New Arrivals
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
The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave
London: William Tweedie, 1863. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: xvi, 182, [2]. Original full blue blindstamped textured cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Anderson. Binding soiled and worn along edges and spine, corners bumped, occasional spotting to text.
Price: $8,500.00
Pictures from Roman History
London: William Darton and Son, circa 1835. Hand-colored engraved sheet of historical vignettes with accompanying text, measuring 12.5 x 16 inches, mounted on mahogany and cut into interlocking puzzle pieces. Housed in publisher’s wooden box, hand-colored group of four Roman scenes mounted to sliding lid, publisher’s label and title label...
Price: $2,000.00
Corse d'Animali in Velocipede
Rome: Tipografia Romana, circa 1880. Broadside, measuring 9.75 x 6.5 inches, printed in black ink on thin lavender paper. Wood and metal types, two pictorial woodcuts.
Price: $250.00
Historical Cards, Exhibiting the History of England
London: Printed for John Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate Street, circa 1780. Set of 32 engraved cards, measuring 4.5 x 2.5 inches, printed on rectos only, each illustrated with a hand-colored portrait of an English monarch. Original blue card slipcase with engraved pastedown label. First card lightly browned, slipcase worn with...
Price: $2,500.00
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 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
The Fairy-Land of Science
London: Edward Stanford, 1890. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: viii, 244. Original pictorial mauve cloth stamped in black and gilt, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Three full-page plates, wood engravings throughout text. Gift inscription dated 1890 to half-title. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $85.00
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised
Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham Printer to the University, by whom they are sold in Cambridge, and by Benj. Dod Bookseller in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1760. Two octavo volumes. Contemporary full black calf paneled and decorated in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled and numbered in gilt, marbled endpapers...
Price: $2,850.00
Stay Up Late
New York: Viking Press, 1987. Quarto, green cloth spine lettered in black, original color pictorial paper boards, green pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed in marker to front free endpaper and title page: “To L. Thank you,” with signatures of David Byrne and...
Price: $200.00
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
Signs and Symbols
Middlesex: Puffin Picture Books, 1953. Oblong octavo, staple-bound, 32 pages. Original color lithographed wrappers. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning and shelfwear to wrappers.
Price: $35.00
Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1973. Folio, original black buckram, leather spine label, plum endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Printed on handmade paper by Sebastian and Will Carter, and bound by John P. Gray and Son. Half-title and title page printed in red and black, red initials throughout...
Price: $250.00
Jénoseph, ou Vertu, Jeunesse et Adversité
Tours: Mame et Cie, 1849. Twelvemo, [iv] 1-140 pp. Paper boards lithographed and embossed in white, blue, and gilt, with a central gilt medallion to upper board depicting a girl reading a book, and a central floral medallion in white, blue, and gilt to lower board. Gilt and white paper...
Price: $100.00
Wheels
London: Pleiades Books, 1946. Slim quarto, original grey cloth over color pictorial boards, grey wheel-patterned endpapers. Illustrated with color lithographs throughout text. “Printed in Great Britain" stamped to title page. Original bookseller ticket of New York City's Holliday Bookshop to rear pastedown. Lightest shelfwear, abrasion to head of cloth spine...
Price: $75.00
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
Bread Givers
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Octavo, original black ribbed cloth stamped in gold. Title page printed in red and black. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Intermittent foxing to text block, foxing to edges.
Price: $1,500.00
Balbus: A Picture Book of Building
London: Pleiades Books, 1944. Slim quarto, original grey cloth over color pictorial boards, grey brick-patterned endpapers. Illustrated with color lithographs throughout text. “Printed in Great Britain" stamped to title page. Lightest shelfwear, very faint foxing to opening pages.
Price: $95.00
Art Deco valentine featuring Elizabeth and Essex
Chicago: Carrington Co. circa 1920s. Die cut pictorial valentine, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches, printed in color and gilt. Faint ink signature ("Marshall") to bottom right corner.
Price: $75.00
![[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]. Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, Johnston McCulley, Kan Kikuchi, Hatsuyama Shigeru, designer, Michioka Toshi, illustrator, Imamura Nobuo, Emori Seihachiro.](/pictures/thumb/1001972.jpg?v=1521687657)
[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (K bunsha), (1928) [Showa 3]. Single volume, 8.75 x. 5.75 inches, [6], 246, [6] pp. Original half blue cloth over color pictorial wrappers depicting a stylized Sherlock Holmes and Mary Morstan, blue cloth ornamented and lettered in black and gilt, purple pictorial endpapers. Illustrated title page printed in magenta...
Price: $850.00
Letters from a Cat. Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats and the Amusement of Little Children
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Small quarto, measuring 7.5 x 6 inches. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, grey floral endpapers. Decorative headpieces throughout text, seventeen black and white illustrations. Presentation inscription to flyleaf. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, occasional smudge to text.
Price: $600.00
The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher; Viz. Medea, Phaedra and Hippolytus, Troades, or the Royal Captives, and The Rape of Helen, out of the Greek of Coluthus . . . To which is prefixed the Life and Death of Seneca the Philosopher . . . Adorn'd with Sculptures representing each History
London: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, 1702. Octavo, modern full period-style specked calf, boards paneled in blind with floral cornerpieces, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, board edges tooled in gilt, all edges speckled red. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Seneca...
Price: $1,500.00
Jane Eyre. An Autobiography
London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1847. Three octavo volumes, modern green three-quarter crushed morocco, marbled cloth boards, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All half-titles present, thirty-two pages of advertisements dated October 1847 (bound without publisher's catalogue fly-title) at rear of volume one, original brown...
Price: $40,000.00
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great, Collected from the Conversation of Several Persons of Distinction at Petersburgh and Moscow
London: Printed for J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet Street; J. Sewell, No. 32, Cornhill; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, 1788. Octavo, [2], viii, 3-448. pp. Full contemporary speckled calf skillfully rebacked, boards double-ruled in gilt, spine elaborately stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Light spotting to...
Price: $1,250.00
Love Story Black
New York: Reed, Cannon & Johnson, 1978. Single volume, 7 x 5 inches, [2], 141 pp. Original red paperback wrappers illustrated in black and white. Light shelfwear to wrappers.
Price: $35.00
Chicken Soup, Boots
New York: Viking Press, 1993. Quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, blue pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $50.00
The Fairy Alphabet: As Used by Merlin
New York: Viking Press, 1933. Small folio measuring 9.5 x 7 inches, original cream cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, spine lettered in black. Illustrated with black and white plates throughout text. Inscribed in December of 1933 by MacKinstry on front free endpaper. Light shelfwear and bumping to corners, darkening...
Price: $300.00
Joan and Pierre
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company, (1931). Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches, original color pictorial paper boards, red cloth spine, color pictorial endpapers, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, dust jacket chipped at corners and spine ends, with small abrasion to front panel.
Price: $200.00
The Holiday Candy Book
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1952). Octavo, original grey cloth stamped in red and blue, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $30.00
Encyclopédie des voyages, Contenant l'abrégé historique des moeurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences, arts, et commerce de tous les peuples. Europe (I-II), Asie (III), Afrique (IV), Amérique (V)
(Paris): chez l’Auteur; chez Deroy, Libraire; chez les principaux Libraires de la République, 1796. Seventy-two parts divided into five quarto volumes, bound in four, early nineteenth-century full vellum with central arabesques tooled in blind to center of boards, raised bands, manuscript titles to spines, green silk ribbon ties. Four hand-colored...
Price: $24,000.00