Auction of Fine Literature, Illustrated & Children's Books

PBA Galleries - Thursday December 5 - 11.00am

Sale 521 - Fine Literature, Illustrated & Children's Books

Among the highlights:

• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, 1928, the rare true first edition, 1 of 1000 copies signed by the author, bound in early quarter pigskin. Estimate: $7,000/10,000. 

• Complete set of the four Christopher Robin books by A.A. Milne, featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, all but the first in the original dust jackets. Estimate: $4,000/6,000. 

• The seven volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia series, the first American editions, in the original dust jackets. Estimate: $4,000/7,000. 

• Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, the first American edition, 1927, in the rare dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Estimate: $2,500/3,500. 

• The Seven Lady Godivas by Dr. Seuss, his first book for adults, inscribed by him to his wife's piano teacher. Estimate: $3,000/5,000. 

• Original pen and ink drawing by Garth Williams published in Stuart Little, showing Stuart being washed overboard from his Central Park Pond sailboat, the Wasp. Estimate: $3,000/5,000. 

• The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum, the first edition published by Reilly & Britton, 1918, in the rare first state dust jacket. Estimate: $3,000/5,000. 

• George Bernard Shaw's first publication in America, This is the Preachment On Going to Church, one of 26 copies on vellum from the Roycroft Printing Shop, initialed by Elbert Hubbard, and with watercolor illuminations by Bertha Hubbard. Estimate: $2,500/3,500.

* Rare advance review copy of Eric Ambler's second novel, Uncommon Danger, London, 1937, in the original plain brown paper wrappers. Estimate: $2,500/3,500.

Each lot illustrated in the online version of the catalogue.
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Nearly 600 lots of books, original artwork, periodicals and other material, capturing literary and illustrative achievement spanning the centuries. The sale includes literary highspots from William Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams, with important works by and collections of Eric Ambler, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Joseph Conrad, William Everson, Zane Grey, Robinson Jeffers, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, C.S. Lewis, Jack London, Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, George Bernard Shaw, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, and more. Original artwork, illustrated books, and children's books by Valenti Angelo, Miguel Covarrubias, Roald Dahl, Walt Disney, Edmund Dulac, Michael Hague, Jack Hannah, Thomas Landseer, A.A. Milne, L. Frank Baum and other Oziana, Willy Pogany, Arthur Rackham, Frederick Richardson, Charles Schulz, Dr. Seuss, Garth Williams, N.C. Wyeth, and many others.

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