Search Results: Titles starting with D from White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Florence: Privately Printed, 1924. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. 54 pp.

Leather Spine. Very Good. Circa mid-19th Century. Measuring 9.5 by 8.5 cm, 2 cm thick. Rubbing along spine. Gilt edges. Brass clasp.

Paris: Manuel Bruker, 1954. First Limited Edition. Wraps. Very Good. No. 12 of 20. With a folio of three original ink drawings signed by Vertes, a folio of 10 engravings that were rejected for use in the book proper, and a suite of all the engravings used in the book. This copy is also inscribed by the artist to the collector/owner, which is not something called for in the limitation. 204 pp. Stylistically, the Hungarian-American Vertes brought a loose, near-abstraction sensibility to what nonetheless remained lucidly representational art. He executed his images with a spare economy while keeping his lines fluid and flowing. At times his output could look slapdash and improvisational; this effect, though, splendidly captured the emphemeral moment in an ever-changing scene, and we can sense easily movement and motion. Vertes was a modernist very much of his time and place. His was an oeuvre that dared to please the average man, and thus his work decorate such places as the lobby of the… Read More

Firenze (Florence): Loescher & Seeber, 1891. Limited First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Limited edition, this numbered 207/400. 272 pp. + many blank pages in back. Attractive parchment prelim half-title. Interior clean and tight. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards. Front board detached, and spine detached by front joint. Anthology of major Italian poets of day, including Carducci, Pascoli, D'Annunzio, Fucini, Capuana, De Amicis, Boito, Cavallotti, Foggazzaro, Giacosa, etc.

London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1891. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Shaped book calendar with lovely chromolithographic illustration. 14 by 10 cm at outer points. Ten unpaginated leaves, with two months or three on a page with a lovely bucolic or floral chromo on the facing page. Center with two facing chromo plates. Small chip on front cover. Light, inconspicuous fox marks on front cover.

London: Dean & Son. Blindstamped, gilt stamped cloth. Very Good. Scarce, with no copied located on OCLC First Search. (Copies found of the component tales, but each of these, too, are in very few institutions.) N.d., circa 1860. 4to. 26 by 18 cm. [2], 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 pp. or 42 pages of content (printing on only one side of each leaf), with a hand-colored illustration on each page, including the frontis plate, the title, and on many pages, the greater portion of the page. The book is essentially an anthology of five porcine stories, all but the last told in verse. The poems are "Little Dame Crump", "The Little Pig's Ramble from Home", "The Naughty Little Pig", "Little Pig's Tale", and "The Three Tiny Pigs". Condition: two tiny spots in which surface cloth of binding rubbed bare. A few light soil spots on the cover besides. Very occasional light foxing within, and a faint finger smudges in margins. Illustrations are very bright and vibrant.

Vienna: August Klein. Metal, Silk. Very Good Plus. N.d, circa 1890s. 8.5 by 6 cm. The brass design on the front is depicting something industrial, although it is not really clear what it is. There is rubble at the base, possibly meant to suggest a pile of coal, and a smoke stack atop, along with some other objects, and with a grill design in between. Whatever it is, it is striking and unusual. Behind is silk lining, and when one removes a thin pencil from its loop stays, one can lift this lid to reveal a dance card with dances "vor" and "nach" "der Ruhe", or the intermission. With a thin cord and tassel attached. The metal is tarnished, but this can surely be cleaned away.

Wien (Vienna): Aug. Klein, 1885. Near Fine. A most unusual dance card from the capital of the waltz during its heyday! On the front is mounted a miniature leaf a day calendar, this calendar bound with a colored pattern satin. The calendar begins on February 11, the day of the particular ball, and continues until the end of the year. This calendar is mounted onto a stiff leather card base, through which a string with the requisite tassel and brass hook are attached. On the other side of the leather piece is the dance card proper, held closed by a thin pencil, and with a cover of silk. One opens the dance card to find a title page, followed by blanks onto which the danseuse would have entered her dance commitments for the evening. This particular card has never been used, and so the pencil, the calendar, the dance card itself, is in wonderful shape, with subtraction from pristine solely the inevitable toll from the passage of time. Measures, at tallest, 70 mm, and about 44 mm wide.

Vienna: August Klein, 1876. Metal, Silk. Near Fine. Highly distinctive dance card with a roller that revolves, and a miniature oblong booklet, bound with silk and measuring 6 by 1.5 cm, that contains the dance card and can be pulled out from the metal stays. Since this relates to a Czech event (what is now the Czech Republic was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), everything is rendered in both German and Czech. The roller is 6 cm wide, 2 cm in depth, and with the handle, the object is 9 cm tall. The pencil that usually comes with a dance card was probably housed in the stem of the handle, and in all probability, that pencil is still there with the tip perished.

1896. Full Leather. 9 by 6 cm. Small leather insignia, possibly initials, in corner of front cover. Four pockets inside, one with card inside which has pencilled in names of dances. This also has pencilled in date. Green calf outside and in, with gold silk backing inside. Also gold twine with a ring attached.

