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Publicado por Enviro-Tote, 2022
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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While supplies last! First edition Honey & Wax totes. Heavyweight natural cotton tote bag, measuring 15 x 13 inches, printed with the Honey & Wax logo.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003201
Publicado por The Psychological Corporation, New York City, 1950
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Early example of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Object Assembly Test, devised by Bellevue psychologist David Wechsler in 1949 as part of a wide-ranging assessment to measure intelligence in children. There were four different WISC Object Assembly Tests, each identified by a capital letter on the box: A for automobile, F for face, H for horse, and M for mannequin. (Wechsler also designed a series of Object Assembly Tests for adults as part of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test.) Modernized versions of the original WISC puzzles are still in diagnostic use today. Classic example of midcentury modern design, at the intersection of science and art. Two-dimensional wooden puzzle. Housed in original green cardboard box measuring 4 x 6.5 inches, printed in silver with manufacturer's information and a capital letter M.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003183
Publicado por Viking, New York, 2001
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First American edition of My Brother's Ghost, a meditation on grief by Allan Ahlberg, best known for modern children's classics like Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman. Frances tells the story of her older brother Tom's death, at the age of ten, and his return to watch over his bereaved siblings: "I came to believe that Tom was like some kind of mobile light bulb, moving himself here and there, switching himself on and off. Except he couldn't always find the switch and had no map. Tom was bewildered too." A Puffin postcard for the English first edition, featuring the same cover design by Yorkshire artist Gill Tyler, laid in. A fine copy of a moving book. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [8], 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1001078
Publicado por Oxford University Press, London, 1962
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this anthology of English plays written during the Caroline era, before the English Civil War effectively shuttered the theaters. The selections include two plays by James Shirley (The Lady of Pleasure, The Wedding), two by Richard Brome (A Mad Couple Well Matched, The Antipodes), William Davenant's The Wits, and Thomas Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding. Editor Knowland concedes that "the reign of Charles I is not an inspiring one for the student of drama," but maintains that "Shirley's grace and lucidity, Brome's popular appeal, Davenant's wit, Killigrew's prose naturalism . . . help to make the transition to Restoration drama more intelligible." A near-fine example of an uncommon anthology. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xvi, 553, [5]. Original blue blindstamped boards, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Lightest shelfwear to jacket.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003044
Publicado por Abbeville Press, New York, 1982
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First American edition of this historical survey of the bed in theory and practice, "a wealth of general bed-lore" by Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess. "We may divine that kings and queens did not sleep any better on their ornate machines than peasants on their mud floors (Shakespeare is always going on about this), but the elaboration of a bed had nothing to do with somniference. It was all a matter of symbolism . . . the kingly bed anticipated the kingly tomb, and even hinted at the possibility of resurrection." Lavishly illustrated with photographs of famous beds, including those of Mary Tudor, George Washington, and Napoleon Bonaparte, and beds painted by the likes of Raphael, Goya, Delacroix, and Van Gogh, with a reproduction of Toulouse-Lautrec's "In Bed" on the dust jacket. A crisp fine copy. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: 96. Original full brown textured cloth, spine lettered in dark brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color frontispiece, color illustrations throughout text.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003308
Publicado por Penguin Books, West Drayton, Middlesex, 1950
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Early printing of this illustrated collection of "little pieces you can teach yourself," number 80 in the Puffin Picture Book series edited by Noel Carrington. The musical compositions grow more challenging as the book progresses, from "The Canary" ("make your tune hop and chirrup like the canary") to examples of the hornpipe, march, tango, and other popular dances. Illustrator Sheila Jackson would become an influential arts educator and fashion designer, most celebrated for overseeing the costumes for every episode of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-1975). A near-fine example of a classic Puffin Picture Book. Side-stapled volume, measuring 9 x 7 inches: [2], 26. Original color lithographed wrappers, color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Two stamps inside wrappers: "Chace Junior School / City of Coventry Education Committee.".
