Recent Arrivals from White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Recent Arrivals from White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Die Traumenden Knaben
by Kokoschka, Oskar
- Condition
- Used - Near FIne
- Edition
- First Limited Edition
- Published
- 1917
- Binding
- Cloth boards. Stab binding with string securing.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$27,500.00
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Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1917. First Limited Edition. Cloth boards. Stab binding with string securing. . Near FIne. No. 92 of 275 copies issued in 1917. The book was actually printed in 1911 but only a few of copies were then distributed, and the 1917 issue, by a different publisher, was of the same printing, with… Read more about this item Item Price
$27,500.00
[Trade Catalogue] Rongalit. Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1910
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
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$300.00
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Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, 1910. Wraps. Very Good. Large fabric swatches that are suggestive that the pared down, more abstract aethetics associated with Art Deco are actually ones that significantly pre-date, by more than a decade, what is understood as the Art Deco era. The swatches are also fairly large, measuring 16.5 by 8.5… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
Genealogical Manuscript of the Hay Family, Scottish Peers, along with various extracts of Scottish law
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Quarter Calf. Marbled paper pastedown on boards.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$750.00
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Quarter Calf. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. . Circa 1840s. We assume this manuscript, which is lengthy, was a project executed over a number of years. It is rife with dates stretching back to the Middle Ages, with the most recent date we could find 1848, and so we can fairly assume that the manuscript was… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
Spooner & Teale's Brooklyn City Directory, and Municipal Register of the City of Brooklyn and Manual of Kings County, 1848--49.
by Spooner, Edwin B.
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1848
- Binding
- Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$350.00
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Brooklyn: F. B. Spooner, printer, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine. . Good. Walt Whitman, listed as "Walter Whitman, carpenter, 71 Prince". 8vo. 18 by 11 cm. 286, [2], 191 pp. In addition to directory listings, the precursor of the phone book, there are plenty of ads. … Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward, translator. Introduction by A. C. Benson
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1911
- Binding
- Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Slipcase with marbled paper pastedown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
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$4,500.00
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London: Engraved and printed by André E. Sleigh, Bushey, Herts., 1911. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Slipcase with marbled paper pastedown. Near Fine. Exquisite version of the Rubaiyat, bound handsomely by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, who also were responsible for the original illumination, which this copy reproduces. Printed mostly on vellum! 4to. 31.5 by 23 cm. [10… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,500.00
[Automobile Promotion] 71 Days of Work
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Brochure. Stapled.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$750.00
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Detroit, Michigan: Chevrolet Motor Company (General Motors), 1933. Brochure. Stapled. . Fine. Unique early Great Depression car promotion, with13 color die-cuts of Chevrolet models. We base the 1933 dating on a "33" number in small print on the last text page of the accompanying brochure, but further, the marketing pitch is obviously reacting to the… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
[Promotional Box and Scroll] Combination of Colors of New Era High-Grade Prepared Paint
by Acme White Lead and Color Works
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1895
- Binding
- ,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
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$4,500.00
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Detroit, Michigan: Acme White Lead and Color Works, 1895. , . Very Good. Rare, unusual paint company promotional and customer aid tool with 22 color plates which one can scroll up or down with two side roller handles. Houses are generally rather grand shingle houses such as one finds still in old upscale (and formerly upscale) suburban… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,500.00
[Inscribed] The Happy Hypocrite
by Beerbohm, Max. Illustrated by George Sheringham
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1897
- Binding
- Half Morocco. Cloth on boards. Modern leatherette and cloth clamshell box (outer material is a leatherette)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$1,500.00
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New York and London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. First Edition. Half Morocco. Cloth on boards. Modern leatherette and cloth clamshell box (outer material is a leatherette). Very Good. With hand-written 22/23 line letter signed with initials by Beerbohm and written, with small inked cursive lettering, from Rapallo, Italy, his home at Villino Chiaro, dated… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
Il Libro del Cortigiano
by Castigione, Conte Baldasar [Baldassare]
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- October, 1528
- Binding
- Full Vellum
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$10,000.00
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Firenze (Florence) : [Li Heredi di] Philppo di Giunta, October, 1528. Second Edition. Full Vellum. Very Good. This second edition, the first edition octavo in size, was issued the same year as the genuine first edition, which was published in Venice. 8vo. 158 by 102 mm. Unpaginated, 220 leaves. Decorative vignette or device on… Read more about this item Item Price
$10,000.00
Axis in Agony!
