Discover literature classics, rare titles and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/literature-and-childrens/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first editions</a>, from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/literature-and-childrens/childrens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">children’s books</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/literature-and-childrens/novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novels</a>. Shop&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=J.K.%2520Rowling" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Potter's</a>&nbsp;first edition,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Lewis%2520Carroll%2520%255BCharles%2520Lutwidge%2520Dodgson%255D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alice in Wonderland</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=A.A.%2520Milne" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winnie the Pooh</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=J.R.R.%2520Tolkien" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lord of the Rings</a>,&nbsp;The Great Gatsby,&nbsp;and&nbsp;works by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=J.R.R.%2520Tolkien" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tolkien</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Charles%2520Dickens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Mark%2520Twain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mark Twain</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Jane%2520Austen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jane Austen</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=William%2520Shakespeare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>.

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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 House At Pooh Corner by <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>.<ul><li>A. A.&nbsp;Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shephard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1928.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped pink cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul>

The House At Pooh Corner

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First American Edition</a>, First Printing of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=antoine%20de%20Saint-Exupery&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Saint-Exupery</a>'s The Little Prince.<ul><li>Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French).</li><li>Translated by Katherine Woods.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Reynal &amp; Hitchcock,&nbsp;1943.&nbsp;</li><li>Large Octavo.</li><li>93 pages.</li><li>Spine is brown with black lettering, dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut.</li></ul>

The Little Prince

A first edition, second issue copy of Faulkner's novel, with the original dust jacket.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith,&nbsp;1930.</li><li>254 pages.</li><li>Bound in original tan cloth with brown lettering, red top stain, in original unclipped ($2.50) tan dust jacket.&nbsp;</li></ul> One of the indisputably great novels of the twentieth century, As I Lay Dying is a story of family horror and human tragedy. Faulkner claimed to have written it in just six weeks, without any real effort to speak of: "It just came all of a piece with no work on my part. I thought of all the natural catastrophes that could happen to a family and let them all happen." It was easy, he said, "real easy."

As I Lay Dying

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a> First edition of Rinehart's first book The Circular Staircase.<ul><li>Mary Robert Rinehart (American).</li><li>Illustrations after Lester Ralph (American).</li><li>Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1908.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>6 full-page illustrations.</li><li>Bound in original green ribbed cloth, pictorially stamped in black and orange.</li></ul>

The Circular Staircase

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a> First edition of The Man in Lower Ten with two letters from the author to her editor Bob Davis.<ul><li>Mary Roberts Rinehart (American).</li><li>Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy (American).</li><li>Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1909].</li><li>Typed letter signed "Mary" to "Bob" dated 7 May 1938.</li><li>Autographed undated letter signed "Mary" to "Bob."</li><li>Bound in original green ribbed cloth lettered in white.</li><li>Housed in custom slipcase and folding chemise.</li></ul>

The Man in Lower Ten

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a><ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li></ul> Horatio Alger Jr. (American).Do and Dare. Or, A Brave Boy’s Fight for Fortune.Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1884.Duodecimo.Presumed first edition, first state with deluxe cloth and no ads in back.Bound in original mustard cloth with pictorial black stamped titles on upper and spine, with decorative gilt and gilt compartments on spine, pictorial endpapers. Matthew Arnold (English).Merope. A Tragedy.London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, &amp; Roberts, 1858.Octavo.Presentation copy Half title, 32 pages with ads at rear.First edition.Bound in original dark green cloth stamped in blind, titles in gilt on spine, orange endpapers; inscription from the publisher on half title, a near fine copy. John Davidson (Scottish).New Ballads.London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1897.Duodecimo.12 pages with publisher’s ads at rear.First edition.Bound in original black cloth with pictorial gilt stamped titles and birds on upper, gilt titles on spine. John Davidson (Scottish).The Last Ballad.London and New York: John Lane, 1899.Duodecimo.First edition.Bound in original black cloth with pictorial gilt stamped titles and birds on upper, gilt titles on spine. Henry Longfellow (American).The Song of Hiawatha.Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855.Octavo.12 pages with ads at the rear, dated November 1855.First edition, first issue."Dove” on p. 96 rather than”dive” and missing the letter “n” on p.279 in the word “one.”Bound in original decoratively blocked brown cloth ruled in blind, with gilt titles on spine, yellow endpapers, early bookplate on front endpaper.Housed in a custom terra-cotta clamshell case with gilt titles on spine. John Masefield (English).Salt Water Ballads.London: Grant Richards, 1902.Octavo.First edition, first issue of Masefield’s maritime-themed classic.Bound in original dark blue buckram, top edge gilt.Housed in a collector’s clamshell case with gilt titles on spine. George Meredith (English).Modern Love. And Poems of the English Roadside with Poems and Ballads.London: Chapman &amp; Hall, 1862.Octavo.First edition, first issue.Bound in original green cloth ruled and stamped in blind with decorative textural boards (John Carter's "A" binding), titles in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers.Housed in a collector’s chemise case. Algernon Charles Swinburne (English).Locrine. A Tragedy.London: Chatto &amp; Windus, 1887.Octavo.32 pages with publisher’s ads at the back.First edition.Bound in original green cloth with gilt ruled upper, titles and publisher’s motif in gilt on spine; foxing at front and back, else a near fine copy. Walt Whitman (American).November Boughs.Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888 (1891).Large octavo.First edition, third printing made for distribution among Whitman’s friends and colleagues, with issue points, "melee" on p. 6, and "in the least," on p. 11 [Myerson].Printed as a large paper edition of possibly 400, likely from the sheets that were, of Whitman’s original intention, meant to include the poem "Good-Bye My Fancy" but didn’t due to his failing health.Bound in forest green cloth on bevel-edged boards with titles stamped in gilt on upper and spine, toe edge gilt, 1 p. advertisement at back. William Butler Yeats (Irish).The Secret Rose.London: Lawrence &amp; Bullen, Limited, 1897.Octavo.Half titles, frontispiece, with 6 illustrated plates by J.B. Yeats, titles in red and black.Bound in original blue cloth with extra pictorial gilt boards and spine, lavishly decorated by Althea Gyles.

