Literature & Children's Poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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> Kelmscott Press edition of The Poetical Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=percy+bysshe+shelley&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).</li><li>Hammersmith:&nbsp;Kelmscott Press,&nbsp;1894–95.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Part of an edition of 250 copies.&nbsp;</li><li>Printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut title, borders, and initials.</li><li>Original full limp vellum, spines stamped in gold, issued without silk ties, housed in custom cloth chemises and blue morocco backed slipcases.</li></ul> The magnificent Kelmscott edition of the poems of Shelley, with an interesting New York provenance, likely from the 1920s. Includes signatures on the two preliminary blank leaves of a number of New York businessmen and philanthropists, many with connections to Temple Emanu-El, among them: Sam SherringtonDudley D. SicherSamuel J. Bloomingdale [1873-1968; son of Lyman]Felix M. WarburgHerbert J. MartinJonah GoldsteinJ. Edwin GoldmanLeo SulzbergerRalph SamuelHenry F. SamstagLouis J. RosenbachWilliam GoldmanL.A. AnsbacherH.A. Guinzburg [d. 1928]Fred M. SteinS.M. GoldbergManny StraussAlbert J. LehmannJos. GutmanSolomon Lowenstein [1877-1942]Z.D. BernsteinBernard RosenwaldEdwin S. LorschHerman LissnerCyrus L. Sulzberger [1858-1932]Maunie GoodmanJ.W. FrankelJoseph WellenHerman Sanders.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rupert Brooke

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 1914 and Other Poems by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Rupert+Brooke&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rupert Brooke</a>.<ul><li>Rupert Brooke (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Sidgwick &amp; Jackson [Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood],&nbsp;1915.</li><li>Small octavo.</li><li>63 pages.</li><li>Inscribed by Eddie Marsh to John Drinkwater.</li><li>Photogravure frontispiece portrait in profile view by Sherril Schell. </li><li>Blue cloth, printed spine label, morocco book label of John Drinkwater.</li></ul> First edition of the poet's posthumous second book.&nbsp;Inscribed before publication from Edward Marsh to John Drinkwater on the front flyleaf: John from Eddie, June 4th 1915. Marsh, who was Brooke’s agent, edited the Collected Poems. Both he and Drinkwater wrote memoirs of Brooke. An outstanding association from the inner circle of Rupert Brooke’s poet friends.

1914 and Other Poems | First Edition

John Milton

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=John+Milton&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Milton</a>'s Paradise Lost.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>John Milton (English).</li><li>Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books.</li><li>London:&nbsp;T. Spilsbury and Son,&nbsp;1794.</li><li>Illustrated throughout. </li><li>Dedication to George Prince of Wales. </li><li>Red Morocco leather bound, gilt borders and decoration on cover, gilt panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, illustrated portrait frontispiece.</li></ul>

Paradise Lost

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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 set</a> of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Edgar+Allan+Poe&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Edgar Allan Poe</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>Edgar Allan Poe (American).</li><li>New York and Pittsburgh:&nbsp;The Colonial Company, Limited,&nbsp;1903.</li><li>With over 50 full-page illustrations in color and black-and-white. </li><li>Illustrated portrait frontispiece of Poe in 3 states: color, hand-colored, and black-and-white. </li><li>Limited Edition, limited to ten sets. </li><li>Newly collected and edited, with a memoir, critical introductions and notes by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry. </li><li>Silk endpapers, gilt, silk, and leather double res on inner cover, deep brown full Morocco leather binding with elaborate gilt floral border decoration on covers and spine panels, raised bands, top edges gilt.</li></ul>

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

William Shakespeare

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 Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William+Shakespeare&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by Herbert Farjeon (English).</li><li>The Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings.</li><li>London: Nonesuch Press, 1929-33.</li><li>Large octavo.</li><li>One of 1,600 sets published, this being number 275.</li><li>Original tan morocco, raised bands, gilt titles to compartments, gilt rules to boards and turn-ins, top edges gilt.</li><li>Bookends are shown for display only and are not included.</li></ul>

