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A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=George%20Harrison&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Harrison</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/art-&amp;-design/photography" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">photobook</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> by George Harrison.<ul><li>George Harrison (English).</li><li>Foreword by Eric Clapton.</li><li>England: Genesis Publications, 1993.</li><li>Includes close to 500 previously unpublished photographs.</li><li>This is No. 1142 of 3500 limited edition copies, each of which is signed by George Harrison.</li><li>‘Live In Japan’ includes a double CD with original artwork and a total of 19 live tracks. </li><li>A souvenir pack containing a laminated 'After Show' pass and Eric's and George's guitar picks accompanies this volume. </li><li>The book is bound in black leather with gold and red tooling and gilt-edged pages.</li></ul> The foreword by Eric Clapton explains how George was persuaded to return to touring after a break of 17 years. The first (and longest) chapter is written by George himself and details his thoughts and feelings on taking to the road after such a long absence. It includes George's personal recollections of the tour and memories of times on the road with The Beatles. Subsequent chapters are written by each member of Eric Clapton's band and reveal private moments behind the scenes, during sound checks, on stage and in transit. The final chapter by John Harris (who engineered the ‘Live In Japan’ CD) provides a revealing account of working with George Harrison in the studio.

George Harrison: Live In Japan

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> Compositions exhibition catalog, <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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=roy%20lichtenstein&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roy Lichtenstein</a>.<ul><li>Roy Lichtenstein (American).</li><li>Cover design by Lichtenstein.</li><li>Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1967.</li><li>Published on the occasion of: Roy Lichtenstein at the Pasadena Art Museum And Walker Art Center 1967, which was the artist's first museum retrospective.</li><li>Softcover.</li><li>64 pages.</li><li>Illustrations in black and white and in color throughout.</li><li>Hand signed and dedicated by Lichtenstein in ink on the interior 1st page.</li><li>With essays by curator John Coplans, and a transcribed interview with the artist.</li><li>Part of a limited edition of 1,700 copies.</li><li>Includes an exhibition checklist, biography, bibliography and exhibition history.</li><li>Presented in a clear acetate dust-wrapper.</li></ul>

Roy Lichtenstein Compositions Exhibition Catalog

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</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> presentation copy of The Muses Are Heard by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Truman%20Capote&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Truman Capote</a>.<ul><li>Truman Capote (American).</li><li>New York: Random House, 1956.</li><li>Inscribed on the front blank end leaf: "For Jack Amspaugh from Truman Capote." </li><li>Bound in the publisher's original stamped black cloth, with the dust jacket, not price clipped.</li></ul>

The Muses Are Heard

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Special%20Feature=Signed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of a <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean-Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a> exhibition catalog, from the exhibition at the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich from January 19th to February 16th, 1985.<ul><li>Jean Michel Basquiat (American).</li><li>Zurich: Bischofberger Editions, 1985.</li><li>12 full-page color plates (one folding) and a photographic portrait of Basquiat by Jeannette Montgomery.</li><li>Number 173 of an edition of 1000 hand-signed and numbered by Basquiat.</li><li>Hardcover.</li></ul> “Jean-Michel, contrary to what you might think, absolutely did not consider himself a ‘Graffiti Artist.’ He had always seen himself as a Fine Artist, and his influences ranged from Leonardo Da Vinci to Abstract Expressionists like Cy Twombly and Franz Kline” (John Seed). In January 1985, Basquiat enjoyed his first one-artist show, at the Bischofberger Gallery in Zurich. This is the commemorative book of 12 paintings from that show." Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993. In 2017, after having set Basquiat’s auction record the previous year with a $57.3 million purchase, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed it, buying the artist’s Untitled (1982) at Sotheby's for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. Today, Basquiat's works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others.

