Specialist Selections Under $10,000

Andy Warhol

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 From A to B and Back Again: The Philosophy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Andy+Warhol&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andy Warhol</a>.<ul><li>Andy Warhol (American).</li><li>London: Cassell, 1975.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>241 pages.</li><li>Presentation copy, signed by author ‘To Ian / Dog / Andy Warhol, London 1975’. </li><li>With an original drawing of dog’s head on the half-title.</li><li>Publisher’s cloth, dust-jacket.</li></ul> With a very rare inscription in that Warhol has drawn a dog’s head, and not the familiar soup.

From A to B And Back Again: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol | Signed First Edition

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An undocumented <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first printing</a> of The Riverside Church Speech by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martin Luther King Jr</a>.<ul><li>Martin Luther King Jr. (American).</li><li>Later titled Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence.</li><li>n.p.:&nbsp;n.p,&nbsp;[1967].</li><li>8 pages.</li><li>Printed rectos only.</li><li>Top stapled self-wrappers.</li></ul> Previously unrecorded first printing of one of King's most important speeches: his anti-war address at The Riverside Church, delivered exactly one year to the day before his assassination. "If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." King's Riverside Church Speech (later titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence," but here untitled) was the civil rights leader's first sustained and major public statement regarding the Vietnam War. Before a crowd of more than 3000, King called for not only an end to the war, but explicitly linked the anti-war movement to the larger movements for civil rights and economic justice: "Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem." This edition is unknown and unrecorded. It is not mentioned in the major King bibliographies. The introductory paragraph ("The following is the exclusive and authorized publication of the address [...] sponsored by Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam") suggests it was likely printed either by that group or King's camp. Such a printing could have been issued for members not in attendance, for press distribution at or immediately following the event, or simply to secure copyright. (The text also ends with a copyright notice by King, dated 1967.) This version differs in a number of significant ways from final published versions that appeared later. Some of these differences are accounted for by this printing's "slightly condensed" version. Others, however, clearly predate King's later revisions and finalizations which, along with the lack of title on this edition, all clearly mark the text as an early version, contemporaneous or nearly so with the event itself — and almost certainly preceding the earliest (also very rare) reprints undertaken by a number of California groups (where Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam were based, and all under the title "Beyond Vietnam") in the subsequent months. Indeed, the ditto'd presentation strongly suggests a smaller, more immediate circulation. The speech was widely criticized at the time. In the following days, more than 150 newspapers around the country condemned King, and in the aftermath of the address President Johnson dis-invited King from the White House, a rift in their relationship from which they never recovered. Among Black leaders the reception was also decidedly mixed, with many believing King's focus on the war distracted from more pressing concerns. As journalist Tavis Smiley, who produced a documentary on the speech, explained: "it was the most controversial speech he ever gave. It was the speech he labored over the most [and] got Martin King in more trouble than anything he had ever seen or done." Nevertheless, its reputation has only grown in the ensuing years. James Bevel considered it King's greatest speech, and King's intersectional understanding has been increasingly recognized as prescient. A rare and revealing document from one of King's most enduring public addresses.

The Riverside Church Speech: "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence"

Roald Dahl | Quentin Blake

A deluxe 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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=roald+dahl&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dahl</a> classic, <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 both the author and illustrator.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Quentin Blake (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Farrar, Straus, Giroux,&nbsp;(1982). </li><li>x, 222 pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Limited edition, one of 300 numbered copies, this #208, signed by both Dahl and Blake to the limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Original red publisher's cloth with gilt titles, in original blue-grey slipcase.</li></ul>

The BFG | First Edition, Signed by Both Author and Illustrator

William Golding

True <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 classic novel <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lord+of+the+Flies&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lord of the Flies</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William+Golding&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Golding</a>.<ul><li>William Golding (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Faber and Faber Ltd,&nbsp;(1954).</li><li>248 pages.</li><li>Original red cloth, in original unclipped (12s 6d, with summary on front flap) first issue color pictorial jacket.</li></ul> Frequently challenged for its portrayals of violence and grim assessment of human nature, Lord of the Flies remains a classic — if psychologically dark — young adult novel. It is also a reflection of the post-World War II white British mindset, as the boys use racial slurs and stereotypes as comparisons for their increasingly unruly behavior; these ideas are made explicit as their rescuer remarks, "I should have thought that a pack of British boys would have been able to put up a better show than that."

