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
45151 George Herbert.

Herbert's Remains. Or, Sundry Pieces Of that sweet Singer of the Temple, Mr. George Herbert.

London 1652 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
45152 James Hilton.

Lost Horizon.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 5,000.00
45153 Charles Fenno Hoffman.

The Vigil of Faith, and Other Poems.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
45154 [James Hogg].

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself.

London 1824 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 6,250.00
45155 [Oliver Wendell Holmes].

The Collegian. No. I[-VI].

Cambridge 1830 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,187.50
45156 Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Urania: A Rhymed Lesson.

Boston 1846 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 312.50
45157 Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Autograph manuscript signed ("Oliver Wendell Holmes"), being a fair copy of the complete text of his famous poem "The Last Leaf."

Boston USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 625.00
45158 Anthony Hope [Hawkins].

A group of five various copies of The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), displaying five different bibliographical variants, including two copies of the first issue in variant bindings, a faked copy of the first edition, the second edition, and a later edition. Ho

1894 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,875.00
45159 Anthony Hope [Hawkins].

Autograph manuscript signed twice ("Anthony Hope"), for the short story "The Curate of Poltons."

[c.1896]. USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 906.25
45160 Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Autograph letter signed to his mentor, the Reverend Richard Watson Dixon.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 6,000.00
45161 William Henry Hudson.

The Purple Land That England Lost.

London 1885 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,500.00
45162 W. H. Hudson.

Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest.

London 1904 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,875.00
45163 John Hunt.

The Ascent of Everest.

[London:] 1953 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 5,500.00
45164 [Irish Literature].

Group of four volumes, including James Stephens' first book, Insurrections (1909); and two Sean O'Casey presentation copies.

1909 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
45165 Washington Irving.

Works.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 625.00
45166 Henry James.

Notes of a Son and Brother.

New York 1914 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 4,250.00
45167 M. R. James.

Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary.

London 1904 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,000.00
45168 Will James.

The Three Mustangeers.

New York 1933 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,312.50
45169 Randall Jarrell.

Blood for a Stranger.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
45170 Randall Jarrell.

The Seven-League Crutches.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
45171 Randall Jarrell.

The Lost World.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 625.00
45172 Sarah O. Jewett.

Deephaven.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
45173 Samuel Johnson.

The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated.

London 1749 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 5,500.00
45174 [Samuel Johnson].

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

London 1775 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
45175 Samuel Johnson.

Prayers and Meditations ... Published from his Manuscripts, by George Strahan.

London 1785 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 6,250.00
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    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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    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD