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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
The Art of Speaking
London: T. Longman, J. Buckland, et al. 1761. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [4], 373, [3], [13], [1], [2]. Full contemporary calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, raised bands. Half-title, table of contents, index, errata and two pages of publisher’s ads. Eighteenth-century ownership notes to front pastedown and fly leaf...
Price: $2,500.00
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 inserted section headers, tables, and advertisements. Original black plastic spiral binding, glossy red pictorial card wrappers. Full-page black-and-white photographic portrait of McAuliffe after title page; ten full-page color illustrated section heads (“Bread and...
Price: $150.00
What Great Men Have Said About Women; with: What Great Women Have Said About Men
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1940s. Two side-stapled pamphlets, measuring 5 x 3.5 inches: 64 pages each. Original orange printed wrappers with union label on Great Men; blue printed wrappers on Great Women; “Ten Cent Pocket Series” on both title pages. Lightest shelfwear, tiny white spot to front wrapper of “Great...
Price: $45.00
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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