New Arrivals
Madame de Pompadour
London: Hamish Hamilton and The Book Society, 1954. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: [12], 275, [1]. Original blue cloth lettered in silver, top edge stained red, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Cecil Beaton. Illustrated with black-and-white plates throughout text. Signed by Mitford in ink on the.....
Price: $750.00
Vera Vorontzoff
Boston and New York: Lamson Wolffe and Co., (1895). Small octavo, measuring 6.75 x 4.25 inches: [2], ix, [1], 3-197, [1]. Original tan cloth elaborately stamped in red, blue, black, and silver in a geometric design incorporating Russian motifs, spine lettered in silver, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Pictorial.....
Price: $300.00
The Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981; with: Scenes from the Fashionable World; with: Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, 1987, 1996. Three volumes, measuring from 9.25 to 8 inches high and 5.25 to 6 inches wide: xii, 270, [4]; [14], 204, [4]; [2], xv, [1], 247, [3]. Original cloth spines lettered in gilt, paper boards stamped in gilt, original unclipped color printed dust.....
Price: $350.00
The Forty Thieves, A Drama. With: Pollock’s Characters and Scenes in The Forty Thieves
London: B. Pollock, 73, Hoxton Street, circa 1880. Side-stitched twelvemo pamphlet, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: 16. Complete set of thirty-three hand-colored lithographic plates, measuring 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Paper clip marks to pamphlet and several plates, lightest edgewear.
Price: $650.00
Original illustration for Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
1983. Watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera on paper, image measuring 8.5 x 8.75 inches, on larger sheet. Initialed in lower right image. Archivally framed to 17 x 14.5 inches. Offered with: Monika Beisner’s Book of Riddles. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983).
Price: $2,850.00
Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza. Complete Herein in Three Books. Illuminating episodes in the lives of the Hon. Gerald Poynyard and his Bride
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.25 inches: 302, [2]. Original three-quarter red cloth, marbled boards, text block untrimmed. Woodcut vignettes throughout text. Ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper: “Sinclair Lewis / from Elinor Wylie / November 1923.” General shelfwear, a few splashmarks.....
Price: $750.00
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Original Music by J.W. Elliott
London: Novello and Company, [1870]. Single volume, measuring 10.25 x 7.25 inches: [8], 111, [1]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and three full-page wood engravings, wood-engraved vignettes throughout text. Light occasional foxing and smudging, small tidemark to lower.....
Price: $200.00
Gedenktage aus dem Jahre 1809: eine Erinnerung: den Damen Wiens gewidmet vom Ballkomitee der Stadt Wien
[Vienna]: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong album, measuring 5.5 x 6.5 inches. Full ivory kidskin, decorated with the arms of Vienna in gilt, black and red; patterned endpapers with Viennese cross motif printed in red, tan, and gilt; all edges gilt. Decorative title, one page of text, and 12 tissue-guarded color.....
Price: $950.00
New York Holiday
New York: Rinehart & Co., (1950). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [8], 376. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver and orange, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Presentation inscription from Early in blue ink to half-title. Edgewear to lightly sunned jacket, a few small chips to jacket.....
Price: $100.00
Stories of the Seen and Unseen
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [8], 316. Original olive green cloth decoratively stamped in blind, lettered in black and gilt. Penciled bookseller notes and engraved bookplate of Lookout Farm to front pastedown. Lightest shelfwear.
Price: $350.00
The Spoilt Kill
London: Michael Joseph, 1961. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 231, [1]. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt; original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Light toning to spine panel; smudging and short closed tear to rear panel; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper.
Price: $250.00
Fables de Florian et de Fénélon, Nouvelle Édition Très-Correcte, Dédiée a la Jeunesse, et Ornée de Vingt-Quatre Jolies Figures
Paris: Chez Saintin, Libraire de la Cour, 1814. Twelvemo, measuring 6.25 x 3.75 inches: [4], iv, 334, [2]. Contemporary straight-grained plum morocco, gilt fillets and corner fleurons to boards, gilt title and ornaments to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece, pictorial title, and six hand-colored plates; table.....
Price: $750.00
Scaf le Phoque
Paris: Flammarion, Albums du Père Castor, 1936. Side-stapled volume, measuring 8.25 x 9 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Seventeen full-page color lithographs; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Covers toned, occasional faint offsetting from lithographs to text pages.
Price: $85.00
Little Artists Drawing & Tracing Book
[Chicago]: M.A. Donohue & Company, circa 1925. Side-stapled volume, measuring 15 x 9.75 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations to interior wrappers. Pictorial title page; other leaves illustrated on one side only, interleaved with tracing paper. Lightest shelfwear, paper toned.
Price: $50.00
Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers
London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1819-1820. Four twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.25 x 3.5 inches: xii, 219, [1]; [4], 226; [4], 211, [1]; [4], 248. Contemporary red quarter-morocco ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled blue paper boards. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Inscribed “C.H. Cruttwell / Juvenile Library” on front free.....
