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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
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
You and the Computer: A Student’s Guide
Schenectady, New York: General Electric, 1965. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.5 x 8.25 inches: 19, [1]. Original color pictorial wrappers, photographic plates and color illustrations by Bill Charmatz throughout text. Lightest shelfwear.
Price: $225.00
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
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
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
MOTIVO (wooden puzzle)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1978. Eight wooden cubes, screenprinted in four colors, each measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Naef / Swiss made” printed at base of leaf image. Lacking original box.
Price: $200.00
The Pupil of Pleasure: or, the New System Illustrated. Inscribed to Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, Editor of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters
London: Printed for G. Robinson, and J. Bew, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1776. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xv, [1], 230; [4], 252. Contemporary half-calf, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, red morocco spine labels, pale blue marbled boards with vellum corners. Early book labels of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft.....
Price: $2,200.00
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
La Gimnasia en Jardines y Habitaciones: ó Higene de los Ejercicios Razionados, sin Necesidad de Aparejos
Madrid: Saturnino Calleja Fernandez, circa 1900. Single volume, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: [7], 8-126, [2]. Original color pictorial lithographed boards; rear cover with elaborate publisher’s device; spine titled in black with decorative border. Wood-engraved headpiece to preface, forty-one photoengraved black line drawings. Light toning and edgewear.
Price: $300.00