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My Brother's Ghost
New York: Viking, 2001. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [8], 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition.
Price: $30.00
Contes d'Andersen
Paris: Henri Laurens, (1941). Slim quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [4], iv, 115, [5]. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial boards stamped in gilt. Illustrated with eight color plates and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to boards, text block toned.
Price: $150.00
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
Complete run of Boni Paper Books and Bonibooks, with publisher's original wooden display shelf
New York: Charles Boni, 1929-1931. Fifty-three paperback volumes, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches each: various paginations. Original pictorial card wrappers, many with pictorial endpapers, a few volumes housed in publisher’s slipcases (not issued on most titles). Original publisher’s wooden display shelf, painted in black and silver with “50¢ BONIBOOKS” lettered.....
Price: $4,200.00
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York: The Noonday Press, 1966. Octavo, original printed wraps designed by Ronald Clyne. Ink inscription by Jane Bowles to poet Sam Hazo on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear, small crease to spine.
Price: $850.00
A Collection of Stories of Land and Sea from the Late 19th Century
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, 1956. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [10], 216. Original full red morocco decoratively stamped in gilt, gilt dentelles, red moiré silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Printed in black and blue, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, text block uncut and largely unopened. Housed in a custom.....
Price: $250.00
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
Engraved ticket to Charles Dickens’s farewell dinner
[London]: November 2, 1867. Pale green coated card, measuring 3 x 4.5 inches, printed recto only: “Dinner given to Mr. Charles Dickens / on the occasion of / His Departure for the United States / Freemason's Hall, Great Queen St. / Saturday, November 2nd 1867, Seven o'clock.” Lightest edgewear.
Price: $1,500.00
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少年探偵譚 [Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (Kōbunsha), (1928) [Showa 3]. Single volume, 8.75 x. 5.75 inches, [6], 246, [6] pp. Original half blue cloth over color pictorial wrappers depicting a stylized Sherlock Holmes and Mary Morstan, blue cloth ornamented and lettered in black and gilt, purple pictorial endpapers. Illustrated title page printed in magenta, two.....
Price: $850.00
The Cat's Pilgrimage
New Haven: The East Rock Press, 1949. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [10], 30. Original pale blue paper boards, printed title label to upper board, tan endpapers, original unclipped salmon pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text; hand-numbered at colophon. Light shelfwear to fragile jacket, with.....
Price: $45.00
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
The Gift of the Magi
(Natick, MA): Picture Book Studio, (1982). Tall narrow folio, measuring 13.5 x 8.25 inches: [28]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout text.
Price: $45.00
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
Bonshommes des Bois
Brussels: Éditions des Artistes, Collection Sans Souci, [1943]. Side-stapled volume, measuring 5 x 5.25 inches: [12, including wrappers]. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers, color illustrations on every page. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $250.00
After Midnight
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [8], 238, [2]. Original black patterned cloth stamped in bright blue, top edge stained blue. Spine panel sunned, no dust jacket.
Price: $250.00
Mourka: The Autobiography of a Cat
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1965. Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: [60]. Original heliotrope cloth lettered in silver, original unclipped photographic dust jacket printed in purple, black, and white, photographic endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs on every page. Green ink stamp (“Printed in Great Britain”) and publisher’s ink correction.....
Price: $150.00
Le Merveilleux Voyage de la Goutte de Vitamine
[New York]: [Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies], [1942]. Oblong volume, measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches: [20]. Pale blue comb binding, original color-lithographed pictorial wrappers, printed foreword followed by nineteen lithographed pages, including seven full-page color illustrations. Light offsetting from color lithographs to facing pages.
Price: $750.00
Mother Makes Christmas
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Small quarto, measuring 8.25 x 7.5 inches: [28]. Original color pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers printed in blue and white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout text. Light shelfwear to jacket, with tiny chips to spine ends and.....
Price: $95.00
The Country Girls
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1960. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 223, [1]. Original black cloth, pale blue title block lettered in gilt on spine, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Edna O’Brien on title page. Light shelfwear to jacket, with a few tiny chips and closed.....
Price: $800.00
The Nicest Gift
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1973). Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Neat owner signature to front free endpaper. Light discoloration to endpapers, lightest wear to jacket spine ends and corners.
Price: $85.00
The Westing Game; with: Newbery and Caldecott Awards dinner program for 1979; with: The Westing Game souvenir $1000 bill
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [6], 185, [1]. Original red cloth spine lettered in black, orange paper boards, red endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket designed by 1979 Newbery winner Ellen Raskin, with no Newbery medal affixed. Pinpoint foxing to edges, lightest.....
Price: $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, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in.....
Price: $7,500.00
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
Spinky Sulks
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). Single volume, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, lavender endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Spine lightly sunned, short tape repair to verso of jacket.
Price: $35.00
A Book for Christmas Reading
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, 1947. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: [14], 206. Original full green morocco decoratively stamped in gilt, gilt dentelles, red moiré silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Printed in black and red, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, text block uncut and partially unopened. Spine panel toned and.....
Price: $250.00
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
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
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