New Arrivals
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
Passion and Affect
New York: Viking Press, (1974). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [10], 179, [3]. Original black cloth spine lettered in blue and silver, blue paper boards stamped in silver with parrot motif, original unclipped blue and black marble-patterned dust jacket. Parrot motif on title and at head of each.....
Price: $300.00
Shake-speares Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition
(Hammersmith): (Doves Press), 1909. Small quarto, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [4], 86, [6]. Original full limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Colophon and list of corrections to the 1609 text at rear. Printed in Doves type in red and black ink, with capitals designed by Edward Johnston and engraved.....
Price: $5,000.00
The Rape of Lucrece
(Hammersmith): (Doves Press), (1915). Small quarto, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [12], 78, [10]. Original full limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Colophon and list of corrections to the 1594 quarto text at rear. Printed in Doves type in red and black ink. Bookseller ticket of New York dealer Philip.....
Price: $3,500.00
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
Funeral March of a Marionette
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935. Octavo, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: 96. Original full black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original blue pictorial dust jacket printed in burgundy, designed by Vanessa Bell. Three full-page plates. Appendix at rear. Lightest sunning to jacket spine.....
Price: $400.00
Poetry & Criticism
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 28. Original pale blue pictorial wrappers designed by Vanessa Bell. Some wear to paper spine, one spot to foreedge.
Price: $150.00
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 24. Original ivory pictorial wrappers designed by Vanessa Bell. Lightest shelfwear, pinpoint foxing to foreedge, corner of lower wrapper creased.
Price: $350.00
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
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
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
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
A Manual for Cleaning Ladies; with: illustrated proof sheet
Washington, D.C. (i.e. Healdsburg, California): Zephyrus Image, 1977. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 6.75 x 4.5 inches: (20). Brown paper wrappers printed in black, “National Endowment for the Domestic Arts” seal to front wrapper, text printed on beige paper, linocut illustrations. Inscribed by Lucia Berlin on title page. Housed in original pictorial.....
Price: $2,800.00
“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
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner / La Vie et Très Surprenantes Aventures de Robinson Crusoe d’York Marin
Dampierre: Par G.E.J. M.A.L., 1797. Two octavo volumes, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: [2], vi, 495, [1]; [4], 361, [3]. Contemporary tree calf, boards ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, spines ruled and compartments gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon markers. Complete with final blank in Volume.....
Price: $22,000.00
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 with Caldecott Honor Medal, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed “for Marvin” and signed by Sherley Anne Williams and Carole Byard on title.....
Price: $150.00
The Laughable Game of What D'ye Buy, by Professor Punch
London: J. Passmore, 18, Fleet Lane, Farringdon Street, circa 1855. Card game: twelve hand-colored engraved cards, measuring 2.4 x 2 inches, depicting shopkeepers; seventy-two letterpress stock cards (six per shop), measuring 1.6 x 1.9 inches; instruction booklet, measuring 5.1 x 4 inches, entitled “Explanation to The Laughable Game of What.....
Price: $4,800.00
The Long-Winded Lady. Notes from The New Yorker
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 237, [1]. Original monogrammed gold paper boards, black spine lettered in gilt, gold endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by Lydia Rosier. Jacket design repeated as frontispiece. Spine panel toned, one short closed tear.....
Price: $500.00
Sentences, Divine, Moral, and Historical; in Prose and Verse; with Copies for the Alphabet. Designed for the Conduct of Human Life, and particularly for the Improvement of Youth . . . being the Beauties of Addison, Johnson, Rollin, Wesley, and Other Eminent Authors; Accurately extracted from their Works, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. For the Use of Schools
Salisbury: E. Easton, 1786. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: vi, 360. Early nineteenth-century three-quarter red sheep, marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, all edges speckled, blue endpapers. Typographic ornaments throughout text; errata at rear. Ink ownership signature to preliminiary flyleaf, with note: “This book bound by him.....
Price: $1,250.00
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [14], 138. Original gold buckram lettered in black, original unclipped color-printed dustjacket. Inscribed by Alice Walker on half-title, with “& Trouble” crossed out, and “for Roz + Howie / Alice 1973” written under “In Love.” Lightest rubbing.....
Price: $1,250.00
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
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