illustrated
Hotel-de-Ville de Vère (Hollande)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Le Chateau D'Ambras à Innsbruck (Tyrol)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Nouvelle Marie de Pantin (Paris)
[San Francisco]: Imagerie Pellerin Épinal (An Intrinsics Production), 1964. Color lithograph printed on cardstock, measuring 18.25 x 24.75 inches.
Price: $250.00
Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto
Birmingham: Baskerville, 1773. Four octavo volumes: [34], lviii, 362, [2]; [2], 450, [2]; [2], 446, [2]; [2], 446 [2]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key border and floral cornerpieces in gilt to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and patterned in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels lettered in.....
Price: $2,200.00
Little Artists Drawing & Tracing Book
[Chicago]: M.A. Donohue & Company, circa 1925. Side-stapled volume, measuring 15 x 9.75 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations to interior wrappers. Pictorial title page; other leaves illustrated on one side only, interleaved with tracing paper. Lightest shelfwear, paper toned.
Price: $50.00
The Savoy (advertisement)
London: C.F. Kell for Leonard Smithers, [1896]. Color-lithographed poster, sight size 10.5 x 8.25 inches, framed to 18 x 15 inches. Signed with A/B monogram in lower left corner of image. A few faint creases.
Price: $2,500.00
Tales
(Johannesburg): Gryphon Poets, (1972). Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 46. Original color pictorial card wrappers with unclipped French flaps, upper wrapper lettered in black with brown and black woodcut design, spine lettered in black, photographic portrait of Beiles on lower wrapper. Six full-page color woodcuts. Errata slip laid.....
Price: $275.00
Original illustration for Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles
1983. Watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera on paper, image measuring 8.5 x 8.75 inches, on larger sheet. Initialed in lower right image. Archivally framed to 17 x 14.5 inches. Offered with: Monika Beisner’s Book of Riddles. London: Jonathan Cape, (1983).
Price: $2,850.00
C: A Journal of Poetry. Volume 1: No. 9 (signed by William S. Burroughs)
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, “SUMMER ETC” 1964. Side-stapled volume, measuring 14 x 8.5 inches: cover and 67 mimeographed leaves, printed recto only. Cover design by Joe Brainard; hand-pasted collage element on leaf 29. Leaves 38-43 and 55-58 stapled out of order, leaf 39 stapled upside down, all present.....
Price: $1,800.00
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
Pen Sketches of Napoleon I (album of original drawings)
Italy: circa 1825. Oblong album, measuring 10.5 x 8 inches: 43 grey card leaves inserted on stubs. Later nineteenth-century dark blue morocco, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, boards paneled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt title to upper board and owner’s monogram “W.F.H.” to lower board.....
Price: $20,000.00
On Going to Bed
New York: Abbeville Press, (1982). Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: 96. Original full brown textured cloth, spine lettered in dark brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color frontispiece, color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $35.00
Undine
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: viii, 136. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with vignette by Rackham, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page.....
Price: $2,000.00
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: 598, [2]. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece; engraved portrait of Abba Thulle, “King of the Pelew Islands;” folding map of Pitcairn Island. List of plates and errata.....
Price: $2,400.00
Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot, a snail, and a lizard
France: nineteenth century. Original watercolor, executed on two sheets of printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: “8 en 10: à Paris, chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry, No 19 / No. 23.” Several pale pink areas where.....
Price: $750.00
Sheet of six Épinal prints, domestic and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
Sheet of six Épinal prints, military and religious subjects
France: no publisher, no date (early twentieth century). Single sheet of six woodblock prints, printed recto only and colored en pochoir, measuring 14.75 x 19 inches.
Price: $350.00
Victorian Rebus New Year’s Greeting
No place: no date, circa 1890s. Coated ivory card with rounded corners, printed in chromolithography recto only, measuring 3.75 x 4.75 inches. Text printed in gold, all edges gilt. Lightest signs of handling.
Price: $50.00
“Amsterdam” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Color pictorial wallpaper sample, measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in gold and ivory. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / Amsterdam WT 10 / R 2076 / $3.95 PER SINGLE ROLL.”.
Price: $150.00
“Spain” (wallpaper sample)
Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1950. Pictorial wallpaper sample printed in muted colors on an ivory ground, measuring 18 x 15.5 inches. Stamped on verso: “Rasch Waterfast, Spain 1, R 2012, $4.50 single roll.”.
Price: $150.00
Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen für die Fläche. Vierteljahrshefte für die verzierende Kunst, Volume XV, Plate 1
Plauen: Christian Stoll, circa 1915. Single pochoir plate of a geometric airbrush design, measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Tipped to black paper mount with publisher’s label mounted to upper right corner. Archivally matted to 14 x 11 inches.
Price: $250.00
The Forty Thieves, A Drama. With: Pollock’s Characters and Scenes in The Forty Thieves
London: B. Pollock, 73, Hoxton Street, circa 1880. Side-stitched twelvemo pamphlet, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: 16. Complete set of thirty-three hand-colored lithographic plates, measuring 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Paper clip marks to pamphlet and several plates, lightest edgewear.
Price: $650.00
Achilles’ Song
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: [16]. Side-stitched olive green wrappers in integral pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Original color frontispiece drawing by Duncan executed in pen and crayon. Hand-lettered “B” and signed by Duncan at colophon.
Price: $350.00
Rudy & Midge
Madison, Wisconsin: Dangling Participle Press, 1998. Small oblong quarto, measuring 5.25 x 7.5 inches: [32]. Green cloth spine, color lithographed pictorial boards, green pictorial endpapers printed letterpress. Text block illustrated and printed in letterpress, color lithography and serigraphy on various paper stocks. Bound in are three pieces of ephemera sealed.....
Price: $450.00
National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Original Music by J.W. Elliott
London: Novello and Company, [1870]. Single volume, measuring 10.25 x 7.25 inches: [8], 111, [1]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and three full-page wood engravings, wood-engraved vignettes throughout text. Light occasional foxing and smudging, small tidemark to lower.....
Price: $200.00
The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: [6], 75, [3]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning to edges of jacket.
Price: $125.00
Fables de Florian et de Fénélon, Nouvelle Édition Très-Correcte, Dédiée a la Jeunesse, et Ornée de Vingt-Quatre Jolies Figures
Paris: Chez Saintin, Libraire de la Cour, 1814. Twelvemo, measuring 6.25 x 3.75 inches: [4], iv, 334, [2]. Contemporary straight-grained plum morocco, gilt fillets and corner fleurons to boards, gilt title and ornaments to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece, pictorial title, and six hand-colored plates; table.....
Price: $750.00
A Likely Place
(London): Macmillan, (1967). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [6], 57, [1]. Original black cloth lettered in silver, original clipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear and sunning, small tape repair to jacket verso, ghost of bookseller label.....
Price: $50.00
Gedenktage aus dem Jahre 1809: eine Erinnerung: den Damen Wiens gewidmet vom Ballkomitee der Stadt Wien
[Vienna]: Wilhelm Melzer, 1909. Oblong album, measuring 5.5 x 6.5 inches. Full ivory kidskin, decorated with the arms of Vienna in gilt, black and red; patterned endpapers with Viennese cross motif printed in red, tan, and gilt; all edges gilt. Decorative title, one page of text, and 12 tissue-guarded color.....
Price: $950.00