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“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
Picture Posters to Color: Community Workers
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light edgewear to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
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
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems
New York: Granary Books, 2012. Portfolio of 47 unbound double-sided manuscript facsimiles, color printed at scale, on Red River Aurora Natural paper, each print measuring 14 x 11 inches, with a supplementary index print. Portfolio wrapper of handmade ivory paper with a cotton tape lift, lined in blue paper, replicating.....
Price: $5,000.00
Janvier 1866. Lettre & Poème Envoyés à Thomas W. Higginson
Paris: Les Éditions du Rouleau Libre, 1991. Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 6.5 inches: 10 leaves (5 folded). Original open-sewn paper boards printed in black and green, secured to wooden spine anchor. Printed letterpress in black and green, with five double-length folding leaves, illustrated throughout text with four original gravures.....
Price: $650.00
Stavrogin’s Confession and The Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner. With Introductory and Explanatory Notes
Richmond: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1922. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: 169, (1), 6. Original “ice-blue” cloth spine, blue and white patterned boards, printed pastedown labels to spine and upper board, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Six pages of advertisements bound at rear.....
Price: $400.00
The History of The/My Wor(l)d
New York: Druckwork & Granary Books, 1995. Single volume, measuring 11.25 x 8.5 inches: [48]. Original drab paper boards, black cloth spine, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket “printed letterpress by the author." Printed in red and black ink, in various typefaces, illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout text. Signed by.....
Price: $250.00
Alexander’s Feast, or The Power of Music. An Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day 1697
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton at The September Press, 1985. Folio, measuring 12.25 x 9.5 inches: [28]. Original mauve paper boards printed in maroon, pale grey cloth spine, mauve paper spine label printed in maroon, pictorial endpapers featuring portraits of Dryden and Handel. Illustrated with lithographs printed in brown throughout text. Hand-numbered.....
Price: $95.00
Mikes Missing. A Search by Jim Duignan
[Chicago]: self-published, November 1992. Oblong spiral-bound volume, measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches: [104]. Original pale grey pictorial wrappers. Text illustrated with desktop-printed black and white photographs. Housed in original manila envelope with adhesive title label.
Price: $250.00
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
Rudy & Midge
Madison, Wisconsin: Dangling Participle Press, 1998. Small oblong quarto, measuring 5.25 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Green cloth spine, color lithographed pictorial boards, green pictorial endpapers printed letterpress. Text block illustrated and printed in letterpress, color lithography and serigraphy on various paper stocks. Bound in are three pieces of ephemera sealed.....
Price: $450.00
It’s A Good Thing I’m Not Macho. A Cycle of Poems
Boston: Whetstone Press, 1984. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xiii, [1], 37, [3]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Printed in purple ink, illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Price: $125.00
“See! See! The Machine Gun Killing of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker” (handbill)
Denver, Colorado: Bide-a-Wee Theatre, July 1934. Theatrical handbill, measuring 4.5 x 5.25 inches. Printed recto only on pale green paper, faded at left edge.
Price: $250.00
The Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Rendered into English
London: E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1671. Octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: [8], 555, [1]. Contemporary Cambridge-style full speckled calf, boards ruled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained black. Engraved frontispiece.....
Price: $4,000.00
Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1905]. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 261, [1]. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards; raised bands; spine compartments lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt; boards ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. London bookseller ticket (B.F. Stevens & Brown).....
Price: $750.00
The Laughable Game of What D'ye Buy, by Professor Punch
London: J. Passmore, 18, Fleet Lane, Farringdon Street, circa 1855. Card game: twelve hand-colored engraved cards, measuring 2.4 x 2 inches, depicting shopkeepers; seventy-two letterpress stock cards (six per shop), measuring 1.6 x 1.9 inches; instruction booklet, measuring 5.1 x 4 inches, entitled “Explanation to The Laughable Game of What.....
Price: $4,800.00
Jeu des Poètes. Composé de 80 Cartes avec Portraits
Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé, circa 1910. Complete set of eighty playing cards, each measuring 4.5 x 2.75 inches. Each card printed in gold, red, and black, featuring a portrait of a French poet, birth and death dates, and a quoted verse; versos uniformly patterned. Housed with original instruction card in.....
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
In Noah’s Ark
New York: The Viking Press, 1949. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 62. Original ivory linen spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, pictorial rose paper boards stamped in blind, rose endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Vignette of Pegasus to jacket, front board, and title page, designed by.....
Price: $75.00
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
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
The Gift of the Magi
(Natick, MA): Picture Book Studio, (1982). Tall narrow folio, measuring 13.5 x 8.25 inches: [28]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout text.
Price: $45.00
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
Needlework sampler referencing the wrath of Achilles
[England]: October 14, 1790. Needlework sampler on unbleached linen, measuring 16 x 14 inches, in black and gilt wooden frame. Embroidered floral border in pink, blue, yellow, green, and white; text, signature, and date in black; cross-stitched lower rule in pink and green. Remnant of label to verso: “William Whiteley.....
Price: $2,800.00
Sketch...Book. Le Non-Obéissant: The Disobedient: Der Ungehorsame
Basel: Basilius Presse, 1968. Single volume, measuring 8 x 9 inches: [88, double leaves]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, text block printed in black and orange. Inscribed by Warja Lavater in the year of publication. Slight bowing to boards.
Price: $1,250.00
Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All
New York: New World Records, 1977. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Price: $300.00
Red White and Blue. Stick’Em Cut Outs
[New York]: Platt & Munk, 1941. Set of six side-stapled activity books, measuring 8.5 x 7.5 inches, each containing six full-page line drawings and corresponding sheets of red and blue shapes on gummed paper. Original color pictorial wrappers. Housed in original publisher’s color pictorial box. Light shelfwear to box.
Price: $300.00
The Hermit-Woman
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1983. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 76, [2] . Original stiff orange and yellow patterned wrappers. A few tiny spots to wrappers.
Price: $125.00