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

New York: Consolidated Steamship Lines -- Hudson Navigation Company. Printer: The Frank Presbrey Company, 1904. First edition. Wraps. Near Fine. An attractive celebratory brochure for an overnight service steamship that carried passengers between New York City and Albany. The steamer C.W. Morse is here called "the Queen of the Inland Fleets of the World, for she is not only the largest, but in every point of comparison the most luxurious steamer ever constructed for reibver navigation." 4to. 27.5 by 23 cm. Unpaginated, 20 pages. B/W photos on about half the pages, with a two page spread in the center showing the impressive side of the ship. Scarce. Only known institutional holding at the Hagley (acc. to OCLC First Search). Charles W. Morse (1856-1933) was a controversial businessman who became known as the "Ice King" in New York for attaining a near monopoly on the ice business in the city in the days before the modern refrigerator. His attempt to corner the market… Read More

London, 1890s. Half Morocco. Pebbled cloth on boards. . Very Good. Catalogue of C. & W. May Costumiers, Garrick Street. Circa 1890s. A few of the mounted illustrations are dated, '93, '96, or '97, and eight are signed by Crafter Five of the design sheets have pinned swatches, and a few have pencil notes about the costume details. Folio, 31.5 by 25.5 cm. 43 watercolored designs of theater costume by R. Crafter, about whom we know nothing beyond his name. Designs are of a wide variety, from then day dress to interpretations of 17th and 18th Century fashion. The interpretations are colorful and playful generally. The people in the illustrations are also sometimes endowed with expression. Condition: heavy rubbing of the leather on spine and corners. Scattered soiling within, but watercolors remain vibrant.

New York: Newsboy , 1891. Archer (1859-1900) was a singer and actress, and was considered a great beauty in her day. Among other things, she was in the first American production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore".

London: W. Smith, 1803. First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good Minus. A hard-to-find classic on furniture. 8vo. vi, [10], 410 pp. plus 87 copper engraved plates, 27 of which are folding, of late Georgian and Regency Era designs by a master. Includes ten page list of subscribers. The definitions of terms ranges from short and to the point definitions to longer essays or encyclopedic articles. The writing is fluid and very readable, and the interest today is not merely as a hoary reference for words now fallen into disuse or whose meanings have shifted but also the numerous historical asides and lucid explanations of processes, etc. The writing is both precise and accessible. Occasional foxing. A few plates with repairs. Later full red morocco with edgewear.

Cloth. Good. N.d., circa 1910. 4to. 25.5 by 20 cm. 96 pages of bawdy songs, in French, illustrated with color pencil drawings, mostly of ladies and officers, generally humorous, bawdy or risque. Heightening their delight is how they are so deeply rooted in the time period of their creation -- in the dress and styles of the teens, in the feminine physiques idealized, in their conception of the mildly transgressive and naughty. The artwork, although depicting the fashionable and sophisticated, has the charming artlessness of folk art. This is not the product of a trained professional, clearly. Yet never can we not vividly visualize the scenes the artist has worked up. Roué was the headwaiter aboard the Cruiser Battleship La Gloire, and as such he was ideally situated to observe the kinds of people and their behavior that went into his artwork here. Condition: stitching loose in the binding. Some soiling of the boards. Cloth worn at corners. Leaves within with light soiling, minor dog… Read More

Tokyo, 1969. First Edition. Stiff Folder. Near Fine. 39 by 29.5 cm folder, with 12 brightly colored monthly plates, 37 by 29 cm. Serizawa (1895-1984) was a much celebrated and decorated fabric and textile designer. In 1956 he was proclaimed by the Emperor "Holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property", a title known outside Japan as a "Human National Treasure" of Japan. And in 1976 he was appointed Member of the Order of Cultural Merit. He began issuing calendars, each different from the prior ones, in 1946, and continued to do them until his death. The artwork and appearance of the calendars is highly distinctive, with their dazzling colors, their brash, broad-brush typography, their bold, whimsical, folk art-inspired and often playful imagery arranged idiosyncratically. Serizawa was applying his artistic sensibility and technique from textile work onto paper, and the result is unlike virtually anything else one is likely to have ever viewed. Serizawa's… Read More

