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INSCRIBED BY MAURICE SENDAK

SENDAK, Maurice. Poster inscribed ["Children's Book Showcase"]. No place, 1976.

Lovely color-printed poster inscribed by Maurice Sendak to a close friend, "for Michael from Maurice," with Sendak having filled in the blank fields "Place," "Date" and "Times" with "Ridgefield, Conn.," "Feb. 14, '76" and "Terrific!" $2800.

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“THE SUCCESSOR OF SOPHOCLES AND SHAKESPEARE”

PHILLIPS, Stephen. Poems; Ulysses; Paolo & Francesca. New York, 1905. Three volumes.

Later editions of Poems and two plays by Phillips, uniformly bound by Macdonald. $300.

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"ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TEXTS OF 20TH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY"

WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. London, 1922.

First edition in English of the only major philosophical text published in Wittgenstein's lifetime, immediately recognized as "a major contribution to philosophy," with parallel German-English text and an introduction by Bertrand Russell. $13,000.

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CHIPPENDALE, HEPPLEWHITE, AND SHERATON’S GREAT FURNITURE WORKS,LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED WITH MORE THAN 900 ILLUSTRATIONS

CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. New York, 1938-46. Three volumes.

Modern facsimile editions of the great works by the three preeminent furniture designers, with over 920 plates of their designs and photographs of pieces exemplifying their respective styles. With an autograph presentation in one volume from the publisher to the editor, "To my friend Walter Rendell Storey, whose cooperation has made the publishing of this book possible. With best wishes, Sandy." $1850.

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JOSIAH TUCKER WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S "BÊTE NOIRE

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) TUCKER, Josiah. Series of Answers to Certain Popular Questions. Glocester, 1776.

First edition of Tucker's incendiary 1776 work in which he responds to both British and American positions on American independence, issued as news of the Revolution's opening battles reached Britain, expressing his long-held, "unique" and fiercely contentious views as Britain's "Cassandra," defending taxation of Americans even as he demanded "America be set free now," with Franklin known to make extensive comments in the margins of a copy now located in the Library of Congress, which he could have purchased in late December 1776. $3400.

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"FROM ANOTHER LOVER OF BOOKS AND JOURNEYS"

(STARK, Freya) REYNOLDS, Stone, Reynolds Stone Engravings. London, 1977.

First trade edition, British issue, of this richly illustrated book about the work of famous British engraver Reynolds Stone, whose engravings were used in the books of Middle East traveler Freya Stark, inscribed by Stark to the founder of the European Centre for Disaster Medicine: "For Bill from another lover of Books and Journeys. Freya Stark. Geneva 14/4/1983. PP 40 and 134," with signed annotations on the listed pages identifying particular engravings reading: "Perseus in the Wind. Freya Stark" and "Riding to the Tigris, Ionia, Alexander's Path, The Lycian Shore. Freya Stark," with a typed presentation slip on "Books from John Murray" stationery, reading: "FOR COLLECTION. Signore Gunn From: Dame Freya Stark." $1500.

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SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF THAT WAS THEN

(SISKIND, Aaron) GARDNER, Isabella. That Was Then. Brockport, New York, 1979.

Signed limited first edition, number VIII of only ten copies, out of a total edition of 1200 copies, signed by Isabella Gardner on the limitation page and Aaron Siskind below the frontispiece and including an autograph poem handwritten by Isabella Gardner and an original print of a black-and-white photograph signed and dated “New York 69 1976” by Siskind. $900.

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“GREAT EMOTIONAL FIRE”

HEATH, Dave. Dialogue With Solitude. New York, 1965.

First edition of Heath’s seminal photobook, inscribed by him on the dedication page, “To Kazuo Okamoto-My best wishes, Dave Heath,” featuring 82 vibrant duotone photographic plates. $2500.

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“A SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION… SECOND ONLY TO THE BIBLE”

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer. Oxford, 1831.

Impressive 1831 Oxford folio edition of the magisterial Book of Common Prayer, elegantly bound by Hayday in contemporary full morocco-gilt. $3200.

