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Mulhouse: Société Anonyme Française des Grands Magasins Au Louvre, circa 1930. Side-stapled folio, measuring 12.75 x 9.75 inches: [24]. Original heavy grey wrappers printed in purple. Text printed on absorbent blotting paper, illustrations throughout text.
Price: $250.00
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
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
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
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: $1,800.00
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
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
Sketch...Book. Le Non-Obéissant: The Disobedient: Der Ungehorsame
Basel: Basilius Presse, 1968. Single volume, measuring 8 x 9 inches: [88, double leaves]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, text block printed in black and orange. Inscribed by Warja Lavater in the year of publication. Slight bowing to boards.
Price: $1,250.00
The Hound & Horn, I-VII (complete run of 28 numbers)
Portland, Maine: The Hound & Horn, 1927-1934. Complete run of 28 numbers, each measuring 9 x 6 inches, in original printed wrappers, some with tipped-in and laid-in publisher’s slips. Signature of Olive B. White to V:4; bookplate of Carl Van Vechten to VII:1. Light shelfwear to some volumes, occasional stray.....
Price: $2,800.00
Collection of original drawings and paintings
New York City: 1927. Mixed group of forty-two drawings and nine watercolors, some double-sided, many disbound from a sketchbook. Front board of sketchbook present, with stationer’s label of Dante Gambinossi (605 Madison Avenue), and ink ownership inscription: “Emily Ryon - 1927.” Two drawings mounted, one tissue-guarded, several signed by Ryon.....
Price: $850.00
Gothic Architecture. A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Sixteenmo, measuring 5.5 x 4 inches: [2], 68, [4]. Contemporary full crushed tan morocco, boards elaborately tooled in gilt with Gothic scrollwork borders incorporating six quatrefoil ornaments, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately gilt, spine lettered and dated in gilt, gilt dentelles, blue silk moiré doublures and.....
Price: $3,000.00
With the V.A.D. Convoys in France, Flanders, Italy
[Cambridge]: [1921]. Collection of twenty-seven lithographs of varying sizes, ranging from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.5 x 15 inches, printed on grey or white paper, some with additional hand-coloring, some with original mounts. Original list of thirteen plates, printed in red, signed and dated “1921” by Olive Mudie-Cooke in.....
Price: $12,500.00
A Bloomsbury Souvenir; with: Six Views of Bloomsbury (postcards)
London: Design for Today, [2017]. Concertina booklet printed on stiff card, measuring 4 x 6 inches folded, extending to 52 inches when fully opened. Color lithography on both sides. Signed and numbered by Alice Pattullo. With: publisher’s small circular adhesive seal (for mailing) and separate suite of six individual color.....
Price: $100.00
You Can Design
New York: Whittlesey House, (1939). Spiral-bound volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [126]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in darker blue, orange endpapers. Monochrome and color illustrations throughout text. Ink presentation inscription on the half title: “N.Y. Jan. 30. 39 / to Dean and Mrs. E. Raymond Bossange / with.....
Price: $950.00
Audubon
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer’s note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket.....
Price: $150.00
Calendar 1972
Tokyo: (Takum Craft Shop), 1972. Portfolio measuring 15 x 11.5 inches, original stiff mulberry paper wrappers, two pastedown stencil-dyed mulberry paper labels to front wrapper, pastedown table of contents to rear wrapper, twelve loose broadside sheets (one for each month), each stencil-dyed in multiple colors on mulberry paper, untrimmed.
Price: $400.00
Killing and Dying
[Montreal]: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.
Price: $100.00
Uncut hand-marbled sheet from De Humani Corporis Fabrica
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1998. Single uncut sheet, measuring 23 x 17.5 inches, printed with text and anatomical images from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, hand-marbled in blue, yellow, and pink.
Price: $150.00
Hale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art; with "Head of a Youth" (original signed woodcut); with: related ephemera
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1979. Side-stapled exhibition catalog from The Studio Museum in Harlem, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: 96. Original green pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white reproductions throughout text. Inscribed on title: “Hale Woodruff / June 24 79.” Faint crease to.....
Price: $2,200.00