The Works of William Shakespeare

Dylan Thomas

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 Twenty-Five Poems by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Dylan+Thomas&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dylan Thomas</a>.<ul><li>Dylan Thomas (Welsh).</li><li>London: J.M. Dent &amp; Sons Ltd., 1936.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Publisher's grey boards, titles to spine in blue, with the dust jacket.</li></ul>

Twenty-Five Poems First Edition

Ezra Pound | Henry Strater

A limited <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> draft of XVI Cantos of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ezra+Pound&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ezra Pound</a> for the beginning of a <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poem</a> of some length, with two prospectuses for Cantos XVI-XXVII.<ul><li>Ezra Pound (American).</li><li>Engravings by Henry Strater (American).</li><li>Paris and London:&nbsp;Three Mountains Press; John Rooker,&nbsp;1925; 1927.&nbsp;</li><li>Tall Quarto.</li><li>65, [2] pages, with duplicates of the first, second, and third cantos (p. 5-12) and a partial duplicate of the eighth and sixth cantos (p. 27-28, 21-22), plus 2 prospectuses of [4] pages each.</li><li>Limited First Edition: #65/70.</li><li>Signatures of the&nbsp;Draft of XVI. Cantos&nbsp;and the prospectus are printed on Roma paper with deckled edges; pages of the&nbsp;Draft&nbsp;are watermarked "Ezra Pound" followed by the colophon for the Three Mountains Press.</li><li>Each canto is accompanied by an engraved initial, with titles and initial caps appearing in vibrant red ink.</li><li>Prospectuses contain the first pages of the twenty first and twenty fifth cantos as specimens, each with engraved initials. </li><li>Unbound, housed in a paper wrap.</li></ul>

A Draft Of XVI. Cantos Of Ezra Pound, with Two Prospectuses For Cantos XVI-XXVII

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 Temple <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Shakespeare&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>, housed in a custom oak bookcase with bronze panels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 40 volumes housed in a custom bookcase.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by Israel Gollancz.</li><li>London: Dent, 1898-1910.</li><li>16mo.</li><li>Portrait frontispiece to The Tempest and illustrated frontispieces to remaining 39 volumes, each with tissue-guard printed with textural quotes.</li><li>Shakespeare’s coat of arms in yellow and black to each upper paste-down, title-pages printed in red and black.</li><li>Publisher’s burgundy fine-grained morocco gilt, top edge gilt.</li><li>Housed in the original Art Nouveau oak table-top bookcase with three fine, figural bronze panels interspersed with four shelves with hinged dust-guards at the top of each.</li></ul> First published in 1895, The Temple Shakespeare is sought after for its elegant design and convenient format; this set is unusual in being in the original Art Nouveau table-top bookcase in laid with three figural bronze plaques, each bearing a quote from one of Shakespeare’s plays; ‘Born to Speak all Mirth’ (Much Ado About Nothing); ‘The Time’s News Be Known’ (The Winter’s Tale); ‘Misery’s Love, Oh Come to Me’ (King John).

The Temple Shakespeare | Housed in Custom Bookcase

Robert Frost

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 Complete Poems of Robert Frost, <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 Frost, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Thomas+Nason&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thomas Nason</a>, and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bruce+Rogers&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bruce Rogers</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Robert Frost (American).</li><li>With wood engravings by Thomas Nason.</li><li>Complete Poems. With a Preface by the Author, an Appreciation by Louis Untermeyer.</li><li>New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Printed at the Marchbanks Press under the direction of Bruce Rogers.</li><li>No. 489 of 1500 numbered copies, designed by Bruce Rogers and signed by Frost, Rogers, and Nason.</li><li>Original dark blue cloth, black leather spine labels with gilt, top edge tinted, others uncut.</li></ul> In 1949 the LEC awarded Frost their Gold Medal in recognition of his being “that American writer who, during the five years previous to the time of the award, shall have published the book considered the most likely to attain the stature of a classic.” That book was The Collected Poems of Robert Frost published by Henry Holt. In 1950 the LEC issued their own edition of this. As designed by Bruce Rogers, it is surely one of the finest editions of an American poet issued in the 20th century.A superior copy of an important book.

