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Finely bound limited edition copy of Voltaire's Candide signed by the illustrator.<ul><li>M. de Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (French).</li><li>Illustrated by Claire Tice (American).</li><li>Candide, or, All for the Best.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Bennett Libraries Inc.,&nbsp;1927.</li><li>10 colored etchings.</li><li>Bound in full wine morocco with the covers displaying gilt-tooled depictions of women in the nude in the top left and bottom right corners, top edge gilt and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

Candide

Finely bound vellum collection of works by various authors.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 26.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Alfred Tennyson (English).</li><li>Edgar Allan Poe (American).</li><li>Including Works of William Shakespeare, Poems of Tennyson, and The Poetical Works of E. A. Poe, among others.</li><li>Bound in vellum with title to spine.</li></ul>

Vellum Bound Collection

Signed limited edition of The History of American Sailing Ships by the naval architect, Howard Chapelle.<ul><li>Howard I. Chapelle (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;W.W. Norton &amp; Co., Inc.,&nbsp;1935.</li><li>Limited edition of 121 numbered and signed copies, this being number 36.</li><li>Bound in full navy morocco with a gilt-tooled border, nautical details, and label lettering in gilt-tooling on the panels.</li></ul>

The History of American Sailing Ships

Finely bound copy of Bunyan's&nbsp;The Pilgrim's Progress&nbsp;with illustrations.<ul><li>John Bunyan (English).</li><li>Illustrated by William Strang.</li><li>London:&nbsp;John C. Nimmo, Ltd.,&nbsp;1903.</li><li>Illustrated with 14 etchings.</li><li>Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full tan morocco with simulated latches, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled bordered turn-ins and floral endpapers.</li><li>Housed in a floral slipcase.</li></ul>

The Pilgrim's Progress

Finely bound limited edition set of Thackeray's&nbsp;Complete Works.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 30.</li><li>William Makepeace Thackeray (British).</li><li>London &amp; New York:&nbsp;J.M. Dent &amp; Co. and George E. Croscup,&nbsp;1904.</li><li>Illustrated.</li><li>Limited edition of 10 copies, this being number 1.</li><li>Bound in full green morocco with floral detailing, brown inlay floral details and gilt-tooled label lettering with top edge gilt, floral turn-ins and green watered silk endpapers.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Thackeray's Works

Finely bound set of the St. James Edition of Eliot's Complete Works.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li><li>George Eliot (English).</li><li>London &amp; New York:&nbsp;Postlethwaite, Taylor &amp; Knowles, Ltd.,&nbsp;1908.</li><li>Includes photogravure illustrations from drawings by Gertrude Demain Hammond and Frederick L. Stoddard.</li><li>This edition is limited to 1000 copies printed for sale in America, this being number 142.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter red morocco and textured linen boards, bordered in gilt tooling with a gilt-tooled crest on the top left corner of the covers, raised bands with floral details and label lettering in gilt tooling and green inlay, top edges are gilt with textured linen endpapers.</li></ul>

The Complete Works of George Eliot

Finely bound copy of Milton's poetry. <ul><li>John Milton (English).</li><li>Edited by H.C. Beeching (English).</li><li>Oxford:&nbsp;The Clarendon Press,&nbsp;1900.</li><li>Includes a portrait frontispiece. </li><li>Bound in full red morocco with the covers displaying a triple-ruled border and ornate floral bordering details, both gilt-tooled, spines display raised bands, floral detailing, bordering, and label lettering, all gilt-tooled, all edges are gilt with gilt-tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Poetical Works of John Milton

Finely bound set of the Centenary Edition of Emerson's Complete Works that includes a biographical introduction, notes by Edward Waldo Emerson, and a general index.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson (American).</li><li>Boston &amp; New York:&nbsp;Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1903.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt tooling, raised bands, panels decorated with bordering and floral details, and label lettering are all gilt-tooled, top edges are gilt with marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finely bound copy of Bacon's Essays.<ul><li>Francis Bacon (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Arthur L. Humphreys,&nbsp;1900.</li><li>Bound by Morrell in full brown morocco with the covers displaying floral and ruled gilt-tooled borders, spines display raised bands, bordering, floral details, and label lettering, all gilt-tooled, top edge is gilt with gilt-tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Essays

