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The Fairy Alphabet: As Used by Merlin
New York: Viking Press, 1933. Small folio measuring 9.5 x 7 inches, original cream cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, spine lettered in black. Illustrated with black and white plates throughout text. Inscribed in December of 1933 by MacKinstry on front free endpaper. Light shelfwear and bumping to corners, darkening...
Price: $300.00
Popular Fallacies
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: xii, 312. Original full olive ribbed cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt and decorated in Art Nouveau style in a darker green. Frontispiece and seven full-page plates. Spine lightly toned, top edge dusty, foxing to preliminaries.
Price: $100.00
The Little Mermaid
(Natick, MA): Picture Book Studio, (1984). Folio, original color pictorial glossy paper boards, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket priced at $11.95. Color illustrations throughout text. Endpapers foxed.
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
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
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised
Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham Printer to the University, by whom they are sold in Cambridge, and by Benj. Dod Bookseller in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1760. Two octavo volumes. Contemporary full black calf paneled and decorated in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled and numbered in gilt, marbled endpapers...
Price: $2,850.00
China Days. Temple Hill Cut-Outs
Yantai, China: Self-Help Department, Women's Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, circa 1930. Oblong folio, measuring 14 x 10.5 inches. Contemporary flexible boards covered in gold silk brocade with red stitching. Letterpress description of “the cut-outs of Temple Hill” mounted to front pastedown. 42 pages, 24 of which are decorated with tissue-guarded...
Price: $2,400.00
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
Shirley
London: The Folio Society, 1968. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.25 inches: xiv, 488 pp. Modern full crimson morocco, gilt-ruled boards, raised bands, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Fifteen color lithographs, including frontispiece, throughout text. Lightest rubbing to binding.
Price: $150.00
Jane Eyre. An Autobiography
London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1847. Three octavo volumes, modern green three-quarter crushed morocco, marbled cloth boards, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All half-titles present, thirty-two pages of advertisements dated October 1847 (bound without publisher's catalogue fly-title) at rear of volume one, original brown...
Price: $40,000.00
The Fairy-Land of Science
London: Edward Stanford, 1890. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: viii, 244. Original pictorial mauve cloth stamped in black and gilt, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Three full-page plates, wood engravings throughout text. Gift inscription dated 1890 to half-title. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $85.00
Stay Up Late
New York: Viking Press, 1987. Quarto, green cloth spine lettered in black, original color pictorial paper boards, green pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed in marker to front free endpaper and title page: “To L. Thank you,” with signatures of David Byrne and...
Price: $200.00
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
Love Story Black
New York: Reed, Cannon & Johnson, 1978. Single volume, 7 x 5 inches, [2], 141 pp. Original red paperback wrappers illustrated in black and white. Light shelfwear to wrappers.
Price: $35.00
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
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: $700.00
"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
A Christmas Carol In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
London: Chapman & Hall, 1844 [i.e. 1843]. Octavo, original full brown cloth with leaf border stamped in blind to boards and central wreath design with title stamped in gilt on front board, spine stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Half title printed in green, title page printed in...
Price: $28,000.00
![[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]. Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, Johnston McCulley, Kan Kikuchi, Hatsuyama Shigeru, designer, Michioka Toshi, illustrator, Imamura Nobuo, Emori Seihachiro.](/pictures/thumb/1001972.jpg?v=1521687657)
[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (K bunsha), (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...
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
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
Chromolithographic Invitation to the Lang & Nau Fall Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
New York: Sackett, Williams and Betzig, [1882]. Chromolithographic pictorial trade card heightened in gold, measuring 5 by 4 inches, invitation on verso printed in black and white. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $250.00