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very good copy, with some general light wear. $10,000 This was the only almanac to be produced by Potter. It took her a long time to get it how she wanted and as a result only this one was published. However, it is delightful. Due to the throw away nature of almanacs and diaries few copies of this book have survived.
INSCRIBED BY SEWELL TO HER COUSINS SEWELL, Anna BLACK BEAUTY: His Grooms and Compan - ions. The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Origi- nal Equine Jarrold and Sons, [1877] [33970] First edition. Small 8vo. Original green cloth with decoration em - bossed in gilt and black, Carter’s variant B. Author’s presenta - tion copy, inscribed on publication, “Mary and Catherine Sewell from their affectionate cousin, the Author, Christmas 1877.” Engraved frontispiece after C. Hewitt. A very good copy with the front joint neatly repaired, lacking the front endpaper. Light wear to the spine ends and corners. $49,500 A wonderful family association being a Christmas gift from Anna Sewell to her spinster cousins. Anna Sewell lived only a few months after the publication of her book making inscribed copies extremely uncommon. Confined to the home after a childhood accident, Anna first mentioned that she was writing Black Beauty in her journal on 6th November 1871. She wrote “I am writing the life of a horse, and getting dolls and boxes ready for Christmas”. In December 1876 she wrote, “I am getting on with my little book ‘Black Beauty’.” By this time Anna was becoming more and more crippled and spent much of her time on a sofa writing in pencil, with her mother making a copy. She wrote “I have been confined to the
FINE COPY OF THE FIRST HARRY POTTER BOOK ROWLING, J.K. HARRY
POTTER AND THE PHILOS- OPHER’S STONE London, Bloomsbury, 1997 [46348] First edition, paperback issue with all first issue points. Orig - inal pictorial wrappers with design by Thomas Taylor. A fine copy, exceptionally bright and crisp with an entirely un- faded spine and just one faint crease to the lower corner. In- ternally fresh with much less browning to the page edges than usual. $31,500 The first Harry Potter book. Pub - lished in June 1997 simultaneously in both hardback and paperback, with a print run of just 5150 copies in paperback.
house and to my sofa, from time to time, when I am able, been writing what I think will turn out a little book, its special aim being to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses”. Black Beauty was published at the end of 1877 and Anna lived just long enough to hear of its success. The book has a strong moral purpose and is said to have been instrumental in the ab- olition of the cruel practice of using the check rein.
SENDAK, Maurice WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE New York, Harper, Row, 1963 [43774] First edition, first issue. Oblong 4to. Original paper covered boards with cloth spine in pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in colour by Sendak. A fine copy in a near fine dust - wrapper, bright and crisp with just a hint of toning to the spine. $11,900 Sendak’s most famous book, both as an author and as an illustrator, and one of the most important and influential modern picture books.
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