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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
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Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]
[Bogotá]: Grupo Editorial Norma, (1997). Octavo, publisher’s full tan calf, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, spine stamped with gilt fleur-de-lis to indicate a signed and numbered copy, marbled endpapers, tan silk ribbon marker. Bookbinder ticket (“Taller la Entenalla”) to front pastedown, “XLVII” hand-numbered in ink on the limitation page.....
Price: $5,000.00
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A New Edition
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1788-1790. Twelve octavo volumes, full contemporary polished calf, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, all edges stained yellow. Frontispiece portrait of Gibbon after Joshua Reynolds and map of the Eastern empire in...
Price: $5,000.00
Hansel and Gretel, and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Single volume, measuring 11.75 x 9.5 inches: [10], 276. Publisher’s full white pictorial cloth, front board stamped in gilt and blue with design by Nielsen, spine decorated in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, patterned red and gilt endpapers designed by Nielsen. Limitation page signed...
Price: $6,000.00
Tales of Mogho: African Stories from Upper Volta
New York: Macmillan, (1971). Single volume, measuring 9 x 7 inches: xii, [2], 113, [1]. Original full pictorial orange cloth lettered and stamped in black, orange endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Foreword and glossary before text; black-and-white illustrations throughout text, including a double-page spread. Top edge of jacket...
Price: $75.00
Letters from a Cat. Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats and the Amusement of Little Children
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Small quarto, measuring 7.5 x 6 inches. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, grey floral endpapers. Decorative headpieces throughout text, seventeen black and white illustrations. Presentation inscription to flyleaf. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, occasional smudge to text.
Price: $600.00
Her Shattered Idol or the Romantic Adventures of a Milk Maid
Chicago: The Stein Company, circa 1910. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [2], 90, [4]. Original photographic wrappers lettered in blue, pictorial frontispiece, four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Wrappers lightly soiled, tiny chips to spine ends and lower corner of front wrapper, text block uniformly toned.
Price: $100.00
The Child’s First Grief. A Duet. The Words by Mrs. Hemans. The Music Composed and Arranged for the Piano Forte by Her Sister
Boston: Oliver Ditson, circa 1850s. Folio musical score, measuring 13.5 x 10 inches: [2], 2-6, [1]. Engraved sheet music for piano and voice. Blindstamp of J.P. Hagarty’s Musical Warehouse, Halifax, N.S., to upper lefthand corner. Disbound, lightly soiled, light edgewear.
Price: $50.00
“Girl Campers”
New York: Woman's World Magazine, July 1935. Staple-bound folio magazine, 26 pages. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Highsmith's story on pages 16 and 25. Mailing address printed to top lefthand corner of upper wrapper, lightest edgewear.
Price: $500.00
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Dalekohled aneb Kdo Neveri, at Tam Bezi [Binoculars, or Who Doesn't Want to Believe Can Leave]
Prague: Statní Nakladatelství Detské Knihy, 1966. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: 167, [5]. Original white cloth stamped in tan, black and blue endpapers, top edge stained blue, glossy unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Title page printed in blue and black; nineteen full-page color collages. Light spotting to boards...
Price: $150.00
Spectre: A Literary Quarterly. Volume I: Number 3
Syracuse University: Spring 1940. Quarto, side-stapled dark blue pictorial wraps, beige cloth tape-bound spine. Sixty mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, black and white illustrations throughout text. Center crease to front cover and first few pages, shallow chipping and creasing to back cover, text block toned.
Price: $2,200.00
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
“Our True Intent Is Owl for Your Delight”
(London): no publisher, circa 1955. Folded oblong card, measuring 4.5 x 7.5 inches. Pictorial design printed in black on front of card, Christmas greeting and address printed inside.
Price: $75.00
Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes
Boston: S.G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Three twelvemo volumes, early twentieth-century brown pigskin over textured tan cloth boards, raised bands, spines tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, text blocks uncut and partially unopened. Catalogue of American Poetry at rear of volume III. Bookplate of collector Perry Beaver Strassburger (1888-1954) to front...
Price: $850.00
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Large quarto, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [124]. Original brown pigskin, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board double-ruled in gilt with central device of rosebush rooted in book, helmet, sword, and musket, with English crown supported in branches. Top edge gilt, other edges...
Price: $5,000.00
The Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Octavo, original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page court portraits throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to jacket, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $750.00
The Red Book
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Square quarto, original red textured cloth stamped in black and blind, red endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Barbara Lehman on the title page.
Price: $150.00
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
Original painting, titled Aus Der Phandersie
Liesing: May 1925. Single sheet, measuring 11.75 x 14.75 inches. Original butterfly design executed in black ink, watercolors, and gold paint. Ink captions along top and bottom of image, including title, place, date, and the name “Helmstreit.” Lightest edgewear, dash of blue paint through several letters in title.
Price: $350.00
Toys
England: circa 1957. Single volume, measuring 14.75 x 10.25 inches: [44]. Original full tan morocco, front board stamped with dozens of tiny gilt stars, spine stamped with stars and lettered in gilt, heavy purple endpapers hand-stamped with border of yellow squares. Unfinished manuscript title page stamped with border of yellow...
Price: $2,200.00
Note Book for Design and Color
United States: circa 1930. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [104]. Original full black leather, flexible blind-ruled boards, all edges stained red. Typed notes mounted on 28 pages, hand-painted designs mounted on 21 pages with tissue guards. Table of contents after title page. Light edgewear to binding, chip to...
Price: $2,200.00
Early American calligraphic French lesson
United States: circa 1810. Single sheet, measuring 15.5 x 10 inches, folded in half to produce a writing surface of 7.75 x 10 inches. Calligraphic manuscript featuring a double-ruled hand-colored border topped by a hand-colored pen-and-ink drawing of a winged angel. Signed “Lewis C. Vaughan’s” at lower right. Light edgewear...
Price: $250.00
Sedna: An Eskimo Myth
New York: Viking Press, (1975). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 10 inches: [32]. Original full blue cloth, bird design stamped in blind to upper board, spine lettered in white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, blue endpapers. Illustrated on every page in violet and indigo. Occasional light smudge to jacket.
Price: $40.00
Fourteen Songs from “When We Were Very Young”
London: Methuen & Co., (1925). Slim folio, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [2], 34. Original tan cloth spine, brown paper boards, pictorial pastedown label to upper board, original pictorial dust jacket printed in cream and blue. Pictorial title page, 32 pages of sheet music illustrated with black-and-white vignettes. Lightest occasional smudge to jacket.
Price: $45.00
The Poetical Works of John Milton. With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings by James Montgomery
London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1843. Two volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [4], lii, 378, [2]; viii, 341, [3]. Original dark blue pictorial cloth stamped in blind and gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers, publisher's ads at rear of both volumes. One hundred and twenty wood engravings throughout text...
Price: $450.00
Comus
London: William Heinemann, [1921]. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: xviii, 76, [2]. Original vellum spine lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt-stamped parchment boards, pale blue and white pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso; pictorial title...
Price: $1,000.00
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
Joan and Pierre
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company, (1931). Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches, original color pictorial paper boards, red cloth spine, color pictorial endpapers, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, dust jacket chipped at corners and spine ends, with small abrasion to front panel.
Price: $200.00
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1861. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: (3), 4-140, (4). Original full brown textured cloth, boards blind-ruled and lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Bookplate of Susan Hayhurst to front pastedown, early ownership stamp of...
Price: $950.00
Yonnondio: From the Thirties
(New York): Delacorte Press, (1974). Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [10], 196. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket and pictorial title page designed by Robert Giusti. Inscribed by Tillie Olsen on half-title.
Price: $250.00