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 getting picked up by Drawn..... 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
![The Italian Painters of the Renaissance [Signed]. Bernard Berenson](/pictures/thumb/5864.jpg?v=1576855724)
London: The Phaidon Press, 1956. Fourth Impression. Quarto. 488 pages. 400 black and white and color illustrations. Signed on front free endpaper by Berenson to career diplomat Philip W. Bonsal. Illustrated unclipped dust jacket is toned at the spine and edges. Some creasing along edges and shows a...... More
![The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine [3 Volumes in Slipcase]. Dante Alighieri, Dorothy...](/pictures/thumb/5991.jpg?v=1579803306)
New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1962. First Edition Thus. Three octavo volumes in slipcase. 346p; 390p; 400p +3 pages charts. Illustrated with a selection of black and white William Blake drawings. Blue cloth-covered boards with navy spine labels, housed in orange slipcase with paper title label. Includes Hell (L'Inferno)..... 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
London: The Folio Society, 2012. Limited Edition: No. 663 of 1000 copies. Vol I: 30 full-page reproductions of hand-colored photographs; 98 smaller photographs embedded within text; 10 full-page painting or print reproductions; Vol II: 30 full-page reproductions of hand-colored photographs; 104 smaller photographs embedded within text; 10 full-page painting or..... 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
San Diego, CA: IDW / Desperado Publishing, 2012. First Edition. Quarto. 288 pages. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Ex-library with library sticker affixed to spine and further stickers to front free endpaper. Lacks dust jacket, as issued (?). Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Boards heavily worn with exposure..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; ix + 255pp, including bibliography and index. Sixty-two B&W primary source documentary illustrations, some full page, others embedded in text. Brown dust jacket with curtained proscenium outline on front panel. Royal blue boards. Gilt spine lettering. Top of text-block stained marigold..... More
Berlin: Neufeld & Henius, 1924. First Edition Thus. Quarto; Vol I [vi] + 400pp; Vol II 328pp. Twenty full-page color offset lithographs by Lucian Zabel (10 per volume, including frontispieces). Mandarin leather spine and corners with teal-and-mandarin lithographed botanical panels. Raised bands on spine with deeply embossed and gilded botanical..... More
Hardcover. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. First Edition. Signed by both author and illustrator on title page: "Sincerely, Harry Carr / E.H. Snydam." Octavo; x + 403pp. Thirty-two full-page pencil/charcoal drawings in B&W; full-color frontispiece; 29 half-page drawings as chapter head-pieces; illustrated head-pieces to preliminary table of contents and..... More
![Lew Davis: Twenty-Five Years of Painting in Arizona [Signed by Lew Davis]. Harry Wood](/pictures/thumb/001884.jpg?v=1578425796)
[Phoenix]: Phoenix Art Museum, 1961. First Edition. Signed by Lew Davis under his photo on page 2 with inscription, "To Judge and Mrs Wright / with best regards / Lew Davis / april 1963." Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering. Quarto. 72 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Black and..... 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
New York: The Art Bulletin (The College Art Association of America), 1956. Contemporary Offprint. Signed and inscribed by author: "[to] G. Tappy Edwards with best wishes, Hereward Lester Cooke." Quarto; 33pp [pages 151-173 of Vol. 38 of The Art Bulletin]. Eight pages of B&W documentary illustrations; 35 images total. Standard..... 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
Spain: DeScheemaeker, 1993. First Edition. Quarto. 418 pages. No dust jacket as issued (?). Black and white and color illustrations throughout, some fold-out. Magenta faux leather boards with spine and front stamped in gilt. A sampling of a variety of old documents, coins, photographs, and maps, etc.... More