Collection of American Poetry Works including The Song of Hiawatha and November Boughs

A finely bound, first American edition of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>Illustrated by E.W. Kemble.&nbsp;</li><li>New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885.</li><li>366 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher's deluxe Morocco binding, deluxe half brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands, with marbled edges and endpapers.</li></ul>

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, First American Edition

Finely bound first edition of H.G. Wells’ science fiction classic.<ul><li>H.G. Wells (English).</li><li>London: Heinemann, 1896.</li><li>Includes an illustrated frontispiece and an advertising leaf for&nbsp;The Time Machine, and 32 pages of publisher’s advertisements.</li><li>Custom full leather binding by The Chelsea Binder of full yellow morocco leather with the cover and spine reproducing the original cloth cover and spine labeling, the original cover and spine are bound-in at the rear of the book, with yellow silk headbands and all edges gilt.&nbsp;</li></ul> Steven Grant provides a wonderful summary, "One of H.G. Wells’ most visionary tales,&nbsp;The Island of Dr. Moreau&nbsp;relates the disturbing tale of Prendick, a shipwrecked naturalist who unwittingly discovers a horrific scientific and social experiment that is creating a blurred race of hideous creatures, half-human and half-beast. Terrifying and spellbinding, Wells’ masterpiece warns of the catastrophe that could result when man recklessly tampers with nature. Eric Vincent’s artwork vividly summons up the nightmarish life in Dr. Moreau’s tortured world."

The Island of Dr. Moreau

A finely bound first edition, first impression copy of Golding's classic novel.<ul><li>William Golding (English).</li><li>London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1954.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>248 pages.</li><li>Bound in brown morocco boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt bands, teg, original cloth spine bound in at rear.</li></ul> A beautiful copy of this literary classic with a storied history. It was originally rejected by an in-house reader at Faber as "Rubbish &amp; dull," before being picked up by another editor there, Charles Monteith, who helped Golding reshape the novel. The first printing of 3,000 copies sold slowly until E.M. Forster chose it as his outstanding novel of the year. Considered a great parable of the modern human condition, it has since become a staple of best novel lists and educational reading lists, and has sold more than ten million copies.

Lord of the Flies

A first edition and first impression copy of Truman Capote’s renowned novella, the basis for Blake Edward’s film, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.<ul><li>Truman Capote (American).</li><li>New York: Random House, 1958.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in the publisher’s yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine on a black ground, pale blue topstain, with the unclipped dustjacket by Ismar David.</li></ul>

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

A complete set of UK hardcover editions of Harry Potter.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>J.K. Rowling (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Bloomsbury,&nbsp;1997-2007.</li><li>All but Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets are first printings.</li><li>Bound in the original publisher's color pictorial boards, with all in publisher's original unclipped color pictorial jackets.</li></ul>

Complete Harry Potter Series

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> copy of Play It As It Lays by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=joan%20didion&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Didion</a>.<ul><li>Joan Didion (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux,&nbsp;1970.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>214 pages.</li><li>Signed flat by Joan Didion on the title page.</li><li>Faded orange spine with back lettering, dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut.</li></ul> Born December 5, 1934, Joan Didion's early life was spent traveling around with her family as her father as a finance officer in the Army Air Corps, leading Joan to be an avid reader who pushed through her social anxieties through acting and public speaking. Didion would write her first novel during her time at "Vogue" in 1963, Run, River, which Didion worked on together with her future husband John Gregory Dunne. It would be Play It As It Lays, Didion's second novel which released in 1970, that would solidify her as a master of both fiction and non-fiction writing after her work Slouching Towards Bethlehem gained her great notoriety. Play It As It Lays was highly praised by critics, though the public had mixed reception many disliking the protagonist. Despite initially mixed reception, Play It As It Lays has remained an American classic, earning an inclusion on Time's "100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005" and a 1972 movie adaptation who's screenplay was co-written by Didion and her husband.

