Modern First Editions

Ernest Hemingway

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> of For Whom the Bell Tolls by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ernest+Hemingway&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ernest Hemingway</a>.<ul><li>Ernest Hemingway (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Scribner's,&nbsp;1940.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>471 pages.</li><li>In the first state dust jacket, publisher's coarse calico grain cloth with facsimile of the author's signature in black on the uppers cover in custom half-morocco clamshell box.</li></ul> Hemingway's celebrated novel of the Spanish Civil War, difficult to find in such nice condition, as any rubbing stands out against the black background, and the red and blue of the spine are generally found faded.

For Whom the Bell Tolls First Edition

George Orwell

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 Nineteen Eighty-Four by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George+Orwell&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Orwell</a>.<ul><li>George Orwell (English).</li><li>United Kingdom: Secker and Warburg, 1949.</li><li>In the original unclipped maroon wrapper, designed by Michael Kennard.</li></ul> Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in 1949, almost simultaneously in Britain and the United States. The British first edition appeared on 8 June 1949 from Secker &amp; Warburg, Orwell’s long-time publisher, while Harcourt, Brace &amp; Company issued the American edition five days later. Both printings reflected wartime paper shortages, resulting in modest production quality.

Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] First Edition

Michael Bond

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 A Bear Called Paddington by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Michael+Bond&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Bond</a>.<ul><li>Michael Bond (English).</li><li>London: Collins, 1958.</li><li>In the unclipped wrapper.</li></ul>

A Bear Called Paddington First Edition

Dashiell Hammett

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> of The Maltese Falcon by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Dashiell+Hammett&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dashiell Hammett</a>.<ul><li>Dashiell Hammett (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred Knopf,&nbsp;1930.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Original light gray cloth decoratively stamped in dark grayish blue and black on front cover and spine, top edge stained dark blue with deckled fore-edges, in a custom morocco backed box. </li></ul>

The Maltese Falcon First Edition

J.K. Rowling

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 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which has been <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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=J.K.+Rowling&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J.K. Rowling</a> and actor <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Daniel+Radcliffe&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daniel Radcliffe</a>, who portrayed the boy wizard in the Harry Potter films.<ul><li>J.K. Rowling (English).</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 2000.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed by both J.K. Rowling (without dedication) and actor, Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter in the eight motion pictures.&nbsp;</li><li>Accompanied by a typed Letter with a facsimile signature from the author to a fan thanking them for enjoying the book (having been signed) loosely inserted.</li><li>In the original dust wrapper.</li></ul>

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | First Edition Signed by the Author and Daniel Radcliffe

Truman Capote

A <a href="sothebys" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Breakfast+at+Tiffany%27s&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Breakfast at Tiffany's</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Truman+Capote&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Truman Capote</a>.<ul><li>Truman Capote (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;[1958].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>179 pages.</li><li>Publisher's yellow cloth with black leather spine label lettered in gilt, with original typographic dust jacket, In a quarter red morocco clamshell box.</li></ul> With three stories in addition to the title novella: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory."

Breakfast at Tiffany's | A Short Novel and Three Stories | First Edition

E. M. Forster

A <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>, limited <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> of Passage to India by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=E.M.+Forster&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">E.M. Forster</a>.<ul><li>E.M. Forster (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Edward Arnold,&nbsp;1924.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[2, blank], [i, half title], [ii, limitation], [1]-[4], 5-325, [326, blank], [2, blank] pages.</li><li>Number 188 of 200 copies signed by the author.</li><li>Title page printed in red and black.</li><li>Grey boards, brown cloth spine with paper label, extra label at back, in the original grey board slipcase.</li></ul>

A Passage to India | Signed First Edition

George Harrison

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> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George+Harrison&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Harrison</a>'s limited edition autobiography.<ul><li>George Harrison (English).</li><li>Guildford, U.K:&nbsp;Genesis Publications Ltd,&nbsp;1980.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Part of an edition of 2000 signed and numbered copies, this being 1981.</li><li>Illustrated throughout with photographs and facsimile song lyrics, with one fold-out.</li><li>Half-bound dark brown calf and cloth, decorative guitar stamped on front in gilt with inlaid red calf; stamped in gilt on spine with additional red calf inlay,&nbsp;all edges gilt, decorative musical score endpapers, ribbon marker bound in; in publisher's original brown buckram slipcase with printed label.</li></ul> I, Me, Mine was The Beatles' lead guitarist George Harrison's musical memoir, originally published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by Genesis Publications. Opening with a foreword by Derek Taylor, it was profusely illustrated throughout with vintage photographs and color facsimiles of Harrison's autograph song lyrics, and issued in a variety of different leather bindings, including light and dark brown, light and dark green, black, and a small variety of 23 other colors (this copy is bound in dark brown). Perhaps unsurprisingly, the 2,000 signed copies quickly sold out. John Lennon — who would be murdered in December 1980 just a few months after the book's release — took offense with Harrison's text, stating, "I was hurt by it ... By glaring omission … my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil ... I'm not in the book." (He was, in fact, mentioned several times.) Harrison later responded to Lennon's comments in a December 1987 television interview, noting "[Lennon] was annoyed ’cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song 'Taxman.' But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of 'Come Together' or three lines of 'Eleanor Rigby,' you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me"

