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[BOOK ARTS]
1. Baskin, Leonard.
Birds & Animals.
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1974. First edition. Oblong folio. 28.7 x 37 cm. One of 50 copies. The 65 individual sheets, signed woodcuts and linoleum cuts by Baskin printed in black, blue, red and green ink on semi-transparent paper, interleaved with heavier stock. The images varying in size, all with full margins printed one to a leaf on Troya paper, and printed from the blocks by Harold McGrath, Signed by Baskin in pencil on last leaf. One of fifty sets created. An unknown number were bound; many, like this set, remained in loose sheets. The images, which range in size from roughly one inch up to 8 inches. They consist primarily of illustrations, bookplates, pressmarks, and ephemera used in earlier works. BRIDWELL 77. Laid-in, the Gehenna Press illustrated announcement on light green stock describing the publication. Baskin founded the Gehenna Press whilst at Yale in 1942, and printed prolifically for the rest of his life, notably during his years teaching at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1953 to 1974. A great admirer of William Blake, Baskin illustrated and printed many of his own works in addition to collaborative projects. Orig. navy portfolio housed in folding box, striped front cover and back cover matching navy colored portfolio. Fine. $4,950.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
2. Brett, Simon.
Simon Brett an Engraver's Progress A Selection Of Engravings with an Introduction by the artist ENDGRAIN EDITIONS FOUR.
British Columbia: Crispin & Jan Elsted at Barbarian Press, 2013. First edition. Unpaginated, approximately, 250 pages. Folio, 39 x 24 cm. Limited Edition, copy 120 of 175 copies. There are 134 engravings, most printed recto only on Zerkall Cream paper in black and green. The engravings printed in Joanna type. An effort to present Brett's engraved work spanning fifty years as a master printer. Brett inspired by Clifford Web was born in England, traveled and worked in New Mexico, Denmark and Provence between 1965-70 before finally returning to the UK. Appendices contain: Notes on Selected Engravings, Catalogue of Wood Engravings 1961-2013, Exhibitions, Publications, Books Illustrated. Quarter green cloth, marbled boards, lettered white spine label. Fine. $795.00
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[MODERN ART]
2A. Calder, Alexander [Paris. Derriere Le Miroir].
Derriere Le Miroir. No. 156. February, 1966.
Paris: Maeght, 1966. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. Cover and six color lithographs by Calder, two are double-paged, plus eighteen black and white illustrations Text in French by Jacques Prevert, Meyer Shapiro, Nicholas Guppy, and Alexander Calder. Bright copy. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $290.00
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[MODERN ART]
2B _____.
Derriere Le Miroir. No. 31, July 1950.
Paris: Pierre a Feu, 1950. First edition. 4 pages. Folio, 36 x 29 cm. Covers are original lithographs. Text in French by James Johnson Sweeney, Henri Lauger, Henri Hoppenot and Fernand Leger. Bright, clean copy. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $250.00
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[MODERN ART]
3. Chagall, Marc .
Derriere Le Miroir. No. 182, December 1969.
Paris: Maeght, 1969. First edition. 32 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Text in French by Claude Esteban. Comprising one double-page lithograph printed in colours, with title-page, text and reproductions, published by Maeght, Paris, on wove paper, loose as issued within original lithographic front cover wrapper. Bright, clean copy. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $350.00
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[COOK BOOKS]
4. Colt, J.N. (Compiler).
Choice Recipes From Miss Farmer's Slips.
Boston: John W. Schaeffer & Co. (Boston, Mass.) printer, 1920-1926?. 3 unnumbered leaves, 41 leaves. 22 x 15.5 cm. OCLC: 1236247373. "Imprint date suggested from manuscript inscription on title page. Some recipes include wine or liquor as ingredients." Nicks to back cover fore-edge, interior clean and fresh. Light green wrappers front cover border and text printed in blue. Very good. (#24073) $75.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
5. Cruikshank, George (Illustrator).
Tom Thumb; A Burletta, Altered From Henry Fielding, by Kane O'Hara.