Finely bound set of Trevelyan's history of the American Revolution. <ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li><li>George Trevelyan (English).</li><li>New York, London, Bombay &amp; Calcutta:&nbsp;Longmans, Green &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter brown morocco and linen boards, bordered in gilt tooling, raised bands with gilt-tooled label lettering, top edges gilt with marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The American Revolution

First edition, first printing of Woolf's&nbsp;The Voyage Out.<ul><li>Virginia Woolf (English).</li><li>London: Duckworth &amp; Co., 1915.</li><li>318 pages.</li><li>16 pages of publisher’s advertisements.</li><li>Bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full morocco with gilt title, marbled endpapers, handsewn headbands and all edges gilt.</li></ul>

The Voyage Out

Fine prize bindings of Jameson's third edition of the historical art text Sacred and Legendary Art.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Anna Jameson (Anglo-Irish).</li><li>London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905.</li><li>818 pages.</li><li>19 full-page steel plate etchings with tissue guards.</li><li>In-text woodcut illustrations.</li><li>Full leather binding with burl flame boards, gilt embossed title, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt with gold prize stamp to the front board of each.</li></ul>

Sacred and Legendary Art

Finely bound copy of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.<ul><li>James Boswell (Scottish).</li><li>London: Oxford University Press, 1953.</li><li>1489 pages.</li><li>Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full leather polished calf, all edges gilt and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Finely bound copy of Donne's poetry.<ul><li>John Donne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Imre Reiner (Hungarian).</li><li>New York: Heritage Press, 1970.</li><li>198 pages.</li><li>Bound by the Harcourt Bindery in polished calf over marbled boards with hand-sewn silk headbands and top edge gilt.</li></ul>

The Poems of John Donne

Finely bound copy of the Humanist work The Sonnets of Petrarch.<ul><li>Francesco Petrarca (Italian).</li><li>Illustrated by Aldo Salvadori (Italian).</li><li>New York: Heritage Press, 1966.</li><li>369 pages.</li><li>Bound by the Harcourt Bindery in morocco over cloth boards with hand-sewn silk endbands and top edge gilt.</li></ul>

The Sonnets of Petrarch

Finely bound Franklin Library edition of Wilder's most popular plays.<ul><li>Thornton Wilder (American).</li><li>Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker.</li><li>Minneapolis: Franklin Library, 1980.</li><li>456 pages.</li><li>Bound by the Harcourt Bindery in morocco over marbled boards with hand-sewn silk headbands and all edges gilt.</li></ul>

Three Plays

First U.S. Edition and finely bound copy of Snow's novel The Affair.<ul><li>C. P. Snow (English).</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1960.</li><li>374 pages.</li><li>Bound by the Harcourt Bindery in morocco over cloth boards with hand-sewn silk endbands, marbled endpapers and top edge gilt.</li></ul>

The Affair

Finely bound Franklin Library edition of Galsworthy's Five Tales.<ul><li>John Galsworthy (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Collier (English).</li><li>Five Tales: The First and Last, A Stoic, The Apple Tree, The Juryman, Indian Summer of a Forsyte.</li><li>Minneapolis: Franklin Library, 1980.</li><li>382 pages.</li><li>Bound by Harcourt Bindery in morocco over marbled boards, hand-sewn silk headbands and all edges gilt.</li></ul>

Five Tales

Finely bound copy of Thackeray's collection of comedic Burlesques.<ul><li>William Makepeace Thackeray (English).</li><li>Burlesques: Novels by Eminent Hands, The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan, The Fatal Boots, Little Travels and Roadside Sketches.</li><li>New York: Brentano’s, c. 1900.</li><li>394 pages.</li><li>Bound by Harcourt Bindery in morocco over marbled boards and hand-sewn silk endbands.</li></ul>

