"GREAT SPENSER’S NOBLE RHYME HAVE I ESSAYED TO PICTURE"
(CRANE, Walter, illustrator) SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queene. London, 1897. Six volumes.
Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's "most ambitious project of book illustration" (Lacy, 103), one of 1000 large-paper copies, with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts (two double-page), 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane, and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. Handsomely bound by J. Adams of Manchester. $5200.
READ MORE
“THERE IS NO QUESTION TODAY MORE UNSETTLED IN AMERICAN POLITICS THAN THE NEGRO QUESTION”
FORTUNE, T. Thomas. Black and White. New York, 1885.
Second edition of this treatise on the future of labor and interracial relations in the South by a major African American journalist and public intellectual. $650.
READ MORE
“AN EPIC HISTORY OF OUR CENTURY OF WAR”
BOLTANSKI, Christian. Kaddish. Paris; München, 1998.
First trade edition of Boltanski’s moving photobook, a “monumental book… a gigantic memento mori” (Parr & Badger II), illustrated with 1,148 black-and-white photographic images. $300.
READ MORE