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
Washington, D.C. and New York: National Gallery of Art/Abrams, 2002. First Edition. Two quarto volumes in photographic slipcase; 1012pp in total. Linen cloth stamped in black. Pristine. Unopened in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Slipcase without flaws. Definitive Stieglitz catalog of 1600+ photographs, published in conjunction with the massive 2002..... More
Paris: Somogy Art Publishers / Louvre Editions, 2010. First Edition. Quarto. 608 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Glossy photographic boards. Light wear to corners. Binding is sound and interior is clean and unmarked. 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
[Thessaloniki]: Epikinonia Ltd. for the Goulandris-Horn Foundation, 1990. Limited Edition of 1500 copies. Quarto; 29 pp + 30 color prints. Text in English, Greek, and French. Illustrated dust jacket over beige cloth with dark brown lettering. Jacket rubbed along top with a few scrapes to surface, but no chips or..... 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: Harry C. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Stassinopoulos on title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Bill and Helene, / with my love, / Arianna / 15th August 1983." Additional autographed letter signed taped to front free endpaper and reads, "Dear Bill..... 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
![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
Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Rice to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription, "To William Safire with love Dorothy Rice." Quarto. 144 pages. Full color illustrations and photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust..... 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: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1954. First Edition. Octavo; 255pp. Three color reproductions; line-drawing chapter tailpieces by Christian Bérard; 25 B&W photographs. Fuchsia jacket. Black boards with fuchsia lettering front panel and spine. Unclipped dust jacket lacking chips at crown and foot of spine and spine folds;..... More
London: Reeves & Turner, [post 1876]. Reprint Edition. Octavo; [xxviii] + 207pp. 48 intaglio prints after Holbein. Maroon leather with gilt spine lettering; top of textblock gilt. The original leather binding survives solely as a scuffed spine, almost completely detached at rear joint; lettering still detectable. Boards and hinges have..... 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