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“ONE OF THE FINEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORKS EVER PRINTED,” WITH 500 HAND-COLORED PLATES AND AUDUBON’S AUTOGRAPH TIPPED IN
AUDUBON, John James. Birds of America. New York, 1861. Seven volumes. Lockwood Audubon, an early octavo edition, containing 500 superb tinted and hand-colored lithographic plates, with numerous in-text anatomical wood-engravings, with an inscription by Audubon tipped to the front pastedown: “I remain yours truly & sincerely attached, John J. Audubon.” In publisher’s full morocco bindings. $60,000.
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“AMONG THE BEST EVER WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN”
MILNE, A.A. The Four Pooh Books. London, 1924-28. Four volumes. Beautiful first editions of Milne’s wonderful “Pooh Quartet”—the volumes of verses and tales that immortalized Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh and their friends from the Hundred Acre Wood—each book signed by Milne on the title page, in original unrestored dust jackets. $46,000.
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AUTHOR OF THE FIRST DETECTIVE NOVELS:
EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS OF
WILKIE COLLINS’ WORKS,
84 BEAUTIFULLY AND UNIFORMLY BOUND VOLUMES,
INCLUDING FIRST EDITIONS OF THE WOMAN IN WHITE AND THE MOONSTONE
COLLINS, Wilkie. Collection of first editions, uniformly bound. London, 1848-1890. Eighty-four volumes. First editions in book form of 37 of Collins’ works, many with lovely engraved frontispieces, including important first editions of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, beautifully and uniformly bound by Riviere and Son. Including his first published book, all 23 novels published during his lifetime, his short story collections, essays, plays, etc. Including virtually every Collins first edition save one minor work of short stories. $38,500.
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FIRST EDITION OF CHURCHILL’S SCARCE MARLBOROUGH,
INSCRIBED IN ALL VOLUMES, EACH IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION,
TO HISTORIAN GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
CHURCHILL, Winston. Marlborough: His Life and Times. London, (1933-38). Four volumes. First trade editions, with hundreds of maps and plans (many folding), plates and document facsimiles, inscribed and dated by Churchill to George Macaulay Trevelyan in each volume. Tipped in to the front pastedown endpaper of Volume I is a typed letter signed by Churchill to Trevelyan, thanking him for the use of a letter and sending him a prepublication copy of Volume I of Marlborough. $37,000.
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SPLENDID FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPLETE WORKS OF PLATO TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
PLATO. Works. London, 1804. Five volumes. First edition of the first complete English translation of Plato’s works, handsomely bound. Translated by Thomas Taylor, the leading Platonist of his day, a translation still considered unequaled. $22,000.
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1749 FIRST ISSUE OF FIELDING’S TOM JONES, FROM THE FIRST PRINTING OF ONLY 2000 COPIES
FIELDING, Henry. The History of Tom Jones. London, 1749. Six volumes. First edition, first issue, of this classic English novel, one of a first printing of only 2000 copies, in exceptional contemporary calf gilt binding. $22,000.
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INSCRIBED BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, RARE PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York, 1922. First edition, first issue, an exceptional presentation/association copy whimsically inscribed by Fitzgerald to his friend and fellow author Hyatt Downing, “For Father Hyatt Downing S.D., A.P.A. P.H.D., T.A.B., S.O.L., D.D. O.K. Especially O.K. from F. Scott Fitzgerald, St. Paul March 2nd,” handsomely bound in elegant morocco gilt by Asprey. $20,000.
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“BOWYER’S 1806 EDITION IS A SUMPTUOUS ONE, FINELY PRINTED AND EXPENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED”
HUME, David. History of England. London, 1806. Five volumes in ten. Magnificent atlas folio “Bowyer” edition of Hume’s renowned history, originally sold only to subscribers, with 196 (of 197) lovely and finely engraved illustrations, in full contemporary polished calf gilt in ten massive volumes. $20,000.
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ONE OF ONLY 22 SETS: SPLENDID SET OF THE MASTERPIECES OF GEORGE SAND, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED WITH EXTRA SUITES OF THE PLATES
SAND, George. Masterpieces of George Sand. Philadelphia, 1900-02. Twenty-two volumes. Limited edition 20-volume set of Sand’s most famous works, number 6 of only 22 sets of the “Edition du Rose Sanglante,” printed on Japan vellum, and profusely illustrated with 125 different photogravures, each illustration in three states. This deluxe set additionally includes two further suites of the plates: one suite printed on Whatman drawing paper, fully and vibrantly hand-colored, bound up in a quarto volume, and another suite printed on silk and matted, the prints collected in a portfolio of rose morocco uniform with the rest of the set. $19,500.
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WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY DICKENS
DICKENS, Charles. Works. London, 1929. Forty volumes. Beautiful limited edition set of Dickens’ works, one of only 300 copies, with hundreds of illustrations by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”), John Leech and others, with an autograph letter signed by Dickens. An exceptionally fine set. $19,500.
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