Women Authors

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

Finely bound set of the first printing of the Thornton edition of the novels of the Brontë sisters, which is considered the definitive complete works, and includes Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë. Sold as a set of 12.<ul><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Anne Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Edited by Temple Scott (English).</li><li>Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor.</li><li>Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes a frontispiece illustration to each volume and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Brontë country.</li><li>Recent navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and blue cloth over boards, top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed.</li></ul>

Novels of the Sisters Brontë

<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 <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> collection of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novels</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jane%20Austen&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jane Austen</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12 volumes.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;Little, Brown and Co.,&nbsp;1899 - 1901.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece.</li><li>Bound by Blackwell in three-quarters brown morocco with marbled boards, gilt-tooled decoration on the raised band spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Novels

Rare toy version of Peter Rabbit, in which the front board opens to reveal 8 laminated pictorial cubes of scenes from the book.<ul><li>After Beatrix Potter.</li><li>Worcester, MA:&nbsp;Cotton &amp; Frank,&nbsp;[circa 1940].</li><li>Housed in original box with all 8 original pictorial cubes, each in its own space.</li></ul> An abbreviated version of the story is printed inside the front cover with a color pictorial border. The facing insert for the blocks is also pictorially decorated and has a two-line caption corresponding to the picture on the block. Each block has two Peter Rabbit pictures, and the other sides show large block letters of the alphabet.

Picture Block Story of Peter Rabbit

Finely bound set of the Winchester Edition of the novels of Jane Austen.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906.</li><li>Includes frontis portrait plate in volume one; title pages printed in red and black,</li><li>Bound in half red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt, others uncut.</li></ul>

Novels of Jane Austen

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Ayn%20Rand&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ayn Rand</a>'s magnum opus.<ul><li>Ayn Rand (Russian).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;[1957].</li><li>1168, [4] pp. 1 vols.</li><li>Thick octavo.</li><li>Original green cloth in first issue jacket (with 10/57 on the lower front flap and publisher’s name in full on the bottom rear flap).</li></ul>

Atlas Shrugged

Finely bound set of the Brontë sisters' novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Anne Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Illustrated Edmund Dulac (French-British).</li><li>London: J. M. Dent &amp; Sons, Ltd., 1922.</li><li>Bound by Bayntun in contemporary half green polished calf, ribbed gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered maroon spine labels, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut as issued.</li></ul>

The Professor, the author's first written novel,&nbsp;was published two years after the author's death in 1855.<ul><li>Currer Bell [Charlotte Brönte] (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Smith and Elder,&nbsp;1857.</li><li>2 vols.&nbsp;</li><li>8vo.&nbsp;</li><li>First edition, with half-titles, 8 pages of ads for uniform edition of earlier works by the Bröntes at end of vol. II.&nbsp;</li><li>Contemporary half calf and marbled boards.</li><li>Bookplate of H. Morley Fletcher by John D. Batten, 1890.</li><li>Faint ghost of gift inscription to verso of half title.</li></ul>

The Professor

Signed limited edition of Brontë's Wuthering Heights with lithographs by Balthus.<ul><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Balthus (French).</li><li>New York: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1993.</li><li>Text set by Michael Bixler using Monotype Dante, printed on specially made off-white mold-made Arches paper with watermark.</li><li>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>Original prospectus laid in.</li><li>Original gray-green morocco with title stamped in dark-brown, 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).

Wuthering Heights

<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

Fine copy of Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester, privately printed by the author.<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London: Privately Printed by Strangeways &amp; Sons, 1902.</li><li>Unpaginated.</li><li>Illustrated with a frontis and 15 color plates by Potter.</li><li>Limited to 500 copies.</li><li>Bound in the original pink pictorial boards.</li></ul>

The Tailor of Gloucester

First edition, first printing of Woolf's&nbsp;The Voyage Out.<ul><li>Virginia Woolf (English).</li><li>London: Duckworth &amp; Co., 1915.</li><li>318 pages.</li><li>16 pages of publisher’s advertisements.</li><li>Bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full morocco with gilt title, marbled endpapers, handsewn headbands and all edges gilt.</li></ul>

The Voyage Out

First edition of Shelley's second novel Valperga.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).</li><li>Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca.</li><li>London: for G. &amp; W. B. Whittaker, 1823.</li><li>Bound in half tan speckled calf, gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled edges.</li></ul>

