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Goyard

Goyard Brown Taurillon Saint Lucie Bag Silver Hardware<ul><li>The interior is lined in a yellow textile material</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Brown Taurillon Saint Lucie Bag Silver Hardware

Jamie Baldridge

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> deluxe limited edition of The Everywhere Chronicles.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Jamie Baldridge (American).</li><li>21st Editions, 2009.</li><li>Limited to 17 numbered copies of which this is #4</li><li>Signed and numbered by Jamie Baldridge, John Wood, and the publisher, Steven Albahari.</li><li>With 12 signed hand printed pigment ink prints.</li><li>Bound in brass with a wax patina, black leather backed spine, with 1 additional free standing print, housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell box, the separate portfolio contains 12 signed free standing prints, housed in a matching brown cloth clamshell box.</li></ul> In 2009, fine press photography book publisher 21st Editions released The Everywhere Chronicles. Limited to 50 copies. The first 17 numbered editions also contain a separate portfolio of 12 signed free-standing prints that appear in the book. This copy #4 was presented to Lance Speer, 21ST Editions Contributing Editor and Director of Marketing, upon completion of the project. A Letter of Provenance from Lance Speer is included. 21ST Editions was awarded the prestigious 2009 Lucie Award for Book Publisher of the Year for their publication of The Everywhere Chronicles. The worldwide photography community pays tribute to the year’s most outstanding photographic achievements at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony. The Lucies recognize men and women whose life’s work in photography merits the highest acclaim by their peers. As 2003 honoree Douglas Kirkland said, "The movie industry has its Oscars and the photography community has its Lucies." From the Publishers: "To say that Jamie Baldridge is an imaginative genius is to state what will be obvious to anyone who views The Everywhere Chronicles, though readers of the tale he wrote to accompany the photographs may decide he is an escapee from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Using sumptuous colors and the most bizarre, sometimes zany, often mystical imagery, Baldridge reveals a world he has miraculously imagined. He then takes us on tour through the whimsical travelogue he has written to accompany his masterful photographs. His guidebook may be a little mad, but his photographs are no collection of elaborate jests and spoofs. They are the stuff of archetypes, and they transport us to mythic places of the mind, of memory, and of histories not yet written.” In a natural evolution, 21ST Editions (a unique publisher known throughout the world for its mastery of classic photographic processes such as platinum prints, hand-pulled photogravure and silver gelatin photographs) has utilized color pigment ink printing for the first time with The Everywhere Chronicles. This is due to the fact that we at 21ST Editions wish to stay true to the original and preferred medium of the artist, who works exclusively in pigment ink and who personally printed and signed each photograph himself. The result is their first color book, one that reflects our decade long commitment to creating the finest photography books in existence, incorporating the widest range of original processes available.

The Everywhere Chronicles

Chanel

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fashion/handbag/chanel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chanel</a>&nbsp;Black and White Lucite Cassette Tape <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fashion/handbag/chanel?Handbag%20Style=Minaudiere" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Minaudière</a>&nbsp;Clutch Silver Hardware, 2004<ul><li>The interior is unlined</li><li>Includes information booklet, tag, ribbon, camellia flower, dust bag and box</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Black and White Lucite Cassette Tape Minaudière Clutch Silver Hardware, 2004 

Tiffany & Co.

Centering a Lucida cut diamond.<ul><li>Diamond weighing 0.59 carat</li><li>Signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/jewelry/tiffany-&amp;-co" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tiffany &amp; Co.</a> with serial number</li><li>Platinum</li><li>Circa 1999</li><li>Total weight 3.49 grams</li><li>Size 5¼</li><li>Accompanied by GIA report no. 6233669812, dated 8 September 2025, stating that the 0.59 carat diamond is F color and VVS1 clarity with No Fluorescence</li><li>Accompanied by a signed box and pouch</li></ul>

Platinum and 0.59ct Lucida Cut Diamond Ring

Centering a Lucida cut diamond.<ul><li>Diamond weighing 1.52 carats</li><li>Signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/jewelry/tiffany-&amp;-co" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tiffany &amp; Co.</a> with serial number</li><li>Platinum</li><li>Stamped with carat weight</li><li>Circa 2002</li><li>Total weight 5.61 grams</li><li>Size 4½</li><li>Accompanied by a signed box</li><li>Accompanied by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/jewelry/tiffany-&amp;-co" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tiffany &amp; Co.</a> Diamond Grading Report stating that the 1.52 carat diamond shows approximate F color and VS1 clarity with No Fluorescence</li></ul>

