Results
Two complete sets of Victorian bone alphabet tiles
England: nineteenth century. Fifty-two bone alphabet tiles, each tile measuring ½ of an inch wide and ¾ of an inch high, letters engraved and painted in black. Housed in a polished hardwood box with sliding lid, lined in green baize; bottom of box covered in green baize. Lightest wear.
Price: $850.00
Alphabet Book
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969. Oblong octavo, measuring 5.5 x 8 inches: [64]. Original buff card wrappers printed with wood type in orange and brown. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Light offsetting to wrappers.
Price: $100.00
Buvards
Mulhouse: Société Anonyme Française des Grands Magasins Au Louvre, circa 1930. Side-stapled folio, measuring 12.75 x 9.75 inches: [24]. Original heavy grey wrappers printed in purple. Text printed on absorbent blotting paper, illustrations throughout text.
Price: $250.00
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. Trace of adhesive from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $750.00
My Brother's Ghost
New York: Viking, 2001. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [8], 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition.
Price: $30.00
Contes d'Andersen
Paris: Henri Laurens, (1941). Slim quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [4], iv, 115, [5]. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial boards stamped in gilt. Illustrated with eight color plates and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to boards, text block toned.
Price: $150.00
Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto
Birmingham: Baskerville, 1773. Four octavo volumes: [34], lviii, 362, [2]; [2], 450, [2]; [2], 446, [2]; [2], 446 [2]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key border and floral cornerpieces in gilt to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and patterned in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels lettered in.....
Price: $2,200.00
To Enlarge or Diminish by Means of a Square (original drawing)
No place (probably England): no publisher, early nineteenth century. Original ink and watercolor drawing, measuring 12.25 x 8.25 inches, displayed against an ivory mat in a wooden frame, the whole measuring 16.5 x 12.25 inches. Left edge of drawing slightly uneven, presumably where it was removed from a sketchbook. Wooden.....
Price: $850.00
The Northanger Set of the Jane Austen Horrid Novels
London: Folio Press, 1967-68. Seven volumes, measuring 9.75 x 6 inches. Original black buckram stamped in blind and gilt, spines lettered in gilt, black endpapers, top edges stained black. Accompanied by publisher’s four-page prospectus. Without original glassine, several boards lightly scuffed, prospectus creased. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase.....
Price: $850.00
Shakespear Illustrated: or the Novels and Histories, on which the Plays of Shakespear Are Founded, Collected and Translated from the Original Authors. With Critical Remarks. In Two Volumes
London: A. Millar in the Strand, 1753. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xii, [2], 292; [4], 274, [2]. Modern black paneled calf, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout text; two.....
Price: $6,000.00
A Rap on Race
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, (1971). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: [6], 256, [2]. Original black boards, red cloth spine lettered in black, black endpapers, original unclipped color typographic dust jacket with photographs of Mead and Baldwin on back panel. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $300.00
Children at the Gate
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 295, [1]. Original green textured boards lettered in gilt, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Bookseller label of Exclusive Books, Johannesburg, to front pastedown. Lightest rubbing to jacket, small stain to rear panel, last page creased.
Price: $55.00
The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors
Chicago: The Show Window Publishing Company, 1900. Single volume, measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 319, [5]. Original dark green cloth lettered in silver, illustrated with half-tone photographs and diagrams throughout text. Glossary at rear. Penciled signature to front flyleaf. Tidemark to text block, with staining to lower gutter of final.....
Price: $8,500.00
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Single volume, measuring 8 x 4.25 inches: 60. Original orange cloth lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
Le Quadrille des Enfants, ou Système Nouveau de Lecture
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1854]. Octavo, measuring 9.5 x 6 inches: [4], 180. Contemporary blue pebbled cloth boards ruled in blind, blue morocco spine with raised bands, compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Steel-engraved frontispiece, four hand-colored pictorial charts, steel-engraved illustration to Genlis’s “Zoraïde.” Expert repair to front hinge.....
Price: $4,200.00
A Version of Solomon’s Song of Songs; Together with the XLV. Psalm
London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil, 1700. Small octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv, 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges.....
