New Arrivals
Panels for the Walls of Heaven
[Berkeley]: Bern Porter, 1946. Square volume, measuring 8 x 8 inches: [2], 67, [1]. Hand-painted color pictorial boards, wrapped in original acetate, with colophon and Patchen’s signature painted on lower board; printed spine label; top edge stained turquoise; original stamped price of $8.50 beneath acetate on inside front board. Text.....
Price: $2,200.00
Preces Niersis Clajensis Sedecim-Linguis
Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1818. Eighteenmo, measuring 4.25 x 3 inches: 204. Contemporary pale pink vellum boards decoratively bordered in gilt, spine stamped in gilt, color-printed patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title page in Armenian, text printed in sixteen languages. Light shelfwear to vellum.
Price: $650.00
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
International Picture Language. The First Rules of Isotype
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1936. Single volume, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: 117, [1], [2]. Red cloth spine, original buff paper boards lettered in red, pastedown spine label. Price of 2/6 overstamped on upper board with 3/6 in black ink. Folding table of “Basic English” facing title.....
Price: $3,000.00
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories
New York: Random House, (1958). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [8], 179, [1]. Original yellow cloth stamped in gilt, black spine label decorated in gilt, top edge stained grey, original unclipped dust jacket printed in orange, white and black, with price of $3.50 and 10/58 code to front.....
Price: $2,400.00
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
A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1815. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8.25 x 5 inches: xv, [1], 391, [1]; iv, 390. Contemporary speckled calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red. Armorial bookplates of Frances Mary Richardson.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1929). Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: xii, 333, [1]. Full polished tan calf, boards decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt, raised bands ruled in gilt, spine compartments elaborately gilt-tooled, crimson morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges.....
Price: $950.00
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The Oracle, Book of Fate [lady's fan]
London: late eighteenth century. Engraved hand-colored paper fan, printed recto and verso, measuring 10 x 17 inches extended. Top edged in silver, mounted on wooden sticks. Lightest signs of use, including several pinpricks.
Price: $4,200.00
All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, The Enchiridion, and Fragments
London: S. Richardson, 1758. Large quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [18], xlii, 505, [11]. Contemporary calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, edges speckled red. Preliminaries include an ode to Epictetus, twelve-page list of subscribers, Carter’s introduction, and Arrian’s letter; index and appendix.....
Price: $2,500.00
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
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables by the Abbot Banier
Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. Two folio volumes, measuring 17.5 x 12 inches, continuously paginated: [24], 1-247, [1]; [2], 249-524, [4]. Contemporary full mottled calf rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, crimson and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, boards gilt-ruled with central gilt.....
Price: $7,000.00
Salem
[Salem, Germany]: [Schule Schloss Salem], [1930]. Square album, measuring 12 x 12 inches: [150]. Original vellum spine, heavy handmade paper boards titled in black, bound with decorative gold ribbon. Text block partially printed, with gaps for mounted illustrations. 49 original black-and-white photographs of varying sizes and two manuscript schedules mounted.....
Price: $3,500.00
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8.5 inches: [32]. Original beige cloth over blue paper boards stamped in silver, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $35.00
The Devil Finds Work
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: [6], 122. Original maroon boards lettered in red foil, maroon endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dustjacket, top edge stained maroon. Inscribed by Baldwin on the dedication page: “for Pierce Davis / keep the faith / James Baldwin.” Jacket.....
Price: $1,250.00
The Country Girls
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1960. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 223, [1]. Original black cloth, pale blue title block lettered in gilt on spine, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Edna O’Brien on title page. Light shelfwear to jacket, with a few tiny chips and closed.....
Price: $800.00
Omocha Junikagetsu: Omamori To Engimono [Twelve Months of Toys: Protective Talismans and Good Luck Charms]
[Osaka]: [Darumaya Shoten], 1926. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: fourteen unnumbered folded leaves, printed rectos only. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black, orange pastedown label to upper board, pictorial endpapers printed in pale green. Twelve double-page hand-colored woodblock prints, some heightened with metallic inks; two folded leaves.....
Price: $1,400.00
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Volume 5, Number 2
New York: Broom Publishing Company, September, 1923. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: 65-125, [3]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black, table of contents printed on inside front wrapper, subscription form printed on inside rear wrapper. Illustrated with photographs and black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightly creased.
Price: $650.00
Scrinia Sacra; Secrets of Empire, in Letters of Illustrious Persons. A Supplement of the Cabala. In which Business of the same Quality and Grandeur is contained: With many famous Passages of the late Reigns of K. Henry 8. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charls.
London: Printed for G. Bedel, and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleet-street, 1654. Quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6 inches: [10], 355, [9]. Modern full dark green morocco, boards paneled Cambridge-style with double rules and corner ornaments in blind, raised bands, black.....
Price: $850.00
High Water
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1937. Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 79, [1]. Original color lithographed pictorial paper boards, black cloth spine, color lithographed pictorial endpapers. Color and black-and-white lithographic illustrations throughout text. Early owner signature to half-title. Lightest shelfwear, corners bumped, no dust jacket.
Price: $35.00
Collection of original drawings and paintings
New York City: 1927. Mixed group of forty-two drawings and nine watercolors, some double-sided, many disbound from a sketchbook. Front board of sketchbook present, with stationer’s label of Dante Gambinossi (605 Madison Avenue), and ink ownership inscription: “Emily Ryon - 1927.” Two drawings mounted, one tissue-guarded, several signed by Ryon.....
Price: $850.00
Three hand-colored copper engravings from Volume V of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particuliere
Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1755. Three disbound, hand-colored copper engravings on leaves of 11.25 x 9 inches, plate marks measuring 8 x 6.25 inches. Browning to edges of leaves, not touching plates.
Price: $125.00
Fun Fair Toy Model Story Book
London: Amex Company, circa 1950. Side-stapled booklet, measuring 7 x 8.5 inches: [8]. Original color pictorial wrappers, diagrams and instructions printed on versos. Four pages of text, and a color-printed fairground model printed single-sided across two leaves of card, to be punched out and folded.
Price: $25.00
Cranford
London: Macmillan, 1898. Octavo, measuring 7 x 5 inches: xxx, 297, [1]. Original dark green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece; more than one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Early bookseller label (A.E. Barnes, Barnstaple) to front pastedown. Text block occasionally overopened, light.....
Price: $85.00
John Coltrane’s Giant Steps
New York: Atheneum Books, 2002. Single volume, measuring 10 x 11 inches: [5], 4-33, [1]. Original color printed pictorial boards, rainbow striped endpapers, original clear mylar jacket overprinted in black. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Raschka on the page facing the title. Lightest rubbing to mylar jacket.
Price: $75.00