MARCH 2025

Recent Acquisitions

Costume, Gastronomy, Hammit, Hemingway, Meggendorfer (Pop-Up), McLoughlin Children's Books, Signed Prints by American Artists

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[SIGNED COLOR PRINT]

1. Allsburg, Chris Van.

Color Silkscreen Seriograph Print.

26 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches. Copy 269/300. Suitable for framing. Fine. $250.00

[CHILDREN'S]

1A. Andersen, Hans Christian.

Andersen Kalender 1911 Translated by Hugo Salus.

Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum gray and gilt colors, each border in different designs. Front cover and title page are also gilt decorated with latter a chromolithograph heightened in gold. Text in German. Repair to front cover upper corner head, interior contents clean, bookplate. Orig. cream decorated stiff wrappers. Very good. $700.00

[LITERATURE]

2. Angelo, Valenti (Illustrator).

King John [The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare] The Text of the First Folio Edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. First edition. 91 pages. 33 x 22.5 cm. Designed by Bruce Rogers with full page color lithograph illustrations by Valenti. Interior contents clean. Beige cloth spine and decorated boards. Near fine. $95.00

[CHILDREN'S]

2A. Baum, Frank L.

The Navy Alphabet Pictures by Harry Kennedy * Lettered by Charles Costello.

Chicago & New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition. Unpaginated. 31.3 x 25.5 cm. 27 color plates printed recto only. First and only edition of this rare oversized fragile picture book. "A" is for Admiral George Dewey, the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. Although issued simultaneously with The Army Alphabet and likely in the same printing, The Navy Alphabet has proven to be rarer than its companion. Owner inscription free front endpaper dated 1903. Small book label of Floeser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store. Solid copy, plates bright and sharp, wear to corners and backstrip extremities. Smudges to pastedown rear endpaper. BIENVENUE & SCHMIDT. p.182 Orig. illustrated boards, maroon cloth spine. Very good. $1,750.00

[SIGNED COLOR PRINT]

3. Billout, Guy.

Color Silkscreen Seriograph Print.

26 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches. Copy 209/300. Suitable for framing. Fine. $250.00

[CHILDREN'S]

4. Brown, Paul.

Piper's Pony The Story of Patchwork.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Unpaginated. 22 x 28 cm. Signed presentation copy in pencil to John Lowry, Jr "with lots of luck Paul Brown 37." American illustrator of equestrian subjects although he was never formally trained as an artist. Profusely illustrated in black and white, Book-label of Bridget Ariel Lowry free front endpaper. Interior contents clean. Wear to corners and backstrip extremities. Orig. green illustrated boards spine lettered in white. Very good. $375.00

[BOOK ARTS]

5. Calvo, Edmond-Francois.

Atmiques 4096 Reincarnations De 16 Corps Desintegres.

Paris: First Edition, 194. Editions G.P. Unpaginated. 16 x 12 cm. No text, a series of images, color lithographs, each page in three parts to allow manipulation to create a host of different images at the will of the manipulator. "Ce livre a systeme de 48 volets permet de combiner les tetes, bustes et jambes de 16 personnages en 4096 combinaisons differentes." OCLC: 969823755. Calvo, a French comics artist was called the French Disney. Orig. illustrated boards in a host of colors with a spiral metal spine. Very good. $395.00

[POETRY]

6. Cambell, Thomas.

Essay On English Poetry.

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. 271 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Presentation copy from the Publisher to Honorable Douglas Kinniaird on half title. The Honourable Douglas James William Kinnaird (26 February 1788 12 March 1830) was an English banker, politician, friend of Lord Byron and amateur cricketer. Byrons old friend from Cambridge University, Kinnaird acted as Byrons banker who acted as his literary agent once the poet left England in 1816. Interior contents very clean and fresh. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt arabesques, lettered in gilt. Decorated cover border panels. Later full maroon morocco. Aeg. Fine.$350.00

[SIGNED COLOR PRINT]

7. Chwast, Seymour.

Color Silkscreen Seriograph Print.

26 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches. Copy 223/300. Suitable for framing. Fine. $250.00

[CHILDREN'S]

7A. Crane, Walter (Illustrator).

