Novels

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 Animal Farm 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, 1945.</li><li>'Searchlight Books’ advertisement printed in red to the verso as called for.</li><li>In the unclipped dust wrapper, housed in a custom-made solander box.</li></ul> A political allegory that uses farm animals to depict the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism, mirroring the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s regime. The story follows the animals’ rebellion against their human owner, only for their leader, Napoleon the pig, to become as oppressive as the humans they overthrew. Written during World War II, the novel was initially rejected by several publishers due to its criticism of the Soviet Union but was finally published in 1945 by Secker &amp; Warburg, achieving immediate success and lasting global influence.

Animal Farm | First Edition First Printing

Ian Fleming

The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first United Kingdom edition</a> of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> book Moonraker y <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>London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.</li><li>Dust wrapper designed by Kenneth Lewis has not been price clipped, showing the correct price; publisher’s black boards, with the titles to the front panel and spine in silver gilt.</li></ul> The third title in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. This is the ‘second state’, showing ‘shoot’ rather than ‘shoo’ on the tenth page.

Moonraker | First Edition, First Printing

Jane Austen

First US edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=jane+austen&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Austen</a>'s first novel — in a stunning <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">fine art binding</a> by the acclaimed Argentinian design bookbinder Sol Rébora.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>Philadelphia:&nbsp;Carey &amp; Lea,&nbsp;1833.</li><li>12mo.</li><li>199, [1]; 189, [1] pages.</li><li>Modern full grey-pink design binding by Sol Rébora in Can Can structure with one layer of cotton cloth and two layers of Japanese paper, each element hand-painted with acrylics and textured with a patterned design impressed with deep-relief hot-stamping from silk; spines and boards stamped in dark grey, cotton and abaca handmade paper grey-pink endpapers.</li></ul> Austen's first novel uses the love stories of two sisters to explore the complexities and contradictions in the gendered expectations of the Regency era: a woman will be praised for her capacity to feel emotion (her sensibility), but not too much; a woman will be praised for her independent and responsible nature (her sense), but not too much. First published in late 1811 in three volumes, this is the first edition to appear in the United States, published in two volumes by Carey &amp; Lea in an edition of only 1250 copies. Sol Rébora is an internationally recognized design bookbinder based in Buenos Aires. Her works embody a minimalistic elegance that is nevertheless subtly complex, as in the carefully structured multiple layers used here. They are not only visually stunning, but supremely tactile. From Rèbora's artist statement: "The cloth texture is achieved using silk with a patterned design that evokes the aesthetic of the time period in which the original edition was produced, creating a visual connection with antique paper. This design also appeals to the collective memory of how custom bindings from the early 19th century might have appeared, complete with deep-relief hot-stamping impressions." A magnificent, unique copy of an Austen first.

Sense And Sensibility | First American Edition

The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first US edition</a>, first printing of Pride and Prejudice by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=jane+austen&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jane Austen</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>Philadelphia:&nbsp;Carey &amp; Lea,&nbsp;1832.</li><li>12mo.</li><li>199, [1]; 209, [1] pages</li><li>Publisher's catalogue bound at front of Volume I.</li><li>Modern full peach design binding by Sol Rébora in Can Can structure with one layer of cotton cloth and two layers of Japanese paper, each element hand-painted with acrylics and textured with a patterned design impressed with deep-relief hot-stamping from silk; spines and boards stamped in dark grey, cotton and abaca handmade paper peach endpapers.</li></ul> First US edition in a stunning fine art binding by the acclaimed Argentinian design bookbinder Sol Rébora. Austen's most beloved novel is simultaneously a unique production of profound artistic confidence and an entertaining popular love story: it builds on a long-established tradition of English courtship novels in conversation with many women authors before her like Frances Burney (from whose book Cecelia Austen may have borrowed the very phrase "pride and prejudice"). Austen admitted in a letter that she thought her book's heroine, Elizabeth Bennett, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print" (29 January 1813) – and generations of readers have agreed with her. First published in 1813 in three volumes, this is the first edition to appear in the United States, published in two volumes by Carey &amp; Lea in an edition of only 750 copies. Sol Rébora is an internationally recognized design bookbinder based in Buenos Aires. Her works embody a minimalistic elegance that is nevertheless subtly complex, as in the carefully structured multiple layers used here. They are not only visually stunning, but supremely tactile. From Rèbora's artist statement: "The cloth texture is achieved using silk with a patterned design that evokes the aesthetic of the time period in which the original edition was produced, creating a visual connection with antique paper. This design also appeals to the collective memory of how custom bindings from the early 19th century might have appeared, complete with deep-relief hot-stamping impressions." A magnificent, unique copy of an Austen first.

