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Original illustration for Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
1983. Watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera on paper, image measuring 8.5 x 8.75 inches, on larger sheet. Initialed in lower right image. Archivally framed to 17 x 14.5 inches. Offered with: Monika Beisner’s Book of Riddles. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983).
Price: $1,800.00
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
Aurora Leigh
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1872. Single volume, measuring 6.25 x 4.5 inches: [9], 10-334, [4]. Contemporary vellum hand-painted in gilt, green, and red; gilt-ruled beveled boards and spine; rampant lion with shield to front board; foliate decorations to spine and rear board; gold floral endpapers; top edge trimmed, others uncut. Binder’s.....
Price: $850.00
“Amsterdam” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Color pictorial wallpaper sample, measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in gold and ivory. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / Amsterdam WT 10 / R 2076 / $3.95 PER SINGLE ROLL.”.
Price: $150.00
“Spain” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Pictorial wallpaper sample printed in muted colors on an ivory ground, measuring 18 x 15.5 inches. Stamped on verso: “Rasch Waterfast, Spain 1, R 2012, $4.50 single roll.”.
Price: $150.00
Scenes of Clerical Life
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1858. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 7-366; [6], 381, [1]. Original claret morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, cinnamon endpapers. Neat initials “M.S.D.” to half-titles, penciled bookseller notes to verso of front free endpaper in Volume I. Spine.....
Price: $18,000.00
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. Light pencil note to front free endpaper: “From a remainder of at least a dozen.....
Price: $950.00
Love and Adversity
England: 1900. Watercolor, heightened with bodycolor, on artist’s board, measuring 20.5 x 13.5 inches, image. Signed with artist’s monogram and dated 1900, lower right; verso signed “E.F. Brickdale,” titled, and numbered “22,” with partial indecipherable pencil notation. Archivally hinged to board, with linen mat and burnished gold wood frame measuring.....
Price: $24,000.00
A Likely Place
(London): Macmillan, (1967). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [6], 57, [1]. Original black cloth lettered in silver, original clipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear and sunning, small tape repair to jacket verso, ghost of bookseller label.....
Price: $50.00
The Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981; with: Scenes from the Fashionable World; with: Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, 1987, 1996. Three volumes, measuring from 9.25 to 8 inches high and 5.25 to 6 inches wide: xii, 270, [4]; [14], 204, [4]; [2], xv, [1], 247, [3]. Original cloth spines lettered in gilt, paper boards stamped in gilt, original unclipped color printed dust.....
Price: $350.00
Les Fleurs Animées
Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, Éditeur, 1847. Two large octavo volumes, measuring 10.5 x 7 inches: [5], 6-262; [5], 2-102, I-IV, [1], 106-166, I-IV, [1], 170-236. Original dark brown textured pictorial cloth elaborately decorated in blind and gilt, bright yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Hand-colored wood-engraved title page in each.....
Price: $3,800.00
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
Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All
New York: New World Records, 1977. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Price: $300.00
“Movies, the Desperate Art” in The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, Number 3
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, (1956). Pocket paperback, measuring 6.5 x 4.25: [2], 216, [6]. Original color-printed wrappers, priced at 50 cents. Light shelfwear, text block toned and brittle.
Price: $125.00
Hypatia
New York: 1903. Oil on board, measuring 19 x 13.25 inches. Signed “A. I. Keller” in lower right image. Three 2-mm chips to areas of marbling behind figure, a few additional minor chips from framing along edges.
Price: $3,200.00
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
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
Women's Printing Society trade card
London: Women’s Printing Society, before 1893. Trade card, measuring 3 x 4.5 inches, printed recto only. Lightest wear.
Price: $250.00
Study for Vogue: Flower Bearer (illustration)
1913. Watercolor, graphite, and gouache with bronze accents on paper, measuring 11.25 x 8.25 inches, unsigned. Remnants of mounting tissue on verso.
Price: $2,000.00
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