Lord of the Flies First Edition

Patricia Highsmith

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=The%20Talented%20Mr%20Ripley&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Talented Mr Ripley</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Patricia%20Highsmith&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patricia Highsmith</a>.<ul><li>Patricia Highsmith (American).</li><li>London: Cresset, 1957.</li><li>In a fine, neatly clipped wrapper. </li></ul> The author's second book and notably filmed in 1999 starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon and Jude Law. An excellent title to possess and very scarce.

The Talented Mr Ripley First Edition

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

<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 issues of the Adventures of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=sherlock%20holmes&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a> and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (English).</li><li>London: George Newnes Limited, 1892-1894.</li><li>Original light and dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and Strand Library design on upper covers and gilt labels on spine.</li></ul>

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (First Edition, First Issue)

Homer | William Cullen Bryant

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>, Large Paper Edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Iliad%20%26%20The%20Odyssey&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Iliad &amp; The Odyssey</a>, by Homer.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8 volumes.</li><li>Homer (Greek).</li><li>William Cullen Byrant (American).</li><li>Boston &amp; New York:&nbsp;Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1905.</li><li>Quartos.</li><li>Frontispieces in 2 states (one colored) and numerous other illustrations throughout the text.</li><li>This edition is limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 285.&nbsp;</li><li>With an autographed letter signed by William C. Bryant.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters tan morocco and marbled boards raised bands ,ornate gilt on spines, marbled boards, top edges are gilt , marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Iliad And The Odyssey

J.K. Rowling

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Harry%20Potter&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Potter</a> Series, Complete Deluxe <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Set</a>, with supplementary works.&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>J.K Rowling (English).</li><li>The Philosopher’s Stone; The Chamber of Secrets; The Prisoner of Azkaban; The Goblet of Fire; The Order of The Phoenix; The Half-Blood Prince; The Deathly Hallows; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; Quidditch Through the Ages; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2008.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First impressions thus, with the three supplemental works.</li><li>Original uniform harlequin cloth (7 volumes), with gilt decoration, illustrations to upper covers, and all edges gilt (some in shrink-wrap).</li><li>Additional volumes (3 volumes) in publisher’s illustrated covers.</li></ul> The deluxe issue is a larger format, in decorative cloth binding. Harry Potter's award-winning wizarding adventures have had an unrivalled impact in popular culture today; indeed, some experts have referred to adults between the ages of roughly 20-30 years old as 'the Harry Potter generation', who are seen to hold markedly different values to their parents. Harry Potter is a series of many genres, including fantasy, bildungsroman, and the British school story (which includes elements of mystery, thriller, adventure, and romance). According to Rowling, the main theme of the books is death – although prejudice, corruption, and madness can be seen as dominant motifs.

Harry Potter Series

Gerard Jollain

A 17th century prospect of Lisbon.<ul><li>Gerard Jollain (French).</li><li>Lisbone.</li><li>Paris: circa 1650. </li><li>Colored.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A French prospect of Lisbon from the Tagus, with the landmarks named in the plate and the foreground filled with the merchant ships that gave the city its wealth. Underneath is a short description in Latin and French.

