New Arrivals
The Tragedies of Sophocles, Translated from the Greek. With Notes Historical, Moral, and Critical
London: C. Davis in Pater-noster-row; and Stephen Austen, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1729. Two octavo volumes, measuring 7.75 x 4.5 inches: [80], 248; 296. Contemporary full speckled calf, not uniform, raised bands, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt (Volume II label renewed), spines double-ruled and variously ornamented in gilt...
Price: $5,800.00
Some Instructions Concerning The Art of Oratory, Collected for the use of a Friend a Young Student; BOUND WITH: The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd, Wherein above 130 The Tropes and Figures are severally derived from the Greek into English, together with lively Definitions and Variety Of Latin, English, Scriptural Examples, Pertinent to each of them apart
London: J.G. for R. Royston; E. Cotes for George Eversden, 1659; 1657. Octavo, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: [6], 128, [2]; [30], 267, [5]. Full contemporary mottled calf, boards ornamentally ruled in gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine label (renewed), spine elaborately stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges stained...
Price: $2,500.00
L'Art du Chant, Dédié à Madame de Pompadour par M. Bérard
Paris: Dessaint & Saillant; Prault, Fils; Lambert; et aux Adresses Ordinaires pour la Musique, 1755. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [16], 158, [6], [2]. Contemporary full mottled calf, boards tripled ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, gilt-stamped patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, peach...
Price: $2,800.00
Turn, Magic Wheel
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5.25 inches: [6], 281. Original beige cloth stamped in red and blue, top edge stained red, unclipped color-printed dust jacket supplied from another copy. Ink presentation inscription from Dawn Powell to Jacques LeClercq on front free endpaper. Light discoloration...
Price: $6,500.00
The Tenth Moon
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 282. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped color-printed dust jacket supplied from another copy. Ink presentation inscription from Dawn Powell to Jacques LeClercq on front free endpaper. Cloth faded, light edgewear and shallow chipping to jacket.
Price: $3,500.00
Aristotle’s Art of Poetry. Translated from the Original Greek, according to Mr. Theodore Goulston’s Edition. Together, with Mr. D’Acier’s Notes Translated from the French
London: Printed for Dan. Browne and Will. Turner, 1705. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches: [40], 1-120 129-192 209-256 241-256 241-256 273-511 [1] (complete). Full contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, boards paneled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and ruled in gilt. Two engraved bookplates facing...
Price: $6,000.00
A Apple Pie
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1886]. Oblong quarto, measuring 8.5 x 10 inches: [22]. Original red cloth spine, pale green color-printed pictorial boards, all edges stained red, deep blue coated endpapers. Half-title and title page printed in brown ink. Color-printed wood engravings by Edmund Evans after watercolors by Greenaway on...
Price: $8,000.00
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Large quarto, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [124]. Original brown pigskin, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board double-ruled in gilt with central device of rosebush rooted in book, helmet, sword, and musket, with English crown supported in branches. Top edge gilt, other edges...
Price: $5,000.00
The Wind in the Willows; with: autograph letter signed by Kenneth Grahame
London: Methuen and Company, 1908. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [6], 302, [2]. Original pictorial blue-green cloth stamped in gilt, ivory endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Tissue-guarded pictorial frontispiece. 1909 autograph letter signed by Grahame on his Mayfield stationery laid in. Without extremely scarce dust jacket.
Price: $20,000.00
First Aid in the Home
London: Odhams Press Limited, (1939). Twelve volumes, each measuring 8 x 5 inches: 48 pages each. Original tan wrappers printed in maroon. Half-tone illustrations, many full-page, throughout text. Accompanying 4-page printed test booklets laid into every volume; order form for “magnificent library binder" to house completed set laid into Volume...
Price: $650.00
The Wind in the Willows
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1931). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 7 inches: [6], 312. Original green cloth spine over grey paper boards, printed paper spine label, foreedge and lower edge of text block uncut. Half-title, with limitation signed by Grahame and Shepard on verso. Black and white illustrations throughout...
Price: $6,500.00
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1933). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 287, [1]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and triple-ruled in gilt, spine lettered and illustrated in gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in gold, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, brown silk ribbon marker. Half title with...
