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Stories from Hans Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1911). Quarto, measuring 12 x 10 inches: [2], viii, 250, [2]. Original full vellum, front board and spine lettered and stamped in gilt with design by Dulac, ties renewed, olive-patterned pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut. Limitation page signed by Dulac before frontispiece...
Price: $2,400.00
Nos Frères D'Amérique
Paris: Chez Devambez, circa 1917. Single oblong volume, measuring 5 x 6.5 inches: [28]. Original color pictorial wrappers bound with silk cord, uncut. Twelve full-page color pochoir illustrations by Guy Arnoux. Lightest smudging to lower wrapper.
Price: $350.00
The Young Artist’s Assistant, a New Drawing Book; Containing Full Instructions for Drawing and Colouring Birds, Beasts, Flowers, Landscapes, Shipping, the Human Figure, Shells, Insects, &c. &c..; [with] Supplement to The Young Artist’s Assistant, a New Drawing Book; Containing Directions for Drawing, Colouring, Mixing Colours, &c.; [with] four booklets of colored and uncolored wood-engraved plates
Clerkenwell, London: T. Monck, circa 1826. Six side-stitched booklets, measuring approximately 2.75 x 4.5 inches: [2], 10, [4]; 11-22; [4]; [4]; [4]; [4]; plates included in collation. First booklet with text and four wood-engraved plates (two hand-colored, two identical plates uncolored) in original printed wrappers; second booklet containing text only...
Price: $1,000.00
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
Unbound illustrated sheet from “A Manual for Cleaning Ladies”
Washington, D.C. (i.e. Healdsburg, California): Zephyrus Image, 1977. Single oblong unbound sheet, measuring 6.75 x 9 inches, printed on both sides. Two linocut illustrations, one full-page.
Price: $75.00
China Days. Temple Hill Cut-Outs
Yantai, China: Self-Help Department, Women's Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, circa 1930. Oblong folio, measuring 14 x 10.5 inches. Contemporary flexible boards covered in gold silk brocade with red stitching. Letterpress description of “the cut-outs of Temple Hill” mounted to front pastedown. 42 pages, 24 of which are decorated with tissue-guarded...
Price: $2,400.00
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York: The Noonday Press, 1966. Octavo, original printed wraps designed by Ronald Clyne. Ink inscription by Jane Bowles to poet Sam Hazo on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear, small crease to spine.
Price: $850.00
Old Pictures in Florence
Florence: Giulio Giannini & Son, [1923]. Sixteenmo pamphlet, measuring 5.75 x 3.75 inches: [48]. Original red, green, and yellow patterned paper wrappers, pastedown label to upper wrapper. Two black-and-white views of Florence; seven halftone reproductions of paintings printed on rectos only. Endnotes at rear. Occasional spot of foxing.
Price: $35.00
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Továrna Na Absolutno [The Absolute at Large]
Brno: Polygraphie, 1922. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 5.5 inches: 219, [5]. Original tan pictorial wrappers with blue and orange design by the author’s brother Josef, spine and lower wrapper lettered in blue, text block uncut, many individual signatures unsewn and laid in (as issued). Title page printed in blue and...
Price: $3,000.00
The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias
London: T. Jefferys, at the Corner of St. Martin’s Lane, Charing-Cross, 1768. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: xxiii, [1] 3-258. Contemporary three-quarter calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, traces of gilt decoration to spine compartments, marbled paper boards, no spine label, text block uncut. Woodcut initials and headpieces throughout...
Price: $5,000.00
A Book of Narrative Verse
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 3.5: xix, [1], 412. Original blindstamped blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. Bookplate of Jack and Frances Donaldson to front free endpaper, lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $35.00
The Way of the World and Love for Love. Two Comedies by William Congreve
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. Octavo, original black pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, buff and black pictorial endpapers, original black pictorial dust jacket decorated in turquoise, fore-edge deckled. Twelve full-page black-and-white plates, black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightest rubbing and edgewear to boards, shallow chipping to jacket spine ends...
Price: $75.00
Walt. The Good Gray Poet Speaks for Himself
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [14], 330, [1]. Original full tan pebbled cloth, spine and front board lettered in brown, yellow endpapers decorated with publisher’s seal, top edge stained brown. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket in brown and tan. Small presentation...
Price: $75.00
The College Girl of America and the Institutions Which Make Her What She Is
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1905. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [2], xiv, 319, [1]. Original full pictorial ribbed grey cloth, front board and spine stamped in red, black, peach, and gilt, top edge gilt, foreedge uncut. Frontispiece portrait of “a typical college girl of America,” illustrated with...
