Small quarto. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue paper -covered boards, front cover with paper label lettered in black, edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard, folding map at end. Browning to free endpapers, a near-fine and crisp copy. Dust jacket spine toned with head and foot slightly rubbed, minor closed tear to front panel, a very good and attractive example. ¶ John R. Payne, “Four Children’s Books by A. A. Milne”, Studies in Bibliography , vol. 23, 1970, pp. 127–39, item IIB. £17,500 [157028] 104 MOORE, Henry – SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet. Rome: Delfino Edizioni D’Art, 1985 First edition, letter C of 21 lettered “ad personam” copies aside from the edition of 1,200. The bas relief bronze on the front cover is a recasting of the “Reclining Figure” portion of “Relief: Three Quarters Mother and Child and Reclining Figure”, 1977. The edition was not signed by the artist. The general consensus is that 1,200 copies were not published: the highest recorded number at auction we could find is 520. Folio. Original full dark brown morocco with bas relief “Hamlet’s Dilemma” in bronze by Moore to front cover, lettering to spine gilt. With sculptural wooden book stand covered in brown suede. Illustrated with 10 original full page drawings after Moore. All in excellent condition. ¶ A Bowness 728. £7,000 [158444] 105 MORRISON, Toni. Sula. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974 signed by the author First edition, signed by the author on the title page. “Part of the extraordinary power of Sula is that it’s a world where men are not the focus. It’s the sound of women’s voices that takes precedence, makes the story” (Als). The novel received widespread acclaim, with The New York Times describing it as “vital and rich” with “extravagantly beautiful, doomed characters . . . this book about them – and about how their beauty is drained back and frozen – is a howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter” (Blackburn). Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, publisher’s device blind stamped to rear cover, top
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103 MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., 1926 signed by both author and illustrator Signed limited edition, number 288 of 350 large paper copies signed by Milne and Shepard, printed on handmade paper. Signed limited editions of the first Winnie-the-Pooh story book are increasingly scarce.
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) was an immediate success and garnered even more enthusiastic reviews than its predecessor. It was published in the UK in three issues: an extra limited issue of 20 copies bound in vellum, the present limited issue of 350 copies on large paper, and a regular trade issue. This is the first title of the series to be issued in this format: there was no equivalent issue of the first book, When We Were Very Young (1924), as the magnitude of its success had not been anticipated.
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