illustrated
Popular Fallacies
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: xii, 312. Original full olive ribbed cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt and decorated in Art Nouveau style in a darker green. Frontispiece and seven full-page plates. Spine lightly toned, top edge dusty, foxing to preliminaries.
Price: $100.00
The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. Tall octavo, measuring 9.75 x 6.5 inches: [8] 9-39, [5]. Original ivory cloth spine lettered in gilt, terracotta paper boards blind-stamped with the Aldine dolphin and anchor. Illustrated with nine woodcut plates (one full color, one folding), and woodcut dolphin and anchor on colophon. Housed...
Price: $200.00
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
Lamour de Cupido et de Psiché Mere de Volupté, prise des Cinq & Sixiesme livres de la Metamorphose de Lucius Apuleius philosophe nouvellement historiée, & Exposée en Vers François
Paris: Léonard Gaultier, circa 1590. Small folio, measuring 10 x 7 inches, nineteenth-century black morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, with alternating devices of a crowned L (for Lothian), SH monogram (for Schomberg Henry), and sunburst, spine similarly decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Engraved title and 32 numbered...
Price: $13,500.00
The Spiral Road to God: A Book for Children and Their Parents
Boston: [no publisher], 1933. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 7 inches: x, 170. Original full bright turquoise pictorial cloth gilt-stamped with spiral pattern on front board, peach-colored endpapers, text and illustrations printed in blue on peach-colored paper. Illustrated with nine full-page images and many vignettes throughout text.
Price: $750.00
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
Stay Up Late
New York: Viking Press, 1987. Quarto, green cloth spine lettered in black, original color pictorial paper boards, green pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light edgewear and occasional smudge to jacket, discoloration to gutter of front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat
London: Methuen, 1904. Folio, modern full brick morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, text block uncut. Facsimile of the 1499 Aldine first edition, including the 172 original woodcuts by an unknown hand; additional paper spine label tipped in. Two extra leaves laid in, including the uncensored Priapus plate. Bookplate...
Price: $2,600.00
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, foreedge 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
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
"Walled City" (wallpaper sample)
United States: circa 1950s. Color pictorial wallpaper remnant, measuring 34 x 22 inches, printed in shades of green, brown, and white. Stamped at edges: “Walled City" / “Vogue" Papers. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $175.00
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, designer, Michioka Toshi, illustrator, Imamura Nobuo, Emori Seihachiro.](/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
Heroes and Heroines
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7 inches: [4], 79. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light edgewear to jacket, shallow chip to head of spine.
Price: $125.00
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
The Works of H. Fielding
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1893. Twelve small octavo volumes, contemporary three-quarter maroon morocco gilt, raised bands, flowered paper boards and endpapers. Top edges gilt. Light shelfwear to bindings, some bumped corners. Oxford bookseller's tickets.
Price: $600.00
Every-Player-Your-Partner System Tallies: Modern Author Series
New York: Charles S. Clark Company, circa 1926. Boxed set of twelve unused bridge tally cards, measuring 2.25 x 5 inches folded. Cards printed with twelve color pictorial designs, six for male players and six for female players, with color-coded silk tassels (white for men, yellow and orange for women)...
Price: $350.00
“Sample of Some Wakouwa Games” (Wakouwa-Spiele prototype)
Zurich: circa 1930s. Six circular color-lithographed pictorial game boards, measuring 18.25 inches in diameter, printed rectos only, with original revolving base constructed of painted wood, felt and tin, measuring 20.5 inches square. Cardboard lid of original inventor’s box, with ink annotations, included. Light edgewear to several boards, with the occasional...
Price: $950.00
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, foreedge 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
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