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9

Tales from Blackwood, First and New Series

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(Blackwood's Magazine)
Headline
11 volumes from the Tales of Blackwood
Publisher
William Blackwood and Sons
Date Published
no date

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$125

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13

The Heiress. A Comedy in Five Acts

Author
Burgoyne, John
Headline
Burgoyne's The Heiress, A comedy in 5 acts
Publisher
Printed for J. Debrett
Date Published
1786

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

21

Charlie in the House of Rue

Author
Coover, Robert
Headline
Signed by Robert Coover and Jerome Kaplan
Publisher
Penmaen Press
Date Published
[1980]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

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26

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Author
Dickens, Charles
Headline
Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
Publisher
Chapman and Hall
Date Published
[1840s?]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

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29

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Heading
(Dwiggins, W.A.)
Author
Rabelais, Francois
Headline
Gargantua & Pantagruel signed by W.A. Dwiggins
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1936

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

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31

The Works of George Eliot

Author
Eliot, George
Headline
The Works of George Eliot
Publisher
William Blackwood and Sons
Date Published
[1878-1879]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$175

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Bidding history(14 bids)

33

As I Lay Dying

Author
Faulkner, William
Headline
As I Lay Dying 2nd printing fine binding
Publisher
Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith
Date Published
[1930]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$312.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(19 bids)

35

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Author
Fielding, Henry
Headline
Fielding's Tom Jones, nicely bound
Publisher
Printed for J. Hunt, C. Reynell, and C. Chapple by C. Reynell
Date Published
1807

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$175

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Bidding history(13 bids)

36

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Heading
(Fine Bindings)
Author
Goldsmith, Oliver
Headline
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith 1806
Publisher
J. Johnson, et al.
Date Published
1806

Sold for$87.50

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Bidding history(6 bids)

37

The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert

Author
Flaubert, Gustave
Headline
Salammbo edition of Gustave Flaubert's Works
Publisher
M. Walter Dunne
Date Published
[1904]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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42

Jack Hall, or The School Days of an American Boy

Author
Grant, Robert
Headline
Jack Hall by Robert Grant First Edition
Provenance
Donald E. Stralem; Walter S. Ely
Publisher
Jordan, Marsh and Company
Date Published
1888

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

46

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

Author
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Headline
Hawthorne's Wonder-Book
Publisher
Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Date Published
1852

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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53

Works by Henrik Ibsen

Author
Ibsen, Henrik
Headline
4 works by Ibsen in 2 volumes
Date Published
1890-1900

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

54

The Alpine Christ & Other Poems - two variants

Author
Jeffers, Robinson
Headline
Two variants, each signed by Everson
Publisher
Cayucos Books
Date Published
1973

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$87.50

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55

Cawdor and other poems

Author
Jeffers, Robinson
Headline
Limited edition signed by Robinson Jeffers
Publisher
Horace Liveright
Date Published
1928

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

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56

Songs and Heroes

Author
Jeffers, Robinson
Headline
Robinson Jeffers Songs and Heroes
Publisher
Arundel Press
Date Published
1988

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

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57

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks With a Circus

Author
[Kaler], James Otis
Headline
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks With a Circus
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Date Published
1881

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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67

The People of the Abyss

Author
London, Jack
Headline
London, People of the Abyss 1904
Publisher
Macmillan
Date Published
1904

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

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68

The Spanish Student: A Play, in Three Acts

Author
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Headline
Longfellow's Play, The Spanish Student
Publisher
Published by John Owens
Date Published
1843

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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76

The Waters Reglitterized

Author
Miller, Henry
Publisher
Capra Press
Date Published
1973

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$112.50

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Bidding history(10 bids)

80

The Boat Club; Or, The Bunkers of Rippleton

Author
Optic, Oliver [pseud. William Taylor Adams]
Headline
Oliver Optic The Boat Club 1855
Publisher
Brown, Bazin, and Company
Date Published
1855

Sold for$281.25

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Bidding history(8 bids)

81

Welcome to the Medicine Show

Heading
(Palaemon Press Limited)
Author
Garrett, George
Headline
Signed by George Garrett, First Edition
Publisher
Palaemon Press Limited
Date Published
[1978]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

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102

A Child's Garden of Verses

Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Headline
Stevenson, Garden of Children's Verses
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published
1895

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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103

Rudder Grange

Author
Stockton, Frank R.
Headline
Rudder Grange 1st ed., Estelle Doheny copy
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published
1879

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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106

Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire, A Tale of Country Life

Author
Surtees, Robert Smith
Headline
With 12 hand-colored plates bound by Bayntun
Publisher
John C. Nimmo
Date Published
1888

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

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107

Penrod [with] Penrod and Sam

Author
Tarkington, Booth
Headline
2 Penrod titles, 1 signed by Tarkington
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Date Published
1914-1916

