New Arrivals
“Sample of Some Wakouwa Games” (Wakouwa-Spiele prototype)
Zurich: circa 1930s. Six circular color-lithographed pictorial game boards, measuring 18.25 inches in diameter, printed rectos only, with original revolving base constructed of painted wood, felt and tin, measuring 20.5 inches square. Cardboard lid of original inventor’s box, with ink annotations, included. Light edgewear to several boards, with the occasional...
Price: $950.00
Working with the Hands: Being a Sequel to “Up From Slavery” Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, 246. Original burgundy ribbed cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Frontispiece portrait of Washington and 31 black-and-white photographic plates throughout text. Light shelfwear to binding, spine lightly sunned.
Price: $225.00
Women of Class and Station
[Los Angeles]: California State University Art Museum, 1979. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: 94, [2]. Original stiff pictorial photographic wrappers, black endleaves. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to wrappers.
Price: $50.00
“Self-Portrait as ‘New Woman’”
Washington, DC: 1896 (image), circa 1970 (print). Enlarged framed reproduction of Johnston’s 1896 photographic self-portrait, measuring 34 x 27 inches including frame. Printed on textured stock, mounted to backing at an early date, even inch of sun-fading to lefthand margin of image. Recent archival framing with non-glare museum glass.
Price: $600.00
Little Faces from Far Places
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1933). Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 8.25 inches: 78. Original black cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards with “porthole” cut-out to upper board, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text, seven full-page international paper dolls printed in full color. Ink note to final free endpaper, dated...
Price: $200.00
Archive of original midcentury porcelain designs
Rome: Faro Disegni, circa 1940-1965. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates, each on a separate sheet, of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil, ink, and watercolor on heavy paper, most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches, and a smaller group of 57 sketches, executed...
Price: $2,000.00
Heroes and Heroines
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7 inches: [4], 79. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light edgewear to jacket, shallow chip to head of spine.
Price: $125.00
Some Instructions Concerning The Art of Oratory, Collected for the use of a Friend a Young Student; BOUND WITH: The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd, Wherein above 130 The Tropes and Figures are severally derived from the Greek into English, together with lively Definitions and Variety Of Latin, English, Scriptural Examples, Pertinent to each of them apart
London: J.G. for R. Royston; E. Cotes for George Eversden, 1659; 1657. Octavo, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: [6], 128, [2]; [30], 267, [5]. Full contemporary mottled calf, boards ornamentally ruled in gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine label (renewed), spine elaborately stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges stained...
Price: $2,500.00
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Large quarto, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [124]. Original brown pigskin, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board double-ruled in gilt with central device of rosebush rooted in book, helmet, sword, and musket, with English crown supported in branches. Top edge gilt, other edges...
Price: $5,000.00
The Wind in the Willows
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1931). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 7 inches: [6], 312. Original green cloth spine over grey paper boards, printed paper spine label, foreedge and lower edge of text block uncut. Half-title, with limitation signed by Grahame and Shepard on verso. Black and white illustrations throughout...
Price: $6,500.00
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1933). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 287, [1]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and triple-ruled in gilt, spine lettered and illustrated in gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in gold, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, brown silk ribbon marker. Half title with...
Price: $2,500.00
Stories from Hans Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1911). Quarto, measuring 12 x 10 inches: [2], viii, 250, [2]. Original full vellum, front board and spine lettered and stamped in gilt with design by Dulac, ties renewed, olive-patterned pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut. Limitation page signed by Dulac before frontispiece...
Price: $2,400.00
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: [6], 134, [2]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with tree design, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page...
Price: $3,200.00
Hansel and Gretel, and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Single volume, measuring 11.75 x 9.5 inches: [10], 276. Publisher’s full white pictorial cloth, front board stamped in gilt and blue with design by Nielsen, spine decorated in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, patterned red and gilt endpapers designed by Nielsen. Limitation page signed...
Price: $6,000.00
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1919. Single volume measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 382, [2]. Publisher’s original full vellum, front board ruled and stamped in gilt with design by Clarke, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed...
Price: $8,000.00
Voyages: Poems by Walt Whitman
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988). Single volume measuring 10 x 7.25 inches, original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, green paper boards, tan endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with six full-page black and white plates and smaller vignettes throughout text.
