Children's Books

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>, limited edition of Tales From Shakespeare, which has ben <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.<ul><li>Charles and Mary Lamb (English).</li><li>Illustrated Arthur Rackham.&nbsp;</li><li>London: J. M. Dent &amp; Co., 1909.</li><li>Illustrated with tipped in color plates and black and white illustrations in text by Arthur Rackham, an additional plate entitled "Puck" facing page 16 appears in this edition not included in the trade edition.</li><li>Limited to 750 numbered and signed copies of which this is #217.</li><li>Bound in fine full orange morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, spine panels with gilt decorated red and green morocco onlays, covers tooled with matching onlays in an art nouveau style, recessed panel to front cover reproducing "Puck" in a slightly two-dimensional multicolor morocco onlays, green and red morocco doublures, yellow silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, housed in it's original light brown clamshell slipcase, gilt title to spine, by Cedric Chivers of Bath.</li></ul> According to the Cambridge History of English Literature, "the first book which, appealing to a general audience and to a rising generation, made Shakespeare a familiar and popular author."

Tales From Shakespeare

A presentation of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Alice%27s%20Adventures%20In%20Wonderland&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alice's Adventures In Wonderland</a>, by Lewis Carroll, <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 the author.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan, 1869.</li><li>Inscribed on the half-title "John Parry / with the Author's kind regards."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped red cloth, "Burn" binder ticket to rear pastedown, all edges gilt, with an advertisement slip for "Phantasmagoria" tipped to the front endpaper.</li></ul> An interesting presentation copy as nearly all presentation copies are to little girls. The recipient was the illustrator John Orlando Parry. Parry had issued some illustrated limericks much in the manner of Lear, of which Dodgson would likely have approved, and his comic works were well regarded at the time. There exists a photograph of Parry taken by Dodgson.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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 Tale Of Little Pig Robinson, <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 the author.<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1930.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Color frontispiece, 5 color plates and 22 further full-page illustrations.</li><li>Ink inscription by the author ‘To Wynne from Aunt Beatrix, Jan 2nd 1931.’</li><li>Publisher’s blue cloth, dust-jacket with pictorial paper onlay.</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;A rare inscription by Beatrix Potter to a member of her family, ‘Wynne’ the wife of Jack Heelis, Beatrix Potter’s nephew by her marriage to William Heelis.&nbsp;

The Tale Of Little Pig Robinson

When We Were Very Young, <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 author <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.%20Milne&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>, and his son, Christopher Robin Milne, for whom he wrote some verses that grew into the collection.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co., 1925.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Modern full crimson morocco by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe, gilt paneled, decorative devices to upper cover and spine, after the original cloth binding, Japanese endpapers and all edges gilt.</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;A rare double signature by the author and his son, for whom he wrote some verses that grew into the collections When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927), followed by his two sets of stories about the adventures of Christopher Robin and his toy animals—Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Owl, and Eeyore—as told in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).&nbsp;

When We Were Very Young

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 impression of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=The%20Wind%20In%20The%20Willows&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Wind In The Willows</a>.<ul><li>Kenneth Grahame (English).</li><li>London: Methuen and Co., 1908.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Publisher’s green cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine gilt.</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;‘The Wind in the Willows, is a far more interesting book than its popular and often juvenile audience might suggest. First, it is the work of a writer who had known considerable success in the 1890s as a young contemporary of Oscar Wilde, and who was also an admired contributor to the literary quarterly The Yellow Book. At that point, Grahame was employed by the Bank of England but, still in his 20s, was publishing stories in literary magazines, work that became collected in Dream Days (1895) and an even more successful publication, The Golden Age (1898).&nbsp;&nbsp;The text of The Wind in the Willows also encrypts a family tragedy. In 1899, Grahame married and had one child, a boy named Alastair who was troubled with health problems and a difficult personality, culminating in the boy's eventual suicide, the cause of much parental anguish. When Grahame finally retired from the Bank of England (as Secretary) in 1908, he could concentrate on the stories he had been telling his son, the stories of the Thames riverbank on which Grahame himself had grown up. So The Wind in the Willows is a tale steeped in nostalgia, and inspired by a father's love for his only son.’ (Robert McCrum)&nbsp;

