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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
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias
London: T. Jefferys, at the Corner of St. Martin’s Lane, Charing-Cross, 1768. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: xxiii, [1] 3-258. Contemporary three-quarter calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, traces of gilt decoration to spine compartments, marbled paper boards, no spine label, text block uncut. Woodcut initials and headpieces throughout.....
Price: $5,000.00
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
The Maias
London: The Bodley Head, 1965. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 633, [1]. Original dark blue textured cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Arthur Barbosa. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $40.00
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. Engraved frontispiece portrait.....
Price: $4,000.00
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
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, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in.....
Price: $7,500.00