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Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, A.

JOHNSON, Samuel; Fitzgerald, Percy · 1898 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London: Bliss, Sands & Co. 1898. Fitzgerald on Hill's Johnson [JOHNSON, Samuel]. FITZGERALD, Percy. A Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. London: Bliss, Sands & Co. 1898. The first edition of this celebrated…

Helena Rubinstein: Madame's Collection

Joubert, Helene, (and) David Nash, (and) Susan Gagliardi, (and) Charlotte Grand-Dufay, (and) Yaelle Biro, (and) Suzanne Slesin, (and) Julie Verlaine, (and) Susan Kloman, (and) Catherine Grenier, (and) Estrellita Brodsky, (and) David Radzinowicz · 2019 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Paris, Skira, 2019. Softcover. A gray matte softcover book with French flaps. The title is printed in purple across the front cover and down the spine. The front cover features black-and-white illustrations. Pages: (13), 14-239, (1). Profusely illustrated with full-color and bla…

Stories from the Arabian Nights

DULAC, Edmund; HOUSMAN, Laurence · 1907 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. DULAC at His Breakthrough - The Immediate Second Issue of His Masterpiece DULAC, Edmund, illustrator. Laurence Housman. Stories from The Arabian Nights. With Drawings by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [November, 1907]. Second trad…

Tortilla Flat

STEINBECK, John · 1935 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$4,000.00 (€3,629.08 | £3,027.18 | ¥638,825)

New York: Covici Friede, 1935. Steinbeck's Breakthrough - The Rare Wrappered Issue A Likely Advance Issue, One of Approximately 500 Copies STEINBECK, John. Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede, [1935]. First edition, wrappered issue of the author's…

For Love of the King

WILDE, Oscar · 1922 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1922. The Infamous Fifteenth Volume - Wilde's 'Lost' Play That Wasn't" WILDE, Oscar. For Love of the King. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1922]. Limited to 1,000 copies. Small quarto (8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 213 x 146 mm.). [vi, blank], [xiv], 1-39, [1, bla…

Tournament, the;

ROWLANDSON, Thomas, attributed to; CHIVALRY · 1823 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$1,150.00 (€1,043.36 | £870.31 | ¥183,662)

London: Printed for William Sams, 1823. Twenty-Four Plates Depicting a Medieval Tournament [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator, attributed to]. The Tournament; or, Days of Chivalry. With twenty-four engravings. London: Printed for William Sams, 1823. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x …

Stark Munro Letters, the

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; STEPHENS, Alice Barber, illustrator · 1895 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. Mr. Stark Munro attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth.. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Stark Munro Letters. Being a series of sixteen letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B. to …

If No One Ever Marries Me

McCLINTOCK, Barbara, artist · 2012 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

: , 2012. A Lovely Original Watercolor From Leave Your Sleep Adapted to Music by Natalie Merchant McCLINTOCK, Barbara, artist. "If No One Ever Marries Me". From Leave Your Sleep by Natalie Merchant. [N.p.], 2012. Original pen, ink and watercolor illustration. Signed "Barbara McC…

Pilgrim's Progress, the

BUNYAN, John; Bayntun · 1906 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$275.00 (€249.50 | £208.12 | ¥43,919)

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. An Elegantly Printed Edition of One of the Most Significant Works of English Religious Literature BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. [The Royal Library Chef D'Oeuvre Series]. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. Octavo. (9 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches; …

Pauline: Napoleon's Favorite Sister

DIXON, PIERSON · 1965 · Round Table Books, LLC

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

NY: David McKay Company, Inc, 1965. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt medallion on front cover, gilt lettering on black panel on spine. Illustrated with several B&W plates and reproductions throughout.. The volume is in excellent …

Een cort verhael van de strenghe belegheringhe ende aftreck der Spangiaerden van de Stadt Alcmaer gheleghen in Hollandt. Die welcke de Spaengiaerts nae dat syse int Jaer MDLXXIII seven weecken beleghert hadden niet sonder haer groote schade ende schande hebben moeten nalaten, uyt het Latyn int Duytsch overgeset. Delft, Aelbert Hendrickz., “1573” [1580 or soon after?]. Small 4to. With a woodcut illustration of a king on the title page, presumably the biblical king David with his shield bearing his coat-of-arms showing a harp (practically identical to the coat-of-arms of Ireland), and 1 woodcut decorated initial (roman capital). Set in textura types except for the italic running heads. 19th-century block-printed decorated wrappers (in blue).

