Adriane Tomine. First Edition. Paperback. Berkeley: Optic Nerve, 1993. First Edition. Signed by author without inscription on inside front cover. Side-stapled printed paper card covers; 20pp. Covers clean and crisp with only very faint signs of shelfwear. Pages unmarked. Penultimate issue of Tomine’s seven self-published Optic Nerve mini-comics before..... More
Alexander Calder. Limited Edition. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Limited Edition of 700 copies; this one unnumbered out of series. Quarto; 130 pages plus index and colophon. 85 black and white drawings by Calder. Lacks dust jacket. Pictorial boards in brown cloth are stamped in red. Soiled and..... More
New York: The Architectural Forum for the American Face Brick Association, 1924. Quarto; 99pp. Color frontispiece + 43 B&W photos + 21 schematics. Brown softcover with embossed chocolate lettering and color inset within border on front face; chocolate lettering on spine. Crown of spine torn but present; crown and foot..... More
![Picasso: Creator and Destroyer [Signed with ALS to William Safire]. Arianna Stassinopoulos...](/pictures/thumb/5368.jpg?v=1569429589)
First Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; 558pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $22.95 price intact; book in gray paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and silver lettering. Jacket is lightly worn along edges but no chips or tears. Boards show light wear and fading to spine..... More
New York: Modern Library, ca. 1930. Binding number five, with Rockwell Kent endpapers, placing this edition around 1929/1930 [Toledano p. 24]. Number 42 in the series. Dustjacket shows 95 cent price and lists 159 titles in the series; book in flexible red balloon cloth. 35p +64 black and white reproductions..... More
Various. First Thus. New York: Brentano's, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo; Vol. I xxx + 360pp.; Vol II 387pp including index. Both volumes half-bound in brown leather with gilt seams front and back; spines with (pseudo) raised bands and gilt stamping. J.W. Meyer & Co. binding signature on verso of front..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (11" x 8.75"); xv, 139p +80p plates. Printed turquoise dustjacket over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few light scratches and smudges to face, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. binding..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Octavo; 79pp. Eight color plates tipped in, each against bound-in brown backing stock, all present, unflawed. Blue cloth with gold lettering front and spine. Spine slightly eroded crown and foot; small dent at spine mid-point. Board corners show wear; back panel noticeably..... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 296pp. Printed photographic dust jacket with original $7.95 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with silver and fuchsia lettering. Jacket split in two parts with much of the spine section missing, large tears and chips..... More
London: The Arden Press, 1927. Small quarto (10.25" x 7.75"); 120pp. Tipped-in color illustrated frontis on gray paper plus 53 full-color plates with tissue guards, all present. Riviere & Son binding (in full blue leather with gilt borders, elaborate gilt stamping and five raised bands to spine, gilt dentelles to..... More
New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1929. "Privately Printed for Subscribers Only." "This edition is limited to thirteen hundred numbered copies of which this is copy number 1387"--a numerical impossibility which may indicate over-subscription or acknowledged over-run. Folio; Vol I xl + 515pp; Vol II extends pagination through p. 865; Vol III..... More
De Luxe Edition. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. De Luxe Edition, numbered 198 of 300 copies. Signed by both Jackson and Getlein twice--once without inscription on full title, then again each with a brief inscription to prior owner on half title. Oblong octavo (8.5" x 10.75"); 98pp. Full calf with..... More
Hardcover. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Imperial Octavo (11.5" x 8.75"); xvi, 467p. Illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket very lightly edgeworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards square with a light bump at..... More
First Edition. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1927. Octavo; 168pp. Black and white plates. Rebound in colored paper over textured black cloth with leather title card to spine. Library stamp to half-title, but no other library markings present. Spine is faded. Binding is sound. Pages toned and a tad brittle, but unmarked..... More
Hardcover. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011. Quarto (12.5"x9.5"); 192pp. 132 illustrations and 114 in color. Pictorial paper over boards. Some rubbing on the edges and corners, bottom edge is bumped. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. More
London: A. & C. Black, 1925. Octavo; xiv + 269pp + 2 pages of publisher's bound-in adverts, with several inserted additional advertisements. Full-color illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth with two-color stamped frame, border, and emblem on face; two-color stamped spine lettering with decorative emblems. Unclipped dust jacket is heavily worn..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago/Tate Modern/Yale University Press, 2012. Stated First Edition. Quarto (9.75"x12.25"); 368pp. Pictorial paper over boards with red cloth binding on spine and lettering stamped in black. Cover has only minor rubbing on corners and a slight roll to spine, but no scratches..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Panache Press at Random House, 1988. Stated First Edition. Folio (12.25" x 9.25"); 184p. Cardboard boards with orange cloth spine. Covers show a few light creases with bumping to corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989. First Edition. Quarto; 480pp. Decorative pop-art hard binding in coated paper. Dustjacket of stiff plastic with screened images of Warhol front and back. Spine and top edges of boards sunned. Plastic dustjacket now missing bottom third of spine strip due to "baking,"..... More
First Edition. Glen Gardner: Libertarian Press, 1950. First Edition. Octavo; 231pp. Cartoon-illustrated endpapers, with in-text illustrations throughout. Printed yellow dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in beige cloth-covered boards with brown lettering to spine. Jacket cleanly separated down back joint between rear panel and spine, with some rubbing along..... More
![One Day in a Baby's Life [La journée de bébé]. M. Arnaud, Susan Coolidge, Firmin Bouisset, Trans](/pictures/thumb/000615.jpg?v=1574278105)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Octavo; 32pp. Illustrated beveled boards with red cloth spine. Patterned endpapers. Full color chromolithographic illustrations in mid 19th-century pastels on every page. All textblock edges stained in red. Boards soiled with eroded and bumped edges and corners. Irregular horizontal abrasion runs across front panel. Cloth..... More
![English Political Caricature: A Study of Opinion and Propaganda [2 Vols: to 1792 & 1793-1832]. M....](/pictures/thumb/5811.jpg?v=1575652195)
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1959. Two Volumes. First Edition. Octavo; I: 237pp +96 plates, II: 275pp +96 plates. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spines. Lacking dust jackets. Both volumes bumped at corners and spine ends, with first volume moreso. Front board of Vol 1 opens a bit shakily..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. First Edition of 4000 copies. Folio (14.25" x 9"); 247p. Illustrated translucent dustjacket over blue cloth boards with blindstamped patter and bronze lettering. Jacket rippled with light edgewear, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are clean with front board..... More
![Alger et ses Peintres 1830-1960 [Painters of Algiers 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5525.jpg?v=1570562132)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2000. First Edition. Folio; 286pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured deep ochre boards with gold stamping on spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge, but with no chips or tears. Binding tight and square. The first in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué..... More
![L'Algérie des peintres 1830-1960 [Painting in Algeria 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5517.jpg?v=1570560685)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2002. First Edition. Folio; 318pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Spine slightly cocked; binding otherwise tight. The second in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying Algerian painting region by region. Full-color reproductions on most..... More