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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
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
Original illustration: “Marché aux fleurs”
No place: 2014. Watercolor on paper, measuring 6.5 x 11 inches, sight size, on sheet measuring 8.25 x 11.25 inches. Signed “Ch. Berberian” in pencil, lower right image, titled “01. Marché aux Fleurs/-Cité” to lower left, hidden by mat. Tipped to mat and framed to 12.75 x 16.5 inches.
Price: $650.00
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
Four variant editions of “It Looks Like Snow: A Picture Book by Remy Charlip”
New York and Paris: various publishers, 1957-2000. Four 16mo volumes: 1) It Looks Like Snow: A Picture Book by Remy Charlip. New York: Igal Roodenko for Young Scott Books, 1957. 5.25 x 4.25 inches: [32]. Original printed white wrappers, grey on verso, signed by Charlip on lower wrapper. Housed in.....
Price: $550.00
Jazz on a Saturday Night; with: signed publisher’s poster
New York: The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic, (2007). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [34]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Compact disc recording in rear pocket, as issued. Signed by the Dillons on title.....
Price: $175.00
Northern Lullaby; with: signed publisher’s poster
New York: Philomel Books, (1992). Single volume, measuring 11 x 10 inches: [26]. Original black cloth spine lettered in silver, purple pictorial boards stamped in blind, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed “For Daniel,” signed, and dated 1993 by Dillons on.....
Price: $200.00
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
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
Looking for Luck
New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 94. Original color pictorial wrappers. Inscribed on title page: “for Gregory and Emily / Maxine Kumin / 15 Apr 93.” With: printed invitation to Kumin’s April 1993 reading at Bryn Mawr College, and handwritten invitation from Bryn Mawr.....
Price: $65.00
Original signed drawing of two children from Fair Play
No place: circa 1940. Black Conté crayon on paper, measuring 22.5 x 18.5 inches, sheet size. Signed in red crayon to bottom right margin. Line of dampstaining along bottom margin, hidden by archival mat.
Price: $1,000.00
The Story of Ferdinand
New York: Viking Press, 1936. Single volume, measuring 8 x 7 inches: [72]. Original tan cloth spine lettered in red, red pictorial paper boards, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped red pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed on title page: “To Aunt June / with much affection at Christmas.....
Price: $6,500.00
To Kill A Mockingbird. 40th Anniversary Edition
(New York): HarperCollins Publishers, (1999). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [10], 323, [1]. Original dark grey paper boards stamped in silver and blind, terracotta endpapers, foreedge untrimmed. Original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Harper Lee on half-title. Lightest sunning to jacket spine panel.
Price: $2,200.00
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
Original illustration: “Heat Wave”
No place: [2007]. Watercolor on paper, measuring 4.5 x 5.25 inches. Signed in pencil in lower right image, and titled in pencil on verso by Lewin. Hinged to mat measuring 9 x 9 inches, archivally framed to 10.25 x 10.5 inches.
Price: $200.00
Make Way for Ducklings; with: signed bookplate commemorating the 1987 Mallard Family Sculpture
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Single volume, measuring 12 x 8.75 inches: [68]. Original tan pictorial cloth boards stamped in green, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Lithographed illustrations printed in sepia throughout text. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper: “To Sandy, Christmas 1941 / from.....
Price: $9,500.00
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: viii, 277, [1]. Original ivory boards and red cloth spine lettered in silver, original unclipped ivory dust jacket printed in red and black. Ink inscription to front free endpaper: “To Ruth / Best wishes / from /.....
Price: $250.00
Basic by Isotype
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1937. Single volume, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: 130, [2]. Green cloth spine, original buff paper boards lettered in green and priced at 2/6, pastedown spine label. Folding table of Basic English facing title. Black and red illustrations throughout text; two pages of.....
Price: $4,800.00
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
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman; with: publisher’s poster, inscribed with a sketch by Jerry Pinkney
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, (1996). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 9.25 inches: [40]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Signature of Jerry Pinkney in ink to front free endpaper. With: color pictorial poster measuring.....
Price: $250.00
A & The or William T.C. Baumgarten Comes to Town
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7.25 inches: [32]. Original orange pictorial cloth stamped and lettered in blue; original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed and signed by Raskin with ink drawing to front free endpaper. Foot of spine bumped, light toning and.....
Price: $600.00
Eve (signed color etching, artist’s proof)
No place: no date. Color etching, measuring 3 x 2 inches, on a sheet measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches. Signed in pencil below image, with note “AP Eve.”.
Price: $150.00
Anatomy for Interior Designers and How to Talk to a Client
New York: Whitney Publications, (1948). Single volume, measuring 10 x 8.75 inches: [9], 10-69, [1]. Original orange boards lettered in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Presentation inscription from Schroeder to front pastedown, with his pictorial bookplate, designed by Leo Kober, laid in. Light shelfwear.....
Price: $650.00
Original illustration: “Lady Liberty, Bartholdi”
No place: 2007. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, measuring 12 x 15 inches, full sheet. Titled in pencil, lower left margin. Signed, dated, and inscribed in black marker: “For my friend Mo, Best wishes, Matt Tavares ‘07,” lower right margin. Penciled measurement lines in margins. Tipped to mat and.....
Price: $1,800.00
Ida M’Toy
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1979). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [40]. Original red cloth, upper board stamped with gilt device. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Numbered in ink and signed by author on colophon. Bookplate of Ray A. Roberts to front pastedown.
Price: $250.00
A Pageant of Birds
New York: Albondocani Press, 1974. Side-stitched volume, measuring 7.5 x 4.75 inches: [32]. Original black and white photographic wrappers over black card. Title page printed in blue and black, six full-page photographs. Lettered and signed in ink at colophon.
Price: $750.00
Photographs
Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, (1989). Quarto, measuring 10 x 8.75 inches: xxviii, [178]. Original dark plum cloth titled in silver, black-and-white photographs throughout text. Signed and lettered by Welty at colophon. With: laid-in gelatin silver print, measuring 10 x 8 inches, with Welty’s inkstamp on verso, housed.....
Price: $5,000.00
Super-Duper Zuppa Inglese (and Other Trifles from the Land of Stodge)
(Belper, Derbyshire): Aggie Weston’s Editions, 1977. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 5.75 x 4.25 inches: [32]. Original stiff green wrappers, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white line drawings throughout text. Signed by Jonathan Williams in purple ink on opening page. Housed in lightly foxed original mailing envelope.
Price: $75.00
Working Cotton
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed by Carole Byard on title page: “Dear Tom, / Thank you for being here. You have always.....
Price: $100.00
A Streetcar Named Desire (signed by opening night cast, with original Shubert Theatre program and ticket stubs)
New York: New Directions, (1947). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 171, [1]. Original pink pictorial paper boards, original unclipped pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Ink signatures of the original cast beside their printed names on page 5; former owner’s signature to front free endpaper. Shelfwear.....
Price: $20,000.00