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Calais, VT: Z Press, 1984. Small 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Some minor soiling. FIRST EDITION, number 90 of 750 copies.
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1984. Small 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Some minor soiling. FIRST EDITION, number 90 of 750 copies.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. 7.5 x 5 inches. 40 pages. Original patterned boards; original glassine wrappers. First edition. This limited edition is published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author and the publisher.
[New York]: [Irving Berlin, Inc.], 1938. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 inches; 29.7 x 23 cm). 180 pages. Publisher's flexible faux leather. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the composer on the front free endpaper: "To Irving Lesser(?) With best wishes and pleasant memories of "Alexander's Ragtime band" / Irving.....
New York: Karma, 2014. 8vo. Blue cloth. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies.
Paris: Labé, 1848. First edition. 8vo. Bernard's paper is on pp. 303-19. Entire volume: 512 pp. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. "Bernard’s first communication regarding his investigation of the glycogenic function of the liver. Reprinted, with translation, in Medical Classics, 1939, 3, 552-80" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 995).
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010. 8vo. 300 pages. Black boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bernstein on the title-page at the Zinc Bar, NYC, 3/28/2010.
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Later buckram, original printed wrappers bound in, untrimmed. First edition. Inscribed by Bernstein on the half-title to the dedicatee’s wife, the actress Patricia Patterson: “à la meilleure partenaire de Charles à la Marmanche Pat affecteuresment Henry Bernstein.” Patricia Patterson.....
London: New Sydenham Society, 1866-67. First edition in English. Two volumes, 8vo. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated. "One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 6048, first edition in French, 1860-62).
Paris: Xavier Barral, 2016. Folio. 119 pages. Pictorial boards; printed board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, signed by Berry on the front free endpaper.
Np: Granite, 1976. 8vo. [64] pp. Original printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease to wrappers and endleaves, lightly rubbed. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in 1977 on the front free endpaper by Bertolino: "in the hallowed bowels of Roger Wm's with vino et cheez, Jim Bertolino."
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. 8vo. Cloth; dust jacket. First American edition.
Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. 8vo. xxiv, 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf, the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt, marbled edges, by Whitehead and Sons, Leeds (with their ticket on pastedown). A handsome copy of.....
New York: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2016. First edition. 7.5 x 9 inches. 18 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held from September 9 through December 3rd, 2016.
Chicago, New Haven and London: The Art Institute of Chicago / Yale University Press, 2012. First edition. 8.75 x 7.5 inches. 80 pages. 34 duotone reproductions (separations, printing and binding by Meridian Printing). Black cloth, white lettering; printed dust jacket. Signed by Dawoud Bey on the half-title. Published on the.....
New York: D.A.P. Ringling Museum, 2001. 10 x 7.5 inches. 224 pages. 90 color and black-and-white illustrations. Printed wrappers. Essays by Lukas Beckmann, Benjamin Buchloch, Mel Chin, Pamela Kort, Kim Levin, Peter Nisbet, Gene Ray, Max Reithmann and Joan Rothfuss. A distinguished group of critics, art historians and artists gathered.....
Paris: Editions Jeanne Walter, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. Original beige wrappers, lettered in black and green, untrimmed; tissue dust wrapper (a trifle soiled on rear); in publisher's colorful board chemise and slipcase with leather spine label (slight wear at edges). One of 280 copies on vélin d'Arches.....
Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 1973. 8vo. Three unbound gatherings laid loose as issued in cloth folding case. Near-fine, slightest toning to case. FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 3 of 250 copies signed by the author from an edition of 300. Printed by A. Colish, Mount Vernon.....
Dayton: Journal Book and Job Printing Office, 1879. Square 8vo. 178 pp. Original green decorated cloth. A near-fine copy with a few small areas of wear to binding. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to Pitt Cooke, brother of financier Jay Cooke who assisted in financing the Union.....
Lausanne: Éditions Clairefontaine, 1950. 11 x 8.5 inches. Black cloth; dust jacket.
San Francisco: W. E. Wood, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Bierce. Original dark green cloth, gilt pictorial stamping and lettering, top edges gilt, others uncut; black cloth folding case. First edition, state 1 (BAL). This is the dedication copy to the designer of the binding.....
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1977. 4to. 255 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Pictorial cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A study of Max Bill's works up until 1977.
Florida: Billig Publications, 1957/1959. 9.25 x 6 inches. 205 and 208 pages. Cloth.
Cañon City: Binckley & Hartwell, 1879. 8vo. 134 pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Wood-engravings in text, some double-page. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards a bit soiled, some minor pale intermittent dampstaining. Provenance: Everett D. Graff (small booklabel; sold Parke-Bernet, Newberry Library sale of duplicates, 4 May 1966, lot 346). THE.....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 8vo. 154, [1] pp. Original quarter morocco, patterned paper boards; acetate. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 324 of 350 copies. Printed on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper and bound by Gray Parrot.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Small 4to. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of this Christmas keepsake, containing Bromige's "The Nest"; Kelly's "Yeod & Malkuth..."; and Wakoski's "The Magi. Morrow & Cooney 113a.