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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
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Single volume, measuring 8 x 4.25 inches: 60. Original orange cloth lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
A Version of Solomon’s Song of Songs; Together with the XLV. Psalm
London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil, 1700. Small octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv, 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges.....
Price: $3,000.00
Houses of Leaves
Llandogo, Wales: The Old Stile Press, (1993). Large octavo, measuring 10 x 7 inches: 59, [5]. Original blue pictorial paper boards, gold buckram spine lettered in blue, pale grey endpapers. Printed in blue-gray ink on Zerkall mould-made paper, line drawings throughout text. Number 103 of 250 copies signed by John.....
Price: $150.00
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner / La Vie et Très Surprenantes Aventures de Robinson Crusoe d’York Marin
Dampierre: Par G.E.J. M.A.L., 1797. Two octavo volumes, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: [2], vi, 495, [1]; [4], 361, [3]. Contemporary tree calf, boards ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, spines ruled and compartments gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon markers. Complete with final blank in Volume.....
Price: $22,000.00
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
All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, The Enchiridion, and Fragments
London: S. Richardson, 1758. Large quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [18], xlii, 505, [11]. Contemporary calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red. Preliminaries include an ode to Epictetus, twelve-page list of subscribers, Carter’s introduction, and Arrian’s letter; index.....
Price: $2,400.00
The Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Rendered into English
London: E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1671. Octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: [8], 555, [1]. Contemporary Cambridge-style full speckled calf, boards ruled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained black. Engraved frontispiece.....
Price: $4,000.00
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
After Midnight
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [8], 238, [2]. Original black patterned cloth stamped in bright blue, top edge stained blue. Spine panel sunned, no dust jacket.
Price: $250.00
Sasha
London: Stanley Paul & Co., [1927]. Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 4.5 inches: 253, [1]. Original blue cloth decoratively stamped in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of Kuprin; publisher’s advertisement for The International Library before preface. Ownership signature dated 1932 to front free endpaper. Shallow chipping.....
Price: $85.00
The Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.25 inches: [6], 172. Original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page portraits throughout text. Lightest edgewear and toning to jacket, with partial split to front flap fold; edges.....
Price: $950.00
New Poems
New York: New Directions, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Eugenio Montale on the half-title. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $450.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $7,500.00
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