Pride And Prejudice | First American Edition

Robert Louis Stevenson

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first English edition</a> of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert+Louis+Stevenson&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Longmans, Green and Co,&nbsp;1886.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Issue with the “6” in the date on upper wrapper changed by hand from “5,” half-title with list of works on verso, ads for Longman’s Magazine on inner front wrapper, inner back wrapper advertising novels by Whyte-Melville, outer back wrapper advertising The Dynamiter and two works by Bret Harte.</li><li>Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, preserving front and back wrapper.</li></ul> Stevenson’s dark tale of Victorian hypocrisy. Published one day after the New York edition.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | First English Edition

The first Vox edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=jane+austen&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Austen</a>'s works, <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> and illustrated.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Dent,&nbsp;[1933-4].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Illustrated in color and black and white by Maximilien Vox.</li><li>Introduction by Emile Legouis.</li><li>Half blue calf, gilt spine, top edge gilt by Bayntun, Bath for Charles Lauriat, Boston.</li></ul> The first edition illustrated in line drawings and watercolors by French artist Maxmilien Vox, whose prefatory letter to the publisher Dent states "I have tried to attune myself to an art which never stresses, records only the essential, draws rather than paints: an art which aims at grace and rhythm rather than at intensity of expression. " Includes all six of the novels, plus a volume that collects Sanditon, The Watsons, Lady Susan, Plan of a Novel, and the Cancelled Chapter of Persuasion.

The Works of Jane Austen

Thomas Wolfe

An <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> <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 Of Time and the River by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Thomas+Wolfe&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thomas Wolfe</a>.<ul><li>Thomas Wolfe (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Charles Scribner's Sons,&nbsp;1935.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[xii], 912 pages.</li><li>Dark blue cloth.</li></ul> Wolfe’s masterpiece, inscribed, “For Hazel Abrams. Sincerely, Thomas Wolfe, Hollywood. — Sept. 3, 1935.”

Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth | Inscribed First Edition

Henry Roth

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 Call it Sleep by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry+Roth&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry Roth</a>.<ul><li>Henry Roth (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Robert O. Ballou,&nbsp;[1934].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>v, [i], [1]-599 pages.</li><li>Original blue cloth.</li></ul> Near fine copy in the scarce first state dust jacket by Stuyvesant Van Veen.

Call it Sleep | First Edition

Charlotte Brontë | Emily Brontë | Anne Brontë | Elizabeth Gaskell

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> and illustrated Haworth edition of works by the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bront%C3%AB+sisters&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brontë sisters</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters. With Introductions to the Works by Mrs. Humphry Ward and an Introduction and Notes to the Life by Clement K. Shorter.</li><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Ann Brontë (English).</li><li>Elizabeth Gaskell (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Smith, Elder, &amp; Co,&nbsp;1905-1914.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Illustrated with frontispieces in each volume.</li><li>Full red morocco, spines gilt with raised bands, boards ruled in gilt, turn-ins gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, by Zaehnsdorf.</li></ul> An excellent set of these classics of world literature by the Brontë sisters: Wuthering Heights by Emily; Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne; Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley, and The Professor, by Charlotte; with the Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; and Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë.

