(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). Original etching, signed by Edward Gorey. One of 50 copies, of which this is one of 20 printed during Gorey's lifetime. The image shows a large and ominous-looking skull overshadowing an elephant, which walks calmly by. Elephants held special meaning for Gorey, who named his.....

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London: Petersburg Press, 1974. One of 150 copies printed and bound as edition (A) for Europe. Henry Moore's lithographs illustrate each of the thirteen poems, as well as the dedication and the frontispiece. They dominate the landscape of the page, setting off Auden's complex verses with introspective and psychological imagery.....

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Paris: Nouvelle Librairie de la Jeunesse, (c. 1900). Quarto panorama of six chromolithographed pop-up scenes. They carry the reader through an exotic hunt, in which cowboys and local turbaned attendants pursue and slay lions and tigers, and eventually overcome an ambush by native tribespeople. The book's three-dimensional structure adds to.....

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Buffalo: Breed & Lent, (1866). Daisy No. 1; Daisy No. 2; Daisy & Dot; Daisy's Kittens; Daisy's Death; Dot. Six volumes, complete. Each volume contains 64pp. In the first issue of The Miniature Book Collector, Ruth Adomeit devoted several pages to the series of books published by Breed and Butler.....

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British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 2015. One of forty-five copies of the deluxe edition, featuring a portfolio with strikes of the seven engravings appearing in the volume and an additional print. With the exception of the frontispiece, the engravings, fashioned after Roget's illustrations by the Brothers Dalziel of London, never appeared.....

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Paris: Impie. Lender, 1866. Set of paper dolls, containing two figures, two wooden stands, twelve double-sided outfits, and four hairstyles, all printed lithographically. "Psyché", created in 1835, was one of the very first paper dolls included in the eponymous magazine. It was also sold as a paper toy in its.....

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(N.p. Golden Cockerel Press, 1981). One of three known copies of Josef Herman's lithographs, gathered as a suite and intended to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press's final book. The book was never published and the lithographs languished until their discovery some twenty years later. Printed in blue and black, the.....

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Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, 1920. An unusual unused booklet with "magic leaves," which reveal a picture when lightly passed over with a pencil. For obvious reasons, it is especially rare to find such as this with a clean interior. Oblong 32mo. (8)ff. Bound in pictorial wrappers featuring an old-fashioned horse.....

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(Philadelphia): Alice Austin, 2019. Tunnel book consisting of six panels connected with illustrated accordion-folded side panels. The three-dimensional scene revealed when the book is expanded shows the beauty and chaos of Venice's Grand Canal, from the natural world, to the built environment, and the life that inhabits the shared space.....

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NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1985. Hand-pulled collograph, signed by Gorey. One of a stated fifty copies, though only forty were completed and signed before Gorey's death. A serene and ghostly image, after Gorey's telltale style, highlighting a cat framed in a window gazing at an enormous moon. Matted and framed.....

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Marlborough & Leominster, Herefordshire: Marlborough College Press & Whittington Press, 1949 & 1998. Here, an original out-of-series copy of the litany, which was printed in 1949 in an edition of seventy copies by the Marlborough College Press, has been reinvigorated and repackaged by John Randle of the Whittington Press. Randle.....

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(Paris: c. 1850). Twelve hand-colored lithographs decorate the twelve question cards included in this game, which quizzes children on the scope and purpose of subjects, such as grammar, geography, architecture, and astronomy. Each question card is followed by a response card, which gives the appropriate answer. History, for example, is.....

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