Featured Items
Featured Items
A Apple Pie
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1886]. Oblong quarto, measuring 8.5 x 10 inches: [22]. Original red cloth spine, pale green color-printed pictorial boards, all edges stained red, deep blue coated endpapers. Half-title and title page printed in brown ink. Color-printed wood engravings by Edmund Evans after watercolors by Greenaway on...
Price: $8,000.00
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
Aristotle’s Art of Poetry. Translated from the Original Greek, according to Mr. Theodore Goulston’s Edition. Together, with Mr. D’Acier’s Notes Translated from the French
London: Printed for Dan. Browne and Will. Turner, 1705. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches: [40], 1-120 129-192 209-256 241-256 241-256 273-511 [1] (complete). Full contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, boards paneled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and ruled in gilt. Two engraved bookplates facing...
Price: $6,000.00
Nineteenth-Century American Kindergarten Embroidery Album
[United States]: circa 1880. Oblong concertina album, measuring 8 x 10.5 inches, 28 double-sided panels laid into original dark brown textured cloth binding ruled in blind, titled “Sewing” in gilt to upper board. Card signed “Edith R. Bond” mounted to recto of first panel. 57 embroidery patterns and figures worked...
Price: $650.00
Sluss-Trollen Rull
[Bankeryd, Sweden]: Privately printed, 1963. Large oblong folio, measuring 13 x 24 inches. Beige buckram boards with screen-printed color pictorial pastedowns, patterned endpapers. Twelve leaves, screen-printed in full color on rectos only, inserted on stubs: title page, colophon, and ten serigraphs. Housed in original slipcase with screen-printed pastedowns to both...
Price: $1,800.00
L'Art du Chant, Dédié à Madame de Pompadour par M. Bérard
Paris: Dessaint & Saillant; Prault, Fils; Lambert; et aux Adresses Ordinaires pour la Musique, 1755. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [16], 158, [6], [2]. Contemporary full mottled calf, boards tripled ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, gilt-stamped patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, peach...
Price: $2,800.00
Urania’s Mirror, or, A View of the Heavens
London: Samuel Leigh, 1825. Complete set of 32 hand-colored engraved cards, measuring 7.75 x 5.5 inches, perforated to indicate position of stars, tissue guard mounted to verso of each card. Housed in original green and yellow card publisher’s box with hand-colored pictorial title mounted to lid, engraved pastedowns to sides...
Price: $5,500.00
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
The Female Friend; or the Duties of Christian Virgins; to which is added, Advice to a Young Married Lady
Baltimore: Henry S. Keatinge, 1809. Half-sheet 20mo(?), measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xii, [iii]-iv, [13]-260. Contemporary marbled sheep, spine double-ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label. Subscribers’ list printed after introduction. Light shelfwear, spine label chipped (not touching lettering), last few leaves soiled.
Price: $750.00
Jane Eyre. An Autobiography
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847. Three octavo volumes, modern green three-quarter crushed morocco, marbled cloth boards, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All half-titles present, thirty-two pages of advertisements dated October 1847 (bound without publisher's catalogue fly-title) at rear of volume one, original brown...
Price: $40,000.00
Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, (Daughter of the late Major Moncrieffe,) Written by Herself, and Dedicated to the British Nation; Being Interspersed with Anecdotes of the Late American and Present French War; with Remarks, Moral and Political
New York: T. & J. Swords, for J. Fellows, 1795. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: xix, [1], 21-184. Twentieth-century three-quarter dark brown morocco over red marbled boards, boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine lettered and ornamented in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, red...
Price: $1,250.00
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat
London: Methuen, 1904. Folio, modern full brick morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, text block uncut. Facsimile of the 1499 Aldine first edition, including the 172 original woodcuts by an unknown hand; additional paper spine label tipped in. Two extra leaves laid in, including the uncensored Priapus plate. Bookplate...
Price: $2,600.00
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: $2,000.00
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
A Christmas Carol In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
London: Chapman & Hall, 1844 [i.e. 1843]. Octavo, original full brown cloth with leaf border stamped in blind to boards and central wreath design with title stamped in gilt on front board, spine stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Half title printed in green, title page printed in...
Price: $28,000.00
![[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]. Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, Johnston McCulley, Kan Kikuchi, Hatsuyama Shigeru, Michioka Toshi, Imamura Nobuo, Emori Seihachiro, designer.](/pictures/thumb/1001972.jpg?v=1521687657)
[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
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: $15,000.00
![Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]. Gabriel García Marquez.](/pictures/thumb/1001775.jpg?v=1498062095)
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
The Wind in the Willows; with: autograph letter signed by Kenneth Grahame
London: Methuen and Company, 1908. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [6], 302, [2]. Original pictorial blue-green cloth stamped in gilt, ivory endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Tissue-guarded pictorial frontispiece. 1909 autograph letter signed by Grahame on his Mayfield stationery laid in. Without extremely scarce dust jacket.
Price: $20,000.00
The Wind in the Willows
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1931). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 7 inches: [6], 312. Original green cloth spine over grey paper boards, printed paper spine label, foreedge and lower edge of text block uncut. Half-title, with limitation signed by Grahame and Shepard on verso. Black and white illustrations throughout...
Price: $6,500.00
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