New Arrivals
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8.5 inches: [32]. Original beige cloth over blue paper boards stamped in silver, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $35.00
The Devil Finds Work
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: [6], 122. Original maroon boards lettered in red foil, maroon endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dustjacket, top edge stained maroon. Inscribed by Baldwin on the dedication page: “for Pierce Davis / keep the faith / James Baldwin.” Jacket.....
Price: $1,250.00
Omocha Junikagetsu: Omamori To Engimono [Twelve Months of Toys: Protective Talismans and Good Luck Charms]
[Osaka]: [Darumaya Shoten], 1926. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: fourteen unnumbered folded leaves, printed rectos only. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black, orange pastedown label to upper board, pictorial endpapers printed in pale green. Twelve double-page hand-colored woodblock prints, some heightened with metallic inks; two folded leaves.....
Price: $1,400.00
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Volume 5, Number 2
New York: Broom Publishing Company, September, 1923. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: 65-125, [3]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black, table of contents printed on inside front wrapper, subscription form printed on inside rear wrapper. Illustrated with photographs and black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightly creased.
Price: $650.00
Mémorial de l’Art des Accouchements: Ouvrage pratique, dans lequel on a représenté avec soin, en 133 gravures, toutes les positions de l’Enfant, le mécanisme de tous les accouchements, et rappelé, en peu de mots, les règles qu’il faut observer dans les différents cas; Suivi des Aphorismes de Mauriceau
Paris: l'Hospice de la Maternité . . . et chez Méquignon père, libraire de la Faculté de Médecine, 1812. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.5 inches: [16], 666. Contemporary half-calf ruled and lettered in gilt, dark green paper boards, faint gilt ownership stamp of Eulalie Roques to upper board, all edges.....
Price: $2,500.00
Puss in Boots
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: [36]. Original color pictorial paper boards, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Early owner signature, dated “Xmas 1959,” before title page. Light edgewear to jacket and boards.....
Price: $35.00
High Water
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1937. Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 79, [1]. Original color lithographed pictorial paper boards, black cloth spine, color lithographed pictorial endpapers. Color and black-and-white lithographic illustrations throughout text. Early owner signature to half-title. Lightest shelfwear, corners bumped, no dust jacket.
Price: $35.00
Collection of original drawings and paintings
New York City: 1927. Mixed group of forty-two drawings and nine watercolors, some double-sided, many disbound from a sketchbook. Front board of sketchbook present, with stationer’s label of Dante Gambinossi (605 Madison Avenue), and ink ownership inscription: “Emily Ryon - 1927.” Two drawings mounted, one tissue-guarded, several signed by Ryon.....
Price: $850.00
Fun Fair Toy Model Story Book
London: Amex Company, circa 1950. Side-stapled booklet, measuring 7 x 8.5 inches: [8]. Original color pictorial wrappers, diagrams and instructions printed on versos. Four pages of text, and a color-printed fairground model printed single-sided across two leaves of card, to be punched out and folded.
Price: $25.00
Cranford
London: Macmillan, 1898. Octavo, measuring 7 x 5 inches: xxx, 297, [1]. Original dark green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece; more than one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Early bookseller label (A.E. Barnes, Barnstaple) to front pastedown. Text block occasionally overopened, light.....
Price: $85.00
Les Hardis Aviateurs Transocéaniens
[Fürth]: Klee Spiele, circa 1930. Original folding cartographic game board, measuring 11.5 x 16.75 inches, featuring a color-printed map of North America as far west as Chicago, the Atlantic Ocean, and northern Europe as far east as Warsaw. Two chromolithographed launch platforms constructed of wood and cardboard; four chromolithographed planes.....
Price: $950.00
Engraved hand-colored broadsheet of musical monkeys
No place (likely France or Germany): early nineteenth century. Engraved hand-colored pictorial broadsheet, measuring 13 x 17 inches. Monogram “CG” printed at lower lefthand corner; “No. 66” at upper right. Center crease, a few short closed tears to margins, light abrasions to righthand corners.
