15206 results for "Rare Books" between $10.00 and $100.00

(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)

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)

Wien: (Lichtdruck der K.K. Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt), (1912). 22; (126)pp. A facsimilie of Viennese printer Ludwig Bonnoberger's famous prayer book of 1607, presented to a gathering of bibliophiles at the Imperial Court Library in September 1912. Bound in buff cloth with interwoven silver threads. All edges are gilt and gauffered, with two indented circles to each edge. The book is housed in a scooped out compartment at the back of a larger volume of twenty-two pages. This work, bound...

Good Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. *****PLEASE ... NOTE: This item is shipping from an authorized seller in Europe. In the event that a return is necessary, you will be able to return your item within the US. To learn more about our European sellers and policies see the BookQuest FAQ section***** Read more Show Less

03/15/1994 Paperback Used-Very Good 50101-5071-CH-902. Nice condition overall--NO underlining, NO highlighting, NO marks. -----------SOFTCOVER--Minor wear to covers--few pages ... creased at corners. Read more Show Less

Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1586. Small quarto. Three parts in one volume: (viii), 182; (ii) (96); 56 pp. First edition. Illustrated with 108 emblematic copperplate engravings by Girolamo Porro, each within Renaissance borders of various designs, numerous six-line woodcut initial capitals and tailpieces. Engraved title pages for each part within an architechtural border. An elegant example of High Renaissance ideals in book illustration, Camillo's work explores the iconography of Italian family devices...

Color lithograph measuring 12 by 9 1/2 inches by Marie Laurencin, a contemporary of Picasso and Braque. Although she was one of few women artists of the time to experiment with Cubist ideas, her work does not reach the height of abstraction attained by Picasso. Instead, her focus is on the feminine: the subjects of her work are most often young women depicted in soft, pastel colors. The femininity of her work is often viewed as a response to Cubism's masculine modernism. This print depicts a woman...

1982. A 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...

Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1998. Quarto. 28pp., frenchfold. One of forty copies. Signed by the author/artist, Gunnar Kaldewey. This book is inspired by the notion of "nature as art." The first text page poetically states: "Books are like gardens that one can carry/around; gardens are like books that one can/experience, promenade through or get lost..." The artist has captured the finest details of nature in his prints of lime and silver, with borders in black. Text printed in orange on transparent...

(Moscow): 1904. Bright postcard, lithographed in color, showing a cemetary with a wooden structure behind it. Ivan Bilibin first trained as a lawyer, but after traveling through Europe, he became attracted to the art world. He began to draw and became highly successful as a theatrical designer. Besides work for the Diaghilev, he also created for the Th,atre des Champs-Elys,es. His postcard work often shows local scenes and characters usually surrounded by attractive borders. Through this medium he...

Boston: Bromer, Anne & David, 1984. (31)ff. One of thirty copies. A whimsical ABC manuscript, drawing on the fertile soil of gardening for its inspiration. The book is lettered and illustrated by Melissa Sweet, the work done in vibrant colors entirely by hand. Included are such plants as fava beans and vetch, some letters also representing the work of gardening, hoeing, and "under the old oak tree" as examples. Bound by Arno Werner in full maroon morocco, with a gilt-stamped alphabet on the front...

NY: Smith & Haas, 1933. Octavo. First edition. Faulkner's last poetry collection published during his lifetime has title page vignette and dust wrapper illustration by Lynd Ward. Top edge slightly dusty, else a fine copy in green cloth, and with increasingly scarce dust wrapper, which is toned and shows a few nicks to extremities. (Item ID: 17823)

Ditchling, Sussex: Ditchling Press, 1937. Small quarto. (12)ff. A catalogue of holiday cards produced by the press, which feature designs and woodcuts by David Jones, Desmond Chute, Joseph Cribb, Thomas Derrick, Philip Hagreen, and M. Dudley Short. Most of the illustrations are in black & white, but some are also printed in red, green, and yellow. At the end of the catalogue, a calendar and stationery are also offered for sale. Information is given regarding pricing, personalization, and ordering...

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1936. Folio. vi, 16 pp. One of 250 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and seven color plates (one loose) by Louis Choris. Faint wear to extremities, else a fine in cloth backed boards. Most copies do not have the seventh plate, and in fact the Grabhorn bibliography cites only six plates. (Item ID: 19864)

(Bueno Aires: R. Veroni, 1972). Small quarto. (28)pp. From an edition of thirty-two copies, this is one of three copies printed on Japan paper. Signed by the translator, Miguel Alfredo Olivera on the colophon page. Illustrated with colored engravings by Raúl Veroni. A lovely production, this copy is loose, as issued, in printed wrappers and housed within a hand-painted chemise and slipcase, in which the skylark theme is presented in an almost Impressionist style. Very fine. (Item ID: 23185)

(Istanbul: Ebristan, 2004). Marbled paper with calligraphy measuring 23 3/4 by 32 inches. Ebru, or marbling, is one of the oldest arts in Turkey. In addition to being used in book binding and design, it was often used as a background for calligraphy and is considered high art. In this example, Barutcugil has used a stencil technique so that the calligraphy itself is marbled, in deep blue against a marbled background of blue and green. The original calligrapher of this design was Yusuf Coskun Beneuse...

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...