New Arrivals
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Compared with the Former Editions, and Many Valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed
London: Bernard Lintot, between the Temple Gates, 1721. Large folio, measuring 15.5 x 10 inches: [52], 626, 81, [1]. Full contemporary speckled calf, boards ruled in gilt with crowned central initial “P” (Portland), raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, black morocco spine labels (title and library pressmarks) lettered.....
Price: $3,000.00
Panorama du Fleuve; Panorama de la Montagne; Panorama de la Côte
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1937-1938. Three color pictorial folding panoramas, housed in color pictorial paper boards, each measuring 9.75 inches square when folded, extending to 94 inches unfolded. Text printed on verso of each panorama, with additional illustrations. Tiny abrasion to opening hinge of Fleuve; small labels to final text panels.....
Price: $2,000.00
Sketch...Book. Le Non-Obéissant: The Disobedient: Der Ungehorsame
Basel: Basilius Presse, 1968. Single volume, measuring 8 x 9 inches: [88, double leaves]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, text block printed in black and orange. Inscribed by Warja Lavater in the year of publication. Slight bowing to boards.
Price: $1,250.00
Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1888. Large quarto, measuring 10.75 x 8.25 inches: [2], 28. Original heavy cream wrappers hand-lettered in gold paint, bound with later cream ribbon. Three engraved plates, including portrait frontispiece; twelve additional illustrations throughout text. Two tiny chips to painted title, repair to inner edge of frontispiece.....
Price: $950.00
The Muses Library; Or a Series of English Poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II
London: J. Wilcox, T. Green, et al, 1737. Octavo, measuring 8 x 4.75 inches: xvi, 400. Nineteenth-century three-quarter purple calf, marbled boards, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Marginalia in ink and pencil throughout. Ownership inscription dated 1766(?) to head of title, partially trimmed. Bookplates of Percy L......
Price: $1,400.00
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
(New York): G.P. Putnam's Sons, (2002). Quarto, measuring 10 x 10 inches: [44]. Original color pictorial paper boards, pale blue pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Maira Kalman with a sketch of a ladder facing title page.
Price: $100.00
Mourka: The Autobiography of a Cat
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1965. Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: [60]. Original heliotrope cloth lettered in silver, original unclipped photographic dust jacket printed in purple, black, and white, photographic endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs on every page. Green ink stamp (“Printed in Great Britain”) and publisher’s ink correction.....
Price: $150.00
Needlework sampler referencing the wrath of Achilles
[England]: October 14, 1790. Needlework sampler on unbleached linen, measuring 16 x 14 inches, in black and gilt wooden frame. Embroidered floral border in pink, blue, yellow, green, and white; text, signature, and date in black; cross-stitched lower rule in pink and green. Remnant of label to verso: “William Whiteley.....
Price: $2,800.00
Complete run of Boni Paper Books and Bonibooks, with publisher's original wooden display shelf
New York: Charles Boni, 1929-1931. Fifty-three paperback volumes, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches each: various paginations. Original pictorial card wrappers, many with pictorial endpapers, a few volumes housed in publisher’s slipcases (not issued on most titles). Original publisher’s wooden display shelf, painted in black and silver with “50¢ BONIBOOKS” lettered.....
Price: $4,200.00
Four-Way Blocks (farm animals)
No place: no publisher, [1972]. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 8.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. Lightest wear.
Price: $750.00
Tentoonstelling der Nagelaten Werken van Vincent Van Gogh
Amsterdam: Kunstzaal Panorama, 1892. Oblong volume, measuring 7 x 8.25 inches: [12]. Original tan wrappers with lithographed sunflower design by R.N. Roland Holst. A few spots of foxing to front wrapper, tiny chip to rear wrapper. Housed in a custom clamshell box with the bookplate of Barry Humphries.
Price: $15,000.00
Europa Redux: 6892 Color Illustrations, Captioned in an Imaginary Language
Switzerland: 1940-1946. Manuscript consisting of 106 loose poster-sized sheets, each measuring 17.25 x 23 inches. Each sheet covered with a grid of uniformly sized color illustrations, executed in pencil, oil pastel, watercolors or crayon on rectos only, 42 to 81 images to a sheet. Numbers penciled in margins (at least.....
Price: $38,000.00
The Dance of Death; Painted by H. Holbein, and Engraved by W. Hollar
London: C. Whittingham for John Harding, 1804. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: 70. Contemporary three-quarter calf over drab grey paper boards, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in blind and gilt, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, grey endpapers, text block uncut. Two engraved portraits, 31 engraved plates.....