[FOREEST, Nanning van]. · 1573 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

29, [3] pp.Rare first Dutch edition, one of two simultaneous issues (the other, for Cornelis Jacobsz. in Alkmaar, has the title-page in either of two states) of an eyewitness account on the history of the siege of Alkmaar in the year 1573, written by the magistrate Nanning van F…

Social Club, the

PYNE, William Henry · 1822 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$27,500.00 (€24,949.94 | £20,811.87 | ¥4,391,919)

London: S. and J. Fuller, 1822. William Pyne's The Social Club The Pyne Family Copy in the Original Parts Most Likely the Finest Copy Extant PYNE, William Henry. The Social Club: Consisting of a Series of Stories; and Accompanied by Humourous Prints of each Subject, Engraved and…

Gradation from a Greenhorn to a Blood

WOODWARD, George Moutard · 1790 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$17,500.00 (€15,877.24 | £13,243.92 | ¥2,794,858)

London: William Holland, 1790. To Hold, as 'twere, the Mirror up to Nature" One of the Great Rarities of Eighteenth-Century English Social Satire George Moutard Woodward's Masterpiece on the Rise - and Fall - of the Georgian Gentleman WOODWARD, George Moutard. Gradation from a G…

Frank Lawton and Evelyn Laye

Janet Jevons (Photo.) · 1930 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London: [Hollywood Studio], [Ca. 1930s]. Original hand colored real photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good+. Printed on verso: "Film Partners" Series, 85, Long Acre, London; No. PC 148. Made in Great Britain. Scarce. Frank Lawton (30 September 1904, St Gile…

Ivor Novello and Elizabeth Allan. (Scene from the Motion Picture "the Lodger. ")

Stanborough · 1932 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London: Julius Hagen Productions, [Ca. 1932]. Original hand colored real photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good+. Printed on verso: "Film Partners" Series, 85, Long Acre, London; No. PC 41. Made in Great Britain. The Lodger is a 1932 British thriller film d…

Citadel, the

CRONIN, A.J. · 1937 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$1,500.00 (€1,360.91 | £1,135.19 | ¥239,559)

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1937. The Landmark Medical Novel - The Citadel Warmly Inscribed by A. J. Cronin to Ingle Barr CRONIN, A.J. The Citadel. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1937. First edition, warmly inscribed by A.J. Cronin to the distinguished British barrister Ingle Bar…

Allo! Allo! Bostock

MOVABLE BOOK; REYNAUD, Adeline · 1900 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$3,500.00 (€3,175.45 | £2,648.78 | ¥558,972)

Paris: A. Capendu Editeur, 1900. Scholarly Animals "Living the Good Life" [MOVABLE]. REYNAUD, Adeline. Allo, Allo! Bostock. Grand Album d'Animaux Savants. Paris: A. Capendu-Editeur, [n.d. ca. 1900]. Folio (14 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 365 x 240 mm.). Lithograph title-page (recto of pa…

British Proverbs

ALKEN, Henry · 1824 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$4,850.00 (€4,400.26 | £3,670.46 | ¥774,575)

London: E. & C. Mc.Lean, 1824. It's Not How Long - But How Well We Live" ALKEN, Henry. British Proverbs. London: E. & C. Mc.Lean, 1824. First edition. Oblong quarto (10/1/4 x 13 3/4 inches; 261 x 350 mm.). Six amusing hand-colored soft-ground etchings, five with five and one wit…

Thomas Rowlandson. His Drawings and Water-Colours

ROWLANDSON, Thomas; Oppé, A.P. · 1923 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.80 | ¥59,890)

London: Published by The Studio, Limited, 1923. One of 200 Large-Paper Copies [ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. OPPÉ, A. P. Thomas Rowlandson. His Drawings and Water-Colours. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. London: Published by The Studio, 1923. First edition. Limited to 200 numbered large-paper …

The Burning of Rachel Hayes

Douglas Allyn · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Five Star 2004 Hardback, 357pp. Edgar Award-winning authorDoug Allyn's latest novel features one of his most endearing characters - small-town veterinarian David Westbrook. Short stories featuring Dr. Westbrook have won the Ellery Queen Readers Award three times. Five Star is pl…