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Every GIRL'S Alphabet
London: Artists' Choice Editions, 2010. Small quarto, original printed pictorial wrappers. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $125.00
The Tatler, The Spectator, and The Guardian
London: John Sharpe, 1812, 1803-1813, 1814-1815. Fourteen small octavo volumes: the Tatler complete in four volumes, the Spectator complete in eight volumes, and the Guardian complete in two volumes. Full contemporary calf gilt, elaborately tooled, raised bands, red and green spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Early owner bookplates. Foxing...
Price: $2,500.00
Little Women
New York: Crowell, 1955. Large octavo, original green cloth lettered in black, yellow patterned endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper. Light edgewear to jacket, spine panel sunned, occasional smudge to back panel.
Price: $175.00
La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English
[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Folio: [4] 1-324 [4]. Original full orange vellum, boards double-ruled with central medallions in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt on the rough, other edges uncut. Printed on Van Gelder paper, illustrated with forty-two collotypes printed in sepia. Lightest rubbing to corners.
Price: $1,500.00
Ardizzone's Hans Andersen: Fourteen Classic Tales
New York: Atheneum, 1979. Octavo, original pale blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, pink pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated title page, sixteen full-page color plates, black and white illustrations throughout text.
Price: $45.00
The Red Shoes
(Natick, MA): Picture Book Studio, (1983). Folio, original pictorial white glossy paper boards, lilac endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Lightest toning to edges of jacket.
Price: $35.00
Lamour de Cupido et de Psiché Mere de Volupté, prise des Cinq & Sixiesme livres de la Metamorphose de Lucius Apuleius philosophe nouvellement historiée, & Exposée en Vers François
Paris: Léonard Gaultier, circa 1590. Small folio, measuring 7 by 10 inches, nineteenth-century black morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, with alternating devices of a crowned L (for Lothian), SH monogram (for Schomberg Henry), and sunburst, spine similarly decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Engraved title and 32 numbered...
Price: $13,500.00
The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, of Apuleius
(Birmingham): (W.J. Cosby, Universal Press), (1893). Octavo, full modern olive morocco lettered and single-ruled in gilt, raised bands, tree branch design stamped in blind to front board and spine, gold morocco onlays in the shape of a donkey’s ears on front board and donkey’s tail on spine, Greek-patterned gilt dentelles...
Price: $1,000.00
Poetical Works
London: Macmillan, 1903. Octavo, contemporary full tree-calf gilt, raised bands, black spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Lightest foxing to first and last pages only, tiny bumps to front board, early owner signature.
Price: $300.00
Improvisations: Bal Fantastique Masque Ball. April 5, 1957
New York: Artists Equity Association, 1957. Slim folio, original spiral-bound color lithographic pictorial wrappers, with forty-five original lithographs (one printed in color) by various artists on colored laid paper. Light toning and edgewear to wrappers.
Price: $350.00
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
The Book of Job; Translated from the Hebrew, by the Late Miss Elizabeth Smith; WITH: Fragments, in Prose and Verse: by Miss Elizabeth Smith Lately Deceased, with Some Account of Her Life and Character by H.M. Bowdler
Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell, St. James's-Street, Bath; and Sold by Cadell and Davies, Strand, Hatchard, Piccadilly, London; and S. Cheyne, Edinburgh, 1810. Two octavo volumes, uniformly bound in full contemporary tree calf, spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Smith in Fragments; single page of publisher’s...
Price: $750.00
Men Who Were Earnest
London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, circa 1890. Octavo, original full light blue cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black, brown and blind with decorative border and framed title, beveled boards, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and six full-page wood engravings throughout text. New Year’s gift inscription dated 1890...
Price: $40.00
Songs of Innocence; WITH: Songs of Experience
Edmonton, London: William Muir, 1884-1885. Two large quarto volumes, measuring 9 by 11 inches, original blue-grey wrappers with white paper spines, manuscript titles, tissue guards, uncut. Prefaces in both volumes; 33 hand-colored lithographs in Songs of Innocence, including colophon; 28 hand-colored lithographs in Songs of Experience; general title to both...
Price: $14,500.00
Six Trade Cards Depicting Nellie Bly's Trip Around the World
Philadelphia: Weikel & Smith Spice Company, circa 1890s. Set of six pictorial trade cards, each measuring 5 x 3 inches, printed in red, yellow, blue, and black. Printed description of the Nelly Bly Series on verso of first card. Very clean overall; light edgewear and occasional stray mark.
