Books & Manuscripts

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/the-joanne-woodward-&amp;-paul-newman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Life &amp; Legacy: The Joanne Woodward &amp; Paul Newman Collection</a>A group of Dickens' works and a gilt metal relief.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Set comprises thirteen books by various publishers in the United Kingdom and United States and a gilt metal three-quarter relief of Charles Dickens.</li><li>Relief is presented in a shadow box gilt frame with red felt interior.</li></ul> Charles Dickens (English).Our Mutual Friend&nbsp;in 2 volumes.London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.Bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Charles Dickens (English).Pickwick Papers.London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.Bound in green morocco, raised bands, gilt letters and tooling. Frederick Barnard (English).Character Sketches from Dickens.London: Cassell &amp; Company, Ltd 1887.Bound in one-quarter red morocco over linen boards with gilt letters.

A Collection of Dickensiana

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/the-joanne-woodward-&amp;-paul-newman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Life &amp; Legacy: The Joanne Woodward &amp; Paul Newman Collection</a>A collection of Dickensiana including A Christmas Carol, a bust, round plaque, metal mail opener and an etching.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>A Christmas Carol.</li><li>N.p., Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1938.</li><li>Bound in red cloth boards, embossed with gilt and the title in a white square on front board.</li><li>Metal bust, letter opener and plaque of Charles Dickens.</li><li>Etching in gilt metal frame of young Dickens.</li></ul>

A Christmas Carol and Dickens Collectors Objects

American Arts and Crafts-style illuminated manuscript on vellum by the designer credited with leading the American revival in hand-lettering.<ul><li>Frederic W. Goudy (American).</li><li>Ecclesiastes, or, The Preacher.</li><li>n.p,&nbsp;[circa 1890s].</li><li>112 pages.</li><li>Signed by Goudy on the title page.</li><li>Original full brown goatskin, elaborately gilt-embossed floral borders, central medallion gilt-embossed within interior, gilt-embossed corners within frame with burgundy goatskin doublures with gilt-bordered blue-ground central and corner piece cutouts ornamented with leather filigree work and top and bottom edges gilt.</li></ul> One of the best-known American type designers of the 20th century, Goudy made an in-depth study of letterforms and their history. Many of his typefaces and book designs are directly informed by his historical research, from examples of the Italian Renaissance, to German blackletter, to Roman monumental capitals. Goudy began his artistic career as a lettering artist; his student, the type designer Oswald Cooper, credited Goudy with beginning the American revival in hand-lettering. Goudy was greatly influenced by William Morris, who studied medieval arts and early printing in an ambitious project to re-evaluate every aspect of book production; Morris's Kelmscott Press was the inspiration for Goudy's own Village Press. This manuscript is clearly a production in the same spirit, forming a detailed study in the making of an illuminated manuscript, and bound in a manner informed by manuscript-era techniques in the Middle East, such as the Timurid and Safavid styles (though with certain conscious departures, like the lack of the otherwise characteristic flap).

Ecclesiastes 

First edition signed limited large paper copy of Winnie the Pooh.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Methuen,&nbsp;(1926).</li><li>xvi, 158, [2] pages.</li><li>Folding map at rear. </li><li>Signed by Milne and Shepard on limitation page.</li><li>Limited edition of 350 numbered copies.</li><li>Printed on handmade paper and bound in original quarter blue cloth, light blue paper boards in blue printed dust jacket.</li></ul>

Winnie the Pooh

First edition early issue of Stevenson's Treasure Island.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Cassell &amp; Company, Limited,&nbsp;1883.</li><li>292, [8] pages.</li><li>Color cartographic frontispiece with tissue guard.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original sage green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black coated endpapers and uncut edges.</li><li>Housed in custom green cloth clamshell with gilt spine lettering.</li></ul>

Treasure Island

Signed first-edition copy of James and the Giant Peach.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (British).</li><li>Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;(1961).&nbsp;</li><li>[8], 119, [1] pages.</li><li>Signed by Dahl in blue ink on front endpaper.</li><li>Bound in original full blind-stamped red cloth, gilt-lettered spine in original unclipped pictorial dust jacket with green endpapers and yellow topstain.</li></ul>

