An Eclectic Library and a History of Photography (#34OL) 03/21/2017 9:30 AM ACDT - 03/28/2017 5:00 PM ACDT Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-68 of 68. Previous|1|Next Lot #64 ART - EUROPEAN: A wide range from small format to coffee table size, mostly hard cover with subjects including Art Nouveau, Hundertwasser, Henry Moore, Coignard, Cranach, Art Deco, etc. View details Quantity20Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$25StatusSold Lot #65 ART - GREAT BRITAIN: Thirteen books including "NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY CATALOGUE 1856-1947, WITH A SUPPLEMENT 1948-1959," FRED UHLMAN "AN ARTIST IN NORTH WALES," [1948], OSKAR KOKOSCHKA "LONDON VIEWS: BRITISH LANDSCAPES," [1972]. View details Quantity13Estimate$40 - $80Price Realized$20StatusSold Lot #66 ANTIQUES: Library of books covering antiques and collecting. Hard-cover and paperbacks. Notable items - EDWARD H. PINTO "WOODEN BYGONES OF SMOKING AND SNUFF" [1961, First Edition] and GEORGE SAVAGE "FORGERIES FAKES AND REPRODUCTIONS: A HANDBOOK FOR COLLECTORS" [1963, First Edition]. View details Quantity34Estimate$70 - $140Price Realized$30StatusSold Lot #67 SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA: Range of books on history, politics, art and travel. Including ANTHONY DANIELS "SWEET WAIST OF AMERICA" [Hutchinson, London, 1990, First edition, SIGNED] and "ANTHONY DANIELS "COUPS AND COCAINE" [John Murray, London, 1986, First edition]. View details Quantity6Estimate$50 - $70StatusUnsold Lot #68 AMERICA: History, politics, personalities. All hard covers. Includes ANNABELLE BUCAR "THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICAN DIPLOMATS" [1949, First edition] and LEROY S. HODGES JR "PORTRAIT OF AN EXPATRIATE - WILLIAM GARDNER SMITH, WRITER" [1985, First edition]. View details Quantity17Estimate$50 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #69 ART - EUROPEAN: A collection of Thames and Hudson H/C books; subject include Chagall, Sezanne, Degas, Rodin, Mondrian etc all with dust jackets View details Quantity24Estimate$75 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #70 ART: "Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers" [London, 1918, G.Bell and Sons]; half leather bindings with gold embossed titles to spines, marbled end papers View details Quantity5Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #71 ART: A large collection of various sizes mostly European subjects, including Art at Auction manuals, Klee, Kandinsky, Matisse, L.S. Lowry, Bruegel, Corot & Duffy View details Quantity21Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$25StatusSold Lot #72 ART: A collection of hard cover large format books, subjects including Giacometti, Hogarth, Miro, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Pissaro, Masaccio, Topolski,Braque, Sisley, Vuillard, etc. View details Quantity20Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$70StatusSold Lot #73 ART: A reference library, mostly hard cover with dust jackets, including Berenson's two volumne books "Italian Pictures of the Renaissance". View details Quantity18Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #74 BIOGRAPHIES, AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRES: A collection of 40 volumes; mainly hard cover and with dust jackets. Very diverse. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #75 BLACK STUDIES, BLACK WRITERS & BLACK WRITING: Authors include James Baldwin, W.J.Cash, Beth Day, Gerold Frank, Jenn Lawrie, Louis E. Lomax, Eugene E. Miller, James Pope-Hennessy, Freda Troup & Richard Wright, etc. (27 volumes). View details Quantity27Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #76 BIOGRAPHIES, AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRES: A collection of 40 volumes; mainly hard cover and with dust jackets. Very diverse. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #77 BIOGRAPHIES, AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRES: A collection of 32 volumes; mainly hard cover and with dust jackets. Very diverse. