Featured Items
Featured Items
Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto
Birmingham: Baskerville, 1773. Four octavo volumes: [34], lviii, 362, [2]; [2], 450, [2]; [2], 446, [2]; [2], 446 [2]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key border and floral cornerpieces in gilt to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and patterned in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels lettered in.....
Price: $2,200.00
Le Petit Artiste. Journal Universel de la Pratique du Dessin
Paris: Monrocq Frères, Editeurs, “Première Année” (1876). Small folio, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [100]. Contemporary half-calf gilt, brown marbled boards, brown marbled endpapers. Original color lithographed front wrapper bound in, preliminary bifolium with title printed in red, followed by twenty-four numbered bifolia lithographed in black and brown, recto and.....
Price: $300.00
Locus Solus III-IV. New Poetry. Winter 1962
Lans-en-Vercors, France: Locus Solus, (1961). Small octavo, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: 294, [2]. Original blue printed wrappers. Signed by John Ashbery, Kenward Elmslie, LeRoi Jones (as Amiri Baraka, dated 1978), Kenneth Koch, Daniel Krakauer (inscribed “To Richard”), and Larry Rivers at their contributions. Wrappers sunned, lightest edgewear, a few.....
Price: $650.00
“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: $1,250.00
Red Cavalry
London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 213, [1]. Original orange and black pictorial cloth, original unclipped red and black pictorial dust jacket, top edge stained red. Pictorial title page printed in red and black. Trivial scratch to front panel, tiny.....
Price: $2,800.00
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
Murphy
New York: Grove Press, (1957). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [4], 282, [2]. Original cream textured cloth, spine lettered in brown, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in black and grey. Grove Press rubber stamp to copyright page. Spine and edges of jacket toned, with 2.5-inch split at.....
Price: $350.00
Original illustration for Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
1983. Watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera on paper, image measuring 8.5 x 8.75 inches, on larger sheet. Initialed in lower right image. Archivally framed to 17 x 14.5 inches. Offered with: Monika Beisner’s Book of Riddles. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983).
Price: $1,800.00
C: A Journal of Poetry. Volume 1: No. 9 (signed by William S. Burroughs)
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, “SUMMER ETC” 1964. Side-stapled volume, measuring 14 x 8.5 inches: cover and 67 mimeographed leaves, printed recto only. Cover design by Joe Brainard; hand-pasted collage element on leaf 29. Leaves 38-43 and 55-58 stapled out of order, leaf 39 stapled upside down, all present.....
Price: $1,800.00
A Version of Solomon’s Song of Songs; Together with the XLV. Psalm
London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil, 1700. Small octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv, 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges.....
Price: $3,000.00
Contes de Toutes les Couleurs: Les Poissons Rouges, Le Singe Vert, Le Nain Jaune, La Souris Grise, Le Lapin Blanc, L’Oiseau Bleu (six volumes)
Paris: Marcilly, circa 1825. Six twelvemo volumes, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: 32. Original glazed white paper boards, upper boards elaborately stamped in gilt and titled in blue with hand-colored pictorial onlays. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. Occasional faint foxing to text. Housed in lightly shelfworn publisher’s card box.....
Price: $3,250.00
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
Pen Sketches of Napoleon I (album of original drawings)
Italy: circa 1825. Oblong album, measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 43 grey card leaves inserted on stubs. Later nineteenth-century dark blue morocco, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, boards paneled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt title to upper board and owner’s monogram “W.F.H.” to lower board.....
Price: $20,000.00
Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers Penned & Pictured by Walter Crane
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. Single volume, measuring 9.75 x 7.25 inches: 40. Original pale blue cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, floral patterned endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Full-page advertisement for Walter Crane’s Legends for Lionel and eight-page publisher’s catalog bound at rear. Pages double-folded and uncut, as.....
Price: $425.00
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
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
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
Achilles’ Song
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: [16]. Side-stitched olive green wrappers in integral pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Original color frontispiece drawing by Duncan executed in pen and crayon. Hand-lettered “B” and signed by Duncan at colophon.
Price: $350.00
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: $18,000.00
Costume Parade under the Auspices of the Pemberton Improvement Association (panoramic photograph)
Boston: Fairfield Studio, September 5, 1926. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, measuring 8 x 32 inches, titled in the image. Housed in a later black frame.
Price: $500.00
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
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. Light pencil note to front free endpaper: “From a remainder of at least a dozen.....
Price: $950.00
Love and Adversity
England: 1900. Watercolor, heightened with bodycolor, on artist’s board, measuring 20.5 x 13.5 inches, image. Signed with artist’s monogram and dated 1900, lower right; verso signed “E.F. Brickdale,” titled, and numbered “22,” with partial indecipherable pencil notation. Archivally hinged to board, with linen mat and burnished gold wood frame measuring.....
Price: $24,000.00
The Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981; with: Scenes from the Fashionable World; with: Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, 1987, 1996. Three volumes, measuring from 9.25 to 8 inches high and 5.25 to 6 inches wide: xii, 270, [4]; [14], 204, [4]; [2], xv, [1], 247, [3]. Original cloth spines lettered in gilt, paper boards stamped in gilt, original unclipped color printed dust.....
Price: $350.00
Gedenktage aus dem Jahre 1809: eine Erinnerung: den Damen Wiens gewidmet vom Ballkomitee der Stadt Wien
[Vienna]: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong album, measuring 5.5 x 6.5 inches. Full ivory kidskin, decorated with the arms of Vienna in gilt, black and red; patterned endpapers with Viennese cross motif printed in red, tan, and gilt; all edges gilt. Decorative title, one page of text, and 12 tissue-guarded color.....
Price: $950.00
“All, All Are Gone, The Old Familiar Faces”
No place: 1910. Pen and ink with gouache highlights on paper, mounted to illustration board, measuring 4.25 x 20.5 inches. Initialed “J.G.” in lower right image. Publisher’s pencil notes above and below image; artist’s full name (Jessie Gillespie Willing) and address to verso, with partial typed publication label including caption.....
Price: $675.00