Works of the Bronte Sisters, with The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters

Thomas Hardy

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=Thomas+Hardy&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hardy</a>’s rare first book, Desperate Remedies.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Thomas Hardy (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Tinsley Brothers,&nbsp;1871.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>&nbsp;vi, 304; [vi], 291; vi, 274 pages.</li><li>Part of an edition of 500 copies, with all half-titles.</li><li>Bound in forest green half morocco backed marble boards with gilt ruling, gilt titles on five-banded spine, and top edge gilt, marble endpapers with handsome bookplate of heiress Gustavia Senff on upper pastedowns.</li></ul> Hardy's first novel manuscript was turned down by George Meredith, reading for Chapman &amp; Hall, who advised him to write something with a more "complicated" plot, than the first novel, which he'd entitled The Poor Man and the Lady. He decided to write a a mystery novel with tinges of the Gothic romance, but also heavy with allusions to Shakespeare, Milton, and Shelley, and with entire youthful Hardy poems inserted into the text as prose. An ambitious first novel, it transcended the contemporary models that he had used for structure – Wilkie Collins, for instance – by showing his complicated characters as dominated by their own instincts and the limitations of their social worlds.

Desperate Remedies:  A Novel | First Edition

J.K. Rowling

The <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 impression, hardback issue of the first <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Harry+Potter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Potter</a> book; the rarest and most desirable format of the series 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>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 1997.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Original matt laminated printed paper boards, spine and front cover lettered in white, yellow, dark green and black, without dust jacket, as issued, housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery.&nbsp;</li></ul> All the required points of the first printing are present: Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down-to-1 number line, no space between “Thomas” and “Taylor” on p. 4, the list of equipment on p. 53 with “1 wand” appearing twice, and the misprint “Philospher’s” on the rear cover. Both paperback and hardback issues of the first impression were published on 26 June 1997. Only 500 copies of the first printing of Philosopher’s Stone were issued in hardback, of which it is thought around 300 were sold to libraries and schools. The publisher has stated “I think the assumption in 1997 would have been that you would sell 500 hardcovers of any good book to public libraries so that edition would be aimed at them. The general edition for the market would be a paperback” (Errington, p. 4). Identifying libraries as the intended buyers of this issue explains the lack of a dust jacket (Errington states a jacket “was simply not required by libraries”). The small number of copies not accessioned by libraries explains the scarcity of this issue, and why copies in collectible condition are rare. This copy, bearing a price sticker from W. H. Smith on the rear cover, identifies it as one of a small number sold on the high street.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | First Edition, First Impression

Dante Alighieri

A <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> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Dante&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dante</a>'s Il Purgatorio E Paradiso.<ul><li>Dante Alighieri (Italian).</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Librería di L. Hachette E C,&nbsp;1886.</li><li>Illustrations throughout.</li><li>Text in Italian.</li><li>Marbled endpapers, full green Morocco leather binding with ornate gilt floral borders on covers, all edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt panels on spine.</li></ul>

Il Purgatorio E Paradiso

Charlotte Brontë | Emily Brontë | Anne Brontë

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> Thornton Edition of the Novels of the Sisters <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bront%C3%AB&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brontë</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12 volumes.</li><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Anne Brontë (English).</li><li>Edinburgh:&nbsp;John Grant,&nbsp;1905.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece, marbled endpapers. </li><li>Bound in three-quarters emerald green Morocco leather covers, green cloth boards, gilt floral spine panels, top edges gilt, raised bands. </li></ul>

Novels of the Sisters Brontë

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> early edition of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jane+Austen&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jane Austen</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12 volumes.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;Little, Brown, and Company,&nbsp;1898.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece. </li><li>Marbled endpapers, three-quarters brown Morocco leather, marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt floral panels on spine. </li></ul>

Jane Austen’s Works

Mary Shelley | Frederick Schiller

Third edition, fourth printing of the first revised edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Mary+Shelley&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mary Shelley</a>'s masterpiece <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=frankenstein&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frankenstein</a>, and the last to contain an illustration with the first printing of the engraved frontis and additional engraved title-page dated 1831.<ul><li>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).</li><li>Frederick Schiller (German)[Author of The Ghost-Seer].&nbsp;</li><li>London: Richard Bentley, 1839.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original blind stamped straight grained brown-maroon cloth.</li></ul> In her introduction, Shelley contextualizes the creation of her tale: "It proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house. Some volumes of ghost stories, translated from the German into French, fell into our hands… 'We will each write a ghost story,' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to."

Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus, [bound with] The Ghost-Seer

Charles Dickens

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>, second issue of A Christmas Carol by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles+Dickens&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.</li><li>Chapter heading reading "Stave One", illustrated with 4 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W.J. Linton.</li><li>Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, front cover with gilt portrait of Dickens, rear cover with Dickens signature in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, original cloth covers and 1 yellow endpaper bound in, by Bayntun.</li></ul> Regarded as Dicken's most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" selling more than 6000 copies in the few days leading up to Christmas. The work was extravagantly costly as Dickens for the first time (and incidentally his last) used color in the title-page and etchings as he wanted to make the book a beautiful gift and to be a celebration of the Christmas spirit. After the initial success, Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840's, maintaining "the Carol" philosophy to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor, uneducated, and repressed.

A Christmas Carol First Edition

Herman Melville

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> second edition of Moby Dick by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Herman+Melville&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Herman Melville</a>.<ul><li>Herman Melville (American).</li><li>New York: United States Book Company, 1892.</li><li>545 pages, complete with the half title.</li><li>Bound in full blue-gray morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered and decorated spine, repeating onlay whales along the edge of both covers and spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, text uncut as issued, housed in a geometric chevron stitched fabric clamshell slipcase, two triangle gilt lettered spine labels, bound by Jamie Kamph.</li></ul> The true first edition was published by Harper and Brothers in 1851. This second edition was published in an edition of 1,787 copies. The United States Book Company subsequently went out of business at the beginning of 1893. The next editions were printed in Boston by Dana Estes. Jamie Kamph was a writer, book collector, and publisher before being inspired by Deborah Evetts to study bookbinding with Hope Weil in New York City in 1973. In 1976, she established Stonehouse Bindery at her farm in Lambertville, New Jersey. Kamph has continued to work as a book conservator and designer binder while pursuing a serious interest in the history of bookbinding. Jamie Kamph was a writer, book collector, and publisher before being inspired by Deborah Evetts to study bookbinding with Hope Weil in New York City in 1973. In 1976, she established Stonehouse Bindery at her farm in Lambertville, New Jersey. Kamph has continued to work as a book conservator and designer binder while pursuing a serious interest in the history of bookbinding. Her design bindings are housed in private collections and institutions worldwide including Princeton University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pierpont Morgan Library, the New York Public Library, and the Bridwell Library at the University of Texas. Many of her other bindings have been widely exhibited in such places as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Grolier Club, Yale University, and the Aspen Art Institute. In 2003, she was awarded the Helen Ward DeGolyer Award for American Bookbinding.

Moby Dick

E. M. Forster

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 Where Angels Fear to Tread 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>Edinburgh &amp; London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1905.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>2 pages, advertisements, followed by 32 pages.</li><li>Publisher's catalogue correctly dated '5/05' and with Forster not listed.</li><li>Burgundy endpapers, publisher's cloth with title blocked in black on upper cover and lettered in gilt at spine.</li></ul> The first novel by E.M. Forster, contrasting English and Italian sensibilities, the title derived from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: 'For fools rush in where angels fear to tread'. The novel's success established the author as a leading literary light of the twentieth century.

Where Angels Fear to Tread First Edition

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A <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> edition of The Great Gatsby by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=F.+Scott+Fitzgerald&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>.<ul><li>F. Scott Fitzgerald (American).</li><li>London: The Grey Wallis Press, 1949.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>164 pages.</li><li>20th-century crushed brown morocco by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt.</li></ul> Bound by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe.&nbsp;A smartly bound example in crushed brown morocco by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe of Fitzgerald's iconic novel The Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby

Len Deighton

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 SS-GB by Len Deighton, with an uncorrected proof copy.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Len Deighton (British).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1978.</li><li>Red top stain, in dust wrapper.</li></ul> Complete with the rare pack of stamps, an ephemera item issued in small numbers to promote the launch of Len Deighton's 'what if?' WW2 thriller SS-GB. The tiny item, the same size as a pack of royal mail stamps was issued alongside the book in a small number of locations on its launch date in 1978. With the rare uncorrected Proof (which is actually titled SS -). SS-GB is a story about what would have happened if Hitler and the Nazis had invaded Great Britain. The ephemeral pack of stamps features 18 stamps in 3 different denominations and colors. Each stamp in the style of King George VI but instead with Hitlers head. There are also adverts along with a page that states 'Observe the Curfew'. Not many of these are left due to many being recalled and destroyed - mainly by the Royal Mail, as they looked so real.

