New Arrivals
Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories
London: George Routledge & Sons, (1914). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [viii], 200. Original scarlet cloth, upper board and spine stamped in blind, gilt titling to spine, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket (second state). Ink ownership signature and library stamp to front free endpaper. Lower edge of.....
Price: $3,500.00
The Little Sister
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [6], 249, [1]. Original orange-red cloth stamped in blue, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Signed “Raymond Chandler” in ink on front free endpaper. Bookseller ticket to rear free endpaper. Light rubbing to dust jacket, spine panel with slight.....
Price: $13,000.00
Laura
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [6], 237, [1]. Original blue cloth stamped in red, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by Bip Pares. Offsetting to endpapers, top edge spotted, jacket professionally restored.
Price: $6,800.00
Too Many Cooks: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [5], 303. Original red cloth stamped in black, top edge stained black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, priced at $2.00. Recipe appendix printed on blue paper. Inscribed and signed by Stout: “Nov. 22 - 1940 -.....
Price: $8,500.00
An Experiment in Modern Music
New York: Aeolian Hall, 1924. Concert program, measuring 9.5 x 6.25 inches: 12. Original textured grey wrappers formed from a single folded folio sheet, text printed on both end pages; upper wrapper printed in blue and gold, titled within ornate frame; side-stitched with original blue cord. Printed in deep blue.....
Price: $28,000.00
“Shinbone Alley” (illustration)
No place: 1957. Pen and ink with Benday tinting on illustration board, image measuring 12.5 x 16.5 inches on board measuring 15 x 20 inches, matted to 17 x 21 inches. Signed “Wachsteter” in lower right image. Publisher’s pencil notes in margins, portion of original printing order sheet from the.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Spider and the Fly (illustration)
No place: circa 1905. Watercolor and ink on illustration board, measuring 11.5 x 8 inches, sight size, on sheet measuring 14 x 8.5 inches. Signed “T. Hampe” in lower right image and titled in pencil on verso. Tipped to mat measuring 18.5 x 14 inches. A few measurement indications in.....
Price: $4,800.00
“Mother Reading to Children” (illustration)
No place: 1923. Gouache, graphite, and ink on paper, heightened and bordered with gold, measuring 9.5 x 8.5 inches, image, mounted to board measuring 12.25 x 11.25 inches. Inscribed and signed “á mon viel ami / René Manevy / Cordialement / Djoz,” in lower left image. Archivally matted and framed.....
Price: $5,200.00
A Streetcar Named Desire (signed by opening night cast, with original Shubert Theatre program and ticket stubs)
New York: New Directions, (1947). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 171, [1]. Original pink pictorial paper boards, original unclipped pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Ink signatures of the original cast beside their printed names on page 5; former owner’s signature to front free endpaper. Shelfwear.....
Price: $20,000.00
Jeu de la Grande Roue de Paris
Paris: Simonin Cuny, [1900]. Game board, measuring 14 x 10.75 inches. Chromolithographed sheet heightened in gold, divided in half vertically, mounted to two red boards joined by a cloth spine, folding to 10.75 x 7 inches. Rules of play printed at base of image, publisher’s imprint lower right. Trivial offsetting.....
Price: $1,000.00
A Apple Pie
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1886]. Oblong quarto, measuring 8.5 x 10 inches: [22]. Original red cloth spine, pale green color-printed pictorial boards, all edges stained red, deep blue coated endpapers. Half-title and title page printed in brown ink. Color-printed wood engravings by Edmund Evans after watercolors by Greenaway on.....
Price: $7,200.00
Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting. Illustrated by Examples from the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools
London: Printed for the Proprietor, and Sold by James Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street, 1826. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: vi, [2], 45, [1], [2]. Contemporary drab boards neatly rebacked, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s advertisement mounted to front pastedown. Eight engraved plates throughout text. Publisher’s prospectuses for.....
Price: $500.00
A Concise Introduction to the Knowledge of the Most Eminent Painters
London: T. Cadell, 1778. Octavo in fours, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [124]. Nineteenth-century calf spine, marbled paper boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, grey morocco spine label lettered in gilt. One page of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Light occasional foxing, heavier to final signatures; lightest shelfwear to.....
Price: $500.00
This Gun for Hire
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [8], 293, [3]. Original tan cloth, stamped in green on spine, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.00 to front flap. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Light sunning to jacket, expert restoration to.....
Price: $3,600.00
Grapefruit
Tokyo: Wunternaum Press, 1964. Perfect-bound volume, measuring 5.5 x 5.5 inches: [354.] Original white wrappers lettered in black. Presentation inscription from Ono on preliminary blank. Wrappers lightly soiled and rubbed. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $35,000.00
Cape Cod; with: The Maine Woods; with: Walden; with: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; with: Excursions
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1908-1913. Five volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: xii, 319, [1]; xiv, 423, [1]; xvi, 440; [4], xxii, 492; viii, 303, [1]. Original leaf green cloth decoratively stamped in orange and gilt. Frontispiece and 32 photogravure plates in each volume. Text partially unopened. Light.....