Signed Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition Catalog

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> set of The Greatness And Decline Of Rome by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Guglielmo%20Ferrero&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Guglielmo Ferrero</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5 volumes.</li><li>Guglielmo Ferrero (Italian).</li><li>London:&nbsp;William Heinemann,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece. </li><li>Bound by Bayntun in three-quarters blue morocco with linen boards and gilt-tooling on the raised band spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Greatness And Decline of Rome

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 Queer Things About Persia by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Douglas%20Sladen&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Douglas Sladen</a>.<ul><li>Douglas Sladen (English).</li><li>Eustache de Lorey (French).</li><li>Philadelphia and London:&nbsp;J.B. Lippincott &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1907.</li><li>52 full page illustrations.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters brown morocco and linen boards, the covers and raised band spine are gilt-tooled, the top edge is gilt with marbled endpapers.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Queer Things About Persia

A second edition of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Economics%2520and%2520Business&amp;Book%20Subject=Economics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">economics</a> book Security Analysis.<ul><li>Benjamin Graham (American).</li><li>David L. Dodd (American).</li><li>Security Analysis: Principles and Technique.</li><li>New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>851 pages.</li><li>Bound in black cloth with double blind ruled upper, blocked titles in gilt on spine with gilt ruling at crown and foot.</li></ul> ‘Many shall be restored that are now fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.’ Few published works of the 20th century have exerted the influence or had as devoted a following as Security Analysis. Prior to its publication, investors often relied on intuition or the character of a business owner to make their decisions. Writing in the wake of the Crash of 1929, Graham and Dodd designed “value-oriented investment,” a disciplined, realistic approach to constructing a solid financial portfolio. Popular when it was published, it continues to shape the strategies and the training of financiers.

Security Analysis

An extra-<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</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 Journey Through Kenya.<ul><li>Mohamed Amin (Kenyan).</li><li>Duncan Willetts (English).</li><li>Brian Tetley (English).</li><li>Introduction by William Holden.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Bodley Head,&nbsp;[1982].</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>192 pages.</li><li>Photo illustrated throughout, extra-illustrated with 12 photos of William Holden and others in Kenya, mounted throughout.</li><li>Bound in the original cloth, dust jacket.</li></ul> This copy extra-illustrated with 12 original photographs of the actor William Holden (1918-1981) and company; Holden had co-founded the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy in the 1960s with his friend Don Hunt, from whose library this copy comes. The photos show Holden, Hunt, the actress Stefanie Powers, and other friends in Kenya, with several of the photos including wildlife. The book is dedicated to the memory of William Holden, who died shortly before publication.

Journey Through Kenya

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 Margaret Sanger Story, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> by Sanger.<ul><li>Margaret Sanger (American).</li><li>Lawrence Lader (American).</li><li>Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955.</li><li>Octavo</li><li>352 pages.</li><li>Inscribed on the half-title: "For/ Dick Scaife/ from his adoring/ Grandmother/ Mary Scaife/ also with the regards/ Margaret Sanger/ April. 1955"</li><li>Bound in blue cloth.</li></ul> Dick Scaife and his foundations contributed to his mother Sarah Scaife's favorite causes: population control (e.g. Planned Parenthood) throughout his life.

The Margaret Sanger Story And The Fight for Birth Control

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> (US) of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc%20Chagall&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/art-&amp;-design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">art book</a> The Jerusalem Windows.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian/French).</li><li>Text and notes by Jean Leymarie.</li><li>Translated to English from French by Elaine Desautels.</li><li>New York: Braziller; Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, [1962].</li><li>Folio.</li><li>221 pages.</li><li>Includes 2 original lithographs, with 104 plates (64 in full color).</li><li>Bound in red cloth, in dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Jerusalem Windows

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?locale=en&amp;query=T.E.%20Lawrence&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">T.E. Lawrence</a>'s Secret Dispatches From Arabia.<ul><li>T.E. Lawrence (English).</li><li>Secret Despatches from Arabia by T. E. Lawrence. Published by Permission of the Foreign Office. Foreword by A. W. Lawrence.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Golden Cockerel Press,&nbsp;[1939].</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>173 pages.</li><li>Frontispiece portrait.</li><li> Number 746 of 1000 copies.</li><li>Bound in quarter black leather and linen, by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe. </li></ul>

