poetry
The Uffizi A.B.C. Drawn by Buona Fortuna
Florence: Giulio Giannini & Son, circa 1900. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: [56]. Original patterned green and ivory wrappers, pastedown label printed in black and red. Printed in black and red, illustrated with woodcut-style portraits throughout text.
Price: $50.00
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Volume 5, Number 2
New York: Broom Publishing Company, September, 1923. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: 65-125, [3]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black, table of contents printed on inside front wrapper, subscription form printed on inside rear wrapper. Illustrated with photographs and black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightly creased.
Price: $650.00
A Version of Solomon’s Song of Songs; Together with the XLV. Psalm
London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil, 1700. Small octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv, 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges.....
Price: $3,000.00
A Book of Narrative Verse
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 3.5: xix, [1], 412. Original blindstamped blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. Bookplate of Jack and Frances Donaldson to front free endpaper, lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $35.00
The Tragic Mary
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 261, [3]. Original brown pictorial paper boards with floral design by Selwyn Image, spine lettered in black, text block uncut and unopened. Without scarce glassine wrapper. Shallow bump to tail of spine, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $950.00
Complete set of Almanacks, inscribed by Kate Greenaway
London: George Routledge & Sons; J.M. Dent, 1883-1895, 1897. Nineteen miniature volumes, variously sized, with color-printed wood engravings throughout text. Three variant bindings of 1884 almanac; two variant bindings each for years 1887, 1890, and 1892. The 1889 almanac includes presentation inscriptions from Kate Greenaway and John Drinkwater, and is.....
Price: $8,500.00
In The Fairy Ring
London: Blackie & Son, [1908]. Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63, [1]. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates, illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing (heavier to first and last pages), rear endpapers toned, corners lightly bumped.
Price: $2,000.00
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Large quarto, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [124]. Original brown pigskin, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board double-ruled in gilt with central device of rosebush rooted in book, helmet, sword, and musket, with English crown supported in branches. Top edge gilt, other edges.....
Price: $5,000.00
Comus
London: William Heinemann, [1921]. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: xviii, 76, [2]. Original vellum spine lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt-stamped parchment boards, pale blue and white pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso; pictorial title.....
Price: $1,000.00
New Poems
New York: New Directions, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Eugenio Montale on the half-title. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $450.00
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables by the Abbot Banier
Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. Two folio volumes, measuring 17.5 x 12 inches, continuously paginated: [24], 1-247, [1]; [2], 249-524, [4]. Contemporary full mottled calf rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, crimson and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, boards gilt-ruled with central gilt.....
Price: $7,000.00
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
Freedom School Poetry
Atlanta: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1965. Side-stapled volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 47, [1]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in green, red, and black. Ink ownership inscription (“Larry Martin / 11 years old”) to front wrapper. Light toning and edgewear to wrappers.
Price: $75.00
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, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in.....
Price: $7,500.00
Invitation to private reception following Whitman’s lecture, “The Death of Abraham Lincoln”
New York City: April 14, 1887. Ivory card, measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches, printed recto only: “Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel, Irving Place and 16th St., New York.” Penciled bookseller note to verso: “April 14, 1887 for his most famous.....
Price: $1,800.00
Original watercolor depicting Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn home during the first printing of Leaves of Grass
West Cornwall, Connecticut: no date. Single sheet, measuring 12.5 x 10 inches. Ink and watercolor illustration, signed vertically along the lower left edge. Light smudge to top lefthand corner, ink note “New Yorker” to verso.
Price: $850.00