SS-GB First Edition, with Uncorrected Proof

Thornton Wilder

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 Bridge of San Luis Rey by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Thornton+Wilder&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thornton Wilder</a>, accompanied by a handwritten and <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> letter discussing the novel.<ul><li>Thornton Wilder (American).</li><li>London: Longmans, 1927.</li><li>In an unclipped wrapper.</li></ul> Within, a page long hand-written letter SIGNED by Wilder is affixed and unfurls from the front pastedown and is dated October 9th 1934 (originating from The University of Chicago). The letter discusses the letters of Marquesa de Montemayor and states her character is based on ‘that of Mme de Sevigne’. A marvelous association to the novel. A bridge in Peru collapses, killing five people. Brother Juniper investigates, seeking divine meaning in the tragedy. One victim is the Marquesa de Montemayor, a wealthy, lonely woman estranged from her daughter. Known for her eloquent letters, she transforms from bitterness to compassion through her unrequited love. Her death, along with the others, forms part of Wilder’s meditation on fate, love, and human connection. The novel ultimately suggests that love endures beyond life’s seeming randomness, giving meaning where reason fails.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey First Edition | With Signed Letter

Clifford D. Simak

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 All Flesh is Grass, <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 author <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Clifford+D.+Simak&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clifford D. Simak</a>.<ul><li>Clifford D. Simak (American).</li><li>United States: Berkley Medallion, 1966.</li><li>Signed on the title-page.</li></ul>

All Flesh Is Grass Signed First Paperback Edition

Victor Canning

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 Mr. Finchley Takes The Road, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Victor+Canning&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Victor Canning</a>.<ul><li>Victor Canning (English).</li><li>London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940.</li><li>Bright green boards, in a very good unclipped wrapper, showing 9s.</li></ul> A charming sequel to&nbsp;Mr&nbsp;Finchley&nbsp;Discovers His England. In this novel,&nbsp;the&nbsp;mild-mannered&nbsp;Mr.&nbsp;Finchley, now free from office work, sets out on a whimsical journey across England in a horse-drawn caravan. Along&nbsp;the&nbsp;way, he encounters eccentric characters and humorous adventures, reflecting a nostalgic and warm view of British life.

Mr Finchley Takes The Road First Edition

Stephen King

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 Stand by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=stephen+king&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>USA: Doubleday, 1978.</li><li>In an unclipped wrapper.</li></ul> The&nbsp;author's fifth novel of 70,000 copies, identifiable by&nbsp;the&nbsp;'First Edition' statement on&nbsp;the&nbsp;copyright page and 'T39' printing code to&nbsp;the&nbsp;bottom gutter of page 823. A post-apocalyptic epic where a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity. Survivors are drawn to two opposing figures:&nbsp;the&nbsp;benevolent Mother Abagail and&nbsp;the&nbsp;evil Randall Flagg. As society rebuilds, a final battle between good and evil unfolds. Blending horror, fantasy, and social commentary, King explores human nature, morality, and resilience. The&nbsp;Stand is a gripping tale of survival, faith, and&nbsp;the&nbsp;choices that define&nbsp;the&nbsp;future of civilzation.

