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UPDATED: February 12, 2010We have just obtained the Library of the late artist Carl Plansky. Monitor these pages for these books as we begin to catalog them. Log on to our New Catalog Page to see our most recent catalogue which was issued in early December.
The Iron King and the Strangled Queen. By Maurice Druon. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1956. The Iron King is a 1st edition, 2nd printing and the Strangled Queen is a 1st edition, 1st printing. These are the first two books in the Accursed Kings series. There is a "Foyles" bookseller sticker on the inside front board of each book but no other markings in the book. 269 pages and 213 pages. The dust jackets have few markings on them but are otherwise in good condition with the price, "15s net", unclipped on both jackets.
Oeuvres Completes de Colette de l'Academie Goncourt. Paris, Le Fleruon, 1948-1950. In 15 volumes complete. Each volume has a glassine cover over the soft paper cover. Some of the glassine covers have pieces missing, but none of the covers themselves are chipped or missing. The pages in each volume are mostly uncut. Limited first collected edition of the works of Colette, number 2074 of 5500 copies. We esitame the cost of mailing to Europe to be approximately $105 by International Priority Mail.
The Collected Works of George Moore; New York, Boni and Liveright, 1922; the Carra Edition. 20 volumes complete. This edition consists of 1000 numbered sets. The first volume is numbered and signed by the author. This set is numbered 475 of the 1000. There are 20 volumes and the last volume states that, although originally planned as a 21 volume set, volume 20 is the final volume. Cloth boards with dust jackets. $1,000.00
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Macmillan, 1903. Copyright page states "First Edition Sixpenny Series published 1898. Reprinted, 1899 (twice), 1900, 1902, 1903." Full leather, prize binding with insignia of Kimbolton School in gilt. Contains 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. $150.00.
Ah, Wilderness! New York, Random House, 1933. Edition limited to 325 copies (this is copy No. 5) on all-rag paper and signed by Eugene O'Neill. Full blue leather with two lettering pieces on spine. $200.00.
The Complete Works of Tolstoy; Boston, Dana Estes, 1904; The Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Volumes I through XXIV are translated from the Original Russian and Edited by Leo Weiner and are consecutively numbered.. The final four unnumbered volumes are Tolstoy’s posthumous works with three edited by Hagberg Wright (The Light that Shines in the Darkness; Father Sergius; The Forged Coupon) and Hadji Mura translated by Aylmer Maude. Blue cloth with gilt design and spines and gily signature on front board; TEG. $1,250.00
SALESMAN'S SAMPLE of Billy Sunday: The Man and His Times. Includes a complete copy of the book as well as the salesman's version. $175 for both.
SALESMAN'S COPY OF FIVE BOOKS; The Little One' 'Christmas Primer; Bible Stories for Children; The Little Folks' Speaker; The Home library of Useful Knowledge and Handy Business Manual; perfect health and Beauty for Parents and Children. All five bound in one black cloth holder. $250.00.
