[Copenhagen]: Forening for Boghaandvaerk/Fischers Forlag, 1949.. 1949.. Very good. - Octavo, tan stiff paper wraps with printed paper labels on the front cover & spine. The bottom edges of the covers are stained; the spine & its label are darkened & the head of the spine & the joints are lightly chipped. 247 & [1] pp. plus colophon. Illustrated with full-page B&W facsimiles. with textual illustrations throughout. The contents are very good.
The book also includes a small section on bindings. The text is in Danish.
NY: William Morrow & Co., (1932).. (1932).. Very good. - Small quarto, 8-3/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Bound in red cloth (bumped & soiled; spine faded) titled in black on spine with color pictorial label (lightly soiled) mounted on front cover. 64 pp. (occasional light soiling). Pictorial endpapers in red, black & white, color frontispiece & 3 color plates, & full-page & textual illustrations in red, black & white & B&W by Ilse Bischoff. Very good internally. First edition.Grandpa Schultz mends watches, clocks and music boxes, but only young Tilda knows about the bird in the ivory snu... View More...
Honolulu, H.I.: Bishop Museum Press, 1914.. 1914.. Very good. - Octavo, softcovers bound in printed light brown wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with some minor creases to the corners and a tiny paper remnant at the lower inner edge of the front cover. 39 pages, with 8 pages of photographic illustrations. A very good unopened copy. View More...
Brooklyn: R.M. Whiting & Co., 1877.. 1877.. Very good. - sc Octavo. Disbound, lacking the covers. 326 pages plus appendices consisting of 266 pages (comprising The Charter of 1854); plus 15 pages; and 36 pages. The title page is detached and chipped at the edges and the first and last signatures are loose, though present. There is a short tear and creasing to the bottom edge of the last few leaves. A complete copy of this rare book which would be well-worth rebinding. View More...
- Narrow folio, 15-3/4 inches high by 6 inches wide. Pictorial wraps titled in white with a color illustration by Matt Harley spanning both the front & back covers. The covers are lightly rubbed and soiled with a tiny tear to the bottom of the rear cover. 77 & [3] pages with profuse illustrations throughout. Very good. A special food theme issue subtitled "Les Aliments / Food" of this twice yearly literary periodical with contributions in English and French. Worth noting are Bill Bissett's "Wintr Solstis Song : Famine in Afrika : Crescent Moons", Margaret Dragu's "Hot About Beans", Anna Banana... View More...
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.. 1971.. Very good. - Octavo, printed wraps. Unevenly faded & lightly creased. 39 pp. Pencil marks in checklist. Very good.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981.. 1981.. Very good. - Quarto, black cloth backed tan boards by Earle Gray. 302 pages plus the colophon. Illustrated throughout. The book's edges are lightly soiled. Very good.
Limited edition of 276 deluxe large paper numbered copies signed by the authors and Robert Kelly on a paper label mounted onto the front pastedown. View More...
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1968)., (1968).. Very good. - Octocecimo (18mo), 6-3/16 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in yellow and red printed wrappers. The covers are soiled and lightly rubbed and the spine is darkened. 40 pages. There is a spot of black ink to the fore edge. Very good. First American edition of "Trozo de Piel". Number 25 in The Pocket Poets Series. "A note to the original Spanish edition speaks of Trozo De Piel as expressing 'Picasso's nostalgia for his boyhood in Malaga: all his memories of the land where he was born, suddenly arisen...'". - from th... View More...
- Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in stapled blue wraps titled in black on the front cover. The covers are slightly rubbed. 24 pages, profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Near fine. "Acknowledgements" by the exhibition's guest curator Harriett Green are printed on the verso of the front cover.Laid in at the front is a 16-page softcover pamphlet titled "Celebration of Life: Robert Hamilton Blackburn December 10, 1920-April 21, 2003" for a memorial exhibition held in New York at Cooper Union's Great Hall on September 18, 2003. Also laid in is a 3-page... View More...
