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To a Daisy

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 002929

Binding: Wraps or brochure

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900. A cleverly executed watercolored cover, with a diagonal fold-over flap shaped to the outline of the daisy petals. Inside is a four page, sixteen line poem presumed to be original. Bound with tasseled-tipped string. Oblong, 10.5 by 13 cm.
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Enigmas

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 004409

Binding: Card. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa mid-19th century. Oblong, 7.5 by 12 cm. Unpaginated, 24 pp. Containing 20 riddles, with each riddle four to a dozen lines of verse written in a neat cursive hand, and the answers on the final leaf. Lovely original vignette watercolored illustrations, both drawn and colored by hand, one of an open book, the other, a flower bouquet. Gilt edges to the boards, with Greek raised ornamentation around perimeter.
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La Perle de Tolede. Imite de l'Espagnol d'apres Merimee. Pastiche

By: N/A

Price: $2,250.00

Seller ID: 003231

Binding: Quarter Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Exquisite vignettes and full-page pencil drawings illustrating an original French narrative poem emulating perhaps, on a small scale, the Spanish chivalric tradition. 4to. 30 by 25 cm. 18 pp. (Writing and artwork on one side of a leaf.) The first page is probably a self-portrait of the writer/artist in profile plying away in an office cell. The author expresses an affection for Andalusia, and perhaps a celebration of the place and its culture is his ultimate aim. The poem pits a Christian against a Moor, the latter meeting his death, but the author appears to sympathize with him. While ...
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Homemade Book of Mounted Crayon Colored Cutouts of Boys in Costume

By: N/A

Price: $145.00

Seller ID: 003586

Binding: Paper

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1930s. Measures 46 by 24 cm. Depicted is a boy as a scout, a policeman, an 18th century dandy with a peruke and tricorn hat, a fireman, a Tyrolian and Mexican musician. On the one hand the work would seem that of a child, especially since the cut-outs were done on lined paper, but on the other hand, the proficiency is beyond that of even a gifted pre-teen. Some blank pages from which it is possible that cut-outs were removed but this would seem unlikely. There are stains on the bottom of these pages that one could think come from paste, but the rest of the pages are clean and s...
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Homemade Book of Mounted Crayon Colored Drawings and Cut-outs of Bunnies and Other Animals, Flowers and Children, etc.

By: N/A

Price: $165.00

Seller ID: 003587

Binding: Paper

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1930s. Measures 36 by 31 cm. 20 pages with mostly mounted crayon drawings but a few illustrations made in all or part of cut-outs. Of animals, cute bunnies are the most numerous, but there are also bears, pigs, a robin, a goldfinch, an oriole, a king bird, chickens, a duck. Of children, there is a boy in a witch's hat gazing at a jack-a-lantern, and a girl in a slot-car. One of the most interesting of the illustrations is a paper cut-out of a vegetable man -- a man made of different vegetables. The two flower arrangement drawings are especially well done. There is also a s...
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Record of the Child-Life of Geraldine Richmond

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 005462

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

The heavy paper wraps have a watercolor painting of daffodils and the name of the baby, "Geraldine", written neatly at a diagonal to a side of the painting. Within are 17 leaves of content -- pen and ink work only on rectos, and a few of the pages have just the ornamental work, with the space intended for clippings or photos not used. The cover measures 25 by 17.5 cm, the interior pages, 20 ny 16.5 cm.
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The Weathercock on Salisbury Cathedral Spire

By: N/A

Price: $1,450.00

Seller ID: 003769

Binding: Wraps, staple bound. Cloth folder

Condition: Very Good

Highly original, comical anthropormphic illustrations of an accident-prone rooster. N.d., circa 1930s. Oblong, 21 by 28.5 cm. Unpaginated, 32 pp, including cover. The story line is loose, even disjointed, with each page representing a separate incident or story line. Tidbits of satire pervade the work, directed here at the clergy, there at sots. Some of the humor contained in the captions is obscure, but the visual humor never slackens, and whatever the merits of the overall narrative, however, the watercolors are irresistible, and while anthropomorphism is a commonplace in juvenilia, thes...
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Croquêt

