A vinyl pressing of the 1978 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Jam&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Jam</a> single ‘The Modern World,’ <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">autographed</a> on the front cover by the group in blue ballpoint pen.<ul><li>The signatures were obtained at Bingley Exhibition Hall, Birmingham, England on the 21st March 1982.</li><li>The concert was part of the group’s Trans Global Unity Express tour.</li></ul> Accompanied by a letter from the original owner that reads: ‘I saw The Jam 30 times in concert from 1980 through to the end in 1982 - mainly in Birmingham, Leicester, London &amp; Brighton (| did go to Paris once). I was fortunate to meet them on numerous occasions. I was back stage at Birmingham Bingley Hall March 21st 1982 (where I got some album covers signed). I went to sound checks whenever I could - The Jam would usually make themselves' available for signing items for the fans’.

The Jam Signed The Modern World Single

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/collectible/entertainment-memorabilia?query=signed&amp;locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=record%20cover&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vinyl</a> pressing of the 1977 album, In The City, by English rock band The Jam.<ul><li>Autographed on the front cover in ballpoint pen by Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler.</li><li>The autographs were obtained at Sheffield University, Sheffield, England on either the 4th or the 5th May 1979.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Signed The Jam In The City Vinyl Record

A vinyl pressing of the 1977 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Jam&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Jam</a> single ‘The News Of The World’ <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">autographed</a> on the front cover by the group in blue ballpoint pen. <ul><li>The signatures were obtained at Bingley Exhibition Hall, Birmingham, England on the 21st March 1982. </li><li>The concert was part of the group’s Trans Global Unity Express tour.</li></ul>&nbsp;Accompanied by a letter from the original owner that reads: ‘I saw The Jam 30 times in concert from 1980 through to the end in 1982 - mainly in Birmingham, Leicester, London &amp; Brighton (| did go to Paris once). I was fortunate to meet them on numerous occasions. I was back stage at Birmingham Bingley Hall March 21st 1982 (where I got some album covers signed). I went to sound checks whenever I could - The Jam would usually make themselves' available for signing items for the fans’.

Signed The Jam The News Of The World Single

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Photographs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">photograph</a> taken on the set of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film, Dr. No.<ul><li>Photographed by Herman Leonard (American, 1923-2010).</li><li>Oversized candid double-weight photograph.</li><li>With a perspex window on the back that displays the original information, along with measurements indicating the required printing size for the press.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> This oversized, candid double-weight photograph of the legendary Sean Connery was taken on the set of the first James Bond film,&nbsp;Dr. No. Captured by Herman Leonard, a highly sought-after jazz photographer known for his dramatically lit, smoky images, Leonard’s unique background makes this photograph particularly intriguing. The image of Connery relaxing with a cigarette between takes is nothing short of iconic and represents a truly unique find.

Photograph Of Sean Connery On the Set of James Bond: Dr. No

British <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> The Living Daylights <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a>, signed by members of the cast.<ul><li>Brian Bysouth (English, born 1936).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Signed by Glyn Baker, Caroline Bliss, John Bowe, Maryam D'abo, Femi Gardiner, John Glen, Virginia Hey, Jeroen Krabbe, Catherine Rabett, John Terry, Julie T. Wallace, Frederick Warder, Paul Weston and Thomas Wheatley.</li><li>Unfolded.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

British James Bond The Living Daylights Movie Poster | Signed by Members of the Cast

Sean Connery on the set of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film Diamonds Are Forever, signed and numbered by the photographer, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Terry%20O%27Neill&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Terry O'Neill</a>.<ul><li>Terry O'Neill (English, 1938-2019).</li><li>Silver Gelatin Print.</li><li>Signed and numbered 7/50.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> An iconic and large-scale shot of Sean Connery as 007 on the set of the classic James Bond film,&nbsp;Diamonds Are Forever.

Sean Connery on the Set Of James Bond Photograph

British movie poster for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film&nbsp;The Man with the Golden Gun starring Roger Moore.<ul><li>Robert E. McGinnis (American, b. 1926).</li><li>Eon Productions.</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Unframed and rolled.</li></ul>

James Bond The Man with the Golden Gun British Movie Poster

Complete American first editions of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>’s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> series.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds Are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr. No; Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man with the Golden Gun; Octopussy&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Living Daylights.</li><li>New York: The Macmillan Company, The Viking Press, and the New American Library, 1955-1966.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher's hardbacks in illustrated dust-jackets.</li><li>The American edition of Octopussy was the first to be illustrated.</li></ul>

