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Every GIRL’S Alphabet
London: Artists’ Choice Editions, 2010. Small quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.5 inches: [64]. Original red morocco lettered in gilt over printed color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by author and illustrator on colophon, penciled note: “out of series.” With: original linocut, signed by Luke Martineau.....
Price: $300.00
Contes d'Andersen
Paris: Henri Laurens, (1941). Slim quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [4], iv, 115, [5]. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial boards stamped in gilt. Illustrated with eight color plates and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to boards, text block toned.
Price: $150.00
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Volume 5, Number 2
New York: Broom Publishing Company, September, 1923. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: 65-125, [3]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black, table of contents printed on inside front wrapper, subscription form printed on inside rear wrapper. Illustrated with photographs and black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightly creased.
Price: $650.00
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
Complete run of Boni Paper Books and Bonibooks, with publisher's original wooden display shelf
New York: Charles Boni, 1929-1931. Fifty-three paperback volumes, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches each: various paginations. Original pictorial card wrappers, many with pictorial endpapers, a few volumes housed in publisher’s slipcases (not issued on most titles). Original publisher’s wooden display shelf, painted in black and silver with “50¢ BONIBOOKS” lettered.....
Price: $4,200.00
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Octavo, measuring 7 x 4 inches: [22], 202, [12]. Original publisher’s vellum lettered in gilt, text block uncut. Full-page illustration of Roman funeral urns facing Hydriotaphia title page, decorative headpieces throughout text. Bookseller ticket (Parker & Son, Oxford) to front pastedown, ownership signature of Francis Glynn.....
Price: $250.00
Three hand-colored copper engravings from Volume V of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particuliere
Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1755. Three disbound, hand-colored copper engravings on leaves of 11.25 x 9 inches, plate marks measuring 8 x 6.25 inches. Browning to edges of leaves, not touching plates.
Price: $125.00
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Compared with the Former Editions, and Many Valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed
London: Bernard Lintot, between the Temple Gates, 1721. Large folio, measuring 15.5 x 10 inches: [52], 626, 81, [1]. Full contemporary speckled calf, boards ruled in gilt with crowned central initial “P” (Portland), raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, black morocco spine labels (title and library pressmarks) lettered.....
Price: $3,000.00
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]. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial paper boards. 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
Soviet-era classroom poster of Rene Descartes
U.S.S.R. circa 1960. Color-printed educational poster, measuring 18.75 x 14.75 inches, mounted to stiff cardboard backing, with two punched holes and cord for hanging. Numeral “2” stamped to verso, with ink notation. A few faint splashmarks.
Price: $125.00
Almanach de Cabinet. Année 1812. Age du Monde 5812
Paris: Caillot, [1811]. Folding calendar for the year 1812, composed of two oblong printed panels pasted to contemporary boards, each board measuring 7.5 x 9.5 inches, backed with new block-printed paper by Edinburgh printers John and Jane Jeffery. Illustrated with twelve woodcut vignettes depicting the months. New blue cloth spine.....
Price: $850.00
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
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
“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
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. Trace of adhesive from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $750.00
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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
The Thespian Dictionary; or, Dramatic Biography of the Present Age; Containing Sketches of the Lives, Lists of the Productions, Various Merits, &c. &c. of all the Principal Dramatists, Composers, Commentators, Managers, Actors and Actresses of the United Kingdom: Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes, Forming a Complete Modern History of the English Stage
London: James Cundee, 1805. Twelvemo, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: iv, [396]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key borders to boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges stained yellow. Engraved pictorial title page before letterpress title, 38.....
Price: $1,000.00
Mikes Missing. A Search by Jim Duignan
[Chicago]: self-published, November 1992. Oblong spiral-bound volume, measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches: [104]. Original pale grey pictorial wrappers. Text illustrated with desktop-printed black and white photographs. Housed in original manila envelope with adhesive title label.
Price: $250.00
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
Bolívar, le Libérateur
Paris: Tolmer, Éditeur, 1929. Oblong volume, measuring 8 x 9.5 inches: [12]. Original color pictorial boards, yellow cloth spine, green pictorial pastedowns, color illustrations on every page. Lightest soiling and shelfwear to boards.
Price: $250.00
It’s A Good Thing I’m Not Macho. A Cycle of Poems
Boston: Whetstone Press, 1984. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xiii, [1], 37, [3]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Printed in purple ink, illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Price: $125.00
Engraved invitation to the opening ceremonies of the Brooklyn Bridge
New York: Tiffany & Co., 1883. Engraved invitation, printed on heavy cardstock, measuring 6.5 x 9 inches. Illustrated with an image of the Brooklyn Bridge and the seals of the City of New York and the City of Brooklyn. Completed in manuscript with the name of recipient A.J. McCall. Faint.....
Price: $850.00
Panorama du Fleuve; Panorama de la Montagne; Panorama de la Côte
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1937-1938. Three color pictorial folding panoramas, housed in color pictorial paper boards, each measuring 9.75 inches square when folded, extending to 94 inches unfolded. Text printed on verso of each panorama, with additional illustrations. Tiny abrasion to opening hinge of Fleuve; small labels to final text panels.....
Price: $2,000.00
The Cat's Pilgrimage
New Haven: The East Rock Press, 1949. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [10], 30. Original pale blue paper boards, printed title label to upper board, tan endpapers, original unclipped salmon pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text; hand-numbered at colophon. Light shelfwear to fragile jacket, with.....
Price: $45.00
Jeu du Jardin Zoologique. Thiergarten-Spiel
Wissembourg: Wentzel, circa 1860s. Lithographic broadside, printed recto only, measuring 15.75 x 11 inches. Hand-colored en pochoir with gilt highlights. “No. 70” printed at top right corner; instructions printed below game board. Faint center crease, lightly browned at edges.
Price: $850.00
Loto Jeanne d’Arc
Paris: Saussine Éditeur, circa 1910. Four uncut chromolithographed sheets: one pictorial title sheet, measuring 16 x 12 inches; two sheets measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, each printed with six pictorial loto cards (each card 4.75 x 8.5 inches); one sheet of 90 numerals printed in green. Light edgewear.
Price: $500.00
Giselle or The Wilis
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1970). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7 inches: 56. Original pale green cloth spine lettered in gilt, green pictorial boards stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Violette Verdy and Marcia Brown on.....
Price: $150.00