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #78 COOKING, FOOD & WINE: Twenty two books, Including MICHEL OLIVER "LA CUISINE EST UN JEU D'ENFANTS" and PIERRE ANDROUET "GUIDE TO FROMAGE." View details Quantity22Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$30StatusSold Lot #79 COMICS & HUMOUR: Nine books including RONALD SEARLE "RUSSIA FOR BEGINNERS" [1960] and "SOULS IN TORMENT" [1954]. View details Quantity9Estimate$30 - $70StatusUnsold Lot #80 COHEN, LEONARD "SELECTED POEMS: 1956-1968." [Jonathan Cape, London, 1973]. Hard-cover with dust jacket, 245pp. Rare edition with jacket design by Barry Hall. View details Quantity1Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #81 Collection remainder: a diverse and interesting range; mainly hardcover. Well worth viewing. (60 volumes). View details Quantity60Estimate$60 - $120Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #82 DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE: Novels and biographies, English language, most with dust-jackets, including "ALL MEN ARE MORTAL" [1955 , First Edition], "SHE CAME TO STAY" [1954, First Edition] and "MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER" [1959, First Edition]. View details Quantity15Estimate$80 - $140StatusUnsold Lot #83 DESPIAU, M.L "SELECT AMUSEMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS; PROPER FOR AGREEABLY EXERCISING THE MINDS OF YOUTH." [W.Glendinning, Hatton Garden, 1801]. Extremely rare. First edition in English. Translated by Charles Hutton. View details Quantity1Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #84 DAULTE, Francois: "FRENCH WATERCOLOURS OF THE 20TH CENTURY" [London, 1968, Thames and Hudson]; large format hard cover with dust jackets View details Quantity3Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$25StatusSold Lot #85 ESSAYS: Various hard-cover essay collections including books by Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer and John Stuart Mill. Notable items - "THE ESSAYES OF MICHAEL LORD OF MONTAIGNE" [Volume 1, 1905] and JOHN STUART MILL "ON LIBERTY, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN." [1912]. View details Quantity15Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #86 ETIQUETTE & HANDWRITING: Varied lot covering etiquette, body language and handwriting, including WARD LOCK'S "ETIQUETTE FOR LADIES" [1950, Hard-cover]. View details Quantity10Estimate$30 - $50Price Realized$15StatusSold Lot #87 ENGLAND: HISTORY, POLITICS, PERSONALITIES. Range of topics. All hard cover. View details Quantity17Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #88 EUROPE: HISTORY, POLITICS, PERSONALITIES. Large colelction, mainly French, German, Russian, 20th Century. All hard cover, almost all with dust jackets. View details Quantity33Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #89 EGYPT: A small library of reference books on the art, culture, languages and religions of ancient Egypt. Mostly hard cover, with dust jackets. (14 volumes). View details Estimate$50 - $75StatusUnsold Lot #90 FOLIO COLLECTIONS: Lovely collection of hard cover folios in slipcases. Including WLLIAM SHAKESPEARE [Three volumes, 1978], MARCEL PROUST [Three volumes, 1981JANE AUSTEN [Seven volumes, 1997] and A.A MILNE [Three volumes, 2004]. View details Quantity26Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #91 FRANCE, THE FRENCH & THEIR WRITING & ART: A collection, mainly in English and including many illustrated and photographic volumes. (70+ volumes) View details Quantity75Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #92 GERMANY: A library of novels, children's books, plays, poetry, etc. LARGE QUANTITY. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #93 GERMANY & THE HOLOCAUST: A collection of books, mostly hard cover with dust jackets, including scholarly works as well as collections of photographs, etc. (17 volumes). View details Quantity17Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #94 A GERMAN LIBRARY - PROSE & POETRY, with many early editions. (52 volumes). View details Quantity52Estimate$50 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #95 U.K & EUROPEAN HISTORY: Seventeen books, all hard cover, including JEHOSHAPHAT ASPIN "ENGLISH HISTORY MADE EASY, ON A POPULAR PLAN, IN PROSE AND VERSE," [Printed for John Harris,1828], FREDERICK HILLES (Ed.) and "PORTAITS BY JOSHUA REYNOLDS" [William Heinemann Ltd, 1952] View details Quantity17Estimate$60 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #96 HISTORY & RELIGION: All hard cover mostly with dust jackets, wide range of topics. Including MARGARET PLANT "VENICE: FRAGILE CITY 1797-1997" [Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, First edition] and ERICH FROMM, D.T SUZUKI & RICHARD DE MARTINO "ZEN BUDDHISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS" [Souvenir Press, 1974, First U.K edition]. View details Quantity26Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #97 HISTORIES, REFERENCE BOOKS, MEMOIRES, REVIEWS, etc.; a large collection; mainly hard cover. (115+ volumes). View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #98 THE JEWS & ISRAEL: Religious texts (Talmud), history, photography, humour etc. Almost all hard-cover. Including ISIDORE FISHMAN "THE HISTORY OF JEWISH EDUCATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE" [1944, First Edition], GIUSEPPE RICCIOTTI "THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL" [1958, Two