Burlesques

Finely bound copy of Cellini's autobiography.<ul><li>Benvenuto Cellini (Italian).</li><li>Illustrated by Fritz Kredel (German).</li><li>New York: The Heritage Press, c. 1960.</li><li>301 pages.</li><li>Bound by the Harcourt Bindery in morocco over cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and borders, hand-sewn silk endbands, marbled endpapers and with top edge gold gilt.</li></ul>

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini

Finely bound copy of Virgil's poem The Georgics.<ul><li>Virgil (Roman).</li><li>Translated by John Dryden (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Bruno Bramanti (Italian).</li><li>New York: Heritage Press, 1953.</li><li>155 pages.</li><li>Bound by Harcourt Bindery in morocco over cloth-covered boards with gold gilt titles, hand-sewn silk endbands, gold ruling to the boards, marbled endpapers with top edge gilt.</li></ul>

The Georgics

Finely bound copy of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.<ul><li>Francois Rabelais (French).</li><li>Illustrated by Lynd Ward (American).</li><li>Translated by Jacques LeClercq (Belgian).</li><li>Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Five Books by Francois Rabelais.</li><li>New York: Heritage Press, 1942.</li><li>764 pages.</li><li>Bound by the Harcourt Bindery in morocco and decorative gilt motifs with marbled endpapers, hand-sewn silk headbands, and top edge gilt. </li></ul>

Gargantua and Pantagruel 

Finely bound first edition, first issue of Ruark's Something of Value.<ul><li>Robert Ruark (American).</li><li>New York: Doubleday, 1955.</li><li>566 pages.</li><li>Rebound by Derek Woolf in three-quarter dark brown Nigerian calf leather over marble covered boards with raised bands to the spine with gilt lettering.</li></ul>

Something of Value

Subway Drawings by Keith Haring&nbsp;exhibition catalogue, published for the occasion "Keith Haring / New York City Subway Drawings 1983," June 5—August 7, 1983.<ul><li>Keith Haring (American).</li><li>Text by Andrea Miller-Keller (American).</li><li>Photographs by Tseng Kwong Chi (American).</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1983.</li><li>6 pages.</li><li>Part of an unsigned edition of unknown size.</li><li>Includes a blue foldout insert featuring four illustrations.</li><li>Includes an exhibition checklist and selected exhibition bibliography.</li><li>Hole-punched pages are original to the pamphlet.</li></ul>

Keith Haring Subway Drawings 1983

Finely bound and illustrated set of three plays by the famed Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.<ul><li>Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian).</li><li>Illustrated by Fredrik Matheson (Swedish).</li><li>Introduction by John Gassner (American).</li><li>New York: The Heritage Press, 1965.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter morocco leather over complementary cloth-covered boards by the Harcourt Bindery, Charlestown, Massachusetts, with raised bands to the spine, gilt titles and ruling, and decorative central gold gilt motifs, single gilt lines to the boards and corners, hand-sewn silk endbands with the top page edges gold gilt.</li></ul>

An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, and Hedda Gabbler

First British Edition of Orwell's critically acclaimed first novel.<ul><li>George Orwell (English).</li><li>London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1935.</li><li>318 pages.</li><li>Bound in contemporary full morocco with raised bands to the spine with gold gilt ruling, titles and decorative central motifs, gilt ruling to the borders of the front and rear covers, marbled endpapers, hand-sewn silk endbands, and the top page edges are gold gilted, and with the original cloth spine bound in at the rear of the book.</li></ul> The book recounts Orwell’s five years' service as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, 1922–1927, and is an honest and evocative novel based on life in upper Burma when Britain's rule was still unchallenged. The novel was initially rejected by British publishers due to concerns that his caustic critique of colonialism might be considered libelous to those portrayed. Orwell was able to get the book published in America in 1934 by Harper &amp; Brothers. The Gollancz edition is the First British with the characters’ names changed to avoid libel cases.

