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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
American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School, and Nursery School. A Book for Children, Parents, and Teachers
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., (1948). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: [2], 190. Original pale green pictorial cloth stamped in red, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Musical scores and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Light shelfwear to jacket.
Price: $75.00
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
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
Four-Way Blocks (farm animals)
No place: no publisher, [1972]. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 8.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. Lightest wear.
Price: $750.00
Four-Way Blocks (wild animals)
Princeton: Creative Playthings, 1972. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 7.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. Copyright information printed at base of giraffe image. Housed in original box with tape repairs.
Price: $250.00
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
Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written Not Long Since by Edmunde Spenser
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Small octavo, measuring 5 x 3 inches: [140]. Original publisher’s vellum lettered in gilt, text block uncut and partially unopened. Vignettes on both title pages, decorative headpieces and tailpieces. Bookplate of George B. Cluett to front free endpaper.
Price: $250.00
The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself in Quarto
London: J. Brindley and S. Wright, 1751. Three quarto volumes, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [7], iv-lxiii, [1], ii-xxxvii, [3], 453, [1]; [2], 450; [2], 440. Contemporary full calf rebacked, gilt acorn and foliate border to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco.....
Price: $2,800.00
Favissæ Utriusque Antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in quibus Reperiuntur Simulacra Deorum, icones magnorum Ducum, Poetarum, Virorumque in quavis arte illustrium, accedunt fæminæ tam virtutibus quam vitiis illustres
Ultrajecti [Utrecht]: Typis Gerardi Muntendam, 1707. Quarto, measuring 7.5 x 6 inches: [8], 199, [1]. Modern shagreen spine, marbled boards, endpapers renewed. Woodcut initials and ornaments throughout text, 99 engraved portraits, index and errata. Occasional early ink annotations, including a sketch. Faint tidemark to lower corner of opening signatures (not.....
Price: $950.00
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
The James Brown Reader. Written by Mr. Welvin Stroud’s Sixth Grade Class at the Martin Luther King School
San Francisco: The More Distribution Company, 1968. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.25 inches: [20]. Original orange pictorial wrappers, line drawings throughout text. Light crease to one page, a few tiny spots to rear wrapper.
Price: $225.00
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
Vivaldi
Kolbotn, Norway: Magikon Forlag, 2012. Single volume, measuring 8 x 6.5 inches: [88]. Original blue paper pictorial boards stamped in white, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped double-sided color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $150.00
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
Original concept art for the children’s psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital
New York City: no publisher, [circa 1940]. Sixteen original mural designs, executed in pencil and paint on cardboard, ranging in size from 6 x 3 inches (smallest) to 8 x 15 inches (largest), some with pencil notes to versos. Twelve designs accompanied by black-and-white photographs of the completed murals in.....
Price: $2,800.00
Tentoonstelling der Nagelaten Werken van Vincent Van Gogh
Amsterdam: Kunstzaal Panorama, 1892. Oblong volume, measuring 7 x 8.25 inches: [12]. Original tan wrappers with lithographed sunflower design by R.N. Roland Holst. A few spots of foxing to front wrapper, tiny chip to rear wrapper. Housed in a custom clamshell box with the bookplate of Barry Humphries.
Price: $15,000.00
English Classics Abridged; Being Select Works of Addison, Pope, and Milton, Adapted to the Perusal of Youth, of Both Sexes, at School. To Which Are Prefixed Observations on the Several Authors, Addressed to Parents and Preceptors
London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1786. Twelvemo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: xv, [1], 367, [1]. Contemporary calf rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, red morocco spine label tooled in gilt. Presentation inscription from editor John Walker on verso of front free endpaper. Marginal.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Duchess of Malfi
London: Sylvan Press, 1945. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xxii, [2], 88. Original pictorial orange cloth stamped in gilt, ivory endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Introductory essays by George Rylands and Charles Williams, line drawings by Michael Ayrton throughout text. Ink inscription to front pastedown: “In appreciation.....
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 Ballad of Biddy Early
New York: Knopf, (1989). Slim quarto, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [40]. Original black cloth spine lettered in red over tan paper boards, coated red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Watercolor illustrations throughout text. Signed by Nancy Willard on title page.
Price: $35.00
Working Cotton
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page.
Price: $50.00
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