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Giganten. Ein Abenteuerbuch
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, (1932). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [8], 11-377, [7]. Original tan cloth stamped in brown and red, upper board lettered in brown. Presentation inscription from Döblin to Isaac Steinberg on preliminary blank. Owner signature of Leo Steinberg to front free endpaper. Light soiling to.....
Price: $1,800.00
Rudy & Midge
Madison, Wisconsin: Dangling Participle Press, 1998. Small oblong quarto, measuring 5.25 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Green cloth spine, color lithographed pictorial boards, green pictorial endpapers printed letterpress. Text block illustrated and printed in letterpress, color lithography and serigraphy on various paper stocks. Bound in are three pieces of ephemera sealed.....
Price: $450.00
Two sets of painted wooden counting blocks
Barnard, Vermont: Vermont Toy Works, circa 1980. Two sets of painted wooden blocks, each containing twenty-eight proportionally sized blocks numbered 1-10, housed in two wooden trays: the larger tray measuring 14.75 x 13.25 inches, the smaller 11 x 9.75 inches. “Vermont Toy Works” stamp on bottom of both trays. Light.....
Price: $200.00
Scenes of Clerical Life
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1858. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 7-366; [6], 381, [1]. Original claret morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, cinnamon endpapers. Neat initials “M.S.D.” to half-titles, penciled bookseller notes to verso of front free endpaper in Volume I. Spine.....
Price: $16,500.00
American dance orchestra signs, in original wooden case
United States: late nineteenth century. Six wooden signs, measuring 2 x 12.25 inches, hand-painted in crimson and green on both sides, with wire loops for hanging; string cords (likely renewed). Housed in original hinged and fitted wooden carrying case, measuring 3.5 x 3 x 12.75 inches, hand-painted in crimson and.....
Price: $1,600.00
The Fairy Drama of Marina; or, The Truant Heart (theatrical playbill)
Loton Park, Shropshire: R. Davies, Printer, 7 High Street, Shrewsbury, 1845. Broadside, measuring 12.25 x 7.5 inches, printed in bright blue and black. Decorative border, with royal arms at head of sheet. Light rubbing, central crease from folding. Matted to 17 x 11.5 inches.
Price: $1,000.00
Four silhouette illustrations on storybook themes
England: nineteenth century. Four ink and graphite illustrations on paper, mounted to a single backing sheet. Entire sheet matted to 13 x 9.75 inches. Occasional light discoloration to paper, edge of one drawing creased.
Price: $175.00
The Indian Slipper
Philadelphia: Charles J. Peterson, 1876. Color-printed embroidery pattern, image measuring 8.5 x 7 inches on sheet measuring 10.25 x 8.5 inches, printed recto only. Horizontal crease from folding, shallow chipping and closed tears to foot and righthand margin, not affecting image. Matted to 14 x 11.5 inches.
Price: $100.00
Original nineteenth-century painting of shopkeepers at work
No place: no publisher, nineteenth century. Gouache painting, measuring 3.75 x 6.25 inches, mounted to a grey backing sheet, in an old mahogany frame measuring 6.75 x 9.5 inches. Later pencil inscription to verso of painting: “Handelskontor 1820.” Backed in the frame by a cabinet card of a young boy.....
Price: $600.00
Silhouette illustration: The Hero Arrives
England: nineteenth century. Ink and graphite on paper, mounted to a second sheet, the whole mounted again to a backing sheet. Image measures 5 x 7 inches, matted to 8 x 10 inches. Occasional stray speck to paper.
Price: $175.00
Silhouette illustration: The Recognition
England: nineteenth century. Ink and graphite on paper, mounted to a backing sheet. Image measures 5 x 10 inches, matted to 8 x 13.5 inches. Light discoloration to righthand and lower edges of original paper.
Price: $175.00
No Dress Rehearsal, Baby
New York: Ink, Inc., no date. Five loose broadside sheets, measuring 18 x 13 inches, wrapped in original glassine and mylar wrapper blindstamped “Ink, Inc. / New York.” Woolf, Chandler, and Nabokov broadsides printed in two colors. Glassine split at fold and chipped at edges, broadsides fine.