Price: $300.00
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York: The Noonday Press, 1966. Octavo, original printed wraps designed by Ronald Clyne. Lightest edgewear, small crease to spine.
Price: $1,000.00
A New Pantheon: or, Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods, Heroes, Goddesses, &c.
London: Printed for J. Newbery and B. Collins, 1753. Octavo in fours, contemporary full sheep rebacked, boards double-ruled in blind with blind ornamental rule along spine, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, compartments ruled in wave pattern, all edges stained red. Appendix, index, and errata leaf at...
Price: $450.00
The Trial of Lucullus: A Play for the Radio
(New York): New Directions, (1943). Octavo, original terra cotta pictorial paper boards, original unclipped terra cotta pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial title page, one page of publisher's advertisements at rear. Tiny chips to head of jacket spine and corners, short closed tear and single pinhole to rear panel of jacket.
Price: $65.00
Works of Edmund Burke
London: George Bell and Sons, 1902. Eight octavo volumes; contemporary three-quarter green calf gilt; marbled boards, endpapers, and edges; crimson spine labels. Occasional tiny spots of rubbing to joints.
Price: $1,350.00
Composites: Computer Generated Portraits
New York: Beech Tree Books, William Morrow, 1986. Small folio, original grey cloth lettered in silver over blindstamped grey paper boards, pale grey endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by Nancy Burson on the front free endpaper. Tiny closed tear to base of...
Price: $185.00
The Fountaine of Ancient Fiction. Wherein is Lively Depictured the Images and Statues of the Gods of the Ancients, with their Proper and Perticular Expositions
London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1599. Quarto, early nineteenth-century three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Woodcut emblem on title page, two woodcut headpieces and three woodcut initials. Stab holes visible in gutter. Contemporary (1601) marginalia on C1, slightly later marginalia (“Milton / Par. Lost”) on G1...
Price: $5,000.00
William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, (1902). Octavo, original navy blue ribbed cloth with elaborate gilt grapevine design by Margaret Armstrong to front board and spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, cream silk ribbon marker. Title page printed in red and black. Photogravure frontispiece portrait...
Price: $200.00
The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha
London: Macmillan, 1900. Three octavo volumes, contemporary blue crushed morocco gilt over blue cloth boards, raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Lightest shelfwear.
Price: $950.00
The Village Minstrel and Other Poems
London: Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street; and E. Drury, Stamford, 1821. Two twelvemo volumes bound in a single volume, modern dark green calf over marbled paper boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, brown morocco spine label lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Clare in Volume...
Price: $4,500.00
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat
London: Methuen, 1904. Folio, modern full brick morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, text block uncut. Facsimile of the 1499 Aldine first edition, including the 172 original woodcuts by an unknown hand; additional paper spine label tipped in. Two extra leaves laid in, including the uncensored Priapus plate. Bookplate...
Price: $2,600.00
The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (Living Hand 5)
[New York]: Living Hand, [1976]. Octavo, original pale blue printed wrappers with flaps. Light toning and a few spots to wrappers, foxing to page edges only.
Price: $750.00
Creative Scissor Cutting
London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co, (1939). Tall quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with eight full-page color plates and numerous in-text illustrations in black and white. Boards and dust jacket faded, edgewear to jacket with tape repair to verso, pinpoint...
Price: $65.00
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1911]. Quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, sixteen staple-bound pages. Includes seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Light general foxing and toning.
Price: $3,800.00
Collection of American business letterhead samples
Various publishers, circa 1884-1925. Collection of 86 publisher's sample letterhead sheets (including one duplicate), most measuring 8.25 x 10.5 inches, including examples printed on Crane Linen, Genesee Linen, Eastern Systems Bond, Old Deerfield Bond, Old Deerfield Laid, Brookdale Linen Bond, Woronoco Bond, Hammermill Bond, and Atlantic Bond. Light general wear...
Price: $350.00
"Walled City" (wallpaper sample)
United States: circa 1950s. Color pictorial wallpaper remnant, measuring 22 x 34 inches, printed in shades of green, brown, and white. Stamped at edges: “Walled City" / “Vogue" Papers. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $100.00