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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
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
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: $125.00
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
The Devil Finds Work
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: [6], 122. Original maroon boards lettered in red foil, maroon endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dustjacket, top edge stained maroon. Inscribed by Baldwin on the dedication page: “for Pierce Davis / keep the faith / James Baldwin.” Jacket.....
Price: $1,250.00
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
Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes
(Paris): Éditions du Seuil, 1975. Perfect-bound volume, measuring 7 x 4.75 inches: 191, [1]. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers, reproducing a 1974 painting by Barthes, “Souvenir de Juan-les-Pins.” Black interior wrappers with lines in Barthes’s hand printed in white. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Barthes in blue.....
Price: $1,500.00
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
The 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
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
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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
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories
New York: Random House, (1958). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [8], 179, [1]. Original yellow cloth stamped in gilt, black spine label decorated in gilt, top edge stained grey, original unclipped dust jacket printed in orange, white and black, with price of $3.50 and 10/58 code to front.....
Price: $2,400.00
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
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
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1929). Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: xii, 333, [1]. Full polished tan calf, boards decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt, raised bands ruled in gilt, spine compartments elaborately gilt-tooled, crimson morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges.....
Price: $950.00
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
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
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
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
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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
The Thespian Dictionary; or, Dramatic Biography of the Present Age; Containing Sketches of the Lives, Lists of the Productions, Various Merits, &c. &c. of all the Principal Dramatists, Composers, Commentators, Managers, Actors and Actresses of the United Kingdom: Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes, Forming a Complete Modern History of the English Stage
London: James Cundee, 1805. Twelvemo, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: iv, [396]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key borders to boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges stained yellow. Engraved pictorial title page before letterpress title, 38.....
Price: $1,000.00
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 Maias
London: The Bodley Head, 1965. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 633, [1]. Original dark blue textured cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Arthur Barbosa. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $40.00
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