New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. Sendak, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 186 pages. 24 x 19.5 cm. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. The adventures of Sharp-Ears, the enchanting heroine of the author's classic Czech novel of human and animal relationships deftly poised between poetry and farce. Decorated color... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Sendak, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 332 pages. 18 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated in black and white by Maurice Sendak. Translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Segal and Sendak chose twenty seven of 210 stories. Signed presentation copy on... More
London: Np, 1736-1796. Original Wraps. Five manuscript documents relating to the Adams brothers and the Adelphi Terrace project. COLVIN pp. 48-49. "It is to `the desire to raise a great building of a semi-public nature in the monumental manner that the Adelphi scheme is, in part at least, to be... More
Paris: Society Des Cent-Une, 1938. Derain, Andre. First edition thus. Hardcover. 311 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 77 of 101 Roman numbered copies on Verge de Maillol of a total edition of 135. This named copy for Madame Maurice Muret printed on limitation page. Preface by Marcel... More
Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1931. Maillol, Aristide. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 35 pages. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, 205 roman numbered copies on Japan Pelletan, lithographs printed by E. Desjobert (of a total edition of 255), illustrated with three woodcuts and eleven black and white lithographs by Aristide Maillol. The... More
Hardcover. Contains 68 round, 19 square and 57 fish counters variously decorated with armorials, numbers, monograms and incised fish; housed in gilt lacquered box fitted with counter trays. During the early 1700’s, wealthy European families commissioned Chinese artisans to make finely engraved sets of mother-of-pearl gaming counters for use in... More
Esslingen: J.F. Schreiber, [1887]. First edition. Hardcover. 35 x 22.5 cm. Six hinged leperello (accordion style) color lithographs, all pop-ups plus front cover and inside illustrations. Considered one of the masterpieces of the Pop-Up Book genre. Hildegarde Krahe, in LOTHAR MEGGENDORFERS SPIELWELT, notes Meggendorfer shows in this book all his... More
Zalt-Bommel: Johannes Noman en Zoon, 1831. Second edition. Hardcover. [IV, VIII,]100 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. A charming Dutch work on garden design, whose title translates loosely as "A Repository of Garden Ornaments; or Collection of Models of Construction and Ornament, for Large and Small Pleasure Gardens, Chiefly such as... More
London & New York: Country Life Limited & Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 192 pages. 29.5 x 23 cm. Multitude of photographs of homes in England printed on glossy stock with plans to scale for each. Contemporary country houses ranging in cost from 1500 to 5000 pounds sterling... More
London: Sherwood Jones, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. 100 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Twenty designs by Robert Cruikshank, ten within the text, and ten full-page illustrations at the end of the text. Westmacott's books are satirical and personal, rather coarse, but lively. This, his first is most satirical. Lacks adverts, text clean. More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, 1953. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. Hardcover. 6 text pages. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 108 of 500, the facsimile album printed by Daniel Jacomet, containing 17 fine screen watercolors and 27 designs in crayon and black and white. A French text tribute to Toulouse-Lautrec by... More
Iowa City: Prairie Press, 1964. Gill, Eric. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, approx. 36 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman, signed by him, the two decorative letters on the title page, Floriated Capitals are types designed by Gill. Marcus McCorison's (American Antiquarian Society) copy with his... More
Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 46 pages in text. 31 x 24 cm. Limited edition, one of 600, this copy not numbered. The watermarks were reproduced by the photolitho process, bound by Messrs. Brandt & Zoon of Amsterdam. A total of 25 illustrations in the text... More
Oxford: Nonesuch Press, 1926. First edition thus. leather_bound. 104 pages. 15 x 9,5 cm. Limited editions, copy 993 of 1250 printed by John Johnsonat the Oxford University Press on French hand-made paper. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Wormald. Evelyn was 84 years of age when he began this memoir. Bright, fresh copy. More
Copenhagen: Galerie Birch, 1963. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 27 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 603 of 1100. Ten color lithographs including the cover, plus black and white plates -- 23 total plates with index of titles, and original size printed in green. Lacks the text, contains all the image... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Matisse, Henri. First American edition. Hardcover. 48 pages in text. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Twelve color lithographs, 60 in black and white with 11 illustrations in the text. The gauche paper cut-outs were executed at intervals from the early 1930's onwards. The drawings (in charcoal, pencil... More
Brussels: Galerie Smith, 1961. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Folio, 38 x 27 cm. 22 pages, plus text with illustrations. With two original lithographs in six colors printed by Maurice Beaudet and Georges Girard, all other color plates are also lithographs. Text in blue, black and red inks. Catalogue at back... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. [XXXi; List of Plates, American Engravers & Notes] 391 pages & [X: Preface to the Reader, Notes] 566 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 350 copies printed on mould made paper by The De Vinne Press. In his Preface... More
Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1932. Blair Hughes-Stanton. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 35 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 26 of 250 with wood engravings and title page designed and engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton, hand set in Bembo and Perpetua type. More than 40 wood engravings, several are full paged. This edition has... More
NP: ND. 15.5 x 39.5 inches. Two framed in glass and matted drawings by Rockwell Kent, both signed by him in pencil at lower right present ten characters from the original tale by Geoffrey Chaucer with some contention by critics that the Tale was incomplete at the time of Chaucer's... More
New York: Np, ca 1880. Berghaus, Albert. 21 x 18 inches (image) of Architectural hand-colored drawing framed, signed in the plate at lower left. Albert Berghaus, an important American illustrator, active 1869-1880, produced sketches and engravings of the news of the day for "Frank Leslies Weekly." Original works by Berghaus... More
NP: NP, ND. American artist and illustrator, famous for the "Christy Girl," he made his reputation as a combat illustrator during the Spanish America War, and added to his fame with patriotic posters for the US Navy and US Marine Corps during World War I. Chip with loss at head... More
NP: NP, ND. American artist and illustrator, famous for the "Christy Girl," he made his reputation as a combat illustrator during the Spanish America War, and added to his fame with patriotic posters for the US Navy and US Marine Corps during World War I. More
ca 1910. 26 x 32 1/2 inch early 20th Century rendering of a mixed media design by a distinguished Wisconsin architectural firm that also designed the West Side School in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This design for the Ashland National Bank herein not... More
NP: NP, 1986. 21 1/2 x 32 inches, 20th Century School mixed media rendering and design of a constructed design now standing in London, rendering signed by R. Seifert, Architect. More
