New Arrivals
A Book of Pictorial Perspective
London: John Murray, [1954]. Oblong quarto, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches: [4], 7-77, [1], inclusive of endpapers. Original red cloth lettered in white, color pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color lithographed illustrations throughout text. Light spotting and toning to jacket.
Price: $225.00
The History of the Bucaniers of America
London: Printed for D. Midwinter, et al. 1741. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.5 x 3.75 inches: [6], 354, [2]; [4]; 406, [26]. Contemporary calf boards double-ruled in gilt, rebacked with raised bands, gilt rules and lettering to spines. Edges speckled red. Publisher’s announcement, seven engraved plates (one folding), and two.....
Price: $1,250.00
Victorian bone alphabet
England: nineteenth century. Complete bone alphabet, each carved letter measuring about ¾ of an inch high. Housed in contemporary wooden box with sliding lid, measuring 5.25 x 1.75 x 1.5 inches. Small loss to serif of letter “F.”.
Price: $300.00
Rossetti: A Critical Essay on his Art
London: Duckworth & Co., [1902]. Single volume, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: xv, [1], 192, [4]. Original olive green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, top edge gilt, title page printed in red and black. Monochrome reproductions of Rossetti’s paintings throughout text; publisher’s advertisements at rear. Ink inscription.....
Price: $800.00
The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: [6], 75, [3]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning to edges of jacket.
Price: $125.00
Four Faces
Princeton, New Jersey: Creative Playthings, [1971]. Four mylar masks for children, with accompanying rubber headbands. Housed in Creative Playthings printed plastic sleeve with snap closure, original retailer’s price label.
Price: $350.00
The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. To which is added, A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job
London: A. Millar and R. Dodsley, 1751. Twelvemo, measuring 6.5 x 3.75 inches: iv, 296. Modern design binding of espresso morocco with windowpane pattern stamped in dark brown to boards and spine, lettered in silver across both boards (“THE COMPLAINT OR” to lower board, place and date of publication to.....
Price: $850.00
The Cantilever Rainbow
(New York): Pantheon Books, (1965). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 6 inches: [48]. Original gold cloth blind-stamped with an image of the sun, spine lettered in black, pictorial endpapers printed in red and black, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations printed in red and black throughout text. Jacket lightly.....
Price: $75.00
The Companion to the Play-House: or, an Historical Account of All the Dramatic Writers (and their Works) that Have Appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Commencement of our Theatrical Exhibitions, Down to the Present Year 1764. Composed in the Form of a Dictionary, For the More Readily Turning to Any Particular Author, or Performance.
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1764. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 7 x 4 inches: xlii, [326]; [374]. Contemporary polished calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, raised bands, red and green morocco spine labels, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges stained red, green silk ribbon markers. Text.....
Price: $1,250.00
Calliope or English Harmony. A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav’d and Embelish’d with Designs adapted to the Subject of each Song taken from the Compositions of the Best Masters in the most Correct Manner with the thorough Bass and Transpositions for the Flute (proper for all Teachers, Scholars, and Lovers of Musick: Printed on a fine Paper on each side which renders the Undertaking more compleat than any thing of the kind ever Publish’d
London: Henry Roberts, 1739-[1746]. Two volumes, the first measuring 8.75 x 5.5 inches, the second 9.25 x 5.75 inches: [vi], 200; [vi], 200. Modern dark blue morocco over dark blue cloth boards, spines lettered and numbered in gilt. Frontispiece engraving in Volume I, with copy of that plate inserted after.....
Price: $2,500.00
Stories from the Chap-Book; with: New Stories from the Chap-Book
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1896, 1898. Two octavo volumes, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: [6], 5-241, [5], [8]; [6], 3-260, [2]. Original color-lithographed pictorial cloth, top edges gilt. Title of Stories printed in red and black; publisher’s catalogue dated October 1896 at rear. Title of New Stories printed.....
Price: $225.00
Women of the London Underworld
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, [1938]. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.25 inches: 254. Original wrappers printed in orange, white, and black; original matching dust jacket. Text block evenly browned, edgewear to jacket with partial splits at folds.
Price: $100.00
Knock or Ring
London: Jonathan Cape, (1957). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 255, [1]. Original green textured boards lettered in silver, unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in black, white, and lavender. Ink inscription from Nelson to James Robertson Justice on front free endpaper. Light spotting to jacket.
Price: $300.00
The Rivals, A Comedy
London: John Wilkie, 1775. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, [6], 100. Modern full red morocco by Rivière, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled doublures, all edges gilt. Bound with half-title. Penciled bookseller notes and bookplate of Montgomery Evans II to front pastedown. Typed description on card with.....
