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Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes
(Paris): Éditions du Seuil, 1975. Perfect-bound volume, measuring 7 x 4.75 inches: 191, [1]. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers, reproducing a 1974 painting by Barthes, “Souvenir de Juan-les-Pins.” Black interior wrappers with lines in Barthes’s hand printed in white. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Barthes in blue.....
Price: $1,500.00
Le Buffon de la Jeunesse, Offrant la Description de la Nature, des Moeurs et des Habitudes des Quadrupèdes, Oiseaux, Poissons, Reptiles, etc.
Paris: L’editeur, 1831. Five twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches: [2], 215, [1]; [2], 229, [1]; [2], 197, [1]; [2], 208, [2]; [2], 211, [3]. Original publisher’s yellow wrappers lined with printer’s waste, printed paper labels to spines. Engraved frontispiece, two engraved plates, and table of contents in each.....
Price: $950.00
The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias
London: T. Jefferys, at the Corner of St. Martin’s Lane, Charing-Cross, 1768. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: xxiii, [1] 3-258. Contemporary three-quarter calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, traces of gilt decoration to spine compartments, marbled paper boards, no spine label, text block uncut. Woodcut initials and headpieces throughout.....
Price: $5,000.00
The Thespian Dictionary; or, Dramatic Biography of the Present Age; Containing Sketches of the Lives, Lists of the Productions, Various Merits, &c. &c. of all the Principal Dramatists, Composers, Commentators, Managers, Actors and Actresses of the United Kingdom: Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes, Forming a Complete Modern History of the English Stage
London: James Cundee, 1805. Twelvemo, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: iv, [396]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key borders to boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges stained yellow. Engraved pictorial title page before letterpress title, 38.....
Price: $1,000.00
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
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 Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Rendered into English
London: E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1671. Octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: [8], 555, [1]. Contemporary Cambridge-style full speckled calf, boards ruled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained black. Engraved frontispiece.....
Price: $4,000.00
Isadora
New York: The Bookman Press, 2001. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 9 x 6 inches: 20. Original white card wrappers, magenta marbled paper dust jacket with pastedown label. Pictorial frontispiece; title page printed in red, tan, and black; text printed in red and black.
Price: $25.00
Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1905]. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 261, [1]. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards; raised bands; spine compartments lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt; boards ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. London bookseller ticket (B.F. Stevens & Brown).....
Price: $750.00
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A New Edition
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1788-1790. Twelve octavo volumes, measuring 8 x 5 inches. Contemporary polished calf, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, all edges stained yellow. Frontispiece portrait of Gibbon after Joshua Reynolds and map of.....
Price: $4,800.00
The Giant Golden Book of Biology. An Introduction to the Science of Life
New York: Golden Press, 1961. Single volume, measuring 12.75 x 10 inches: 99, [1]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, color pictorial endpapers, color illustrations throughout text. Gift inscription, dated 1965, to title page. Scattered stray marks to binding, lamination beginning to peel at spine. No dust jacket, as issued.
Price: $450.00
Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death
[New York]: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 2016. Single volume, measuring 9 x 8 inches: [60]. Black cloth spine, black paper boards lettered in black, black endpapers. Color and black-and-white photographs throughout text. Inscribed by Arthur Jafa on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $1,600.00
Picture and Text
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [viii], 175, [1]. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt. Title page printed in red and black, tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece, seven black-and-white plates throughout text. Early owner signature to front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $125.00
The Book of American Negro Spirituals
New York: The Viking Press, 1925. Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: [1-10] 11-187. Original light brown cloth decoratively stamped in brown and blue. Historical preface followed by 137 pages of musical arrangements. Ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper: “For Ring W. Lardner / with sincere regards /.....
Price: $2,800.00
Paris Is a Woman's Town
New York: Coward-McCann, 1929. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.75 inches: viii, 299, [1]. Original periwinkle and pale green pictorial cloth, periwinkle endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dustjacket. Four black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Cloth binding lightly soiled, jacket chipped and rubbed at extremities with loss to “PARIS” at head of.....
Price: $150.00
The Great Migration: An American Story
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1993. Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [48]. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, terracotta endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed and numbered by Jacob Lawrence on the front free endpaper. Housed in original blue cloth slipcase stamped in gilt with color.....
Price: $1,600.00
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
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
Ornamental Digressions: A Showing of Pinwheel Ornaments
[New York]: Russell Maret, 2016. Single volume, measuring 14 x 10 inches: [56]. Orange morocco spine lettered in gilt, orange handmade paper boards printed with pinwheel ornaments. Text printed letterpress, most leaves recto only, in black and colored inks. Signed and numbered by Russell Maret on colophon. Housed in original.....
Price: $1,500.00
Georgia O’Keeffe
New York: The Viking Press, (1976). Folio, measuring 16 x 11.75 inches: [228]. Original textured ivory cloth lettered in brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 104 color plates, one folding, of O’Keeffe’s paintings; portrait of O’Keeffe by Dan Budnik. Presentation inscription from O’Keeffe to photographer Malcolm Varon.....
Price: $4,500.00
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
American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School, and Nursery School. A Book for Children, Parents, and Teachers
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., (1948). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: [2], 190. Original pale green pictorial cloth stamped in red, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Musical scores and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Light shelfwear to jacket.
Price: $75.00
English Classics Abridged; Being Select Works of Addison, Pope, and Milton, Adapted to the Perusal of Youth, of Both Sexes, at School. To Which Are Prefixed Observations on the Several Authors, Addressed to Parents and Preceptors
London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1786. Twelvemo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: xv, [1], 367, [1]. Contemporary calf rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, red morocco spine label tooled in gilt. Presentation inscription from editor John Walker on verso of front free endpaper. Marginal.....
Price: $1,800.00
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