Tokyo, 1968. First Edition. Stiff Folder. Near Fine. 39 by 29.5 cm folder, with 12 brightly colored monthly plates, 37 by 29 cm. Serizawa (1895-1984) was a much celebrated and decorated fabric and textile designer. In 1956 he was proclaimed by the Emperor "Holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property", a title known outside Japan as a "Human National Treasure" of Japan. And in 1976 he was appointed Member of the Order of Cultural Merit. He began issuing calendars, each different from the prior ones, in 1946, and continued to do them until his death. The artwork and appearance of the calendars is highly distinctive, with their dazzling colors, their brash, broad-brush typography, their bold, whimsical, folk art-inspired and often playful imagery arranged idiosyncratically. Serizawa was applying his artistic sensibility and technique from textile work onto paper, and the result is unlike virtually anything else one is likely to have ever viewed. Serizawa's… Read More

1931. NA. Fine. Colorful, decorative1932 calendar depicting old woman ironing and with flaps representing hanging laundry on the outside, months on the inside. Oblong, 16 by 36 cm. Also in its captioned verse an early reference to television.

London and New Yorki: Castell Brothers, Ltd. and Frederick A. Stokes Company, respectively, 1909. Wraps (Moderately stiff card, twine or ...cord). Very Good. Delightful romp through the year with the mischievous wooden doll. Illustrations are deliciously bright and fun. 12mo. 14.5 by 12 cm. Unpaginated, 14 leaves. 13 chromolithographic plates, including one double paged. There is one single paged plate for each month. Made to look like a manuscript, as the general style of the Ainslie series. Thus printed captions could be mistaken easily, in a quick glance, for handwritten pencil, and the text throughout is rendered in a cursive. The numbered dates definitely can trick the eye into perceiving them as hand written as well. Uncommon -- three institutional copies of this year's Catherine Susan calendar evidenced on OCLC First Search -- Bryn Mawr, Princeton, Toronto. Cover with somewhat heavy staining. Small lower corner chip, and tiny amount of surface loss by upper spine. Leaves within… Read More

Tokyo, 1956. First Edition. Stiff Folder. Near Fine. 39 by 29.5 cm folder, with 12 brightly colored monthly plates, 37 by 29 cm. Serizawa (1895-1984) was a much celebrated and decorated fabric and textile designer. In 1956 he was proclaimed by the Emperor "Holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property", a title known outside Japan as a "Human National Treasure" of Japan. And in 1976 he was appointed Member of the Order of Cultural Merit. He began issuing calendars, each different from the prior ones, in 1946, and continued to do them until his death. The artwork and appearance of the calendars is highly distinctive, with their dazzling colors, their brash, broad-brush typography, their bold, whimsical, folk art-inspired and often playful imagery arranged idiosyncratically. Serizawa was applying his artistic sensibility and technique from textile work onto paper, and the result is unlike virtually anything else one is likely to have ever viewed. Serizawa's technique, known as… Read More

Printed in Germany. Leatherette. . Near Fine. Closed, 22.5 by 14 cm. Stretching to 15 panels in a concertina format. 34 illustrations on these 15 leaves, with the first illustration two-paneled. There are three other two paged panels, which five to seven different views each, but arranged with relation to one another, or a single perimeter framing unifying them in a sense, almost collage-like. This world's fair took place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and the fair was promoted for its beginning during the winter, an option made viable by the mild climate characterizing the Bay area. As these sorts of fairs and expositions became ever more elaborate, the architecture of the buildings displayed a decided eclecticism, as was a characteristic of late nineteenth style more generally. So we see here a Moorish Restaurant designed in the "Moorish" style, a Chinese Building with quintessential Chinese features, and a whole lot of buildings in the ornate Beaux Arts splendor that was a… Read More