Play It As It Lays

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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=F.%2520Scott%2520Fitzgerald" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">F. Scott Fitzgerald's</a> famed novel exploring the poisons laced into the American dream.<ul><li>F. Scott Fitzgerald (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Charles Scribner's Sons,&nbsp;1925.</li><li>218 pages.</li><li>Scribner's seal on copyright page.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original green cloth stamped in blind on front board, gilt-lettered spine, fore-edge machine deckle.&nbsp;</li></ul> The Great Gatsby has long captivated readers with its tragic lyricism; as a core text of English curricula, it is also one of the most read novels in US literature and has become a highly sought first edition on the rare book marketplace.

The Great Gatsby (First Edition, First Printing)

A collector's set of some of the poet's treasured texts once owned by José García Villa, a close friend of Cummings, and to whom they are all inscribed.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 9.</li><li>E.E. Cummings (American).</li></ul> Is 5.New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1926.Octavo.Inscribed on the flyleaf.Bound in original orange cloth, spine stamped gilt. Him.New York: Boni &amp; Liveright, 1927.Octavo.Signed twice: inscribed on the flyleaf and signed at the limitation statement.Number 36 of 160 numbered copies signed by the author.Title in red and black, some pages unopened.Includes a note left for Villa, requesting that he call “Mrs. Cummings.”In original quarter-vellum over blackboards, decorations in gilt to front board, in green paper wrapper, with decorative slipcase. W (ViVa).New York: Horace Liveright Inc., 1931.Tall quarto.Inscribed on the flyleaf.Bound in linen-backed brown boards with silver printed dustjacket. Tom.New York: Arrow Editions, 1935.Octavo.Inscribed on initial blank.Frontispiece by Ben Shahn.Bound in original brown cloth boards, silver lettered cover, brown endpapers. No Thanks.New York: The Golden Eagle Press, 1935.Oblong octavo.Inscribed on the flyleaf.Bound in original linen boards, red stamped spine and cover, blue edges. Tulips and Chimneys.Mount Vernon: The Golden Eagle Press, 1937.Octavo.Inscribed on initial blank.Titles in black and green.Bound in original vellum-backed green boards, pale green endpapers. 1 x 1.New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1944.Octavo.Inscribed on the flyleaf.With newspaper clippings and ephemera laid in.Includes a letter from Holt addressed to Villa, which accompanied this advance copy they sent him on behalf of the author.Bound in original blue cloth boards, jacket with illustrated portrait on rear panel. Six Nonlectures.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.Octavo.Inscribed on the flyleaf.Bound in original black cloth, black and white printed dustjacket. Poems 1923-1954.New York: Harcourt, Brace &amp; Company, 1954.Octavo.Inscribed on the flyleaf.Bound in original red cloth, dustjacket with photographic portrait on front panel, top edge red. José García Villa was born in Manila in 1908, before moving to New Mexico to pursue his studies, and ultimately to Greenwich Village in New York City. There, he joined a community of modernist poets, including e.e. cummings, Marianne Moore and W.H. Auden, among others, and was affectionately known as "The Pope of Greenwich Village." He wrote his poems under the pseudonym Doveglion (a composite of dove, eagle and lion) and was admired, according to Marianne Moore, for "the reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in [his] bravely deep poems." His 1933 story collection, Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others, was "the first work of fiction by a Filipino writer published by a major United States-based press." Villa received “numerous honors and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Philippines Heritage Award, a Poetry Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and a Shelley Memorial Award. In 1973, he was named a National Artist of the Philippines, and he also served as a cultural advisor to the Philippine government. He died in New York City on February 7, 1997.” This item is final sale and not eligible for return.

Tulips and Chimneys, Him and Others

First impression of the fourth James Bond book, in which the spy must infiltrate a smuggling ring in the black market diamond trade.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape,&nbsp;1956.&nbsp;</li><li>257, [1] pages.</li><li>In original unclipped (12s. 6d. net) pictorial dust jacket designed by Pat Marriott.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original black textured cloth blind-stamped in harlequin pattern with silver-stamped diamond vignette in center of front board, silver-lettered spine.</li><li>Housed in custom quarter black goatskin clamshell box.&nbsp;</li></ul> Well-connected Fleming made use of friends in both the diamond trade and the International Diamond Security Organization to research this book. The jacket design depicts Bond's love interest and a major player in the book, Tiffany Case; designer Pat Marriott would follow a similar formula in depicting the love interest, Honeychile Rider, on the jacket of Dr. No. This early Bond novel also contains the first mention of the name "Spectre," which would morph in later books into the organization of the spy's great nemesis, Ernst Blofeld.