London: Thomas Rodd, 1830. First edition. 34 pages. 13 1/2 x 10 cm. Seven woodcuts, five full-page and two vignettes. First issue: "In the earliest issues there occurs an error in the pagination, pp. 29/30 being numbered 21/22..........The mistake was soon corrected." COHN 615. Two early signatures in ink. Rebacked in blue stiff wrappers with front cover paper label. Near fine. $195.00
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[LITERATURE/VICTORIAN]
6. Dickens, Charles.
Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. 624 pages, 23 x 15 cm. First edition in book form. Thirty eignt full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 12 engraved plates interleaved throughout (some plate spotting). Early issue with following points -- two line errata leaf, no half title, vignette title with Cuttle's hook in left hand, "Delight" instead of "Joy" (p.284), page number 431 present. "Capatin" for "Captain" in last line p. 234, and "if" missing in line 9 on p. 426, no period at end of last line on p. 582. ECKEL pp.74-76. SMITH 1:8. YALE/GIMBEL A103. Text clean, plates also bright and fresh with a few slightly toned at margins. Frontispiece and title page with light margin toning. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. All edges marbled. Fine. $950.00
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[LITERATURE/VICTORIAN]
7. _____.
Little Dorrit.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. 625 pages, 22 x 15 cm. First edition in book form, first issue with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp.469-474, but without the additional 9-line errata. Etched frontispiece, vignette title page and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). ECKEL pp. 82-85. SMITH I:12. Bound by Smyth, Liverpool: raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, green leather spine label printed in gilt, Nicholas Robinson bookplate and signature on title; intermittent, scattered foxing mostly marginal, heavier first few and last leaves, solid and tight binding. 19th century half red calf and marbled boards, matching marble endpapers and edges. Very good. $525.00
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[LITERATURE & BINDING]
8. _____.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz"
London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition, second issue. 288, 263 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Half–titles, EXTRA–ILLUSTRATED WITH 61 ENGRAVINGS including the 12 etchings by George Cruikshank, many hand–colored and folding (including a play bill from the Drury Lane Theater announcing his last public appearance, Friday, June 27. 1828), several proofs before letters. Grimaldi was considered the most celebrated of English clowns, know particularly for his pantomime. An early work of Dickens, who wrote the preface, the last chapter, and edited this work on the famous English actor and clown according to Johnson's biography. Gilt stamped, bound by Baytun; issue with the plate "Last Song" without a border. Spine in six compartments, raised bands gilt lettered, inner dentelles, original brown cloth bound in at end, marbled endpapers with spine lettered at foot noting "Extra Illustrated." ECKLES p.152-153. GIMBEL B64. Full green levant with large central pictorial inlays of Grimaldi as a clown and as another theatrical character in various color morocco's within a geometric gilt frame. Aeg. Two vols. $4,950.00
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[LITERATURE]/VICTORIAN]
9. _____.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club Forty-Three Illustrations, By R. Seymor And Phiz.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. 669 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Charles Dickens's first novel was published by Chapman & Hall in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837. The publisher had just started a series of amusing stories dealing with “Cockney sporting scenes”. The series was built around the illustrations of Robert Seymour. Publication began on March 30th. Less than a month later, on April 20th, Robert Seymour committed suicide. Minor browning to a few leaves, some spotting, spine rebacked and rubbing to board covers. Bookplate of Thomas C. Ogden. GIMBEL A16. GROLIER ENGLISH 78. SMITH I:3. Contemporary half green morocco, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt and marbled boards. Very good. $825.00
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[LITERATURE/NOVEL]
10. Du Maurier, George.
Trilby A Novel With 121 Illustrations By the Author And Facsimiles Of Selected Pencil Studies.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1895. (x) 447 pages. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Large Paper Copy, Limited edition copy 178 of 250 signed by George Du Maurier. Full page portraits with tissue guards. Engraved frontispiece, half-title, the most famous of George du Mauriers three novels, Trilby is credited with having inspired Gaston Lerouxs 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera. Wide text margins, interior clean and bright, front free endpaper toned, slight pucker front cover. Bookplate of Michael A.E. Franklin, Turkscroft, Ifield, Crawley, Sussex. Orig. quarter vellum lettered in gilt, dark beige cloth. Teg. Very good. $395.00
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[MODERN ART]
11. Eichenberg, Fritz.
The Wood and The Graver The Work of Fritz Eichenberg.