The Complete Poems of Robert Frost Signed Limited Edition

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=Shakespeare&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 20 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by William J. Rolfe.&nbsp;</li><li>New York: Harper &amp; Brothers,&nbsp;1884.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece with Shakespeare's printed signature, illustrated with engravings throughout.</li><li>Marbled endpapers, three-quarters red Morocco leather, marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised bands.</li></ul>

The Friendly Edition: Shakespeare's Works

Lorenzo Lippi |  Antonio Malatesti

An early handwritten manuscript of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lorenzo%20Lippi&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lippi</a>'s Il Malmantile Racquistato.<ul><li>Perlone Zipoli [Lorenzo Lippi] (Italian).</li><li>Antonio Malatesti (Italian).</li><li>[n.p.]:&nbsp;[n.p],&nbsp;[c. 1675].&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[324 pages].</li><li>Undated ink manuscript in an unidentified 17th-century Italian hand.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in full contemporary vellum ("boards" composed of multiple sheets of 17th-century sheets).</li></ul> The present manuscript differs from one or both of the 17th-century editions in multiple points. Title page includes a dedication to Cardinal Leopoldo de Medici (lacking in the first printed edition), and attributes the work to Lippi's pseudonym Perlone Zipoli - unlike both 17th-century editions. The title page is followed by the prefatory&nbsp;Disfatto, here attributed to the anagrammatic pseudonym Amostante Latoni (Antonio Malatesti). The work is then prefaced by an index revealing the "true identities" of all the figures appearing pseudonymously in the work. Contrary to both printed editions, each book is here referred to as&nbsp;canto&nbsp;rather than&nbsp;cantare, and each stanza is numbered (similarly to the 1688 edition, and unlike the 1676 edition).

Malmantile Racquistato Poema di Perlone Zipoli Fiorentino Early Manuscript

James Whitcomb Riley

The Complete Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James%20Whitcomb%20Riley&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Whitcomb Riley</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the publisher, and accompanied by a poem signed by the author.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6 volumes.</li><li>James Whitcomb Riley (American).</li><li>New Castle, Pennsylvania:&nbsp;C. B. Randall,&nbsp;[1913].&nbsp;</li><li>Small quartos.</li><li>Frontispiece portrait of Riley signed by him in pencil, illustrated with numerous facsimiles and illustrations, including original watercolors by Glenn Henshaw, J. Alfred Seaford, H. Rex Cotton, and Mary McAuley.</li><li>Limited Edition, #34/150.</li><li>Limitation pages printed in red and black.</li><li>Signed by the publisher with no dedicatee listed.&nbsp;</li><li>With an autographed poem, 24 lines beginning "What thought I scantly trust ye can / Find any pardon for a man," 2 pages, written on a single folded sheet of Riley's personal stationery.</li><li>Bound in unsigned crushed red morocco, lightly mottled in a Spanish style, covers gilt with a fillet and foliate frame with red and blue morocco onlays, spines gilt in panels with blue morocco onlays, gilt dentelles, burgundy moiré silk linings, and top edges gilt.</li></ul>

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, with an Autographed Poem

Charles Bukowski

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 If We Take by <a href="sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles%20Bukowski&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Bukowski</a>.<ul><li>Charles Bukowski (American).</li><li>[Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.</li><li>[8] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>One of 350 copies.&nbsp;</li><li>Inscribed by Bukowski to Harold Norse: "12 -27 - 69 / For Hal Norse - / We've both been / through the fire, / dear friend, and / there's more to come - / more fire more o / so much more fire, / and we can only / wonder if we will / kill ourselves first, / or they. No matter - / they will never know. / yrs, / Charles Bukowski."&nbsp;</li><li>Bukowski has also added to inside of front cover an illustration of a man smoking, signed "Buk."</li><li>Original string-tied stiff printed wrappers.</li></ul> "We've both been through fire, dear friend, and there's more to come" First edition, association copy, with an extraordinary inscription and drawing from Bukowski at a pivotal moment in his career to Hal Norse, perennial literary scenester and author of the classic cut-up novel Beat Hotel. Norse was a frequent Bukowski correspondent beginning in the mid 1960s, and it was Norse who recommended Bukowski to Penguin Press for their Modern Poets series — then Bukowski's highest-profile appearance to date (they appeared together in the thirteenth installment). But the two didn't meet in person until January of 1969, a little less than a year before this inscription. Norse recalls the experience in his book Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: "I knew that a wild Falstaffian ruffian had come to shake things up with more fiction than fact, more fantasy than truth [...] Bukowski was misshapen [...] He looked [...] down and out." Norse and Bukowski remained life-long — if contentious — friends and correspondents (a collection of their letters has been slated, but delayed, for publication since 2002). Quite simply, one of the closest and warmest Bukowski associations we've seen.

