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Rossetti: A Critical Essay on his Art
London: Duckworth & Co., [1902]. Single volume, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: xv, [1], 192, [4]. Original olive green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, top edge gilt, title page printed in red and black. Monochrome reproductions of Rossetti’s paintings throughout text; publisher’s advertisements at rear. Ink inscription.....
Price: $800.00
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
The Bostonians
London: Macmillan and Company, 1886. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 244; iv, 226, [2]; iv, 236, [4]. Original dark blue-green cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped.....
Price: $18,000.00
The Princess Casamassima
London: Macmillan, 1886. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 252; iv, 257, [3]; iv, 242, [2]. Original dark blue-green cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black.....
Price: $9,500.00
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
London: Macmillan, 1881. Two octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: viii, 265, [3]; iv, 271, [1]. Original red-brown cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind to boards, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s devices and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black, yellow-coated.....
Price: $3,800.00
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
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: ix, [3], 207, [1]. Late nineteenth-century full polished chestnut morocco, boards elaborately bordered and decorated in gilt with interlacing strapwork against a stippled ground, gilt-ruled raised bands, spine compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, full chestnut and green morocco.....
Price: $15,000.00
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
After Midnight
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [8], 238, [2]. Original black patterned cloth stamped in bright blue, top edge stained blue. Spine panel sunned, no dust jacket.
Price: $250.00
Six Caroline Plays
London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xvi, 553, [5]. Original blue blindstamped boards, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Lightest shelfwear to jacket.
Price: $35.00
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 Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.25 inches: [6], 172. Original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page portraits throughout text. Lightest edgewear and toning to jacket, with partial split to front flap fold; edges.....
Price: $950.00
Original dust jacket art for The Eustace Diamonds
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Original dust jacket mock-up, measuring 6 x 13 inches fully extended, executed in black and white ink on red paper, heavily annotated, with one printed pastedown flap. Three printer’s separations of varying sizes, printed in black and white. With: single volume, measuring 6 x 3.5.....
Price: $850.00
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: “Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.”.
Price: $350.00
A Week
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 247, [1]. Original blue cloth stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, original unclipped typographic dust jacket priced at $1.50 on the spine. Introduction by translator Arthur Ransome. Capwell's Books (Oakland, California) bookseller ticket to lower pastedown. Pinpoint.....
Price: $300.00
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
The Pupil of Pleasure: or, the New System Illustrated. Inscribed to Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, Editor of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters
London: Printed for G. Robinson, and J. Bew, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1776. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xv, [1], 230; [4], 252. Contemporary half-calf, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, red morocco spine labels, pale blue marbled boards with vellum corners. Early book labels of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft.....
Price: $2,200.00
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
New Poems
New York: New Directions, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Eugenio Montale on the half-title. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $450.00
Knock or Ring
London: Jonathan Cape, (1957). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 255, [1]. Original green textured boards lettered in silver, unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in black, white, and lavender. Ink inscription from Nelson to James Robertson Justice on front free endpaper. Light spotting to jacket.
Price: $300.00
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 Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
Price: $1,250.00
Il Petrarca con Narrazione del suo Coronamento di Sennuccio del Bene Fiorentino; Vita del Poeta ed Annotazioni
London: G. Polidori, 1796. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches: 19, [1], 253, [1]; [4], xxiv, 237, [1]. Contemporary polished tree calf, boards blind-ruled, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red, green silk ribbon markers. Half-titles.....
Price: $1,250.00
Sweethearts; with: signed promotional broadside for “Jayne Anne Phillips Reading ‘Sweethearts’”
Carrboro, North Carolina: Truck Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 6.75 inches: [60]. Original buff photographic wrappers printed in black and sepia, blue endleaves, title page printed in blue and black, frontispiece and section titles printed in blue, author photograph printed in sepia. Signed by Phillips on title page.....
Price: $450.00
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
Charles F. Heartman Reviews Dr. Rosenbach’s Young American Parade (broadside)
No place: no publisher, [1933]. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Two faint creases from folding, several small paper repairs and evidence of previous mount to verso, one short closed tear.
Price: $500.00
The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra
(Hammersmith): (The Doves Press), 1912. Small quarto, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [6], 7-140, [4]. Original full limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Colophon and list of corrections to the 1623 folio text at rear. Printed in Doves type in red and black ink. Housed in a custom clamshell box.....
Price: $5,000.00
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
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, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $5,500.00
The Rivals, A Comedy
London: John Wilkie, 1775. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, [6], 100. Modern full red morocco by Rivière, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled doublures, all edges gilt. Bound with half-title. Penciled bookseller notes and bookplate of Montgomery Evans II to front pastedown. Typed description on card with.....
Price: $1,500.00