Bedford, Texas: Rock Island Auction co., 2006. Three volume Auction Catalogues, oblong quartos in slick white covers, and inside full page color illustrations. Still in the original cardboard shipping box. Shelved MV. More

Handwritten letter, in Very Good condition. A single page measuring 8.25" x 10.50". Housed in a silver painted wood frame measuring 12.25" x 14.75", with a white cloth mat. Frame has scuffing to edges. Letter is written on blue paper with a single vertical fold. Foxing to paper and some crinkling to top left corner. Shelved Dupont. . More

[1946]. One page ALS from Langston Hughes to editor of Time Magazine Robert Doyle and his wife Anne. In Good minus condition. Folded in fourths to open as a greeting card. Paper separated at vertical fold but horizontal fold partially intact. Printed holiday message and brief handwritten note discussing Hughes' play "Street Scene." While undated, Street Scene opened on December 16, 1946. Hughes writes: "So nice to hear from you both again and to know where you are; I'd asked Daffy about you last spring. I'm in Phila. with my show, "Street Scene." We open in n.y. January 9. Then I depart on another lecture tour (comme toujours)." Signed Langston.  Shelved Case 3. More

Tokyo, Japan: c.1830-1832. Japanese woodblock print. In Good plus condition. Brown/orange line stain to three edges of print, small open tear in barrel. Very light, sparse foxing to top half of print. Print title and series title in upper left corner. Print is 10.5x14.75in. Stored in portfolio in Room E. More

Madrid, Spain: Calcografa Nacional, c. 1880s. Drypoint etching on paper. In Very Good minus condition. Two brown stains to images, about half an inch in diameter. Light age toning to sheet, titled in center bottom center margin and numbered in top right margin. Sheet is 8.5x5.75in. Stored in Portfolio in Room E. More

France. Oil on board painting. In Very Good minus condition. Edges wrapped in tape, back of board bears stickers, various markings in graphite and permanent marker, and small sketch/painting of a figure sitting and reading. Very faint stamp in top left corner, one small approx. 1 cm soil marks in each top corner. Signed by artist in bottom right "G. AuFray". Painting measures 11x8in. Unframed and unmatted. In Portfolio in Room E. More

Washington, DC: 2026. Original charcoal and graphite in a matted wooden frame measuring 10.25" x 10/25". In Very Good condition. SF Consignment. Shelved Dupont. More

California: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. Second Edition. Quarto, 140 pages (including 76 four-color plates, a preface, bibliography and historical texts.) In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth with black spine and white lettering. Dust jacket with light surface and edge wear. Shelved in Locked Annex, ND-QA. More

Antwerp, Belgium: Eduard van Hoeswinckel, Original plate 1584. Three etchings on paper. In Very Good minus condition. Light age toning and some scattered, very light foxing to all three sheets. Ink to top right of each image to identify plate number. In Judah and Tamar, crease to bottom margin and grey discoloration to bottom left edge. Titled and signed in plate "Eduardus ab Hoeswikel Excudebat Antuerpie. Ioan bol imien. Adri. Collart fe." Other two sheets only include publishing information and "Ioannes Bol inuentor." All matted and wrapped in plastic. Unexamined out of plastic. Shelved in Room B. CONTENTS: Judah and Tamar matting 11.5x14in.--The Temptation of Christ matting 11.5x14in.--The Enemy Sowing Tares Among the Wheat matting 11.5x14in. More

California: MCA Records, 1982. Conan the Barbarian (Original Soundtrack),  12" Vinyl LP with catalog number 3030-AM4.   Entirely composed, conducted, and produced by Basil Poledouris, with orchestration by Greig McRitchie. It features the characteristic 1980s MCA "rainbow and clouds" center label. In Very Good condition. The leave shows shelf wear along edges. Minimal surface wear to record.  The record is untested for audio playback quality, so actual sound condition, presence of skips, or surface noise remains unknown. Shelved at Rockville Room E (top shelf).  . More