Diamonds Are Forever

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

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

Uncommonly complete and exquisitely preserved set of the landmark Nonesuch Press publication, one of the most fully realized and beautifully executed Dickens collections ever produced — this with the original packing material and documents and in rare, likely original dust jackets. 	<ul><li>Sold as a set of 24.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Designed by Francis Meynell (English).</li><li>Edited by Arthur Waugh and Hugh Walpole</li><li>Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938.</li><li>130; 6; 748; 548; 364; 872; 852; 482; 766; 874; 594; 880; 798; 844; 418; 866; 836; 928; 826; 898; 854; 892; 817; 858; 874 pages. </li><li>Illustrated in black-and-white throughout.</li><li>Woodblock and matted print housed in original purple buckram box, also wrapped in blue paper.</li><li>Letter of authenticity and letter on “Australian Book Co.” letterhead, addressed to Leonard George, laid in.</li><li>Woodblock box contained in original Nonesuch Press cardboard shipping carton, addressed to “Australian Book Co.” and “Leonard H. George,” noting that this is set no. 152 with plate no. 346.</li><li>One pamphlet in original pink wrappers, side-stitched.</li><li>Great Expectations with postmarked envelope addressed to “Mr. &amp; Mrs. L. H. George” loosely laid in.</li><li>24 volumes in original buckram bindings in a variety of colors, with black goatskin spine labels and gilt lettering, 22 of which with likely original blue paper dust jackets, one volume in original glassine, top edges gilt, other edges machine deckle.</li></ul> “[I]t will never be possible for a more complete or more perfect edition than the Nonesuch Dickens to be put on the market.” – Prospectus. “[P]ortable and handy enough even for those who like to read their Dickens in bed; imposing enough for those to whom a shelf of fine books is the most pleasant of pictures”: such were Francis Meynell’s goals when he designed the Nonesuch Dickens. Meynell had a hand in all the aesthetic decisions that make this set an achievement, from the choice of paper (which “delights the paper fancier”) to the typeface (”of conscious ‘beauty’ it is happily free”) to the cloth chosen for the bindings (”a brave array of reds and yellows and blues and browns”).&nbsp;The Nonesuch Dickens includes classic titles such as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby, A Tale of Two Cities, and Bleak House, as well as three volumes of Dickens’s letters and two volumes of his collected papers. This set also includes the “even more difficult to lay hands on” Nonesuch Dickensia, which features an essay on the illustrators of Dickens by Arthur Waugh, and a prospectus for the series (Montagu, 132). The edition was “limited, not artificially but of necessity” by the 877 remaining original Dickens woodblocks and plates that were included with the publication; the present set includes the woodblock numbered 346, for “The Old Man and the Robbers” illustration from The Old Curiosity Shop. A remarkable aspect of this set is its uniform blue paper dust jackets. These are very likely the original packing materials for the books: the same blue paper is used as padding for the woodblock box inside the original Nonesuch shipping carton. A rare copy that retains so many ephemeral assets.

The Complete Nonesuch Dickens 

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

The Cat in the Hat

First edition signed limited large paper copy of Winnie the Pooh.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Methuen,&nbsp;(1926).</li><li>xvi, 158, [2] pages.</li><li>Folding map at rear. </li><li>Signed by Milne and Shepard on limitation page.</li><li>Limited edition of 350 numbered copies.</li><li>Printed on handmade paper and bound in original quarter blue cloth, light blue paper boards in blue printed dust jacket.</li></ul>

Winnie the Pooh

A beautifully printed and presented copy of Dickinson's poem Under the Light, Yet Under.<ul><li>Emily Dickinson (American).</li><li>Designed by Marc Freedman.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Sarabande Press,&nbsp;October 1982.</li><li>Number 18 of 20 copies.</li><li>Paper designed by Karen Miles, and made, with the assistance of Beverly Van Ness, at the Russell-Fleming Papermill.&nbsp;</li><li>Linen folding panels.</li><li>On one panel and 3 panels of paper construction.</li></ul>