Secret Despatches From Arabia

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Autographed%2520and%2520Signed%2520Material" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Edgar%20Allan%20Poe&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Edgar Allan Poe</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>Edgar Allan Poe (American).</li><li>London and New York:&nbsp;GP Putnam's Sons,&nbsp;1902.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece with illustrations throughout by Frederick Simpson Coburn. </li><li>Limited to 500 copies, of which this is 250. </li><li>Bound in three-quarters maroon morocco with marbled boards, gilt-tooling on the covers and ornate floral gilt-tooling on the raised spines, deckled edges with top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

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> edition of The Writings Of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=John%20Burroughs&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Burroughs</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 19 volumes.</li><li>John Burroughs (American).</li><li>Boston and New York:&nbsp;Houghton Mifflin &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1904.</li><li>Limited to 750 of which this is 289.</li><li>Bound in full blue morocco with gilt floral inlay on covers and gilt-tooling on raised band spine, top edges gilt, blue and green morocco doublures with gilt-tooling and green watered silk endpapers.</li></ul>

The Writings Of John Burroughs

The Royal Library Belle Lettres edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Matthew%20Arnold&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matthew Arnold</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Essays" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">essays</a>.<ul><li>Matthew Arnold (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Arthur L. Humphreys,&nbsp;1906.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco with green morocco borders and ornate gilt-tooling on the covers, gilt-tooling on the raised band spines, top edges gilt, red morocco dentelles.</li></ul>

Essays

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?locale=en&amp;query=Theodore%20Roosevelt&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Theodore Roosevelt</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=African%20Game%20Trails&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">African Game Trails</a>.<ul><li>Theodore Roosevelt (American).</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.</li><li>Photograph frontispiece with photographs throughout.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters brown morocco, with marbled boards, gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spine, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

African Game Trails

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=The%20Fairy%20Tales%20Of%20The%20Brothers%20Grimm&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Fairy Tales Of The Brothers Grimm</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> illustrated by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Arthur%20Rackham&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arthur Rackham</a>.<ul><li>Jacob Grimm (German).</li><li>Wilhelm Grimm (German).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Constable &amp; Company,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Color frontispiece with illustrations throughout by Rackham.</li><li>Bound by Bayntun in three-quarters blue morocco with marbled boards, gilt-tooling on covers and raised band spine, top edge gilt.</li></ul>

The Fairy Tales Of The Brothers Grimm

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> Library Edition of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings&amp;query=John%20Ruskin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Ruskin</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 39 volumes.</li><li>John Ruskin (English).</li><li>Edited by E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn.</li><li>London:&nbsp;George Allen,&nbsp;1903.</li><li>Color plate frontispiece and profusely illustrated throughout with plates, etchings, and line drawings.</li><li>Includes signed photograph of John Ruskin.</li><li>Limited to 2,062 copies of this edition.</li><li>Bound by Hatchards in three-quarters red morocco with red linen boards, gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spines, top edges gilt.</li></ul>

The Works Of John Ruskin

An illustrated <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?locale=en&amp;query=lyndon%20b.%20johnson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lyndon B. Johnson's</a> Images Of A Vibrant Life, inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson.<ul><li>Lyndon Baines Johnson (American).</li><li>Edited by Liz Carpenter.</li><li>Austin, Texas:&nbsp;The Friends of the LBJ Library,&nbsp;1973.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson to Jane Engelhard on flyleaf, "For Jane around whom so many of our happy and vibrant memories twine-Always devotedly, Lady Bird June 20, 1973."</li><li>Bound in blue cloth and boards, with dust jacket, laid in three quarter blue morocco slipcase and chemise.</li></ul>