The Wind In The Willows

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Harry%20Potter&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Potter</a> Series, Complete Deluxe <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Set</a>, with supplementary works.&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>J.K Rowling (English).</li><li>The Philosopher’s Stone; The Chamber of Secrets; The Prisoner of Azkaban; The Goblet of Fire; The Order of The Phoenix; The Half-Blood Prince; The Deathly Hallows; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; Quidditch Through the Ages; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.</li><li>London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2008.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First impressions thus, with the three supplemental works.</li><li>Original uniform harlequin cloth (7 volumes), with gilt decoration, illustrations to upper covers, and all edges gilt (some in shrink-wrap).</li><li>Additional volumes (3 volumes) in publisher’s illustrated covers.</li></ul> The deluxe issue is a larger format, in decorative cloth binding. Harry Potter's award-winning wizarding adventures have had an unrivalled impact in popular culture today; indeed, some experts have referred to adults between the ages of roughly 20-30 years old as 'the Harry Potter generation', who are seen to hold markedly different values to their parents. Harry Potter is a series of many genres, including fantasy, bildungsroman, and the British school story (which includes elements of mystery, thriller, adventure, and romance). According to Rowling, the main theme of the books is death – although prejudice, corruption, and madness can be seen as dominant motifs.

Harry Potter Series

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> and <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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Aesop%27s%20Fables&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aesop's Fables</a>.<ul><li>Aesop (Greek).</li><li>Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones.</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>London:&nbsp;William Heinemann,&nbsp;1912.</li><li>Frontispiece with illustrations by Arthur Rackham throughout.</li><li>Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full green morocco with ornate gilt-tooled animals and title on the front cover, gilt-tooling on the raised band spine, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

Aesop's Fables

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first American edition</a> of this rare <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Cecil%20Aldin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aldin</a> title, a magnificent book featuring humanized pigs, dogs, cats and bunnies.<ul><li>May Byron (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Cecil Aldin (English).</li><li>New York: Hodder &amp; Stoughton, [1913].&nbsp;</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Illustrated by Aldin with 36 tipped-in color plates, six of which are double-page, plus 36 full-page black-and-white images.&nbsp;</li><li>Original pictorial cloth.</li></ul> A companion to Cecil Aldin's Happy Family, this is Aldin at his very best. Nice copies of Aldin titles are rarely found; despite the staining to the boards, the interior images remain bright and beautiful.

Cecil Aldin's Merry Party

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing copy of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Keith%20Haring&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keith Haring</a> illustrated&nbsp;Nous Tintin 1987, 'Tintin In Haringland.'<ul><li>Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990).</li><li>France: Les Editions Du Lion, 1987.</li><li>88 pages.</li><li>An artist tribute collection to Tintin featuring double-sided original cover art by Keith Haring.</li><li>Haring printed signature on front right.</li><li>Offset lithograph on hardcover boards.</li></ul> Haring’s first major works were his subway drawings. Haring produced a large number of these public works between 1980 and 1985, integrating his motifs outlined figures into everyday public space in a way that directly engaged its viewers. Haring's 1st solo exhibition was held at Westbeth Painters Space in 1981 and a celebrated show debuted at the historic Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York the following year. Throughout the 1980s, Haring was committed to democratizing the art experience and along with paintings, he also created theater sets, billboards, murals, advertising campaigns and even a line of Swatch watches. In 1986 he opened the Pop Shop in SoHo, selling apparel, posters and toys bearing his drawings. This was a controversial move, as many galleries criticized Haring for “de-valuing” the art object while others, such as Andy Warhol, championed Haring’s insistence on making art accessible and affordable. Pop Shop was highly influential to contemporary crossovers of art and merchandise that are now so dominant, as in the work of Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, KAWS and Takashi Murakami. In addition to this ideology of accessibility, Haring was also very socially engaged and used his striking imagery to promote awareness of various political and social campaigns. His many notable public works included a mural on the western side of the Berlin Wall, the&nbsp;Crack is Wack&nbsp;mural in New York, and a mural for the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and used his presence in the arts community to raise awareness of the crisis. In 1989, a year before his death, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, whose mission is to raise funds for AIDS organizations and children’s literacy and arts programs. Since his death in 1990, Haring has become one of the most widely-recognized and celebrated artists of the 20th century.