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003057
Publicado por Macmillan, (London), 1967
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this early children's title by Newbery winner Paula Fox, the story of an anxious (and anxiously watched) young boy: "Everyone wanted to help Lewis. That's why he was thinking of running away." Lewis's life improves markedly when his parents leave town, and a free-spirited sitter allows him to roam after school. Publishers today would likely shy away from a story that encourages children to explore caves with men they befriend in the park, but in Fox's telling, Lewis's adventures have a dreamlike, almost magical quality. Edward Ardizzone's drawings perfectly capture the boy's experience of oppression and liberation. A near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [6], 57, [1]. Original black cloth lettered in silver, original clipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear and sunning, small tape repair to jacket verso, ghost of bookseller label to front flap.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1002890
Publicado por no date, No place, 1890
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Chromolithographed new year's greeting featuring a rebus puzzle: "Success [BEE] thine this Year of Grace / May Fortune [BOOK] you for a [PLAICE.]" A delightful survival. Coated ivory card with rounded corners, printed in chromolithography recto only, measuring 3.75 x 4.75 inches. Text printed in gold, all edges gilt. Lightest signs of handling.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003397
Publicado por no publisher, France, 1950
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Commercially produced graph paper workbook for French design students, with striking blue wrappers lettered "Dessin." A fine example of an ephemeral midcentury classroom aid, never used. Side-stitched design workbook, measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches: [16]. Original deep blue wrappers lettered in black, sewn with white thread; leaves printed with a grid pattern.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003073
Publicado por Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1931
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this illustrated anthology for young readers, collecting anecdotes of great musicians in their youth: "to catch that warm and living moment in their early lives when the spark of genius was fanning into flame." Featured musicians include Stradivari, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and the Schumanns, among others. Schoolboy Giuseppe Verdi wins over the canon of Busseto when he takes the place of the cathedral's organist, while young Jenny Lind is discovered in Stockholm, singing to her cat: "When she told the cat she loved him her voice was low and soft and tender, and when she sang about the tall trees it rose clear and high and strong and wonderfully sweet and Jenny did not know, so absorbed was she in her own song and the cat, that the people in the street paused and listened with wonder on their upturned faces." A bright, near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 6 inches: ix, [3], 308. Original blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt, color pictorial pastedown to upper board, patterned endpapers. Eight color plates throughout text. Lightest edgewear.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003099
Publicado por M.A. Donohue & Company, [Chicago], 1925
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Early twentieth-century children's activity book, illustrated by "M.L.H." with a cover design of a young girl painting, and seven scenes of children at play. The images can be reproduced on interleaved sheets of tracing paper, and are captioned with detailed instructions for coloring. OCLC locates two copies, at Chicago and Princeton. A near-fine example, never used. Side-stapled volume, measuring 15 x 9.75 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations to interior wrappers. Pictorial title page; other leaves illustrated on one side only, interleaved with tracing paper. Lightest shelfwear, paper toned.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003451
Publicado por Flammarion, Albums du Père Castor, Paris, 1936
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this French children's book about a colony of harbor seals seeking refuge from hunters in the Arctic, told from the perspective of the young seal Scaf. The brilliant color lithographs are the work of Russian emigré Feodor Rojankovsky, who would go on to illustrate more than a hundred children's books, including the 1956 Caldecott winner Frog Went A-Courtin'. His beautifully colored and composed images depict families of seals in their natural habitat, playing beneath the Northern Lights, facing predators, and caring for their young. Text in French. A very good copy of a sensitive picture book, one of Rojankovsky's best. Side-stapled volume, measuring 8.25 x 9 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Seventeen full-page color lithographs; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Covers toned, occasional faint offsetting from lithographs to text pages.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003453
Publicado por Beckley-Cardy Company, Chicago, 1951
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Complete set of midcentury classroom posters, designed to be colored by students. The twelve fruits and vegetables featured here are apples, beets, carrots, cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, radishes, strawberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, and wax beans, each depicted on the tree, vine or stalk. As a footnote, each image offers specific instructions on which colors the children should choose. Beckley-Cardy 535. A fine set of vintage classroom materials, with pomological appeal. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher's pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1002738
Publicado por Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1981
