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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
Aristotle’s Art of Poetry. Translated from the Original Greek, according to Mr. Theodore Goulston’s Edition. Together, with Mr. D’Acier’s Notes Translated from the French
London: Printed for Dan. Browne and Will. Turner, 1705. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches: [40], 1-120 129-192 209-256 241-256 241-256 273-511 [1] (complete). Full contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, boards paneled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and ruled in gilt. Two engraved bookplates facing...
Price: $6,000.00
L'Art du Chant, Dédié à Madame de Pompadour par M. Bérard
Paris: Dessaint & Saillant; Prault, Fils; Lambert; et aux Adresses Ordinaires pour la Musique, 1755. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [16], 158, [6], [2]. Contemporary full mottled calf, boards tripled ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, gilt-stamped patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, peach...
Price: $2,800.00
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
The Female Friend; or the Duties of Christian Virgins; to which is added, Advice to a Young Married Lady
Baltimore: Henry S. Keatinge, 1809. Half-sheet 20mo(?), measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xii, [iii]-iv, [13]-260. Contemporary marbled sheep, spine double-ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label. Subscribers’ list printed after introduction. Light shelfwear, spine label chipped (not touching lettering), last few leaves soiled.
Price: $750.00
Fra Lippo Lippi
Florence: Giulio Giannini & Son, 1923. Sixteenmo pamphlet, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches: [40]. Original red and green patterned paper wrappers, pastedown label to upper wrapper. Black-and-white frontispiece portrait; four halftone reproductions of paintings printed on rectos only. Lightest toning.
Price: $35.00
Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, (Daughter of the late Major Moncrieffe,) Written by Herself, and Dedicated to the British Nation; Being Interspersed with Anecdotes of the Late American and Present French War; with Remarks, Moral and Political
New York: T. & J. Swords, for J. Fellows, 1795. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: xix, [1], 21-184. Twentieth-century three-quarter dark brown morocco over red marbled boards, boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine lettered and ornamented in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, red...
Price: $1,250.00
The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton. With: presentation card from dedicatees Bill and Noma Copley
(London): Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., (1960). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [122]. Original green paper boards lettered in black and white dots. Text printed in black, orange, and blue. Illustrated with photolithographed annotations and vignettes, full-page drawings, diagrams, photographs of Duchamp’s work (including one folding plate), and musical...
Price: $650.00
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
Teacher in Space Cookbook
Waseca, Minnesota: Walter's Publishing Company, 1986. Single volume measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches: [10], 188, plus unpaginated interspersed section headers, tables, and advertisements. Original black plastic spiral binding with red printed stiff paper wrappers. Full-page black-and-white photographic portrait of McAuliffe after title page, 9 full-page color illustrated section heads, with...
Price: $175.00
Collection of catalogs for Pathéscope
Sydney: Home Recreations Ltd., 1930. Three pamphlets, measuring 8.5 x 5.5; 7.25 x 5; and 7 x 5 inches: [6]; [16]; and 18, [6]. First pamphlet: single leaf printed on both sides, folded in thirds. Second pamphlet: side-stapled brown pictorial wrappers printed in green and black. Third pamphlet: side-stapled pictorial...
Price: $100.00
“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
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Dalekohled aneb Kdo Neveri, at Tam Bezi [Binoculars, or Who Doesn't Want to Believe Can Leave]
Prague: Statní Nakladatelství Detské Knihy, 1966. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: 167, [5]. Original white cloth stamped in tan, black and blue endpapers, top edge stained blue, glossy unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Title page printed in blue and black; nineteen full-page color collages. Light spotting to boards...
Price: $150.00
Women of Class and Station
[Los Angeles]: California State University Art Museum, 1979. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: 94, [2]. Original stiff pictorial photographic wrappers, black endleaves. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to wrappers.
Price: $50.00
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
Toys
England: circa 1957. Single volume, measuring 14.75 x 10.25 inches: [44]. Original full tan morocco, front board stamped with dozens of tiny gilt stars, spine stamped with stars and lettered in gilt, heavy purple endpapers hand-stamped with border of yellow squares. Unfinished manuscript title page stamped with border of yellow...
Price: $2,200.00
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
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
Once on Christmas
New York: Oxford University Press, (1938). Single volume, measuring 5 x 4 inches: [48]. Original color pictorial paper boards, red and white pictorial endpapers, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest rubbing to binding, jacket spine panel rubbed.
Price: $40.00
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
The Picture Book of Houses
New York: Macmillan, 1931. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: 64. Original textured blue pictorial boards stamped in black, yellow and orange patterned endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 22 full-page color plates; color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Ink presentation inscription to front pastedown, shallow chipping and edgewear to jacket.
Price: $200.00
Some Instructions Concerning The Art of Oratory, Collected for the use of a Friend a Young Student; BOUND WITH: The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd, Wherein above 130 The Tropes and Figures are severally derived from the Greek into English, together with lively Definitions and Variety Of Latin, English, Scriptural Examples, Pertinent to each of them apart
London: J.G. for R. Royston; E. Cotes for George Eversden, 1659; 1657. Octavo, measuring 6 x 3.75 inches: [6], 128, [2]; [30], 267, [5]. Full contemporary mottled calf, boards ornamentally ruled in gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine label (renewed), spine elaborately stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges stained...
Price: $2,500.00
Working with the Hands: Being a Sequel to “Up From Slavery” Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5 inches: x, 246. Original burgundy ribbed cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Frontispiece portrait of Washington and 31 black-and-white photographic plates throughout text. Light shelfwear to binding, spine lightly sunned.
Price: $225.00
Sing for Christmas: A Round of Christmas Carols and Stories of the Carols
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1943. Small folio, measuring 11.5 x 8.5 inches: [12], 17-127, [1] (complete). Original red cloth stamped in black over color pictorial paper boards, blue and white pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Musical scores for twenty-nine Christmas carols, full-color and halftone illustrations throughout text...
Price: $100.00
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