Price: $400.00
Undine
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: viii, 136. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with vignette by Rackham, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page...
Price: $2,000.00
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1911]. Quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, sixteen staple-bound pages. Includes seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Light general foxing and toning.
Price: $3,800.00
Archive of original midcentury porcelain designs
Rome: Faro Disegni, circa 1940-1965. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates, each on a separate sheet, of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil, ink, and watercolor on heavy paper, most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches, and a smaller group of 57 sketches, executed...
Price: $2,500.00
Original gouache pattern inspired by Paleolithic cave paintings
Manchester: Geoffrey George, circa 1950. Original gouache design, painted in brown and white on single sheet of black paper, measuring 10.25 x 9.25 inches. Evidence of adhesive removal to verso.
Price: $150.00
Wrapping paper design for the Eifler Seed Company
Vienna: circa 1950. Original pen and watercolor design on single sheet of buff paper, measuring 16.5 x 12.5 inches. Adhesive residue from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $700.00
"Hamburg" (wallpaper sample)
Bransche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1952. Pictorial wallpaper sample, printed in black and grey, measuring 15.5 x 18 inches. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / HAMBURG 1 / R2087 / $3.25 PER SINGLE ROLL.” Two short closed tears to top edge.
Price: $250.00
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[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (K bunsha), (1928) [Showa 3]. Single volume, 8.75 x. 5.75 inches, [6], 246, [6] pp. Original half blue cloth over color pictorial wrappers depicting a stylized Sherlock Holmes and Mary Morstan, blue cloth ornamented and lettered in black and gilt, purple pictorial endpapers. Illustrated title page printed in magenta...
Price: $850.00
The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton. With: presentation card from dedicatees Bill and Noma Copley
(London): Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., (1960). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [122]. Original green paper boards lettered in black and white dots. Text printed in black, orange, and blue. Illustrated with photolithographed annotations and vignettes, full-page drawings, diagrams, photographs of Duchamp’s work (including one folding plate), and musical...
Price: $650.00
Celebrated Crimes
London: H.S. Nichols, 1895. Eight octavo volumes, contemporary full plum crushed morocco gilt, boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a fleur-de-lis motif, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Title pages in red and black, text printed on vellum, all volumes illustrated with photogravures...
Price: $3,800.00
The Writings of George Eliot, Together with the Life by J.W. Cross; WITH: autograph letter signed by George Eliot as M.E. Lewes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Twenty-five octavo volumes, contemporary full blue morocco gilt, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, blue silk ribbon markers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut and partially unopened. Title pages printed in red and black. Illustrated with photogravures throughout text...
Price: $7,500.00
The Poetic Reader, Containing Selections from the most approved authors, designed for Exercises in Reading, Singing, Parsing, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric and Punctuation; to which are prefixed Directions for Reading
Wethersfield [Connecticut]: no publisher, 1832. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: 95, [1]. Contemporary three-quarter sheep, marbled boards, spine lettered and double-ruled in gilt, all edges speckled blue. Wear to spine, first blank excised, with part of the clean cut affecting gutter of title page, dampstain in gutter of title...
Price: $100.00
Chromolithographic Invitation to the Lang & Nau Fall Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
New York: Sackett, Williams and Betzig, [1882]. Chromolithographic pictorial trade card heightened in gold, measuring 5 by 4 inches, invitation on verso printed in black and white. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $250.00
Art Deco valentine featuring Elizabeth and Essex
Chicago: Carrington Co., circa 1920s. Die cut pictorial valentine, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches, printed in color and gilt. Faint ink signature ("Marshall") to bottom right corner.
Price: $75.00
Dess Epictetus Politische Sitten-Lehre in vier der Sprachen vornembsten Europens übersetzt
Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Henrico Ebersbach, 1694. Octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: [16], 127, [1]. Eighteenth-century Italian binding, three strips of vellum per board hand-painted with ornaments in black and gold around a central window of red and gold marbled paper, manuscript shelf label in black ink on spine, matching yellow...
Price: $5,000.00
The Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Rendered into English
London: E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1671. Octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: [8], 555, [1]. Contemporary Cambridge-style full speckled calf, boards ruled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained. Engraved frontispiece portrait...
Price: $4,000.00
Father Abraham
New York: Random House, 1983. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped patterned dust jacket. Illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol throughout text, excerpt from Faulkner's manuscript reproduced in facsimile.
Price: $55.00