Design in Sweden
Kungsträdgården: The Swedish Institute, 1985. 9.5 x 8.25 inches. 142 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Kungsträdgården: The Swedish Institute, 1985. 9.5 x 8.25 inches. 142 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition.
New York: Penguin, 1994. ix, [3], 78, [5] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed to the poet John Allman on the half-title: "For John Allman - in admiration of the arc of his work. From an earliest snowplow poem to the latest fiction – Philip. Castine.....
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. 8vo. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First UK edition of the first collection of Borges's work translated into English. After Anthony Kerrigan's introduction are the sections 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (1941) and 'Artifices' (1944).
Boston; New York; London: Bulfinch Press, 1994. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. 361 pages. Original wrappers. "This monograph presents a complete overview of the work of Hungarian photograher Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), one of the masters of modern photography. Author Pierre Borhan covers three essential periods of Kertesz's work: Hungary (1912-1925), France.....
Paris: L'Esprit Frappeur / Purple Books, 1999. 6 x 4.25 inches. 64 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, with an original color Polaroid laid-in (4.25 x 3.5 inches), signed by Borthwick on the back. Borthwick spent the early 1990s in Paris, where he owned a nightclub and photographed for.....
Piacenza: Galleria Braga, 1993. 11.75 x 9 inches. 280 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original boards; dust jacket. First edition, with three poloroids of two of Foppiani's encaustics laid in.
New York: Hastings House, 1977. 13.5 x 10 inches. 45 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; carboard slipcase. First edition.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1819. 8vo. Bostock’s paper appears on page 161-65. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Bostock’s classical description of the 'catarrhus aestivus' hay fever, is also referred to as 'Bostock’s catarrh'. It begins the modern era in the clinical recognition of hay fever. The.....
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society [by The Riverside Press, Edinburgh), 1924. 3 volumes, octavo. Printed in red and black. Frontispieces and plates. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated blue cloth, original purple silk page-markers preserved (slightest wear at extremities, generally clean and bright). Provenance: Walter Chrysler (morocco booklabel). A FINE.....
1. Edwards, Sydenham. [Cover title:] A Catalogue of Books Quoted in the First Volume of the Botanical Register, and Index. London: James Ridgway, n. d. [Letterpress title:] The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with the History and Mode of Treatment. London: James.....
London: Grevel, 1890. First of this expanded version. 4to. 383 pages, including 172 illustrations. Brown blind-tooled leather, morocco spine labels.
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Service Commercial, 2010. 13 x 9 inches. 365 pages. Profusely illustrated. Glazed pictorial boards. In French.
Leyden: Andries Dyckhuysen, 1707. 8vo (153 x 97 mm). Engraved allegorical title and four engraved plates. (Some soiling and wear at sheet edges.) Contemporary vellum (worn). The Edward Tufte copy, with his book label. First Dutch edition, after the original French edition of 1658. Bourgeois was a French Royal midwife.....
Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1995. 96 pages. Wrappers. In Spanish. First edition.
New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 223 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition. "The fear of being born into the world an unwanted girl; the fear of becoming a pawn in the lives of her parents; the fear of failing as a......
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. 8vo. 431 pages. Original beige cloth, title in red on spine, publisher's name in pink; printed dust jacket. First American edition. Her fame unfairly outstripped by her husband Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles' story "Two Serious Ladies" is one of the masterpieces of American.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. 12mo. 122 pp., [4] advertisements at end. Original plum gilt-lettered cloth. Spine sunned, pale stain on front cover, pale dampstain in second half of volume. FIRST EDITION. A scarce and early guidebook published on the occasion of the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad, which.....
Philadelphia: William Dunlap, 1759. 8vo. viii + 242; iv + 220 pages. 20th-century brown half morocco. Provenance: John Martin (early inscripttion on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "Richardson visited America in 1701, and traveled through Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. He spent some time with.....
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.....
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. 8vo. Original cloth, with Bradbury's portrait by V. Tony Hauser on front cover; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Bradbury. This is the third of the Targ Editions, designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press and printed at The.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated. Original cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition of this work comprised of biographical portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Edison, Henry Ford, Lenin, Mussolini, and Calvin Coolidge. One of 200 copies in this binding and signed by Bradford.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original thin printed boards, edges untrimmed. First edition of Bradley's first book, number 3 of 100 numbered copies. A penciled note says this copy was in the library of the dedicatee George Edward Woodberry, American critic and poet.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated by J. N. Marchand. Original green mottled cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed to James Carleton Young on the dedication leaf: "Dear Jim I mean every word of this dedication, and a lot more –.....
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1936. First edition, first printing. 4to (9.25 x 7.25 inches). 8 pages text, 63 photographs. Original pictorial boards, decorated endpapers, UK issue with "Batsford" at bottom of spine. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. Brandt's classic study of English class differences. "It was a pictorial essay on the.....
Paris: Maeght, 1959-62. 4 volumes (of 7, without Peintures 1924-1927, Peintures 1916-1923, and Le cubisme, fin 1907-1914), 4to. Photographic frontispiece of Braque in each volume, numerous black and white and color illustrations throughout. Original decorated buckram ring binders. Some slight darkening to spines, joints starting on a few volumes. Volumes.....