Authors starting with B from marilyn braiterman rare books

Boston: Rockwell and Churchill. 1881. Small 4to. H Cloth, Gilt.. Fine.. Fine. Illustrated books & children's books Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1881. Small 4to, royal blue cloth with gilt spine vignettes and gilt cover vignette of the anthropomorphic carrot prince. Narrow pa int streak at front cover else bright and very nice. A contemporary political parody with vegetable characters, illustrated with many amusing full page wood- engraved illustrations by Augustus Hoppin, a highly successful Amer... more information

Paris: Pre. Blanchard et Lecerf. 1823. Oblong 4to. H Pictorial Boards. About Fine. Very Good. Paris: Pre. Blanchard et Lecerf (1823). Oblong 4to, original pink engraved pictorial boards showing butterfly nets and mounted specimens; later pink cloth spine an d new endpapers. Residue from old tap e at joint edges of boards; mild foxing. Overall, a lovely copy of a very scarce book: NUC lists only one copy, which lacks frontispiece and contents leaf at rear . Beautiful frontispiece of a tutor wi th apparatus a... more information

Paris: Paris: Camille Block & Jues Meynial, 1927. 1927. Large 4to. S Stiff Wrappers. Fine.. Fine. Paris: Chez Camille Block & Jules Meynial, 1927. Large 4to, original pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. One of 275 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Barbier by Charles Martin and 25 mounted, richly colored pochoir plates of costume design for "Casanova", "Le Tapis Persan", "Marion de Lorme", "Madame Paulette Duval", "Lysistrata", and "Amarylla", ea... more information

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press .. 1979. 4to. H Morocco and Boards. Fine.. Fine. Japan North Hills, PA, 1979. 4to, quarter morocco and decorated Japanese paper coverd boards by E.G. Parrot. Fine copy with prospectus. One of 300 copies signed by the printer and printed on the press' s own handma de Nagashizuki paper. With fourteen paper specimens tipped in, of which five were made by Timothy Barrett during his stay in Japan, and 24 line illustrations by Richard Flavin. "The most detailed desc... more information

London: C. Beaumont. 1918. Small 4to. S Stiff Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good.. First in series "Impressions of the Russian Ballet". Frontispiece and vignettes in pochoir color. According to a 1925 catalogue by Beaumont, only 150 copies of the regular edition were published. Binding is Color Pictorial Wrappers. ... more information

London: William Heinemann.. 1922. 4to. H Cloth. Fine. Fine. in J Fair dj. Literature London: William Heinemann, 1922. 4to, gilt- lettered blue cloth. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket split at spine with some loss (printed parts of the jacket, including re ar wrapper with advertisements, are present). A humorous tribute to the Rossetti family and their circle, including Wilde, Ruskin, Millais, Ford Madox Brown, Swinburne, et al. Twenty two color plates mounted on art paper with amusi ng descriptive tissue gu... more information

Berlin. 1919. 12mo. H Calf and Boards.. Fine. Berlin: Brandus’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1919. 12mo, gilt-lettered  half calf and batik paper-covered boards and endpapers. Fine copy of the seventh Nibelungen imprint, printed by Otto von Holten; a story by Von Grimmelshausen from the Nuremberg edition of 1684, the third part of the Simplicissimus writings. Of 320 copies, this is one of 200 bound in half- leather.Marcus Behmer designed the typography, ornamental initial, title woodcut and five etchin... more information

Berlin: Bauwelt,. 1918. 8vo. H Boards. Fine. Fine. Berlin: Bauwelt, 1918. 8vo, yellow paper-backed yellow boards, black lettering. Later endpapers and possibly rebacked (nicely done, if so). With 79 pages and 17 text illustrations and diagrams. Behrens was a founder of the Deutsche Werkbund, a leader in early 20th century functional architecture and as artistic director of AEG (the German General Electric Company in Berlin), an exponent of corporate identity, responsible for the company’s advertisement... more information

London. 1924. 4to. H Cloth and Boards.. Fine.. London (1924). Two volumes, the second edited by E. V. Lucas. 4to, cloth and paper-covered boards. Fine in slipcase. One of 1500 sets. The first volume describes the doll house which was made as a gift to Queen Mary, its architecture, furniture, paintings, kitchen, garage and a chapter on the garden by Gertrude Jekyll. The architect was Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed the house as the epitome of a 20th century royal family mansion. Volume II is devoted to the l... more information

Dresden. 1910. Folio. H Cloth. About Fine.. About Fine. (Dresden 1910). Folio, tan linen with large navy-blue and gilt labels on cover and spine in German. Half-circle mark on front cover; inner hinge of this heavy book sta rting; text and plates fine. With xvi and 191 pages; 43 full page plates, some in color, each with numerous examples and identifying tissue guards plus 377 illustrations in the text. Published to commemorate the 200th Jubilee of Meissen, the oldest European china factory. Binding is Line... more information

