Italy: c.1950s. One of many occult themed bookplates designed for Gino Sabatini. Many of his bookplates feature devils, astrology, or other esoteric themes. Mechanical woodcut print. Scarce. Small format printed "occult" ex-libris bookplate for Gino Sabatini. Woodcut design, printed in b/w, unbound on white paper in black. Unidentified edition. Artist.....
Price: $50.00
1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown leather boards, blind-tooled lettering and decorative elements, raised bands on spine, frontispiece, handmade paper. 66x47mm. np. Numbered limited edition, this being 33 of 175.
Price: $75.00
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1968. First Edition. Original Wraps. Exhibition catalogue. A very nice overview of the history and evolution of papermaking. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at textblock edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. White paper wraps, embossed lettering and decorative elements, tissueguard. Oblong 8vo. 96pp. Illus.....
Price: $35.00
London: Paramount Studios, 1921-1938. First Edition(s). Hardcover. In-house magazine for Paramount Films, aimed at Cinema Managers. These wonderful volumes include screen stills, film backgrounds, Boise, "story inserts" (for local paper republication), "poster ads," and wonderful images of local theaters. All volumes came from the Kobel Collection. Kobel was apparently in.....
Price: $25,000.00
Portland, ME: Baxter Society/Stinehour Press, 1992. First Edition/Limited Fine Binding. Hardcover. Presswork by David Wolfe, Wolfe Editions. Includes contributions by May Sarton, Eliot Stanley, Francis O'Brien, John Vincent Healy and many others. This being one of four copies exceptionally bound by Grey Parrot. Tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, green leather.....
Price: $450.00
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. Early Pears' soap advertisement published in Harper's Magazine Advertiser using racially insensitive illustration. Stain at one edge, two small chips (one missing, one repaired), tiny closed tear. Single leaf advertisement page.
Price: $45.00
nd. [circa 1900]. 10/each. All show a touch of toning, typical given the poor paper used, but otherwise clean and bright. Each approximately 8x10". Illus. (color print).
Price: $250.00
Alencon, France: Imprimerie Veuve Felix Guy et Cie, 1891. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Reprint edition, hardcover, "for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares." Light shelf/edge wear, loose binding, light bumps with boards, tips through, faint rubbing with small spot of soiling on rear board, else tight, bright, and unmarred.....
Price: $45.00
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Unlimited edition published with the limited. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter. Includes work by John Buckland-Wright, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, Lynton Lamb, Reynolds Stone, and others. Light toning at board edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, red.....
Price: $100.00
Budapest: 1980. [miniature]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Hungarian textblock. Botanical plates. Rather uncommon. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full black leather boards, brown leather label, green ink lettering, pamphlet laid into acetate sleeve. 64x45mm. Illus. (color plates).
Price: $75.00
New York: George P. Miles Co, 1862-3. First Edition. Original Wraps. Includes the following issues: 1862 No. 9, 10, 11; 1863 No. 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24. Most issues are Near Fine, one or two are quite brittle and show loss to the textblock. Overall, a very presentable collection.....
Price: $75.00
Amsterdam: 2005. Unique Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Burgundy eel boards, matching morocco boards, blank book with black sheets for miniature pictures and patterned tissue guards. 28x32mm. 22pp.
Price: $25.00
nd [circa 1880s]. [miniature]. Hardcover. A wonderful collection of tiny souvenir images. Very scarce. Minor wear, some light creases to accordion photos, else tight and clean. Stamped metal silver-colored boards, locket style with loop to attach to bracelet, photographic onlay at front board, mounted accordion fold of six miniature photographs.....
Price: $175.00
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First Edition. Original Wraps. Collection of reprints of 50 illustrations from Scribner's Magazine from the last 1890's by some of the most prominent illustrators of the day, Edwin Abbey and F.S. Church, C.S. Reinhart among others. Uniquely captures social aspects of 19th century leisure.....
Price: $250.00
Pittsburgh, PA: The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. A book dedicated to the Pittsburgh Bibliophiles for their Pilgrimage to Italy in 1976. Members who made the trip and libraries visited are listed in the Appendix. Tight, bright and unmarred. Glassine dust jacket shows closed notched tear at rear, else.....
Price: $45.00
Taiwan. [miniature]. Loose cards in Tight Original Box. Bright and unmarred in orginal box. 55 cards (52 standard cards plus two jokers and one blank). 50x40mm.
Price: $75.00
New York: The Pleasure Chest, 1978. Third Edition. Original Wraps. This is a relatively early adult toys catalog...the first third rather vanilla, the rest on the fetish end of the spectrum. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown paper wraps, brown ink lettering. Small 8vo. 192pp. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $45.00
Budapest: Kossuth Nyomda, 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text in Hungarian. Fading and minor wear damage, else tight. Printed paper boards, pasted on picture on front cover. 52x41mm. np. Illus. (color plates).
Price: $50.00
[France]: [1980s]. First Edition. Underground French sex paper featuring challenging sex and sexuality topics, including fringe fetish communities, alternative kink lifestyles, and LGBTQ communities. A combination of fiction, edgy softcore photos, serious writing and drawings with plenty of socially redeeming context. Contains titles: Super-Gags (V6N8-9), Sexy Gags (V5N3,5); Fou Rire.....
Price: $150.00
Germany: 1916. [miniature]. First Edition (presumed). Original Wraps. Printed in black and red ink. Very uncommon to find these in presentable condition. Minor shelf/edge wear, small crease at one corner, else tight, bright and unmarred. Embossed color wraps, black ink lettering. 55x38mm. 56pp.
Price: $75.00
New York: G.W. Morris, nd [circa 1898]. First Edition. Original Wraps. A very handsome copy of this wonderful collection of images...seldom found in such a state. Closed split at heal in the paper wraps, light even toning to wraps, else tight, bright and unmarred. Cream paper wraps, gilt lettering and.....
Price: $145.00
Portland, ME: Crowley & Lunt, 1929. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A rather scarce copy of this proto-telephone/business directory. A wonderful directory of period businesses, richly illustrated. Light shelf/edge wear, through at tips, else tight, bright and unmarred. 663pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $45.00
Philadelphia, PA: 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. 19 engravings of famous actors and actresses plus plate of "Mr. Barnes" at rfep. Described in 1866 auction catalogue of the library of T.H. Morrell as, "The above consists of the very rare portraits of Hodgkinson, Cooper the Tragedian, Cooke, John Howard Payne, Jefferson.....
Price: $750.00
Los Angeles, CA: Bela Blau. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Massmann bookplate. Signed by Publishers. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements on front cover and spine, printed endpaper, tipped-in stamp frontispiece, 40 tipped in stamps for the first 40 presidents, paper slipcase. 58x41mm. np.
Price: $155.00
Boston, MA: Guy A. Jackson, 1930. Second Printing. Hardcover. A rather handsome copy of this minor classic, increasingly hard to find in DJ. Very minor shelf/edge wear, touch of glue toning at endpages, minor fraying at head, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows moderate chipping at edges, touch of.....
Price: $45.00