I, Me, Mine | First Edition

William Somerset Maugham

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> presentation copy of Ah King by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William+Somerset+Maugham&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Somerset Maugham</a>.<ul><li>William Somerset Maugham (English).</li><li>London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1933.</li><li>Inscribed on the title page by Maugham "The last of the Malay stories. For John Palmer. W. Somerset Maugham."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth, housed in a half blue morocco clamshell slipcase.</li></ul>

Ah King | Six Stories | First Edition Presentation Copy

George Rodger

The deluxe <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> of Humanity &amp; Inhumanity by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George+Rodger&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Rodger</a>, with a <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> print.<ul><li>George Rodger (English).</li><li>Text by Bruce Bernard.</li><li>London: Phaidon, 1994.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>320 pages.</li><li>Part of an edition of 100, this being number 21.</li><li>Specially bound with a silver gelatin print photograph, signed by Rodger in black ink in lower margin, Magnum stamp on verso, in a sleeve laid in.</li><li>Grey endpapers, grey silk-covered boards, titles to spine and sides in blind, publisher's matching box with titles stamped to spine in black.</li></ul> The deluxe edition of Humanity &amp; Inhumanity, the first comprehensive overview of Magnum co-founder George Rodger's photographic career. With a signed print of Rodger's 1948 photograph taken in South Africa of a young Basuto boy wrapped in blankets against the cold on the Thabu Bosiu ('Mountain of the Night').

Humanity and Inhumanity Signed First Edition

J.R.R. Tolkien

A set of <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 printings of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Lord+of+the+Rings&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Lord of the Rings</a> trilogy by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=J.R.R.+Tolkien&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J.R.R. Tolkien</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>J.R.R. Tolkien (English).</li><li>Published by George Allen &amp; Unwin.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Half-titles, folding maps printed in red and black at rear of each volume.</li><li>Original publisher’s red cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt with Tolkien’s ring device, top edges stained red; original first issue dust-jackets, priced 21s net.</li><li> </li></ul>The Fellowship of the Ring (1954):<ul><li>[vi], 423, [1] pages.</li><li>“First published in 1954” to verso.</li></ul> The Two Towers (1954):<ul><li>[vi], 352 pages.</li><li>“First published in 1954” to verso.</li></ul> The Return of the King (1955):<ul><li>[vi], 416 pages.</li><li>“First published in 1955” to verso, text complete with Appendix and Index, the name “Legolas” in its characteristic staggered typographical setting, corrected in later impressions.</li></ul> All three volumes retaining correct early maps and red top stain. Rear panels with advertisements referencing The Hobbit (Second Edition, Fifth Impression) and Farmer Giles of Ham, consistent with early states. When The Lord of the Rings appeared between 1954 and 1955, it was issued quietly, in modest print runs, by the London publisher George Allen &amp; Unwin. Tolkien’s achievement was not merely narrative but architectural. Drawing upon philology, medieval literature, mythology, and his own linguistic inventions, he constructed a secondary world of unprecedented depth and internal coherence. Middle-earth was not a setting but a civilisation: languages, genealogies, cosmology, and moral philosophy interwoven with epic narrative. In doing so, Tolkien effectively established the template for modern high fantasy. The trilogy’s publication history underscores its rarity. The first impression of The Fellowship of the Ring numbered only 3,000 copies; The Two Towers followed at 3,250; The Return of the King at 7,000. Survival rates in original, unrestored dust-jackets were never high. More than seventy years after publication, The Lord of the Rings remains one of the most widely read and culturally resonant works of the modern era. The present set — preserved in its original cloth and correctly priced dust-jackets — represents not only a landmark of imaginative literature but a cornerstone of serious book collecting.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | First Edition, First Printings