The Wonder Book For Girls And Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893. 210 pages 22.5 x 16 cm. Sixty designs including nineteen color lithograph plates by Walter Crane. Bound by Leonard Mounteney at The Monastery Hill Bindery. Spencer [WALTER CRANE pp. 138], notes, "He also continued to work on more specific colour commissions in several publications for older children. The earliest and best of these was Hawthorne's WONDER BOOK, whose designs he completed while in Florida in the early summer of 1892....The lithographs were admirably printed by Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press." Raised bands, spine panels richly decorated in gilt leaf motifs. Scattered minor text toning. Three quarter polished rust levant, covers and endpapers in diaper pattern floral motif. Aeg. Fine. $1,225.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

8. Drayton, Michael.

Endimion & Phoebe Ideas Latmus Edited by J. William Hebel Professor of English Literature at Cornell University.

Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1925. 52 pages. xviii, 23 x 18 cm. Wide text margins, interior bright and clean. Marbled endpapers, small fade at bottom of spine. Small owner inscription front free endpaper. Orig. crimson cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Near fine in decorated dust wrapper lacking centimeter at spine. $75.00

[GASTRONOMY]

9. Dubuisson, M.

L'Art du Distillateur et Marchand de Liqueurs Considerees comme Alimens medicamenteux.

Paris: M. Dubuisson Fils, 1779. First edition. xvi, 448 (i, half title), (i, blank), (i. title page)( blank), Vol.1 and Vol. II. 370 (2, approbation). A-Ee8 & 2, A-Z8, Aa2. Half titles. 20 x 13 cm. This work is noted for its scientific study of the subject. Accompanied with the Supplement: Memoire sur les Acidess Natifs du Verjus de l'Orange, et du Citron. BITTING, p.133. BC 527. SIMON, BIBLI. GASTR. 527; OBERLE, LES FASTES 1096. MUELLER, p. 66. 3. & VICAIRE. 292 cite later editions. Armorial bookplates of Charles Baron de la Barre de Flandre front cover paste downs of both volumes. Marbled endpapers. Interior contents sharp and clean. Slight nicks to backstrip head both volumes. Contemporary brown calf, maroon backstrip labels lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Very good. 2 Vols. $850.00

[LITERATURE]]

9A. Dulac, Edmund (Illustrator).

Princess Badoura A Tale from the Arabian Nights Retold by Lawrence Housman.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First trade edition. 113 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Ten mounted color plates with descriptive letterpress tissue guards in olive ink. HUGHEY 31a. "The ten water colors in the book were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries from November 15th until Christmas 1913." Elegantly bound, border gilt fillets, raised bands, spine panels decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Rebound in full brown morocco, original cover illustration laid-down on front cover. Fine. $500.00

[LITERATURE]

10. Egan, Beresford (Illustrator).

The Flowers of Evil by Paul Baudelaire.

New York: Sylvan Press, 1947. 140 pages. 27 x 22 cm. G. Bower Alcock also contributed to the monograph. Approximately fifty illustrations by Egan. Owner inscription free front endpaper. Victor Hugo noted that Baudelaire "created a new shudder." This large paper edition designed by Lewis F. White. Limited edition, copy 1007 of 1499. Index of Translations. Interior contents clean and fresh. Orig. decorated, thick black buckram with front cover lettering. Near fine. $90.00

[CHILDREN'S]

11. Fitzhugh, Percy Keese .

The Little American Farmer.

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1908. 16 unnumbered pages. 32 x 25 cm. Host of chromolithograph plates, full page and within the text. Includes a picture of the birthplace of poet Samuel Woodworth, the author of the "Old Oaken Bucket." OCLC: 39949150. Interior contents very fresh, clean and sharp. Front cover stain head at upper right corner. Orig. illustrated boards gray cloth spine. $195.00

[CHILDREN'S]

12. Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell & Justin H. Howard.

Little Boy's & Girl's Library Sketches of Little Boys.

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1860. First edition. 64 pages. 17.5 x 13.5 cm. Edited by Mrs. Sarah Jane Hale & illustrated by J.H. Howard. Full page chromolithographs. Title on upper board: Good little boy's book. Frontispiece and leaves of illustrations are included in the paging. Pagination error: p. 64 misnumbered p. 61. Illustrations are hand-colored. Includes a farewell from Thomas Lovechild on p. [62]-63. BAL, v. 3, p. 329 on questionable editorship. OCLC: 18955044. Rubing to extremities. Orig. illustrated boards. Very good. $195.00

[MODERN FIRST]

13. Hammett, Dashiell.

The Glass Key.

