13563 results for "Rare Books" between $10.00 and $75.00

Books.

(Vienna: c. 1810). Single folio sheet, on which is printed twenty rebus cards, to be cut out. Each card has a very fine hand-colored stipple engraving. A few examples are: a man bowing before a statue of Cupid, a sunset, three children sledding, and Napoleon sitting on an upper-case "B." The sheet measures about 9 1/2 by 15 inches, and each card 2 by 2 3/4 inches. Extremely fine. (Item ID: 14486)

(Easthampton, Mass.): Pennyroyal Press, 1970. Quarto. (33)ff. + (13)ff. of extra plates. One of thirty-five copies of the artist's edition signed by Barry Moser on the colophon. With a long inscription by Moser on the front blank dated 1987. Also with signed proofs of three of the engravings, laid in. Contains ten wood engravings by Moser and six epigrams from the Anthologia Graeca translated by D.L. Graham, along with a list of plates. The six epigrams, in Greek and English, are printed with type...

N.p.: n.d . (8) ff. A photo-reduced reproduction of the Swiss paper Tages-Anzeiger. Fine. (1 7/8 by 1 3/8; 47x35mm.). (Item ID: 20584)

The introduction to each chapter approaches the subject of forensic photography from its "how to" basics to the proper and accepted methods of presentation of forensic photographic evidence in court. The subject matter is then presented-accompanied by illustrations and numerous examples-as a medium against which practitioners can compare their work. The glossary of terms provided at the end of the book is beneficial to the forensic photographer in the preparation of reports and courtroom testimony...

Chicago: (Lakeside Press), 1905. Quarto. 118pp. One of 252 copies printed for the Caxton Club by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. at Lakeside Press, 148 of which bear an original leaf from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. However, a leaf from the Polychronicon of 1482, also printed by Caxton, has made its way into this copy. Minor fraying to spine and cover edges, lower inner hinge split, else nearly fine in quarter red cloth and green boards. The leaf, inserted into the rear pastedown envelope, is from Liber...

(1957-1959). Pen and ink on paper of varying sizes and finishes. All are signed by Steig. These drawings were produced for an advertising campaign for the Butcher Polish Company of Marlborough, Massachusetts, which saw itself leading its market during this period. Steig's drawings feature various faces wearing a panorama of expressions, from despair to hope. One shows a man wearing a polka-dotted bow tie and a halo, with his hand raised in benediction, and another depicts a kerchiefed woman smiling...

N.p.: 1920. Oblong octavo. 30ff. A manuscript notebook of pen and watercolor designs in the Art Nouveau style, with Waller's monogram and the year inside the front cover. Most of the designs are decorative medallions and page ornaments delineated and filled using bright colors. Some of the designs are more finished and fully colored, including many that are highlighted with gold dust. Several of the full-page floral patterns show Japanese influences, which was common during the period. Pickford Waller...

1982. Lush 20 1/2 by 15 3/4-inch original watercolor painting of the alphabet surrounded by a thicket of leaves, tall grass, and wildflowers. Birds and butterflies flutter amidst the leaves, while a rabbit and a field mouse sit in the grass. The alphabet is painted in pale yellow, and it sits squarely at the center of the painting, in a clearing framed by the leaves and the horizon. Sarah Chamberlain is a well-known artist and book illustrator, who studied with Barry Moser and Leonard Baskin and...

London: Gogmagog Press, 1967. Small octavo. (28)pp., frenchfold. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 40 bound in Hana-asa paper, reserved for members of The Society of Private Printers. Signed by the author/artist and printed on Japanese handmade paper. Fourteen spare three-line poems, illustrated with three offset prints in black and blue. Slight spine lean, else very fine in brown paper boards covered with delicate white Japanese Hana-asa paper. (Item ID: 23725)

(London)/London: (No publisher)/Arthur L. Humphreys, n.d./1902. Two octavo volumes. 74, (44)pp. A pair of beautifully-bound examples of this collection of pretty mottoes, which, according to the publisher, "exercised the wit of many courtly rhymers of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries." The first is a unique calligraphic manuscript by Francis Sangorski, written on vellum in red and black ink. The manuscript is signed with his initials on the lower right corner of the title page...

(London): Gogmagog Press, 1981-2. Folio. (11)ff. One of ten sets comprising the companion series to the twelve Colourprints from 1975. Contains 10 reverse/direct offset prints from natural specimens. As the title suggests, the texture, technique, and materials evoke leaves, weather, and landscape. Morris Cox, using a specimen as a printing surface, faced the constant problem as we see here in the tenth composition marked "Unfinished", where the leaves began to crumble mid-process. Each composition...

London: Dent, 1895. Quarto. lii, 128pp. One of fifty copies printed on handmade paper with mounted India proofs of the full-page illustrations and larger vignettes. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations, and numerous head- and tailpieces by Robert Anning Bell. This copy bears a presentation inscription from Bell dated January, 1897. The recipient is believed to be the French publisher, Gaston Gallimard, who would have turned sixteen that January. Most commonly aligned with the artists of the Arts...

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1990. Quarto. xiv,106pp. One of an edition of 450 copies printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press. An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of "The Four Gospels" in 1931. Contains many black & white illustrations. Extremely fine in gilt-stamped tan cloth and original unprinted d/w. (Item ID: 19842)

NY: A. Wessels Company , 1900 . Frontispiece and ten color illustrations. Covers are somewhat soiled and ends are frayed. (Item ID: 23957)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. Oblong folio. (viii), 174 pp. First edition. Includes almost the entire body of Wyeth's major work to that point, reproduced under the artist's supervision from photographs of the actual paintings. Wyeth's work is usually considered to be realistic, though his choice of subject matter and the intensity of emotion expressed in the paintings results in a body of work that sometimes borders on the surreal. Text by Richard Meryman, a staff writer for Life magazine...

Librairie Alcan: (N.p.), (1902). Quarto. 24 pp. "Collection Benjamin" series. With Veber's amusing color illustrations on every page. In an interesting variation on the Grimm tale Iron Hans, Ardant rises from a lowly upbringing, saves a princess from an orgre and a dragon, but loses his magic red hair, only to replace it with a crown. Light soil to illustrated boards, which have been skillfully rebacked, else fine. (Item ID: 14448)

Newark, VT: Janus Press, 1978. Folio. (28)pp., panorama. One of 100 hand-colored copies. Contains 26 dramatic hand-colored full-page masonite relief prints by Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theater, who also wrote the text. A charming, enthusiastic retelling of the old legend as a simple narration directed to children. Bound in blue cloth and red paper printed with a design of flying birds. The spine is held closed by metal screws, which can be removed so that the book can be displayed in...