Images of A Vibrant Life

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>, illustrated <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=First%2520Edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The Ghost Ranch, accompanied by a print.<ul><li>Janet Russek (American).</li><li>David Scheinbaum (American).</li><li>Introduction by Albert T. Hall.</li><li>The Ghost Ranch: Land of Light. </li><li>Los Angeles:&nbsp;Balcony Press,&nbsp;1997.</li><li>Oblong folio.</li><li>95 pages.</li><li>Part of an edition of 50, with extra plate.</li><li>Accompanied by signed gelatin print of Chimney Rock, Ghost Ranch, 1991 by David Scheinbaum.</li><li>Signed by the artists on the half-title page.</li><li>Print is matted.</li><li>Bound in orange cloth, in matching drop box with extra photo inset.</li></ul> Photobook by the husband and wife team, printed using the tritone method. Famed in the art world for its connection to Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keefe, Ghost Ranch is a beautiful piece of land in New Mexico, part of the 1766 Piedra Lumbre land grant from Charles III of Spain to Pedro Martin Serrano. It is the home to large fossil beds of Triassic Dinosaurs, and was used as the dramatic backdrop for dozens of films.

The Ghost Ranch 

A copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=King%20Arthur&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">King Arthur</a> that has been <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 the illustrator, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Arthur%20Rackham&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arthur Rackham</a>.<ul><li>Thomas Malory (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.&nbsp;</li><li>London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.</li><li>Illustrated with 16 tipped in color plates (titled tissue guards after each plate) and 70 black and white illustrations.</li><li>Limited to 500 numbered and signed copies by the illustrator Arthur Rackham, this being copy #243.</li><li>Bound in the original publisher's gilt stamped vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut, housed in a half gilt lettered &amp; decorated, blue morocco clamshell slipcase.</li></ul> Rackham received his commission for this superbly illustrated edition of Malory's masterpiece (first published by Caxton in 1485) while World War I still raged—a fact that perhaps explains his illustrations' generally dark view of the Matter of Britain. From Arthur's first unsheathing of Excalibur in the midst of fierce battle beneath overcast skies, to his tragic clash with his traitorous son on the dark fields of Camlann, Rackham confronts readers with combat, conflict and death. Despite (or perhaps even because of) this grim realism within a fantastic context, "Rackham's work became balm for wounded soldiers, as one mother wrote: ' ...When [my son] was getting better from very bad wounds... your illustrations of Books were his great joy and delight' (Hamilton, 112).

The Romance Of King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> first trade edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=edgar%20allan%20poe&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Poe</a>'s Tales Of Mystery And Imagination.<ul><li>Edgar Allan Poe (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>London: George G. Harrap &amp; Co., Ltd., 1935.</li><li>Small folio.</li><li>12 tissue guarded color plates and 17 others.</li><li>Bound in full black morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered spine, gilt skeleton and title to front cover, gilt dentelles, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, by Zaensdorf for E. Joseph.</li></ul>

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

A finely bound <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 the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets&amp;query=Charles%20Dickens&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 36 volumes.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang.</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.</li><li>All illustrations after the originals.</li><li>Includes the 2 volumes of Forster's Life Of Dickens.</li><li>Bound in half green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt, by Lauriat Of Boston.</li></ul>

The Complete Works Of Charles Dickens

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=A.A.%20Milne&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Winnie%20The%20Pooh&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winnie The Pooh</a>.<ul><li>A. A.&nbsp;Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shephard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1926.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped green cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, in a protective mylar jacket.</li></ul>

Winnie The Pooh

An Artist's Edition of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Henry%20Wadsworth%20Longfellow&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Longfellow</a>, accompanied by 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> check.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 11 volumes.</li><li>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American).</li><li>Illustrations by John Singer Sargent and Remington.</li><li>Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904.</li><li>Includes a check made out to Longfellow and endorsed by him on the back in volume 1.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul>

