Sale 639: Fine & Rare Books (#639) 04/05/2018 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 04/05/2018 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 101-186 of 186. Previous|12|Next Lot #312 The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane AuthorSteele, RichardHeadlineRichard Steele's The Conscious Lovers 1st editionPublisherJ. TonsonDate Published1723 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #315 The Works of the Late Miss Catharine Talbot. The Eighth Edition...and Now Republished with Some Additional Papers: Together with Notes and Illustrations and some Account of her life, by the Rev. Montagu Pennington. AuthorTalbot, CatharineHeadlineThe Works of Catharine TalbotPublisherPrinted for F. C. and J. RivingtonDate Published1812 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #318 The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Isaac Newton, and Britannia, A Poem. AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineJames Thomson's The Seasons 1730PublisherPrinted for J. Millan and A. MillarDate Published1730 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #324 The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy AuthorTrollope, FrancesHeadlineFrances Trollope's Michael Armstrong 1stPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1840 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #325 The Yankey in London, Being the First Part of a Series of Letters Written by an American Youth, During Nine Months' Residence in the City of London . . . Volume I [all published] Author[Tyler, Royall]HeadlineThe Yankey in London 1809PublisherPrinted and Published by Isaac RileyDate Published1809 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #329 Plays AuthorVanbrugh, Sir JohnHeadline1st complete edition of Sir John Vanbrugh's playsPublisherC. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, et. al.Date Published1759 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #338 The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner AuthorWarner, Charles DudleyHeadlineA finely-bound limited edition of Warner's worksPublisherThe American Publishing Co.Date Published1904 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #344 Text-Book of Biology AuthorWells, H.G.HeadlineH.G. Wells first bookPublisherW.B. Clive & Co.Date Published[1893] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #345 Poems on Several Occasions AuthorWesley, SamuelHeadlineCollected verse of Samuel Wesley the YoungerPublisherPrinted for the Author by E. Say and Sold by S. BirtDate Published1736 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #346 The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth... With an Account of the Emperor's Life after his Abdication Heading(Wharton, Edith)AuthorRobertson, William and William HicklingHeadlineFrom the library of Edith WhartonPublisherPhillips, Sampson, and Co.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #347 “Eris; A Spirit Record” [and] "Dumb Kate-An Early Death" [in] The Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 1 [nos. 1-6]. AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineTwo early Walt Whitman appearances 1844PublisherIsrael PostDate Published1844 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #349 Memoirs of His Own Life AuthorWilkinson, TateHeadlineHighly-regarded 18th century theatrical memoirPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1790 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #350 Shakspeare and His Friends; or “The Golden Age” of Merry England AuthorWilliams, Robert FolkstoneHeadline1st historical novel with Shakespeare as focal pointPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1838 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #352 The Royal Captives: A Fragment of a Secret History Copied from an Old Manuscript AuthorYearsley, AnnHeadlineRare gothic thriller by the "Bristol Milkmaid"PublisherThomas BradfordDate Published1796 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #353 Love of Fame, The Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires AuthorYoung, EdwardHeadlineEdward Young's Love of Fame, The Universal PassionPublisherJ. TonsonDate Published1728 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #354 A Criticism on the Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. Being a Continuation of Dr. Johnson's Criticism on the Poem of Gray AuthorYoung, JohnHeadlineParody of Johnson's criticism of Thomas Gray's poetryPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees and OrneDate Published1810 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #356 Five volumes by or about William Blake Heading(Blake, William)HeadlineFive volumes by or about William BlakeDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #361 Miscellaneous Prose Works AuthorBulwer-Lytton, Edward GeorgeHeadlineEdward Bulwer-Lytton Miscellaneous Prose Works 3 vols.PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1868 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #362 The Last of the Barons Author[Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George]HeadlineThe Last of the Barons 1st ed. 1843PublisherSaunders and OtleyDate Published1843 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #363 Evenings at Haddon Hall AuthorCalabrella, Baroness de, editor.HeadlineEvenings at Haddon Hall, 1846PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1846 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #364 The Adventures of Jones - inscribed AuthorCarruth, HaydenHeadlineHayden Carruth, Adventures of Jones - inscribedPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1895 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #365 Five works by Madison Cawein - one inscribed AuthorCawein, MadisonHeadlineInfluence for T.S. Eliot's Waste LandDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #367 The Ivory Gate AuthorCollins, MortimerHeadlineMortimer Collins, The Ivory Gate finely boundPublisherHurst and BlackettDate Published1869 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #369 Dulce Cor: Being the Poems of Ford Berêton Author[Crockett, Samual Rutherford]HeadlineSamual Rutherford Crockett's first bookPublisherKegan Paul, TrenchDate Published1886 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #373 The Wetherel Affair AuthorDeforest, J. W.HeadlineEarly American murder mystery 1st ed 1873PublisherSheldon & CompanyDate Published1873 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #376 