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Cours de danse fin de siècle.
Illustrations by Louis Legrand.Binding by Marius Michel, with a black mosaic title and an incised roundel painted to represent Le Moulin de la Galette.Provenance: Henri Beraldi.A unique copy for Henri Beraldi, with six watercolors and five proofs of…
Autograph letter signed to Hiram Barney introducing Joseph Wright.
This letter came down to me through my family, which circuitously wends its way back to Joseph Wright directly and through marriages. Having done fundraising for various charities throughout my adult life, I was struck by the wordsmith Lincoln…
Secret Agent X-9.
Original pen and ink drawing for a daily comic strip published on June 29, 1934, 5½ x 25 in.
I have been interested in American comic strips since my childhood in France, when I read them (in French translation), and dreamt of becoming a…
I have been interested in American comic strips since my childhood in France, when I read them (in French translation), and dreamt of becoming a…
A selection of autograph letters signed, sent between 1890 and 1896, by Austin to Violet Maxse, later Lady Edward Cecil, and later still, Viscountess Milner.
An astonishing and somewhat inappropriate correspondence between a British poet laureate, writer, politician, polemicist, and gardener and an exceptionally beautiful aristocratic girl, beginning when Austin was 55 and Violet was 18. Austin,…
Poems and Ballads.
Provenance: Noted bibliophile John Quinn.
Poems and Ballads presents Swinburne’s most characteristic writing, rich with classical inspiration. Moxon published the book in July 1866, but soon suppressed it when reviewers assailed its sensuality.…
Poems and Ballads presents Swinburne’s most characteristic writing, rich with classical inspiration. Moxon published the book in July 1866, but soon suppressed it when reviewers assailed its sensuality.…