French Map Of Lisbon

Randolph S. Churchill | Martin Gilbert

Inscribed UK first editions, and first printings of the Life Of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=winston%20churchill&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winston S. Churchill</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8 volumes.</li><li>Randolph S. Churchill (English).</li><li>Martin Gilbert (English).</li><li>Life Of Winston S. Churchill [youth 1874-1900, Young Statesman 1901-1914, Volume III 1914-1916, Volume IV 1917-1922, Volume V 1922-1939, Finest Hour 1939-1941, Road To Victory 1941-1945, Never Despair 1945-1965.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Heinemann,&nbsp;1966-1988.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Volumes 1 and 2 signed by Randolph Churchill, Volumes 3-8 signed by Martin Gilbert.</li><li>Volume 1 is inscribed stating "Inscribed by" signed by Randolph S. Churchill on half-title page.</li><li>Volume 2 is inscribed stating "Bobby from" signed Randolph on half-title page, dated "6 Sep 67 -".</li><li>Volumes, 3, 7, and 8 are signed flat by Martin Gilbert on title pages.</li><li>Volumes 4 and 5 are signed flat by Martin Gilbert on front end-page.</li><li>Volume 6 is inscribed stating "Inscribed by the author, to R. G. McLeod with all good wishes -" signed Martin Gilbert on front end-page, dated "15th July 1983". Volume 1 contains a frontispiece black and white photo captioned "Second Lieutenant Winston S. Churchill 4th Hussars 1895" and a thin paper family tree between page 608 and rear end-page.</li><li>Volume 2 contains a frontispiece with a black and white photo captioned "Winston Spencer Churchill in 1904".</li><li>Volume 3 contains a frontispiece with a black and white photo captioned "Churchill in April 1916, when Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.</li><li>Volume 4 contains a frontispiece black and white photo captioned "Churchill at Lille, 28 October 1918".</li><li>Volume 5 contains a frontispiece black and white photo captioned "Churchill in 1938".</li><li>Volume 1 has a dark blue spine with white, light blue, and red lettering.</li><li>Volume 2 has a dark green spine with white, light blue, and red lettering.</li><li>Volume 3 has a purple spine with white, grey, ad brown lettering.</li><li>Volume 4 has a brick red spine with white, blue-grey, and gold lettering.</li><li>Volume 5 has a dark green spine with white, light grey, and brown-orange lettering.</li><li>Volumes 6, 7, and 8 have a black spine with white lettering.</li><li>Dust jackets are all wrapped in mylar coverings.</li></ul>

Life Of Winston S. Churchill

Walt Disney | Deems Taylor

A first edition copy of Walt Disney's Fantasia, inscribed by the composer to his daughter.<ul><li>Deems Taylor (American).</li><li>Introduction by Walt Disney.</li><li>Foreword by Leopold Stokowski.</li><li>Lithographs by the Western Printing and Lithographing Company.</li><li>New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.</li><li>158 pages.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>With colored and black and white lithographic illustrations, with 16 of the color illustrations tipped in.</li><li>Inscribed on the flyleaf to the author’s daughter, Joan Kennedy Taylor: "For my dear Joan, with all my love. Deems"</li><li>Bound in the original tan cloth, lettered in blue.</li></ul>

Fantasia

Williams, Tennessee 

A signed first edition of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in amazing condition.<ul><li>Tennessee Williams (American).</li><li>New York: New Directions Books, 1955.</li><li>98 pages.</li><li>Illustrated with full-page black-and-white plate before "Notes for the Designer."&nbsp;</li><li>Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper.</li><li>Bound in original brown cloth binding with black spine lettering, in original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Alvin Lustig.&nbsp;</li></ul> Tangled in webs of deceit woven for personal safety and personal gain, the characters of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof struggle to come to terms with the truth throughout the play. The 1958 film added another layer to the obfuscation of truth at the heart of the play by removing references Brick's homosexual desires in response to the Hays Code.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Signed First Edition

John Lennon

A United Kingdom 1964 first edition hardback copy of John Lennon’s book In His Own Write, that has been autographed on the first inside page by John Lennon.<ul><li>John Lennon (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1964.</li><li>Signed in blue ballpoint pen.</li><li>John has added the inscription "To Joanna love" above his name.</li><li>The letters "'s Pa" have been added in an unknown hand.</li></ul>