Price: $35.00
Where The Wild Things Are
New York: Harper & Row, circa 1982. Oblong quarto, original grey cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, color patterned endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Medal affixed. Color illustrations on every page. Signed by Maurice Sendak on half-title.
Price: $750.00
The Art of Speaking
London: T. Longman, J. Buckland, et al. 1761. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [4], 373, [3], [13], [1], [2]. Full contemporary calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, raised bands. Half-title, table of contents, index, errata and two pages of publisher’s ads. Eighteenth-century ownership notes to front pastedown and fly leaf...
Price: $2,500.00
Timour the Tartar, A Grand Melo-Drama. With: Redington's Characters and Scenes in Timour the Tartar
[London]: J. Redington; B. Pollock, circa 1880. Side-stitched octavo pamphlet, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: 16 pp. Set of nineteen hand-coloured lithographed plates, measuring 7 x 8.5 inches. Spine of pamphlet browned, light occasional foxing to plates.
Price: $1,200.00
Yours Truly: My Autograph Album
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1930). Single volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: 88 unnumbered pages. Original full black cloth, color pictorial pastedown title label, geometric patterned color endpapers. Text printed in blue, red, and purple, with color pictorial frames printed on nearly every page. Housed in publisher’s original...
Price: $300.00
Popular Fallacies
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: xii, 312. Original full olive ribbed cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt and decorated in Art Nouveau style in a darker green. Frontispiece and seven full-page plates. Spine lightly toned, top edge dusty, foxing to preliminaries.
Price: $100.00
The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton. With: presentation card from dedicatees Bill and Noma Copley
(London): Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., (1960). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [122]. Original green paper boards lettered in black and white dots. Text printed in black, orange, and blue. Illustrated with photolithographed annotations and vignettes, full-page drawings, diagrams, photographs of Duchamp’s work (including one folding plate), and musical...
Price: $650.00
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening
(Somerville, MA): Candlewick Press, (2014). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 7.5 inches, original color pictorial glossy paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, calligraphic endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Signed by the author, with a doodle of Saturn, on the title page.
Price: $75.00
Walt. The Good Gray Poet Speaks for Himself
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [14], 330, [1]. Original full tan pebbled cloth, spine and front board lettered in brown, yellow endpapers decorated with publisher’s seal, top edge stained brown. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket in brown and tan. Small presentation...
Price: $75.00
The Magnificent Idler: The Story of Walt Whitman
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [12], 312. Original full green cloth, yellow pictorial pastedowns to front board and spine, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated title page printed in green and black. Black and white frontispiece and...
Price: $75.00
The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. Tall octavo, measuring 9.75 x 6.5 inches: [8] 9-39, [5]. Original ivory cloth spine lettered in gilt, terracotta paper boards blind-stamped with the Aldine dolphin and anchor. Illustrated with nine woodcut plates (one full color, one folding), and woodcut dolphin and anchor on colophon. Housed...
Price: $200.00
The Spiral Road to God: A Book for Children and Their Parents
Boston: [no publisher], 1933. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 7 inches: x, 170. Original full bright turquoise pictorial cloth gilt-stamped with spiral pattern on front board, peach-colored endpapers, text and illustrations printed in blue on peach-colored paper. Illustrated with nine full-page images and many vignettes throughout text.
Price: $750.00
Comus
London: William Heinemann, [1921]. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: xviii, 76, [2]. Original vellum spine lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt-stamped parchment boards, pale blue and white pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso; pictorial title...
Price: $1,000.00
Every-Player-Your-Partner System Tallies: Modern Author Series
New York: Charles S. Clark Company, circa 1926. Boxed set of twelve unused bridge tally cards, measuring 2.25 x 5 inches folded. Cards printed with twelve color pictorial designs, six for male players and six for female players, with color-coded silk tassels (white for men, yellow and orange for women)...
Price: $350.00
China Days. Temple Hill Cut-Outs
Yantai, China: Self-Help Department, Women's Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, circa 1930. Oblong folio, measuring 14 x 10.5 inches. Contemporary flexible boards covered in gold silk brocade with red stitching. Letterpress description of “the cut-outs of Temple Hill” mounted to front pastedown. 42 pages, 24 of which are decorated with tissue-guarded...
Price: $2,400.00