Valperga

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;North And South by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Elizabeth%20Bishop&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elizabeth Bishop</a>.<ul><li>Elizabeth Bishop (American).</li><li>Cambridge, Massachusetts:&nbsp;Houghton Mifflin Company,&nbsp;1946.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>54 pages.</li><li>Inscription on title page from Elizabeth Bishop to a previous owner, signed flat by Elizabeth Bishop.</li><li>Aged light blue spine with aged white lettering, dust jacket price is uncut.</li></ul> Elizabeth Bishop was born February 8, 1911 in Worcester, MA. She was orphaned at 5 years old, moving in at first with her maternal grandparents on a farm in Nova Scotia, but later being taken from them to live once more in Worcester with her father's wealthier family. Both these periods are chronicled in Bishop's poems. Bishop would receive little formal schooling until high school due to chronic illness. It would be at the Walnut Hill boarding school were her first poems would be published in a student magazine. At Vassar College, Bishop would found her own literary magazine Con Spirito with writer Mary McCarthy and others. This work and a friendship with the college librarian led Bishop to meet the poet Marianne Moore with whom she would maintain a lifelong friendship until Moore's death in 1972. After college, Bishop would spend nearly the rest of her life traveling around the world living on an inheritance from her father and sparse employment. After publishing her first book of poetry, North &amp; South in 1946, Bishop would notably become a Consultant of Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949-1950 and win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956. These impressive achievements would not have been possible without Bishop's first book North &amp; South which released in 1946 and won the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award that same year. This book brings together several of Bishop's most notable poems including "The Man-Moth" (so named for a newspaper misprint of mammoth) and "The Fish" which describes a caught fish in excruciating detail.

North And South

Signed first American edition presentation copy of Atwood's first novel. <ul><li>Margaret Atwood (Canadian).</li><li>Boston: Little, Brown &amp; Co., 1969.</li><li>Inscribed by Atwood on the half-title "For Bart &amp; Roby best wishes Margaret Atwood 1975."</li><li>Bound in publisher's original pink cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, with the pictorial dust jacket, not price clipped.</li></ul>

The Edible Woman

Finely bound set of the novels, works and letters of Jane Austen.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-12.</li><li>Engraved frontis portrait plate in volume one.</li><li>The Winchester Edition.</li><li>Bound by Atkinson in full tan morocco, gilt lettered red and green morocco spine labels, top edges gilt with marbled pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul>

The Novels of Jane Austen

First US edition and first printing of Virginia Woolf's novel.<ul><li>Virginia Woolf (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harcourt, Brace &amp; Company,&nbsp;1927.</li><li>310 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First printing indicated by "I" on copyright page.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in green cloth with blue text on spine and front cover.</li></ul>

To the Lighthouse

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=playbill&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">playbill</a> for Presumption! Or The Fate of Frankenstein, by <a href="sothebys.com/en/search?query=Richard%20Brinsley%20Peake&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Richard Brinsley Peake</a>.<ul><li>Richard Brinsley Peake (English).</li><li>After Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.</li><li>Presumption! Or The Fate of Frankenstein. Last Night... Of Mr. T. P. Cooke. This Present Evening, Saturday, March 9, 1833, will be performed the Celebrated Romance... Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh.</li><li>&nbsp;Edinburgh: Theatre-Royal, 1833.</li><li>A playbill for the last performance by Thomas Potter Cooke at the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh for 1833.&nbsp;</li><li>Printed letterpress playbill, laid down on early cardstock.</li></ul> The play's author, Richard Brinsley Peake (1792-1847), was a prolific dramatist of the London popular theater from 1818 until the time of his death. Presumption! appeared at the Lyceum (the English Opera House) in the late summer of 1823. During the autumn of the same year, other serious adaptations of Frankenstein appeared at the Royalty and the Coburg. The part of the Monster was taken by Thomas Potter Cooke (1786-1864), a former sailor who had already earned popular and critical attention by his performance as Ruthven in The Vampire in 1820. Although Presumption! was not the first successful Gothic melodrama of the 1820s, the popularity it achieved had an immediate effect on London theatre managements. Presumption! had helped to illuminate a public appetite for horrifying stage fantasies with morally unambiguous resolutions. The play was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin on 29 August 1823 at the English Opera House, shortly after her return to England. Shelley approved of the way the Creature, played by T.P. Cooke, was represented by a series of dashes in the advertising. Mary Shelley had mixed feelings about the play when it opened but, echoing Lord Byron, wrote: "But lo and behold I found myself famous! Frankenstein had prodigious success as a drama and was about to be repeated for the twenty-third night at the English Royal Opera House."

