The Triumph of the Egg
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., [1921]. First edition. 8vo. 7 plates of Eugene Hutchinson's photographs of the clay impressions of Tennessee Mitchell. Original cloth; dust jacket; black cloth slipcase with morocco label.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., [1921]. First edition. 8vo. 7 plates of Eugene Hutchinson's photographs of the clay impressions of Tennessee Mitchell. Original cloth; dust jacket; black cloth slipcase with morocco label.
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 Rashid.....
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.....
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1907. 8vo. Complete with 8 color prints (including frontispiece) and black-and-white illustrations in text by Maginel Wright Enright. Original gray cloth, both covers with color-printed illustrations mounted. First edition, first state, with identical full-color designs on front and back covers.
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. 8vo. 32, [1] pages. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Original decorated paper over boards, gilt-lettered on spines. One of 326 copies, signed on the colophon by Samuel Beckett, this copy out-of-series and reserved for the printer Ronald Gordon of The Oliphant Press. The edition consisted.....
Buena Vista, CO: Times Book and Job Rooms, 1882. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 5 inches). [5], 6-37, [38-40] pp., including advertisements. Original printed wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase. Some soiling, a few discreet paper repairs. FIRST EDITION of this scarce pamphlet on Buena Vista, published three years after it was.....
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Mimeographed. [28] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a drawing by Bukowski, pale yellow plain endleaves. FIRST EDITION, one of "no more than 400 copies." One of Bukowski's earliest prose works. Krumhansl 23.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 8vo (8 x 5.5 inches). 165 pages. Original cloth-backed boards; unclipped dust jacket (priced $6.50) designed by Arnold Skolnick. First Edition in English, translated by William Weaver. Calvino's masterful deconstruction of the travel narrative and a prime example of his use of.....
Madrid: Joaquín Ibarra, 1780. 4 volumes, large 4to (301 x 223 mm). Four engraved frontispieces, folding map, portrait and 31 engraved plates after A. Carnicero, J. del Castillo, J. Brunete, B. Barranco, P. Arnal, G. Gil and G. Ferro. Contemporary Spanish calf, stained green calf panels on the sides, within.....
Paris: PAB, 1964. 8vo (9.75 x 7 inches; 248 x 178 mm). 98, [6] pages. Printed on Arches. ONE OF 50 COPIES WITH FOUR ORIGINAL SIGNED PRINTS BY GEORGES BRAQUE, ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, JOAN MIRÓ, and MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DA SILVA; and 12 illustrations in text by Valentine Hugo (portrait of.....
[New York]: First Day of Locust Song, 1955. Two variant copies: 12mo (6.25 x 4.75 inches; 159 x 121 mm). Identical settings of type and imposition, with varying wrappers, together in a cloth folding case: First volume: [16] pages, including printed wrapper, stapled. On wove paper. No collaged materials tipped-in.....
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: Centre Culturel de Paris, 1978. Folio (380x280 mm; 15x11 inches, sheets). 7 wood engravings, one collage hand painted with gouache on gold paper, and one etching with color. Publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped burgundy calf. Extra-suite of plates in folding portfolio. Slipcase. INSCRIBED WITH A FULL-PAGE DRAWING BY DALI TO.....
Paris: Michael Woolworth Publications, 2016. Folio (16 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches). 19 linocuts, including the original wrapper; printed slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 40 copies signed by Dine (there were also 8 artist's proofs and 7 printer's proofs). Designed by Dine and Michael Woolworth. The linocuts were hand-printed.....
Frankfurt, Ky: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1846. 8vo. 16 pages. Disbound. First edition of this scarce memorial by Dorothea L. Dix, one of ten cited by Sabin published during Dix's humanitarian efforts to improve the treatment of the insane. "Visiting the [East Cambridge] jail, she found insane persons in.....
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1963. Together two volumes, 8vo. 650; 741 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth; acetate wrappers; publisher's slipcases. First edition, deluxe limited editions, each boldly signed by Eisenhower. Numbers 326 and 375 of 1,434 copies. The President's in depth account of his first administration.
London: Faber & Faber, 1986. 4to. 144 pages. Color illustrations, diagrams in text. Black cloth lettered in silver; printed board slipcase. SCARCE DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, number 51 of 150 copies, signed by Eno and Mills on the half-title, and with Mills' original lithograph "Warm Jets" (1985).....
London: The London Chronicle, 10 April to 17 May 1760. Comprising: Vol. VIII, nos 514, 517, 520, 525, and 529. Each 8 pages, small folio (11 x 8 inches). Disbound. Includes the ad for the pamphlet, "This day published...," April 17, 1760; review and excerpts from the pamphlet, praising it.....
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770]. 12mo. 24 pages. Original self-wrappers, sewn. Contains the first appearance in print of Franklin's mock epitaph composed when he was 22 years old in 1728. Ames provides the humorless introduction: "Mr. Franklin's Epitaph on himself curious for conveying such solemn.....
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.....
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.....
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.
Vancouver, BC: Image Bank, 1977. 49 postcards, including title card, in publisher's printed box. 4 x 6 inches. Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov (aka Mr. Peanut) founded Image Bank in 1969 as a method for personal exchange of information between artists through the use of the postal system. " Image.....