Timbuktu. A Novel.
New York: Henry Holt, [1999]. First Edition, signed by author on the title-page. Read More about Timbuktu. A Novel
Price: $50
Pet Companions
Pets are more than just a fixture in our homes and hearts. They play a vital role in literature and the arts, from Mikhail Bulgakov's demonic Behemoth to Jack London's brave Buck. We are delighted to send you a catalogue celebrating pets in all shapes and sizes. Highlights include one of 35 copies of Catoninetales by W.J. Linton; Marguerite Kirmse's superb heads of Fox and Hound in proof state; and Cat in Literature and in Art by Jacqueline Conan-Fallex.
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Watercolour Drawing of man with 2 dogs in his arms.
Along with Chéret, Choubrac was considered the great poster artist of the Belle Époque. Read More about Watercolour Drawing of man with 2 dogs in his arms
Price: $400
Japanese Alice, bilingual edition
不思議の國のアリス / Fushigi no kuni no Arisu (Alice's adventures in Wonderland in Japanese).
Tokyo: Gaikokugo Kenkyusha, 1932. Eibun Shaku Chu Sosho. Vol. 12.; Title-page in Japanese; English and Japanese text on opposite pages. Japanese Alice, bilingual edition. Translated by Saisuke Nagasawa. Read More about 不思議の國のアリス / Fushigi no kuni no Arisu (Alice's adventures in Wonderland in Japanese
Price: $2,000
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The Immortal Alice
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, or What Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll.
New York: D. Appleton, 1866; London and New York: Macmillan, 1872. First edition, second issue of Adventures; first edition of Looking-Glass, first issue with "wabe" misspelled. The Immortal Alice. An attractive set of the Alice books, with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the first printing, second issue, comprising the sheets..... Read More about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, or What Alice Found There. By...
Price: $35,000
SILHOUETTE of a Gentleman and his dog.
1829. Augustin Amant Edouart was a French-born portrait artist who began making silhoutte portraits in London in 1825. In 1829 he moved to Edinburgh, where he worked for three years before traveling in the United States and then moving back to France. Edouart's silhouttes, cut out from black paper by..... Read More about SILHOUETTE of a Gentleman and his dog
Price: $2,000
Pen drawing of a cat, signed by Foujita, on the front free endpaper of a first edition of Bertrand Poirot-Delpech's...
Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1958. First edition. Inscribed by Poirot-Delpech to June Beckelman Guicharnaud on the half-title. A choice drawing of a cat by Foujita, reclining but alert June Beckelman Guicharnaud (1922-1989), noted French translator, editor and author, was married to French theatre critic and French literature scholar Jacques Guicharnaud. Read More about Pen drawing of a cat, signed by Foujita, on the front free endpaper of a first edition of...
Price: $10,000
Photograph of the elderly Harding dandling a little girl on his knees, with her dog.
New York: Underwood & Underwood, n.d. [ca. 1922]. A touching image of the President whose administration holds the record as one of the most corrupt in American history. Docketed on the rear “He Loved Children”, and with the stamped copyright notice of Underwood & Underwood. Provenance: C.N. Thomas, principal of..... Read More about Photograph of the elderly Harding dandling a little girl on his knees, with her dog
Price: $175
Untitled photograph of boy on dog statue, signed.
[Deering, NH]: c. 1960s. Read More about Untitled photograph of boy on dog statue, signed
Price: $300
The Phantom Tollbooth.
New York: Epstein & Carroll. Distributed by Random House, [1961]. First edition. Adam Gopnick, in his appreciation of the novel, called it "the closest thing that American literature has to an Alice in Wonderland of its own...with illustrations, by Jules Feiffer, that are as perfectly matched to Juster’s text as..... Read More about The Phantom Tollbooth
Price: $1,250
INSCRIBED TO ROBERT MCNAMARA
My Senator And Me: A Dog's Eye View of Washington, D.C.
