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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: $1,750.00
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 10 x 7 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
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: $250.00
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
Nineteenth-Century American Kindergarten Embroidery Album
[United States]: circa 1880. Oblong concertina album, measuring 9.5 x 11.25 inches, 16 panels. Original black textured cloth ruled in blind, titled “Sewing" in gilt to upper board, black ribbon ties. 64 embroidery patterns and figures worked in colored thread on ivory cards, each card measuring 3.75 x 4.5 inches...
Price: $1,000.00
Chekhov in My Life: A Love Story
London: John Lehmann, 1950. Octavo measuring 8.75 x 5.75 inches, original full blue cloth, spine ornamented in gilt, spine label stamped in black with gilt lettering, original unclipped grey, yellow and white pictorial dust jacket designed by Lynton Lamb, top edge stained blue. Portrait of Chekhov on title page and...
Price: $50.00
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
Songs of Innocence; WITH: Songs of Experience
Edmonton, London: William Muir, 1884-1885. Two large quarto volumes, measuring 11 x 9 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
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
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
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 Way of the World and Love for Love. Two Comedies by William Congreve
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. Octavo, original black pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, buff and black pictorial endpapers, original black pictorial dust jacket decorated in turquoise, foreedge deckled. Twelve full-page black-and-white plates, black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightest rubbing and edgewear to boards, shallow chipping to jacket spine ends...
Price: $75.00
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 10.5 x 8.25 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 34 x 22 inches, printed in shades of green, brown, and white. Stamped at edges: “Walled City" / “Vogue" Papers. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $175.00
"Venecia" (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co. circa 1950s. Color pictorial wallpaper sample, measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / Venecia 1 / R 2023 / $4.50 PER SINGLE ROLL."
Price: $250.00
"Hamburg" (wallpaper sample)
Bransche: Gebr. Rasch & Co. circa 1952. Pictorial wallpaper sample, printed in black and grey, measuring 15.5 x 18 inches. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / HAMBURG 1 / R2087 / $3.25 PER SINGLE ROLL.” Two short closed tears to top edge.
Price: $250.00
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Octavo, three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards, raised bands, red and black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, spine ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges stained red. Two volumes bound in one, half titles present, pictorial frontispiece in each volume, text printed in two...
Price: $175.00
Celebrated Crimes
London: H.S. Nichols, 1895. Eight octavo volumes, contemporary full plum crushed morocco gilt, boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a fleur-de-lis motif, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Title pages in red and black, text printed on vellum, all volumes illustrated with photogravures...
Price: $3,800.00
The Boy Crusaders
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, circa 1870. Octavo, original full red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blind with Gothic framing design, beveled boards, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Color frontispiece and seven full-page wood engravings throughout text. Ink school prize inscription to front free endpaper, bookseller...
Price: $40.00
Boy-Princes. The Story of Their Lives
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, circa 1884. Octavo, original full blue cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blind with decorative fern design, beveled boards, cream coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Color frontispiece and seven full-page wood engravings. Ink prize gift inscription dated 1884 to verso of front fly...
Price: $40.00
Tales of Fashionable Life
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1809-1812. Six twelvemo volumes, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled paper boards, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and tooled with a floral gilt border. All half-titles present. Contemporary stamp of Ashley Combe to front pastedowns, later stamp of...
Price: $2,000.00
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