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$100

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Bidding history(6 bids)

111

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author
Twain, Mark
Headline
Huckleberry Finn illustrated by Moser
Publisher
American Heritage Press
Date Published
1985

Estimate$10 - $10

Sold for$100

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Bidding history(9 bids)

112

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories

Author
Twain, Mark
Headline
£1,000,000 Bank-Note by Twain, first edition
Publisher
Charles L. Webster
Date Published
1893

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$187.50

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Bidding history(16 bids)

119

Italian Backgrounds

Author
Wharton, Edith
Headline
Edith Wharton's Italian Backgrounds, 1905
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published
1905

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$225

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Bidding history(18 bids)

122

In Our Town

Author
White, William Allen
Headline
Presentation copy of White's In Our Town
Provenance
Bessie White
Publisher
McClure, Phillips & Co.
Date Published
1906

Sold for$200

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Bidding history(13 bids)

125

The Virginian [with] autograph letter signed by Owen Wister

Author
Wister, Owen
Headline
Owen Wister The Virginian with ALS on play
Publisher
Macmillan
Date Published
1904

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$200

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Bidding history(15 bids)

144

Memoirs of Edward Bosqui

Author
Bosqui, Edward and Harold C. Holmes
Headline
Memoirs of Edward Bosqui
Provenance
Ron Lerch Collection
Publisher
The Holmes Book Company
Date Published
1952

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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173

Cynthia Ann Parker

Author
DeShields, James; John Graves, (FWD)
Headline
White Woman living with Comanches
Publisher
Chama Press
Date Published
1991

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

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184

"All's not Gold that Glitters;" or The Young Californian. By Cousin Alice

Author
Haven, Alice Bradley
Headline
The Fourth of Alice Haven's "Home Books"
Provenance
Ron Lerch Collection
Publisher
D. Appleton & Company
Date Published
1856

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

189

Ancient Tales & Folk-Lore of Japan

Heading
(Japan)
Author
Smith, R. Gordon
Headline
Japanese Folk-Lore, illust. w/ 60 color plates
Publisher
A. & C. Black
Date Published
[1908]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$187.50

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Bidding history(15 bids)

221

The Washoe Giant in San Francisco: Heretofore Uncollected Sketches

Author
Twain, Mark; Franklin Walker (editor)
Headline
Mark Twain Stories
Publisher
George Fields
Date Published
1938

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

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290

Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop

Heading
(Book Club of California 175)
Author
Borden, John and Janet Kreuger
Headline
Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop Leaf Book
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1983

Sold for$25

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291

The Golden Ass

Heading
(Chiswick Press)
Author
Apuleius
Headline
Golden Ass of Apuleius, 1904 1/200 copies
Publisher
Printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons
Date Published
1904

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$87.50

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292

The Engravings of Eric Gill

Heading
(Gill, Eric)
Author
Skelton, Christopher
Headline
Catalogue raisonné of Eric Gill's engravings
Publisher
Christopher Skelton
Date Published
1983

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$125

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Bidding history(12 bids)

293

The Mainz Diary: 1437-1440

Heading
(Golden Hind Press)
Headline
Golden Hind Press' the Mainz Diary 1437-1440
Provenance
George L. McKay
Publisher
Golden Hind Press
Date Published
1940

Sold for$37.50

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294

Peter Amelung's Johann Zainer The Elder & Younger

Heading
(Leaf Books)
Author
Amelung, Peter
Headline
Zainer incunable leaf book
Publisher
Kenneth Karmiole
Date Published
1985

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$137.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(11 bids)

295

Aesop's Fables

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Aesop
Headline
LEC Aesop's Fables signed by Bruce Rogers
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1933

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$75

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296

The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Bacon, Francis
Headline
LEC's Essays of Francis Bacon
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1944

Sold for$25

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297

Droll Stories

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Balzac, Honore de
Headline
Balzac's Droll Stories
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1932

Sold for$37.50

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298

Erewhon

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Butler, Samuel
Headline
Butler's Erewhon illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1934

Sold for$100

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Bidding history(8 bids)

299

Tartarin of Tarascon

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Daudet, Alphonse
Headline
Tartarin of Tarascon
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1930

Sold for$12.50

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300

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Herodotus
Headline
Histories of Herodotus LEC
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1958

Sold for$87.50

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301

The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Longus
Headline
Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1934

Sold for$25

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302

Of Human Bondage

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Maugham, W. Somerset
Headline
Signed by John Sloan
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1938

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

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303

The Song of Roland

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Moncrieff, Charles Scott (translator)
Headline
The Song of Roland illustrated and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1938

Sold for$112.50

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Bidding history(10 bids)

304

Utopia

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
More, Sir Thomas
Headline
Sir Thomas More's Utopia, signed by Bruce Rogers
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1934

