Old Bookshelf

Margot Fonteyn

Anthony, Gordon · 1950

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

London Phoenix House Numbered 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Signed by Subject and Author 131pp. Orange cloth, gilt spine lettering. A limited edition of 250 numbered copies each SIGNED by both Miss Fonteyn and the photographe,r Gordon Anthony. The book features 60 captioned phot...

The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, 1932-1952

Garcia-Marquez, Vicente · 1990

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

New York Knopf 1st Edition 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall 343pp. LIght grey boards, silver lettering. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in very good unworn condition, vertical wrinkle to rear endpaper., faint spotting to top edges. Very Good Very Good

Léon Bakst; Esquisses de décors et de costumes arts graphiques peintures

Proujan, Irina · 1986

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Leningrad Éditions d'Art Aurora 1st Edition 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall Léon Bakst 246pp. Purple cloth, silver lettering. Book and dust jacket are in very good, unworn condition. Beautifully reproduced illustrations. Near Fine Very Good

The Love Books of Ovid Being the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae of Publius Ovidus Naso

Publius Ovidus (Ovid), J. Lewis May, translator · 1930

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

New York Privately Printed for Rarity Pres 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Jean De Bosschere 216pp. Maroon cloth, silver lettering and decoration, 12 full page illustrations, including 4 in color. Spine faded but readable, corners worn, text is age-toned, former owner's bookplate o...

New-York

Morand, Paul · 1930

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Paris Ernest Flammarion 1st Edition 281pp. Couverture illustrée, edition originale. First Edition. Chipping to edges,pice missing from head of spine, small inscription on front cover, text is age-darkened but clean and unmarked. Author's impressions of New York. Good

Montociel; Rajah aux Grandes Indes

Morand, Paul · 1947

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Genève Les Éditions du Cheval Ailé 1st Edition 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 359pp. Printed wraps, original glassine cover. Bon état. Very good condition, text and cover a clean and osund. Small chip to glassine cover. Very Good

The Tailor of Gloucester

Potter, Beatrix · 1903

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

New York Frederick Warne and Co. First American Edition 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall Beatrix Potter 85pp. Brown publisher's cloth, pasteon illustration to cover, color frontispiece. Chipping along spine and 1/2 inch piece missing from head of spine, loss of one letter from spine...

Cooking Down East

Standish, Marjorie · 1969

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Portland, Maine Maine Sunday Teegram 2nd Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 263pp. Yellow cloth with photo illustrations to front cover. Corners lightly rubbed, very light soil, text is mainly clean and has several occasional pencil notations. This is the second edition, pu...

Every Lady's Cook Book

Crowen, Mrs. T.J. · 1856

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.85 | ¥59,883)

New York Kiggins and Kellogg 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall 166pp. Publisher's blue wraps, "New and Greatly Improved Edition." Light wear, darkening to covers, foxing to text most heavily to first and last few pages. Book is otherwise sound and appears to be unread, binding is ...

A Wonder Book

Hawthorne, Nathaniel · 1930

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Garden City, Nrw York Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. Arthur Rackham 207pp. Orange cloth, pictorial pasteon to front board, 7 color plates including frontispeice. Very light wear to cover, former owner's bookplate on front endpaper, mild toning to text, text otherwse clean ...

A Gallop Among American Scenery : or, Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure

Silliman, Augustus E. · 1843

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York D. Appleton & Company 1st Edition 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall Inscribed by Author(s) 267pp. Gilt lettering and elaborate gilt design to spine, AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION on title page. Binding is n near fine condition, contents are age-toned and very faint scattered foxin...

Serge Lifar et le destin du ballet de l'Opera

Schaikevitch, André · 1971

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,937)

Paris T. Fisher Unwin 1st Edition 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall Pablo Picasso 182pp. Card stock wraps, card stock dust jacket with pictorial pasteon. Text is in French. (Broché avec jacquette.) 25 Picasso illustrations (hors-texte). An edition of 1207 examples, one thousand num...

Studies in Modern Lace-Making

The Butterick Publishing Co. · 1898

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

London and New York The Butterick Publishing Co. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall 120pp. Stiff wraps. Metropolitan Art Series Vol. IV., No.4. November 1898. Light soil to cover, chipping to spine, contents are mildly age-toned but clean and sound. Illustrated throughout on nearly ...

The Connecticut Register, and United States Calendar, for the Year of our Lord 1814: Being the Thirty-eighth of the Independence of the United States.

Daboll, Nathan · 1814

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New London Samuel Green 1st Edition 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall 160pp. Marbled paper wraps. Spine is worn and missing piece at bottom, contents age-toned and very occasionally foxed, binding is tight, and book has held p very well since 1814. Good No Jacket

Fran Leslie's Popular Monthly - November 1901 Vol. LIII

Frank Leslie Publishing House · 1901

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York Frank Leslie Publishing HOuse 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 168pp + ads. Moderate wear and chipping to cover, contents are clean and sound. Article by Fridtjof Nanse "The Race for the Poles", and other articles by Maurice Hewlett, C.G.D. Roberts and others. Illustrated ...

La Novela Realista Mexicana

Navarro, Joaquina · 1955

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Mexico Ernest Flammarion 1st Edition 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s) 333pp. Printed stiff wraps, inscribed and SIGNED by author on half-title page. Spine is slightly darkened, book is in very good, very lightly used condition. Very Good No Jacket

Sketches of the LIfe of William Stuart, the First and Most Celebrated Counterfeiter of Connecticut

Stuart, William · 1854

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Bridgeport Printed and Published for the Author 1st Edition 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall 223pp. Plain boards. Paper over boards, leather backing. Covers detached but present, spine perished, boards soiled and heavily worn, "William Stuart" hand printed on front board, front fr...

Souvenir of the Bon Marché Paris ; Founded by Aristide Boucicaut.

1889

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Paris Printed by E. Plon, Nourrit and Co. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall 64pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration large color folding map with cloth ribbon tape which is riveted through rear cove for stability, and which is used for locating citym streets. Light wear to ...

Saratoga Illustrated. A Complete Description of the American Watering Place With Steel Engravings, Photo-plates and Wood Cuts.

Dearborn, R.F. · 1872

$425.00 (€385.60 | £321.69 | ¥67,867)

Troy, NY The Northern News Company 1st Edition 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall 126pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, folding map, 2 color plates, numerous engravings. Corners lightly rubbed, contents are clean and sound, binding is tight, former owner's name and date (...

The Scarlet Pimpernel; Four Complete Novels

Orczy, Baroness · 1932

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

London Hodderand Stoughton Ltd. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1279pp. Tan buckram, red and black lettering. Spine mildly darkened, little of no wear to cover, endpapers foxed, text is clean, binding is sound. Dust jacket is darkened and heavily worn missing large piece from he...