ANDY BLAKE'S COMET COASTER; by Leo Edwards; Grosset & Dunlap; 1928. With dust jacket. Inside of dust jacket lists only Andy Blake and Andy Blake's Comet Coaster in this series. Red cloth boards clean with clean gilt lettering. Inscription dated "Merry Xmas 1928." $175.00
RARE. Eighty-five non-consecutive issues of The Observator, a periodical written by Roger L'Estrange, bound in 19 th Century calf, the dates span Dec. 3, 1681 to July 4, 1685. The Observator was issued as a single, folio-size leaf, printed on both sides, and published from 1681-1687. Fifty-four of the issues (Dec. 1681- Jan. 1684) were published by Joanna Brome. L'Estrange was an outspoken Royalist, prominent journalist, translator of some Greek and Latin classics, and at certain periods exerted considerable control, via censorship, over the English press. Dec. 3, 1681 #77 trimmed to edge of text; Feb. 4, 1681 #96; Mar. 10, 1681 #109; Mar. 25, 1681 #115; Apr. 19, 1682 #124; July 12, 1682 #169; July 13, 1682 #170; Dec. 23, 1682 #263; Dec. 27, 1682 #264; Dec. 30, 1682 #265; Jan. 3, 1682 #267; Jan. 6, 1682 #268; Jan. 10, 1682 #269; Jan. 15, 1682 #277; Feb. 24, 1682 #294; Feb. 28, 1682 #296; Mar. 21, 1682 #306; Feb. 16, 1683 #16 two holes, 1-2 cm.; Feb. 17, 1683 #18; Apr. 14, 1683 #319; Apr. 26, 1683 #327; Apr. 30, 1683 #330; May 2, 1683 #331; May 3, 1683 #332; July 14, 1683 #374; July 21, 1683 #378; July 23, 1683 #379; Aug. 11, 1683 #385; Aug. 23, 1683 #391; Aug. 24, 1683 #392; Aug. 27, 1683 #393; Aug. 29, 1683 #394; Sept. 5, 1683 #398; Sept. 6, 1683 #399; Sept. 8, 1683 #400;Sept. 10, 1683 #401; Oct. 20, 1683 #423; Oct. 22, 1683 #424; Oct. 25, 1683 #426; Nov. 1, 1683 #430; Nov. 3, 1683 #431; Nov. 5, 1683 #432; Nov. 8, 1683 #434; Nov. 28, 1683 #445; June 2, 1683 #349;Dec. 6, 1683 #451; Dec. 10, 1683 #453; Dec. 12, 1683 #454; Dec. 15, 1683 #456; Dec. 27, 1683 #463; Dec. 29, 1683 #464; Dec. 31, 1683 #465; Jan. 2, 1684 #466; Jan. 3, 1684 #467; May 21, 1684; #65; June 9, 1684 #77; July 10, 1684 #95; July 12, 1684 #96; July 21, 1684 #101; Aug. 7, 1684 #111; Aug. 9, 1684 #112; Aug. 16, 1684 #116; Sept. 8, 1684 #129; Sept. 27, 1684 #140; Oct. 20, 1684 #153; Oct. 29, 1684 #158; Oct. 30, 1684 #159; Nov. 1, 1684 #160; Nov. 8, 1684; #164Nov. 12, 1684 #166; Dec. 3, 1684 #177; Dec. 20, 1684 #187; Dec. 22, 1684 #188; Dec. 29, 1684 #191; Dec. 31, 1684 #192; Jan. 12, 1684/5 #199 ; Jan. 19, 1684/5 #203; Mar. 26, 1685 #21; Mar. 30, 1685 #23; Apr. 29, 1685 #35; May 2, 1685 #36May 4, 1685 #37June 29, 1685 #52June 1, 1685 #53 July 4, 1685 #54. $900.00Rare
1st edition of 12 graceful
etchings by Renee Sintenis illustrate works of the Greek poetess, Sappho, in
this 1921 limited edition. It
contains twenty-two poems or fragments, elegantly etched in Greek by her
husband, E. R. Weiss. Signed by
both Sintenis and Weiss, it is #178 of 185 copies printed on hand-made Dutch
Butten paper. Printed by Alfred
Ruckenbrod,
Each volume contains an inscription from Louise Arzula Sully, who was married to Daniel Sully, the main clown in the Humpty Dumpty Circus, and noted in the index to these volumes. We could find no 1st editions on line for sale and only two copies of the 1964 repri nt. $500
Lures - The Guide to Sport Fishing; Keith S, Schuyler; The Stackpole Co, PA., 1955. Three-quarter leather; raised bands. $50.00
The Fly-Fishers Entomology - Trout and Grayling Fishing; Alfred Ronalds; London, Longmans, Green; 1877; eighth edition; with 20 color plates (all present). $375.00 SOLD
A Handbook of the Order Lepidoptera; Lloyd's natural History; W.F. Kirby, F.L.S.; London, Edward Lloyd, Ltd. 1896; 5 volumes with 158 color plates (all present); spines sunned. $595.00
Heinrich Schliemann; TIRYNS; TROY AND ITS REMAINS; TROJA; ILIOS; MYCENAE. Arno Press, NY, reprinted in 1976. All 5 volumes in matching orange-brown cloth covers with black & gilt print on spines. All 5 volumes $200.00. We hate to sell this one - it will be hard to replace!
