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Fine Books and Manuscripts
22 November - 8 December 2023 • New York
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1001 [Austen, Jane] — Isaac D'Israeli | Jane Austen's copy of Curiosities of Literature
1002 [Austen, Jane] | A handsome first edition in boards of the author's debut novel
1003 [Austen, Jane] | "It is a truth universally acknowledged..."
1004 [Austen, Jane] | Mansfield Park, the first edition in original boards — a rare survival
1005 [Austen, Jane] | Emma—Lady Guilford's copy of this "perfect" novel in the original boards
1006 Austen, Jane | The author's posthumous final novels
1007 Blackmore, R.D. | Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, the first edition
1008 [Brontë, Emily, and Ann Brontë] — Ellis Bell and Acton Bell | An outstanding survival of the sisters' debut novels
1009 Brontë, Anne | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the author's second and final novel
1010 Brontë, Charlotte | "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me..."
1011 Brontë, Charlotte | The author's third novel, the last published in her lifetime
1012 Brontë, Charlotte | The Professor, the author's first novel, published posthumously
1013 Collins, Wilkie | The trailblazer of British detective fiction
1014 Dickens, Charles | "Please, sir, I want some more."
1015 Dickens, Charles | The Christmas Books in their original cloth
1016 Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield, first edition in book form
1017 Dickens, Charles | Little Dorrit, first edition in book form
1018 Dickens, Charles | "I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."
1019 Doyle, Arthur Conan | A truly exceptional pair of the Memoirs and Adventures
1020 Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Hound of Baskervilles; perhaps the best-loved crime story
1021 Doyle, Arthur Conan | Sherlock Holmes returns, the first edition
1022 Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Valley of Fear, a fine, bright copy
1023 Doyle, Arthur Conan | His Last Bow, the penultimate collection of Holmes stories
1024 Eliot, George | The author's debut novel
1025 Eliot, George | The first work published with Eliot's identity revealed
1026 Eliot, George | Silas Marner, the author's third novel
1027 Eliot, George | Felix Holt. The Radical, a fine copy
1028 Eliot, George | The author's magnum opus
1029 Falkner, J. Meade | The Lost Stradivarius, first edition of the popular ghost tale
1030 Gaskell, Elizabeth | The Moorland Cottage, her second published work
1031 Hardy, Thomas | The first work to bear Hardy's name
1032 Hardy, Thomas | “Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
1033 Hardy, Thomas | A Group of Noble Dames, signed by the author
1034 Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the d'Urbervilles, an exceptionally fine copy
1035 James, Henry | The Portrait of a Lady, the author's enduring and best-loved tale
1036 Reade, Charles | The Cloister and the Hearth, the first edition of this historical novel
1037 Reid, Thomas Mayne | The first edition of No Quarter!
1038 Thackeray, William Makepeace | Vanity Fair, Thackeray's satirical masterwork
1039 Trollope, Anthony | The novel that popularised the Chronicles of Barsetshire series
1040 Trollope, Anthony | The Claverings, a fine copy
1041 Trollope, Anthony | Castle Richmond, the first edition
1042 Trollope, Anthony | Framley Parsonage, the fourth in the Barsetshire series
1043 Trollope, Anthony | Orley Farm, the author's favourite of his novels
1044 Trollope, Anthony | A remarkable association copy inscribed by Effie C. Millais (née Gray)
1045 Trollope, Anthony | Miss Mackenzie, the first edition
1046 Trollope, Anthony | The final book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, Trollope's "best novel"
1047 Trollope, Anthony | Ralph the Heir, Sadleir's copy
1048 Trollope, Anthony | The Way We Live Now, the first edition