Price: $500.00
Old Semibreve; or, Musical Instruction for Young Ladies and Gentlemen from Six to Twelve Years of Age
(London): “Printed for Private Circulation” by H. W. Martin, circa 1840. Quarto, measuring 8.25 x 6.5 inches: viii, [9]-32. Original red cloth, rebacked, decoratively stamped in gold and blind. Hand-colored zincographed frontispiece and six plates. Neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Cloth moderately darkened, with a few small spots;.....
Price: $750.00
The Savoy (advertisement)
London: C.F. Kell for Leonard Smithers, [1896]. Color-lithographed poster, sight size 10.5 x 8.25 inches, framed to 18 x 15 inches. Signed with A/B monogram in lower left corner of image. A few faint creases.
Price: $2,500.00
Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen für die Fläche. Vierteljahrshefte für die verzierende Kunst, Volume XV, Plate 1
Plauen: Christian Stoll, circa 1915. Single pochoir plate of a geometric airbrush design, measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Tipped to black paper mount with publisher’s label mounted to upper right corner. Archivally matted to 14 x 11 inches.
Price: $250.00
Stamboul Train
London: William Heinemann, (1932). Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [12], 307, [1]. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “For Martin, / from Graham Greene. / Not yet an Entertainment!” Book Society bookplate to front pastedown. Occasional.....
Price: $7,500.00
The Name of Action
London: William Heinemann, (1930). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [8], 344. Original navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original yellow typographic dust jacket printed in red and black, with price of 7/6 on spine panel. Light wear to jacket spine ends, spine panel faintly sunned, stain to.....
Price: $9,500.00
Specimens of Penmanship written by Mas. F.B. Leach at the High School, Oldham, Conducted by the Rev. Hugh Tait, B.A. (two volumes)
Leeds: Bean, Stationer, [1865]. Two oblong folio volumes, measuring 9.25 x 12 inches: [16]. Original glazed moiré card wrappers with gilt-embossed card frames and scenic chromolithographs (windmills in a field, a lakeside castle) mounted to covers. Tissue-guarded engraved pictorial title pages, featuring scenes of Cambridge, with Leach’s name added in.....
Price: $850.00
Storken
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, 1938. Square quarto, measuring 10 x 10.5 inches: [28]. Original tan linen spine, color lithographed boards, pictorial title page and twelve full-color lithographed plates throughout text. Light shelfwear and soiling to boards, occasional spotting to text. Front free endpaper glued to pastedown, upper hinge reinforced.....
Price: $100.00
Two sets of painted wooden counting blocks
Barnard, Vermont: Vermont Toy Works, circa 1980. Two sets of painted wooden blocks, each containing twenty-eight proportionally sized blocks numbered 1-10, housed in two wooden trays: the larger tray measuring 14.75 x 13.25 inches, the smaller 11 x 9.75 inches. “Vermont Toy Works” stamp on bottom of both trays. Light.....
Price: $200.00
King Lear and His Three Daughters (broadside ballad)
[London]: Howard & Evans, circa 1810. Roughly trimmed oblong broadside, measuring 9.5 x 14 inches, printed recto only on grey paper. Illustrated with a woodcut vignette. General light creasing, a few small marginal chips, faint foxing.
Price: $850.00
Victorian Rebus New Year’s Greeting
No place: no date, circa 1890s. Coated ivory card with rounded corners, printed in chromolithography recto only, measuring 3.75 x 4.75 inches. Text printed in gold, all edges gilt. Lightest signs of handling.
Price: $50.00
Howard University and Associated Sponsors Present Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
Washington, D.C. 1939. Concert program, measuring 9 x 6 inches, printed on a doubled sheet: [4]. Lightest soiling, horizontal crease.
Price: $2,400.00
The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres
New York: Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1897. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: xvi, 17-447, [1]. Original pale green pictorial cloth stamped with lyres and flowering vines in dark green, purple, and gilt; all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait, pages ruled in red. Front free endpaper excised, light occasional.....
Price: $50.00
Four titles from The Hump Tree Stories. Dickey Swift, the Squirrel: His Escape; Black Hawk, The Sky Pirate; Humper, The Green Worm; Black Brother
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1910. Four volumes, measuring 8 x 6.5 inches: [6], 10, [4]; [6], 6, [4]; [6], 9, [1]; [6], 8, [2]. Publisher’s color pictorial side-stapled wrappers, spines hole-punched and bound together with linen cord as issued, pictorial endpapers printed in green. Cover illustrations, frontispieces, head-.....
Price: $200.00
“Movies, the Desperate Art” in The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, Number 3
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, (1956). Pocket paperback, measuring 6.5 x 4.25: [2], 216, [6]. Original color-printed wrappers, priced at 50 cents. Light shelfwear, text block toned and brittle.
Price: $125.00