The Works of Isaac and Benjamin Disraeli AuthorDisraeli, Isaac and BenjaminHeadlineWorks of Isaac and Benjamin Disraeli 9 vols.PublisherFrederick Warne and Co.Date Published[c.1867-68] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #377 Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian AuthorDrake, NathanHeadlineEssays on the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian 1805PublisherPrinted by C. Whittingham for John SharpeDate Published1805 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #382 Foggerty’s Fairy and Other Tales AuthorGilbert, W.S.HeadlineW.S. Gilbert's Foggerty’s Fairy 1st issuePublisherGeorge Routledge and SonsDate Published1890 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #383 The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, 'Skellat' Bellman of Glasgow - presentation copy AuthorGraham, DougalHeadlineCollected Writings of Dougal Graham 1/250PublisherThomas D. MorisonDate Published1883 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #384 WITHDRAWN - The Duke's Reappearance: A Tradition AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThomas Hardy, Duke's Reappearance 1/89PublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1927 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #385 Twice-Told Tales AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlineHawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1851PublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1851 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #388 The address of Mr. Everett and the poem of Dr. O. W. Holmes, at the dinner given to H. I. H. Monseigneur the Prince Napoleon, September 25th, 1861 AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellHeadlineOliver Wendell Holes, Vive la France!PublisherPrivately printedDate Published1861 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #389 Colin Clink AuthorHooton, CharlesHeadlineCharles Hooton, Colin Clink finely bound 1844PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1844 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #390 The Life and Adventures of Jack of the Mill: Commonly Called Lord Othmill...A Fireside Story AuthorHowitt, WilliamHeadlineAdventures of Jack of the Mill 1844PublisherLongman, Brown, Green, & LongmansDate Published1844 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #392 Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists Heading(Irving, Washington)AuthorCrayon, GeoffreyHeadlineWashington Irving Bracebridge Hall 1824PublisherA. and W. GalignianiDate Published1824 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #393 The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume, With a Memoir of the Author AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineThe Complete Works of Washington Irving, 1835PublisherSigismond SchmerberDate Published1835 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #394 The Life and Letters of Washington Irving AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineThe Life and Letters of Washington Irving 1862-64PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1862-64 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #395 The Works of Washington Irving AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineWorks of Washington Irving, 1840PublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1840 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #396 Theatricals [and] Theatricals Second Series AuthorJames, HenryHeadlineHenry James' Theatricals, 2 vols.PublisherOsgood, McIlvaine & Co.Date Published1894-95 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #397 The Chevaleer: A Comedy in Three Acts AuthorJones, Henry ArthurHeadlineRare play by Henry Arthur Jones, 1904PublisherPrinted at the Chiswick PressDate Published1904 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #398 The Tramping Methodist AuthorKaye-Smith, SheilaHeadlineThe Tramping Methodist w/rare cover label 1908PublisherBell & SonsDate Published1908 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #399 Two Years Ago AuthorKingsley, Rev. Charles.HeadlineCharles Kingsley, Two Years Ago 1857PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #400 Three works by Charles Lever illustrated by Phiz AuthorLever, CharlesHeadline3 works by Charles Lever illustrated by PhizDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #401 Two finely bound works by Charles Lever AuthorLever, CharlesHeadlineTwo finely bound works by Charles LeverDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #402 Janus; or, The Edinburgh Literary Almanack AuthorLockhart, John Gibson and John Wilson, editorsHeadlineScarce literary journal, 1826PublisherOliver & BoydDate Published1826 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #403 Valerius; A Roman Story Author[Lockhart, John Gibson]HeadlineLockhart's Valerius 1st ed 1981PublisherPrinted for William Blackwood and T. CadellDate Published1821 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #404 Four works by James Russell Lowell AuthorLowell, James RussellHeadlineFour works by James Russell LowellDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #405 A Year’s Life AuthorLowell, James RussellHeadlineJames Russell Lowell's first bookPublisherC. C. Little and J. BrownDate Published1841 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #406 The New Priest in Conception Bay Author[Lowell, Robert Traill Spence]HeadlineNew Priest in Conception Bay 1858PublisherPhillips, Sampson and CompanyDate Published1858 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #407 Johnny Crimson: A Legend of Hollis Hall AuthorMacKaye, Percy WallaceHeadlinePercy Wallace MacKaye's 1st book 1/50PublisherKiley, PrinterDate Published1895 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #408 The Man Who Was Good: A Novel AuthorMerrick, LeonardHeadlineLeonard Merrick's 2nd novelPublisherChatto & WindusDate Published1892 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #409 The King's Henchman: Lyric Drama in Three Acts AuthorMillay, Edna St. Vincent and Deems TaylorHeadlineEdna St Vincent Millay, The King's HenchmanPublisherJ. Fischer & Bro.Date Published[1926] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #411 A Cloak of Light: Writing my Life. AuthorMorris, Wright.HeadlineMorris Wright , A Cloak of Light signed 1stPublisherThe Franklin Library for The Signed First Edition SocietyDate Published1985 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #418 Poets of America [and] Victorian Poets Heading(Poetry)AuthorStedman, Edmund ClarenceHeadlineVictorian and American poets, 4 volumesPublisherPrinted at the Riverside PressDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #420 Armageddon...The Southern Prize Poem and the Honors of 1923 AuthorRansom, John CroweHeadlineJohn Crowe Ransom's ArmageddonPublisherPoetry Society of South CarolinaDate Published1923 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #421 White Lies: A Story. AuthorReade, CharlesHeadlineCharles Reade's White Lies 1st editionPublisherTrubner & Co.