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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
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
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
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
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
The Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Octavo, original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page court portraits throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to jacket, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $750.00
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
The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1948. Octavo, original pale grey cloth stamped in gilt and green, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket, textured endpapers. Title page illustrated by Philippe Jullian.
Price: $100.00
The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher; Viz. Medea, Phaedra and Hippolytus, Troades, or the Royal Captives, and The Rape of Helen, out of the Greek of Coluthus . . . To which is prefixed the Life and Death of Seneca the Philosopher . . . Adorn'd with Sculptures representing each History
London: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, 1702. Octavo, modern full period-style specked calf, boards paneled in blind with floral cornerpieces, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, board edges tooled in gilt, all edges speckled red. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Seneca...
Price: $1,500.00
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
Mishima: A Vision of the Void
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1986). Octavo, original black cloth spine lettered in silver, pink paper boards with blind-stamped flower design to front board, original unclipped photographic dust jacket featuring a portrait of Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe.
Price: $40.00