Heritage Auctions: Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature Auction , 6300, Dallas

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Auction Date
December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024
Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45001 [Joseph Addison; and Sir Richard Steele].

[The Tatler]. The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.

London 1710-11. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
45002 James Agee.

Permit Me Voyage.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 937.50
45003 James Agee.

Unpublished autograph manuscript on "Hollywood."

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,250.00
45004 James Agee.

Autograph manuscript notebook and diary, written in pencil.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 1,187.50
45005 James Agee.

Autograph letter signed ("James Agee") to "Miss Bentzen." 172 Bleecker St., New York, 6 February 1945.

New York, 6 February 1945. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,250.00
45006 James Agee.

Small archive of 16 autograph poems, including unpublished poetry.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 1,000.00
45007 James Agee.

A collection of love letters, presumably unsent, to one "Mary."

USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 8,125.00
45008 James Agee.

Unpublished autograph manuscript on Gandhi.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 312.50
45009 James Agee.

Autograph manuscript, containing partial drafts and background information for A Death in the Family.

USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 6,250.00
45010 Edward Albee.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
45011 Maxwell Anderson.

Key Largo, a Play in a Prologue and Two Acts.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
45012 Matthew Arnold.

New Poems.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
45013 [W. H. Auden, his copy]. Bruce Dickins, editor.

Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,000.00
45014 W. H. Auden; and Christopher Isherwood.

The Ascent of F6. A tragedy in two acts.

London [September 1936]. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,500.00
45015 W. H. Auden

A group of 3 first editions, including 2 signed or inscribed.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
45016 W. H. Auden

City without Walls.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,125.00
45017 W. H. Auden

Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,250.00
45018 George Bancroft.

Poems.

Cambridge 1823 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
45019 Sabine Baring-Gould.

Autograph manuscript signed ("S. Baring-Gould"), being a fair copy of the well-known hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers."

N.d. USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,125.00
45020 James M.

Barrie. The Little Minister.

London 1891 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 4,250.00
45021 John Russell Bartlett.

Dictionary of Americanisms. A Glossary of Words and Phrases, usually regarded as peculiar to the United States.

New York 1848 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,750.00
45022 Sir John Beaumont.

Bosworth-field: with a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems... set forth by his Sonne.

London 1629 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,250.00
45023 William Beckford.

[Vathek]. An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: with Notes Critical and Explanatory.

London 1786 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,750.00
45024 Saul Bellow.

Dangling Man.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,125.00
45025 Peter Benchley.

Jaws.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,500.00
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