Blank album
ca. 1833 [paper watermaked 1833]. A most unusual mosaic binding, with the use of hundreds of small multicolored... Read More
Price: $1,500
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![Catalogue of the Library of Caroline C. Furbush. [Foreword by Lee Fairchild], with Addenda. Caroline C. Forbush.](/images/noimage.png)
Catalogue of the Library of Caroline C. Furbush. [Foreword by Lee Fairchild], with Addenda.
New York: Privately Printed. Edwin C. Hill, 1903. One of 206 copies. Errata slip at front. Read More
Price: $200
With Fore-Edge Painting of Angling Scene
The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation … In Two Parts … With The Lives of the Authors, and Notes...
London: John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784. Fourth Hawkins edition. With Fore-Edge Painting of Angling Scene. A reprint of the earlier Hawkins editions, except here the Life of Cotton by Oldys has been replaced by Hawkins’ own. With an angling fore-edge painting. Read More
Price: $1,500
With a Double Fore-Edge Painting
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments.
London: Published For John Reeves Esq, 1809. With a Double Fore-Edge Painting. With a double fore-edge paintings, identified by an earlier owner as Durham and Cromer Beach. Read More
Price: $1,500
Fore Edge Painting on Early Cloth Binding
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to...
Edinburgh: Printed by Sir J.H. Blair and J. Bruce, 1800. Fore Edge Painting on Early Cloth Binding. An early cloth binding with the unusual addition of gilt tooling on the endleaves and title page. Read More
Price: $2,500
Fore-edge painting on a blank book.
n.p. [London: ca. 1820s]. A blank album, finely bound with a fore-edge scene of Hyde Park Corner. Read More
Price: $1,250
The Illustrated Explanatory Family Bible. The Holy Bible.
Philadelphia: John E. Porter, nd. With Fore-edge painting of Christ on the cross. Read More
Price: $400
Fore-Edge Views of Scotland
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet.
Edinburgh: Arch. Constable, 1821. Fore-Edge Views of Scotland. Each volume with a fine early fore-edge painting of a Scottish scene identified in an old hand in block letters on the ffep. Volume I : Berwick-on-Tweed Volume II : Falkland Palace Volume III : Edinburgh Castle Volume IV : Barnborough Castle Volume V : Hollyrood Palace... Read More
Price: $7,500
Publisher’s Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge
Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America.
London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Publisher’s Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin County, New York. Read More
Price: $1,250
Fore-edge of Hampton Court Palace
The Royal Kalender and Court and City Register for England, Scotland and the Colonies...for the Year 1889.
London: W.H. Allen, [1888]. Fore-edge of Hampton Court Palace. Read More
Price: $1,250
The Illustrations of the Liturgical Homilies of Gregory Nazianzenus.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Read More
Price: $150
Main-Travelled Roads. Six Mississippi Valley Stories.
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First edition, later issue. Author's second book of stories . With the signature of famous collector Dewitt Miller, Cross River, Westchester Co. N.Y. signed at back (as usual). Read More
Price: $150
Autograph Letter, signed (“R.W. Gilder”), to “Dr. Dane”.
[New York]: March 21, 1906. A scathing letter by Richard Gilder (1844-1909), poet and editor of the Century Magazine, denouncing William Randolph Hearst, who was at the time running for Governor of New York. Gilder fears that if Hearst is successful he will run next for President: “A man of... Read More
Price: $500
Self Portrait as with the three fishes logo of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
nd. For over 6 decades he ruled over the book publishing firm that bore his name. Read More
Price: $150
A Letter to a Friend & Christian Morals.
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1923. One of 115 copies finished May 19, 1923. Read More
Price: $150
Catalogue of the Fine, Extensive and Valuable Library of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gosford, K. P. … 21...
London: Messrs Puttick and Simpson, 1884. The library of the Third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864) was sold by private contact to James Toovey, the London Bookseller, who sold the French books in Paris in 1882 at auction, the Aldines by a special catalogue produced by Toovey and the remainder of... Read More
Price: $375
Complete Series
Ars Typographica.
New York: The Marchbanks Press; Douglas C. McMurtrie, Inc.; The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1918, 1920, 1925-26, 1934. Complete Series. Read More
Price: $750
WITH SIGNED FORE-EDGE PAINTING UNDER GILT EDGES
The Silver Horn and Other Sporting Tales of John Weatherford.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. CROSS, F.R. First Edition, one of 950 copies. WITH SIGNED FORE-EDGE PAINTING UNDER GILT EDGES. One of the most successful Derrydale titles, and, though a collection of stories, a leading candidate for The Great American Sporting Novel. We know of no other Derrydale book... Read More
Price: $2,500
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late...to be sold by Auction, at the Salerooms of Bangs, Merwin & Co...
New York: Bangs, Merwin & Co., Auctioneers, March, 29, 1869 and succeeding days. Many volumes of rare English poetry and a special section of American poetry. Ameriacn esp. about New York as well. Read More
Price: $250
![The H.[pagop] Kevorkian Collection of Near & Far East Art](/pictures/thumb/266141.jpg?v=1534806965)
The H.[pagop] Kevorkian Collection of Near & Far East Art.
New York: The Anderson Galleries [Mitchell Kennerley, President] Sale 2121, January 7, 8th 1927 at 2 pm. Sale brought sale $36,975. Hagop Kevorkian was an Armenian-American collector and archaelogist. Read More
Price: $250
The Library of Louis I. Haber of New York City ... Part I : to be sold December 1 and...
New York: The Anderson Auction Galleries, 1901-1909. Priced. "A remarkable collection made during the past twenty-five years, covering the whole period of English literature from the authors of the sixteenth century to the present day, including rare editions of the works of Edmund Spenser, John Heywood, Robert Greene, Abraham Cowley... Read More
Price: $200
The Hamilton Palace Collection. Illustrated Priced Catalogue.
Paris: Librairie de L’Art; London: Remington and Co, 1882. Sale by Christie, Manson, and Woods. Read More
Price: $150
Victor Hammer Artist and Printer. [Edited by Carolyn R. Hammer].
Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1978. First edition, number 214 of 450 copies. Important and abundantly illustrated study of the careers of Austrian-born artist and typographer Victor Hammer (1882-1968). Includes chapters on Hammer's mezzotints and wood engravings, discussions of Hammer's uncial typefaces by R. Hunter Middleton and Hermann Zapf; and Paul... Read More
Price: $250
Portolan charts of the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth centuries / collected by the late Dr. Theodore Jules Ernest Hamy .....
New York: Anderson Galleries Madison at Fortieth Street, Tuesday Evening November 19, 1912. Read More
Price: $100
![Adventures in the Arts. Informal Chapters on Painters Vaudeville and Poets. [Introduction by Waldo Frank]. Marsden Hartley.](/pictures/thumb/302362.jpg?v=1534807264)
The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Alfred Stieglitz
Adventures in the Arts. Informal Chapters on Painters Vaudeville and Poets. [Introduction by Waldo Frank].
New York: Boni and Liveright, [1921]. First edition. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Alfred Stieglitz. THE DEDICATION COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED BY MARSDEN HARTLEY ON THE DEDICATION PAGE TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ: "My dear Stieglitz, This is the book you saved from the chaos of a grim period. I.... Read More
Price: $25,000
The Notable Art Collection formed by the Late George A. Hearn. Merchant, Art Patron and Benefactor of New York City...
New York: American Art Galleries, 1918. De Luxe Illustrated CatalogueIssue. Printed on Japan vellum paper. Read More
Price: $350