New York, Kansas City and Montreal: California Perfume Company; Stockinger Photo Engr. & Ptg. Co.. Limp Leatherette. Stab binding. Black clasps/tacks. . Very Good. Oblong 25 by 37 cm. N.d. circa 1920. 38 pages on a waxy linen-like paper with luminous color illustrations and 35 pages also on a lightweight regular paper with descriptions and prices of the illustrations. The waxy and lightweight leaves alternate, with numbered tabs attached to the waxy sheets. There are 16 such tabs, numbered up to 32. Catalog of what became the Avon Company. An exquisitely beautiful catalog with color that is seductive and somehow exuding a soft glow, a quality not unlike the radiance given to screen sirens via a dab of vaseline on the lens. The process of colorizing the photos has the dazzle of the best chromolithography from an earlier era than this catalog. On final page stamps of gold medal awarded company at Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco, which also aids in the dating of this… Read More

Bold silhouette decorations of a photo album commemorating a corporate conference getaway. Oblong 4to, 27 by 35 cm. Unpaginated, 10 leaves of card, including cover. (Bound in is smaller eight leaf In Memoriam brochure.) Visually it is the silhouette illustrations that excite and set this apart from other company celebratory publications. The silhouettes are meant to capture the fun spirit the getaway ideally fostered. Thus we are treated to silhouette images of anglers, a leaping trout, sailboats, calm ocean waters at sundown, a hand pouring a bottle of liquor, etc.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 250 pp., + 8 plates. Some soilage on pink/red boards. Tiny edge chips on endpaper. Soilage/foxing to half-title leaf. Otherwise, tight and clean interior.

New York: The Limited Editions Club; The George Macy Companies, Inc., 1946. Signed Limited Edition; First Edition Thus. Quarter Leather over Decorated Paper on Boards; with slipcase. Very Good Plus. Copy No. 5 of limited edition of 1,500; signed by Arthur Szyk. xx, 550, [2] pp. With color plate illustrations for each character and a double sided illustration for the entire group in the front, all done by Szyk in his highly original, ornate, appealingly lurid, Durer-esque manner. Clean and tight. With paper decoration of a Medieval-style diaper featuring a quattrofoil and cameo within. Some wear to leather, more pronounced at tips, and somewhat gouped up at lower rear gutter where a clumsy restoration might have been attempted. Still attractive overall. Some edgewear to the slipcase, which as a box retains functional integrity and remains handsome, with similar diaper pattern to boards but a bit darkened.

London: William Pickering, 1830. Half Morocco. Very Good Plus. An elegantlly bound red half-morocco set of Chaucer. 5 vols. Small 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. Binding, executed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, with five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. Marbled paper pastedowns. Scattered, mostly light, foxing. A few scuffs on leather, which otherwise is fresh, bright, attractive.

New York: The Bowling Green Press, 1928. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. One of 600 copies signed by de la Mare. 8vo. 19 pp. Clean within and tight. Lettering on spine is rubbed and dimmed. Minor soiling of boards.

NA. Very Good. Very decorative New Year's Card with Doily-like Lace Work Perimeters Framing Various Images. N.d., mid-19th century. Three panels, with decoration on both sides. Each panel is 13 by 9 cm, and the triptych folds up neatly. Two of the chromolithographs are of pretty maidens and one is a bouquet. The woven cameo carries the brief message of "Happy New Year", surrounded by foliage decoration. The two other panels which form the front and back when the card is closed have maidens worked into the intricate lace work. Perhaps some rubbing to the lace maidens, and general wear to the fabric. The fabric cushion was probably once perfumed -- the essence is long gone. Otherwise, very well preserved.

Very Good. 24 cards, two for each number up to 12, featuring naive illustrations of children, circa 1920s. The rules of the game are unknown, but the illustration on the box alone is worth the price of the deck.

Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. . NA. Fine. An unusual, scarce card shaped like a daisy with six petals that when lifted, reveal short pithy sentiments, and in the center is a chromo image of an angel, or angelic child. N.d., circa 1890. Irregular perimeter shape, but at the widest and tallest, 13 cm across.