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of the poet Nancy Willard's dreamlike tribute to William Blake, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. Inspired by the childhood babysitter who recited "Tyger, Tyger" to her, Willard imagines Blake as an innkeeper with a staff of dragons and angels, and a tiger asleep on his hearth. "On windy days and moonless nights, / Blake wears a suit of shifting lights. / The tailor now has grown so clever / he stitches light and dark together." A Visit to William Blake's Inn won the Newbery Medal for 1982, and was named a Caldecott Honor Book that year as well: it remains the only book to receive both Newbery and Caldecott honors. A near-fine copy, accompanied by original publisher's promotional bookmark featuring a detail from "A Rabbit Reveals My Room.". Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 45, [1]. Original beige cloth spine stamped in gilt over blindstamped terracotta boards, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket with no Newbery Medal or Caldecott Honor Seal, ivory speckled endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Light spotting to cloth spine. With: publisher's promotional bookmark.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003215
Publicado por The Readers Library Publishing Company, London, 1938
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First paperback edition of this journalistic exposé of London street life, first published as Women of the Underworld in 1928. Ada Chesterton was the widow of G.K. Chesterton's younger brother, Cecil, who died of his wounds at the end of World War I. In 1925, she went undercover in London's shelters, lodging houses, and hostels to research In Darkest London, the first in a series of reports dealing with the lives of the urban poor. In Women of the London Underworld, she considers the precarious position of single women without means, open to exploitation on every front, "this heart-aching, ever-growing problem of the lonely, rootless girl in London." Chesterton's call for reform led to the founding of the Cecil Houses, named after her late husband, a series of shelters across London which provided safe lodging for any woman upon request. This paperback reissue was designed, in part, as a fundraising initiative to keep the Cecil Houses in operation. A near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.25 inches: 254. Original wrappers printed in orange, white, and black; original matching dust jacket. Text block evenly browned, edgewear to jacket with partial splits at folds.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003295
Publicado por Drawn & Quarterly, [Montreal], 2015
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this collection of six stories by graphic novelist Adrian Tomine, originally published in Optic Nerve. Dealing with complicated experiences of marriage, separation, and parenthood, the emotional weight of the material is the more powerful for Tomine's precise draughtsmanship, which conveys the exact decrepitude of a rental apartment, the subtle details of cancer treatment. The more fluid graphic style in the final story, "Intruders," is a homage to pioneering Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi (1935-2015), to whom it is dedicated. Tatsumi's closely observed gekiga, "dramatic pictures," produced during the 1960s and 1970s, were a major influence on Tomine's work. A fine copy, signed by Adrian Tomine. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1002913
Publicado por Beacon Press, Boston, 1958
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this retrospective "autobiography of the works of a poet," a collection of interviews with editor Edith Heal. Williams recounts the stories behind the writing and publication of his major works, with occasional wry interjections from his wife Florence, better known as "Floss": "We used to laugh . . . at how often Bill appeared in the last issue of a magazine. As soon as they published him, the magazine would blow up." A very good copy of a compelling descriptive bibliography. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xii, 99, [1]. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Text printed in red and black. Lightest edgewear, spotting to rear endpapers and rear panel of dust jacket, tape repair to verso of jacket.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003258
Publicado por Rinehart & Co, New York, 1950
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this insider's guidebook to New York City, one of many popular travel titles by Eleanor Early. Ambitious and independent, Early launched her journalistic career in Boston before joining the New York Times in the late 1930s. Her sharp-witted observations, delivered with the candor and warmth of a close friend, would define her articles and books on cooking, history, and travel, including her bestselling series on American cities. In New York Holiday, Early interviews the Empire State Building's publicist, exposes the seedy Chinatown walking tour racket, and offers the inside scoop on the nightclub scene: "The Stork is a place that everyone in the world appears to have heard about. . . .Tex McCrary says it is one of the few plush-rope places where, once an out-of-towner gets inside, 'the waiters don't keep making him feel as though the crude oil or the hayseed are still showing on his folding money.' Swanky, in other words, but not snooty." This copy is inscribed and signed by Early to "Jane Cochems" with Early's characteristic "x" following her signature. A fun inscribed example of mid-century New Yorkiana, in near-fine condition. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [8], 376. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver and orange, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Presentation inscription from Early in blue ink to half-title. Edgewear to lightly sunned jacket, a few small chips to jacket spine ends and corners.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003464
Publicado por Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1938
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this modern Danish children's book, featuring brilliant color lithographs by Aage Sikker Hansen. The narrative celebrates stork life around the world, from Scandinavia to Africa. Hansen's striking cover image would be adapted for use as an iconic travel poster, "Meet You in Denmark," the following year. Text in Danish. A very good copy of a stunning book. Square quarto, measuring 10 x 10.5 inches: [28]. Original tan linen spine, color lithographed boards, pictorial title page and twelve full-color lithographed plates throughout text. Light shelfwear and soiling to boards, occasional spotting to text. Front free endpaper glued to pastedown, upper hinge reinforced.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003411