Price: $2,500.00
Stories from Hans Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1911). Quarto, measuring 12 x 10 inches: [2], viii, 250, [2]. Original full vellum, front board and spine lettered and stamped in gilt with design by Dulac, ties renewed, olive-patterned pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut. Limitation page signed by Dulac before frontispiece...
Price: $2,400.00
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: [6], 134, [2]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with tree design, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page...
Price: $3,200.00
Tales
(Johannesburg): Gryphon Poets, (1972). Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.75 inches: 46. Original color pictorial card wrappers with unclipped French flaps, front board lettered in black with brown and black woodcut design, spine lettered in black, photographic portrait of Beiles on rear wrapper. Six full-page color woodcuts. Light shelfwear and soiling to wrappers.
Price: $300.00
Hansel and Gretel, and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Single volume, measuring 11.75 x 9.5 inches: [10], 276. Publisher’s full white pictorial cloth, front board stamped in gilt and blue with design by Nielsen, spine decorated in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, patterned red and gilt endpapers designed by Nielsen. Limitation page signed...
Price: $6,000.00
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1919. Single volume measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 382, [2]. Publisher’s original full vellum, front board ruled and stamped in gilt with design by Clarke, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed...
Price: $8,000.00
Voyages: Poems by Walt Whitman
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988). Single volume measuring 10 x 7.25 inches, original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, green paper boards, tan endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with six full-page black and white plates and smaller vignettes throughout text.
Price: $35.00
Where The Wild Things Are
New York: Harper & Row, circa 1982. Oblong quarto, original grey cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, color patterned endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Medal affixed. Color illustrations on every page. Signed by Maurice Sendak on half-title.
Price: $750.00
Timour the Tartar, A Grand Melo-Drama. With: Redington's Characters and Scenes in Timour the Tartar
[London]: J. Redington; B. Pollock, circa 1880. Side-stitched octavo pamphlet, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: 16 pp. Set of nineteen hand-coloured lithographed plates, measuring 7 x 8.5 inches. Spine of pamphlet browned, light occasional foxing to plates.
Price: $1,200.00
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1861. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: (3), 4-140, (4). Original full brown textured cloth, boards blind-ruled and lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Bookplate of Susan Hayhurst to front pastedown, early ownership stamp of...
Price: $950.00
Urania’s Mirror, or, A View of the Heavens
London: Samuel Leigh, 1825. Complete set of 32 hand-colored engraved cards, measuring 7.75 x 5.5 inches, perforated to indicate position of stars, tissue guard mounted to verso of each card. Housed in original green and yellow card publisher’s box with hand-colored pictorial title mounted to lid, engraved pastedowns to sides...
Price: $5,500.00
Yours Truly: My Autograph Album
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1930). Single volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: 88 unnumbered pages. Original full black cloth, color pictorial pastedown title label, geometric patterned color endpapers. Text printed in blue, red, and purple, with color pictorial frames printed on nearly every page. Housed in publisher’s original...
Price: $300.00
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
Shiner
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, (2001). Single volume measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 80. Original color pictorial wrappers. Signed by Maggie Nelson on the title page.
Price: $125.00
The Poetic Reader, Containing Selections from the most approved authors, designed for Exercises in Reading, Singing, Parsing, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric and Punctuation; to which are prefixed Directions for Reading
Wethersfield [Connecticut]: no publisher, 1832. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: 95, [1]. Contemporary three-quarter sheep, marbled boards, spine lettered and double-ruled in gilt, all edges speckled blue. Wear to spine, first blank excised, with part of the clean cut affecting gutter of title page, dampstain in gutter of title...
Price: $100.00
The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton. With: presentation card from dedicatees Bill and Noma Copley
(London): Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., (1960). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [122]. Original green paper boards lettered in black and white dots. Text printed in black, orange, and blue. Illustrated with photolithographed annotations and vignettes, full-page drawings, diagrams, photographs of Duchamp’s work (including one folding plate), and musical...
Price: $650.00
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
Walt. The Good Gray Poet Speaks for Himself
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [14], 330, [1]. Original full tan pebbled cloth, spine and front board lettered in brown, yellow endpapers decorated with publisher’s seal, top edge stained brown. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket in brown and tan. Small presentation...
Price: $75.00
The Magnificent Idler: The Story of Walt Whitman
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [12], 312. Original full green cloth, yellow pictorial pastedowns to front board and spine, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated title page printed in green and black. Black and white frontispiece and...
Price: $75.00