Lots 101 - 110

Lot #101: NICHOLSON, WILLIAM "AN ALPHABET" LONDON (WILLIAM HEINEMANN) 1898. 1ST EDITION, FOLIO.
Title page and 26 color lithographs; one for each letter of the alphabet. Tipped onto large brown paper. Cloth spine is perished. Some stains on the pictorial boards. Front board loose. Lithographs fine.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $650

Lot #102: HEARN, LAFCADIO - JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES - NUMBER'S 23 & 25.
(1) #23 - "The Boy Who Drew Cat's" Tear in title and next page. Faded. (2) #25 "Chin Chin Kobakama". Rear wrapper torn. Both crepe paper and 8VO.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00

Lot #103: (MOVEABLE) SILBERMANN, A.M. "DIE HAGGADAH DES KINDES" BERLIN, 1936. SECOND PRINTING, 4TO.
A Haggadah for children with 4 moveable pages (1 double sided), with other color illustrations by Erwin Singer. Color pictorial boards. Some soiling. A remarkable survival - printed 3 years after the rise of Hitler.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $250

Lot #104: (COLORED) POLLOCK, BENJAMIN "JACK THE GIANT KILLER" LONDON, CA 1880.
Theatre and character plates used to set up a toy theatre. Includes "Jack the Giant Killer" title scene, 8 scenes, 2 character sheets, and 1 trick wing, 2 side wings, 1 street wing and 1 curtain wing. Total of 16 sheets - in 4 frames - 4 to a frame. Very scarce in the unused state.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $300

Lot #105: ART MONOGRAPHS AND "ECCE HOMO".
(1) (signed) Hunter, Sam "Larry Rivers" NY (Abrams) (1969). 4TO. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Rivers. (2) Elsen, Albert "Seymour Lipton" NY (Abrams) 4TO. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Lipton. (3) Gross, George "Ecce Homo" NY (Grove) (1966). Pictorial buckram. 2 additional color plates laid-in. Dust jacket is soiled.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00

Lot #106: 3 ORIENTAL BOOKS - 1 WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS; 2 WITH FABRIC PATTERNS.
(1) Book with 3 watercolors - each 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (2) 2 books with color patterns for clothing and paper. Many illustrations for Kimonos.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $150

Lot #107: GROUP OF FIVE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
(1) "Poets and Etchers" Boston, 1882. 4TO. Etchings by A.F. Bellows, R. Swain Gifford, J.D. Smillie, etc. (2) Lasky, Bessie Mona "The Path of Vision" NY, 1945. 1 of 1000 copies. 15 tipped in color plates. (3) Fairchild, Lee "The Tippler's Vow" NY (1901) 26 original dry-points by Jean Paleologue. 1 of 750 copies. (4) (Paper Samples) "Canson et Montgolfier" NY, 1925. 1 of 500 copies. Blank and printed paper samples. (5) 1 other.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00

Lot #108: (1 OF 150) KONYA, A.S. "SIX VUES DE PARIS" PARIS (CIRCA 1920) 6 MATTED LITHOGRAPHS ON CHINE VALANT. 1 OF 150 COPIES - LIMITATION PAGE SIGNED IN INK.
Lithographs signed and marked in pencil. Housed in a lightly soiled portfolio.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00

Lot #109: ARCHER, THOMAS "PICTURES AND ROYAL PORTRAITS ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH HISTORY..." LONDON (BLACKIE) 1883. TWO VOLUMES, 4TO.
69 full-page steel engraved plates after J.M.W. Turner, Copley and Benjamin West. Binding: publisher's full brown gilt calf. Elaborate blind and gilt decorated boards and spines. Light scattered foxing.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00

Lot #110: ART NOUVEAU EPHEMERA - POSTER EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND CHAP BOOKS.
(1) Poster exhibition catalogues - 6, all in the late 19th century: "Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association - Exhibition of Posters" 1895, Louis Rhead "Exhibition of Original Design for Posters" 1895, one French and one Italian catalogue, 2 without wrappers. (2) H.S. Stone "The Chap Book" Chicago, 1896 - 97. Vol 5 - 12 issues; publishers cloth.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $325

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