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Sweethearts; with: signed promotional broadside for “Jayne Anne Phillips Reading ‘Sweethearts’”
Carrboro, North Carolina: Truck Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 6.75 inches: [60]. Original buff photographic wrappers printed in black and sepia, blue endleaves, title page printed in blue and black, frontispiece and section titles printed in blue, author photograph printed in sepia. Signed by Phillips on title page.....
Price: $450.00
A & The or William T.C. Baumgarten Comes to Town
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7.25 inches: [32]. Original orange pictorial cloth stamped and lettered in blue; original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed and signed by Raskin with ink drawing to front free endpaper. Foot of spine bumped, light toning and.....
Price: $600.00
Eve (signed color etching, artist’s proof)
No place: no date. Color etching, measuring 3 x 2 inches, on a sheet measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches. Signed in pencil below image, with note “AP Eve.”.
Price: $150.00
“I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting;” or, Looking at Kafka
New York: Push Pin Studio, 1974. Side-stapled volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [16, wrappers included in pagination]. Four full-page illustrations printed in brown. Light soiling to wrappers, staples rusted.
Price: $650.00
Anatomy for Interior Designers and How to Talk to a Client
New York: Whitney Publications, (1948). Single volume, measuring 10 x 8.75 inches: [9], 10-69, [1]. Original orange boards lettered in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Presentation inscription from Schroeder to front pastedown, with his pictorial bookplate, designed by Leo Kober, laid in. Light shelfwear.....
Price: $650.00
Very Far Away
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: 52, [4]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations printed in black, pink, and grey throughout text. Harper & Brothers review slip laid in. Lightest sunning to.....
Price: $1,000.00
Stockdale’s Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, The Whole of His Dramatic Works; with Explanatory Notes
London: John Stockdale, 1784. Thick octavo, measuring 9.25 x 5.5 inches: [16], [2], 1079, [1]. Full contemporary red morocco ruled in gilt, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt-ruled dentelles, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, text printed in two columns, one page of publisher’s advertisements.....
Price: $2,500.00
Four-Way Blocks (American version)
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 Cloud Eye
Milan: Sergio Tosi Stampatore, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 4 x 7.75 inches: [20]. Original navy cardboard covers bound with two aluminum rings. Leaves printed rectos only. Fifteen color lithographs, four pages of text. Scattered foxing, light fading and a few faint spots to covers.
Price: $250.00
Original gag cartoon for Collier’s magazine
No place: 1956. Ink, wash, and opaque white on paper, measuring 6.5 x 8.5 inches, sight size. Signed “W. Steig” in black ink, lower right image. Framed with archival glass to 14 x 15.5 inches, clear sleeve on verso containing the original typed description label requesting return to Steig’s New.....
Price: $600.00
Families Reading Together
The Children’s Book Council, 1989. Color poster, measuring 19 x 13 inches.
Price: $200.00
Original illustration: “Lady Liberty, Bartholdi”
No place: 2007. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, measuring 12 x 15 inches, full sheet. Titled in pencil, lower left margin. Signed, dated, and inscribed in black marker: “For my friend Mo, Best wishes, Matt Tavares ‘07,” lower right margin. Penciled measurement lines in margins. Tipped to mat and.....
Price: $1,800.00
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (poster coloring book)
San Anselmo, California: Blushing Rose Publishing, 2000. Perfect-bound volume, measuring 14 x 11 inches: title page and 26 removable posters. Original color pictorial boards titled “Alice in Wonderland Coloring Book,” red cloth spine. Posters printed in black and white, recto only.
Price: $100.00
Four original literary-historical illustrations for The New York Times Book Review
New York: New York Times, 1925-1926. Four oblong illustrations, measuring between 7.75 and 8.5 inches high x 22.25 inches wide. Watercolor, ink, and wash, with graphite tracing on artist’s paper. Signed in ink at upper corners; captioned at lower left; publication stamps, measurements, and printing notes in margins. Preliminary sketches.....