Winston Churchill

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Finely bound</a> collection the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first British Edition</a> of Churchill's speeches.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12 volumes.</li><li>Winston Churchill (English).</li><li>Collection of His Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Secret Session Speeches, Victory, The Sinews of Peace, Europe Unite, In the Balance, Stemming the Tide, The Unwritten Alliance.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Cassell,&nbsp;1941–1961.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Full modern navy crushed morocco with gilt, raised bands, lion emblems, teg. A few volumes with very light spotting, otherwise fine.</li></ul> A finely-bound collection of Churchill's separately published World War II and Post-War speeches, including his rare last book. The war speeches, published between 1941 and 1946, "constitute a contemporary history of the war with is as lively as it is authoritative...they may be said to be the last word upon the war" (Randolph Churchill). The post-war speeches trace his calls for European Unity during the beginning of the Cold War era. Finally, this set contains the rare first and only printing of the last book printed in his lifetime, The Unwritten Alliance.

Collection of His Speeches | First British Editions

Walter Tevis

A <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> <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> of The Hustler by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Walter+Tevis&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walter Tevis</a>.<ul><li>Walter Tevis (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harper and Brothers,&nbsp;[1959].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed by the author on the title page.</li><li>In the original dust jacket, now in a custom morocco backed box.</li></ul> A crisp signed copy of the author's signature title, chronicling the rise and fall of pool shark Fast Eddie Felson. Basis for the classic 1961 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, and George C. Scott.

The Hustler Signed First Edition

Ernest Thayer

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> of Casey at the Bat by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ernest+Thayer&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ernest Thayer</a>.<ul><li>Ernest Thayer (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;New Amsterdam Book Co,&nbsp;[1901].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Illustrations printed in sepia.</li><li>Bound in the original publisher's illustrated wrappers, enclosed in a quarter-leather slipcase.</li></ul> The famous baseball poem, one of the most celebrated of all American popular poems, was first published in The San Francisco Examiner in June 1888. This is its first appearance in book form, which is now extremely scarce, especially in its fragile original wrappers.

Casey at the Bat First Edition

Ernest Howard Shepard | A.A. Milne

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> of The House At Pooh Corner by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>, <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 the illustrator <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=E.H.+Shepard&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">E.H. Shepard</a>, with an additional signed letter tipped in.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1928.</li><li>Signed by the illustrator E. H. Shepard on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped pink cloth, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt.</li></ul> Tipped to the verso of the front endleaf is a one page signed letter by Shepard which reads: "28 November: 57Dear Mrs. McCreedy,I have heard from Miss George of the Oxford University Press that you are staying in the neighborhood. It will give great pleasure to my wife and to myself if you will come and see us. I would like to suggest Dec. 17th Tuesday, at 4 oclock, If your husband and daughter are able to come as well we shall bt most pleased,Yours SincerelyErnest H. Shepard"

The House At Pooh Corner | First Edition Signed by the Illustrator

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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> of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, <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">inscribed</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Dr.+Seuss&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Seuss</a>.<ul><li>Dr. Seuss (American).</li><li>New York: Random House, 1957.</li><li>Inscribed by Seuss on the verso of the front end leaf "for Martha with Best Wishes - Dr. Seuss."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original pictorial boards, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul> All first issue points present.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas | Inscribed First Edition

A.A. Milne

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first American edition</a> of When We Were Very Young by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>New York: E. P. Dutton &amp; Co., 1924.</li><li>Inscribed by Milne to the recto of the frontis "For Mrs. Burnside from A. A. Milne Christmas 1924."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped red cloth, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, with the original dust jacket.</li></ul>

When We Were Very Young | Inscribed First Edition

Stephen Hawking

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 My Brief History by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Stephen+Hawking&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen Hawking</a>, bearing the author's thumbprint.<ul><li>Stephen Hawking (English).</li><li>New York: Bantam Books, 2013.</li><li>Black ink thumbprint by Hawking.</li><li>Illustrated.</li><li>Hardbound, with the unclipped dust jacket.</li></ul> Hawking’s thumb print appears to a clear area of the title-page with a black ink annotation "With best wishes Stephen Hawking”, with the witness stamp of Jeanna Lee York and signed by her, together with an white card insert headed Stephen Hawking. Jeanna Lee York was Stephen Hawking's former Executive Assistant (PA) and a close friend, until his death in March 2018, managing his busy schedule, events, and communications, and sharing a unique bond marked by laughter despite his condition. She described working with him as a "once in a lifetime experience" and considered herself fortunate to have been part of his life during that period, often seen alongside him in his office, assisting with his famous speech synthesis technology.

