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Chromolithographic Invitation to the Lang & Nau Fall Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
New York: Sackett, Williams and Betzig, [1882]. Chromolithographic pictorial trade card heightened in gold, measuring 5 by 4 inches, invitation on verso printed in black and white. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $250.00
Corse d'Animali in Velocipede
Rome: Tipografia Romana, circa 1880. Broadside, measuring 9.75 x 6.5 inches, printed in black ink on thin lavender paper. Wood and metal types, two pictorial woodcuts.
Price: $250.00
Art Deco valentine featuring Elizabeth and Essex
Chicago: Carrington Co. circa 1920s. Die cut pictorial valentine, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches, printed in color and gilt. Faint ink signature ("Marshall") to bottom right corner.
Price: $75.00
Father Abraham
New York: Random House, 1983. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped patterned dust jacket. Illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol throughout text, excerpt from Faulkner's manuscript reproduced in facsimile.
Price: $55.00
The Works of H. Fielding
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1893. Twelve small octavo volumes, contemporary three-quarter maroon morocco gilt, raised bands, flowered paper boards and endpapers. Top edges gilt. Light shelfwear to bindings, some bumped corners. Oxford bookseller's tickets.
Price: $600.00
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: $15,000.00
Pictures from Roman History
London: William Darton and Son, circa 1835. Hand-colored engraved sheet of historical vignettes with accompanying text, measuring 12.5 x 16 inches, mounted on mahogany and cut into interlocking puzzle pieces. Housed in publisher’s wooden box, hand-colored group of four Roman scenes mounted to sliding lid, publisher’s label and title label...
Price: $2,000.00
Every-Player-Your-Partner System Tallies: Modern Author Series
New York: Charles S. Clark Company, circa 1926. Boxed set of twelve unused bridge tally cards, measuring 2.25 x 5 inches folded. Cards printed with twelve color pictorial designs, six for male players and six for female players, with color-coded silk tassels (white for men, yellow and orange for women)...
Price: $350.00
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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
Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales from Out of Africa
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975). Folio measuring 12 x 8 inches, original black paper boards with photographic portraits of Dinesen and Gatura on upper and lower board respectively, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket, tan endpapers. Inscribed by Peter Beard to “Dena and Bryan”...
Price: $3,500.00
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
The Ladybird Book of Handwriting
Loughborough: Willis & Hepworth, 1968. Octavo, 54 pages including printed pastedowns, original orange pictorial paper boards printed in black and white. Text printed in orange and black, with handwriting exercises on almost every page. Pinpoint foxing to edges of text block.
Price: $30.00
Encyclopédie des voyages, Contenant l'abrégé historique des moeurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences, arts, et commerce de tous les peuples. Europe (I-II), Asie (III), Afrique (IV), Amérique (V)
(Paris): chez l’Auteur; chez Deroy, Libraire; chez les principaux Libraires de la République, 1796. Seventy-two parts divided into five quarto volumes, bound in four, early nineteenth-century full vellum with central arabesques tooled in blind to center of boards, raised bands, manuscript titles to spines, green silk ribbon ties. Four hand-colored...
Price: $24,000.00
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
Legends of the Infinite City: Drawings of New York; WITH: framed original pen-and-ink drawing, "First Date"
New York: GM Printing, 2003. Octavo booklet, original tan pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, saddle-stitched. Pictorial title page and thirty-three drawings printed in blue ink. Offered with: original illustration from the book, “First Date," pen-and-ink drawing dated 2002, measuring 11 x 15 inches, archivally framed (framed piece measures 15 x 18.5 inches).
Price: $950.00
“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
Balbus: A Picture Book of Building
London: Pleiades Books, 1944. Slim quarto, original grey cloth over color pictorial boards, grey brick-patterned endpapers. Illustrated with color lithographs throughout text. “Printed in Great Britain" stamped to title page. Lightest shelfwear, very faint foxing to opening pages.
Price: $95.00
Wheels
London: Pleiades Books, 1946. Slim quarto, original grey cloth over color pictorial boards, grey wheel-patterned endpapers. Illustrated with color lithographs throughout text. “Printed in Great Britain" stamped to title page. Original bookseller ticket of New York City's Holliday Bookshop to rear pastedown. Lightest shelfwear, abrasion to head of cloth spine...
Price: $75.00
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
New York: Dial Books, (1988). Slim quarto, original blue cloth lettered in gilt over blue paper boards, red endpapers, original clipped pictorial jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Bookplate signed by Gloria Houston affixed to front free endpaper.
Price: $30.00
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938. Octavo, first state binding of blue cloth with black lettering, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Robert Medley. Light wear to spine of jacket, tiny chips to jacket corners, bookplate to front free endpaper. Pencilled index to...
Price: $250.00
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
Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in blind and gilt, top edge stained red, original unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by Randall Jarrell to Cleanth Brooks on the front free endpaper. Small dampstain to bottom corner of front board, light rubbing to jacket, spine slightly faded.
Price: $1,000.00
The Works of Master Poldy
Dublin: The Salvage Press, 2013. Large slim folio, original orange cloth over ivory paper boards lettered in silver, orange endpapers, original orange cloth slipcase. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, bound by Tom Duffy at his workshop at Dublin’s Five Lamps.
Price: $600.00
Chicken Soup, Boots
New York: Viking Press, 1993. Quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, blue pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $50.00
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
La Fontaine's Fables: A Selection
London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1905. Oblong folio, measuring 9.75 x 12.5 inches; original pictorial teal cloth stamped in red, grey, black and white; title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with fifteen full-page color plates by Carton Moore Park and black-and-white line drawings throughout...
Price: $250.00
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
Jénoseph, ou Vertu, Jeunesse et Adversité
Tours: Mame et Cie, 1849. Twelvemo, [iv] 1-140 pp. Paper boards lithographed and embossed in white, blue, and gilt, with a central gilt medallion to upper board depicting a girl reading a book, and a central floral medallion in white, blue, and gilt to lower board. Gilt and white paper...
Price: $100.00