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Popular Fallacies
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: xii, 312. Original full olive ribbed cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt and decorated in Art Nouveau style in a darker green. Frontispiece and seven full-page plates. Spine lightly toned, top edge dusty, foxing to preliminaries.
Price: $100.00
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
Urania’s Mirror, or, A View of the Heavens
London: Samuel Leigh, 1825. Complete set of 32 hand-colored engraved cards, measuring 7.75 x 5.5 inches, perforated to indicate position of stars, tissue guard mounted to verso of each card. Housed in original green and yellow card publisher’s box with hand-colored pictorial title mounted to lid, engraved pastedowns to sides...
Price: $5,500.00
Celebrated Crimes
London: H.S. Nichols, 1895. Eight octavo volumes, contemporary full plum crushed morocco gilt, boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a fleur-de-lis motif, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Title pages in red and black, text printed on vellum, all volumes illustrated with photogravures...
Price: $3,800.00
The Ladybird Book of Handwriting
Loughborough: Willis & Hepworth, 1968. Octavo, 54 pages including printed pastedowns, original orange pictorial paper boards printed in black and white. Text printed in orange and black, with handwriting exercises on almost every page. Pinpoint foxing to edges of text block.
Price: $30.00
“Girl Campers”
New York: Woman's World Magazine, July 1935. Staple-bound folio magazine, 26 pages. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Highsmith's story on pages 16 and 25. Mailing address printed to top lefthand corner of upper wrapper, lightest edgewear.
Price: $500.00
Balbus: A Picture Book of Building
London: Pleiades Books, 1944. Slim quarto, original grey cloth over color pictorial boards, grey brick-patterned endpapers. Illustrated with color lithographs throughout text. “Printed in Great Britain" stamped to title page. Lightest shelfwear, very faint foxing to opening pages.
Price: $95.00
Wheels
London: Pleiades Books, 1946. Slim quarto, original grey cloth over color pictorial boards, grey wheel-patterned endpapers. Illustrated with color lithographs throughout text. “Printed in Great Britain" stamped to title page. Original bookseller ticket of New York City's Holliday Bookshop to rear pastedown. Lightest shelfwear, abrasion to head of cloth spine...
Price: $75.00
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
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
Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1973. Folio, original black buckram, leather spine label, plum endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Printed on handmade paper by Sebastian and Will Carter, and bound by John P. Gray and Son. Half-title and title page printed in red and black, red initials throughout...
Price: $250.00
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Octavo, half black cloth lettered in silver, dark grey paper boards, black endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Inscribed in ink on the title page: “For Stephen Garger / my compliments / Toni Morrison.”.
Price: $165.00
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1861. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: (3), 4-140, (4). Original full brown textured cloth, boards blind-ruled and lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Bookplate of Susan Hayhurst to front pastedown, early ownership stamp of...
Price: $950.00
Signs and Symbols
Middlesex: Puffin Picture Books, 1953. Oblong octavo, staple-bound, 32 pages. Original color lithographed wrappers. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning and shelfwear to wrappers.
Price: $35.00
Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autre sujets, qui ont esté trouvées aprés sa mort parmy ses papiers
Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670. Twelvemo: (ixxxii) 1-365 (21). Full nineteenth-century red morocco in Jansenist style, boards ruled in blind, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk ribbon marker. Publisher's woodcut cipher device on title page, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout text, with...
Price: $16,500.00
The Holiday Candy Book
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1952). Octavo, original grey cloth stamped in red and blue, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $30.00
Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great, Collected from the Conversation of Several Persons of Distinction at Petersburgh and Moscow
London: Printed for J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet Street; J. Sewell, No. 32, Cornhill; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, 1788. Octavo, [2], viii, 3-448. pp. Full contemporary speckled calf skillfully rebacked, boards double-ruled in gilt, spine elaborately stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Light spotting to...
Price: $1,250.00
Nature’s First Green
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. Tall narrow octavo, 12 pages. Original blue-green cloth lettered in gilt, original plain gold dust jacket. Pictorial title page printed in red and black; signed and numbered “1” in ink by Henry Roth on the colophon; ink inscription from publisher William Targ to Roslyn Targ...
Price: $150.00
The Defense of Poesy
Glasgow: R. Urie, 1752. Twelvemo, full eighteenth-century calf, spine ruled in gilt, pp. [1-2] 3-106. Ink ownership signature dated 1838 to front free endpaper. Two tiny wormholes; text block resewn at an early date; light occasional foxing; expert repair to binding joints and corners.
Price: $1,850.00
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. Octavo, publisher's beige cloth lettered in black, dark brown endpapers, supplied clipped typographic dust jacket. Inscribed in ink on the title page: “For Henry Nash Smith, / admiringly, / from Helen Vendler.” Pencil notation to verso of final blank, author photograph from original dust jacket...
Price: $150.00
Less Than Nothing -- or The Life and Times of Sterling Finny
[New York]: [The New Yorker], [1927]. Octavo, 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: $3,500.00
First Aid in the Home
London: Odhams Press Limited, (1939). Twelve volumes, each measuring 8 x 5 inches: 48 pages each. Original tan wrappers printed in maroon. Half-tone illustrations, many full-page, throughout text. Accompanying 4-page printed test booklets laid into every volume; order form for “magnificent library binder" to house completed set laid into Volume...
Price: $650.00
Mishima: A Vision of the Void
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1986). Octavo, original black cloth spine lettered in silver, pink paper boards with blind-stamped flower design to front board, original unclipped photographic dust jacket featuring a portrait of Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe.
Price: $40.00