Publicado por Oxford University Press, (Oxford), 1976
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First English edition of this touching Christmas story by Newbery winner Eleanor Estes, first published in 1973. Set in the early 1970s, against the background of the Brooklyn waterfront, The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree follows a young girl's efforts to convince her preoccupied bohemian mother to let the family have a Christmas tree. "The city is like a giant Christmas tree. The bridges are the branches, and you know what we are? A decoration at the end of the long branch that is the Brooklyn Bridge." A near-fine copy of an uncommon book, illustrated by Susanne Suba. Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: [6], 75, [3]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning to edges of jacket.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003329
Publicado por Berkley Publishing Corporation, New York, 1956
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this midcentury anthology, containing the first appearance of film critic Pauline Kael's manifesto "Movies, the Desperate Art." Published while Kael was struggling to manage a two-screen art house in Berkeley, this essay predates her hiring at The New Yorker by a dozen years. The concerns that dominate Kael's later criticism are already evident in this early salvo: her contempt for bland, bloated studio productions; her attraction to "individual creative responsibility" in directors and actors; her distrust of overtly moralizing and edifying pictures; and her celebration of the movies as "an extraordinary education of the senses." Most notably, she insists on taking the movies seriously, however "desperate" that art may be: "Object to the Hollywood film and you're an intellectual snob, object to the avant-garde films and you're a Philistine. But, while in Hollywood, one must often be a snob; in avant-garde circles one must often be a Philistine." Other contributors to the anthology include Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Leslie Fiedler, and R.W.B. Lewis. A near-fine copy. Pocket paperback, measuring 6.5 x 4.25: [2], 216, [6]. Original color-printed wrappers, priced at 50 cents. Light shelfwear, text block toned and brittle.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003367
Publicado por Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this illustrated biography of John James Audubon, written by pioneering American anthropologist and folklorist Constance Rourke: "This biography had its more distant origin in a concern with American frontiers . . . but characters have a way of transcending the liveliest general questions." In her interest in Audubon as an immigrant and an artist, Rourke emphasized the resourcefulness and creativity that epitomized, for her, the American sensibility. Audubon was a Newbery Honor book for 1937, though Rourke maintained that the biography was not written solely for children. A very good example, in notoriously fragile dust jacket. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer's note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket spine sunned, edgewear and shallow chips to extremities, small tape repair to back panel of jacket.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1002179
Publicado por Philomel Books, New York, 2000
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this English adaptation of Philipok, a classic of Russian children's literature, collected in Leo Tolstoy's 1875 New Primer (Novaya Azbuka). Eager to go to school with his older brother, little Philipok slips out of the house one day to find the village schoolhouse: "there was nobody on the porch. Philipok could hear the voices of the children inside. He started to go in, but suddenly he was afraid." Russian-born illustrator Gennady Spirin, who loved the story of Philipok as a child, produced the detailed watercolors that accompany the simple story, and has signed this copy on the half-title. A fine signed copy of a beautiful book. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1002183
Publicado por Gebr. Rasch & Co, Bramsche, 1950
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Scarce sample of wallpaper signed in the print by "Letizia Cerio" (more often spelled "Laetitia"), Capri-based artist renowned for her spare, whimsical line drawings. Founded in the late nineteenth century, German wallpaper firm Rasch won an international reputation through its collaborations with modernist designers from the Bauhaus and Vienna Secession. In the 1950s and 1960s, owner Emil Rasch commissioned wallpaper designs from artists across Europe, including Salvador Dalí and Bruno Munari, for the International Artists Collection. Cerio's "Amsterdam" paper dates from this period. A fine example of midcentury popular design. Color pictorial wallpaper sample, measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in gold and ivory. Stamped on verso: "RASCH WATERFAST / Amsterdam WT 10 / R 2076 / $3.95 PER SINGLE ROLL.".
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1001713
Publicado por Gebr. Rasch & Co, Bramsche, 1950
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Scarce sample of wallpaper by Laetitia Cerio, Capri-based artist renowned for her spare, whimsical line drawings. Founded in the late nineteenth century, German wallpaper firm Rasch won an international reputation through its collaborations with modernist designers from the Bauhaus and Vienna Secession. In the 1950s and 1960s, owner Emil Rasch commissioned wallpaper designs from artists across Europe, including Salvador Dalí and Bruno Munari, for the International Artists Collection. Cerio's "Spain" paper, featuring delicately tinted views of a Spanish fishing village, dates from this period. A fine example of midcentury popular design. Pictorial wallpaper sample printed in muted colors on an ivory ground, measuring 18 x 15.5 inches. Stamped on verso: "Rasch Waterfast, Spain 1, R 2012, $4.50 single roll.".
