L’ORNEMENT HEBREU. [Ornamentation des Anciens Manuscrits Hebreux de la Bibliotheque Imperiale Publique de St. Petersburg]
Large folio (17-1/2" x 22-1/3") in old 3/4 red morocco leather and marbled boards, all edges gilt. Text booklet (printed in Leipzig, 1919) with information on authors and plates tipped to blank sheet at front. Complete with 27 gold-enhanced chromolithographic plates, including color title page. Major work on medieval Jewish manuscript art and important source for the earliest illustrated Hebrew Bible from the East and the collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the Academy of Science Library in Leningrad. Contents clean with no markings. Binding worn with some loss of leather on spine and library call number at foot of spine but no library markings internally. Very Good
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-5/8") bound with a buckram spine with sides covered in 100% American cotton woven in an allover floral pattern; 360 pages. Introduction by R. W. B. Lewis. Illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith with 12 full-page illustrations in color and 12 black-and-white in-text drawings. Copy #1770 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase BEOWULF
Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors with color auto-lithographs drawn on separated plates by Lynd Ward. Copy #1213 of 1500. Issued unsigned. LYSIS, OR FRIENDSHIP. THE SYMPOSIUM. PHAEDRUS
Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in natural-grain goatskin vellum-backed boards covered with a pinkish-tannish Swedish paper. Translated from the Greek, with Introductory Analyses, by Benjamin Jowett. Preface by Whitney J. Oates. Illustrated with full- and part-page pen-and-ink drawings by Eugene Karlin. Copy #1213 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS
Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic satire of life in ancient Rome revised by Gilbert Bagnani. Illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor with two double-page and eight full-page illustrations drawn in wash, and forty text drawings in line. Copy #1213 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase THE LIVING TALMUD: THE WISDOM OF THE FATHERS
Small folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in half natural-grain goatskin vellum and black cloth stamped in genuine gold, top edge gilt with pure gold leaf; 226 pages. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Judah Goldin. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press with the classical commentaries printed in both English in black ink and Hebrew in red ink. Illustrated with 12 full-page sepia drawings by Ben-Zion. Copy #1085 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase THE ECLOGUES
Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. Copy #1213 of 1500 designed by George Salter with 25 color illustrations by Marcel Vertes and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
Tall octavo (8-1/2" x 11") bound in imported white English vellum-backed blue Fabriano paper boards stamped in pure gold leaf; 340 pages. Designed by Adrian Wilson and translated by Thomas Common. Illustrated with decorated chapter initials and initials silk-screened in white and gold on deep-blue Fabriano paper inserts by Arnold Bank. Copy #1213 of 1500. Issued unsigned. Lovely edition of this classic. POLITICS & POETICS
Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure. Copy #1213 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase A FOWL ALPHABET
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Tall octavo (5-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in full dark blue morocco leather with a gilt-decorated spine. Translated by William Ellery Leonard. Illustrated with striking full- and partial-page wood engravings by Paul Landacre. Copy #1213 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. ONE LIFE. An Autobiography
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AMEN, Irving Limited edition color lithograph (image size 19-1/2" x 14" matted and framed to an overall size of 27" x 23"). Of an edition of 300 SIGNED in pencil by the illustrator in the bottom right margin, this copy is marked "Artist's Proof" in pencil at the bottom middle margin and titled in pencil in the lower left margin with the notation "A/P." Appears to be Fine, not examined out of the frame which has minor wear THE EDWARDIANS
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita Vellum-backed cloth. Copy #74 of only 125 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. A late novel which is a clear critique of the Edwardian aristocratic society as well as a reflection of the author's childhood experiences. Rather uncommon in this signed issue. Mild soiling to vellum. Close to Fine
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
CHURCHILL, Winston Six volumes issued over a period of six years: THE GATHERING STORM (Volume 1), THEIR FINEST HOUR (Volume 2), THE GRAND ALLIANCE (Volume 3), THE HINGE OF FATE (Volume 4), CLOSING THE RING (Volume 5), and TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY (Volume VI). The publication of this important historical account of the Second World War helped Churchill win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrappers with some even sunning to spines and minor wear and tears
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
GOODALL, Jane Fine handwritten one-page letter on Gombe Wildlife Research Institute stationery by the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, having studied them for over 60 years. Addressed to Nancy. In part: "She was out here with the Peace Corps. She house sat and dog sat for me driving me on my spring lecture tours (So my dog knows her better than I do!!)." SIGNED "Love Jane." Creasing and minor wrinkling. Very Good
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[ROOSEVELT, Franklin] LEAR, H. L. Sidney (editor) Miniature book (2-1/4" x 3-1/2") in original drab olive cloth with gilt floral decoration and lettering on the front cover; 92, (3) pages. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's copy SIGNED by him on the front endpaper "Franklin D. Roosevelt/Hyde Park/1927." On the front pastedown is the paper label used in Franklin Roosevelt's miniature book collection, this numbered "1232." Light foxing to endpapers with little effect on FDR's signature; slight separation between pages 32 and 33. Near Fine- $1,563
- $1,563
THE HAPPY WARRIOR. ALFRED E. SMITH. A Study of a Public Servant
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D Cloth in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the future President on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Garrett A Roach/with all good wishes from/Franklin D. Roosevelt/October 31 1928." Below his inscription his son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. has also INSCRIBED and SIGNED the book "To Albert A. Roach/With best wishes,/Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr." with the date "1-29-49" below in another hand. In his foreword, Roosevelt states: "It is difficult, in the tumult of a political campaign, to set forth facts without bias, but I have tried, in the first part of this little book, to analyze fairly some of the causes that make Alfred E. Smith one of the most interesting Americans of this generation. In no way is this written as a partisan plea. The excuse lies in the deluge of letters coming to me from men and women in every circumstance of life, and from every part of the United States, asking every conceivable kind of question about him." Alas, Smith lost to Herbert Hoover in a landslide a few months later, and the following year the longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy occurred: The Great Depression. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with edgewear and a closed split along the spine crease- $7,500
- $7,500
SALOME
WILDE, Oscar Two quarto volumes (8" x 11"), copy #1485 of 1500 numbered copies. The first volume in black wrappers is the French original illustrated by Andre Derain with gouache drawings on black paper reproduced through the pochoir process and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The other volume, in gilt-decorated red cloth, is the English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations from the first edition by Aubrey Beardsley including four omitted from the original. Darkening to the text pages opposite the plates by Derain, as usual. Slight sunning to the spine of the hardcover volume. Near Fine with glassine on the wrappers volume only in a Very Good slipcase with minor splitting and edgewear- $625
- $625
RAWDON’S ROOF
LAWRENCE, D. H Decorated paper boards with matching dustwrapper. Copy #221 of 530 SIGNED by the author of this short story issued as number 7 of the publisher's Woburn Books series. Minor bump to upper corner of front board; splitting to spine edge of dustwrapper neatly hidden by mylar protector. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper- $625
- $625
FAMOUS CASTLES AND TEMPLES IN JAPAN
OGAWA, K[azumasa] Oblong folio (14-7/8" x 10-1/2") in original pink and green floral silk cloth over thin boards, two purple cord ties, green and gilt speckled finish inside the covers and on the facing free pages, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 35 hand-colored captioned collotypes with tissue guards of various Japanese temples and castles. Quite scarce. Minor fading and foxing to covers; bottom right corner lightly bumped throughout not affecting images. Near Fine- $2,500
- $2,500
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