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Stories from Hans Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1911). Quarto, measuring 12 x 10 inches: [2], viii, 250, [2]. Original full vellum, front board and spine lettered and stamped in gilt with design by Dulac, ties renewed, olive-patterned pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut. Limitation page signed by Dulac before frontispiece...
Price: $2,400.00
China Days. Temple Hill Cut-Outs
Yantai, China: Self-Help Department, Women's Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, circa 1930. Oblong folio, measuring 14 x 10.5 inches. Contemporary flexible boards covered in gold silk brocade with red stitching. Letterpress description of “the cut-outs of Temple Hill” mounted to front pastedown. 42 pages, 24 of which are decorated with tissue-guarded...
Price: $2,400.00
The Way of the World and Love for Love. Two Comedies by William Congreve
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. Octavo, original black pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, buff and black pictorial endpapers, original black pictorial dust jacket decorated in turquoise, fore-edge deckled. Twelve full-page black-and-white plates, black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightest rubbing and edgewear to boards, shallow chipping to jacket spine ends...
Price: $75.00
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
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1911]. Quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, sixteen staple-bound pages. Includes seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Light general foxing and toning.
Price: $3,800.00
Archive of original midcentury porcelain designs
Rome: Faro Disegni, circa 1940-1965. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates, each on a separate sheet, of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil, ink, and watercolor on heavy paper, most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches, and a smaller group of 57 sketches, executed...
Price: $2,000.00
Original gouache pattern inspired by Paleolithic cave paintings
Manchester: Geoffrey George, circa 1950. Original gouache design, painted in brown and white on single sheet of black paper, measuring 10.25 x 9.25 inches. Evidence of adhesive removal to verso.
Price: $150.00
Wrapping paper design for the Eifler Seed Company
Vienna: circa 1950. Original pen and watercolor design on single sheet of buff paper, measuring 16.5 x 12.5 inches. Adhesive residue from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $700.00
"Hamburg" (wallpaper sample)
Bransche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1952. Pictorial wallpaper sample, printed in black and grey, measuring 15.5 x 18 inches. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / HAMBURG 1 / R2087 / $3.25 PER SINGLE ROLL.” Two short closed tears to top edge.
Price: $250.00
A Christmas Carol In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
London: Chapman & Hall, 1844 [i.e. 1843]. Octavo, original full brown cloth with leaf border stamped in blind to boards and central wreath design with title stamped in gilt on front board, spine stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Half title printed in green, title page printed in...
Price: $28,000.00
![[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]. Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, Johnston McCulley, Kan Kikuchi, Hatsuyama Shigeru, Michioka Toshi, Imamura Nobuo, Emori Seihachiro, designer.](/pictures/thumb/1001972.jpg?v=1521687657)
[Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (K bunsha), (1928) [Showa 3]. Single volume, 8.75 x. 5.75 inches, [6], 246, [6] pp. Original half blue cloth over color pictorial wrappers depicting a stylized Sherlock Holmes and Mary Morstan, blue cloth ornamented and lettered in black and gilt, purple pictorial endpapers. Illustrated title page printed in magenta...
Price: $850.00
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
Boy-Princes. The Story of Their Lives
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, circa 1884. Octavo, original full blue cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blind with decorative fern design, beveled boards, cream coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Color frontispiece and seven full-page wood engravings. Ink prize gift inscription dated 1884 to verso of front fly...
Price: $40.00
Chromolithographic Invitation to the Lang & Nau Fall Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
New York: Sackett, Williams and Betzig, [1882]. Chromolithographic pictorial trade card heightened in gold, measuring 5 by 4 inches, invitation on verso printed in black and white. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $250.00
Art Deco valentine featuring Elizabeth and Essex
Chicago: Carrington Co., circa 1920s. Die cut pictorial valentine, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches, printed in color and gilt. Faint ink signature ("Marshall") to bottom right corner.
Price: $75.00
Father Abraham
New York: Random House, 1983. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped patterned dust jacket. Illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol throughout text, excerpt from Faulkner's manuscript reproduced in facsimile.
Price: $55.00
Collection of catalogs for Pathéscope
Sydney: Home Recreations Ltd., 1930. Three pamphlets, measuring 8.5 x 5.5; 7.25 x 5; and 7 x 5 inches: [6]; [16]; and 18, [6]. First pamphlet: single leaf printed on both sides, folded in thirds. Second pamphlet: side-stapled brown pictorial wrappers printed in green and black. Third pamphlet: side-stapled pictorial...
Price: $100.00
The Wind in the Willows
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1931). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 7 inches: [6], 312. Original green cloth spine over grey paper boards, printed paper spine label, fore-edge and lower edge of text block uncut. Half-title, with limitation signed by Grahame and Shepard on verso. Black and white illustrations throughout...
Price: $6,500.00
Hansel and Gretel, and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Single volume, measuring 11.75 x 9.5 inches: [10], 276. Publisher’s full white pictorial cloth, front board stamped in gilt and blue with design by Nielsen, spine decorated in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, patterned red and gilt endpapers designed by Nielsen. Limitation page signed...
Price: $6,000.00
Tales of Mogho: African Stories from Upper Volta
New York: Macmillan, (1971). Single volume, measuring 9 x 7 inches: xii, [2], 113, [1]. Original full pictorial orange cloth lettered and stamped in black, orange endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Foreword and glossary before text; black-and-white illustrations throughout text, including a double-page spread. Top edge of jacket...
Price: $75.00
Letters from a Cat. Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats and the Amusement of Little Children
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Small quarto, measuring 7.5 x 6 inches. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, grey floral endpapers. Decorative headpieces throughout text, seventeen black and white illustrations. Presentation inscription to flyleaf. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, occasional smudge to text.
Price: $600.00
“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
![Dalekohled aneb Kdo Neveri, at Tam Bezi [Binoculars, or Who Doesn't Want to Believe Can Leave]. Adolf Hoffmeister.](/pictures/thumb/1002030.jpg?v=1543307125)
Dalekohled aneb Kdo Neveri, at Tam Bezi [Binoculars, or Who Doesn't Want to Believe Can Leave]
Prague: Statní Nakladatelství Detské Knihy, 1966. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: 167, [5]. Original white cloth stamped in tan, black and blue endpapers, top edge stained blue, glossy unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Title page printed in blue and black; nineteen full-page color collages. Light spotting to boards...
Price: $150.00
Spectre: A Literary Quarterly. Volume I: Number 3
Syracuse University: Spring 1940. Quarto, side-stapled dark blue pictorial wraps, beige cloth tape-bound spine. Sixty mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, black and white illustrations throughout text. Center crease to front cover and first few pages, shallow chipping and creasing to back cover, text block toned.
Price: $2,200.00
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
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Large quarto, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [124]. Original brown pigskin, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board double-ruled in gilt with central device of rosebush rooted in book, helmet, sword, and musket, with English crown supported in branches. Top edge gilt, other edges...
Price: $5,000.00
The Red Book
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Square quarto, original red textured cloth stamped in black and blind, red endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Barbara Lehman on the title page.
Price: $150.00
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
Toys
England: circa 1957. Single volume, measuring 14.75 x 10.25 inches: [44]. Original full tan morocco, front board stamped with dozens of tiny gilt stars, spine stamped with stars and lettered in gilt, heavy purple endpapers hand-stamped with border of yellow squares. Unfinished manuscript title page stamped with border of yellow...
Price: $2,200.00