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Item #100121 Fairy Tales and Legends. Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen, Hans Christian

Item 100121Fairy Tales and Legends

"New Edition" of 1959, first published in this format in 1935. A beautiful collection of forty-eight of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, including "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Constant Tin-Soldier," "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," and "The Little Mermaid." Inscribed on the front pastedown by illustrator Rex Whistler's younger brother Laurence Whistler.....

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Item #10067 The Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne...

Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily; Bronte, Anne

Item 10067The Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte

Illustrated six-volume edition of the works of the Bronte sisters, with full-page color plates by Edmund Dulac in each volume. The set includes Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), Villette (1853).....

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Item #10014 Dinner for Two Cook Book. Betty Crocker

Crocker, Betty

Item 10014Dinner for Two Cook Book

Unusually bright and clean example of this vintage mid-century cookbook, now remembered primarily as an early example of artist Charley Harper's commercial work. Recipes include "Pheasant Baked in Cream," "New England Boiled Dinner," "Anniversary Meringue Heart," and "Hamburger Stroganoff," with Harper's whimsical illustrations on every page. Stated first printing, with.....

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Item #10052 Redoute: The Man Who Painted Flowers. Carolyn Croll

Croll, Carolyn

Item 10052Redoute: The Man Who Painted Flowers

First edition of this picture book devoted to the life and work of French painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), whose flower paintings remain high spots of botanical illustration. Croll depicts Redoute's encounters with Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Josephine, and John James Audubon: "Painting flowers may be something small, but it is.....

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Item #10016 Bembo's Zoo. Roberto De Vicq de Cumptich

De Vicq de Cumptich, Roberto

Item 10016Bembo's Zoo

First edition of this alphabetical zoo, in which each animal is ingeniously constructed using the letters of the Bembo font family. An endnote explains the history of the Bembo font, originally cut by Francesco Griffo for the Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius, and named after the scholar and poet Pietro Bembo.....

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Item #100122 The Tale of Despereaux. Kate DiCamillo

DiCamillo, Kate

Item 100122The Tale of Despereaux

First edition of DiCamillo's fantastic tale of a mouse in love with a princess, winner of the Newbery Medal for 2004. "Happily ever after. Despereaux was certain that he had read exactly those words time and time again." Fine condition.

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Item #10085 The Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens

Dickens, Charles

Item 10085The Pickwick Papers

"Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in vich case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant." A fine copy of the work whose runaway success made Dickens Dickens, in a splendid prize binding by Bickers, accompanied by the original.....

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Item #10094 Work. Mitch Epstein

Epstein, Mitch

Item 10094Work

First edition of this retrospective of Epstein's photography from 1973 to 2006: "The magic I felt when I made pictures as a young man was founded on surprise. And gratefully, the element of surprise is one thing in this world no person or institution has managed to squelch." This survey.....

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Item #10077 The Works of H. Fielding. Henry Fielding

Fielding, Henry

Item 10077The Works of H. Fielding

Charming nineteenth-century set of Fielding's works, illustrated by Herbert Railton and E.J. Wheeler, bound with an unusual bird motif on the spines. This collection includes Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild, Amelia, and Fielding's most influential novel, Tom Jones: "Man is the highest subject (unless on very extraordinary occasions indeed) which presents.....

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Item #10015 Ford Treasury of the Outdoors. Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company

Item 10015Ford Treasury of the Outdoors

A "tourist's-eye view of America outdoors," this colorful anthology of articles published in the Ford Times and Lincoln-Mercury Times aims to "help American motorists get more pleasure out of the recreational opportunities offered by their family cars." Many of the fishing illustrations are examples of artist Charley Harper's early commercial.....

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Item #100120 The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame

Grahame, Kenneth

Item 100120The Wind in the Willows

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." A beautiful reading copy of a childhood classic, with the iconic Ernest Shepard illustrations.

Price: $25.00

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Item #10020 The Complete Encyclopedia of Illustration. J. G Heck

Heck, J.G.

Item 10020The Complete Encyclopedia of Illustration

First edition thus, with foreword by Paul Bacon and introduction by Claire Booss. Originally published in 1851 as The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, this sweeping visual survey of the nineteenth century is divided into thematic groups of steel-engraved plates: Mathematics and Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Military Sciences, Naval.....

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Item #10009 Washington Square. Henry James

James, Henry

Item 10009Washington Square

First edition of Henry James's moving tale of a downcast heiress and an upstart suitor: "Love demands certain things as a right; but Catherine had no sense of her rights; she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favors." Ownership signature of J.H. Russell, partly obscured by bookplate of.....

