Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Medium folio (46x32x5cm; 18"x12.5"x2"); 180 leaves (360pp). Half leather in full-grain aniline black; boards covered in laid mulberry stock. All paperblock edges marbled with crimson and black mottling. Endpapers in Turkish marbling of green and metallic gold against amaranth red. Leaves of heavy..... More
Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Octavo (20x15cm); 86 leaves (172pp). Leather in full-grain aniline crimson. Front panel blind-embossed with the tarot image of Astrology—"AstrologiaXXXVIIII"—from the so-called Mantegna Tarocchi. Embossed rules on spine and as borders on spine and panel edges. Endpapers in comb marbling of teal, celadon, peach..... More
![Item #10584 Secession: AA Bronson 1969-2000 [Signed Letter]. AA Bronson, Friedrich Tietjen, ed](/pictures/thumb/10584.jpg?v=1644005541)
Vienna: Wiener Secession, 2000. First Edition. Laid-in note signed and inscribed: "Dear Brenda—I wanted you to have the catalogue of my new (solo!) work. Best regards, AA Bronson." Quarto (30x21cm); 40pp. Photographs throughout. All text in parallel German and English. Black card covers over sewn gatherings. Title and author's..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First Edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 624 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edge worn with small closed tears, not affecting text. Pages clean and unmarked. This issue includes a reproduction of an 1882 drawing, titled "Rain-in-the-Face,"..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1971. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (22.5x30x1cm); 72pp. Graphic black-on-fuchsia saddle-stapled covers. Multiple B&W reproductions on all pages. Slight sun fading near the spine edge, else unmarred and unmarked. An early compilation of the advertising sketches Warhol did at the start of..... More
Los Angeles and Cambridge: The Museum of Contemporary Art and The MIT Press, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (28x22x4cm); 452pp, including artists' list, chronology, bibliography, and checklist. Illustrated throughout in color and B&W. Graphic card wrappers imitating a retro-periodical; deep French flaps. Cover and hefty textblock clean and crisp. The..... More
Milan and Rivoli: Edizioni Charta and Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, 1992. Anteprima 5 of the Castello di Rivoli Anteprima series. First Edition. Small Quarto (18.5x18.5x1cm); 24pp, including exhibition history and bibliography. Eight full-page photographs, two of them in doublespreads. Text within the volume entirely in Italian; an English..... More
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31.5x25x1cm); 64pp, including catalog of works. Text presented in parallel German and English. Sixty full-color reproductions, many as double spreads, one with additional gatefold. Dustjacket reproduces Kiefer painting. Volume in flecked sand-color laid paper boards with gray-brown lettering on spine and front..... More
New York: Blast Books, 1997. First Edition (published simultaneously in hard- and softcover). Oblong Quarto (23x25.5x1.5cm); 159pp, including appended transcripts of media reports on the crimes committed by those in the photographs. Seventy mugshot pairs, reprinted full-page from the original glass plates. Coated photographic wrappers over sewn gatherings. Covers clean..... More
New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (29x23x1.5cm); 184pp, including bibliography. Richly illustrated throughout with full-page color plates and many background, reference, and documentary images. Illustrated card covers with a purple ground. Some slight signs of storage pressures on covers: faint scuffing of coating (without color loss)..... More
![Item #13816 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [WITH] The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...](/pictures/thumb/13816.jpg?v=1659905712)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950-1952. First Editions Thus, each set limited to 1500 copies of which each is no. 432. Eight volumes; octavo; uniformly-bound in publisher's black cloth-backed decorative boards with black blind-embossed pictorial element mounted to each upper cover, gilt-lettered spines, all edges speckled, housed in original slipcases..... More
![Item #13839 The Confession of a Fool [alt. title: Defence of a Fool]. August Strindberg, Ellie...](/pictures/thumb/13839.jpg?v=1660079434)
New York: Viking Press, 1925. Later Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pale grey decorative dust jacket printed in red and black; 327pp. Jacket extremities and spine panel rather toned with tiny chips along margins and a hint of soil, corners bumped, top textblock edge rather dusty, else a Very Good..... More
Ostfildern, Hamburg, and Zurich: Deichtorhallen Hamburg and Kunsthaus Zurich, 1999. "Second Edition" [First Thus English Edition, published simultaneously with German Edition]. Quarto (32x25.5x2cm); iv + 144pp. Full-page and reference images throughout. Illustrated boards. Covers are sturdy and square with faint nudging at head of spine. Binding is sound and pages..... More
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and the Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Quarto (29.5x22x1cm); unpaginated [30pp]. Fourteen full-page color illustrations, with a similar number of vignettes and decorative motifs as marginalia. Illustrated dustjacket in metallic gold and three colors. Jade green boards with dark green lettering and frieze..... More
Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1973. First Edition; one of 2000 copies printed. Oblong quarto (20.5x25.5x1cm); too avant-garde to be paginated, but we used our fingers: [136pp]. Almost all pages devoted to B&W full-page photographs of Terry Fox’s performance art. Photographic wraps. Covers and textblock published with biblically rounded corners..... More
Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (32x26x2cm); 203pp, including chronology for the Cone acquisitions. Eighty-one reproductions of the pieces in the collection; over 50 documentary photographs. Cochineal red boards with silver stamping on spine and front panel. No jacket, as issued. Note that the photographs show..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First Edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 344 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Cover lightly toned. Edge wear with some small closed tears. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Trimming error by publisher left pages 279 -..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
Carmel-by-the-Sea: The Friends of Photography and the Weston Gallery, 1979. Oblong Quarto (23x28.5x1cm); partially paginated 32pp + [104pp]. Fifty-one full-page plates in sepia B&W with additional background and reference images. Photographic card covers over sewn gatherings. Front cover with a convex horizontal bow toward fore-edge, with some smudging to back..... More
![Item #14034 Les Fleurs du Mal [Limited Edition]. Charles Baudelaire, Auguste Rodin, Camille...](/pictures/thumb/14034.jpg?v=1661879945)
Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1940. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1350. Octavo; later half green crushed morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original front wrapper bound in rear; [4],278pp.; six leaves of plates, additional text illus. throughout..... More
Cambridge: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1956. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 432. Quarto; publisher's decorative cream cloth stamped in brown, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, brown topstain, in original paper-covered slipcase; xvi,[2],489pp.; wood-engravings throughout..... More
New York: Baker & Taylor Company Publishers, 1907. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's decorative green cloth lettered in gilt, three color pictorial paper inlays to front cover, top edge gilt; xvii,[18]-139pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates including five in color or sepia tone, additional vignettes throughout. Light shelf wear, ownership..... More
Shanghai: Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1933. "Fifteenth Thousand" printing. 16mo (14x11x1.5cm); viii + 237pp + "Radical Index" of 70pp. Brown-black pebbled leatherette with gilt spine lettering and rules. Cover shows one white paint-like spot (1 cm) and several white speckles. Joints and hinges solid; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Chauncey..... More
![Item #11183 Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 [Signed]. Christopher Isherwood](/pictures/thumb/11183.jpg?v=1644006449)
London: Eyre Methuen, 1977 (copyrighted by Isherwood in 1976). First Edition. Signed by Isherwood without inscription on full title. Octavo (24x16x2cm); 252pp. Jacket with young Isherwood photographed by Humphrey Spender on the front; older Isherwood drawn by his lover Don Bachardy on the back. Brownish-plum boards with gilt spine stamping..... More
London: Methuen, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; liv, 1048. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with £25.00 price intact; book in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine and two ribbon bookmarks. Reviewer's copy with notes and materials laid in (see below). Jacket shows some rubbing at spine ends and back panel near..... More