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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
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
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
L’Éducation Sentimentale. Histoire d’un Jeune Homme. Édition Définitive
Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1901. Full modern red buckram lettered in gilt, yellow publisher’s rear wrapper bound in. Ink signature of James Joyce (dated 1901) to half-title. Bookplate of Alexander Neubauer to front pastedown. Front wrapper missing; half-title torn with loss, with early tape repairs to verso; text block embrowned.
Price: $12,500.00
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 Way to Vocabulary Power and Culture
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., (1946). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [xii], 472. Original full green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped typographic dust jacket printed in green, black, and white. Original bookseller ticket and price label to rear pastedown. Lightest edgewear and rubbing, crease to spine.....
Price: $175.00
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
Shinpan Jūroku Musashi
Japan: no publisher, late nineteenth century. Oblong folding game board, color-printed on card, measuring 7.5. x 12 inches, with one large circular playing piece (representing Japan) and fifteen smaller discs (representing other nations). Scrap of writing paper affixed to verso of board, presumably as a pocket for the playing pieces.....
Price: $750.00
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
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, measuring 8 x 5 inches. 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.....
Price: $5,000.00
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
Salem
[Salem, Germany]: [Schule Schloss Salem], [1930]. Square album, measuring 12 x 12 inches: [150]. Original vellum spine, heavy handmade paper boards titled in black, bound with decorative gold ribbon. Text block partially printed, with gaps for mounted illustrations. 49 original black-and-white photographs of varying sizes and two manuscript schedules mounted.....
Price: $3,500.00
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
Scrinia Sacra; Secrets of Empire, in Letters of Illustrious Persons. A Supplement of the Cabala. In which Business of the same Quality and Grandeur is contained: With many famous Passages of the late Reigns of K. Henry 8. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charls.
London: Printed for G. Bedel, and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleet-street, 1654. Quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6 inches: [10], 355, [9]. Modern full dark green morocco, boards paneled Cambridge-style with double rules and corner ornaments in blind, raised bands, black.....
Price: $850.00
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
The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace. Done into English
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, and Sold by Tim. Goodwin at the Maiden-head, 1684. Octavo, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [14], 1-142, 103, 144-153, 114, 155-166, 147, 168-183, [1], 369-432, 449-480, 465-482, 583, 484-532, 433, 534-538, 537, 540-570, [4] (text continuous despite erratic pagination). Contemporary mottled calf rebacked with original.....
Price: $750.00
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
Spectre: A Literary Quarterly. Volume I: Number 3
Syracuse University: Spring 1940. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 60 numbered leaves [120 pages]. Original 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.....
Price: $2,200.00
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
Omocha Junikagetsu: Omamori To Engimono [Twelve Months of Toys: Protective Talismans and Good Luck Charms]
[Osaka]: [Darumaya Shoten], 1926. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: fourteen unnumbered folded leaves, printed rectos only. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black, orange pastedown label to upper board, pictorial endpapers printed in pale green. Twelve double-page hand-colored woodblock prints, some heightened with metallic inks; two folded leaves.....
Price: $1,400.00
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
Five pieces of ephemera related to the Joan Little murder trial
Various places: various publishers, 1975.
Price: $550.00
“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
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
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
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.....
Price: $200.00