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The Tragic Mary
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 261, [3]. Original brown pictorial paper boards with floral design by Selwyn Image, spine lettered in black, text block uncut and unopened. Without scarce glassine wrapper. Shallow bump to tail of spine, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $950.00
Isadora
New York: The Bookman Press, 2001. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 20. Original white card wrappers, magenta marbled paper dust jacket with pastedown label. Pictorial frontispiece; title page printed in red, tan, and black; text printed in red and black.
Price: $25.00
Jeu du Jardin Zoologique. Thiergarten-Spiel
Wissembourg: Wentzel, circa 1860s. Lithographic broadside, printed recto only, measuring 15.75 x 11 inches. Hand-colored en pochoir with gilt highlights. “No. 70” printed at top right corner; instructions printed below game board. Faint center crease, lightly browned at edges.
Price: $850.00
Loto Jeanne d’Arc
Paris: Saussine Éditeur, circa 1910. Four uncut chromolithographed sheets: one pictorial title sheet, measuring 16 x 12 inches; two sheets measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, each printed with six pictorial loto cards (each card 4.75 x 8.5 inches); one sheet of 90 numerals printed in green. Light edgewear.
Price: $500.00
Giselle or The Wilis
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1970). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: 56. Original pale green cloth spine lettered in gilt, green pictorial boards stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Violette Verdy and Marcia Brown on.....
Price: $150.00
Complete set of Almanacks, inscribed by Kate Greenaway
London: George Routledge & Sons; J.M. Dent, 1883-1895, 1897. Nineteen miniature volumes, variously sized, with color-printed wood engravings throughout text. Three variant bindings of 1884 almanac; two variant bindings each for years 1887, 1890, and 1892. The 1889 almanac includes presentation inscriptions from Kate Greenaway and John Drinkwater, and is.....
Price: $8,500.00
The Giant Golden Book of Biology. An Introduction to the Science of Life
New York: Golden Press, 1961. Single volume, measuring 12.75 x 10 inches: 99, [1]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, color pictorial endpapers, color illustrations throughout text. Gift inscription, dated 1965, to title page. Scattered stray marks to binding, lamination beginning to peel at spine. No dust jacket, as issued.
Price: $450.00
In The Fairy Ring
London: Blackie & Son, [1908]. Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63, [1]. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates, illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing (heavier to first and last pages), rear endpapers toned, corners lightly bumped.
Price: $2,000.00
The Shrinking of Treehorn; Treehorn’s Treasure; Treehorn’s Wish
New York: Holiday House, 1971, 1981, 1984. Three oblong volumes, measuring 6 x 6.75 inches: [64], [64], [64]. Original pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jackets. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. The Shrinking of Treehorn and Treehorn’s Treasure signed by Gorey on title page; Treehorn’s Wish inscribed by Heide on.....
Price: $500.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
Houdini’s Book of Magic and Party Pastimes. Fascinating Puzzles, Tricks and Mysterious Stunts
New York: Stoll & Edwards, 1927. Single volume, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches: [33]. Original color pictorial printed boards, salmon cloth spine. Black-and-white illustrations on every page. Light shelfwear to binding, stitching loose at head of text block.
Price: $175.00
Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death
[New York]: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 2016. Single volume, measuring 9 x 8 inches: [60]. Black cloth spine, black paper boards lettered in black, black endpapers. Color and black-and-white photographs throughout text. Inscribed by Arthur Jafa on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $1,600.00
Picture and Text
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [viii], 175, [1]. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt. Title page printed in red and black, tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece, seven black-and-white plates throughout text. Early owner signature to front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $125.00
The Book of American Negro Spirituals
New York: The Viking Press, 1925. Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: [1-10] 11-187. Original light brown cloth decoratively stamped in brown and blue. Historical preface followed by 137 pages of musical arrangements. Ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper: “For Ring W. Lardner / with sincere regards /.....
Price: $2,800.00
“Each A Heart”
[Philadelphia]: [United Church Press], [1968]. Color broadside, printed in yellow, orange, and grey, measuring 10 x 14 inches.
Price: $75.00
After Midnight
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [8], 238, [2]. Original black patterned cloth stamped in bright blue, top edge stained blue. Spine panel sunned, no dust jacket.
