New Arrivals
Gothic Architecture. A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Sixteenmo, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches: [2], 68, [4]. Contemporary full crushed tan morocco, boards elaborately tooled in gilt with Gothic scrollwork borders incorporating six quatrefoil ornaments, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately gilt, spine lettered and dated in gilt, gilt dentelles, blue silk moiré doublures and.....
Price: $3,000.00
The Golden Apples
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [12], 3-244, [2]. Original maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt, green gilt-stamped paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by David Stone Martin. Signed by Eudora Welty on title page. Bookseller label to rear.....
Price: $600.00
Hale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art; with "Head of a Youth" (original signed woodcut); with: related ephemera
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1979. Side-stapled exhibition catalog from The Studio Museum in Harlem, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: 96. Original green pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white reproductions throughout text. Inscribed on title: “Hale Woodruff / June 24 79.” Faint crease to.....
Price: $2,200.00
The Hound & Horn, I-VII (complete run of 28 numbers)
Portland, Maine: The Hound & Horn, 1927-1934. Complete run of 28 numbers, each measuring 9 x 6 inches, in original printed wrappers, some with tipped-in and laid-in publisher’s slips. Signature of Olive B. White to V:4; bookplate of Carl Van Vechten to VII:1. Light shelfwear to some volumes, occasional stray.....
Price: $2,800.00
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
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
Farbige Ausnähbilder (Colored Sewing Pictures)
Germany: circa 1890. Group of fifteen color-printed sewing cards, measuring 8 x 6 inches. Two cards with light marginal browning. Housed in original envelope with color pictorial pastedown label.
Price: $1,000.00
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
Group of ten hand-colored phénakistiscope discs
Germany and/or France: circa 1835. Group of ten hand-colored lithographed phénakistiscope discs, printed on card, each measuring seven inches in diameter. Edgewear to several of the center holes, where the disc was mounted to a handle or stand; marginal smudge to tightrope walker disc. Accompanied by a cardboard backing disc.....
Price: $5,000.00
Noah’s Dominoes
Montrose, Pennsylvania: Crandall’s of Montrose, circa 1875. Twenty-eight wooden dominoes, each measuring 4 x 2 inches, cut one quarter-inch thick. Chromolithographed images of animal heads and tails mounted to rectos; versos printed with domino patterns in black ink directly on wooden surface. Lightest edgewear. Housed in manufacturer’s wooden box, measuring.....
Price: $1,000.00
The Gentlemen’s Valentine Writer
Long Lane, Smithfield: J.L. Marks, circa 1840. Octavo pamphlet, measuring 7 x 4.25 inches: [8]. Original deep blue pictorial wrappers printed in black, hand-colored pictorial title page. Penciled note “Valentines” to head of front wrapper; small inked number to corner of rear wrapper. Half-inch split to wrappers at top of.....
Price: $750.00
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
Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1888. Large quarto, measuring 10.75 x 8.25 inches: [2], 28. Original heavy cream wrappers hand-lettered in gold paint, bound with later cream ribbon. Three engraved plates, including portrait frontispiece; twelve additional illustrations throughout text. Two tiny chips to painted title, repair to inner edge of frontispiece.....
Price: $950.00
Needlework sampler referencing the wrath of Achilles
[England]: October 14, 1790. Needlework sampler on unbleached linen, measuring 16 x 14 inches, in black and gilt wooden frame. Embroidered floral border in pink, blue, yellow, green, and white; text, signature, and date in black; cross-stitched lower rule in pink and green. Remnant of label to verso: “William Whiteley.....
Price: $2,800.00
Europa Redux: 6892 Color Illustrations, Captioned in an Imaginary Language
Switzerland: 1940-1946. Manuscript consisting of 106 loose poster-sized sheets, each measuring 17.25 x 23 inches. Each sheet covered with a grid of uniformly sized color illustrations, executed in pencil, oil pastel, watercolors or crayon on rectos only, 42 to 81 images to a sheet. Numbers penciled in margins (at least.....
Price: $38,000.00
Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto
Birmingham: Baskerville, 1773. Four octavo volumes: [34], lviii, 362, [2]; [2], 450, [2]; [2], 446, [2]; [2], 446 [2]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key border and floral cornerpieces in gilt to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and patterned in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels lettered in.....
Price: $2,200.00
Observations on Hamlet; and on the Motives which Most Probably Induced Shakspeare to Fix upon the Story of Amleth, from the Danish Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, for the Plot of that Tragedy; Being an Attempt to Prove that He Designed It as an Indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots. Bound with: An Appendix to Observations on Hamlet
Cambridge: J. Burges, Printer to the University, 1796-1797. Two octavo volumes bound in one, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 44; [2], 85, [1]. Recent full polished calf, boards tooled in blind with a floral border, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Bound without.....
Price: $2,800.00
A Bloomsbury Souvenir; with: Six Views of Bloomsbury (postcards)
London: Design for Today, [2017]. Concertina booklet printed on stiff card, measuring 4 x 6 inches folded, extending to 52 inches when fully opened. Color lithography on both sides. Signed and numbered by Alice Pattullo. With: publisher’s small circular adhesive seal (for mailing) and separate suite of six individual color.....
Price: $100.00
De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks
London: Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently at the Post-house in Russel-Street, in Covent-Garden, 1694. Quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.25 inches: [12], 129, [3], 248. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Pencil note to front pastedown: “Dr. Bliss’s copy, also Kemble’s copy,” ink note.....
Price: $3,200.00
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, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page.
Price: $50.00
Every GIRL’S Alphabet
London: Artists’ Choice Editions, 2010. Small quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.5 inches: [64]. Original red morocco lettered in gilt over printed color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by author and illustrator on colophon, penciled note: “out of series.” With: original linocut, signed by Luke Martineau.....
Price: $300.00
Rubber stamp featuring Harriet Tubman, for use on the United States $20 bill
New York: Casey Rubber Stamps, 2020. Red rubber stamp, mounted to wooden base measuring 2 x 2 inches. Image of Harriet Tubman stamped in black ink to base.
Price: $25.00
The Hermit-Woman
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1983. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 76, [2] . Original stiff orange and yellow patterned wrappers. A few tiny spots to wrappers.
Price: $125.00
Mother Makes Christmas
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Small quarto, measuring 8.25 x 7.5 inches: [28]. Original color pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers printed in blue and white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout text. Light shelfwear to jacket, with tiny chips to spine ends and.....
Price: $95.00
Color New York
New York: Timbre Books, (1985). Side-stapled volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [10], 65, [5]. Original glossy color pictorial wrappers. Black-and-white line drawings throughout text. Wrappers lightly sunned.
Price: $100.00
“Spain” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Pictorial wallpaper sample printed in muted colors on an ivory ground, measuring 18 x 15.5 inches. Stamped on verso: “Rasch Waterfast, Spain 1, R 2012, $4.50 single roll.”.
Price: $150.00
Circus Book. In Colour Photography
London: Collins, (1955). Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 7 inches: [52]. Original pale gold wrappers printed in red. Title page printed in color, illustrated with line drawings and color photographs throughout text.
Price: $150.00
A Collection of Stories of Land and Sea from the Late 19th Century
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, 1956. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [10], 216. Original full red morocco decoratively stamped in gilt, gilt dentelles, red moiré silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Printed in black and blue, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, text block uncut and largely unopened. Housed in a custom.....
Price: $250.00