Presumption! Or The Fate of Frankenstein Playbill

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>Group of nine first editions.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 9.</li></ul> Ambrose Bierce (American).&nbsp;The Cynic’s Word Book.&nbsp;New York: Doubleday, Page &amp; Company, 1906.&nbsp;Octavo.Half-title, frontispiece.&nbsp;Bound in original green ribbed cloth, upper cover and spine decoratively stamped in orange and black. Frederic S. Cozzens (American).The Sparrowgrass Papers; Or, Living in the Country.&nbsp;New York: Derby &amp; Jackson, 1856.&nbsp;Duodecimo.Illustrated frontispiece and vignette title, 8 pages of ads at rear.&nbsp;Bound in original purple cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, yellow endpapers. Harold Frederic (American).The Damnation of Theron Ware.&nbsp;Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1896.Octavo.&nbsp;Half-title.Bound in original green cloth, covers and spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt.Housed in custom slipcase and folding chemise.&nbsp; O. Henry (American).&nbsp;The Voice of the City. Further Stories of the Four Million.&nbsp;New York: The McClure Company, 1908.&nbsp;Octavo.Half-title, 1 page ad at the rear.&nbsp;Bound in original red cloth, upper cover ruled in blind, cover and spine gilt-lettered, gilt sphinx to cover. Oliver Wendell Holmes (American).The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.&nbsp;Boston: Phillips Sampson, 1858.Octavo.Half-title, etched frontispiece, 8 etched plates, with index at end.Bound in original embossed brown cloth, covers decoratively bordered in blind, spine gilt-lettered with gilt ornamental motifs, endpaperswith publisher's advertisements.Housed in custom slipcase and folding chemise. W[illiam] D[ean] Howells (American).A Boy’s Town. Described for Harper’s Young People.&nbsp;New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1890.&nbsp;Octavo.Frontispiece, with 23 black and white plates including 2 intertextual vignettes.&nbsp;Bound in original blue-green cloth with elaborate border in upper cover and spine stamped in silver, Howell's facsimile signature and titles stamped in gilt on upper cover, spine gilt-lettered. Edgar Allen Poe (American).The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present.&nbsp;Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843.&nbsp;Quarto.8 engraved plates.Scarce large paper edition.Bound in full brown calf, covers and spine elaborately gilt, edges gilt, yellow endpapers.Housed in custom clamshell case. Lew Wallace (American).2 volumes.The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell.&nbsp;New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1893.&nbsp;Octavo.Title to each volume.Bound in original blue cloth, upper covers pictorially blocked in red and silver, covers and spines gilt-lettered. Edith Wharton (American).&nbsp;Tales of Men and Ghosts.&nbsp;New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910.&nbsp;Octavo.Titles in black and red with 4 pages of publisher’s ads at rear.&nbsp;Bound in original red cloth, cover and spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt.

Collection of American Literature Works Including The Prince of India and Tales of Men and Ghosts

Inscribed later edition of Potter's The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London: Frederick Warne &amp; Co. Ltd, [after 1918].</li><li>Inscribed on the half-title by the author "To Elizabeth Todhunter from Beatrix Potter Jan. 5, 1937."</li><li>Includes 27 color plates (including frontispiece).</li><li>Bound with pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, original pictorial cream boards.</li></ul> Elizabeth Todhunter and her sister Edith had a small business designing and making bendable dolls called "The Wee Folk," which they initially ran from their home in Windermere. Apparently, Beatrix Potter received several "Wee Folk" figures from the sisters and enjoyed arranging them on her chimney-piece.

First edition of this early novel grappling with the personal traumas of World War I, Woolf's first to experiment with modernist techniques that would become central to her style.<ul><li>Virginia Woolf (English).</li><li>London: Leonard &amp; Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Hogarth House,&nbsp;Richmond,&nbsp;1922.</li><li>Bound in full yellow cloth with paper label. </li></ul>

Jacob's Room

A collector's edition of Linda McCartney: Life In Photographs, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Autographed%2520and%2520Signed%2520Material" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Paul%20McCartney&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paul McCartney</a>.<ul><li>Linda McCartney (American).</li><li>Germany: TASCHEN, 2011.</li><li>Signed by Paul McCartney.</li><li>Numbered 673 of 750 copies.</li><li>Hardcover book housed in a clamshell box.</li></ul>

Linda McCartney: Life In Photographs

First edition finely bound copy of Woolf's The Years.<ul><li>Virginia Woolf (English).</li><li>London: The Hogarth Press, 1937.</li><li>Bound in full green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine with all edges gilt and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul>

The Years

Inscribed later edition of Potter's The Tale of Pigling Bland.<ul><li>Beatrix Potter (English).</li><li>London: Frederick Warne &amp; Co. Ltd, [after 1918].</li><li>Inscribed on the half-title by the author "with kind regards from Beatrix Potter," and with additional ink inscription "To Peggy, from Mrs Postlethwaite &amp; Mary, Sept. 8th 1933."</li><li>Includes 15 color plates (including frontispiece), black &amp; white illustrations to text.</li><li>Bound in pictorial endpapers with original pale green pictorial boards.</li></ul> The Postlethwaite family lived at High Green Gate near to Castle Cottage, Beatrix Potter's Lakeland home after 1909. It is likely that this book was originally given to the Postlethwaite family (probably to one of the girls, Mary or Amanda) as a gift from Beatrix, and they then later gave it away to a friend "Peggy."

