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[Photobook] [Exhibition Catalog] Election Eve

EGGLESTON, William (b. 1939) · 1977

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Washington, D. C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art Limited Edition From an edition of 2,000, with photographs by William Eggleston, preface by Lloyd Fonvielle, and essay by Jane Livingston. Also includes an exhibition checklist, full-page map of Sumter County, Ga., showing location...

[Moveable Book] Das Reich der Blumenkönigin, Sinnige Unterhaltung. L'Empire de la Reine des Fleurs. The Realm of the Queen of Flowers. Rational entertainment

[ANONYMOUS] · 1870

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

n.p. [Neuhaus or Nurnberg?] n.p. Sixth Edition of this popular pastime, published in at least nine editions, although few copies survive. Royal 8vo (331 x 249mm): six-page descriptive letter press with parallel texts in French, German, and English, identifying each flower and ...

[Old West] [Frontier Life] [Comanche Nation] Days That Are Done

SANDERS, William Perry (1881-1940) · 1918

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Los Angeles Grafton Publishing Corporation First Edition First Printing of these six accounts of the Old Southwest. Thick foolscap 8vo (178 x 123mm): 134pp, with portrait frontispiece and eight further illustrations from half-tones. Publisher's pictorial card covers printed in...

[Shape Book] [Children's/Juvenile] Los Viajes de Julita

BLANCA-GIL, María; María-Eugenia [Illustrates] · 1960

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

Barcelona Editorial Colón Die-cut shape book (247 x 180mm): 12pp, fully illustrated in color. A beautifully preserved example copy of this fragile juvenile. Near Fine+ A charming children’s book, in Spanish, featuring a beautiful blonde girl who travels with her family around...

The Camomile. An invention [John K. Martin's copy]

CARSWELL, Catherine (1879 to 1946) · 1922

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New York Harcourt, Brace First Printing First American Edition of this semi-autobiographical novel charting the tensions between a young woman’s aims as a writer and the expectation that she conform to the conventional role of a doctor’s wife. Crown 8vo (187 x 129mm): [4],319,...

[Photobook] [Waterfalls] Views around Ithaca : being a description of the waterfalls and ravines of this remarkable locality

CLARKE, F. W. (Frank Wigglesworth, 1847-1931) · 1869

$1,114.00 (€1,010.72 | £843.21 | ¥177,891)

Ithaca, N.Y. Andrus, McChain Scarce First (and only) Edition of this local guide with original albumen prints. Crown 8vo (179 x 111mm): 155,[3]pp, with ten mounted captioned photographs and table of measurements of the falls. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in g...

[Photobook] A Holiday in Iceland [With Original Photographs]

VAN GRUISEN, N. L. (active 1870s) · 1879

$439.00 (€398.30 | £332.29 | ¥70,103)

London Elliott Stock First (and only) Edition of this travelog with original woodbury-type photographs. 8vo (212 x 136mm): vi,[3]-98pp, with five woodbury-type prints mounted on separate leaves. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ornamented in black, fron...

Chance : A Tale in Two Parts [Clive Coates's copy]

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) · 1914

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

London Methuen First Edition First Impression of the novel that revived Conrad's career, outselling all his previous publications, in the first published state, with cancel title leaf (dated 1914 on verso), spine brass reading "METHVEN," closed quotes after "Narcissus" on half...

[Music] Lieder

KAHANE, Arthur (1872–1932) · 1910

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Berlin Oesterheld First Edition of this collection of short lyrical songs, in German, including works by Mendelssohn (Songs Without Words) and Chopin, selected by the dramaturge of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, in Berlin. Crown 8vo (184 x 120mm): 115,[1]pp. Publisher's gr...

J R [Signed]

GADDIS, William (1992-1998) · 1975

$851.00 (€772.10 | £644.14 | ¥135,894)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Printing A superlative signed First Edition (so stated) of this "epic work," the "greatest satirical novel in American literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) Royal 8vo (236 x 152mm): [6],726,[4]pp. Publisher's black cloth, titled in gilt on spine a...