Platinum and 1.52ct Lucida Cut Diamond Engagement Ring

Bvlgari

Of Lucea collection, each designed of diamond-set crescent motif, suspending 3 chains set with 1 grey and 2 white cultured pearls, 3 diamond-set carrés and 5 gold beads.<ul><li>Diamonds weighing a total of approximately 1.60 carats</li><li>Signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/jewelry/bvlgari" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bvlgari</a></li><li>Italian assay marks</li><li>18 karat white gold</li><li>Total weight 25.00 grams</li><li>Length 2¾ inches</li><li>Fitted with posts</li><li>Accompanied by one Sotheby's box</li></ul>

White Gold, Cultured Pearl and Diamond Lucea Drop Earrings

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fashion/handbag/chanel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chanel</a> Vintage Blue and Green Lucite Crystal Beaded Evening Bag Gold Hardware, 1997<ul><li>The interior is unlined</li><li>Includes dust bag</li><li>Please allow up to 5-7 business days for estimated shipping</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Vintage Blue and Green Lucite Crystal Beaded Evening Bag Gold Hardware, 1997

Jean-Michel Basquiat

A hand-drafted flyer by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=jean%20michel%20basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> for a performance by his close friend, John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards at Squat Theater in New York, December 1, 1979.<ul><li>Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Ink on paper.</li><li>Unsigned.</li><li>Accompanied by a letter of provenance.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> John Lurie was considered one of Basquiat’s closest friends; and has been a significant and prolific member of the New York downtown art and cultural scene since the 1970s. Lurie had a role in the Basquiat film Downtown 81 and starred in Jim Jarmusch’s pioneering independent films&nbsp;Stranger Than Paradise&nbsp;and&nbsp;Down by Law. His jazz-punk band&nbsp;The Lounge Lizards&nbsp;were at the forefront of the late-1970s New York ‘No-wave’ music scene. At its founding, the band consisted of John Lurie and Evan Lurie, guitarist&nbsp;Arto Lindsay, bassist Steve Piccolo, and percussionist&nbsp;Anton Fier. Though partly inspired by jazz, John Lurie said he used guitarists in the band "to foil the music when it gets too jazzlike.”

Basquiat John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards Hand-Drafted Music Flyer

Patek Philippe

Includes <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/watches/watch/patek-philippe?waysToBuy=buyNow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patek Philippe</a> box and papers.

Patek Philippe Aquanaut 'Luce' (Reference 5267/200A-010). A 38.8mm unworn stainless steel diamond set quartz wristwatch with date. 2024

Patek Philippe Aquanaut 'Luce' (Reference 5267/200A-001). A 38.8mm unworn stainless steel diamond set quartz wristwatch with date. 2024

Chanel Navy Blue, Green and Dark Red Lucite Paris-Hamburg Shipping Container Minaudiere Silver Hardware, 2018<ul><li>The interior is lined in a red leather</li><li>Includes care booklet, ribbon, camellia flower, dust bag, and box</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Navy Blue, Green and Dark Red Lucite Paris-Hamburg Shipping Container Minaudiere Silver Hardware, 2018

Poster for the Italian Federico Fellini film Variety Lights.<ul><li>Pathé.</li><li>Linen-backed paper.</li></ul>

Luci del Varieta / Variety Lights Italian Movie Poster

Chanel Black Lucite CC Mini Box Minaudière Bag Gold Hardware, 1997<ul><li>The interior is unlined</li><li>Includes dust bag and box </li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Black Lucite CC Mini Box Minaudière Bag Gold Hardware, 1997

Chanel Black Beaded Lucite Medium Cage Flap Gold Hardware, 1990s<ul><li>The interior is unlined</li><li>Includes ribbon, dust bag and box</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Black Beaded Lucite Medium Cage Flap Gold Hardware, 1990s

Chanel Clear Beaded Lucite Medium Cage Flap Gold Hardware, 1990s<ul><li>The interior is unlined</li><li>Includes dust bag</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Clear Beaded Lucite Medium Cage Flap Gold Hardware, 1990s

Designed as three columns of alternating square- and cone-shaped motifs, terminating in three ovals, each set with numerous round diamonds.<ul><li>Diamonds weighing a total of approximately 0.20 carat</li><li>Signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/jewelry/bvlgari" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bvlgari</a></li><li>18 karat white gold</li><li>Circa 2000s</li><li>Adjustable length 14-17 inches</li><li>Accompanied by one Sotheby's box</li></ul>

White Gold and Diamond Lucea Necklace

The earrings designed as alternating square- and cone-shaped motifs terminating in ovals set with numerous round diamonds, the squares also set with round diamonds.<ul><li>Diamonds weighing a total of approximately 0.40 carat</li><li>Signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/jewelry/bvlgari" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Bvlgari</a></li><li>18 karat white gold</li><li>Circa 2000s</li><li>Total weight approximately 7.18 grams</li><li>Length 1⅓ inches</li><li>Fitted with posts</li><li>Accompanied by one Sotheby's box</li></ul>

