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Stories from Hans Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1911). Quarto, measuring 12 x 10 inches: [2], viii, 250, [2]. Original full vellum, front board and spine lettered and stamped in gilt with design by Dulac, ties renewed, olive-patterned pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut. Limitation page signed by Dulac before frontispiece.....
Price: $2,400.00
The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast. By Comus, Author of “Three Little Kittens,” “Mister Fox,” &c.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1857. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [2], [8], 9-24; eight color plates inserted throughout text. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers. Four plates of sheet music, printed on alternate rectos and versos, setting “The Butterfly’s Ball” for.....
Price: $750.00
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
Time After Time
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1975). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 7.25 inches: 45, [3]. Original color patterned paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to jacket.
Price: $75.00
African Cities Are...
New York: The John Day Company, 1971. Spiral-bound photobook, measuring 18 x 18 inches: [48]. Glossy photographic card boards, printed recto and verso. Thirty-six black and white photographs (twenty-four recto and twelve verso), printed on heavy card stock. Boards lightly soiled and creased.
Price: $1,800.00
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
Ireland’s Literary Renaissance
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Octavo, measuring 9.5 x 6.25 inches: [2], 456, [6]. Original dark green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge stained green, other edges uncut, some signatures unopened. Ink presentation inscription from James Joyce to his brother Stanislaus on front free endpaper; a few words in.....
Price: $20,000.00
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
Le Buffon de la Jeunesse, Offrant la Description de la Nature, des Moeurs et des Habitudes des Quadrupèdes, Oiseaux, Poissons, Reptiles, etc.
Paris: L’editeur, 1831. Five twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches: [2], 215, [1]; [2], 229, [1]; [2], 197, [1]; [2], 208, [2]; [2], 211, [3]. Original publisher’s yellow wrappers lined with printer’s waste, printed paper labels to spines. Engraved frontispiece, two engraved plates, and table of contents in each.....
Price: $950.00
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
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Továrna Na Absolutno [The Absolute at Large]
Brno: Polygraphie, 1922. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 5.5 inches: 219, [5]. Original tan pictorial wrappers with blue and orange design by the author’s brother Josef, spine and lower wrapper lettered in blue, text block uncut, many individual signatures unsewn and laid in (as issued). Title page printed in blue and.....
Price: $3,000.00
The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias
London: T. Jefferys, at the Corner of St. Martin’s Lane, Charing-Cross, 1768. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: xxiii, [1] 3-258. Contemporary three-quarter calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, traces of gilt decoration to spine compartments, marbled paper boards, no spine label, text block uncut. Woodcut initials and headpieces throughout.....
Price: $5,000.00
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
A Book of Narrative Verse
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 3.5: xix, [1], 412. Original blindstamped blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. Bookplate of Jack and Frances Donaldson to front free endpaper, lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $35.00
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, fore-edge 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
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
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: $2,800.00
Archive of original midcentury porcelain designs
Rome: Faro Disegni, circa 1940-1965. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates, each on a separate sheet, of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil, ink, and watercolor on heavy paper, most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches, and a smaller group of 57 sketches, executed.....
Price: $2,500.00
Original gouache design for a botanical jacquard textile
France: 1933. Single sheet, constructed of two sheets of pre-printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, measuring 18.75 x 9.5 inches. Recto hand-painted in gouache in multiple colors, notes in pencil and ink; verso dated “28/7/33” with production notes in ink. Some soiling to verso.
Price: $150.00
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
"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 Handmaid to the Arts. . . . A New Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements
London [York]: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, 1796. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: xxv, [3], [25]-344; xx, [13]-324. Contemporary full tree calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt numerals.....
Price: $750.00
Commemorative card depicting Rochester's monument to Frederick Douglass
Rochester, New York: circa 1899. Single sheet, measuring 9.25 x 4 inches. Halftone image of the monument in Douglass Park above a printed quote by Douglass on recto; halftone portrait and text on verso. Edges lightly toned.
Price: $850.00
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少年探偵譚 [Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (Kōbunsha), (1928) [Showa 3]. Single volume, 8.75 x. 5.75 inches, [6], 246, [6] pp. Original half blue cloth over color pictorial wrappers depicting a stylized Sherlock Holmes and Mary Morstan, blue cloth ornamented and lettered in black and gilt, purple pictorial endpapers. Illustrated title page printed in magenta, two.....
Price: $850.00
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
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
STUYVE-SCIENCE of the Stuyvesant High School of New York City. Volume 1, Number 1
[New York City]: Stuyvesant High School, May 1939. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches: 28. Original tan and red linocut printed wrappers, linocut illustrations throughout text. Shelfwear and some soiling to wrappers.
Price: $250.00
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
Engraved hand-colored broadsheet of musical monkeys
No place (likely France or Germany): early nineteenth century. Engraved hand-colored pictorial broadsheet, measuring 13 x 17 inches. Monogram “CG” printed at lower lefthand corner; “No. 66” at upper right. Center crease, a few short closed tears to margins, light abrasions to righthand corners.
Price: $750.00