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My Brother's Ghost
New York: Viking, 2001. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [8], 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition.
Price: $30.00
Color Matching Cards
Chicago: A. Flanagan Company, 1926. Complete set of six printed text cards, measuring 9 x 8 inches; six uncut color-printed geometric shape cards, measuring 8 x 7 inches; and one printed instructional card, measuring 6.5 x 5.75 inches. Housed in original color pictorial envelope measuring 10 x 9 inches. All.....
Price: $225.00
The Cat Club. Or, The Life and Times of Jenny Linsky
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, circa 1952. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 32. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in yellow, original unclipped yellow pictorial dustjacket printed in black and red. Illustrations printed in black and red throughout text. Offsetting from binder’s glue at endpapers, light toning.....
Price: $175.00
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1912]. 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. Lightest general foxing and toning.
Price: $2,500.00
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
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
Die Vier Elemente, Luft, Wasser, Feuer, Erde. Eine neues Gesellschaftliches Würsel u. pfand spiel
Nürnberg: P.W. Schwarz, circa 1805. Game board, measuring 14 x 11.25 inches unfolded. Hand-colored engraving, measuring 13.5 x 10.5 inches, mounted on block-printed paper-covered board, partially dissected, folding to 7 x 5.75 inches. Rules of play printed at foot of sheet; series number (“No. 60”) at lower left, imprint at.....
Price: $2,000.00
Jeu de Cubes Zoologique
France: late nineteenth century. Complete set of 72 wooden blocks, measuring 1.5 inches square, covered in chromolithographed paper. With: eighteen single-sided chromolithographed guide prints, measuring 6.25 x 9.25 inches, each representing four labeled and numbered animal portraits. All housed in publisher’s original wood-framed cardboard box covered in floral paper, deep.....
Price: $2,800.00
The Second Book of History, Including the Modern History of Europe, Africa, and Asia . . . by the Author of Peter Parley’s Tales
Boston: Charles J. Hendee, 1836. Octavo, measuring 7 x 5.5 inches: 180. Original pale blue pictorial paper boards backed in sheep, smooth spine gilt in compartments. Text printed in two columns, wood-engraved frontispiece and wood engravings throughout text, sixteen engraved maps inserted at rear. Pencil ownership inscription to front free.....
Price: $75.00
Complete set of Almanacks, inscribed by Kate Greenaway
London: George Routledge & Sons; J.M. Dent, 1883-1895, 1897. Nineteen miniature volumes, variously sized, with color-printed wood engravings throughout text. Three variant bindings of 1884 almanac; two variant bindings each for years 1887, 1890, and 1892. The 1889 almanac includes presentation inscriptions from Kate Greenaway and John Drinkwater, and is.....
Price: $8,500.00
In The Fairy Ring
London: Blackie & Son, [1908]. Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63, [1]. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates, illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing (heavier to first and last pages), rear endpapers toned, corners lightly bumped.
Price: $2,000.00
Red White and Blue. Stick’Em Cut Outs
[New York]: Platt & Munk, 1941. Set of six side-stapled activity books, measuring 8.5 x 7.5 inches, each containing six full-page line drawings and corresponding sheets of red and blue shapes on gummed paper. Original color pictorial wrappers. Housed in original publisher’s color pictorial box. Light shelfwear to box.
Price: $300.00
Circus Book. In Colour Photography
London: Collins, (1955). Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 7 inches: [52]. Original pale gold wrappers printed in red. Title page printed in color, illustrated with line drawings and color photographs throughout text.
Price: $150.00
Histoire Sainte. Album Muni de l’Imprimateur de L’Archevêché de Paris
Paris: Hachette, 1938. Single volume, measuring 12.75 x 9.75: 31, [1]. Original color pictorial boards, blue star-patterned endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket. Ink note regarding imprimatur to front pastedown, dated January 12, 1938. Light general toning, light edgewear to jacket.
Price: $275.00
Charles F. Heartman Reviews Dr. Rosenbach’s Young American Parade (broadside)
No place: no publisher, [1933]. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Two faint creases from folding, several small paper repairs and evidence of previous mount to verso, one short closed tear.
Price: $500.00
Philipok
New York: Philomel Books, 2000. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Price: $150.00
L'Asie. D'Après les Voyageurs les Plus Célèbres. Par un Homme de Lettres. Deuxième Édition
Lille: L. Lefort, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1850. Twelvemo, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: 216. Original white cartonnage binding embossed in gilt, hand-colored lithographed vignette of a balloon launch to upper board, gilt paper dentelles. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, pictorial title page. Printed geography prize label, completed in ink, to front pastedown: “Ècole et.....
Price: $450.00
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) Object Assembly Test
New York City: The Psychological Corporation, circa 1950s. Two-dimensional wooden puzzle. Housed in original green cardboard box measuring 4 x 6.5 inches, printed in silver with manufacturer’s information and a capital letter indicating the subject of the puzzle.
Price: $25.00
Working Cotton
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Honor Medal, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed “for Marvin” and signed by Sherley Anne Williams and Carole Byard on title.....
Price: $150.00