Original photograph of the Yiddish author and playwright, ca. 1900. Written in pencil to the verso, a previous owner has amusingly identified him as "Jewish Mark Twain". In fine condition. 6 x 8.2 inches (15.2 x 20.6 cm.). Read More...
A finely made etui, bone with black lacquered decoration and mounted with gilded metal, understood to have belonged to the beloved Danish author best known for such classic fairy tales as “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Red Shoes,” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Enclosed is a handwritten note in an early unidentified hand reading "Hans Christian Andersens Etui" and "Harboe" to verso, along with a small paper cut of a bull, apparently accomplished by the author. Etui measures 2.5 x 5 x .5 inches (6.5 x 13 x 1.5 cm.). Read More...
Group of 3 mostly blank autograph albums, ready for your collecting to begin! Lacking some pages, in various states of worn condition. One with the word "AUTOGRAPHS" impressed to leather front cover in the shape of twigs, one with gilt edges and faux snakeskin binding, the last with an attractive deco design.
Secretarial letter on behalf of the Scottish novelist and creator of Peter Pan to actor Monty Woolley. August 9, 1927. 2 pp., handwritten, on letterhead of the Stanway hotel, Cheltenham. Text, in full: "Dear Sir, Sir James Barrie directs me to thank you very much for your letter and expresses his great regret at the impossibility of his being able to leave England. He much appreciates the honor of the invitation and is so sorry not to be able to come to Boston. He is also very sorry not to be able to have the pleasure of meeting you, but he has left London for some time. Yours faithfully, C. Greene (for Sir James Barrie)." Toning and some light soiling; overall fine. 4.5 x 7 inches (11.5 x 17.8 cm). Read More...
Original photograph of the important Irish novelist and playwright, who has signed and inscribed in black ink to the lower mount, "Für Dr. Renate Jacobi / mit allerbesten Wünschen, Berlin September 1971". The photographer is unidentified. Dedication a shade light, overall in fine condition. 8.25 x 11.75 inches [21 x 29 cm] and set in a simple white wooden frame. Read More...
Original 1823 engraving of the Edinburgh bookseller and publisher Archibald Constable, shown walking in profile, holding his cane. Engraved by J. Kay. At the lower right: 329. In very fine condition. 7.75 x 10.5 inches (19.6 x 27 cm). Read More...
Grouping of three Carte de visite portraits of eminent British politicians, including an 1862 Mayall of London photograph and a semi caricature portriat by Herbert Watkins of London of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; and a Whitfield of London photograph of William Gladstone. A few scattered spots, else fine. 2.5 x 4 inches (6.4 x 10.5 cm). Read More...
London: Ward, Lock and Tyler [Endmund Evans, Engraver and Printer]. 1865. First Edition. Quarto. (9.44 x 7.19 inches; 240 x 183 mm). Unpaginated, 10 leaves. Six full-page color illustrations by Walter Crane and engraved by Edmund Evans. Color illustrated paper wrappers. Rebacked, with skillful archival repairs to corners and various tears, else fine. Considered to be one of the first toy books ever printed, the extremely scarce first of three "Painted Toy-Books" designed by Walter Crane, issued as part of the "New Shilling Series" in Fall 1865. Read More...
Carte de visite portrait of the important writer by Mason of London, with their stamp to the verso. A few small spots of possible inpainting or staining to emulsion, else fine and an especially vivid and crisp image. 2.5 x 4 inches (6.4 x 10.5 cm).
Carte de visite portrait of the important writer, stamped on the verso: "Photographic Warehouse / 180, Rue de Rivoli, 180." Light toning and wear; overall fine. 2.5 x 4 inches (6.4 x 10.5 cm).
Bruxelles: Les Auteurs Associés. [1943]. First. 12mo. 65 pp. Illustrated with 19 b/w reproductions including one on the cover. Warmly inscribed in blue ink by Magritte on the half title to the publishers of the work "felicite les Établissements generaux d'Imprimerie pour leur beau travai,l" congratulating the printers (as recorded at the end of the volume, the "Établissements Généraux d’Imprimerie") "for their fine work,"dated 15/12/1943 and surrounding his signature with a small geometric drawing. Ref: Mariën, Surr. in Belgium, p. 333. Scattered foxing and toning, overall a fine copy. Read More...
Bruxelles: Le Miroir Infidèle. 1946. First. 12mo. (110 x 155mm). 76-[4] p. Brochure with printed cover, original edition apart from the 25 signed copies on Featherweight. A few stray marks to wrappers and a little toned, otherwise a fine copy. Read More...
Original Elliott and Fry of London cabinet card photograph of the poet, author of the Christmas carols "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "Love Came Down at Christmas." Trimmed along the lower mount, studio numbering in ink to upper right cover of mount and numerous stamps and notations to verso, overall in fine condition. 4.125 x 5.875 inches (10.5 x 14.9 cm.).
Four lithograph illustrations by the English artist, taken from editions of William Combe's three Dr. Syntax poems, Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, Dr. Syntax in Search of Consolation, and Dr. Syntax in Search of a Wife. Three of the four prints, "The Revd. Doctor Syntax" [No PN], "Doctor Syntax Made Free of the Cellar" [PN 15], and "Doctor Syntax Returned from His Tour" [PN 28], are from Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, the latter two dated to 1815 in the publisher's tagline. The fourth print, "The Visit of Dr. Syntax to the Widow Hopefull at York," is from In Search of Consolation, and is dated 1820, though much of the publisher's tagline has been trimmed. Light to moderate foxing to margins and verso of all four prints, with an area of staining to "The Revd. Doctor Syntax" that is especially prominent to verso, but the images themselves are in fine condition. Three prints 9 x 5 inches (22.9 x 12.7 cm.), fourth 6.5 x 10 inches (16.5 x 25.4 cm.). Read More...
New York: Grove Press. 1988. 8vo. Softcover. 304 pp. Second printing of first Evergreen edition. Signed by the author to the front free endpage. Light wear to cover, overall in fine condition. Read More...
New York: Random House . 1934. First. 8vo. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, with first printing stated on the copyright page. 57 pp. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpage "For Martin Homes / Gertrude Stein." Light speckling to the black cloth boards, moderate foxing and toning, a few tiny nicks to edges of dj, else fine. Read More...
Lithograph by the French painter, who has signed to the lower right-hand corner in pencil. One of a series of 24 lithographs created for an illustrated edition of Duhamel's short story collection Les hommes abandonnés published by Marcel Seheur in 1927, the work depicting a dismal and lonely scene, a man walking in solitude down an empty, shadowed street. Matted and framed with a placard reading "MAURICE DE VLAMINCK / 1876–1958 / Duhamel's "Les Hommes Abandoneés" / Frapier Collection." Unexamined out of frame but in apparently fine condition. Sheet measuring 9 x 11.5 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm.), framed to 15.5 x 18 inches (39.4 x 45.7 cm.). Read More...
Group of twentieth-century autographs and memorabilia. Included are: signed card from Vidal Sassoon; autograph note from writer Nathalie Sedgwick Colby; signed photograph from evangelist Jerry Falwell; signed reproduction drawing of journalist Hannen Swaffer; signature from singer Jon Secada; signature from gossip commentator Walter Winchell; signed matchbook from Julie LaRosa; group of autograph letters in German from Liesbeth Belun to Bernhard Lange; signed album page from Duanne Nilsen; unsigned Map of Movie Stars Homes.