Nous Tintin: Tintin In Haringland

<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 the story of Peter Rabbit's badly-behaved cousin, and the pair's quest to retrieve Peter's lost clothes.<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London and New York:&nbsp;Frederick Warne and Co,&nbsp;1904.</li><li>86 pages.</li><li>Illustrated in color throughout. </li><li>Prize inscription to half-title page, "Eva Williams / February 1905 / A Prize for English Essay."</li><li>Original light brown paper boards with color pictorial center panel and green lettering, color decorative endpapers of other Beatrix Potter characters.</li></ul> "Little Benjamin Bunny slid down into the road, and set off – with a hop, skip and a jump – to call upon his relations, who lived in the wood at the back of Mr. McGregor's garden." "I sometimes feel afraid that the Tailor and Nutkin are rather too ingenious and complicated compared with Peter Rabbit," wrote Beatrix Potter to her publisher Norman Warne, "Don't you think the next one ought to be more simple?" (Linder, 143). Thus came The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny, Potter's fourth publication, resuming the misadventures of Peter and his family. Benjamin, named after Potter's own pet rabbit, took some of of his naughty personality from his real-life counterpart: Potter recalls how he would be "at one moment amiably sentimental to the verge of silliness, at the next... a demon, throwing himself onto his back" (Linder, 148).

The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny

<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 of this story of the differences between city and country living, a very <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Beatrix%20Potter&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beatrix Potter</a> retelling of Aesop's "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse."<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, (1918).</li><li>86 pages.</li><li>Illustrated in color throughout.</li><li>Light brown paper boards with color pictorial center panel and brown lettering, color decorative endpapers of other Beatrix Potter characters.</li></ul> "One place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.""Miss Potter need not worry about rivals. She has none," proclaimed The Bookman's review of The Tale Of Johnny Town-Mouse in 1918 (quoted in Linder, 244). Certainly this title carries all the hallmarks of Potter's talent: beautiful countryside, well-dressed animals, prose that is both efficient and evocative. It was also to be one of her final books for Warne, as she became more focused on the care and keeping of her Lake District farm.

The Tale Of Johnny Town-Mouse

Inscribed second printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of this Caldecott Award winner – with an original watercolor and <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> to Marian Young, a prominent librarian and member of the Caldecott Award selection committee.<ul><li>Berta Hader and Elmer Hader (American).</li><li>New York: Macmillan, 1948.&nbsp;</li><li>48 pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Berta Hader and Elmer Hader in color and black and white.&nbsp;</li><li>Inscribed by Berta Hader and Elmer Hader on the half title, along with an original watercolor spread across both pages and designed around the title, addressed "Greetings to Marian C. Young."</li><li>Original blue cloth lettered in white, blue and white snowflake endpapers, in original unclipped ($2.50) color pictorial dust jacket.&nbsp;</li></ul> The Haders' original watercolor spans the half title and facing page and depicts a snow-capped cottage with trees, skillfullly and seamlessly connected to the printed bird illustration on the half title, effectively building upon their own book. The Big Snow, winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal, shows the various preparations for winter made by woodland animals: a lovingly observed reflection of the artists' real-world concern for nature conservation and animal rights. A lovely association copy whose recipient, librarian Marian C. Young, was chief of the Children's Department at the Detroit Public Library and chair of the 1956 Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee; Young also served as the 1950-1951 president of the Michigan Library Association and 1967-1968 president of the Detroit chapter of the Women's National Book Association.

The Big Snow

First French-language edition (published during WWII in the US) of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean%20de%20Brunhoff&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean de Brunhoff</a>'s final Babar title, in which <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Babar&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Babar</a> makes the long trip to enlist Father Christmas's help.<ul><li>Jean De Brunhoff (French).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;(1941).</li><li>40 pages.</li><li>Illustrated in color.</li><li>Color pictorial endpapers of elephants against a red background.</li><li>Text is in French.</li><li>Original blue cloth-backed color pictorial boards, original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul> The Babar series has delighted generations of young children around the world. The de Brunhoffs' simple and stylish art is widely praised for being "comprehensible and entertaining even if one didn't know the language" (Bader, 547). The Babar books set the tempo for all picture books that followed: their "large format, fine litho-printing and hand-written text" fueled the "visual triumph" (Whalley and Chester, 189) of the picture book in the 1930s. This New York-printed French edition of Babar Et Le Père Noël was published simultaneously with the edition printed in France; it followed the US English language edition only by a year. This was Jean de Brunhoff's final title Babar before his death – the series was continued by his son Laurent starting in 1948. A lovely copy, unusual to find in the original jacket.

