Sotheby’s Book Week in June and July brings auctions in Paris, London, and New York, offering rare manuscripts, major literary works and historic materials across eras.
George Eliot | Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts
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Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman, 1891, first edition, first impression
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Robert Browning and Arthur Rackham | The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1934, deluxe edition
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Ian Fleming | The Centenary Edition, 2008, 18 volumes, one of 26 lettered sets (letter "M")
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Siegfried Sassoon | The Sherston Trilogy, first editions, signed
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William Wordsworth | Yarrow Revisited and other poems, 1839, a superb presentation copy
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Thomas More | Workes, 1557, eighteenth-century sprinkled calf gilt, the Chatsworth copy
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Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol, 1843, first edition, original cloth
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H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man, 1897, first edition, 2 copies
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Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf
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George Eliot | Silas Marner, 1861, first edition, [with:] The Works, [1880]
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Charles Dickens | Pictures from Italy, London, 1846, first edition, warmly inscribed by the author to Lady Blessington the day after publication
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Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd, 1908, Virginia Woolf's copy
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Raphael Holinshed | The Chronicles, 1586-7, 3 volumes bound in 2, plus further volume of eighteenth-century reprints of cancelled leaves, a quintessential piece of Elizabethan secular scholarship
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Binding—Rudyard Kipling | Le Livre de la Jungle [and Le Second Livre], Paris, 1919, illustrated by Paul Jouve, two original illustrations by Jouve, art deco binding by Henri Creuzevault
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Beatrix Potter | The Tailor of Gloucester, 1901, first privately printed edition, inscribed
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Frederic Morton Eden | The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England, 1797, first edition, 3 volumes, J. Paul Getty's copy
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Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows, 1908, first edition
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Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange. London, 1962, first edition, inscribed by the author, the Neville copy
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Mary Shelley | Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 1823, second edition, contemporary armorial calf gilt
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James Boswell | The life of Samuel Johnson, 1791, 2 volumes, first edition of the most celebrated biography of all time
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Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902, first edition of perhaps the best-loved crime novel of all time
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Modern Literature | Five volumes
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Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island, 1883, first edition, publisher's red cloth
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D.H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover, Florence, 1928, one of 1,000 copies signed by the author
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Sir Alec Guinness | His marked-up copy of Hamlet
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Cyril Connolly | Bond Strikes Camp, 1963, first separate book-form edition, number 13 of 50 copies signed by the author
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H. Rider Haggard | She, 1886, page proofs with authorial corrections
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Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited, 1945, first edition
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[W.M. Thackeray, attrib.] | Illustrated manuscript, "A Wonderfulle ... History of a certain Flock of Sheep", 1848
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Tom Stoppard | Important collection of letters to Isabel Dunjohn, with related inscribed books, 1950s-2020s
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Philip Larkin | A remarkable collection of 15 volumes inscribed by the poet to his secretary Betty Mackereth, plus related volumes and ephemera from Betty's private collection
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