Specialist Selections Under $10,000

Arthur Dobbs

Dobbs, Arthur | A scarce work, advocating for the continued search for a Northwest Passage

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"

Gabriel García Márquez

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 <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 in English of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Garc%C3%ADa%20Marquez&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">García Marquez</a>'s ode to the persistence of romantic memory.<ul><li>Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian).</li><li>Translated by Edith Grossman.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;1988.</li><li>[10], 348, [4] pages.</li><li>Signed by García Márquez at colophon and numbered 107 of 350 signed and numbered copies of the first edition.</li><li>Original quarter pink cloth with black cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine, in original decorative black lace-printed mylar protective jacket, with original yellow and black slipcase, bright pink endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle.</li></ul> There is no greater glory than to die for love." "It would be presumptuous to speak of moving 'beyond' One Hundred Years of Solitude but clearly García Márquez has moved somewhere else, not least into deeper awareness of the ways in which, as Florentino comes to learn, 'nobody teaches life anything.'" — Thomas Pynchon Gorgeously designed edition of the author's acclaimed novel, first published in Spanish in 1985. The English translation was praised by Thomas Pynchon to the utmost reaches of superlative adjectives, and was the recipient of less frenzied but still glowing compliments from Michiko Kakutani. García Márquez's theme – romantic love that never fades, vows never broken; or, seen another way, the nightmare impossibility of permanently dismissing a determined suitor – struck Pynchon as "revolutionary," though his judgment that working in "love's vernacular" is a "daring step for any writer" may raise eyebrows among those familiar with genres and modes of writing in which these themes and treatments have never fallen out of fashion. García Márquez himself once said, with perhaps greater perception, that the revolutionary part of writing consists simply of doing it well: and he did. A beautiful copy of this signed limited US edition, which preceded the UK edition by several months.

Love in the Time of Cholera Signed Limited First Edition

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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=Dr.+Seuss&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Seuss</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Cat+in+the+Hat&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Cat in the Hat</a>.<ul><li>Dr. Seuss (American).</li><li>New York: Random House, 1957.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>62 pages.</li><li>Illustrated throughout.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s pictorial blue boards, in illustrated unclipped dust-jacket repeating the cover design.</li></ul> Two siblings caught between the demands of a sensible goldfish, and an irresponsible giant cat.

The Cat in the Hat First Edition

J.R.R. Tolkien

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%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Lord of the Rings</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=J.R.R.%20Tolkien&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J.R.R. Tolkien</a>.<ul><li>J.R.R. Tolkien (English).</li><li>London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968.</li><li>Rebound in full red morocco leather with Sauron vignette and in custom-made slip-case.</li></ul> The first complete collection of The Lord of the Rings - Containing the trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King and preceding the Deluxe Edition of 1969.

The Lord of the Rings First Edition

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

J.K. Rowling

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=Harry%20Potter&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Potter</a> and the Deathly Hallows, <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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=J.K.%20Rowling&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J.K. Rowling</a>.<ul><li>J.K. Rowling (English).</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 2007.</li><li>Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page in blue ink.</li></ul>

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Signed 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

Aldous Huxley

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 Brave New World by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Aldous%20Huxley&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aldous Huxley</a>.<ul><li>Aldous Huxley (English).</li><li>London: Chatto and Windus, 1932.</li><li>With bright gilt titles and no inscriptions, housed in custom-made solander box and with the laid in Chatto and Windus Advertisement. </li></ul> Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley published in 1932, presents a future society where technological advancements and state control have eradicated individuality, freedom, and emotional depth. The World State, a global government, maintains order through genetic engineering, conditioning, and the drug "soma," which ensures citizens’ perpetual happiness. People are stratified into rigid castes, from the intelligent Alphas to the menial Epsilons, each conditioned to accept their role without question. In this society, traditional family structures, personal relationships, and religious beliefs are obsolete. Instead, promiscuity is encouraged, and consumerism is the cornerstone of existence. The protagonist, Bernard Marx, an Alpha who feels out of place, questions the superficial contentment around him. His encounter with John, a "Savage" who was raised outside the World State's influence, intensifies his doubts. John, who has a profound attachment to literature and human emotion, becomes a tragic figure as he struggles to reconcile his values with the alien world he encounters.

