Literature & Children's Books by Top Authors

Ernest H. Shepard | A.A. Milne

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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Winnie+The+Pooh&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winnie The Pooh</a> by A.A. Milne.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen, 1926.</li><li>Illustrated, map endpapers.</li><li>Bound in the original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, in dust jacket with ‘7/6 Net’ to spine and ‘117th Thousand’ at the head of the rear flap.</li></ul> A timeless children’s classic about the gentle adventures of a loveable bear, Pooh, and his friends—Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and Christopher Robin—in the Hundred Acre Wood. Through simple stories and quiet humor, Milne captures themes of friendship, imagination, and kindness. Inspired by his son’s toys, the book’s charm and Ernest H. Shepard’s illustrations made it an enduring favourite, celebrating innocence, curiosity, and the joy of everyday life.

Winnie The Pooh | First Edition, First Printing

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

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

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

James Joyce

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> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James+Joyce&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Joyce</a>'s first fiction, Dubliners.<ul><li>James Joyce (Irish).</li><li>London: Grant Richards Ltd, [1914].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>278 pages.</li><li>One of 746 bound for Richards (1250 copies printed).</li><li>Original dark red cloth, gilt stamped lettering on the spine and front cover.</li></ul> The rocky publishing history of Dubliners is well documented: finished in 1905, it was rejected by 15 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. Richards' printers refused to set some of the type – inaugurating Joyce's lifelong struggle with censorship – and Joyce refused most of Richards' changes. It was then taken up by Maunsel &amp; Roberts of Dublin, who eventually came to a similar conclusion. Maunsel even burned all but one of the copies of the sheets, which Joyce managed to wheedle out of him, and it was given back to Richards, who set the type from the lone Maunsel sheet saved from the flames. Joyce subsequently added "A Little Cloud" and "The Dead" – possibly his most famous single story – to the collection.

Dubliners | 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

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

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

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

A.A. Milne

A Deluxe copy of Toad of Toad Hall by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a> on Japanese vellum, <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 Milne and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Kenneth+Grahame&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kenneth Grahame</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>After Kenneth Grahame.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Methuen,&nbsp;(1929). </li><li>xvi, 167, [1] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Signed by Milne and Grahame on limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Original blue quarter cloth, cream paper boards, printed paper label on front board, in original printed dust jacket, text block uncut and unopened, printed on Japanese vellum paper, housed in custom quarter goatskin clamshell box. </li></ul> Signed limited edition of Milne's theatrical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, one of only 200 numbered copies signed by both Milne and Grahame.

Toad Of Toad Hall Signed Limited Edition

Beatrix Potter

An early edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Beatrix+Potter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beatrix Potter</a>.<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London: Frederick Warne &amp; Co., [1905].</li><li>16mo.</li><li>Color frontispiece, plain title vignette, 23 color illustrations.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's brown paper covered boards with fielded illustrative paste-down of Peter Rabbit, illustrated endpapers.</li></ul> The rarer fourth printing. Beloved by generations of children but banned in 1985 by the Inner London Education Authority for the portrayal of exclusively 'middle-class rabbits.'

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Ernest Howard Shepard | A.A. Milne

A first limited edition of Winnie the Pooh, <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 illustrator, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=E.H.+Shepard&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">E.H. Shepard</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen Children's Books, 1973.</li><li>Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies by Shepard this being copy #269.</li><li>Bound in full blue morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered spine, gilt Pooh and Christopher Robin to front cover, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, housed in the original matching blue cloth open ended slipcase, by Zaehnsdorf.</li></ul>

Winnie The Pooh Signed First Limited Edition

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

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

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

A.A. Milne | Ernest Howard Shepard

When We Were Very Young by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</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 real life Christopher Robin.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shepard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co., 1954.</li><li>Inscribed on the front pictorial endleaf, "Love to Anita (Finch) from Christopher Robin Milne, Dartmouth, 11th June 1955."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth.</li></ul> Acquired by direct decent. Christopher Robin Milne (1920-96), the only son of author A. A. Milne and the subject of his Winnie-the-Pooh stories, opened 'The Harbour Bookshop' on 25th August 1951 in Dartmouth. The dedicatee of this copy was a family friend of a resident of Dartmouth who obtained the inscription before gifting the book.