New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American edition. 282 pages. 19 x13 cm. The London printing of The Glass Key appeared on 20 January 1931, preceding this edition by just over three months. Paramount purchased the film rights prior to its release for a reported $25,000, and the film studio ultimately produced two studio length features adapted from the novel: the first in 1935 starring George Raft, Edward Arnold, and Claire Dodd; the second in 1942, capitalising on the success of Hammetts The Maltese Falcon, and starring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, and Alan Ladd. Hammett considered The Glass Key to be his favourite. Owner inscription front cover free endpaper. LAYMAN A4.2.a. Orig. light gray cloth and decorated spine. Very good. $750.00

[COLOR LITHOGRAPH SIGNED]

14. Harris, Joel Chandler.

JUMP! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit POSTER.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. 34 x 12 inches, Color lithograph illustrated and signed by Barry Moser. This promotional poster for a children's book authored by Van Dyke Parks (more noted as a musician and arranger) also wrote a series of children's books with (with Malcolm Jones), based on the Brer Rabbit tales. Suitable for framing. Moser's signature appears just below text "Illustrated by BARRY MOSER." Rolled poster in colors. Fine. Paper. $35.00

[MODERN FIRST]

15. Hemingway, Ernest.

The Fifth Column And The First Forty-Nine Stories.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. 597 pages. 27.5 x 15 cm. Contains his first full length Play. Written during the raging Spanish Civil War. His sympathy here expressed for the Loyalists against the Franco Fascist forces. Small bookseller label at rear pastedown of Barr-Hurst Book Shop Lancaster, PA. HANNEMAN A16. Unclipped $2.75 dust wrapper price. Orig. crimson cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, front cover with Hemingway signature in black. Fine in very good dust wrapper lacking centimeter at head.$1,750.00

[POETRY]

16. Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

The Wreck Of The Deutschland Introduction by James Dickey.

Boston: David Godine, 1971. 35 pages. 26.5 x 17 cm. Copy 1200 of 1250 printed by Joh. Enscede in Holland. Orig. decorated boards, front cover paper label. Fine. $45.00

[POETRY]

17. Jaccottet, Philippe.

Cherry Tree (Le Cerisier) Translated by Mark Treharne.

Birmingham: The Delos Press, 1991. 14 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Limited edition 1 of 50 and signed by the author and translator on colophon page, not numbered. Printed on Zerkall mould made paper. Title page printed in red and black. Jaccottet, Swiss born was one of the most prominent figures of the immediate post-war generation of French poets. Orig. quarter navy cloth and marbled boards, front cover and spine paper labels. Fine in fine slipcase. $125.00

[COSTUME]

18. Kretchschmer, Albert.

German National Costumes. After original Drawings, and with descriptive Text.

Leipsig: J.G. Bach, 1870. First edition. Unpaginated. 31.5 x 26.5 cm. 88 full page chromolithograph plates (8 detail costumes like shoes or headgear), and feature costumes of various regions, cities, and towns in Germany. The last eight plates are multiple images of shoes, sashes, capes, leggings, head covers, coats, hats, and other accouterments. Text in English, German and French. Bookplate of Ilse M. Bishoff a renown American/German artist and book illustrator who resided in New York City. Interior contents very fresh, clean and bright. COLAS 1670. LIPERHEIDE 740 Orig. heavy black cloth, front cover heavily decorated in gilt and red. Rebcked. Aeg. Fine. $650.00

[CHILDREN'S]

19. Lutz, Julie und Bertha Heyde.

Für fleissige Kinderhände. Anleitung und Muster zur vollständigen Bekleidung einer Puppe gänzlich neu bearbeitet von Bertha Heyde. Together with: Schnittmuster [Pattern book] for the previous title. Stuttgart: Verlag von Gustav Weise, ca 1900. Sixth Edition. 60 pages. 20 x 14 cm. With 12 full page chromolitho costume plates and 36 black and white text illustrations of children's costumes. Four pages of adverts at rear. Clean, very fresh copy, tight binding with interior almost as published. Text in German. Together with Schnittmuster: 10 individual numbers (1-10) all foldouts of patterns for sewing the designs noted in the first title. Latter on light tan paper and housed in separate binding of gray cloth front cover lettered in black with matching red cloth spine. of first title. Also, near fine. Orig. illustrated boards, red cloth backstrip lettered in black and illustrated front cover. Near fine. $150.00

