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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
Farbige Ausnähbilder (Colored Sewing Pictures)
Germany: circa 1890. Group of fifteen color-printed sewing cards, measuring 8 x 6 inches. Two cards with light marginal browning. Housed in original envelope with color pictorial pastedown label.
Price: $1,000.00
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
Engraved invitation to the opening ceremonies of the Brooklyn Bridge
New York: Tiffany & Co., 1883. Engraved invitation, printed on heavy cardstock, measuring 6.5 x 9 inches. Illustrated with an image of the Brooklyn Bridge and the seals of the City of New York and the City of Brooklyn. Completed in manuscript with the name of recipient A.J. McCall. Faint.....
Price: $850.00
The Gentlemen’s Valentine Writer
Long Lane, Smithfield: J.L. Marks, circa 1840. Octavo pamphlet, measuring 7 x 4.25 inches: [8]. Original deep blue pictorial wrappers printed in black, hand-colored pictorial title page. Penciled note “Valentines” to head of front wrapper; small inked number to corner of rear wrapper. Half-inch split to wrappers at top of.....
Price: $750.00
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
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 Cat's Pilgrimage
New Haven: The East Rock Press, 1949. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [10], 30. Original pale blue paper boards, printed title label to upper board, tan endpapers, original unclipped salmon pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text; hand-numbered at colophon. Light shelfwear to fragile jacket, with.....
Price: $45.00
Group of ten hand-colored phénakistiscope discs
Germany and/or France: circa 1835. Group of ten hand-colored lithographed phénakistiscope discs, printed on card, each measuring seven inches in diameter. Edgewear to several of the center holes, where the disc was mounted to a handle or stand; marginal smudge to tightrope walker disc. Accompanied by a cardboard backing disc.....
Price: $5,000.00
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
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 2.4 x 2 inches, depicting shopkeepers; seventy-two letterpress stock cards (six per shop), measuring 1.6 x 1.9 inches; instruction booklet, measuring 5.1 x 4 inches, entitled “Explanation to The Laughable Game of What.....
Price: $4,800.00
Noah’s Dominoes
Montrose, Pennsylvania: Crandall’s of Montrose, circa 1875. Twenty-eight wooden dominoes, each measuring 4 x 2 inches, cut one quarter-inch thick. Chromolithographed images of animal heads and tails mounted to rectos; versos printed with domino patterns in black ink directly on wooden surface. Lightest edgewear. Housed in manufacturer’s wooden box, measuring.....
Price: $1,000.00
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
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
Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1888. Large quarto, measuring 10.75 x 8.25 inches: [2], 28. Original heavy cream wrappers hand-lettered in gold paint, bound with later cream ribbon. Three engraved plates, including portrait frontispiece; twelve additional illustrations throughout text. Two tiny chips to painted title, repair to inner edge of frontispiece.....
Price: $950.00
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 Shrinking of Treehorn; Treehorn’s Treasure; Treehorn’s Wish
New York: Holiday House, 1971, 1981, 1984. Three oblong volumes, measuring 6 x 6.75 inches: [64], [64], [64]. Original pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jackets. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. The Shrinking of Treehorn and Treehorn’s Treasure signed by Gorey on title page; Treehorn’s Wish inscribed by Heide on.....
Price: $500.00
The Gift of the Magi
(Natick, MA): Picture Book Studio, (1982). Tall narrow folio, measuring 13.5 x 8.25 inches: [28]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout text.
Price: $45.00
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
Needlework sampler referencing the wrath of Achilles
[England]: October 14, 1790. Needlework sampler on unbleached linen, measuring 16 x 14 inches, in black and gilt wooden frame. Embroidered floral border in pink, blue, yellow, green, and white; text, signature, and date in black; cross-stitched lower rule in pink and green. Remnant of label to verso: “William Whiteley.....
Price: $2,800.00
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
The Hermit-Woman
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1983. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 76, [2] . Original stiff orange and yellow patterned wrappers. A few tiny spots to wrappers.
Price: $125.00
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
The Hound & Horn, I-VII (complete run of 28 numbers)
Portland, Maine: The Hound & Horn, 1927-1934. Complete run of 28 numbers, each measuring 9 x 6 inches, in original printed wrappers, some with tipped-in and laid-in publisher’s slips. Signature of Olive B. White to V:4; bookplate of Carl Van Vechten to VII:1. Light shelfwear to some volumes, occasional stray.....
Price: $2,800.00
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). 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
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
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
Europa Redux: 6892 Color Illustrations, Captioned in an Imaginary Language
Switzerland: 1940-1946. Manuscript consisting of 106 loose poster-sized sheets, each measuring 17.25 x 23 inches. Each sheet covered with a grid of uniformly sized color illustrations, executed in pencil, oil pastel, watercolors or crayon on rectos only, 42 to 81 images to a sheet. Numbers penciled in margins (at least.....
Price: $38,000.00