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Miss Hoare (mezzotint portrait)
London: Printed for Robert Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street, circa 1770. Mezzotint engraving measuring 13.75 x 10 inches, on a sheet measuring 15 x 11 inches. Laid paper evenly toned.
Price: $500.00
MOTIVO (wooden puzzle)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1978. Eight wooden cubes, screenprinted in four colors, each measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Naef / Swiss made” printed at base of leaf image. Lacking original box.
Price: $200.00
Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All
New York: New World Records, 1977. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Price: $250.00
The Ambassadors
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: ii, 432. Original pale blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original dark blue fabric-paper dust jacket, spine lettered in gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary ownership inscription.....
Price: $1,500.00
The Portrait of a Lady
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 268; iv, 256; iv, 248, [24]. Original dark blue 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.....
Price: $38,000.00
The Princess Casamassima
London: Macmillan, 1886. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 252; iv, 257, [3]; iv, 242, [2]. Original dark blue-green cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at head and foot stamped in black.....
Price: $9,500.00
Roderick Hudson
London: Macmillan, 1879. Three octavo volumes: iv, 258, 38; ii, 278; ii, 264. Original dark blue fine-bead-grain cloth; double-ruled border and curved-edge panel in black on upper boards, repeated in blind on lower boards; gilt lettering and publisher’s device to spines with blind-stamped rules to spine ends; black coated endpapers.....
Price: $4,200.00
The Tragic Muse
London: Macmillan, 1890. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [4], 248; [4], 252; [4], 258. Original royal blue textured cloth lettered in gilt to upper boards and spines, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative gilt rules at head and foot, black-coated endpapers. Several pencil.....
Price: $2,250.00
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
London: Macmillan, 1881. Two octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: viii, 265, [3]; iv, 271, [1]. Original red-brown cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind to boards, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s devices and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black, yellow-coated.....
Price: $3,800.00
“Movies, the Desperate Art” in The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, Number 3
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, (1956). Pocket paperback, measuring 6.5 x 4.25: [2], 216, [6]. Original color-printed wrappers, priced at 50 cents. Light shelfwear, text block toned and brittle.
Price: $125.00
Textile screenprinted with image of “Head (Venus)”
Cape Town: Norval Foundation, 2019. Screenprinted textile, measuring 18.5 inches square, with artist’s signature embroidered in red thread.
Price: $300.00
Deep Dark Fears #178
No place: 2015. Watercolor and ink on paper, measuring 12 x 9 inches (sheet size). Signed and dated 5-11-2015 in ink; captioned “Deep Dark Fears #178” and signed again in pencil to lower right margin.
Price: $350.00
Looking for Luck
New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 94. Original color pictorial wrappers. Inscribed on title page: “for Gregory and Emily / Maxine Kumin / 15 Apr 93.” With: printed invitation to Kumin’s April 1993 reading at Bryn Mawr College, and handwritten invitation from Bryn Mawr.....
Price: $65.00
The Colt from Moon Mountain
New York: Macmillan, 1941. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 7 inches: [62]. Original orange pictorial cloth stamped in white, pictorial endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket with $1.75 price, front flap clipped at lower corner. Frontispiece, nine full-page illustrations, and four smaller illustrations in text. Inscribed on verso of front.....
Price: $850.00
Original signed drawing of two children from Fair Play
No place: circa 1940. Black Conté crayon on paper, measuring 22.5 x 18.5 inches, sheet size. Signed in red crayon to bottom right margin. Line of dampstaining along bottom margin, hidden by archival mat.
Price: $1,000.00
The Story of Ferdinand
New York: Viking Press, 1936. Single volume, measuring 8 x 7 inches: [72]. Original tan cloth spine lettered in red, red pictorial paper boards, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped red pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed on title page: “To Aunt June / with much affection at Christmas.....