Under the Light, Yet Under

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of limited edition Letterpress <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets&amp;query=Shakespeare&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 39 volumes.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;The Folio Society,&nbsp;1982-2008.&nbsp;</li><li>Folios.</li><li>Each folio is three quarter bound in leather, with gilt lettering to spine, marbled paper boards, gilt top, deckled text-block, silk ribbon bookmark, and accompanied by a companion Octavo.</li><li>The Folio Tragedies (Vols. 1-12) are bound in red leather with red cloth-bound companion Octavos and red clamshell cases.</li><li>The Folio Comedies (Vols. 13-28) are bound in green leather with green cloth-bound companion Octavos and green clamshell cases.</li><li>The Folio Histories (Vols. 29-38) are bound in blue leather with blue cloth-bound companion Octavos and blue clamshell cases.</li><li>The Folio Sonnets &amp; Poetry (Vol. 39) is bound in teal leather with teal cloth-bound companion Octavo and teal clamshell case.</li><li>All volumes have a matching limitation number (#300).</li></ul> CONTENTS: Volume 1.&nbsp;Anthony and Cleopatra&nbsp;(Folio 126 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo xi, 388 pages)Volume 2.&nbsp;Coriolanus&nbsp;(Folio 127 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 388 pages)Volume 3.&nbsp;Cymbeline&nbsp;(Folio 122 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 287 pages)Volume 4.&nbsp;Hamlet&nbsp;(Folio 129 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 406 pages) Volume 5.&nbsp;Julius Caesar&nbsp;(Folio 98 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 253 pages)Volume 6.&nbsp;King Lear&nbsp;(Folio 115 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo x, 321 pages)Volume 7.&nbsp;Macbeth&nbsp;(Folio 92 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo xii, 249 pages)Volume 8.&nbsp;Othello&nbsp;(Folio #300/3750; companion Octavo x, 491 pages)Volume 9.&nbsp;Romeo and Juliet&nbsp;(Folio 113 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 450 pages)Volume 10.&nbsp;Timon of Athens&nbsp;(Folio 87 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 370 pages)Volume 11.&nbsp;Titus Andronicus&nbsp;(Folio, 97 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 226 pages)Volume 12.&nbsp;Troilus and Cressida&nbsp;(Folio 120 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo vii, 205 pages)Volume 13.&nbsp;All's Well That Ends Well&nbsp;(Folio 103 pages, #300/1000 copies, closed tear to back free endpaper; companion Octavo ix, 245 pages)Volume 14.&nbsp;As You Like It&nbsp;(Folio 94 pages, #300/3750 copies; x, 245 pages)Volume 15.&nbsp;Comedy of Errors&nbsp;(Folio 75 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo viii, 232 pages)Volume 16.&nbsp;Love's Labour's Lost&nbsp;(Folio 101 pages, #300/1,000 copies; companion Octavo viii, 263 pages)Volume 17.&nbsp;Measure for Measure&nbsp;(Folio 100 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 255 pages)Volume 18.&nbsp;The Merchant of Venice&nbsp;(Folio 97 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo xi, 241 pages)Volume 19.&nbsp;Merry Wives of Windsor&nbsp;(Folio 92 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 242 pages)Volume 20.&nbsp;A Midsummer Night's Dream&nbsp;(Folio 82 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo ix, 275 pages)Volume 21.&nbsp;Much Ado About Nothing&nbsp;(Folio 93 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 214 pages)Volume 22.&nbsp;Pericles&nbsp;(Folio 90 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 306 pages)Volume 23.&nbsp;The Taming of the Shrew&nbsp;(Folio 101 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo 248 pages)Volume 24.&nbsp;The Tempest&nbsp;(Folio 80 pages; #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo x, 248 pages)Volume 25.&nbsp;Twelfth Night&nbsp;(Folio 87 pages, #300/3750 copies; companion Octavo viii, 247 pages)Volume 26.&nbsp;Two Gentlemen of Verona&nbsp;(Folio 88 pages #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 190 pages)Volume 27.&nbsp;The Two Noble Kinsmen&nbsp;(Folio 112 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 233 pages; mild wear to cardboard insert separating Folio and Octavo)Volume 28.&nbsp;The Winter's Tale&nbsp;(Folio 110 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo viii, 295 pages; mild bumping to clamshell case)Volume 29.&nbsp;Henry IV Part 1&nbsp;(Folio 101 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 315 pages)Volume 30.&nbsp;Henry IV Part 2&nbsp;(Folio 111 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 287 pages)Volume 31.&nbsp;Henry V&nbsp;(Folio 109 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 330 pages)Volume 32.&nbsp;Henry VI Part 1&nbsp;(Folio 109 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 256 pages) Volume 33.&nbsp;Henry VI Part 2&nbsp;(Folio 123 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo x, 319 pages)Volume 34.&nbsp;Henry VI Part 3&nbsp;(Folio 121 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo x, 392 pages)Volume 35.&nbsp;King Henry VIII&nbsp;(Folio 115 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 230 pages)Volume 36.&nbsp;King John&nbsp;(Folio 100 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 303 pages)Volume 37.&nbsp;Richard II&nbsp;(Folio 106 pages, #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo x, 297 pages)Volume 38.&nbsp;Richard III&nbsp;(Folio, 133 pages; #300/1000 copies; companion Octavo ix, 414 pages)Volume 39.&nbsp;Sonnets and Poems&nbsp;(Folio 222 pages, #300/1980 copies; companion Octavo ix, 750 pages).

