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
45301 John Steinbeck.

Cannery Row.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,000.00
45302 John Steinbeck.

Burning Bright.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,500.00
45303 John Steinbeck.

East of Eden.

New York 1952 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 6,000.00
45304 John Steinbeck.

The Short Reign of Pippin IV.

New York 1957 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 3,500.00
45305 John Steinbeck.

Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 4,250.00
45306 [Laurence Sterne].

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick.

London 1768 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,375.00
45307 Wallace Stevens.

Ideas of Order.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,750.00
45308 Wallace Stevens.

The Man With The Blue Guitar & Other Poems.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,187.50
45309 Wallace Stevens.

Typed letter signed ("Wallace Stevens").

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,750.00
45310 Wallace Stevens.

Notes toward a Supreme Fiction.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 1,125.00
45311 Wallace Stevens.

Autograph letter signed to literary critic F. O. Matthiessen.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,875.00
45312 Wallace Stevens.

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven [in:] Transactions of The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Volume 38, December 1949.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,375.00
45313 Wallace Stevens.

The Auroras of Autumn.

USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 3,500.00
45314 [Robert Louis Stevenson].

The Pentland Rising: A Page of History.

Edinburgh 1866 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,000.00
45315 [Robert Louis Stevenson].

The Charity Bazaar. An Allegorical Dialogue.

[Edinburgh n.d., not before 1871]. USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 3,500.00
45316 [Robert Louis Stevenson].

Original pencil bust portrait of the author by Peder Severin Kroyer, signed "SKroyer / Cernay la Ville / 20 Juni 79." Additionally signed by Stevenson ("Robert Louis Stevenson") in pencil below.

Cernay la Ville 20 June 1879. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,875.00
45317 Robert Louis Stevenson.

A Child's Garden of Verses.

London 1885 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,125.00
45318 Robert Louis Stevenson.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

New York 1886 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 4,500.00
45319 Robert Louis Stevenson.

Underwoods.

London 1887 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,500.00
45320 Robert Louis Stevenson.

Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu.

Sydney 1890 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 2,750.00
45321 Robert Louis Stevenson.

Virginibus Puerisque and other Papers.

New York 1893 USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 2,750.00
45322 Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
45323 Robert Louis Stevenson.

Autograph manuscript lyrics (unsigned) of his famous ode "Over the Sea to Skye."

[c.1895]. USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 3,500.00
45324 Robert Louis Stevenson.

A complete set of galley proofs of the text for the Bibliophile edition of Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson Hitherto Unpublished with Introduction and Notes by George S. Hellman and William P. Trent.

Boston 1916 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 312.50
45325 Robert Louis Stevenson.

Autograph manuscript signed ("R. L. Stevenson"), being a fair copy of his poem "My Wife." Accompanied by another sheet containing two manuscript quotations, one signed ("R.L.S.").

No date. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,000.00
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
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