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Catalog 21: Children's & Illustrated, Literature, Fine Bindings, 1890's & Press Books, Pre-Raphaelites, Original Art (312 items)
Catalog 21: Children's & Illustrated, Literature, Fine Bindings, 1890's & Press Books, Pre-Raphaelites, Original Art (312 items) (Pictured to left: illustration by Heinrich Lefler for Marchen Kalendar,1905) Catalog 21 offers a fine assortment of over 300 items featuring many new acquisitions including original artwork, inscribed books, rare and unusual first editions in the following areas: Children's and Illustrated, 19th and 20th Century Literature, Fine Bindings, Press Books, 1890's, Pre-Raphaelites, autograph letters. Of special interest: two watercolors by Jugendstil artist Heinrich Lefler proposed as sequel to famed Kling Klang Gloria; fine copy of "The Germ" (1850), seminal Pre-Raphaelite journal; Decorative Art of Leon Bakst, first edition; Illuminated manuscript by Henry John Stock, English Pre-Raphaelite artist, full book with... (read more)
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[A.C.S.] Laurence Housman to Margaret Sharples
April 26 Postmarked W. Milton/26. Housman writes, "Many thanks for your good opinion of 'The Sheepfold.' A co-religionist of yours called it 'a foul book.' Thus in the midst of life we are death, and in the midst of orthodoxy-heterodox and never quite know where we are!" Laurence Housman (1865-1959)... (Item #112)
Price: $195.00
[A.C.S.] Laurence Housman to Margaret Sharples
[A.L.S.] Bottomly to Mr. Reeves
One page, 8vo, December, 1933. The Sheiling, Carnforth, Lancs. Gordon Bottomly is returning a book, Bie's big "Opera-book." "Dear Mr. Reeves, I am sure that it is a good value for any one who reads German: but I don't, alas, and my hope was that I should find in it... (Item #119)
Price: $95.00
[A.L.S.] Bottomly to Mr. Reeves
ABC och Lasebok
Stockholm: L.De Vylders, 1832. 12mo. Printed at end: Samuel Rumstedt, 1832 (at end). Polished tan cloth spine with gilt ruling and titling, marbled paper covered boards. Eight full-page color plates consisting of animals and objects delineating the ABC's. 140pp of text. Corners sl. bumped, else very good. (Item #162)
Price: $550.00
ABC och Lasebok
[Aesop] Fables of Aesop
New York: James Miller, 1865. 12mo. Brown cloth with cover and spine gilt illustrations. 130 superb woodcut illustrations. Scarce production. Very good. (Item #236)
Price: $150.00
[Aesop] Fables of Aesop
[Allingham, William] Day and Night Songs
London: G. Philip & Sons, 1884. First edition thus. Blue cloth with superb sunrise design and lettering in gold on cover, gilt spine and rear design emblem. Head and tailpieces, initials throughout. Covers sl. wear, else very good. Scarce. (Item #255)
Price: $350.00
[Allingham, William] Day and Night Songs
[Allingham, William] The Ballad Book
London: Macmillan and Co. 1864. 12mo. Red calf. Engraved title page illustration by J.H. Paton. 393pp. AEG. Some wear to binding, else very good. Scarce. (Item #258)
Price: $250.00
[Allingham, William] The Ballad Book
American Female Poets: with Biographical and Critical Notices
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848. First edition. 4to. Original dark blue cloth with bold gilt strapwork designs and illustration of an urn with an angel of both covers and spine. Frontispiece and ten full-page tissue-guarded steel engravings, mostly of portraits of the poets. An important contemporary compendium of such luminous... (Item #307)
Price: $350.00
American Female Poets: with Biographical and Critical Notices
Apples of Istakhar
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. Original brown cloth with blind-stamped design on covers by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Gilt spine. Foxing present as usual for this title. Otherwise, good, tight copy. Kraus 36. (Item #229)