The James Bond Collection

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James+Baldwin&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Baldwin</a>'s copy of The Good Soldier by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ford+Madox+Ford&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ford Madox Ford</a>.<ul><li>Ford Madox Ford (British).</li><li>Introduction by Mark Schorer.</li><li>New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>256 pages.</li><li>First Borzai edition.</li><li>With James Baldwin's ownership ink on the front free endpaper: "James Baldwin / N.Y. / '52."</li><li>Bound in publisher's full black cloth.</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier is considered one of the great works of the 20th century. James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room was considered a controversial queer novel upon publication and is now considered a key work in the canon of gay literature. Colm Tóibín, in his essay 'Baldwin's complex fate' for Prospect Magazine in April 2016, writes: "Baldwin’s book [Giovanni's Room] is also close to Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier in the slow and tortuous going over of events in the past in order to come to some understanding of sexual treachery. This is not to suggest that Baldwin was influenced by these other texts, or that he even read them, but rather that the confession form itself, in a time when so much about sex and sexual motive was kept dark and hidden, can have a special and searing intensity. It is especially open to a heightened tone, the tone of self-awareness and self-knowledge being forced on to the page as though after a struggle, the tone of things being said for the very first time." This copy of The Good Soldier answers the question of whether Baldwin read Ford in the process of writing Giovanni's Room, published in 1956. With the date of 1952, Baldwin probably picked it up on his only visit to the United States that year. After finishing Go Tell It on the Mountain in February of 1952, he sent it off to New York. "Within months, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf expressed interest, and Baldwin returned to New York—the first time in three-and-a-half years—to meet the publisher and visit his family."

The Good Soldier | James Baldwin's Copy

A German advance mini banner for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> movie <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Man+with+the+Golden+Gun&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Man with the Golden Gun</a>.<ul><li>United Artists.</li><li>Paper backed.</li><li>Conservation framed with UV plexiglass.</li></ul>

German James Bond The Man with the Golden Gun Movie Mini Banner

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Man%20with%20the%20Golden%20Gun&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Man with the Golden Gun</a>.<ul><li>United Artists.</li><li>Christmas advance style poster.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

James Bond The Man with the Golden Gun Movie Poster

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> deluxe limited edition of The Everywhere Chronicles.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Jamie Baldridge (American).</li><li>21st Editions, 2009.</li><li>Limited to 17 numbered copies of which this is #4</li><li>Signed and numbered by Jamie Baldridge, John Wood, and the publisher, Steven Albahari.</li><li>With 12 signed hand printed pigment ink prints.</li><li>Bound in brass with a wax patina, black leather backed spine, with 1 additional free standing print, housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell box, the separate portfolio contains 12 signed free standing prints, housed in a matching brown cloth clamshell box.</li></ul> In 2009, fine press photography book publisher 21st Editions released The Everywhere Chronicles. Limited to 50 copies. The first 17 numbered editions also contain a separate portfolio of 12 signed free-standing prints that appear in the book. This copy #4 was presented to Lance Speer, 21ST Editions Contributing Editor and Director of Marketing, upon completion of the project. A Letter of Provenance from Lance Speer is included. 21ST Editions was awarded the prestigious 2009 Lucie Award for Book Publisher of the Year for their publication of The Everywhere Chronicles. The worldwide photography community pays tribute to the year’s most outstanding photographic achievements at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony. The Lucies recognize men and women whose life’s work in photography merits the highest acclaim by their peers. As 2003 honoree Douglas Kirkland said, "The movie industry has its Oscars and the photography community has its Lucies." From the Publishers: "To say that Jamie Baldridge is an imaginative genius is to state what will be obvious to anyone who views The Everywhere Chronicles, though readers of the tale he wrote to accompany the photographs may decide he is an escapee from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Using sumptuous colors and the most bizarre, sometimes zany, often mystical imagery, Baldridge reveals a world he has miraculously imagined. He then takes us on tour through the whimsical travelogue he has written to accompany his masterful photographs. His guidebook may be a little mad, but his photographs are no collection of elaborate jests and spoofs. They are the stuff of archetypes, and they transport us to mythic places of the mind, of memory, and of histories not yet written.” In a natural evolution, 21ST Editions (a unique publisher known throughout the world for its mastery of classic photographic processes such as platinum prints, hand-pulled photogravure and silver gelatin photographs) has utilized color pigment ink printing for the first time with The Everywhere Chronicles. This is due to the fact that we at 21ST Editions wish to stay true to the original and preferred medium of the artist, who works exclusively in pigment ink and who personally printed and signed each photograph himself. The result is their first color book, one that reflects our decade long commitment to creating the finest photography books in existence, incorporating the widest range of original processes available.