Brave New World First Edition

Roald Dahl

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=Roald%20Dahl&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roald Dahl</a>'s The BFG, <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 and inscribed</a> by the author.<ul><li>Roald Dahl (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.</li><li>Inscribed ‘To Helen/Love/Roald Dahl’.</li><li>In an unclipped dust wrapper.</li></ul>

The BFG Signed 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 Matilda by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Roald%20Dahl&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roald Dahl</a>, accompanied by a jacketed uncorrected proof of the same.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Roald Dahl (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.</li></ul> The red card covers state that the provisional United Kingdom publish date is April 21st, 1988, and the provisional price will be £8.50. This price corresponds to the that of the over-sized dust wrapper in which the book is now housed.

Matilda First Edition with Uncorrected Proof

Robert Frost

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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 Screwjack by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Hunter%20S.%20Thompson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hunter S. Thompson</a>.<ul><li>Hunter S. Thompson (American).</li><li>Printed by Patrick Reagh. </li><li>Santa Barbara, California:&nbsp;Neville,&nbsp;1991.</li><li>38, [2, blank], [1, colophon] pages.</li><li>Copy H of 26 copies, signed by Hunter S. Thompson.&nbsp;</li><li>Title page printed in red and grey and black.</li><li>Brown rexine titled in gilt upper cover stamped in gilt.</li></ul>

Screwjack Signed First Edition

Toni Morrison

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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Toni%20Morrison&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Toni Morrison</a>'s Song of Solomon.<ul><li>Toni Morrison (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;1977.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>337 pages.</li><li>Inscribed by Toni Morrison on front free endpaper reading, "A delight meeting you Angie. Warm best wishes from Toni / 12.55.1977"</li><li>Spine yellow with red and black lettering.</li></ul>

Song Of Solomon Inscribed First Edition

Ian Fleming

&nbsp;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 Dr. No, <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 Eunice Gayson and Charles Edghill.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.</li><li>Signed on the title page by the actress Eunice Gayson, who played the character ‘Sylvia Trench’ in the 1962 motion picture of Dr No.&nbsp;</li><li>Additionally signed by Charles Edghill, who played one of the ‘Three Blind Mice,’ on the rear of the half-title page.</li><li>Presented in the dustwrapper.</li></ul> Dr. No is the sixth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1958. It follows British spy James Bond as he investigates the disappearance of two agents in Jamaica, leading to the mysterious Dr. No, a reclusive villain with a deadly plan. The 1962 film adaptation, starring Sean Connery in his debut as Bond, launched the iconic movie franchise. Set in the Caribbean, the film features classic Bond elements: espionage, action, gadgets, and glamorous women. Dr. No’s lair, Ursula Andress’s beach entrance, and Connery’s suave performance made the film a pop culture milestone and a blueprint for future Bond films.

Dr. No

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

Kay Thompson | Hilary Knight

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets&amp;query=kay%20thompson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eloise</a> books.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Kay Thompson (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Hilary Knight (American).&nbsp;</li><li>Eloise; Eloise in Paris; Eloise at Christmastime; Eloise in Moscow.</li><li>New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 1995-99-99-2000.</li><li>Original publisher's cloth with matching slipcases.</li></ul> <ul><li>Eloise:</li><li>Number 52 of 250.</li><li>Signed by Thompson and Knight.</li></ul> <ul><li>Eloise in Paris:</li><li>Number 248 of 250 copies.</li><li>Signed by Knight. </li></ul> <ul><li>Eloise at Christmastime:</li><li>Number 235 of 250 copies.</li><li>Signed by Knight. </li></ul> <ul><li>Eloise in Moscow:</li><li>Number 39 of 300 copies.</li><li>Signed by Knight.</li></ul> A scarce complete set of the limited signed issue of the classic Eloise stories. Thompson died in 1998, thus only the first volume is signed by the author, though all are signed by the illustrator Hilary Knight.

Signed Eloise Collection

<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

Pierre Jean François Turpin | Pierre-Antoine Poiteau

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Plates</a> from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit,' by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Pierre%20Jean%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Turpin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pierre Jean François Turpin</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Pierre%20Antoine%20Poiteau&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pierre Antoine Poiteau</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Pierre Jean François Turpin (French).</li><li>Pierre Antoine Poiteau (French).</li><li>Traité des arbres Fruitiers.</li><li>Paris: H. Perronneau for T. Delachausée, 1807-1835.</li><li>Stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand.</li><li>Each is presented framed.</li></ul>&nbsp;This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it is an independent work and was intended as Poiteau and Turpin's homage to the earlier work. A team of over twenty engravers was involved. The color printing was by Langlois, the great French color-printer who supervised much of Redouté's work.