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971.. 1971.. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed blue wrappers with a black-and-white illustration on the front wrap. The spine is faded. 65 pages plus 30 pages of black-and-white facsimiles & a colophon. Very good.
35 items are catalogued and fully described. View More...
iNSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BARBARA LACHMAN - Quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. There is some very minor soiling & foxing to the binding & the corners of the covers are slightly creased. 132 pages, including a colophon. Illustrated in black & white with reproductions of artworks by William Blake. Near fine.
Limited edition of 400 copies.
Inscribed by Barbara Lachman in the year of publication, signed in full and dated November 2000.
The book is a selection of writings by Catherine Blake [1761-1831], who married William Blake in 1782. View More...
Toronto, Canada: Impressions, 1978.. 1978.. Very good. SIGNED BY GLENN LEWIS ON THE TITLE PAGE - Quarto [15 inches high by 11 inches wide], softcover bound in black-and-white pictorial wrappers. The wraps are lightly bumped & creased with the head & tail of the spine chipped. 32 & [2] pages. Profuse 3/4-page black-and-white illustrations with a small area of text below each. The bottom page corners are lightly bumped. Very good. A special issue of Impressions. Impressions No. 20.Signed in full by Glenn Lewis on the title page.This book grew out of a journey taken by photographers Glenn Lewis a... View More...
- Small quarto [8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers with a cover illustration reproducing a painting by Ilijs Bosilj. The binding is lightly soiled with a tiny chip to the spine & 2 small score marks to the adjacent edges of the wraps. Unpaginated. Full-page color illustrations with captions on the facing pages. Also with black-and-white photographic portraits of the artists. Very good. Catalog for a 1980 exhibition at Galerie Susi Brunner in Zurich, Switzerland, a gallery devoted to outsider art, naive art, primitive art, art brut and folk art. There is ... View More...
Association Francaise d'Action Artistique, circa [1994].. [1994].. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11-3/4 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are bumped & lightly rubbed with some minor soiling. There is a small white stain to the top corner of the front wrap. 98 & [3] pages and 32 pages. Color illustrations. There is a price sticker on the inside front wrap & the top page corners are lightly bumped. Very good. Catalog for an exhibition curated by Timothy Eaton of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida and Nissan Perez of the Museum of Israel, Jeru... View More...
- Quarto, black cloth titled in gilt. Lightly rubbed & spotted. xiv, 1 leaf & 255 pp. plus colophon. Illustrated with facsimiles in B&W & color. Very good.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953.. 1953.. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed & very slightly bumped. The dust jacket is lightly soiled & chipped with its top edge a bit creased. There are some tiny black marks to the rear panel & 2 small stains to the front flap. ix, [i], 133 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated by Muirhead Bone with 32 plates in color and black & white, including a color frontispiece, & with black-and-white vignettes and head- & tail-pieces. There are 2 light scotch-tape marks to each endp... View More...
Calmann-Levy, (1985).. (1985).. Very good. - Quarto, pictorial paper covered boards. Bumped & lightly rubbed; price- sticker on front board. 271 pp. Profusely illustrated in B&W & color. The contents are near fine.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Small quarto [9-5/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in dark blue wrappers. The bottom corners of The covers are slightly creased & the spine is a bit darkened. 47 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece & a facsimile. Very good. From the library of Leonard Bernstein with a Sotheby Sale card [From the Estate of Leonard Bernstein] laid in. The brief prefatory note, which is printed in English, German and French, is signed D.M. Also laid in is a 20-page Boosey & Hawkes 1963 price list for Britten scores with a port... View More...
(Fontenay-sous-Bois [France]): Stil Editions, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/2 inches high by 11 inches wide], black cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are slightly bowed & the dust jacket is slightly darkened. 124 pages plus colophon. Profuse full-page photographic illustrations. Very good. The text is by Rene Fouque and the photographs by Daniel Boudinet. The text is in French.In the Italian town of Bomarzo, the main atttraction is a garden, the Bosco dei Monstri or Park of Monsters, so called after the many larger-than-life sculptures, some sculpted in ... View More...
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