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A Apple Pie
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1886]. Oblong quarto, measuring 8.5 x 10 inches: [22]. Original red cloth spine, pale green color-printed pictorial boards, all edges stained red, deep blue coated endpapers. Half-title and title page printed in brown ink. Color-printed wood engravings by Edmund Evans after watercolors by Greenaway on.....
Price: $7,200.00
Hotel-de-Ville de Vère (Hollande)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Le Chateau D'Ambras à Innsbruck (Tyrol)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Nouvelle Marie de Pantin (Paris)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
“Swift, Swift the Great Twin Brethren Came Spurring from the East”
England: 1911. Watercolor and graphite on board, image measuring 12 x 9 inches, board 13.75 x 9.75 inches. Tipped to mat, 16 x 12 inches.
Price: $1,250.00
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
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
Original illustration for Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
1983. Watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera on paper, image measuring 8.5 x 8.75 inches, on larger sheet. Initialed in lower right image. Archivally framed to 17 x 14.5 inches. Offered with: Monika Beisner’s Book of Riddles. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983).
Price: $1,800.00
Pen Sketches of Napoleon I (album of original drawings)
Italy: circa 1825. Oblong album, measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 43 grey card leaves inserted on stubs. Later nineteenth-century dark blue morocco, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, boards paneled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt title to upper board and owner’s monogram “W.F.H.” to lower board.....
Price: $20,000.00
On Going to Bed
New York: Abbeville Press, (1982). Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: 96. Original full brown textured cloth, spine lettered in dark brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color frontispiece, color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $35.00
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
Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot, a snail, and a lizard
France: nineteenth century. Original watercolor, executed on two sheets of printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: “8 en 10: à Paris, chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry, No 19 / No. 23.” Several pale pink areas where.....
Price: $750.00
Sheet of six Épinal prints, domestic and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
Sheet of six Épinal prints, military and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
“Amsterdam” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Color pictorial wallpaper sample, measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in gold and ivory. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / Amsterdam WT 10 / R 2076 / $3.95 PER SINGLE ROLL.”.
Price: $150.00
“Spain” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Pictorial wallpaper sample printed in muted colors on an ivory ground, measuring 18 x 15.5 inches. Stamped on verso: “Rasch Waterfast, Spain 1, R 2012, $4.50 single roll.”.
Price: $150.00
Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen für die Fläche. Vierteljahrshefte für die verzierende Kunst, Volume XV, Plate 1
Plauen: Christian Stoll, circa 1915. Single pochoir plate of a geometric airbrush design, measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Tipped to black paper mount with publisher’s label mounted to upper right corner. Archivally matted to 14 x 11 inches.
Price: $250.00
“Mother Reading to Children” (illustration)
No place: 1923. Gouache, graphite, and ink on paper, heightened and bordered with gold, measuring 9.5 x 8.5 inches, image, mounted to board measuring 12.25 x 11.25 inches. Inscribed and signed “á mon viel ami / René Manevy / Cordialement / Djoz,” in lower left image. Archivally matted and framed.....
Price: $5,200.00
Achilles’ Song
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: [16]. Side-stitched olive green wrappers in integral pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Original color frontispiece drawing by Duncan executed in pen and crayon. Hand-lettered “B” and signed by Duncan at colophon.
Price: $350.00
Rudy & Midge
Madison, Wisconsin: Dangling Participle Press, 1998. Small oblong quarto, measuring 5.25 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Green cloth spine, color lithographed pictorial boards, green pictorial endpapers printed letterpress. Text block illustrated and printed in letterpress, color lithography and serigraphy on various paper stocks. Bound in are three pieces of ephemera sealed.....
Price: $450.00
Dessin (design workbook)
France: no publisher, circa 1950. Side-stitched design workbook, measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches: [16]. Original deep blue wrappers lettered in black, sewn with white thread; leaves printed with a grid pattern.
Price: $50.00
Four silhouette illustrations on storybook themes
England: nineteenth century. Four ink and graphite illustrations on paper, mounted to a single backing sheet. Entire sheet matted to 13 x 9.75 inches. Occasional light discoloration to paper, edge of one drawing creased.
Price: $175.00
Silhouette illustration: The Hero Arrives
England: nineteenth century. Ink and graphite on paper, mounted to a second sheet, the whole mounted again to a backing sheet. Image measures 5 x 7 inches, matted to 8 x 10 inches. Occasional stray speck to paper.
Price: $175.00
Silhouette illustration: The Recognition
England: nineteenth century. Ink and graphite on paper, mounted to a backing sheet. Image measures 5 x 10 inches, matted to 8 x 13.5 inches. Light discoloration to righthand and lower edges of original paper.
Price: $175.00
Decorative Art in Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin: Screen Art Company, 1948. Fifteen loose color serigraph plates on heavy stock, accompanied by a four-page illustrated introduction, measuring 13.75 x 10.75. All housed in original color pictorial portfolio with blue cloth spine. Light shelfwear to portfolio, faint foxing to introduction, plates lightly toned.
Price: $75.00
Love and Adversity
England: 1900. Watercolor, heightened with bodycolor, on artist’s board, measuring 20.5 x 13.5 inches, image. Signed with artist’s monogram and dated 1900, lower right; verso signed “E.F. Brickdale,” titled, and numbered “22,” with partial indecipherable pencil notation. Archivally hinged to board, with linen mat and burnished gold wood frame measuring.....
Price: $24,000.00
The Spider and the Fly (illustration)
No place: circa 1905. Watercolor and ink on illustration board, measuring 11.5 x 8 inches, sight size, on sheet measuring 14 x 8.5 inches. Signed “T. Hampe” in lower right image and titled in pencil on verso. Tipped to mat measuring 18.5 x 14 inches. A few measurement indications in.....
Price: $4,800.00
Das Karussellpferd und die Blaue Blume / Die Fee und die Mauer
Neuallschwil/Basel: Heuwinkel, [1961]. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 8.5 inches: [28]. Original brown cloth spine, glossy color pictorial paper boards. Text and illustrations printed on board, featuring thirteen full-page color linocuts. Faint foxing to pastedowns, binding slightly bowed, staples rusted.
Price: $150.00
Sketch...Book. Le Non-Obéissant: The Disobedient: Der Ungehorsame
Basel: Basilius Presse, 1968. Single volume, measuring 8 x 9 inches: [88, double leaves]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, text block printed in black and orange. Inscribed by Warja Lavater in the year of publication. Slight bowing to boards.
Price: $1,250.00