The Grass Harp
New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 181 pages. 21 x 14 cm. His second novel in clipped dust wrapper, a bright, very fresh copy. Double illustrated title page lettered in red. More
New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 181 pages. 21 x 14 cm. His second novel in clipped dust wrapper, a bright, very fresh copy. Double illustrated title page lettered in red. More
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 231 pages. 21 x 14 cm. His first novel in unclipped dust wrapper, a bright, very fresh copy. The only fault a very slight crease to front cover of the dust wrapper at the lower foot. More
New York: U.P.C. Book Company, 1923. Hardcover. 36 x 25.5 cm. 454 plates. Preface to the Revised Edition. List of Contributing Architects and Draughtmen. List of Parts. Numerical Chronology. Alphabetical Chronology. Alphabetical List of Plates. Geographical Index. Subject-Index of Plates. Table of Contents. A host of measured drawings to scale..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 264 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Signed presentation copy from Dempsey "To My Llittle Pal Frankie Mastro Thanks Partner" signed by him in blue ink. Edited by Jack Cuddy with illustrations by Ed Igoe. Laid-in a "For Review" slip from the publisher..... More
Paris & Philadelphia: Georges Petit & CH.-F Haseltine, 1893. First edition. Wraps. 343 (3) pages. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 50 on Japanese paper with etchings on parchment. Preface by Alexandre Dumas. Painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 32 1/2 x 23 cm. Seventy-three engraved portraits of George Washington. Compiled by Lawrence Park. With an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan and Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz. A monumental undertaking, providing a Descriptive List of The Portraits..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 303 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs and prints. Appendix of Boxing Rules. Glossary. Index. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 375 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Signed presentation copy by Graziano "To Frank Mastro the swell fellow" in blue ink. Frank Mastro boxed before he became a boxing reporter for the Chicago Tribune from 1930 to 1969, known for his straw..... More
New York: Horizon, 1963. Hardcover. Elephant folio, 30 pages in text, 100 mounted plates printed on heavy card stock. Foreword by William Wesley Peters. Limited edition copy 445E of 2600. 32 page booklet enclosed. Plates bright, clean and fresh. KARPEL B1332." A near but not exact facsimile of the Wasmuth..... More
Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pages. Folio, 51 x 36 cm. With twelve color plates, 192 black and white text illustrations. Limited edition, copy 384 of 1000. This work presents an exhaustive study of how two twelfth-century Winchester bibles were designed and produced. Appendices. Tables. Indexes..... More
Paris: Club du Livre, 1962. Hardcover. 229 pages. 33 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy IV of XXV copies hors commerce reserved for the collaborators -- signed by Tremois. The second volume contains the additional set of 19 engravings with tissue guards, one in copper, all by Tremois. The latter, artist..... More
New York: MOMA, 1971. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 108 pages. 27 x 22 cm. Contains a catalogue with 364 illustrations, twenty in color, and a catalogue raisonne of Gemini's complete production. Also included in the box is a 10 1/2 x 8 1/2" multiple by Jasper Johns. A two color..... More
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 31.5 x 45 cm. Seven full page woodcuts. Barlach, an outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called “modern Gothic.” Influenced early in his career by Jugendstil, Germany’s Art Nouveau style, he vacillated between pursuing sculpture and the decorative..... More
Providence: Photographic Education Society, 1967-1968. First edition. Hardcover. 31.5 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 146 of 150 with image area approx. 13 x 12 cm. 21 mounted photographs including Silver prints by Harry Callahan, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Bill Burke et al. Title leaf with colophon. Callahan an American photographer and..... More
Berlin: Verlag Von Georg Reimer, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 268 pages. Folio, 37 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 285 of 500. 100 illustrated mostly color plates on heavy stock, many with more than one image per plate, and all are color lithographs. An elegant production, backstrip and front covers..... More
New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 28 x 21 cm. Eighteen etched plates in colored inks on wove paper with tissue guards. Signed by Wall, copy 7 of 250. Bernhardt details his delightful evening accompanied by Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee and Monsignor John P. Chidwick (commander and..... More
New York: Bernhardt Wall, (1920). Third State. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 28 x 21 cm. Twenty-one etched plates with tissue guards. Signed by wall and numbered "copy no. 12" in his hand on title page. The half title states "Limited to 50 copies," and Bernhardt's introduction notes, "Big business is fast butting..... More
Paris: Editions d'art Ch. Moreau, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Eight text pages. Folio, 44 x 31 cm. 36 full page tinted plates, many with multiple images per plate. Cover decorated by Rene Gabriel. Survey of French Art Deco interior design -- ironworks, lamps, stair railings, tables, hand railing,store front designs..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 178 pages. Limited edition, copy Z of 176 deluxe copies hand bound in boards by Earle Gray with a special marbled board spine. His early semi-biographical novel about Los Angeles in the 1930's, inspired Charles Bukowski and Robert Towne. More
New York: M. Knoedler, 1919. First edition. Wraps. 8 unpaginated leaves. 28.5 x 18. Signed presentation copy on front cover to Martin K. Howes in ink dated 1937. Five full page plates. Dedicated to Carl Zigrosser. One of 1500 copies. Bright copy. More
New York: Braziller, 1984. Miro, Joan. Reprint edition. Hardcover. 33 x 25.5 cm. Reprint of the Paul Eluard and Gerald Cramer original, copy 75 with numerous colored wood-cuts by Miro. 22 page in Introduction in separate stiff wrapper publication by Anne Hyde Greet laid-in. As new. More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 431 pages in total. 28 x 20 cm. Approximately 250 plates. Title page printed in red and black. General Index. This was Blomfield's second work, which the DNB called "masterly," and noted they were, "learned, admirably written and well-illustrated." This work..... More
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1946. Hardcover. 315 pages. Limited edition, one of 220 on sur velin de Rives with black and white etchings by Pierre Watrin, both full paged and within the text. Interior fresh and clean. The novel presents the classic Christian story: the heavenly war between angels led by the..... More
Paris: Aux dépens d'un amateur, 1959. Hardcover. 113 pages. Folio, 33 x 25 cm. Copy 227 of 280 on velin de Rives. 39 black and white lithographs. Illustrated by Bonnard in 1928 and printed later here by Fernand Mourlot. Interior contents bright and fresh. Test in French. More
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 238 pages. 29 x 21.5 cm. 86 black and white plates. The Romanesque period in Spain a fusion of French, Oriental and native influences of architecture in the Middle Ages. Index. More