Price: $750.00
Ireland’s Literary Renaissance
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Octavo, measuring 9.5 x 6.25 inches: [2], 456, [6]. Original dark green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge stained green, other edges uncut, some signatures unopened. Ink presentation inscription from James Joyce to his brother Stanislaus on front free endpaper; a few words in.....
Price: $20,000.00
Le Buffon de la Jeunesse, Offrant la Description de la Nature, des Moeurs et des Habitudes des Quadrupèdes, Oiseaux, Poissons, Reptiles, etc.
Paris: L’editeur, 1831. Five twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches: [2], 215, [1]; [2], 229, [1]; [2], 197, [1]; [2], 208, [2]; [2], 211, [3]. Original publisher’s yellow wrappers lined with printer’s waste, printed paper labels to spines. Engraved frontispiece, two engraved plates, and table of contents in each.....
Price: $950.00
With the V.A.D. Convoys in France, Flanders, Italy
[Cambridge]: [1921]. Collection of twenty-seven lithographs of varying sizes, ranging from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.5 x 15 inches, printed on grey or white paper, some with additional hand-coloring, some with original mounts. Original list of thirteen plates, printed in red, signed and dated “1921” by Olive Mudie-Cooke in.....
Price: $12,500.00
High Cards: Picture Poem Poster Post Cards
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Color-printed title card, followed by 45 numbered postcards: 23 printed in color and 22 printed in black and white, each measuring 5 x 7 inches. Complete set, lacking original publisher’s box.
Price: $200.00
The Maias
London: The Bodley Head, 1965. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 633, [1]. Original dark blue textured cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Arthur Barbosa. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $40.00
First Readers: Spot and the Paint, Blackie and the Wool, By the Pool
London: Ernest Benn, (1971). Set of three uniform volumes, each measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: 28. Original glossy color pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout text. No dust jackets, as issued. Housed in original Creative Playthings embossed plastic sleeve.
Price: $650.00
Hey Willy, See the Pyramids
New York: Viking Press, 1988. Quarto, measuring 10 x 7.75 inches: [36]. Original color pictorial paper boards, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Maira Kalman with a sketch on the title page.
Price: $75.00
Original gouache design for a botanical jacquard textile
France: 1933. Single sheet, constructed of two sheets of pre-printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, measuring 18.75 x 9.5 inches. Recto hand-painted in gouache in multiple colors, notes in pencil and ink; verso dated “28/7/33” with production notes in ink. Some soiling to verso.
Price: $150.00
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
The Handmaid to the Arts. . . . A New Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements
London [York]: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, 1796. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: xxv, [3], [25]-344; xx, [13]-324. Contemporary full tree calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt numerals.....
Price: $750.00
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
Georgia O’Keeffe
New York: The Viking Press, (1976). Folio, measuring 16 x 11.75 inches: [228]. Original textured ivory cloth lettered in brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 104 color plates, one folding, of O’Keeffe’s paintings; portrait of O’Keeffe by Dan Budnik. Presentation inscription from O’Keeffe to photographer Malcolm Varon.....
Price: $4,500.00
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
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
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
Hiawatha
London: George G. Harrap & Company, [1914]. Color-printed pictorial panorama in sixteen panels, folded concertina-style, measuring 5.75 x 80 inches unfolded, text printed on verso. Original color-printed pictorial paper boards, measuring 6 x 5.25 inches, identically printed. Light shelfwear and spotting to boards.
Price: $200.00
Invitation to private reception following Whitman’s lecture, “The Death of Abraham Lincoln”
New York City: April 14, 1887. Ivory card, measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches, printed recto only: “Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel, Irving Place and 16th St., New York.” Penciled bookseller note to verso: “April 14, 1887 for his most famous.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Poetical Works of John Milton. With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings by James Montgomery
London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1843. Two volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [4], lii, 378, [2]; viii, 341, [3]. Original dark blue pictorial cloth stamped in blind and gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers, publisher's ads at rear of both volumes. One hundred and twenty wood engravings throughout text.....
Price: $450.00