New Arrivals
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
Costume Parade under the Auspices of the Pemberton Improvement Association (panoramic photograph)
Boston: Fairfield Studio, September 5, 1926. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, measuring 8 x 32 inches, titled in the image. Housed in a later black frame.
Price: $500.00
Red Cavalry
London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 213, [1]. Original orange and black pictorial cloth, original unclipped red and black pictorial dust jacket, top edge stained red. Pictorial title page printed in red and black. Trivial scratch to front panel, tiny.....
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
Les Fleurs Animées
Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, Éditeur, 1847. Two large octavo volumes, measuring 10.5 x 7 inches: [5], 6-262; [5], 2-102, I-IV, [1], 106-166, I-IV, [1], 170-236. Original dark brown textured pictorial cloth elaborately decorated in blind and gilt, bright yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Hand-colored wood-engraved title page in each.....
Price: $3,800.00
Contes de Toutes les Couleurs: Les Poissons Rouges, Le Singe Vert, Le Nain Jaune, La Souris Grise, Le Lapin Blanc, L’Oiseau Bleu (six volumes)
Paris: Marcilly, circa 1825. Six twelvemo volumes, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: 32. Original glazed white paper boards, upper boards elaborately stamped in gilt and titled in blue with hand-colored pictorial onlays. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. Occasional faint foxing to text. Housed in lightly shelfworn publisher’s card box.....
Price: $3,250.00
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
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
The Chess-Players’ Manual: Containing the Laws of the Game According to the Revised Code Laid Down by the British Chess Association in 1862
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1902). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 7.75 inches: xii, 884, 122. Original forest green pictorial cloth, front board stamped with chess board and decorative surround in red and black, spine with gilt-stamped chessboard. Photo-engraved diagrams throughout text. Expert restoration to spine ends, hinges repaired, occasional stray spot.....
Price: $350.00
Green-Wood Cemetery 1882
Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery, 1882. Lithographed map, measuring 23.75 x 15.75 inches unfolded, housed in original mauve pictorial cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt, measuring 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Three-panel folding list of cemetery sites tipped to front pastedown. Ink ownership signature of “Beulah Wright / Rome / N.Y.” Light.....
Price: $500.00
Histoire de la Reine du Matin et de Soliman Prince des Génies
London: Eragny Press for Les Cent Bibliophiles, 1909. Octavo, measuring 8.75 x 5.5 inches: [5], 6-159, [1]. Original full olive calf, gilt-stamped with carnation pattern. Wood-engraved title page printed in grey-green and gold; color pictorial opening page with gold initial; twelve historiated initials printed in gold and colors; illustrations and.....
Price: $8,000.00
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
Hypatia
New York: 1903. Oil on board, measuring 19 x 13.25 inches. Signed “A. I. Keller” in lower right image. Three 2-mm chips to areas of marbling behind figure, a few additional minor chips from framing along edges.
Price: $3,200.00
Love and Adversity
England: 1900. Watercolor, heightened with bodycolor, on artist’s board, measuring 20.5 x 13.5 inches, image. Signed with artist’s monogram and dated 1900, lower right; verso signed “E.F. Brickdale,” titled, and numbered “22,” with partial indecipherable pencil notation. Archivally hinged to board, with linen mat and burnished gold wood frame measuring.....
Price: $24,000.00
Ilsée. Prinzessin von Tripolis
Prague: Kunst-Verlag B. Kocí, 1901. Small folio, measuring 12.25 x 9.5 inches: [10], 52, [4], 53-94, [4], 95-128, [8]. Original pictorial green wrappers printed in gold and black, publisher’s catalogue printed inside rear wrapper. Blind-embossed additional title bound before half-title; 132 color lithographed illustrations incorporating decorative borders; decorative initials and.....
Price: $4,000.00
Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers Penned & Pictured by Walter Crane
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. Single volume, measuring 9.75 x 7.25 inches: 40. Original pale blue cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, floral patterned endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Full-page advertisement for Walter Crane’s Legends for Lionel and eight-page publisher’s catalog bound at rear. Pages double-folded and uncut, as.....
Price: $425.00
The Real Latin Quarter
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 205, [3], Original buff pictorial cloth stamped in red, green, black and white. Title page printed in red and black, pictorial half-title, color frontispiece depicting the Luxembourg Gardens, black-and-white illustrations and two color plates throughout text.....
Price: $125.00
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. Light pencil note to front free endpaper: “From a remainder of at least a dozen.....
Price: $950.00
Madame de Pompadour
London: Hamish Hamilton and The Book Society, 1954. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: [12], 275, [1]. Original blue cloth lettered in silver, top edge stained red, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Cecil Beaton. Illustrated with black-and-white plates throughout text. Signed by Mitford in ink on the.....
Price: $750.00
“All, All Are Gone, The Old Familiar Faces”
No place: 1910. Pen and ink with gouache highlights on paper, mounted to illustration board, measuring 4.25 x 20.5 inches. Initialed “J.G.” in lower right image. Publisher’s pencil notes above and below image; artist’s full name (Jessie Gillespie Willing) and address to verso, with partial typed publication label including caption.....
Price: $675.00
The Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981; with: Scenes from the Fashionable World; with: Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, 1987, 1996. Three volumes, measuring from 9.25 to 8 inches high and 5.25 to 6 inches wide: xii, 270, [4]; [14], 204, [4]; [2], xv, [1], 247, [3]. Original cloth spines lettered in gilt, paper boards stamped in gilt, original unclipped color printed dust.....
Price: $350.00
Original illustration for Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
1983. Watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera on paper, image measuring 8.5 x 8.75 inches, on larger sheet. Initialed in lower right image. Archivally framed to 17 x 14.5 inches. Offered with: Monika Beisner’s Book of Riddles. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983).
Price: $1,800.00
Hanging Loose 2
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, winter/spring 1967. Forty-four mimeographed typed pages, measuring 9 x 6 inches. Loose as issued in original pictorial mailing envelope, with address label; index card inscribed “compliments of the editors,” initialed by Dick Lourie, laid in. Light shelfwear.
Price: $150.00
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
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Original Music by J.W. Elliott
London: Novello and Company, [1870]. Single volume, measuring 10.25 x 7.25 inches: [8], 111, [1]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and three full-page wood engravings, wood-engraved vignettes throughout text. Light occasional foxing and smudging, small tidemark to lower.....
Price: $200.00
Gedenktage aus dem Jahre 1809: eine Erinnerung: den Damen Wiens gewidmet vom Ballkomitee der Stadt Wien
[Vienna]: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong album, measuring 5.5 x 6.5 inches. Full ivory kidskin, decorated with the arms of Vienna in gilt, black and red; patterned endpapers with Viennese cross motif printed in red, tan, and gilt; all edges gilt. Decorative title, one page of text, and 12 tissue-guarded color.....
Price: $950.00
Jenny’s Adopted Brothers
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 32. Original yellow pictorial boards stamped in black and red, original clipped pictorial dust jacket with five titles listed on rear panel. Lightest soiling to jacket; later price stamp to front flap.
Price: $200.00
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
The Spoilt Kill
London: Michael Joseph, 1961. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 231, [1]. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt; original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Light toning to spine panel; smudging and short closed tear to rear panel; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper.
Price: $250.00