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First edition; 2 vols, oblong folio (330 x 260mm, 13 x 10 1/8 in); orchestral score with libretto in Italian and German, vol. I with additional engraved vignette title by Bolt after Kinninger (foxed) of the supper scene between Commendatore and Don Giovanni, printed title with attractive ink presentation to upper corner margin, dated 1877) and 2 following pp. of text, engraved musical score 6-292pp, vol. II with printed title and engraved musical score 294-590pp, with separate printed divisional title 'Anhang von spaeter eingelegten Stuecken', some sporadic light foxing and minor staining, mostly to final leaf of vol. I, some leaves trimmed at upper edge with loss to pagination in vol.2 but in the main clean and bright; modern diced calf, upper covers lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, most attractive.
£9,500 -
4to (285 x 230 mm); engraved vignette title with portrait of John Gay, Table of the Songs, Dramatis Personne 1777, Introduction, the playscript, and music score with libretto, toned, a few random spots or marks, otherwise very good; later full polished calf, scuffed, marked and bumped but very sound.
£400 -
First edition, first issue, [one of 500 copies]; 16mo; 16 colour plates by the author, one plate with pencil initials or flourish beneath, internally excellent, original pink boards lettered and illustrated in black with rounded spine, a superb copy.
£6,000 -
First Disney edition, first printing, gift inscription from Marge Champion to verso of front free endpaper; 4to (283 x 210 mm.); colour pictorial title, double-page plate of the whale, colour and monochrome illustrations, vignette line illustrations, pictorial endpapers; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial wrap-around dust-jacket, some minor edge wear, a few tears, with loss to lower fore-corner of upper panel and foot of spine, but overall very good.
£550 -
First edition; 12m; half-title with advertisement for the Dumpy Books series on verso, 27 full-page colour illustrations after the author printed by Edmund Evans, usual minor finger-marking and occasional light soiling to leaves, overall internally very good; publisher's pale green cloth lettered and blocked in darker green, a little light rubbing and marking but an attractive copy, scarce to find in such condition.
£4,800 -
First trade edition, later impression with double endpapers rather than repeated single sheets; 16mo; frontispiece and 26 full colour plates, small, faint pencil marking to corner of upper front-free endpaper, otherwise fine: publisher's maroon boards, illustrated pastedown to fielded panel on upper board, two small superficial scratches to upper board, some fading to spine, nonetheless a near-fine copy.
£850 -
First edition thus, number XXI of XXV hors commerce copies, from an overall limitation of 250 copies; 16mo; comprising printed introductory booklet signed & numbered in pencil by Maurice Sendak, with additional pencil signature of printing historian Iain Bain, in original printed wrappers, 34 line block illustrations printed in brown ink on Arches paper, each with pencil limitation details and printed monogram of Alecto Historical Editions on verso, with tissue guard, each loose in separate printed card sleeve; together housed in original cloth drop-back box with inset illustration on upper cover and gilt label on spine, a fine copy.
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First edition; landscape 4to (220 x 280 mm.); pictorial title, 31 coloured full-page illustrations and monotone illustrations by Florence K. Upton, patterned endpapers, attractive coeval gift inscription to front pastedown, slight offsetting to title and verso of last leaf, overall internally excellent; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, a few minor scratches and slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
£600 -
First edition, first printing; landscape folio (c. 250 x 270 mm.); title vignette and full-page illustrations by the author, ink name to front pastedown, publisher's cloth, minor sunning to extremities, pictorial dust-jacket, Caldecott prize sticker to upper cover, price-clipped, rubbed at edges with a few closed tears, ink name inside front flap.
£425 -
First edition, first printing; folio; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's pictorial boards, slightly rubbed at spine ends but overall a fine copy, in the original dust-jacket with correct price and titles listed, a very good example.
£475