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"POEMS LIKE GUNSLINGERS ASK ME WHAT THE HELL MY GAME IS"

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Santa Barbara, 1979.

First limited signed hardcover edition, number 49 of 100 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, illustrated with an original signed silkscreen of a Bukowski drawing and additionally signed by Bukowski on the limitation page. $1750.

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"AFTER ALL, HE SAID TO HIMSELF, IT IS PROBABLY ONLY INSOMNIA. MANY MUST HAVE IT"

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. New York, 1933.

First edition of arguably Hemingway's finest collection of short stories, in lovely unrestored original dust jacket. $7500.

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INSCRIBED BY MAURICE SENDAK TO A NEIGHBOR FAMILY WITH WHOM HE WAS CLOSE FRIENDS

SENDAK, Maurice. Print inscribed ["The Three Feathers"]. Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1979.

Lovely print featuring an image from "The Three Feathers" from Sendak's adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, inscribed in the lower margin to close friends: "The Three Feathers—For the Grahams—with pleasure! Maurice Sendak." $1350.

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FIRST EDITION OF THE TUNNEL THRU THE AIR

GANN, William D. The Tunnel Thru the Air. New York, 1927.

First edition of this inspirational novel by legendary Wall Street trader William D. Gann. $850.

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EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 191 PLATES

(ROBINSON, Henry Crabb). SADLER, Thomas, editor. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. London, 1869. Three volumes bound in six. First edition, extra-illustrated with 191 plates, handsomely bound. $1100.

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WITH EIGHT STUNNING WOOD-ENGRAVINGS BY BLAIR HUGHES-STANTON

(HUGHES-STANTON, Blair) MILTON, John. Comus: A Mask. Newtown, 1931.

Striking private-press edition of Milton’s famous drama in verse, number 243 of only 250 copies, handsomely illustrated with frontispiece and tailpiece, vignette title page, and five full-page white-line wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. $800.

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TWO VOLUMES BY “THE PRINCE OF GASTRONOMY” AND INVENTOR OF THE CULINARY MOTOR TOUR

CURNONSKY. Bien Manger. WITH: La France Paradis du Vin. Paris, 1931. Two volumes.

First editions of this pair of pamphlets by the “Prince of Gastronomy,” completely uncut and unopened. $400.

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CENTENNIAL TAPESTRY OF JOHN TRUMBULL'S FAMOUS PAINTING OF THE DECLARATION

TRUMBULL, John. Declaration of Independence (tapestry). No place, 1876. Large linen centennial tapestry representing John Trumbull’s famous painting of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, with Thomas Jefferson presenting their draft to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress. $5000.

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“ELEGANT, MELODIOUS STYLE”

FRANCE, Anatole. Oeuvres Completes Illustrees. Paris, 1925-35. Twenty-five volumes. Very handsome set of the works of Anatole France, with hundreds of illustrations after compositions by Maxime Dethomas. $1200.

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“ONE OF THE GRAND ANTIHEROES OF CONTEMPORARY ART”

KAPROW, Allan. Assemblage, Environments & Happenings. New York, 1966.

First edition, signed by Kaprow on verso of the first leaf, opposite a photograph of him at a 1960 “Happening,” an impressive and massive photobook with numerous photogravures featuring artists such as Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Jim Dine and Robert Rauschenberg, together with images of works by the Japanese Gutai Group. $700.

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FOLIO LIBRARY OF DECORATIVE ART, WITH OVER 1600 ILLUSTRATIONS

JOURDAIN, M. and LENYGON, Francis. Library of Decorative Art. London, 1924-27. Four volumes. Mixed first and second editions, lavishly illustrated with over 1600 photographs and diagrams (many of which are full-page). $1750.