Price: $850.00
Bonshommes des Bois
Brussels: Éditions des Artistes, Collection Sans Souci, [1943]. Side-stapled volume, measuring 5 x 5.25 inches: [12, including wrappers]. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers, color illustrations on every page. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $250.00
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
Observations on Hamlet; and on the Motives which Most Probably Induced Shakspeare to Fix upon the Story of Amleth, from the Danish Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, for the Plot of that Tragedy; Being an Attempt to Prove that He Designed It as an Indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots. Bound with: An Appendix to Observations on Hamlet
Cambridge: J. Burges, Printer to the University, 1796-1797. Two octavo volumes bound in one, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 44; [2], 85, [1]. Recent full polished calf, boards tooled in blind with a floral border, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Bound without.....
Price: $2,800.00
Sammelband of poems, including Hannah More’s first published work
London, Oxford, and Bristol: various publishers, 1771-1774. Quarto, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches, containing ten separately published works: [4],44; [4], 4-38; 6, 71, [3]; [4], 24; [8], 37, [1]; [2], 24; [4], 18; [2], iv,30; [2], 31, [1]; vi, 7-41, [1]. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked and recornered, floral gilt rules.....
Price: $5,600.00
A Bloomsbury Souvenir; with: Six Views of Bloomsbury (postcards)
London: Design for Today, [2017]. Concertina booklet printed on stiff card, measuring 4 x 6 inches folded, extending to 52 inches when fully opened. Color lithography on both sides. Signed and numbered by Alice Pattullo. With: publisher’s small circular adhesive seal (for mailing) and separate suite of six individual color.....
Price: $100.00
The James Brown Reader. Written by Mr. Welvin Stroud’s Sixth Grade Class at the Martin Luther King School
San Francisco: The More Distribution Company, 1968. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.25 inches: [20]. Original orange pictorial wrappers, line drawings throughout text. Light crease to one page, a few tiny spots to rear wrapper.
Price: $225.00
De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks
London: Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently at the Post-house in Russel-Street, in Covent-Garden, 1694. Quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.25 inches: [12], 129, [3], 248. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Pencil note to front pastedown: “Dr. Bliss’s copy, also Kemble’s copy,” ink note.....
Price: $3,200.00
Collection d’Esquisses des Principaux Articles de Décoration Éxécutés en papier Peint dans la Manufacture de Jean Zuber et Compagnie à Rixheim près Mulhausen, dept. du haut-Rhin
[Mulhouse, Alsace, France]: Engelmann père & fils, circa 1850. Single folio volume, measuring 19.5 x 14.5 inches: 42 leaves of varying sizes, including title, lithographed recto only, most inserted on stubs. Green reversed-calf spine, green paste-paper boards, red morocco title label bordered and lettered in gilt (“J. Zuber & Cie.....
Price: $30,000.00
Working Cotton
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page.
Price: $50.00
Four-Way Blocks (wild animals)
Princeton: Creative Playthings, 1972. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 7.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. Copyright information printed at base of giraffe image. Housed in original box with tape repairs.
Price: $250.00
Every GIRL’S Alphabet
London: Artists’ Choice Editions, 2010. Small quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.5 inches: [64]. Original red morocco lettered in gilt over printed color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by author and illustrator on colophon, penciled note: “out of series.” With: original linocut, signed by Luke Martineau.....
Price: $300.00
Les Spectacles Instructifs, ou Les Serins Hollandais, Les Moineaux Francs du Palais-Royal, La Chasse au Faucon, Le Cormoran Pêcheur de la Chine, Le Lièvre Intrépide, Les Singes Militaires, Les Serpens Indiens, etc.
Paris: A. Nepveu, 1817. Eighteenmo, measuring 5 x 3 inches: viii, 191, [1]. Nineteenth-century polished calf, boards and spine decoratively tooled in blind and gilt, deep blue marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, green silk ribbon marker. Eight hand-colored engraved plates after designs by Dugourc.
Price: $4,000.00
Rubber stamp featuring Harriet Tubman, for use on the United States $20 bill
New York: Casey Rubber Stamps, 2020. Red rubber stamp, mounted to wooden base measuring 2 x 2 inches. Image of Harriet Tubman stamped in black ink to base.
Price: $25.00
The Hermit-Woman
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1983. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 76, [2] . Original stiff orange and yellow patterned wrappers. A few tiny spots to wrappers.
Price: $125.00
Mother Makes Christmas
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Small quarto, measuring 8.25 x 7.5 inches: [28]. Original color pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers printed in blue and white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout text. Light shelfwear to jacket, with tiny chips to spine ends and.....
Price: $95.00
Color New York
New York: Timbre Books, (1985). Side-stapled volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [10], 65, [5]. Original glossy color pictorial wrappers. Black-and-white line drawings throughout text. Wrappers lightly sunned.
Price: $100.00
Xarque and Other Poems
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1985. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.25 inches: 70, [2]. Original stiff green pictorial wrappers illustrated by James Lewis.
Price: $125.00