New Arrivals
Le Luth Français. Almanach Lyrique, Dédié aux Dames
Paris: Chez Louis Janet, Libraire, [1821]. 16mo, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: [2], 128, [4]. Original green pictorial paper boards, all edges gilt, silk pull-tab. Engraved title page (with mezzotint vignette), fully engraved text and musical scores, twelve tissue-guarded hand-colored engraved plates throughout text. Bookplate of “F. Meunié” to front.....
Price: $300.00
Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1973. Folio, measuring 13 x 9.5 inches: xvi, 50, [2]. Original full black buckram, tan leather spine label lettered in gilt, plum endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Half-title and title page printed in red and black, red initials throughout text, text printed in.....
Price: $250.00
Stockdale’s Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, The Whole of His Dramatic Works; with Explanatory Notes
London: John Stockdale, 1784. Thick octavo, measuring 9.25 x 5.5 inches: [16], [2], 1079, [1]. Full contemporary red morocco ruled in gilt, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt-ruled dentelles, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, text printed in two columns, one page of publisher’s advertisements.....
Price: $2,500.00
Original gag cartoon for Collier’s magazine
No place: 1956. Ink, wash, and opaque white on paper, measuring 6.5 x 8.5 inches, sight size. Signed “W. Steig” in black ink, lower right image. Framed with archival glass to 14 x 15.5 inches, clear sleeve on verso containing the original typed description label requesting return to Steig’s New.....
Price: $600.00
The Portrait of a Lady
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 268; iv, 256; iv, 248, [24]. Original dark blue bead-grain cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped.....
Price: $38,000.00
The End of the Affair
London: William Heinemann, (1951). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [6], 237, [1]. Original grey cloth titled in gilt, tan endpapers, original unclipped color-printed dust jacket. Small bookseller stamp (The Times Bookshop) to rear pastedown. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $850.00
The Heart of the Matter
London: William Heinemann, (1948). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [6], 297, [1]. Original dark blue cloth titled in silver, tan endpapers, top edge stained red, original unclipped color-printed dust jacket. Bookseller label (B.H. Blackwell, Oxford) to front pastedown. Lightest shelfwear to jacket, with expert repair to spine head.....
Price: $1,000.00
The Woodlanders
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [4], 302, [2]; [4], 328; [4], 316. Original dark green bead-grain cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in.....
Price: $3,500.00
Broadsides. A Collection of Old and New Songs 1935
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1935. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.25 inches: [56]. Original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed pastedown title label to upper board, blue endpapers. Foreword signed by W.B. Yeats and F.R. Higgins; engraved musical staves and twenty-four hand-colored line block illustrations throughout text. Pencil inscription to front.....
Price: $3,500.00
Photographs
Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, (1989). Quarto, measuring 10 x 8.75 inches: xxviii, [178]. Original dark plum cloth titled in silver, black-and-white photographs throughout text. Signed and lettered by Welty at colophon. With: laid-in gelatin silver print, measuring 10 x 8 inches, with Welty’s inkstamp on verso, housed.....
Price: $5,000.00
Ida M’Toy
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1979). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [40]. Original red cloth, upper board stamped with gilt device. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Numbered in ink and signed by author on colophon. Bookplate of Ray A. Roberts to front pastedown.
Price: $250.00
A Pageant of Birds
New York: Albondocani Press, 1974. Side-stitched volume, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [32]. Original black and white photographic wrappers over black card. Title page printed in blue and black, six full-page photographs. Lettered and signed in ink at colophon.
Price: $750.00
Joseph II and His Court. An Historical Novel
Mobile, Alabama: S.H. Goetzel, 1864. Four volumes bound in one, measuring 7.25 x 5.25 inches: 240; 240; 139, [1]; 152 . Contemporary three-quarter red calf, marbled paper boards, recornered and rebacked with remnants of original spine laid down, spine ruled and titled in gilt, grey endpapers. Original front wrappers of.....
Price: $1,500.00
Sunshine: A Story About the City of New York
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1950). Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [44]. Original color pictorial paper boards, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Bookseller label (Paul Elder's Books, San Francisco) to lower corner of final page. Edgewear to jacket, corners lightly.....
Price: $250.00
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
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
Stuart Little
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [8], 131, [1]. Original pale grey pictorial cloth stamped in green and orange, green pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Tiny chips to jacket folds and head of spine.....
Price: $1,500.00
Make Way for Ducklings; with: signed bookplate commemorating the 1987 Mallard Family Sculpture
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Single volume, measuring 12 x 8.75 inches: [68]. Original tan pictorial cloth boards stamped in green, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Lithographed illustrations printed in sepia throughout text. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper: “To Sandy, Christmas 1941 / from.....
Price: $9,500.00
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
Twelve Fables of Aesop
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 8.25 x 6 inches: [32]. Original buff pictorial wrappers printed in red and black. Linoleum block illustrations printed in black throughout text. Signed and dated “July 9 ‘75” by Antonio Frasconi at title. Upper corner lightly bumped. Housed in publisher’s.....
Price: $150.00
Original illustration: “Lady Liberty, Bartholdi”
No place: 2007. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, measuring 12 x 15 inches, full sheet. Titled in pencil, lower left margin. Signed, dated, and inscribed in black marker: “For my friend Mo, Best wishes, Matt Tavares ‘07,” lower right margin. Penciled measurement lines in margins. Tipped to mat and.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Paris Review Limited Edition Prints and Posters
New York: The Paris Review, 1983. Side-stapled catalogue, measuring 4.25 x 9 inches: [24]. Original patterned wrappers printed in blue, yellow, and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Price list laid in.
Price: $125.00
Very Far Away
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: 52, [4]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations printed in black, pink, and grey throughout text. Harper & Brothers review slip laid in. Lightest sunning to.....
Price: $1,000.00
Crow Boy
New York: The Viking Press, (1956). Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [2], 37, [1]. Original pink cloth stamped in maroon, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color lithographic illustrations throughout text. Original painting of bird and nest facing title page, with author’s stamp and ink.....
Price: $250.00
Strange Interlude
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [10], 11-352. Original glazed teal pictorial cloth, upper board stamped in light blue with gilt facsimile of O’Neills signature, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained black, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket priced at.....
Price: $450.00
The Story of Ferdinand
New York: Viking Press, 1936. Single volume, measuring 8 x 7 inches: [72]. Original tan cloth spine lettered in red, red pictorial paper boards, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped red pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed on title page: “To Aunt June / with much affection at Christmas.....
Price: $6,500.00
Literature for Sale
New York: New York PublIc Library, 1941. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [2], 35, [3]. Original tan paper wrappers titled in black.
Price: $100.00
Paper Placemats
Atlanta: J&L Books, 2004. Oblong volume, perfect-bound, measuring 9.75 x 13 inches: 40 leaves. Original glossy white wrappers lettered in black, corners rounded. Leaves printed recto only, many in color.
Price: $125.00
Word-Finds Companion. Volume 314
[Blue Bell, Pennsylvania]: Kappa Books, 2022. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [1], 4-97, [1]. Original color-printed wrappers. Forty-three word searches followed by answer key. Half-inch closed tear to foot of front wrapper.
Price: $50.00