Babar Et Le Père Noël

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?sortBy=prod_product_items_publishDate_desc&amp;locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> limited edition of The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come.<ul><li>John Fox Jr. (American).</li><li>Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Charles Scribner's Sons,&nbsp;1931.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with 16 tissue-guarded mounted color plates (including frontispiece and title page) surrounded by gilt rule borders.&nbsp;</li><li>Part of a limited edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Wyeth.</li><li>Original quarter vellum, blue cloth boards, top edge gilt.&nbsp;</li></ul>

The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

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 this magnificent ABC and Newbery Honor book, an unusually beautiful copy.<ul><li>Wanda Gág (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Coward McCann,&nbsp;1933.</li><li>Original pictorial boards, in original color pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul> The lithographs on every page that are nothing less than works of art, with a splash of red for letters and contrast (plus musical endpapers). The colophon reads: "The illustrations in this book are original lithographs drawn by Wanda Gág. Printed in lithography... on paper made especially for this edition." Probably due to its size, not many collectible copies of this title have survived over the years, particularly in such condition.

The ABC Bunny

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> of this collection of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Brothers%20Grimm&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grimm</a> tales selected for this Rackham edition, in the rare original publisher's box.<ul><li>Jacob Grimm (German).</li><li>Wilhelm Grimm (German).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Dodd Mead,&nbsp;(1917).</li><li>Illustrated by Rackham with 12 tipped-in color plates and 43 black-and-white drawings.</li><li>A mix of well known and less known Grimm fairy tales, including "Snow-White and Rose-Red," all selected by Rackham.</li><li>The deep forest settings of many of these German stories, based largely upon folklore, harmonize beautifully with Rackham's style: lush brown tones with patches of bright red, trees with more personality than people, and mischievous fairies.</li><li>Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front board, in original publisher's box with mounted color plate on lid, with pictorial endpapers.</li></ul>

Little Brother And Little Sister

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 this large-format <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/literature-and-childrens/childrens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">picture book</a> about a family of rabbits and their animal friends.<ul><li>Cecil Aldin (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Humphrey Milford,&nbsp;[1919].</li><li>Illustrated by Aldin with 16 rich color plates on heavy stock and pictorial title page.</li><li>Original quarter cloth, paper pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers.</li></ul>

Bunnyborough

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 this charming New York Jewish picture book, Good Shabbos, Everybody.<ul><li>Robert Garvey (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.</li><li>With Leonard Weisgard as art consultant.</li><li>[New York]:&nbsp;United Synagogue Commission,&nbsp;(1951).</li><li>26 pages.</li><li>Original color pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers.</li></ul>

Good Shabbos, Everybody

The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Archives%2520and%2520collections" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">archive</a> from the career of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrator</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Childrens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">children's book</a> author David McPhail.<ul><li>Sold as a set of over 100 pieces.</li><li>David McPhail (American).</li><li>Large, comprehensive collection of notebooks, sketchbooks, original art, typescripts, mock-ups, correspondence and the like covering the career of noted children's book author and illustrator David McPhail.</li><li>Objects were created from 1966-2022, with most being from the 1990s or later.</li><li>A complete inventory is available upon request.</li></ul> "When he strikes gold, few of his competitors can outshine him." — Ariel North David McPhail (1940- ) is an American picture book artist and author remarkable for the breadth and consistency of his output. With over 200 books to his name and an active period that spans five decades, his work encapsulates the picture book boom of the last quarter of the 20th century, and the innovations of the 21st. Born and raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he once recalled that, despite harboring a love of drawing since age 2, his passion for sports long eclipsed any artistic aims. After a series of odd jobs, he enrolled in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston when he was 23, and published his first picture book in 1971. For the first decade of his career, he continued to entertain dreams of sports stardom: "[T]o support myself until the big endorsement money starts rolling in, I illustrate books," he reported (only half-jokingly) in 1978. By the 1980s, McPhail's skill with paint and pen made him a fixture of the field. "He is a talented artist and a talented author, exhibiting unusual versatility in both roles," noted Ariel North in 1985 in the pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His reputation (and bibliography) continued to grow throughout the '90s (when the bulk of this archive begins), with a selection of his pig illustrations being featured in the 1993 "This Wondrous World: Children's Book Illustration in New England" exhibition. While lamenting the lack of creativity in the so-called "message" picture books of the late '90s, the New York Times praised McPhail's talent for creating picture books that were actually for children, rather than the edification of adults. In the paper's review of McPhail's 1997 Edward And The Pirates — a picture book about the joy of reading — Natalie Babbitt observes "Mr. McPhail [...] is skillful enough to make a good story in spite of [his inclusion of a message] [...] If we want children to learn to love reading, then we have to make it a pleasure." The book would go on to be honored in the Times's Best Illustrated Books list of 1998. Among other accolades, McPhail has earned a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, a Children's Choice Award, a Parent's Choice Award, and a Children's Booksellers Choices Award. His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Children's Museum of New Hampshire and the Surroundings Art Gallery, and several of his books were adapted as a stage musical in 1999. Additionally, his work has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Children's Book Council/International Reading Association, the School Library Journal, the Child Study Association, the Association of Booksellers for Children, Publishers Weekly, among many others. McPhail's career in the picture book field is worthy of note for both its longevity and the high quality of his work. "Basically, my job is to do the best books I can. If it pleases me, I think someone like me will get a kick out of it. I think most artists and writers are self-centered, they live in their own little world. I know I do for much of the time." A dense and revealing collection of materials documenting from conception to published book (completed art, publisher correspondence, mock-ups, research materials, etc.) more than 70 of McPhail's published projects over more than six decades, including more than two dozen original works of framed art, with over eighty more loose or matted. Also included are dozens of sketchbooks both related to particular projects and others that are more creatively undirected, plus notebooks outlining ideas, stories, text to be illustrated later, etc. The combination of published and unpublished art and stories, as well as correspondence with publishers, contracts, and fan mail offers valuable insight into the creative processes and activities of a career picture book creator.

