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Dictionnaire des Gens du Monde, a l'Usage de la Cour et de la Ville; with: With: A New Dictionary for the Fashionable World, Translated from the French (London: For the Author, 1820)
Paris: Alexis Eymery & Baudouin Frères, 1818. Twelvemo, measuring 7.25 x 4 inches: xvi, 215, [8]. Original pink pictorial wrappers backed with printer’s waste, frontispiece engraving, eight-page bookseller catalogue at rear, text block uncut. Inked flourishes in margins by selected entries, annotation to “apothicaire” definition. Lightest shelfwear, shallow loss to.....
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
Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting. Illustrated by Examples from the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools
London: Printed for the Proprietor, and Sold by James Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street, 1826. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: vi, [2], 45, [1], [2]. Contemporary drab boards neatly rebacked, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s advertisement mounted to front pastedown. Eight engraved plates throughout text. Publisher’s prospectuses for.....
Price: $500.00
Homes of the Freed
New York: New Republic, 1926. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: xiv, [2], 199, [1]. Original blue pictorial wrappers printed in green and brown. Illustrated with four woodcuts in text, uncut. Shallow chipping to wrappers with reinforcement to verso of upper wrapper, spine panel cracked, small hole to lower.....
Price: $300.00
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: 598, [2]. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece; engraved portrait of Abba Thulle, “King of the Pelew Islands;” folding map of Pitcairn Island. List of plates and errata.....
Price: $2,000.00
The Good Wools
New York: The Wool Bureau, 1977. Spiral-bound volume, measuring 10 x 5.25 inches: [8], 170. Original color photographic wrappers. Text printed on tan paper with brown card chapter dividers, line drawings on every page.
Price: $250.00
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
Woolflash Paris 74. Winter/Hiver Prêt-à-Porter
Paris and New York: International Wool Fashion Office; The Wool Bureau, 1974. Side-stapled volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: 80. Original photographic wrappers, black-and-white photographs throughout text. Light foxing and edgewear; evidence of label removal to upper wrapper.
Price: $100.00
“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
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
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, measuring 13 x 9.5 inches: xvi, 50, [2]. Original full black buckram, tan leather spine label lettered in gilt, plum endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Half-title and title page printed in red and black, red initials throughout text, text printed in.....
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
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
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
Literature for Sale
New York: New York PublIc Library, 1941. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [2], 35, [3]. Original tan paper wrappers titled in black.
Price: $100.00
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