If We Take Inscribed First Edition

Sylvia Plath

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 Ariel by <a href="sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sylvia%20Plath&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath</a>.<ul><li>Sylvia Plath (American).</li><li>London: Faber, 1965.</li><li>With wrap-around band and Poetry Book Society Bulletin.</li><li>In an unclipped dust wrapper.</li></ul>

Ariel First Edition, First Printing

Edith Sitwell

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Edith%20Sitwell&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dame Edith</a>’s coat and 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 editions</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> to her brother Sacheverell.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5 books and 1 coat.</li><li>Edith Sitwell (English).</li><li>London: Various publishers.</li></ul> A set&nbsp;of&nbsp;four&nbsp;first&nbsp;editions&nbsp;of&nbsp;her&nbsp;work,&nbsp;inscribed&nbsp;to&nbsp;Sacheverell, previously exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery for ‘The Sitwells’, between 1994-95, with a&nbsp;first&nbsp;edition (unsigned)&nbsp;of&nbsp;Taken Care&nbsp;Of, along with&nbsp;Dame&nbsp;Edith’s own brocade jacket. Includes the following: The Shadow&nbsp;of&nbsp;Cain:<ul><li>London: John Lehmann, 1947.</li><li>Inscribed to Edith's youngest brother Sacheverell 'For/my darling Sachie' with very best love /from /Edith.'</li><li>A&nbsp;first&nbsp;edition,&nbsp;first&nbsp;printing.</li><li>Very good condition, in like wrapper with the original National Portrait Gallery tissue wrap.&nbsp;</li></ul> Green Song&nbsp;and&nbsp;Other Poems:<ul><li>London: Macmillan, 1944.</li><li>A&nbsp;first&nbsp;edition,&nbsp;first&nbsp;printing.</li><li>Inscribed in pencil on the front free endpaper - 'For my darling Sachie/with very best love/ from/ Edith.'</li><li>Very good condition in like wrapper.</li></ul> Street Songs:<ul><li>London: Macmillan 1942.</li><li>A&nbsp;first&nbsp;edition,&nbsp;first&nbsp;printing.</li><li>Signed on the front free endpaper 'For /my darling Sachie/ with very best love from /Edit/27 January 1942.'</li><li>A very good book in like wrapper. </li></ul> Poems Old&nbsp;and&nbsp;New:<ul><li>London: Faber 1940.</li><li> A&nbsp;first&nbsp;edition,&nbsp;first&nbsp;printing.</li><li>&nbsp;Inscribed, 'For /my darling Sachie/ with Edith's very best /love.'</li><li>Excellent condition in like wrapper with the National Portrait Gallery tissue wrapping still present.</li></ul> Taken Care&nbsp;Of:<ul><li>London: Hutchinson, 1965.</li><li>A&nbsp;first&nbsp;edition,&nbsp;first&nbsp;printing.</li><li>A near fine copy in like wrapper. </li></ul> A silk brocade fitted long line jacket by Nina Astier&nbsp;of&nbsp;Chelsea. <ul><li>Leaf green with matching green lining, with fabric buttons.</li><li>Some light fading&nbsp;and&nbsp;stains&nbsp;to&nbsp;the cuff edges. </li><li>Previously owned&nbsp;and&nbsp;worn by&nbsp;Dame&nbsp;Edith&nbsp;and&nbsp;originates from the sale by Dreweatts at Weston Hall in 2021.</li></ul>