Letterpress Shakespeare

First edition, second issue, a superb copy in original boards of the second of only three lifetime publications by Keats, comprising his longest single sustained poem, famous for its opening line: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”<ul><li>John Keats (English).</li><li>With imprint on verso of half-title reading "T. Miller, Printer, Noble Street, Cheapside." and with errata leaf in two states.&nbsp;</li><li>London:&nbsp;for Taylor and Hessey,&nbsp;1818.</li><li>ix, [iv], 207, [1], [4, ads date 1 May 1818].</li><li>8vo.</li><li>Uncut in original publisher's boards, probably later printed paper title label to spine reading "Endymion / A /Poetic/ Romance."</li><li>In a custom brown cloth clamshell box.</li></ul> So savage and malevolent were the reviews of this poem by Blackwoods and the Quarterly—“Lockhart found it exquisitely funny that an apothecary, a fellow who confessedly knew no Greek, who had to read Homer in a translation, should venture on a classic theme” (MacGillivray)—that Keats’ supporters thereafter blamed the reviewers for Keats’ early death. This copy has the second-issue imprint to the verso of the half-title “T. Miller, Printer, Noble Street, Cheapside” and includes both states of the errata leaf (pp. xi-xii) with 5-line errata and 1-line erratum.

Endymion: A Poetic Romance

A collection of signed, first edition children's books by Madonna.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5 volumes.</li><li>Madonna (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Rui Paes, Olga Dugina, Andrej Dugin, Gennady Spirin, Loren Long, and Jeffrey Fulrimari.</li><li>Includes the following titles: The English Roses, Mr. Peabody's Apples, Yakov And The Seven Thieves, The Adventures Of Abdi, Lotsa De Casha.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Callaway,&nbsp;2003-2005.&nbsp;</li><li>Quartos.</li><li>Volumes 2 and 3 are signed flat by Madonna on the "this book belongs to:" pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Volumes 1, 4, and 5 are signed "Love Madonna" by Madonna on the "this book belongs to:" pages.</li><li>Volume 1 contains a loose bookmark between the front end-page and pastedown.&nbsp;</li><li>Volumes 2, 3, 4, and 5 contain loose certificates of authenticity between their front end-pages and pastedowns, Volumes 2 and 3 being from 'Starworld' and Volumes 4 and 5 being from 'Estates-Plus'. </li><li>Volume 1 has a white spine with light blue raindrop designs with black lettering outlined in colored boxes, and a white and polka-dotted open slipcase with drawings of various characters from the book on the front and rear covers.</li><li>Volume 2 has a landscape blue and brown spine with black, blue, and red lettering outlined in white boxes outlined in gold-brown.</li><li>Volume 3 has a dark brown spine with red and black lettering outlined in white boxes.</li><li>Volume 4 has a tan spine with blue and green lettering outlined in white and yellow boxes.</li><li>Volume 5 has a red spine with black, blue, and red lettering outlined in white boxes.</li></ul>

Books For Children Series

Beautiful bound limited-edition copy of Rilke's sonnets with illustrations by Balthus.<ul><li>Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian).</li><li>Illustrations by Balthus (French).</li><li>Translated by Stephen Mitchell (American).</li><li>The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1997.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Illustrated with two-color woodcut prints by Balthus.</li><li>Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Balthus.&nbsp;</li><li>Original morocco-backed beige linen boards, clamshell box.</li></ul> "These fifty-five sonnets, published in 1923, three years before the poet’s death, describe his relationship to every aspect of creation, and view death as a continuation not a termination of life. In the original German with the superb English verse translation by Stephen Mitchell on facing pages. Balthus was encouraged by Rilke to dedicate his life to the arts. The two illustrations for this edition are a tribute to his childhood friend" (Publisher).

The Sonnets to Orpheus

First edition second impression and the first with color plates of The Hobbit, Tolkien's best-known work.<ul><li>J.R.R. Tolkien (English).</li><li>The Hobbit or There and Back Again.</li><li>London: George Allen &amp; Unwin Ltd, 1937.</li><li>Five plates (4 color), 8 illustrations by the author, advertisement leaf at end.</li><li>Bound in full dark green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled in gilt, Smaug the dragon gilt to lower right corner of the front cover, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, original cloth covers and spine bound in rear, original front and rear map pastedowns and endpapers bound in, by Bayntun.</li></ul> Tolkien began writing The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, as a professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University. Tolkien's creative perspective was born from a childhood spent briefly in South Africa and then rural England, a short but wretched tour during World War I, and an avid fascination with German philology. Although it was originally billed as a children's book, The Hobbit attracted a varied audience and has been wildly popular since its initial publication. Tolkien built upon the tradition of fantasy literature developed by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll and the folk tales of Arabian Nights by inventing a new language—Elvish—and making it accessible for modern-day readers. Such creativity brought rave reviews for The Hobbit, which sold out of its original print run of 1,500 copies three months after publication.

