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The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York: The Noonday Press, 1966. Octavo, original printed wraps designed by Ronald Clyne. Ink inscription by Jane Bowles to poet Sam Hazo on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear, small crease to spine.
Price: $850.00
Oak tobacco box carved from the wood of the Brontës' Haworth Church
Yorkshire: circa 1880. Polished brass and oak tobacco box, measuring 6 inches high, base 3.75 inches in diameter. Printed paper label reading “Haworth Church” affixed to interior of lid; fitted brass weight inside jar. A few barely visible hairline cracks to wood.
Price: $1,500.00
Program of the Public Meeting of the Philadelphian and Charlotte Brontë Societies
Lyndon Centre, Vermont: Caledonian Printers, November 21, 1873. Single bifolium, measuring 8 x 5 inches folded: [4]. Program cover printed in red within a decorative floral border, interior printed in black. Offsetting to cover, short split to fold.
Price: $100.00
Traits of Nature
London: Henry Colburn, 1813. Five octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Original paper boards covered in green silk, manuscript paper spine labels. Publisher’s advertisements present, text uncut. Ink ownership signature of Charlotte Broome facing half-title in each volume. Light shelfwear to silk bindings, spines toned to brown, partial loss.....
Price: $950.00
Always in Vogue
Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.25 inches: 381, [1]. Original white textured pictorial boards stamped in gilt and black, original unclipped blue pictorial dust jacket, pale blue endpapers. Thirty-two black and white photographic plates. Signed by both authors on front flyleaf. Jacket lightly creased and rubbed.....
Price: $175.00
Wrapping paper design for the Eifler Seed Company
Vienna: circa 1950. Original pen and watercolor design on single sheet of buff paper, measuring 16.5 x 12.5 inches. Adhesive residue from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $750.00
Le Musée des Dames et des Demoiselles. Règne Animal 1-3 (Les Oiseaux, Les Insectes, Les Papillons), Règne Végétal 1-2 (Les Fleurs, Les Fruits), Règne Minéral (Les Minéraux et Les Coquillages)
Paris: Marcilly Ainé, circa 1825. Six twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: 36 pages each. Original glazed pastel paper boards in different shades, upper boards elaborately blindstamped with oval gilt-ruled color pictorial pastedown labels. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded lithographic plate in each volume; title vignettes and tailpieces. Lightest soiling and shelfwear.....
Price: $3,750.00
The Writings of George Eliot, Together with the Life by J.W. Cross; WITH: autograph letter signed by George Eliot as M.E. Lewes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Twenty-five octavo volumes, contemporary full blue morocco gilt, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, blue silk ribbon markers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut and partially unopened. Title pages printed in red and black. Illustrated with photogravures throughout text.....
Price: $7,500.00
The Tragic Mary
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 261, [3]. Original brown pictorial paper boards with floral design by Selwyn Image, spine lettered in black, text block uncut and unopened. Without scarce glassine wrapper. Shallow bump to tail of spine, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $950.00
Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century, as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1927. Four octavo volumes, measuring 8.5 x 6 inches: xxii ,186; x, 171, [3]; x, 163, [3]; xiv, 226. Original green cloth boards decorated in gilt, black, and red; top edges stained red; green and ivory patterned endpapers. Color frontispiece in each volume. Illustrated.....
Price: $450.00
Cranford
London: Macmillan, 1898. Octavo, measuring 7 x 5 inches: xxx, 297, [1]. Original dark green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece; more than one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Early bookseller label (A.E. Barnes, Barnstaple) to front pastedown. Text block occasionally overopened, light.....
Price: $85.00
Slaves of Christo
(Brooklyn): Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2005. Side-stapled volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [3], 29, [4]. Original tan card wrappers printed letterpress in orange, black, and blue; orange felt square affixed to upper wrapper with brass fasteners; laser-printed text block with color illustrations on first and last pages. Three small staple.....
Price: $100.00
Spectre: A Literary Quarterly. Volume I: Number 3
Syracuse University: Spring 1940. Quarto, side-stapled dark blue pictorial wraps, beige cloth tape-bound spine. Sixty mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, black and white illustrations throughout text. Center crease to front cover and first few pages, shallow chipping and creasing to back cover, text block toned.
Price: $2,200.00
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Octavo, original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: “Doris Lessing / 19th October 04"
Price: $350.00
With the V.A.D. Convoys in France, Flanders, Italy
[Cambridge]: [1921]. Collection of twenty-seven lithographs of varying sizes, ranging from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.5 x 15 inches, printed on grey or white paper, some with additional hand-coloring, some with original mounts. Original list of thirteen plates, printed in red, signed and dated “1921” by Olive Mudie-Cooke in.....
Price: $12,500.00
Georgia O’Keeffe
New York: The Viking Press, (1976). Folio, measuring 16 x 11.75 inches: [228]. Original textured ivory cloth lettered in brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 104 color plates, one folding, of O’Keeffe’s paintings; portrait of O’Keeffe by Dan Budnik. Presentation inscription from O’Keeffe to photographer Malcolm Varon.....
Price: $4,500.00
Qiu yu qiu feng [“Autumn rain, autumn wind”: memorial for the executed revolutionary Qiu Jin]
[Shanghai]: Jung cun shu ju; Hong wen shu ju, 1907. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [4], 75, [1]. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, ornamental border stamped in purple on upper wrapper. Half-title printed on green paper. Portrait of Qiu Jin in Japanese dress, wielding a sword, following.....
Price: $20,000.00
Gold Coast Customs and Other Poems
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Small octavo, 64 pp. Original textured gilt paper boards, black cloth spine with pastedown label, top edge stained black, original unclipped salmon-pink dust jacket printed in black, text block uncut and partially unopened. Frontispiece portrait by Pavel Tchelitchew, three pages of endnotes.....
Price: $55.00
The Canticle of the Rose: Poems 1917-1949
New York: Vanguard Press, 1949. Octavo, original black cloth boards stamped in gilt and pink, bright unclipped original dustjacket with two barely perceptible scratches to front panel.
Price: $175.00
Dante: Illustrations and Notes
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, T. & A. Constable, 1890. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: [10], xiii-xcvi, 84, [4]. Original polished burgundy boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial vellum panel stamped in gilt mounted to front board, burgundy and gilt patterned floral endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Tissue-guarded pictorial.....
Price: $350.00
Bread Givers
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Octavo, original black ribbed cloth stamped in gold. Title page printed in red and black. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Intermittent foxing to text block, foxing to edges.
Price: $950.00