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Ad Jingle
New York: UPON, 2022. Side-stapled artist’s zine, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [16]. Risograph-printed color illustrations throughout text. Numbered in pencil “16/50” on rear wrapper.
Price: $50.00
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson; with: two promotional photographs
No place: Talk Normal Productions, 1986. Side-stapled volume, measuring 7.75 x 11 inches: [24.] Original color photographic wrappers, color photographs throughout text. Light wear to wrappers. With: two glossy black-and-white photographs, measuring 8 x 10 inches.
Price: $350.00
Pinnacle. Volume XXV
Glen Ellyn, Illinois: Glenbard West High School, 1964. Single volume, measuring 10.5 x 7.5 inches: 220, [2]. Original coated green cloth boards stamped in blind and gray with large silver seal inlaid to upper board, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout text. Lightest shelfwear.
Price: $275.00
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
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
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
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
The Indian Slipper
Philadelphia: Charles J. Peterson, 1876. Color-printed embroidery pattern, image measuring 8.5 x 7 inches on sheet measuring 10.25 x 8.5 inches, printed recto only. Horizontal crease from folding, shallow chipping and closed tears to foot and righthand margin, not affecting image. Matted to 14 x 11.5 inches.
Price: $100.00
Here & There: A Fashion View with a Point-of-View. June 1978
Westport, Connecticut: Here & There, 1978. Single volume, measuring 14 x 8 inches: 94. Original coil-bound stiff black wrappers lettered in white. First leaf printed on orange paper, black-and-white photographs and line drawings throughout text. Light shelfwear, top right corner of upper wrapper clipped.
Price: $200.00
Here & There: A Fashion View with a Point-of-View. September 1978
Westport, Connecticut: Here & There, 1978. Single volume, measuring 14 x 8 inches: 123, [1]. Original coil-bound stiff black wrappers lettered in white. First leaf printed on magenta paper; black-and-white photographs and line drawings throughout text; twenty tipped-in fabric swatches. Light shelfwear, corners bumped, lower wrapper creased.
Price: $250.00
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
MOTIVO (wooden puzzle)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1978. Eight wooden cubes, screenprinted in four colors, each measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Naef / Swiss made” printed at base of leaf image. Lacking original box.
Price: $200.00
Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All
New York: New World Records, 1977. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Price: $250.00
“Movies, the Desperate Art” in The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, Number 3
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, (1956). Pocket paperback, measuring 6.5 x 4.25: [2], 216, [6]. Original color-printed wrappers, priced at 50 cents. Light shelfwear, text block toned and brittle.
Price: $125.00
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
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
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
Blue Daffodils (signed color etching)
[New York]: 1991. Color etching, measuring 13.75 x 17.5 inches, on a sheet measuring 19.75 x 25.75 inches. Titled, numbered, signed and dated in pencil below image.
Price: $300.00
Daffodils (signed color etching)
[New York]: 1989. Color etching, measuring 13.75 x 17.5 inches, on a sheet measuring 19.75 x 25.75 inches. Titled, numbered, signed and dated in pencil below image.
Price: $300.00
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
Three original illustrations for Miss Flora McFlimsey and the Little Red Schoolhouse
No place: circa 1957. Three illustrations on paper. Published color illustration: watercolor and ink stick, image measuring 3.25 x 3.5 inches on sheet measuring 4.25 x 4.75 inches, affixed to larger backing sheet. Registration tape in image margins, old mounting glue to image verso. Published wash drawing: watercolor, ink stick.....
Price: $450.00
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
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
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
New York: Harper & Row, (1978). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5 inches: xviii, 280, [2]. Original black cloth spine lettered in bronze, orange blindstamped paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with twenty pages of photographs. Ownership label of Barbara Smith to front free endpaper. Spine panel.....
Price: $350.00
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
The Westing Game
New York: E.P. Dutton, (1978). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [6], 185, [1]. Original red cloth spine lettered in black, orange paper boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, with no Newbery medal affixed. Pinpoint spotting to edges of text block.
Price: $2,500.00
The Cloud Eye
Milan: Sergio Tosi Stampatore, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 4 x 7.75 inches: [20]. Original navy cardboard covers bound with two aluminum rings. Leaves printed rectos only. Fifteen color lithographs, four pages of text. Scattered foxing, light fading and a few faint spots to covers.
Price: $250.00