The Hobbit

First edition, first issue of Dickens' Oliver Twist. <ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Oliver Twist, or, the Parish Boy's Progress.</li><li>London: Richard Bentley, 1838.</li><li>Duodecimo.</li><li>24 etched plates (including frontispieces) after George Cruikshank, including "Fireside" plate.</li><li>Bound in recent green crushed half morocco for Sotheran, green cloth, gilt paneled spines with top edge gilt.</li><li>Housed in cloth slipcase.</li></ul>

Oliver Twist

An autographed manuscript signed and inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a good Bread Loaf, 1946."<ul><li>Robert Frost (American).</li><li>16 pages.</li><li>Includes 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush (1947).</li><li>Inscribed for Reginald Lansing Cook (1903-1984) and his wife Lydia Juanita Cook.</li><li>Side-stitched, with custom green half-morocco slipcase and matching chemise.</li></ul> Included Poems:1) "To an Ancient"2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious weed" rather than "wasteful weed" in book; line 17 starts "A cycle of say" (as in E38), rather than "A cycle we'll say" in book; line 21 ends in an exclamation point ("!") but in a comma (",") in the book3) "One Step Backward Taken"4) "Why Wait for Science"5) "But He Meant It": variant title, first published as such in The Atlantic Monthly (April, 1947) ["The Broken Drought" in book]6) "The Courage to Be New": has a quatrain, listed here as a postscript, that is cut in the published book: No one cavails at their killing / And being killed for speed. / Then why are we unwilling / They should do as much for creed? [The third line appears in E42, the fourth line appears in E38, with punctuation from E42]7) "A Mood Apart"8) "Bravado"

Autographed Manuscript of Poems

The iconic modernist book, signed by Matisse, is one of the great editions of one of the great books.<ul><li>James Joyce (Irish).</li><li>Illustrations by Henri Matisse (French).</li><li>Introduction by Stuart Gilbert (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1935.</li><li>363, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated with six etchings and 20 tipped-in drawings on blue and yellow paper.</li><li>Limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies signed by Matisse, this being number 1,264.</li><li>Bound in original brown Bancroft buckram with gilt globe stamped to front board.</li><li>Housed in a custom quarter leather over black cloth archival clamshell box with gilt title spine.</li></ul> Joyce's masterpiece, in the deluxe edition published after the 1933 landmark ruling in the case of United States v. One Book Called Ulysses. Eleven years after the book's initial publication, a US court affirmed that in the matter of obscenity, One Book Called Ulysses had soundly defeated the United States, and immediately thereafter, Limited Editions Club founder George Macy began to plan what would be a monumental achievement: a landmark among Matisse's livres d'artiste, reproducing his preparatory drawings alongside the final soft-ground etchings; the only illustrated Ulysses with an introduction that Joyce allowed to be published; and the most accurate text of the novel published in the US until 1961. In the early days of the project, believing that the artist "[knew] the French translation very well" and only wanted for an idea of the Irish context, Joyce proposed to send him an illustrated Dublin Weekly of 1904 for visual reference. But Matisse had no interest in the specificities of Ireland, and, though his drawings were organized around the Odyssey itself, barely more interest in the specificities of Greece (the two struggling women of his "Calypso," Hillary Spurling suggests, were "an image that had more to do with the artist's own home life that summer than with either Joyce or Homer"). Seeing the sample drawings, George Macy began to plea for some connection, any connection between image and text: "While we understand, and admire, the idea by which the plates are to be illustrative of Homer's Odyssey, it is essential that the incidents of the Odyssey which are illustrated must also make reference to incidents in Joyce's book." This was no way to speak to a great artist. Matisse responded by matching his drawings to individual chapters without explanation, saying only that they represented "reactions of my mind before Joyce's work" and, by the way, "Mr. James Joyce, who knows about the way I am illustrating his book, quite agrees with me on it." This would perhaps have been news to Mr. James Joyce, whose best-known comment on the finished product was: "If they had been signed L.J. [Lucia Joyce] instead of H.M. people would have had a different tale to tell. I am only too painfully aware that Lucia has no future but that does not prevent me from seeing the difference between what is beautiful and shapely and what is ugly and shapeless. As usual I am in a minority of one." Setting aside Joyce's opinion, Matisse's work may be viewed as conceptually linked to his own: not illustrations in any conventional sense, but a parallel artistic project, a second great modernist manipulation of the Odyssey. Another plausible interpretation of Matisse's drawings understands them as a response not to the text but to "the critical apparatus that developed around the novel during the 1930s" (Brown), and specifically to Stuart Gilbert's perceptive introduction. As for contemporary reception, members of the Limited Editions Club expressed one of three reactions: A vile book, dressed up with great art; a great book, ruined by "crackpot drawings"; or a magnificent work, the expression of "perfect rapport among author, illustrator and designer." The third judgment has held up quite well. Luca Crispi, "A French Homer in America: James Joyce, Henri Matisse, and the Limited Editions Club "Ulysses;" Willard Goodwin, "A Very Pretty Picture M. Matisse But You Must Not Call It Joyce": The Making of the Limited Editions Club "Ulysses"; Kathryn Brown, Matisse's Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist's Book.