John Lennon In His Own Write, Autographed First Edition

Robert Morden | Philip Lea

A Dutch copy of Morden and Lea's map, first published in 1690, extending from Hyde Park clockwise to Marylebone, Islington, Hackney, Stepney, Limehouse, Southwark and Lambeth, with many of the important buildings and monuments shown as elevations.<ul><li>Robert Morden (English).</li><li>Philip Lea (English).</li><li>This Actual Survey of London, Westminster &amp; Southwark Is humbly dedicated to ye L.d Mayor &amp; Court of Aldermen.</li><li>Amsterdam: Jean Covens &amp; Cornelis Mortier, circa 1750.</li><li>The map has been updated with the developments around Grosvenor Square and Cavendish Square, and Westminster Bridge, approved 1736 and opened 1750, as shown.</li><li>Under the map are extensive numbered tables corresponding with numbers on the map and detailing Public Offices, Wards, Halls and Companies, Markets, Inns of Court and Chancery, Prisons, Palaces, Public Buildings, Hospitals and Parishes, un-updated.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Dutch Map of London

Frost, Robert 

Proof copies of the first separate edition of the poem A Considerable Speck.&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2&nbsp;single folio sheets.</li><li>Includes one uncorrected page proof of the 33-line poem, without the printed title page, and with printer’s manuscript corrections and directions in red ink; and one final proof copy, with "Original Proof" printed on title-page.</li><li>Robert Frost (American).</li><li>Both copies are uncut on cream woven paper watermarked "HANDMADE”.</li><li>Laid in a custom green cloth chemise.</li></ul> Laid in is a photocopy of the handbill titled “The Colonial Society of Massachusetts” detailing the poem’s history: “This poem was written and delivered by Robert Frost at the Annual Dinner on November twenty-first, 1939. It has been printed by Mr. Dard Hunter, Jr. from the first font of type that he has cut and cast himself, and is one of the first pieces of printing. It is on hand-made paper, made by him and his father, an authority on paper, with whom he is associated at the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology....” A Considerable Speck was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly in July, 1939. The first separate edition consisted of fewer than 100 copies, according to Crane.

A Considerable Speck

Emily Brontë | Samuel Warren

A first United States edition of the Gothic tale of romance and betrayal, published only a few months after the London first edition, bound with another novel, Now &amp; Then, by Samuel Warren, published by Harper the same year.<ul><li>(Wuthering Heights) Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>(Now &amp; Then) Samuel Warren (English).</li><li>New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1848.</li><li>288 pages.</li><li>Bound in modern full green goatskin, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine and gilt-ruled boards, with new marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

Wuthering Heights / Now And Then

Charles Dickens | Arthur Rackham

A first edition, Deluxe Issue copy of A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>London:&nbsp;William Heinemann,&nbsp;1915.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes 12 full-page mounted illustrations in color and 20 drawings in black and white by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>One of 525 copies signed by Rackham.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original full gilt-decorated vellum, housed in custom vellum backed box with chemise.</li></ul>

A Christmas Carol

Mark Twain

A single leaf from Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's work The Gilded Age.<ul><li>Single manuscript leaf, taken from a set.</li><li>Written in Mark Twain's hand.</li><li>This page is from chapter 34.</li><li>Removed from binding.</li><li>Embossed stamp at top left.</li></ul> Written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age was hatched over the dinner table when Clemens and Warner were challenged by their wives to write a work that would be better than those they were busy complaining about. Clemens wrote the first eleven chapters, based on members of his family including his father and mother, while Warner wrote the next twelve chapters, purely fictionally. The remaining chapters were generally written by one or the other, while the resolution was written in tandem.