My Brief History | First American Edition, Bearing the Author's Thumbprint

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first paperback edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Harry+Potter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Potter</a> and the Philosopher's Stone by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=J.K.+Rowling&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J.K. Rowling</a>.<ul><li>J.K. Rowling (English).</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 1997.</li><li>Includes relevant first edition points: "1 wand" twice on page 53; 'philosphers' misspelling on rear; correct print line number and date.</li><li>Paperback, in a custom red cloth display box.</li></ul>

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone First Edition

Thomas W. Lawson | Winifield M. Thompson

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</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> of The Lawson History of the America's Cup.<ul><li>Winifield M. Thompson (American).</li><li>Thomas W. Lawson (American).</li><li>Boston: Thomas W. Lawson, 1902.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>XV; 402 pages.</li><li>With 89 illustrated plates in color and black and white, with captioned tissue-guards.&nbsp;</li><li>Number 989 of 3000 copies thus.</li><li>Inscribed in black ink to The Hubbardston Library.</li><li>Elegantly bound by Conway of Halifax in navy full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels on the spine, and further gilt decoration to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, with pale blue endpapers and sewn headbands, housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase.</li></ul> Lawson had the work privately printed and personally distributed them to libraries and institutions.

The Lawson History of the America’s Cup: A Record of Fifty Years | Inscribed First Edition

Nelson Mandela

A <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> <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> of Long Walk To Freedom by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nelson+Mandela&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nelson Mandela</a>.<ul><li>Nelson Mandela (South African).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Little, Brown and Company,&nbsp;1994.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>630 pages.</li><li>Limited Edition #439/1000.&nbsp;</li><li>Signed flat by Mandela and enumerated on tipped-in limitation page. </li><li>Bound in publisher's half black leather and green cloth boards, housed in a brown slip case, top edge of text block gilt. </li></ul>

Long Walk To Freedom | Signed by Mandela

A <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> <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> of Farewell to Arms by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ernest+Hemingway&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ernest Hemingway</a>.<ul><li>Ernest Hemingway (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Scribners,&nbsp;1929.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[10], 355 pages.</li><li>Number 56 of 510 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.&nbsp;</li><li>Publisher's light bluish-green boards backed and cornered with vellum, black morocco spine label lettered in gold, in custom half-morocco clamshell box.</li></ul> The only signed limited issue of Hemingway's work, and one of the greatest war novels of all time.

A Farewell to Arms | Signed First Edition

Charles Portis

<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>, <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 Portis's True Grit, inscribed just months after publication.<ul><li>Charles Portis (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;(1968).</li><li>215 pages.</li><li>Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Portis: "For Gerald Cathey / who I hope has / given me a clean / title, with every / good wish / Jan 7, 1969 / Charles Portis."</li><li>Original blue-grey cloth, in original unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket designed by Paul Davis, ochre endpapers.</li></ul> "People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day."

True Grit | Signed First Edition

Bayard Rustin

A <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>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first paperback edition</a> of Down The Line by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bayard+Rustin&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bayard Rustin</a>.<ul><li>Bayard Rustin (American).</li><li>Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.</li><li>Signed by Rustin on the half-title.</li><li>Original pictorial wrappers.</li></ul>

Down The Line | The Collected Writings Of Bayard Rustin | Signed First Paperback Edition

Ian Fleming

A <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>, limited <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> of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian+Fleming&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Oxford: Jonathan Cape, [1963].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>288 pages.</li><li>Signed Limited Edition, one of 250 copies, this being number 38.</li><li>Frontispiece portrait in color of Ian Fleming from the painting by Amherst Villiers.</li><li>Publisher's quarter vellum and black boards, gilt titles and stamp to spine, white wavy line decoration to front boards, top edge gilt, complete with original clear mylar, in a custom quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise.</li></ul> The only signed limited edition of any of Fleming's books.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service Signed First Edition

A signed <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 by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian+Fleming&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>, with a fine proof pull of the jacket.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape,&nbsp;1961.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed by Ian Fleming on the front flyleaf.</li><li>Jacket signed by artist Richard Chopping.</li><li>Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, skeletal hand motif to upper board in blind, with two states of the dust jacket; proof jacket with variant text on front flap and back flap blank, housed in a black morocco backed folding box.</li></ul> Of the preliminary dust jacket, Gilbert notes “a very few copies of the published book came in a trial dust-jacket … likely a tiny number were produced.”