The Stand First Edition

Laurence Sterne | Ugo Foscolo

The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first Italian language edition</a> of Yorick's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Laurence%20Sterne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Laurence Sterne</a>.<ul><li>Laurence Sterne (Irish).</li><li>Translated by Ugo Foscolo (Italian).</li><li>iaggio sentimentale di Yorick lungo la Francia e l’Italia. Traduzione di Didimo Chierico [i.e. Ugo Foscolo].</li><li>Pisa: Giovanni Rosini, 1813.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Presentation copy from Foscolo to Giovanni Lessi, inscribed on half-title “A Giovanni Lessi/ Ugo Foscolo/ Candidamente Dona/ Firenze MDCCCXIII."</li><li>Engraved portraits of Sterne and “Didimo Chierico” (Foscolo), uncut in nineteenth century vellum, spine gilt with red morocco title label.</li></ul>&nbsp;Ugo Foscolo, pen name of Niccolò Foscolo, (1778 — 1827) was a poet and a novelist, whose poems articulated the feelings of many Italians during the turbulent times of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the restoration of Austrian rule. Foscolo’s poems rank among the masterpieces of Italian literature. Born of a Greek mother and a Venetian father, Foscolo was educated at Spalato (now Split in Croatia) and Padua and moved with his family to Venice in about 1793. There, he was introduced to the most important literary circles of the city. In 1797, the performance of his tragedy&nbsp;Tieste made him famous to a national level. Foscolo’s early enthusiasm for Napoleon, proclaimed in his ode ‘A Bonaparte liberatore’ (1797), quickly turned to disillusionment when Napoleon ceded Venice to Austria in the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797).&nbsp;Foscolo’s very popular novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1802) contains a bitter denunciation of that agreement and shows the author’s despise of Italy’s social and political situation. Some critics consider this ‘romanzo epistolare’ as the first modern Italian novel. When the Austrians and Russians invaded Italy in 1799, Foscolo joined the French side. Made a captain in the Italian division of the French army after the defense of Genoa in 1800, he had commissions in Milan, Bologna, and Florence, where he found time to get involved in many love affairs. Finally, Foscolo was sent to serve in France (1804–06). During that period he translated some classical works and Sterne’s ‘Sentimental Journey’, into Italian whilst writing odes and sonnets.&nbsp;The dedicatee of the present copy was Foscolo’s friend Giovanni Lessi (1743–1817), a man of letters and a professor, who contributed to promoting Foscolo’s version of the Iliad. In 1807, Foscolo returned to Milan and established his literary reputation with ‘Dei Sepolcri’, a polemic and patriotic poem against Napoleon’s decree of forbidding tomb inscriptions. In 1808, the poem won the chair of Italian at the University of Pavia for its author. When the chair was abolished, Foscolo moved back to Milan. Satirical references to Napoleon in his tragedy ‘Aiace’ (first performed 1811) again contributed to lifting suspicion on him from the authority. In 1812, he moved to Florence, where he wrote ‘Ricciarda’ and most of his highly acclaimed, unfinished, poem ‘Le Grazie’ (published in fragments 1803 and 1818; in full in1822).&nbsp;In 1813, Foscolo returned to Milan. Napoleon fell the following year, the Austrians returned to Italy, and Foscolo, refusing to take the oath of allegiance, fled to Switzerland and then to England in 1816. In London, Foscolo supported himself by teaching and writing commentaries on Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch for The Edinburgh Review and The Quarterly Review. He died in poverty. In 1871, with great national ceremony, his remains were moved from England and interred in the church of Santa Croce, in Florence.

Viaggio Sentimentale di Yorick lungo la Francia e l'Italia [Yorick's Sentimental Voyage Through France and Italy] | First Italian Edition, Presentation Copy From Foscolo To Giovanni Lessi

H.G. Wells

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 Passionate Friends: A Novel by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=H.G.+Wells&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">H.G. Wells</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">inscribed</a> by the author.<ul><li>H.G. Wells (English).</li><li>London: MacMillan and Co., 1913.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Presentation copy, affectionately inscribed by the author to his friend Daisy Blumenfeld: “D. B. / from H. G. / and someday we will win at tennis.”</li><li>Bound in the original green vertically ribbed cloth, spine and front board with gilt lettering and vine motifs in blind, top fore-edge gilt.</li></ul> Daisy Blumenfeld was the wife of R. D. Blumenfeld, chief editor of the Daily Express for over 30 years. He was a close friend and a neighbor of Wells, who was often invited at the residence to play tennis and discuss politics and narrative.