The Gilded Age Manuscript Leaf

A first-edition copy of the catalog for Keith Haring's exhibit at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, featuring the iconic neon Haring Three Eyed Smiling Face cover.<ul><li>Forward by Tony Shafrazi (American).</li><li>Includes texts by Keith Haring, Jeffrey Deitch, Robert Pincus-Witten and David Shapiro.</li><li>Includes photographs of Haring's subway drawings by Haring’s close friend Tseng Kwong Chi.</li><li>Designed by Dan Friedman.</li><li>New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1982.</li><li>144 pages.</li><li>Softcover.</li><li>Includes 15 double-sided lithographic inserts.</li><li>Part of a limited edition of 2,000 copies.</li><li>Metal wire bound.</li></ul>

Keith Haring at Tony Shafrazi Gallery Catalog

Theodor Seuss Geisel

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Special%20Feature=First%2520Edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first state of this iconic <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Childrens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">children's</a> book by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Theodor%2520Seuss%2520Geisel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Seuss</a>. <ul><li>Dr. Seuss&nbsp;[Theodor Seuss Geisel](American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;(1957).</li><li>61, [1] pages.</li><li>Bound with original flat paper over boards (not glazed paper) and in original unclipped (200/200) dust jacket.</li></ul> "[First graders] still want to laugh at something that's ridiculous." – Dr. Seuss.This subversive update to Dick and Jane was based upon the idea that kids would get more excited about reading if they enjoyed the material. Challenged to create a reader for young children using only 220 different words, Seuss tricked kids into enjoying learning with his destructive and charismatic house guest. Inspired in part by Krazy Kat and Felix the Cat, but with a wily mind all his own, the Cat in the Hat's humor and naughtiness are engaged in the noble cause of literacy. "Parents," notes biographer Brian Jay Jones, "were more than happy to join Dr. Seuss as fellow revolutionaries. Even if parents didn't necessarily understand the pedagogy, it was easy to see the difference between the staid Dick and Jane and the rambunctious The Cat in the Hat: kids&nbsp;wanted&nbsp;to read about the antics of the cat, just as Geisel had hoped." The first book featuring the US literary icon, this copy comes directly from the stock of Aleph-Bet Books, the firm of Seuss bibliographers Helen Younger and Marc Younger. Younger, Younger, &amp; Hirsch, First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification; Jones, Becoming Dr. Seuss.

The Cat in the Hat (First Edition, First State)

Beatrix Potter

Deluxe edition, and first or second printing of The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910.</li><li>Sextodecimo.</li><li>Color frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 color plates, contemporary ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1910 to half-title.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s blue moiré cloth with fielded illustrative paste-down of Mrs. Tittlemouse, all edges gilt.</li><li>Custom-made solander box.</li></ul>

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

William Shakespeare | John Boydell

First American edition of the Boydell collection of the Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by John Boydell (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Shearjashub Spooner,&nbsp;1852.&nbsp;</li><li>205 pages; 200 pages.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>51 illustrated plates; 49 illustrated plates.</li><li>Three-quarter bound in red morocco and red buckram with gilt ruling and lettering to spine and gilt ruling to boards.</li></ul> Boydell was a British publisher and engraver who decided to undertake the massive project of creating an illustrated folio edition of Shakespeare’s works that took nearly twenty years to complete, and the first edition was published in 1805. It incorporates engravings based on the works of dozens of prominent artists, including George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West and Angelica Kauffman.

Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

Maurice Sendak

Signed set of fine art prints manufactured in 1971, as part of a series of 19 images selected from eight different titles by Sendak, and newly re-photographed from the original artwork at the Sendak Archives.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Maurice Sendak (American).</li><li>New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1971.</li><li>One of a limited edition of 200 signed sets from a larger unsigned edition of 6,000 sets.</li><li>Each print is signed in ink by the artist at the lower right corner.</li></ul>

Where the Wild Things Are Print Set

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

First edition of Shelley's second novel Valperga.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).</li><li>Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca.</li><li>London: for G. &amp; W. B. Whittaker, 1823.</li><li>Bound in half tan speckled calf, gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled edges.</li></ul>

