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“A PICTURE OF ENGLAND AND THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF HER CHILDREN”

NORTON, Caroline. Child of the Islands. London, 1845.

First edition, splendidly bound by Rivière. $850.

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FIRST EDITION OF LA FARGE’S THE HIGHER LIFE IN ART, 1908, HANDSOMELY BOUND

LA FARGE, John. The Higher Life in Art. New York, 1908.

First edition of this compilation of La Farge’s lectures on Barbizon art at Chicago’s Art Institute in 1903, with numerous plates after famous works of art, handsomely bound. $500.

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SIGNED BY SIX BEAT POETS

KHERDIAN, David. Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance: Portraits and Checklists. Fresno, 1967.

First edition of this collection of biographies and checklists of Ferlinghetti, Snyder, Whalen, Meltzer, McClure, and Antonius, signed by Kherdian on the half title, and accompanied by the book’s prospectus, signed by each of the six poets. $550.

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“ANTICIPATED AND INFLUENCED MUCH OF 20TH-CENTURY DRAMA”

PIRANDELLO, Luigi. Scamandro. Roma, July 1909.

First and only separate edition of the first published play by the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature, probably privately printed for friends in a very small number of copies. Very rare. $2500.

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"HERE AT LAST WAS A GREAT CONVERSATIONALIST WRITING AS HE TALKED"

WILSON, John. Works. London, 1855-58. Twelve volumes. First edition of Wilson’s collected works, including his famous series of 71 uninhibited, often scurrilous, conversations on people and books of his day— purported to be table-talk overheard in Ambrose’s Edinburgh tavern. $1200.

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“FROWNING AND FIERCENESS PROVE NOT MANLINESS”

BURTON, Richard F. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa. London, 1865.

First edition of Burton’s collected African folk wisdom and his own observations from his three years of travels in West Africa, attractively bound. $3200.

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BURTON’S LAST MAJOR EXPEDITION IN WEST AFRICA, WITH NARRATIVE OF THE SLAVE TRADE

BURTON, Richard F. Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. London, 1864. Two volumes.

First edition of this account of Burton’s last major expedition in West Africa, handsomely bound. $4500.

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“A SINGULAR FIGURE IN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND PHOTOBOOK HISTORY”

LERSKI, Helmar. Kopfe des alltags unbekannte menschen. Berlin, 1931.

First edition of Lerski’s first photobook, with 80 black-and-white photographic plates dramatically lit by one of the leading figures of Weimar photography and German Expressionist cinema. $950.

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LIMITED EDITION OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S POETRY AND DRAMA, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES, HANDSOMELY BOUND

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poems and Plays. London, 1889. Two volumes.

Collected edition of Goldsmith's poems and plays, number 6 of only 100 copies printed for America (out of a total edition of 250 copies), edited by Austin Dobson and with six lovely, atmospheric etchings depicting scenes from the text by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton, handsomely bound. $600.

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SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. Photograph signed. Washington, D.C. circa 1941.

Vintage gelatin silver print of Eleanor Roosevelt, circa 1941, an official White House photographic portrait by Bachrach that features the First Lady in a black evening gown, seated before a desk that displays a framed photograph of FDR, signed by her in the upper right of print recto. $1700.

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SIGNED BY YANKEES ROBINSON CANO, JERRY COLEMAN, AND CHIEN-MING WANG

(BASEBALL). Magazine cover signed. New York, 2003.

First edition of the original wrappers (only) for Part 8 of the New York Post's series "The Yankees Century," signed on the front wrapper by Jerry Coleman, Chien-Ming Wang, and Robinson Cano. $450.

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COLORFULLY INSCRIBED BY RALPH STEINER, WITH A DRAWING, FIRST EDITION OF IN PURSUIT OF CLOUDS

STEINER, Ralph. In Pursuit of Clouds: Images and Metaphors. Albuquerque, 1985.

First edition of Steiner’s “experiment in the process of seeing,” inscribed in the year of publication, in red and blue ink, “For darling Barbara, Ralph Steiner, Chanukmass 1985,” with a stick-figure self-portrait, and continuing along the bottom of the page in red ink, “snap lovely pishers [sic], but don’t point at © clouds!” With 62 full-page duotone photogravures of striking cloud formations. $300.