The Passionate Friends: A Novel | Inscribed First Edition

Sir Walter Scott

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> set of the Waverley Novels by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sir+Walter+Scott&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sir Walter Scott</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 48 volumes</li><li>Sir Walter Scott (Scottish).</li><li>Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>All volumes with additional engraved pictorial titles and frontispieces.</li><li>Bound in original black morocco, gilt decoration and lettering, large armorial arms on boards (both relating to Scott, with motto “Reparabit cornua Phoebe” (the moon shall fill her horns again), “Watch weel”); spines tooled with decorations including the Scottish thistle and Lion Rampant, all edges gilt.</li></ul> The Waverley Novels&nbsp;is&nbsp;a series of more than two dozen historical novels published by&nbsp;the Scottish author, poet and historian&nbsp;Sir Walter Scott&nbsp;(1771 – 1832)&nbsp;between 1814 and 1832.&nbsp;Notwithstanding the popularity of the novels at the time of publication Scott only publicly revealed his authorship in 1827. Some of the notable works included in the series include&nbsp;Waverley (1814), Guy Mannering (1815), Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), Quentin Durward (1823), and Redgauntlet (1824). Some of the novels were originally published in a four-part series titled Tales of My Landlord.&nbsp;All the stories were published together in&nbsp;this&nbsp;48-volume series called Waverley Novels (1829–33), containing Scott’s prefaces and final revisions but completed after his death. The series influenced generations of writers and earned Scott his reputation as the founder of the historical novel genre.&nbsp;This complete 48 volume set is beautifully bound in a black morocco armorial binding with an extensive and exquisite gilt decoration. The two mottos related to Scott – “Reparabit cornua Phoebe” and “Watch weel” – appear on scrolls that surround the coat of arms of Scott, the crest of which is made up by a woman in Elizabethan costume holding in her hands a sun in splendor and a crescent moon.

Waverley Novels

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> edition of The Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=bronte&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Anne Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë (English)</li><li>Elizabeth Gaskell (English).</li><li>The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte &amp; Her Sisters. Haworth Edition. With Introductions to the Works By Mrs Humphrey Ward, and an Introduction and Notes to the Life by Clement K. Shorter. </li><li>London: Smith, Elder, &amp; Co., [and] John Murray, 1905-1926.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Extra-illustrated with a hand-written genealogical table and a black and white photograph of “Wuthering Heights” to the Wuthering Heights volume.</li><li>Various printings.</li><li>Recently re-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, further gilt ruling to spine, and matching cloth over boards, top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed.</li></ul> The desirable Haworth edition of the Brontes' classic works, including the Poems and Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte.

The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters

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> set of The Centenary Edition of the Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming.</a><ul><li>Sold as a set of 18 volumes.</li><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: The Queen Anne Press, 2008.</li><li>Bound by Shepherds, Sangorski and Sutcliffe in dark blue cloth, top edge gilt, with gilt-titled leather labels to backstrips, upper covers gilt-stamped with the author’s initials, and gilt imprint of the publisher to rear, housed in a fully enclosed presentation box with ribbon-pulls, gilt-stamped with the Fleming crest to the lid.</li></ul> The definitive edition of Ian Fleming’s works, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. Number 29 of 250 sets thus. The set comprises 14 volumes of the James Bond novels, the non-fiction volumes The Diamond Smugglers and Thrilling Cities plus the children’s story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The final volume, entitled Talk of the Devil, contains rarely seen material including two stories, some of which is unpublished. The Queen Anne Press was created by Lord Kemsley, proprietor of the Sunday Times, where Fleming was employed as Foreign Editor. In 1952, as a wedding gift, Kemsley made Fleming the managing director of the press, where he remained until his death in 1964. The Press is today managed by his niece and nephew, following its acquisition by Fleming’s literary estate.

The Centenary Edition of the Works of Ian Fleming

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> set of The Centenary Edition of the Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming.</a><ul><li>Sold as a set of 18 volumes.</li><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Queen Anne Press, 2008.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Deluxe Limited Edition, in Vellum over black cloth sides, number 53 of just 100 copies thus.</li><li>Each volume in a black cloth slipcase, housed altogether in a double-decker black cloth box.</li></ul> The definitive edition of Ian Fleming, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. The set comprises 14 volumes of the James Bond novels, the non-fiction volumes The Diamond Smugglers and Thrilling Cities plus the children’s story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The final volume, entitled Talk of the Devil, contains rarely seen material including two stories, some of which is unpublished. The Queen Anne Press was created by Lord Kemsley, proprietor of the Sunday Times, where Fleming was employed as Foreign Editor. In 1952, as a wedding gift, Kemsley made Fleming the managing director of the press, where he remained until his death in 1964. The Press is today managed by his niece and nephew, following its acquisition by Fleming’s literary estate.

