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African Cities Are...
New York: The John Day Company, 1971. Spiral-bound photobook, measuring 18 x 18 inches: [48]. Glossy photographic card boards, printed recto and verso. Thirty-six black and white photographs (twenty-four recto and twelve verso), printed on heavy card stock. Boards lightly soiled and creased.
Price: $1,800.00
Gravures d'Enfants de l'Ecole Active de St-Cloud. Les Cahiers de l'Atelier XIII
Sainte-Étienne: Les Cahiers de l'Atelier, 1955. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches: [100], [4]. Original stiff ivory pictorial wrappers printed in black, red, and blue; original glassine. Pochoir-printed frontispiece in red, blue, yellow, and green; linocuts throughout text printed in black and grey. Colophon numbered in ink; four pages.....
Price: $300.00
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
Always in Vogue
Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.25 inches: 381, [1]. Original white textured pictorial boards stamped in gilt and black, original unclipped blue pictorial dust jacket, pale blue endpapers. Thirty-two black and white photographic plates. Signed by both authors on front flyleaf. Jacket lightly creased and rubbed.....
Price: $175.00
The Handmaid to the Arts. . . . A New Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements
London [York]: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, 1796. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: xxv, [3], [25]-344; xx, [13]-324. Contemporary full tree calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt numerals.....
Price: $750.00
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
Le Musée des Dames et des Demoiselles. Règne Animal 1-3 (Les Oiseaux, Les Insectes, Les Papillons), Règne Végétal 1-2 (Les Fleurs, Les Fruits), Règne Minéral (Les Minéraux et Les Coquillages)
Paris: Marcilly Ainé, circa 1825. Six twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: 36 pages each. Original glazed pastel paper boards in different shades, upper boards elaborately blindstamped with oval gilt-ruled color pictorial pastedown labels. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded lithographic plate in each volume; title vignettes and tailpieces. Lightest soiling and shelfwear.....
Price: $3,750.00
STUYVE-SCIENCE of the Stuyvesant High School of New York City. Volume 1, Number 1
[New York City]: Stuyvesant High School, May 1939. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches: 28. Original tan and red linocut printed wrappers, linocut illustrations throughout text. Shelfwear and some soiling to wrappers.
Price: $250.00
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. Engraved frontispiece portrait.....
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 Way to Vocabulary Power and Culture
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., (1946). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: [xii], 472. Original full green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped typographic dust jacket printed in green, black, and white. Original bookseller ticket and price label to rear pastedown. Lightest edgewear and rubbing, crease to spine.....
Price: $175.00
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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
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
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
Les Capitales de l’Europe: Promenades Pittoresques. Paris, Londres, St. Pétersbourg, Vienne, Rome, Berlin, Madrid, Constantinople
Paris: Firmin Didot for Marcilly Fils Ainé, [1829]. Eight twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: 36 pages each. Original glazed pastel paper boards in different shades, upper boards elaborately blindstamped with central medallions titled in black. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece in each volume. Lightest soiling and shelfwear to bindings;.....
Price: $3,250.00
English schoolgirl’s copybook
England: 1885-1886. Side-stitched copybook, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [24]. Original green pictorial wrappers, ruled pages. Ownership signature of Ethel Wass to top righthand corner of front wrapper; signature and date “Oct. 1885” inside front wrapper. Small ink stain to upper righthand corner of front wrapper, light edgewear and tiny.....
Price: $100.00
Wooings and Weddings in Many Climes
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1900. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.5 inches: xx, 395, [1]. Original blue patterned boards stamped in white, black, and gilt; top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated with forty-eight black-and-white photographic plates, index at rear. Scattered foxing, lightest rubbing to extremities, hinges repaired.
Price: $300.00
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
Emily Post's Motor Manners . . . The Bluebooklet of Traffic Etiquette
[Washington, D.C.]: National Highway Users Conference, (1956). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 4.25 x 6 inches: 48 (wrappers included in pagination). Original blue wrappers printed in white and black; illustrations printed in blue and black throughout text. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $85.00
My Fellow Americans: A Family Album
San Diego: Browndeer Press, (1995). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 11.5 inches: [7], 10-61, [1]. Original red cloth spine lettered in gilt over blue paper boards, unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers (included in pagination). Color illustrations on almost every page. Laid-in bookplate signed by Alice Provensen with.....
Price: $50.00
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 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: $1,500.00
Negro Life in New York's Harlem. A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, circa 1930s. Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 5 x 3.5 inches: 64. Original blue printed wrappers with union label on rear wrapper. Light edgewear, wrappers and text block toned.
Price: $85.00
Hymen: An Accurate Description of the Ceremonies Used in Marriage, by Every Nation in the Known World. Shewing, The Oddity of Some, the Absurdity of Others, the Drollery of Many, and the Real or Intended Piety of All. Dedicated to the Ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland
London: Printed for I. Pottinger, at the Dunciad in Pater-noster Row, 1760. Twelvemo, measuring 6.25 x 4: xx, 206. Contemporary calf, raised bands, boards double-ruled in gilt. Typographical headpieces and tailpieces. Early bookseller description (“very scarce, 12s 6d”) clipped and mounted to front pastedown. Lightest shelfwear, marginal offsetting to first.....
Price: $2,800.00
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