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The Devil Finds Work
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: [6], 122. Original maroon boards lettered in red foil, maroon endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dustjacket, top edge stained maroon. Inscribed by Baldwin on the dedication page: “for Pierce Davis / keep the faith / James Baldwin.” Jacket.....
Price: $1,250.00
Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes
(Paris): Éditions du Seuil, 1975. Perfect-bound volume, measuring 7 x 4.75 inches: 191, [1]. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers, reproducing a 1974 painting by Barthes, “Souvenir de Juan-les-Pins.” Black interior wrappers with lines in Barthes’s hand printed in white. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Barthes in blue.....
Price: $1,500.00
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York: The Noonday Press, 1966. Octavo, original printed wraps designed by Ronald Clyne. Ink inscription by Jane Bowles to poet Sam Hazo on front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear, small crease to spine.
Price: $850.00
The Writings of George Eliot, Together with the Life by J.W. Cross; WITH: autograph letter signed by George Eliot as M.E. Lewes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Twenty-five octavo volumes, contemporary full blue morocco gilt, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, blue silk ribbon markers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut and partially unopened. Title pages printed in red and black. Illustrated with photogravures throughout text.....
Price: $7,500.00
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 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
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
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