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At-ten-tion Bar-riè-re Che-min de fer
Paris: René Touret, 1937. Side-stapled volume, measuring 12.25 x 9.5 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Color and grey-printed letters and illustrations throughout text. Soft creasing and light wear to wrappers, first page and rear wrapper toned.
Price: $450.00
Une Heure de Récréation. Le Quart: Une Aventure de Zambeccari / Le Pauvre Médor; La Demie: Le Fils d’un Criminel / La Jacinthe d’Élisa; Les Trois Quarts: Ce Bon Monsieur Harley / Dinden Le Fortuné; L’Heure: Le Capitaine Flawberg / Almer, Le Derviche (four volumes)
[Paris]: Imprimerie de Maulde et Renou, [1844]. Four miniature volumes, measuring 3.25 x 2 inches: 24. Original glazed pink, green, cream and blue cartonnage paper boards, each featuring a central engraved pastedown within embossed arabesque borders; variously colored pastedowns. Two tinted lithographs in each volume, with touches of hand-coloring. Lightest.....
Price: $2,000.00
Robinson Crusoe Silhouettes: Twenty Designs, All Different, The Complete Story of Robinson Crusoe in Silhouettes; with: Robinson Crusoe Silent Reading Cards
Chicago: A. Flanagan Company, 1922, 1926. Title card and twenty silhouette cards, measuring 11.25 x 7.75 inches; title card and card of instructions, five pictorial cards, and twenty-five text cards, measuring 9 x 6 inches. Cards printed recto only in black on buff cardstock, with fragmentary publisher’s pictorial envelopes.
Price: $350.00
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
Two sets of painted wooden counting blocks
Barnard, Vermont: Vermont Toy Works, circa 1980. Two sets of painted wooden blocks, each containing twenty-eight proportionally sized blocks numbered 1-10, housed in two wooden trays: the larger tray measuring 14.75 x 13.25 inches, the smaller 11 x 9.75 inches. “Vermont Toy Works” stamp on bottom of both trays. Light.....
Price: $200.00
Dessin (design workbook)
France: no publisher, circa 1950. Side-stitched design workbook, measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches: [16]. Original deep blue wrappers lettered in black, sewn with white thread; leaves printed with a grid pattern.
Price: $50.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
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
Specimens of Penmanship written by Mas. F.B. Leach at the High School, Oldham, Conducted by the Rev. Hugh Tait, B.A. (two volumes)
Leeds: Bean, Stationer, [1865]. Two oblong folio volumes, measuring 9.25 x 12 inches: [16]. Original glazed moiré card wrappers with gilt-embossed card frames and scenic chromolithographs (windmills in a field, a lakeside castle) mounted to covers. Tissue-guarded engraved pictorial title pages, featuring scenes of Cambridge, with Leach’s name added in.....
Price: $850.00
Pedagogie
France: circa 1935. Unbound manuscript, measuring 12.5 x 10 inches: 110 leaves, most single-sided. Text and illustrations executed in ink, pencil, and paint, with collaged elements and mounted photographs and drawings. Many leaves tissue-guarded, some materials affixed with metal brads. Housed in stiff card portfolio with metal brads and linen.....
Price: $4,000.00
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
Four-Way Blocks (American version)
Princeton: Creative Playthings, circa 1972. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 7.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Creative Playthings" printed at base of giraffe image. Housed in original cardboard box with price label, box rubbed and worn.
Price: $250.00
Four-Way Blocks (Swiss version)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1965. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 8.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Spiel Naef / Swiss Made” printed at top lefthand corner of cat image. Light shelfwear.
Price: $350.00
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