Featured Items
Featured Items
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
The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast. By Comus, Author of “Three Little Kittens,” “Mister Fox,” &c.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1857. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [2], [8], 9-24; eight color plates inserted throughout text. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers. Four plates of sheet music, printed on alternate rectos and versos, setting “The Butterfly’s Ball” for...
Price: $750.00
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
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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
Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
London: Harding and Lepard, 1826. Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, xcvi, 286, [2]. Original drab paper boards, rebacked, endpapers and final pastedown renewed, text block uncut. Introductory essay on meter; “addenda et corrigenda” at rear; final errata leaf. Ink inscription to upper board: “Dr McDonnell / from Mrs...
Price: $1,800.00
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
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: $750.00
A Masque of Poets. Including Guy Vernon, A Novelette in Verse
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. Single volume, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: 301, [3]. Original black pictorial cloth decorated in red and gilt, publisher’s advertisements printed on endpapers. Wood-engraved vignettes at beginning and end of text. Ink signatures of Ellery Yale Wood to front free endpaper and J.F. Pickering, dated 1887...
Price: $1,250.00
Commemorative card depicting Rochester's monument to Frederick Douglass
Rochester, New York: circa 1899. Single sheet, measuring 9.25 x 4 inches. Halftone image of the monument in Douglass Park above a printed quote by Douglass on recto; halftone portrait and text on verso. Edges lightly toned.
Price: $850.00
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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
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
Uncut hand-colored engraved sheet of French rebus puzzles
France: early nineteenth century. Engraved hand-colored pictorial sheet of French rebus cards, measuring 10.75 x 15.75 inches. Light edgewear with a few tiny chips (not affecting images), occasional trace of early mount to verso.
Price: $950.00
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
The Tragic Mary
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 261, [3]. Original brown pictorial paper boards with floral design by Selwyn Image, spine lettered in black, text block uncut and unopened. Without scarce glassine wrapper. Shallow bump to tail of spine, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $950.00
L’Éducation Sentimentale. Histoire d’un Jeune Homme. Édition Définitive
Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1901. Full modern red buckram lettered in gilt, yellow publisher’s rear wrapper bound in. Ink signature of James Joyce (dated 1901) to half-title. Bookplate of Alexander Neubauer to front pastedown. Front wrapper missing; half-title torn with loss, with early tape repairs to verso; text block embrowned.
Price: $12,500.00
Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1905]. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 261, [1]. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards; raised bands; spine compartments lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt; boards ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. London bookseller ticket (B.F. Stevens & Brown)...
Price: $750.00
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Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]
[Bogotá]: Grupo Editorial Norma, (1997). Octavo, publisher’s full tan calf, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, spine stamped with gilt fleur-de-lis to indicate a signed and numbered copy, marbled endpapers, tan silk ribbon marker. Bookbinder ticket (“Taller la Entenalla”) to front pastedown, “XLVII” hand-numbered in ink on the limitation page.....
Price: $5,000.00
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A New Edition
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1788-1790. Twelve octavo volumes, full contemporary polished calf, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, all edges stained yellow. Frontispiece portrait of Gibbon after Joshua Reynolds and map of the Eastern empire in...
Price: $5,000.00
Hansel and Gretel, and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Single volume, measuring 11.75 x 9.5 inches: [10], 276. Publisher’s full white pictorial cloth, front board stamped in gilt and blue with design by Nielsen, spine decorated in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, patterned red and gilt endpapers designed by Nielsen. Limitation page signed...
Price: $6,000.00
Letters from a Cat. Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats and the Amusement of Little Children
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Small quarto, measuring 7.5 x 6 inches. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, grey floral endpapers. Decorative headpieces throughout text, seventeen black and white illustrations. Presentation inscription to flyleaf. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, occasional smudge to text.
Price: $600.00
“Girl Campers”
New York: Woman's World Magazine, July 1935. Staple-bound folio magazine, 26 pages. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Highsmith's story on pages 16 and 25. Mailing address printed to top lefthand corner of upper wrapper, lightest edgewear.
Price: $500.00
Spectre: A Literary Quarterly. Volume I: Number 3
Syracuse University: Spring 1940. Quarto, side-stapled dark blue pictorial wraps, beige cloth tape-bound spine. Sixty mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, black and white illustrations throughout text. Center crease to front cover and first few pages, shallow chipping and creasing to back cover, text block toned.
Price: $2,200.00
The Book of American Negro Spirituals
New York: The Viking Press, 1925. Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: [1-10] 11-187. Original light brown cloth decoratively stamped in brown and blue. Historical preface followed by 137 pages of musical arrangements. Ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper: “For Ring W. Lardner / with sincere regards /...
Price: $2,800.00
Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes
Boston: S.G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Three twelvemo volumes, early twentieth-century brown pigskin over textured tan cloth boards, raised bands, spines tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, text blocks uncut and partially unopened. Catalogue of American Poetry at rear of volume III. Bookplate of collector Perry Beaver Strassburger (1888-1954) to front...
Price: $850.00
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Large quarto, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [124]. Original brown pigskin, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board double-ruled in gilt with central device of rosebush rooted in book, helmet, sword, and musket, with English crown supported in branches. Top edge gilt, other edges...
Price: $5,000.00