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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.....
Price: $200.00
Preces Niersis Clajensis Sedecim-Linguis
Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1818. Eighteenmo, measuring 4.25 x 3 inches: 204. Contemporary pale pink vellum boards decoratively bordered in gilt, spine stamped in gilt, color-printed patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title page in Armenian, text printed in sixteen languages. Light shelfwear to vellum.
Price: $650.00
International Picture Language. The First Rules of Isotype
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1936. Single volume, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: 117, [1], [2]. Red cloth spine, original buff paper boards lettered in red, pastedown spine label. Price of 2/6 overstamped on upper board with 3/6 in black ink. Folding table of “Basic English” facing title.....
Price: $3,000.00
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables by the Abbot Banier
Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. Two folio volumes, measuring 17.5 x 12 inches, continuously paginated: [24], 1-247, [1]; [2], 249-524, [4]. Contemporary full mottled calf rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, crimson and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, boards gilt-ruled with central gilt.....
Price: $7,000.00
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
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
Panels for the Walls of Heaven
[Berkeley]: Bern Porter, 1946. Square volume, measuring 8 x 8 inches: [2], 67, [1]. Hand-painted color pictorial boards, wrapped in original acetate, with colophon and Patchen’s signature painted on lower board; printed spine label; top edge stained turquoise; original stamped price of $8.50 beneath acetate on inside front board. Text.....
Price: $2,200.00
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
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
Hiawatha
London: George G. Harrap & Company, [1914]. Color-printed pictorial panorama in sixteen panels, folded concertina-style, measuring 5.75 x 80 inches unfolded, text printed on verso. Original color-printed pictorial paper boards, measuring 6 x 5.25 inches, identically printed. Light shelfwear and spotting to boards.
Price: $200.00
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
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.....
Price: $50.00
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
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
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
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
A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1815. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8.25 x 5 inches: xv, [1], 391, [1]; iv, 390. Contemporary speckled calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red. Armorial bookplates of Frances Mary Richardson.....
Price: $1,800.00
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 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.....
Price: $100.00
High Water
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1937. Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 79, [1]. Original color lithographed pictorial paper boards, black cloth spine, color lithographed pictorial endpapers. Color and black-and-white lithographic illustrations throughout text. Early owner signature to half-title. Lightest shelfwear, corners bumped, no dust jacket.
Price: $35.00
Transport -- Next Half Century 1951-2000
New York: Canterbury Printing Company, 1950. Oblong side-stapled volume, measuring 8.75 x 11 inches: [16]. Stiff color pictorial wrappers, dark blue and white graphics to interior wrappers, original glassine. Printer’s glossy typographic insert bound in, pale blue tissue endleaves. Illustrations on every page printed in blue, orange, and black.
Price: $850.00
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
The Duchess of Malfi
London: Sylvan Press, 1945. Tall octavo, original pictorial orange cloth stamped in gilt, ivory endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Introductory essays by George Rylands and Charles Williams, black-and-white line drawings by Michael Ayrton throughout text. Ink inscription to front pastedown: “In appreciation of a kindness / Mary / November.....
Price: $35.00
Less Than Nothing -- or The Life and Times of Sterling Finny
[New York]: [The New Yorker], [1927]. Single volume, measuring 9 x 5.75 inches: [28]. Original green cloth spine, orange and black batik paper boards with green pastedown label to front board. Illustrated with ten black-and-white photographs staged and shot by White. Hinges reinforced, lightest edgewear to binding.
Price: $2,800.00
Invitation to private reception following Whitman’s lecture, “The Death of Abraham Lincoln”
New York City: April 14, 1887. Ivory card, measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches, printed recto only: “Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel, Irving Place and 16th St., New York.” Penciled bookseller note to verso: “April 14, 1887 for his most famous.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8.5 inches: [32]. Original beige cloth over blue paper boards stamped in silver, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $35.00
Bread Givers
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Octavo, original black ribbed cloth stamped in gold. Title page printed in red and black. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Intermittent foxing to text block, foxing to edges.
Price: $950.00