New Arrivals
The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias
London: T. Jefferys, at the Corner of St. Martin’s Lane, Charing-Cross, 1768. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: xxiii, [1] 3-258. Contemporary three-quarter calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, traces of gilt decoration to spine compartments, marbled paper boards, no spine label, text block uncut. Woodcut initials and headpieces throughout.....
Price: $5,000.00
The Tragic Mary
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 261, [3]. Original brown pictorial paper boards with floral design by Selwyn Image, spine lettered in black, text block uncut and unopened. Without scarce glassine wrapper. Shallow bump to tail of spine, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $950.00
Hiawatha
London: George G. Harrap & Company, [1914]. Color-printed pictorial panorama in sixteen panels, folded concertina-style, measuring 5.75 x 80 inches unfolded, text printed on verso. Original color-printed pictorial paper boards, measuring 6 x 5.25 inches, identically printed. Light shelfwear and spotting to boards.
Price: $200.00
Invitation to private reception following Whitman’s lecture, “The Death of Abraham Lincoln”
New York City: April 14, 1887. Ivory card, measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches, printed recto only: “Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel, Irving Place and 16th St., New York.” Penciled bookseller note to verso: “April 14, 1887 for his most famous.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Poetical Works of John Milton. With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings by James Montgomery
London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1843. Two volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [4], lii, 378, [2]; viii, 341, [3]. Original dark blue pictorial cloth stamped in blind and gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers, publisher's ads at rear of both volumes. One hundred and twenty wood engravings throughout text.....
Price: $450.00
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Továrna Na Absolutno [The Absolute at Large]
Brno: Polygraphie, 1922. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 5.5 inches: 219, [5]. Original tan pictorial wrappers with blue and orange design by the author’s brother Josef, spine and lower wrapper lettered in blue, text block uncut, many individual signatures unsewn and laid in (as issued). Title page printed in blue and.....
Price: $3,000.00
The Nicest Gift
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1973). Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Neat owner signature to front free endpaper. Light discoloration to endpapers, lightest wear to jacket spine ends and corners.
Price: $85.00
Picture and Text
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [viii], 175, [1]. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt. Title page printed in red and black, tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece, seven black-and-white plates throughout text. Early owner signature to front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $125.00
Emily Post's Motor Manners . . . The Bluebooklet of Traffic Etiquette
[Washington, D.C.]: National Highway Users Conference, (1956). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 4.25 x 6 inches: 48 (wrappers included in pagination). Original blue wrappers printed in white and black; illustrations printed in blue and black throughout text. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $85.00
The Story of The Barber of Seville
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1966). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.75 inches: 64. Original color pictorial paper boards, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Biographical note on Rossini at rear. Light edgewear to jacket with tiny chip to head of spine.
Price: $25.00
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
Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 38 full-page plates.....
Price: $2,800.00
Audubon
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer’s note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket.....
Price: $150.00
Archive of original midcentury porcelain designs
Rome: Faro Disegni, circa 1940-1965. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates, each on a separate sheet, of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil, ink, and watercolor on heavy paper, most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches, and a smaller group of 57 sketches, executed.....
Price: $2,500.00
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 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
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
The Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Rendered into English
London: E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1671. Octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: [8], 555, [1]. Contemporary Cambridge-style full speckled calf, boards ruled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained. Engraved frontispiece portrait.....
Price: $4,000.00
Comus
London: William Heinemann, [1921]. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: xviii, 76, [2]. Original vellum spine lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt-stamped parchment boards, pale blue and white pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso; pictorial title.....
Price: $1,000.00
Undine
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: viii, 136. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with vignette by Rackham, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page.....
Price: $2,000.00
Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1905]. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 261, [1]. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards; raised bands; spine compartments lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt; boards ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. London bookseller ticket (B.F. Stevens & Brown).....
Price: $750.00
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Dalekohled aneb Kdo Neveri, at Tam Bezi [Binoculars, or Who Doesn't Want to Believe Can Leave]
Prague: Statní Nakladatelství Detské Knihy, 1966. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: 167, [5]. Original white cloth stamped in tan, black and blue endpapers, top edge stained blue, glossy unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Title page printed in blue and black; nineteen full-page color collages. Light spotting to boards.....
Price: $150.00
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: $950.00
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少年探偵譚 [Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (Kōbunsha), (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, two.....
Price: $850.00
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.....
Price: $200.00
Calendar 1972
Tokyo: (Takum Craft Shop), 1972. Portfolio measuring 15 x 11.5 inches, original stiff mulberry paper wrappers, two pastedown stencil-dyed mulberry paper labels to front wrapper, pastedown table of contents to rear wrapper, twelve loose broadside sheets (one for each month), each stencil-dyed in multiple colors on mulberry paper, untrimmed.
Price: $550.00
The Raven and Other Poems
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Octavo, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 91, [1]. Early twentieth-century full russet calf, boards single-ruled in gilt, raised bands, black morocco spine labels, spine single-ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Handwritten slip tipped onto second fly leaf noting “inner gilt.....
Price: $12,500.00