Barre: Imprint Society, 1977. First edition. 199 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 183 of 500 signed by Fritz Eichenberg, and with original wood engraving " The Dream of Reason," signed by Eichenberg in pocket at rear cover. Bibliography. Index of Prints. Orig. gilt lettered half morocco and cambridge gray cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. $350.00.
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[COOK BOOK]
12. Farmer, Fannie Merritt.
The Boston Cooking School Cook Book.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1925. New Edition, Revised And Enlarged. 806 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Containing more than six hundred recipes not found in previous editions. Host of adds at rear. Extensive index. Numerous half tone illustrations. Interior contents clean and fresh. Orig. tan cloth lettered in brown. Fine. $95.00
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[BOOK ARTS & LITERARY]
13. Gourmont, Remy de.
Couleurs.
Paris: Camille Bloch, 1929. First edition. 225 pages. 22 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 149 of 285 on Sur Velin Blanc de Rives paper with 12 hand-colored plates of a total of 36 original compositions (23 in black and white) drawn and engraved on copper by J.M. Labourer who later in life was associated with the Cubists. Text in French, a collection of short stories by Gourmont. Book label of Harry C. Goebel. Front cover printed in red and black, partly unopened. Orig. gray board chemise spine sunned and stiff cream paper wrappers, contents loose as issued laid-in are fine in very good reinforced matching gray board slipcase. $395.00
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[UK LONDON]
14. Herbert, William.
Londina Illustrata Graphic and Historic Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palaces, Halls, Courts, Processions, Places of Early Amusement and Modern and Present Theaters, in the City and Suburbs of London and Westminster.
London: Robert Wilkinson, 1819-1825. First edition. Unpaginated. 37 x 29.5 cm. Engraved titles and 205 plates, some double-page. Notable for a series of plates illustrating London's 'Ancient & Modern Theatres', including the Southwark Bear Garden, Bankside Globe and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Herbert was an English librarian and antiquarian. In1828 he was elected librarian of the Guildhall Library, which had been recently reestablished by the Corporation of London. He prepared a second edition of the catalogue in 1840, and retired in 1845. He died, aged 80, on 18 November 1851. UPCOTT II, pp.897-904. Interior contents generally clean with some modest offsetting plates to text. Adhesions to inside front covers residue from bookplate removal. Three inch library blind stamp title page of both front covers. Raised bands, spines lettered in gilt. Modern three quarter black calf and marbled boards. Near fine. 2 Vols. $1,565.00
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[COOK BOOK]
15. Hughes, Mary B.
Everywomen's Canning Book The A B C of Safe Home Canning and Preserving by the Cold Pack Method.
Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows, 1918. Second printing. 96 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Index. Work was produced "during the season 0f 1917, in the Food Conservation Drive for War Relief at Mrs. Hemenway's Canning Kitchen, Boston." Back cover stamped "War Saving Stamps issued by the United States Government." Orig. light brown cloth lettered front and back, spine and back cover abraded, Very good. $65.00
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[AMERICAN ART/PRINTS]
16. Jones, Dan Burne.
The Prints of Rockwell Kent A Catalogue Raisonne.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1975. First edition. 219 pages. 32 x 24.5 cm. Dan Burne Jones, an artist, writer, and collector, was appointed official bibliographer to Rockwell Kent by the artist before his death. Foreword by Carl Zigrosser. More than 300 reproductions. Chronological listing of all the prints. Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 4794. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in fine illustrated dust wrapper housed in original publisher clear cellophane wrapper. $135.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
17. Jones, Shirley.
The Making of Ellor-gast 1985-1986 A Cautionary Tale.
