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

Fine prize bindings of Jameson's third edition of the historical art text Sacred and Legendary Art.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Anna Jameson (Anglo-Irish).</li><li>London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905.</li><li>818 pages.</li><li>19 full-page steel plate etchings with tissue guards.</li><li>In-text woodcut illustrations.</li><li>Full leather binding with burl flame boards, gilt embossed title, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt with gold prize stamp to the front board of each.</li></ul>

Sacred and Legendary Art

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 abridged and illustrated copy of&nbsp;The Romance of King Arthur.<ul><li>Thomas Malory (British).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>Abridged by Alfred W. Pollard.</li><li>The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table.</li><li>London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.</li><li>Illustrated with full-page color plates and several black-and-white illustrations in text.</li><li>First Rackham Trade Edition.</li><li>Bound by Atkinson in full blue morocco, with gilt corner pieces, top edge gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers and original cloth cover and spine bound in rear.</li></ul>

The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

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 illustrated copy of the book of erotic poetry, Douze Sonnets Lascifs.<ul><li>Alexandre de Verineau (French).</li><li>Illustrated by Gerda Wegener (French).</li><li>Douze Sonnets Lascifs: pour accompagner la suite d'aquarelles intitulee Les Delassements d'Eros.</li><li>Paris: Erotopolis : A l'enseigne du faune, 1925.</li><li>Illustrated with 12 hand-colored pochoir plates.</li><li>Limited to 350 copies.</li><li>Bound in contemporary full vellum.</li></ul>

Douze Sonnets Lascifs

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

First-edition finely bound Royal Edition set of Foster's French Art.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>J.J. Foster (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Dickinsons,&nbsp;1905.</li><li>Printed on vellum and illustrated with 45 hand-colored plates, 35 of which are printed only for this edition.</li><li>Limited to 35 copies, this is number 3.</li><li>Copy belonging to Alexandra Federovna, Tsarina of Russia, with her bookplate in volumes II and III.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco by Zahnsdorf with an elaborate geometrical bordering gilt-tooled design, top edges gilt and silk endpapers.</li></ul>

French Art from Watteau to Prud'hon

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

Signed limited-edition illustrated print of Miniature Painters in two volumes.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>J.J. Foster (English).</li><li>Miniature Painters British and Foreign with Some Account of Those Who Practiced in America in the Eighteenth Century.</li><li>New York: E. P. Dutton &amp; Co., 1903.</li><li>Heavily illustrated including frontispieces.</li><li>Limited Edition Royale of 10 copies; this is number 3.</li><li>Bound by Stikeman &amp; Co. in full blue morocco, ribbed floral gilt decorated spines, covers elaborately ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, red morocco doublures, light blue silk morie endpapers, top edges gilt with others uncut.</li><li>Each volume housed in a blue morocco edged open-ended slipcase.</li></ul>

Miniature Painters in Britain

Finely bound and illustrated set of Fischel and Boehn's Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Dr. Oskar Fischel (English).</li><li>Max Boehn (German).</li><li>Translated by M. Edwards (English).</li><li>Introduction by Grace Rhys (Irish).</li><li>London &amp; New York:&nbsp;J.M. Dent and E.P. Dutton &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Bound in full wine calf with covers displaying gilt-tooled double borders and floral cover details, raised bands gilt with panels displaying ornate floral gilt tooling and labels in tan morocco with gilt bordering and lettering, all edges gilt with marbled endpapers and ornate floral gilt-tooled turn-ins.</li></ul>

Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century

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

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

Deluxe signed limited first edition of Bailly's Automata: The Golden Age 1848-1914, an important study of the history of automation devices with detailed chapters on the Paris automata industry and the master automation artists of the time: Theroude, Bontems, Vichy, Roullet &amp; Descamps, Phalibois, Lambert and Renou.<ul><li>Christian Bailly (French).</li><li>Hand-painted drawing by&nbsp;Madame Andree Kiefer (French Canadian).</li><li>London: Published for Sotheby's Publications by P. Wilson Publishers; New York, NY: Distributed in the USA by Sotheby's Publications, Harper and Row, 1987.</li><li>360 pages.</li><li>Includes over 120 pages containing facsimile reproductions of the master automation artists' catalogs, and with a chapter on the technical aspects of automata including mechanisms, musical movements and restoration.</li><li>Limited to 25 copies, this is number 2.</li><li>Inscribed by Philip and Sharon Bailly on the limitation page.</li><li>Included with the book is an original pen, ink and watercolor drawing by Madame Andree Kiefer as stated on the limitation page.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco leather with raised bands on spine with gold gilt titling and decorations, blind-tooled and gilt covers with a rose vine motif surrounding an inlay of an original hand-painted miniature by Madame Andree Kiefer, the back cover features a center gold stamped illustration, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.</li><li>Housed in the original matching morocco leather edged open-ended slipcase.</li></ul>

Automata: The Golden Age 1848-1914

Signed limited first edition thus of this large-format deluxe version of the holy text, beautifully illustrated with woodblock prints – one of only 150 copies produced.<ul><li>Maty Grünberg (Israeli).</li><li>Typography by Eliyahu Koren (German).</li><li>New York: Friends of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, 1984.</li><li>[75] leaves, printed one side only, each with tissue guard.</li><li>49 woodcuts in color, 26 in black and white, with gilt elements throughout.</li><li>Signed by Grünberg to publication leaf and numbered 58 of 150.</li><li>In original loose paper wrapper.</li><li>Presented in original black imitation leather clamshell box with gilt lettering and embellishment, gilt stamped initials “WB” and “MW” to inner spine of box.</li></ul> “The Haggadah itself is a fabric, a mosaic of texts.”&nbsp;This strikingly illustrated Haggadah draws inspiration from the long history of the text itself and modern Jewish art. Printed on an 1860 Albion press with woodblocks designed by multimedia artist Maty Grünberg and text based on the work of typographer Eliahu Koren, it also recalls the importance of print technology in “the tremendous proliferation of Haggadot over the past 900 years.” A powerful mix of tradition and 20th-century artistry.

The Bezalel Haggadah

Finley bound and illustrated copy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Hodder &amp; Stoughton Publishers,&nbsp;circa 20th century.</li><li>Bound in green morocco by Heath Bayntun with linen boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, cork endpapers and floral gilt symbols on spines.</li></ul>

Twelfth Night

Scarce and beautiful Hebrew alphabet book, each page with a magnificent full-color illustration by noted Art Nouveau artist Ze'ev Raban of the Bezalel school of art, founded by Boris Schatz and Ephraim Moses Lilien. 	<ul><li>Text by Levin Kipnis (Israeli).</li><li>Illustrated by Ze’ev Raban (Israeli).</li><li>Berlin: Hotsaʼat “ha-Sefer”, 1923.	</li><li>Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet presented in gilt, with text on the bottom of the page.</li><li>Printed on heavy coated paper, mounted on tabs.</li><li>Bound in original quarter cloth, paper pictorial boards.</li></ul>

Aleph-Bet

Beautifully bound set of the Galerie Georges Petit auction house catalogs of the pastels and drawings originating from the studio of Degas.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Edgar Degas (French).</li><li>Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1918.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Bound in later half cream vellum and blue board sides, with original wrapper bound photo.</li></ul>

Catalogue des Tableaux, pastels et Dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son Atelier

Limited-edition copy of Hersey's Hiroshima with Warren's poem and Lawrence's illustrations.<ul><li>John Hersey (American).</li><li>Poem by Robert Penn Warren (American).</li><li>Illustrations by Jacob Lawrence (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1983.</li><li>Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress, with the silkscreens printed at Studio Heinrici Ltd.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Edition limited to 1,500 numbered copies signed by Hersey, Warren and Lawrence.&nbsp;</li><li>Includes 8 color silkscreens by Lawrence.</li><li>Full black aniline calf, lettered in blind, in black silk over boards slipcase.</li></ul>

