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By: ABERLE BALLET [RAYON STOCKINGS]. WILLARD B. GOLOVIN CO.
Price: $850.00
Publisher: Aberle Inc., Philadelphia, 1942 /Willard B. Golovin [Advertising] Co. NY, : 1942
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: k190220c
Condition: Fine
4to, heavy card covers with six card leaves [12 pp.]; publisher's coil binding with clear acetate covers. First and only edition, limited to 750 numbered presentation copies, this being no. 36 presented to the M.E. Blatt Co., “Atlantic City’s Greatest Department Store”. World War 2 era manufacturer’s catalog for rayon stockings. The catalog adopts the format of a contemporary Ballet Russes program with the stocking colors inspired by four ballets -- each leaf features a large pochoir colored lithograph by Willard Golovin leaf with smaller color lithographic illustrations on the facing ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, The Poetry Bookshop: 1922
Seller ID: 31703
Mother Goose rhymes; embellished with drawings by C. Lovat Fraser and printed by the Curwen Press. 12mo, red boards. 64 pp. "A new edition, fourth thousand". Very good; front cover has a light band of sunning at top; rear cover lightly soiled. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $3,200.00
Publisher: Mexico. D.F., Libreria Anticuaria. G. M. Echaniz.: 1939
Seller ID: k1707041
1st ed. thus, 11-1/2”x8-1/2”. Scarce (No.22 of 25 signed and numbered copies] A hand-colored facsimile of the Codex Nuttall, an accordion-fold pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, now in the collection of the British Museum. The Codex is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin. Its name is derived from Zelia Nuttall, who first published the Codex for the Peabody Museum in 1902. It is one of three codices that record the genealogies, alliances and conquests of several 11th and 12th century rulers of a small Mixtec city-state in highland Oax... View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York; John Lane, London: 1927
Seller ID: k190126u
Condition: Fair
4to, illustrated linen, gilt titles. With 8 full-page tipped-in color by Alastair. No. 591 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed in pencil by the artist. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: Fair; the text block and illustrations are fine. The significant flaw is that it is lacking the backstrip on the spine, otherwise covers are good overall with several light stains.. The penciled signature on the plate on p.30 is present, but faint. Lacking original slipcase. View more info
![Image for Dei Kleine Seehjungfrau [The Little Mermaid]](/assets/images/product/10501_e73dd1868d129b62694527142dc87114.jpg)
By: (Wulfing, Sulamith) Anderson, Hans Christian
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Sulamith Wulfing: 1953
Seller ID: 10501
1st ed. Self-published by Wulfing in 1953. Limited printing and now scarce. German text. The suite of illustrations consists of 8 color images and 8 monotone illustrations. Bound in gold-stamped cardboard cover. Interior is clean and bright; light surface wear and light age-toning to covers; a 1/4" spot on back cover. View more info
By: Aesop
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Chamberlain Press: 1984
Seller ID: 1007
boards, 5"x6. A selection of fables illustrated with colored wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain and translated by Boris Artzybasheff. Limited signed edition of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Ten coloured plates, each with small illustration on the reverse. View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. , Dodd, Mead and Company, London And New York: 1927
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: k200115b
Condition: Near fine
Cream cloth stamped in gilt and brown. #464/1050. With eight full-page color illustrations by Alastair. The illustration opposite page 52 is signed in pencil, below the image. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: very good-near fine. A clean, tight copy that presents nearly fine. Covers: A small soil smudge about ½”x1” on both panels near center of spine; otherwise fine with no bumping or rubbing. Internally: near fine -- some light toning and spotting to front matter pages occasionally very faint foxing; this appears to be a defect in... View more info
By: Andrew W Tuer
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, London: 1880
Edition: 2d ed.
Seller ID: k190218b
Condition: Good
2d ed. [First thus; the true first edition was published in folio form with etchings by another artist.] , 9-1/4”x6”, full vellum binding, gilt titles and decorations, untrimmed pages. 60 pp. [2 advt] Woodcut decorations and ornaments in the text plus eight etchings by Tristam Ellis. Good condition. The covers are soiled with some spotting and chipping; very lightly warped -- though less than commonly found. [A publisher’s slip notice inside states that the book is prone to warping. Losse at the front joint. Prior owner’s bookplate inside front cover. Text block is clean and bright; s... View more info
![Image for Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /](/assets/images/product/BB - 69.jpg)
By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]
Price: $1,850.00
Seller ID: k180228l
n.p. n.d. 4to, illuminated vellum wrappers; 52 leaves; stitched binding. Pen and ink calligraphy, illuminations with watercolor head and tail pieces, and in-text illustrations all on hand-made paper. The artist/author is unknown. Clean, tight and unmarked interior. Covers torn and chipped on all edges. Date unknown but probably from late 1950’s - early 1960’s. View more info
By: AQUITH, Cynthia & Bigland, Eileen
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935
Seller ID: 0219022
4to, white cloth, 224p. An anthology of stories and poems published to raise money for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital for Children. Includes a Rupert Story by Mary Tourtel (Rupert the Little Bear goes Adventuring in the Robbers Den and with the Giants), an intro. by J.M. Barrie, poem by De La Mare etc. Illustrated with 2 double page color spreads by the Disney Studios, endpapers by Rex Whistler, color plates by A.H. Watson and others and with many illus. in line. Pristine in the original dustwrapper with colour illustration of Philip de Làszlò's 1933 portrait of the princess (now Queen El... View more info
![Image for La Gravure Sur Bois Moderne de L'occident. [The Art of Modern Woodcuts]](/assets/images/product/BB - 41.jpg)
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Paris: Dorbon Aine: 1928
Edition: 1st ed,
Seller ID: k18028k
8vo, softcovers rebound in gray cloth. Classic reference on the art of the woodcut, with emphasis on the revival of the art in Western Europe during the first quarter of the 20th century. 239 woodblocks, 9 in color. 177 original illustrations. No. 18 of 1000 copies; a prior owner has neatly written in pencil which woodcuts are originals and which previously published; owner's inked name on front flyleaf, otherwise a fine copy in original paper wraps, subsequently rebound in gray cloth. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons: 1882
Edition: Later edition.
