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 101-177 of 177. Previous|12|Next Lot #318 The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Isaac Newton, and Britannia, A Poem. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineJames Thomson's The Seasons 1730PublisherPrinted for J. Millan and A. MillarDate Published1730 Lot #324 The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorTrollope, FrancesHeadlineFrances Trollope's Michael Armstrong 1stPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1840 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] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Author[Tyler, Royall]HeadlineThe Yankey in London 1809PublisherPrinted and Published by Isaac RileyDate Published1809 Lot #329 Plays View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorVanbrugh, Sir JohnHeadline1st complete edition of Sir John Vanbrugh's playsPublisherC. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, et. al.Date Published1759 Lot #344 Text-Book of Biology View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorWells, H.G.HeadlineH.G. Wells first bookPublisherW.B. Clive & Co.Date Published[1893] Lot #345 Poems on Several Occasions View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorWesley, SamuelHeadlineCollected verse of Samuel Wesley the YoungerPublisherPrinted for the Author by E. Say and Sold by S. BirtDate Published1736 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]. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineTwo early Walt Whitman appearances 1844PublisherIsrael PostDate Published1844 Lot #349 Memoirs of His Own Life View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorWilkinson, TateHeadlineHighly-regarded 18th century theatrical memoirPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1790 Lot #350 Shakspeare and His Friends; or “The Golden Age” of Merry England View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorWilliams, Robert FolkstoneHeadline1st historical novel with Shakespeare as focal pointPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1838 Lot #352 The Royal Captives: A Fragment of a Secret History Copied from an Old Manuscript View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorYearsley, AnnHeadlineRare gothic thriller by the "Bristol Milkmaid"PublisherThomas BradfordDate Published1796 Lot #353 Love of Fame, The Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorYoung, EdwardHeadlineEdward Young's Love of Fame, The Universal PassionPublisherJ. TonsonDate Published1728 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorYoung, JohnHeadlineParody of Johnson's criticism of Thomas Gray's poetryPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees and OrneDate Published1810 Lot #356 Five volumes by or about William Blake View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Heading(Blake, William)HeadlineFive volumes by or about William BlakeDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #361 Miscellaneous Prose Works View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold AuthorBulwer-Lytton, Edward GeorgeHeadlineEdward Bulwer-Lytton Miscellaneous Prose Works 3 vols.PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1868 Lot #362 The Last of the Barons View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Author[Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George]HeadlineThe Last of the Barons 1st ed. 1843PublisherSaunders and OtleyDate Published1843 Lot #363 Evenings at Haddon Hall View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorCalabrella, Baroness de, editor.HeadlineEvenings at Haddon Hall, 1846PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1846 Lot #364 The Adventures of Jones - inscribed View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorCarruth, HaydenHeadlineHayden Carruth, Adventures of Jones - inscribedPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1895 Lot #365 Five works by Madison Cawein - one inscribed View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold AuthorCawein, MadisonHeadlineInfluence for T.S. Eliot's Waste LandDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #367 The Ivory Gate View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorCollins, MortimerHeadlineMortimer Collins, The Ivory Gate finely boundPublisherHurst and BlackettDate Published1869 Lot #369 Dulce Cor: Being the Poems of Ford Berêton View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Author[Crockett, Samual Rutherford]HeadlineSamual Rutherford Crockett's first bookPublisherKegan Paul, TrenchDate Published1886 Lot #373 The Wetherel Affair View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold AuthorDeforest, J. W.HeadlineEarly American murder mystery 1st ed 1873PublisherSheldon & CompanyDate Published1873 Lot #376 The Works of Isaac and Benjamin Disraeli View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorDisraeli, Isaac and BenjaminHeadlineWorks of Isaac and Benjamin Disraeli 9 vols.PublisherFrederick Warne and Co.Date Published[c.1867-68] Lot #377 Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorDrake, NathanHeadlineEssays on the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian 1805PublisherPrinted by C. Whittingham for John SharpeDate Published1805 Lot #382 Foggerty’s Fairy and Other Tales View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorGilbert, W.S.HeadlineW.S. Gilbert's Foggerty’s Fairy 1st issuePublisherGeorge Routledge and SonsDate Published1890 Lot #383 The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, 'Skellat' Bellman of Glasgow - presentation copy View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorGraham, DougalHeadlineCollected