Paris: Regnault and Claude Chaudiére, 1549. 4to (230 x 158 mm). Collation: a-y8. 176 leaves. Roman types, printed in red and black. Ruled in red. Renaissance woodcut title-border of termini and festoons, printers' device (Colines' Time with his scythe); 14 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS, combining illustration and architectural frame on a single.....
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.....
Udine: Art&, 1990. Folio (11 x 11.5 inches). 120 pages. 76 black & white photographs and numerous archival photos. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition of Basilico's early project, made for an exhibition at the Musée de l'Eysée in Lausanne in 1990. Basilico relies on wide, topographical views, but.....
Chicago: The Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 23 pages, with an extra copy of the sheet containing pages 5/6 and 19/20 laid in. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a sketch by Betsy Milam, photo portrait of Bukowski on rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one.....
[Florence]: 1619. Etching, 282 x 210 mm plate, 353 x 287 mm sheet, on laid paper with a Cross of Lorraine watermark, a fine impression of the second state (of three), with wide margins, some minor mostly marginal foxing, taped to the backboard at three corners verso, otherwise in good.....
Paris: Israël Henriet, 1636. Folio (275 x 185 mm). 488 etchings (215 x 120 mm and similar) on 124 sheets including title with the arms of Richelieu, frontispiece, dedication and text. Contemporary vellum. Good impressions of the second states (the frontispiece third state), watermarks Posthorn (similar to Lieure 47). Occasional.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-2012. Four volumes. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jackets. FIRST EDITION. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION SET, EACH WARMLY INSCRIBED by Caro to the important biographer Robert K. Massie (with two additionally inscribed to his wife, literary agent Deborah Karl). Massie, known as a popularizer of history and.....
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First edition, second printing. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.
Suresnes: Bernard Chauveau, 2011. Oblong (10 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.). Text in French, English, Chinese and Japanese. Lavishly illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original orange boards, leather lettering-piece on front cover; house in a scultpted box. FIRST EDITION, first printing, one of 1000 copies. A luxuriously-produced book in a......
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.....
Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983. 8vo. [6], 250pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A fine copy, fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the Nobel Prize-recipient on the title. This edition precedes the UK edition, which was awarded the Booker Prize.
Venice: Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. Folio (29.1 x 19.4 cm). Roman type, occasional Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts (9 full-page), printer's device on title, repeated on verso of final leaf. 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. Later vellum preserving earlier morocco spine label. Provenance: some occasional.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Oblong folio (8½ x 13 inches). 391 pages on 195 leaves, each leaf containing two pages of the text. Xeroxed proof with printer's registration marks and incorporating an earlier editorial reader's occasional notes. Comb binding with drab wrappers. One short tear to front.....
Florence: Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1637. Two parts in one volume, 4to (236 x 172 mm). Etched title and seven double-page plates by Stefano della Bella after the set designs of Alfonso Parigi. 19th-century half roan, decorated paper boards. Some minor spotting, generally a fine copy. Provenance: purchased from.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 8vo (21 x 13.6 cm). xvi, [2], 624 pages. Half-title, 8-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, with tissue guards preserved. Bound from the.....
Museum Ludwig / Serpentine Gallery / Koenig Books, 2008. 10 x 8.5 inches. 255 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. First edition. "The definitive book on filmmaker, writer, founder of Anthology Film Archive and all-round cinema avatar Jonas Mekas, this compendium of materials is essential for all fans of.....
Worcester, MA: Colin Press, 1988. 8vo. Four etchings and one vignette on colophon by Judith Eldridge; with an extra suite of five etchings in color on chine collé. Text and plates laid loose as issued in Rugg Road handmade paper wrappers with a printed paper label on front cover; linen.....
Robert Grayson, 1990. Accordion form, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., printed on translucent paper, 32 panels, printed on rectos only. Second edition, number 5 of 250 copies signed by Grayson from an edition of 276 (there were 26 lettered proofs). Grayson had first published his collection of aphorisms as.....
London: Thomas Davison for the proprietors of the collection, 1815. Large 4to (263 x 168 mm; 103/8 x 65/8 in.). Title printed in red and black. Hand-colored woodcut frontispiece by Barriman showing John Lydgate presenting his book to Henry V (described in item 412 of the catalogue), engraved title vignette.....
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: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12 x 8 cm) 158 pages. Original plum cloth, embossed with a basket weave pattern. Provenance: Herschel V. Jones (bookplate; his sale Anderson Galleries, 20 November 1916, lot 278). FIRST EDITION. The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children: stories on American.....
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). 139 pages, 5-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece, one full-page illustration in text. Original brown ribbed cloth, covers blindstamped with a floral frame, gilt chair at center of front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, cream coated endpapers. Provenance: William Harvey (booklabel). Second.....
Munich, etc. Prestel, 2007. 11 x 9.5 inches. Color photographs. Essay by Adetokunbo Abiola. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, and surprisingly uncommon. "Many myths surround the Hyena Men who haunt the peripheries of Nigeria's cities. Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons and baboons, these men earn a living by performing.....
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, [1897]. A single proof sheet printed on watermarked onion skin paper with five repeating labels: "The / Sundering / Flood/ By / William / Morris." Together with a single sheet cover page for "The Sundering Flood," printed in black type on original gray laid paper used.....
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 16mo. Full crushed tan morocco with arabesque scrollwork border leaving attractive negative space on both covers by Riviére and Son, spine in six compartments, with five raised bands, four panels ornately gilt and with gilt '1893' at foot of spine, ornate gilt dentelles, light blue.....
