New Arrivals
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
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
Stay Up Late
New York: Viking Press, 1987. Quarto, green cloth spine lettered in black, original color pictorial paper boards, green pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light edgewear and occasional smudge to jacket, discoloration to gutter of front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00
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
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
Nadolig Plentyn yng Nghymru (A Child's Christmas in Wales)
(Llandysul, Wales): Gwasg Gomer, (1978). Slim quarto, original color printed pictorial boards, pale pink and green endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Top edge and corner of book and jacket lightly bumped.
Price: $50.00
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
A Christmas Carol In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
London: Chapman & Hall, 1844 [i.e. 1843]. Octavo, original full brown cloth with leaf border stamped in blind to boards and central wreath design with title stamped in gilt on front board, spine stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Half title printed in green, title page printed in...
Price: $28,000.00
The Raven and Other Poems
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Octavo measuring 7.25 x 5 inches, 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 dentelles by Zaehnsdorf.”...
Price: $12,500.00
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
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
![Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]. Gabriel García Marquez.](/pictures/thumb/1001775.jpg?v=1498062095)
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
“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
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
"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
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
Max Makes a Million
New York: Viking, 1990. Quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [36]. Original color pictorial paper boards, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed with a sketch on the title page.
Price: $125.00
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
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