Seller ID: k190711h
Condition: Very good.
16mo, decorated red cloth, 72 pp. A later printing of the children's tale and rhyme first published by Nelson in 1857. Handsome full color chromolith frontispiece with b/w illustrations of anthropomorphic insects throughout. Ballantyne, a Scottish artist and prolific writer of juvenile fiction, composed this prose rendition of William Roscoe's popular poem and accompanied it with fanciful images of beetles in waistcoats, ladybugs with parasols, moles in top hats and striped pants, and other creatures. Very good: a clean, tight copy with light wear to covers; endpapers toned; contemporary pen... View more info
![Image for Pirates! or, The Cruise of the Black Revenge [Vincent Starrett’s Copy]](/assets/images/product/k191116d_1)
By: BANNING, Kendall and Gustave Baumann
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Laurence C. Woodworth, Chicago, IL: 1918
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: k191116d
Condition: Very good
First edition thus. 12mo, wrappers. Illustrated by b/w woodcuts of Gustave Baumann, with the text in verse from poet Kendall Banning opposite the 13 woodcuts. A larger-sized version was first published in 1916. A very good copy with minor chipping to upper spine, very light surface wear. Ex Libris Vincent Starrett with his bookplate inside front cover and his inked signature at top of half-title. Starrett was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. Starrett's most famous... View more info
![Image for Signed artist’s proof. A frontispiece design for the book “les Lettres Persanes” [Persian Letters]](/assets/images/product/k181227e_1)
By: Barbier, George
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Francois-Louis Schmied : 1918
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: k181227e
Condition: Fine
A frontispiece design for the book “les Lettres Persanes” [Persian Letters} by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu. 4.75”x7.5” printed in pale green, black, and dusty rose on rag paper. An image of a woman in oriental garb with feathered hat and holding a parrot. Drawn by Barbier as one of a series of 100 frontispieces by a variety of artists engraved and printed by Francois-Louis Schmied in 1918 in a limited edition of fifty portfolios. [Les Cent Frontispieces, n.p., n.d. [1918]]. Each portfolio was comprised of ten fascicules containing ten engravings or prints by twe... View more info
By: Baskin, Leonard
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1972
Seller ID: 17061913
1st edition (1972) of this Caldecott Medal winner, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin in red ink on the front end paper. The book itself is in fine condition. The dust jacket has a 3/4" closed tear at front top, a 1/4" closed tear at rear top and a 2" water stain in lower right front corner. The water stain does not affect the book. View more info
By: Baskin, Leonard [wth Tobias, Lucretia, Hosie, & Lisa Baskin]
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1979
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed by Baskin
Seller ID: sw180315a
4to, green cloth. 1st ed, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin in red ink on the front end paper. A companion volume to his Caldecott Honor Book Hosie’s Alphaet; kBaskins illustraions of birds with light verse. A light fade line along bottom of front cover, else fine in fine d/w. View more info
![Image for LES FLEURS DU MAL [Limited Editions Club]](/assets/images/product/k190126n_1)
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Limited Editions Club: 1940
Seller ID: k190126n
Condition: Good
Limited Editions Club, New York and Paris, 1940. This single volume only, French text; published as a two volume set with the second volume being the English translation “Flowers of Evil.” Illustrations by. Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein. 8vo, pale blue stiff paper wrappers in glassine dust jacket. No. 83 of 1500 copies. No slipcase issued. A good copy: interior is very clean but several of the gutters are somewhat loose; still fully intact. Chipped at spine ends. Glassine envelope yellowed at spine with several edge tears and 2” dampstain on back cover, not affecting the book. View more info
Price: $50.00
Seller ID: 040305
Braunschweig: Verlag von A.Graff's Buchhandlung, 1919. 8vo, 94 pp. Illustrated boards. An illustrated history of the Paris Commune, with 94 drawings and tipped-plates by Gustave Dore. Fair-Good. Interior lightly shaken but clean throughout. Front hinge partially split at bottom. Covers lightly soiled with 1/2" closed tears at top of spine. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. View more info
By: Bidloo, Govard
Price: $1,200.00
Publisher: Paris, Editions Roger DaCosta: 1972
Seller ID: 1936
Facsimile edition of Bidloo's noted atlas of human anatomy first published in Amsterdam in 1685. Large 4to (11"x16"), bound in burgundy leatherette, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. No. 411 of 2000 copies printed. A bit of rubbing at top and bottom of spine, otherwise fine. The atlas is illustrated with 105 plates by Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers. The book was later plagiarized by English surgeon William Cowper for his Anatomy of the Humane Bodies (1698), which gave no credit to either Bidloo or de Lairesse. This led to... View more info
By: Blake, William
Price: $45.00
Seller ID: 150302
London: Arthur L Humphreys, 1911. 12mo, leather binding with gilt spine design, raised bands, gilt borders and bands by Riviere and Son. 1st ed. thus, containing Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience. 64 pages. Decorated throughout with tipped-in engravings. Internally fine, but front cover is detached, light wear on edges and corners. Contemporary inked inscription inside front cover. View more info
