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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: $2,400.00
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
Serigraph poster: four children
United States: Art and Production Department, CLC, circa 1970s. Screenprinted poster, measuring 40 x 25.75 inches, printed in turquoise and black on heavy stock. Small printer’s notice: “Designed and Produced by Art and Production Department, CLC,” followed by an indecipherable union label. Edgewear, several short closed tears. Archival drymount in.....
Price: $500.00
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
Victorian Rebus New Year’s Greeting
No place: no date, circa 1890s. Coated ivory card with rounded corners, printed in chromolithography recto only, measuring 3.75 x 4.75 inches. Text printed in gold, all edges gilt. Lightest signs of handling.
Price: $50.00
“Amsterdam” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Color pictorial wallpaper sample, measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in gold and ivory. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / Amsterdam WT 10 / R 2076 / $3.95 PER SINGLE ROLL.”.
Price: $150.00
“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: 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
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
Achilles’ Song
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: [16]. Side-stitched olive green wrappers in integral pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Original color frontispiece drawing by Duncan executed in pen and crayon. Hand-lettered “B” and signed by Duncan at colophon.
Price: $350.00
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
Scenes of Clerical Life
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1858. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 7-366; [6], 381, [1]. Original claret morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, cinnamon endpapers. Neat initials “M.S.D.” to half-titles, penciled bookseller notes to verso of front free endpaper in Volume I. Spine.....
Price: $18,000.00
The Ladies Bill of Fare or a Copious Collection of Beaux (fan leaf)
London: G. Wilson, 14 February 1795. Stipple-engraved fan leaf, printed recto only, measuring 11 x 20.5 inches at the widest points. Illustrated with twelve hand-colored vignettes and a central Cupid device. Imprint added in manuscript. Unevenly trimmed, lightest edgewear.
Price: $3,800.00
Specimens of Penmanship written by Mas. F.B. Leach at the High School, Oldham, Conducted by the Rev. Hugh Tait, B.A. (two volumes)
Leeds: Bean, Stationer, [1865]. Two oblong folio volumes, measuring 9.25 x 12 inches: [16]. Original glazed moiré card wrappers with gilt-embossed card frames and scenic chromolithographs (windmills in a field, a lakeside castle) mounted to covers. Tissue-guarded engraved pictorial title pages, featuring scenes of Cambridge, with Leach’s name added in.....
Price: $850.00
The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: [6], 75, [3]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning to edges of jacket.
Price: $125.00
Four glass plate negatives featuring women in picture hats
United States: circa 1900. Four glass plate negatives, measuring 7 x 5 inches each. Some emulsion chipping and discoloration to edges. Housed in an archival box.
Price: $200.00
American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs; with: author's research archive of original Victorian fashion photographs
New York: Dover Publications, 1991. Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [4], 108. Original photo-pictorial wrappers, illustrated with photographs throughout text. Light shelfwear. Accompanied by archive of 285 original portrait photographs from the 1860s through the 1890s, 111 of which are reproduced in Dalrymple’s book: 2 tintypes and 109.....
Price: $2,000.00
Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a Lady
London: Printed for J.B. and Sold by Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate, William Taylor on Pater-Noster-Row, and James Round in Exchange Alley, Cornhil, 1713. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches: [8], 390. Contemporary paneled calf, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, edges.....
Price: $2,500.00
Decorative Art in Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin: Screen Art Company, 1948. Fifteen loose color serigraph plates on heavy stock, accompanied by a four-page illustrated introduction, measuring 13.75 x 10.75. All housed in original color pictorial portfolio with blue cloth spine. Small smudge to title leaf, corners of portfolio lightly bumped.
Price: $75.00
A Likely Place
(London): Macmillan, (1967). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [6], 57, [1]. Original black cloth lettered in silver, original clipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear and sunning, small tape repair to jacket verso, ghost of bookseller label.....
Price: $50.00
Jeu des Antiques
Paris: chez Jean, rue St. Jean de Beauvais, No. 10, circa 1820. Engraved game board, printed recto only on a sheet measuring 19.5 x 22.5 inches, plate mark measuring 17 x 22 inches. Discoloration to margins from old mat, not affecting engraving; light edgewear.
Price: $3,200.00
The Name of Action
London: William Heinemann, (1930). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [8], 344. Original navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original yellow typographic dust jacket printed in red and black, with price of 7/6 on spine panel. Light wear to jacket spine ends, spine panel faintly sunned, stain to.....
Price: $9,500.00
Stamboul Train
London: William Heinemann, (1932). Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [12], 307, [1]. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “For Martin, / from Graham Greene. / Not yet an Entertainment!” Book Society bookplate to front pastedown. Occasional.....
Price: $7,500.00
The Return of the Native
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 303, [1]; [6], 297, [3]; [6], 320. Original brown cloth stamped in black and blind, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black; cream-coated endpapers. Frontispiece map, after a drawing by Hardy, facing title page.....
Price: $7,800.00
Jude the Obscure
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [2], viii, 516. Original green ribbed cloth stamped and lettered in gilt, “TH” gilt monogram to upper board, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Etched frontispiece, map of Wessex after text. Bookseller label to front pastedown: “Neal’s Library.....
Price: $5,000.00
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 Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. Two volumes, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: xiv, 15-283, [5], 16; 284, [4]. Original full brown ribbed cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, reddish-brown coated endpapers. Publisher’s catalog, dated March 1860, in Volume I. Light wear to cloth, spine ends and.....
Price: $750.00
Music Time: A Book of Easy Tunes. A Puffin Picture Book
West Drayton, Middlesex: Penguin Books, no date, circa 1950. Side-stapled volume, measuring 9 x 7 inches: [2], 26. Original color lithographed wrappers, color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Two stamps inside wrappers: “Chace Junior School / City of Coventry Education Committee.”.
Price: $40.00
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