![Item #21348 Adonis [Limited Edition]. Jean de La Fontaine, Paul Valéry, intro](/pictures/thumb/21348.jpg?v=1675534536)
Paris: Devambez / Au Masque d'Or, [1921]. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies on vélin de Rives of which this is no. 708. Small, slim octavo (18cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, green spine onlay, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in; [2],xxxii,29pp.; frontispiece reproducing Poussin's "La..... More
Paris: Librairie Istra, 1963. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's white printed card wrappers; xvi,637pp. Wrappers rather rubbed and foxed, thought contents remain clean and unopened; Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on p. [i]: "To Dorothy R. Ward / who helped rake [?] together what it took..... More
![Item #6168 Teatr Dramatyczny: Operetka / Operetta [a Gombrowiczian "fanny" in close-up]. Jerzy...](/pictures/thumb/6168.jpg?v=1583176278)
Text on poster: Teatr Dramatyczny M. St. Warszawy // Operetka [the play Operetta] // Witold Gombrowicz. Date: 1980. Height x width: 98.5cm x 67cm (38.75” x 26.5”). Printing information: lower right corner: WZGraf. Zam. 2088. O-5. N. 1000 egz. Condition: About a dozen small (1cm) vertical tears at bottom edge..... More
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999. First Edition. Octavo (24x16.5); 20pp, including chronology and bibliography. Nine images, all but one in color. Illustrated card wrappers over saddle-stapled textblock. Covers are clean and crisp. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This is the catalog of the Hodges exhibition at..... More
![Item #9607 The Loop [Signed]. Joe Coomer](/pictures/thumb/9607.jpg?v=1658338021)
Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992. Later Printing, without "First Published..." statement. Signed on front free endpaper. Octavo (21.5x15x2.5cm); 201pp. Pictorial dustjacket; blue boards with linen spine, stamped in gilt. Unclipped jacket pristine; textblock nearly so but for the author's signature, and, on front pastedown, a gift inscription from a giver..... More
Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2005. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by the author on title page. One of a series of three adaptations penned by Irish author John Banville based on the tragedies of..... More
New York: Galerie Lelong, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (23x23x05cm); 46pp. Twenty-one full-page close-ups of Coplans's hands, taken by himself; one three-page pull-out image. Coplans's artist's statement, as released by the gallery for the opening, is laid in. Heavy ivory card covers with deep French flaps, over sewn gatherings. Covers..... More
Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks. February-August 1908. Each commercially-produced small octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 190 pages, ruled paper, sewn gatherings, thin oxblood leather covers, rounded corners, all pageblock edges gilt. Covers and stitching now loosened; gatherings separating but all pages present. Leather covers flaking with edge..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan printed card wrappers, yapp edges; [2],23pp. & sixteen (16) leaves of photographic illus. Light wear and soil to wrappers, else Very Good or better. Issued as Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Vol. 98, no. 18 (Publication 3543). Short introduction to..... More
New York: John Martin's House, Inc., 1913. First and Sole Edition. Octavo saddle-stapled periodical issue (25x19cm); unpaginated [96pp], the center spread and final 36 pages of which are all advertisements disguised as entertainments. Card-weight covers; body of heavy, high-quality calendered paper stock, selected (presumably) for long life in children's..... More
![Item #10083 The Critical Eye/I [Exhibit Catalog with Multiple Elements, Complete]. John T....](/pictures/thumb/10083.jpg?v=1644346223)
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1984. First Edition. Eight separate elements within publisher's original integrated box -- largest elements octavo (28.5x22cm), the size of U.S. letterhead. The covered "stationery" box itself is 29x23x3cm. Two of the elements are saddle-stapled booklets of U.S. letterhead size: the first a catalog..... More
![Item #25313 Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester [Limited Edition]. Earl of...](/pictures/thumb/25313.jpg?v=1675031191)
[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1926. First Thus, Limited to 975 copies of which this is no. 821. Quarto; publisher's brown cloth over blue-grey paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; l,[2],407pp. Boards a bit scuffed and lightly dust-soiled, corners bumped, tiny chip to spine label, else a Very Good, sound copy overall..... More
![Item #5127 Ensayo sobre un proletariado sin cabeza [Essay on a Proletariat without a Head]. Jose...](/pictures/thumb/5127.jpg?v=1562608509)