Thunderball  Signed First Edition

The Mademoiselle magazine file copy of the typescript of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Truman+Capote&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Truman Capote</a>’s acclaimed story, “House of Flowers,” with a note from Capote’s agent.<ul><li>Truman Capote (American).</li><li>New York: Mademoiselle, April 1951.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>17 pages.</li><li>Carbon typescript with manuscript and typed corrections, dated August 3, 1950, and marked 'Inventory.'</li></ul> The Mademoiselle magazine file copy of the typescript, with editorial corrections, of Truman Capote’s acclaimed story, “House of Flowers.” With a short typed note from Capote’s agent Marian Ives to Rita, the long-time editor Margarita G. Smith, dated 7/24/50, which reads, in part: “Although I don’t think this is for MLLE, nor did T think so, yet it is honestly the best story he’s done recently and I wanted you to take a look at it anyway …”, and with a pencil reader’s report, “whether this particular story isn’t a bit too strong for those in less sophisticated areas (and in Catholic schools‚ … believe it or not, there are still a lot of college girls who are utterly naive”, and three Mademoiselle reader’s report forms recording considerable editorial back and forth, responses from Catholic readers, and Smith’s decision, “I think we should buy it. M.G.S.”, with a note of a payment of $750. “House of Flowers” was published in the issue for April 1951, and was winner of the third prize in that year’s O. Henry Awards. The story was adapted into a musical in collaboration with composer and lyricist Harold Arlen, and ran for 165 performances on Broadway in 1954. “House of Flowers” was later collected in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The sale of this item includes only the physical object itself. No copyright, reproduction rights, or intellectual property rights are transferred with the purchase. All such rights remain with the original copyright holder, the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

The House of Flowers | Corrected Typescript

Laurie Lee

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 Cider With Rosie by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Laurie+Lee&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Laurie Lee</a>.<ul><li>Laurie Lee (English).</li><li>London: The Hogarth Press, 1959.</li><li>Signed to the foot of the front endpaper by Laurie Lee without dedication.</li><li>The dust wrapper is designed by John Ward, it is not price clipped. </li></ul> A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.&nbsp;

Cider With Rosie Signed First Edition

Philip K. Dick

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 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Philip+K.+Dick&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Philip K. Dick</a>.<ul><li>Philip K. Dick (American).</li><li>United Kingdom: Rapp and Whiting, 1968.</li><li>With the scarce Lawrence Edwards-designed dust wrapper.</li></ul> Filmed notably in 1982, with Ridley Scott as director and Harrison Ford as the lead character, Rick Deckard. Both the novel and the film explore themes such as what it means to be human, the nature of consciousness, and the ethics of creating and controlling intelligent beings. However, the plot and characters differ significantly between the two, with the film focusing more on action and visual spectacle, and the novel delving deeper into the psychological and emotional aspects of the story.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep First Edition

Frederick Forsyth

A <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> <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 Day of the Jackal by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Frederick+Forsyth&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frederick Forsyth</a>.<ul><li>Frederick Forsyth (English).</li><li>London: Hutchinson, 1971.</li><li>Signed ‘All best wishes from Frederick Forsyth 2024’ to the title page.</li><li>In the unclipped wrapper.</li></ul> The book was signed within a year of the Author’s passing, and is scarce thus.

The Day of the Jackal Signed First Edition

A set of <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 printings of the Paddington Bear series by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Michael+Bond&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Bond</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 9 volumes.</li><li>Michael Bond (English).</li><li>London: Collins, 1958-1970.</li><li>The first nine hardcover editions.</li></ul>

The Paddington Bear First Edition Set

Harry Craddock

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 Savoy Cocktail Book by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Harry+Craddock&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Craddock</a>.<ul><li>Harry Craddock (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Gilbert Rumbold.</li><li>London: Constable, 1930.</li></ul> First trade edition of this quintessential book of cocktails, with colorful Art Deco illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold and lovely Art Deco binding.&nbsp; A witty, informative, and eminently useful book on how to make and mix drinks. Compiled by “the king of cocktail shakers,” it contains humorous anecdotes on the origin of the cocktail and its purpose (“for the solace of man”), as well as “an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality.” In 1926, Harry Craddock fled prohibition in the United States to become Head Barman at the London Savoy.