Price: $135.00
Apples of Istakhar
[Arnoux, Guy] Tambours et Trompettes
Paris: Devambez, editeur. First edition. n.d. (ca. 1918). Huge folio (13 x 17 inches) suite of ten superbly colored full-page illustrations loose, as issued, and a full-color illustrated title page by note French illustrator Guy Arnoux. Original color pictorial folding covers with ribbon ties. Limited to 475 numbered copies (#218)... (Item #27)
Price: $2,500.00
[Arnoux, Guy] Tambours et Trompettes
[Art Nouveau] Lettres et Enseignes; Premiere Serie: Art Nouveau. Par E. Mulier, Professeur de Composition Decorative Diplome
Dourdan: Librairie H.Vial, successeur de Ch. Juliot, n.d. (ca. 1900). First edition. Large folio (43 x 33 cm) cloth-backed folder with superb Nouveau-illustrated titling and design motif in red-brown, original ribbon ties (3) present. 28 Art Nouveau plates (numbered 1-28) in many colors, superb illustrative illustrations and motifs delineating period... (Item #81)
Price: $2,750.00
[Art Nouveau] Lettres et Enseignes; Premiere Serie: Art Nouveau. Par E. Mulier, Professeur de Composition Decorative Diplome
Arthur O'Shaughnessy. His Life and His Work with Selections from his Poems
Cambridge and Chicago: Elkin Mathews; Stone and Kimball, 1894. First edition. 12mo. Beige cloth, raised bands on spine, elaborate gilt stamped Nouveau design on both covers. Frontispiece portrait drawn by Mr. A.F. Jaccaci on Japan Vellum. Foxing present, as usual for this title. Binding a bit bumped, gilt mostly present... (Item #143)
Price: $175.00
Arthur O'Shaughnessy. His Life and His Work with Selections from his Poems
[Bakst, Leon] The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst
London: The Fine Arts Society, 1913. First edition. Thick Folio. Original three-quarter vellum, marbled paper covered boards with cover printed signature of Leon Bakst. One of 250 Copies. 77 tipped-in plates, 50 in full color with pochoir highlights by Leon Bakst (1866-1924), celebrated Russian painter, scene and costume designer. This... (Item #346)
Price: $5,200.00
[Bakst, Leon] The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst
[Beblo, Fritz] Klaus Burrmann, der Tierweltphotograph
Berlin: Gerhard Stalling, 1941. First edition. 8vo. Color illustrated paper covered boards, cloth spine. In original color illustrated dust wrapper (thick card paper) reproducing exactly cover illustrations. Five super full-page, several half-page color illustrations, other B&W illustrations, all by Fritz Beblo. Scarce with wrapper. Hinges reinforced, else very good. (Item #160)
Price: $150.00
[Beblo, Fritz] Klaus Burrmann, der Tierweltphotograph
[Beckman, Johanna Illus] Liebe Alte Kinderreime mit Schattenbildern
Mainz: Scholz, [1913]. First edition. Oblong 4to. Blue cloth spine, paper covered boards with delightful pictorial cover depicting a child feeding a line of swans. 16 pages of black and white blocked illustrations by Johanna Beckmann. Corners bumped, else very good. (Item #68)
Price: $225.00
[Beckman, Johanna Illus] Liebe Alte Kinderreime mit Schattenbildern
[Beskow, Elsa] Lillebror's Segelfard
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, n.d. (ca 1925). Quarter brown cloth, color pictorial cover and ten full-page color illustrations by Beskow. Music by Alice Tegner at end, as issued. Very good. Scarce imprint. (Item #57)
Price: $185.00
[Beskow, Elsa] Lillebror's Segelfard
[Beskow, Elsa] Blondchen in Bluten
Munchen: Georg W. Dietrich, 1908. First edition. Folio size. Color pictorial paper covered boards, red cloth spine. Illustrated title page, endpapers and superb full page and half page color illustrations throughout by ELSA BESKOW. Corners chipped, some soiling, clean internally, very good. A very scarce Beskow title. (Item #277)
Price: $325.00
[Beskow, Elsa] Blondchen in Bluten
[Beskow, Elsa] Daumelischen