Exquisite, highly unusual novelty dance card. 9.5 cm tall, 3.5 cm diameter at base. You pull a thin string at base to draw out the list of 18 dances for the evening, divided into two parts. On the side of the hat is the monogram "ZS", the two letters interlocked.

Vienna: N. Schweritz & Carl Czada, 1900. Satin. Very Good Plus. Unusual wooden dance card from the turn-of-the twentieth century. 10 by 10 cm, at the tallest and widest. The wood has a rich mahogany stain, and a top piece, the on with the name of the event, can be gently lowered to serve as a platform. The back side is lined with a lush green silk. With the removal of the ivory-headed thin pencil there, one can open the four-leafed oblong booklet listing in gold lettering the dances of the evening. Green twine and tassels are attached above and below, one with a hook for a lady to attach to her gown and otherwise ornamental frills. The silk satin lining has some color fading, and on one side is buckled a bit -- it is not lying completely flat, as it once would have here.

Vienna. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Extraordinary dance card for a Belle Epoque ball and possibly benefit. N.d., circa 1900. Oblong, 6.5 by 10 cm. The front cover features a small painted Alpine relief vignette cameo, which is framed with ormulu brass. To its right is a mounted crest probably for the Touristen-Club, bearing the logo around its perimeter: "Mit Herz und Hand Fur's Alpenland". Suspended from this is a brass trophy. The edge of the cover has a green and gilt decorative band, with brass mounts in the corners. Most special is the writing implement, which also acts as a clasp, shaped like a belaying pick. When one opens the covers one finds a chromo color plate on the top card leaf. The other blank card leaves were intended for the young lady to write in her dancing commitments. The "dance card" is complete with the silk ribbon and hook for the lady to suspend the booklet from her gown. Light soiling on the tan boards. The pick pencil is well preserved but… Read More

Vienna: August Klein, 1892. Morocco, with composite material mount on boards. Very Good Plus. An elaborate Renaissance styled leather dance card, with brass mount ornamentation. Oblong, 9 by 13 cm. Setting this dance card apart from the norm is that it is more like a small book within, with 27 leaves, plus an actual card, and each of the leaves is enriched with B/W illustrations on the rectos. Each of these pages is dedicated to one of the dances, and on most pages, there is a photographic oval cameo of the composer (or composer and lyricist), with the balance of the page given over to illustration(s) of the dance, or a scene somehow evocative of the dance or its spirit. The style of these etched drawings, and the ornamentation that frames and graces them, is very typical of the late nineteenth century and complements the Renaissance Revival relief work on the cover. The front and rear cover have gilt lined rectangular plaques for the title and date. The pencil which also holds the card… Read More

Wien, 1930. Cloth slipcase. Paper pastedown on boards for book. Near Fine. 12mo. 17.5 by 11.5 cm. 240 pp. Full of light verse and illustrated with cartoons that have a distinctly mid-20th century sensibility and style. Condition: slipcase with light wear. Gold threads holding the dance card proper now somewhat frayed, with break, and the dance card booklet missing. The book itself is in fine shape. Also with inscribed card relating to the dance. Card decorated with musical staffs.

Chez Philipeaux. Cloth Spine, "Opaline" Boards. Good Plus. N.d., circa 1840s. Measuring 5 by 3.5 cm. Nine leaves, most of which are blanks. Six pages on three card leaves, with illustrations of the dances, the Sicilienne, the Rodowa, and the Schotich, and the other pages with blank numbered lines to be filled in with prospective dance partners, and captions for the Mazurks, the Contredanse and the Galop. Quite a beautiful survival. The boards are of an opaline, or shell-like material which glistens. Wear to the silk endpapers and the cloth spine.

Vienna, 1879. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Extraordinary dance card for a Belle Epoque ball and possibly benefit. The card proper is held atop a staff, like a placard that might be held high in a parade. The tin and brass object is 19 cm high, and the backing at the top to which is attached the booklet proper is 6.5 by 6 cm, not counting the ornamental pediment. The booklet is 4 by 5.5 oblong, and it opens from the top. Besides the list of dances for the evening, the booklet gives credit to the music's composers, and it also contains a roster of the club's officials. The dance was in honor of Archduke Carl Ludwig. Also surviving is the original pencil, which acts as a clasp holding the booklet closed. The pencil has splintered a bit at the tip. Otherwise, the object is in wonderful shape, with even the original string and tassel none the worse for wear.

Vienna, 1925. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Unusual dance card from the 1920s for a glass industry gala. 9 by 6 cm. On the front board is a miniature glasier's tool, which is clasped and snapped into place. Within is a compact mirror and pocket, and in the pocket is a card listing the sixteen dances for the evening, from the polonaise and waltz to the shimmy and the Boston. Lined with silk.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1978. Second Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 250 pp. With forward by Holleran on tenth anniversary of the publication of the first edition. Tiny closed tear to DJ. Otherwise, fine/fine.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 250 pp. Light wear to book and DJ, with tiniest of chip by front fold. Otherwise both are fine.