Career Archive Of Illustrator And Children's Book Author David McPhail

The Canonical Tarzan, complete collection of first edition Tarzan novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 27 volumes.</li><li>Edgar Rice Burroughs (American).</li><li>Various publishers, 1914-1965.</li><li>First edition run of all 24 novels in the Tarzan series, including Tarzan Of The Apes in the rare original dust jacket and five inscribed books — along with Burroughs's rare 1917 autobiography and two further Tarzan titles.</li><li>Five inscribed books: Beasts, Son, Golden Lion, Invincible, and Leopard Men</li><li>Additional first editions outside the Tarzan novels: An Auto-Biography (1917); Tarzan And The Tarzan Twins (1963); and Official Guide Of The Tarzan Clans Of America (1939).</li><li>Original cloth bindings, all in original dust jackets except Return, Beasts, and Son.</li><li>Earth's Core in a later Grosset &amp; Dunlap jacket.</li><li>Tarzan Of The Apes in rarest state, per Currey: title page cancel, W.F. Hall imprint in Gothic lettering, binding without acorn.</li><li>A full inventory is available upon request.</li></ul> "I have been astonished to discover how often a leading biochemist or archaeologist or space technician or astronaut when asked: what happened to you when you were ten years old? replied: 'Tarzan.'" — Ray Bradbury Tarzan is one of the most recognizable pop cultural icons of the 20th century. Beginning with the novels, but quickly translating to film and beyond, Tarzan soon had his own merchandise, piracies, and international adaptations (including Bollywood films and Japanese manga). Tarzan's relationship with the movies — beginning in 1918, during the early years of popular film — was especially rich. One producer of Tarzan films, Sol Lesser, described Tarzan's global market saturation with only slight hyperbole that "there is always a Tarzan picture playing within a radius of 50 miles of any given spot in the world — in Arab villages, African bush theatres and in pampas settlements down the Argentine way" (quoted in Abate &amp; Wannamaker, 3). But Tarzan enjoyed many revivals in print as well; in 1963 "one out of every thirty paperbacks sold was a Tarzan novel" (Torgovnick, 42). For over 100 years, Tarzan has remained a vivid figure in our popular imagination. Tarzan's world is not all boyhood innocence: it also "embodies a powerful emblem of past white Western imperialism and, correspondingly, of the present colonialization of the world by American culture" (Abate &amp; Wannamaker, 5). But alongside this, Tarzan has remained internationally beloved as a potent mix of the Rousseauian "noble savage" and the Swiftian "stranger in a strange land," — a mythic figure like Romulus and Remus (one of Burroughs's inspirations) or Robinson Crusoe (also an early literary phenomenon). Above all, the books were fun: as Ray Bradbury recollected, "we may have liked Verne and Wells and Kipling, but we loved, we adored, we went quite mad with Mr. Burroughs" (intro to Porges, xviii). This complete collection of the Tarzan novels features one of the rarest and most sought after books in Modern Firsts collecting: a first edition of Tarzan Of The Apes in the original dust jacket. Of the five books inscribed by Burroughs, two are among the earliest in the series: Beasts Of Tarzan (#3) and Son Of Tarzan (#4). In addition to the novels of the main series, this collection includes the scarce early piece of Burroughsiana, a short memoir commissioned by the Republic Motor Truck Company on one of Burroughs's transcontinental journeys; only a few copies were bound in the deluxe suede binding, apparently for the personal use of the author. The final two included books are Tarzan And The Tarzan Twins, which collects two Tarzan novellas for younger children; and The Official Guide Of The Tarzan Clans Of America, published by Burroughs as a manual for organizing and running a Tarzan fan club. Altogether, these books form an exceptionally comprehensive monument to the Tarzan phenomenon.