Traité Des Arbres Fruitier Plates

Jean-Théodore Descourtilz

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a>&nbsp;of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From&nbsp;Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Phibalura Flavirostris, Querula Rubricollis, Turdus Orpheus, Turdus Flavipes and Turdus Brasiliensis.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work&nbsp;Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

Ornithologie Bresilienne Birds Plate

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

The Talented Mr. Ripley

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

James Joyce

A first edition, first impression, trade-issue copy of Joyce’s last and most innovative prose work, Finnegans Wake.<ul><li>James Joyce (Irish).</li><li>London: Faber &amp; Faber, 1939.</li><li>Large octavo.</li><li>Bound in the publisher’s burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the unclipped dust jacket, housed in green morocco gilt solander box.&nbsp;</li></ul> One of 3,400 sets of sheets for the trade edition of Finnegans Wake which were printed for Faber. Of these, 2,255 were bound and sold at 25 shillings, 950 were destroyed by the publisher and the remaining were gratis copies. It is possible that the 950 discarded sets of sheets remained unsold because of the price, which Joyce believed was too high. "'A way alone aloved alost along the…' If Finnegans Wake is a key book, it is a key which needs a key" (Connolly). "His work is enriched by such large resources of invention and allusion that its total effect is infinite variety" (Harry Levin).

Finnegans Wake

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

David Hockney

A Bigger Book&nbsp;is a majestic visual survey of Hockney’s more than 60 years of work.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2: book and bookstand.</li><li>First listing photo of book on stand is for reference only and is not a photo of the actual copy for sale.</li><li>Köln: Taschen,&nbsp;2018.&nbsp;</li><li>Elephant folio.</li><li>498 pages.</li><li>13 foldouts, with an illustrated 680-page chronology book.</li><li>Signed by David Hockney.</li><li>Part of a limited collector's edition, this being number 1,343 of 10,000.&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in publisher's original box with limited-edition label.</li><li>Presented with a Marc Newson bookstand for display.</li></ul>

A Bigger Book

Complete deluxe editions of the Harry Potter series.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>J.K. Rowling (English, b. 1965).</li><li>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.</li><li>London, UK: Bloomsbury, 1999-2007.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Volume 1 has a light red cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 2 has a Carolina blue cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 3 has an emerald cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 4 has an indigo cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 5 has an auburn cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 6 has a blue cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 7 has a black spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volumes 1-5 are in publisher's indigo slipcase which lists the titles of each volume on the rear board in gilt lettering, has a gilt depiction of Hogwarts Express on both side boards, gilt copies of J.K. Rowling's signature on both side boards and rear boards, text blocks of all volumes have gilt edges, volume 1 has a blue silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 2 has a green silk bookmark ribbon attached to spine, volume 3 has a yellow bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 4 has a ruby-red silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 5 has a golden silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 6 has an evergreen silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head and volume 7 has a Byzantine purple silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head.</li></ul>

Stein, Gertrude

A first edition of this first book from Stein's Plain Edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein.<ul><li>Gertrude Stein (American).</li><li>Lucy Church Amiably: A Novel of Romantic beauty and nature and which Looks Like an Engraving.</li><li>Paris: Imprimerie Union / (Plain Edition), 1930.&nbsp;</li><li>240 pages.</li><li>Part of an edition of 1,000 copies.&nbsp;</li><li>Inscribed by Alice B. Toklas on the front free endpaper: "Once again with love to Elizabeth [Sprigge] / Devotedly / Alice / Saint-Medard 54 – Paris."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original blue printed boards.</li></ul> After Stein's death, Alice Toklas stewarded Stein's posthumous literary reputation, both assisting editors of new editions of Stein's texts and providing assistance (or obstacles, as the case may be) to biographers. At the time of this book's inscription, novelist Elizabeth Sprigge was working on her first biography, about the Modernist Swedish author August Strindberg, that would be favorably reviewed for its "remarkably accurate and clear treatment of a controversial figure" (Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 22 No. 1, 28). Toklas's 1954 inscription here — "with love [...] Devotedly" — indicates that Toklas and Sprigge began a friendship on warm terms. Indeed, Toklas was impressed by Sprigge's biography of Strindberg upon its release the next year, and she initially supported Sprigge's idea of writing a biography of Stein because of it. In 1953, Toklas wrote her own editor at Harper to provide a connection for Sprigge to publish her planned biography of Stein; it was, Toklas's biographer remarked, "a recommendation that Alice came to regret" (Simon, 283). As Sprigge continued gathering material for the biography, it became clear that she intended to "include personal details [...] a practice Alice would not allow" (Simon, 284). Toklas warned off friends whom Sprigge was contacting and, in 1956, argued at length with Sprigge regarding the content of the biography — especially her own role in it. Toklas argued she herself "had no place in the book except, perhaps, as the editor of the Plain Edition" (Simon, 284), Stein and Toklas's short-lived small press that published this book. Harper ultimately published Sprigge's Gertrude Stein: Her Life And Work in 1957, much to Toklas's dismay. One of Stein's most underappreciated books, Lucy Church Amiably was the first of the books Stein published herself, frustrated as she was by a lack of a regular outlet for her work. It was available only in this edition until 1969, when Something Else Press republished it.