James and the Giant Peach

First US edition of the illustrated Picture Exhibition.<ul><li>Richard Johnson (English).</li><li>The Picture Exhibition; Containing the original drawings of eighteen disciples.</li><li>Worcester, MA:&nbsp;Isaiah Thomas,&nbsp;1788.&nbsp;</li><li>viii, 112, [14] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with black-and-white woodcuts.</li><li>Bound in modern marbled boards with paper title label.</li><li>Housed in custom blue cloth clamshell with paper spine label.&nbsp;</li></ul>

The Picture Exhibition

First edition, first printing of the Hardy Boys adventure The House on the Cliff.<ul><li>Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] (Canadian).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Grosset &amp; Dunlap Publishers,&nbsp;[1927].&nbsp;</li><li>212, [8 - ads] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original red publisher's cloth with unclipped color pictorial dust jacket.</li><li>Housed in custom red cloth clamshell with matching red velvet interior inlays.</li></ul>

The House on the Cliff

First edition unused do-it-yourself shadow puppet theater with puppet figures and stage sets.<ul><li>August Wilhelm Zachariä (German).</li><li>Kronprinzchen von Kinderland: ein Schattenspiel.</li><li>Leipzig:&nbsp;Carl Cnobloch,&nbsp;1821.</li><li>xvi, 96 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Illustrated with seven plates of 16 uncut puppet figures and two plates with large stage sets.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original orange wrapper.</li></ul>

Kronprinzchen von Kinderland

First edition, first printing of the second book in L'Engle's Time Quintet.<ul><li>Madeleine L'Engle (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Farrar, Straus and Giroux,&nbsp;[1973].</li><li>211, [1] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original emerald green cloth with gilt-lettered spine with blue topstain, green endpapers, in original unclipped dust jacket.</li></ul>

A Wind in the Door

First edition, first printing inscribed copy of The Trip.<ul><li>Ezra Jack Keats (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Greenwillow Books,&nbsp;1978.</li><li>[32] pages.</li><li>Inscribed "to Omar – with warmest regards" by Keats on front free endpaper.</li><li>Bound with original pictorial boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Trip

Signed first edition, first printing of Johnston's collection of works.<ul><li>Daniel Johnston (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Rizzoli,&nbsp;(2009).</li><li>Unpaginated.</li><li>Signed by Johnston to verso of front flyleaf.</li><li>Original unclipped two-sided color pictorial dust jacket that folds out into a poster.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Daniel Johnston

Signed second printing of Howl and Other Poems.<ul><li>Allen Ginsberg (American).</li><li>San Francisco:&nbsp;The City Lights Pocket Bookshop,&nbsp;[1956].&nbsp;</li><li>44 pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original stiff black stapled wrappers with hand-pasted wraparound band label.</li></ul>

Howl and Other Poems

Signed first UK edition of the science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness.<ul><li>Ursula K. Le Guin (American).</li><li>[London]:&nbsp;Macdonald,&nbsp;[1969].</li><li>286 pages.</li><li>Bound in original textured purple paper boards, gilt-stamped spine in unclipped color pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Left Hand of Darkness

Signed first edition, first printing of Zappa's autobiography.<ul><li>Frank Zappa (American).</li><li>Peter Occhiogrosso (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Poseidon Press,&nbsp;(1989).</li><li>352 pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Signed by Zappa on the front endpaper.</li><li>Review copy with promo photo of Zappa and publisher press release loosely laid in.</li><li>Bound in original quarter red cloth over black boards in original unclipped photographic dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Real Frank Zappa Book

First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."<ul><li>Edgar Allan Poe (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Wiley and Putnam,&nbsp;1845.&nbsp;</li><li>[8], 91, [1], [4] pages.</li><li>Publisher's ads in rear.</li><li>Bound in contemporary quarter green goatskin, rebacked with original spine laid down, blue marbled boards and brown endpapers.&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in custom quarter blue goatskin clamshell box.</li></ul>

The Raven and Other Poems

First edition, first printing of this selection of Poe's tales, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."<ul><li>Edgar Allan Poe (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Wiley and Putnam,&nbsp;1845.</li><li>[6], 228 pages.</li><li>Bound in modern half brown goatskin with contemporary marbled boards, spine ruled with gilt lettering.</li><li>Housed in custom quarter green goatskin slipcase and green cloth chemise.</li></ul>