The Savoy Cocktail Book First Edition

Ezra Pound

<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> of Indiscretions; Or, Une Revue De Deux Mondes, three sets of four unbound, uncut signatures, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ezra+Pound&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ezra Pound</a>.<ul><li>3 sets of 4 unbound, uncut signatures.</li><li>Ezra Pound (American).</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Three Mountains Press,&nbsp;1923.&nbsp;</li><li>The first sheet in each set contains the title page, copyright page, and pages 12, 13, 9, and 16 on one side with the dedication page, a blank page, pages 10, 15, 11 and 14, another blank page, and the half title page on the other.</li><li>The second sheet in each set contains pages 21, 20, 28, 29, 25, 32, 24, and 17 on one side with pages 23, 18, 26, 31, 27, 30, 22, and 19 on the other.</li><li>The third sheet in each set contains pages 37, 36, 44, 45, 41, 48, 40, and 33 on one side with pages 39, 34, 42, 47, 43, 46, 38, and 35 on the other side, the fold lines on these sheets occurred slightly off-center, on top of some of the text.</li><li>The fourth sheet in each set contains pages 47, 42, 50, 55, 51, 54, 46, and 43 on one side with pages 41, 48, 56, 49, 53, 52, 44, and 45 on the other side; these sheets all contain a faint stamp.</li></ul>

Indiscretions; Or, Une Revue De Deux Mondes  | First Edition Unbound, Uncut Signatures

<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> of this guide to botany for the amateur, an ambitious production with over 200 actual botanical specimens mounted to its plates.<ul><li>J. Gourdon and Ch. Fourcade.</li><li>Principes de Botanique Comprenant l'Anatomie, l'Organographie et la Physiologie Végétales avec une Planche Lithographiée et un Atlas Naturel Composé de Seize Planches Renfermant Environ 250 échantillons fournis par des plantes diverses. </li><li>Toulouse:&nbsp;L. Hébrail, Durand et Delpuech,&nbsp;1875.</li><li>VIII, 52, 17 numbered plates.</li><li>Text in French and Latin.</li><li>Plate I lithographed, all other plates with fifteen mounted specimens tipped onto each (6 specimens perished, thus 234 of 240).</li><li>Original red cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt.</li></ul> Two of the most flourishing scientific activities by everyday people in the 19th century were plant pressing and making herbariums. This production seeks to serve as a bridge between the specialist's science and its popular application, for example by focusing on the most easily found plants native to France and fore-grounding the common French terms, followed by the Linnean Latin names. What sets this production apart is its painstaking format: for each copy, 240 plant specimens (leaves, flowers, seeds, roots) were carefully collected, preserved, and mounted to their delineated place on each plate. The introduction emphasizes the importance of this approach, arguing that one learns differently "par la vue et le toucher" [by seeing and touching], as well as more accurately and thoroughly than with illustrations.

Principes De Botanique First Edition

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 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=J.K.+Rowling&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J.K. Rowling</a>.<ul><li>J.K. Rowling (English).</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 1999.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>The&nbsp;first&nbsp;issue&nbsp;with 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1,&nbsp;and&nbsp;with Joanne Rowling&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;copyright page,&nbsp;the&nbsp;incorrectly dropped text block on page 7,&nbsp;and&nbsp;no advertisements at&nbsp;the&nbsp;end.</li><li>Publisher's pictorial boards with illustration by Cliff Wright; publisher's pictorial dust-jacket, correctly priced at £10.99, now housed in a solander box.</li></ul>

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | First Issue

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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Harry+Potter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Potter</a> and the Chamber of Secrets, <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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=J.K.+Rowling&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J.K. Rowling</a>.<ul><li>J.K. Rowling (English).</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 1998.</li><li>Signed without dedication to&nbsp;the&nbsp;dedication page by Rowling.</li><li>In&nbsp;the&nbsp;correct&nbsp;first&nbsp;issue&nbsp;dust wrapper with&nbsp;all points: "front flap&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;dust jacket: Paragraph 5, lines 1&nbsp;and&nbsp;2: "Harry&nbsp;Potter&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Philosopher's Stone" is not italicized; Paragraph 5, line 7: "Tom El-Shawk Age 11" has no comma after&nbsp;the&nbsp;name&nbsp;and&nbsp;age has a capital "A"; Paragraph 6, line 1: "Harry&nbsp;Potter" is not italicized; Paragraph 6, line 5: "Harry&nbsp;is not italicized; Paragraph 6, line 7: "Katrina Farrant Age 10" has no comma after&nbsp;the&nbsp;name&nbsp;and&nbsp;age has a capital "A".</li></ul>

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