White Gold and Diamond Lucea Earrings

Ian Fleming

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel Thunderball, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by several cast members of the 1965 film.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.</li><li>Signed by five of the stars of the film from 1965: Fiona Solge (Luciana Paluzzi), Martine Beswick (Paula Caplan), Mollie Peters (Patricia Fearing), Paul Stassino (Angelo Palazzi/Francois Deuval) and Earl Cameron (Pinder).</li><li>In the original unclipped dust wrapper, 15s net price remains, boards gilt at the spine.</li></ul>

Thunderball | First Edition Signed by Cast Members of the Film

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Raymond+Chandler&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Raymond Chandler</a>'s own copy — with his ownership stamp and ink annotations — of this iconic California cocktail book, including special notes on the gimlet: a central element of the plot, setting, and symbolism of his last great work, The Long Goodbye.<ul><li>Trader Vic [Victor Bergeron].</li><li>Garden City, New York:&nbsp;Garden City Books,&nbsp;(1948).</li><li>x, 437, [1] pages.</li><li>Ink owner stamp of Chandler in La Jolla, California on front free endpaper, above which has been taped a small magazine cut-out featuring recipes for two cocktails and a desert.</li><li>Chandler's notes in red ink to front pastedown, listing page numbers for: gimlet, martini, manhattan, sidecar (twice, once for the cointreau and once for the rum version), stinger, bacardi, and daiquiri.</li><li>Bronx cocktail section outlined in ink by Chandler; multiple annotations by Chandler on gimlet page (131). </li><li>Original tan cloth stamped in dark brown, housed in custom clamshell box.</li></ul> "We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. 'They don't know how to make them here,' he said." — The Long Goodbye Victor Bergeron, "Trader Vic," popularized the mai tai and was "The Aristotle of Alcohol" according to Lucius Beebe (Siegelman, 17). Beebe also called him "the most notable apostle of rum" (intro, 22) and in this copy of Trader Vic's cocktail book, Raymond Chandler has noted the page number of his rum-based sidecar on the front pastedown. Chandler annotated this copy in a few places, most notably — and significantly, from a literary perspective — the section with two recipes for gimlets, Philip Marlowe's drink of choice in The Long Goodbye. That novel's bar scenes — primarily with Marlowe's friend Terry Lennox and always with gimlets — occur at "Victor's." This is undoubtedly a reference to the "Trader Vic" chain that opened its first location in Oakland in 1934. ("We didn't always go to the same bar, but oftener to Victor's than anywhere else," Marlowe reflects. "It may have had some association for [Lennox] that I didn't know about.") However, a Trader Vic's location in LA (the setting of the book) would not open until 1955, two years after the first publication of The Long Goodbye (1953), so the choice of "Victor's" as the name of the book's bar is almost certainly an homage to the wider Trader Vic brand. This copy of the Trader Vic cocktail book carries in its annotations the evidence of how Chandler turned the gimlet into an avatar of Marlowe and Lennox's fraught friendship at the center of the plot. According to Lennox, a "real" gimlet is "half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else." However, this line contradicts Chandler's own annotations in his copy of this book. The second printed gimlet recipe matches Lennox's description exactly (listing the only ingredients as "3/4 oz. Plymouth gin 3/4 oz. Rose's lime juice") — but Chandler has written in the side margin, "both n.g. [not good] see below." In the bottom margin, Chandler has recorded his own recipe for a great gimlet: "Strained juice of 2 limes 1 1/2 g London dry gin 1/2 tsp sugar or less." Ironically, this recipe more closely matches the description of the kind of gimlet Lennox complains about: "What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters." The fact that Chandler's own annotations argue with Lennox's confident opinions — "n.g." he says — reflects Marlowe's own affectionate yet increasing disillusionment with his sometime friend: the gimlet as literary symbolism. The gimlet recipe Chandler added at the bottom of this section is therefore in a sense Marlowe's own real recipe, not the one published in The Long Goodbye. A unique copy of the cocktail book evocative of 1950s California, with true literary significance from the great California noir author.