The Complete Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> edition of Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Albert%20J.%20Beveridge&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Albert J.&nbsp;Beveridge</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Albert J.&nbsp;Beveridge (American).</li><li>Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.</li><li>Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, covers ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt.</li></ul>

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858

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>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> set of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Shelby Foote (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;1958-1974.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>Signed flat by Foote on tipped-in page in Volume I.</li><li>Volume I spine tan and gray with red and black lettering, volume II spine tan and red with blue and black lettering, volume III spine tan and blue with red and black lettering, dust jackets protected in mylar coverings, prices cut in Volumes I and III, uncut in Volume II, top edges of text blocks on Volumes I and II dyed gray, lightly stained, top edge of text block on Volume III dyed blue.</li></ul>

The Civil War: A Narrative

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>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> (US) of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=Perestroika&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perestroika</a>.<ul><li>Mikhail Gorbachev (Russian).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harper &amp; Row,&nbsp;1987.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>254 pages.</li><li>Signed flat by Gorbachev to the title page.</li><li>Spine blue with white and yellow lettering, dust jacket protected with a mylar covering.</li></ul>

Perestroika

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>, first UK edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bret%20Easton%20Ellis&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bret Easton Ellis</a>' <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novel</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=American%20Psycho&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Psycho</a>.<ul><li>Bret Easton Ellis (American).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Picador,&nbsp;1991.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>399 pages.</li><li>Signed flat on title page by Bret Easton Ellis.</li><li>Contains photo of Bret Easton Ellis at a book signing between mylar covering and dust jacket front flap.</li><li>Spine is dark red with black and white lettering, dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut.</li></ul>

American Psycho

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Autographed%2520and%2520Signed%2520Material" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Stephen%20King&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>'s Bag Of Bones.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Scribner,&nbsp;1998.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>529 pages.</li><li>Signed flat by King on front free endpaper, with some ink bleeding.</li><li>Includes bookmark and book description from previous bookseller.</li><li>Spine white pictorial with gold and black lettering, dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut.</li><li>Minor shelf wear. Scuffing to rear cover. Light foxing to edges of textblock.</li></ul>

Bag Of Bones

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Mark%20Twain&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mark Twain</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Adventures%20of%20Huckleberry%20Finn&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</a>.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Color-plate and in-text illustrations by Cyril Walter Hodges (1909-2004).</li><li>London: J.M. Dent &amp; Sons Ltd; New York: E.P. Dutton &amp; Co. Inc, 1965.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Frontispiece, color plates, and in-text illustrations.</li><li>Bound in red calf gilt by Bayntun, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting black and green lettering-pieces, all edges gilt.</li></ul>

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first issue <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">color plate</a> portraits of the Emperors of Turkey.&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a se of 28.</li><li>John Young (English).</li><li>From the series Recueil des Portraits des Empereurs Ottomans.</li><li>London: W.Bulmer and Co., 1815.</li><li>Mezzotint portraits printed in color and finished by hand.</li><li>Watermarks on the paper are dated 1808.</li><li>Each is presented framed.</li></ul> Arguably the greatest series of color plates on the Ottoman Empire, with engravings after portraits by a Greek peasant ‘who displayed such proofs of natural talent as to induce the Emperor Selim to patronize him’. Young's work was first commissioned and patronized by Selim III, but production was halted in 1807 when the Sultan was assassinated by the Janissaries. Mahmoud II became Sultan in 1808 and in 1810 he gave Young permission to continue publication.

