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Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1973. Folio, original black buckram, leather spine label, plum endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Printed on handmade paper by Sebastian and Will Carter, and bound by John P. Gray and Son. Half-title and title page printed in red and black, red initials throughout...
Price: $250.00
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
Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope
New York: Robert L. Stillson Co. (1921). Single volume measuring 8.25 x 6 inches, 137 pp. Grey paper wrappers lettered in black and silver, pastedown illustration of the Brooklyn Bridge to upper wrapper, ivory endpapers. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Light dampstain to endpapers and upper corner of last few pages.
Price: $125.00
The Nightingale in the East
No place: no date, circa 1850s-1860s. Broadside ballad printed on blue paper, measuring 10.5 x 3.5 inches. Woodcut illustration above title, lyrics printed in a single column. Small spot to head, light edgewear and toning to head and foot.
Price: $250.00
Signs and Symbols
Middlesex: Puffin Picture Books, 1953. Oblong octavo, staple-bound, 32 pages. Original color lithographed wrappers. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Light dampstain at gutter.
Price: $35.00
Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autre sujets, qui ont esté trouvées aprés sa mort parmy ses papiers
Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670. Twelvemo: (ixxxii) 1-365 (21). Full nineteenth-century red morocco in Jansenist style, boards ruled in blind, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk ribbon marker. Publisher's woodcut cipher device on title page, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout text, with...
Price: $16,500.00
The Holiday Candy Book
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1952). Octavo, original grey cloth stamped in red and blue, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $30.00
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great, Collected from the Conversation of Several Persons of Distinction at Petersburgh and Moscow
London: Printed for J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet Street; J. Sewell, No. 32, Cornhill; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, 1788. Octavo, [2], viii, 3-448. pp. Full contemporary speckled calf skillfully rebacked, boards double-ruled in gilt, spine elaborately stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Light spotting to...
Price: $1,250.00
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
Chroniques
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1927. Octavo, original untrimmed wrappers printed in red and black, glassine. Lightest edgewear, tiny tear to rear glassine panel.
Price: $250.00
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
The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1948. Octavo, original pale grey cloth stamped in gilt and green, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket, textured endpapers. Title page illustrated by Philippe Jullian.
Price: $100.00
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
Daniel Boone: Historic Adventures of an American Hunter among the Indians
Paris: Domino Press, (1931). Slim folio, measuring 14.25 x 11.25 inches, original blue cloth over color lithographed paper boards. Full-color lithographs, printed by Mourlot Frères, throughout text. Faded spine beginning to fray, corners lightly bumped, light toning to edges of boards.
Price: $425.00
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
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
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
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
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
Henry IV (theatrical broadside)
Philadelphia: Brown's Steam-Power Job and Book Printing Office for Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre, 1857. Paper broadside, printed in black, 9.5 x 19 inches. Creased, light spotting, occasional small chips, not affecting text. Archivally matted and framed, framed piece measures 13 x 23 inches.
Price: $500.00
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
15 Poems for William Shakespeare
Stratford-upon-Avon: The Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace, 1964. Tall octavo, original ivory paper boards stamped in gilt with portrait of Shakespeare. Corrigenda slip tipped in. Boards lightly rubbed.
Price: $75.00
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
Picco: The Sad Italian Pony
New York: Vanguard Press, (1961). Slim quarto, full yellow pictorial cloth stamped in red, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Seal of the Parents’ Magazine's Book Club for Beginning Readers to lower board and rear panel of jacket. Tiny chips to spine ends.
Price: $35.00
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