David Brass Rare Books

The Kearney Collection of The Olympia Press at Christies
After over thirty years of research, two checklists, and his recent full descriptive bibliography of the Olympia Press – Paris, - Stephen J. Gertz

Rare Book Roundup at L.A. Times Festival of Books
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Featured Books:

POEMS [ 01190 ]
[BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne]. BELL, Currier, Ellis, and Acton. Poems. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1846 [1848]. First edition, second issue, initial second issue binding, without er (Full description)
Price: $6,000.00

Representatives of the Law. [ 01192 ]
[DICKENS, Charles]. KYD (pseudonym of Joseph Clayton Clarke) artist. Representatives of the Law. (Ranging from the Bench to the Broker's man), extracted from the Works of Dickens, and portra (Full description)
Price: $13,500.00

Greatest Plague of Life: or The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant, The [ 01186 ]
[KELLIEGRAM, binder]. [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. [MAYHEW, Brothers, editors]. The Greatest Plague of Life: or The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. Edited by the Brot (Full description)
Price: $2,500.00

Tarzan of the Apes [ 01179 ]
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes. Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1914. First Canadian edition, first printing (with canceled title), in the first state binding withou (Full description)
Price: $13,500.00

Modes et Manieres du Jour, [ 01154 ]
DEBUCOURT, Philibert-Louis. Modes et Manieres du Jour, à Paris. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal des Dames, [1798]. Quarto. Engraved title-page and fifty two hand-colored engravings. Full (Full description)
Price: $40,000.00

Flowers From Nature &c. [ 01178 ]
ALKEN, Henry, and others. Flowers From Nature, &c. &c. [And other works; a collection of forty-one hand colored caricatures and humorous plates]. London: Thomas McLean, 1823-25. Oblo (Full description)
Price: $12,500.00

Sir Edwin Landseer R.A. [ 01191 ]
[COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. RIVIÉRE & SON, Binders. MANSON, James A. Sir Edwin Landseer R.A. Illustrated with Twenty-one Plates, and a Photogravure Frontispiece. London: The Walter Sc (Full description)
Price: $32,500.00

An Inquiry into Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [ 01213 ]
SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: 1776. First edition. Two large quarto volumes (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 270 x 210 mm.). [12], 510; [4], 587, [1 (Full description)
Price: $135,000.00