The Tale of Pigling Bland

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

First edition signed presentation copy of Wharton's The Valley of Decision.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Edith Wharton (American).</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.</li><li>Inscribed by Wharton on the front blank endleaf "For Miss Ward. With the Kindest regards of Edith Wharton, March 10th, 1902."</li><li>Bookplate of H. Bradly Martin. Sale to Sotheby's NY Jan. 30-31, 1990 Lot #2266. Bookplate to lower corner of rear pastedown in each volume "Duplicate withdrawn from University of Virginia Library."</li><li>Accompanying this item is a letter on Yale University letterhead, dated 1990, explaining the association of Miss Ward to Edith Wharton.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, top edges gilt, others uncut.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in a red cloth clam shell slipcase with gilt lettered red morocco spine label.</li></ul>

The Valley of Decision

A finely bound set of The Winchester Edition of The Novels of Jane Austen.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10 volumes.</li><li>Jane Austen (English).</li><li>Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette ‘JA’ monogram.&nbsp;</li><li>The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Emma.</li><li>Recently bound in navy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels, and matching cloth over boards, top edges gilt, others gently trimmed.</li></ul>

The Novels Of Jane Austen

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).

A finely bound and illustrated collection of the Thorton Edition of the novels of the Brontë sisters.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë&nbsp;(English).</li><li>Anne Brontë&nbsp;(English).</li><li>Includes The Life of Charlotte Brontë by E.C. Gaskell.</li><li>Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924.</li><li>Bound in half maroon morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, textblock uncut as issued, by Atkinson.</li></ul>

The Novels of The Sisters Brontë

Signed copy of the 29th edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop.<ul><li>Willa Cather (American).</li><li>New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.</li><li>Signed by Cather on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the original green cloth with printed paper spine and cover labels present.</li></ul>

Death Comes For the Archbishop

A limited edition copy of Life in Photographs, signed by Paul McCartney.<ul><li>Linda McCartney (American).</li><li>Germany: Taschen,&nbsp;2011.</li><li>Large folio.</li><li>Number 635 of 750 copies.</li><li>Bound in cloth, pictorial upper cover, in matching cloth clamshell box.</li></ul>

Life in Photographs

Complete deluxe editions of the Harry Potter series.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>J.K. Rowling (English, b. 1965).</li><li>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.</li><li>London, UK: Bloomsbury, 1999-2007.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Volume 1 has a light red cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 2 has a Carolina blue cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 3 has an emerald cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 4 has an indigo cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 5 has an auburn cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 6 has a blue cloth spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volume 7 has a black spine with gilt lettering.</li><li>Volumes 1-5 are in publisher's indigo slipcase which lists the titles of each volume on the rear board in gilt lettering, has a gilt depiction of Hogwarts Express on both side boards, gilt copies of J.K. Rowling's signature on both side boards and rear boards, text blocks of all volumes have gilt edges, volume 1 has a blue silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 2 has a green silk bookmark ribbon attached to spine, volume 3 has a yellow bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 4 has a ruby-red silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 5 has a golden silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head, volume 6 has an evergreen silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head and volume 7 has a Byzantine purple silk bookmark ribbon attached to the spine head.</li></ul>

Harry Potter Series

A copy of H.M. Milner's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.<ul><li>By H.M. Milner after Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English, 1797-1851).</li><li>Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster!</li><li>London: J. Duncombe, n.d., [1826].</li><li>With the engraved frontis portrait plate, with Shelley's name misspelled "Shelly."</li><li>Hardbound in modern brown cloth, gilt title and date to front cover.</li></ul>

Frankenstein

First printing of this landmark work engaging with the generational trauma of slavery, edited by Toni Morrison and lavishly praised by James Baldwin and Angela Davis.<ul><li>Gayl Jones (American).</li><li>New York: Random House, 1975.</li><li>185 pages.</li><li>Bound in the original quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards, metallic red- and green-lettered spine, in the original unclipped ($6.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor.&nbsp;</li></ul> Corregidora is "a collective narrative of [...] four generations of female descendant of chattel slavery" (Christina Sharpe), following a matrilineal line to the life of a contemporary Black woman. Jones's work—searing, powerful and unflinchingly examining the experiences of enslaved Black women years before Beloved—was championed by Morrison, and greeted with wide acclaim upon publication and beyond (Angela Davis recommends it in Women, Race, and Class). One of the technical wonders of the text is how it incorporates Black traditions of oral storytelling to form a variegated text in another medium; as she told Michael Harper, "The best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read."

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