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[JAZZ] CARROLL, Barbara · 2003

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Chicago. A large (9-7/8" x 6-3/4") postcard from the famous jazz supper club The London House in Chicago SIGNED "To Edna/Best wishes/Barbara Carroll." Carroll was dubbed by critic Leonard Feather as "the first girl ever to play bebop piano." She was awarded the Kennedy Center'...

AUTOGRAPH

[JAZZ] CARROLL, Barbara · 2003

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Chicago. A large (9-7/8" x 6-3/4") postcard from the famous jazz supper club The London House in Chicago SIGNED "To Bill/Best wishes/Barbara Carroll." Carroll was dubbed by critic Leonard Feather as "the first girl ever to play bebop piano." She was awarded the Kennedy Center'...

AUTOGRAPH

[JAZZ] TAYLOR, Billy

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Chicago. A large (9-7/8" x 6-3/4") postcard from the famous jazz supper club The London House in Chicago SIGNED "All the best--/Sincerely/Billy Taylor." Taylor was a jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator whom critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisput...

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

PECK, Gregory

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

An 7-5/8" x 9-1/4" black-and-white photograph of the smiling, handsome actor SIGNED in green ink on a light area of the photograph: "To Marguerite/Best wishes/Gregory Peck.". Near Fine

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

FORD, Gerald R

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

An 8" x 10" color photograph SIGNED "Gerald Ford" on a light area of the photograph.. Fine

TRACES OF LIVING

THEMERSON, Franciszka · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

(London). Gaberbocchus. First Edition. Illustrated wraps (10" x 12-1/8") printed on various colored paper. Foreword by Edward Lucie-Smith and 'Une Thématique de l'Existence' by Lucy Teixeira. Illustrated throughout by Franciszka Themerson. Ruari McLean's small bookplate on ins...

THE EAGLE & THE FOX. THE FOX & THE EAGLE. Two Symantically Symmetrical Versions Followed by a Revised Application

AESOP · 0

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.46 | ¥79,818)

London. Gaberbocchus Press Limited. First Edition. Illustrated wraps with self-dustwrapper (8" x 10"), printed in red and black. Copy #249 of 400 printed on a hand press and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson, SIGNED by her with an ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. Also with a spurious...

LES MISERABLES

HUGO, Victor · 1938

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Five quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in black Irish linen with rust-colored, gilt-lettered cloth spine labels. The translation by Lascelles Wraxall authorized by the author. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Copy #65 of 1500 SIGNED by the illus...

WAR AND PEACE

TOLSTOY, Leo · 1938

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

Glasgow. Limited Editions Club. Six octavo volumes (5-3/4" x 9") bound in decorated red linen and housed in two slipcases. Numerous full-page color lithographs and black and white drawings in the text, as well as color endpaper and cover designs, by Barnett Freedman. Translate...

CHRISTIANITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MANKIND. Leading Individualities and Avatar-Beings

STEINER, Rudolf · 1944

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York & London. Anthroposophic Press & Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.. First Edition?. Stapled gray wraps with silver lettering (7-1/8" x 9-1/2"), part of the Studies in the Spiritual-Scientific Knowledge of Man series.. Small owner name on front endpaper. Near Fine

THE CONCEALED ASPECTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE AND THE CHRIST IMPULSE

STEINER, Rudolf · 0

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York & London. Anthroposophic Press & Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.. First Edition?. Stapled purple wraps (7-1/8" x 9-1/2"), part of the Esoteric Studies series.. Small owner name on front endpaper; sunning to front cover. Near Fine

THE DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT GAINING A RELATIONSHIP TO THE DEAD THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART. MAN AS AN IMAGE OF SPIRITUAL BEINGS AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES ON EARTH

STEINER, Rudolf · 1946

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York & London. Anthroposophic Press & Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.. First Edition. Stapled purple wraps (7-1/8" x 9-1/2"), part of the Esoteric Studies series.. Small owner name on front endpaper; light edge wear. Near Fine

PITTSBURGH MEMORANDA

LONG, Haniel · 1935

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Santa Fe. Rydal Press. First Edition. Copy #14 of 1000 numbered and SIGNED copies. Additionally INSCRIBED in Santa Fe on 25 April 1935: "To come to terms with ourselves,/with the others who live life with us,/and the Life that lives all--/and my affectionate greetings/to Ruth ...

LE ROMAN DE TRISTAN ET ISEUT L'édition d'Art

BEDIER, Joseph · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Paris. L'Édition D'Art. Bound in light brown boards with black stamping with the original wraps bound in (7" x 9-3/4") by Mercier, the front board neatly detached. Illustrated from watercolors by Robert Engels.. Robert Engels. Near Fine but for the front cover which is neatly ...

DICTIONNAIRE ICONOGRAPHIQUE DES ORCHIDÉES

COGNIAUX, Celestin Alfred and GOOSSENS, Alphonse · 1897

$7,500.00 (€6,804.58 | £5,676.89 | ¥1,197,273)

Brussels. F. Havermans. First Edition. Collection of original parts (7-1/4" x 5-1/2") housed in publisher's purple cloth folders with gilt lettering and ribbon ties along with a small pamphlet containing a table of plates: DICTIONNAIRE ICONOGRAPHIQUE DES ORCHIDEES. TABLE DES P...

THE GENUS ROSA

WILLMOTT, Ellen · 1910

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

London. John Murray. First Edition. Folio (11" x 15") in printed wrappers housed in two green morocco-backed slipcases with chemises. The complete set of 25 individual parts of the most important work on roses in the twentieth century, illustrated with 132 chromolithograph pla...

LA BOTANIQUE, ou Histoire et Figure en Couleur des Fleurs et des Fruits de France ou Naturalisés sur le Sol Français

JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, [Jean-Henri] · 1828

$18,750.00 (€17,011.45 | £14,192.23 | ¥2,993,182)

Paris. Chez L'Auteur. First Edition. Six quarto (7" x 11") volumes bound in three in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Illustrated with 544 plates printed in colors and finished by hand. Rare and important collection of French botany by the naturalist and artist Jaume S...

THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, FOR NEW, AND RARE PLANTS. CONTAINING COLOURED FIGURES OF SUCH PLANTS, AS HAVE NOT HITHERTO APPEARED IN ANY SIMILAR PUBLICATION...

ANDREWS, Henry C · 1797

$43,750.00 (€39,693.38 | £33,115.19 | ¥6,984,091)

London. T. Bensley for the author. First Edition. Twelve large quarto volumes (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") volumes consisting of volumes 1-6 bound in full green morocco leather gilt with all edges gilt and volumes 5-10 in half brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corn...

THE NURSERYMAN'S SPECIMEN BOOK OF AMERICAN FRUITS, FLOWERS, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, & c

0

$2,187.50 (€1,984.67 | £1,655.76 | ¥349,205)

[Rochester, NY]. Rochester Lithographing Company Successors to D. M. Dewey's. First Edition. Oblong octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2") in black leather with a color plate of an apple pasted on the front cover. Illustrated with 71 chromolithographs, printed on rectos only with many finis...

LA BOTANIQUE

ROUSSEAU, J[ean] J[acques] · 1821

$3,125.00 (€2,835.24 | £2,365.37 | ¥498,864)

Paris. Baudouin Freres. Third Edition. Large quarto (10" x 13-1/2") bound in contemporary red leather-backed boards, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 64 (of 65) stipple-engraved plates, printed in color and finished by hand, by Bouquet, Gabriel, and others after Pierre Joseph ...