Tales

First edition, first printing of Jones' Corregidora.<ul><li>Gayl Jones (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;[1975].</li><li>[6], 185, [1] pages.</li><li>Bound in original quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards, metallic red and green-lettered spine in unclipped color pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul>

Corregidora

First edition, first printing of Stephen King's The Stand.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>Garden City, NY:&nbsp;Doubleday &amp; Company Inc.,&nbsp;1978.</li><li>824 pages.</li><li>Bound in original quarter black cloth over tan boards in price-clipped color pictorial jacket.&nbsp;</li></ul>

The Stand

Original program from one of Smith's earliest gigs.<ul><li>Patti Smith (American).</li><li>[New York]:&nbsp;n.p.,&nbsp;[1973].</li><li>Single pale blue leaf, printed recto only, xerographically reproduced.&nbsp;</li></ul>

de l'Ame Pour l'Ame

First edition, first printing review copy of Kerouac's On the Road.<ul><li>Jack Kerouac (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Viking,&nbsp;1957.</li><li>310 pages.</li><li>Original typed Viking review slip loosely laid in noting publication date of "September 5, 1957."&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original black cloth titled in white with unclipped pictorial jacket.</li></ul>

On the Road

First edition historic account of Virginia and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia.<ul><li>Thomas Hariot (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John White (English).</li><li>Engravings by Theodor De Bry (Belgian).</li><li>Admiranda, narratio fida tamen de commodis et incolarum ritibus virginiae.</li><li>Francoforti:&nbsp;Theodori De Bry,&nbsp;1590.</li><li>Mixed first and second issue.</li><li>34, [64], [22] pages.</li><li>Illustrated with engraved title page and 25 (of 28) engraved plates (two folding), and double-page map.</li><li>Bound in modern polished brown goat boards tooled in blind and gilt, light brown goatskin spine label with red-stained edges.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Admiranda narratio fida tamen

First edition, first printing of Interviews with Francis Bacon inscribed by the artist.<ul><li>David Sylvester (British).</li><li>Francis Bacon (Irish-British).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Thames and Hudson,&nbsp;(1975).</li><li>128 pages.</li><li>94 illustrations in black-and-white.</li><li>Inscribed by Bacon on the half title: "To Thomas Hoving / With Very best wishes / Francis Bacon."</li><li>Bound in original color pictorial wrappers.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Interviews with Francis Bacon

First edition complete run of the groundbreaking countercultural fashion magazine Rags, one of the first to document vernacular fashion.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 13.</li><li>Baron Wolman (American).</li><li>Mary Peacock (American).</li><li>Daphne Davis (American).</li><li>San Francisco:&nbsp;Rosy Cheeks,&nbsp;1970-71.</li><li>Approximately 60-80 pages each.</li><li>Heavily illustrated throughout.</li><li>Bound in original stapled pictorial wrappers.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Rags

Rare publisher's long galleys of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s reflections on 1963's anti-segregation Birmingham campaign.<ul><li>Martin Luther King, Jr. (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harper &amp; Row,&nbsp;(1964).</li><li>[63]&nbsp;pages.</li><li>Long unbound sheets, printed one side only, loosely folded to center.</li></ul>

Why We Can't Wait

Second edition of Whitman's poetry Leaves of Grass.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>Brooklyn:&nbsp;(Walt Whitman),&nbsp;1856.</li><li>iv, 5-384, [2] pages.</li><li>Duodecimo.</li><li>Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman.</li><li>Bound in original green cloth stamped in blind, front board and spine in gilt lettering.</li></ul>

Leaves of Grass

Seventh printing of Joyce's Ulysses.<ul><li>James Joyce (Irish).</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Shakespeare and Company,&nbsp;1925.</li><li>Bound in original pale blue printed wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a custom black quarter leather over black cloth archival clamshell box with gilt title to spine.</li></ul>

Ulysses

Signed limited first edition of Card's Xenocide.<ul><li>Orson Scott Card (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,&nbsp;(1991).</li><li>394 pages.</li><li>Limited edition of 300 numbered copies; this being number 268.</li><li>Bound in original gilt-stamped black leather with blue marbled endpapers.&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in black slipcase.</li></ul>

