Paris: Simon Du Bois for Geoffroy Tory, 22 October 1527. 4to (196 x 139 mm). Collation: a-r8 s4. 140 leaves, bâtarde type, title printed in red and black, initials and headings printed in red throughout, printer's "pot cassé" device (Bernard, no. 9) on title and on verso of last leaf.....
Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani, 1521. Aldine 8vo (161 x 94 mm; 63/8 x 33/4 in.). Collation: aa-bb^8 a-ss^8 tt^4. 3- and 4-line printed guide letters. 18th-century red roan-backed marbled boards, smooth spine gilt-lettered and -ruled, all edges gilt. Some rubbing to joints and extremities, lower margin of ss8.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Folio (14 x 10.5 inches). 162 black-and-white photographs. Pictorial boards; printed acetate jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Avedon on the title-page. A lavish retrospective of Avedon's portraiture, beautifully designed by Elizabeth Paul to accompany the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. With an essay.....
Paris: Cabinet d'Art Graphique / Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995. 4to (9.5 x 8 inches). 94 pages. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Stiff wrappers. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "Best wishes Louise Bourgeois." Published to accompany the exhibition held 1 February to 10 April 1995.
Paris: Maeght, 1959-62. 4 volumes (of 7, without Peintures 1924-1927, Peintures 1916-1923, and Le cubisme, fin 1907-1914), 4to. Photographic frontispiece of Braque in each volume, numerous black and white and color illustrations throughout. Original decorated buckram ring binders. Some slight darkening to spines, joints starting on a few volumes. Volumes.....
Derry, NH and Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. Tall narrow 8vo. [24]pp. Woodcut on title by Gaylord Schanilec. Original Mouchete de Pompie wrappers, printed paper title label. A fine copy. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number XXIX of 40 copies signed by Carver and Schanilec from an edition of.....
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. 8vo. Original gilt-decorated red leather, edges gilt. As-new in original shrinkwrap with publisher's prospectus. FIRST EDITION, one of an undesignated number of copies signed by Carver.
Chicago: S. P. Rounds' Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861. 8vo. 134 pp, errata leaf at end. 16 (of 17) plates (lacks frontispiece). 20th-century half citron morocco, cloth boards. Moderate browning, heavier on title, discreet blindstamp on title and plates, light wear to extremities. FIRST EDITION of one of.....
London: LCB in association with Thea Westreich [printed by Steidl], 1993. 4to. 175 pages with 110 four-color and 48 duotone plates. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Scarce Clark photobook, not distributed in the US. An unusually fine copy.
Denver: [Press of W.F. Robinson & Co.], 1892. Oblong. [72] pp, with 32 full-page halftone illustrations from photographs, printed in sepia. Original printed wrappers. Lacking original ties for wrappers, generally fine. A well-illustrated guide for visiting Knights Templar with descriptions and photographs of Colorado's many towns and geographical sites, including.....
Salida: The Western Publishing Co., 1928. 8vo. 28 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Some pale dampstaining to rear wrapper. Scarce promotional brochure for the central Colorado city in a valley formed by the Continental Divide on one side and the Sangre de Cristo range on the other. The many advertisements.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo (200 x 128 mm; 7 7/8 x 5 in.) . [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pages. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. A near-fine copy, the top gilt lightly abraded in a few.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 8vo (21 x 13.6 cm). xvi, [2], 624 pages. Lacks half-title. 2-line errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece, title, and 38 plates (including the first example of a 'dark plate', and the first use of horizontal plates) by Hablot K. Browne, all etchings except three (those facing.....
New York: [Printed in London and Tonbridge by the Whitefriars Press for] Brentano's, [1920]. Folio. Color frontispiece and nine plates, each tipped to mounts within printed frames, captioned tissue guards preserved. Original vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered and -decorated on front cover and spine, decorated endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed with.....
Venice: Paolo Colombani, 1760. 4to (204 x 160 mm). 4 full-page engraved plates after Pietro Antonio Novelli (3) and Francesco Bartolozzi (1) by Antonio Baratti, title-page vignette, one head-piece and 5 tail-pieces, 5 ornamental initials. 19th-century quarter vellum, decorated paper boards. Some pale dampstaining to lower corners, generally crisp. Provenance.....
London: David Nutt, 1913. Small, thin 8vo. ix, [3], [1]-50, [2] pages. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D); cloth folding box. FIRST EDITION, second issue. The author's first book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. Square 4to. 347 pages. 190 illustrations, of which 100 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, signed by the artist and dated 1981 on the half-title.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 8vo. 174pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A near-fine copy with slightest of fading as usual to spine panel of jacket. FIRST EDITION, review copy, with slip laid-in.
London: John Murray, 1880. Second edition, inscribed by David Gill. 8vo. liv, 285 pp. with 32 pp. of ads dated September, 1888 bound in at rear. Frontispiece map and with tables and figures in the text.Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in black and in gilt. Inscribed by David Gill on half-title.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A very good copy, spine slightly sunned, map with pale dampstain. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books.....
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (14.5 x 9 cm). 160 pages. Disbound, with calf spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing, first issue. "One of the unobtainables. Chamberlain's brought twice as much as his Scarlet Letter" (Carroll Wilson). A rare Hawthorne juvenile work, framed around a blind father telling his son.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1852. 12mo (18 x 11.3 cm). 144 pages. 4-page advertisements dated July 1852 inserted between front endpages. Frontispiece with tissue guard (foxed). Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, with the earliest ads and in BAL's earliest state of the binding. Hawthorne and Pierce were.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 12mo (16.5 x 9.8 cm). viii, 335 pages. 4-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece and three plates. Original red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, only printing, BAL's first impression, which Clark calls "probable second state" of the preface. Collects Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old.....
London: Gagosian, 2005. Folio (18 x 12 in.). 31 color illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. FIRST EDITION. According to Gagosian, the exhibition was to be accompanied by this "large-format catalogue that highlights twenty-four paintings featured in the current New York exhibition. Measuring eighteen by twelve inches, the book will include full-color.....
Paris: Grégoire Dupuis, 1719. 8vo (261 x 195mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, and 101 engravings in the text by Cochin, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart, Simoneau and Tardieu after Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart and Ranc. 18th-century gilt-panelled sprinkled calf. Rebacked; P4 with small tear with loss in corner not affecting.....