When We Were Very Young | Inscribed By Christopher Robin Milne

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 Winnie The Pooh by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shephard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1967.</li><li>Bound in full polished green calf, ribbed gilt decorated spine, panels tooled with images of Pooh, covers ruled in gilt, front cover tooled with title and author and 6 images reproducing illustrations from text, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, by Bayntun-Rivere.</li></ul>

Winnie The Pooh

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.

Oscar Wilde

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=A+Woman+of+No+Importance&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Woman of No Importance</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Oscar+Wilde&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oscar Wilde</a>.<ul><li>Oscar Wilde (Irish).</li><li>London: John Lane, 1894.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>One of 50 large paper copies, printed on hand-made paper.</li><li>Publisher’s straw colored buckram with gilt decorations by Charles Ricketts, gilt lettering to spine, housed in custom purple cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slipcase.</li></ul> One of only 50 large paper copies. This play contains some of Wilde's most famous epigrams. First performed in April 1893, prior to being published in book form, A Woman of No Importance addresses many social issues with Wilde’s wit and dark humor. The run of the play was cut short as a result of Wilde’s arrest and prosecution. The scandal dampened enthusiasm for Wilde’s work until after his death in 1900, when interest in his work began to revive.

A Woman of No Importance 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> 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

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>

Matilda Signed First Edition

A.A. Milne | Ernest H. Shepard

<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 <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> of this selection of stories from the Pooh Books, one of only 350 numbered copies signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=aa+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Milne</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=eh+Shepard&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shepard</a> and printed on Japanese vellum.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.</li><li>New York: Dutton, (1929).</li><li>[2], xvi, 171, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Shepard throughout in black and white.</li><li>Printed on Japanese vellum.</li><li>Signed by Milne and Shepard on limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Original half green cloth, pink pictorial paper boards, with original mylar jacket, in publisher's original pictorial box, green endpapers, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut.</li></ul> "Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders."

Christopher Robin Story Book Signed Limited First Edition

Virginia Woolf

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 Night And Day by <a href="sothebys.com/en/search?query=virginia%20woolf&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Virginia Woolf</a>.<ul><li>Virginia Woolf (English).</li><li>London: Duckworth, 1919.</li><li>(ii) 538 pages, (i), complete with the final publishers ad leaf.</li><li>Bound in full blue morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled in gilt, top edge gilt.</li></ul>

Night And Day First 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 printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel Dr. No, with <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">signature</a> by actor <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sean%20Connery&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sean Connery</a>, who played James Bond in the movie adaptation.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.</li><li>Includes insert with signature of Sean Connery.</li><li>Unclipped first issue dust wrapper.</li></ul>

Dr. No First Edition, First Printing, Signed by Sean Connery

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 the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles%20Dickens&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a> classic, <a href="sothebys.com/en/search?query=A%20Christmas%20Carol&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Christmas Carol</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>Illustrated with 4 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W.J. Linton.&nbsp;</li><li>Chapter heading reading "Stave I."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt and blind stamped mauve cloth, back corners square, front cover has a perfect 'D' in 'Dickens', green pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.</li></ul> Regarded as Dicken's most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language."

A Christmas Carol First Edition First Issue

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 Finnegan's Wake by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James%20Joyce&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Joyce</a>.<ul><li>James Joyce (Irish).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Faber &amp; Faber Limited / Viking Press,&nbsp;1939.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>628 pages.</li><li>Limited Edition, #122/425.</li><li>Bound in publisher's brick red buckram, spine stamped in gilt, uncut and unopened as issued, housed in publisher's yellow cloth slipcase, stamped "Made in England" inside of the case.</li></ul>

Finnegans Wake 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 printing of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George%20Orwell&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Orwell</a>'s A Clergyman's Daughter.<ul><li>George Orwell (English).</li><li>London: Gollancz, 1935.</li><li>Rebound in full calf blue leather, with marbled endpapers, gilt titles and raised bands.</li></ul> Orwell's second novel and rarest by far. One of only 2,000 copies printed.

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