![Item #407534 [The Birch Bark Books]. Collection of privately printed books of Adirondack tales....](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/407534.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762966502)
New York: 1914-1932. First edition. 17 volumes, 12mo. Illustrated with woodcuts and maps, photographic plates tipped onto leaves; six volumes include folding maps. Bound in faux birch bark paper over boards. Phillips, pp. 11-12; Plum, Adirondack Bibliography (1956) 7236 & Supplement (1973), p. xxxiv; Bruns A11-A29; Heller 1:665-683; Litchfield sale.....
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.....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1975. First edition, one of approximately 215 copies (this is number 170). Oblong (15 x 23.5 cm). 57, [1, colophon] pages. 13 black-and-white photographic illustrations of process, including the final two of pouring and toasting with a glass of brandy! 24 specimens tipped.....
New York: Irving Publishing Co., 1888. Thick 8vo. 684, [1], xx, [1] pages. Frontispiece and nearly 50 plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered and -decorated bevelled green cloth. A fine copy, the spine ends gently rolled and a few small spots of wear to the joints, unobtrusive pencil note on flyleaf verso by.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. The author, best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast', comments on the "air pipe" he has purchased and orders a drum. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo. Regarding a dinner invitation. (BA).
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First edition. Oblong 4to. Original cloth; dust jacket. A fine association copy, inscribed by Eisenstaedt to Gordon Parks.
Cambridge: W. Lewis at the Cambridge University Press, 1925. 8vo. 36pp. Original printed wrappers. SCARCE LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES, as it notes "very privately printed for the Tenth Dinner of the Spenser Society of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge, 23 January 1925." The menu: clear mock turtle; devilled whitebait;.....
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Quarto. Printed in red and black. Musical illustrations by Gladys Evans, engraved on wood by W.M.R. Quick; decorations engraved on wood by Robert Gibbings. Original vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered on spine (vellum mottled, some light wear and toning to boards, engraved bookplate on pastedown). LIMITED.....
Boston: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press for the Author, 1910. 8vo. xiii, 100 pages. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard preserved. Original quarter parchment, olive boards, untrimmed and unopened; felt-lined chemise; slipcase. One of an unspecified limited edition distributed to the author's friends, mostly members of the Bibliophile Society.....
New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. 4to. 240 pages. 82 full-page photographs of contemporary buildings, accompanied by plans. Cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Samuel M. Nickerson (pencil inscription dated Sept. 11 1934 on front free endpaper), possibly a descendent of Samuel M. Nickerson (1830-1914) of Chicago, banker and owner of the.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983. 10.75 x 8.75 inches. 312 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "Hockney's description of his life and work and his associations with other artists is supplemented with his complete drawings and paintings to date" (the publisher).
New York: Macmillan, 1896. 8vo. 388pp., 3pp. ads at end. Half-title. Early 20th-century half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, original cloth covers and spine bound in at end. Chip at top of spine, a few small scratches to leather, otherwise clean. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10621.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Quartro. Woodcuts in color by Robert Quackenbrush. Original patterned cloth, title label on spine; original glassine; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 605 of 2,000 copies signed by the illustrator.
Boston: Ticknore, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 8vo (18 x 11.3 cm). [6], 141 pages. 4-page advertisement dated December 1849 at front. Original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST TRADE EDITION. BAL 12009.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 8vo. 316 pages; 12-page publisher's advertisements at end dated November 1855. Original brown blind-blocked publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Provenance: S. G. Bogert, New York City (contemporary inscription on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, with all of the.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original chocolate brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered; in a blue quarter morocco slipcase. First American edition, first printing, with the letter "n" missing in the word "one" on p. 278 line 4 up; 12-page publisher's catalogue at.....
New York: Hastings House, 1958. First edition. Octavo. Large folding map of Dutchess County, New York in pocket on rear pastedown. Original blue cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the half-title.
London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly for The Royal Society, 1787. First edition. Thick quarto. 801 pages. 20th-century black buckram, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION. Complete printed indexes of Volumes 1-70 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Each index arranged in two formats: alphabetically by subject.....
Albuquerque, NM: Loujon Press, 1970. Complete suite: printed book in original comb binding and decorative paper wrapper, in sunken panel of wooden box with 12 color prints reproducing Miller's calligraphic watercolors (17 x 22 inches). Original subscriber's brass name plaque on sliding box cover. One of 385 copies of "Edition.....
Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1935. First edition, second printing (Septermber 1935). 8vo. Plain paper wrappers, as issued. This printing comprised 500 copies, and with the first printing of September 1934 precedes all American editions. A somewhat rough but honest copy. Reference: Shifreen & Jackson A9B.
Henry Moore Foundation/Horace Richter Gallery/Tel-Aviv University, 1982. 11.25 x 9.5 inches. 80 pages. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from September 30th - October 30th 1982.
Henry Moore Foundation/Horace Richter Gallery/Tel-Aviv University, 1982. 11.25 x 9.5 inches. 80 pages. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from September 30th - October 30th 1982.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. Folio (13 x 10 inches). 532pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth; illustrated slipcase. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION.
London: Tate Publishing, 2010. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. 240 pages. Profusely illustrated. Printed wrappers. Published to accompany the exhibition of work by the British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) held at Tate Britain from 24 February to 8 August, 2010, which then toured to Leeds Art Gallery and the Art Gallery.....
