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Oak and Ivy
Dayton, Ohio: Press of United Brethren Publishing House, 1893. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 62. Original dark blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Ink presentation note on front pastedown: “Presented to Mr. & Mrs. Garnet C. Wilkinson on the occasion of the dedication of the Dunbar High.....
Price: $9,500.00
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
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
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
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French, and Dutch -- in the West Indies and South America
[London]: Andre Deutsch, (1963). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 232. Original black boards lettered in gilt, turquoise and black cartographic endpapers, top edge stained turquoise, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price sticker to front flap. Inscribed “V.S. Naipaul / for Al Murray” on title page. Light.....
Price: $1,250.00
The Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
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