Price: $1,500.00
Jeu des Antiques
Paris: chez Jean, rue St. Jean de Beauvais, No. 10, circa 1820. Engraved game board, printed recto only on a sheet measuring 19.5 x 22.5 inches, plate mark measuring 17 x 22 inches. Discoloration to margins from old mat, not affecting engraving; light edgewear.
Price: $3,200.00
Complete set of American trade card templates satirizing the Aesthetic Movement, with additional printed example
United States: circa 1885. Seven color-printed pictorial trade cards, measuring 4 x 2.5 inches, printed recto only: a complete set of six blank templates, and a seventh example with printed advertisement. Lightest handling, tiny chip to upper corner of two cards.
Price: $150.00
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. Two abrasions to jacket spine panel, small.....
Price: $250.00
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: book, first draft screenplay, and film set photographs
London: William Hodge and Company; Warwick Film Productions, 1948; 1960. Book: single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: [16], 384. Original red cloth, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Nine black-and-white plates. Trace of erasure to front free endpaper; occasional pencil notes; a few short closed tears to jacket. Screenplay: mimeographed.....
Price: $7,500.00
Anna Karenina; with: original lithographic proofs of the illustrations
Cambridge: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1951. Two volumes, measuring 8.75 x 6 inches: xii, 1-504; [4], 505-935. Original color-printed pictorial cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, color pictorial endpapers. Title pages and colophon printed in black and green; occasional vignettes printed in.....
Price: $2,000.00
Locus Solus III-IV. New Poetry. Winter 1962
Lans-en-Vercors, France: Locus Solus, (1961). Small octavo, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: 294, [2]. Original blue printed wrappers. Signed by John Ashbery, Kenward Elmslie, LeRoi Jones (as Amiri Baraka, dated 1978), Kenneth Koch, Daniel Krakauer (inscribed “To Richard”), and Larry Rivers at their contributions. Wrappers sunned, lightest edgewear, a few.....
Price: $650.00
The Cat
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1936). Octavo, original mauve cloth lettered in blue, top edge stained yellow, foreedge uncut, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations in text. Penciled ownership inscription, dated 1937, to front free endpaper; bookseller ticket (Tecolote Bookshop, Santa Barbara) to lower pastedown. Light.....
Price: $300.00
C: A Journal of Poetry. Volume 1: No. 9 (signed by William S. Burroughs)
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, “SUMMER ETC” 1964. Side-stapled volume, measuring 14 x 8.5 inches: cover and 67 mimeographed leaves, printed recto only. Cover design by Joe Brainard; hand-pasted collage element on leaf 29. Leaves 38-43 and 55-58 stapled out of order, leaf 39 stapled upside down, all present.....
Price: $2,400.00
Corregidora
New York: Random House, (1975). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: [6], 185, [1]. Original brown paper boards, brown cloth spine stamped in green and red foil, ivory endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Lightest toning to jacket.
Price: $2,500.00
Album of original engineering drawings
United States: early twentieth century. Oblong album, measuring 8.5 x 12 inches: 43 manuscript leaves. Original brown pebbled cloth boards, titled “Plates” in gilt on front board. Drawings executed rectos only, in ink and watercolor, on Whatman Turkey Mill paper. Some dust-soiling to edges of early leaves, upper board starting.....
Price: $550.00
Four-Way Blocks (wild animals)
Princeton: Creative Playthings, circa 1972. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 7.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Creative Playthings" printed at base of giraffe image. Housed in original cardboard box with price label, box rubbed and worn.
Price: $250.00
MOTIVO (wooden puzzle)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1978. Eight wooden cubes, screenprinted in four colors, each measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Naef / Swiss made” printed at base of leaf image. Lacking original box.
Price: $200.00
Tales
(Johannesburg): Gryphon Poets, (1972). Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 46. Original color pictorial card wrappers with unclipped French flaps, upper wrapper lettered in black with brown and black woodcut design, spine lettered in black, photographic portrait of Beiles on lower wrapper. Six full-page color woodcuts. Errata slip laid.....
Price: $275.00
The Return of the Native
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 303, [1]; [6], 297, [3]; [6], 320. Original brown cloth stamped in black and blind, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black; cream-coated endpapers. Frontispiece map, after a drawing by Hardy, facing title page.....
Price: $7,800.00
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
London: Macmillan, 1881. Two octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: viii, 265, [3]; iv, 271, [1]. Original red-brown cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind to boards, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s devices and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black, yellow-coated.....
Price: $3,800.00
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 45, [1]. Original beige cloth spine stamped in gilt over blindstamped terracotta boards, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket with no Newbery Medal or Caldecott Honor Seal, ivory speckled endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Light.....
Price: $100.00