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DRYDEN’S 1695 TRANSLATION OF DU FRESNOY’S ART OF PAINTING

(DRYDEN, John) DU FRESNOY, Charles Alphonse. De Arte Graphica (The Art of Painting). ISSUED WITH: A Short Account of Painters. London, 1695. Two volumes in one.

First translation into English prose by Dryden of Du Fresnoy’s Latin poem on the practice of art, prefaced by Dryden’s famous Parallel of Poetry and Painting, with engraved allegorical frontispiece by Henry Cooke, issued together with Richard Graham’s biographical chronology of painters. $2200.

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"ALL MODERN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN. IT'S THE BEST BOOK WE'VE HAD"

TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York, 1885.

First edition, first issue, of "the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction" (Legacies of Genius, 47), with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble, with a card signed by Twain tipped in. $22,000.

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"AN EARLY ATTEMPT AT A HISTORY OF SCIENCE"

GLANVILL, Joseph. Plus Ultra: Or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge. London, 1668.

First edition of Glanvill's impassioned defense of the Royal Society against Aristotelians, led by Puritan minister Robert Crosse. Handsomely bound. $2800.

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WITH OVER 300 ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROBIDA

(ROBIDA, Albert, illustrator) (LOUIS XI) (PHILIPPE LE BON) (DE LA SALE, Antoine, editor). Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. Paris, 1888. Two volumes.

Lovely illustrated edition of this classic collection of prose tales from the French Renaissance, purporting to be narrated by various persons at the court of Philippe le Bon, Duke of Burgundy, while Prince Louis XI resided in exile there (1456-61), collected together by Antoine de la Sale shortly thereafter, with more than 300 wood-engraved illustrations by Albert Robida, handsomely bound by Peter Franck. $850.

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AN "ECSTATICALLY UNIFIED WORLD"

RILKE, RAINER MARIA. Five Prose Pieces. Cummington, Massachusetts, 1947.

Limited first edition of five select prose works in English from Rilke's early years, featuring the inclusion of Erlebnis (Experience) together in print for the first time with Die Turnstunde (Gym Period), Begegnung (Encounter), Puppen (Dolls) and UrGerausch (Primal Sound), number 178 of only 203 copies on Van Gelder Oxhead paper (271 total), with original woodcut-engraved illustrations by artist Wightman Williams. $1400.

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1865 ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO, IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOARDS

STEPHENS, H.L. A Frog He Would A Wooing Go. New York, 1865.

Early illustrated edition of this 19th-century children's book, wonderfully illustrated with 16 lithographs after etchings by H.L. Stephens. $600.

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FROM THE LIBRARY OF DOISNEAU’S FORMER ASSISTANT, PHOTOJOURNALIST PETER TURNLEY

DOISNEAU, Robert. Pour que Paris soit. Paris, 1956.

First edition, a tribute to “the joie de vivre of the people and atmosphere of the city Doisneau loved” (McDarrah, 113), with 160 rich black-and-white heliogravures. From the collection of Doisneau’s onetime assistant, award-winning Newsweek photographer Peter Turnley. $400.

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“AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION, IT IS FOR MOST ENGLISHMEN SECOND ONLY TO THE BIBLE”

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Book of Common Prayer. London, 1723.

Beautiful early 18th-century tall folio edition of the venerable Book of Common Prayer— the treasury of ritual, prayer and Scripture that has indelibly shaped the piety and literature of the English-speaking world—with fine engraved frontispiece, handsome in nicely restored contemporary calf featuring the gilt device of King George I in the corners and spine panels. $8250.

