New Arrivals
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
A Collection of Poetry, Sacred and Moral, for the Use of Schools
Yarmouth: J. Black, Bookseller, 1804. Twelvemo, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: vii, [1], 81, [1]. Modern marbled wrappers, buff endpapers. A few stray marks to title, wood-engraved floral ornament at table of contents, text block closely trimmed.
Price: $375.00
Guide to Chirography, in a Series of Writing Books. Book Second (American schoolboy’s copybook)
Salem: John W. Archer, 1832. Side-stitched copybook, measuring 6.5 x 8.25 inches: [32]. Original tan pictorial wrappers, featuring a wood engraving of two hands holding quill pens. Ownership signature of Alexander Clapp to top righthand corner of front wrapper; date “Dec. 14, 1834” to top lefthand corner. Every page covered.....
Price: $275.00
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French, and Dutch -- in the West Indies and South America
[London]: Andre Deutsch, (1963). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 232. Original black boards lettered in gilt, turquoise and black cartographic endpapers, top edge stained turquoise, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price sticker to front flap. Inscribed “V.S. Naipaul / for Al Murray” on title page. Light.....
Price: $1,250.00
Chicken Soup, Boots
New York: Viking Press, 1993. Quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial paper boards, blue pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $50.00
To Enlarge or Diminish by Means of a Square (original drawing)
No place (probably England): no publisher, early nineteenth century. Original ink and watercolor drawing, measuring 12.25 x 8.25 inches, displayed against an ivory mat in a wooden frame, the whole measuring 16.5 x 12.25 inches. Left edge of drawing slightly uneven, presumably where it was removed from a sketchbook. Wooden.....
Price: $850.00
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems
New York: Granary Books, 2012. Portfolio of 47 unbound double-sided manuscript facsimiles, color printed at scale, on Red River Aurora Natural paper, each print measuring 14 x 11 inches, with a supplementary index print. Portfolio wrapper of handmade ivory paper with a cotton tape lift, lined in blue paper, replicating.....
Price: $5,000.00
Oak and Ivy
Dayton, Ohio: Press of United Brethren Publishing House, 1893. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 62. Original dark blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Ink presentation note on front pastedown: “Presented to Mr. & Mrs. Garnet C. Wilkinson on the occasion of the dedication of the Dunbar High.....
Price: $9,500.00
Eskimo Cook Book
Anchorage: Alaska Crippled Children's Association, (1952). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 5.25 x 4 inches: [2], 36, [2]. Original salmon pictorial wrappers, line drawings throughout text. Staples beginning to rust.
Price: $85.00
Collection of nine comic illustrated envelopes sent by small-town American postmasters
Alabama, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Virginia: 1938-1943. Nine envelopes, measuring 4 x 6.5 inches. Eight envelopes with original artwork, one with a printed illustration (Betsy Ross), playing on the names of the towns where the envelopes were postmarked. Postmaster signatures to six envelopes. Lightest.....
Price: $550.00
Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All
New York: New World Records, 1977. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Price: $300.00
Dessin à Vue Géométral (art class assignment)
Paris: 3 March 1941. Art student’s original exercise sheet, measuring 10.5 x 8.25 inches, printed recto only, featuring a painted still life of a toolbox with supporting notes and drawings in red ink. Instructor’s comments and signature in purple ink, additional signature in black ink at lower left. Lightly creased.....
Price: $350.00
“Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street,” in The Dial, Volume LXXV, No. 1
Greenwich, Connecticut: The Dial Publishing Company, July 1923. Octavo, measuring 10 x 6.25 inches: i-xii, 104, xiii-xx. Original salmon wrappers printed in black. Illustrated with eight full-page black and white plates. “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” appears on pages 20-27. Tiny bump to upper wrapper from raised staple, lightest shelfwear.....
Price: $750.00
The Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
Price: $1,250.00
Stavrogin’s Confession and The Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner. With Introductory and Explanatory Notes
Richmond: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1922. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: 169, (1), 6. Original “ice-blue” cloth spine, blue and white patterned boards, printed pastedown labels to spine and upper board, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Six pages of advertisements bound at rear.....
Price: $400.00
Janvier 1866. Lettre & Poème Envoyés à Thomas W. Higginson
Paris: Les Éditions du Rouleau Libre, 1991. Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 6.5 inches: 10 leaves (5 folded). Original open-sewn paper boards printed in black and green, secured to wooden spine anchor. Printed letterpress in black and green, with five double-length folding leaves, illustrated throughout text with four original gravures.....