Price: $3,000.00
Pen Sketches of Napoleon I (album of original drawings)
Italy: circa 1825. Oblong album, measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 43 grey card leaves inserted on stubs. Later nineteenth-century dark blue morocco, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, boards paneled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt title to upper board and owner’s monogram “W.F.H.” to lower board.....
Price: $20,000.00
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York: The Noonday Press, 1966. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: xii, 431, [1]. Original color patterned wrappers designed by Ronald Clyne. Ink inscription by Jane Bowles to poet Sam Hazo on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear, small crease to spine.
Price: $650.00
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Octavo, measuring 7 x 4 inches: [22], 202, [12]. Original publisher’s vellum lettered in gilt, text block uncut. Full-page illustration of Roman funeral urns facing Hydriotaphia title page, decorative headpieces throughout text. Bookseller ticket (Parker & Son, Oxford) to front pastedown, ownership signature of Francis Glynn.....
Price: $250.00
Casa Guidi Windows
Florence: Giulio Giannini & Figlio, no date, circa 1950s. Single volume, measuring 6.5 x 4.75 inches: 100, [4]. Contemporary patterned Florentine gilt paper boards, printed title label mounted to upper board. Half-tone frontispiece depicting Casa Guidi, eight architectural illustrations printed in red. Stamp of Casa Guidi to front free endpaper.....
Price: $75.00
One Christmas
New York: Random House, (1983). Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 5.75 inches: 41, [3]. Original maroon cloth stamped and lettered in gilt. Housed in original maroon paper slipcase with pictorial pastedown label depicting Capote and his father. Tiny scuff to foot of slipcase.
Price: $100.00
Weihnacht. Vierzehn Farbige Original Steinzeichnungen
Vienna: Burgverlag Richter & Zöllner, 1922. Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 9.5 inches: [4], followed by fourteen single-sided color plates. Original patterned pictorial paper boards printed in blue and buff, pale grey linen spine, original blue and ivory patterned pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with fourteen color lithographed plates. Gift inscription to.....
Price: $1,250.00
Mitsou and Music-Hall Sidelights
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [2], 260. Original black boards lettered in silver, original unclipped deep blue dust jacket patterned in white and black. Spine panel lightly sunned.
Price: $50.00
Undine
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: viii, 136. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with vignette by Rackham, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page.....
Price: $2,000.00
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner / La Vie et Très Surprenantes Aventures de Robinson Crusoe d’York Marin
Dampierre: Par G.E.J. M.A.L., 1797. Two octavo volumes, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: [2], vi, 495, [1]; [4], 361, [3]. Contemporary tree calf, boards ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, spines ruled and compartments gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon markers. Complete with final blank in Volume.....
Price: $22,000.00
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: 598, [2]. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece; engraved portrait of Abba Thulle, “King of the Pelew Islands;” folding map of Pitcairn Island. List of plates and errata.....
Price: $2,400.00
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1912]. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial paper boards. Seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Lightest general foxing and toning.
Price: $2,500.00
RSC in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (theater program)
Stratford-upon-Avon: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1967. Side-stapled booklet, measuring 12.5 x 8 inches: [16]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in red, black, and white, full-color advertisements printed on inner wrappers. Illustrations and photographs throughout text, printed in red, green, and black. Royal Shakespeare Company Profile Sheet Number 26 (Jeffery Dench and Nicholas.....
Price: $250.00
Soviet-era classroom poster of Rene Descartes
U.S.S.R. circa 1960. Color-printed educational poster, measuring 18.75 x 14.75 inches, mounted to stiff cardboard backing, with two punched holes and cord for hanging. Numeral “2” stamped to verso, with ink notation. A few faint splashmarks.
Price: $125.00
Dessin à Vue Géométral (art class assignment)
Paris: 3 March 1941. Art student’s original exercise sheet, measuring 10.5 x 8.25 inches, printed recto only, featuring a painted still life of a toolbox with supporting notes and drawings in red ink. Instructor’s comments and signature in purple ink, additional signature in black ink at lower left. Lightly creased.....
Price: $350.00