New York: Scholastic Presss, [2006]. First edition. INSCRIBED TO ROBERT MCNAMARA. Inscribed by author on the ffep. "For Bob for the children in your life. E.M. Kennedy July '06." Read More about My Senator And Me: A Dog's Eye View of Washington, D.C
Price: $450
![Item #353951 Untitled photograph [Woman and her Dog at Easter Parade]. Harry Lapow](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353951.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690413771)
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Untitled photograph [Woman and her Dog at Easter Parade].
New York: ca. 1950s. Signed. Harry Lapow (1909-1982) was a New York graphic designer turned photographer who studied with Lisette Model and Sid Grossman. He is best known for the images collected in his iconic book Coney Island Beach People (New York: Dover, 1978), a selection of 138 photos taken..... Read More about Untitled photograph [Woman and her Dog at Easter Parade
Price: $650
![Item #353853 Untitled photograph. [Woman Smiling with Pug Dog; Easter Parade]. Harry Lapow](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353853.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690413723)
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Untitled photograph. [Woman Smiling with Pug Dog; Easter Parade].
New York: 1957. Signed. Harry Lapow (1909-1982) was a New York graphic designer and humanist photographer well known for his images of people at Coney Island. This photograph was taken at the New York Easter Parade. Read More about Untitled photograph. [Woman Smiling with Pug Dog; Easter Parade
Price: $650
"Whittington and His Pussy. or the way the Cat jump'd.". all written in Leech's hand.
[c. 1850]. Leech, John. John Leech (1817-1864) was one of the most prolific and successful of the English artists and caricaturists of the mid 19th century. "His humour was like his talent, gentle, warm-hearted and positive, his world, the ups and downs of middle class life, the sports of the..... Read More about "Whittington and His Pussy. or the way the Cat jump'd.". all written in Leech's hand
Price: $1,250
ONE OF 35 ON JAPAN VELLUM
Catoninetales. A Domestic Epic by Hattie Brown. A Young lady of colour lately deceased at the age of 14.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891. Number 6 of 35 copies. ONE OF 35 ON JAPAN VELLUM. Linton is credited on the half-title as editor and illustrator (as well as his name is in red on the front cover), but he also the poet. Read More about Catoninetales. A Domestic Epic by Hattie Brown. A Young lady of colour lately deceased at the age...
Price: $450
Snarleyyow, or The Dog Fiend.
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough Street, 1837. First edition. Read More about Snarleyyow, or The Dog Fiend
Price: $750
Seuss's Dictionary of the English Language
The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary.
New York: Beginner Books, [1964]. First edition, first printing. Seuss's Dictionary of the English Language. " ... full of ridiculous alligators, foolish bears and giraffes' uncles ... " - Seuss. Read More about The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary
Price: $900
POWER OF FASHION," LARGE HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT, CIRCA 1853
Power of Fashion.
New York: W. Schaus, circa 1853. POWER OF FASHION," LARGE HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT, CIRCA 1853. Large hand-colored lithographic print of an original work by popular 19th-century American painter Lilly Martin Spencer. As a woman in the 19th century who made her living painting, Lilly Martin Spencer was a decided anomaly;..... Read More about Power of Fashion
Price: $2,500
Inscribed presentation copy
No Room to Swing a Cat.
London: Andersen Press, 1989. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed from Steadman to Rolling Stone Magazine staffer, Paul Rothkopf. Read More about No Room to Swing a Cat
Price: $300
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
Norfolk: New Directions, [1950]. First American edition, second printing. Read More about Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Price: $175
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Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother.
[New York]: [privately printed], [1954]. First edition. Signed by Warhol at the bottom of the front blank facing the title and with a hand drawn copyright symbol. SIGNED. Printed privately by Warhol in the early to mid 1950s while a commercial artist. Very scarce, particularly in good condition and rarely..... Read More about Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother
Price: $30,000
Stuart Little.
Harper & Brothers, 1945. Williams, Garth. First edition. Read More about Stuart Little
Price: $400
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