New Arrivals
Bolívar, le Libérateur
Paris: Tolmer, Éditeur, 1929. Oblong volume, measuring 8 x 9.5 inches: [12]. Original color pictorial boards, yellow cloth spine, green pictorial pastedowns, color illustrations on every page. Lightest soiling and shelfwear to boards.
Price: $250.00
Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. Quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: xii, 186, [2]. Contemporary calf, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, all edges speckled. Six engraved plates, one full-page engraving (included in pagination) and dozens of engraved.....
Price: $1,350.00
The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself in Quarto
London: J. Brindley and S. Wright, 1751. Three quarto volumes, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [7], iv-lxiii, [1], ii-xxxvii, [3], 453, [1]; [2], 450; [2], 440. Contemporary full calf rebacked, gilt acorn and foliate border to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco.....
Price: $2,800.00
Very Young Poets
(Chicago): Brooks Press, (1983). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 32. Original stiff green wrappers printed in black, priced at $5.00. Ink inscription to title page: “Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks.”.
Price: $70.00
Tape for the Turn of the Year
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1965). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25 inches: [8], 205, [1]. Original tan cloth spine lettered in brown, brown paper boards, tan endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket printed in shades of tan and brown. Cornell University Press review slip laid in, giving the author as.....
Price: $125.00
Isadora
New York: The Bookman Press, 2001. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 20. Original white card wrappers, magenta marbled paper dust jacket with pastedown label. Pictorial frontispiece; title page printed in red, tan, and black; text printed in red and black.
Price: $25.00
Almanach de Cabinet. Année 1812. Age du Monde 5812
Paris: Caillot, [1811]. Folding calendar for the year 1812, composed of two oblong printed panels pasted to contemporary boards, each board measuring 7.5 x 9.5 inches, backed with new block-printed paper by Edinburgh printers John and Jane Jeffery. Illustrated with twelve woodcut vignettes depicting the months. New blue cloth spine.....
Price: $850.00
Pictures of the Gone World
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1968). Single volume, measuring 6.25 x 5 inches: [44]. Original yellow and black printed wrappers. Ink inscription to front free endpaper: “Best wishes, / Gwen Brooks.”.
Price: $100.00
The Westing Game; with: Newbery and Caldecott Awards dinner program for 1979; with: The Westing Game souvenir $1000 bill
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [6], 185, [1]. Original red cloth spine lettered in black, orange paper boards, red endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by 1979 Newbery winner Ellen Raskin, with no Newbery medal affixed. Pinpoint foxing to edges, lightest.....
Price: $650.00
Charles F. Heartman Reviews Dr. Rosenbach’s Young American Parade (broadside)
No place: no publisher, [1933]. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Two faint creases from folding, several small paper repairs and evidence of previous mount to verso, one short closed tear.
Price: $500.00
English Classics Abridged; Being Select Works of Addison, Pope, and Milton, Adapted to the Perusal of Youth, of Both Sexes, at School. To Which Are Prefixed Observations on the Several Authors, Addressed to Parents and Preceptors
London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1786. Twelvemo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: xv, [1], 367, [1]. Contemporary calf rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, red morocco spine label tooled in gilt. Presentation inscription from editor John Walker on verso of front free endpaper. Marginal.....
Price: $1,800.00
Giselle or The Wilis
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1970). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: 56. Original pale green cloth spine lettered in gilt, green pictorial boards stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Violette Verdy and Marcia Brown on.....
Price: $150.00
“A Kuklapolitan Diary.” With: Kuklapolitan Courier Year Book annotated by Washburn. With: publicity photograph inscribed to Washburn by show creator Burr Tillstrom
Chicago: 1951-1952. Spiral-bound notebook, measuring 9 x 6 inches: (108). Brown paper boards titled in ink, two pastedown typed title labels, typed address label of Patricia Washburn affixed to inner front cover. All pages filled with handwritten diary entries in blue and black ink. Laid in are five folded leaves.....
Price: $1,250.00
A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches
London: Printed by Richard Hett, For the Company of Stationers, 1778. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: 236, [4]. Contemporary red morocco, boards elaborately bordered in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Inscribed on blank flyleaf: “Sophia Poulett / Hinton St.....