Edith Sitwell Inscribed First Editions Collection, Accompanied by Dame Edith’s Coat

Robert Burns

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> limited editon of The Life and Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Burns&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Burns</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8 volumes.</li><li>Robert Burns (Scottish).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Croscup &amp; Sterling Co.,&nbsp;1901.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece etched by F. Huth, illustrated throughout. </li><li>Holland Paper Edition, Limited Edition.&nbsp;</li><li>Copy 12 out of 50. </li><li>Three quarters morocco leather, originally green, faded to tan on spine, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels, gilt floral design on spine.</li></ul>

The Life and Works of Robert Burns

Frederic W. Goudy | W.W. Denslow

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 href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Denslow%27s+Mother+Goose&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Denslow's Mother Goose</a>.<ul><li>Illustrated by W.W. Denslow (American).</li><li>Lettered by Frederic W. Goudy.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;McClure Phillips Co,&nbsp;1901.</li><li>96 pages.</li><li>Humpty Dumpty not on verso of dedication leaf (second issue).</li><li>Original quarter green cloth, paper pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers.</li></ul> First edition, second issue, with fabulous color plates by Denslow facing text hand-lettered by the influential typographer Goudy.

Denslow's Mother Goose First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The Masque of Anarchy by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Percy%20Bysshe%20Shelley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>.<ul><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley&nbsp;(English).</li><li>The Masque of Anarchy. Now First Published, with a Preface by Leigh Hunt.</li><li>London: Edward Moxon, 1832.</li><li>12mo.</li><li>With the half-title and 2 page publisher's ad, complete.</li><li>Bound full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers triple ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, by Zaehnsdorf, and with their exhibition gilt stamp on the rear pastedown, housed in a quarter red morocco backed clamshell slipcase, gilt lettered spine.</li></ul> Engraved bookplate of "Edward Huth Wykehurst Park" (descendant of the great bibliophile Henry Huth). He was the last Huth to live at Wykehurst Park. Written to denounce the state of things that occasioned the notorious 'Peterloo Massacre' at Manchester in 1819 for publication in The Examiner, but turned down by the editor, Leigh Hunt, "...because [he] thought that the public at large had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse."

The Masque of Anarchy First Edition

William Blake | Robert Blair

<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> and a subscribers' copy of The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair, with illustrations by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Blake&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Blake</a>.<ul><li>Robert Blair (Scottish).</li><li>Illustrated by William Blake (English).</li><li>London: T. Bensley, 1808.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Frontispiece portrait, additional engraved title-page (marked 'Subscribers Copy' to lower edge) and 11 drawings by Blake, etched by Louis Schiavonetti.</li><li>Includes list of subscribers, a poem "To the Queen" by Blake, and advertisement referencing Henry Fuseli's favorable comments, complete.</li><li>Bound in the original boards, original printed paper label to front cover, entirely uncut as issued.</li></ul> One of about 590 copies published by subscription. In October 1805, Blake was commissioned by the publisher Cromek to prepare 40 drawings for the poem. Disagreements between Blake and Comek about the artistic direction led to hiring Schiavonetti for the engraving. Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece and promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century.

The Grave, A Poem | First Edition Subscribers' Copy

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 Boy's Will, <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 Robert Frost.<ul><li>Robert Frost (American).</li><li>London:&nbsp;David Nutt,&nbsp;1913.</li><li>Small octavo.</li><li>50, [2] pages.</li><li>First Edition, Second Issue, Binding D.</li><li>Number 126 of 135 copies, signed and numbered by Frost.</li><li>Cream wrapper.</li></ul>