A Series Of Portraits Of The Emperors Of Turkey

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Cedric%20Chivers%20of%20Bath&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cedric Chivers of Bath</a>'s vellucent binding of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles%20Dickens&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>' <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=a%20christmas%20carol&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Christmas Carol</a>.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>A Christmas Carol... Being a Ghost Story for Christmas.</li><li>London: J.M. Dent, 1907.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>8 color plates and illustrations by C.E. Brock.</li><li>full vellum by Cedric Chivers of Bath (gilt stamped on lower dentelle), the upper cover with a hand-painted scene of Scrooge walking in a snowy street within a wide decorative panel with small mother-of-pearl circular inlay, gilt borders and dots, the spine decorated in similar style with small circular mother-of-pearl inlay, top edge gilt.</li></ul>&nbsp;Following a lecture by Cyril Davenport of the British Museum on the 18th-century painted vellum bindings of Edwards of Halifax, Chivers created his own ‘Vellucent’ bindings using established artists such as Jessie M. King, Alice Shepherd, and H. Granville Fell. In its prime the company experimented and specialized in highly skilled and beautiful bindings; this example being one of them. Chivers was born in Bath to a bookbinding family. After working for his father and various other binders he opened his own business in 1878, in the premises formerly occupied by Robert Rivière in Union Street, Bath. He subsequently moved to a double fronted shop at 39 Gay Street and then, as the business expanded, to a large house at Portway in Combe Park where the company operated until 1990.

A Christmas Carol

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novel</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Novels&amp;query=Catch%2022&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Catch 22</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Novels&amp;query=Joseph%20Heller&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Heller</a>.<ul><li>Joseph Heller (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;1961.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>443 pages. </li><li>Spine blue and white with white lettering, dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut, top edge of text block dyed red, though faded.</li></ul>

Catch-22

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>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=The%20Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t%20of%20Omar%20Khayy%C3%A1m&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám</a>.<ul><li>Omar Khayyám (Persian).</li><li>Illustrated by Willy Pogany.</li><li>Lithograph-printed by McLagan &amp; Cumming of Edinburgh.</li><li>London: George G. Harrap &amp; Co., 1909.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>16 tipped-in color-plates.</li><li>Bound in blue-green morocco by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe for Marshal Field and Company, panels ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt.</li></ul> This edition was based on Edward Fitzgerald's translation, first published in 1859. The poem presents an interesting challenge to any reader trying to sort through its profound symbolism and not-so-obvious theme, and gained recognition over the course of the nineteenth century as a growing 'cult of the Rubáiyát' found expression in 'the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America' (Yohannan, p.202).

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

A finely bound and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets&amp;query=History%20Of%20English%20Furniture&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A History Of English Furniture</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Percy%2520MacQuoid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Macquoid</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Percy Macquoid (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Lawrence &amp; Bullen,&nbsp;1904.</li><li>Color plate frontispiece with colored plates, illustrations, and etchings throughout.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters brown morocco with linen boards, covers and raised band spines are gilt-tooled, top edges gilt.</li></ul>

A History Of English Furniture

A post-war pictorial wall map of London.<ul><li>Kerry Lee (English).</li><li>London: The Bastion of Liberty.</li><li>London: Pictorial Maps Ltd., circa 1955.</li><li>Color lithographic map.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A quad royal poster map of central London, presented as a bird's-eye view. It covers from Kensington Church Street in the west, clockwise to Notting Hill, Regents Park, Islington, Aldgate, The Tower of London and Tower Bridge, Elephant &amp; Castle, Lambeth and Chelsea Football Ground. Landmark buildings are shown in profile, with others shown in the 27 vignette scenes in the borders, although some illustrate tourist attractions outside the map, including Windsor Castle, Hampton Court and Epsom Races. The map was first published in 1946 as a tourism advertising map, marketed overseas, especially in the Americas. Nods to London's recent tribulations are the quote from Winston Churchill in 1940 ("We would rather see London in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved") and the vignette commemorating the role of Civil Defence workers during the Blitz. The artist, Kerry Lee (1902-1988), drew two maps of London. The first, ''London Town'', took inspiration from Gill's 'Wonderground' map of London of 1914, with jokey figures walking the streets, with strangers trying to elicit directions from unfriendly locals. Here the figures are more historical, with Chaucer's Pilgrims, national heroes and even duelists in Hyde Park.

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