Catalogue of the collection of Impressionist and Modern Pictures formed by W. Somerset Maugham over the last fifty years ; [offered with:] Purely for My Pleasure

MAUGHAM, W[illiam]. Somerset (1874-1965); Sotheby & Co [Sotheby's] · 1962

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

London Sotheby & Co / William Heinemann First Edition Catalogue for the sale of Maugham's art collection at Sotheby's on April 10, 1962, offered with Maugham's final book, Purely My Pleasure, describing his lifelong interest in collecting art. Catalogue: Royal 8vo (280 x 275m...

The Gold-Headed Cane [Biographical sketches of John Radcliffe, Richard Mead, Antony Askew, David Pitcairn, and Matthew Baillie]

[MACMICHAEL, William, 1784-1839] · 1827

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London John Murray, Albemarle-Street First Edition An untrimmed, wide-margined copy of these adventures of a famous cane. Crown 8vo (200 x 120mm): [8],179,[1]pp, with title-page vignette and numerous woodcuts (mostly of portraits busts and coats of arms) in text. Recently boun...

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Wood-Engravings, Etchings and Drawings, November 28 to December 10, 1921

RUZICKA, Rudolph (1883-1978) · 1921

$589.00 (€534.39 | £445.83 | ¥94,056)

New York / Boston Anderson Galleries / Merrymount Press Limited Edition One of 125 copies printed on heavy cream (handmade?) paper by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Demy 8vo (221 x 160mm): 14,[1]pp, with color title-page vignette, full-page wood engraving in black and t...

[Photobook] A View of the Cotswolds

SMITH, Edwin (1912-1971) · 2005

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Risbury, Herefordshire The Whittington Press Limited Edition Number 22 of 350 copies set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville types and printed at the Whittington Press on sand-colored Bugra-Butten mould-made paper. With essays, commentaries, and a checklist by Alan Powers, Geo...

Photographs [Signed, with doodle]

GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997) · 1990

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

Altadena, Calif. Twelvetrees Press Limited Edition of the poet's first and only book of pictures, featuring Ginsberg and others of the beat generation "in their flaming youth." (Roth) One of 5,000 unnumbered copies. Royal 8vo (354 x 275mm): unpaginated, with 91 captioned full-...

[Sacco and Vanzetti] Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen

DOS PASSOS, John (1896-1970) · 1927

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

Boston Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee First Edition First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive dr...

Chance : A Tale in Two Parts [Paul Lemperly's copy]

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) · 1914

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London Methuen First Edition First Impression, in the first published state, of the novel that revived Conrad's career, outselling all his previous publications. With cancel title leaf (dated 1914 on verso), spine brass reading "METHVEN," closed quotes after "Narcissus" in the...

The Legend of Monte della Sibilla or Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille [H. Balfour Gardiner's copy]

BELL, Clive (1881-1964) · 1923

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.52 | ¥58,126)

Richmond Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, One of 400 copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Royal 8vo (257 x 186mm): 25,[1]pp, with frontispiece and one further drawing by Duncan Grant and one figure by Vanessa Bel...

Bibliografia di Bernard Berenson [Inscribed]

MOSTYN-OWEN, William; Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) · 1955

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Milano Published by Electa Editrice Limited Edition, No. 48 of 1000 copies, of Berenson's bibliography of books and articles on the history of art, notably Renaissance Italian painting. Royal 8vo (249 x 174mm): 74 French-folded leaves (printed on one side of the leaf), with fo...

[Toy Theater] [Juvenile Drama] The Blue Jackets, or Her Majesty's Service. A Farce, in One Act

STIRLING, Edward (1809-1894); Benjamin Pollock (1856–1937) · 0

$439.00 (€398.30 | £332.29 | ¥70,103)

[London] Printed and published by B. Pollock, 73, Hoxton Street, N. A rare, complete nineteenth-century Benjamin Pollock toy theater. Foolscap 8vo (168 x 108 mm): 16pp, with nine hand-colored plates (219 x 173 mm), as called for on title page ("4 Plates Characters, 3 Scenes, 2...