A Boy's Will | First Edition Signed by Frost

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 Greek work Tês Hêrôikês Poiêseôs Prôteuontes Poiêtai.<ul><li>Tês Hêrôikês Poiêseôs Prôteuontes Poiêtai. Poetæ Græci Principes Heroici Carminis Et Alii Nonnulli</li><li>[Geneva]:&nbsp;Excudebat Henricus Stephanus,&nbsp;1566.&nbsp;</li><li>Folio [bibliographic octavo].</li><li>20, LXXII, 781, [3], P. LVII, 489 pages.</li><li>Text in Greek and Latin.</li><li>Bound in later full brown calf with black leather label bearing gilt titling to spine.</li></ul>

Tês Hêrôikês Poiêseôs Prôteuontes Poiêtai

William Blake | Alexander Gilchrist

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> copy of the Life and Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Blake&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Blake</a>, with selections from his <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poems</a> and other writings.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Alexander Gilchrist (English).</li><li>Life of William Blake: A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author.&nbsp;</li><li>London: Macmillan, 1880.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes plates, portraits and facsimiles.</li><li>Printed by R. Clay.&nbsp;</li><li>xxi, [2], [1]-431; ix, [4], [1]-383 pages.</li><li>Second edition.</li><li>Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth.</li></ul> The Henry Buxton Forman copy, with his bookplate. The original prints - three from electrotypes of woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral (in this second edition printed on India paper and thus preferable to the prints in the first edition of Gilchrist, 1863) and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. One of the highspots of Victorian decorated bindings.

Life and Works of William Blake

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> letter from <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sylvia%20Plath&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath</a> to her mother.<ul><li>Sylvia Plath (American).</li><li>One leaf, recto and verso, on light blue Smith College stationery.</li><li>Framed with contemporaneous black-and-white photograph of Plath.</li></ul> Sylvia Plath (1932–63) matriculated at Smith College in the fall of 1950, and quickly formed a tight bond with her roommate, Marcia Brown (1932–2012). In the winter of 1951, Plath and Brown visited the latter's maternal aunt, Harriet Bosworth, in Francestown, New Hampshire, a trip that clearly enthralled Plath, who writes in the first paragraph, "It is now midnight Sunday night and I have gotten back from the nicest weekend I ever had!" She continues: "Marcia and I got up at 10 and had a lovely liesurely [sic] breakfast in the front living room of the dear little house. Then we went out into the most beautiful world imagineable [sic]! Snow had fallen in a fine powder last night, and the sun was out in a snow-blue sky. A white-New-England church is so lovely — and it was one of those heavenly dry-cold days, with blinding sun and snow and sharp blue shadows. The air was swimmingly blue." Plath goes on to recount skiing for the first time — "I have never been so thrilled in my life!" — and while noting "the modest little gently rolling hill… was not Sun Valley," stated that, "Skiing, if you can do it well, must be pretty close to feeling like God." She closes with, "to bed &amp; my six hour day tomorrow — your happy girl, Sylvia." Plath and Brown maintained their close friendship until Sylvia's suicide in 1963. Brown is mentioned multiple times in Plath's journals, and the poet sent her more than 20 letters, all of which are currently housed in the Sylvia Plath Collection at Smith. Plath also incorporated Brown into two poems, the first being "The Babysitters" (1961), which recounts a summer both girls worked as nannies in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and the second an unpublished pieced titled "Marcia," in which Plath writes, "she will be always as now: cheeks appleshining translucent from soapandwater scrubbing. she will be always sight of market in the morning: red cheek of beet and radish squashyellow hair and mirrored purpleblack of eggplant eye laced with celerysilver lashes, vegetable and vital."

Signed Letter from Sylvia Plath to her Mother

Walt Whitman

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?query=walt%20whitman&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walt Whitman</a>'s Leaves of Grass.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>New York, 1855.</li><li>Small folio.</li><li>xii, [13]–95 pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer after a photograph, printed on thick paper.</li><li>Bound in the original green cloth, boards with blind-stamped floral decorations, title and triple-fillet border gilt, spine with title and floral ornaments gilt, marble endpapers, all edges gilt, housed in a custom half morocco folding case.</li></ul> “He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the intoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of his ‘barbaric yawp,’ are so powerful that the echo of his crude yet rhythmic song rings forever in the American air” (Grolier One Hundred). The self-published&nbsp;Leaves was at least partially personally&nbsp;type-set by the author on a small handpress in Brooklyn. The portrait of Whitman is here in superior condition, without the foxing often encountered. This copy bears the printed copyright statement on the verso of the title page and has the first version of line 2 of page 49 (“And the night is for you and me and all”) identified by Schmidgall in his article, “1855: a Stop-Press Revision.” Of the original 795 copies, only 337 were issued in this first binding with extensive gilt stamping, marbled end-sheets, and gilt edges (in the second binding only the title was gilt, and plain yellow end-sheets were used).