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Item #10025 Smartypants (Pete in School). Maira Kalman

Kalman, Maira

Item 10025Smartypants (Pete in School)

First edition of artist Maira Kalman's kaleidoscopic portrait of elementary school life, as Pete the dog joins the classroom for one day only. "Obviously you do not expect me to be a sentient being, but empirically speaking, you cannot deny that I am speaking. . . . I ate the.....

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Item #10027 Hi, Cat! Ezra Jack Keats

Keats, Ezra Jack

Item 10027Hi, Cat!

First edition of this tale of a mischievous alley cat by Caldecott-winner Keats, who revisits the characters of his earlier picture books here. "'You're well rid of a cat like that,' said his mother. Archie thought for a while. 'You know what, Ma?" he said. 'I think that cat just.....

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Item #10028 Project on the City 2: Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. Rem Koolhaas, Chuihua...

Koolhaas, Rem; Chung, Chuihua Judy; Inaba, Jeffrey; Leong, Sze Tsung

Item 10028Project on the City 2: Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping

First edition of this massive collection of essays, photographs, architectural plans, and maps documenting the evolution and experience of the modern retail space, with mostly dire implications. Pritzker-winning architect Rem Koolhaas contributes an impressionistic meditation on the mall: "The shiniest surfaces in the history of mankind reflect humanity at its.....

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Item #10029 Birds, Beasts and The Third Thing. D. H Lawrence

Lawrence, D.H.

Item 10029Birds, Beasts and The Third Thing

First edition of this children's collection of D.H. Lawrence's poems, illustrated by Caldecott medalists Alice and Martin Provensen, with an introduction by poet Donald Hall. The paintings depict scenes from Lawrence's childhood in an English mining town and the surrounding countryside: "A man should never earn his living, / if.....

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Item #10053 What Is American In American Art. Jean Lipman, Ben Shahn

Lipman, Jean (editor); [Shahn, Ben]

Item 10053What Is American In American Art

First edition of this illustrated collection of articles from the first fifty years of Art in America, chosen by longtime Art in America editor Jean Lipman, exploring "those distinctively American elements that, together, constitute our artistic and cultural heritage." Contributors include critics, scholars, museum directors, and artists, including Ben Shahn.....

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Item #10098 Saul Steinberg Masquerade. Inge Morath

Morath, Inge

Item 10098Saul Steinberg Masquerade

After Saul Steinberg's death in 1999, photographer Inge Morath published this document of their friendship: an arresting series of photographs, taken by Morath between 1959 and 1963, of friends and acquaintances wearing cardboard masks designed by Steinberg. Some of the images feature Steinberg himself: "naturally, Saul was a superb impersonator.".....

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Item #100103 The Tale of Beowulf. William Morris, A. J Wyatt

Morris, William; Wyatt, A.J.

Item 100103The Tale of Beowulf

A unique presentation copy of the Kelmscott Beowulf, one of only 300 copies printed on Perch paper, inscribed by translator A.J. Wyatt to his wife Catherine. Type, woodcut borders, and decorative initials designed by Kelmscott founder William Morris; chapter headings and marginal notes printed in red. The only Anglo-Saxon epic.....

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Item #10096 The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse. Ogden Nash

Nash, Ogden

Item 10096The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse

First edition of Ogden Nash's satiric take on parenthood, illustrated by Reginald Birch. "Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore / And that's what parents were created for." Original promotional postcard from the publisher laid in. A lovely copy.

Price: $75.00

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Item #10032 Autobiography. Helmut Newton

Newton, Helmut

Item 10032Autobiography

First American edition of controversial fashion photographer Newton's autobiography, divided into two sections: "The Biography" and "The Photographs." "I am not a movie director. Fashion pictures rarely have any logic; each one is a moment without a beginning or end." Fine condition.

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Item #100175 Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books. Ovid, Samuel Garth

Ovid; Garth, Samuel (editor)

Item 100175Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books

Illustrated English translation of the classic Roman epic of transformation, later printings, with eight plates in the first volume and seven plates in the second. "Rough is his Skin, with sudden Hairs o'er-grown, / His Bosom pants with Fears before unknown: / Transformed at length, he flies away in haste.....

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Penor, John; Smith, Patti (foreword)

Item 10033Bygone Days

First edition of this found collection of early twentieth-century photography from Bison, South Dakota, with a foreword by Patti Smith. "Just friends and neighbors, everyday life in the West. Taken with no motive, just for joy, just to acknowledge what was before him. The twins bathing in a wooden bucket.....

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Item #100105 The Works of Alexander Pope. Alexander Pope

Pope, Alexander

Item 100105The Works of Alexander Pope

Very handsome eighteenth-century collection of Pope's works, "printed verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton," illustrated with copper engravings throughout. This collection contains Pope's letters and poems, including "Essay on Criticism," "The Rape of the Lock," "The Dunciad," and "Essay on Man:" "When the proud Steed shall know why.....

Price: $1,350.00

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