Np: Hen Press, 1986. First edition. 10 leaves. 26 x 17 cm. Ellor-gast, or alien spirit explores the theme of the monster in Beowulf. The book was hand-set Baskerville type and printed on Rives mould-made paper. A relief etching from one of the plates used for Ellor-gast [the actual book], not "The Making of" is printed on paper made by Jacques Brejoux is signed & enclosed. Copy 7 of 200 signed by Shirley Jones in pencil. Laid-in is a description of the book itself in quarter bound green morocco priced 475 Sterling. Orig. pebble grained light brown cloth decorated in a dark brown motif. Fine. $225.00
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[MODERN ART]
18. Kandinsky, Wassily.
1900 Kandinsky 1910. No. 42, November-December 1951.
Paris: Maeght, 1951. Second edition. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Comprising six woodcuts, three printed in colours, with title-page, text and justification, on wove paper, the full sheets loose as published in the original color lithographed covers. Text in French, translated by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia. Fresh, clean copy. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $250.00
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[MODERN ART]
19. _____ .
Kandinsky periode parisienne 1934-1944. No. 179, June 1969.
Paris: Maeght, 1969. First edition. 18 [8] pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. With 5 original lithographs after Kandinsky, including the back and front covers and 2 double-page lithographs; plus 3 other color repoductions. Text in French by Gaeton Picon. Fresh, crisp copy. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $350.00
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[CULTURE & COMEDY]
20. London. Punch Office.
Punch's Pocket-Book For 1876, Containing A Calendar, Cash Account, Diary And Memoranda For Every Day In The Year, And A Variety Of Useful Business Information Illustrated By John Tenniel, Charles Keene, and Linley Sambourne.
London: Punch Office, 1876. First edition. 192 pages. 12 x 9 cm. Frontispiece, a large, color lithograph fold-out entitled "The Modern Babylonian Marriage Mart", plus full color title. Profusely illustrated with wood-cuts in the text. Note(s): Single issue of an annual which was published 1844-1881 (NUC pre-56 NP0646834) -- Added illus. t.p. and frontis., hand colored. Part I (p. [1-122] includes lists of headed State (e.g. Royal family, ministers, ambassadors), Legislature (Peers, Commons), Commerce (Corp. of London, bankers, army agents), Law (English, Scottish, Irish courts), Public Offices, Theaters, Exhibitions, Calendar, Cash account, Diary and memoranda; pt. II (p. [123]-192) is 30 humorous anecdotes and poems. Wallet binding in navy leather with pocket. Orig. navy morocco covers with tab insertion flap at rear cover. Aeg. Very good. $225.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS/CLASSICS]
21. McElroy, Sean.
Hymn To Dionysos.
Ann Arbor: Passim Editions, 2003. First edition. 9 leaves. 26 x 22 cm. Limited edition, one of 20 copies printed in Bembo and Antigone types, hand bound at the Press and signed in pencil by McElroy. Etchings and translation by McElroy with title and additional text printed in Greek and English. Illustrations by the author. Interior pages colored red with black text. Dionysos (Roman Bacchus), was the ancient Greek god of wine, merriment, and theatre. Orig. cloth backed pictorial boards against a red background. Fine. $325.00
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[COOK BOOK]
22. Parloa, Maria.
Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion A Guide For All Who Would Be Good Housekeepers.
Boston: Estes And Lauriat, 1887. First edition. viii, 966 pages. 21,5 x 15 cm. Extensive Index at rear includes two page color ad for Gordon & Dilworth. Interior surprisingly clean, illustrated with woodcuts. Owner inscription second free endpaper. Orig. light brown cloth, front cover and spine lettered and illustrated, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. $95.00
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[GOLDEN COCKEREL]
23. Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
Zastrozzi A Romance With An Introduction by Phyllis Hartnoll And Engravings by Cecil Keeling. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. 131 pages. 4to, 23 x 15 cm. Eight full-page engravings. Limited edition, copy 193 of 200 printed in Bell type on Japanese vellum. COOK-A-HOOP 201. Shelley's first printed work, published 1810. A melodramatic work filled with supernatural and macabre events. Bright, fresh copy. Orig. quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine in fine matching marbled slipcase. $350.00
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[LITERATURE]
24. Smollett, Tobias.
The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom.
