First Edition Literature & Children's Books

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The English Spy, illustrated by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Cruikshank&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Cruikshank</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Charles Malloy Westmacott (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank.</li><li>The English Spy. An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle.</li><li>London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825, 1826.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>With 71 hand-colored aquatint plates, one full page wood engraving, and 74 woodcuts in the text, after Robert Cruikshank.</li><li>Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt spine, all edges gilt, by Riviere &amp; Son.</li></ul> A vast panorama of high and low life in Regency England, from aristocratic London and the fashionable spas to pubs and boxing rings and street markets and sailors' carousals and town-and-gown riots, all caught in Westmacott's text and Cruikshank's inimitable illustrations. Abbey notes that this book was once described as "perhaps the most daring book ever published", since many of the characters were drawn from life, "and were, at the time of publication, undoubtedly easy to recognize". Time has perhaps obscured some of the scandalous aspects, but the work remains a vivid chronicle of a regal and rambunctious age.

The English Spy

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> first trade edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=edgar%20allan%20poe&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Poe</a>'s Tales Of Mystery And Imagination.<ul><li>Edgar Allan Poe (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>London: George G. Harrap &amp; Co., Ltd., 1935.</li><li>Small folio.</li><li>12 tissue guarded color plates and 17 others.</li><li>Bound in full black morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered spine, gilt skeleton and title to front cover, gilt dentelles, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, by Zaensdorf for E. Joseph.</li></ul>

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

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 issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=A.A.%20Milne&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Winnie%20The%20Pooh&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winnie The Pooh</a>.<ul><li>A. A.&nbsp;Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shephard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1926.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped green cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, in a protective mylar jacket.</li></ul>

Winnie The Pooh

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Signed</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Cormac%20McCarthy&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cormac McCarthy</a> novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Cormac McCarthy (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred Knopf,&nbsp;2022.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>Signed flat by author Cormac McCarthy on the publisher's tipped in page.</li><li>Spine is blue with white lettering, both volumes have mirrored design of a face, in black slipcase with an orange and white nuclear explosion design along the spine, illuminated horizon design along the front and rear boards, and an adhesively attached summary on the front board.</li></ul>

The Passenger and Stella Maris

A collection 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 Andy Weir's <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novels</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Andy Weir (American).</li><li>Included titles: The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Crown, Ballantine Books,&nbsp;2014-2021.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed flat by Andy Weir on title page of Volume 2 and on the publisher's tipped pages in Volumes 1 and 3.</li><li>Volume 3 contains two loose bookmarks and a circular loose astronaut patch all located between the front mylar flap and cover flap.</li><li>Volume 1 has a orange fading into black spine with white lettering, Volume 2 has a black spine with silver gilted lettering, and Volume 3 has a black spine with gold lettering, dust jackets are wrapped in mylar coverings and Volume 3 has a gold 'Signed Copy' sticker on the front cover.</li></ul>

Andy Weir Novels

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a>, first UK edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bret%20Easton%20Ellis&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bret Easton Ellis</a>' <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novel</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=American%20Psycho&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Psycho</a>.<ul><li>Bret Easton Ellis (American).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Picador,&nbsp;1991.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>399 pages.</li><li>Signed flat on title page by Bret Easton Ellis.</li><li>Contains photo of Bret Easton Ellis at a book signing between mylar covering and dust jacket front flap.</li><li>Spine is dark red with black and white lettering, dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut.</li></ul>

American Psycho

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Autographed%2520and%2520Signed%2520Material" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Stephen%20King&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>'s Bag Of Bones.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Scribner,&nbsp;1998.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>529 pages.</li><li>Signed flat by King on front free endpaper, with some ink bleeding.</li><li>Includes bookmark and book description from previous bookseller.</li><li>Spine white pictorial with gold and black lettering, dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut.</li><li>Minor shelf wear. Scuffing to rear cover. Light foxing to edges of textblock.</li></ul>

