n.p. n.p., 1942. Original photograph, image size 7 by 9 inches with a 1/8 inch white border, showing Mary Pickford seated next to husband Buddy Rogers, each gazing at the other. Inscribed: "To Sgt A. M. DuBec with all good wishes from us both. Mary Pickford/Aug 1942" Pinholes in the..... More
n.p. n.p., n.p. Original photograph, image size 7 by 9 inches with a ¼ inch white border, showing a young Henry Fonda, with his signature. Undated but probably from the 1940's. Pinholes in the corners and just inside the top of the image, a tiny abrasion at the bottom, else..... More
n.p. n.p., n.p. Original photograph, image size 7 by 9 inches with a ¼ inch white border, showing a young Tyrone Power, with his signature. Undated but probably from the 1940's. Pinholes in the corners and some tape residue on the back, else a near fine example. From the collection..... More
México: Imprenta Nuevo Mundo, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 59pp of text (in Spanish) followed by the catalog of Pinturas y Dibujos (91 plates), Litografias (28 plates) and Grabados (12 plates). Many of the plates are printed in full color. Black cloth, gilt titles on the spine and upper board..... More
Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1993. Limited edition. Hardcover. Golio. 139pp. Black cloth, silver titles on the spine and upper board. Illustrated in color throughout. Foreward by Roger G. Kennedy. Introduction by the Editor. Eighteen essays on individual afrtistsd, followed by a bibliography. One of 300 numbered copies signed by..... More
Santa Fé: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's black cloth, gilt spine titles. An exhibition catalog of Charles Loloma's work, including substantial information about Loloma never before published and the most comprehensive grouping of his work ever assembled, comprising jewelry, ceramics and other items..... More
New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. (108)pp. Twenty-three full page illustrations of phobias, each with the author's explanations. Black cloth blocked in silver on the spine and the upper board. One of 1500 copies signed by John Vassos. This is number 1080. Cloth sunned, especially in..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xi,(1)167pp. Suede spine, buckram sides, the upper board with printed title. Illustrated by Alajálov, with full page plates in three colors introducing each Gerschwin song. Introduction by George Gershwin. A biographical sketch of the artist, Alajálov, by Samuel..... More
Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Beelas Artes / Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, 1963. First edition. Stiff card. 8vo. Stapled booklet containing essays and biographical data on Posada, aas well as a catalog of his works by Adrian Villagomez. Small stain on rear, else a very good copy. Enclosed in a...... More
London, etc. Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 4to. xvi, 372pp. Publisher's blue cloth blocked on the spine in gilt with the title and an illustration of the ship's mast, and on the upper board in gilt, black and white, with a vignette of the shop at..... More
Boston: Boston Job Print, 1878. Broadside. Broadside approximately 9½ by 22 inches printed in black ink thin purple paper. Woodcut of a giant squid attacking a three-masted clipper. W. C. Coup had been affiliated with Barnum and had been responsible for such innovations as three rings and a circus train..... More
Los Angeles: Bela Blau, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Miniature 1¼ by 1¾ inches. (32)pp. Full leather binding, the spine titled "Dawson's Book Shop" and the upper board "65 Years". A very good copy. More
Chicago: Van Kampen Press, (1946). Illustrated by the author. First edition. Hardcover. Thin folio. (44)pp. Printed in color throughout. Picorial paper over boards. A near fine copy. With the scarce dusterapper. The wrapper is lightly rubbed and has a short closed marginal tear else is in very good condtion, and..... More
Auburn: Derby and Miller, et al. 1853. Good. Early edition. 8vo. xvi,(17)-336pp. 4pp. publisher's ads inserted between the front endpapers. Eighth thousand. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards embossed in blind. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated with seven full page illustrations, including the frontispiece of the author. Significantly..... More
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, (1941). Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. Natural linen cloth, the title printed in black on the upper board. Finely printed on Georgian paper by Harry Duncan, Katherine Frazier & Jane Ward, the staff of the Cummington Press. One of three hundred numbered copies; this is..... More
n.p. Privately Printed, 1920. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 54pp. Title page in red and black with an engraved vignette. Cloth spine, leather lettering label, gilt; brown paper over boards. One of 100 copies printed by the De Vinne Press. Label rubbed else a very good copy. The Hobby Club was..... More
var. John S. Carroll et al. 1960's (?). The group consists of a typed letter from Carroll, dated 1973, signed, enclosing specimens of letterpress printing. Clifford Burke, Looking at Fine Printing, Cranium Press, 1975, 12pp. Printed Card: A New Type 1976 from The Printer's Shop. Printed Card: Typographic Design, Piping Rock Press John S...... More
(Oakland): Peter Koch, 1984. Limited edition. Stiff card. Tall thin folio, 9½ by 19½ inches. Title and vignette on the first page. The back page is an essay by Glenn E. Humphreys. The inner pages contain the text of a letter from Ellery ordering books in 1856, and a list describing..... More
n.p. Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 75pp plus 24 full page illustrations not included in the pagination. Beige cloth boards, red leather lettering label, gilt, gray endpapers. A fine copy. One of 285 copies. The leaf printed on vellum is from pp. 167-168, the Gospel for Easter..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1964. Wraps. Single sheet folded to make four pages 9 by 12 inches. Illustration tipped onto the first page shows a 1684 frontispiece. One page of text announcing the move of the David Magee Book Shop from Post Street to Cow Hollow, "once a rural and..... More
n.p. n.p., 1908. Hardcover. Miniature accordion book, 2 by 3 inches, but 3 by 14 inches opened. Printed on one side only, with map pastedowns and the center section of the title text and several young ladies apparently ready to go traveling. Orange buckram boards. Signed by the maker and..... More
Milwaukee: The Casanove Press, 1936. Limited edition. Stapled wraps. 12mo. 36pp. Printed wraps. One of 500 numbered copies; this is number 388. Inscribed to J E Reynolds from Harry W. Schwatz on the title page. Spine sunned else in very good condition. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Second impression. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers illustrated by Robert Lawson. Some paperclip marks on the half-title, else a fine..... More
London: David Nutt, 1889-91. Hardcover. First critical edition. 4to. Three volumes in two, uniformly bound. xviii, 861,(3); 230, 2); 338(2)pp. Publisher's quarter leather, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt. Cloth boards. Volume One contains the facsimile of Caxton's edition; Volume Two contains Sommer's notes, glossary and bibliography of the Morte..... More
