literature
Four titles from The Hump Tree Stories. Dickey Swift, the Squirrel: His Escape; Black Hawk, The Sky Pirate; Humper, The Green Worm; Black Brother
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1910. Four volumes, measuring 8 x 6.5 inches: [6], 10, [4]; [6], 6, [4]; [6], 9, [1]; [6], 8, [2]. Publisher’s color pictorial side-stapled wrappers, spines hole-punched and bound together with linen cord as issued, pictorial endpapers printed in green. Cover illustrations, frontispieces, head-.....
Price: $200.00
The Spoilt Kill
London: Michael Joseph, 1961. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 231, [1]. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt; original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Light toning to spine panel; smudging and short closed tear to rear panel; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper.
Price: $250.00
The Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.25 inches: [6], 172. Original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page portraits throughout text. Lightest edgewear and toning to jacket, with partial split to front flap fold; edges.....
Price: $950.00
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
A Week
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 247, [1]. Original blue cloth stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, original unclipped typographic dust jacket priced at $1.50 on the spine. Introduction by translator Arthur Ransome. Capwell's Books (Oakland, California) bookseller ticket to lower pastedown. Pinpoint.....
Price: $300.00
The Pupil of Pleasure: or, the New System Illustrated. Inscribed to Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, Editor of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters
London: Printed for G. Robinson, and J. Bew, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1776. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xv, [1], 230; [4], 252. Contemporary half-calf, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, red morocco spine labels, pale blue marbled boards with vellum corners. Early book labels of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft.....
Price: $2,200.00
The Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
Price: $1,250.00
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
“Manuscript Found in a Bottle,” pages 67-87 in: The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1836
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, [1835]. Octavo, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: x, [3], 18-292. Full crimson publisher’s morocco signed by Gaskill, elaborately embossed with an American eagle gripping arrows and an olive branch to both boards; gilt titling to spine; floral sprigged endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and.....
Price: $950.00
The Raven and Other Poems
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Octavo, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 91, [1]. Early twentieth-century full russet calf, boards single-ruled in gilt, raised bands, black morocco spine labels, spine single-ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Handwritten slip tipped onto second fly leaf noting “inner gilt.....
Price: $12,500.00
The Beauties of Ancient Poetry. Intended as a Companion to the Beauties of English Poetry
London: E. Newbery, 1794. Twelvemo, measuring 5 x 3 inches: [2], xii, 204. Contemporary tree calf, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label, boards decoratively ruled in gilt, blue-green marbled endpapers. Engraved pictorial title page. Early owner signature “H. Cotton” to preliminary blank; ink note to table.....
Price: $375.00
Charles F. Heartman Reviews Dr. Rosenbach’s Young American Parade (broadside)
No place: no publisher, [1933]. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Two faint creases from folding, several small paper repairs and evidence of previous mount to verso, one short closed tear.
Price: $500.00
The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra
(Hammersmith): (The Doves Press), 1912. Small quarto, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [6], 7-140, [4]. Original full limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Colophon and list of corrections to the 1623 folio text at rear. Printed in Doves type in red and black ink. Housed in a custom clamshell box.....
Price: $3,650.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $5,500.00
The Rivals, A Comedy
London: John Wilkie, 1775. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, [6], 100. Modern full red morocco by Rivière, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled doublures, all edges gilt. Bound with half-title. Penciled bookseller notes and bookplate of Montgomery Evans II to front pastedown. Typed description on card with.....
Price: $1,500.00
Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser. With Certain Imaginative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25: [60]. Original full pictorial vellum stamped in gilt and green; green and blue marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black; decorative borders and illustrations on every page. Bookseller label of Thos. V. Paul, Philadelphia, to.....
Price: $400.00
Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 38 full-page plates.....
Price: $2,800.00
Philipok
New York: Philomel Books, 2000. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Price: $150.00
Killing and Dying
[Montreal]: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.
Price: $100.00
Four original literary-historical illustrations for The New York Times Book Review
New York: New York Times, 1925-1926. Four oblong illustrations, measuring between 7.75 and 8.5 inches high x 22.25 inches wide. Watercolor, ink, and wash, with graphite tracing on artist’s paper. Signed in ink at upper corners; captioned at lower left; publication stamps, measurements, and printing notes in margins. Preliminary sketches.....
Price: $1,750.00
A Streetcar Named Desire (signed by opening night cast, with original Shubert Theatre program and ticket stubs)
New York: New Directions, (1947). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 171, [1]. Original pink pictorial paper boards, original unclipped pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Ink signatures of the original cast beside their printed names on page 5; former owner’s signature to front free endpaper. Shelfwear.....
Price: $20,000.00
I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet
Boston: Beacon Press, (1958). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xii, 99, [1]. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Text printed in red and black. Lightest edgewear, spotting to rear endpapers and rear panel of dust jacket, tape repair to verso of.....
Price: $100.00
Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse. Read by Celia Johnson
New York: Caedmon, 1959. Single LP housed in original paper sleeve and glossy color pictorial album cover, measuring 12.375 x 12.375 inches. Light shelfwear to cover, corners bumped.
Price: $45.00
Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza. Complete Herein in Three Books. Illuminating episodes in the lives of the Hon. Gerald Poynyard and his Bride
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.25 inches: 302, [2]. Original three-quarter red cloth, marbled boards, text block untrimmed. Woodcut vignettes throughout text. Ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper: “Sinclair Lewis / from Elinor Wylie / November 1923.” General shelfwear, a few splashmarks.....
Price: $750.00