![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.....
Comprising: Autograph quotation signed. One page, 4to. Titled in the margin "Liberty Tree." – ALS, n.y. One page, 8vo to Miss Eldridge, enclosing a contribution for the Philomena Festival. – ALS, 12 December 1886. 2 pages, 8vo. Discussing performances. –ALS, 5 January 1909. Two pages, 8vo. – Christmas card with.....
Éditions de la Différence, 1987. 9 x 6 inches. In English and French. 123 pages. Wrappers. First edition.
![Item #404840 Aghani al-Darwish [Songs of the Dervish]. Rashid AYYUB, or Raschid Ayoub](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/404840.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1550179899)
New York: Syrian-American Press, [1928]. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad ‘Arid [To my brother Jawaad ‘Arid] Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 14 pages, small 8vo (6 ¾ × 5 ½ inches), in blue ink on both sides of seven sheets of his personal stationery with his name and address printed in blue on each sheet; the sheets with a horizontal fold, but in fine condition. Benet.....
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.....
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.....
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, [1990]. One of 200 copies. 16.3 x 11 cm. Two leaves of text and 74 paper specimens; printed note loosely inserted. Printed paper wrappers. Henry Morris's note printed on the inserted sheet details his intentions with this sample catalogue: "PLEASE NOTE: Sample-book making is.....
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: Harper Collins, 1985. 8.5 x 7.25 inches. 89, [7] pages. Black-and-white photographs by George Ancona. Glazed pictorial boards. Inscribed by Brenner on the half-title: "To Steven – Another snakelover! Barbara Brenner." The first edition was published in 1970 by Addison-Wesley. Both are suprisingly uncommon.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002. 12.25 x 10 inches. 224 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed in 2002 by author on title-page. "The most comprehensive assessment of Chuck Close's work yet published, this volume accompanied a mid-career retrospective exhibition that opened at The Museum of Modern.....
London: Mousse Publishing; The Henry Moore Foundation, 2012. 9 x 6.25 inches. 80 pages. Illustrated in color. Hardcover, with a velour-like covering; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, published to accompany the exhibition "Michael Dean: Government.
Paris: Le Livre Contemporain / Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses / Les Centraux Bibliophiles / Les Amis Bibliophiles / le Cercle Grolier, 1997. Number XVII of 36 copies on Arches reserved for the artist and various collaborators, signed in pencil on the colophon. From a total edition of 210 copies. Folio (12.....
3 1/4 pages, 8vo, a bifolium on pale bluish-green paper. Evidence of folds, a marginal tear not affecting text, scant remains of former mounting on last page. The American antiquarian and historian Samuel G. Drake (1798-1875) writes to William Elliot Woodward (1825-1892), the numismatist, New England genealogist, and publisher, about.....
New York: The Subcutaneous Press, 1979. Square 4to (11.25 x 12.25 inches). Etchings by Janet Morgan. Tan cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 30 copies.
Florham-Madison: The Farleigh Dickinson University Library and The Tideline Press, 1983. One of 70 copies, this out-of-series and labeled "proof" and signed by the paste-paper artist Delight Rushmore Lewis. 313 x 160mm. [38] pages. 18 mounted specimens, with 7 additional specimens loosely inserted. Original linen-backed boards, printed paper label on.....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. As-new. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Frazier on the title-page.
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.....
![Item #409797 Family [Special edition]. Masahisa FUKASE](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/409797.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1664828233)
London: MACK, 2019. 31 x 23 cm. 80 pages. Red buckram, embossed, in a silkscreened sleeve. Limited edition, one of 150 copies with a collotype print produced by Japanese atelier Benrido. Numbered and stamped by the Masahisa Fukase Archives. "For three generations the Fukase family ran a photography studio in.....
New York: Self-published, 1992. 4to. [92] pages. 16 color and 29 tritone images. Original cloth. The third volume of 'ONE OF THE MOST EPIC AND AMBITIOUS OF ARTIST'S BOOKS' (The Photobook). One of 750 copies. This is the third in Horn's ongoing series of books concerning Iceland. Here she collects.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. 8vo. 1195 pages. Plain tan printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition, stated "Not For Sale," and noting tentative publication date of November 2003.
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1977. Square 8vo. [8] pages. Sewn in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 7 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. Sagar and Tabor.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1944]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red cloth; in the dust jacket. First edition of the best and most influential novel about alcoholism. The basis for the Oscar winning movie starring Ray Milland. (BA) A poorly manufactured wartime novel, it is often in.....
West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, Christmas 1976. 8vo. Woodcuts by Helen Siegl. Quarter cloth, decorated paper over boards. With the extra suite of plates in cloth chemise. Slipcase. Number 31 of 50 copies casebound and with the extra set of prints, signed by Siegl, from an edition of 300.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and plates. Original green cloth, publisher's gilt device on front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt; in a quarter red morocco slipcase. First edition. With a 28-page chapter on Burton's immense library, celebrated.....
