New Arrivals
Wrapping paper design for the Eifler Seed Company
Vienna: circa 1950. Original pen and watercolor design on single sheet of buff paper, measuring 16.5 x 12.5 inches. Adhesive residue from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $700.00
Nature’s First Green
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. Tall narrow octavo, 12 pages. Original blue-green cloth lettered in gilt, original plain gold dust jacket. Pictorial title page printed in red and black; signed and numbered “1” in ink by Henry Roth on the colophon; ink inscription from publisher William Targ to Roslyn Targ...
Price: $150.00
Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales from Out of Africa
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975). Folio measuring 12 x 8 inches, original black paper boards with photographic portraits of Dinesen and Gatura on upper and lower board respectively, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket, tan endpapers. Inscribed by Peter Beard to “Dena and Bryan”...
Price: $3,500.00
L’Éducation Sentimentale. Histoire d’un Jeune Homme. Édition Définitive
Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1901. Full modern red buckram lettered in gilt, yellow publisher’s rear wrapper bound in. Ink signature of James Joyce (dated 1901) to half-title. Bookplate of Alexander Neubauer to front pastedown. Front wrapper missing; half-title torn with loss, with early tape repairs to verso; text block embrowned.
Price: $15,000.00
Open Highways: A Diagnostic and Developmental Reading Program (first six volumes)
(Glenview, Illinois): Scott, Foresman & Company, (1967-1968). Six octavo volumes, measuring 8.5 x 6.5 inches, original pale pictorial cloth with lettering and graphics in contrasting colors. Illustrated title pages, photographic or full-color illustrations on almost every page, glossaries at rear. School library stamps on front endpapers of two volumes, library...
Price: $225.00
Collection of American business letterhead samples
Various publishers, circa 1884-1925. Collection of 86 publisher's sample letterhead sheets (including one duplicate), most measuring 10.5 x 8.25 inches, including examples printed on Crane Linen, Genesee Linen, Eastern Systems Bond, Old Deerfield Bond, Old Deerfield Laid, Brookdale Linen Bond, Woronoco Bond, Hammermill Bond, and Atlantic Bond. Light general wear...
Price: $350.00
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Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]
[Bogotá]: Grupo Editorial Norma, (1997). Octavo, publisher’s full tan calf, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, spine stamped with gilt fleur-de-lis to indicate a signed and numbered copy, marbled endpapers, tan silk ribbon marker. Bookbinder ticket (“Taller la Entenalla”) to front pastedown, “XLVII” hand-numbered in ink on the limitation page...
Price: $5,000.00
The Ladybird Book of Handwriting
Loughborough: Willis & Hepworth, 1968. Octavo, 54 pages including printed pastedowns, original orange pictorial paper boards printed in black and white. Text printed in orange and black, with handwriting exercises on almost every page. Pinpoint foxing to edges of text block.
Price: $30.00
“Girl Campers”
New York: Woman's World Magazine, July 1935. Staple-bound folio magazine, 26 pages. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Highsmith's story on pages 16 and 25. Mailing address printed to top lefthand corner of upper wrapper, lightest edgewear.
Price: $500.00
Spectre: A Literary Quarterly. Volume I: Number 3
Syracuse University: Spring 1940. Quarto, side-stapled dark blue pictorial wraps, beige cloth tape-bound spine. Sixty mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, black and white illustrations throughout text. Center crease to front cover and first few pages, shallow chipping and creasing to back cover, text block toned.
Price: $2,200.00
Animalia or Fibs about Beasts. Engraved on Wood and Ensnared in Verse
New York: Payson & Clarke, (1926). Quarto, original full black cloth lettered in green, pastedown wood engraving of a circus ring on upper board, yellow pictorial endpapers. Wood-engraved vignettes on half title, frontispiece, and title page; twenty full-page wood engravings of animals throughout text. Very light wear to cloth.
Price: $550.00
The Benefactor
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1963). Octavo, original black cloth lettered in green and white over black paper boards, green endpapers, top edge stained black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket lettered in blue and green. Ink presentation inscription from Sontag to Dwight MacDonald on verso of front free endpaper...
Price: $600.00
The Nightingale in the East
No place: no date, circa 1850s-1860s. Broadside ballad printed on blue paper, measuring 10.5 x 3.5 inches. Woodcut illustration above title, lyrics printed in a single column. Small spot to head, light edgewear and toning to head and foot.