P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster In The Great Sermon Handicap in 91 languages in 6 volumes. Heineman, Inc., NY, 1993; illustrated by William Hewison. All 6 volumes with dust jackets and al in near perfect condition. All 6 volumes for $100.00. This is an unusual set too - for the Jeeves fan who thinks he already has seen it all! SOLD FIRST EDITION OF JOHN BROWN'S BODY - NO. 66 OF 201; SIGNED BY STEPHEN VINCENT BENET; Doubleday Doran, 1928, with slip case. $1,000.00
Souvenirs Entomologiques; J.-H. Fabre; "Edition Illustre" 10 volumes complete; three-quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers; Paris, Delagrave, 1925. Does not include the Supplemental volume on the Life of Fabre. $1,000.00.
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha; Cervantes; translated by Thomas Shelton. Reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton. Limited edition printed by the Navarre Society, 1923. Two volumes; illustrated with two portraits and 20 plates; all plates present with tissue guards, top edges gilt. $200.00.
The Writings of George Washington; edited by Jared Sparkes, Little, Brown & Co., 1858. 12 volumes, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, endpapers and edges. A lovely and unusual set. $500.00. SOLD
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge; New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929. Green cloth. Inscribed by Calvin Coolidge: "To the Grandson of Mrs. Al. C. Blodget With Best Wishes Calvin Coolidge." $1,000.00
In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. Stanley. New York, Scribner's and Toronto, Presbyterian News Co., 1890. Printed and bound by James Murray and Co., Toronto. Three-quarter calf with marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Two volumes with all three color maps present in pockets in the rear of each volume. $375.00
Platonis Dialogi [Plato]; Reimer, Oxford or Berlin, 1816-1823; Edited by Bekker; 10 volumes in Latin and Greek; consisting of 8 volumes of Plato's Work and 2 volumes of commentaries. Half leather, spine gilt, with red and black lettering pieces, marbled boards, newly rebacked preserving original backstrips. $750.00.
Aelian; Variae Historiae Libri XIII; Johannes Tornaesium, Frankfort, 1604; Greek and Latin. Newly recovered in half-calf with paper boards, raised bands, 2 lettering pieces, gilt spine. $500.00.
SYRIAC BIBLE - New Testament in Syrian (1663) plus Syriac Lexicon (1667). Hamburg, 1663, 1667. Vellum with all edges gilt. $1,000.00.
EUSEBIUS; Ecclesiastical History and The Life of Constantine in 6 Books; Henry Valesius. Greek and Latin. Folio, Mainz, 1672. 18th Century tree-calf; gilt emblem of the City of Delft on both front and rear boards; 6 raised bands. $500.00.
LUCRETIUS - The nature of Things; edited by John Mason Good. London, Longman, et al., 1804. Two volumes, large Quarto, half-leather, marbled boards and endpapers. $450.00.
JOSEPHUS- Opera Omnia. Edited by Havercamp. Schwickert, 1782, 1783, 1784. Three volumes, half calf, blue lettering pieces. In Greek and Latin. $400.00.
The Works of Tobias Smollett, 8 volumes, London, Law, Johnson, and Dilly, et al., 1797. Zaehnsdorf binding, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Two boards re-attached. Beautiful binding. $750.00
Baron Jomini's Life of Napoleon; D. Van Nostrand, N. Y., 1864. Hard Bound. First American Edition. 10" x 6.75". Five volumes: Translation & notes by H. W. Halleck. Scarce with Atlas; from the Library of The Commandery of the State of Illinois; Inscribed by Gen. William Vandever, Civil War General. $1,250.00
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