Complete Collection Of Tarzan Novels

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing copy of this <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Childrens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">children</a>'s book parody of the landmark 1913 Armory Show, which drew both fanfare and hostility.<ul><li>Mary Mills Lyall (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Earl Harvey Lyall (American).</li><li>New York and London:&nbsp;G. P. Putnam's Sons,&nbsp;1913.</li><li>62 pages.</li><li>Illustrated in color.</li><li>Bound in the original brown cloth boards with color pictorial onlay.</li></ul> The March 1913 Armory Show fundamentally altered the direction of American art. As the New York Historical Society said when celebrating the 100th anniversary of the event: "[I]t changed the way Americans thought about modern art. It has been called the most important exhibition ever held in the United States." Organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the show introduced American audiences to Cubist, Surrealist, and Fauvist art, and helped establish artists like Picasso and Matisse as household names. But this change was not a uniformly welcome one: "Is their work a conspicuous milestone in the progress of art? Or is it junk?" pondered The New York Times review of the show. "[M]any of [Matisse's] paintings are simply the exaltation to the walls of a gallery of the drawings of a nasty boy," artist and critic Kenyon Cox remarked in the same review. Mary Mills and Earl Harvey Lyall were quick to respond with The Cubies' ABC. It was published the same year as the watershed exhibition, while critics continued to debate the assemblage of Modern Art featured therein. Earl, an architect and government architectural advisor, was well-placed to execute the pastiches of the Armory Show's most significant works. Dotted throughout this abecedary are clever nods to Matisse's "Blue Nude," Wilhelm Lehmbruck's "The Kneeling One," Picasso's "Woman with Mustard Pot," and more. The angular bodies of the Cubies themselves recall isolated shapes within Duchamp's iconic "Nude Descending a Staircase," the piece that became most identified with many viewers' fury at the show.

The Cubies' ABC

<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 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 7.</li></ul> Walter Ramal De la Mare (English).&nbsp;Songs of Childhood.&nbsp;London: Longman’s, Green and Co., 1902.&nbsp;Octavo.Half-title, frontispiece by Richard Doyle.&nbsp;Bound in original parchment-backed boards with gilt device, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt.Housed in a custom clamshell case.&nbsp; W.H. Hudson (Argentine).A Little Lost Boy.&nbsp;London: Duckworth &amp; Co., 1905.&nbsp;Octavo.Titles in red and black, frontispiece illustrated by A.D. McCormick with vignettes and plates throughout.2 pages publisher’s ads at rear.Bound in original tan cloth, upper cover pictorially stamped in black and gilt, lettered in green, spine gilt-lettered. Elijah Kellogg (American).John Godsoe’s Legacy.&nbsp;Boston: Lee &amp; Shepard, 1873.&nbsp;Octavo.Black and white plates throughout.&nbsp;Bound in original blue-purple cloth, spine decorativley gilt, yellow endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements.&nbsp;&nbsp; Edith Nesbit (English).The Railway Children.London: Wells Gardner Darton, &amp; Co. 1906.Octavo.Half title, frontispiece and 20 black and white illustrated plates by C.E. Brock.10 pages uncut publisher’s ads at rear.&nbsp;Bound in publisher’s burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt and brown on upper cover and spine.Housed in custom clamshell case. Beatrix Potter (English).The Roly-Poly Pudding.&nbsp;London: Frederick Warne &amp; Co. Ltd., 1918.Quarto.Half-title, 18 color plates and numerous in-text illustrations, these and text printed in brown.Bound in original boards, upper cover pictorially printed, spine lettered in brown, endleaves pictorially printed.Later issue, The Bradley Martin - Mildred Greenhill copy. Frank R. Stockton (American).Illustrated title and illustrated throughout by E.B. Bensell (American).Ting A Ling.New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1882.&nbsp;Octavo.Bound in original red cloth upper cover and spine gilt-lettered and pictorially stamped in black.Frank R. Stockton (American).Frontispiece and 21 black and white plates by Reginald B. Birch (American). The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander.&nbsp;New York: The Century Co., 1899.Provenance: Charles Willcox (bookplate to front pastedown).&nbsp;&nbsp;Bound in original green cloth, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered, cover pictorially stamped in black and orange.