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Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process; aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however.
Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.
Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.
Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book.
Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.
Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).
Calf Binding material made from cowhide—versatile, durable, usually tan or brown in color, of smooth texture with no or little apparent grain. Readily marbled (“tree calf”), mottled, diced, colored, polished, tooled in gilt or blind, even scented (known as “russia”). Reverse calf, with a distinctive suede-like texture, is occasionally used.
Chromolithograph Lithograph printed in colors, typically three or more.
Collation Process by which the contents of a book are inspected for completeness, checking against internal evidence, the table of contents and/or plate list, and reference works. Also a shorthand bibliographical description of a book’s composition by its leaves and signatures, rather than its pages. A-C, for example, would indicate a quarto volume composed of three signatures or gatherings of eight pages each for a total of 24 pages.
Colophon Printed note at the end of a text containing information about the printing of the book.
Doublure Pastedowns made not of paper but of leather, for decorative purposes.
Duodecimo (12MO) Smaller than an octavo, typically less than six inches tall; smaller formats, such as 24mo and 32mo, are uncommon.
Edition Print-run from a single setting of type without substantial change. Depending on demand, any number of printings can be made from a setting of type For example, a first printing might consist of 1000 copies, followed by a second printing of 2500 copies; in which case the book would have a first edition, first printing of 1000 copies, and a first edition, second printing of 2500 copies.
Endpapers Extra leaves—plain, colored or decorated—with which a bookbinder covers the insides of the book’s boards, therefore not part of the actual text block. The part of the leaf pasted to the inside of the front board is the front “pastedown,” while the other part of the leaf that forms the first page of the book is the “front free endpaper”; the same applies to the rear pastedown and rear free endpaper.
Engraving Illustration produced by carving lines into a metal plate. This is an intaglio process, in which ink is poured over the plate, then wiped from the surface, leaving ink only in the recesses made by the engraver’s tools. The image is then transferred by pressing thick dampened paper against the metal plate with great force—requiring engravings to be printed on a separate stock and separate press from any text.
Errata List of mistakes and corrections noted after printing, often compiled on a separate sheet or slip and inserted into the text block.
Flyleaves Additional blank leaves following or preceding the endpapers.
Folio Book composed of sheets that are folded once and printed on both sides, making two leaves and four pages. Typically above 14 inches tall. Oblong folios are produced the same way but bound at the short edge, producing a book typically more than 14 inches deep.
Fore-Edge Edge of the book furthest from the spine. Occasionally the text of a book will be put into a specialized book press and painted, often with a scene from the book or a landscape, so that the painting is invisible when the book is closed but visible when somebody bends the text and fans the pages—known as a fore-edge painting.
Foxing Light brown spots that naturally appear on some papers due to oxidation as they age.
Frontispiece An illustration facing the title page of a book.
Gathering Single sheet of paper that has been printed and folded to form the pages required by the book’s format. A single gathering of a quarto book, then, would be a sheet folded twice, containing four leaves, eight pages of text.. Gatherings are identified by a letter, symbol or number in the lower margin of the first page (the “signature”) to make it easy for the printer to stack them in proper order for sewing.
Gilt Edges The three exposed edges of a book have been smoothed and gilded.
Half Title Leaf preceding the title page that bears the book’s title, originally used to identify the unbound text block. The book’s binder would often remove and discard the half title at the time of binding. Remaining half-titles are therefore of interest to collectors.
Illuminated Decorated by hand. Typically early printed books and especially manuscripts.
Imprint Satement of place, publisher and date of publication on a book’s title page.
Incunable From the cradle of printing, i.e., any book printed before 1501.
Issue A group of books issued by the publisher as a discrete unit. At times, issue refers to timing, such as the “first issue” being offered to the public at an earlier date than the “second issue.” At other times, it refers to specially planned different batches, such as the “trade issue” (widely available) in opposition to a “signed limited issue” (limited to a small amount of copies differing somehow from the trade issue and not widely available).
Japanese Vellum Expensive handmade paper often used in deluxe editions.
Lithograph Illustration produced by transferring an image drawn on a carefully prepared stone to paper. The process allowed illustrations to more closely resemble the original drawings, paintings or sketches, as it gave the lithographer a freedom of line impossible to achieve in earlier intaglio and relief processes. It does not require the same sort of pressure as an engraving to transfer the image, but still has to be printed on separate stock from the text