Burmese Days

First edition, first printing of Baron at the Ballet that features the stunning photography of Baron Sterling Nahum, the official photographer for Sadler's Wells Ballet, London, and court photographer to the British Royal Family.<ul><li>Baron Sterling Nahum (English).</li><li>Introduction and commentary is by Arnold L. Haskell (English).</li><li>London: Collins, 1950.</li><li>222 printed pages with 8 full-page color photographs and a collection of over 270 monochrome images.</li><li>Bound in full dark brown morocco leather Bayntun Riviere, onlaid in the center of the front cover in various colors of morocco leather is a theater mask, spine treatment consists of raised bands, an onlaid treatment of masks that replicate the front cover design, and a compartment with the title in gold gilt, with gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and top page ends gilt.</li></ul> The book is divided into sections devoted to illustrating, describing and assessing the work of many famous ballet companies as well as dancers such as Markova, Argyle, Fonteyn, Shearer, Grey and Helpmann, Pagava, Vyroubova, Danilova, Baronova and Kaye. From the publisher, "This book covers Baron's work as a photographer of ballet from 1935 to 1950 and as such it is probably the most comprehensive collection of ballet photographs by one photographer ever to have been published."

Baron at the Ballet

Finely bound edition of the plays of J.M. Barrie that contains the most important of his full-length works for the stage and the best of his one-act plays, including&nbsp;Peter Pan&nbsp;by which the character of Peter Pan was established in the form we think of him today.<ul><li>J.M. Barrie (Scottish).</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935.</li><li>871 pages with a frontispiece portrait of J.M. Barrie protected by a tissue guard.</li><li>Bound in a signed full leather binding by Riviere and Son with six compartments to the spine with elaborate gilt tooling, double gild rule to the boards, colorful floral endpapers, gilt end pages and gilt dentelles.</li><li>Housed in a buckram slipcase.</li></ul>

The Plays of J.M. Barrie in One Volume

Limited-edition copy of Milosz's Swiat/The World signed by the author and artist Jim Dine.<ul><li>Czeslaw Milosz (Polish-American).</li><li>Illustrated with a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving with chine collé by Jim Dine (American).</li><li>Introductory essay by Helen Vendler (American).</li><li>San Francisco: Arion Press, 1989.</li><li>60 pages.</li><li>Limited edition of 200 copies.</li><li>The types are Monotype Ehrhardt and handset Janson, paper is Curtis Ruysdael with Intaglio printing by R. E. Townsend, Inc., Georgetown, Massachusetts.</li><li>Bound in boards with a brown cloth spine and yellow handmade paper for the sides and with the original prospectus.</li></ul> From the publisher, “Milosz, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote this sequence of poems in Warsaw in 1943, during the Nazi occupation, and it is considered among his greatest works. The English translation is his own. For the original Polish text, we ordered matrices to cast the special characters.” About the Arion Press: Since its inception in 1974, the Arion Press has published 118 deluxe limited editions that are breathtaking in their scope and artistry. Combining notable literature illustrated with original artwork from prominent artists, Andrew Hoyem and his team at the Arion Press have carried on the tradition of the livre d’artiste in spectacular fashion. Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times put it best when he wrote, "The Arion Press produces some of the most beautiful limited-edition, hand-printed books in the world."

Swiat The World 

Finely bound and illustrated set of Malory's story of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Sir Thomas Malory (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint (English).</li><li>Le Morte D’Arthur: The History of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table.</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd., 1923.</li><li>Bound by Asprey, London in full morocco leather featuring a spine treatment of five raised bands, gilt rules, and titling with gilt rules to the front and rear boards as well as the edges, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, and gold gilted page edges, Asprey binders stamp appears in each volume on the bottom of the inside front cover in gold gilt.</li></ul> Le Morte D’Arthur&nbsp;written by Thomas Malory in the fifteenth century and first printed by William Caxton in 1485, is widely considered the most famous version of all the Arthurian legends. The first Medici Society edition was published by the Riccardi Press in two volumes in 1911 and featured 36 colored plates from paintings by William Russell Flint. This is the second edition published in 1923. Sir William Russell Flint’s illustrative interpretation of Malory's work is masterful and depicts seminal moments and characters within the Arthurian tale including: Uther Pendragon; Morgan le Fay; Merlin; King Arthur; Guinevere; Sir Lancelot; the Lady of the Lake; Sir Uwain; Sir Pelleas; Sir Gareth (Beaumains); Tristram; La Beale Isoud; King Meliodas; Tramtrist; Segwarides; King Mark; Sir Bors; Sir Percivale; and Galahad.