Vicenza: Jean Rossi,. 1796. Small 4to. F 1st Edition.. H Boards. Fine. Vicenza: Jean Rossi, 1796. Four volumes (complete although a fifth volume on the Roman baths was published in 1797). Small 4to, attractive new binding of handmade paste paper over boards with paper spine labels and handmade period-style endpapers. Foxing, mostly marginal but sometimes heavy. Third edition and first quarto edition; in French, published at the same time as an Italian edition and preceded by the 1786 folio edition and the o... more information

Flansham: Pear Tree Press. 1914. 8vo. S Wrappers.. Very Good.. Flansham 1914. 8vo, original wrappers with intaglio-printed label on cover. Slightly stained; split to top of upper joint; front free endpaper spotted. Uncut. A. J. Symon’s copy with his book label. In modern cloth box. Number 7 of 25 copies (of total edition of 100) printed in blue and silver by James Guthrie, a poet and printer. Intaglio-printed in blue/gray throughout with half-title, frontispiece, decorative title page, plate, eleven te... more information

Paris: Officina Bodoni. 1926. Small 4to. H Quarter Vellum.. Fine.. Fine. Book Arts Paris: Privately printed for Frederic Warde, 1926. Small 4to, ¼ vellum with red paste-paper sides; spine a little age-darkened; very slight rubbing to boards. Near fine copy. One of 30 0 copies on hand made paper; the first of several facsimile editions of Renaissance writing books printed by the Officina Bodoni and one of only two books produced with Warde. Warde, an American typog rapher admired by Mardersteig, colla... more information

New York: Privately printed,. 1924. Square 8vo. H Pictorial Boards. Fine. About Fine. New York: privately printed, 1924. Square 8vo, hand-colored pictorial front and back covers; spine neatly rebacked, else fine copy with prospectus, also hand- colored. One of 99 copies of a scarce and charming work: an hommage to Gordon Craig's Book of Penny Toys by the Triptych Brotherhood: Wilbur Macey Stone, who signed the book, William Jordan, who desig ned the covers, and Jay Chambers. Printed on one side only on ... more information

New York. 1927. 4to. H Pictorial Boards. Fine. 4to, cream boards with figure on cover in colors and gilt. Edges of binding lightly toned else a lovely copy in later clamshell box with gilt- lettered leather spine label. Former owner's name and 1930 date on front endpaper. An original signed color drawing by Bakst is tipped into the box. It is the design for the dust jacket (not present in this copy and for Plate XXI: A costume for the "Fantastic Shop" in which a masked Harlequin holds aloft a ... more information

Paris & New York: Emile Paul & George H. Doran. 1920. 4to. S Wrappers. Near Fine.. 4to, wrappers with printed label on front cover. Short split at bottom of upper joint else near fine. One of 680 numbered copies. Poems in French and English, separated by a thin patterned silk sheet (small tear), by the expatriate American heiress, poet and muse, socially prominent lesbian rebel and literary salonist. Her friends and lovers included Proust, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Pound, Djuna Barnes, Romaine Brooks... more information

Paris: Le Livre,. 1926. 8vo. S Wrappers. Fine. 8vo, wrappers with large paste-down printed label. About fine. Frontispiece by Daragnes and 25 wood-engraved illustrations by Falke, Meheut and other - full page and vignette head ings to calendar pages. Poems, anecdotes and recipes relating to wine. 146 pages + ads. Text by Cendrars, Ponchon, du Plessis, Baudelaire and the ancients. ... more information

Ditchling: S. Dominic's Press. 1928. 24mo. H Linen And Boards.. Fine. Press Books and Fine Printing Ditchling, 1928. 24mo, linen spine and decorated boards. Very nice copy of the second edition, one year after the first. Illustrated. Sewell 78. ... more information

Munich: Friedrich Adolf Ackeremann. 1893. Oblong Folio. H Cloth with Color Illustration. Excellent. Oblong folio, green cloth with color pictorial paste-down illustration within gilt border. Excellent copy of the first edition. Fifteen full page color plates and vignettes in color or black and white. An anthropomorphic German juvenile in the tradition of Kaulbach and Grandville. The chapters describe the Festival day from the festival meadow to the square to the rehearsal to the concert and the ball, the ar... more information

Indianapolis: Aubrey Beardsley Club. 1926. 4to. H Illustrated Cloth. Near Fine.. 4to, black cloth with lettering and illustration of woman and cat on front cover. Inner hinge split else clean and bright. One of 107 copies with four drawings from earlier Poe portfolios and 13 of the forgeries published by H. S. Nichols in 1920. Lasner 80c:"The issuer's name and place of public are decidedly fictitious and the limitation number probably meaningless.". Binding is Illustrated Black Cloth. ... more information