Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1933). Steel and antimony printing plate used in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 7 x 10 inches. The plate for page 1102, which printed definitions from Pommé to Pomp. Accompanied by a facsimile of page 1102, as well as a letter from..... More
London & New York: Ernest Nister; Dutton & Co., n.d., ca. 1890's. Stiff card. Single die-cut sheet brilliantly printed by chromolithography in Bavaria. 4 by 6 inches. It depicts an anthropomorphic sunflower, eyes closed, mouth pursed, with a bow and tab beneath. On the tab is printed You are the..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Hardcover. 4to. x,110pp. 15 plates, some in color. The colored plates are chromolithographed. Additional illustrations in text. Publisher's brown buckram printed in red, black and gilt. Decorative endpapers. All edges red. Boards worn and soiled, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip laid-on. The..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 192pp. Black cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and on the upper board. Illustrated throughout, both in text and full page. Three of the full page illustrations are in color. The endpapers have tape marks where the dustwrapper was..... More
Taipei, RC: National Palace Museum. Hardcover. 4to. Accordion book printed in color on one side reproducing the Ch'ing Dynasty Handscroll, the originally painted between 1736-1795 and depicting a festival on the river. The reproduction measures 35.6 by 1152.8 cm. (14 inches by 37.8 feet). Finely bound in patterned silk boards..... More
México: Ediciones Singulares, 1966. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Text in three sections, Spanish, English and French. Illustrated with phoographs and maps. The binding is unusual: It has a smooth leather spine, gilt titles. But the upper and lower boards are molded from chips of jade in resin to create an..... More
n.p. (Seattle): n.p., c. 1979. Broadside. Broadside, approximately 18 by 23 inches. Serigraph in seven colors (light green, dark green, dark blue, black, gray, dark yellow and light yellow) featuring vegetables framed on the left and right with salmon. Issued to commemorate the eighth annual Pike Place Market Street Fair..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to. 127pp. Pink cloth blocked in dark green on the spine and upper board. Gray endpapers. Color frontispiece and six full page b&w plates by Salvador Dali. Cloth has some age marks on the..... More
n.p. Privately Orinted, (1936). Hardcover. First edition. Plates, map of Ireland Hunts on endpapers. 99, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. About fine. Higginson, British and American Sporting Authors, p. 407; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 87. Inscribed: "For Edith and Curtis, two of the best sports..... More
New York: Abrams, c. 2010. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Preface by Patrick-Louis Vuitton. Folio. 496pp. Orange cloth spine, cream-colored spine title, printed paper over boards, brown endpapers, ribbon marker. Illustrated throughout in full color. A fine as new copy in a fine publisher's slipcase. A selection of 100 trunks..... 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
n.p. Arizona State University Art Museum, 1999. Wraps. Folio. 64pp. Stiff printed wraps. Exhibition catalog for the special exhibition from February 20 to May 30, 1999, at the Arizona State University Art Museum curated by Jules Heller and Jean Makin. Inscribed on the title page by Heller. A fine copy..... 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: Neville Spearman, 1963. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 206pp. Black textured paper over boards, gilt spine title. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a trace of soil on the rear panel, else is fine. A collection of macabre stories by Maupassant, Lawernce Durrell, Edgar Allen..... 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
Jersey City, NJ: American Type Founders Company, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xvi, (2), 1153-1301, (3)pp. Red buckram printed in black on the spine and upper board. All edges red. Decorative endpapers. This is the separate catalogue of machinery, furniture and equipments. A nice copy for a book usually..... More
London: T. Fisher Brown, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (viii),249,(iii)pp. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board. Neat pencil marginalia throughout, light wear to corners and edges, else a very good copy. The major compilation and explanation of ancient Ireland's legal system. Covers Legislative Assemblies, the Classification of..... More
