Paris: Hachette, 1901. First edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1//2 inches). 436 pp. 19 plates, some printed in color, black-and-white illustrations in text. Fine French binding by P. Affolter, three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, smooth spine richly gilt with floral and other tools, top edges gilt. Slight touches to extremities, generally fresh and bright.
New York: The Fuck You Press, 1965. Square 8vo. [12] pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy with only minimal handling wear. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies of the "Trade edition" (there was also the "Rough Trade Edition" of 5 copies; an edition of 3 unnumbered copies; and the...
New York: F. W. Beers & Co., 1879. Folio (14 x 11 1/2 in.). 289 pages. 45 full-page plates, including frontispiece and map; illustrations in text. Text in double-column. Original leather-backed gilt-lettered cloth. Includes town and village histories of Columbia, Danube, Fairfield, Frankfort, German Flats, Herkimer, Ilion, Litchfield, Little Falls...
Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1993. 8vo. 190pp. Original textured grey cloth; dust jacket; slipcase. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, one of 300 copies signed by Block and Jonathan Kellerman, who wrote the introduction.
Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie, 1828. Second edition. Two volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. 412, 440 pp. Period-style calf, gilt-panelled on covers, smooth spines gilt-lettered and -decorated. Provenance: A. Tureaud (early signatures on titles). Second edition of arguably the most famous work on gastronomy ever published, by Brillat Savarin, magistrate, politician and...
[Los Angeles]: 1977. Two pages, 4to (280 x 215 mm; 11 x 81/2 in.), on cream typing paper, stapled. 51 lines, with 11 corrections to punctuation. Bukowski constructs a poem out of the pit of insomnia, and life-pressures, “dead cat on the boulevards. / de Sade grinning in the dark...
Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1988. Bifolium. Illustrated by Joe Hicks. Original marbled wrappers by Faith Harrison. A fine copy. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 1 of 15 copies designated presentation copies signed by Carver, from an edition of 70. This poem first appeared in the journal Caliban.
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...
New York: Committee to Defend the New York Black Panther, [1970?]. Broadside, 14 x 8 1/2 inches. Text in double-column. Two short tears at edges, a few soft creases, some light soiling. SCARCE BROADSIDE. Cleaver's manifesto against the execution of Bobby Seale during the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials...
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Alderley, Australia: Dove Press, 1990. Two volumes, folio. Lavishly illustrated with color photography. Cloth; dust jackets; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, signed by Coates on the titles of both volumes. The first definitive account of the bird life of the country.
Salisbury, Wilts, The UK: Kerosina, 1986. First. of an edition of 276, this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Cowper. 143 pp. Included with the book is the pamphlet The Magic Spectacles and Other Tales [also lettered]. [37] pp. fine as issued.
[Washington, D.C.]: 1831. Doc. No. 76. 21st Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. 8vo. 9pp. Table at end showing the number of Professors, Teachers, Assistant Professors and Assistant Teachers at the United States Military Academy and the pay for each group. Disbound. The Secretary of War provides a report on...
![Considerazioni Intorno alla Poesia Degli Ebrei e de i Greci. [Bound with:] Ragionamento in defesa...](/pictures/thumb/402992.jpg?v=1539106810)
Rome: Francesco Gonzaga, 1707. Two parts in one volume, 4to (236 x 171 mm). Roman and Hebrew types. Half-title. xvi, 61, [1]; 131 pp. Two woodcut initials, woodcut device on title. 18th-century Italian vellum over pasteboard. Some pale spotting, first few leaves with marginal dampstain and a few small marginal...
New York: Gagosian, 2016. 11 x 8 inches. 12-pane accordion form with 12 page booklet, in pictorial board covers. The exhibition was held 19 January 19 to 20 February 2016: "In the large-scale, ten-part drawing with its centrifugal radiant motif, Grotjahn synthesizes the comic-book hero into pure, vibrating lines of...
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. First edition. 8vo. Gull's paper is on pp. 22-28, illustrated by three plates, each showing two women. Entire volume: [cxvii], 189 pp. Original cloth. Gull had first referred to the disease that he observed mostly in women, and characterized by extreme emaciation, in a....
Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010. In German. Oblong 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "[This] album was made in the 1780s by the Zimmerpolier Balthasar Kornelius Koch and shows, through its additive presentation, important aspects of the bourgeois life of that time in Augsburg - an invaluable cultural-historical source" (the publisher, translated).
Reading, Connecticut: By the author, 1922. 4to (305 x 242 mm; 12 x 9½ inches). 259, [4] pages. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. A fine copy with one small pale stain on the spine. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with pages 37-39 printed. “114 Songs [was] privately printed and distributed without copyright...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Large 4to (305 x 242 mm; 12 x 9½ in.). 382 pages. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by Henri Matisse, tipped in. Original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton; printed slipcase. A fine copy, the...
London: Harvey Miller, 1975. First edition. Folio. 350 black-and-white and color illustrations, including 4 color plates tipped-in as issued. Original cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, and a very fine copy, virtually as issued. This is the third volume of 'A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles,' edited...
Paris: Pierre Horay, 1973. Oblong 8vo. Text in French. 75pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. Original beige cloth; dust jacket; with original woven tassel. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971. 8vo. 12 leaves. Photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Small bump at foot of spine. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies in wrappers (there were also 200 casebound and 50 signed/numbered copies). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Levine to fellow poet Michael Waters: "For Michael Waters with...
Vicenza: Giacomo Amadio, 1668. 2 parts in one volume, thick 8vo (215 x 158 mm; 81/2 x 61/4 in.). [16], 466, [6] pages; [12], 376 pages. Two etched and engraved titles and 15 folding plates by Jacopo Ruffoni. Contemporary vellum. An entirely original copy, unrestored, the binding worn and with...
New Haven: [NY: The Thistle Press for] Holland Roberts Melson Jr, 1958. 8vo (217 x 135 mm; 8½ x 5¼ in.). 94, [1] pages. Original pictorial boards with a portrait of Lustig on the front cover by Maya Deren; original glassine. A fresh and bright copy, the corners and spine...
Autograph letter signed ("Henry Miller") to Mr. Musgrave, Big Sur, 31 July 1955. One page, 4to, in two color inks, inks somewhat toned, tipped to mount. Framed with a black-and-white photograph of Miller, inscribed. Miller sends Musgrave two watercolors – "Village by the Sea," "Greek Boy -- and the silkscreen...
8vo, on letterhead, watermarked “Kent” paper. Morris sends a check (not present) for one-guinea in payment for some facsimiles: “I can scarce believe in the figure, ‘tis so cheap.” In fine condition. Not in Kelvin (though a number of other letters to Colvin are published there). Sidney Colvin (1845-1927) was.....