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Hand-carved and painted wooden alphabet
United States: twentieth century. Hand-carved wooden alphabet, each letter measuring 2 inches tall. Seven letters painted red, seven painted yellow, six painted blue, and six painted green. Lightest signs of wear.
Price: $150.00
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
Hotel-de-Ville de Vère (Hollande)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Le Chateau D'Ambras à Innsbruck (Tyrol)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Nouvelle Marie de Pantin (Paris)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
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
Le Petit Artiste. Journal Universel de la Pratique du Dessin
Paris: Monrocq Frères, Editeurs, “Première Année” (1876). Small folio, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [100]. Contemporary half-calf gilt, brown marbled boards, brown marbled endpapers. Original color lithographed front wrapper bound in, preliminary bifolium with title printed in red, followed by twenty-four numbered bifolia lithographed in black and brown, recto and.....
Price: $300.00
Little Artists Drawing & Tracing Book
[Chicago]: M.A. Donohue & Company, circa 1925. Side-stapled volume, measuring 15 x 9.75 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations to interior wrappers. Pictorial title page; other leaves illustrated on one side only, interleaved with tracing paper. Lightest shelfwear, paper toned.
Price: $50.00
Locus Solus III-IV. New Poetry. Winter 1962
Lans-en-Vercors, France: Locus Solus, (1961). Small octavo, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: 294, [2]. Original blue printed wrappers. Signed by John Ashbery, Kenward Elmslie, LeRoi Jones (as Amiri Baraka, dated 1978), Kenneth Koch, Daniel Krakauer (inscribed “To Richard”), and Larry Rivers at their contributions. Wrappers sunned, lightest edgewear, a few.....
Price: $650.00
“Swift, Swift the Great Twin Brethren Came Spurring from the East”
England: 1911. Watercolor and graphite on board, image measuring 12 x 9 inches, board 13.75 x 9.75 inches. Tipped to mat, 16 x 12 inches.
Price: $1,250.00
Jenny’s Adopted Brothers
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 32. Original yellow pictorial boards stamped in black and red, original clipped pictorial dust jacket with five titles listed on rear panel. Lightest soiling to jacket; later price stamp to front flap.
Price: $200.00
Red Cavalry
London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 213, [1]. Original orange and black pictorial cloth, original unclipped red and black pictorial dust jacket, top edge stained red. Pictorial title page printed in red and black. Trivial scratch to front panel, tiny.....
Price: $2,800.00
The Savoy (advertisement)
London: C.F. Kell for Leonard Smithers, [1896]. Color-lithographed poster, sight size 10.5 x 8.25 inches, framed to 18 x 15 inches. Signed with A/B monogram in lower left corner of image. A few faint creases.
Price: $2,500.00
American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xvi, 364, [2]. Original blue blindstamped boards, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket printed in red and black. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the title page. Printed Oxford UP slip laid in: “With the Publisher’s.....
Price: $350.00
Murphy
New York: Grove Press, (1957). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [4], 282, [2]. Original cream textured cloth, spine lettered in brown, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in black and grey. Grove Press rubber stamp to copyright page. Spine and edges of jacket toned, with 2.5-inch split at.....
Price: $350.00
Tales
(Johannesburg): Gryphon Poets, (1972). Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 46. Original color pictorial card wrappers with unclipped French flaps, upper wrapper lettered in black with brown and black woodcut design, spine lettered in black, photographic portrait of Beiles on lower wrapper. Six full-page color woodcuts. Errata slip laid.....
Price: $275.00
Original illustration for Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
1983. Watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera on paper, image measuring 8.5 x 8.75 inches, on larger sheet. Initialed in lower right image. Archivally framed to 17 x 14.5 inches. Offered with: Monika Beisner’s Book of Riddles. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983).
Price: $1,800.00
C: A Journal of Poetry. Volume 1: No. 9 (signed by William S. Burroughs)
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, “SUMMER ETC” 1964. Side-stapled volume, measuring 14 x 8.5 inches: cover and 67 mimeographed leaves, printed recto only. Cover design by Joe Brainard; hand-pasted collage element on leaf 29. Leaves 38-43 and 55-58 stapled out of order, leaf 39 stapled upside down, all present.....
Price: $1,800.00
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
Contes de Toutes les Couleurs: Les Poissons Rouges, Le Singe Vert, Le Nain Jaune, La Souris Grise, Le Lapin Blanc, L’Oiseau Bleu (six volumes)
Paris: Marcilly, circa 1825. Six twelvemo volumes, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: 32. Original glazed white paper boards, upper boards elaborately stamped in gilt and titled in blue with hand-colored pictorial onlays. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. Occasional faint foxing to text. Housed in lightly shelfworn publisher’s card box.....
Price: $3,250.00
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
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
On Going to Bed
New York: Abbeville Press, (1982). Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: 96. Original full brown textured cloth, spine lettered in dark brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color frontispiece, color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $35.00
Consciousness Raisers about Racism
Philadelphia: Movement for a New Society Racism Task Force, circa 1979. Folded pamphlet, measuring 8.5 x 14 inches unfolded. Printed on both sides, illustrations throughout text. Finger smudges on mailing address panel.
Price: $250.00
Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers Penned & Pictured by Walter Crane
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. Single volume, measuring 9.75 x 7.25 inches: 40. Original pale blue cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, floral patterned endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Full-page advertisement for Walter Crane’s Legends for Lionel and eight-page publisher’s catalog bound at rear. Pages double-folded and uncut, as.....
Price: $425.00
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
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: $2,000.00
Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot, a snail, and a lizard
France: nineteenth century. Original watercolor, executed on two sheets of printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: “8 en 10: à Paris, chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry, No 19 / No. 23.” Several pale pink areas where.....
Price: $750.00
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