"THE GREATEST MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH 18TH-CENTURY CRITICISM"
JOHNSON, Samuel. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London, 1783. Four volumes.
1783 edition of Johnson's celebrated Lives of the Poets—"the only edition of importance after the first. It is the only edition which Johnson revised, and the last he lived to see"—with engraved frontispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, a splendid four-volumes in scarce contemporary polished calf. $1750.
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WITH THREE ELABORATE COLOR POP-UPS FEATURING POPEYE AND HIS SPINACH, OLIVE OYL, AND THE HAG
SEGAR, E.C. Popeye with the Hag of the Seven Seas. Chicago, 1935.
First edition of this early pop-up book starring Popeye, one of the scarcest of the comic pop-ups, featuring three bright, double-page pop-ups. $950.
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SIGNED BY LEE FRIEDLANDER
FRIEDLANDER, Lee and DINE, Jim. Work from the Same House. London, 1969.
First trade edition of this important collaboration between Friedlander and artist Jim Dine, signed by Friedlander on the half title, containing 16 photographic images, 16 etchings and one full-page image of both artists. $550.
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