The Everywhere Chronicles

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The Life of Samuel Johnson by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James+Boswell&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Boswell</a>, with a tipped-in Boswell autograph.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>James Boswell (Scottish).</li><li>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.&nbsp;Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order, A Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; And various Original Pieces of his composition, never before published. The Whole exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for near half a Century, during which he flourishes. In Two Volumes. By James Boswell, Esq. … Volume The First. [Second.]</li><li>London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in The Poultry, MDCCXCI (1791).</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Volume 1: Engraved frontispiece portrait.</li><li>Volume 2: Engraved plates facing N2v&nbsp;(page 92) and 4F1v&nbsp;(page 588).</li><li>Second issue.</li><li>Contemporary original marbled paper boards with contemporary brown calf spine, original red morocco spine labels with gilt lettering, untrimmed pages, housed in a modern morocco-backed drop-back box.</li></ul> Untrimmed and in a beautiful and extremely well-preserved contemporary binding, this is a superb first edition of one of the most famous literary biographies ever published. It comes from the collection of the prominent American journalist and avid and distinguished bibliophile Barton Currie. This attractive copy includes the wonderful engraved portrait of Johnson made by J. Heath after the famous painting by Joshua Reynolds and two other beautifully engraved plates – a facsimile of Johnson’s handwriting and a “Round Robin” with facsimiles of signatures. Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson is considered by some as one of the greatest biographies ever written in the English language. Boswell’s personal acquaintance with Johnson began in 1763, and the author covered the entirety of Johnson’s life by means of additional research. The biography does indeed take many critical liberties with Johnson’s life, since Boswell makes some changes to Johnson’s quotations and even censors many comments. This is why some contemporary critics have stated that it cannot be considered a proper biography. However, the book is valued as both an important source of information on Johnson and his times, as well as an important work of English literature.

The Life of Samuel Johnson | First Edition

<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=Henry+James&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry James</a>'s early novel, The Portrait of a Lady.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Henry James (American-British).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Macmillan and Co,&nbsp;1881.</li><li>266; 253, [1]; 248 pages, followed by 24-page publisher's catalogue in Volume III, dated April 1881.</li><li>With all half titles.&nbsp;</li><li>Modern gilt-stamped half brown morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut, marbled endpapers.</li></ul> The Portrait of a Lady is among the most important 19th-century novels to lay the groundwork for the stream-of-consciousness approach of the great 20th-century modernists like Virginia Woolf. James describes the struggles of his American ex-pat heroine in Europe with all the tenderness and nuance of psychological realism. Bound in striking period style by leading contemporary bookbinder Trevor Lloyd, MBE, one of just 750 copies of the first edition.

The Portrait of a Lady | First Edition

A British <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Blue%20Lamp&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Blue Lamp</a>.<ul><li>James Boswell (British, 1906-1971).</li><li>Ealing Studios.</li><li>Paper backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

British The Blue Lamp Movie Poster

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 Double Helix, <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> and inscribed to <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Francis+Crick&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Francis Crick</a> - Co-Discoverer of DNA.<ul><li>James D. Watson (American).</li><li>United Kingdom: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.</li><li>Signed 'For Fran/ L / Jim Watson'/.</li><li>In the unclipped dust wrapper.</li></ul> James Watson and Francis Crick formed one of the most famous scientific partnerships of the twentieth century. Working together at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in the early 1950s, they were united by a bold, intuitive style and a shared ambition to solve the structure of DNA. Their collaboration was energetic and highly complementary: Crick contributed deep theoretical insight and exuberant confidence, while Watson offered sharp observational instincts and strategic focus. Their partnership, though sometimes competitive and later complicated by controversies around credit—especially regarding Rosalind Franklin’s contributions—remained mutually respectful. They continued to admire each other’s intellect and maintained professional friendship long after their landmark discovery.

The Double Helix Inscribed 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> of The Double Helix, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by both James Watson and Francis Crick.<ul><li>James D. Watson (American).</li><li>New York: Atheneum, 1968.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed by both James Watson and Francis Crick on the title page.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in the original blue cloth, with dust jacket, housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.</li></ul> A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. First edition of the author’s ground breaking work regarding the discovery of DNA for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962.