Bartender's Guide | Raymond Chandler Annotated Association Copy

Various Authors | John Calvin

A sammelband in 5 parts of Calvinistic <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Religion&amp;Book%20Subject=Religious%2520manuscripts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">theology</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5 parts bound together.</li><li>Calvinism Sammelband [sefer Hinukh Behire Yah; Stoicheiosis Tes Christianon Pisteos; Ad Illustrem Principem D. Ludovicum; Postillatio Ioan. Bvgenhagii; Aureli Augustini Hippone[n]sis Episcopi De Bono Conjugali]</li><li>[Geneva]; [Genevae]; Argentoriati [i.e. Strassburg]; [Hagenau]; Coloniae:&nbsp;Robertus Stephanus; [Roberto Stephano]; [Johann Knobloch d. Ä.]; [Setzer]; Apud Ioan. Gymnicum [Johann Gymnich],&nbsp;1554; 1551; 1526; 1525; 1531.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in contemporary worn vellum.</li></ul> Includes the following: SEFER HINUKH BEHIRE YAH.<ul><li>John Calvin (French).</li><li>Translated by Immanuel Tremellius (Italian).</li><li>[Geneva] : Nidpas be-bet Robertus Stephanus, 1554.</li><li>[8], 152, [8] pages.</li><li>Translation by Immanuel Tremellius of Jean Calvin's Catéchisme de l'Eglise de Genève.</li><li>Hebrew title romanized.</li><li>Primarily in Hebrew; afterword (a letter from Tremellius to Duke Christoph of Württemberg, dated April 3, 1554, in Strasbourg) in Latin.</li><li>First Edition.</li><li>Tremellius was the first professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University; he converted to Christianity and died in 1580.</li></ul> STOICHEIOSIS TES CHRISTIANON PISTEOS = RUDIMENTA FIDEI CHRISTIANAE : LIBELLUS APPRIME UTILIS, NUNC PRIMUM IN LUCEM AEDITUS.<ul><li>John Calvin (French).</li><li>[Genevae] : Para Rōvertō tō Stephanō etei [Roberto Stephano] [Robert Estienne], 1551.</li><li>126, [2] pages.</li><li>First book printed at Geneva by Robert Estienne.</li><li>Greek translation by Henri Estienne of Calvin's Catéchisme de l'église de Genève.</li><li>Greek colophon dated 14 Dec. 1551.</li></ul> AD ILLUSTREM PRINCIPEM D. LUDOVICUM, COMITEM PALATINUM RHENI, DUCEM BAUARIAE, COMITEM VELDENSEM, ETC. DE ANSERE, QUI SACRAMENTUM EDISSE DICITUR.<ul><li>Johann Bader (German).</li><li>Tobian Meyer.</li><li>Argentoriati [i.e. Strassburg]: [Johann Knobloch d. Ä.], 1526;</li><li>20 leaves.</li></ul> POSTILLATIO IOAN. BVGENHAGII POMERANI IN EVANGELIA, USUI TEMPORUM&amp;SANCTORU[M] TOTIUS ANNI SERUIENTIA.<ul><li>Johannes Bugenhagen (German).</li><li>George Spalatin (German).</li><li>Hagenau]: [Setzer], [ca. 1525].</li><li>32 leaves.</li></ul> D. AURELI AUGUSTINI HIPPONE[N]SIS EPISCOPI DE BONO CONJUGALI LIBER UNUS. EIUSDEM DE SANCTA VIRGINITATE LIBER UNUS.<ul><li>Saint Augustine of Hippo.</li><li>Coloniae: Apud Ioan. Gymnicum [Johann Gymnich], 1531.</li><li>56 unnumbered leaves.</li><li>Title within woodcut border, with date 1530.</li></ul>

Calvinism Sammelband

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> created this impossibly rare printed flyer to advertise a band performance within his feature acted <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">film</a>: Downtown 81 / New York Beat in 1980.<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>The flyer with text and imagery by Basquiat, promotes a segment performance by Kid Creole and the Coconuts at The Rock Lounge: 285 West Broadway, New York, December 15th, 1980.</li><li>Offset printed flyer.</li><li>Accompanied by a letter of provenance.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A much historical work, much notably exhibited and cataloged as part of, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (October 2022 - February 2023) &amp; sister show at the Paris Philharmonic (March - July 2023). ‘In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed-out bohemia they lived and breathed. Left unfinished due to assorted legal and financial issues until it was fully assembled for release in 2000,&nbsp;Downtown 81&nbsp;follows Basquiat, a naturally compelling screen presence, as he tries to hawk a painting (one of the artist’s own first works) while hustling for a place to sleep. So what was meant to be a document of its time instead became a window into a long-lost world of life on the margins and creative ferment—and it feels especially potent today, when NYC had transformed into an artless ghost town, before escalating racial injustices brought people back to the streets. The film features appearances by John Lurie, Fab 5 Freddy, and Debbie Harry; musical performances by DNA, James White and the Blacks, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts; and, most remarkable of all, a portrait of a more innocent Manhattan in all its mangy glory.’ (Metrograph)

Downtown 81 / New York Beat Movie Music Performance Poster

Man Ray

A limited edition, signed copy of Revolving Doors by Man Ray.&nbsp;<ul><li>Man Ray (American).</li><li>Turin: Luciano Anselmino, 1972.</li><li>Large folio.</li><li>Complete portfolio of 10 pochoir prints.</li><li>Signed and numbered by the artist on the justification.</li><li>Part of an edition of 100 copies on Velin d’Arches paper.</li><li>Prints loose as issued and unbound in plain wrappers, in the original black cloth solander box with "Man Ray" on the spine.</li></ul>&nbsp;Man Ray created a series of collages of geometric shapes titled Revolving Doors between 1916 and 1917. They were included in his third solo show at the Daniel Gallery in New York and were installed on a rotating pole that the viewer could spin, bringing the machine-like anthropomorphic forms to life. The original collages were destroyed, but he later reproduced them in this series of pochoirs, also including the explicative text which originally accompanied each work.