Price: $6,500.00
To Kill A Mockingbird. 40th Anniversary Edition
(New York): HarperCollins Publishers, (1999). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [10], 323, [1]. Original dark grey paper boards stamped in silver and blind, terracotta endpapers, foreedge untrimmed. Original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Harper Lee on half-title. Lightest sunning to jacket spine panel.
Price: $2,200.00
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: “Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.”.
Price: $350.00
Blue Daffodils (signed color etching)
[New York]: 1991. Color etching, measuring 13.75 x 17.5 inches, on a sheet measuring 19.75 x 25.75 inches. Titled, numbered, signed and dated in pencil below image.
Price: $300.00
Daffodils (signed color etching)
[New York]: 1989. Color etching, measuring 13.75 x 17.5 inches, on a sheet measuring 19.75 x 25.75 inches. Titled, numbered, signed and dated in pencil below image.
Price: $300.00
The Three Little Kittens
No place: 1986. Watercolor, graphite, and ink on paper, grid of four illustrations measuring 11 x 17 inches, image, on sheet measuring 13.25 x 20 inches. Pencil rules, printing notations, and faint spotting in margins. Archivally matted and framed to 19.5 x 25 inches.
Price: $2,800.00
Specimens of Penmanship written by Mas. F.B. Leach at the High School, Oldham, Conducted by the Rev. Hugh Tait, B.A. (two volumes)
Leeds: Bean, Stationer, [1865]. Two oblong folio volumes, measuring 9.25 x 12 inches: [16]. Original glazed moiré card wrappers with gilt-embossed card frames and scenic chromolithographs (windmills in a field, a lakeside castle) mounted to covers. Tissue-guarded engraved pictorial title pages, featuring scenes of Cambridge, with Leach’s name added in.....
Price: $850.00
Make Way for Ducklings; with: signed bookplate commemorating the 1987 Mallard Family Sculpture
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Single volume, measuring 12 x 8.75 inches: [68]. Original tan pictorial cloth boards stamped in green, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Lithographed illustrations printed in sepia throughout text. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper: “To Sandy, Christmas 1941 / from.....
Price: $9,500.00
Le Luth Français. Almanach Lyrique, Dédié aux Dames
Paris: Chez Louis Janet, Libraire, [1821]. 16mo, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: [2], 128, [4]. Original green pictorial paper boards, all edges gilt, silk pull-tab. Engraved title page (with mezzotint vignette), fully engraved text and musical scores, twelve tissue-guarded hand-colored engraved plates throughout text. Bookplate of “F. Meunié” to front.....
Price: $300.00
Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1973. Folio, measuring 13 x 9.5 inches: xvi, 50, [2]. Original full black buckram, tan leather spine label lettered in gilt, plum endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Half-title and title page printed in red and black, red initials throughout text, text printed in.....
Price: $250.00
Joseph II and His Court. An Historical Novel
Mobile, Alabama: S.H. Goetzel, 1864. Four volumes bound in one, measuring 7.25 x 5.25 inches: 240; 240; 139, [1]; 152 . Contemporary three-quarter red calf, marbled paper boards, recornered and rebacked with remnants of original spine laid down, spine ruled and titled in gilt, grey endpapers. Original front wrappers of.....
Price: $1,500.00
Basic by Isotype
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1937. Single volume, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: 130, [2]. Green cloth spine, original buff paper boards lettered in green and priced at 2/6, pastedown spine label. Folding table of Basic English facing title. Black and red illustrations throughout text; two pages of.....
Price: $4,800.00
Four Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos
New York: Boosey & Hawkes, (1969). Side-stapled musical score, measuring 12 x 9 inches: 64. Original color pictorial wrappers, small price sticker to title page. Spine ends lightly bumped, crease to lower right corner of upper wrapper.
Price: $200.00
Strange Interlude
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [10], 11-352. Original glazed teal pictorial cloth, upper board stamped in light blue with gilt facsimile of O’Neills signature, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained black, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket priced at.....
Price: $450.00
The Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
Price: $1,250.00