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Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process; aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however.
Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.
Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.
Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book.
Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.
Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).
Calf Binding material made from cowhide—versatile, durable, usually tan or brown in color, of smooth texture with no or little apparent grain. Readily marbled (“tree calf”), mottled, diced, colored, polished, tooled in gilt or blind, even scented (known as “russia”). Reverse calf, with a distinctive suede-like texture, is occasionally used.
Chromolithograph Lithograph printed in colors, typically three or more.
Collation Process by which the contents of a book are inspected for completeness, checking against internal evidence, the table of contents and/or plate list, and reference works. Also a shorthand bibliographical description of a book’s composition by its leaves and signatures, rather than its pages. A-C, for example, would indicate a quarto volume composed of three signatures or gatherings of eight pages each for a total of 24 pages.
Colophon Printed note at the end of a text containing information about the printing of the book.
Doublure Pastedowns made not of paper but of leather, for decorative purposes.
Duodecimo (12MO) Smaller than an octavo, typically less than six inches tall; smaller formats, such as 24mo and 32mo, are uncommon.
Edition Print-run from a single setting of type without substantial change. Depending on demand, any number of printings can be made from a setting of type For example, a first printing might consist of 1000 copies, followed by a second printing of 2500 copies; in which case the book would have a first edition, first printing of 1000 copies, and a first edition, second printing of 2500 copies.
Endpapers Extra leaves—plain, colored or decorated—with which a bookbinder covers the insides of the book’s boards, therefore not part of the actual text block. The part of the leaf pasted to the inside of the front board is the front “pastedown,” while the other part of the leaf that forms the first page of the book is the “front free endpaper”; the same applies to the rear pastedown and rear free endpaper.
Engraving Illustration produced by carving lines into a metal plate. This is an intaglio process, in which ink is poured over the plate, then wiped from the surface, leaving ink only in the recesses made by the engraver’s tools. The image is then transferred by pressing thick dampened paper against the metal plate with great force—requiring engravings to be printed on a separate stock and separate press from any text.
Errata List of mistakes and corrections noted after printing, often compiled on a separate sheet or slip and inserted into the text block.
Flyleaves Additional blank leaves following or preceding the endpapers.
Folio Book composed of sheets that are folded once and printed on both sides, making two leaves and four pages. Typically above 14 inches tall. Oblong folios are produced the same way but bound at the short edge, producing a book typically more than 14 inches deep.
Fore-Edge Edge of the book furthest from the spine. Occasionally the text of a book will be put into a specialized book press and painted, often with a scene from the book or a landscape, so that the painting is invisible when the book is closed but visible when somebody bends the text and fans the pages—known as a fore-edge painting.
Foxing Light brown spots that naturally appear on some papers due to oxidation as they age.
Frontispiece An illustration facing the title page of a book.
Gathering Single sheet of paper that has been printed and folded to form the pages required by the book’s format. A single gathering of a quarto book, then, would be a sheet folded twice, containing four leaves, eight pages of text.. Gatherings are identified by a letter, symbol or number in the lower margin of the first page (the “signature”) to make it easy for the printer to stack them in proper order for sewing.
Gilt Edges The three exposed edges of a book have been smoothed and gilded.
Half Title Leaf preceding the title page that bears the book’s title, originally used to identify the unbound text block. The book’s binder would often remove and discard the half title at the time of binding. Remaining half-titles are therefore of interest to collectors.
Illuminated Decorated by hand. Typically early printed books and especially manuscripts.
Imprint Satement of place, publisher and date of publication on a book’s title page.
Incunable From the cradle of printing, i.e., any book printed before 1501.
Issue A group of books issued by the publisher as a discrete unit. At times, issue refers to timing, such as the “first issue” being offered to the public at an earlier date than the “second issue.” At other times, it refers to specially planned different batches, such as the “trade issue” (widely available) in opposition to a “signed limited issue” (limited to a small amount of copies differing somehow from the trade issue and not widely available).
Japanese Vellum Expensive handmade paper often used in deluxe editions.
Lithograph Illustration produced by transferring an image drawn on a carefully prepared stone to paper. The process allowed illustrations to more closely resemble the original drawings, paintings or sketches, as it gave the lithographer a freedom of line impossible to achieve in earlier intaglio and relief processes. It does not require the same sort of pressure as an engraving to transfer the image, but still has to be printed on separate stock from the text