Xenocide

Signed limited first edition of Rosenbach's Books and Bidders.<ul><li>A.S.W. Rosenbach (American).</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;Little, Brown, and Company,&nbsp;1927.</li><li>311, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated with black-and-white plates throughout.</li><li>Limited to 785 signed copies; this being number 299.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original quarter brown cloth with blind-stamped brown boards and printed title label to spine.</li></ul>

Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile

First edition, second issue of Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip.<ul><li>Edward Ruscha (American).</li><li>[Los Angeles]:&nbsp;[Edward Ruscha],&nbsp;(1966).</li><li>Accordion-fold printed recto only and mounted in printed wrappers.</li><li>Housed in original silver Mylar foil-covered slipcase.</li></ul>

Every Building on the Sunset Strip

Signed Anniversary Edition of Rice's Interview with the Vampire.<ul><li>Anne Rice (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;1996.</li><li>[8], 350, [4] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Signed by Anne Rice on second fly leaf.</li><li>Bound in original black cloth in metallic gold typographic dust jacket designed by R.D. Scudellari. </li><li>Housed original slipcase designed by Virginia Tan.</li></ul>

Interview with the Vampire

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/the-joanne-woodward-&amp;-paul-newman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Life &amp; Legacy: The Joanne Woodward &amp; Paul Newman Collection</a>Finely bound pre-Haussmann maps of Paris.<ul><li>Michel-Étienne Turgot (French).</li><li>Louis Bretez (French).</li><li>Paris: Achevé de gravure, 1739.</li><li>Folio</li><li> Includes folding double-page index maps and very large perspective plans on twenty numbered double-page sheets by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez.</li><li>Bound in full brown morocco tooled leather with gilt arms of Paris.</li></ul>

Plans de Paris

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/the-joanne-woodward-&amp;-paul-newman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Life &amp; Legacy: The Joanne Woodward &amp; Paul Newman Collection</a>First printing of Brown's Jim Kane, which inspired Newman's 1972 film Pocket Money.<ul><li>J.P.S. Brown (American).</li><li>Design by Thomas Clemens (American).</li><li>Illustrations by Tuba Studio.</li><li>New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1970.</li><li>432 pages.</li><li>Bound in publishers cloth with pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul>

Jim Kane

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/the-joanne-woodward-&amp;-paul-newman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Life &amp; Legacy: The Joanne Woodward &amp; Paul Newman Collection</a>First-edition set of Connell's debut novel about a bourgeois family in Kansas City in the period between the First and Second World War.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Evan S. Connell, Jr. (American).</li><li>Adapted for the film Mr. &amp; Mrs. Bridge, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 1990.</li></ul> Mr Bridge.New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.369 pages.Octavo.Bound in publisher's black linen, gold lettering on spine. Mrs. Bridge.New York City:&nbsp;New York Viking Press, 1959.254 pages.Octavo.Bound in pink and gold cloth.

Mr. Bridge, Mrs. Bridge

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/the-joanne-woodward-&amp;-paul-newman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Life &amp; Legacy: The Joanne Woodward &amp; Paul Newman Collection</a>First-edition copy of&nbsp;A Hall of Mirrors that became the 1970 film WUSA.<ul><li>Robert Stone (American).</li><li>Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.</li><li>409 pages.</li><li>Bound in black linen over cloth boards.</li></ul>

A Hall of Mirrors 

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/the-joanne-woodward-&amp;-paul-newman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Life &amp; Legacy: The Joanne Woodward &amp; Paul Newman Collection</a>Finely bound set of Barton and Tynan's Historic Costume for the Stage and He That Plays the King.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li></ul> Lucy Barton (American).Illustrated by Davis Sarvis (American).Historic Costume for the Stage.Boston: Walter H. Baker Co., 1935.605 pages.First printing.Signed indecipherably.Hardbound in green linen with gilt stamp. Kenneth Tynan (British).Introduction by Orson Welles (American).He That Plays the King: A View of the Theatre.London: The Collector's Book Club and Longmans, Green and Co., 1950.256 pages.Octavo.Limited edition de luxe of 50 copies, this being number 42 of 50 signed by Tynan on the limitation page for members of The Collector's Book Club.Inscribed Christmas 1959, to P.L, the greatest director of them all! I Love You, Your Wife.Bound in one-quarter tan morocco with raised bands, gilt letters, marbled boards and top edge gilt.

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