Bag Of Bones

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novel</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Novels&amp;query=Catch%2022&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Catch 22</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Novels&amp;query=Joseph%20Heller&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Heller</a>.<ul><li>Joseph Heller (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;1961.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>443 pages. </li><li>Spine blue and white with white lettering, dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut, top edge of text block dyed red, though faded.</li></ul>

Catch-22

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>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=The%20Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t%20of%20Omar%20Khayy%C3%A1m&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám</a>.<ul><li>Omar Khayyám (Persian).</li><li>Illustrated by Willy Pogany.</li><li>Lithograph-printed by McLagan &amp; Cumming of Edinburgh.</li><li>London: George G. Harrap &amp; Co., 1909.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>16 tipped-in color-plates.</li><li>Bound in blue-green morocco by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe for Marshal Field and Company, panels ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt.</li></ul> This edition was based on Edward Fitzgerald's translation, first published in 1859. The poem presents an interesting challenge to any reader trying to sort through its profound symbolism and not-so-obvious theme, and gained recognition over the course of the nineteenth century as a growing 'cult of the Rubáiyát' found expression in 'the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America' (Yohannan, p.202).

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

A collection of signed first edition books and ephemera by Lemony Snicket.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 16 volumes, plus ephemera.</li><li>Lemony Snicket [Daniel Handler] (American).</li><li>Includes: A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Beatrice Letters, as well as several items of ephemera.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harper Collins,&nbsp;1999-2007.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>Each is signed.</li><li>Thirteen volumes with monochrome paper spines and white lettering.</li><li>One volume with tan and brown spine an black lettering.</li><li>One volume with green pictorial spine and black lettering.</li><li>One volume with brown spine and yellow lettering.</li></ul> Complete Contents:Book The First: A Bad Beginning&nbsp;(162 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 1999. 18th printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Second: The Reptile Room (190 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 1999. First printing. Protected in mylar wrap.Book The Third: The Wide Window&nbsp;(214 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First printing. Protected in mylar wrap.Book The Fourth: The Miserable Mill (194 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Fifth: The Austere Academy (221 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator (259 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Seventh: The Vile Village (256 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Eighth: The Hostile Hospital&nbsp;(255 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First printing. -- BOOK THE NINTH: THE Carnivorous Carnival (286 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2002. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Tenth: The Slippery Slope (337 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2003. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Eleventh: The Grim Grotto (323 pages). New York: Harper Collins, 2004. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Twelfth: The Penultimate Peril (353 pages). New York: Harper Collins, 2005. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page; additionally inscribed by illustrator on the same page.Book The Thirteenth: The End (324, [16], 13 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2006. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page; additionally inscribed by illustrator on the same page.The Beatrice Letters (unpaginated), New York: Harper Collins, 2006. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed (with minor smudging) by the author on dedication page. Soft cover, housed in publisher's hardcover folder, with accompanying poster.Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (212 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2002. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on half title; with orange sticker to dust jacket.Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid (168 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2007. First printing. Signed and dated by the author on title page. With dust jacket protected ny mylar covering; mylar covering with small white numbered sticker to lower right front corner.With various ephemera, including two strips of temporary tattoos (one with moderate creasing, wear, and age toning), a sheet of stickers, an iron-on transfer, a notepad, a pack of "Misfortune Telling Cards," and a poster for an event with Lemony Snicket (folded, and with moderate creasing and wear).

Lemony Snicket Collection

A signed first edition, first printing of No Country For Old Men.<ul><li>Cormac McCarthy (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred Knopf,&nbsp;2005.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>305 pages.</li><li>Signed flat by Cormac McCarthy on tipped in page. </li><li>The spine is red with raised white lettering, dust jacket is protected with mylar wrapping. </li></ul>

No Country For Old Men

An inscribed first edition, first printing of A Game Of Thrones.<ul><li>George R.R. Martin (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Banta,&nbsp;1996.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>694 pages.</li><li>Inscribed by the author on the half-title page.</li><li>Spine silver with blue lettering, dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut.</li></ul>

