Featured Items
Featured Items
Ten promotional broadsides for M’lle New York
New York: M’lle New York Publishing Company, 1895-1896. Ten color-lithographed posters of varying sizes, measuring between 12 and 19 inches high and between 8.5 and 20 inches wide, printed on various paper stocks. Penciled dates to top corner of nine posters; pencil sketch to one verso. Light edgewear, short closed.....
Price: $2,200.00
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson; with: two promotional photographs
No place: Talk Normal Productions, 1986. Side-stapled volume, measuring 7.75 x 11 inches: [24.] Original color photographic wrappers, color photographs throughout text. Light wear to wrappers. With: two glossy black-and-white photographs, measuring 8 x 10 inches.
Price: $350.00
“Swift, Swift the Great Twin Brethren Came Spurring from the East”
England: 1911. Watercolor and graphite on board, image measuring 12 x 9 inches, board 13.75 x 9.75 inches. Tipped to mat, 16 x 12 inches.
Price: $850.00
Peter and Wendy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: x, 267, [1]. Original olive pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, original black pictorial dust jacket printed in gilt, priced at $1.50. Frontispiece, pictorial title page, and eleven halftone plates throughout text. Small stain to lower edge of.....
Price: $7,500.00
Dictionnaire des Gens du Monde, a l'Usage de la Cour et de la Ville; with: With: A New Dictionary for the Fashionable World, Translated from the French (London: For the Author, 1820)
Paris: Alexis Eymery & Baudouin Frères, 1818. Twelvemo, measuring 7.25 x 4 inches: xvi, 215, [8]. Original pink pictorial wrappers backed with printer’s waste, frontispiece engraving, eight-page bookseller catalogue at rear, text block uncut. Inked flourishes in margins by selected entries, annotation to “apothicaire” definition. Lightest shelfwear, shallow loss to.....
Price: $2,500.00
The Savoy (advertisement)
London: C.F. Kell for Leonard Smithers, [1896]. Color-lithographed poster, sight size 10.5 x 8.25 inches, framed to 18 x 15 inches. Signed with A/B monogram in lower left corner of image. A few faint creases.
Price: $2,500.00
American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xvi, 364, [2]. Original blue blindstamped boards, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket printed in red and black. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the title page. Printed Oxford UP slip laid in: “With the Publisher’s.....
Price: $350.00
Madeline
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [48]. Original color pictorial paper boards, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Color illustrations throughout text. Occasional stray smudge to text; offsetting from binder’s glue to endpapers; expert restoration to dust.....
Price: $3,250.00
Original illustration: “Marché aux fleurs”
No place: 2014. Watercolor on paper, measuring 6.5 x 11 inches, sight size, on sheet measuring 8.25 x 11.25 inches. Signed “Ch. Berberian” in pencil, lower right image, titled “01. Marché aux Fleurs/-Cité” to lower left, hidden by mat. Tipped to mat and framed to 12.75 x 16.5 inches.
Price: $650.00
Inspirations du Vésuve. Poésies Volcaniques par Lucifer
Naples: Chez Detken et Rocholl, 1878. Single volume, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches: 125, [3]. Original pictorial chromolithographed boards, tan cloth spine decorated and lettered in gilt, white coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Hand-numbered “196” on verso of title page, decorative initials and woodcut vignettes in text. Lightest shelfwear, ink.....
Price: $350.00
Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting. Illustrated by Examples from the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools
London: Printed for the Proprietor, and Sold by James Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street, 1826. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: vi, [2], 45, [1], [2]. Contemporary drab boards neatly rebacked, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s advertisement mounted to front pastedown. Eight engraved plates throughout text. Publisher’s prospectuses for.....
Price: $500.00
The Little House
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Single volume, measuring 9 x 9.5 inches: [4], 40. Original pictorial blue-green cloth stamped in white, pictorial endpapers printed in red and black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light soiling and edgewear to jacket, with closed tears and chip to.....
Price: $5,500.00
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1939). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 9.5 inches: [48]. Original beige pictorial cloth stamped in black and red, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed on half-title: “To Iris with love from Jinnee –Virginia Lee Burton.” Tiny ink stamp.....
Price: $6,000.00
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1969). Oblong volume, measuring 8.25 x 11.25 inches: [24]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, color-patterned endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket clipped at upper corner of front flap, priced at $3.91 at lower corner. Color illustrations and pictorial cut-outs throughout text. Inscribed.....
Price: $12,500.00
Homes of the Freed
New York: New Republic, 1926. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: xiv, [2], 199, [1]. Original blue pictorial wrappers printed in green and brown. Illustrated with four woodcuts in text, uncut. Shallow chipping to wrappers with reinforcement to verso of upper wrapper, spine panel cracked, small hole to lower.....
Price: $300.00
Calligraphic exercise featuring neoclassical French poets
Laval, France: late nineteenth century. Single calligraphic leaf, measuring 8.75 x 13.75 inches, executed in ink and watercolor, matted to 16 x 20 inches. Numeral “6” at top righthand corner. Paper toned.
Price: $300.00
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: 598, [2]. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece; engraved portrait of Abba Thulle, “King of the Pelew Islands;” folding map of Pitcairn Island. List of plates and errata.....
Price: $2,000.00
The Angel Intrudes. A Play in One Act
New York: Egmont Arens at the Washington Square Bookshop, 1918. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 6 x 4 inches: 24. Original yellow pictorial wrappers. Short split to upper wrapper at head of spine.
Price: $300.00
Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot, a snail, and a lizard
France: nineteenth century. Original watercolor, executed on two sheets of printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: “8 en 10: à Paris, chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry, No 19 / No. 23.” Several pale pink areas where.....
Price: $750.00
Sheet of six Épinal prints, domestic and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
Sheet of six Épinal prints, military and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
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
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
Frost Fair souvenir ticket, printed on the frozen Thames
London: February 5, 1814. Souvenir ticket, measuring 2.25 x 3 inches, printed in various typefaces within a typographic border. Mounted to fragment of scrapbook leaf, measuring 2.75 x 3.25 inches. Lightest wear.
Price: $650.00
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
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
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