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Guide to Chirography, in a Series of Writing Books. Book Second (American schoolboy’s copybook)
Salem: John W. Archer, 1832. Side-stitched copybook, measuring 6.5 x 8.25 inches: [32]. Original tan pictorial wrappers, featuring a wood engraving of two hands holding quill pens. Ownership signature of Alexander Clapp to top righthand corner of front wrapper; date “Dec. 14, 1834” to top lefthand corner. Every page covered.....
Price: $275.00
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
Here and Now Story Book. Two- to Seven-Year-Olds
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., (1939). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: xii, [2], 360. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout text. Early owner signature to front free endpaper; bookseller label (Union Book.....
Price: $85.00
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
La Favola delle Favole
Mantua: Marzia Corraini, (1994). Single volume, measuring 12 x 12 inches: [118]. Original color pictorial photographic wrappers, bound with binder clips, as issued. 59 unnumbered leaves on various paper stocks: some colored, some transparent, some with cut-outs, some with drawings. Bound into the volume is a heavy piece of cardboard.....
Price: $550.00
Color New York
New York: Timbre Books, (1985). Side-stapled volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [10], 65, [5]. Original glossy color pictorial wrappers. Black-and-white line drawings throughout text. Wrappers lightly sunned.
Price: $100.00
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French, and Dutch -- in the West Indies and South America
[London]: Andre Deutsch, (1963). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 232. Original black boards lettered in gilt, turquoise and black cartographic endpapers, top edge stained turquoise, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price sticker to front flap. Inscribed “V.S. Naipaul / for Al Murray” on title page. Light.....
Price: $1,250.00
The Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
Price: $1,250.00
Observations on Hamlet; and on the Motives which Most Probably Induced Shakspeare to Fix upon the Story of Amleth, from the Danish Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, for the Plot of that Tragedy; Being an Attempt to Prove that He Designed It as an Indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots. Bound with: An Appendix to Observations on Hamlet
Cambridge: J. Burges, Printer to the University, 1796-1797. Two octavo volumes bound in one, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 44; [2], 85, [1]. Recent full polished calf, boards tooled in blind with a floral border, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Bound without.....
Price: $2,800.00
The Raven and Other Poems
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Octavo, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 91, [1]. 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.....
Price: $12,500.00
Town & Country
New York: Crown Publishers, 1984. Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by the Provensens with a sketch on half-title. Small bookseller ticket (Adventures for Kids, Ventura, CA) to front jacket flap, corners.....
Price: $100.00
You Can Design
New York: Whittlesey House, (1939). Spiral-bound volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [126]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in darker blue, orange endpapers. Monochrome and color illustrations throughout text. Ink presentation inscription on the half title: “N.Y. Jan. 30. 39 / to Dean and Mrs. E. Raymond Bossange / with.....
Price: $950.00
Charles F. Heartman Reviews Dr. Rosenbach’s Young American Parade (broadside)
No place: no publisher, [1933]. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Two faint creases from folding, several small paper repairs and evidence of previous mount to verso, one short closed tear.
Price: $500.00
Audubon
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer’s note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket.....
Price: $150.00
Notes by Mr. Ruskin on his Collection of Drawings by the Late J.M.W. Turner; with: original season ticket to the 1878 exhibition of Ruskin’s Turner collection at the Fine Art Society
London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, for the Fine Art Society, 1878. Large quarto, measuring 11 x 8.75 inches: [4], 188, [2]. Contemporary polished tree calf, floral gilt rules to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and elaborately decorated in gilt, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.....
Price: $1,250.00
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: $400.00
Stockdale’s Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, The Whole of His Dramatic Works; with Explanatory Notes compiled from Various Commentators
London: John Stockdale, 1784. Octavo, measuring 8.75 x 5.5 inches: [18], 1079, [1]. Full period-style calf, boards ruled and decorated in gilt, lyre cornerpieces, spine elaborately tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label. Engraved frontispiece of Shakespeare; preliminaries including Rowe’s life of Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s will. Text in two columns.....
Price: $2,000.00
The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra
(Hammersmith): (The Doves Press), 1912. Small quarto, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [6], 7-140, [4]. Original full limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Colophon and list of corrections to the 1623 folio text at rear. Printed in Doves type in red and black ink. Housed in a custom clamshell box.....
Price: $5,000.00
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, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $7,500.00
Mathematical Merry Thoughts, Plate 1
London: Harrison Isaacs, circa 1830. Hand-colored etching and aquatint, measuring 9 x 10 inches. Faint spotting, dash of paint to verso.
Price: $450.00
Spinky Sulks
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, lavender endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Spine lightly sunned, short tape repair to verso of jacket.
Price: $35.00
“Composition as Explanation,” in The Dial, Volume LXXXI, No. 4
Camden, New Jersey: The Dial Publishing Company, October 1926. Octavo, measuring 10 x 6.25 inches: i-viii, 269-358, ix-xii. Original buff wrappers printed in black. Illustrated with eight full-page plates (one with mounted color reproduction). “Composition as Explanation” appears on pages 327-336. One dot to cover, tiny bump to foot of.....
Price: $100.00
Eskimo Cook Book
Anchorage: Alaska Crippled Children's Association, (1952). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 5.25 x 4 inches: [2], 36, [2]. Original salmon pictorial wrappers, line drawings throughout text. Staples beginning to rust.
Price: $85.00
An Idyll in Venice
London: The Religious Tract Society, (1906). Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5.25: [2], 240, [16]. Original pale green pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. Seven full-page plates, including a photographic “general view” of Venice. Publisher’s catalog at rear, text block foxed, cloth binding fresh.
Price: $85.00
A Book for Christmas Reading
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, 1947. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [14], 206. Original full green morocco decoratively stamped in gilt, gilt dentelles, red moiré silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Printed in black and red, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, text block uncut and partially unopened. Spine panel toned and.....
Price: $250.00
Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 38 full-page plates.....
Price: $2,800.00
Philipok
New York: Philomel Books, 2000. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Price: $150.00
Killing and Dying
[Montreal]: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.
Price: $100.00
Il Disegno alla Lavagna. Corso di Disegno per gli Istituti Magistrali. Volume III
Firenze: Sansoni, (1956). Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 13 inches: [8], 60 numbered plates printed recto only. Original pictorial wrappers printed in black, brown, and white. Embossed stamp of the Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori to title, marginal note in pencil to plate 44. Shelfworn wrappers creased and clipped.....
Price: $350.00