Five Rare Books for Collectors: Books and Manuscripts at Bonhams Summer Sale

Highlights from Bonham's Books and Manuscripts Summer Sale auction ending from July 25, with a collection of artists books and literature sold to benefit the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, include:

* A double-page illustration from Richard Scarry's 1972 Nicky Goes to the Doctor in which Nicky the bunny has many adventures as he travels through Busytown on his way to an appointment. Original pen and watercolor on paper, with artist's stamp at lower left, annotated in pen and pencil at left and right lower margins.

* Two Nancy Drew mysteries signed by Mildred Wirt ('Carolyn Keene') - The Secret at Shadow Ranch (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c.1931) and The Clue in the Diary (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c.1932) - plus photocopy of an annotated typescript plot outline for The Cry at Midnight, the final Penny Parker novel, with extensive annotations in the margins by Wirt 

* The first appearance of Pinocchio in English, Carolo Collodi's The Story of a Puppet, or the Adventures of Pinocchio (New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892), frontispiece and illustrations by C. Mazzanti, first American issue, published simultaneously in London by T. Fisher Unwin. Sold to benefit the Black Mountain Institute.