22. Lydis, Mariettei (Illustrator).

Love's Labour Lost [The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare] The Text of the First Folio, with Quarto insertions, Edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. First edition. 93 pages. 33 x 22.5 cm. Designed by Bruce Rogers with black and white full page lithographs by Mariette Lydisi. Interior contents clean. Beige cloth spine and decorated boards. Near fine. $75.00

[LITERATURE]

23. Martialis, Marcus Valerius

Ganamede in Rome Twenty Eight Epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis translated into English Verse by Brian Hill.

London: The Palatine Press, 1971. First edition. 31 pages. 19 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 200. Presentation copy from publisher to Robin Maugham "WITH CHRISTMAS LOVE FROM Tim & Michael." Frontispiece by Goor. Orig. dark green cloth spine and olive boards lettered in gilt. Fine. $50.00

[DESIGN/PRINTS]

24. MORIN-JEAN (pseud. Jean Alexis Morin)

Suite Domestique En Dix Tableaux.

aris: Editions De "L'Effort Moderne" (Leonce Rosenberg), 1920. First Edition. 25 x 32 cm. Limited edition, copy 95 of 174 on Holland Van Gelder and signed by him on title page. Ten titled wood blocks printed recto only. A prolific printmaker, much of his output was for book illustrations popular in France between the WWI and WWII. He also engraved, etched and carved woodblocks to create fine art images. This, a series of food related prints. OCLC: 469695432. Nick to cover corners. Orig. tan self wrappers lettered in black. Very good. Wraps. $350.00

[SIGNED COLOR PRINT]

25. Moser, Barry.

Color Silkscreen Seriograph

Print. 26 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches. Copy 230/300. Suitable for framing. Fine. $350.00

[CHILDREN'S]

26. New York. McLoughlin Bros.

The Little Farmer Girl And Other Stories, Illustrated.

New York: Mcloughlin Bros, 1800's. 32 pages. 28 x 23.5. Four chromolithograph full page plates and black and white illustrations in the text. Publisher "Office Sample - Not to be taken Away" noted at head of front cover. Never touched by little hands with interior pristine. Little workers series. The little hen-wife -- Feeding the chickens -- A hen and chickens -- The clucking hen -- The little hay-maker -- Hay-making -- Under the sheaves -- Where bread comes from -- The little dairy-maid -- Milking time -- The cow -- The new calf -- Lily and her lamb -- The lost lamb -- The sheep -- Eastern shepherds. OCLC: 18303713. "New Books For Children" back cover. Some slight cover wear, corners and edges. Orig. illustrated boards with white borders. Very good. $225.00

[CHILDREN'S]

27. _____.

Little Folks' Colored Picture Book.

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1870's. 64 unnumbered pages. 26 x 18 cm. Nine full page chromolithographs. Interior contents clean. Owner inscription front free endpaper and owner book label bottom back cover pastedown. Rubbing to corners, nicks to backstrip head and foot. OCLC: 24104347. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt, front cover pictorial inset. Yellow endpapers. Very good. $105.00

[CHILDREN'S]

28. _____.

Mother Goose In A New Dress Bramble Bush And Other Rhymes.

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1886. 14 unnumbered pages. 34.4 x 28.5 cm. 4 full page chromolithograph plates, and smaller chromos within the text. An oversized edition, smaller size edition published 1882. OCLC: 179284789. Interior contents clean and bright. Rubbing and nicks to corners and spine. Orig. illustrated chromolitho covers in a variety of colors. Very good. $175.00

[CHILDREN'S]

29. _____.

Autumn Sports

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1889. Leporello style with text in verse. Each sheet of 10 panels, glazed paper over boards, each connected at the side by tape; Total is 20 x 620 cm, folded to 20 x 31 cm. Sheet folded to make [10] leaves, the first of which has a recto title page and the last of which has a verso title page. Eight leaves are blank on versos. Text begins on verso of first t.p. and ends on recto of final t.p. A continuous illustration depicting games and tasks done by children in autumn; verses printed below the illustration. Illustration signed "C.J.H." [Charles J. Howard?]. OCLC: 227766729. Some scuffing and wear to corners. Orig. thick illustrated boards in a variety of colors. Very good. $250.00

[CHILDREN'S]

30. _____ .