Price: $450.00
Heroes and Heroines
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7 inches: [4], 5-79, [1]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Gift inscription and child’s bookplate to front pastedown. Light wear to jacket, with one short closed tear and.....
Price: $125.00
The Good Wools
New York: The Wool Bureau, 1977. Spiral-bound volume, measuring 10 x 5.25 inches: [8], 170. Original color photographic wrappers. Text printed on tan paper with brown card chapter dividers, line drawings on every page.
Price: $250.00
Here & There: A Fashion View with a Point-of-View. June 1978
Westport, Connecticut: Here & There, 1978. Single volume, measuring 14 x 8 inches: 94. Original coil-bound stiff black wrappers lettered in white. First leaf printed on orange paper, black-and-white photographs and line drawings throughout text. Light shelfwear, top right corner of upper wrapper clipped.
Price: $200.00
Here & There: A Fashion View with a Point-of-View. September 1978
Westport, Connecticut: Here & There, 1978. Single volume, measuring 14 x 8 inches: 123, [1]. Original coil-bound stiff black wrappers lettered in white. First leaf printed on magenta paper; black-and-white photographs and line drawings throughout text; twenty tipped-in fabric swatches. Light shelfwear, corners bumped, lower wrapper creased.
Price: $250.00
Woolflash Paris 74. Winter/Hiver Prêt-à-Porter
Paris and New York: International Wool Fashion Office; The Wool Bureau, 1974. Side-stapled volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: 80. Original photographic wrappers, black-and-white photographs throughout text. Light foxing and edgewear; evidence of label removal to upper wrapper.
Price: $100.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 4: There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and salmon.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 6: Song (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and orange.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 7: The Parting (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and green.
Price: $50.00
Dogear Wryde Postcards. Whatever Next? Series
[New York]: no publisher, 1990. Twelve pictorial postcards printed in black and white, measuring 4 x 6 inches, and one printed colophon card numbered and signed by Edward Gorey. Series title and date printed on postcard versos. Housed in original pictorial envelope titled in black. Cards fine, lightest shelfwear and.....
Price: $300.00
The End of the Affair
London: William Heinemann, (1951). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [6], 237, [1]. Original grey cloth titled in gilt, tan endpapers, original unclipped color-printed dust jacket. Small bookseller stamp (The Times Bookshop) to rear pastedown. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $850.00
The Heart of the Matter
London: William Heinemann, (1948). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [6], 297, [1]. Original dark blue cloth titled in silver, tan endpapers, top edge stained red, original unclipped color-printed dust jacket. Bookseller label (B.H. Blackwell, Oxford) to front pastedown. Lightest shelfwear to jacket, with expert repair to spine head.....
Price: $1,000.00
Hanging Loose 2
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, winter/spring 1967. Forty-four mimeographed typed pages, measuring 9 x 6 inches. Loose as issued in original pictorial mailing envelope, with address label; index card inscribed “compliments of the editors,” initialed by Dick Lourie, laid in. Light shelfwear.
Price: $150.00
Publisher's promotional mobile for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Flat-packed cardboard mobile, featuring a color-printed title placard connected to a crossbar with five suspended color-printed cutout cars, measuring 21 inches long from top of placard to lower car.
Price: $250.00
The Return of the Native
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 303, [1]; [6], 297, [3]; [6], 320. Original brown cloth stamped in black and blind, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black; cream-coated endpapers. Frontispiece map, after a drawing by Hardy, facing title page.....
Price: $7,800.00
The Woodlanders
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [4], 302, [2]; [4], 328; [4], 316. Original dark green bead-grain cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in.....
Price: $3,500.00
The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. Two volumes, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: xiv, 15-283, [5], 16; 284, [4]. Original full brown ribbed cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, reddish-brown coated endpapers. Publisher’s catalog, dated March 1860, in Volume I. Light wear to cloth, spine ends and.....
Price: $750.00
Catch-22
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 443, [1]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in white, top edge stained red, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket priced at $5.95. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Lightest soiling and edgewear to jacket, with several short.....
Price: $2,000.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00