Mexico City: Editorial Logos, 1962. Signed by the author with inscription "Para Alvarez Barret, en recuerdo de nuestra militancia revolucionaria" ["For Alvarez Barret, in memory of our revolutionary militancy."]. Octavo; 261pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers foxed and toned with a number of small tears along fore-edge, creasing and..... More
![Item #8236 A Conrad Memorial Library: The Collection of George T. Keating [Limited Edition]....](/pictures/thumb/8236.jpg?v=1613596048)
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition, Limited to 501 copies of which this is no. 155. Large, thick octavo (26.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, white embossed paper medallion inlay to upper cover, printed paper spine label (duplicate bound in rear), top edge gilt, housed in black cloth slipcase..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Universe Publishing, 1993. Quarto (28x22x1.5cm); xiii + 210pp, including chronology, list of known works, bibliography, and index. Color art reproductions and B&W documentary photographs throughout. Illustrated card covers. Both covers and textblock clean and crisp; card spine uncreased..... More
![Item #9651 Ending Up [Signed]. Kingsley Amis](/pictures/thumb/9651.jpg?v=1658331580)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on title page. Octavo (20.5x13.5x2cm); 176pp. Photographic dustjacket. Teal boards with spine lettering in gilt. Unclipped jacket; spine has been sunned into a lighter color scheme; flap corners docked, as published. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper;..... More
Ulleungdo: Dokdo Museum, 2006. First Editions. Octavo; Vol I 28 + xii pp in English, 1132pp in Japanese; Vol II 24 + xii pp in English, 1118pp in Japanese; Vol III 24 + xi pp in English, 1017pp in Japanese; Vol IV 40 + vi pp in English, 769pp in..... More
![Item #10420 Leland Rice: Illusions and Allusions, Photographs of the Berlin Wall [Signed]. Leland...](/pictures/thumb/10420.jpg?v=1658336304)
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1987. First Edition. Signed on half-title: "Leland Rice 10-6-87." Quarto (30.5x30.5x0.5cm); unpaginated [36pp], including chronology and bibliography. Fourteen full-page color plates. Saddle-stapled pictorial glossy card covers over coated paper textblock. Signs of normal nano-creases at staples, minor corner wear; otherwise in carefully..... More
Macon, GA: J.W. Burke Company, 1938. First Edition, wrapper issue, limited to 1000 copies. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed in brown within decorative border; [18],81pp.; photographic frontispiece. Wrapper extremities toned, light shelf wear and soil, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. More
New York: Communist League of America (Opposition), 1930. Side-stapled pamphlet; 31pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers cleanly detached but present, showing some general toning and smudging to surface, and a prior ownership inscription of a Carla Hudson in pencil at bottom front. Corners of textblock a bit bumped at bottom corners..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. Two volumes; large octavos (24.5cm.); publisher's cloth in uniform white photo-illustrated dust jackets, Vol. I retaining original price ($10), Vol. II price-clipped, grey topstain; xii,[2],436; viii,[2],524pp.; portrait frontispieces, fourteen leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light wear to cloth extremities..... More
Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (25x28x1cm); 127pp, including bibliography. Photographic reproductions and illustrations in color and B&W throughout. Fuchsia card wrappers with black spine; window cut-out in front panel. Wrappers and textblock clean and crisp. This is the catalog of the exhibition of the..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1925. First Thus. Quarto; publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; 199pp.; color frontispiece, fifteen leaves of plates of which eleven are in color. Spine cloth and board extremities a shade toned, light to moderate foxing along top edges of first 30 or so pages, occasionally overlapping..... More
Hardcover. Paris: Éditions d’Art Charles Moreau, 1937. First Edition. Folio (42x32cm); brochure text of 8pp + 32 separate plates, all present, within large stiff coated portfolio. Portfolio and large textual brochure printed in fawn and chocolate brown. Paper for brochure and 32 plates is heavy cream card stock... More
![Item #13872 Candide; or, All for the Best [Limited Edition]. M. de Voltaire, Clara Tice](/pictures/thumb/13872.jpg?v=1660402540)
New York: Bennett Libraries Inc., 1927. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 401 printed on papier à la cuve. Two parts in one volume; octavo; mid-20th century half blue goat over cloth, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers and renewed flyleaves;..... More