Collection of Children's Books Including The Roly-Poly Pudding and A Little Boy Lost

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a> A New History of Blue Beard and Gammer Gutron's Garland of Nursery Songs.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li></ul> A new history of Blue Beard, written by Gaffer Black Beard [pseud.], for the amusement of Little Lack Beard and his pretty sisters.Gaffer Black Beard (American).Charles Perrault (French).Adorned with cuts.Philadelphia: printed by John Adams, 1804.&nbsp;Sextodecimo.&nbsp;Woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations.&nbsp;Bound in original brown wrappers.&nbsp;Housed in a custom clamshell case.&nbsp;The story of Bluebeard, which belongs to the common stock of folklore, came to England in this form, and thence to America, from the famous French fairy story of Charles Perrault (162 703). Compiled by Peter Puzzlecap (English).Gammer Gurton's Garland of Nursery Songs, and Toby Tickle's Collection of Riddles.&nbsp;Glasgow: Lumsden and Son, [c. 1820].&nbsp;Triecesimo-secondo&nbsp;Includes 26 wood-engraved illustrations.&nbsp;Bound in original blue printed wrappers with two illustrations.&nbsp;Housed in a custom clamshell case.

A New History of Blue Beard and Gammer Gutron's Garland of Nursery Songs

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a> Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys with original publisher's advertisements.<ul><li>Nathaniel Hawthorne (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Hammatt Billings (American).</li><li>Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1853.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher's brown cloth ruled and stamped in blind with gilt decorations and pale yellow endpapers.</li><li>Housed in a custom claret morocco backed clamshell case with marbled boards.</li></ul>

Tanglewood Tales, For Girls and Boys

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 <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

A collection of signed first edition books and ephemera by Lemony Snicket.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 16 volumes, plus ephemera.</li><li>Lemony Snicket [Daniel Handler] (American).</li><li>Includes: A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Beatrice Letters, as well as several items of ephemera.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harper Collins,&nbsp;1999-2007.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>Each is signed.</li><li>Thirteen volumes with monochrome paper spines and white lettering.</li><li>One volume with tan and brown spine an black lettering.</li><li>One volume with green pictorial spine and black lettering.</li><li>One volume with brown spine and yellow lettering.</li></ul> Complete Contents:Book The First: A Bad Beginning&nbsp;(162 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 1999. 18th printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Second: The Reptile Room (190 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 1999. First printing. Protected in mylar wrap.Book The Third: The Wide Window&nbsp;(214 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First printing. Protected in mylar wrap.Book The Fourth: The Miserable Mill (194 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Fifth: The Austere Academy (221 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator (259 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Seventh: The Vile Village (256 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Eighth: The Hostile Hospital&nbsp;(255 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First printing. -- BOOK THE NINTH: THE Carnivorous Carnival (286 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2002. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Tenth: The Slippery Slope (337 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2003. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Eleventh: The Grim Grotto (323 pages). New York: Harper Collins, 2004. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page.Book The Twelfth: The Penultimate Peril (353 pages). New York: Harper Collins, 2005. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page; additionally inscribed by illustrator on the same page.Book The Thirteenth: The End (324, [16], 13 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2006. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page; additionally inscribed by illustrator on the same page.The Beatrice Letters (unpaginated), New York: Harper Collins, 2006. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed (with minor smudging) by the author on dedication page. Soft cover, housed in publisher's hardcover folder, with accompanying poster.Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (212 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2002. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on half title; with orange sticker to dust jacket.Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid (168 pages), New York: Harper Collins, 2007. First printing. Signed and dated by the author on title page. With dust jacket protected ny mylar covering; mylar covering with small white numbered sticker to lower right front corner.With various ephemera, including two strips of temporary tattoos (one with moderate creasing, wear, and age toning), a sheet of stickers, an iron-on transfer, a notepad, a pack of "Misfortune Telling Cards," and a poster for an event with Lemony Snicket (folded, and with moderate creasing and wear).