Leaves of Grass First Edition

Ted Hughes

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of The Hawk In The Rain, with the wrap-around band,<ul><li>Ted Hughes (English).</li><li>London: Faber, 1957.</li><li>Signed (with best wishes from) Ted Hughes to the front endpaper.</li><li>In an unclipped wrapper, complete with the rare wrap-around band, stating the book to be ‘The Choice of the Poetry Book Society’.</li></ul>

The Hawk in the Rain Signed First Edition

Robert Graves

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Graves&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Graves</a>' Good-Bye To All That.<ul><li>Robert Graves (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.</li><li>First printing, second state.</li><li>The authors signature is present on the full title page in blue ink, and dated to 1979, fifty years after the publication date.&nbsp;</li><li>This is the expurgated second-state, without the Siegfried Sassoon poem.&nbsp;</li><li>The ex-Libris label pasted to the front end-paper is that of Michael Bernard Thorold, a member of the Scots Guard and peerage.&nbsp;</li><li>In dust wrapper, designed by Len Lye and with the authors photograph by Alfred Cracknell.</li></ul>

Good-Bye To All That Signed First Edition

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> contract for <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=sylvia%20plath&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Plath</a>'s appearance in Seventeen, for her short story "And Summer Will Not Come Again."<ul><li>[New York]:&nbsp;Triangle Publications [Seventeen Magazine],&nbsp;1950.</li><li>Triangle Publications form contract with typed carbon elements printed recto only.</li><li>Signed and dated ("March 17, 1950") by Plath, her mother, and Plath again (as "Witness," using her mother's maiden name).</li></ul> "Future writer... Those rejection slips from Seventeen" — Plath, caption below her high school yearbook photo. Plath had amassed almost fifty rejections from Seventeen before finally garnering this acceptance in March of 1950 for her short story "And Summer Will Not Come Again." Often described as Plath's first professional publication (as this contract notes, she was paid $15), "Summer" details her relationship with a high school boyfriend, John Hodges. Published in August of that year, just before she began her freshman year at Smith, the story would mark the first of eight appearances in the magazine over the next several years. The contract is actually signed twice by Plath, once as herself (noting her age: "17"), and once as "Aurelia R. Schober" (her mother's maiden name) on the "Witness" line — presumably for convenience and expediency. Plath has additionally noted the date ("March 17, 1950"). A rare document marking one of the earliest milestones in the career of one of our most important poets.

Signed Contract for "And Summer Will Not Come Again"

Lorine Niedecker

A second edition of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poetry</a> book My Friend Tree by Lorine Niedecker.<ul><li>Lorine Niedecker (American).</li><li>Linocuts by Walter Miller.</li><li>Introduction by Edward Dorn.</li><li>Edinburg:&nbsp;The Wild Hawthorne Press,&nbsp;1962.&nbsp;</li><li>Small Octavo. </li><li>Aged white dust jacket with faded brown designs and lettering. </li></ul>

My Friend Tree

Audre Lorde

A second edition of Cables to Rage by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Audre%20Lorde&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Audre Lorde</a>.<ul><li>Audre Lorde (American).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Paul Breman,&nbsp;1973.</li><li>Small Octavo.</li><li>28 pages.</li><li>Sun bleached blue-grey covers with black lettering and a monochrome photo on the front cover.</li></ul>

