Our selection of items included in the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, held virtually from September 9 to 12, 2021.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. 8vo. 216 pages. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket designed by Roxanne Cumming. First edition, first printing. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the division title for the first work: "Jean Doreski, regards from Elizabeth Bishop / Harvard, December 4th, 1970." This.....
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.....
A fine archive of three original drawings by the English “mouth artist” John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter’s Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 – 2 June 1850), an English mouth.....
![Estroflessione [Original Multiple in white plastic]. Accompanied by the book: Enrico Castellani...](/pictures/thumb/404192.jpg?v=1630510143)
Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Thermoformed plastic multiple: 11.75 x 11.75 inches; 30 x 30 cm. Some minor age darkening at the edges, generally in fine condition, without cracks or abrasions. The book: 44 pages. Text by Vincenzo Agnetti. In Italian, French, and German. Photographs by Giorgio A. Colombo, Franco Angeli.....
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.....
![The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-56 [and] Waging Peace, 1956-61. Dwight D. EISENHOWER](/pictures/thumb/408137.JPG?v=1630510923)
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.
New York: Croscup & Sterling Company, 1901. Folio (12.25 x 9.25 inches). Printed in red and black, text within decorative borders. Laid paper watermarked "Croscup and Sterling", variant states of plates on this laid paper or coated paper. Deluxe extra-illustrated edition, illustrated by Jean Paléologue and containing one original pencil.....
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.....
6 7/16 x 9 13/16 inches. Gelatin silver print. Stamped on verso with Ernst Haas's Magnum Photos inkstamp. On a mount with corners (photo removable) with Elaine Steinbeck's manuscript identification in white ink: "Photographer Robert Capa and singer/actor Burl Ives visit John Huston in the hospital ... 1953." A superb.....
Orlando, Florida: Flying Horse Editions / Hoopsnake Press, 1998. A complete copy, comprising: Sixteen 10.5 x 12 inch etchings by William T. Wiley and sixteen poems by Michael Hannon. Sheets unbound, and with tissue guards, laid loose as issued in two green cloth clamshell portfolios with recessed, tipped-in etching. ONE.....
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 /.....
![Cover title:] & Sex. 40 rajz - 40 drawings. Ágnes HÁY](/pictures/thumb/407224.JPG?v=1616695768)
[Budapest?]: [198?]. Oblong (9 x 19 cm). In Hungarian and English. [1], vii, 40 pages (the last on the inner rear wrapper). Printed wrappers. First edition of Háy's second artists book, which was published underground as samizdat. The introduction by the Hungarian psychologist Ferenc Mérei is translated by Hay's partner.....
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1958. Square 8vo. [12] pages. Printed in red and black, on rectos only. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gilt-lettered leather spine label. One of only 100 copies in this binding, from an edition of 300, signed by Baskin and Hecht.....
Berkeley, CA: Serendipity Books, 2000. Broadsheet title-page, 22.25 x 18 inches, 22 black-and-white silver gelatin prints, each tipped to mount and matted, signed and numbered in pencil by Gelberg on the verso of the photos and the matt, the photos 11 x 8.5 inches on 14 x 11 inch sheets.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Rome: Giovanni Bouchard, 1750. Broadsheets (537 x 370 mm). Letterpress title-page printed in red and black with the vignette by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, portrait of Piranesi by F. Polanzani, frontispiece (Robison 1) and 16 plates of the Prima Parte di Architetture, Second Edition, First Issue (R. 2, 3, 5, 15-18.....
Washington, D. C. Published by the Editor; Philadelphia: William S. Martien; New York: Baker & Scribner and William S. Martien, 1847. Folio. Half-title: "Farmers’ Souvenir. Washington’s Agricultural Correspondence." 198 pages, including facsimiles. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 4 plates and one map. SIGNED AMERICAN BINDING by D. W. Gihon, Philadelphia, dark brown.....
Liancourt: Bernard Dumerchez, 2007. Folio (25.25 x 14.5 inches; 640 x 368 mm). The complete portfolio with etching with aquatint printed in colors. Loose as issued in original portfolio; original cloth folding case, titled on top and spine. LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 63 copies SIGNED BY NOËL AND WOU-KI.....
