New York: Van Nostrand, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 350 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Black and white illustrations. More than 600 styles of wood type are classified and shown by period. There are more than 100 specimens of complete or partial fonts. A precise bibliography includes a listing of all... More
New York: William Rudge's Sons, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 73 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Limited edition, one of 3000 hard copy. Decorated endpapers. Check List of Armitage Books. Illustrated in black and white in color, samples of book design. Small bookplate. More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Ward's first woodcut novel. Limited editions, copy 46 of 400 signed by Lynd Ward, with an original wood cut on Japanese tissue, pulled by Ward laid-in, from blocks made for Gods' Man, and signed... More
Torino: C. Crudo &C. (Societa Italiana Di Edizioni Artistiche), 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 43 X 32 cm. Total of 186 plates with 176 in color. Each volume with introductory text in Italian. Coverage of each volume as follows: Vol. I: Egiziano. Caldeo, Assiro, Fenicio, Egeo, Greco, Etrusco, Romano, Estremo... More
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Moser, Barry. First edition. Fine linecut poster by Barry Moser, 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches in Plexiglas fronted frame. One of 200 numbered and signed copies by both Moser and Harold McGrath. Together with 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch wood engraved portrait of Harold McGrath signed by Moser. More
Tokyo: Dobun-kwan, (1896). First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 22 x 36 cm. Thirty five full page color lithographs and 2 black and white plates, each plate accompanied by a lettered guard sheet with descriptive letterpress in English, first three introductory pages after title in Japanese characters. With black and white... More
London: Sam Keble And Dan Brown / J. Moxon, 1693 & 1697. First editions. Hardcover. (2) 77 (2) pages. 15.5 x 10.7 cm. Half title, 2 page publisher preface, two pages of adverts at rear. Engraved of Raleigh by Frederick Hendrick Van Hove (circa 1628-1698). Small stain title page foot... More
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 399, 369. 281 pages. 38 x 39 cm. 850 examples: 550 paintings and 325 calligraphies with 875 colored plates. Volume covers in tan, green and blue. Research and Translation by Keith Itoh & Lawrence Wu. Introduction Commentary by James C.Y. Watt. Selected... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, ca. 1850. leather_bound. 339 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Engraved frontispiece and title page. CBEL called this long poem "his very best work in verse." [see: Vol. 11, p.162]. Elegant binding by Leighton Brewer, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, small bookplate. More
New York: Conde Nast, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 101 (8) pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 522 of 1500 signed by Arthur Elgort, and also inscribed "N.Y.C. Dec 84 To Julie with love and friendship, Arthur." Elgort worked for a number of fashion magazines including British Vogue, American... More
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 102 [1] pages. Small folio, 29.2 x 19.4 cm. Limited edition, copy 164 of 182 signed by Dard Hunter. Hunter's seventh volume on papermaking written in 1935 after his sojourn to the ancient villages of Yen-Thai and Lang-Buoi, Tonkin, Indo-China (now Viet... More
London: John Lane, 1897. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Hardcover. 53 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Number One of the Bodley Booklets printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press in Springfield, Mass. BOMBACE A16. Front cover of the pictorial wrappers chipped at edges with some loss. Interior clean, housed in... More
New York: Abrams, 1972. Shahn, Ben. First edition. Hardcover. 371 pages. Folio, 35 x 30 cm. 234 illustrations, 154 in color. Index. Author, wife of Ben Shahn completed this work three years after his death. More
New York: Tudor, 1970. Marini, Marino. First edition. Hardcover. 506 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Catalogue Raisonne. More than 1000 illustrations with 80 in color. Errata sheet laid-in. List of Exhibitions. More
Chillicothe: Dard Hunter, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 326 pages. Folio, 43 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 69 of 210, 200 of which were for sale; however, as noted in his own bibliography there were only 180 completed. "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum... More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968. Daumier, Honore. First edition. Hardcover. 446 & 619 pages. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. 208 plates in Vol.I, and 325 plates in Vol.II. Concordance. List of Owners. Errata slip. Limited edition, copy B70 of 800 American copies of a total edition of 1500. FREITAG 2084... More
Paris: Batchelier & Carilian-Goeury et Dalmont, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 44 x 27.5. Atlas volume only with 74 lithograph plates, some double-paged. Leroy was a professor at the Ecole Royale Polytechnic. Text in French. Some light foxing and browning, corner, extremity and joint wear, signature on title page... More
Philadelphia: Anthony Finlay, 1827. Hardcover. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Ten hand-colored engraved maps (one double page), colored double-page chart of time, two folding letterpress text leaves. Maps include (1) Terra Veteribus Nota, (2) Graecia Antiqua, (3) Orientis Tabula, (4) Asia Minor, (5) Romanum Imperium, (6) Italia Antiqua, (7) Places... More
Paris: Verve, 1945. Matisse, Henri. First edition. Hardcover. 61 pages. Folio, 35 x 26 cm. With two original lithographs: "de la couleur and the Fall of Icarus," plus a host of black and white and color plates. According to the Verve bibliography, this issue "was more than two years in... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. Picasso Pablo. First American edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 36 x 26.5. With an appreciation by Rebecca West. Sixteen full-page color lithographs printed by Mourlot, the Verve double number 29/30. VERVE p.269. "In this richly diverse masquerade, which combines something of the English Christmas... More
Paris: Np, 1891. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle, text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel, Leon Bonnat, Charles De Lort... More
New York: Ticker Publishing Co., 1907-1908. First edition. Hardcover. 31, 56, 48, 48, 48, 48 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Complete Index to Volume 1. Photographs of Captains of Industry adorn the front page of most issues, including James R. Keene, "the Famous Operator at his Ticker." Elbert Hubbard "from... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. 28 x 30.5 cm. Signed by Caponigro in ink on half title. 143 duotone illustrations. Text by Marriane Fulton. Caponigro explores the various configurations of these prehistoric monuments. Selected Bibliography. Owner inscription. Clean, bright copy. More
London: Robert Daniel, 1651. First edition. leather_bound. 393 pages, plus (5 leaves: Index Rerum & Verborum & Index Scripturarum). 32 x 21 cm. Translated and edited by Richard Montague. Parallel text in Latin and Greek. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as St. Photios the Great, viewed as... More
