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Ten promotional broadsides for M’lle New York
New York: M’lle New York Publishing Company, 1895-1896. Ten color-lithographed posters of varying sizes, measuring between 12 and 19 inches high and between 8.5 and 20 inches wide, printed on various paper stocks. Penciled dates to top corner of nine posters; pencil sketch to one verso. Light edgewear, short closed.....
Price: $2,200.00
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
“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: $850.00
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: “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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Original nineteenth-century painting of shopkeepers at work
No place: no publisher, nineteenth century. Gouache painting, measuring 3.75 x 6.25 inches, mounted to a grey backing sheet, in an old mahogany frame measuring 6.75 x 9.5 inches. Later pencil inscription to verso of painting: “Handelskontor 1820.” Backed in the frame by a cabinet card of a young boy.....
Price: $600.00
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
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
Original set design for Hamlet: “Grave Scene”
London: [1938]. Watercolor and gouache on board, measuring 10.25 x 19 inches. Signed and captioned by Furse to lower image. Placement marks and paper remnants along board margins from previous mat.
Price: $2,000.00
Miss Hoare (mezzotint portrait)
London: Printed for Robert Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street, circa 1770. Mezzotint engraving measuring 13.75 x 10 inches, on a sheet measuring 15 x 11 inches. Laid paper evenly toned.
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
Textile screenprinted with image of “Head (Venus)”
Cape Town: Norval Foundation, 2019. Screenprinted textile, measuring 18.5 inches square, with artist’s signature embroidered in red thread.
Price: $300.00
Deep Dark Fears #178
No place: 2015. Watercolor and ink on paper, measuring 12 x 9 inches (sheet size). Signed and dated 5-11-2015 in ink; captioned “Deep Dark Fears #178” and signed again in pencil to lower right margin.
Price: $350.00
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