Price: $650.00
Mathematical Merry Thoughts, Plate 1
London: Harrison Isaacs, circa 1830. Hand-colored etching and aquatint, measuring 9 x 10 inches. Faint spotting, dash of paint to verso.
Price: $450.00
The History of The/My Wor(l)d
New York: Druckwork & Granary Books, 1995. Single volume, measuring 11.25 x 8.5 inches: [48]. Original drab paper boards, black cloth spine, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket “printed letterpress by the author." Printed in red and black ink, in various typefaces, illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout text. Signed by.....
Price: $250.00
The Poet Assassinated
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 128. Original black and white pictorial cloth boards, black and white patterned endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Lightest toning to edges of boards and jacket.
Price: $85.00
Children at the Gate
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 295, [1]. Original green textured boards lettered in gilt, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Bookseller label of Exclusive Books, Johannesburg, to front pastedown. Lightest rubbing to jacket, small stain to rear panel, last page creased.
Price: $55.00
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
A Week
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 247, [1]. Original blue cloth stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, original unclipped typographic dust jacket priced at $1.50 on the spine. Introduction by translator Arthur Ransome. Capwell's Books (Oakland, California) bookseller ticket to lower pastedown. Pinpoint.....
Price: $300.00
Il Disegno alla Lavagna. Corso di Disegno per gli Istituti Magistrali. Volume III
Firenze: Sansoni, (1956). Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 13 inches: [8], 60 numbered plates printed recto only. Original pictorial wrappers printed in black, brown, and white. Embossed stamp of the Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori to title, marginal note in pencil to plate 44. Shelfworn wrappers creased and clipped.....
Price: $350.00
Here and Now Story Book. Two- to Seven-Year-Olds
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., (1939). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: xii, [2], 360. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout text. Early owner signature to front free endpaper; bookseller label (Union Book.....
Price: $85.00
La Favola delle Favole
Mantua: Marzia Corraini, (1994). Single volume, measuring 12 x 12 inches: [118]. Original color pictorial photographic wrappers, bound with binder clips, as issued. 59 unnumbered leaves on various paper stocks: some colored, some transparent, some with cut-outs, some with drawings. Bound into the volume is a heavy piece of cardboard.....
Price: $550.00
“Composition as Explanation,” in The Dial, Volume LXXXI, No. 4
Camden, New Jersey: The Dial Publishing Company, October 1926. Octavo, measuring 10 x 6.25 inches: i-viii, 269-358, ix-xii. Original buff wrappers printed in black. Illustrated with eight full-page plates (one with mounted color reproduction). “Composition as Explanation” appears on pages 327-336. One dot to cover, tiny bump to foot of.....
Price: $100.00
“See! See! The Machine Gun Killing of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker” (handbill)
Denver, Colorado: Bide-a-Wee Theatre, July 1934. Theatrical handbill, measuring 4.5 x 5.25 inches. Printed recto only on pale green paper, faded at left edge.
Price: $250.00
Stockdale’s Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, The Whole of His Dramatic Works; with Explanatory Notes compiled from Various Commentators
London: John Stockdale, 1784. Octavo, measuring 8.75 x 5.5 inches: [18], 1079, [1]. Full period-style calf, boards ruled and decorated in gilt, lyre cornerpieces, spine elaborately tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label. Engraved frontispiece of Shakespeare; preliminaries including Rowe’s life of Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s will. Text in two columns.....
Price: $2,000.00
Jeu des Poètes. Composé de 80 Cartes avec Portraits
Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé, circa 1910. Complete set of eighty playing cards, each measuring 4.5 x 2.75 inches. Each card printed in gold, red, and black, featuring a portrait of a French poet, birth and death dates, and a quoted verse; versos uniformly patterned. Housed with original instruction card in.....
Price: $500.00
Notes by Mr. Ruskin on his Collection of Drawings by the Late J.M.W. Turner; with: original season ticket to the 1878 exhibition of Ruskin’s Turner collection at the Fine Art Society
London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, for the Fine Art Society, 1878. Large quarto, measuring 11 x 8.75 inches: [4], 188, [2]. Contemporary polished tree calf, floral gilt rules to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and elaborately decorated in gilt, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.....
Price: $1,250.00