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.....
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: 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.....
Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press, 1965. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Mimeographed. [26] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a painting by Anna Purcell. FIRST EDITION, one of "no more than 500 copies." This is Bukowski's first work of prose, and the introduction to his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Krumhansi.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition. Three volumes, 8vo. 19th-century plum morocco, spines gilt-ruled, morocco lettering-pieces, an urn tool in blind, marbled boards. Sadleir 414; Wolff 940.
Paris: Galerie Louis Carre, 1946. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image.....
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.
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.
London: Rees & O'Neill, 2004. Small 4to. 22, [1]pp. Original cloth; fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 36 of 75 copies signed by the author from an edition of 87. Coetzee was the fifth African writer to win the Nobel in Literature.
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.....
Albuquerque, NM: Hoshour Gallery, 1988. Folio (280 x 242 mm; 11 x 9 1/2 in.). Text and plates loose as issued in chemise and slipcase. One of 1500 copies, printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press.
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.....
Yale University Press, 2010. Folio. 246 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HICKS to the dealer, collector, designer William Lipton on the half-title. With postcard announcements and advertisements for the exhibition laid-in. The show was held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Oblong (10.75 x 11.5 inches). 296 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth. Deluxe revised edition, one of 150 copies signed by Francis, this copy marked "sample." With essays on Francis' prints by Susan Einstein and Jan Butterfield.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. Single leaf, removed from the book. 6½ x 5 inches. A FINE NOTE MENTIONING MAYAKOVSKY AND FRANK O'HARA, WITH A DRAWING, presented to the British actor, author and filmmaker Herbert Marshall (1906-1991). Beneath the title Ginsberg draws the figure of Buddha's footprint: "Three fish with.....
London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. 8vo (21.8 x 15.7 cm). Publisher’s original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the upper board and spine, gilt to all page edges. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen prints. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest works of poetry to be illustrated.....
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: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original red embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books on Kansas, considered the best book on the.....
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.....
Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. Text in German. Thick 4to (11.75 x 10.25 inches). 504 pages, errata slip laid-in Plates, some in color and some folding. Original blue cloth gilt; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's board slipcase; publisher's protective outer slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 975 of 1,500 copies. The.....
Hammersmith, London and Chicago: Kelmscott Press, "sold by Way and Williams, Chicago" 24 October 1895. 16mo (14.3 x 10.4 cm). Golden type. Title and first leaf within woodcut borders (15a and 15), four- and six-line initials. Epigraph, title on b1r, shoulder notes, footnote on e1v, and first paragraph of colophon.....
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.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1872. 8vo. 170 pp. Original green cloth. Library stamps and pencilings, gift inscription on pastedown, wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION. A privately circulated journal. Its preface reminded "those to whom it is sent... not to part with [their copies] as, for obvious reasons, he would not.....
Portland, Maine: Samuel Coleman, 1830. 8vo (198 x 115 mm). [4], 288 pages. Half-title. Original cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut and largely unopened. Provenance: James Greenleaf, Longfellow's brother-in-law, see below (contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper) – P. K. Foley (1903 purchase identification on slip tipped to rear.....
New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1962. 8vo. vi, 88, [1] pages. Original blue gilt-lettered cloth; publisher's glassine. FIRST EDITION, one of 26 lettered presentation copies from an edition of 326 signed by Moore, this designated copy "F." With a one-line manuscript correction to the final line of text and.....