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London: Edward Moxon, 1854. 8vo (202 x 134 mm). Frontispiece and 120 illustrations by George Scharf. Very fine binding and triple fore-edge painting by Fazakerley of Liverpool: full brown crushed levant morocco, the front cover with central oval cream calf panel inset, leather relief carving of Hyperion (reproducing the illustration.....
2 pages, 4to, on recto and verso, in fine condition, creased at folds, with original holograph envelope addressed by Fields. A LENGTHY LETTER FROM A BITTER W. C. FIELDS, a lengthy outpouring to his estranged mistress: "I can't write you sensible letters because you don't even take time to read.....
London: E.T. For a Society of Stationers, 1655. 12mo (169 x 115 mm). Ruled in red throughout. Woodcut title. Contemporary black goatskin, elaborately tooled in gilt, small central oval onlays of calf at center of a large rectangular onlaid panel, spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, red morocco.....
Glasgow: Richard Griffin, 1824. 2 volumes. 12mo. 14 engraved plates. Bound in full black straight-grained morocco, covers bordered with gilt scrolling flowers, spines in five panels with four short raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a richly gilt panel in the remaining, gilt rolls on board edges and turn-ins, all edges.....
[Basel: Lienhart Ysenhut, circa 1490]. 4to (210 x 155 mm). 29 of 30 leaves (lacks first blank or title, see note). 32 lines. Gothic types. 2 full-page woodcuts and 51 woodcuts in text (each circa 75-62 mm). Rubricated in red. Blue morocco gilt. Lower blank margin of a2 and d6.....
Colonial: circa 1760. Length 10 inches. The surface is tinted yellow except for the spout, which is of dark-colored horn carved with one ring. In the base is a wood plug that has a U-shaped iron stud for the shoulder strap at center. Provenance: Kenneth Nebenzahl. A FINE COLONIAL POWDER.....
Augsburg: Johann Schultes and Mathias Rembold, 1641. Folio (300 x 203 mm). Letterpress title printed in red and black (torn and repaired), 15 double-page or folding engraved plates or plans by Matthäus Rembold (1629–1657), on guards. Contemporary vellum. Some plates trimmed closely. Provenance: purchased from Ars Libri, 1990. FIRST EDITION.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. 8vo. xii, 276 pages. Publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; dust jacket. Provenance: Claude A. Houck (bookplate; his? penciled date on front free endpaper). First edition, second printing with "F-Y" code on title verso (the first printing was April, 1949, this printing was June);.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. 8vo. 239 pages. Publisher's blind-stamped terra-cotta cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, dark brown endpapers; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: F. P. Mason (1898 inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, A RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HARTE on the front free endpaper: "Bret Harte / Cleveland, Ohio /.....
Paris: Regnault and Claude Chaudiére, 1549. 4to (230 x 158 mm). Collation: a-y8. 176 leaves. Roman types, printed in red and black. Ruled in red. Renaissance woodcut title-border of termini and festoons, printers' device (Colines' Time with his scythe); 14 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS, combining illustration and architectural frame on a single.....
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.....
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.....
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, [1897]. A single proof sheet printed on watermarked onion skin paper with five repeating labels: "The / Sundering / Flood / By / William / Morris." Together with a single sheet cover page for "The Sundering Flood," printed in black type on original gray laid paper.....
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 4to (11.5 x 8.25 inches; 292 x 210 mm). Printed in black and red Troy type text. Elaborately illustrated by Walter Crane. Original limp vellum with ochre color ties (all intact); cloth clamshell case. An unusually fine copy of the second, wholly-revised edition from the.....
North Andover, Mass. Kat Ran Press, 1997. 4to (11 x 8 inches). [24] leaves including initial and terminal blanks. Seven original "smoke" drawings by Gohde. Red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover; matching red cloth clamshell case. Number 35 of 50 copies (an additional 15 were not for sale). Printed on.....
New York and Paris: Juliette Halioua Ltd. and Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1973. Leporello-style accordion-form color lithograph printed by Ateliers Arte, Paris, 73 x 12 inches; 1854 x 305 mm. Folding into original cloth portfolio with color lithograph mounted on cover. A FINE ARTISTS BOOK. The Swiss artist Warja Lavater is.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. 8vo. 299 pages. Publisher's ochre cloth, blind-stamped on front cover, spine lettered in black. First edition, first printing of Lefèvre's scarce and seminal roman à clef, inspired by the life of Jesse Livermore, considered the pioneer of day trading. Using technical analysis as.....
[Cleveland]: [1964]. Typescript, two pages, 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). With mailing folds. Two inked corrections. Published in 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle' and anthologized in 'The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry,' ed. Alan Kaufman, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. This typescript shows two corrections made in levy's.....
Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1503. Small folio (254 x 184 mm). Collation: A8 a-f6 g4 h-z 8 8 A-Z Aa-Gg6. 336 leaves. 41 lines, double columns. Gothic types. Title in nine lines (the first a xylographic block) over a cut of Salvator Mundi flanked by two blocks of architecture.....
Bologna: Clemens Ferronius, April 1628. 4to (199 x 141 mm). Roman and italic type. Engraved title within typographical border, dedicatory plate of the Madonna and Child, and 81 engraved emblematic illustrations in text, all surrounded by typographic borders. Contemporary limp vellum. Internal hole in G4 affecting text. Provenance: Lomace Le.....
4to (11 x 8.5 inches). One page. Fair copy transcribed, signed and dated May 3, 1942 by Moore. Moore titles the poem at head, and writes its complete 27-lines in her characteristic neat, sinuous hand. She notes that it was made at the request of Thomas Brumbaugh of Greencastle, PA.....
Leipzig: Georg Voss, 1804. Oblong folio (18 x 10.75 inches; 455 x 273 mm). Engraved title in the form of a sampler, 52 pages, 50 engraved plates, consisting of 25 plates in two states, colored and uncolored. 19th-century stiff marbled paper wrappers; modern cloth-backed fitted case. SCARCE: Only the Metropolitan.....
New York: Hudson Hills Press / Whitney Museum, 1983. 13 x 12 inches. 244 pages. With an original screenprint signed and numbered in pencil by Nevelson laid-in to box. The book profusely illustrated. Original cloth; acetate jacket (some light wrinkling as usual). Housed in a box with black polyester resin.....
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. Folio (13 x 10 inches). Wood engraved portrait of Owen by Baskin after a drawing by Ben Shahn (with an extra proof copy, see below), and illustrations by Shahn in text. Half brown morocco, gilt-lettered on spine; board slipcase. One of 35 copies with.....
