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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
Oak and Ivy
Dayton, Ohio: Press of United Brethren Publishing House, 1893. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 62. Original dark blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Ink presentation note on front pastedown: “Presented to Mr. & Mrs. Garnet C. Wilkinson on the occasion of the dedication of the Dunbar High.....
Price: $9,500.00
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
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 2.5 x 2 inches, depicting shopkeepers; seventy-two letterpress stock cards (six per shop), measuring 1.5 x 2 inches; instruction booklet, measuring 5 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
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
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
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
Chicken Soup, Boots
New York: Viking Press, 1993. Quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial paper boards, blue pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $50.00
After Midnight
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [8], 238, [2]. Original black patterned cloth stamped in bright blue, top edge stained blue. Spine panel sunned, no dust jacket.
Price: $250.00
Sasha
London: Stanley Paul & Co., [1927]. Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 4.5 inches: 253, [1]. Original blue cloth decoratively stamped in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of Kuprin; publisher’s advertisement for The International Library before preface. Ownership signature dated 1932 to front free endpaper. Shallow chipping.....
Price: $85.00
The Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.25 inches: [6], 172. Original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page portraits throughout text. Lightest edgewear and toning to jacket, with partial split to front flap fold; edges.....
Price: $950.00
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, 376. 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
A Week
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 247, [1]. Original blue cloth stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, original unclipped typographic dust jacket priced at $1.50 on the spine. Introduction by translator Arthur Ransome. Capwell's Books (Oakland, California) bookseller ticket to lower pastedown. Pinpoint.....
Price: $300.00
Sentences, Divine, Moral, and Historical; in Prose and Verse; with Copies for the Alphabet. Designed for the Conduct of Human Life, and particularly for the Improvement of Youth . . . being the Beauties of Addison, Johnson, Rollin, Wesley, and Other Eminent Authors; Accurately extracted from their Works, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. For the Use of Schools
Salisbury: E. Easton, 1786. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: vi, 360. Early nineteenth-century three-quarter red sheep, marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, all edges speckled, blue endpapers. Typographic ornaments throughout text; errata at rear. Ink ownership signature to preliminiary flyleaf, with note: “This book bound by him.....
Price: $1,250.00
Collection of nine comic illustrated envelopes sent by small-town American postmasters
Alabama, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Virginia: 1938-1943. Nine envelopes, measuring 4 x 6.5 inches. Eight envelopes with original artwork, one with a printed illustration (Betsy Ross), playing on the names of the towns where the envelopes were postmarked. Postmaster signatures to six envelopes. Lightest.....
Price: $550.00
Circus Book. In Colour Photography
London: Collins, (1955). Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 7 inches: [52]. Original pale gold wrappers printed in red. Title page printed in color, illustrated with line drawings and color photographs throughout text.
Price: $150.00