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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
Harriet and the Promised Land
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: [36]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, orange endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed and dated 8/93 by Jacob Lawrence on half-title.
Price: $850.00
Mourka: The Autobiography of a Cat
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1965. Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: [60]. Original heliotrope cloth lettered in silver, original unclipped photographic dust jacket printed in purple, black, and white, photographic endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs on every page. Green ink stamp (“Printed in Great Britain”) and publisher’s ink correction.....
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
Birds, Beasts and Fishes
London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5.25 inches: [8], 248. Original purple cloth lettered in silver, solid plum endpapers, original unclipped plum dust jacket printed in purple and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Bookseller ticket to base of front pastedown. Spine panel lightly sunned.....
Price: $75.00
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
“A Kuklapolitan Diary.” With: Kuklapolitan Courier Year Book annotated by Washburn. With: publicity photograph inscribed to Washburn by show creator Burr Tillstrom
Chicago: 1951-1952. Spiral-bound notebook, measuring 9 x 6 inches: (108). Brown paper boards titled in ink, two pastedown typed title labels, typed address label of Patricia Washburn affixed to inner front cover. All pages filled with handwritten diary entries in blue and black ink. Laid in are five folded leaves.....
Price: $1,250.00
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
Ornamental Digressions: A Showing of Pinwheel Ornaments
[New York]: Russell Maret, 2016. Single volume, measuring 14 x 10 inches: [56]. Orange morocco spine lettered in gilt, orange handmade paper boards printed with pinwheel ornaments. Text printed letterpress, most leaves recto only, in black and colored inks. Signed and numbered by Russell Maret on colophon. Housed in original.....
Price: $1,500.00
Le Merveilleux Voyage de la Goutte de Vitamine
[New York]: [Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies], [1942]. Oblong volume, measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches: [20]. Pale blue comb binding, original color-lithographed pictorial wrappers, printed foreword followed by nineteen lithographed pages, including seven full-page color illustrations. Light offsetting from color lithographs to facing pages.
Price: $750.00
Mother Makes Christmas
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Small quarto, measuring 8.25 x 7.5 inches: [28]. Original color pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers printed in blue and white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout text. Light shelfwear to jacket, with tiny chips to spine ends and.....
Price: $95.00
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
Sammelband of poems, including Hannah More’s first published work
London, Oxford, and Bristol: various publishers, 1771-1774. Quarto, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches, containing ten separately published works: [4],44; [4], 4-38; 6, 71, [3]; [4], 24; [8], 37, [1]; [2], 24; [4], 18; [2], iv,30; [2], 31, [1]; vi, 7-41, [1]. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked and recornered, floral gilt rules.....
Price: $5,600.00
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
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
Les Spectacles Instructifs, ou Les Serins Hollandais, Les Moineaux Francs du Palais-Royal, La Chasse au Faucon, Le Cormoran Pêcheur de la Chine, Le Lièvre Intrépide, Les Singes Militaires, Les Serpens Indiens, etc.
Paris: A. Nepveu, 1817. Eighteenmo, measuring 5 x 3 inches: viii, 191, [1]. Nineteenth-century polished calf, boards and spine decoratively tooled in blind and gilt, deep blue marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, green silk ribbon marker. Eight hand-colored engraved plates after designs by Dugourc.
Price: $4,000.00
The Country Girls
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1960. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 223, [1]. Original black cloth, pale blue title block lettered in gilt on spine, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Edna O’Brien on title page. Light shelfwear to jacket, with a few tiny chips and closed.....
Price: $800.00
A Bloomsbury Souvenir; with: Six Views of Bloomsbury (postcards)
London: Design for Today, [2017]. Concertina booklet printed on stiff card, measuring 4 x 6 inches folded, extending to 52 inches when fully opened. Color lithography on both sides. Signed and numbered by Alice Pattullo. With: publisher’s small circular adhesive seal (for mailing) and separate suite of six individual color.....
Price: $100.00
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
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: $85.00
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
John Coltrane’s Giant Steps
New York: Atheneum Books, 2002. Single volume, measuring 10 x 11 inches: [5], 4-33, [1]. Original color printed pictorial boards, rainbow striped endpapers, original clear mylar jacket overprinted in black. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Raschka on the page facing the title. Lightest rubbing to mylar jacket.
Price: $75.00
The Westing Game; with: Newbery and Caldecott Awards dinner program for 1979; with: The Westing Game souvenir $1000 bill
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [6], 185, [1]. Original red cloth spine lettered in black, orange paper boards, red endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by 1979 Newbery winner Ellen Raskin, with no Newbery medal affixed. Pinpoint foxing to edges, lightest.....
Price: $650.00
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
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