Encounter April 1954
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. First printing. Stiff Wraps. 88 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Entitled "The Word and the Machine," Auden discusses the negative effect of the Machine Age on poetry and the poet. More
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. First printing. Stiff Wraps. 88 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Entitled "The Word and the Machine," Auden discusses the negative effect of the Machine Age on poetry and the poet. More
London: Henry Sotheran, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages in text. Folio, 41 x 29 cm. Thirty-six chromolithographs by Firmin-Didot in Paris, a firm that rivaled the color printing in England of Edmund Evans -- many plates with multiple images. MCLEAN, Victorian Book Design, p.98 called the plates, "extremely fine."..... More
Paris & Barcelona: Editions Cercle D'Art & Ediciones Poligrafa, 1996. Tapies, Antoni. First edition. Hardcover. Square folio: Vol.1. 1943-1960, 545pp, 133 plates in color, and 850 illustrations in black and white. Vol.2. 1961-1968, 512pp, 189 plates in color, and 1027 illustrations in black and white. Vol.3. 1969-1975, 576pp, 233 plates..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Auldjo, John. First edition. Hardcover. 120 pages. 29.4 x 22.9 cm. Large Paper Copy, with half title, 15 lithographed plates [7 on India paper and mounted], 2 folding maps with one hand-colored, 1 chart, 2 hand-colored folding tables. This is Auldjo's successful..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 83 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Black and white illustrations and six tipped-in color plates. Aside from his book illustration Ault was also noted as a scholar of English poetry of the seventeenth century, and Alexander Pope. Endpapers are a...... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. Austen, John. 142 pages. 32 x 26 cm. Twelve color, full-page lithographs by John Austen, as well as a host of black and white illustrations in the text. With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. Limited edition, copy 240 of 500 signed by John Austen. Lovely..... More
Minneapolis: Burgess Publishers, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. 342 pages. More
Avignon: Dervieux Freres, Nd. Stiff Wraps. 28 pages. 20 x 24 cm. Total of 82 individual furniture pieces -- argentiers, armoires, buffets, chairs, tables, vitrines; including Louis XV and Louis XVI replicas. Quality photographic plates artfully presented. Interior contents clean and bright. More
London: F.C. Avis, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Index. Compact and succinct, yet the most complete accountof the printing companionship in England between 1476 and 1800. The origin of the name is sought. A large collection of Chapel rules, with appropriate sanctions, is included. Limited edition, copy 76 of 350. More
London & Paris: Chez Musier, 1774. First edition. Hardcover. 347 [3] pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Seven engraved plates, foldouts, including the Pantheon, the Basilica of Saint Paul, Santa Sophia at Constantinople, Saint Peters and the Coliseum. The author, a sometime Jesuit, published this work under the pseudonym M.L.M. John..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. 21 x 14 cm, illustrated. Index. List of Subscribers. Publisher adverts at rear. Limited edition, copy 417 of 750. Bevelled edges, backstrip chipped at head, worn at foot. Tight copy. More
New York: Sotheby, 1985. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 180 pages. 28 x 21 cm. 154 plates in color, an exhibition first shown at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. More
Ontario: Shanty Bay Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 72 pages including blanks. 38 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy five of 55 for sale printed on 200 gsm arches cover in 18 point Deepdene Roman signed by Bachinski and Janis Butler. Four full-page pochoir plates and 8 multi-coloured linocuts..... More
New York: Marlborough, 1990. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 44 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Catalogue of paintings in color, each printed full page. More
London: Geo. Romney, 1872. Hardcover. [x] 58 [20] pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Color frontispiece, six chromolithograph plates, one wood engraving. The 20 pages represent publisher ads at rear. Originally published about 1866, this was a long popular manual. The Bacon manual stresses binary and triadic color harmonies unencumbered by..... More
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 152 pages. 34.5 x 27.5 cm. Color photographs of the rugged coastlines and promontories of Greenland, all printed recto only on glossy, high quality stock. A stunning survey of the frozen north. Text in English and German. More
Paris: Gustave Ficker, ca 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 8 pages in text. 29.5 x 24 cm. 120 full page color plates printed recto only, including designs by H. Kammerer, P. Lazlo, M. Stier, et al. Text in French. Bright and fresh copy, rubbing to backstrip extremities. More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 343 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. 180 color plates, a reflection of the golden age of painting, portraits of an array of social strata rendered with erudtion by the scholarly articles herein. Artist Biographies. Index. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. Hardcover. 77 pages. 24 X 16 cm. Sketch by Jane Bissell and color illustrations by Arvilla Parker. Reprinted from the edition of 1856. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, with original Grabhorn announcement laid-in. Free endpapers toned. GRABHORN 212. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 535 pp. Volume I: Text, with a note to the catalogue and an Index. Volume II: Illustrations, four on each page, covering Italian, Spanish (including Portuguese), Icons, Russian, British and German (including Austrian, Czech,Danish, Hungarian, Swedish and Swiss) paintings. Volume..... More
New York: Watson Guptill, 1981. Cole, Thomas. First edition. Cloth. 84 pages. 29 x 27 cm. 32 color plates and 12 black and white. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Abrams, 1973. Benton, Thomas Hart. First edition. leather_bound. 279 pages. 30 x 35 cm. Large, landscape 4to, Limited edition, copy 272 of 350 signed by Thomas Hart Benton. The artist celebrates the American experience; his father, a Tennessean served in the Confederate Army before removing to Missouri, where..... More
Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 1893. First edition. Paperback. 24 pages. With quarter-sheet map in two colors of the Cambrian Rocks in the Counties of Temiscouata and Rimouski. Geological Survey Of Canada. More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 3 text pages. Folio, 43 x 28 cm. 24 full page plates after architectural sketches by Bailey printed recto only. Clean copy featuring lithograph of the New York City skyline noting the Singer Building, Woolworth Building and the Manhattan Municipal Building..... More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 126 pages in text. Profusely illustrated with 163 plates, eight of which are in color, as well as thirty-six black and white figures. Photographs by Hugo Rudinger. Chronologies. Biographies of Architects. Glossary. Selective Bibliography. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J250. "A first-rate book." More