Stars of the Photoplay
Chicago: Photoplay Magazine, 1916. First edition. Recent quarter cloth, original wrappers preserved. Text somewhat browned, due to paper quality. More
Chicago: Photoplay Magazine, 1916. First edition. Recent quarter cloth, original wrappers preserved. Text somewhat browned, due to paper quality. More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2013. First edition. Printed boards, 75 x 75 cm. 48 pages. This miniature book was made from off-cuts of the twelve different hand- and mouldmade papers used in the publisher's Paper Should Not Always be White. The title page, foreword, and colophon were set by hand in..... More
Italy: mid 14th century. 2 columns, gothic minuscule, ornamental opening initial S[eptuaginta] against square blue ground. Recto: End of Book of Kings, opening of Jerome's prologue to Paralipomena. Verso: continuation of prologue. 29 mm. x 22 mm. More
Bridgehampton, N.Y. Dia Art Foundation, (1989). Clemente, Francesco. First edition. Boards, fine. One of 1000 copies. More
Dublin: Printed by Bentham and Gardner, 1824. First edition. 12mo, 180 pp. contemporary sheep (joints worn). 13 x 8.5 cm. Pp. [5]-179 [180]. This copy differs slightly from Forbes's description: Page [180] not numbered; there is a canoe woodcut on p. 97; the reference to the publication of the Tahitian..... More
New York: Harper, 1854. First edition. 8vo, 493 pp. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, slight fading, extremities lightly rubbed. Vineyard Haven Public Library bookplate. Forbes 1996. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1971). Hyde, Philip. First edition. Folio, cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. More
Paris: Editions du Sceau, 1946. Aboulker, Célestine. Quarto, original wrappers, slight wear to ends of spine, margins slightly browned; a very good copy. One of an edition of 130 copies, illustrated with 15 color lithographs by Celestine Aboulker. A member of a prominent Jewish family in Algiers, Aboulker's paintings, often..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1988. First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday, (1991). First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket (small nick at top). More
Braunschweig: February 24, 1875, A five-line letter to an unidentified correspondent, with a note on the verso in a second hand providing the dates of Abt's stay in Braunschweig. Light offsetting from a self-adhesive album page, otherwsie very good. German composer Abt (1819-1885) enjoyed considerable success in his day as..... More
Berlin: Propylaen, (1971). Ackermann, Peter (1934-2007). 13-11/16 in. x 9-5/8 in.; 348 mm x 244 mm. Ochre boards, spine label. Fine condition, in lightly worn board slipcase. Series B, number 304 of 500, with signed frontispiece; twenty-five etchings in all, from total edition of 1000. Ackermann's etchings point in subject..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Original boards with printed title information on the front board, roan back. Title-page, 34 text pages and five colored engravings. Excellent, clean copy, with mild offset from the plates to facing pages. See Tooley 3. More
London: Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Two volumes, quarto. (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. ; 337 x 265 mm.) 82 plates of which 64 are colored aquatints of city views and 17 colored line and stipple engravings of University costume. Half-titles present in both volumes. Vol. 1, plate 1 in..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto (14 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches). Title page, 27 text pages, plus four colored aquatints, three of them after drawings by Auguste-Charles Pugin. Contemporary drab boards, uncut. The text is watermarked 1816 and one plate has an 1812 watermark. Second issue, first state..... More
London: Ackermann, 1808-1810. First edition. Quarto, 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 334 x 270 mm. Each volume with a wood-engraved title and engraved dedication. (vol.1) iv, 231; (vol. 2) vvi, 239; (vol. 3) vi, 280, (3 leaves index); text, plus 104 colored aquatints after drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 x 11 inches. Title page (verso blank) 32 text pages, plus five colored engravings (1816 watermark), with the directions to the binder slip. Contemporary boards, hand lettered on the front, uncut, rebacked. Usual offset from the plates to facing pages, occasional spotting..... More
New York: Viking, (1973). First American edition. Quarto, cloth. Fine in dust jacket. More
Munich/Paris: Maeght, (1974). Adami, Valerio. First edition. Folio, 50 cm. x 42 cm. (29-1/2 x 17 in.) Printed cloth, as new in dust jacket and original gilt card slipcase (slipcase with one tear). One of 450 copies, signed by the author and artist (total edition 635 copies). Ten serigraphs by..... More
Paris: Maeght, (1970). Adami,Valerio. First edition. Folio, wrappers, fine condition, in publisher's chemise and slipcase (slightly faded). Deluxe issue. One of 150 copies on vélin d'Arches, numbered and signed. With nine original color lithographs. "DLM édité en novembre 1970 pour la 1ère exposition ADAMI à la Galerie Maeght. Texte de..... More
Paris: Maeght, (1976). Adami,Valerio. First edition. Folio, wrappers, fine condition, in publisher's chemise and slipcase (slightly faded). . One of 150 copies on vélin d'Arches, numbered and signed . 3 original lithographs. "DLM publié pour l'exposition ADAMI à la Galerie Maeght en octobre 1976. Extraits du journal de Valerio Adami..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977. Folio, original cloth covered boards with calf spine. One of 950 copies, signed by Adams, printed by Lawton Kennedy, the photographs printed in duotone by George Waters at Pacific Litho. This edition, an excellent facsimile of the rare 1930 first edition, contains a new..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, (2001). First edition. Folio, cloth in slipcase, fine, with facsimile plate in pocket. More
New York: Holt, 1953. First edition. Blue cloth, near-fine in lightly worn jacket. Ownership signature of Al Smith, UNC Durham. More
New York: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. Original blue cloth, endpapers cracking, otherwise a very nice, bright copy, in the uncommon dust jacket, chipped at the top of the spine, without loss of lettering. BAL 40. More