Revolving Doors (Signed, Limited Edition)

Various Authors

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/sothebys-&amp;-abbeville-press-capsule-libraries" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sotheby's &amp; Abbeville Capsule Libraries</a>&nbsp;present a curated selection of Abbeville Press books from the personal archive of publisher Bob Abrams, in conjunction with&nbsp;Art without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection. The Ultimate Abrams Family Collection&nbsp;is a set of 5 books on art and design, including the following titles: <ul><li>Botero.</li><li>Fernando Botero (Columbian).</li><li>Carter Ratcliff (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>272 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Goodnough.</li><li>Martin Bush (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1982.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>260 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Wesselmann.</li><li>Slim Stealingworth&nbsp;[pseudonym of Tom Wesselmann, American].</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>320 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality.</li><li>Jean Dubuffet (French).</li><li>Mildred Glimcher (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.</li><li>310 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Cobra.</li><li>Jean Clarence Lambert (French).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.</li><li>English and French edition.</li><li>261 pages.</li></ul> Enter the personal world of Bob Abrams and wife Cynthia Vance-Abrams through the Ultimate Abrams Family Collection capsule library. The monographs selected here relate directly to artworks in the family’s collection as presented for sale this fall at Sotheby’s. Each book has a unique place within Abbeville Press’ history and are the most definitive and comprehensive texts on each artist. Slim Stealingworth’s&nbsp;Tom Wesselmann&nbsp;(1980) was pseudonymously written by the artist himself and includes dual dedications. First, to Harry Abrams, for his profound impact on the artist, and with whom Wesselmann began the journey of publishing this very monograph in the late 1960s; and second, to Bob Abrams, for seeing the project through to production. Two works offered in Sotheby’s sale are illustrated in the monograph (<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-live-sale/great-american-nude-75?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 11</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-live-sale/3-d-illuminated-drawing-nude-1966-for-great?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 12</a>), and Stealingworth sheds light onto Wesselmann’s groundbreaking practice of creating these exact vacuum-formed nudes with crisp clarity.&nbsp; Author and art critic Carter Ratcliff has been a frequent Abbeville collaborator since the house’s founding in 1977. Ratcliff captures the spirit of the prolific Colombian painter, and firmly establishes him within the western art historical canon, of which Botero constantly references in his own work.&nbsp; Bob Abrams continued a tradition, established by his father Harry, of inviting artists to produce hand-painted limited edition covers to celebrate the publication of their latest monograph. One such uniquely hand-painted cover is being offered for sale in September at Sotheby’s (<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-online-sale/painted-book-cover-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 525</a>) and thus the inclusion of Martin Bush’s monograph here is essential. The Abrams family maintained a long friendship with the artist and collected his work in depth. Abbeville Press’ publication of&nbsp;Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality&nbsp;displays Bob’s penchant for collaboration, as the artist himself wrote several important statements on his work and contributed significant text to monograph. The publication accompanied a retrospective of at Pace Gallery (March–June 1987). Finally, throughout their decades-long collecting journey, the Abrams family has paid a significant amount of attention to the CoBRA artistic movement, counting works by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn and Lucebert (lot&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-online-sale/prediker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">543</a>) within their collection. These artists directly prefigure the Pop art movement which subsequently defined the Abrams Family Collection, and stands as a testament to the family’s collecting interests as truly being global and without boundaries.