The Double Helix

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 Birds of the West Indies, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a>.<ul><li>James Bond (American).</li><li>USA: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936.</li><li>Black boards with gilt title.</li></ul> Ian Fleming chose the name "James Bond" for his iconic spy character from a combination of sources. The name James Bond was inspired by an American ornithologist of the same name, whose book Birds of the West Indies, Fleming had on his bookshelf. The author thought the name sounded plain and unassuming, which he believed would provide a contrast to the exciting and glamorous life of his fictional spy. The last name "Bond" was reportedly chosen because it was short, strong, and typically associated with upper-class Englishmen. The combination created a memorable and somewhat ordinary name for a character who would become extraordinary in the world of espionage fiction.

Birds of the West Indies First Printing

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> copy of The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a>, with How 007 Got His Names, inscribed by Mary Wickham Bond.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 books.</li></ul> <ul><li>James Bond (American).</li><li>The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies.</li><li>New York: Macmillan, 1947.</li><li>257 pages.</li><li>Illustrated.</li><li>Signed by James Bond on the title page.</li><li>Bound in brown cloth, with map endpapers, in dust jacket.</li></ul> <ul><li>Mary Wickham Bond (American).</li><li>How 007 Got His Name.</li><li>London: Collins, 1966.</li><li>Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Mary Wickham Bond: ‘To Essie/from her long-lost/”Squidge’/alias/Mary Wickham Bond/July 26 1966/The Stafford/London'.</li></ul> Bond was an American ornithologist, specializing in birds of the Caribbean, and while living in Jamaica, met and befriended Ian Fleming, who was also an avid bird watcher. Fleming liked and decided James Bond was the name he had been searching for and used Bond’s name for the protagonist of his first novel Casino Royale and the subsequent secret service series featuring James Bond.

The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies with How 007 Got His Name

James Augustus Suydam(1819 - 1865) On the Beach, Newport (Spouting Rock Beach)signed J.A. Suydam and dated 1864 (lower right)oil on canvas18 ⅛ by 30 in.46 by 76.2 cm.&nbsp;Executed in 1864.

On the Beach, Newport (Spouting Rock Beach)

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=studio%20photograph&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">studio photograph</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James%20Dean&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Dean</a> from the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie</a> Giant.<ul><li>Sid Avery (American, 1918-2002).</li><li>Silver gelatin studio photograph.</li><li>Conservation framed with UV plexiglass.</li></ul>

James Dean Studio Photograph from the Movie Giant

A finely bound edition of Boaden's Shakespeare inquiry.<ul><li>James Boaden (English).</li><li>An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare.</li><li>London: Printed for Robert Triphook [B. M'Millan, Printer, Bow-street, Covent-Garden], 1824.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>206 pages.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco with five Cosway-style watercolor miniatures under glass on the upper cover, by Riviere &amp; Son, in open-faced red cloth slipcase.</li></ul>

An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints...of Shakespeare

Second edition, first in French, of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Federalist+Papers&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Federalist Papers</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Alexander Hamilton (American).</li><li>James Madison (American).</li><li>John Jay (American).</li><li>Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux États-Unis de l'Amérique, par la Convention convoquée en 1787.</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille,&nbsp;1792.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[5],xxii-lii,[1]-366; [4],511 pages.</li><li>Half titles present.</li><li>Contemporary mottled calf, finely rebacked with gilt spines.</li></ul> The first French edition of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's celebrated collection of articles supporting the ratification of the United States Constitution. The other issue of this printing contains an introduction by the translator, M. Trudaine de la Sablière, in the first volume (not present here, hence the irregular pagination); the preliminary pages here contain the U.S. Constitution. It is the second edition overall, and the first edition to name the previously anonymous authors (giving their names as Hamilton, Madisson, and Gay). An important edition evocative of the significance of the American precedent to the French revolutionaries.

The Federalist Papers | Second Edition, First Edition in French 

First edition of this controversial biography of Jesse James, "giving full particulars of each and every dark and desperate deed in the career of this most noted outlaw of any time or nation."<ul><li>Frank Triplett (American).</li><li>St. Louis, Missouri:&nbsp;J.H. Chambers &amp; Co,&nbsp;1882.</li><li>xvi-416 pages.</li><li>Includes frontispiece portrait of Jesse James and 26 full-page wood engravings (plus an additional copy of plate 11).</li><li>Bound in original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black with a man shooting over the world "Revenge," cream-coated endpapers.</li></ul> This biography would become a standard resource for later works on Jesse James, including the novel The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford (1983) which was turned into the 2007 film of the same name. After publication, questions arose concerning the true extent of the cooperation of Jesse James's wife and mother in providing material, a somewhat fitting twist for a biography of the criminal who fibbed liberally about his own legend. The illustrations include tableaux of various robberies, and a group of firearms labeled "Jesse James' Best Friends." This copy is a second issue, published within months of the first issue: three issues were published in 1882, all of which are scarce and desirable, especially in the original cloth and in presentable condition.

