Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 17.5 x 19.5 cm & 19 x 12 cm. 2 text volumes and 4 art pieces. This work invites multiple readings and interpretations and is framed within the scope of conceptual art. Octavio Paz essay: Marcel Duchamp or the Castle of Purity..... More
Munich: Verlag Braun & Schneider, ca 1883. Second edition. Hardcover. Unpaginaged. 32.5 x 23.5 cm. Pop-up book, eight full-page chromolithographed plates, each with a movable tab to set the scene in motion, the last lever moves side to side rather than up and down. "There is little doubt that the..... More
London: W. Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 18.5 x 14 cm. Hand-coloured pictorial title-page and thirty-seven hand-coloured engraved plates of caricatures, including frontispiece, each figure arranged to project a humorous shadow (e.g. 'A slave', 'Creeping like a Snail', 'The Pot calling the Kettle black'..... More
Providence: Ziggurat Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. French leaved, approx. 15 leaves in accordian, Laperello presentation. 22.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 24 of 50, Walter Feldman copy with his blind stamp on title. Images, wood block prints designed by Feldman. The author is known mainly for the poems..... More
Providence: Ziggurat Press, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. French leaved, approx. 20 leaves in accordian, Laperello presentation. 25.5 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 25 signed by Walter Feldman, printed on Nideggen and Ingres paper. Images, wood block prints designed by Feldman. This collection translated from the Polish. The..... More
Providence: Ziggurat Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. French leaved. 22.5 x 15.5 leaves. Limited edition, copy 3 of 35 on Nidiggen and Mohawk acid-free paper. Woodcuts by Walter Feldman. Honig authored 13 books of poetry as well as prose fiction. Founded in 1985 by Walter Feldman, the Ziggurat Press is..... More
Providence: Ziggurat Press, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Approx. 15 leaves. 16 x 29.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 24 of 50 signed by Monteiro and Walter Feldman, printed on handmade Japanese barkless Chiri paper on a hand fed Vandercook press. Images designed and cut in linoleum by Feldman. Founded in 1985..... More
New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1936. Forain, Jean-Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 67 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 293 of 500 printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with reproductions of Forain's work. Almost as new condition. More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 25 pages in text. 28. 5 x 22 cm. Critical Notes by Adele Jenny. Forty-four plates. Double-page fold-out frontispiece in color, a lithograph of a sperm whale. Descriptive Catalogue of the Plates. The earliest trade cards here date from 1730, or..... More
Paris: Verve, 1948. Picasso, Pablo. First edition. Unpaginated. 35 x 27 cm. Dedicated to Picasso and his work at Antibes. Abundantly illustrated: eighteen tipped-in full-color plates and 21 black and white plates. Text in French. VERVE, p.182 ".... one of the unique qualities of "Verve" Nos. 19/20: a unity of..... More
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 14 leaves. 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, one of 500, this out of series, signed by Paul Landacre in ink on the colophon page, but not the publisher. The fourteen leaves each contain one wood engraving. An unbound, unsewn copy in..... More
Paris: Maeght, 1964. Kelly, Ellsworth. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 18 [2] pages in text. 38 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 109 of 150 signed by Ellsworth Kelly in pencil. Six original color lithographs including front and back covers, four full page in color, one double page, plus black and..... More
Paris: Maeght, 1968. Calder, Alexander. First edition. Boards. 15 pages of French text: Introductory "Un geant enfant," by Giovanni Carandente and "Note sur les fleches," by Jacques Dupin. 38 x 29 cm. Folio, Limited edition, copy 89 of 150 on velin De Lana signed by Calder in pencil on limitation..... More
Paris: Chez F.-L Schmied, 1926. leather_bound. [X] [XXX] [XXVI] [x] pages. 26.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 70 of 150 signed by Schmied in pencil on the terminal colophon leaf. The production of this work was partially underwritten by the diplomat and politician Louis Barthou, the American financier Frank..... More
London: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1902. leather_bound. 45 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Limited edition, copy 94 of 165 printed on vellum with front cover Arts & Crafts rose in blind, and entitled "Soul Is Form." Hand colored woodcut frontispiece, plus a central two panel plate, and elaborate colored..... More
Paris: Mourlot, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. Folio, 32 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 146 of 800 on velin d'Arches. Twenty-five original lithographs (one silkscreen), nineteen in color -- with contributions by Masson, Matisse, Braque, Derain, Picasso, Miro, Cocteau, Villon, Chagall, Giacometti, Buffet, Vasarely, Delvaux, Wunderlich, Sutherland, et..... More
New York: Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap, 1979. Warhol, Andy. First edition. leather_bound. 256 pages. 28 x 23 cm. The deluxe issue of Warhol's first book of photographs featuring the leading personalities in the New York party scene, 360 images in total, a who's who of the 1970's including the..... More
Venice: Francesco Rampazetto, 1609. leather_bound. [12] 1-56, 61-303 [1] pages. Folio, 34.5 x 24.5 cm. 2 parts in 1, titles with large woodcut device of cannon, full-page engraved portrait of the author by W.Kilian, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and diagrams at beginning, 171 woodcut illustrations of which 7 double-page..... More
New York: Lockwood & Co, (1849). First edition. leather_bound. 23 leaves mounted on stubs. 25,5 x 20.5 cm. An excellent example of early American chromolithography. Whitman Bennett exclaimed, "The editor has been amazed at the variety and beauty of Mapleson's work, which seems to him . . ., both in..... More
London: W. Faden, 1783. First edition. Hardcover. [XX] 110 pages .27.5 x 22.5 cm. 2 folding engraved maps of Egypt and Syria/Iraq. This work by Capper is in two parts; one describing the route from India by way of the Red Sea, Suez and Egypt, the other from England by..... More
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Tall, thin Folio, 36 x 22.3 cm. Limited edition, one of 185, this copy not numbered. The illustrations were planned for a Kelmscott Press Bible but the project was terminated upon the death of William Morris. Printed D.B.Updike at the Merrymount..... More
London: T. Jefferys, 1761. First edition. leather_bound. 275 [15] [48] [XIX] pages. 26 x 20 cm. With 13 engraved maps (12 folding) and 6 plates (3 folding). Directions for placing the plates at rear. LOWNDES: “valuable for its accuracy and authenticity” “a contribution to the chronicles of India only superseded..... More
Buenos Aires: Govone, 1947. 137 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 169 of 250 of a total edition of 311. Full page black and white illustrations by Lydis. Lydis was known for her lithographic depiction's celebrating lesbian and bisexual relationships. She was influenced greatly by Foujita whom she..... More
Newark, Vermont: Janus Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 23 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 56 of 225, signed by Thorne and Van Vliet. Printed in red and black, the text set in fourteen point Monotype on Barcham Green Dover paper and bound into Diana covers. Van Vliet received..... More
Newark, Vermont: Janus Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 18.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 57 of 150, signed by Lohf and Van Vliet. Printed in red and black, the text is Trump Medieval Italic set and printed by Nancy Reid on old Fabriano paper; the Japanese paper on..... More