Price: $1,750.00
“Shinbone Alley” (illustration)
No place: 1957. Pen and ink with Benday tinting on illustration board, image measuring 12.5 x 16.5 inches on board measuring 15 x 20 inches, matted to 17 x 21 inches. Signed “Wachsteter” in lower right image. Publisher’s pencil notes in margins, portion of original printing order sheet from the.....
Price: $1,800.00
Literature for Sale
New York: New York PublIc Library, 1941. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [2], 35, [3]. Original tan paper wrappers titled in black.
Price: $100.00
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. Bookplate of Ray A. Roberts to front pastedown.
Price: $250.00
A Pageant of Birds
New York: Albondocani Press, 1974. Side-stitched volume, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [32]. Original black and white photographic wrappers over black card. Title page printed in blue and black, six full-page photographs. Lettered and signed in ink at colophon.
Price: $750.00
Photographs
Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, (1989). Quarto, measuring 10 x 8.75 inches: xxviii, [178]. Original dark plum cloth titled in silver, black-and-white photographs throughout text. Signed and lettered by Welty at colophon. With: laid-in gelatin silver print, measuring 10 x 8 inches, with Welty’s inkstamp on verso, housed.....
Price: $5,000.00
Stuart Little
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [8], 131, [1]. Original pale grey pictorial cloth stamped in green and orange, green pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Tiny chips to jacket folds and head of spine.....
Price: $1,500.00
Super-Duper Zuppa Inglese (and Other Trifles from the Land of Stodge)
(Belper, Derbyshire): Aggie Weston’s Editions, 1977. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 5.75 x 4.25 inches: [32]. Original stiff green wrappers, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white line drawings throughout text. Signed by Jonathan Williams in purple ink on opening page. Housed in lightly foxed original mailing envelope.
Price: $75.00
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. Inscribed by Carole Byard on title page: “Dear Tom, / Thank you for being here. You have always.....
Price: $100.00
A Streetcar Named Desire (signed by opening night cast, with original Shubert Theatre program and ticket stubs)
New York: New Directions, (1947). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 171, [1]. Original pink pictorial paper boards, original unclipped pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Ink signatures of the original cast beside their printed names on page 5; former owner’s signature to front free endpaper. Shelfwear.....
Price: $20,000.00
Word-Finds Companion. Volume 314
[Blue Bell, Pennsylvania]: Kappa Books, 2022. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [1], 4-97, [1]. Original color-printed wrappers. Forty-three word searches followed by answer key. Half-inch closed tear to foot of front wrapper.
Price: $50.00
Crow Boy
New York: The Viking Press, (1956). Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [2], 37, [1]. Original pink cloth stamped in maroon, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color lithographic illustrations throughout text. Original painting of bird and nest facing title page, with author’s stamp and ink.....
Price: $250.00
Broadsides. A Collection of Old and New Songs 1935
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1935. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.25 inches: [56]. Original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed pastedown title label to upper board, blue endpapers. Foreword signed by W.B. Yeats and F.R. Higgins; engraved musical staves and twenty-four hand-colored line block illustrations throughout text. Pencil inscription to front.....
Price: $3,500.00
Fifteen original illustrations for The Big Book of Real Trains
No place: circa 1949. Fourteen opaque watercolors and one ink drawing, images measuring approximately 10 x 19 inches on boards measuring 14 x 21 inches, signed “Zaffo” in lower images. All images horizontal except cover image, measuring 15 x 10.75 inches on board measuring 21.5 x 12.5 inches. Scattered notes.....
Price: $7,500.00
Fourteen original illustrations for The Big Book of Real Boats and Ships
No place: circa 1951. Fourteen opaque watercolors, images measuring approximately 10 x 19 inches on boards measuring 14.5 x 20 inches, signed “Zaffo” in lower images. All images horizontal except cover image, measuring 16 x 11 inches. Dampstain to upper corner of submarine illustration; scattered notes, captions, and registration tape.....
Price: $9,500.00