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American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 4 inches: xvi, 364, [2]. Original blue blindstamped boards, original unclipped dust jacket printed in red and black. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the title page. Printed Oxford UP slip laid in: “With the Publisher’s Compliments.” Lightest rubbing to.....
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Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Octavo, measuring 7 x 4 inches: [22], 202, [12]. Original publisher’s vellum lettered in gilt, text block uncut. Full-page illustration of Roman funeral urns facing Hydriotaphia title page, decorative headpieces throughout text. Bookseller ticket (Parker & Son, Oxford) to front pastedown, ownership signature of Francis Glynn.....
Price: $250.00
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: 598, [2]. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece; engraved portrait of Abba Thulle, “King of the Pelew Islands;” folding map of Pitcairn Island. List of plates and errata.....
Price: $2,400.00
Grammaire Françoise d’un Tour Nouveau, Composée en Faveur de Ceux qui Preferent la Pratique a la Theorie
Amsterdam: Etienne Roger, 1717. Twelvemo, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: [12], 441, [1], [6]. Contemporary mottled sheep, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, tan calf spine label lettered in gilt, pink paste paper endpapers, all edges stained pink, green silk bookmark. Engraved frontispiece by “Sluirter,” sixty engraved illustrations.....
Price: $2,800.00
The History of The/My Wor(l)d
New York: Druckwork & Granary Books, 1995. Single volume, measuring 11.25 x 8.5 inches: [48]. Original drab paper boards, black cloth spine, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket “printed letterpress by the author." Printed in red and black ink, in various typefaces, illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout text. Signed by.....
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Mikes Missing. A Search by Jim Duignan
[Chicago]: self-published, November 1992. Oblong spiral-bound volume, measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches: [104]. Original pale grey pictorial wrappers. Text illustrated with desktop-printed black and white photographs. Housed in original manila envelope with adhesive title label.
Price: $250.00
Decorative Art in Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin: Screen Art Company, 1948. Fifteen loose color serigraph plates on heavy stock, accompanied by a four-page illustrated introduction, measuring 13.75 x 10.75. All housed in original color pictorial portfolio with blue cloth spine. Small smudge to title leaf, corners of portfolio lightly bumped.
Price: $75.00
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
Literature and the Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, (1981). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xv, [1], 256. Original blue and white pictorial wrappers. Signed by Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates at their contributions.
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
Sentences, Divine, Moral, and Historical; in Prose and Verse; with Copies for the Alphabet. Designed for the Conduct of Human Life, and particularly for the Improvement of Youth . . . being the Beauties of Addison, Johnson, Rollin, Wesley, and Other Eminent Authors; Accurately extracted from their Works, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. For the Use of Schools
Salisbury: E. Easton, 1786. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: vi, 360. Early nineteenth-century three-quarter red sheep, marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, all edges speckled, blue endpapers. Typographic ornaments throughout text; errata at rear. Ink ownership signature to preliminary flyleaf, with note: “This book bound by him.....
Price: $1,250.00
Circus Book. In Colour Photography
London: Collins, (1955). Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 7 inches: [52]. Original pale gold wrappers printed in red. Title page printed in color, illustrated with line drawings and color photographs throughout text.
Price: $150.00
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French, and Dutch -- in the West Indies and South America
[London]: Andre Deutsch, (1963). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 232. Original black boards lettered in gilt, turquoise and black cartographic endpapers, top edge stained turquoise, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price sticker to front flap. Inscribed “V.S. Naipaul / for Al Murray” on title page. Light.....
Price: $1,250.00
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
Audubon
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer’s note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket.....
Price: $150.00
L'Asie. D'Après les Voyageurs les Plus Célèbres. Par un Homme de Lettres. Deuxième Édition
Lille: L. Lefort, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1850. Twelvemo, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: 216. Original white cartonnage binding embossed in gilt, hand-colored lithographed vignette of a balloon launch to upper board, gilt paper dentelles. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, pictorial title page. Printed geography prize label, completed in ink, to front pastedown: “Ècole et.....
Price: $450.00
Uncut hand-marbled sheet from De Humani Corporis Fabrica
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1998. Single uncut sheet, measuring 23 x 17.5 inches, printed with text and anatomical images from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, hand-marbled in blue, yellow, and pink.
Price: $150.00
Ida M'Toy
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1979). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [40]. Original red cloth, upper board stamped with gilt device. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Numbered in ink and signed by author on colophon.
Price: $350.00
Here Is New York
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 54, [2]. Original pale grey cloth lettered in red, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, illustration by Edward C. Caswell. Ink presentation inscription from E.B. White to A.J. Liebling on front free endpaper. Spine panel sunned.....
Price: $10,000.00
Less Than Nothing -- or The Life and Times of Sterling Finny
[New York]: [The New Yorker], [1927]. Single volume, measuring 9 x 5.75 inches: [28]. Original green cloth spine, orange and black batik paper boards with green pastedown label to front board. Illustrated with ten black-and-white photographs staged and shot by White. Hinges reinforced, lightest edgewear to binding.
Price: $2,800.00
The Wound Dresser. A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals of Washington During the War of the Rebellion
Boston: Small, Maynard, & Company, 1898. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: [8], viii, [2], 201, [5]. Original red buckram, printed paper spine label, all edges untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of Walt Whitman opposite title, portrait of Louisa Whitman and facsimile of a July 1863 letter inserted in text. Replacement spine.....
Price: $2,800.00