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1002760
Publicado por Norman Publishing, San Francisco, 1998
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Uncut illustrated sheet from William Frank Richardson's 1998 English translation of the first book of Vesalius's 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), vividly hand-marbled by Richard J. Wolfe. The anatomical images featured are full-length side and rear views of the human skeleton. Publisher Jeremy Norman commissioned these marbled sheets for use as endpapers in the deluxe limited issue of the book. A fine example. Single uncut sheet, measuring 23 x 17.5 inches, printed with text and anatomical images from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, hand-marbled in blue, yellow, and pink.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1001712
Publicado por Kurt Naef, Zeiningen, Switzerland, 1978
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original example of this graphic wooden puzzle by Japanese designer Aoi Huber-Kono for the Swiss toymaker Kurt Naef. The MOTIVO blocks combine to form eight images: red apple and sunburst, yellow bird and flower, green leaf and butterfly, blue house and fish. An iconic modern design object. Eight wooden cubes, screenprinted in four colors, each measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. "Naef / Swiss made" printed at base of leaf image. Lacking original box.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003234
Publicado por Paul Elder & Company, San Francisco, 1910
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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A quartet of first editions of Mary Joss Jones's Hump Tree Booklets. The stories feature the adventures of the wildlife who live under the protective canopy of the Hump Tree, an old-growth arbor: "all the time through the hot, still air came the song of the Woodland People." The complete series comprised eight tales, bound separately in wrappers as the Hump Tree Booklets, and issued simultaneously in a single volume as The Hump Tree Stories. This bound group of four booklets, series-numbered 8, 3, 2, and 4, respectively, appears to have been issued in this format by the publisher, as evidenced by similar copies that have come to market. Remarkably fresh, near-fine examples of this uncommon children's series from San Francisco bookseller and publisher Paul Elder. Four volumes, measuring 8 x 6.5 inches: [6], 10, [4]; [6], 6, [4]; [6], 9, [1]; [6], 8, [2]. Publisher's color pictorial side-stapled wrappers, spines hole-punched and bound together with linen cord as issued, pictorial endpapers printed in green. Cover illustrations, frontispieces, head- and tailpieces printed in green and brown. Light shelfwear, lower right corner of first volume bumped, lower left corner of last volume reinforced with archival tissue.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003372
Publicado por Vermont Toy Works, Barnard, Vermont, 1980
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Two sets of brightly painted counting blocks, proportionally sized, each labeled with its corresponding numeral and that number spelled out. When housed in their trays, each column of blocks must add up to ten. Out of their trays, the blocks can be used to solve simple addition and subtraction problems, or for free play. Vermont Toy Works was a short-lived woodcraft toy company active in the 1980s: it is possible that one of the sets here was a prototype for the manufacture of the other. A very appealing survival, from both an educational and a design standpoint. Note: these blocks are heavy! Shipping at cost. Two sets of painted wooden blocks, each containing twenty-eight proportionally sized blocks numbered 1-10, housed in two wooden trays: the larger tray measuring 14.75 x 13.25 inches, the smaller 11 x 9.75 inches. "Vermont Toy Works" stamp on bottom of both trays. Light general wear.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003407
Publicado por Novello and Company, London, 1870
Librería: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First edition of this collection of fifty-four traditional English nursery rhymes and songs, set to original music by J.W. Elliott and illustrated with wood engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. Featured rhymes include "Jack and Jill," "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," "Little Bo-Peep," "Little Jack Horner," "Humpty Dumpty," "Simple Simon," "Sing a Song of Sixpence," "Taffy Was a Welshman," "Georgie Porgie," and "The Death and Burial of Cock Robin." The publisher's preface notes that "among the old favourites a few new aspirants to popularity will be found; but it is hoped that their presence will be considered an additional attraction, and in no way lessen the pretensions of the present volume to be considered a compendium of National Nursery Rhymes." See Goldman, Victorian Illustrated Books 1850-1870, 235. A very good example of popular Victorian song and illustration. Single volume, measuring 10.25 x 7.25 inches: [8], 111, [1]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and three full-page wood engravings, wood-engraved vignettes throughout text. Light occasional foxing and smudging, small tidemark to lower gutter of first few pages.
Nº de ref. del artículo: 1003466