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
New York: Print Club, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 52 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 12 of 150, signed in pencil by George Grosz, A portfolio of six signed watercolors by Grosz depicting O'Henry's New York, with tissue guards -- Print titles include: 1. Coney Island; 2. The Bowery;..... More
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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: Berhardt 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. Berhardt details his delightful evening accompanied by Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee and Monsignor John P. Chidwick (commander and..... More
New York: Berhardt 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 Berhardt'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
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 599 pages. 28.5 x 18.5 cm. Approximately 450 halftones. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. More
London: W.D. & H.O. Wills, ca 1919. Hardcover. 50 color lithograph portraits, each 7 x 3.5 cm presenting a variety of Allied military personnel of the Allied side during World War I: Russian, French, English, Romanian, Belgian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Etc. Reverse of card provides biographical details. All cards bright, clean..... More
Boston: A.A. Childs & Co., 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 14 leaves. 19 x 15 cm. 10 mounted albumen photographs of paintings. Printed by Rand, Avery & Frye. Published to accompany the exhibition of paintings of the "Nine Muses" in 1869 in New York by Italian painter Joseph Fagnani, who used..... More
Paris: Dunod, 1934. Duxieme Edition. Hardcover. XV, 247 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Eight full page color lithograph plates, 53 text illustrations. Originally published 1913 that expands upon the author’s important brochure, Les premiers elements de la science de la couleur (Mulhouse, 1884) which had helped spread knowledge of Maxwell..... More
London: Winsor And Newton, 1885. Third edition. Hardcover. (viii) 207 (ii) pages. 19 x 14 cm. Four chromolithograph plates. The author George Field (1777?--1854) was a manufacturer of pigments and author of works on chromatic science; he was the subject of an exhibition and catalogue at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge..... More
London: Geo. Romney, 1872. Hardcover. [x] 58 [20] pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Color frontispiece, six chromolithograph plates, one wood engraving. The 20 pages represent publisher ads at rear. Originally published about 1866, this was a long popular manual. The Bacon manual stresses binary and triadic color harmonies unencumbered by..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. (6) 273 (3) pages. 18 x 11.5 cm. Sixteen plates hors-texte, 36 wood engravings and eight color lithographs. BIRREN 38. Text in French. Interior clean and bright. Raised bands, spines richly gilt in arabesques, spine lettered in gilt, covers decorated in blind. More
New York: Caxton Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. 20.5 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 65 of 750 signed by Horning in black ink at colophon. Other than slight toning at some pages at upper gutter of approx. one centimeter, an excellent very clean french-leaved copy. Trade Marks..... More