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Every GIRL’S Alphabet
London: Artists’ Choice Editions, 2010. Small quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.5 inches: [64]. Original red morocco lettered in gilt over printed color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by author and illustrator on colophon, penciled note: “out of series.” With: original linocut, signed by Luke Martineau.....
Price: $300.00
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
Tape for the Turn of the Year
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1965). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25 inches: [8], 205, [1]. Original tan cloth spine lettered in brown, brown paper boards, tan endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket printed in shades of tan and brown. Cornell University Press review slip laid in, giving the author as.....
Price: $125.00
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
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Volume 5, Number 2
New York: Broom Publishing Company, September, 1923. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: 65-125, [3]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black, table of contents printed on inside front wrapper, subscription form printed on inside rear wrapper. Illustrated with photographs and black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightly creased.
Price: $650.00
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
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. Single volume, measuring 8 x 4.25 inches: 60. Original orange cloth lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
What? Another Cat!
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1960. Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 32. Original red cloth boards lettered in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations throughout text. Short scratch to center of spine, with small closed tear to jacket spine.
Price: $100.00
A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches
London: Printed by Richard Hett, For the Company of Stationers, 1778. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: 236, [4]. Contemporary red morocco, boards elaborately bordered in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Inscribed on blank flyleaf: “Sophia Poulett / Hinton St.....
Price: $850.00
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
De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks
London: Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently at the Post-house in Russel-Street, in Covent-Garden, 1694. Quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.25 inches: [12], 129, [3], 248. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Pencil note to front pastedown: “Dr. Bliss’s copy, also Kemble’s copy,” ink note.....
Price: $3,200.00
Complete run of Boni Paper Books and Bonibooks, with publisher's original wooden display shelf
New York: Charles Boni, 1929-1931. Fifty-three paperback volumes, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches each: various paginations. Original pictorial card wrappers, many with pictorial endpapers, a few volumes housed in publisher’s slipcases (not issued on most titles). Original publisher’s wooden display shelf, painted in black and silver with “50¢ BONIBOOKS” lettered.....
Price: $4,200.00
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
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
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
Three hand-colored copper engravings from Volume V of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particuliere
Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1755. Three disbound, hand-colored copper engravings on leaves of 11.25 x 9 inches, plate marks measuring 8 x 6.25 inches. Browning to edges of leaves, not touching plates.
Price: $125.00
A Collection of Stories of Land and Sea from the Late 19th Century
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, 1956. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [10], 216. Original full red morocco decoratively stamped in gilt, gilt dentelles, red moiré silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Printed in black and blue, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, text block uncut and largely unopened. Housed in a custom.....
Price: $250.00
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]. 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. Light general foxing and toning.
Price: $2,800.00
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
Almanach de Cabinet. Année 1812. Age du Monde 5812
Paris: Caillot, [1811]. Folding calendar for the year 1812, composed of two oblong printed panels pasted to contemporary boards, each board measuring 7.5 x 9.5 inches, backed with new block-printed paper by Edinburgh printers John and Jane Jeffery. Illustrated with twelve woodcut vignettes depicting the months. New blue cloth spine.....
Price: $850.00
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
Sheet of six Épinal prints, domestic and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
Sheet of six Épinal prints, military and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
“Amsterdam” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Color pictorial wallpaper sample, measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in gold and ivory. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / Amsterdam WT 10 / R 2076 / $3.95 PER SINGLE ROLL.”.
Price: $150.00
“Spain” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Pictorial wallpaper sample printed in muted colors on an ivory ground, measuring 18 x 15.5 inches. Stamped on verso: “Rasch Waterfast, Spain 1, R 2012, $4.50 single roll.”.
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. Trace of adhesive from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $750.00
Engraved ticket to Charles Dickens’s farewell dinner
[London]: November 2, 1867. Pale green coated card, measuring 3 x 4.5 inches, printed recto only: “Dinner given to Mr. Charles Dickens / on the occasion of / His Departure for the United States / Freemason's Hall, Great Queen St. / Saturday, November 2nd 1867, Seven o'clock.” Lightest edgewear.
Price: $1,500.00