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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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
The Ambassadors
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: ii, 432. Original pale blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original dark blue fabric-paper dust jacket, spine lettered in gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary ownership inscription.....
Price: $1,500.00
The Princess Casamassima
London: Macmillan, 1886. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 252; iv, 257, [3]; iv, 242, [2]. Original dark blue-green cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at head and foot stamped in black.....
Price: $9,500.00
Roderick Hudson
London: Macmillan, 1879. Three octavo volumes: iv, 258, 38; ii, 278; ii, 264. Original dark blue fine-bead-grain cloth; double-ruled border and curved-edge panel in black on upper boards, repeated in blind on lower boards; gilt lettering and publisher’s device to spines with blind-stamped rules to spine ends; black coated endpapers.....
Price: $4,200.00
The Tragic Muse
London: Macmillan, 1890. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [4], 248; [4], 252; [4], 258. Original royal blue textured cloth lettered in gilt to upper boards and spines, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative gilt rules at head and foot, black-coated endpapers. Several pencil.....
Price: $2,250.00
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
London: Macmillan, 1881. Two octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: viii, 265, [3]; iv, 271, [1]. Original red-brown cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind to boards, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s devices and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black, yellow-coated.....
Price: $3,800.00
The Jungle Book; with: The Second Jungle Book
London: Macmillan, 1894-1895. Two volumes, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: viii, 212; viii, 238. Early twentieth-century full blue morocco, spines with gilt-dotted raised bands, compartments lettered and ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped animals, all boards ruled in gilt, upper boards with colored pictorial onlays, board edges and doublures tooled in.....
Price: $5,750.00
The Colt from Moon Mountain
New York: Macmillan, 1941. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 7 inches: [62]. Original orange pictorial cloth stamped in white, pictorial endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket with $1.75 price, front flap clipped at lower corner. Frontispiece, nine full-page illustrations, and four smaller illustrations in text. Inscribed on verso of front.....
Price: $850.00
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
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
Joseph II and His Court. An Historical Novel
Mobile, Alabama: S.H. Goetzel, 1864. Four volumes bound in one, measuring 7.25 x 5.25 inches: 240; 240; 139, [1]; 152 . Contemporary three-quarter red calf, marbled paper boards, recornered and rebacked with remnants of original spine laid down, spine ruled and titled in gilt, grey endpapers. Original front wrappers of.....
Price: $1,500.00
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
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