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A Manual for Cleaning Ladies; with: illustrated proof sheet
Washington, D.C. (i.e. Healdsburg, California): Zephyrus Image, 1977. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 6.75 x 4.5 inches: (20). Brown paper wrappers printed in black, “National Endowment for the Domestic Arts” seal to front wrapper, text printed on beige paper, linocut illustrations. Inscribed by Lucia Berlin on title page. Housed in original pictorial.....
Price: $2,800.00
Houses of Leaves
Llandogo, Wales: The Old Stile Press, (1993). Large octavo, measuring 10 x 7 inches: 59, [5]. Original blue pictorial paper boards, gold buckram spine lettered in blue, pale grey endpapers. Printed in blue-gray ink on Zerkall mould-made paper, line drawings throughout text. Number 103 of 250 copies signed by John.....
Price: $150.00
Undine
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: viii, 136. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with vignette by Rackham, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page.....
Price: $2,000.00
It’s A Good Thing I’m Not Macho. A Cycle of Poems
Boston: Whetstone Press, 1984. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xiii, [1], 37, [3]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Printed in purple ink, illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Price: $125.00
The Shrinking of Treehorn; Treehorn’s Treasure; Treehorn’s Wish
New York: Holiday House, 1971, 1981, 1984. Three oblong volumes, measuring 6 x 6.75 inches: [64], [64], [64]. Original pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jackets. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. The Shrinking of Treehorn and Treehorn’s Treasure signed by Gorey on title page; Treehorn’s Wish inscribed by Heide on.....
Price: $500.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
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
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Octavo, 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 Kuklapolitan Diary.” With: Kuklapolitan Courier Year Book annotated by Washburn. With: publicity photograph inscribed to Washburn by show creator Burr Tillstrom
Chicago: 1951-1952. Spiral-bound notebook, measuring 9 x 6 inches: (108). Brown paper boards titled in ink, two pastedown typed title labels, typed address label of Patricia Washburn affixed to inner front cover. All pages filled with handwritten diary entries in blue and black ink. Laid in are five folded leaves.....
Price: $875.00
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
A Bloomsbury Souvenir; with: Six Views of Bloomsbury (postcards)
London: Design for Today, [2017]. Concertina booklet printed on stiff card, measuring 4 x 6 inches folded, extending to 52 inches when fully opened. Color lithography on both sides. Signed and numbered by Alice Pattullo. With: publisher’s small circular adhesive seal (for mailing) and separate suite of six individual color.....
Price: $100.00
You Can Design
New York: Whittlesey House, (1939). Spiral-bound volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [126]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in darker blue, orange endpapers. Monochrome and color illustrations throughout text. Ink presentation inscription on the half title: “N.Y. Jan. 30. 39 / to Dean and Mrs. E. Raymond Bossange / with.....
Price: $950.00
The Three Golden Keys
New York: Doubleday, 1994. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 10 inches; [64]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Full-page color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Peter Sis on front flyleaf with sketch of a cat. Barely perceptible creasing to top edge of.....
Price: $100.00
The People’s Album of London Statues
London: Duckworth, 1928. Large octavo, measuring 10.5 x 7.5 inches: 131 [1]. Original full cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, buff dust jacket lettered in black, glassine wrapper, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Printed on handmade paper, illustrated with 32 full-page line drawings throughout text. Signed by Sitwell and.....
Price: $450.00
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
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [14], 138. Original gold buckram lettered in black, original unclipped color-printed dustjacket. Inscribed by Alice Walker on half-title, with “& Trouble” crossed out, and “for Roz + Howie / Alice 1973” written under “In Love.” Lightest rubbing.....
Price: $1,250.00
The Golden Apples
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [12], 3-244, [2]. Original maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt, green gilt-stamped paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by David Stone Martin. Signed by Eudora Welty on title page. Bookseller label to rear.....
Price: $600.00
Working Cotton
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page.
Price: $50.00
Hale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art; with "Head of a Youth" (original signed woodcut); with: related ephemera
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1979. Side-stapled exhibition catalog from The Studio Museum in Harlem, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: 96. Original green pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white reproductions throughout text. Inscribed on title: “Hale Woodruff / June 24 79.” Faint crease to.....
Price: $2,200.00
Bread Givers
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Octavo, original black ribbed cloth stamped in gold. Title page printed in red and black. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Intermittent foxing to text block, foxing to edges.
Price: $950.00