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The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra
(Hammersmith): (The Doves Press), 1912. Small quarto, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [6], 7-140, [4]. Original full limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Colophon and list of corrections to the 1623 folio text at rear. Printed in Doves type in red and black ink. Housed in a custom clamshell box.....
Price: $3,650.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $5,500.00
Four-Way Blocks (American version)
Princeton: Creative Playthings, circa 1972. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 7.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Creative Playthings" printed at base of giraffe image. Housed in original cardboard box with price label, box rubbed and worn.
Price: $250.00
Four-Way Blocks (Swiss version)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1965. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 8.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Spiel Naef / Swiss Made” printed at top lefthand corner of cat image. Light shelfwear.
Price: $350.00
The Rivals, A Comedy
London: John Wilkie, 1775. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, [6], 100. Modern full red morocco by Rivière, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled doublures, all edges gilt. Bound with half-title. Penciled bookseller notes and bookplate of Montgomery Evans II to front pastedown. Typed description on card with.....
Price: $1,500.00
Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser. With Certain Imaginative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25: [60]. Original full pictorial vellum stamped in gilt and green; green and blue marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black; decorative borders and illustrations on every page. Bookseller label of Thos. V. Paul, Philadelphia, to.....
Price: $400.00
The Cloud Eye
Milan: Sergio Tosi Stampatore, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 4 x 7.75 inches: [20]. Original navy cardboard covers bound with two aluminum rings. Leaves printed rectos only. Fifteen color lithographs, four pages of text. Scattered foxing, light fading and a few faint spots to covers.
Price: $250.00
Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories
London: George Routledge & Sons, (1914). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [viii], 200. Original scarlet cloth, upper board and spine stamped in blind, gilt titling to spine, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket (second state). Ink ownership signature and library stamp to front free endpaper. Lower edge of.....
Price: $3,500.00
Too Many Cooks: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [5], 303. Original red cloth stamped in black, top edge stained black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, priced at $2.00. Recipe appendix printed on blue paper. Inscribed and signed by Stout: “Nov. 22 - 1940 -.....
Price: $8,500.00
Honey & Wax tote bag
Enviro-Tote, 2022. Heavyweight natural cotton tote bag, measuring 15 x 13 inches, printed with the Honey & Wax logo.
Price: $20.00
Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 38 full-page plates.....
Price: $2,800.00
Kay Thompson’s Miss Pooky Peckinpaugh and Her Secret Private Boyfriends Complete with Telephone Numbers
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). Single volume, measuring 11 x 7.5 inches: [30]. Original pictorial boards stamped in black, original clipped pictorial dust jacket. Minor discoloration to boards; offsetting to endpapers; edgewear and faint tidemark to dust jacket, with a few tape repairs to verso.
Price: $60.00
Cape Cod; with: The Maine Woods; with: Walden; with: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; with: Excursions
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1908-1913. Five volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: xii, 319, [1]; xiv, 423, [1]; xvi, 440; [4], xxii, 492; viii, 303, [1]. Original leaf green cloth decoratively stamped in orange and gilt. Frontispiece and 32 photogravure plates in each volume. Text partially unopened. Light.....
Price: $2,500.00
Philipok
New York: Philomel Books, 2000. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Price: $150.00
Killing and Dying
[Montreal]: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.
Price: $100.00
La Gimnasia en Jardines y Habitaciones: ó Higene de los Ejercicios Razionados, sin Necesidad de Aparejos
Madrid: Saturnino Calleja Fernandez, circa 1900. Single volume, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: [7], 8-126, [2]. Original color pictorial lithographed boards; rear cover with elaborate publisher’s device; spine titled in black with decorative border. Wood-engraved headpiece to preface, forty-one photoengraved black line drawings. Light toning and edgewear.
Price: $300.00
Le Tissage aux Cartons et Son Utilisation Décorative dans L’Égypte Ancienne
Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé S.A., Éditeurs, 1916. Folio, measuring 13 x 9.5 inches: [6], 7-130, [4]. Original color patterned linen-covered boards, brown endpapers, red silk ribbon marker. Illustrated with five tipped-in color plates, six photographic plates, one plate with five mounted woven silk fabric samples, and 135 illustrations throughout text.....
Price: $2,200.00
Four original literary-historical illustrations for The New York Times Book Review
New York: New York Times, 1925-1926. Four oblong illustrations, measuring between 7.75 and 8.5 inches high x 22.25 inches wide. Watercolor, ink, and wash, with graphite tracing on artist’s paper. Signed in ink at upper corners; captioned at lower left; publication stamps, measurements, and printing notes in margins. Preliminary sketches.....
Price: $1,750.00
Uncut hand-marbled sheet from De Humani Corporis Fabrica
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1998. Single uncut sheet, measuring 23 x 17.5 inches, printed with text and anatomical images from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, hand-marbled in blue, yellow, and pink.
Price: $150.00
“Shinbone Alley” (illustration)
No place: 1957. Pen and ink with Benday tinting on illustration board, image measuring 12.5 x 16.5 inches on board measuring 15 x 20 inches, matted to 17 x 21 inches. Signed “Wachsteter” in lower right image. Publisher’s pencil notes in margins, portion of original printing order sheet from the.....
Price: $1,800.00
An Experiment in Modern Music
New York: Aeolian Hall, 1924. Concert program, measuring 9.5 x 6.25 inches: 12. Original textured grey wrappers formed from a single folded folio sheet, text printed on both end pages; upper wrapper printed in blue and gold, titled within ornate frame; side-stitched with original blue cord. Printed in deep blue.....
Price: $28,000.00
The Canterville Ghost
Natick, MA: Picture Book Studio/Neugebauer Press, 1986. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.25 inches: [36]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, black linen spine, pale green coated endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light edgewear to jacket, with several short closed tears.
Price: $35.00
A Streetcar Named Desire (signed by opening night cast, with original Shubert Theatre program and ticket stubs)
New York: New Directions, (1947). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 171, [1]. Original pink pictorial paper boards, original unclipped pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Ink signatures of the original cast beside their printed names on page 5; former owner’s signature to front free endpaper. Shelfwear.....
Price: $20,000.00
I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet
Boston: Beacon Press, (1958). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xii, 99, [1]. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Text printed in red and black. Lightest edgewear, spotting to rear endpapers and rear panel of dust jacket, tape repair to verso of.....
Price: $100.00
Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse. Read by Celia Johnson
New York: Caedmon, 1959. Single LP housed in original paper sleeve and glossy color pictorial album cover, measuring 12.375 x 12.375 inches. Light shelfwear to cover, corners bumped.
Price: $45.00
Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza. Complete Herein in Three Books. Illuminating episodes in the lives of the Hon. Gerald Poynyard and his Bride
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.25 inches: 302, [2]. Original three-quarter red cloth, marbled boards, text block untrimmed. Woodcut vignettes throughout text. Ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper: “Sinclair Lewis / from Elinor Wylie / November 1923.” General shelfwear, a few splashmarks.....
Price: $750.00