The Life, Times, and Treacherous Death of Jesse James

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First Dublin Edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?s=0&amp;from=&amp;to=&amp;f4=00000164-609b-d1db-a5e6-e9ff043c0000&amp;f4=00000164-609b-d1db-a5e6-e9ff00600000&amp;f4=00000164-609b-d1db-a5e6-e9ff0b610000&amp;f4=00000164-609a-d1db-a5e6-e9fff9320000&amp;f4=00000164-609b-d1db-a5e6-e9ff0bec0000&amp;f4=00000164-609a-d1db-a5e6-e9fff4f10000&amp;f4=00000164-609b-d1db-a5e6-e9ff09ed0000&amp;f4=00000164-609a-d1db-a5e6-e9fffba40000&amp;q=&amp;cmp=FUDA_gg_sea_sar___en_10-20_lal__ser_searesp_lrn__brand&amp;utm_source=gg&amp;utm_medium=159298900975&amp;utm_campaign=21028336942&amp;utm_content=690959348121&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21028336942&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACMHEXYTYtCd0Ln4_T6m_uJEmZDoO&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwjdTCBhCLARIsAEu8bpLwp1HCboW-IL_uec6yFeg8BKMZ2f2YcbTBrx2EAIT-sUUCAIoOl8oaAq3UEALw_wcB&amp;query=Captain%20James%20Cook&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Captain James Cook</a>'s Last Voyage to the Pacific.<ul><li>Captain James Cook (English).</li><li>John Rickman (English).</li><li>Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779.</li><li>Dublin:&nbsp;Price, Whitestone, Chamberlain, et al,&nbsp;1781.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[4], xlvii, [1], 396 pages.</li><li>Complete with 5 engraved plates (including frontispiece plate of the Death of Cook) and large folding map.</li><li>Contemporary calf rebacked to style, marbled endpapers.</li></ul> The first Dublin edition of the first full account in English of Cook's third and final voyage. Rickman was a second lieutenant aboard the Discovery. "It provides an important supplement to the official account of the Third Voyage published in 1784" (Forbes).

Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific

Baldwin, JamesNotes of a Native Son. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955 8vo. Red cloth with black stamping, dust jacket depicting photograph of Baldwin; fading to spine and one little bump to top of rear hinge. First edition of Baldwin's powerful first book of essays. This first collection of Baldwin's non-fiction essays centers on issues of race and identity in both the United States and Europe, where he had emigrated in 1948. The ten texts were previously printed in periodicals such as Harper's Magazine and Partisan Review, and ranged from critical discussions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Carmen Jones, to Harlem, Jim Crow segregation, and being Black in France. In 1998, the Modern Library named it to its list of the top 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century, placing it at number 19.

Notes of a Native Son, first edition

A hand colored aquatint from the original Double Elephant Folio Edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Birds+of+America&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Birds of America</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=audubon&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John James Audubon</a>.<ul><li>John James Audubon (French-American).</li><li>Robert Havell (Engraver) (English).</li><li>White-Crowned Pigeon, Columba Leucocephala (Plate CLXXVII).</li><li>London: 1833.</li></ul>

White-Crowned Pigeon | From the Double Elephant Folio Edition of Birds of America

A hand colored aquatint from the original Double Elephant Folio Edition of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Birds+of+America&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Birds of America</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=audubon&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John James Audubon</a>.<ul><li>John James Audubon (French-American).</li><li>Robert Havell (Engraver) (English).</li><li>Cat-Bird, Turdus Felivox (Plate CXXVIII).</li><li>London: 1833.</li></ul>

Cat-Bird, Turdus Felivox | From the Double Elephant Folio Edition of Birds of America

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> first edition, first printing of Goodbye Mr Chips! by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=james+hilton&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Hilton</a>.<ul><li>James Hilton (British-American).</li><li>Hodder and Stoughton, 1934.</li><li>Signed on the title page: “Anne Scott-Russell / Sincerely / James Hilton.”</li><li>Hilton has additionally written the passage from page 95: “For the first time in his life he felt necessary — and necessary to something that was nearest his heart. There is no sublimer feeling in the world, and it was his at last.”</li><li>In the unclipped Bip Pares-designed dust wrapper, complete with the rare Evening Standard Book of the Month wrap-around band.</li></ul>

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