New Dawn: Hiroshima for John Hersey and Jacob Lawrence

Beautiful bound limited-edition copy of Rilke's sonnets with illustrations by Balthus.<ul><li>Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian).</li><li>Illustrations by Balthus (French).</li><li>Translated by Stephen Mitchell (American).</li><li>The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1997.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Illustrated with two-color woodcut prints by Balthus.</li><li>Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Balthus.&nbsp;</li><li>Original morocco-backed beige linen boards, clamshell box.</li></ul> "These fifty-five sonnets, published in 1923, three years before the poet’s death, describe his relationship to every aspect of creation, and view death as a continuation not a termination of life. In the original German with the superb English verse translation by Stephen Mitchell on facing pages. Balthus was encouraged by Rilke to dedicate his life to the arts. The two illustrations for this edition are a tribute to his childhood friend" (Publisher).

The Sonnets to Orpheus

Limited edition of Giono's text presented in both English and French with photogravures.<ul><li>Jean Giono (French).</li><li>Photogravures by Martine Franck (Belgian).</li><li>Translated by Barbara Bray (English).</li><li>Afterword by Aline Giono.</li><li>Engravings by Harry Brockway.</li><li>The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1996.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Illustrated with five photogravures by Martine Franck.</li><li>Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Franck.&nbsp;</li><li>Text in English and French.</li><li>Original black morocco-backed mulberry tree bark covered boards in original slipcase.</li></ul> "Imagine a book about a man who planted trees in an edition that itself comes from a tree, for this magnificent volume is covered with the bark of the mulberry tree. Imagine also an ancient and enchanted land in the south of France. The Vaucluse inspired Jean Giono to write this book and the renowned photographer, Martine Franck, to create five hauntingly beautiful photogravures of scenes from that magical land. Andre Malraux called Giono (1895-1970) 'one of the greatest writers of our generation.' Inspired by God or Pan, perhaps—Giono’s hero in this story expresses humanity’s ancient kinship with the earth and reverence for all living things" (Publisher).

The Man Who Planted Trees: L'homme qui plantait des arbres

Signed limited edition of Brontë's Wuthering Heights with lithographs by Balthus.<ul><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Balthus (French).</li><li>New York: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1993.</li><li>Text set by Michael Bixler using Monotype Dante, printed on specially made off-white mold-made Arches paper with watermark.</li><li>Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Balthus.</li><li>Illustrated with 15 lithographs by Balthus on Japanese paper printed in brown-toned black ink.</li><li>Original prospectus laid in.</li><li>Original gray-green morocco with title stamped in dark-brown, publisher's cloth box.</li></ul> "What could they have had in common — Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, the Paris‑born modern artist (better known as Balthus) who has filled scores of canvases with paintings of female nudes, and Mistress Emily Brontë, the mid‑nineteenth-century British spinster who seems never to have left the Yorkshire moors? Precisely, those moors. In his youth, the Count visited that wild landscape and, in 1933, made a series of drawings based on her gripping novel. Some say that he saw himself as Heathcliff. Sixty-one years later, and after creating a vast array of famous paintings, many reminiscent of those drawings, Balthus agreed in 1994 to have The Limited Editions Club present, for the first time in their destined context, the entire suite of fifteen drawings" (Publisher).