Price: $850.00
RSC in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (theater program)
Stratford-upon-Avon: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1967. Side-stapled booklet, measuring 12.5 x 8 inches: [16]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in red, black, and white, full-color advertisements printed on inner wrappers. Illustrations and photographs throughout text, printed in red, green, and black. Royal Shakespeare Company Profile Sheet Number 26 (Jeffery Dench and Nicholas.....
Price: $250.00
Jeu du Jardin Zoologique. Thiergarten-Spiel
Wissembourg: Wentzel, circa 1860s. Lithographic broadside, printed recto only, measuring 15.75 x 11 inches. Hand-colored en pochoir with gilt highlights. “No. 70” printed at top right corner; instructions printed below game board. Faint center crease, lightly browned at edges.
Price: $850.00
Five pieces of ephemera related to the Joan Little murder trial
Various places: various publishers, 1975.
Price: $550.00
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In Two Volumes. By the Author of “Sense and Sensibility,” &c.
London: T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1817. Two twelvemo volumes: [4], 289, [1]; [4], 311, [1]. Later nineteenth-century three-quarter red calf, marbled boards, raised bands, spine compartments decorated and lettered in gilt, green morocco spine labels, robin’s-egg blue endpapers, all edges stained blue. Bound with half-titles and without terminal blanks;.....
Price: $9,500.00
It’s A Good Thing I’m Not Macho. A Cycle of Poems
Boston: Whetstone Press, 1984. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xiii, [1], 37, [3]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Printed in purple ink, illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Price: $125.00
Original watercolor depicting Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn home during the first printing of Leaves of Grass
West Cornwall, Connecticut: no date. Single sheet, measuring 12.5 x 10 inches. Ink and watercolor illustration, signed vertically along the lower left edge. Light smudge to top lefthand corner, ink note “New Yorker” to verso.
Price: $850.00
Spinky Sulks
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, lavender endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Spine lightly sunned, short tape repair to verso of jacket.
Price: $35.00
A Version of Solomon’s Song of Songs; Together with the XLV. Psalm
London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil, 1700. Small octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv, 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges.....
Price: $3,000.00
Contes d'Andersen
Paris: Henri Laurens, (1941). Slim quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [4], iv, 115, [5]. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial boards stamped in gilt. Illustrated with eight color plates and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to boards, text block toned.
Price: $125.00
Complete set of Almanacks, inscribed by Kate Greenaway
London: George Routledge & Sons; J.M. Dent, 1883-1895, 1897. Nineteen miniature volumes, variously sized, with color-printed wood engravings throughout text. Three variant bindings of 1884 almanac; two variant bindings each for years 1887, 1890, and 1892. The 1889 almanac includes presentation inscriptions from Kate Greenaway and John Drinkwater, and is.....
Price: $8,500.00
In The Fairy Ring
London: Blackie & Son, [1908]. Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63, [1]. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates, illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing (heavier to first and last pages), rear endpapers toned, corners lightly bumped.
Price: $2,000.00
Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes
(Paris): Éditions du Seuil, 1975. Perfect-bound volume, measuring 7 x 4.75 inches: 191, [1]. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers, reproducing a 1974 painting by Barthes, “Souvenir de Juan-les-Pins.” Black interior wrappers with lines in Barthes’s hand printed in white. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Barthes in blue.....
Price: $1,500.00
Engraved ticket to Charles Dickens’s farewell dinner
[London]: November 2, 1867. Pale green coated card, measuring 3 x 4.5 inches, printed recto only: “Dinner given to Mr. Charles Dickens / on the occasion of / His Departure for the United States / Freemason's Hall, Great Queen St. / Saturday, November 2nd 1867, Seven o'clock.” Lightest edgewear.
Price: $1,500.00
You Can Design
New York: Whittlesey House, (1939). Spiral-bound volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [126]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in darker blue, orange endpapers. Monochrome and color illustrations throughout text. Ink presentation inscription on the half title: “N.Y. Jan. 30. 39 / to Dean and Mrs. E. Raymond Bossange / with.....
Price: $950.00
The Thespian Dictionary; or, Dramatic Biography of the Present Age; Containing Sketches of the Lives, Lists of the Productions, Various Merits, &c. &c. of all the Principal Dramatists, Composers, Commentators, Managers, Actors and Actresses of the United Kingdom: Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes, Forming a Complete Modern History of the English Stage
London: James Cundee, 1805. Twelvemo, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: iv, [396]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key borders to boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges stained yellow. Engraved pictorial title page before letterpress title, 38.....
Price: $1,000.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00