By: N/A

Price: $1,450.00

Publisher: England,

Seller ID: 004642

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

N.d. Circa 1870s. Small 4to. 24 by 18 cm. Eight pages of manuscript, with eight delightful pen and ink illustrations, including cover decoration, plus six ornamental letter vignettes ("historiated", "floriated" and "rusticated"). The illustrations include ones of a manor house, with three croquet players in the foreground, a grouping of players with one about to do an agressive swing resembling a golf drive, a group of young adults listiening to a serenader, and wooing couple and a seraph steering a tiny sailboat. The verse is pleasant and rich in charm: "Inst...
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[Manuscript] Varied Versions

By: N/A

Price: $465.00

Seller ID: 004994

Binding: Paper pastedown on boards. String ties.

Condition: Near Fine

Clever light verse and charming watercolored vignettes, with the verse and artwork cross-fertilizing and resulting in an entirely novel homemade book, unlike any such effort we have ever beheld. N.d., mid-20th century. (A send-up of an Edith Sitwell poem first appearing in 1953 suggests the manuscript dates to the late fifties or sixties. Our sense, based on the poem, was that Sitwell was still alive at the time. The eccentric poet passed away in 1964.) Oblong, 15 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated, 24 leaves, with content only on the rectos. It is unfortunate that the identity of the poet is unkno...
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Lustige Post. Neu Ein Nachschlagewerk. Neu für angehende Postpensionisten

By: N/A

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Munich, 1948

Seller ID: 005363

Binding: Hardcover. Paper pastedown on cover.

Condition: Very Good

The inefficient efficiency of Deutsche Post -- a whimsical and fun take on postal services and innovations! 4to. 24.5 by 21.5 cm. Unpaginated, 29 leaves, each with original illustrations done with pen and ink and watercolors. The manuscript was created as a tribute or gift for a retiring postal official (the Oberpostinspektor) in Munich, whose name was Karl Scherner. The illustrations are absurdist cartoons that don't require an understanding of the text. Along with the title and caption of each illustration, there is usually a small clipping pasted in that represents the actual postal n...
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Der Osterhas aus Reisen

By: N/A

Price: $1,500.00

Seller ID: 006046

Binding: Half cloth (buckram). Decorative paper pasted ont

Condition: Very Good

Charming whimsical story about an Easter bunny, told in German verse and inimitably illustrated with original watercolors. 8vo. 21 by 17 cm. 50 pages, including title page, with an original watercolor on every page, virtually all of which are between a half to three-quarters of the page. The bunny decides to make a journey, using his eggs as currency along the way. On the trip he encounters various obstacles and threats such as a giant and a dragon, but he also meets Snow White and the seven dwarves, Hansel and Gretel, and the like. Before the trip is over he visits Africa. He gets bac...
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[Manuscript] Histoire de la Cochonnette

By: N/A

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Christmas, 1944

Seller ID: 006068

Binding: Hardcover. Cotton toile fabric pasted onto boards

Condition: Very Good

Charming original story about a clever pig and his rooster and chicken pals, and how they escape becoming their master's Xmas supper and then a ravenous wolf. Oblong, 21.5 by 27.5 cm. Unpaginated, 20 leaves, text and illustrations only on rectos. Eighteen original watercolor illustrations, all but two of which are full page or dominate the page. The watercolors are rendered with a confident simplicity -- these illustrations could easily have appeared in a published children's book. The text is written in a neat cursive. Besides the sweet narrative, we find the toile covers lovely, and a...
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"A Lesser-Known Hermit of Farne" being an article "St. Bartholomew of Farne" by Sr. Felicity, C.P.P. taken from "The Life of the Spirit"