Lemony Snicket Collection

A first American edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.<ul><li>Mark Twain (American).</li><li>New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.</li><li>Please note the image is a representative image of this item and not a photograph of the exact item available for purchase. For exact specifications, please Enquire.</li><li>Please note that availability of this item is subject to change. For details, please Enquire.</li></ul>

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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

A limited edition copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, signed by Salvador Dali.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Salvador Dali.</li><li>New York: Maecenas Press - Random House, 1969.</li><li>With frontispiece and 12 illustrations.</li><li>The frontispiece is a signed etching by Salvador Dali, limited to 2500 numbered copies on Mandeure paper of which this is number 676, signed by Dali on the title-page.</li><li>Presented in the original tan leather backed clamshell box, gilt lettered spine, with the original gilt stamped brown cloth chemise.</li></ul>

An inscribed presentation copy of Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1877.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "Mariella York Powell, from the Author. Nov. 23, 1897", in black ink.</li><li>Bound in the scarce white paper and leatherette binding, reproducing the gilt decoration of the red cloth editions, all edges gilt, black pastedowns and endpapers, housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase.</li></ul> Mariella York Powell was the daughter of Frederick York Powell who was close friends with John Butler Yeats whom the artist first met on his move to Bedford Park, London in the late 1880s.

Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (Signed)

A finely bound, fifth edition copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1868.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>With half title and 42 woodcut illustrations (including frontispiece).</li><li>Bound in modern full red morocco, gilt-paneled, spines with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in second and fourth compartments, gilt-stamped designs of playing cards and the March Hare in other compartments.</li></ul>

A finely bound edition of The Fables of Aesop.<ul><li>Aesop (Greek).</li><li>Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange.</li><li>Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926.</li><li>With wood-engraved silhouettes by the Central School of Arts and Crafts illustrator Celia M. Fiennes (1902-1998).</li><li>Part of a limited edition, this being number 250 of 350 copies.</li><li>Bound in green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, the upper panel onlaid with cockerel design in red, within quadruple gilt frame, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut.</li></ul> A copy of an important illustrated edition of Aesop’s Fables, the text taken from the 1692 edition of L’Estrange’s translation. "The work of the engravers of Golden Cockerel books gives the Press its greatest distinction and made a whole period of woodcut revival" (Franklin).

The Fables of Aesop

A first edition, signed copy of Ambrose Bierce's Fantastic Fables.<ul><li>Ambrose Bierce (American).</li><li>New York and London:&nbsp;G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press,&nbsp;1899.</li><li>12mo.</li><li>194 pages.</li><li>Signed by Bierce on the flyleaf.</li><li>Bound in the original tan pictorial cloth stamped in blue, red, black and gold.</li></ul>

Fantastic Fables

A first edition copy of Walt Disney's Fantasia, inscribed by the composer to his daughter.<ul><li>Deems Taylor (American).</li><li>Introduction by Walt Disney.</li><li>Foreword by Leopold Stokowski.</li><li>Lithographs by the Western Printing and Lithographing Company.</li><li>New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.</li><li>158 pages.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>With colored and black and white lithographic illustrations, with 16 of the color illustrations tipped in.</li><li>Inscribed on the flyleaf to the author’s daughter, Joan Kennedy Taylor: "For my dear Joan, with all my love. Deems"</li><li>Bound in the original tan cloth, lettered in blue.</li></ul>

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Arthur Rackham, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

Beatrix Potter

A.A. Milne

Kenneth Grahame

J.K. Rowling

Arthur Rackham, Aesop

May Byron, Cecil Aldin

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Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

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Jean de Brunhoff

N.C. Wyeth, John Fox Jr.

Wanda Gág

Arthur Rackham, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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Maurice Sendak, Robert Garvey

David McPhail

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Mary Mills Lyall, Earl Harvey Lyall

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Beatrix Potter, Various Authors, Frank R. Stockton

Charles Perrault, Gaffer Black Beard, Peter Puzzlecap

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A.A. Milne

A.A. Milne

Lemony Snicket [Daniel Handler]

Mark Twain

Madonna

Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Aesop

Ambrose Bierce

Walt Disney, Deems Taylor