Unknown
325 WILDE, OSCAR The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1937

USD - Unknown
326 WILDE, OSCAR Salome, Drame en Un Acte

1938

USD - Unknown
327 WILDE, OSCAR The Picture of Dorian Gray

1957

USD - Unknown
328 WILLKIE, WENDELL L. One World: Photographic Album Edition

1944

USD - Unknown
329 WISTER, OWEN The Virginian

1951

USD - Unknown
330 ZOLA, EMILE Nana

1948

USD - Unknown
331 ANNOUNCEMENTS. Remarkably long and unbroken set of the monthly announcements of forthcoming Limited Editions Club publications, from Number 122 (The Prairie) through Number 327 (Waverley)

1940

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332 EPHEMERA. Group of over 15 miscellaneous Limited Editions Club publications, including Dill and Garnett...

USD - Unknown
333 MACY, GEORGE Group of 3 of his privately printed Christmas books, as below New York

1940

USD - Unknown
334 MONTHLY LETTER of the Limited Editions Club

1929

USD - Unknown
335 PROSPECTUSES. Remarkably complete collection of the annual Prospectuses of the Limited Editions Club, from the first (1929) through the 30th (1961-62), lacking only the 11th (Shakespeare set)

USD - Unknown
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