The Ultimate Abrams Family Collection

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/sothebys-&amp;-abbeville-press-capsule-libraries" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sotheby's &amp; Abbeville Capsule Libraries</a>&nbsp;present a curated selection of Abbeville Press books from the personal archive of publisher Bob Abrams, in conjunction with&nbsp;Art without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection. The Ultimate Abrams Family Collection&nbsp;is a set of 5 books on art and design, including the following titles: <ul><li>Botero.</li><li>Fernando Botero (Columbian).</li><li>Carter Ratcliff (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>272 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Goodnough.</li><li>Martin Bush (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1982.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>260 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Wesselmann.</li><li>Slim Stealingworth&nbsp;[pseudonym of Tom Wesselmann, American].</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>320 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality.</li><li>Jean Dubuffet (French).</li><li>Mildred Glimcher (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.</li><li>310 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Cobra.</li><li>Jean Clarence Lambert (French).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.</li><li>English and French edition.</li><li>261 pages.</li></ul> Enter the personal world of Bob Abrams and wife Cynthia Vance-Abrams through the Ultimate Abrams Family Collection capsule library. The monographs selected here relate directly to artworks in the family’s collection as presented for sale this fall at Sotheby’s. Each book has a unique place within Abbeville Press’ history and are the most definitive and comprehensive texts on each artist. Slim Stealingworth’s&nbsp;Tom Wesselmann&nbsp;(1980) was pseudonymously written by the artist himself and includes dual dedications. First, to Harry Abrams, for his profound impact on the artist, and with whom Wesselmann began the journey of publishing this very monograph in the late 1960s; and second, to Bob Abrams, for seeing the project through to production. Two works offered in Sotheby’s sale are illustrated in the monograph (<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-live-sale/great-american-nude-75?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 11</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-live-sale/3-d-illuminated-drawing-nude-1966-for-great?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 12</a>), and Stealingworth sheds light onto Wesselmann’s groundbreaking practice of creating these exact vacuum-formed nudes with crisp clarity.&nbsp; Author and art critic Carter Ratcliff has been a frequent Abbeville collaborator since the house’s founding in 1977. Ratcliff captures the spirit of the prolific Colombian painter, and firmly establishes him within the western art historical canon, of which Botero constantly references in his own work.&nbsp; Bob Abrams continued a tradition, established by his father Harry, of inviting artists to produce hand-painted limited-edition covers to celebrate the publication of their latest monograph. One such uniquely hand-painted cover is being offered for sale in September at Sotheby’s (<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-online-sale/painted-book-cover-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 525</a>) and thus the inclusion of Martin Bush’s monograph here is essential. The Abrams family maintained a long friendship with the artist and collected his work in depth. Abbeville Press’ publication of&nbsp;Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality&nbsp;displays Bob’s penchant for collaboration, as the artist himself wrote several important statements on his work and contributed significant text to monograph. The publication accompanied a retrospective of at Pace Gallery (March–June 1987). Finally, throughout their decades-long collecting journey, the Abrams family has paid a significant amount of attention to the CoBRA artistic movement, counting works by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn and Lucebert (lot&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-online-sale/prediker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">543</a>) within their collection. These artists directly prefigure the Pop art movement which subsequently defined the Abrams Family Collection, and stands as a testament to the family’s collecting interests as truly being global and without boundaries.

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/sothebys-&amp;-abbeville-press-capsule-libraries" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sotheby's &amp; Abbeville Capsule Libraries</a>&nbsp;present a curated selection of Abbeville Press books from the personal archive of publisher Bob Abrams, in conjunction with&nbsp;Art without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection. The Ultimate Abrams Family Collection is a set of 5 books on art and design, including the following titles: <ul><li>Botero.</li><li>Fernando Botero (Columbian).</li><li>Carter Ratcliff (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>272 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Goodnough.</li><li>Martin Bush (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1982.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>260 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Wesselmann.</li><li>Slim Stealingworth&nbsp;[pseudonym of Tom Wesselmann, American].</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.</li><li>First edition.</li><li>320 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality.</li><li>Jean Dubuffet (French).</li><li>Mildred Glimcher (American).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.</li><li>310 pages.</li></ul> <ul><li>Cobra.</li><li>Jean Clarence Lambert (French).</li><li>New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.</li><li>English and French edition.</li><li>261 pages.</li></ul> Enter the personal world of Bob Abrams and wife Cynthia Vance-Abrams through the Ultimate Abrams Family Collection capsule library. The monographs selected here relate directly to artworks in the family’s collection as presented for sale this fall at Sotheby’s. Each book has a unique place within Abbeville Press’ history and are the most definitive and comprehensive texts on each artist. Slim Stealingworth’s Tom Wesselmann (1980) was pseudonymously written by the artist himself and includes dual dedications. First, to Harry Abrams, for his profound impact on the artist, and with whom Wesselmann began the journey of publishing this very monograph in the late 1960s; and second, to Bob Abrams, for seeing the project through to production. Two works offered in Sotheby’s sale are illustrated in the monograph (<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-live-sale/great-american-nude-75?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 11</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-live-sale/3-d-illuminated-drawing-nude-1966-for-great?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 12</a>), and Stealingworth sheds light onto Wesselmann’s groundbreaking practice of creating these exact vacuum-formed nudes with crisp clarity.&nbsp; Author and art critic Carter Ratcliff has been a frequent Abbeville collaborator since the house’s founding in 1977. Ratcliff captures the spirit of the prolific Colombian painter, and firmly establishes him within the western art historical canon, of which Botero constantly references in his own work.&nbsp; Bob Abrams continued a tradition, established by his father Harry, of inviting artists to produce hand-painted limited edition covers to celebrate the publication of their latest monograph. One such uniquely hand-painted cover is being offered for sale in September at Sotheby’s (<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-online-sale/painted-book-cover-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lot 525</a>) and thus the inclusion of Martin Bush’s monograph here is essential. The Abrams family maintained a long friendship with the artist and collected his work in depth. Abbeville Press’ publication of Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality displays Bob’s penchant for collaboration, as the artist himself wrote several important statements on his work and contributed significant text to monograph. The publication accompanied a retrospective of at Pace Gallery (March–June 1987). Finally, throughout their decades-long collecting journey, the Abrams family has paid a significant amount of attention to the CoBRA artistic movement, counting works by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn and Lucebert (lot <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/art-without-boundaries-the-abrams-family-collection-online-sale/prediker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">543</a>) within their collection. These artists directly prefigure the Pop art movement which subsequently defined the Abrams Family Collection, and stands as a testament to the family’s collecting interests as truly being global and without boundaries.

