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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
The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast. By Comus, Author of “Three Little Kittens,” “Mister Fox,” &c.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1857. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [2], [8], 9-24; eight color plates inserted throughout text. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers. Four plates of sheet music, printed on alternate rectos and versos, setting “The Butterfly’s Ball” for.....
Price: $750.00
African Cities Are...
New York: The John Day Company, 1971. Spiral-bound photobook, measuring 18 x 18 inches: [48]. Glossy photographic card boards, printed recto and verso. Thirty-six black and white photographs (twenty-four recto and twelve verso), printed on heavy card stock. Boards lightly soiled and creased.
Price: $1,800.00
Gravures d'Enfants de l'Ecole Active de St-Cloud. Les Cahiers de l'Atelier XIII
Sainte-Étienne: Les Cahiers de l'Atelier, 1955. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches: [100], [4]. Original stiff ivory pictorial wrappers printed in black, red, and blue; original glassine. Pochoir-printed frontispiece in red, blue, yellow, and green; linocuts throughout text printed in black and grey. Colophon numbered in ink; four pages.....
Price: $300.00
Le Buffon de la Jeunesse, Offrant la Description de la Nature, des Moeurs et des Habitudes des Quadrupèdes, Oiseaux, Poissons, Reptiles, etc.
Paris: L’editeur, 1831. Five twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches: [2], 215, [1]; [2], 229, [1]; [2], 197, [1]; [2], 208, [2]; [2], 211, [3]. Original publisher’s yellow wrappers lined with printer’s waste, printed paper labels to spines. Engraved frontispiece, two engraved plates, and table of contents in each.....
Price: $950.00
Always in Vogue
Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.25 inches: 381, [1]. Original white textured pictorial boards stamped in gilt and black, original unclipped blue pictorial dust jacket, pale blue endpapers. Thirty-two black and white photographic plates. Signed by both authors on front flyleaf. Jacket lightly creased and rubbed.....
Price: $175.00
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: $2,800.00
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: $2,500.00
Original gouache design for a botanical jacquard textile
France: 1933. Single sheet, constructed of two sheets of pre-printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, measuring 18.75 x 9.5 inches. Recto hand-painted in gouache in multiple colors, notes in pencil and ink; verso dated “28/7/33” with production notes in ink. Some soiling 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: $750.00
"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
Commemorative card depicting Rochester's monument to Frederick Douglass
Rochester, New York: circa 1899. Single sheet, measuring 9.25 x 4 inches. Halftone image of the monument in Douglass Park above a printed quote by Douglass on recto; halftone portrait and text on verso. Edges lightly toned.
Price: $850.00
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少年探偵譚 [Shonen Tanteitan, “Juvenile Detective”; Sherlock Holmes in Japanese]
(Tokyo): (Kōbunsha), (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, two.....
Price: $850.00
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
Le Musée des Dames et des Demoiselles. Règne Animal 1-3 (Les Oiseaux, Les Insectes, Les Papillons), Règne Végétal 1-2 (Les Fleurs, Les Fruits), Règne Minéral (Les Minéraux et Les Coquillages)
Paris: Marcilly Ainé, circa 1825. Six twelvemo volumes, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: 36 pages each. Original glazed pastel paper boards in different shades, upper boards elaborately blindstamped with oval gilt-ruled color pictorial pastedown labels. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded lithographic plate in each volume; title vignettes and tailpieces. Lightest soiling and shelfwear.....
Price: $3,750.00
STUYVE-SCIENCE of the Stuyvesant High School of New York City. Volume 1, Number 1
[New York City]: Stuyvesant High School, May 1939. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches: 28. Original tan and red linocut printed wrappers, linocut illustrations throughout text. Shelfwear and some soiling to wrappers.
Price: $250.00
Engraved hand-colored broadsheet of musical monkeys
No place (likely France or Germany): early nineteenth century. Engraved hand-colored pictorial broadsheet, measuring 13 x 17 inches. Monogram “CG” printed at lower lefthand corner; “No. 66” at upper right. Center crease, a few short closed tears to margins, light abrasions to righthand corners.
Price: $750.00
Robinson’s Progressive Table Book. For Young Children
New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., (1862). Single volume, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: 72. Original brown cloth spine, tan pictorial paper boards. Pages double-ruled, wood engravings throughout text. Early owner signature and later ink note “1927” to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers, lightest edgewear, a few stray marks.....
Price: $50.00
Fun Fair Toy Model Story Book
London: Amex Company, circa 1950. Side-stapled booklet, measuring 7 x 8.5 inches: [8]. Original color pictorial wrappers, diagrams and instructions printed on versos. Four pages of text, and a color-printed fairground model printed single-sided across two leaves of card, to be punched out and folded.
Price: $25.00
Les Hardis Aviateurs Transocéaniens
[Fürth]: Klee Spiele, circa 1930. Original folding cartographic game board, measuring 11.5 x 16.75 inches, featuring a color-printed map of North America as far west as Chicago, the Atlantic Ocean, and northern Europe as far east as Warsaw. Two chromolithographed launch platforms constructed of wood and cardboard; four chromolithographed planes.....
Price: $950.00
Constructions Magiques: Jeu de Ploplo
[Lyon]: Volumétrix, circa 1955. Side-stapled booklet, measuring 9.5 x 12.5 inches: [12]. Original color pictorial wrappers, diagrams and instructions printed on verso of front wrapper. Six sheets of color-printed architectural models, printed rectos only on stiff card, to be punched out and folded. Staples rusted, spine lightly sunned.
Price: $250.00
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
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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. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 60 numbered leaves [120 pages]. Original 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.....
Price: $2,200.00
Picture and Text
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [viii], 175, [1]. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt. Title page printed in red and black, tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece, seven black-and-white plates throughout text. Early owner signature to front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $125.00
Hey Willy, See the Pyramids
New York: Viking Press, 1988. Quarto, measuring 10 x 7.75 inches: [36]. Original color pictorial paper boards, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Maira Kalman with a sketch on the title page.
Price: $75.00
Omocha Junikagetsu: Omamori To Engimono [Twelve Months of Toys: Protective Talismans and Good Luck Charms]
[Osaka]: [Darumaya Shoten], 1926. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: fourteen unnumbered folded leaves, printed rectos only. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black, orange pastedown label to upper board, pictorial endpapers printed in pale green. Twelve double-page hand-colored woodblock prints, some heightened with metallic inks; two folded leaves.....
Price: $1,400.00
High Cards: Picture Poem Poster Post Cards
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Color-printed title card, followed by 45 numbered postcards: 23 printed in color and 22 printed in black and white, each measuring 5 x 7 inches. Complete set, lacking original publisher’s box.
Price: $200.00