Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2701, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 22, 2025 - April 22, 2025
Page Size: 361 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Dickens, Charles (1843-1848)

Set of four Christmas books bound by Riviere...

London 1845 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
227 Dodgson, Charles L. [aka] Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there

London 1872 [i.e. 1871] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,250.00
228 Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance

Boston 1851 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 813.00
229 Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

The Scarlet Letter, first edition with signed document

Boston 1850 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,500.00
230 Irving, Washington (1783-1859) & George H. Boughton, illus. (1833-1905)

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

London 1893 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 688.00
231 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

Carte de Visite

New York 1862 USD 2,400.00 - 3,400.00 USD 2,000.00
232 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

Morning on the Wissahiccon, published in The Opal

New York 1844 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
233 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

Six Volumes: Five Periodicals Containing his Work [and] The Conchologist's First Book...

Philadelphia 1839 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
234 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

The Fall of the House of Usher, published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine

Philadelphia 1839 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 688.00
235 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

The Journal of Julius Rodman published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine

Philadelphia 1840 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
236 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

The Murders in the Rue Morgue & A Descent into the Maelstrom, published in Graham's Magazine

Philadelphia 1841 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
237 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

The Mystery of Marie Roget, published in The Ladies' Companion

New York 1842-1843 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,250.00
238 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

The Pit and the Pendulum, published in The Gift for 1843, Two Copies

Philadelphia 1842 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 344.00
239 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

The Purloined Letter, published in The Gift

Philadelphia 1845 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
240 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

The Raven, published in The American Review: A Whig Journal

New York 1845 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,750.00
241 Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837)

Eugene Oneguine

London 1881 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,500.00
242 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains, signed limited edition

New York 1899 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,250.00
243 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

London 1886 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 750.00
244 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

Underwoods, signed by Stevenson and Eugene Field

London 1887 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
245 Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

Vanity Fair, in a Cosway style binding

London 1848 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,500.00
246 Baldwin, James (1924-1987)

Go Tell it on the Mountain

New York 1953 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,750.00
247 Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919)

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, first edition in the first binding

Chicago 1908 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 813.00
248 Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first edition, illustrator W.W. Denslow's presentation copy

Chicago & New York 1900 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 30,000.00
249 Bellow, Saul (1915-2005)

Dangling Man

New York 1944 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 531.00
250 Borges, Jose Luis (1899-1986)

El Aleph

Buenos Aires, Argentina 1949 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 813.00
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