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Complete set of American trade card templates satirizing the Aesthetic Movement, with additional printed example
United States: circa 1885. Seven color-printed pictorial trade cards, measuring 4 x 2.5 inches, printed recto only: a complete set of six blank templates, and a seventh example with printed advertisement. Lightest handling, tiny chip to upper corner of two cards.
Price: $150.00
My Brother's Ghost
New York: Viking, 2001. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [8], 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition.
Price: $30.00
Hotel-de-Ville de Franeker (Belgique)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Hotel-de-Ville de Vère (Hollande)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Le Chateau D'Ambras à Innsbruck (Tyrol)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Nouvelle Marie de Pantin (Paris)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto
Birmingham: Baskerville, 1773. Four octavo volumes: [34], lviii, 362, [2]; [2], 450, [2]; [2], 446, [2]; [2], 446 [2]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key border and floral cornerpieces in gilt to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and patterned in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels lettered in.....
Price: $2,200.00
Cahiers d’Enseignement du Dessin. No. 2. Gros Oiseaux
Paris: Auguste Godchaux & Cie, circa 1885. Side-stitched oblong drawing book, measuring 6.5 x 8.5 inches: [16]. Original pale green lithographed wrappers, priced at five centimes; text lithographed on blue paper, with drawing of different bird on each page. A few tiny holes to lower wrapper.
Price: $125.00
Locus Solus III-IV. New Poetry. Winter 1962
Lans-en-Vercors, France: Locus Solus, (1961). Small octavo, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: 294, [2]. Original blue printed wrappers. Signed by John Ashbery, Kenward Elmslie, LeRoi Jones (as Amiri Baraka, dated 1978), Kenneth Koch, Daniel Krakauer (inscribed “To Richard”), and Larry Rivers at their contributions. Wrappers sunned, lightest edgewear, a few.....
Price: $650.00
The Northanger Set of the Jane Austen Horrid Novels
London: Folio Press, 1967-68. Seven volumes, measuring 9.75 x 6 inches. Original black buckram stamped in blind and gilt, spines lettered in gilt, black endpapers, top edges stained black. Without original glassine and prospectus, spines lightly sunned. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase.
Price: $700.00
The Companion to the Play-House: or, an Historical Account of All the Dramatic Writers (and their Works) that Have Appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Commencement of our Theatrical Exhibitions, Down to the Present Year 1764. Composed in the Form of a Dictionary, For the More Readily Turning to Any Particular Author, or Performance.
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1764. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 7 x 4 inches: xlii, [326]; [374]. Contemporary polished calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, raised bands, red and green morocco spine labels, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges stained red, green silk ribbon markers. Text.....
Price: $1,250.00
Children at the Gate
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 295, [1]. Original green textured boards lettered in gilt, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Bookseller label of Exclusive Books, Johannesburg, to front pastedown. Lightest rubbing to jacket, small stain to rear panel, last page creased.
Price: $55.00
American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xvi, 364, [2]. Original blue blindstamped boards, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket printed in red and black. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the title page. Printed Oxford UP slip laid in: “With the Publisher’s.....
Price: $350.00
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Single volume, measuring 8 x 4.25 inches: 60. Original orange cloth lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
Murphy
New York: Grove Press, (1957). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [4], 282, [2]. Original cream textured cloth, spine lettered in brown, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in black and grey. Grove Press rubber stamp to copyright page. Spine and edges of jacket toned, with 2.5-inch split at.....
Price: $350.00
Tales
(Johannesburg): Gryphon Poets, (1972). Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 46. Original color pictorial card wrappers with unclipped French flaps, upper wrapper lettered in black with brown and black woodcut design, spine lettered in black, photographic portrait of Beiles on lower wrapper. Six full-page color woodcuts. Errata slip laid.....
Price: $275.00
C: A Journal of Poetry. Volume 1: No. 9 (signed by William S. Burroughs)
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, “SUMMER ETC” 1964. Side-stapled volume, measuring 14 x 8.5 inches: cover and 67 mimeographed leaves, printed recto only. Cover design by Joe Brainard; hand-pasted collage element on leaf 29. Leaves 38-43 and 55-58 stapled out of order, leaf 39 stapled upside down, all present.....
Price: $2,400.00
A Version of Solomon’s Song of Songs; Together with the XLV. Psalm
London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil, 1700. Small octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv, 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges.....
Price: $3,000.00
Pen Sketches of Napoleon I (album of original drawings)
Italy: circa 1825. Oblong album, measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 43 grey card leaves inserted on stubs. Later nineteenth-century dark blue morocco, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, boards paneled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt title to upper board and owner’s monogram “W.F.H.” to lower board.....
Price: $20,000.00
The Long-Winded Lady. Notes from The New Yorker
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 237, [1]. Original monogrammed gold paper boards, black spine lettered in gilt, gold endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by Lydia Rosier. Jacket design repeated as frontispiece. Two abrasions to jacket spine panel, small.....
Price: $250.00
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Octavo, measuring 7 x 4 inches: [22], 202, [12]. Original publisher’s vellum lettered in gilt, text block uncut. Full-page illustration of Roman funeral urns facing Hydriotaphia title page, decorative headpieces throughout text. Bookseller ticket (Parker & Son, Oxford) to front pastedown, ownership signature of Francis Glynn.....
Price: $250.00
The Cat
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1936). Octavo, original mauve cloth lettered in blue, top edge stained yellow, foreedge uncut, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations in text. Penciled ownership inscription, dated 1937, to front free endpaper; bookseller ticket (Tecolote Bookshop, Santa Barbara) to lower pastedown. Light.....
Price: $300.00
Sylvestre ou la Grenouille de Plomb
Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1962. Single volume, measuring 12 x 8.75 inches: 68, [4]. Original blue cloth lettered in black, color pictorial pastedown to front board, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text, colophon with ink-stamped copy number after text. Printed bifolium of drawings by Alexander Calder laid in, as called.....
Price: $125.00
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
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: 598, [2]. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece; engraved portrait of Abba Thulle, “King of the Pelew Islands;” folding map of Pitcairn Island. List of plates and errata.....
Price: $2,400.00
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1912]. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial paper boards. Seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Lightest general foxing and toning.
Price: $2,500.00
Soviet-era classroom poster of Rene Descartes
U.S.S.R. circa 1960. Color-printed educational poster, measuring 18.75 x 14.75 inches, mounted to stiff cardboard backing, with two punched holes and cord for hanging. Numeral “2” stamped to verso, with ink notation. A few faint splashmarks.
Price: $125.00
Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot, a snail, and a lizard
France: nineteenth century. Original watercolor, executed on two sheets of printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: “8 en 10: à Paris, chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry, No 19 / No. 23.” Several pale pink areas where.....
Price: $750.00
Parquetspiel / Divided Square Puzzle / L’Art de Parqueter
Germany: circa 1870. Complete set of 52 geometric wooden pieces, 26 of them stained purple, which combine to form two equal squares measuring 6.75 x 6.75 inches each. Both squares stacked in original wooden box, measuring 7.25 x 7.25 inches, pastedown pictorial label mounted to sliding lid. With color-printed diagram.....
Price: $500.00
Serigraph poster: four children
United States: Art and Production Department, CLC, circa 1970s. Screenprinted poster, measuring 40 x 25.75 inches, printed in turquoise and black on heavy stock. Small printer’s notice: “Designed and Produced by Art and Production Department, CLC,” followed by an indecipherable union label. Edgewear, several short closed tears. Archival drymount in.....
Price: $500.00