by Artzybasheff, Boris
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1944
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
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$450.00
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New York: Warwick Spencer Steel Company, 1944. First edition. Wraps. Fine. 12mo oblong, 14 by 19 cm. Unpaginated, 48 pages, including wraps, with 22 of these pages highly original anti-Nazi caricatures by Atzybasheff. The illustrations generally personify machines and equipment in a crazed, whimsical take on Futurist aesthetics. The idiosyncratic machines are shown humbling, crumbling… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Recrea Infantil Naipes Instructivos
by Margarit, Jaime
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1888
- Binding
- NA
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$350.00
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Palamos, Gerona, Spain, 1888. NA. Fine. 48 instruction cards, each with about ten color chromolithographic vignette illustrations of Spanish words beginning with the particular letter or letter combination. In original paper wrapper, unopened. Scarce, with only insitutional copy appearing on OCLC First Search at the Biblioteca National de Espana, and this might be a reprint. … Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
Histoire d'une Petite Robe de Lin, en vingt-deux Tableaux
by [Wrightman, Julia P.]
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1830
- Binding
- Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$1,500.00
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Paris, 1830. Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine. . Very Good. Scarce -- only institutional copy evidenced on OCLC First Search at Morgan, and none found in commerce on date of writing this description. A truly charming picture book imparting the step-by-step process, and showing the complexities behind, creating the linen fabric for… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
Printer's Menu Designs
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1914
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$250.00
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Chicago: The Ward Advertising Service Inc. , 1914. Wraps. Very Good. Fourteen menu designs, each on heavy card, with a variety of decorative vignette headpieces that capture mainstream American taste of the early 20th century, 4to.-sized, 24 by 14 cm, stab bound with two holes and string. Light card wraps. Only first specimen… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
The Shop Signs of Peking
by Fung, H. K., author of Preface [Hung-Kwai Fung]
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1931
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$7,500.00
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Peking: Chinese Painting Association of Peking, 1931. Limited Edition. Oblong 4to. 26.5 by 34 cm. [3], 18 paginated leaves. Content entirely on rectos.
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$7,500.00
Buch der Lieder
by Heine, Heinrich
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Issue
- Published
- 1827
- Binding
- Half Red Morocco. Marbled Boards. Cloth clamshell box
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$1,500.00
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Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1827. First Edition, First Issue. Half Red Morocco. Marbled Boards. Cloth clamshell box. Near Fine. Heine's second published book, his first collection of verse, which was soon censored, making the first issue a relative rarity. In later issues some of the poems were altered to suit the censors. 12mo. 17… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
Hollywood California All the Year
by Benton, F. Weber
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Published
- 1922
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
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$125.00
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1922. Wraps. Very Good Plus. Oblong, 21.5 by 30 cm. Unpaginated, 48 pages of glossy leaves, 43 of which are dominated by photos, 15 of which are in full color, or colorized. Most other photos have a single color and white, as opposed to black and white. Most of the photo pages with a… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
The Art of Singing
by Caruso, Enrico and Luisa Tetrazzini
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1909
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$250.00
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New Yorki: The Metropolitan Company, 1909. First Edition. 8vo.
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$250.00
Seven Turn-of-the- Twnetieth Century Pen-and-Ink and Watercolored Illustrations of a Girl, Two Framed
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- NA. Two framed.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$450.00
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NA. Two framed.. Near Fine. Charming illustrations all of the same pretty girl in various dress, pre-teen, aged six to nine, in our view, depending on the particular illustration. All are on mid-weight card, with holes atop to hold ribbon to hang these up. N.d., circa 1900, give or take. Varying size,from 23… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Knightly Lays of Knightly Days
by Knight, Charles Y. [credited on cover as Willy's Knight]. Illustrations by Basil M. Tate (some illustrations signed "TAIT" though). Colorings by Emma Wood of Pasadena, CA. Engravings by Bryan Brandenburg Co., Los Angeles
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Wraps (mid-weight semi-flexible card). Two staples.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$1,000.00
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Toledo, Ohio: Willys Overland Company. Printed by Caslon Press, Toledo, Ohio, 1926. Wraps (mid-weight semi-flexible card). Two staples. . Very Good. Extraordinarily charming car company promotional book largely composed like a children's book, with modified nursery rhymes and almost everything rendered in verse, with color plate illustrations such as one would find in a children's book… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,000.00
[Manuscript Sheet] The Horkey
by Cruikshank, George, illustrator. Verse by Robert Bloomfield. Introduction by F. C. Burnard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1882
- Binding
- Hardcover Quarter Morocco Slipcase. Cloth Chemise
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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New York, New York, USA
- Item Price
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$1,250.00
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London: Macmillan and Co. Printed by R. Clay Sons, and Taylor, London, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Morocco Slipcase. Cloth Chemise. Very Good. Manuscript, once folded, sheet, with eight vignette illustrations, most very sketchy, rendered in pencil and ink, amid dense lines in Cruikshank's handwriting. The book itself is posthumous with regard to Cruikshank, who… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00