New York: NBI Communications, Inc., 1967. A collection of six vintage, untested vinyl LPs featuring historical lectures and a short-story reading by Ayn Rand. The set includes five recorded lectures originally delivered live: The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (Ford Hall Forum, April 18, 1965), Ethics in Education (Rutgers University, March 18, 1966), Our Cultural Value-Deprivation (Ford Hall Forum, April 10, 1966), The Wreckage of the Consensus (Ford Hall Forum, April 16, 1967), and What Is Capitalism?(Ford Hall Forum, November 19, 1967). The final record features Ayn Rand reading her own fictional short story, "The Simplest Thing in the World." In Very Good condition. Light wear to corners and edges of sleeves. Records show minimal surface wear. Please note that  these discs have not been tested for audio playback quality or surface noise.  Shelved at Rockville Room E (top shelf). More

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. Oblong Quarto, 123 Pages. In Good Plus condition, in a Good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a Mylar covering and shows scattered spotting and foxing to both panels, scuffing and light surface scratches to the rear panel, discoloration around the edges, and light rubbing to corners. Text block has modest foxing to the top, fore, and bottom edges. Laid in, in a protective sleeve, are two amateur photographs of two young women on the bank of the Charles River with the Boston skyline behind them. One is a black-and-white print with clipped corners, dated in pencil to the verso "1-09-00." The other is a color print on Kodak paper, inscribed in pencil to the verso "The Day Nona Dropped Out of Boston Ballet (A La N. Nixon)" and dated. The photographs are unsigned and of unknown authorship. The inscription suggests they were taken in homage to Nixon's portrait style. Note: Shelved in Locked Annex Area. ND-QA. More

London: Macmillan & Co., 1868. Antique copper plate etching on paper. In Good plus condition. Age toning to sheet, two creases through the image from being folded into thirds. Small yellow stain to right margin, a little off-setting to left edge of image. Signed in plate "Callot fec." Fifth of fifth state final printing from original copper plate (scratch in plate under hanging bucket). Etching measures 6.5x13.37in. Matt is 12x18in. Shelved in Room B. More

Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY: J. T. Bowen; Nagel and Weingærtner, c.1845. Eighteen color lithographs. In Very Good minus condition or better. Some scattered light foxing and light cockling to images. Plate 15 ("Oregon Flying Squirrel") has a two-inch long scratch. Brown area of soiling to bottom left corner of plate 13 ("Musk Rat - Musquash"). All plates are double-matted and wrapped in plastic. All matts are 12x10in. Shelved in [location]. CONTENTS: American Cross Fox--Common American Shrew Mole--Musk Rat-Musquash--Townsend's Ground Squirrel--Wolverene--Rocky Mountain Neotoma--Cotton Rat--Leopard Spermophile--Orange Colored Mouse--American Badger--Parry's Marmot Squirrel--Oregon Flying Squirrel--Hare Squirrel--Florida Rat--Migratory Squirrel--Pennants' Marten or Fisher--Downy Squirrel--Cat Squirrel. More

Paris: Le Blond; Pierre Mariette, c.1750. Four etchings on paper. In Very Good minus condition or better. Light age toning to all sheets. Light brown stains to bottom corners of hunting scene and Two Farmers Fighting. All signed in plate "I. Le Potre Inuent et Fecit" or "le Potre fecit". Matted and wrapped in plastic. Unexamined out of plastic. CONTENTS: Les Mangeurs de Crêpes [The Pancake Eaters] Plate two of the series Peasant Scenes Image 5.5x7in. Matt 10x12in.--Two Farmers Fighting from the series Peasant Scenes Image 5.5x7in. Matt 9.25x13.5in.--Untitled Architectural Exterior from the Alcoves series 5.5x8in. Matt 10x14in.--Untitled Stag Hunt scene 5.75x8.5in. Matt 10x14in. More

Nuremberg: Paul Fürst, 1655. Group of 48 17th-century engravings from the "Architectura" series, highlighting column and doorway architecture. Plates numbered along bottom edge. Condition is Good overall with moderate age toning, scattered mild to moderate age toning, and occasional chip or closed tear to page edge. Archival tape to two pages. Damp staining to five pages. Pencil markings to upper right corner. Plates measure 8.8 x 11.6 in. Presented in 11.75 x 15 in. Itoya portfolio. Shelved at Rockville Room C. More

