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A Manual for Cleaning Ladies; with: illustrated proof sheet
Washington, D.C. (i.e. Healdsburg, California): Zephyrus Image, 1977. Side-stitched pamphlet, measuring 6.75 x 4.5 inches: (20). Brown paper wrappers printed in black, “National Endowment for the Domestic Arts” seal to front wrapper, text printed on beige paper, linocut illustrations. Inscribed by Lucia Berlin on title page. Housed in original pictorial.....
Price: $2,800.00
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York: The Noonday Press, 1966. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: xii, 431, [1]. Original color patterned wrappers designed by Ronald Clyne. Ink inscription by Jane Bowles to poet Sam Hazo on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear, small crease to spine.
Price: $650.00
Passion and Affect
New York: Viking Press, (1974). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [10], 179, [3]. Original black cloth spine lettered in blue and silver, blue paper boards stamped in silver with parrot motif, original unclipped blue and black marble-patterned dust jacket. Parrot motif on title and at head of each.....
Price: $300.00
It’s A Good Thing I’m Not Macho. A Cycle of Poems
Boston: Whetstone Press, 1984. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xiii, [1], 37, [3]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Printed in purple ink, illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Price: $125.00
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 Shrinking of Treehorn; Treehorn’s Treasure; Treehorn’s Wish
New York: Holiday House, 1971, 1981, 1984. Three oblong volumes, measuring 6 x 6.75 inches: [64], [64], [64]. Original pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jackets. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. The Shrinking of Treehorn and Treehorn’s Treasure signed by Gorey on title page; Treehorn’s Wish inscribed by Heide on.....
Price: $500.00
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
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
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [14], 138. Original gold buckram lettered in black, original unclipped color-printed dustjacket. Inscribed by Alice Walker on half-title, with “& Trouble” crossed out, and “for Roz + Howie / Alice 1973” written under “In Love.” Lightest rubbing.....
Price: $1,250.00