Lucy Church Amiably, Inscribed by Alice Toklas

Kay Nielsen | Andersen, Hans Christian

A signed limited edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales.<ul><li>Hans Christian Andersen (Danish).</li><li>Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.</li><li>London: Hodder &amp; Stoughton, 1924.</li><li>197 pages.</li><li>12 tipped-in color plates and many full-page black-and-white plates throughout.</li><li>One of only 500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.</li><li>Bound in the original full vellum, gilt-stamped boards and spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut.&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in custom window-framed slipcase.&nbsp;</li></ul> Nielsen illustrates the work of fellow Dane, Andersen, in this gorgeous deluxe gift book with a style mixing "some of the decorative design of Art Nouveau with the bold shapes of Art Deco" (Menges). Includes "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale" and more.&nbsp;

Signed Illustrated Limited Edition Fairy Tales

Dante Alighieri

A&nbsp;first edition of Zotti's annotated Divine Comedy, primarily designed for British women learning Italian and dedicated by the editor to three aristocratic women patrons.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Dante Alighieri (Italian).</li><li>Edited by Romualdo Zotti.</li><li>Essay by Johann Bernhard Merian.</li><li>London: R. Zotti, 1808, 1809.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Dante in volume I.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in contemporary full deep green goatskin, with green moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, green silk ribbon markers.&nbsp;</li></ul> In 1808, Dante's Divine Comedy was published for the first time in London in the original Italian; this work was one of two editions from that year, with no priority established (see Toynbee, 68). Zotti's was the first London-printed Divine Comedy with contextual commentary, and it was dedicated to three Englishwomen with an advanced knowledge of Italian: Augusta Fane, the Countess of Lonsdale; Frances Finch, third Countess of Dartmouth; and Mrs. Pilkington (Maria Elizabeth Gibbs). Their names also appear in the fourth volume's Nomi de' Signori Associati that is headed with the name of Queen Charlotte, and includes Signor Polidori, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, John Kemble, the Misses Walpole and Charlotte Leveson Gower, Duchess of Beaufort. Zotti was the author of a popular Italian grammar and a former teacher of Italian to English girls; among the 119 women who made up the vast majority of the list, many are unmarried and likely include some number of Zotti's pupils. The preface suggests that the three dedicatees typified Zotti's intended readership: not scholars, but the well-educated, curious and cosmopolitan British reading public, primarily female, in need of linguistic help and desiring some historical and cultural context. The readers he anticipates are no experts, but neither will they be unfamiliar with Dante. It was essentially a schoolteacher's Dante: basic in some respects, inaccurate in others, but profoundly useful to that stratum of English society educated enough to read it, and it contributed significantly to the growing English familiarity with Dante in Romantic circles and among women in particular.

La Divina Commedia Di Dante Alighieri

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

James Baldwin

The uncorrected galleys of the first edition of Baldwin's fourth novel about the life of a Black actor.<ul><li>James Baldwin (American).</li><li>New York: The Dial Press, 1968.</li><li>173 pages.</li><li>Bound in original plastic comb-bound paper wrappers.&nbsp;</li></ul> Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is the story of Black actor Leo Proudhammer, his brilliant career shadowed by the condescension, alienation and physical threats visited on him by a white America that will tolerate him only so far as he entertains, and which exacts heavy penalties for his efforts to live as a free man and artist.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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>

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