[Children's Book] Les Matheurs de Sophie
Paris: Rene Touret, 1950. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards with large portion of front cover in shiny silver. Superb color plates. Very good. (Item #3309)
Paris: Rene Touret, 1950. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards with large portion of front cover in shiny silver. Superb color plates. Very good. (Item #3309)
Boston: de Wolfe, Fiske, 1890. First edition. Original cloth-backed glazed paper-covered boards, floral endpapers, in the publisherís printed and pictorial paper dust-wrapper; unpaginated, ìillustrated throughout in color and photogravure.î Tiny bit of rubbing at board edges, but essentially fine; jacket with chunks out at spine ends and corners, toning to..... (Item #4317)
A Copeland plate, "The Princess Belle-Etoile," after a design by Walter Crane. Printed and painted in many colors. Scarce. 24cm. diam. (Item #4752)
Oblong 12mo. Bastian Brothers, Rochester, NY, 1934. Original color pictorial cover printed on plastic containg superb and classic Art Deco designs. An unused notebook containing note pages of different colors, with a striking Deco cover of red, black and silver glassine and 1934-1935 calendars over a grey ìmetallicî sheet).3 x...... (Item #3240)
Amsterodami: Danielis Elzevirii (Elzevir Press), 1671. Thin 12mo. 18th century full calf, all edges red, marbled endsheets. Superb engraved title page. Binding somewhat rubbed, internally very nice. (Item #3921)
Amasterodami: Typis Ludovici Elzevirii, 1650. Thick 12mo. 18th century full calf. 589pp + 3pp Colloquium Index at end. Superb engraved title page. Binding somewhat worn. Internally very good and tight. Scarce title. (Item #3922)
4pp., 1902, printed on Essex House handmade paper, Oct., 1901. "The Guild of Handicraft announce the forthcoming issue.. from the Essex House Press..." etc. Printed on one octavo sheet, folded, with order form (last page). Scarce. (Item #3187)
4pp, New York City, 1930. Printed in red and black with cover design in lettering. Laid in is half-tone illustration on coated paper by Majeska, as well as order form. (Item #3162)
4pp. 1936. Printed on handmade paper with lettering in red and black on cover, green logo illustration design on cover. Specimen page on p.2 has two fawn in four-color lithography. Very attractive. (Item #3131)
Wien: Graphische Kunst Anstalt Bruder Rosenbaum, 1912. First edition. 12mo. Original batik style color pictorial cloth. In original gilt pictorial cloth covered slipcase designed by Josef Hoffmann, co-founder Wiener Werkstatte. Photographic portratis, etc. Book is fine, slipcase very good. Scarce. (Item #3364)
Offered here are two original pieces of cover art studies for The Inlaid Printer, the magazing which Will Bradley contributed so much art and design. 1) 8 1/2 x 12" on card paper, study for "Christmas, November, 1917, for "The Inland Printer" showing a woman in flowing brown coat shopping..... (Item #3737)
Newark, New Jersey: Carteret Book Club, Village Press, 1930. First edition. Bound in patterned paper covered boards with beige cloth spine. Limited to an edition of 200 copies, by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press, Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y. Some wear to corners, light staining to board edges. Some foxing..... (Item #4981)
Karlsbad: Gewidmet von Der Stadt Karlsbad, 1902. First edition. Very thick quarto. Light blue linen cloth with superb gitl-stampedArt Nouveau design by Bertold Loffler. Full-page color title-page, and full-page chapter frontispiece headings in black and white throughout by Loffler, a central figure in the Vienna Succession, and chief pupil of..... (Item #3346)
16mo. Three separate 4-page prospectuses (1896, 2copies; 1898) for Harpers Magazine, printed on coated paper, folded each with cover line drawing by Edward Penfield. 1896 with 11 titles. 1898 11 titles and three half-tone illustrations. (Item #3159)
Offered here is a wonderful, large Pre-Raphaelite poster (artist unsigned) image size measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches, depicting a gathering of workers in a pastoral setting, two carrying large scythes, one carrying a violin next to a woman dressed in white flowing garment. The poster is after a painting by..... (Item #5881)
London: James Clarke & Co., 1874. First edition. Original pinted light blue wrappers, 48pp. A satire, presumably about the excesses of opulent attire in the Church of England, all in the guise of poetry, with copious notes. We could find precious little about this book and no copies on the..... (Item #1928)
East Aurora: Roycroft Press. Seven separate Rowfant Club Ephemera items including printed special announcements, speakers, etc., all in near to fine condition. 1) "Candlemas," The Rowfant Club, 1903. 8 pages, including covers. Original printed wrappers (in red and black) with cover illustration of groundhog (Rowfant symbol), #61 of 140 copies..... (Item #4719)
Brooks, Shirley (1916-1874), novelist, journalist. 2pp. Cole, Vicar. 2pp. Creswick, Thomas (1811-1869, landscape painter, one of first members of Etching Club. Two ALS, 1840 & 1852. 3 Ω pages. Doo, George, engraver. 1857. 2+ pp. ìÖ the honorable position in which I have been placed by my suffragers, and now..... (Item #4850)
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1922. Original purple suede leather covers (oblong), yapp edges, with front cover heavily gilt central arabesque motif. Original wavy-grained glassine laid in, chipped and in two pieces, but it's presence obviously owing to preservation of this copy, which is very fine, no signs of us. Silk..... (Item #4726)
16pp., printed wrappers. Woodcut illustration on cover, specimen illustrations throughout. Very informative.Laid in is prospectus for Shakespeare Head Press Books, in Limited Editions (12 titles). (Item #3146)
4pp. with one sheet laid in printed in red, yellow, blue and black on handmade paper, 1927. Scarce. (Item #3145)
1843. Original color patterned handmade paper wrappers, blue paper (applied) spine. A superb mid-19th Century sketchbook with mock title page and full of nice sketches, some quite handsome and some rather crude, by the same artist. Ink, pencil, watercolor. Binding shaken, internally very good. (Item #3784)
Ca. 1890-1910. Original watercolor design for three-panel stained glass window with multiple detailed vignettes. A few minor smudges. 10 x 15 inches, on watercolor paper. (Item #4288)
New York: Printed for Tiffany & Co, by Theo. L. Devinne & Co., Printers, 1885. First edition. Original publishers light brown paper covered boards with illustration and lettering on both covers. In the exceedingly scarce printed brown paper dust wrapper with St. Nicholas Society emblem seal. Printed in black and..... (Item #4227)
n.p. 1792-1879. 4to. Original nineteenth century embossed and polished full calf (black), decorative borders, raised gilt bands on spine, gilt inner dentelles, red silk moirÈ endpapers, AEG. 88 leaves (unnumbered), title leaf with gilt embossed border, mounted title engraved card of an explorer holding a flag with the words: "Album."..... (Item #3434)