Wuthering Heights

Limited-edition copy of Aragon's Le Paysan de Paris with lithographs by Cartier-Bresson.<ul><li>Louis Aragon (French).</li><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>Translated by Simon Watson Taylor (English).</li><li>[New York]: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;[1994].</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Illustrated with seven original lithographs and a photogravure by Henri Cartier-Bresson.</li><li>Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Cartier-Bresson.&nbsp;</li><li>The photogravure was printed by Jon Goodman on French-made Arjo Wiggins stock.</li><li>The lithographs were pulled by Bruce Porter at his Trestle Editions studio in New York.</li><li>In original gray-green silk and slipcase.</li></ul> "Just twenty‑eight when he wrote this magical novel, he compares a poet’s love for his city to a peasant’s love for his land. A leading Surrealist writer, Aragon was keenly aware of the hidden life concealed by every object, great and small. The Peasant of Paris combines minute descriptions of scenes and objects, humorous anecdotes, and philosophical reflections: all to create a reality that goes far beyond the literal or visual. Another love affair with Paris: that of the renowned artist and photographer Henri Cartier‑Bresson who chose this book to illustrate with seven enchanting lithographs of Paris and a photogravure portrait of Louis Aragon" (Publisher).

Le Paysan de Paris

Copy of the North American Aviation, Space and Information Systems Division Lunar Atlas prepared under the direction of Alter Dinsmore.<ul><li>Alter Dinsmore (American).</li><li>North American Aviation, Space and Information Systems Division, Inc.</li><li>[Downey, Calif.]: North American Aviation,&nbsp;1964.&nbsp;</li><li>x, 341 pp. with black and white illustrations.</li><li>154 plates with descriptions on facing pages.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Spine, black without print with boards in black cloth with gold print and lunar image on front.</li></ul>

Lunar Atlas

An illustrated copy of Aragon's Le Paysan de Paris.<ul><li>Louis Aragon (French).</li><li>Photogravure by Henri Cartier-Bresson.</li><li>Translated by Simon Watson Taylor.</li><li>[New York]:&nbsp;The Limited Editions Club&nbsp;[1994].</li><li>One of 300 copies, signed by Cartier-Bresson.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with seven original lithographs and a photogravure by Cartier-Bresson, that was pulled by Bruce Porter at his Trestle Editions studio in New York, and printed by Jon Goodman on French-made Arjo Wiggins stock.</li><li>Housed in slipcase with Grey-Green silk binding.</li></ul>

Inscribed edition of Thurber's Dogs.<ul><li>Illustrated by 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>8vo.</li><li>Inscribed "Happy Days, James Thurber."</li><li>Original cloth-backed boards, original illustrated dust jacket.</li></ul> A wonderful example of Thurber's work. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Thurber was an American cartoonist, author and playwright. He is perhaps best known for his short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Signed, illustrated copy of Whitman's Song of the Open Road.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>Illustrated with six hand-pulled photogravure plates by Aaron Siskind.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1990.</li><li>Plates printed at the Renaissance Press by Paul Taylor and Cary Nelson on Richard de Bas paper.</li><li>Number 489 of 550, signed by Aaron Siskind.&nbsp;</li><li>Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Dan Carr, the book was printed by Heritage Printers in English Monotype Scotch handset at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Carr and Julia Ferrari, on paper by Carterie Enrico Magnani.</li><li>Bound in quarter black goatskin over green linen cloth-covered boards, in a black linen-covered slipcase.</li></ul>

Song of the Open Road

A photo postcard showing Twain smoking a pipe in a windowsill at Stormfield, flanked by his business advisor, Ralph Ashcroft, and his secretary, Isabel Lyon.<ul><li>Mark Twain [S.L.&nbsp;Clemens] (American).</li><li>[Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut], N.p: "Xmas Day", 1908.</li><li>Inscription reads: "Dear Mr. Coe: I am smoking your health in your noble cigars. I wish you &amp; Mrs. Mai were here to assist. In the picture it is family worship. I am trying to do the Beatitudes, &amp; Ashcroft is prompting. With love to you both – SLC".</li><li>The photo was taken by William Ireland Starr just a few weeks earlier, and Twain had several postcards printed up using the image.</li></ul> William Robertson Coe (1869-1955) was a famous rare book collector (Coe Collection at Yale), insurance and railroad executive and American Studies pioneer. His wife, Mai Rogers Coe (1875-1924), knew Twain through his friendship with her parents, the wealthy industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers and Abbie Palmer Rogers. Rogers was Twain's greatest friend towards the end of his life, and was at times believed to be the richest man in America, outdoing his partner John D. Rockefeller.