Price: $250.00
The Great Migration: An American Story
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1993. Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [48]. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, terracotta endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed and numbered by Jacob Lawrence on the front free endpaper. Housed in original blue cloth slipcase stamped in gilt with color.....
Price: $1,600.00
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Octavo, original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: “Doris Lessing / 19th October 04"
Price: $350.00
Circus Book. In Colour Photography
London: Collins, (1955). Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 7 inches: [52]. Original pale gold wrappers printed in red. Title page printed in color, illustrated with line drawings and color photographs throughout text.
Price: $150.00
“A Kuklapolitan Diary.” With: Kuklapolitan Courier Year Book annotated by Washburn. With: publicity photograph inscribed to Washburn by show creator Burr Tillstrom
Chicago: 1951-1952. Spiral-bound notebook, measuring 9 x 6 inches: (108). Brown paper boards titled in ink, two pastedown typed title labels, typed address label of Patricia Washburn affixed to inner front cover. All pages filled with handwritten diary entries in blue and black ink. Laid in are five folded leaves.....
Price: $1,250.00
Collection of original drawings and paintings
New York City: 1927. Mixed group of forty-two drawings and nine watercolors, some double-sided, many disbound from a sketchbook. Front board of sketchbook present, with stationer’s label of Dante Gambinossi (605 Madison Avenue), and ink ownership inscription: “Emily Ryon - 1927.” Two drawings mounted, one tissue-guarded, several signed by Ryon.....
Price: $850.00
Ornamental Digressions: A Showing of Pinwheel Ornaments
[New York]: Russell Maret, 2016. Single volume, measuring 14 x 10 inches: [56]. Orange morocco spine lettered in gilt, orange handmade paper boards printed with pinwheel ornaments. Text printed letterpress, most leaves recto only, in black and colored inks. Signed and numbered by Russell Maret on colophon. Housed in original.....
Price: $1,500.00
Le Merveilleux Voyage de la Goutte de Vitamine
[New York]: [Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies], [1942]. Oblong volume, measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches: [20]. Pale blue comb binding, original color-lithographed pictorial wrappers, printed foreword followed by nineteen lithographed pages, including seven full-page color illustrations. Light offsetting from color lithographs to facing pages.
Price: $750.00
New Poems
New York: New Directions, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Eugenio Montale on the half-title. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $450.00
With the V.A.D. Convoys in France, Flanders, Italy
[Cambridge]: [1921]. Collection of twenty-seven lithographs of varying sizes, ranging from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.5 x 15 inches, printed on grey or white paper, some with additional hand-coloring, some with original mounts. Original list of thirteen plates, printed in red, signed and dated “1921” by Olive Mudie-Cooke in.....
Price: $12,500.00
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables by the Abbot Banier
Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. Two folio volumes, measuring 17.5 x 12 inches, continuously paginated: [24], 1-247, [1]; [2], 249-524, [4]. Contemporary full mottled calf rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, crimson and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, boards gilt-ruled with central gilt.....
Price: $7,000.00
The Country Girls
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1960. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 223, [1]. Original black cloth, pale blue title block lettered in gilt on spine, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Edna O’Brien on title page. Light shelfwear to jacket, with a few tiny chips and closed.....
Price: $800.00
A Bloomsbury Souvenir; with: Six Views of Bloomsbury (postcards)
London: Design for Today, [2017]. Concertina booklet printed on stiff card, measuring 4 x 6 inches folded, extending to 52 inches when fully opened. Color lithography on both sides. Signed and numbered by Alice Pattullo. With: publisher’s small circular adhesive seal (for mailing) and separate suite of six individual color.....
Price: $100.00
The Nicest Gift
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1973). Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Neat owner signature to front free endpaper. Light discoloration to endpapers, lightest wear to jacket spine ends and corners.
Price: $85.00
Emily Post's Motor Manners . . . The Bluebooklet of Traffic Etiquette
[Washington, D.C.]: National Highway Users Conference, (1956). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 4.25 x 6 inches: 48 (wrappers included in pagination). Original blue wrappers printed in white and black; illustrations printed in blue and black throughout text. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $85.00