Writings of Dougal Graham 1/250PublisherThomas D. MorisonDate Published1883 Lot #384 WITHDRAWN - The Duke's Reappearance: A Tradition View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThomas Hardy, Duke's Reappearance 1/89PublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1927 Lot #385 Twice-Told Tales View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlineHawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1851PublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1851 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 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellHeadlineOliver Wendell Holes, Vive la France!PublisherPrivately printedDate Published1861 Lot #389 Colin Clink View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold AuthorHooton, CharlesHeadlineCharles Hooton, Colin Clink finely bound 1844PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1844 Lot #390 The Life and Adventures of Jack of the Mill: Commonly Called Lord Othmill...A Fireside Story View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorHowitt, WilliamHeadlineAdventures of Jack of the Mill 1844PublisherLongman, Brown, Green, & LongmansDate Published1844 Lot #392 Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Heading(Irving, Washington)AuthorCrayon, GeoffreyHeadlineWashington Irving Bracebridge Hall 1824PublisherA. and W. GalignianiDate Published1824 Lot #393 The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume, With a Memoir of the Author View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineThe Complete Works of Washington Irving, 1835PublisherSigismond SchmerberDate Published1835 Lot #394 The Life and Letters of Washington Irving View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineThe Life and Letters of Washington Irving 1862-64PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1862-64 Lot #395 The Works of Washington Irving View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineWorks of Washington Irving, 1840PublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1840 Lot #396 Theatricals [and] Theatricals Second Series View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorJames, HenryHeadlineHenry James' Theatricals, 2 vols.PublisherOsgood, McIlvaine & Co.Date Published1894-95 Lot #397 The Chevaleer: A Comedy in Three Acts View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorJones, Henry ArthurHeadlineRare play by Henry Arthur Jones, 1904PublisherPrinted at the Chiswick PressDate Published1904 Lot #398 The Tramping Methodist View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorKaye-Smith, SheilaHeadlineThe Tramping Methodist w/rare cover label 1908PublisherBell & SonsDate Published1908 Lot #399 Two Years Ago View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold AuthorKingsley, Rev. Charles.HeadlineCharles Kingsley, Two Years Ago 1857PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1857 Lot #400 Three works by Charles Lever illustrated by Phiz View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold AuthorLever, CharlesHeadline3 works by Charles Lever illustrated by PhizDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #401 Two finely bound works by Charles Lever View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold AuthorLever, CharlesHeadlineTwo finely bound works by Charles LeverDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #402 Janus; or, The Edinburgh Literary Almanack View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold AuthorLockhart, John Gibson and John Wilson, editorsHeadlineScarce literary journal, 1826PublisherOliver & BoydDate Published1826 Lot #403 Valerius; A Roman Story View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$406.25StatusSold Author[Lockhart, John Gibson]HeadlineLockhart's Valerius 1st ed 1981PublisherPrinted for William Blackwood and T. CadellDate Published1821 Lot #404 Four works by James Russell Lowell View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold AuthorLowell, James RussellHeadlineFour works by James Russell LowellDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #405 A Year’s Life View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold AuthorLowell, James RussellHeadlineJames Russell Lowell's first bookPublisherC. C. Little and J. BrownDate Published1841 Lot #406 The New Priest in Conception Bay View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Author[Lowell, Robert Traill Spence]HeadlineNew Priest in Conception Bay 1858PublisherPhillips, Sampson and CompanyDate Published1858 Lot #407 Johnny Crimson: A Legend of Hollis Hall View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorMacKaye, Percy WallaceHeadlinePercy Wallace MacKaye's 1st book 1/50PublisherKiley, PrinterDate Published1895 Lot #408 The Man Who Was Good: A Novel View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorMerrick, LeonardHeadlineLeonard Merrick's 2nd novelPublisherChatto & WindusDate Published1892 Lot #418 Poets of America [and] Victorian Poets View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Poetry)AuthorStedman, Edmund ClarenceHeadlineVictorian and American poets, 4 volumesPublisherPrinted at the Riverside PressDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #421 White Lies: A Story. View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold AuthorReade, CharlesHeadlineCharles Reade's White Lies 1st editionPublisherTrubner & Co.Date Published1857 Lot #422 Ancient Songs and Ballads, from the Time of King Henry the Second to the Revolution. View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorRitson Joseph, compilerHeadlineAncient Songs and Ballads 1829PublisherPrinted for Payne and Foss by Thomas DavisonDate Published1829 Lot #426 Maximums and Specimens of Williams Muggins, Natural Philosopher of the World . . . With Illustrations by Onwhyn. View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold AuthorSelby, CharlesHeadlineFinely bound work by Charles Selby, 1846PublisherGeorge RoutledgeDate Published1846 Lot #427 Shakspere and his forerunners. Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its Development from Early English View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Shakespeare, William)AuthorLanier, SidneyHeadlineShakspere and his forerunners large paper editionPublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1902 Lot #428 The Life of the Chevalier Bayard; "The Good Knight," "Sans Peur et Sans Reproche" View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold AuthorSimms, W. GilmoreHeadlineThe Life of the Chevalier BayardPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1847 Lot #430 Three volumes of poetry by Menella Bute Smedley View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold AuthorSmedley, Menella ButeHeadlineMenella Bute Smedley, 3 volumes of poemsDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #431 The Amber Gods and Other Stories View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Spofford, Harriet Prescott)AuthorPrescott, Harriet ElizabethHeadlineHarriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods 1st edPublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1863 Lot #432 Four works by or about John Addington Symonds View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Symonds, John Addington)HeadlineFour works by or about John Addington SymondsDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #433 Genoveva. A Poem. [bound with] Elegiac Poems View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold AuthorTrench, Richard ChevenixHeadlineRichard Chevenix Trench, two finely bound 1st editionsPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1842-43 Lot #434 Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineMark Twain's Notebooks & JournalsPublisherUniversity of California PressDate Published1975-79 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 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWalt Whitman's Gathering of the Forces 2 vols 1920PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker PressDate Published1920 Lot #439 Tales for the Marines View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Wise, Harry August)AuthorGringo, Harry [pseud].HeadlineTales for the Marines 1st ed. 1855PublisherPhillips, Sampson and CompanyDate Published1855 Lot #440 Nine volumes by Matthew Arnold View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorArnold, MatthewHeadlineNine volumes by Matthew ArnoldDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #441 Eleven volumes from the Easton Press View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Easton Press)HeadlineEleven volumes from the Easton PressPublisherEaston PressDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #442 The Works of Thomas Hood. Comic and Serious in Prose and Verse View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold AuthorHood, ThomasHeadlineThe Works of Thomas HoodPublisherEdward Moxon & Co.Date Published1862 Lot #443 Fourteen literature related volumes View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Literature)Headline14 literature related volumesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #444 Fourteen volumes of literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineFourteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #445 Nineteen volumes of literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineNineteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #446 Seventeen volumes of literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #447 Seventeen volumes of literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #448 Seventeen volumes of mostly 19th century literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes of mostly 19th century literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #449 Seventeen volumes, mostly literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes, mostly literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #450 Seventeen volumes, mostly literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineSeventeen volumes, mostly literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #451 Sixteen volumes of literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineSixteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #452 Thirteen volumes of literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineThirteen volumes of literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #453 Thirteen volumes, mostly literature View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineThirteen volumes, mostly literatureDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #454 Twenty-six volumes of literature and poetry View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Literature)HeadlineTwenty-six volumes of literature and poetryDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #457 Twenty-one volumes of 19th century poetry View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Heading(Poetry)HeadlineTwenty-one volumes of 19th century poetryDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #459 Eight volumes by Hugh Walpole View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorWalpole, HughHeadlineEight volumes by Hugh WalpoleDate PublishedVarious dates Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next