New York; Boston: Frederick A. Stokes; Estes and Lauriat, 1887-1892. Three original engravings on paper. In Very Good minus condition or better. Light age toning to all three etchings. The Wanderer's Return shows chipping to very bottom margin of sheet. Very few light soil spots to margins. All signed in plate. In portfolio shelved in [location]. CONTENTS: The Wanderer's Return Etching 10.5x6.75in., sheet 17.25x12in.; Idyll Etching 8.25x12in. Sheet 13.25x17in.; A Song Etching 6x9in. Sheet 13x17in. More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1887. Drypoint etching on paper. In Very Good condition. Light age toning to sheet. Signed in plate by artist to the right of figure "Blum / 1880-1". Etching is 11.5x9in. Sheet is 17.25x12in. Stored in portfolio in [location]. More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1887. Etching on paper. In Very Good condition. Light age toning to sheet, very light spotting to left margin. Some very light grey markings around plate imprint on top and bottom of etching. Signed flat in plate by artist "Stephen Parrish". Copyright information in top left corner of image "Copyright 1887. Frederick A. Stokes.". Etching is 6.5x8in. Sheet is 12x17in. In portfolio, shelved in [location]. More

New York: Gebbie and Co.; Frederick A. Stokes, 1886-1887. Four original etchings on paper. In Very Good minus condition or better. Light age toning, and moderate cockling to three sheets. Same three sheets also bear signs of archival book repair to their backsides. The Flowers of Spring has some light staining in left margin. All etchings signed in plate by Ferris. Shelved in [location]. CONTENTS: A Good Story etching 11.75x7.5in., sheet 17.25x12in.; An Unequal Struggle etching 12x8.25in., sheet 16.5x11in.; The Flowers of Spring etching 12x8in., sheet 16.5x11in.; Romeo and Juliet etching 12x7in., sheet 16.5x11in. More

London, England: Thomas Gibson Bowles, 19th & Early 20th Century. A collection of 29 Vanity Fair lithographs, featuring works by several of the publication’s notable caricaturists, including James Tissot, working under the pseudonym “Coïdé” (1); Théobald Chartran, signed “T” (3); Carlo Pellegrini, signed “Ape” (7); and Sir Leslie Ward, signed “Spy” (18). Each print is individually matted and protected in a clear plastic wrap. Dimensions: Mat: 12 × 18 in.; visible image/sheet area: approximately 8 × 13¼ in. In Very Good condition with light age- toning. Shelved at Rockville Room C. More

The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn, 1632. Two portfolios containing 127 loose half-page engraved emblems excised from Jacob Cats' 17th century emblem book. Condition of pages is Very Good Minus. Pages show mild age toning to body and mild-to-moderate toning to edges. Occasional light foxing or minor stain to page edge. Spot of mold to p.196. Shelved at Rockville Room C. More

New York: The American Art Association, 1888. Limited Edition, #148/250. Small quarto, 82 pages. In Good condition. Full bound in publisher's green paper. Boards with moderate surface wear and chipping to edges. Peeling to the bottom of the spine. Front hinge cracked. Pages with age toning. Complete with eight original etchings with tissue guards. More

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1878. Thick quartos, Three volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Dark brown spines with raised bands and gilt lettering. Fully bound in dark brown leather with a central gilt stamp and decorative tooling along all edges. Boards show light shelf wear overall with rubbing along edges and bumping to corners. Spines show very light shelf wear with rubbing to head and tail. Text block shows mild age toning throughout interior. All edges gilt with occasional chip or scratch. Marbled paste downs and fly leaves. Chipping to gilt edges is more pronounced in Vol. II (affects pp.11-14). Previous owner's name to free end page in Vol. II. Foxing to frontis in Vol I and II. Small partial tear to frontis tissue guard in Vol. I. Mild to moderate offsetting to tissue guards throughout all three volumes. CONTENTS: "The British Isles" Vol. I, 488 pages--"Europe" Vol. II, 460 pages--"Europe" Vol. III, , 491 pages. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. More

London, England: George Virtue, 1840. Quarto, Two volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in half black leather over marbled-paper boards. Spines black with gilt lettering and raised bands. Spines rubbed and scuffed, with wear and losses at spine ends. Boards show rubbing, scuffing and abrasion; edges and corners heavily worn and bumped. Pages age-toned with scattered to moderate foxing and occasional staining and soiling. CONTENTS: Vol. I, 140 pages--Vol. II, 106 pages. Shelved in Room X Glass Case 2. More