London: Lackington, Allen, & Co, 1813. 224, 205 pages. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Hand colored frontispiece by Thomas Rowlandson. Smollett's influence has been as important as his achievement." [see: CBEL Vol. X, p.37]. Hume said that Smollett was like a coco-nut, rough outside, but full of human kindness within. After Fielding, Smollett counts as the greatest purveyor of comic prose-epic of contemporary life to his generation, if not to his century. [see:DNB]. Bound by R. Wallis, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, double gilt cover border panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, two leather spine labels, moderate text toning, one cover rehinged.. Late 19th century full brown, mottled calf. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols. (#19917) $350.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
25. Suckling, Sir John.
A Ballad Upon A Wedding With Engravings by Eric Ravilious.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. First edition. 13 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 342 of 375 printed by Robert Gibbings in 11pt. Caslon O.F. type on Kelmscott hand-made paper. The text taken form 1648 edition of the "Fragments Aurea." CHANTICLEER 49. Bright, very fresh copy. Book plate inside front cover designed by Rockwell Kent in 1928 for Iphigene Ochs and Arthur Hays Sulzbereger. Iphigene Ochs was the daughter of Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times. Her husband, Arthur Sulzberger, worked at the Times, and became publisher after his father-in-law's death in 1935. Orig. quarter white buckram spine and batik boards. Fine in very good illustrated dust wrapper with a few nicks.$495.00
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[LITERATURE]
26. Wilde, Oscar.
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol.
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. 31 pages. 23 x 14 cm. "Of this Edition eight hundred copies have been printed on hand-made paper, and thirty copies on Japanese vellum." The last edition to identify the author as "C.3.,3." -- Wilde was imprisoned in cell block C, landing C, Cell 3. This narrative, a tale of Charles Thomas Woodbridge's 1896 execution at Reading for the murder of his wife. Three small fade spots front cover, and slight crinkling at back cover toward head at fore-edge. Nicks to spine head and foot. Orig. quarter cream and light brown cloth, spine darkened. Very good. $1,450.00
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[LITERATURE/BEARDSLEY]
27. ______.
Salome.
London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & Copeland & Day, 1894. First English Edition. 67 pages. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. 16 pages of adverts dated January 1984 published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane at rear. Beardsley mocked Wilde in his illustrations, depicting him as the 'Woman in the Moon' and as a jester in 'Enter Herodias'. First published in French the previous year without Beardsley's illustrations due to censorship problems: the production of the play had its license withheld by the Lord Chamberlain on the grounds of its having introduced biblical characters. LASNER 59. MASON 350. Ten full page black and white plates by Beardsley. Text clean, renewed endpapers, slight rubbing to covers. Rebacked in full dark green calf, front and back covers decorated in gilt. Very good. $1,995.00
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[LITERATURE]
28. _____.
A Woman Of No Importance.
London: John Lane, 1894. First edition. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end (dated March 1894), Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts, both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre, satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled, spine extremities creased, binding tight; a sound copy. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. $1250.00
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[COOK BOOK]
29. Wills, Grace T.
Alfred Corning Clark Neighborhood House Cook Book.
New York: C.B. Darrow, 1908. First edition. 83 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. The author was a social worker, and Clark a notable American philanthropist and patron of the arts. This work is more a chapter in philanthropy, the half title reading "Receipts for Very Economical Cookery." Its recipes, documentation of food for the underprivilaged rather than for the public. They are practical with costs noted to prepare simple, wholesome meals with no gastronomic context. The work is as much a social document than a culinary one. Light rubbing to extremities. Orig. brown cloth lettered in black. Very good. ($75.00
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[ARCHITECTURE]
30. Wister, Owen (Preface).
A Monograph of the Work of Mellor Meigs & Howe.
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1923. First edition. 212 pages. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Copiously illustrated: photographs, elevations, plans to scale and drawings -- interior and exterior views. KARPEL B1195. "Includes a preface by Owen Wister, and articles by Paul Cret, Edmund Gilchrest, Matlack Price, Arthur Meigs and George Howe. In scope and range the firm's work comprised public buildings and fine house in this country and war memorials in France and Belgium. Small stamp of Jas. Gamble Rogers, Inc. on title and front cover paste down. Interior contents pristine. Black buckram spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. $395.00
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