Featured Items
Featured Items
Charles F. Heartman Reviews Dr. Rosenbach’s Young American Parade (broadside)
No place: no publisher, [1933]. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Two faint creases from folding, several small paper repairs and evidence of previous mount to verso, one short closed tear.
Price: $500.00
Goblin Market
London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. Tall twelvemo, measuring 7.25 x 4.25 inches: [4], 63, [1]. Original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, designed and initialed by Laurence Housman; all edges gilt. Original dust jacket printed in green, reproducing cover design. Pictorial title page with tissue guard, twelve full-page wood-engraved illustrations.....
Price: $2,750.00
The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra
(Hammersmith): (The Doves Press), 1912. Small quarto, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [6], 7-140, [4]. Original full limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Colophon and list of corrections to the 1623 folio text at rear. Printed in Doves type in red and black ink. Housed in a custom clamshell box.....
Price: $5,000.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $5,500.00
Four-Way Blocks (Swiss version)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1965. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 8.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Spiel Naef / Swiss Made” printed at top lefthand corner of cat image. Light shelfwear.
Price: $350.00
The Rivals, A Comedy
London: John Wilkie, 1775. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, [6], 100. Modern full red morocco by Rivière, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled doublures, all edges gilt. Bound with half-title. Penciled bookseller notes and bookplate of Montgomery Evans II to front pastedown. Typed description on card with.....
Price: $1,500.00
Study for Vogue: Flower Bearer
1913. Watercolor, graphite, and gouache with bronze accents on paper, measuring 11.25 x 8.25 inches, unsigned. Remnants of mounting tissue on verso.
Price: $2,000.00
Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 38 full-page plates.....
Price: $2,800.00
The Art Work of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. Single volume, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [14], xv-xxxi, [4], 5-90, [2]. Original patterned vellum with red bole underpainting, gauffered and gilt, title embossed on upper cover, Tiffany “T” monogram to spine; top edge trimmed and gilt. Frontispiece and nineteen tipped-in color plates.....
Price: $8,500.00
La Gimnasia en Jardines y Habitaciones: ó Higene de los Ejercicios Razionados, sin Necesidad de Aparejos
Madrid: Saturnino Calleja Fernandez, circa 1900. Single volume, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: [7], 8-126, [2]. Original color pictorial lithographed boards; rear cover with elaborate publisher’s device; spine titled in black with decorative border. Wood-engraved headpiece to preface, forty-one photoengraved black line drawings. Light toning and edgewear.
Price: $300.00
From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5.25 inches: xiii, 323, [2]. Original publisher’s green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 79 plates after illustrations by Emile Bayard and others. Light foxing to preliminaries, small dampstain to margin.....
Price: $5,000.00
Less Than Nothing -- or The Life and Times of Sterling Finny
[New York]: [The New Yorker], [1927]. Single volume, measuring 9 x 5.75 inches: [28]. Original green cloth spine, orange and black batik paper boards with green pastedown label to front board. Illustrated with ten black-and-white photographs staged and shot by White. Hinges reinforced, lightest edgewear to binding.
Price: $2,800.00
The Wound Dresser. A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals of Washington During the War of the Rebellion
Boston: Small, Maynard, & Company, 1898. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: [8], viii, [2], 201, [5]. Original red buckram, printed paper spine label, all edges untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of Walt Whitman opposite title, portrait of Louisa Whitman and facsimile of a July 1863 letter inserted in text. Replacement spine.....
Price: $2,800.00
Poems by Oscar Wilde
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1892. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: ix, [1], 234. Original pale mauve cloth decorated in gilt with stylized botanical design by Charles Ricketts, pale green and mauve patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.....
Price: $18,000.00
Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza. Complete Herein in Three Books. Illuminating episodes in the lives of the Hon. Gerald Poynyard and his Bride
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.25 inches: 302, [2]. Original three-quarter red cloth, marbled boards, text block untrimmed. Woodcut vignettes throughout text. Ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper: “Sinclair Lewis / from Elinor Wylie / November 1923.” General shelfwear, a few splashmarks.....
Price: $750.00
Bread Givers
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Octavo, original black ribbed cloth stamped in gold. Title page printed in red and black. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Intermittent foxing to text block, foxing to edges.
Price: $950.00