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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
Slaves of Christo
(Brooklyn): Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2005. Side-stapled volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [3], 29, [4]. Original tan card wrappers printed letterpress in orange, black, and blue; orange felt square affixed to upper wrapper with brass fasteners; laser-printed text block with color illustrations on first and last pages. Three small staple...
Price: $100.00
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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
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 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
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
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
Georgia O’Keeffe
New York: The Viking Press, (1976). Folio, measuring 16 x 11.75 inches: [228]. Original textured ivory cloth lettered in brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 104 color plates, one folding, of O’Keeffe’s paintings; portrait of O’Keeffe by Dan Budnik. Presentation inscription from O’Keeffe to photographer Malcolm Varon.....
Price: $4,500.00
The Raven and Other Poems
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Octavo measuring 7.25 x 5 inches, early twentieth-century full russet calf, boards single-ruled in gilt, raised bands, black morocco spine labels, spine single-ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Handwritten slip tipped onto second fly leaf noting “inner gilt dentelles by Zaehnsdorf.”...
Price: $12,500.00
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1919. Single volume measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 382, [2]. Publisher’s original full vellum, front board ruled and stamped in gilt with design by Clarke, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed...
Price: $8,000.00
The Nicest Gift
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1973). Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Neat owner signature to front free endpaper. Light discoloration to endpapers, lightest wear to jacket spine ends and corners.
Price: $150.00
Emily Post's Motor Manners . . . The Bluebooklet of Traffic Etiquette
[Washington, D.C.]: National Highway Users Conference, (1956). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 4.25 x 6 inches: 48 (wrappers included in pagination). Original blue wrappers printed in white and black; illustrations printed in blue and black throughout text. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $85.00
My Fellow Americans: A Family Album
San Diego: Browndeer Press, (1995). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 11.5 inches: [7], 10-61, [1]. Original red cloth spine lettered in gilt over blue paper boards, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers (included in pagination). Color illustrations on almost every page. Laid-in bookplate signed by Alice Provensen with a sketch.
Price: $50.00
Qiu yu qiu feng [“Autumn rain, autumn wind”: memorial for the executed revolutionary Qiu Jin]
[Shanghai]: Jung cun shu ju; Hong wen shu ju, 1907. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [4], 75, [1]. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, ornamental border stamped in purple on upper wrapper. Half-title printed on green paper. Portrait of Qiu Jin in Japanese dress, wielding a sword, following...
Price: $20,000.00
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1933). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 287, [1]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and triple-ruled in gilt, spine lettered and illustrated in gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in gold, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, brown silk ribbon marker. Half title with...
Price: $2,500.00
Calendar 1972
Tokyo: (Takum Craft Shop), 1972. Portfolio measuring 15 x 11.5 inches, original stiff mulberry paper wrappers, two pastedown stencil-dyed mulberry paper labels to front wrapper, pastedown table of contents to rear wrapper, twelve loose broadside sheets (one for each month), each stencil-dyed in multiple colors on mulberry paper, untrimmed.
Price: $550.00
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: [6], 134, [2]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with tree design, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page...
Price: $3,200.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in...
Price: $7,500.00
The Defense of Poesy
Glasgow: R. Urie, 1752. Twelvemo, full eighteenth-century calf, spine ruled in gilt, pp. [1-2] 3-106. Ink ownership signature dated 1838 to front free endpaper. Two tiny wormholes; text block resewn at an early date; light occasional foxing; expert repair to binding joints and corners.
Price: $1,500.00
The Three Golden Keys
New York: Doubleday, 1994. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 10 inches; [64]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Full-page color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Peter Sis on front flyleaf with sketch of a cat. Barely perceptible creasing to top edge of jacket.
Price: $100.00
Gold Coast Customs and Other Poems
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Small octavo, 64 pp. Original textured gilt paper boards, black cloth spine with pastedown label, top edge stained black, original unclipped salmon-pink dust jacket printed in black, text block uncut and partially unopened. Frontispiece portrait by Pavel Tchelitchew, three pages of endnotes...
Price: $55.00