Venice: 1976. Wraps. In Italian and English. Illustrated wraps. Many plates and a foldout. Unpaginated. Incribed by the artist to the great bookseller Paul Rohe, this copy's former owner, alongside an original hand-drawn portrait. Shelf wear to wraps and lower right corner of front cover is creased. Wraps are partially..... More
New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very large, oblong 4to. 12.5"x30". Boards. 11 color prints. Signed by artist on colophon. Minor dings to boards and corners. Prints are fine. This is a limited edition (1000 copies printed) exhibition catalog of prints from Italian contemporary artist Clemente's Funerary..... More
Paris: Editions "TEL" [1931]. First Edition. Wraps. Folio. 15"x11". Mixed pagination. 42 helio-engravings and 2 pages of text in French and English loose as issued in brown paper wraps. Wraps are a bit curled and ragged around the edges. Pen notation at top right of front cover. Water stain on..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Unpaginated. Very minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. This is a first edition children's book written and illustrated by Edward Gorey. More
This is a lot of four Parisian souvenirs which belonged to (and bear the authentic bookplate of) influential American landscape designer Warren H. Manning (1860-1938). Mr. Manning is best remembered as the pioneering voice behind the "wild garden" movement, which emphasized cultivating pre-existing plants and natural landscaping, rather than the..... More
Tokyo: 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. In Japanese. Quarter cloth over cream boards. Dust jacket. Photographs and illustrations throughout. 206 pp. Minor wear to jacket. 1/2" closed hole through front hinge. Otherwise excellent. This is an uncommon history of phallic art in Japan. Title on cover is in English, but text..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1931. Cloth. Large folio. Publisher's cloth. Hand-pressed paper. Very many lithographs throughout, many in color, including several pastedowns. 415 pp. B oards need to be re-glued to block. Cloth at header and footer of spine torn. Ex-library with mark on spine, bookplate inside front cover, and card..... More
Albany, NY: Hoffman and White, 1833. 2nd Edition Revised. Leather bound. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Large folding frontispiece, additional folding map, full-page and text illustrations. 400 pp. Leather worn. Front hinge split but firmly attached. Contemporary signatures in front and end matter. Foxing throughout, mostly marginal. Frontispiece intact but tender at..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. 4to. Illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated. 120 pp. Minor wear to edges, with a bump along top rear cover and along left edge of rear cover. Interior is excellent. This is a scarce collection of surrealist art in popular culture, featuring multiple essays..... More
New York: Bodyscope Publications, 1933. First Edition. Wraps. Very large folio. 20"x16". Wraps. 2 double-sided, full color anatomical panels with rotating volvelle wheels inside. Rotating the wheels shows different body systems and text through the multiple windows in the panels. Split at spine, so book is in 4 separate pieces..... More
New York: Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Unpaginated. Wear to jacket edges. Several closed tearsand a 1/2" chip at top front jacket cover. Mild sunning to jacket spine. This is a first edition children's book written by Muriel Spark and illustrated by Edward..... More
44Flood, 2014. Hardcover. 4to. Slipcase. Boards. Full color. Unpaginated. This is the "Kraken Edition" limited edition of the cosmic horror graphic novel by the artist and author of 30 Days of Night. This edition was originally a Kickstarter reward which includes a signed bookplate, 3 signed prints, and a bookmark..... More
Boulder, CO: self-published, 1949. 3rd printing. Cloth. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth. Many illustrated plates by Wolle throughout. 544 pp. Ex-library, but only indications are an unobtrusive mark on spine, bookplate on front free endpaper, and card pocket on rear free endpaper. Sunning to spine, leaving title quite faded. Hinges overopened..... More