Mark Twain Autographed Postcard

Deluxe issue facsimile of Gauguin's Voyage de Tahiti.<ul><li>Paul Gauguin (French).</li><li>Edited by Julius Meier-Graeffe</li><li>[Munchen; Berlin:&nbsp;Marees-Gesellschaft. Verlag R. Piper &amp; Co. Hersteller: Ganymed,&nbsp;1926].</li><li>[4], 204 [i.e. 210] pp. 1 vols.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Number LVI of LXXX copies specially bound (limitation notice on front pastedown).&nbsp;</li><li>Collotype facsimile reproducing in color the artist's watercolors, photographs, line drawings and woodcuts.</li><li>Missing the rare portfolio and dust jacket.</li><li>Bound in original citron morocco.</li></ul> The deluxe issue of this beautifully produced facsimile in color of Gauguin's original manuscript of his collaboration with the Symbolist poet Charles Morice. A version of the collaboration appeared in Gauguin's lifetime, but "Gauguin recopied and amplified his manuscript, adding watercolors, woodcuts, and an occasional photograph," and it is this manuscript, now in the Louvre, on which the present facsimile is based; Gauguin's "visual interpretation of this primitive culture in powerful rhythmic and totemic designs ... represents an important project in book-making by this major artist" (Garvey).

Noa Noa: Voyage de Tahiti

A suite of signed proofs of the 8 line engravings by Stephen Gooden for this book.<ul><li>Stephen Gooden (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Done for the George G. Harrap Co., 1940.</li><li>Limited edition of 125 copies.</li><li>All proofs have generous margins and are in two sizes, one set smaller than the other.</li></ul> Stephen Gooden (1892-1955) was the most accomplished line engraver of his time. He illustrated a number of books, among them the Nonesuch Press Bible, the Rubaiyat, the Fables of La Fontaine, George Moore's The Brook Kerith and Aesop's Fables. In addition, he produced a notable series of bookplates, including a number for The Royal Family, and was the official designer to the Bank of England. Because his work invariably appeared in limited editions, which restricted the public's access to his work, he is not as well known—particularly in America—as he deserves to be, but his work is unsurpassed.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Self-published collection of political cartoons about Pablo Escobar completed by the author while imprisoned.<ul><li>Pablo Escobar (Colombian).</li><li>[Medellin, Colombia: 1992].</li><li>[2]-377, [1] ll., printed rectos only.</li><li>4to.</li><li>Numerous plates reproducing political cartoons and photographs and drawings of Escobar (four of them in color).</li><li>Original calf with facsimile signature and fingerprint in gilt.</li></ul> Proof of the law's inability to constrain Escobar surely comes in no stranger format than this self-published collection of political cartoons concerning the Colombian drug trade while serving time in his luxury prison, La Catedral.&nbsp; Escobar is quite serious about the value of this work and states in the prologue: "El lengua figurativo de la caricatura representa una opinion, un criterio, un punto de vista personal y es por eso que hemos querido recopilar todos los pensamientos graficos y bajo este tema especifico de narrativa. Porque visualizar un concepto tan abstracto como un modo de pensar, va mas alla de la simple ridiculizacion de un a personaje o la simple expocision de los razgos caracteristicos; es darle vida propia a una imagen abstracta que reposa silenciosa en nuestra mentes." The book opens with a report on the Colombian government importing of cocaine and reprints a series of photographs of Escobar, some with his family and even some in prison. From there, the wide-ranging caricatures satirize everything from politics, the mafia, religion, the United States and even drug use in sport. According to an Escobar family member, most of the copies of the book were burned after Escobar’s escape from the prison, with only a handful of copies surviving the fire.&nbsp; Rare. OCLC locates no copies, though the book does turn up now and again on a certain online auction site at predictably ludicrous prices.

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