Valperga

Samuel Buck | Nathaniel Buck

Samuel&nbsp;Buck (1696–1779) and his brother&nbsp;Nathaniel Buck&nbsp;(died between 1759 and 1774) were English engravers and printmakers.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5.</li><li>Copper engraving, printed on five sheets, framed and glazed individually.</li><li>The most important panorama of London of its period.</li><li>Samuel Buck and his brother Nathaniel are among the finest topographical artists to have worked in</li></ul>England.<ul><li>From 1720 onwards, first Samuel and then his brothers toured England, drawing views of the cities and towns, castles, antiquities (particularly ruined monasteries) and other landmarks; they financed publication of this bold project by soliciting advance subscriptions.</li><li>The crowning achievement of their long career, the most ambitious single view they had undertaken,</li></ul>is this highly important prospect of London taken from the River Thames drawn from five vantagepoints, and then blended into one continuous panorama, extending from Westminster Bridgedownstream to London Bridge and the Tower of London.<ul><li>While many other artists (including, Wenceslas Hollar, Jan Kip and William Morgan, among others) had published earlier panoramas from similar viewpoints, these early versions incorporated a great deal of artistic license to flatter London.</li><li>The Bucks’ image is a faithful rendition, and its size, the detail and its accurate portrayal of London make it a definitive mid-18th century record of London, in an era of rapid change.</li><li>The historical importance of the Buck panorama, its attention to minute detail in the search for accuracy and its artistic beauty make it one of the most important and collectible of any of the</li></ul>images of historic London.<ul><li>Framed and glazed.</li></ul>

A General View of London and Westminster

Man Ray

Inscribed first edition, second issue of the definitive contemporary collection of Man Ray’s photographs.<ul><li>Man Ray, [pseud. of Emmanuel Radnitzky].</li><li>Includes a portrait of the artist by Picasso.</li><li>Texts by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy [Marcel Duchamp], Tristan Tzara.</li><li>First edition, second issue with cancel title with fictitious "Deuxième édition" designation.&nbsp;</li><li>101 gravure plates after photographs by Man Ray.</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut; Paris; New York:&nbsp;James Thrall Soby; Cahiers d’Art; Random House,&nbsp;[1934].</li><li>1 vols.</li><li>4to.</li><li>Original spiral-bound photographically illustrated wrappers.</li><li>Gift inscription on verso of front wrapper beneath Man Ray inscription.</li><li>In a custom half black morocco-backed slipcase and chemise.</li></ul> With 101 gravure reproductions of photographs and "rayographs" and essays by his contemporaries, leading figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements of Paris and New York, including Breton, Eluard, Duchamp (written in German under the pseudonym "Rrose Sélavy") and Tristan Tzara. With large inscription on the verso of the front wrapper, "Man Ray / Paris — Jan 1959."&nbsp; A work almost always encountered in its second issue with the fictitious statement "Deuxième édition" on the title, an attempt "to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out...Copies with the original title page are exceedingly rare." (Roth) Beneath Man Ray's inscription is a gift inscription to Judy and Julius Rosenwald II. "Dooley," as he was known, was the son of the celebrated collector Lessing Rosenwald and the grandson of Julius Rosenwald, part owner of Sears Roebuck.

Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934 Paris, Signed First Edition

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A very nice copy of the magnificent Kelmscott edition of the poems of Shelley with interesting New York provenance.<ul><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).</li><li>One of 250 copies.</li><li>Printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut title, borders and initials.</li><li>Hammersmith:&nbsp;Kelmscott Press,&nbsp;1894-95.</li><li>3 vols. 8vo.</li><li>Original full limp vellum, spines stamped in gold, issued without silk ties.</li><li>Long list of signatures inked to first two blanks of volume one.</li><li>Housed in custom cloth chemises and blue morocco backed slipcases.</li></ul>

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