A Game Of Thrones

A first American edition of The Talented Mr. Ripley.<ul><li>Patricia Highsmith (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Coward-McCann, Inc.,&nbsp;1955.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>252 pages.</li><li>Spine light green with yellow lettering, dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut.</li></ul>

The Talented Mr. Ripley

A finely bound, First Robinson Edition of A Child's Garden of Verses.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>Illustrated by Charles Robinson.</li><li>London:&nbsp;John Lane, The Bodley Head,&nbsp;1896.</li><li>Bound in full green leather with 6 gilt stamped compartments on the spine, and single gilt ruled borders on the covers, all edges gilt, original cloth boards and backstrip bound in.</li></ul>

A Child's Garden Of Verses

A first English edition copy of A Tramp Abroad.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>London: Chatto &amp; Windus, 1880.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

A Tramp Abroad

A first edition copy of Mark Twain's novel&nbsp;Roughing It.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut:&nbsp;American Publishing Company,&nbsp;1872.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

Roughing It

A first edition copy of The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1869.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress

A first edition copy of Sketches, New and Old.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1875.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

Sketches, New And Old

A first American edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A first edition of Dickens' Bleak House.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, March 1852 – September 1853.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

Bleak House

A first edition of Dickens' Hard Times.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Hard Times. For these times.</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

Hard Times

A first edition of Dickens' novel Little Dorrit.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, December 1855-June 1857.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

Little Dorrit

A first edition of Dickens' novel A Tale Of Two Cities.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, June-December 1859.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

 A Tale of Two Cities

A first edition of Charles Dickens The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby... Edited by "Boz."</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, April 1838 - October 1839.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

A first edition of Charles Dickens' The Adventures Of Oliver Twist.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, January – October 1846.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

The Adventures Of Oliver Twist

First edition of Charles Dickens' The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, April 1836 - November 1837.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club

A first edition of Dicken's David Copperfield.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury &amp; Evans, May 1849-November 1850.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

David Copperfield

The first edition of Dickens' Great Expectations.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Chapman &amp; Hall, 1860-1861.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

Great Expectations

A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. </li><li>London: Chapman &amp; Hall, 1843.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

A Christmas Carol

A collection of signed, first edition children's books by Madonna.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5 volumes.</li><li>Madonna (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Rui Paes, Olga Dugina, Andrej Dugin, Gennady Spirin, Loren Long, and Jeffrey Fulrimari.</li><li>Includes the following titles: The English Roses, Mr. Peabody's Apples, Yakov And The Seven Thieves, The Adventures Of Abdi, Lotsa De Casha.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Callaway,&nbsp;2003-2005.&nbsp;</li><li>Quartos.</li><li>Volumes 2 and 3 are signed flat by Madonna on the "this book belongs to:" pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Volumes 1, 4, and 5 are signed "Love Madonna" by Madonna on the "this book belongs to:" pages.</li><li>Volume 1 contains a loose bookmark between the front end-page and pastedown.&nbsp;</li><li>Volumes 2, 3, 4, and 5 contain loose certificates of authenticity between their front end-pages and pastedowns, Volumes 2 and 3 being from 'Starworld' and Volumes 4 and 5 being from 'Estates-Plus'. </li><li>Volume 1 has a white spine with light blue raindrop designs with black lettering outlined in colored boxes, and a white and polka-dotted open slipcase with drawings of various characters from the book on the front and rear covers.</li><li>Volume 2 has a landscape blue and brown spine with black, blue, and red lettering outlined in white boxes outlined in gold-brown.</li><li>Volume 3 has a dark brown spine with red and black lettering outlined in white boxes.</li><li>Volume 4 has a tan spine with blue and green lettering outlined in white and yellow boxes.</li><li>Volume 5 has a red spine with black, blue, and red lettering outlined in white boxes.</li></ul>

