Walker Evans
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by Walker Evans on the front free endpaper to the NYC gallerist Marjorie Neikrug: "For Marge Neikrug with pleasure Walker Evans."
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by Walker Evans on the front free endpaper to the NYC gallerist Marjorie Neikrug: "For Marge Neikrug with pleasure Walker Evans."
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.
London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). 217 pages. Oval bust portrait albumen photograph of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, mounted as frontispiece (mount foxed). Large folding map: "Map of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates forming the Sangre de Christo Grant Situate in San Luis.....
[Paris]: [Contact Editions], [1926]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the first book by the future art critic of the 'New Yorker', "an ignored minor masterpiece of anti-realist fiction, a novel that deserves the attention.....
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth. First edition of the author's third book and first prose work (a novel). The dedication copy, inscribed by this twelve-year-old author: "For Jean Starr Untermeyer, most sweet friend and gracious lady, to whom I have dedicated.....
Mississippi: Hoopsnake Press, 1992. Folio (15 x 11 inches). The text illustrated with woodcut prints. Portfolio with 11 prints, comprising one black and red print; 9 black-and-white woodcuts, tipped to mounts and each titled, numbered, signed in pencil by the artist; and one folding triptych mounted on inner rear cover.....
Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co., 1850. 8vo. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911 and with their deaccession label (sold Parke-Bernet, 4-5 May 1966, lot 419). First edition. Garrard left Westport in 1846 in a Santa Fe.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 7 pages, 4to, each a bifolium, and with its wax seal. The first letter has a seal hole affecting parts, but not the sense of three words, and a fold tear touching a few letters; on the fourth page Lawrence has written.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Three volumes, 8vo. Original brown cloth, blocked in black, spines gilt-lettered; in a brown half-morocco slipcase. First English edition, preceded by a New York piracy of the unfinished novel as it appeared in the 'Fortnightly Review' from September to December.....
London: Brendin Publishing Company, 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by George Plank. Decorated paper over boards. First edition, one of 120 copies. Abbott.
Bruxelles: Edmond Deman, 1888. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio. Portrait and decoration by Edouard Manet. Half brown morocco, patterned boards, top edges gilt, other untrimmed. First edition of Mallarmé's translation and with the Manet portrait of Poe. No. 750 of 800 copies on papier de Collande, of an edition.....
Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, [1931]. 2 volumes, folio. Numerous plates and illustrations throughout. Contemporary cloth, red leather spine labels, original wrappers bound-in. Some minor soiling to cloth, labels worn. LIMITED EDITION, number 224 of 425 copies on "papier velin" from a total edition of 500.
Paris: Léon Vanier, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Preface by Armand Silvestre. 12mo. Contemporary black and white decorated boards, red roan spine label, original tan printed wrappers bound in, untrimmed. First edition of this volume of invective verse. A marked up copy, presumably for the second edition of 1894.....
[London]: Collingwood Bros. [1907]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover, red thumb print (from the author's own) on front cover. First edition. 'The Red Thumb Mark' marks the introduction of Dr. Thorndyke, the first of the fictional "scientific detectives,".....
Philadelphia: Richard Folwell [III]; William Ross [IV], 1796-98. The third and fourth volumes of the collected laws of the United States. Together two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITIONS, comprising the "first collected laws of the United States and including the acts of Congress still in force passed by.....
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 10 pages. Stapled undersized wrappers printed in black, newsprint endpapers offset to facing pages. First edition, one of 75 copies. Letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Cover variants exist in two different sizes and two different colored cover stocks. Taylor & Horvath P-63.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979. Square 4to (8 x 8 inches; 203 x 203 mm). [48] pages. Full-page color offset prints. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, inscribed by Lewitt on the front free endpaper in pencil to "Ann." Uncommon in the cloth-bound issue, and especially so when signed.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Three volumes, 8vo. Original smooth light coffee-colored cloth, blocked in black and blind, spines gilt-lettered, untrimmed; in a brown half-morocco slipcase (spine dried). First edition, in a rare variant binding (the book is ubiquitous in royal blue cloth). See Sadleir.....
Paris: E. Dentu, 1864. 8vo. [i-xvi; I]-XX; [21-]439, [1 ]. Text in French. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, largely unopened (slight lean to spine, tear at edge of front cover, moderate creases, wear and soiling, moderate foxing to bulked edges and front and rear pages). First edition. a superior copy and quite.....
Paris: Three Mountains, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original printed red wrappers, untrimmed, tissue overlay; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition, one of 400 ordinary copies, of an edition of 440. Inscribed in the year of publication by the American composer (and subject of Pound's book).....
New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1947. Folio (12 x 9.5 inches). 16 pages text. 51 plates (the last a portrait of the artist by Cole Weston). Cloth-backed, heavy beveled boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 1,500 copies (this is number 253), initialed in ink on a separate.....
Washington, D. C. Gales & Seaton, printers, 1834. 68 pages. Engraved folding map: "Map of the Route passed over by an Expedition into the Indian Country in 1832 to the Source of the Mississippi." Later brown half morocco. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911.....
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.....
Written on the printed leaflet titled "Meet Judy Blume," 8 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, black-and-white photo of Judy Blume on cover, listing Blume's books on the back, issued by Bradbury Press and E. P. Dutton & Co., the inner pages printing Blume's reminiscences on writing that she included as.....
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First edition, second printing. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.