Cables To Rage

A signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The First Cities by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Audre%20Lorde&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Audre Lorde</a>.<ul><li>Audre Lorde (American).</li><li>Introduction by Diane DiPrima.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Poets Press, Inc.,&nbsp;1968.</li><li>Small Octavo.</li><li>Inscription on the title page reading "To A.B - who has seen the lights in some &amp; these cities go out," signed Audre Lorde.&nbsp;</li><li>Gold covers with black designs and lettering. </li></ul>

The First Cities

George Eliot

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 Writings &amp; Life of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George%20Eliot&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Eliot</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 25 volumes.</li><li>George Eliot (English).</li><li>The Writings &amp; Life by J.W. Cross.</li><li>Boston and New York:&nbsp;Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1908.</li><li>Illustrated frontispieces in 2 States(one colored) Volume one has an ALS By the Author.&nbsp;</li><li>Large Paper Edition, limited to 750 copies, this is #82.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters brown morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt on spines.</li></ul>

The Writings and Life of George Eliot

Rudyard Kipling | W. Heath Robinson

A limited edition of A Song of the English, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Rudyard%20Kipling&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rudyard Kipling</a>, one of only 500 copies <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> by the illustrator.<ul><li>Rudyard Kipling (English).</li><li>Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Hodder &amp; Stoughton,&nbsp;[1909].</li><li>Illustrated by Robinson with 30 tipped-in color plates with illustrated / lettered guards and 59 line illustrations throughout.</li><li>Original full vellum stamped in gilt, red, and green, new ties, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, printed on handmade paper.</li></ul>

A Song Of The English

Nikolai Gogol | Aleksandr Agin

An attractive copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Aleksandr%20Agin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Agin</a>'s celebrated series of illustrations for <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gogol&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gogol</a>'s Dead Souls.<ul><li>Nikolai Gogol (Russian).</li><li>Illustrated by Aleksandr Agin (Russian).</li><li>Sto chetyre risunika k poeme N. V. Gogolia 'Mertvye Dushi' [One hundred and four illustrations for 'Dead Souls' by N.V.Gogol].</li><li>St Petersburg: D. D. Fedorov, 1892.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>104 illustrations in black and white after Agin.</li><li>Text in Russian.</li><li>In the original wrapper, later half red morocco with title in gilt to spine.</li></ul> Alexander Agin (1817-75) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator and this series of illustrations for Gogol's Dead Souls is considered his major work. They were first published in 1846 in serial form by Bernadsky with four prints each issue. Only 18 issues rather than the total 25 appeared as a quarrel between the Bernadsky and a gentleman named Goriainov, who owned the rights to the illustrations halted publication. In 1892, the bookseller D. Fedorov bought from Goryainov's heirs the rights to both the published and unpublished drawings engraved by Bernardsky. In 1892 he published them all under the title One Hundred Drawings for Gogol's Poem, and then, in the same year, a second and third edition appeared. For the third edition he added four more illustrations, one for the announcement of the first edition in 1846 and three drawings from the collection of the bibliophile, I. A. Efremov. The title was therefore changed from one hundred to one hundred and four - making this third edition the most complete.

Sto Chetyre Risunika k Poeme

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 Complete Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Shakespeare&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Society of Shakespeare Editors,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco by Maurin, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels. </li></ul>

Complete Works

Willy Pogany | Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A limited first Pogany-illustrated edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=he%20Rime%20Of%20The%20Ancient%20Mariner&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner</a>, signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Willy%20Pogany&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pogany</a>.<ul><li>Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Willy Pogany (Hungarian).</li><li>London: George G. Harrap and Co, (1910).</li><li>Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates, calligraphic text, decorative borders plus a profusion of stunning illustrations in color and line throughout text, many full-page.</li><li>Part of an edition of 525 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by Pogany.</li><li>Signed by Pogany on limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Original full brown calf, gilt-stamped and -lettered, top edge gilt, other edges uncut.</li></ul> Often called Pogany's masterpiece, this production owes much to the aesthetics of Morris's Kelmscott Press and Ricketts's Vale Press, as well as artists like Gustave Doré and Aubrey Beardsley. Printed on silky, high-quality paper, each page features decorative borders and interlocking designs in subtle colors.

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