By Land & Sea A Trip Personally Conducted by McLoughlin Bros.

New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1889. 18 unnumbered pages. 31 x 29.5 cm. All plates are chromolithographs. Nineteenth-century children's book which shows the fascination of the time with travel, particularly in the new and exotic conveyances. The world tour begins in England on horse-back, and ends in America on the most contemporary pedal contraptions. The tour takes in Australia for a trip on the Blue Mountains zig-zag railway. OCLC: 904538941. Cover extremities rubbed, backstrip nicked head and foot. Plates generally clean and bright. Orig. thick boards, illustrated front cover, red cloth backstrip. . $195.00

[CHILDREN'S]

31. ______.

Dolly's Ride And Other Stories, Illustrated.

New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1886. First edition. [2 blank], 32 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Four full page chromolithograph plates printed one side only. Additional black and white illustrations in the text. Dolly's ride - My dog Shag - A race with Rover - Doggie and Dollie - The tea party noted at bottom front cover. OCLC: 990085632. Note at head of front cover "Office Sample Not to be taken away." A few front cover stains at right margins. Interior contents flawless. Orig. illustrated chromolithograph cover bordered in white. Very good. $195.00

[CHILDREN'S]

32. _____.

Kindness To Animals A Picture Gift Book For The Young.

New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca.1890. 12 unnumbered leaves. 26.5 x 23 cm. Six full page chromolithographs. Faithful friends -- The dog -- The doe -- The sparrows' morning visit -- The pet lamb -- The pony. Back cover list of Publisher children's books. Some cover rubbing and nicks and light soil. Interior generally clean. OCLC: 905333786. Red cloth spine intact. Gilt decorated colored cover. All edges red. Very good. $90.00

[CHILDREN'S]

33. _____.

The LIttle Housekeepers And Other Stories Illustrated.

New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1886. First edition. [2 blank], 32 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Four full page chromolithograph plates printed one side only. Eleven lines of contents below the tittle. These titles were advertised as comprising the Little worker's series in the Catalogue of McLoughlin Bros. toy books (1886), p. 19. In paper-covered boards with chromolithograph picture affixed to upper cover. Plates chromolithographed. OCLC: 635982863. Spine abraded, light stain to cover white borders. Orig. illustrated chromolithograph cover bordered in white. Very good. $195.00

[CHILDREN'S]

34. _____

Mother Goose In A New Dress 86 Designs By Walter Satterlee, In Colors.

New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 1882. Upper cover has pictorial vignette captions: Curly Locks and other rhymes, The man in the moon and other rhymes, Bramble bush and other rhymes, Little Miss Muffet and other rhymes./ "Copyrighted 1882 by McLoughlin Bros"--Verso of title leaf/ Publisher's pictorial binding: chromolithographed illustrated paper over boards, red stained edges; illustrations in text chromolithographed./ Title page printed in gilt, red and blue. Interior illustrations in sepia and full page chromolithographs. Title page in red, blue and gold lettering. OCLC: 1121203607. Wear to corners, interior bright, clean and sharp. Orig. decorated and illustrated boards front and back covers, maroon cloth spine. $225.00

[CHILDREN'S]

35. _____.

Oft Told, Never-Old Stories Alladin, Children-in-the-Wood Blue Beard.

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1883. First edition. 13 text pages. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Title page printed in a variety of colors. "Babes in the wood" is written in verse. The latter represents title page notation [Children-in-the-Wood]. Illustrations are chromolithographs with with original tissue guards. OCLC: 232570037. Interior contents very clean and fresh -- text and images. Spine abraded, binding tight and firm. $195.00

[CHILDREN'S]

36. _____.

Reason In Rhyme For Little Children. One Hundred Choice Moral Rhymes

Embellished With Fifty Illustrations In Oil Colors. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1876. First edition. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 14 cm. The supposed oil colors appear to be cromolithographs, usually with one or more images per page. Interior clean and fresh. Inscription front free endpaper datee December 25 1877. Orig. blue cloth front cover image on paper with gilt lettering above and below in gilt. Very good. $195.00

[CHILDREN'S]

37. _____.

