Paris: circa 1560. The set of 46 engravings, plates 190 x 140 mm, sheets 320 x 210 mm, good impressions, watermark Edmond de (?), with margins. 19th-century calf gilt. Four plates re-margined, old reinforcements along gutters, occasional pale staining and paper toning, otherwise in good condition. Provenance: purchased from Librairie.....
New York: The Library Fellows at the Whitney Museum of American Art [by Michael and Winifred Bixler Press and Letter Foundry], 1991. Oblong folio (32.9x42 cm; 13x16½ inches). Beautifully printed in letterpress. [16] pages With 9 mounted chromogenic photographic prints by Tina Barney: 27.7 x3 5.9 cm (11x14¼"). Original turquoise.....
London: H. R. Young, 1818. Folio (368 x 267 mm). Etched frontispiece and 179 etchings on 96 sheets. Contemporary citron straight-grained morocco gilt. Some wear to binding; some minor marginal browning and foxing. Provenance: purchased from Francis Edwards, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Series of posthumous restrikes from the original copper plates.....
Paris: Israel Silvestre, circa 1645. Complete set of twelve etchings, plates 110 x 255 mm and similar, sheets 220 x 345 mm, including title, in the first state (of two). Fine impressions, wide margins, pale water stain to plates at center of volume, early ink inscription on title. 18th-century half-vellum.....
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 8vo. 216 pp. Lithographed folding frontispiece map. Modern green gilt-lettered cloth. Map a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good internally. FIRST EDITION of the second book on the Kansas Territory, and the first made from first-hand observation. The work includes a voyage.....
[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.....
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First edition, second printing. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.
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 & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. 8vo. [10], 95, [1] pages. Original black quarter cloth, decorated boards, gilt-lettered on spine, edges untrimmed. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "To John Trounstine, With the good wishes of his friend, /.....
Paris: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1974. Folio (15 x 11 inches). Ten erotic drypoint etchings with gilding, on vellum Arches paper, each signed "Dali" and numbered in pencil, lower right. Loose as issued in printed wrapper; red cloth clamshell case. Limited edition, number CLXXVII of CC (200) copies on japon nacre.....
Paris: Jules Meynal, 1920. Letterpress title and 36 wood-engravings loose as issued in four cloth portfolios, each print with Schmied’s chopmark and numbered in pencil “2/25”, tipped to mount and matted. Overall 475 x 328 mm. SCARCE LIMITED EDITION, number 2 of 25 copies on Chine monté (there were also.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Small 8vo. Preliminary advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece and additional title after D. Maclise, 11 wood-engravings after R. Doyle, J. Leech, and C. Stanfield. Publisher's red cloth gilt, edges gilt. First edition, second state of the additional title with publisher's name outside the engraved border. Dickens's.....
Paris: Michael Woolworth Publications, 2010. 4to (9 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches). 24 original lithographs, printed by Michael Woolworth and Julien Torhy in Paris. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover, by Atelier Houdart; slipcase by CPMC Gilles Vercel, Paris. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 35 copies signed.....
Göttingen: Steidl, 2008[-18]. Unique set produced by the Jim Dine Studio: 52 volumes, plus exhibition catalogue. Together in card box with original hand-lettered/painted title by Jim Dine. 16 x 10 x 7 inches. ONE OF ONLY TWENTY UNIQUE SETS, AND THE ONLY SET EVER MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE FOR SALE. This.....
London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. 8vo. xv, [1], 99 pages. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this play in verse by T. S. Eliot’s mother, one of 300 copies printed. Laid-in is a signed calling card from “Mrs Henry W. Eliot” inscribed “Compliments of.....
6 7/16 x 9 13/16 inches. Gelatin silver print. Stamped on verso with Ernst Haas's Magnum Photos inkstamp. On a mount with corners (photo removable) with Elaine Steinbeck's manuscript identification in white ink: "Photographer Robert Capa and singer/actor Burl Ives visit John Huston in the hospital ... 1953." A superb.....
Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1963. Large 4to (13.25 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm). 12 double-page gauffraged (embossed without inking) prints. Loose as issued in original soft red morocco portfolio, upper cover with embossed design after Hajdu; original cloth folding case, lettered on spine. LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy from.....
London: MACK, 2019. 29 x 23 cm. 144 pages. Paperback with linen spine; cloth chemise with image mounted on front. Plain board slipcase. First edition, special "Book" edition, limited to 100 numbered and signed copies, each comprising 152 C-type contact prints tipped-in to a handmade linen hardcover book, all housed.....
Orlando, Florida: Flying Horse Editions / Hoopsnake Press, 1998. A complete copy, comprising: Sixteen 10.5 x 12 inch etchings by William T. Wiley and sixteen poems by Michael Hannon. Sheets unbound, and with tissue guards, laid loose as issued in two green cloth clamshell portfolios with recessed, tipped-in etching. ONE.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12.4 x 7.8 cm). vii, 140 pages. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering oxidized to invisibility); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). FIRST EDITION of the first of three.....
London: Karsten Schubert, 1991. 11.25 x 8.5 inches. 6 folding or double-page hand-colored etchings with aquatint by Howard Hodgkin (including endpapers), tissue guards. Original boards, hand-painted dust jacket, extending on to flaps, acetate guards, original tissue wrapper, with publisher original cardboard mailing box. Number 102 of 200 copies signed by.....
Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763. 12mo (16.5 x 9.8 cm). Woodcut frontispiece. [4], 208, [2], 536, [10], 24, 82 [i.e., 83], [1] pages. Contemporary calf (lacks clasps and straps). The second edition of a hymnal for the Reformed Dutch Church, including some music. Evans 9495; Hildeburn 1896.
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.....
Damiani, 2019. Oblong folio. 180 pages. Pictorial boards. In original publisher's box with matted signed photograph and signed certificate from the publisher. One of 20 copies with an original signed photograph. The hardback edition of Main Street, by Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times photographer Edward Keating (born 1956), sold.....