Price: $250.00
"Hamburg" (wallpaper sample)
Bransche: Gebr. Rasch & Co. circa 1952. Pictorial wallpaper sample, printed in black and grey, measuring 15.5 x 18 inches. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / HAMBURG 1 / R2087 / $3.25 PER SINGLE ROLL.” Two short closed tears to top edge.
Price: $250.00
English Art Student's Sketchbook of Historic Ornament
Various places: 1903-1910, 1952-1968. Oblong folio measuring 7.5 x 10.5 inches, original half diapered black calf over pebbled green cloth boards, spine ruled in gilt, black calf cylindrical pencil-holder attached to lower board, original elastic band (mended) attached to upper board, all edges speckled red. Front pastedown bears a calligraphic...
Price: $3,500.00
Less Than Nothing -- or The Life and Times of Sterling Finny
[New York]: [The New Yorker], [1927]. Octavo, green cloth spine, orange and black batik paper boards with green pastedown label to front board. Illustrated with ten black-and-white photographs staged and shot by White. Hinges reinforced, lightest edgewear to binding.
Price: $3,500.00
The Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Octavo, original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page court portraits throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to jacket, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $750.00
Sweet Was The Song
New York: The Odyssey Press, 1965. Small oblong volume, measuring 3.5 x 5.5 inches, original printed pictorial paper boards, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Musical score, accompanied by color illustrations.
Price: $45.00
Our Untitled Nobility
London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, circa 1880. Octavo, original full red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blind with decorative fern design, beveled boards, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Color frontispiece and seven full-page wood engravings throughout text. Front free endpaper neatly excised.
Price: $40.00
Boy-Princes. The Story of Their Lives
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, circa 1884. Octavo, original full blue cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blind with decorative fern design, beveled boards, cream coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Color frontispiece and seven full-page wood engravings. Ink prize gift inscription dated 1884 to verso of front fly...
Price: $40.00
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. Octavo, publisher's beige cloth lettered in black, dark brown endpapers, supplied clipped typographic dust jacket. Inscribed in ink on the title page: “For Henry Nash Smith, / admiringly, / from Helen Vendler.” Pencil notation to verso of final blank, author photograph from original dust jacket...
Price: $150.00
The Works of Master Poldy
Dublin: The Salvage Press, 2013. Large slim folio, original orange cloth over ivory paper boards lettered in silver, orange endpapers, original orange cloth slipcase. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, bound by Tom Duffy at his workshop at Dublin’s Five Lamps.
Price: $600.00
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Octavo, half black cloth lettered in silver, dark grey paper boards, black endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Inscribed in ink on the title page: “For Stephen Garger / my compliments / Toni Morrison.”.
Price: $165.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in...
Price: $7,500.00
Celebrated Crimes
London: H.S. Nichols, 1895. Eight octavo volumes, contemporary full plum crushed morocco gilt, boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a fleur-de-lis motif, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Title pages in red and black, text printed on vellum, all volumes illustrated with photogravures...
Price: $3,800.00
Daniel Boone: Historic Adventures of an American Hunter among the Indians
Paris: Domino Press, (1931). Slim folio, measuring 14.25 x 11.25 inches, original blue cloth over color lithographed paper boards. Full-color lithographs, printed by Mourlot Frères, throughout text. Faded spine beginning to fray, corners lightly bumped, light toning to edges of boards.
Price: $425.00
"Walled City" (wallpaper sample)
United States: circa 1950s. Color pictorial wallpaper remnant, measuring 34 x 22 inches, printed in shades of green, brown, and white. Stamped at edges: “Walled City" / “Vogue" Papers. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $175.00
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat
London: Methuen, 1904. Folio, modern full brick morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, text block uncut. Facsimile of the 1499 Aldine first edition, including the 172 original woodcuts by an unknown hand; additional paper spine label tipped in. Two extra leaves laid in, including the uncensored Priapus plate. Bookplate...
Price: $2,600.00
The Little Mermaid
(Natick, MA): Picture Book Studio, (1984). Folio, original color pictorial glossy paper boards, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket priced at $11.95. Color illustrations throughout text. Endpapers foxed.
Price: $35.00
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1911]. Quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, sixteen staple-bound pages. Includes seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Light general foxing and toning.
Price: $3,800.00