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
New York: Scribner's, 1896-1912. Hardcover. 21 x 14 cm. Frontispiece portraits with lettered tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black. Folding map in vol. 19. Volume 27 carries The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Graham Balfour and the New Letters which was published seven years later in... 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
Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921. Cezanne, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 125 pages. Folio, 39 x 29.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 214 of 250 on papier d'Arches. Black and white and tipped-in color plates, Original brown stiff wrappers laid-in. French text very bright and fresh as is the entire production. The... More
New York: Eakins Press, (1966). First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of... More
Los Angeles: Self Published, 1970. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 48 pages. 18 x 14 cm. 25 black and white reproductions of photographs, all captioned: lots for sale in Los Angeles area. Printed by G.R. Huttner Lithography. Most photographs printed recto or verso only. Pristine copy. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2015. Matisse, Henri. First edition. Hardcover. 200, 364, 330 pages. 33.5 x 26 cm. An extensive review of fifty-nine works from the various stages of Matisse's career, Contributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass. Extensive Index. Printed on multi-colored stock. A sumptuous production with decorated covers... More
Stockhom: Moderne Museet, 1968. Warhol, Andy. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 27 x 20.5 cm. Published on the occasion of the Andy Warhol exhibition in Stockholm, February-March 1968. Editing by Andy Warhol, Kasper Konig, Pontus Hulten and Olle Granath, and presents Warhol's first major European retrospective. 614 black-and-white reproductions, divided... More
Paris: Maeght, 1956. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 100 pages. 38 x 28 cm. Introduction by Georges Limbour. Text in French. Etchings, original lithographs, and prints by a host of prominent artists of the period highlighted by double page original color lithographs by Chagall and Miro (tiinted etching by the latter)... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916-1924. Manuscript Edition. Orig. green cloth, gilt lettered brown leather spine labels. Very good. 10 vols. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 385 of 750, mostly unopened. Edited by William Frederic Bad??. Illustrated with numerous photogravure and halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards... More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1902). Eldorado Edition. Hardcover. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 487 of 1050. Photogravure frontispieces and plates on Japanese vellum, titles in red and black, numerous woodcuts by Frederick Simpson Coburn, captioned tissue guards, wide text margins, bound by Root & Son... More
London: "The Field" Office & Ward and Lock, 1859. Leetch, John. First edition. leather_bound. 115 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Six hand-colored etched plates by Leech, all fresh and bright, text clean. The "Old Boys" are fox hunting. Bound by Little Brown, Boston, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1848. Hardcover. 403, 477 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces. Letters starts 1190 (Richard I, the Lion Hearted), ends 1649 (during the Civil Wars). Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt with arabesques, leather spine labels in brown and black lettered in gilt. Modest surface war. More
New York: D. Appleton, 1857. Hardcover. 19 x 13 cm. This American edition contains the remainder of the articles in the Edinburgh Review, and several written and published during his college years. Four pages of adverts at rear of last volume. Macaulay, an English Whig politician, essayist, poet, and historian... More
London: H.G. Bohn, 1853. Hardcover. 18 x 11.5 cm. Illustrated with 50 full page steel engravings. First published 1836 in 15 volumes with a Preface to the original edition. This addition contains all of the original with the addition of plates and a chronological arrangement of Cowper's letters [Cowper is... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1854. Hardcover. 256, 352, 356 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Frontispiece with tissue guard of Churchill, Vol. !. Comprehensive Index. English poet noted for his lampoons and polemical satires written in heroic couplets. He won his fame independently in 1761 with The Rosciad, a satire... More
New York: Redfield, 1853. Hardcover. 16.5 x 11 cm. Glossarial and other notes and the readings of former editions. Clean, bright and very fresh text. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, brown and black leather spine labels with gilt lettering, a few extremities slightly rubbed. More
Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 319, 338, 309 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. With adverts in volumes I and II. A sequel to "Tom Brown's School Days," and a continuation of his Hughes' own education when in 1842 he went on to Oriel College, and graduated B.A.... More
Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1857. Second edition. Hardcover. 420 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. An historic novel of boarding school days by an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for this effort, a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. Later, he founded... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1932. Ricketts, Charles. First edition. Hardcover. 60 pages. 26 x 16 cm. A fictitious character, Jean Paul Raymond, created by Ricketts enabling him to reveal his displeasure at the fate of his friend, Oscar Wilde. Decorative title page in red and black. Limited edition, copy 512 of... More
Boston: William Veazie, 1858. Hardcover. 91.5 x 13 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Disraeli in Vol. I. Benjamin Disraeli, a British Prime Minister and son of Isaac presents this view of his father when the latter in 1791 produced anonymously a small volume entitled ???Curiosities of Literature,??? the copyright of which... More
Paris: Teriade/Editions Verve, 1962. Villon, Jacques. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 140 of 180 signed on velin de Rives signed in pencil by Villon. Illustrated with 23 etched illustrations by Jacques Villon, 19 in black and white, of which 12 are double-page... More
Paris: Jean Hugues, 1953. De Stael, Nicolas. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 55 pages. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 62 of 120 on Holland paper, signed by Char & De Stael, with an original color lithograph frontispiece by Nicolas De Stael. Uncut and unopened. This is the text of... More