Munchen: Georg Dietrich, ca. 1920. First edition. 4to. Color pictorial paper covered boards. Superb illustrations in color throughout by ELSA BESKOW. Book 5 in the Kunstler Bilderbucher Series. Covers show wear, corners and edges chipped, some soiling and lacks front free fly, still a nice copy internally of a delightful Jugendstil book. (Item #275)
Price: $325.00
[Beskow, Elsa] Daumelischen
[Bewick, John and Thomas] Poems by Goldsmith and Parnel
London: W. Bulmer; T. Printed for Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First Octavo Edition. 8vo. Full patterned calf with understated gilt designs on corners, morocco labels on spine. Five plates and eight woodcut illustrations by John and Thomas Bewick. Superb quality in the plates. Corners bumped, some wear to covers... (Item #194)
Price: $450.00
[Bewick, John and Thomas] Poems by Goldsmith and Parnel
[Binding, Fine; Root and Son] Lovel the Widower
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1861. First edition. 8vo. Bound in attractive full polished calf with gilt-ruled borders, raised bands, gilt spine, by ROOT AND SON. TEG. Illustrated with engravings throughout. About fine. Bound with 16pp advertisements at end. (Item #206)
Price: $350.00
[Binding, Fine; Root and Son] Lovel the Widower
[Binding, Fine] Guild of Women Binders: The Royal Gallery of Hampton Court
London: George Bell and Sons, 1898. First edition. Thick 8vo. FINE BINDING- GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS. Buff morocco binding with raised bands. Gilt stamped fine rectangular Scottish coat of arms held up by two unicorns on both covers, by the Guild. Rubricated title page, decorative initials, devices at head and... (Item #2)
Price: $650.00
[Binding, Fine] Guild of Women Binders: The Royal Gallery of Hampton Court
[Blackwood, Gladys Rourke] Dilly Dally Sally
Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1940. First edition. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards, original spiral bound. Full and half-page illustrations in monochrome by Gladys Rourke Blackwood. A fine copy in scarce color pictorially wrapper (small tear lower spine, else near fine). (Item #91)
Price: $250.00
[Blackwood, Gladys Rourke] Dilly Dally Sally
[Blue Sky Press] The Harper and the King's Horse
Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1905. First edition. 4to. Brown paper covered boards, bold white lettering on cover, red cloth spine. Designs by Thomas Wood Stevens and illustrations by Sarah K. Smith. Fine. (Item #300)
Price: $95.00
[Blue Sky Press] The Harper and the King's Horse
[Blue Sky Press] The Bashful Man
Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1902. First edition. 8vo. Cloth backed, decorated paper covered boards. 500 numbered Copies, Signed "L" for Langworthy of the Press. Presentation Copy: "To our beloved president, Mr. John J. Flinn, -- A token of appreciation from the 'worker's table.' Charles Pierce Burton, December, 1906." Corners chipped... (Item #342)
Price: $125.00
[Blue Sky Press] The Bashful Man
[Blue Sky Press] Verses
Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1901. First edition. 12mo. Original gray paper covered boards with cover design in blue, red lettering cover and spine. #216 out of 250 copies printed and initialed "L" for Langworthy, the designer on Ruisdael hand-made paper. Ends of boards sl. discolored, overall a presentable copy... (Item #256)
Price: $95.00
[Blue Sky Press] Verses
[Bradley, Will] Rabbi Ben Ezra
Concord: Sign of the Vine, 1903. First edition. Small 8vo. Original gray paper covered boards, printed label on cover. Rubricated title, initials by WILL BRADLEY, printed on high quality handmade paper at the Heintzeman Press. Fine, entirely unopened. (Item #242)
Price: $150.00
[Bradley, Will] Rabbi Ben Ezra

 
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