Search Results: Authors starting with C from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Paris, 1996   ¶ Only edition. 76 lots; including works on architecture, perspective, physics. (Drouot-Richelieu, 27 November 1996. Pierre Berès, expert; PIASA, commissaires-priseurs.)   ||| Collation: 279 x 219 mm: Pp [1-48].  Illustration: Eighteen facsimiles.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. .

London &c, 2000 ¶ Only edition; including a three-page description of the Charles de Valois (duc d'Angouêlme) copy of Don Quixote 1605, £223,250 ($321,976). (Sale no. L00210, 7 December 2000.) ||| Collation: 270 x 212 mm: Pp [1-10] 11-136. Illustration: Numerous color and monochrome facsimiles and illustrations. Binding: Pictorial wrappers. Condition: Fine. .

New York, 2001   ¶ Only edition. 522 lots; including property from the late Sir Rex and Lady Harrison, Walter J. Johnson Inc, Francis Lewis Randolph, and the Estate of Andrée Beauchamp Stearns. (Christie's East sale no. 8619, 11 December 2001.)   ||| Collation: 267 x 211 mm: Pp [1-1] 3-107 [108].  Illustration: Color and monochrome illustrations and facsimiles.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. .

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1966 ¶ ONLY EDITION. Out of print. ||| Collation: In 16s (229 x 151 mm). Pp. xxiv, 212. Binding: Red cloth gilt. Condition: Spine slightly sunned. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below..

Paris: Delpire/Advico (Paris), for Peugeot ca 1970    ¶ Vivid promotional poster for Peugeot vélomoteurs, issued in conjunction with a 'wild ride between the two seas' -- presumably the Mediterranean and the Atlantic --, perhaps in 1967 (when 29 July was a Sunday); signed with Chwast's device in the image lower left, printer's imprint lower right. Another example of the same poster is preserved in the Cooper-Hewitt museum, New York.   ||| Poster 800 x 597 mm (31½ x 23½ inches) offset-lithographed in colors with color halftone, green-halftone margins. Condition: Margin slightly battered top right, withal a very good example of this scarce and fragile poster.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector (Christie's New York, 4-5 May 2005, nos. 8-14 &c)..

New Bedford, Massachusetts: by Clement E. Daley Advertising, 1977 * * * ONLY EDITION. Historical gleanings concerning the Tabitha Inn (1904), where Clemens stayed from time to time while visiting his patron H. H. Rogers. An amateurish production, presumably VERY SCARCE. --- Collation: Six leaves, paginated [1-12]. One full-page halftone illustration (view of the Tabitha Inn). Binding: Printed wrappers. Reference: Not in OCLC. .

In: East Bay express (Emeryville, California, 2001-  ), vol. 26, no. 3 (29 October 2003, offered complete), pages 14-21     ¶ Perhaps the longest and most detailed press account--amounting to some 4700 words in all--of the discovery (1990) and implications of the long-lost manuscript (1876-80) of the first half (chapters 1-21) of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.   ||| Collation: 34½ x 29 cm: 52 leaves, paginated [1] 2-92, [B1] B2-12.  Illustration: Numerous halftone illustrations (including eight relating to Clemens, after E. W. Kemble [7] or Justin Page [1]).  Binding: Pictorial self-wrappers.  Condition: Very good. .

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and sons, 1898 In 8s (171 x 111 mm): Pp [i-viii], [1] 2-176. Publisher's slate-blue cloth lettered and decorated in black, plain wove endpapers, no headbands, all edges trimmed & plain. Free endpapers somewhat browned, spine sunned, withal A REMARKABLY FINE COPY. *** Last edition; comprising 'a biographical sketch of La Fontaine followed by a commentary on his fables with an emphasis upon stylistic considerations. Short background discussions of earlier fabulists and the Reynard cycle and brief mention of later fabulists and La Fontaine's influence upon them.' (Carnes 210n.) The first edition was published at Edinburgh by Blackwood in 1882; and an American issue or edition appeared at Philadelphia in the same year. The present edition is remarkably scarce, perhaps on account of its having been used as a schoolbook: Only two other copies have been located, and none in America. -- References: OCLC 11802681. Cf Carlson, Carnes 210. (Not in COPAC.) -- Copies: British… Read More

New York: The Hampton publishing company -- "Apparently a scarce book" (Carlson), this is an attractive but undated reprint (circa 1942-45) of An argosy of fables (New York 1921); with six color halftone plates after Paul Bransom.. Brown cloth, pictorial label. A very good copy.. In 8s (235 x 181 mm). Pp. xvi, 275.

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1885   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and in fact the only separate edition, of Verlaine's sketch of François Coppée; enlivened by a striking caricature of the poet holding a red rose and toting a wagonload of hearts across the Place de l'Odéon--where his comedy Le passant had given Sarah Bernhardt her first triumph.   ¶ Coppée was a leading poet and dramatist of the 1870s and '80s, and the progenitor of Les Vilains Bonshommes ("The Nasty Boys")--a group of younger Parnassians whose monthly dinners were celebrated, famously, by Fantin-Latour in his large canvas Coin de table, now in the Musée d'Orsay. (It was at one such dinner, in 1871, that Rimbaud made his Paris debut. The Nasty Boys were not amused.) Coppée is now remembered chiefly for his role in excluding Mallarmé and Verlaine and Charles Cros from the third volume of Le Parnasse contemporain 1876. (Series: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui,… Read More

Paris: chez Pierre Ribou (Quay des Augustins), 1713     ¶ FIRST COLLECTED ISSUE; comprising the second edition of Idoménée (1711) and the FIRST EDITIONS OF CRÉBILLON'S BEST PLAYS Atrée et Thyeste (1709), Electre (1709), and Rhadamisthe et Zenobie (1711), all gathered together by the original publisher and issued here with a collective titlepage 1713 priced 3 livres. (The individual titlepages are priced 20 sols = 1 livre each.) A fine portrait frontispiece was inserted sometime after Crébillon's death and before this copy was bound:<because the frt has red edges too, and anyway a wormhole runs right through the upper cover, frontispiece, and text through pt2 p6> The artist was Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788).   ||| Collation: 12mo (160 x 92 mm), four parts paginated (pi)[1-2], [i-vi], 1-66 [67-68]; [i-viii], 1-57 [58-60]; [1-9] 10-73 [74-76]; [i-vi], [1] 2-60 [61-64]. … Read More