The Beatles

An Apple Records promotional Lucite box.<ul><li>The box has a black bottom and a clear plastic lid with a silver Apple logo on it.</li><li>It was produced in limited quantities in the late 1960s and early 1970s to friends and staff of the company.</li><li>Launched by The Beatles in 1968, Apple Records served as the new outlet for The Beatles’ own recordings as well as the music of a wide-ranging roster of artists, all brought to the label personally by the band.</li></ul>

Apple Records Promotional Box

Over 80 volumes from the personal library of author and influential editor Mary Mapes Dodge, with many of the volumes inscribed to Dodge by the authors.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 86 volumes, and 1 autograph letter signed by Dodge.</li><li>Includes 76 first editions, 48 inscribed by the authors to Dodge; 6 inscribed by others to Dodge; 5 signed by author without inscription; 10 volumes with owner markings by Dodge.</li><li>Highlights include many volumes with presentation inscriptions from numerous Dodge contemporaries: Noah Brooks; Alice Cary; Mary Booth ("You have won a signal triumph in making what is confessedly the brightest and best of American juvenile magazines"); Charles Warner Dudley ("your Literature is better than most other people's lives, and your Life is better than most people's Literature"); Lucretia Hale; Laurence Hutton (whose A Boy I Knew was "given to the world by St. Nicholas and Mrs. Dodge"); Robert Johnson Underwood; Carolyn Wells (whose collection of verse was "not so good as [Dodge's] own"); John Greenleaf Whittier; Kate Douglas Wiggins; and Donald Mitchell ("With memories of our pleasant fellowship when I was Captain and she Lieutenant—and with no less pleasant—of the new fellowship (a juster arrangement) when she is Captain and I only Corporal of the guard").</li><li>There are also books gifted to Dodge by friends and family; books Dodge gifted to her son and daughter-in-law; as well as books that Dodge gifted to herself ("Mary Mapes Dodge, With many good wishes, from herself Xmas '90"); and an autograph letter in Dodge's hand that responds to an inquiry regarding her use of pseudonyms.</li><li>Also included is a reading copy of Catharine Morris Wright's Dodge biography Lady of the Silver Skates.</li><li>A full inventory is available upon request.</li></ul> The impressive literary career of Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge didn't begin in earnest until after the disappearance and death of her husband in 1858. To support herself and her two young sons, she went to work for her father, the agricultural chemist and inventor James J. Mapes, at his periodicals. Her contributions (published under a variety of pseudonyms) to Working Farmer and United States Journal ranged from poetry, to serials, to advice on the liberation of women, and introduced Dodge to the behind-the-scenes mechanisms of running a magazine. Dodge soon realized that working for her father (who was perpetually broke in spite of his professional successes) would never offer sufficient income, and so she quickly branched out to writing for other magazines and publishers. From warm-hearted juvenilia like The Irvington Stories (her first book) to editorial screeds like "The Shoddy Aristocracy of America" (published in London's Cornhill Magazine), the list of Dodge's publishing credits grew exponentially throughout the 1860s and '70s. Her authorial legacy rests firmly on 1865's Hans Brinker, Or The Silver Skates. So popular was her tale of "child-life in Holland [which she] intended for the young-hearted of all ages" that over 300,000 copies sold in its first year—only Dickens's Our Mutual Friend sold as robustly that year. More than 100 editions in multiple languages were printed in Dodge's lifetime. Her most lasting influence, however, is found in her editorial work. From 1868-1873, she worked as an associate editor for Hearth and Home (briefly "sharing" duties with Harriet Beecher Stowe). As with previous editorships, Dodge's contributions to Hearth and Home were both legion and largely hidden behind pseudonyms. ("Uncle Tim," who produced "puzzles, odd paragraphs, and jolly rhymes" was one of the most popular.) At the end of 1872, Roswell Smith (co-founder of Scribner's Monthly) approached Dodge about creating a children's magazine, and in 1873, St. Nicholas Magazine (so named by Dodge herself) was established. Over the course of the next 30 years, until her death in 1905, Dodge would be a driving force not only at St. Nicholas but in the whole of juvenile publishing. She routinely secured offerings from writers and artists with enormous popular caché: Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, George MacDonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joel Chandler Harris, Helen Hunt Jackson, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington and more. Indeed, her influence extended well into the next generation. Among the youthful submitters to St. Nicholas League (the magazine's monthly contests department) were future heavyweights Rudyard Kipling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, E.B. White, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Bennett Cert (eventual co-founder of Random House). Taken as a whole, this collection offers an intimate window into the private reading life and professional and social circles of one of the most highly regarded editors of the Victorian era, a woman whose exacting vision and editorial acumen helped to shape a full third of the 19th century publishing landscape.