Volume Set] and MAX GORDON "JEWS IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND" [1965, First Edition] View details Quantity19Estimate$70 - $140Price Realized$35StatusSold Lot #99 JUDAISM, ISRAEL & THE HOLOCAUST: A small collection including several Bashevis-Singer First Editions. (18 volumes). View details Quantity18Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #100 KOKOSCHKA, OSKAR "UND SIE BEWEGT SICH DOCH" [Freie Deutsche Jugend, London, 1943. First edition, paperback]. Important collection of exile anti-Fascist verse, published by the Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth), an underground socialist network that operated in exile from 1938 to 1946. Foreword by the Austrian Expressionist painter and poet Oskar Kokoschka. View details Quantity1Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #101 LETTERS: 9 books View details Quantity9Estimate$20 - $50StatusUnsold Lot #102 LITERATURE: Nine books, all hard-cover, essays and enclopedias, including COLIN WILSON "THE STRENGTH TO DREAM: LITERATURE AND THE IMAGINATION," [1962, First Edition]. View details Quantity9Estimate$40 - $80StatusUnsold Lot #103 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS: All hardcover with dust jackets. Including ERNEST HEMINGWAY "A MOVEABLE FEAST" [1964], CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD "A SINGLE MAN" [1964] and RICHARD WRIGHT "LAWD TODAY" [1965]. View details Quantity7Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #104 MUSIC & MUSICIANS; PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS: A small collection featuring works by Beckett, Orton, Eliot, Shafer, Thomas, Shaw, Chekov, etc., and about Sibelius, Stravinsky, Berlioz, Diaghilev, Massine and others. (36 volumes). View details Quantity36Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #105 MOVIE MAKING & FILMSTARS: Some fascinating and unusual books. (14 volumes). View details Quantity14Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #106 NABOKOV, VLADIMIR: Novels, biographies and critiques. Ten books including "PALE FIRE" [1962], "INVITATION TO A BEHEADING" [1960], and "LOLITA" [1965]. View details Quantity10Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$30StatusSold Lot #107 NABOKOV, Vladimir: A collection of hard cover novels and short stories; all with dust jackets. (8 volumes). Includes "despair", "The Gift", "Mary", etc. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #108 NAPOLEON: A shelf of books about the Emperor, his family and his circle. (23 volumes). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #109 NEUMANN, Robert: A collection of his writings in Englsh and German; noted "The Plague House Papers", "The Dark Side of the Moon", "Festival", "Der Tatbestand" and "Ein Leichtes Leben"; several with personal dedications from the author. (17 volumes). View details Quantity17Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #110 NOVELS: A nice collection comprising hard-cover editions (Canette, Dickens, E.M.Forster, Mailer, Mankowitz,Pasternak, Salinger, Solzhenitsyn, Spark, Sterne, Wharton, etc.) and a group of early Penguins (Bowen, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Forster, Gide, Green, Sitwell, etc.). (46+20). View details Quantity82Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$50StatusSold Lot #111 NOVELS: A collection; all hard cover and many with dust jackets; noted "Nova Express" by Burroughs; "Visions of Gerard" by Kerouac; "Portnoy's Complaint" by Roth; "Girl, 20" by Amis; etc. (60 volumes). View details Quantity60Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #112 NOVELS, ANTHOLOGIES, SHORT-STORIES and similar; a large collection. (100+ volumes).Mainly hard cover. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #113 POETRY: AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY, mostly hard-cover, a few soft-cover. POUND, ELIOT, MILLAY, WHITMAN. Collection includes EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY "THE MURDER OF LIDICE" [First Edition,1942, soft cover] and ANNE SEXTON "TRANSFORMATIONS" [First Edition, 1971]. View details Quantity16Estimate$50 - $85Price Realized$25StatusSold Lot #114 POETRY: UNITED KINGDOM. Hard cover library of U.K poets including LAWRENCE, KIPLING, BETJEMAN plus ALUN LEWIS "HA! HA! AMONG THE TRUMPETS; POEMS IN TRANSIT" [Hard cover, First edition, 1945], TED HUGHES "THE HAWK IN THE RAIN" [Hard cover with dust jacket, First edition, 1957]. View details Quantity12Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Lot #115 POETRY: CLASSICS, including BYRON, DONNE, SHAKESPEARE, SHELLEY, including two lovely art nouveau style pocket books, published by The Gresham Publishing Company, circa 1906, "SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF ELIZABETH B BROWNING" and "SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF JOHN KEATS." View details Quantity9Estimate$50 - $70StatusUnsold Lot #116 POETRY: ANTHOLOGIES. English, American, Australian, French, German, Latin poems and more. Including WILLIAM BELL (ed.) POETRY FROM OXFORD IN WARTIME" [1945, First edition], RICHARD HOWARD "ALONE WITH AMERICA - THE ART OF POETRY IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1950" [1970, First U.K edition]. View details Quantity17Estimate$60 - $90StatusUnsold Lot #117 POETRY: ASIA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE. Including LAURENCE COLLINSON "THE MOODS OF LOVE" [1957, First edition, SIGNED and NUMBERED], R.A. SIMPSON "THE WALK ALONG THE BEACH" [1960, First edition, SIGNED and NUMBERED], and KATH WALKER "MY PEOPLE" [1976]. View details Quantity9Estimate$60 - $80StatusUnsold Lot #118 POETRY: A shelf; very diverse and mainly hard cover. (50+ volumes). View details Quantity51Estimate$50 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #119 [Langhorne, J. & Langhorne, W.] "Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men......" [London, Henry G. Bohn, 1866]; 2 volumes; half-calf bindings with marbled boards and highly decorated spines. Incorporates numerous portraits. (2). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #120 POETRY & PLAYS: A collection; including Countee Cullen, T.S.Eloit, Erich Fried, Thom Gunn, R.D.Laing, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ivan Turgenev, Francois Villon, etc. (35 volumes). View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #121 A REFERENCE LIBRARY: An ecclectic mix, with histories, opinion pieces, memoires, biographies, reviews and photography. Authors include Martin Amis, Auden, Antony Beevor, Bronowski, J.K. Galbraith, Irving Howe, Robert Hughes, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Bertrand Russell, Servan-Schreiber, C.P. Snow, Stephen Spender, Anthony Storr, Rebecca West, Edmund Wilson, Paul Zweig and many more. (107 volumes). View details Quantity107Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #122 SEX & EROTICA: Seven books, variety of topics, including ALFRED KINSEY "SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE HUMAN FEMALE" [1953]. View details Quantity7Estimate$30 - $50Price Realized$15StatusSold Lot #123 SCHIDLOF, LEO. R, "THE MINIATURE IN EUROPE" [Akademische Druck, Graz, 1964]. Four volumes. All with dust jackets. Numbered #99. Only 1000 printed. Plates, some coloured. Extremely rare. View details Quantity4Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #124 SARTRE, JEAN PAUL. Collection of hard cover books, including one rare paperback "WORDS" [Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964, PROOF COPY]. View details Quantity8Estimate$50 - $70StatusUnsold Lot #125 THOMAS, DYLAN "UNTER DEM MILCHWALD" [Drei Brucken Verlag, Heidelberg, 1956. First German edition. SIGNED by translator ERICH FRIED] and "AM FRUHEN MORGEN" [Drei Brucken Verlag, Heidelberg, 1957. First German edition. SIGNED by translator ERICH FRIED]. View details Quantity2Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$30StatusSold Lot #126 TRAVEL GUIDES: Range of countries - Europe, Australia and Middle East. All hard cover. Includes J.G LINKS "VENICE FOR PLEASURE" [1966, First edition]. View details Quantity16Estimate$50 - $80StatusUnsold Lot #127 WRIGHT, RICHARD: Various novels, many first editions, plus biographies and essays on the author's work. Almost all hard-covers with dust jackets, including "PAGAN AGAIN" [1957, First Edition, SIGNED], "THE OUTSIDER" [1953, First Edition],"THE COLOR CURTAIN" [1956, First Edition] and MICHEL FABRE "THE UNFINISHED QUEST OF RICHARD WRIGHT" [1973, First Edition, Paperback, SIGNED]. View details Quantity18Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #128 WOMEN WRITERS & SEXUAL POLITICS: Eight books, all hard cover, range of topics and authors - Gertrude Stein, Germaine Greer, Sylvia Plath etc. Including LOUISE DESALVO and MITCHELL. A. LEASKA (eds.) "THE LETTERS OF VITA SACKVILLE-WEST TO VIRGINIA WOOLF" [1985, First edition] . View details Quantity20Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #129 PHOTOGRAPHY: A group of mainly hard cover books; subjects including Brassai, Freund, Melraux etc View details Quantity7Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #130 WAR & MILITARY: Six books including F.M CUTLACK (ed.) "WAR LETTERS OF GENERAL MONASH." [1935]. View details Quantity6Estimate$30 - $60StatusUnsold Lot #131 MAGIC, MYSTICISM & SUPERSTITION: Interesting varied lot, all hard covers with dust jackets, includes VERA COMPTON "PALMISTRY FOR EVERYMAN" [1952, First edition]. 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