additional material exclusive to the signed issue: her “Note to Self”, two prints of her words, and a portrait by Miller Mobley. Michelle Obama’s memoir was the best- selling book in the US in 2018, and met with praise across the world, with translations in 24 languages. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Housed in original cloth box. A fine, unread copy. £425 [158518] 227 PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1924 An attractively bound copy, first published in this edition in 1893. The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in 1825 and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. 8 volumes bound in 3, octavo (181 × 114 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, spines with raised bands, gilt lettering and ship tools in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. With engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I; printed on fine paper. Slight discolouration to spines, a few spots of foxing to half-titles, contents clean; a very good copy indeed. £375 [157973] 228 PLATH, Sylvia. Winter Trees. London: Faber and Faber, 1971 First edition. This book constitutes a collection of poems written in between Plath’s Colossus and Ariel , which was edited and published posthumously by Ted Hughes. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Light spots to top edge, cloth bright. A near-fine copy, in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, blue dye transfer to rear panel, else bright and sharp. ¶ Tabor A15a. £175 [150595] 229 POPE, Alexander. The Dunciad Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. London: A. Dob. [i.e. James Watson], 1729; [with] The Rape of the Lock . . . London: Bernard Lintott, 1714; [bound after] MARKLAND, George . Pteryplegia: or, the Art of Shooting-Flying. Stephen Austen, 1727 An intriguing collection of early 18th-century poetical works, in a nice contemporary binding. The first issue of Watson’s famous piracy of Pope’s The Dunciad and the second complete edition of The Rape of the Lock are bound
223 MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 First edition, signed by the author on the title page. A supernatural story set in the years following the American Civil War, Beloved is universally considered Morrison’s masterwork and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. Octavo. Original light grey cloth, lettering to spine and decoration on front cover in silver, publisher’s device blind stamped on rear cover. With dust jacket. Discreet security tag adhered to rear pastedown. A very good copy indeed, minor bumps to spine ends, edges lightly foxed, in like price-clipped dust jacket, spine ends rubbed, panels lightly marked. £750 [158143] 224 MOSES, Henry (illus.) Designs of Modern Costume. London: Henry Setchel and Son, [c.1821] A finely printed collection in an attractive contemporary binding. The exquisite illustrations by Henry Moses, depicting fashionable Neoclassical-style dress and furniture, were praised by the English art critic Sacheverell Sitwell as “probably the finest and neatest engravings that have ever made their appearance between the covers of a book” (quoted in Watkin, p. 52). Octavo (218 × 160 mm). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, lettering and floral decoration gilt in compartments, covers bordered with a double gilt fillet and a blind foliate roll, small ornaments blind stamped to corners, gilt decoration to board edges
and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Engraved title page and 29 plates. Extremities slightly rubbed, short split at head of rear joint, but firm, some marks and scuffs to boards, contents foxed, the engravings remaining sharp. A very good copy. ¶ Savage 2207. Nicholas Savage, Early Printed Books, 1478–1840: M–R , 1994; David Watkin, Thomas Hope 1769–1831 and the Neo-Classical Idea , 1968. £375 [158589] 225 NAVAL SIGNALS. Original watercolour of US naval boat signals and semaphore. c.1840 Delightful original artwork that illustrates a dozen signal flags and below them corresponding signals employed by sailors using gestures, staves, or jackets. They demonstrate a numerically based system of signalling with flags in which a series of digits corresponds with a previously arranged dictionary of meanings. This is a most appealing example of naïve marine art. Watercolour and ink, showing 12 flags and 11 figures, measuring 110 × 175; attractively framed and glazed, overall 203 × 263 mm. A few tears to paper on frame verso, light peripheral toning to watercolour otherwise in excellent condition. £775 [157674] 226 OBAMA, Michelle. Becoming. New York: Crown Publishing, 2018 First edition, deluxe signed issue, of Michelle Obama’s extraordinarily successful memoir, including the
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