Our selection of items included in the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, held virtually from September 9 to 12, 2021.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. 4to (11.75 x 8.75 inches). Preface by Ron Loewinsohn. 124 pages. ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPH BY WAYNE THIEBAUD, signed. Black-and-white portrait of Brautigan by Edmund Shea [here published for the first time]. Original two-toned decorated cloth. Deluxe issue, letter "V" of 26 copies reserved for complementary.....
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.....
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.....
Paris: Jean-Baptiste Baillière et fils, 1864. Folio (14.25 x 11 inches; 362 x 279 mm). 26, [2] pages. 27 color plates. Original green gilt-lettered cloth. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Chevreul at the end of the preface and with an autograph note tipped-in by Arthur Liébaut, engineer of Arts and Manufactures.....
London: S. Curtis for Rest Fenner (preliminaries in gathering [A]), [text printed in Bristol by John Evans & Co.], 1817. 8vo (222 x141 mm). Half-title and leaf of errata. Original boards, printed paper spine label, untrimmed; blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: William G. Freeman (bookplate); A. Edward Newton (bookplate); George.....
Venice: Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. Folio (29.1 x 19.4 cm). Roman type, occasional Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts (9 full-page), printer's device on title, repeated on verso of final leaf. 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. Later vellum preserving earlier morocco spine label. Provenance: some occasional.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 8vo. xix, 58 pages. Original quarter blue cloth, decorated paper boards; printed blue dust jacket. First edition of Crane's first book, first issue with Allen Tate’s name misspelled (“Allan”) on the title-page. One of only 500 copies printed of the total edition (inclusive of.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1886]. 8vo. 456 pages. Portrait frontispiece of the author; one-page publisher's advertisement at end, with this work listed first and priced $1.50. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in maroon and gilt. First American edition, an unusually fine copy of a scarce book commonly found in worn.....
![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.....
Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1543. Folio (377 x 242 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, large Isengrin device on final recto, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists at end, woodcut.....
New York: Printed and sold by Christian Brown, [1831]. 8vo. [16] pages (pagination erratic). Woodcut illustrations. Disbound. A lurid and graphically arresting series of woodcuts illustrate this version of the Gibbs and Wansley execution: the hanging, the scene of the murder, and an open coffin with corpse.The text recounts the.....
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 /.....
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[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.....
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 105 of 200 copies signed by.....
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.....
Southern Europe: 18th century. 83 x 57 mm. ILLUMINATED MINIATURE MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. 70 leaves (with an additional 18 blank leaves at end), manuscript in black and gold, ruled in red. 19th-century morocco gilt (some light wear to joints and edges). Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck, Cincinatti Museum Center (their sale.....