Sold for$62.50

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305

The Travels of Baron Munchausen

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Raspe, Rudolph Erich
Headline
The Travels of Baron Munchausen
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1929

Sold for$62.50

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306

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Headline
Frankenstein LEC edition, illus by Everett Henry
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1934

Sold for$112.50

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Bidding history(10 bids)

307

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Voss, Richard
Headline
The Monk and Hangman's Daughter adapted by Ambrose Bierce
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1967

Sold for$37.50

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308

The First Winter of My Married Life

Heading
(Lord John Press)
Author
Gass, William H.
Headline
Wm. Gass The First Winter of My Married Life
Publisher
Lord John Press
Date Published
1979

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

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309

Four Centuries of Fine Printing. Upwards of Six Hundred Examples of the Work of Presses Established during the Years 1500 to 1914

Author
Morison, Stanley
Headline
Stanley Morison, Four Centuries of Printing
Publisher
Ernest Benn
Date Published
[1924]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$100

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Bidding history(9 bids)

311

The Parlement of Foules

Heading
(Rogers, Bruce)
Author
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Headline
Bruce Rogers design, Parlement of Foules, Riverside Press
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published
[1904]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

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312

Paragraphs on Printing Elicited from Bruce Rogers in Talks with James Hendrickson on the Functions of the Book Designer

Author
Rogers, Bruce
Headline
Scarce Bruce Rogers signed limited edition
Publisher
William E. Rudge's Sons
Date Published
1943

Sold for$237.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(22 bids)

325

Lauriston: An Architectural Biography of Herbert Edward Law

Author
Bogart, Sewall
Headline
Herbert Law's Lauriston
Publisher
Alpine House Publications
Date Published
1976

Sold for$12.50

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330

The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron

Author
Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron
Headline
Byron's Works
Publisher
John Murray
Date Published
1829

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

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336

Tales

Heading
(Dwiggins, W. A.)
Author
Poe, Edgar Allan
Headline
Dwiggins illustrated Poe's Tales
Provenance
Stuart B Schimmel
Publisher
The Lakeside Press
Date Published
1930

Sold for$250

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Bidding history(16 bids)

337

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Heading
(Dwiggins, W. A.)
Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Headline
Jekyll and Hyde illustrated by Dwiggins
Publisher
Random House
Date Published
1929

Sold for$187.50

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Bidding history(15 bids)

338

Poésies

Heading
(Fine Bindings)
Author
Chenier, André
Headline
Beautifully bound Chenier's Poésies
Publisher
Flammarion
Date Published
1953

Sold for$37.50

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342

The Alphabet: Fifteen Interpretative Designs [and] Elements of Lettering

Author
Goudy, Frederic W.
Headline
Goudy's Alphabet
Provenance
Barton Slade Austin
Publisher
Mitchell Kennerley
Date Published
1918

Sold for$37.50

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343

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray

Author
Gray, Thomas
Headline
Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Poems by Gray 1753
Publisher
R. Dodsley
Date Published
1753

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$437.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(23 bids)

346

Autographed letter with portrait

Author
Harte, Bret
Headline
Portrait with letter autographed by Bret Harte
Date Published
No date

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

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352

Edmond Dantes, Black Sheep, Nancy, Lothair

Heading
(Literature)
Headline
Edmond Dante, Black Sheep, Nancy, Lothair
Date Published
1849-1874

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold

353

Four finely bound volumes

Heading
(Literature)
Headline
4 finely bound volumes
Date Published
1896-1915

Sold for$175

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Bidding history(14 bids)

355

Two notes signed by Pierre Loti

Author
Loti, Pierre
Headline
Two notes autographed by Pierre Loti
Date Published
No date

Estimate$10 - $100

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361

Philobiblon: A Magazine for Book-Collectors

Heading
(Philobiblon)
Headline
Philobiblon Magazine for Book-Collectors 23 issues
Publisher
H.Reichner
Date Published
1933-35

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

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365

The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution

Author
Scott, Sir Walter
Headline
Sir Walter Scotts Life of Napoleon 1827-3 vols
Publisher
J. & J. Harper
Date Published
1827

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$112.50

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368

In the Closed Room

Heading
(Smith, Jessie Willcox, illustrator)
Author
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Headline
In the Closed Room, 1st edition in dust jacket
Publisher
McClure, Phillips & Co.
Date Published
[1904]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

382

Nell Blaine Sketchbook

Author
Blaine, Nell
Headline
Nell Blaine Sketchbook signed w/etching
Publisher
The Arts Publisher
Date Published
1986

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

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416

Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn

Heading
(Japanese Woodblock Prints)
Headline
Grabhorn Figure Prints of Old Japan
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1959

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$100

StatusSold