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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
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
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
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
Uomini sulla Luna
Milan: Sugar Editore, 1962. Double-sided oblong panorama, folded leporello style, measuring 93 inches unfolded. Printed in color on both sides, with pockets in first and last sections holding flexible white 33-rpm records. Publisher’s printed presentation bookmark laid in. Thin scrape and small stain to lower edge of final panel, touch...
Price: $2,800.00
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
Yonnondio: From the Thirties
(New York): Delacorte Press, (1974). Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [10], 196. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket and pictorial title page designed by Robert Giusti. Inscribed by Tillie Olsen on half-title.
Price: $250.00
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
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 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: $150.00
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
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
Shaker Lane
New York: Viking Kestrel, (1987). Oblong quarto, measuring 11 x 8.75 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial paper boards, tan endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Spine sunned, trace of rubbing to lower edges of boards.
Price: $35.00
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
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
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
Singing Tales of Africa
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1974). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: 80. Original full black and yellow geometric patterned cloth, spine lettered in yellow, original unclipped blue and yellow pictorial dust jacket, blue endpapers. Black-and-white vignettes throughout text, and eight full-page illustrations. Author’s notes at rear. Jacket spine...
Price: $40.00
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
The Emigrants
London: Harvill Press, 1996. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Chris Corr. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout text. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $600.00
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
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
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
As You Like It (theatrical broadside)
Philadelphia: Brown's Steam-Power Job Printing Office for the Walnut Street Theatre, 1854. Paper broadside, printed in black, 9 x 19 inches. Creased, light foxing, partial split at center fold, occasional small chips, not affecting text, one tiny hole. Archivally matted and framed, framed piece measures 13 x 23 inches.
Price: $500.00
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
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
The Defense of Poesy
Glasgow: R. Urie, 1752. Twelvemo, full eighteenth-century calf, spine ruled in gilt, pp. [1-2] 3-106. Ink ownership signature dated 1838 to front free endpaper. Two tiny wormholes; text block resewn at an early date; light occasional foxing; expert repair to binding joints and corners.
Price: $1,850.00
Gold Coast Customs and Other Poems
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Small octavo, 64 pp. Original textured gilt paper boards, black cloth spine with pastedown label, top edge stained black, original unclipped salmon-pink dust jacket printed in black, text block uncut and partially unopened. Frontispiece portrait by Pavel Tchelitchew, three pages of endnotes...
Price: $55.00
The Canticle of the Rose: Poems 1917-1949
New York: Vanguard Press, 1949. Octavo, original black cloth boards stamped in gilt and pink, bright unclipped original dustjacket with two barely perceptible scratches to front panel.
Price: $175.00
A Child's Garden of Verses
[New York]: The Heritage Press, 1944. Quarto, original red cloth, spine lettered in yellow, pictorial pastedown bordered in red and blue to front board, color pictorial endpapers, all edges stained yellow, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white and color illustrations throughout text. Jacket spine sunned, no slipcase.
Price: $75.00
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