Uncle John's Drolleries

The Ark Alphabet * Dash's Holiday * Miss Mouser's Tea Party * The Ten Little Niggers. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1880. First edition. Unpaginated. 27 x 19 cm. Chromolithograph full page plates. Owner inscription free front endpaper dated 1880. Yellow endpapers. Interior contents generally fresh. All plates clean and bright. Rubbing to backstrip head and foot. Beveled edges. OCLC: 42872796. Orig. decorated dark salmon cloth front cover illustration, borders decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. $225.00

[POP-UP]

37A. Meggendorfer, Lothar.

Grand Cirque International.

Paris: Dambuyant & Guignard, Nouvelle Librairie de la Jeunesse, 1890's. 33 x 22 cm. 8 folding panels bound as a lepporello six of which contain drop-down pop-ups mounted to lithographic boards. Hildegarde Krahe, in LOTHAR MEGGENDORFERS SPIELWELT, notes Meggendorfer shows in this book all his pleasure, "The extendable circus is one of the masterpieces of this genre. In the detail accuracy, in the typification of the figures shows the love of the artist for his profession......all the characters seem directly take from life." "There is little doubt that the most elaborate and ingenious movables ever produced were those of the German Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925) made during the 1880s and 1890s..." [see: HAINING, Movable Books, pp.65-73]. by Meggendorfer. Each panel about 13 x 9 inches; lower platform lacks small portion from one panel, several partial body parts of animals, performers, and audience missing, Generally sound. Illustrated boards. Very good. $1,250.00

[SIGNED COLOR PRINT]

38. Pelavin, Daniel.

Color Silkscreen Seriograph Print.

26 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches. Copy 296/300. Suitable for framing. Fine. $200.00

[CHILDREN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY]

Paris. Gumuchian & Cie.

Les Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIX siecle Preface de Paul Gavault. Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, 1930. First edition. [XXIV] 446, 336 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Copy one of 100 on Hollande, from an edition limited to 1100. A long honored and standard reference for Children's Literature. Text in French. Vol. I, text Vol. with 6251 entries and Vol. II. with 335 plates in black and white and color. Both volumes unopened. Colored lithoghraph plates by Saude. Covers of both volumes are color lithographs, interior contents clean and fresh. Some nicks to spines. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Near fine in fine brown chemises housed in matching, solid, worn slipcases. 2 Vols.$425.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

39. RAINE, KATHLEEN

Philip Sherrard (1922-1995) A Tribute.

Birmingham/Clun: The Delos Press/Ther Redlake Press, 1996. First edition. 20 pages. 18 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 150 signed by Kathleen Raine. Tittle page wood engraving by Linda Anne Landers. Orig. quarter green cloth spine and decorated white boards. Fine. $50.00

[SIGNED COLOR PRINT]

41. Sendak. Maurice.

Color Silkscreen Seriograph Print. 26 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches. Copy 293/300. Suitable for framing. Fine. $450.00

[MILITARY]

41. Sigel, Gustav A.& Major-General Von Specht.

Deutchlands Heer Und Flotte in Wort und Wild / Germany's Army and Navy by Pen and Picture.

Akron: The Werner Company, 1900. First edition. 181 pages. Folio, 45 x 35 cm. 41 full page chromolithographs with lettered tissue guards and printed recto only. Text in German and English. Title page printed in red and black. Clean, very fresh copy with wide text margins. Orig. black leatherette front cover decorated in gilt and colors. Aeg. Fine. $425.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

42. Swift, Jonathan.

Baucis And Philemon.

Cumbria: Ashton House, 1983. First edition. 13 pages. 25 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 43 of 125 printed by Simon King on an Albion hand press and illustrated with six full page wood engravings by him. Taken from the 1803 edition by Thomas Sheridan. Laid in is the original prospectus and a letter signed by King. Owner label front free endpaper. Yellow Ingress paper cover. Fine. $75.00

[POETRY]

43. Villon, Francoys.

Les Oeuvres De Francoys Villon Les Lais Le Testament Poesies Diverses Le Jargon.

La Haye: A.A.M. Stols, 1941. iv, 144 pages. Limited edition, copy 180 of 325 on papier superacre du Japon. Title page printed in red and black and text in red, blue and black. Medieval poetry from renown Belgian author. Text in French. Orig. cream cloth spine and light tan boards, backstrip and cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine brown slipcase. $75.00