ephemera
The Paris Review Limited Edition Prints and Posters
New York: The Paris Review, 1983. Side-stapled catalogue, measuring 4.25 x 9 inches: [24]. Original patterned wrappers printed in blue, yellow, and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Price list laid in.
Price: $125.00
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
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
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
Art de Fabriquer Toutes Sortes d'Ouvrages en Papier, Pour l' Instruction et l'Amusement des Jeunes Gens des Deux Sexes
Paris: Audot, Éditeur, 1828. Twelvemo, measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches: viii, [9]-106, with hand-colored frontispiece and 21 engraved folding plates inserted after text, 12 pages of publisher’s advertisements bound at rear. Original pink printed wrappers, uncut. Corners creased, wrappers lightly soiled, scattered pinpoint foxing.
Price: $850.00
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
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
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
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
Jazz on a Saturday Night; with: signed publisher’s poster
New York: The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic, (2007). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [34]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Compact disc recording in rear pocket, as issued. Signed by the Dillons on title.....
Price: $175.00
Northern Lullaby; with: signed publisher’s poster
New York: Philomel Books, (1992). Single volume, measuring 11 x 10 inches: [26]. Original black cloth spine lettered in silver, purple pictorial boards stamped in blind, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed “For Daniel,” signed, and dated 1993 by Dillons on.....
Price: $200.00
Two sets of painted wooden counting blocks
Barnard, Vermont: Vermont Toy Works, circa 1980. Two sets of painted wooden blocks, each containing twenty-eight proportionally sized blocks numbered 1-10, housed in two wooden trays: the larger tray measuring 14.75 x 13.25 inches, the smaller 11 x 9.75 inches. “Vermont Toy Works” stamp on bottom of both trays. Light.....
Price: $200.00
American dance orchestra signs, in original wooden case
United States: late nineteenth century. Six wooden signs, measuring 2 x 12.25 inches, hand-painted in crimson and green on both sides, with wire loops for hanging; string cords (likely renewed). Housed in original hinged and fitted wooden carrying case, measuring 3.5 x 3 x 12.75 inches, hand-painted in crimson and.....
Price: $1,600.00
The Fairy Drama of Marina; or, The Truant Heart (theatrical playbill)
Loton Park, Shropshire: R. Davies, Printer, 7 High Street, Shrewsbury, 1845. Broadside, measuring 12.25 x 7.5 inches, printed in bright blue and black. Decorative border, with royal arms at head of sheet. Light rubbing, central crease from folding. Matted to 17 x 11.5 inches.
Price: $1,000.00
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
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
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
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 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
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 4: There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and salmon.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 6: Song (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7.25 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and orange.
Price: $50.00
The Rhyme Sheet, Second Series No. 7: The Parting (Poetry Bookshop broadside)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1919]. Single-sided broadside, measuring 14 x 7 inches. Two illustrations printed in black and green.
Price: $50.00
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
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