Books For Children Series

A collection of signed, first edition Hannibal Lecter series books.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Thomas Harris (American).</li><li>Includes the following titles: Ed Dragon, The Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;G. P. Putnam's Sons/ St. Martin's Press/ Delacorte Press,&nbsp;1981 - 2006.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed flat by Thomas Harris on title pages of all volumes.</li><li>Volume 1 has a scarlet red spine with age-toned yellow-white lettering.</li><li>Volume 2 has a black spine with white lettering.</li><li>Volumes 3 and 4 have black spines gilted lettering.</li><li>Dust jackets are wrapped in protective mylar coverings.</li></ul> Thomas Harris was born on September 22, 1940 in Jackson, Tennessee, moving to Rich, Mississippi as a young child. Harris would graduate college in 1964, becoming a reporter for the local newspaper in Waco, Texas where he covered the police beat. Harris would move to New York City in 1968, and left his job there at the Associated Press to begin work on his debut novel Black Sunday. After Black Sunday's moderate success, Harris would begin work on his second novel; Red Dragon. Research for this novel lasted throughout the 1970's during which Harris attended classes and spoke with agents of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. When his father became terminally ill, Harris remained in a rural house for 18 months which helped him visualize his killer characters. Red Dragon would be the first depiction of the infamous Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer psychologist, who would become a mainstay in many of Harris' books, tying them together. Red Dragon saw much more success than Black Sunday, Stephen King naming it the "best popular novel to be published in America since The Godfather". It's critical success would inspire a sequel in 1988, Silence of the Lambs. Silence of the Lambs is by far Harris' most successful novel and best known installment in the series, selling over 10 million copies and spawning one of the great American horror films, which earned "the Big Five" Academy Awards in 1991. While Red Dragon followed a hardened FBI investigator, Silence of the Lambs follows trainee Clarice Starling as she pursues the serial killer "Buffalo Bill" who turns to Dr. Hannibal Lecter for help in the case. Hannibal would release to success, spawning a film adaptation in 2001 and was initially intended to be the final entry in the series. However, Harris would release a prequel to the series, Hannibal Rising, which depicts Lecter's origins. This final novel would release to middling reviews, and it was later revealed that Harris wrote the novel under duress as he was threatened with losing the rights to Hannibal Lecter as a character if he didn't.

Hannibal Lecter Series

A set of signed, first United Kingdom editions, first printings of the His Dark Materials series.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5 volumes.</li><li>Philip Pullman (English).</li><li>His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, Lyra's Oxford, Once Upon A Time In The North</li><li>London: Scholastic Press/ David Fickling Books, 1995-2008.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos/Twelvemos.</li><li>Signed flat by Philip Pullman in Volume 1 on a bookplate adhesively attached to the copyright page, and in Volumes 2, 3, 4, and 5 on the title page.</li><li>Volume 4 contains a map attached to page 16 and several engravings.</li><li>Volume 5 contains several engravings, a loose page of "Wind Compass" punchouts, and a loose "Peril of the Pole" poster both contained in a pocket on the rear pastedown.</li><li>Volume 1 has a dark purple spine with white and light yellow lettering.</li><li>Volume 2 has a green spine with white and light yellow lettering.</li><li>Volume 3 has an orange spine with white and light yellow lettering.</li><li>Volume 4 has a red cloth spine with black lettering.</li><li>Volume 5 has a navy blue cloth spine with dark grey lettering.</li><li>Only Volumes 1, 2, and 3 have dust jackets.</li></ul> His Dark Materials was originally published as a 3-volume trilogy consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, and first published from 1995-2000. The series itself, while marketed as a young-adult series, was written with no particular audience in mind, with elements of fantasy and science-fiction coming together in a tale which explores physics, philosophy, and theology. Outside of the pages, the series is known for Philip Pullman's statement that it is meant to commend humanity for what the poet John Milton coined "original sin" in his work 'Paradise Lost'. This and references to the Catholic church among other religious institutions has earned the series some controversy for "criticizing religion". Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North are both novellas meant to expand on the world of His Dark Materials. Lyra's Oxford takes place two years after The Amber Spyglass, when Lyra is 15 years old, and contains a variety of ephemera meant to be from the world. Once Upon a Time in the North is a prequel book written to show the first meeting between Iorek Byrnison and Lee Scoresby, two major characters and companions of Lyra throughout the original trilogy. Both novellas received glowing reviews upon release, and have since become core parts of the overall series.