Ulysses

A finely bound edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.<ul><li>Omar Khayyám (Persian).</li><li>Translated by Edward Fitzgerald.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Macmillan &amp; Co., Ltd.,&nbsp;1899.</li><li>Bound in full brown morocco with the cover displaying floral gilt-tooled detailing with red inlay, the spines display raised bands, floral panel details and label lettering, all gilt-tooled with red inlay flowers, the top edge is gilded with floral gilt-tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Signed limited-edition third volume of McCarthy's Border Trilogy, Cities of the Plain.<ul><li>Cormac McCarthy (American).</li><li>New Orleans:&nbsp;B.E. Trice,&nbsp;1998.</li><li>Limited edition of 350 copies, this being number 4.</li><li>Signed at colophon.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter gilt-stamped brown leather with marbled boards and brown endpapers, in gilt-stamped brown cloth slipcase.</li></ul>

Cities of the Plain

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

The Gilded Age Manuscript Leaf

A <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=dante%20alighieri&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dante</a>'s Purgatorio.<ul><li>Dante Alighieri (Italian).</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Libreria Hachette,&nbsp;1868.</li><li>Illustrated throughout with wood carvings. </li><li>Bound in full green morocco with ornate gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spine, all edges gilt, dentelles and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

Purgatorio

A complete set of the Harry Potter series, deluxe edition.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>J.K. Rowling (English).</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2007.</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>Bound in original cloth, gilt decoration, illustrations to upper covers.</li></ul> A rare, as-new deluxe set of Rowling's seminal work of children's literature. The "Potter" books, initially published from 1997 to 2007, have been translated into eighty languages and are among the most popular works of literature the twenty-first century has yet produced. Writing first in Edinburgh cafés and later under worldwide media scrutiny, Rowling created one of the most immersive and beloved magical worlds in modern fantasy. Though the series has now spawned an award-winning play and additional film franchise, the novels remain Rowling's finest and most distinctive work. An essential addition to any "Potter" fan's library.

Harry Potter Collection

First edition of Wilde's witty and urbane satire of the English upper class.<ul><li>Oscar Wilde (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street,&nbsp;1894.</li><li>154, [1] pp.</li><li>4to.</li><li>Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh.</li><li>One of 50 Large Paper copies.&nbsp;</li><li>Original buckram gilt binding in a custom purple half-morocco slipcase and chemise.</li></ul> Written and produced in 1893, near the height of Wilde's career, between Salome (1891) and his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Ernest (1895).

A Woman of No Importance

An attractively bound set of Eliot's works, all in first edition, containing all of her major novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 29.</li><li>Edinburgh and London:&nbsp;William Blackwood and Sons,&nbsp;1858-1885.</li><li>29 vols.</li><li>8vo. </li><li>Bound in full tan polished calf, spines stamped in gilt, with red and blue morocco title labels, by Root &amp; Son. </li><li>Some volumes without half-titles, most without terminal ads, original wrappers bound in at the rear for Daniel Deronda.</li></ul> Set Comprises:<ul><li>Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 (2 vols.)</li><li>Adam Bede, 1859 (3 vols.)</li><li>Silas Marner, 1861</li><li>Mill on the Floss, 1860 (3 vols.)</li><li>Romola, 1863 (3 vols)</li><li>Felix Holt, 1866 (3 vols.)</li><li>Spanish Gypsy, 1868</li><li>Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, 1871-2 (4 vols.)</li><li>Daniel Deronda, 1876 (4 vols.)</li><li>Theophrastus Such, 1879</li><li>Essays, 1884</li><li>Life of George Eliot, 1885 (3 vols.)</li></ul>

The Works of George Eliot

A limited edition copy of Wuthering Heights, signed by the illustrator.<ul><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Balthus.</li><li>New York: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1993.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Part of an edition limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Balthus.</li><li>Illustrated with 15 lithographs by Balthus on Japanese paper printed in brown-toned black ink.</li><li>Text set by Michael Bixler using Monotype Dante, printed on specially made off-white mold-made Arches paper with watermark.</li><li>Bound in the original gray-green morocco with title stamped in dark-brown, in publisher's cloth box.</li></ul> "What could they have had in common ‑- Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, the Paris‑born modern artist (better known as Balthus) who has filled scores of canvases with paintings of female nudes, and Mistress Emily Brontë, the mid‑nineteenth-century British spinster who seems never to have left the Yorkshire moors? Precisely, those moors. In his youth, the Count visited that wild landscape and, in 1933, made a series of drawings based on her gripping novel. Some say that he saw himself as Heathcliff. Sixty-one years later, and after creating a vast array of famous paintings, many reminiscent of those drawings, Balthus agreed in 1994 to have The Limited Editions Club present, for the first time in their destined context, the entire suite of fifteen drawings" (Publisher).

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