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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
Zazie
London: The Bodley Head, (1960). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [10], 11-207, [1]. Original red cloth boards lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Jacket spine toned, lightest edgewear.
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
Numerous Names Nimbly Narrated
New York: Oxford University Press, (1930). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [64]. Original color pictorial paper boards, blue cloth spine. Single-sided leaves colored en pochoir, text block uncut. No dust jacket, light shelfwear and smudging to binding.
Price: $300.00
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
Poems Written by Mr William Shakespeare
London: Thomas Evans, [1775]. Small octavo, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [2], viii, 250. Nineteenth-century full polished tree calf, spine decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait of Shakespeare on title page. Early ownership signature to flyleaf, engraved bookplate to front pastedown. Lightest shelfwear.
Price: $1,250.00
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
Four Faces
Princeton, New Jersey: Creative Playthings, [1971]. Four mylar masks for children, with accompanying rubber headbands. Housed in Creative Playthings printed plastic sleeve with snap closure, original retailer’s price label.
Price: $350.00
Four-Way Blocks (wild animals)
Princeton: Creative Playthings, circa 1972. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 7.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Creative Playthings" printed at base of giraffe image. Housed in original cardboard box with price label, box rubbed and worn.
Price: $250.00
The Rivals, A Comedy
London: John Wilkie, 1775. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, [6], 100. Modern full red morocco by Rivière, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled doublures, all edges gilt. Bound with half-title. Penciled bookseller notes and bookplate of Montgomery Evans II to front pastedown. Typed description on card with.....
Price: $1,500.00
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Newark and New York: Charles E. Graham & Co., (1930). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.75 inches: [1], v-xv, [1], 17-76. Original dark green cloth, color pictorial pastedown to front board, spine and front board lettered in gilt, color cartographic endpapers. Color illustrations on every page, sixteen full-page color plates.....
Price: $225.00
Stories from the Chap-Book; with: New Stories from the Chap-Book
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1896, 1898. Two octavo volumes, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: [6], 5-241, [5], [8]; [6], 3-260, [2]. Original color-lithographed pictorial cloth, top edges gilt. Title of Stories printed in red and black; publisher’s catalogue dated October 1896 at rear. Title of New Stories printed.....
Price: $225.00
Honey & Wax tote bag
Enviro-Tote, 2022. Heavyweight natural cotton tote bag, measuring 15 x 13 inches, printed with the Honey & Wax logo.
Price: $20.00
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
Anna Karenina; with: original lithographic proofs of the illustrations
Cambridge: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1951. Two volumes, measuring 8.75 x 6 inches: xii, 1-504; [4], 505-935. Original color-printed pictorial cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, color pictorial endpapers. Title pages and colophon printed in black and green; occasional vignettes printed in.....
Price: $2,000.00
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
L'Asie. D'Après les Voyageurs les Plus Célèbres. Par un Homme de Lettres. Deuxième Édition
Lille: L. Lefort, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1850. Twelvemo, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: 216. Original white cartonnage binding embossed in gilt, hand-colored lithographed vignette of a balloon launch to upper board, gilt paper dentelles. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, pictorial title page. Printed geography prize label, completed in ink, to front pastedown: “Ècole et.....
Price: $450.00
Rubber stamp featuring Harriet Tubman, for use on the United States $20 bill
New York: Casey Rubber Stamps, 2020. Red rubber stamp, mounted to wooden base measuring 2 x 2 inches. Image of Harriet Tubman stamped in black ink to base.
Price: $25.00
Uncut hand-marbled sheet from De Humani Corporis Fabrica
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1998. Single uncut sheet, measuring 23 x 17.5 inches, printed with text and anatomical images from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, hand-marbled in blue, yellow, and pink.
Price: $150.00
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) Object Assembly Test
New York City: The Psychological Corporation, circa 1950s. Two-dimensional wooden puzzle. Housed in original green cardboard box measuring 4 x 6.5 inches, printed in silver with manufacturer’s information and a capital letter indicating the subject of the puzzle.
Price: $25.00
Ida M'Toy
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1979). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [40]. Original red cloth, upper board stamped with gilt device. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Numbered in ink and signed by author on colophon.
Price: $350.00
Here Is New York
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 54, [2]. Original pale grey cloth lettered in red, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, illustration by Edward C. Caswell. Ink presentation inscription from E.B. White to A.J. Liebling on front free endpaper. Spine panel sunned.....
Price: $10,000.00
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
The Wound Dresser. A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals of Washington During the War of the Rebellion
Boston: Small, Maynard, & Company, 1898. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: [8], viii, [2], 201, [5]. Original red buckram, printed paper spine label, all edges untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of Walt Whitman opposite title, portrait of Louisa Whitman and facsimile of a July 1863 letter inserted in text. Replacement spine.....
Price: $2,800.00