literature
Twelve Fables of Aesop
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 8.25 x 6 inches: [32]. Original buff pictorial wrappers printed in red and black. Linoleum block illustrations printed in black throughout text. Signed and dated “July 9 ‘75” by Antonio Frasconi at title. Upper corner lightly bumped. Housed in publisher’s.....
Price: $150.00
Orlando Furioso Di Ariosto. With Memoirs and Notes by Antonio Panizzi
London: William Pickering, 1834. Four octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches: [vii]-viii, clxxvi, 198; [4], 436; [4], 424; [4], 330, 79, [1]. Original publisher’s morocco-grain plum cloth, printed paper spine labels, text uncut and partially unopened. Woodcut frontispiece portrait after Titian; woodcut publisher’s device to title pages. Bookplates of.....
Price: $2,200.00
Peter and Wendy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: x, 267, [1]. Original olive pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, original black pictorial dust jacket printed in gilt, priced at $1.50. Frontispiece, pictorial title page, and eleven halftone plates throughout text. Small stain to lower edge of.....
Price: $7,500.00
The Savoy (advertisement)
London: C.F. Kell for Leonard Smithers, [1896]. Color-lithographed poster, sight size 10.5 x 8.25 inches, framed to 18 x 15 inches. Signed with A/B monogram in lower left corner of image. A few faint creases.
Price: $2,500.00
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
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
Madeline
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [48]. Original color pictorial paper boards, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Color illustrations throughout text. Occasional stray smudge to text; offsetting from binder’s glue to endpapers; expert restoration to dust.....
Price: $3,250.00
Sunshine: A Story About the City of New York
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1950). Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [44]. Original color pictorial paper boards, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Bookseller label (Paul Elder's Books, San Francisco) to lower corner of final page. Edgewear to jacket, corners lightly.....
Price: $250.00
The Little House
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Single volume, measuring 9 x 9.5 inches: [4], 40. Original pictorial blue-green cloth stamped in white, pictorial endpapers printed in red and black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light soiling and edgewear to jacket, with closed tears and chip to.....
Price: $5,500.00
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1969). Oblong volume, measuring 8.25 x 11.25 inches: [24]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, color-patterned endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket clipped at upper corner of front flap, priced at $3.91 at lower corner. Color illustrations and pictorial cut-outs throughout text. Inscribed.....
Price: $12,500.00
Calligraphic exercise featuring neoclassical French poets
Laval, France: late nineteenth century. Single calligraphic leaf, measuring 8.75 x 13.75 inches, executed in ink and watercolor, matted to 16 x 20 inches. Numeral “6” at top righthand corner. Paper toned.
Price: $300.00
The Angel Intrudes. A Play in One Act
New York: Egmont Arens at the Washington Square Bookshop, 1918. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 6 x 4 inches: 24. Original yellow pictorial wrappers. Short split to upper wrapper at head of spine.
Price: $300.00
Giganten. Ein Abenteuerbuch
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, (1932). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [8], 11-377, [7]. Original tan cloth stamped in brown and red, upper board lettered in brown. Presentation inscription from Döblin to Isaac Steinberg on preliminary blank. Owner signature of Leo Steinberg to front free endpaper. Light soiling to.....
Price: $1,800.00
Scenes of Clerical Life
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1858. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 7-366; [6], 381, [1]. Original claret morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, cinnamon endpapers. Neat initials “M.S.D.” to half-titles, penciled bookseller notes to verso of front free endpaper in Volume I. Spine.....
Price: $16,500.00
An Oration, Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. Side-stitched octavo, measuring 9 x 5.75 inches: 30, [2]. Original blue wrappers printed in black. Contemporary ownership signature to front wrapper. Light shelfwear, soft vertical crease from folding. Housed in custom slipcase and chemise.
Price: $1,500.00
Nature; Addresses and Lectures
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1850. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.25 inches: [2], vi, 383, [1]. Original dark brown ribbed cloth ruled and decorated in blind, titled in gilt on spine, yellow coated endpapers. Ownership signature of “R.H. Stoddard” to front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing, rubbing to edges.....
Price: $950.00
The Fairy Drama of Marina; or, The Truant Heart (theatrical playbill)
Loton Park, Shropshire: R. Davies, Printer, 7 High Street, Shrewsbury, 1845. Broadside, measuring 12.25 x 7.5 inches, printed in bright blue and black. Decorative border, with royal arms at head of sheet. Light rubbing, central crease from folding. Matted to 17 x 11.5 inches.
Price: $1,000.00
No Dress Rehearsal, Baby
New York: Ink, Inc., no date. Five loose broadside sheets, measuring 18 x 13 inches, wrapped in original glassine and mylar wrapper blindstamped “Ink, Inc. / New York.” Woolf, Chandler, and Nabokov broadsides printed in two colors. Glassine split at fold and chipped at edges, broadsides fine.
Price: $450.00
Heroes and Heroines
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7 inches: [4], 5-79, [1]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Gift inscription and child’s bookplate to front pastedown. Light wear to jacket, with one short closed tear and.....
Price: $125.00
The First Violin
New York: Brentano’s, (1896). Two volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [6], 292; [4], 275, [1]. Original tan cloth elaborately stamped with two-toned gilt vines across boards and spines, top edges gilt, publisher’s tan cloth dust jackets lettered in gilt. Title pages printed in red and black; frontispieces, illustrations, and.....
Price: $500.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 4: There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and salmon.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 6: Song (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and orange.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 7: The Parting (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and green.
Price: $50.00
The Heart of the Matter
London: William Heinemann, (1948). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [6], 297, [1]. Original dark blue cloth titled in silver, tan endpapers, top edge stained red, original unclipped color-printed dust jacket. Bookseller label (B.H. Blackwell, Oxford) to front pastedown. Lightest shelfwear to jacket, with expert repair to spine head.....
Price: $1,000.00
Hanging Loose 2
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, winter/spring 1967. Forty-four mimeographed typed pages, measuring 9 x 6 inches. Loose as issued in original pictorial mailing envelope, with address label; index card inscribed “compliments of the editors,” initialed by Dick Lourie, laid in. Light shelfwear.
Price: $150.00
Publisher's promotional mobile for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Flat-packed cardboard mobile, featuring a color-printed title placard connected to a crossbar with five suspended color-printed cutout cars, measuring 21 inches long from top of placard to lower car.
Price: $250.00
The Return of the Native
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 303, [1]; [6], 297, [3]; [6], 320. Original brown cloth stamped in black and blind, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black; cream-coated endpapers. Frontispiece map, after a drawing by Hardy, facing title page.....
Price: $7,800.00
The Woodlanders
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [4], 302, [2]; [4], 328; [4], 316. Original dark green bead-grain 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.....
Price: $3,500.00
The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. Two volumes, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: xiv, 15-283, [5], 16; 284, [4]. Original full brown ribbed cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, reddish-brown coated endpapers. Publisher’s catalog, dated March 1860, in Volume I. Light wear to cloth, spine ends and.....
Price: $750.00
Catch-22
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 443, [1]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in white, top edge stained red, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket priced at $5.95. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Lightest soiling and edgewear to jacket, with several short.....
Price: $2,000.00