Own treasured editions of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/illustrated-book?Book%20Subject=Childrens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">children’s classics</a>&nbsp;including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Theodor%2520Seuss%2520Geisel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Seuss</a>’s titles. Our selection also offers illustrated books covering a range of subject matters including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/illustrated-book?Book%20Subject=Travel%252C%2520topography%2520and%2520voyages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">traveling and voyages</a>&nbsp;from different eras (<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/illustrated-book?Period%20-%20General=Antique" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">antique</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/illustrated-book?Period%20-%20General=Contemporary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">contemporary</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/illustrated-book?Period%20-%20General=Vintage" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">20th century</a>).

Illustrated Books

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 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

Finely bound copy of Once Upon a Time with works by Rackham.<ul><li>Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>Edited by Margery Darrell.</li><li>Once Upon a Time: The Fairy Tale World of Arthur Rackham.</li><li>New York: The Viking Press, 1972.</li><li>Illustrated.</li><li>Bound in half red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine with top edge gilt.</li></ul>

Once Upon a Time

Finely bound limited signed edition of Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.<ul><li>Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>&nbsp;London: William Heinemann, 1913.</li><li>Illustrated with 44 mounted color plates.</li><li>Limited edition of 1030, this is number 996.</li><li>Bound in full tan morocco with gilt silhouette of Cinderella on the front cover, top edge gilt with marbled pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul>

Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures

Limited edition of Eloise at Christmastime signed by the illustrator.<ul><li>Kay Thompson (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Hilary Knight (American).</li><li>New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 1999.</li><li>Limited to 250 numbered copies, this is number 214.</li><li>Hardbound with the original slipcase.</li></ul>

Eloise at Christmastime

Stunning Gilded Age ABC book with each letter illustrated in a stars-and-stripes motif, and including a Fourth of July story.<ul><li>New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1899. </li><li>Bound in original pictorial wrappers.</li></ul>

Starry Flag ABC Book

First US edition of this children's gift book.<ul><li>Chromolithograph plates by Kronheim and Co.</li><li>New York: G.P. Putnam &amp; Sons; London: The Religious Tract Society, 1872.</li><li>Bound in full green cloth with ornately gilt-stamped boards.</li></ul>

The Toy Book Present

Sammelband reader featuring two different alphabets, followed by short-verse vignettes with wood-engraved illustrations to every page.<ul><li>Primarily from publisher Edward Lacey (English).</li><li>N.p.: n.p. [circa 1830s].</li><li>Bound in full green cloth.</li></ul>

Alphabet and Verses

Signed limited edition of the classic children's book.<ul><li>Kay Thompson (American).</li><li>Illustrations by Hilary Knight (American).</li><li>New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 1999.</li><li>Limited to 250 numbered copies, this is number 118, signed by the illustrator Hilary Knight.</li><li>Hardbound with the original slipcase, gilt-lettered spine and slipcase cover.</li></ul>

Eloise in Paris

Signed and illustrated first edition first printing of The Cunning Little Vixen.<ul><li>Rudolf Tesnohlidek (Czech).</li><li>Illustrated by Maurice Sendak (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Farrar, Straus and Giroux,&nbsp;1985.</li><li>185 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Full color and black-and-white illustrations.</li><li>Cloth-bound with gilt title on spine and illustrated dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Cunning Little Vixen

First edition finely bound and illustrated Under the Window.<ul><li>Kate Greenaway (English).</li><li>London: George Rutledge &amp; Sons, 1878.</li><li>64 pages.</li><li>Bound in full leather by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe Bindery with the front cover featuring multi-colored onlays of a little girl sitting on a fence within a blind tooled panel composed of gold gilted leafwork within double gilt rules with gold and silver marbled endpapers and all page edges gilt.</li></ul>

Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children

Signed Peter Pan portfolio featuring colored plates.<ul><li>Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>J.M. Barrie (Scottish).</li><li>London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912].</li><li>Contains 12 colored plates by Arthur Rackham mounted in mats.</li><li>Original half vellum over green cloth, lettered in gilt.</li><li>Watercolor on paper bound in half vellum</li><li>Number 178 out of 500 copies signed by the publisher, engraver and printer.</li></ul> This edition, the deluxe printing of 12 selected works from Rackham's earlier, much smaller, 1906 edition, is numbered from 101 to 600, and signed by the publisher, engraver and printer. Approximately 100 were bound in full vellum, and 400 in half vellum.