Joseph Conrad

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?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> limited edition of the Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joseph+Conrad&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Conrad</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 20 volumes.</li><li>Joseph Conrad (Polish-British).</li><li>The Works of Joseph Conrad. [Including] Almayer’s Folly and Tales of Unrest; An Outcast of the Islands; The Nigger of the Narcissus and Typhoon; Lord Jim; Youth and Two Other Stories; Romance Nostromo; The Secret Agent and The Inheritors; A Set of Six; Under Western Eyes; A Personal Record and The Mirror of the Sea; ‘twixt Land and Sea Tales; Chance; The Shadow-Line and Within the Tides; Victory; The Arrow of Gold; The Rescue; Notes on Life and Letters; The Rover; Suspense.</li><li>London: William Heinemann, 1921.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Number 662 of 750 sets thus.</li><li>Signed by the author in blue ink to the limitation page.</li><li>Finely printed in good-sized type on fine hand-made paper, recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels, gilt ruling to spines, and marbled paper over boards, all edges untrimmed.</li></ul> The English equivalent of the complete works published in the US by Doubleday, Page and Company in 24 volumes in 1920, which features a new preface by the author for each title, and a volume of Life and Letters.

The Works of Joseph Conrad Signed Limited 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 impression of The Secret Agent by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joseph+Conrad&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Conrad</a>.<ul><li>Joseph Conrad (Polish-British).</li><li>London: Methuen, 1907.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First issue with 40 page publisher's catalog (dated September 1907) at end.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt.</li></ul> Conrad’s thriller was based on a true incident from the late nineteenth century - a bombing in Greenwich Park. His treatment of the psychology of his protagonists in this novel is truly one of his greatest achievements. A Haycraft Queen cornerstone.

The Secret Agent First Edition

Anthony Trollope

A <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> set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Barsetshire+Novels&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Barsetshire Novels</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Anthony+Trollope&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anthony Trollope</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14 volumes.</li><li>Anthony Trollope (English).</li><li>The Barsetshire Novels. The Shakespeare Head Edition.</li><li>Stratford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1929.</li><li>Hand-colored photographic frontispieces (apparently gelatin silver prints) by Charles Olcott, and photogravures in the text probably by the same.</li><li>Limited to 525 numbered sets this being #40.</li><li>With a manuscript fragment in Trollope's hand tipped into volume one.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters brown morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt, others uncut as issued, bound by The Riverside Press.</li></ul>

The Barsetshire Novels

Kurt Vonnegut

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 Player Piano by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Kurt+Vonnegut&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kurt Vonnegut</a>.<ul><li>Kurt Vonnegut (American).</li><li>New York: Macmillan, 1953.</li><li>In the first state dust wrapper, showing the correct price of 12s 6d to the front flap.</li></ul> The first state has the price 12s 6d, is unclipped and lacks the Overseas Library Stamp to the rear flap. Excessively rare.

Player Piano First Edition

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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=Little+Lord+Fauntleroy&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Little Lord Fauntleroy</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Frances+Hodgson+Burnett&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frances Hodgson Burnett</a>.<ul><li>Frances Hodgson Burnett (British-American).</li><li>London: Warne and Co., 1886.</li><li>Bound in the correct green cloth with gilt titles.&nbsp;</li></ul> The story of Cedric Errol, a kind, poor American boy who unexpectedly inherits the title and fortune of his English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt. Initially gruff and selfish, the Earl softens through Cedric’s innocence and generosity. The novel highlights themes of class, compassion, and transformation. Hugely popular in its day, it influenced children’s fashion and remains a classic of nineteenth-century children’s literature.

Little Lord Fauntleroy First Edition

Roald Dahl

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 Matilda by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Roald+Dahl&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roald Dahl</a>.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.</li><li>The signature of Roald Dahl to a personal (Good Reads) bookplate on the front endpaper.</li><li>The dust wrapper, illustrated by Quentin Blake is neatly price clipped.</li></ul>

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