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Image for Aberlé Ballet / Fall & Winter / 1942. “Aberlé presents SHEER ENDURING RAYON STOCKINGS/ ALLIED BALLET of COLOR / FALL & WINTER” / “Presentation for a Most Prophetic Season Fall 1942”

Aberlé Ballet / Fall & Winter / 1942. “Aberlé presents SHEER ENDURING RAYON STOCKINGS/ ALLIED BALLET of COLOR / FALL & WINTER” / “Presentation for a Most Prophetic Season Fall 1942”

By: ABERLE BALLET [RAYON STOCKINGS]. WILLARD B. GOLOVIN CO.

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Aberle Inc., Philadelphia, 1942 /Willard B. Golovin [Advertising] Co. NY, : 1942

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 ...
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Nurse Lovechild's Legacy / Being a Mighty Fine Collection of The Most Noble, Memorable and Veracious Nursery Rhymes

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.
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Sebastian Van Storck

By: (Alastair) Pater, Walter

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.
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Dei Kleine Seehjungfrau [The Little Mermaid]

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.
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A Selection of Aesop's Fables (translated by Boris Artzybasheff)

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.
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Sebastian Van Storck

By: Alastair and Walter Pater

Price: $300.00

Publisher: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. , Dodd, Mead and Company, London And New York: 1927

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...
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Image for [Decorative Tapestries of the French Royal Household] Les Tapisseries Decoratives du Garde-Meuble [mobilier nationale] Choix des Plus Beaux Motifs

[Decorative Tapestries of the French Royal Household] Les Tapisseries Decoratives du Garde-Meuble [mobilier nationale] Choix des Plus Beaux Motifs

By: Alfred Darcel and Edouard Guichard

Price: $550.00

Publisher: Paris, J. Baudry: 1881

Seller ID: k200128j

Binding: Blue board

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 1881. 2 volumes, folio. ¼ morocco, blue pebbled cloth; ribbed spines. ##### 100 full-page lithographic plates of wall tapestries and furniture coverings, mostly in b/w or sepia but including thirteen chromolithographic plates with tapestries or details in color. Each plate accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text. The Mobilier National, formerly the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne was the French department responsible for storing and repairing all movable furnishings and décor from the royal households of the Ancien Regime. [16th-18th centuries]. ##### Condition: Plates very go...
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Luxurious Bathing: A Sketch

By: Andrew W Tuer

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, London: 1880

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...
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Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /

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.
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Princess Elizabeth Gift Book

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...
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Art Young’s Inferno: A Journey Through Hell Six Hundred Years After Dante - Ltd, signed, in Jacket

By: Art Young

Price: $625.00

Publisher: NY, Delphic Studios: 1934

Seller ID: s200628d

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Very Good

1st edition; limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Signed by Young on FEP. 4to, black cloth with red lettering. 182 pp. Art Young, the preeminent American political cartoonist in the first half of the twentieth century, modeled this satirical interpretation of Dante’s Inferno after the popular 19th century edition published by Gustave Dore. Universally acknowledged to be Young’s masterpiece it is a searing and hilarious indictment of capitalism. Copies of the numbered first printing are uncommon; with the dustjacket scarce; and signed truly rare. A very good copy in fair dustjacket. Covers a...
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La Gravure Sur Bois Moderne de L'occident. [The Art of Modern Woodcuts]

By: Avermaete, Roger.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris: Dorbon Aine: 1928

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.
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Pirates! or, The Cruise of the Black Revenge [Vincent Starrett’s Copy]

By: BANNING, Kendall and Gustave Baumann

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Laurence C. Woodworth, Chicago, IL: 1918

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...
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Signed artist’s proof. A frontispiece design for the book “les Lettres Persanes” [Persian Letters]

By: Barbier, George

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Francois-Louis Schmied : 1918

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...
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Hosie's Alphabet

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.
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Hosie’s Aviary

By: Baskin, Leonard [wth Tobias, Lucretia, Hosie, & Lisa Baskin]

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Viking Press: 1979

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.
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LES FLEURS DU MAL [Limited Editions Club]

By: Baudelaire, Charles

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.
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Aus Revolutionstagen

By: Bauer, Dr. Constantin

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.
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Anatomia Humani Corporis (Atlas of Human Anatomy)

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...
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Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience

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.
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Category: Illustrated Books