Peter Pan

Signed copy of the illustrated book Thurber's Dogs.<ul><li>James Thurber (American).</li><li>Thurber's Dogs: A Collection of the Master's Dogs, Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Ago.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;1955.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Inscribed "Happy Days / James Thurber."</li><li>Bound with cloth-backed boards in an illustrated dust jacket.</li></ul>

Thurber's Dogs

Beautiful copy of Bemelmans's famous children's story with the twelve girls on the illustration to "They went home and broke their bread," but with title page undated below the Simon &amp; Schuster imprint.<ul><li>Ludwig Bemelmans (Austrian-American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon &amp; Schuster&nbsp;[1939].</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Bound with illustrated boards and dust jacket.</li></ul>

Madeline

First American edition of the fourth book of the Barbar series.<ul><li>Jean de Brunhoff (French).</li><li>Introduction by A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Translated by Merle Haas (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;(1937).</li><li>Large quarto.</li><li>Bound with printed boards and cloth spine.</li></ul>

Zephir's Holidays

Finely bound copy of the&nbsp;Letterpress Edition of&nbsp;Pictorial Webster's&nbsp;in artist binding with pop-out illustrations.<ul><li>John M. Carrera (American).</li><li>Binding by Karen Hanmer (American).</li><li>London: Quercus Press, 2006.</li><li>Illustrations from Pictorial Webster’s wall cards and laser printed onto goatskin onlays and outlined with inlaid goatskin lines with 33 additional illustrations on Mohawk.</li><li>Limited to 16 unbound copies.</li><li>Bound in full leather with leather hinges, marbled endsheets, and doublures hand-printed with hand-sewn silk headbands and the page edges sprinkled with red acrylic ink.</li><li>A copy of the brochure and book included with a signed artist statement from Karen Hanmer.</li></ul> Selected for the "Hand Bookbinders of California Fortieth Annual Member’s Exhibition" at Stamford University (July 19–December 12, 2012).

Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

Signed with an original drawing of an early edition copy of Sendak's best-known work.<ul><li>Maurice Sendak (American).</li><li>New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1963.</li><li>Inscribed with original drawing of a wild thing on endpaper.</li><li>Bound in original pictorial boards, cloth spine, with pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Medal on jacket front.</li></ul>

Where the Wild Things Are

<ul><li>Signed limited-edition copy of Carrera's illustrated Webster's pictorial dictionary.</li><li>John Carrera (American).</li><li>Binding by Constance Wozny (American).</li><li>Waltham: Quercus Press, 2009.</li><li>Limited edition of 265, this is number 48.</li><li>Singed by the publisher on title page.</li><li>Bound in full goat leather over boards with stamped circles of yellow, red and green with the title stamped horizontally and vertically on the front cover, top edge is colored to match the handmade flyleaf paper.</li><li>Housed in a black cloth clamshell box with the motif of the binding appearing on the spine, inside box has matching handmade paper as the flyleaf with additional imagery stamped on the paper.</li></ul> Webster’s pictorial dictionary is a meticulously printed study of the art of 19th century scientific and black-line wood engravings.&nbsp;From the publisher, “The Pictorial Webster's is, in simplest terms, an artistic visual reference of what was important to 19th Century America. The 400-plus page volume is printed with the original wood engravings and copper electrotypes of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries of the 19th Century; namely the 1859 American Dictionary of the English Language (the 1st illustrated dictionary in America), the 1864 edition of that same Dictionary, and the 1890 International Dictionary. The engravings are arranged alphabetically, a system of organization long shunned by lexicographers because alphabetical order grants no intrinsic meaning to any given grouping of words, but it is perfect for a book that creates its own immersive experience in imagery of a time gone by.”A total of 265 signed and numbered unbound copies were produced so that unique bindings could be created by members of the Guild of Bookworkers, who were selected to participate in the 2002 exhibition featuring this work. This is copy 48, which is signed by the publisher John Carrera. Constance Wozny has been a bookbinder for over 18 years and her creations are widely exhibited in various exhibitions and juried shows in the United States, France, England, Australia and Tokyo. Her bindings are included in the permanent collections of numerous institutions ranging from the Special Collections Department of the Chicago Main Library to the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor. She holds a degree in marketing from Eastern Kentucky University and has studied with many notable book artists and fine binders including Tini Miura, Monique Lallier, Dominic Riley and Don Ethington. Her artistic works have been featured in book art exhibition venues locally, nationally and internationally, as well as in several book art publications. Her studio is located in Louisville, Kentucky.

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