Marginalia Handwritten notes made in the margins by a previous owner.
Mispaginated Printer’s error in pagination, typically skipping, transposing or repeating page numbers. Not uncommon in older, larger books, it is not considered a defect, so long as all integral leaves are present.
Modern Recently accomplished, when used to describe a book’s binding that is not the original casing. Some books bound recently are bound using techniques, tools and styles of the period of the book’s original issue; when done well this is called a period-style binding, a term that implies “modern” as well.
Morocco Binding material made from goatskin—versatile, durable, with a distinctive pebbled texture and visible grain. Readily stretched (“straight-grain”), crushed (flattened smooth), tooled in gilt or blind, inlaid with leathers of different colors. So-called because much of the raw material originally came from the tanneries of North Africa (other types of goatskin bindings denoting regions of origin include levant, turkey, niger).
Offset The unintended transfer of ink from one printed page to an adjacent page.
Period-Style binding executed with materials, tools and techniques to approximate the look of a contemporary binding from the period of the book’s publication. The term implies that the binding is modern, or recent, unless otherwise specified.
Plate Full-page illustration printed separately from but bound with the text.
Point Variation in text, illustration, design or format that allows a bibliographer to distinguish between different editions and different printings of the same edition, or between different states or issues of the same printing.
Presentation Copy Book given as a gift by its author, illustrator or publisher. Sometimes refers to a volume given by a notable donor.
Provenance History of a particular copy of a book.
Raised Bands Horizontal protruding strips found on the spine of a book.
Reback To supply a worn binding with a new spine, usually made of the same material as the rest of the binding and decorated to match. When feasible the binder may preserve the original spine and affix it to the new material, described as “rebacked with the original spine laid down.”
Recase To reattach a text block to its binding when it has become loose from its covers.
Recto The front side of a leaf. The back side is known as the “verso.”
Trade Edition Printing or printings of a book made available for purchase by the general public on publication day (as opposed to a limited edition, often available only by subscription).
Uncut When the edges of the text block (most apparent at the fore and lower edges) have not been trimmed to a uniform size, and are therefore characterized by a ragged or deckle edge. A book may be uncut but opened—i.e., with a paper-knife—but all unopened books (see below) are by nature uncut as well.
Unopened When the folds of the sheets of paper making up the text block have not been trimmed away or opened with a paper-knife. While this makes it impossible to read all of the pages, it also indicates a probability that the text block has not been altered since leaving the printer.
Vellum Binding material made from specially treated calfskin—durable, with a distinctive ivory color and smooth appearance. Can be tooled in gilt or blind. So-called Japan vellum (or Japon) is a type of thick paper that has been polished smooth and given a glossy finish to resemble vellum.
Verso The back or reverse side of a leaf or page. (See “recto.”)
Woodcut Illustration or textual decoration made by cutting away from the surface of a block of wood until the reverse of the image is left in relief; this is then inked and pressed to the paper to leave the image. The woodblock, or multiple blocks, can be fit into the page along with the type, allowing text and illustrations to be printed in the same print run and share the same page (not possible with engravings, which require thicker, damp paper and much more force; nor with lithographs, which require a different printing process altogether). Woodcuts preceded moveable type and are the earliest known printing technology.
Wood-Engraving Engraving made with the graver or burin on the cross-section of a piece of boxwood; the harder wood and finer tools allow for more delicate, finely detailed images, while the block can still be set in the page alongside text and printed on the same stock as the text. While much older, wood engravings enjoyed an important renaissance in the late eighteenth century through Thomas Bewick and continued in popularity thorugh the nineteenth century.
Wormhole Tiny pinhole-sized trails left by bookworms as they eat through a text block. Much more common in older books printed on handmade papers with a high rag content than in books printed on manufactured papers made from wood pulp with a higher acidic content.
Wrappers Paper coverings—plain, marbled or printed—attached by stitches, staples or glue to a text block to identify it and afford it some protection (though much more fragile than a binding in plain, cloth or leather-covered boards). More typical of slim and/or inexpensive volumes such as pamphlets. “Self wrappers” are leaves, blank or printed, that are integral to the text block, conjugate with other leaves and from the same stock. “Original wrappers,” those attached at the time of issue, are scarce and extremely desirable to most collectors.