Price: $2,500.00
“Manuscript Found in a Bottle,” pages 67-87 in: The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1836
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, [1835]. Octavo, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: x, [3], 18-292. Full crimson publisher’s morocco signed by Gaskill, elaborately embossed with an American eagle gripping arrows and an olive branch to both boards; gilt titling to spine; floral sprigged endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and.....
Price: $950.00
American dance orchestra signs, in original wooden case
United States: late nineteenth century. Six wooden signs, measuring 2 x 12.25 inches, hand-painted in crimson and green on both sides, with wire loops for hanging; string cords (likely renewed). Housed in original hinged and fitted wooden carrying case, measuring 3.5 x 3 x 12.75 inches, hand-painted in crimson and.....
Price: $1,600.00
The Cloud Eye
Milan: Sergio Tosi Stampatore, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 4 x 7.75 inches: [20]. Original navy cardboard covers bound with two aluminum rings. Leaves printed rectos only. Fifteen color lithographs, four pages of text. Scattered foxing, light fading and a few faint spots to covers.
Price: $250.00
Four silhouette illustrations on storybook themes
England: nineteenth century. Four ink and graphite illustrations on paper, mounted to a single backing sheet. Entire sheet matted to 13 x 9.75 inches. Occasional light discoloration to paper, edge of one drawing creased.
Price: $175.00
Silhouette illustration: The Recognition
England: nineteenth century. Ink and graphite on paper, mounted to a backing sheet. Image measures 5 x 10 inches, matted to 8 x 13.5 inches. Light discoloration to righthand and lower edges of original paper.
Price: $175.00
Silhouette illustration: The Hero Arrives
England: nineteenth century. Ink and graphite on paper, mounted to a second sheet, the whole mounted again to a backing sheet. Image measures 5 x 7 inches, matted to 8 x 10 inches. Occasional stray speck to paper.
Price: $175.00
The Canterville Ghost
Natick, MA: Picture Book Studio/Neugebauer Press, 1986. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.25 inches: [36]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, black linen spine, pale green coated endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light edgewear to jacket, with several short closed tears.
Price: $35.00
Giganten. Ein Abenteuerbuch
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, (1932). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [8], 11-377, [7]. Original tan cloth stamped in brown and red, upper board lettered in brown. Presentation inscription from Döblin to Isaac Steinberg on preliminary blank. Owner signature of Leo Steinberg to front free endpaper. Light soiling to.....
Price: $3,000.00
Das Karussellpferd und die Blaue Blume / Die Fee und die Mauer
Neuallschwil/Basel: Heuwinkel, [1961]. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 8.5 inches: [28]. Original brown cloth spine, glossy color pictorial paper boards. Text and illustrations printed on board, featuring thirteen full-page color linocuts. Faint foxing to pastedowns, binding slightly bowed, staples rusted.
Price: $150.00
Four original literary-historical illustrations for The New York Times Book Review
New York: New York Times, 1925-1926. Four oblong illustrations, measuring between 7.75 and 8.5 inches high x 22.25 inches wide. Watercolor, ink, and wash, with graphite tracing on artist’s paper. Signed in ink at upper corners; captioned at lower left; publication stamps, measurements, and printing notes in margins. Preliminary sketches.....
Price: $1,750.00
Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser. With Certain Imaginative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25: [60]. Original full pictorial vellum stamped in gilt and green; green and blue marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black; decorative borders and illustrations on every page. Bookseller label of Thos. V. Paul, Philadelphia, to.....
Price: $400.00
A Poetical Dictionary; or, the Beauties of the English Poets, Alphabetically Displayed
London: Printed for J. Newbery, J. Richardson, S. Crowder, et al. 1761. Four twelvemo volumes bound in two, measuring 7.5 x 4.25 inches: xii, 288; [2], 244; [2], 276; [2], 252. Modern quarter-calf ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled boards, uncut. Decorative typographic headpieces and tailpieces. Early library.....
Price: $850.00
The Beauties of Ancient Poetry. Intended as a Companion to the Beauties of English Poetry
London: E. Newbery, 1794. Twelvemo, measuring 5 x 3 inches: [2], xii, 204. Contemporary tree calf, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label, boards decoratively ruled in gilt, blue-green marbled endpapers. Engraved pictorial title page. Early owner signature “H. Cotton” to preliminary blank; ink note to table.....
Price: $375.00
Don Leon; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron . . . and Forming Part of the Private Journal of His Lordship, Supposed to Have Been Entirely Destroyed by Thos. Moore . . . To Which Is Added Leon to Annabella; An Epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron
London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1866 [Alençon: Charles Carrington, circa 1890]. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [4], 52, 63, [3], 17, [1]. Original plain wrappers, printed dust jacket, untrimmed. Separate title page, dated 1865, for “Leon to Annabella.” Rubbing to spine ends, light edgewear to jacket.
Price: $3,200.00