His Dark Materials Series

A signed, first edition, first printing copy of No Country For Old Men.<ul><li>Cormac McCarthy (American).</li><li>New Orleans, Louisiana:&nbsp;B.E. Trice,&nbsp;2005.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>309 pages.</li><li>Deluxe Limited Edition, numbered 41 out of 75.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>309 pages.</li><li>Signed flat by Cormac McCarthy on publisher's limitation page.</li><li>Slip case is bound in maroon cloth and embossed with Cormac McCarthy's signature on the front cover. spine is three-quarter maroon morocco with gilt lettering, marbled boards.</li></ul> Originally published in 2005, American author Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men quickly achieved success as a harrowing crime drama that follows a triangle of men tied together by the events of a drug deal gone awry. This scarce deluxe edition features the author's signature, beautiful leather binding, and marbled boards. It is #41 of only 75 copies released. In 2007, two years after the novel's release, No Country For Old Men was adapted into a film of the same name starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem; the film was awarded four Oscars, including the award for Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards. Between the success of No Country For Old Men and its film adaptation, McCarthy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his 2006 novel, The Road.

First limited editions and first printings of the works of John Grisham.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 43 volumes.</li><li>John Grisham (American).</li><li>New York: Doubleday, 1989-2022.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>All volumes signed by John Grisham on limitation page.</li></ul> CONTENTS:"A Time to Kill", published 1993, one of 350"Sycamore Row", published 2013, one of 350"A Time for Mercy", published 2020, one of 350"The Firm", published 1991, #237/350"The Exchange", published 2023, one of 350"Camino Island", published 2017, one of 175"Camino Winds", published 2020, one of 175"Rogue Lawyer", published 2015, one of 350"The Whistler", published 2016, one of 350"The Judge's List", published 2021, one of 350"The Innocent Man", published 2006, #156/350"Sparring Partners", published 2022, one of 250"The Pelican Brief", published 1992, #169/350"The Chamber", published 1994, one of 350"The Rain Maker", published 1995, one of 350"The Runaway Jury", published 1996, #132/350"The Partner", published 1997, one of 350"The Street Lawyer", published 1998, #176/350"The Testament", published 1999, one of 500"The Brethren", published 2000, #466/500"A Painted House", published published 2001, #308/350"Skipping Christmas", published 2001, #52/350"The Summons", published 2002, #273/350"The King of Torts", published 2003, #23/350"Bleachers", published 2003, #205/350"The Last Juror", published 2004, #314/350"The Broker", published 2005, #118/350"Playing for Pizza", published 2007, #07/250"The Appeal", published 2008, #181/250"The Associate", published 2009, #173/250"The Confession", published 2010, #47/300"The Litigators", published 2011, #237/300"Calico Joe", published 2012, one of 250"The Racketeer", published 2012, #264/300"Gray Mountain", published 2014, one of 300"The Rooster Bar", published 2017, one of 175"The Reckoning", published 2018, one of 150"The Guardians", published 2019, one of 150"Sooley", published 2021, one of 150"The Boys from Biloxi", published 2022, one of 150"Ford County: Stories", published 2009, #28/150

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A first edition and first impression copy of Truman Capote’s renowned novella, the basis for Blake Edward’s film, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.<ul><li>Truman Capote (American).</li><li>New York: Random House, 1958.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in the publisher’s yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine on a black ground, pale blue topstain, with the unclipped dustjacket by Ismar David.</li></ul>

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

The first English edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude.Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian).<ul><li>New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1970.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, green endpapers, with the unclipped first issue dust jacket.</li></ul> Regarded as García Márquez’s masterpiece (the novel was originally published in 1967 as Cien Años De Solidad) which won the author worldwide recognition and four international literary prizes. Written in a period of 18 months where the author locked himself away and created his "magic realist" tale surrounding the life of the Buendîa family in Macondo.

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