Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Evans, Walker. First edition. One of 50 copies on Japanese Vellum, signed by Crane. Quarto, original white printed wrappers, with original glassine cover and gilt paper covered slipcase (sliocase slightly rubbed, 1-inch piece missing from bottom edge). A beautiful copy of one of the..... More
Highlights include: Seymour Benzer's revolutionary genetic mapping paper, “Fine Structure of a Genetic Region in Bacteriophage” (1955)'; Albert Claude, “Fractionation of Mammalian Liver Cells by Differential Centrifugation,” (1949);' Max Delbrück's seminal talk, “A Physicist Looks at Biology,” (1949); Alexander L. Dounce, “Duplicating Mechanism for Peptide Chain and Nucleic Acid Synthesis,”..... More
1. Plaster portrait plaque of Joaquin Miller. 13 in. x 6-3/4 in. 2. “Great Naturalists I have Modeled”. 8-page original typescript, with pencil edits. 3. The Memorial Exhibition of Portrait Busts, Plaques, Figurines, Drawings and Watercolors by Gertrude Boyle Kanno. The San Francisco Museum of Art 1937. Cover title, 8 pp. Program..... More
London: 1924. Grigoriev, Boris. Special edition by order of Morris Gest. Folio, 37 x 28 cm. Publisher's gilt boards, vellum spine and corners. 100, [3] pages, 2 leaves. With 29 brilliant color and black and white illustrations, tipped to mats and separated with tissue guards, one final full page plate..... More
London: John Murray, 1830. Cruikshank, George. First edition. Full red morocco by The Hampstead Bindery, spine gilt with five raised bands; all edges gilt. 15 cm. x 9.5 cm. 402 pp. Engraved frontispiece; 12 inserted hand-colored plates by George Cruikshank. Joints slightly rubbed, plates lightly foxed else about fine. More
Washington, DC: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1934. First edition. Original black cloth, blocked in green; xvi, 437 pp., one ad leaf. 3 inch crack in rear endpaper, light musty odor, but a very good copy. Illustrations in black, red, blue, and green. There is an inscription on the..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Fact, [196-?]. Second edition. 38 pp., 21 cm. Photo-mechanically reproduced sheets. Cover-title, stapled into printed plastic wrapper, crease in back cover, else fine. The first edition was published by Mac McNair, New York in 1964, the title was mis-spelled ("Rythms"); there was a second printing of this edition..... More
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1946. First edition. Gray cloth, in lightly worn dust jacket. Scarce. "John L. Wallen [was] an educator and a pioneer in the fields of emotional intelligence and interpersonal communication. As Chinmaya & Vargo state in their 1979 paper on Wallen 'Many people who conduct interpersonal relations laboratories..... More
London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First edition of the first book on television. Original red cloth, gilt on the front cover. This now uncommon book is more frequently found in printed wrappers, priced 2/- for popular distribution, bound copies cost 2/6, and probably only a very few were made. The..... More
Vista, Calif. The author, [1967]. First edition. Publisher's wrappers, 160 pp., 18 cm., illustrated. Near fine. Jones's memoir of his travels around the U.S. for more than 30 years, preaching non-discrimination, promoting civil rights and peace. He was frequently arrested and imprisoned, at one time held two months for eating..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition. Original brown wrappers, a fine copy, free from the frequently found spotting or foxing, one of 1000 printed. Bookplate of Eleanor and Fred Reid by Jack B. Yeats. These poems were not Pound's actual translations, but superbly allusive versions of the Chinese poems and..... More
New York: Institute for Public Service, (1919). First edition. Blue cloth, blocked in black, back cover slightly marked; very good copy of a scarce book. 96 pp., illustrated. Lessons of the war, for children. Largely written, and illustrated with stick-figure drawings, by the painter and future wife of photographer Paul..... More
New York: Pellagrini and Cudahy, (1953). First edition. Boards, slight shelf wear on bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy, slight spotting on the inside of the fine, unworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Weegee "to George Sakal who sold me my first 35 m.m. camera, and showed me how to use..... More
Los Angeles: Marco Fine Arts, (1997). Indiana, Robert. First edition. Folio (17 in x 22 in.), 100 pp. Original black leather, as new, publisher's box. Copy TP 22/30 from a total edition of 395 copies, signed by the artist. Contains 30 original serigraphs by Robert Indiana, six of the images..... More
Berlin / Vienna / Stockholm: Fischer, 1933-1934-1936-1944. First editions. Four volumes, original cloth, very good copies in lightly worn dust jackets. "Die Geschichten Jaakobs" is inscribed by Mann "Herrn Gottschalk, mit den besten Wuenschen, New York, 23.v.37". "Die junge Joseph," and "Joseph in Ägypten" are signed. More
Paris: Imprimerie François Bernouard, (1920). Hugo, Jean. First edition. 19 cm. x 27.5 cm. Unpaginated. Copy 44 of 85 on Arches (second paper after just 4 on chine, from a total edition of 101). The rare first edition of Radiguet's first book, published when he was but 17 years-old, and..... More
Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1937. Tanguy, Yves. First edition. Original wrappers, fine. Copy 4 of 25 on green Le Roy Louis teinte Normandie paper (tirage de tête) from a total edition of 130 copies. Illustrated with three line-cut drawings by Yves Tanguy. Inscribed by the author to Paul and Nusch Eluard..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Original cloth, spotted, worn at extremities. With the bookplate of W. Alfred Cave, Rector of St. Mary's Episcopal in Nebraska City, Iowa, who (according to an article in the Circleville, Iowa Herald, for March 7..... More
West Islip, N.Y. Universal Limited Art Editions, 1977. Rivers, Larry. First edition. Portfolio of 52 lithographs, plus a blank "cover" page, title page, dedication page, table of content, and colophon, housed as issued in a green lacquered wood box, with hand-blown glass inset over the title and the names of..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1983. First edition. A new translation of Grosz's autobiography, with an epilogue. Publisher's paste-paper boards with red morocco spine and gilt-stamped cover. One of 150 copies, specially printed and bound, in publisher's clamshell case with folder, accompanied by an original estate stamped pencil sketch, by Grosz. Fine..... More
New York: Kaldeway Press, (1987). LASKER, JONATHAN. First edition. 18 pages, 17 inches x 11-1/2 inches, 30 x 45 cm. Printed in blue on "Poestenkill Leaves" paper made for this edition at the Kaldewey mill, bound by Christian Zwang, black paper over board, with relief impressions after Lasker's design on..... More
London: June, 1969. First edition. The Wall Sheet Journal is a collection of fifteen 10 inch x 16 inch posters, each by a different designer, artist, or writer, issued in a plastic bag. It was edited, designed, printed, and published by Pearce Marchbank, as his last student project at the..... More
San Francisco: Rosy Cheeks Publishers, 1970-1971. First edition. Fourteen issues (complete), including the rare "Dummy copy" which preceded the first issue. "After leaving Rolling Stone in 1970, the magazine's first photographer, Baron Wolman, started his own fashion magazine, Rags, housed in Rolling Stone's first San Francisco offices. Rags was a...... More
Berlin: Die Schmiede, 1924. First edition. Publisher's brown striped boards, printed cover and spine labels (design by Georg Salter). A fine copy in the rare and fragile dust jacket, with only minimal wear. Published shortly after Kafka's death in June 1924, it is the last book for which he corrected..... More
Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1926. First edition. 8vo, pp. [vi], 504. Original blue cloth, some mild fading, internally fine and fresh, with the rare original dust jacket (edges and folds minimally restored, slightly chipped at the ends of the spine), the jacket carries a quote from Hermann Hesse calling Kafka "König..... More