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De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks
London: Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently at the Post-house in Russel-Street, in Covent-Garden, 1694. Quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.25 inches: [12], 129, [3], 248. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Pencil note to front pastedown: “Dr. Bliss’s copy, also Kemble’s copy,” ink note.....
Price: $3,200.00
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
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
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
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 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
The Dance of Death; Painted by H. Holbein, and Engraved by W. Hollar
London: C. Whittingham for John Harding, 1804. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: 70. Contemporary three-quarter calf over drab grey paper boards, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in blind and gilt, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, grey endpapers, text block uncut. Two engraved portraits, 31 engraved plates.....
Price: $850.00
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
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
(New York): G.P. Putnam's Sons, (2002). Quarto, measuring 10 x 10 inches: [44]. Original color pictorial paper boards, pale blue pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Maira Kalman with a sketch of a ladder facing title page.
Price: $100.00
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
Observations on Hamlet; and on the Motives which Most Probably Induced Shakspeare to Fix upon the Story of Amleth, from the Danish Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, for the Plot of that Tragedy; Being an Attempt to Prove that He Designed It as an Indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots. Bound with: An Appendix to Observations on Hamlet
Cambridge: J. Burges, Printer to the University, 1796-1797. Two octavo volumes bound in one, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 44; [2], 85, [1]. Recent full polished calf, boards tooled in blind with a floral border, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Bound without.....
Price: $2,800.00
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
The Years of Grace. A Book for Girls
London: Evans Brothers Limited, (1950). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 6 inches: 384. Original pale blue cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, blue and white pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings and photographic plates throughout text. Neat ownership signature (“Margaret”) to front.....
Price: $100.00
Tentoonstelling der Nagelaten Werken van Vincent Van Gogh
Amsterdam: Kunstzaal Panorama, 1892. Oblong volume, measuring 7 x 8.25 inches: [12]. Original tan wrappers with lithographed sunflower design by R.N. Roland Holst. A few spots of foxing to front wrapper, tiny chip to rear wrapper. Housed in a custom clamshell box with the bookplate of Barry Humphries.
Price: $15,000.00
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
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, (2010). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.5 inches: [36]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, typographic endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page.
Price: $35.00
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