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #422 Ancient Songs and Ballads, from the Time of King Henry the Second to the Revolution. AuthorRitson Joseph, compilerHeadlineAncient Songs and Ballads 1829PublisherPrinted for Payne and Foss by Thomas DavisonDate Published1829 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #426 Maximums and Specimens of Williams Muggins, Natural Philosopher of the World . . . With Illustrations by Onwhyn. AuthorSelby, CharlesHeadlineFinely bound work by Charles Selby, 1846PublisherGeorge RoutledgeDate Published1846 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #427 Shakspere and his forerunners. Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its Development from Early English Heading(Shakespeare, William)AuthorLanier, SidneyHeadlineShakspere and his forerunners large paper editionPublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1902 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #428 The Life of the Chevalier Bayard; "The Good Knight," "Sans Peur et Sans Reproche" AuthorSimms, W. GilmoreHeadlineThe Life of the Chevalier BayardPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1847 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #429 Two signed works by Osbert Sitwell AuthorSitwell, OsbertHeadlineTwo signed first editions by Osbert SitwellDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #430 Three volumes of poetry by Menella Bute Smedley AuthorSmedley, Menella ButeHeadlineMenella Bute Smedley, 3 volumes of poemsDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #431 The Amber Gods and Other Stories Heading(Spofford, Harriet Prescott)AuthorPrescott, Harriet ElizabethHeadlineHarriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods 1st edPublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1863 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #432 Four works by or about John Addington Symonds Heading(Symonds, John Addington)HeadlineFour works by or about John Addington SymondsDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #433 Genoveva. A Poem. [bound with] Elegiac Poems AuthorTrench, Richard ChevenixHeadlineRichard Chevenix Trench, two finely bound 1st editionsPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1842-43 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #434 Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineMark Twain's Notebooks & JournalsPublisherUniversity of California PressDate Published1975-79 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #435 Two signed works by John Updike AuthorUpdike, JohnHeadlineJohn Updike, 2 signed first editionsDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #438 The Gathering of the Forces. Editorials, Essays, Literary and Dramatic Reviews and other Material Written by Walt Whitman as Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847 AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWalt Whitman's Gathering of the Forces 2 vols 1920PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker PressDate Published1920 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #439 Tales for the Marines Heading(Wise, Harry August)AuthorGringo, Harry [pseud].HeadlineTales for the Marines 1st ed. 1855PublisherPhillips, Sampson and CompanyDate Published1855 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #440 Nine volumes by Matthew Arnold AuthorArnold, MatthewHeadlineNine volumes by Matthew ArnoldDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #441 Eleven volumes from the Easton Press Heading(Easton Press)HeadlineEleven volumes from the Easton PressPublisherEaston PressDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #442 The Works of Thomas Hood. Comic and Serious in Prose and Verse AuthorHood, ThomasHeadlineThe Works of Thomas HoodPublisherEdward Moxon & Co.Date Published1862 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #443 Fourteen literature related volumes Heading(Literature)Headline14 literature related volumesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #444 Fourteen volumes of literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineFourteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #445 Nineteen volumes of literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineNineteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #446 Seventeen volumes of literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #447 Seventeen volumes of literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #448 Seventeen volumes of mostly 19th century literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes of mostly 19th century literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #449 Seventeen volumes, mostly literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes, mostly literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #450 Seventeen volumes, mostly literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes, mostly literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #451 Sixteen volumes of literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineSixteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #452 Thirteen volumes of literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineThirteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #453 Thirteen volumes, mostly literature Heading(Literature)HeadlineThirteen volumes, mostly literatureDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #454 Twenty-six volumes of literature and poetry Heading(Literature)HeadlineTwenty-six volumes of literature and poetryDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #457 Twenty-one volumes of 19th century poetry Heading(Poetry)HeadlineTwenty-one volumes of 19th century poetryDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #459 Eight volumes by Hugh Walpole AuthorWalpole, HughHeadlineEight volumes by Hugh WalpoleDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next