Marginalia Handwritten notes made in the margins by a previous owner.
Mispaginated Printer’s error in pagination, typically skipping, transposing or repeating page numbers. Not uncommon in older, larger books, it is not considered a defect, so long as all integral leaves are present.
Modern Recently accomplished, when used to describe a book’s binding that is not the original casing. Some books bound recently are bound using techniques, tools and styles of the period of the book’s original issue; when done well this is called a period-style binding, a term that implies “modern” as well.
Morocco Binding material made from goatskin—versatile, durable, with a distinctive pebbled texture and visible grain. Readily stretched (“straight-grain”), crushed (flattened smooth), tooled in gilt or blind, inlaid with leathers of different colors. So-called because much of the raw material originally came from the tanneries of North Africa (other types of goatskin bindings denoting regions of origin include levant, turkey, niger).
Offset The unintended transfer of ink from one printed page to an adjacent page.
Period-Style binding executed with materials, tools and techniques to approximate the look of a contemporary binding from the period of the book’s publication. The term implies that the binding is modern, or recent, unless otherwise specified.
Plate Full-page illustration printed separately from but bound with the text.
Point Variation in text, illustration, design or format that allows a bibliographer to distinguish between different editions and different printings of the same edition, or between different states or issues of the same printing.
Presentation Copy Book given as a gift by its author, illustrator or publisher. Sometimes refers to a volume given by a notable donor.
Provenance History of a particular copy of a book.
Raised Bands Horizontal protruding strips found on the spine of a book.
Reback To supply a worn binding with a new spine, usually made of the same material as the rest of the binding and decorated to match. When feasible the binder may preserve the original spine and affix it to the new material, described as “rebacked with the original spine laid down.”
Recase To reattach a text block to its binding when it has become loose from its covers.
Recto The front side of a leaf. The back side is known as the “verso.”
Trade Edition Printing or printings of a book made available for purchase by the general public on publication day (as opposed to a limited edition, often available only by subscription).
Uncut When the edges of the text block (most apparent at the fore and lower edges) have not been trimmed to a uniform size, and are therefore characterized by a ragged or deckle edge. A book may be uncut but opened—i.e., with a paper-knife—but all unopened books (see below) are by nature uncut as well.
Unopened When the folds of the sheets of paper making up the text block have not been trimmed away or opened with a paper-knife. While this makes it impossible to read all of the pages, it also indicates a probability that the text block has not been altered since leaving the printer.
Vellum Binding material made from specially treated calfskin—durable, with a distinctive ivory color and smooth appearance. Can be tooled in gilt or blind. So-called Japan vellum (or Japon) is a type of thick paper that has been polished smooth and given a glossy finish to resemble vellum.
Verso The back or reverse side of a leaf or page. (See “recto.”)
Woodcut Illustration or textual decoration made by cutting away from the surface of a block of wood until the reverse of the image is left in relief; this is then inked and pressed to the paper to leave the image. The woodblock, or multiple blocks, can be fit into the page along with the type, allowing text and illustrations to be printed in the same print run and share the same page (not possible with engravings, which require thicker, damp paper and much more force; nor with lithographs, which require a different printing process altogether). Woodcuts preceded moveable type and are the earliest known printing technology.
Wood-Engraving Engraving made with the graver or burin on the cross-section of a piece of boxwood; the harder wood and finer tools allow for more delicate, finely detailed images, while the block can still be set in the page alongside text and printed on the same stock as the text. While much older, wood engravings enjoyed an important renaissance in the late eighteenth century through Thomas Bewick and continued in popularity thorugh the nineteenth century.
Wormhole Tiny pinhole-sized trails left by bookworms as they eat through a text block. Much more common in older books printed on handmade papers with a high rag content than in books printed on manufactured papers made from wood pulp with a higher acidic content.
Wrappers Paper coverings—plain, marbled or printed—attached by stitches, staples or glue to a text block to identify it and afford it some protection (though much more fragile than a binding in plain, cloth or leather-covered boards). More typical of slim and/or inexpensive volumes such as pamphlets. “Self wrappers” are leaves, blank or printed, that are integral to the text block, conjugate with other leaves and from the same stock. “Original wrappers,” those attached at the time of issue, are scarce and extremely desirable to most collectors.