Le Morte D'Arthur

Finely bound edition of the plays of J.M. Barrie that contains the most important of his full-length works for the stage and the best of his one-act plays, including Peter Pan by which the character of Peter Pan was established in the form we think of him today.<ul><li>J.M. Barrie (Scottish).</li><li>London: Hodder &amp; Stoughton, 1928.</li><li>844 pages with a frontispiece portrait of J.M. Barrie protected by a tissue guard.</li><li>Bound in a full leather binding&nbsp;with six compartments to the spine with elaborate gilt tooling, double gild rule to the boards, colorful floral endpapers, gilt end pages and gilt dentelles.</li><li>Housed in a functional buckram slipcase.</li></ul> The volume includes 17 plays:&nbsp;Peter Pan, Or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, What Every Woman Knows, A Kiss For Cinderella, Dear Brutus, Mary Rose, Pantaloon, Half An Hour, Seven Women, Old Friends, Rosalind, The Will, The Twelve-Pound Look, The New Word, A Well-Remembered Voice, Barbara's Wedding, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, Shall We Join The Ladies?

First edition finely bound copy of Woolf's The Years.<ul><li>Virginia Woolf (English).</li><li>London: The Hogarth Press, 1937.</li><li>Bound in full green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine with all edges gilt and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul>

The Years

Signed first-edition presentation copy of Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey.<ul><li>Thornton Wilder (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt.</li><li>New York: Albert &amp; Charles Boni, 1927.</li><li>Inscribed on the title page "Amicus Amicis hoc erat in votis Thorny to Eliz-Ira-Sus-Judy New York April 17, 1959."</li><li>Bound in publisher's original smooth tan binding, title page printed in green and black with illustrated dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Signed copy of Yeats' Plays with illustrated Art Deco dust jacket.<ul><li>W. B. Yeats (Irish).</li><li>Plays in Prose and Verse Written for an Irish Theatre and Generally with the Help of a Friend.</li><li>New York: The Macmillan Co., 1930.</li><li>Signed by Yeats below his name on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original blind stamped green cloth with gilt lettered spine and dust jacket.</li></ul>

Plays

Signed copy of the 29th edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop.<ul><li>Willa Cather (American).</li><li>New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.</li><li>Signed by Cather on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the original green cloth with printed paper spine and cover labels present.</li></ul>

Death Comes For the Archbishop

Limited-edition folio of Vertes' erotic etched prints, Le Pays a Mon Gout with printed title with contents and limitation statement on verso.<ul><li>Marcel Vertes (Hungarian-French).</li><li>Paris: [n.p.], 1921.</li><li>12 plates.</li><li>Limited to 550 copies.</li><li>Loose as issued in original boards.</li></ul>

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M. de Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]

Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson

Howard I. Chapelle

John Bunyan

William Makepeace Thackeray

George Eliot

John Milton

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Francis Bacon

Sir George Otto Trevelyan

Virginia Woolf

Anna Jameson

James Boswell

John Donne

Francesco Petrarca

Thornton Wilder

C. P. Snow

John Galsworthy

William Makepeace Thackeray

Benvenuto Cellini

Virgil

Rabelais, François

Robert Ruark

Andrea Miller-Keller

Henrik Ibsen

George Orwell

Baron Sterling Nahum

J.M. Barrie

Jim Dine, Czeslaw Milosz

Sir Thomas Malory

J.M. Barrie

Virginia Woolf

Thornton Wilder

W. B. Yeats

Willa Cather

Marcel Vertes