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The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. Tall octavo, measuring 9.75 x 6.5 inches: [8] 9-39, [5]. Original ivory cloth spine lettered in gilt, terracotta paper boards blind-stamped with the Aldine dolphin and anchor. Illustrated with nine woodcut plates (one full color, one folding), and woodcut dolphin and anchor on colophon. Housed...
Price: $200.00
Stories from Hans Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1911). Quarto, measuring 12 x 10 inches: [2], viii, 250, [2]. Original full vellum, front board and spine lettered and stamped in gilt with design by Dulac, ties renewed, olive-patterned pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut. Limitation page signed by Dulac before frontispiece...
Price: $2,400.00
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat
London: Methuen, 1904. Folio, modern full brick morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, text block uncut. Facsimile of the 1499 Aldine first edition, including the 172 original woodcuts by an unknown hand; additional paper spine label tipped in. Two extra leaves laid in, including the uncensored Priapus plate. Bookplate...
Price: $2,600.00
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
Hansel and Gretel, and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Single volume, measuring 11.75 x 9.5 inches: [10], 276. Publisher’s full white pictorial cloth, front board stamped in gilt and blue with design by Nielsen, spine decorated in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, patterned red and gilt endpapers designed by Nielsen. Limitation page signed...
Price: $6,000.00
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
Horses; with: publisher’s prospectus and eight original drawings
Washington, DC: Black Sun Press, [1945]. Hand-assembled portfolio, measuring 6 x 7 inches. Buff paper boards hand-painted in red and black, bound with red ribbon through two punched holes at left edge, containing four illustrated folding plates, edged in red, extending to 25 inches. Presentation inscription with a sketch to...
Price: $3,000.00
Modern Nymphs: Being A Series of Fourteen Fashion Plates. With an Introductory Essay on Clothes by Raymond Mortimer
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1930. Tall slim folio, original brown cloth gilt over patterned paper boards, text block uncut. Fourteen full-page plates hand-colored in pochoir. Printed by the Westminster Press on Batchelors Kelmscott Paper for The Haslewood Books. Without original glassine. Light browning to paper boards, small abrasion...
Price: $1,250.00
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1919. Single volume measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 382, [2]. Publisher’s original full vellum, front board ruled and stamped in gilt with design by Clarke, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed...
Price: $8,000.00
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1933). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 287, [1]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and triple-ruled in gilt, spine lettered and illustrated in gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in gold, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, brown silk ribbon marker. Half title with...
Price: $2,500.00
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: [6], 134, [2]. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with tree design, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page...
Price: $3,200.00
Les Marchandes de Plaisirs
Paris: Editions d'Art A. Gamard, 1920s. Single portfolio volume, measuring 13 x 10 inches: sixteen loose color pochoir plates laid into wrappers, interspersed with captioned tissue guards. Original brown paper wrappers printed in gilt, gilt cord tie, original publisher’s promotional paper band. Two-page preface by Francis Carco, colophon at rear...
Price: $1,500.00