By: N/A

Price: $350.00

Publisher: December 1963

Seller ID: 006595

A striking homemade book, with wonderful watercolored illustrations filling the borders of every page of this hagiographic account of St. Barthomew. Oblong, 20 by 27 cm. Unpaginated, four leaves, with five pages of content, including front cover. The illustrations are folk art-ish and winsomely naive. We would suspect that the artist was not an accomplished artist, but he worked expertly within his artistic limitations to create something especially pleasing and immediate in its artistry. Cameos include depictions of monks, seals, skiffs, a cathedral and chapel, coastline, blackbirds, et...
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Presenting the Foxy Movie Toons

By: "Dick Weinert"

Price: $1,750.00

Seller ID: 006490

Condition: Very Good

Movie-themed cartoon character original watercolored rebuses. From the 1930s. Oblong, 14 by 22.5 cm. 27 leaves. Many of the rebuses form the names of Hollywood stars of the day -- Tyrone Power, Ginger Rogers, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Lamour, etc.
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????????? ??????? ??????????? (Some Sketches ?)

By: ????????, ?. ?. (Ivenskii, S. G.)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: ??????? (Vologda), 1964

Seller ID: 005266

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

120 by 92 mm. 14 leaves. With 14 vignette original designs, done by hand, mostly of bookplates. The designs are dated 1962 to 1964. Also a frontis portrait, which we take to be a self-portrait. Two page hand-written preface explaining what follows, and each of the bookplates has a brief caption on the facing page.
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????????? ?????? M??? ???????? (Little Album of My Drawings)

By: ????????, ?. ?. (Ivenskii, S. G.)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: ??????? (Vologda), 1964

Seller ID: 005267

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, 98 by 108 mm. Six leaves, including cover, with six tipped-in examples of original artwork, done in pen and ink, employing colored inks, some pencil and watercolor, and one vignette done directly onto the paper. The drawings include a self-portrait, two caricatures, and two (or three) bookplate designs. Quite unusual.
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Pen and Ink Sketches 1888

By: A.P. (?)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: 1888

Seller ID: 002418

Condition: Very Good

Six leaves, with six ink drawings of a high amateur caliber, and and verse on the verso sides written in a neat, ornamental hand. Depicted are Croydon Mountain, the Sugar River, Lake Sunapee and Mosquito Hollow. On the back cover is writen "A Happy New Year", and so this thin book was prepared as a sentimental gift card. The artist initialed his work with what looks like "A.P.", and that is all one can tell about the creator. Foxing on the front and rear. The leaves are held by string which is now a bit loose.
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[Original Book Illustrations] To My Valentine

By: Ann Warren Stewart (?)

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: 005682

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

Five panels for an unpublished children's story (as far as we know). We may not have all the pages that were created -- we have no way of knowing. Nonetheless, each of the pages is delightful on its own. The pages are 28.5 by 22.5 cm, and the meda are pen and ink and watercolors. Three punched holes for a spiral in left margin. Some soiling.
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[Homemade Book] To My Valentine Collection of Five Illustrated Leaves on Card

By: Anonymous

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: 002789

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

Winsome collection of manuscript color illustrations, and light text, for part of a children's story. N.d., circa 1920s. The first card, or what is presumed to be so, bears the legend, "To My Valentine", with the name of "Ann Warren Stewart", written on a mailbox. Since Ann is a character in these drawings, we can assume she was not the author or illustrator but rather perhaps a recipient or dedicatee. The artwork is in the style, loosely, of Mabel Lucie Attwell or the Sally Dick and Jane readers. While it is simple, and perhaps even a touch naive, it is also very polished and almost cert...
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Chesa Dr. Ruppanner Samedan

By: Bernhard, Lucie (1894 - ?)

Price: $675.00

Publisher: Samedan, Switzerland,

Seller ID: 002915

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa 1930s. Two poems about a Sanitarium opened by Dr. Rupanner in Samedan, which is close to St. Moritz in the southeast corner of Switzerland, accompanied by watercolor vignettes. The title page is given over to a fine watercolor of the grand four story house, which housed the hospital. It would appear that Bernhard was a patient in the hospital, and in gratitude she indited the poem and decorated its four pages with vignettes that echo the subjects brought up in the verses. The poems themselves are written in a neat, however inscrutable, hand, with a cursive style no longer in f...
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