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
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Early Printing. Quarto. 417 pages. Black and white and color photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket over black boards with white lettering to spine. Jacket shows a touch of edgewear and some faint rubbing at rear panel near spine and rear flap Boards..... 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
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. First Edition. Octavo; viii + 315pp + one-page publisher's prospectus. Fifty-one wood engravings of landscapes, geological, and volcanic/thermal formations. Original green publisher's cloth with blind-stamped borders and ornaments on front and rear panels. Gilt spine lettering. Magenta endpapers. Binding dulled but not..... More
Text on poster: XX Krakowski Festiwal Jazzowy // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo // DLA ELI [for Eli]. Date: 1975. Height x width: 84cm x 59cm (33” x 23.25”). Printing information: lower left corner: Drukarnia Narodowa, zam. 514/75. 2000. S-75-7768. Condition: No visual flaws. Mleczko made his reputation..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. 263 pages plus 89 black and white plates. Illustrated dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges with some fading to spine. Patterned white and red boards in red cloth with spine in gilt and black title label. Some fraying at intersection..... 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
![CYRK [Circus] Poster for Polish State Circus Agency - Bust of smiling clown with green flower or...](/pictures/thumb/6166.jpg?v=1583175841)
Text on poster: CYRK [Circus]. Height x width: 67cm x 95.5cm. Printing information: lower right corner corner: logos of KAW and WAG// Druk PZG RSW „Prasa-Książka-Ruch” Ktw. zam. 4057-H-025-8.000+350. Condition: No visual flaws. Bocianowski, not only a graphic artist but also a caricaturist and cartoonist, studied at the Warsaw..... More
Dijon, FR: Editions Faton, 1995. Limited First Edition, one of 800 copies printed in English. Quarto. 439 pages. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket; book in blue-gray boards with gilt lettering to spine. Missing slipcase. Jacket is lightly worn along edges with some yellowing to top edge and flaps..... More
Burlington: Penandohoe Press, 1962. Stated First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Printed and hand typeset by the author / illustrator. Quarto; 128pp. Illustrated dust jacket over beige cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges with some adjacent creasing, along with some general..... More
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Van Gogh Museum / Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. Quarto. 380 pages. Hundreds of color and black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket over green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is creased along edges, with some more..... 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
Coyoacan, MX: Fondo Editorial de Plastica Mexicana, 1999. Second Printing. Folio. 164 pages. Color reproductions and black and white photographs. Text in Spanish. Illustrated dust jacket over maroon boards with gilt lettering. Jacket creased along edges and lightly worn at spine ends, but intact and colors remain bright..... 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
Madrid: Revista Geografica Española, 1958. Octavo; unpaginated [220pp in this copy, see full description]. Tipped-in sepia frontispiece; 38 full-color tipped-in plates; 56 full-page B&W photogravure reproductions of paintings; 24 full-page B&W reproductions of drawings; 67 smaller B&W drawing reproductions (1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 page) embedded within text. Entirely in Spanish..... More
![XVIII Miȩdzynarodowy Festiwal Jazzowy Poster [18th International Jazz Festival, Warsaw] - Wind...](/pictures/thumb/6172.jpg?v=1583176983)
Text on poster: XVIII Miȩdzynarodowy Festiwal Jazzowy // 75 // 18th International Jazz Festival // Jazz Jamboree // Warsaw // October 23-26 1975. Date: 1975. Height x width: 38.25cm x 66.5cm. Printing information:lower left corner: PZG Bydg. 2377/75 B-113. Condition: Bottom edge shows close about six 0.5cm closed tears, and..... More
Text on poster: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Jazzowe Oddzial w Krakowie + trumpet logo // 20 Krakowski Festiwal Jazzowy // 27-28.X.1975 // Parady Orkiestr 1899 // + 18 caricatural icons (à la R. Crumb) of American jazz influences, each labeled with year dates, artist names, and American jazz culture terminology. Note that..... 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
Buenos Aires: Editorial Viau SRL, 1943; facsimile of volume originally published by R. Ackermann in London in 1820. Limited Reprint Edition of 3470, of which this is No.1489. Quarto; xxviii + 115pp. Twenty-five full-color watercolors reproduced on 24 bound-in plates, including four landscape-format fold-out plates. Broché in cream cardstock, with..... 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
Text on poster: Kobieta Plakacie 1905 w 1980 [Woman and Posters 1905-1980] // Kolekcja Floriana Zielińskiego [Florian Zielińskiego Collection] // Opole // Teatr Kochanowskiego. Date: 1980. Height x width: 96cm x 66.5cm (37.75” x 26.25”). Printing information: lower left corner: RSW „P-K-R” ZP Wr. 8470/80 5000 B1. Condition: No visual..... More