Collection of Books From the Personal Library of Mary Mapes Dodge

Félix Labisse

Poster for the 1947 Belgian film festival at Les Salons du Bon Marche in Brussels.<ul><li>Felix Labisse (French, 1905-1982).</li><li>Festival Mondial du Film Beau-Arts de Belgique (La Naissance du Cinema Lumiere Melies).</li><li>Paper backed on linen.</li></ul>

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Giovannoli Aloisio

Strong impressions of etchings of grotesque masks after original designs by the Italian artist and engraver Aloisio Giovannoli (1550–1618).<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Each set with nine plates.</li><li>The publisher claims that the masks were inspired by antiquity, but a more likely source of inspiration is the work of Giulio Romano (Pouncey &amp; Gere, Italian Drawings in the British Museum, Raphael and his circle, London 1962, plates 94, 113) and others, including the French Renaissance artist René Boyvin (ca. 1525–1598).</li><li>Published by Venanzio Monaldini, Rome.</li><li>Published as Serie di Mascheroni Cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame opera utile a professori ed amatori delle belle arti.</li><li>Framed and glazed.</li></ul> Plates are lettered either "Libro P[rimo]" or "Libro S[econdo]" and also numbered, inscribed "C.P." (cum priviligio), some have the artist's name, "Ali Gio." On some plates, this has been partially burnished out. There is no record of any previous issue of the plates, and Monaldini's claim on the title page (not present) that&nbsp;prints here are "per la prima volta escono in luce" makes it probable that these prints are published here for the first time.

Italian Grotesque Mask Etchings

Bella Freud

The Hello Cunty tee is a Bella Freud design made exclusively for Sotheby’s.• Bella Freud is a London-based fashion designer known for her irreverent designs.• Newly manufactured limited edition. “When I was 14 I came up from the country to visit my father, Lucian. He took me to a private members drinking club called The Colony Club, in Soho. We walked up the grungey staircase and into a dimly&nbsp;lit room where I immediately felt extremely self-conscious as the eyes of various ancient drunks swivelled in my direction. My father offered me a cigarette, a&nbsp;Gauloises with no filter if I remember rightly; he asked me what I wanted to drink. I decided to try a vodka and lime as it was what my best friend at school had told me she had drunk in&nbsp;her local pub. The founder and owner of the&nbsp;club was a&nbsp;lesbian called Muriel Belcher, famous for her scathing and brilliantly funny pronouncements. Muriel greeted her favourite Colony members with the phrase, 'Hello Cunty' on their arrival.&nbsp;She referred to everyone as She, regardless of their sex. Francis Bacon was the person she adored more than anyone and he was known as Daughter.” - Bella Freud&nbsp;

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Hello Cunty T-shirt Black UK Extra Large

The Hello Cunty tee is a Bella Freud design made exclusively for Sotheby’s.• Bella Freud is a London-based fashion designer known for her irreverent designs.• Newly manufactured limited edition.&nbsp; “When I was 14 I came up from the country to visit my father, Lucian. He took me to a private members drinking club called The Colony Club, in Soho. We walked up the grungey staircase and into a dimly&nbsp;lit room where I immediately felt extremely self-conscious as the eyes of various ancient drunks swivelled in my direction. My father offered me a cigarette, a&nbsp;Gauloises with no filter if I remember rightly; he asked me what I wanted to drink. I decided to try a vodka and lime as it was what my best friend at school had told me she had drunk in&nbsp;her local pub. The founder and owner of the&nbsp;club was a&nbsp;lesbian called Muriel Belcher, famous for her scathing and brilliantly funny pronouncements. Muriel greeted her favourite Colony members with the phrase, 'Hello Cunty' on their arrival.&nbsp;She referred to everyone as She, regardless of their sex. Francis Bacon was the person she adored more than anyone and he was known as Daughter.” - Bella Freud&nbsp;

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